FEDERAL REGISTER INDEX January–August 2020

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FEDERAL REGISTER INDEX January–August 2020 FEDERAL REGISTER INDEX January–August 2020 Forest Service Washington Office; Fire and Aviation Management; Nationwide Aerial RULES Application of Fire Retardant – 51403 ( Aug 20) Extension of Certain Timber Sale Contracts: Conveyance of Small Tracts – 8180 ( Feb 13) Finding of Substantial Overriding Public Interest – 20984 ( Apr 15) Land Uses; Special Use: Forest Order Closing Areas: Procedures for Operating Plans and Agreements for Powerline Facility Beattie Gulch Trailhead and McConnell Fishing Access North and West of Maintenance and Vegetation Management Within and Abutting the Gardiner, MT to the Discharge of Firearms – 36527 ( Jun 17) Linear Boundary of a Special Use Authorization for a Powerline Facility – 41387 ( Jul 10) Forest Service Handbook 1109.12; Directive System Handbook; Providing Streamlining Processing of Communications Use Applications – 19660 Notice and Opportunity to Comment on Forest Service ( Apr 8) Directives – 2865 ( Jan 16) Land Uses; Special Uses: Forest Service Handbook: Procedures for Operating Plans and Agreements for Powerline Facility Chapter 30 Law Enforcement; Closures of National Forest System Lands to Maintenance and Vegetation Management Within and Abutting the Hunting, Fishing, or Recreational Shooting – 50002 ( Aug 17) Linear Boundary of a Special Use Authorization for a Powerline Operation and Maintenance of Developed Recreation Sites – 41226 ( Jul 9); Facility; Correction – 48475 ( Aug 11) 47944 ( Aug 7) Public Notice and Comment for Forest Service Directives – 2864 ( Jan 16) Forest Service Manual 2750 – 34171 ( Jun 3) Intent to Renew the Land Between the Lakes Advisory Board – 5615 PROPOSED RULES ( Jan 31) Conveyance of Small Tracts – 11041 ( Feb 26) Land Management Plan Amendment: Special Uses: Pacific Northwest Region; Oregon; Forest Management Direction for Large Processing of Applications, Issuance of Authorizations, and Diameter Trees in Eastern Oregon – 48500 ( Aug 11) Communications Site Management – 34378 ( Jun 4) Meetings: Subsistence Management for Public Lands in Alaska: 2021--22 and Allegheny Resource Advisory Committee – 2384 ( Jan 15) 2022--23 Subsistence Taking of Fish and Shellfish – 9430 ( Feb 19) Black Hills National Forest Advisory Board – 2383 ( Jan 15); 12251 ( Mar 2); NOTICES 16053 ( Mar 20); 31138 ( May 22); 50797 ( Aug 18) Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Advisory Committee – 30927 Approvals: ( May 21) Advertised Timber for Sale – 52946 ( Aug 27) Collaborative Forest Restoration Program – 31438 ( May 26) Disposal of Mineral Materials – 51403 ( Aug 20) Collaborative Forest Restoration Program Technical Advisory Pane – 33082 Equal Opportunity Compliance Review Record – 51675 ( Aug 21) ( Jun 1) Generic Clearance for Non-timber Forest Products – 40962 ( Jul 8) Collaborative Forest Restoration Program Technical Advisory National Visitor Use Monitoring – 51405 ( Aug 20) Panel – 30682 ( May 20); 31138 ( May 22); 35060 ( Jun 8) Significant Cave Nomination – 51009 ( Aug 19) Flathead Resource Advisory Committee – 2697 ( Jan 16); 14876 ( Mar 16) Special Use Administration – 32356 ( May 29) Gallatin Resource Advisory Committee – 8543 ( Feb 14) Boundary Establishment: Hood-Willamette Resource Advisory Committee – 297 ( Jan 3); 1800 ( Jan 13) Rio Chama National Wild and Scenic River, Santa Fe National Forest, Humboldt Nevada Resource Advisory Committee – 10650 ( Feb 25) Carson National Forest, and Bureau of Land Management Taos Field Idaho Panhandle Resource Advisory Committee – 41938 ( Jul 13) Office, Rio Arriba County, NM – 2384 ( Jan 15) Ketchikan Resource Advisory Committee – 5190 ( Jan 29); 27204 ( May 7); Sipsey Fork of the West Fork National Wild and Scenic River, Bankhead 37416 ( Jun 22); 47160 ( Aug 4) National Forest, Lawrence and Winston Counties, AL – 2383 ( Jan 15) Lassen County Resource Advisory Committee – 36374 ( Jun 16) Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.: Lincoln Resource Advisory Committee – 2699 ( Jan 16); 6498 ( Feb 5) Bighorn National Forest; Wyoming; Invasive and Other Select Plant Lynn Canal Icy Strait Resource Advisory Committee – 297 ( Jan 3) Management – 34172 ( Jun 3) Mineral County Resource Advisory Committee – 2698 ( Jan 16) Caribou Targhee National Forest; Teton County; Wyoming; Grand Targhee Missoula Resource Advisory Committee – 44499 ( Jul 23); 48150 ( Aug 10) Resort Master Development Plan Projects – 52542 ( Aug 26) National Forests in Alabama Resource Advisory Committee – 39869 ( Jul 2) Jefferson National Forest; Monroe County, West Virginia; Giles and North Central Idaho Resource Advisory Committee – 27985 ( May 12) Montgomery County, Virginia; Mountain Valley Pipeline and Equitrans Ozark-Ouachita Resource Advisory Committee – 10649 ( Feb 25) Expansion Project – 45863 ( Jul 30) Saguache – Upper Rio Grande Resource Advisory Committee – 51009 Kemmerer Ranger District; Wyoming; Kemmerer Grazing and Vegetation ( Aug 19) Management Project; Withdrawal – 45371 ( Jul 28) Sanders Resource Advisory Committee – 10650 ( Feb 25) Locatable Minerals – 18186 ( Apr 1) South Central Idaho Resource Advisory Committee – 46067 ( Jul 31) Proposed East Smoky Panel Mine Project at Smoky Canyon Mine, Caribou Southern Montana Resource Advisory Committee – 10651 ( Feb 25); 29679 County, ID – 12014 ( Feb 28) ( May 18) Stanislaus National Forest, CA; Social and Ecological Resilience Across the Southwest Montana Resource Advisory Committee – 5931 ( Feb 3) Landscape – 43205 ( Jul 16) The Nevada and Placer Counties Resource Advisory Committee – 2698 Superior National Forest, Cook County, MN; Lutsen Mountains Ski Area ( Jan 16) Expansion Project – 20987 ( Apr 15) Tri-County Resource Advisory Committee – 7718 ( Feb 11); 29394 ( May 15); Superior National Forest; Cook County; MN; Lutsen Mountains Ski Area 30926 ( May 21) Expansion Project – 23501 ( Apr 28) Umatilla National Forest, Columbia County Resource Advisory Warm Springs, North River, and Glenwood-Pedlar Ranger Districts, George Committee – 7718 ( Feb 11) Washington National Forest; Highland, Bath, and Augusta Counties, West Virginia Resource Advisory Committee – 493 ( Jan 6); 27711 ( May 11); VA; Marlington Ranger District, Monongahela National Forest; 29679 ( May 18); 37060 ( Jun 19); 37622 ( Jun 23) Pocahontas County, WV, Atlantic Coast Pipeline and Supply Wrangell-Petersburg Resource Advisory Committee – 27355 ( May 8); 30927 Header – 35634 ( Jun 11) ( May 21) 1 Forest Service Monument Management Plan: Rio Grande National Forest Land Management Plan – 27985 ( May 12) Bears Ears National Monument Indian Creek and Shash Jaa Units, Request for Applications: Utah – 9800 ( Feb 20) Community Forest and Open Space Conservation Program – 49625 National Environmental Policy Act, Revised Procedures – 8544 ( Feb 14) ( Aug 14) Newspapers Used for Publication of Legal Notices: Requests for Nominations: Northern Region – 22716 ( Apr 23) Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail Advisory Council – 33083 ( Jun 1) Rocky Mountain Region, which includes Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, and Pacific Northwest Region Recreation Advisory Committee – 13857 ( Mar 10) Parts of South Dakota and Wyoming – 21174 ( Apr 16) Revision of the Land Management Plan: Southwestern Region; Arizona, New Mexico, and Parts of Oklahoma and Chugach National Forest – 21175 ( Apr 16) Texas – 53790 ( Aug 31) Custer Gallatin National Forest, MT – 41515 ( Jul 10) Proposed CERCLA Settlement Agreement: Helena-Lewis and Clark National Forest; Montana; Helena-Lewis and Clark Ross Adams Mine Site Cleanup – 40963 ( Jul 8) National Forest – 30925 ( May 21) Proposed New Fee Sites – 4269 ( Jan 24) Special Uses: Record of Decision: Use and Storage of Explosive Materials on National Forest System Lands Bog Creek Road Project – 7320 ( Feb 7) under Special Use Authorizations; Forest Service Manual 2710 and Forest Service Handbook 2709.11 – 37622 ( Jun 23) 2.
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