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

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation Service

Notice of Proposed Change to Section IV of the Field Office

Technical Guide (FOTG) of the Natural Resources Conservation Service in

Kentucky

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

Department of Agriculture.

ACTION: Notice of availability of proposed changes in Section IV of the

FOTG of the NRCS in Kentucky for review and comment.

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

conservation practice standards: Agrichemical Handling Facility (Code

998), Filter Strip (Code 393), Manure Transfer (Code 634), Pond (Code

378), Riparian Forest Buffer (Code 391A), Roof Runoff Management System

(Code 558), Sinkhole Protection (Code 725I), Stream Crossing (Code

576), Waste Field Storage (Code 749), Waste Storage Facility (Code

313), Waste Treatment Lagoon (Code 359), and Well Decommissioning (Code

351.)

DATES: Comments will be received for a 30-day period commencing with

the date of this publication.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Inquire in writing to David G. Sawyer,

state conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS),

771 Corporate Drive, Suite 110, Lexington, KY 40503-5479. Copies of the

practice standards are 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

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

in Kentucky will receive comments relative to the proposed changes.

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

Kentucky regarding deposition of those comments and a final

determination of change will be made.

David G. Sawyer,

State Conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation Service.

[FR Doc. 99-16777 Filed 7-2-99; 8:45 am]

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