Proposed Change to Section IV of the Field Office Technical Guide (FOTG) of the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Louisiana

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation Service

Proposed Change to Section IV of the Field Office Technical Guide

(FOTG) of the Natural Resources Conservation Service in Louisiana

AGENCY: Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), U.S. Department

of Agriculture.

ACTION: Notice of availability of proposed changes in the NRCS National

Handbook of Conservation Practices for review and comment.

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SUMMARY: It is the intention of the NRCS in Louisiana to issue revised

conservation practice standards: Firebreak (code 394), Forest Stand

Improvement (code 666), Prescribed Burning (code 338), Tree/shrub

Establishment (code 612), Tree/shrub Pruning (code 660), Access Road

(code 560), Waste Storage Facility (code 313), and Composting Facility

(code 317), in Section IV of the FOTG.

DATES: Comments will be received on or before June 9, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Inquire in writing to Donald W. Gohmert, State Conservationist, Natural

Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), 3737 Government Street,

Alexandria, Louisiana 71302. Copies of the practice standards will be

made available upon written request.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 343 of the Federal Agriculture

Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 states that revisions made after

enactment of the law to NRCS State Technical Guides used to carry out

highly erodible land and wetland provisions of the law shall be made

available for public review and comment. For the next 30 days the NRCS

in Louisiana will receive comments relative to the proposed changes.

Following that period a determination will be made by the NRCS in

Louisiana regarding disposition of those comments and a final

determination of change will be made.

Dated: April 29, 1997.

Donald W. Gohmert,

State Conservationist, USDA, Natural Resources Conservation Service.

[FR Doc. 97-11997 Filed 5-7-97; 8:45 am]

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