Secure Rural Schools Land Sales Initiative

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

Secure Rural Schools Land Sales Initiative

AGENCY:

Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION:

Notice; Extension of comment period.

SUMMARY:

The Forest Service is extending the comment period 30 days beyond the date of March 30, 2006 identified in the

Federal Register

, Volume 71, No. 39, Tuesday, February 28, 2006, pg. 10004-10006.

DATES:

Comments must be received by May 1, 2006 to be assured of consideration. Comments received after that date will be considered only to the extent practicable.

ADDRESSES:

You may submit your comments by e-mail to

SRS_Land_Sales@fs.fed.us

, by facsimile to (202) 205-1604, or by mail to USDA Forest Service, SRS Comments, Lands 4S, 1400 Independence Ave., SW., Mailstop 1124, Washington, DC 20250-0003.

Electronic submission is preferred

. If you submit your comments by e-mail or fax, you do not need to send a paper copy by mail.

Your comments may address the entire list of parcels indentified in the President's proposal, or an individual parcel or parcels on that list. If you are commenting about a specific parcel on the list, it would be helpful to provide the parcel's number from the list and all information specifically related to the sale of that parcel.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Cynthia R. Swanson, Assistant Director of Lands, Washington Office, 202-205-0099. Individuals who use telecommunication devices for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, Monday through Friday.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Document Availability

In addition to publishing the full text of this document in the

Federal Register

, the Forest Service provides all interested persons an opportunity to view and/or print the contents of this document, the potentially eligible lands listing, and associated maps via the Internet. Information on this proposal

and the

Federal Register

Notice can be found at

http://www.fs.fed.us

via the

Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act

link to the “President's FY 2007 Budget Proposal for the Forest Service—Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act Extension” page.

List of Potentially Eligible Lands

The following table has been corrected since the original notice and provides a current summary of the number of acres (rounded) identified for each State.

State

Region(s)

Acres of

potentially

eligible lands

Alabama

8

2,823

Alaska

10

97

Arizona

3

1,022

Arkansas

8

3,599

California

5, 6

75,959

Colorado

2, 4

23,248

Florida

8

973

Georgia

8

4,523

Idaho

1, 4, 6

26,023

Illinois

9

206

Indiana

9

878

Kentucky

8

4,540

Louisiana

8

3,895

Michigan

9

5,677

Minnesota

9

2,644

Mississippi

8

7,479

Missouri

9

21,712

Montana

1

12,039

Nebraska

2

883

Nevada

4

1,991

New Mexico

3

7,390

North Carolina

8

9,833

Ohio

9

419

Oklahoma

8

3,566

Oregon

6

11,270

South Carolina

8

4,656

South Dakota

1, 2

15,107

Tennessee

8

2,996

Texas

3, 8

4,565

Utah

4

5,894

Virginia

8

5,721

Washington

6

7,425

West Virginia

9

4,827

Wisconsin

9

80

Wyoming

2, 4

17,532

Total All States

301,491

Corrections have been made to the potentially eligible lands listing and supporting maps. Interested parties and commenters are encouraged to revisit the Web pages noted above for the most current information related to this proposal.

Dated: March 27, 2006.

Dale N. Bosworth,

Chief.

[FR Doc. 06-3087 Filed 3-29-06; 8:45 am]

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