[Federal Register: February 1, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 20)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

 
Deadman Creek Timber Sales, Colville National Forest, Ferry 
County, Washington

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Revised notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact 
statement.

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SUMMARY: On November 12, 1996, the Forest Service, USDA, published a 
Notice of Intent (NOI) in the Federal Register (61 FR 58029-30). The 
notice stated that the proposed action was to harvest and regenerate 
timber for twenty million board feet on one or more timber sales and to 
construct and reconstruct roads in the Deadman Creek area. The sales 
were to be implemented in fiscal year 1999.
    This revised NOI changes the name of this project to ``Deadman 
Creek Ecosystem Management Projects'' with the proposed action changed 
to implement ecosystem management projects using timber sales, 
prescribed fire, as well as road construction, reconstruction, and road 
closure.
    The revised proposed action includes timber harvest and subsequent 
post harvest activities on approximately 4,254 acres with 16.8 miles of 
new road construction and 13.9 miles of road reconstruction. The 
initial timber harvest portion of the project is now proposed to sell 
in fiscal year 2000. Burning treatments would occur over a seven year 
window starting in calendar year 2002.
    The draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) will be tiered to 
the Forest Land and Resource Management Plan as amended by Regional 
Forester's Forest Plan Amendments for Eastside Forests, dated May 24, 
1994, and June 12, 1995. The revised date of filing the Draft EIS is 
April 1999 and the revised filing of the Final EIS is planned in August 
1999.

DATES: Comments concerning the scope of the revised analysis should be 
received in writing by April 1, 1999.

ADDRESSES: Send written comments and suggestions concerning the 
proposed project to Meredith Webster, District Ranger, Kettle Falls 
Ranger District, 255 W. 11th St., Kettle Falls, WA 99141.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions should be directed to 
Meredith Webster, District Ranger, Dan Len, Planning Assistant, or Mike 
Picard, Project Planner, at Kettle Falls Ranger District, 255 W. 11th 
St., Kettle Falls, WA 99141, or call 509-738-6111.

    Dated: January 20, 1999.
George T. Buckingham,
Acting Forest Supervisor, Colville National Forest.
[FR Doc. 99-2265 Filed 1-29-99; 8:45 am]
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