Proposed Changes to Section 4 of the Iowa State Technical Guide

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation Service

Proposed Changes to Section 4 of the Iowa State Technical Guide

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

of Agriculture.

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

State Technical Guide for review and comment.

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SUMMARY: It has been determined by the NRCS State Conservationist for

Iowa that changes must be made in the NRCS State Technical Guide

specifically in practice standards #327, Conservation Cover; #330,

Contour Farming; #332, Contour Buffer Strips; #412, Grassed Waterway;

#585, Stripcropping, Contour; and #638, Water and Sediment Control

Basin, to account for improved technology. This practice can be used in

systems that treat highly erodible land.

DATES: Comments will be reviewed on or before November 13, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Leroy Brown, State Conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation

Service, Federal Building, 210 Walnut Street, Suite 693, Des Moines,

Iowa 50309; at 515/284-4260; fax 515/284-4394.

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

will receive comments relative to the proposed changes. Following that

period a determination will be made by the NRCS regarding disposition

of those comments and a final determination of change will be made.

Dennis J. Pate,

Acting State Conservationist.

[FR Doc. 98-27516 Filed 10-13-98; 8:45 am]

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