Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 9.12.1998

Wild and Scenic Rivers

The Office of the Secretary publishes this proposed rule in response to comments received on a proposed rule published by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and to improve Departmental consistency among Wild and Scenic River-administering agencies. Consistent with President Clinton's Government-wide regulatory reform initiative, this proposed rule is written in a straightforward ``Plain English'' style. This rule would establish uniform standards and procedures by which the Department of the Interior, through its agencies which administer rivers in the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System (Bureau of Land Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Park Service), will consider Federal licensing of, or assistance to, water resources projects affecting designated wild and Scenic Rivers or congressionally authorized Study Rivers. This proposed rule also withdraws the proposed rulemaking published in the Federal Register by the BLM on September 10, 1996 (61 FR 47726). This proposed rule would harmonize Interior's procedures and standards with those of the U.S. Forest Service in order to streamline and improve the administration of the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Syst