New Mexico Field Office Technical Guide; Changes

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation Service

New Mexico Field Office Technical Guide; Changes

AGENCY: Untied States Department of Agriculture, Natural Resources

Conservation Service, New Mexico.

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

Mexico FOTG, Section IV, conservation practices for review and comment.

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AUTHORITY: 16 U.S.C. 3801; Public Law 104-127.

SUMMARY: It is the intention of NRCS New Mexico to issue a series of

new conservation practice standards and specifications in its FOTG on

Conservation Practices. These revised standards and specifications

include: Conservation crop rotation, Cross wind ridges, Cross wind

stripcropping, Cross wind trap strips, Residue management, seasonal,

Residue management, mulch till, residue management, no-till & strip

till, Residue management, ridge till, Restoration and Management of

Declining Habitat, Shallow Water Management for Wildlife, Wetland

Creation, Wetland wildlife habitat management, Wildlife watering

facility, Prescribed burning, Brush management, Forage Harvest

Management, Grazing land mechanical treatment, Pasture and hay

planting, prescribed grazing, and range planting.

The NRCS New Mexico State Conservationist has chosen to revise and

supplement the National Standards and add specifications adapted to the

State of New Mexico. These will be incorporated into Section IV of the

New Mexico Field Office Technical Guide (FOTG). Some of these practices

may be used in conservation systems that treat highly erodible land and

wetlands.

Copies of these standards are available from NRCS in Albuquerque,

NM and are also available electronically on the NRCS New Mexico

Internet Homepage at: http://www.nm.nrcs.usda.gov/techserv/

sec4home.htm.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 343 on 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

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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 these 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.

DATES: Comments will be received on or before December 13, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Inquire in writing to Mr. Rosendo Trevino, State

Conservationist, NRCS, 6200 Jefferson NE, Suite 305, Albuquerque, New

Mexico 87109.

Dated: October 21, 1999.

Rosendo Trevino III,

State Conservationist.

[FR Doc. 99-29526 Filed 11-10-99; 8:45 am]

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