Bridger-Teton National Forest

Projects & Plans

PLANS

Bridger-Teton National Forest 1990 Forest Plan (21 MB, pdf)

Recreation Facility Analysis

Middle Greys Watershed Assessment

Greys River Landscape Scale Assessment

• References
• Appendices

PROJECTS

North BTNF Travel Plan Revision

PUBLIC DOCUMENTS

NATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY ACT (NEPA)
This page is designed to provide the public with recent public notices, NEPA Documents and proposed actions. Please refer to the links below for the full document.

Schedule of Proposed Actions 2008

2008 NEPA Documents

September 15, 2008
Bryan Flats Fuels Reduction Project Environmental Analysis

August 26, 2008
Reasonably Foreseeable Scenario Report for the 44,720 acres Supplemental Leasing EIS

August 6, 2008
Scoping Letter for Greys River Spring Clean-Up Sanitation Project

August 4, 2008
Decision Memo for Gros Ventre Mineral Exploration Project

July 15, 2008
Record of Decision for the Elk Feedgrounds

June 16, 2008
Gros Ventre Mineral Exploration Project Scoping
Gros Ventre Mineral Exploration Scoping Map

June 2, 2008
Pronghorn Migration Corridor EA
Pronghon Migration Corridor Decision Notice
Pronghorn Migration Corridor Map

May 27, 2008
44,720ac Leasing EIS meeting notes

May 16, 2008
Washakie Salvage Treatment Project Scoping Letter
Washakie Salvage Treatment Project Scoping Statement
Washakie Salvage Treatment Project Map

May 2, 2008
Lower Cottonwood Decision Memo letter
Lower Cottonwood Decision Memo
Lower Cottonwood Project Area Map

May 1, 2008
Smiths Fork and Lower Salt Creek grazing scoping letter

March 31, 2008
Bear Creek, Virginia Peak, North Salt and South Salt Sheep & Goat Allotments Scoping Statement
Bear Creek, Virginia Peak, North Salt and South Salt Sheep & Goat Allotments Scoping Letter

March 26, 2008
Little Greys Cattle & Horse Allotment Scoping Letter
Little Greys Cattle & Horse Allotment Scoping Statement
Cottonwood Sheep & Goat Allotment Scoping Letter
Cottonwood Sheep & Goat Allotment Scoping Statement

March 17, 2008
44,720 Leasing SEIS Scoping Notice
44,720 Leasing SEIS Scoping Map
44,720 Notice of Intent Leasing SEIS

March 11, 2008
Winter Elk Management Draft Environmental Impact Statement
Appendix 1
Appendix 2

March 10, 2008
Pronghorn Migration Corridor Scoping Letter
Pronghorn Migration Corridor Scoping Statement
Pronghorn Migration Corridor Map (18,216 KB)
Pronghorn Migration Corridor Scoping Map (360 KB)

January 31, 2008
44,720 acres Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement NOI (Notice of Intent)

January 18, 2008
Snake River Canyon Beetle Project letter
Snake River Canyon Beetle Project Proposed Action

January 7, 2008
Lower Valley Pipeline Final EIS

January 2, 2008
Scoping Notice for Recreation Residences

Archive

2007
2006
2005
2004

Publics Providing Input

Comments received in response to this solicitation, including names and addresses of those who comment, will be considered art of the public record on this proposed action and will be available for public inspection. Comments submitted anonymously will be accepted and considered; however, those who submit anonymous comments will not have standing to appeal the subsequent decision under 36 CFR Parts 215 or 217. Additionally, pursuant to 7 CFR 1.27(d), any person may request the agency to withhold a submission from the public record by showing how the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) permits such confidentiality. Persons requesting such confidentiality should be aware that, under the FOIA, confidentiality may be granted in only very limited circumstances, such as to protect trade secrets. The Forest Service will inform the requester of the agency's decision regarding the request for confidentiality, and where the request is denied, the agency will return the submission and notify the requester that the comments may be resubmitted with or without name and address within 15 days.

 

NEPA Terminology and Definitions

End of Scoping
The date on which your response to the formal scoping statement is due; this is usually 30 days after release of the scoping statement. Especially valuable at this early stage are your concerns regarding potential environmental impacts of our proposed actions. Scoping determines the "scope" of the subsequent environmental analysis conducted by an interdisciplinary team of resource specialists. (Your input is valuable throughout the analysis process even if you have missed the formal scoping deadline.

Planned Decision Type
The Forest Service documents decisions in different ways depending on the type of environmental analysis conducted to inform the decision.

ROD (Record of Decision)
This type of decision is used when an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) has been produced. Decisions documented in a Record Of Decision are subject to administrative appeal.

EIS (Environmental Impact Statement)
This document discloses the environmental impacts to be expected from the proposed action and from specific alternatives to the proposed action. An EIS is prepared when significant environmental impacts are anticipated. Your comments are requested within 45 days of release of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS). Your comments are considered prior to making the final decision and are responded to in the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS).

DN (Decision Notice)
This type of decision is used when an Environmental Assessment (EA) is conducted and it is concluded that no significant environmental impact will result from implementing the preferred alternative. (If a significant environmental impact will result, an EIS must be prepared.) Decisions documented in a Decision Notice are subject to administrative appeal unless there has been no expression of public interest in the action.

EA (Environmental Assessment)
This document discloses the environmental impacts to be expected from the proposed action and from specific alternatives to the proposed action. An EA is prepared when significant environmental impacts are not anticipated or when there is a question as to the extent of the impacts. Your comments are requested within 30 days of release of an EA. Your comments are considered prior to making the final decision and are responded to in an appendix to the EA.

DM (Decision Memo)
This type of decision is used when the environmental analysis has been "categorically excluded" (CE) from documentation in an EA or an EIS. Ordinarily, decisions documented in a Decision Memo are not subject to administrative appeal; the exception is the category of small timber sales (unless there has been no expression of public interest in the sale).

CE (Categorical Exclusion)
A number of categories of action have been determined from prior experience and analysis to result in no significant impact to the environment. If a proposed action falls into one of these categories, and if no extraordinary circumstances exist which might cause a significant impact in the specific case, these actions can be "categorically excluded" from documentation in an EA or EIS. Unlike an EA or EIS, there is no formal pre-decision comment period with a categorical exclusion (except for scoping). Again, the exception is for small timber sales where there is a 30-day comment period immediately prior to the final decision.

USDA Forest Service - Bridger-Teton National Forest
Last Modified: Monday, 22 September 2008 at 18:50:28 EDT