Supplement the goals and direction for air quality in the Forest Plan. Current Forest Plan direction is to specify mitigations for management activities affecting air quality and coordinate control with regulatory agencies. The Plan will identify ways to lower impacts to air quality such as car pooling or using low emission snowmobiles. Incorporate air quality related values and the levels of acceptable change in Class I areas. This section identifies information that may be used to address issues and concerns.
Data is information organized for analysis or used as the basis for making a decision.
A related item, comparison measures, is data used to differentiate and select between different alternatives. These are actions needed to address issues and concerns during revision that do not fall into the above three categories. This section identifies public issues and management concerns that are addressed in the Working Papers for other revision topics. For each item a short explanation is included that discusses the rationale for not addressing the item. This suggestion goes beyond any authority that the Forest Service has and is outside the scope of Forest Plan revision.