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Schedule Of Proposed Action - 04/01/2012 to 06/30/2012 - Daniel Boone National Forest Schedule of Proposed Actions (SOPA)04/01/2012 to 06/30/2012Daniel Boone National Forest This report contains the best available information at the time of publication. Questions may be directed to the Project Contact.
- Minerals and Geology Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 04/2012 Expected:09/2012 11/2012 T Margueritte Wilson859-745-3156twilson04@fs.fed.us Description: Abandoned mining sites with features, such as portals, adits, shafts, subsidence, structures, and equipment that are either environmental or safety hazards would be restored to other productive uses. Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=35674
- Vegetation management (other than forest products) In Progress:Scoping Start 07/13/2009Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 12/2012 Expected:01/2013 02/2013 David Taylor859-745-3167dtaylor02@fs.fed.us Description: Forestwide eradication or control on non-native plant species using mechanical and/or chemical treatment methods.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=26548
- Special use management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 04/2012 Expected:05/2012 05/2012 William Schiffer540-552-4641wschiffer@fs.fed.us Description: Windstream has filed an application for a special use permit to install and maintain fiber optic lines to improve internet connectivity in rural areas across Eastern Kentucky. Lines would be buried in existing road ROWs, or hung from existing poles.
Location: UNIT - Daniel Boone National Forest All Units. STATE - Kentucky. COUNTY - Bath, Clay, Estill, Laurel, Leslie, Pulaski, Rockcastle, Rowan. Multiple locations across the Cumberland, London, and Redbird Ranger Districts.
- Regulations, Directives, Orders - Recreation management - Watershed management - Road management In Progress:Scoping Start 11/12/2009Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 04/2012 Expected:06/2012 07/2012 Rebecca Riegle989-739-0728rriegle@fs.fed.us Description: Designate new routes, designate uses and season-of-use on existing and new designated routes, close user develop paths, develop new traiheads, and improve existing trailheads to reduce user conflict and resource damage
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=30623
Clear Creek Slide ProjectCE
- Watershed management - Road management In Progress:Scoping Start 12/14/2011 Expected:05/2012 06/2012 Tom Biebighauser606-784-6428tombiebighauser@fs.fed.us Description: The project is designed to prevent soil from a landslide occurring on National Forest System lands in Bath County from entering Clear Creek and Clear Creek Lake. Temporary erosion control measures taken after the slide began are now failing.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=37775
Location: UNIT - Cumberland Ranger District. STATE - Kentucky. COUNTY - Bath. The slide is located between Forest Development Road (FDR) 906A and FDR 909 near Clear Creek Shooting Range.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Forest products - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Watershed management - Road management On Hold N/A N/A Jeffrey Lewis606-784-6428jefflewis@fs.fed.us Description: 401acres of commercial timber harvest designed to improve tree vigor or establish young forest. 292 acres of two-aged shelterwood and 109 acres of thinning in 11 distinct areas. Herbicide treatment of selected species within shelterwood areas.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=25765
Cumberland Campground Concession Special Use PermitCE
- Recreation management - Special use management - Facility management Completed Actual: 01/24/2012 02/2012 Tim Eling606-663-0576teling@fs.fed.us Description: The Daniel Boone National Forest is proposing to issue a concession special use permit for the operation of 8 developed recreation sites.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=38073
Location: UNIT - Cumberland Ranger District. STATE - Kentucky. COUNTY - Bath, Rowan, Wolfe. Cave Run Lake in Bath and Rowan Counties and Red River Gorge in Wolfe County.
- Special use management In Progress:Scoping Start 03/16/2012 Expected:04/2012 04/2012 Carey Loomis606-784-6428careyloomis@fs.fed.us Description: Proposed issuance of a Special Use Permit for construction of a temporary road on national forest system land for private land access. Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=38501
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=25770
Sand Lick-Big Bend Watershed ImprovementCE
- Watershed management - Road management On Hold N/A N/A Tom Biebighauser606-784-6428tombiebighauser@fs.fed.us Description: Improve water quality and reduce soil loss in riparian and rare areas by managing and maintaining the many open roads in the Sand Lick and Big Bend Watersheds.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=18901
Location: UNIT - Cumberland Ranger District. STATE - Kentucky. COUNTY - Powell, Wolfe. Sand Lick and Big Bend Watersheds.
AT&T Special Use Permit ReissuanceCE
- Special use management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 04/2012 Expected:06/2012 07/2012 Thomas Kean606-864-4163tomkean@fs.fed.us Description: The Special Use Permit for AT&T fiber optic facility on London Ranger District has expired, and AT&T has requested a renewal of Permit LON415601.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=38319
Location: UNIT - London Ranger District. STATE - Kentucky. COUNTY - Laurel, Whitley. LEGAL - USA tracts C-1387 just south Of highway KY 80;LRL-149, and LRL-1021 just west of I-75. USA tracts C-1387 just south Of highway KY 80;LRL-149, and LRL-1021 just west of I-75.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants In Progress:Scoping Start 03/01/2011Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 05/2012 Expected:07/2012 07/2012 John Omer606-864-4163jomer@fs.fed.us Description: Remove areas of autum olive, bush honeysuckle, and other non-native invasive species and planting native warm season grasses and legumes. Removal will be accomplished with heavy equipment and hand tools. Planting will be done by machine and by hand.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=33871
Crooked Creek Vegetation ManagementEA
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Forest products - Vegetation management (other than forest products) In Progress:Scoping Start 08/11/2010Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 06/2012 Expected:10/2012 01/2013 Robert Sitzlar606-864-4163rsitzlar@fs.fed.us Description: Implementation of the Daniel Boone National Forest Revised Forest Plan through the harvest of timber, commercial and non-commercial thinning, and wildlife habitat improvement projects.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=29828
Location: UNIT - London Ranger District. STATE - Kentucky. COUNTY - Rockcastle. In the Crooked Creek Watershed.
Cumberland Valley RECC Special Use Permit Amendment: Grove Buried Power Line RelocationCE
- Special use management In Progress:Scoping Start 02/01/2012Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 04/2012 Expected:05/2012 06/2012 Thomas Kean606-864-4163tomkean@fs.fed.us Description: Cumberland Valley RECC proposes to construct a new buried Primary Power line, replacing an outdated existing line, under the supervision of in-house engineering staff.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=37160
Location: UNIT - London Ranger District. STATE - Kentucky. COUNTY - Whitley. LEGAL - USA tracts LRL700, 703, 701, 733, 705, 732, 707, 711, 708, and 710. Whitley County, Kentucky. The line will be located along about 2.5 miles on the west edge of Forest Road 558, from the junction of the Grove Road (FS 4044) north.
Jackson Energy Special Use PermitCE
- Special use management Completed Actual: 02/16/2012 02/2012 Thomas Kean606-864-4163tomkean@fs.fed.us Description: Relocate a powerline along KY 587 near Arvel Kentucky: remove existing section of line from cross country location (7 poles); install nineteen new poles along 1.07 miles of new 20' corridor along existing Highway 587 east of Arvel.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=35543
Location: UNIT - London Ranger District. STATE - Kentucky. COUNTY - Lee, Owsley. LEGAL - USA tracts C-236 and C-879. The project is located about one mile east of Arvel, Kentucky.
- Special use management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 04/2012 Expected:06/2012 12/2012 Thomas Kean606-864-4163tomkean@fs.fed.us Description: Amend existing Jackson Energy Special Use Permits(s) to replace and relocate prinmary electric power distribution lines in the Salt Rock Road area. Some old ROW areas will be abandoned, and there will be some new clearing along existing ROW areas.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=37822
- Vegetation management (other than forest products) In Progress:Scoping Start 02/06/2012Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 04/2012 Expected:06/2012 07/2012 Robert Sitzlar606-864-4163rsitzlar@fs.fed.us Description: This project consist of pre-commercially thinning up to 3900 acres of young sapling/pole size mixed hardwood stands, less than 30 years of age, to improve stand health and vigor.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=37151
Special Use Permit Amendment: Somerset Gas Pipeline Relocation CE
- Special use management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 05/2012 Expected:07/2012 08/2012 Thomas Kean606-864-4163tomkean@fs.fed.us Description: The Permit Amendment will document the location of an 8 " natural gas transmision line that is being relocated under the Rockcastle River. Location: UNIT - London Ranger District. STATE - Kentucky. COUNTY - Laurel, Pulaski. LEGAL - USA Tracts C-1059, C-3010. The Gas transmission line crossed the Rockcastle River just north of the KY Highway 80 Bridge.
Wildcat Branch Test BurnCE
- Watershed management - Minerals and Geology In Progress:Scoping Start 03/23/2012Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 04/2012 Expected:06/2012 07/2012 Claudia Cotton859-745-3115ccotton@fs.fed.us Description: Excavation of 1000 tons of coal refuse from 0.2 acre on the Daniel Boone National Forest in Pulaski Co., KY. It will be burned by E. Ky. Power Cooperative. This action is to improve water quality in Wildcat Branch, which is impaired with AMD.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=38606
Location: UNIT - London Ranger District. STATE - Kentucky. COUNTY - Pulaski. LEGAL - All that certain Tract or parcel of land lying and being in Pulaski County, KY, situated approx. 14 miles SE of Somerset, KY, on the waters of Big Lick Branch, of Buck Creek, all being tributaries of. On the Hail, KY USGS quadrangle, FS land tract number C-1090, approx. 3.8 miles SW of Mt. Victory, KY off of PUL-816A.
- Special use management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 04/2012 Expected:06/2012 07/2012 William Schiffer606-598-2192wschiffer@fs.fed.us Description: Issue special use authorization to upgrade electric transmission lines from single-phase to 3-phase line. Existing line and poles would be decomissioned; existing ROW would be revegetated. New line would be constructed at edge of existing road ROW.
Bledsoe Coal Lease - KYES 053865EA
- Minerals and Geology In Progress:Scoping Start 01/27/2012Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 05/2012 Expected:08/2012 11/2012 Patti Davis859-745-3149pattildavis@fs.fed.us Description: The Bureau of Land Management is proposing to lease a tract of federal coal and the Forest Service proposes to issue a consent to lease to BLM. Surface disturbance is not planned on National Forest System lands.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=25393
Bowen's Creek Church Special Use AuthorizationCE
- Special use management In Progress:Scoping Start 10/21/2011Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 04/2012 Expected:05/2012 06/2012 William Schiffer606-598-2192wschiffer@fs.fed.us Description: Issue a special use authorization to install a septic system. The Bowen's Creek Church is currently under special use permit for their church building on NFS lands. The proposed septic tank would be placed within the area currently under permit.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=37124
Location: UNIT - Redbird Ranger District. STATE - Kentucky. COUNTY - Leslie. Essie, KY.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=25392
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=24712
- Special use management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 04/2012 Expected:06/2012 07/2012 William Schiffer540-552-4641wschiffer@fs.fed.us Description: Leslie Co. Telephone has filed an application for a special use permit to install and maintain fiber optic lines to communications in rural areas across Eastern Kentucky. Lines would be hung from existing poles or buried in existing road ROWs.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Vegetation management (other than forest products) Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 04/2012 Expected:06/2012 07/2012 John Hull606-598-2192jahull@fs.fed.us Description: Establish communities of native cane along the Red Bird River within the riparian corridor prescription area. Build wood duck nesting platforms. Gather butternut seed for propagation; plant propagated butternut.
Redbird Fuels TreatmentEA
- Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management In Progress:215 Comment Period Legal Notice 03/15/2012 Expected:05/2012 10/2012 Alison Coons606-376-5323 ext 104acoons@fs.fed.us Description: Conduct controlled burning in ten areas across the district to reduce fuel loading, reduce fire regime condition class and promote fire-mediated upland ecosystems. Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=29063
- Special use management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 08/2012 Expected:09/2012 10/2012 William Schiffer606-598-2192wschiffer@fs.fed.us Description: Issue a new special use permit for a new term for a previously permitted use. Eighteen permits are due for renewal. If authorized, each permit would be issued under a separate Decision Memo.
- Wildlife, Fish, Rare plants - Forest products - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Watershed management In Progress:Scoping Start 06/22/2010Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 07/2012 Expected:09/2012 10/2012 Elizabeth Botner606-598-2192 Ext. 108erbotner@fs.fed.us Description: Provide for a variety of habitat conditions to augment forest health and vigor. Proposed activities include 161 ac. commercial harvest (80 ac.-two-age shelterwood, 81 ac.-thinning), 249 ac. of crop tree release, and construction of 3 wildlife ponds.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=28443
Boone Docks Marina Special Use PermitEA
- Recreation management - Special area management In Progress:215 Comment Period Legal Notice 01/23/2012 Expected:04/2012 05/2012 Laurie Smith606-376-5323lauriesmith@fs.fed.us Description: Issue a marina special use permit and waterline permit to Jesse and Toni Kidd in McCreary and Pulaski Counties, Kentucky as well as issue a special use permit to South Kentucky RECC for a powerline. Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=35239
Location: UNIT - Stearns Ranger District. STATE - Kentucky. COUNTY - McCreary, Pulaski. The proposed project is located approximately 4.7 miles NNE of Greenwood, Kentucky and involves the areas along Hewling Ridge Road (NFSR 832), Bauer Road (PUL 50), and Sediment Pond Road (NFSR 5333).
- Heritage resource management Developing ProposalEst. Scoping Start 06/2012 Expected:02/2013 03/2013 Randall Boedy606-376-5323, ext. 103rboedy@fs.fed.us Description: Preserve and promote the historic Casada School house. Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=35758
- Forest products - Vegetation management (other than forest products) - Fuels management In Progress:Scoping Start 01/12/2012Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 07/2012 Expected:09/2012 10/2012 Mike Lick606-376-5323mlick@fs.fed.us Description: Conduct forest thinning, including a heavy thinning to establish an oak woodland structure. Additional actions include periodic prescribed burning, chemical control of NNIS and midstory level trees, creation of vernal ponds. and monitoring.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=24657
South Kentucky RECC Special Use Permit Amendment (King)CE
- Special area management Completed Actual: 02/06/2012 02/2012 Laurie Smith606-376-5323lauriesmith@fs.fed.us Description: Amend South Kentucky Rural Electric Cooperative Corporation�s (SKRECC) special use permit to install and maintain a new overhead electric distribution line located across NFS land. Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=37627
Location: UNIT - Stearns Ranger District. STATE - Kentucky. COUNTY - McCreary, Pulaski. South of Cooper Creek, off KY-927, Day Ridge Road, McCreary County, KY. USA Tract C-1258J.
Southfork Coal Lease KYES 053865EA
- Minerals and Geology In Progress:Scoping Start 02/09/2009Est. 215 Comment Period Legal Notice 09/2012 Expected:12/2012 01/2013 Patti Davis859-745-3149pattildavis@fs.fed.us Description: Lease modification to add approximately 64.51 acres of coal rights to allow for deep mining activities. No surface disturbance is planned on National Forest System land.
Web Link: http://www.fs.fed.us/nepa/nepa_project_exp.php?project=2437