Environmental statements; notice of intent: Black Hills National Forest, SD,

[Federal Register: December 10, 1999 (Volume 64, Number 237)]

[Notices]

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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

Supplement to the Veteran/Boulder Project Area Final Environmental Impact Statement; Black Hills National Forest; Spearfish/ Nemo Ranger District; Lawrence and Meade Counties, SD

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Cancellation of a supplement to a final environmental impact statement.

SUMMARY: On April 21, 1999, a Notice of Intent (NOI) to prepare a supplement to the final environmental impact statement for the Veteran/ Boulder Project area (EIS No. 990191) on the Spearfish/Nemo Ranger District of the Black Hills National Forest was published in the Federal Register (64 FR 76). A Notice of Availability of a draft supplement was published in the Federal Register (64 FR 117) on June 18, 1999. Activities proposed in the draft supplement included timber harvest of mountain pine beetle infested trees to reduce an existing epidemic in the Forbes Gulch area of the Beaver Park roadless area. The NOI is being withdrawn because a separate, larger analysis, the Beaver Park Project Area analysis, has begun and this analysis has incorporated the activities that were proposed in the supplement. The NOI for the Beaver Park analysis was published in the Federal Register (64 FR 216) on November 9, 1999. The Forest Service NOI to prepare a supplement is hereby rescinded.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Joy Trowbridge, Spearfish/Nemo Ranger District, Black Hills National Forest, 2014 No. Main Street, Spearfish, SD 57783, telephone 605-642-4622.

Dated: November 23, 1999. John C. Twiss, Forest Supervisor.

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