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drought conditions. Allowing haying 

and grazing on the proposed 

conservation practices in droughtdesignated areas would require 

concurrence and approval by certain 

State or Federal agencies. 

Public Involvement 

The Final SPEIS provides a means for 

the public and any interested parties to 

provide comments about the CRP 

changes analyzed in the SPEIS. The 

Final SPEIS can be reviewed online at: 

http://www.fsa.usda.gov/FSA/webapp

?area=home&subject=ecrc&topicnep-cd 

or at http://crpspeis.com. 

FSA received eight comments from 

Federal, state, and local government 

agencies, as well as private 

organizations and members of the 

concerned public in response to the 

NOI. The comments raised 55 

individual issues covering a range of 

topics including legislation changes, 

CRP maximum enrollment and acreages, 

regional differences in haying and 

grazing impacts, lack of thorough 

environmental and socioeconomic 

impact analysis in previous NEPA 

documentation, and CRP funding 

policy. The comments were considered 

in developing the Proposed Action and 

the SPEIS environmental consequences 

to ensure the concerns were adequately 

addressed. 

The NOA provided a summary of the 

changes to CRP, the Proposed Action, 

and the No Action Alternative. Also 

included in the NOA was a description 

of how to provide comments, as well as 

a list of the dates, times, and locations 

of the public meetings that were held as 

a part of the public involvement 

process. The information about where 

and when those meeting were held are 

shown below in Table 1. FSA held 5 

public meetings to provide information 

and opportunities for discussing the 

changes to CRP identified in the 2014 

Farm Bill and analyzed in the Draft 

SPEIS. The public meetings featured an 

Open House format, and interested 

parties were invited to attend the 

meetings at any time during the allotted 

timeframes. Posters and informational 

handouts as well as FSA representatives 

were available for the duration of the 

meetings to answer questions 

concerning the Draft CRP SPEIS. 

TABLE 1—PUBLIC MEETING DATES, TIMES, AND LOCATIONS. 

Date Time Location information 

July 21, 2014 ............................ 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m ................. Hilton Garden Inn, Spokane Airport, 9015 West SR Highway 2, Spokane, 

Washington, 99224. 

July 22, 2014 ............................ 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m ................. Holiday Inn, Great Falls, 1100 5th Street, South Falls, Montana, 59405. 

August 4, 2014 .......................... 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m ................. Plains Cotton Cooperative Association, 3301 East 50th Street, Lubbock, 

Texas, 79404. 

August 5, 2014 .......................... 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m ................. Stillwater Library, 1107 S Duck Street, Stillwater, Oklahoma, 74074. 

August 6, 2014 .......................... 6:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m ................. Courtyard By Marriott and Moorhead Area, Conference Center, 1080 28th 

Avenue, South, Moorhead, Minnesota, 56560. 

FSA received 18 comments during the 

comment period. Those 18 comments 

included 75 issues to be considered in 

the Final SPEIS. Table 2 provides a 

breakdown of the comments by 

category. 

TABLE 2—NUMBER OF COMMENTS

RECEIVED BY CATEGORY

Comment category Number of 

comments 

Alternative ................................. 1 

Cumulative impacts .................. 3 

Early termination of contract .... 2 

Emergency haying and grazing 22 

Farmable wetlands ................... 1 

Final year of contract ................ 1 

Grassland enrollment ............... 14 

Haying and grazing payment 

reduction ............................... 1 

Intermittent and seasonal use 

of buffer ................................. 1 

Managed harvesting and routine grazing frequencies ........ 11 

The comment summary report is 

included as an appendix in the CRP 

SPEIS. The report provides additional 

detail on the Draft SPEIS comment 

process, a copy of the NOA, copies of 

all public meeting materials, and 

responses to all 75 substantive issues 

and how they were addressed in the 

Final SPEIS. 

Signed on December15, 2014. 

Val Dolcini, 

Administrator, Farm Service Agency, and 

Executive Vice President, Commodity Credit 

Corporation. 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Northern Research Station, Timber & 

Watershed Laboratory, RWU NRS–01, 

West Virginia, Fernow Experimental 

Forest 2016 to 2020 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice; correction. 

SUMMARY: The Forest Service published 

a document in the Federal Register of 

December 12, 2014, concerning a notice 

of intent to prepare an environmental 

impact statement. The document 

contained incorrect dates for the 

estimated publication of draft and final 

environmental impact statements. We 

anticipate completing the draft 

environmental impact statement in 

April 2015 and the final environmental 

impact statement is expected in June 

2015. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tom 

Schuler, Project Leader at USDA Forest 

Service, 304–478–2000. Individuals 

who use telecommunication devices for 

the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1– 

800–877–8339 twenty-four hours a day, 

every day of the year, including 

holidays. 

Correction 

In the Federal Register of December 

12, 2014, in FR Vol. 79, No. 239, on 

page 73880 in the third column correct 

the ‘‘Dates’’ caption to read: 

DATES: Comments concerning the scope 

of the analysis must be received by 

January 26, 2015. The draft 

environmental impact statement is 

expected April 2015 and the final 

environmental statement is expected 

June 2015. 

Dated: December 16, 2014. 

Thomas Schuler, 

Project Leader, NRS–01. 

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