Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 26/11/1996

Kootenai National Forest, Northern Region

this notice announces the beginning of the efforts to revise the Land and Resource Management Plan (Forest Plan) for the Kootenai National Forest. This is not the Notice of Intent (NOI) for the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) that will accompany the Revised Forest Plan. That NOI will be issued at a later date. The beginning efforts are to prepare the ``Analysis of the Management Situation'' (AMS) per 36 CFR 219.12(e). This includes analysis of local conditions and consideration of broad scale information from the Interior Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management Project (ICBEMP) EIS. The AMS and ICBEMP EIS will be used to determine the Kootenai National Forest's Need for Change. This information will then provide a basis for the NOI to prepare the EIS, which will begin the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) process associated with Forest Plan revision. Public involvement is critical and will be requested throughout this effort. The forest is developing a communication strategy to document how the public and government entities may participate in the AMS and revision of the forest Plan. Formal public involvement, associated with the Forest Plan revision, will also be conducted