Suitability Study for Eight Streams and Rivers Being Considered for National Wild and Scenic River Status

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

Suitability Study for Eight Streams and Rivers Being Considered

for National Wild and Scenic River Status

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Revised notice of intent to prepare an Environmental Impact

Statement (EIS) and Notice of Availability of EIS.

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SUMMARY: The USDA, Forest Service, Tahoe National Forest and Lake Tahoe

Basin Management Unit are preparing a Legislative Environmental Impact

Statement (EIS) to determine the suitability or non-suitability of the

approximately 58.8 miles (revised from previously published 61 miles)

of eight eligible streams and rivers on the Tahoe National Forest and

Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit for inclusion in the National Wild and

Scenic Rivers System. In addition to the Wild and Scenic River

suitability analysis, the EIS will evaluate the environmental effects

of possible Special Interest Area designation, a Forest Service

Administrative designation, as an alternative to Wild and Scenic River

designation. Lynn Sprague, Regional Forester, Pacific Southwest Region,

U.S. Forest Service, 630 Sansome Street, San Francisco, California

94111, is the responsible official for Special Interest Area

designation. Michael Espy, Secretary of Agriculture, U.S. Department of

Agriculture, Room 200-A, Adm. Bldg., Washington, D.C. 20250, is the

responsible official for recommendations for wild and scenic river

designation.

The Draft Environmental Impact Statement will be available for

public review beginning August 18, 1994 and a copy can be obtained by

writing: Forest Supervisor, Tahoe National Forest, P.O. Box 6003,

Nevada City, California 95959 or telephone (916) 265-4531. The public

comment period extends through November 18, 1994.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

For additional information about the proposed DEIS, contact Phil

Horning, P.O. Box 6003, Nevada City, California 95959, or telephone

(916) 265-4531.

Dated: August 1, 1994.

Judie L. Tartaglia,

Acting Forest Supervisor, Tahoe National Forest.

[FR Doc. 94-20208 Filed 8-16-94; 8:45 am]

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