Proposed Crystal Creek Timber Sale Within the Council Mountain Roadless Area, Payette National Forest, Adams County, ID

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A notice of intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed Crystal Creek timber sale was published in the Federal Register January 24, 1994 (Vol. 59, Issue No. 15, Page 3554). That notice is hereby revised to include the entire subwatershed north of the Middle Fork Weiser River in the analysis. The proposed timber sale area has been expanded west to the Payette National Forest boundary. This boundary adjustment will enable the interdisciplinary team assigned to this project to address cumulative effects better in the watershed. The Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact statement for the proposed Crystal Creek Timber Sale, Council Ranger District, Payette National Forest, Idaho. The proposed sale would construct roads and harvest timber within a portion of the council Mountain Roadless area that the Payette National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan (1988) allocated to multiple use management. The agency gives notice of the environmental analysis and decision- making process that is beginning on the proposal so that interested and affected people know how they may participate and contribute to the final decision. The agency has already comp