[Federal Register: December 1, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 230)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Notice of Proposed Changes in the National Handbook of
Conservation Practices
AGENCY: Natural Resources Conservation Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice and request for comments.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the intention of the Natural
Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) to issue a series of new or
revised conservation practice standards in its National Handbook of
Conservation Practices. These standards include: Irrigation Water
Management, Salinity and Sodic Soil Management, Silvopasture
Establishment, Vertical Drain, and Well Water Testing. These standards
are used to convey national guidance in developing Field Office
Technical Guide Standards used in the States and the Pacific Basin and
Caribbean Areas. NRCS State Conservationists and Directors for the
Pacific Basin and Caribbean Areas who choose to adopt these practices
for use within their States/Areas will incorporate them into Section IV
of their Field Office Technical Guides. These practices may be used in
resource management systems that treat highly erodible land, or on land
determined to be wetland.
EFFECTIVE DATES: Comments will be received for a 30-day period,
starting on the date of this publication. This series of new or revised
conservation practice standards will be adopted after the close of the
30-day period.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Single copies of these standards are
available from NRCS-CED in Washington, DC. Submit individual inquiries
and return any comments in writing to William Hughey, National
Agricultural Engineer, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Post
Office Box 2890, Room 6139-S, Washington, DC 20013-2890. The telephone
number is (202) 720-5023. The standards are also available, and can be
downloaded from the Internet, at: http://www.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/practice_stds.html <http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/leaving.cgi?from=leavingFR.html&log=linklog&to=http://www.ftw.nrcs.usda.gov/practice_stds.html>
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 343 of the Federal Agriculture
Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 requires NRCS to make available, for
public review and comment, proposed revisions to conservation practice
standards used to carry out the highly erodible land and wetland
provisions of
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the law. For the next 30 days, NRCS will receive comments on the
proposed changes. Following that period, a determination will be made
by NRCS regarding disposition of those comments, and a final
determination of change will be made.
Signed in Washington, DC, on November 19, 2003.
Thomas A. Weber,
Associate Chief, Natural Resources Conservation Service.
[FR Doc. 03-29764 Filed 11-28-03; 8:45 am]
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