Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 21.12.1998

EIS for The Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act Pilot Project

On October 21, 1998, the President of the United States signed the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, including Section 401, The Herger-Feinstein Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery Act (Act). The Act states that the Secretary of Agriculture, acting through the Forest Service and after completion of an environmental impact statement, shall conduct a pilot project on described Federal lands to demonstrate the effectiveness of specific resource management activities including fuelbreaks, group selection and individual tree selection, and avoidance or protection of specified areas. A Record of Decision (ROD) is to be adopted by August 17, 1999. Additionally, the Forest Service is to develop a program for riparian restoration. The Pilot Project is defined in the Act as Quincy Library Group Proposal, as described in the ``Quincy Library Group-Community Stability Proposal'', to be implemented on Federal lands identified on the map (MAP) entitled ``Quincy Library Group Community Stability Proposal'', dated October 12, 1993, and prepared by Vestra Resources of Redding, California.