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Record of Decision and Standards and Guidelines for Amendments to the Survey and Manage, Protection Buffer, and Other Mitigation Measures Standards and Guidelines U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service 333 SW 1st Avenue, P.O. Box 3623 Portland, OR 97208 U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Land Management 1515 SW 5th Avenue, P.O. Box 2965 Portland, OR 97208 January 2001 Record of Decision and Standards and Guidelines for Amendments to the Survey and Manage, Protection Buffer, and other Mitigation Measures Standards and Guidelines Forest Service National Forests in Regions 5 and 6 and the Bureau of Land Management Districts in California, Oregon, and Washington Within the Range of the Northern Spotted Owl Record of Decision for Amendments to the Survey and Manage, Protection Buffer, and other Mitigation Measures Standards and Guidelines RECORD OF DECISION for Amendments to the Survey and Manage, Protection Buffer, and other Mitigation Measures Standards and Guidelines in Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management Planning Documents Within the Range of the Northern Spotted Owl January 2001 Lead Agencies: Forest Service - U.S. Department of Agriculture Bureau of Land Management - U.S. Department of the Interior Cooperating Agency: Fish & Wildlife Service - U.S. Department of Interior Table of Contents Table of Contents 1. Introduction ............................................................1 Summary.............................................................1 Background/Purpose and Need ............................................1 Nature of this Action....................................................3 Plans Amended........................................................3 Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement ...............................4 2. The Decision...........................................................5 Summary of the Decision ................................................6 Key Elements of the Decision.............................................7 Species Review Process ..............................................7 Additional NEPA Not Anticipated for Annual Changes to Species Assignments ....................................................8 Strategic Surveys....................................................9 Provision to Add Species ............................................10 Prophysaon coeruleum (Blue-Grey Tail-Dropper) .........................10 Non-late-Successional Forest Species Being Considered for Other Programs......................................................10 Relationship to the Need to Treat Hazardous Fuels ........................11 Timing of “Pre-disturbance” Surveys ...................................12 Five and Ten Year Deadlines for the Completion of Strategic Surveys for Category B..................................................12 Additional Mitigation for 10 Mollusk Species ............................12 Management Recommendations for Certain Bat Roosts and Cavity Nesting Birds 12 Programmatic Decision Does Not Authorize Activities .....................13 Programmatic Decision Does Not Officially Change Probable Sale Quantities for Administrative Units .................................13 Additional Mitigation Measures ..........................................13 Monitoring ..........................................................16 Application to Contracts, Permits and Special Use Authorizations ...............17 Application of this Decision to Management Activities in the Planning Phase or with Signed NEPA Decisions or Decision Documents as of the Effective Date of this Decision................................................17 3. Public Involvement .....................................................19 Introduction ..........................................................19 Scoping.............................................................19 Public Comments on the Draft SEIS.......................................20 Public Comments on Final SEIS..........................................22 Record of Decision - i Survey and Manage and other Mitigation Measures 4. Other Alternatives Considered in Detail, and Reasons They Were Not Selected..... 30 The No-Action Alternative ............................................. 30 Alternative 2 - Remove or Reassign Uncommon Species Within 5 Years......... 32 Alternative 3 - Add Equivalent-Effort Survey and 250-Meter Rare Species Site Buffers ...................................................... 33 5. Reasons for the Decision................................................ 36 Response to the Four Issues Identified in the Final SEIS ...................... 36 Rationale for Managing Blue-gray Tail-dropper as One Species ................ 41 6. Findings............................................................. 44 Response to Court Decision and Settlement Agreement ....................... 44 National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)................................ 45 National Forest Management Act (NFMA)................................. 48 Diversity and Viability Provision of Fish and Wildlife Resource Regulation .... 48 Regional Guide and Forest Plan Amendments ........................... 52 Endangered Species Act (ESA).......................................... 53 Federal Land Policy and Management Act ................................. 54 Oregon and California Lands Act (O&C Act)............................... 55 Protection of Tribal Treaty Rights and Trust Resources....................... 56 Review by the Regional Interagency Executive Committee (RIEC) .............. 57 Valid Existing Rights.................................................. 57 7. Identification of the Environmentally Preferable Alternative .................... 57 8. Administrative Review or Appeal......................................... 58 9. Authority to Amend or Modify this Decision ................................ 58 10. Effective Date ....................................................... 58 11. Contact Person ....................................................... 59 12. Signatures and Dates .................................................. 59 Attachment 1: Standards and Guidelines Record of Decision - ii Introduction RECORD OF DECISION for Amendments to the Survey and Manage, Protection Buffer, and other Mitigation Measures Standards and Guidelines 1. Introduction Summary In this Record of Decision we are amending a portion of the Northwest Forest Plan by adopting new standards and guidelines for Survey and Manage, Protection Buffers, and other mitigating measures. Our Decision selects, with additional mitigation and minor modifications, Alternative 1 in the November 2000 Final Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for Survey and Manage, Protection Buffers, and other Mitigation Measures in the Northwest Forest Plan (Final SEIS). This Decision makes it possible for the Agencies to more efficiently provide the level of species protection intended in the Northwest Forest Plan. Our Decision retains the major elements of Survey and Manage, restructuring them for clarity, describing criteria and processes for changing species assignments in the future, and removing 72 species in all or part of their range because new information indicates they are secure or otherwise do not meet the basic criteria for Survey and Manage. This Decision applies to administrative units of the USDA Forest Service and USDI Bureau of Land Management (BLM) (generally referred to as “the Agencies”) within the range of the northern spotted owl. Background/Purpose and Need In 1994, the Bureau of Land Management and Forest Service adopted standards and guidelines for the management of habitat for late-successional and old-growth forest related species within the range of the northern spotted owl, commonly known as the Northwest Forest Plan. The key elements of the Northwest Forest Plan are the system of reserves, the Aquatic Conservation Strategy, and various standards and guidelines affecting each of seven different land allocations. Also, mitigation measures were included for management of known sites, site-specific pre-habitat disturbing surveys, and/or landscape scale surveys for about 400 rare and/or isolated species. These are species that, either because of genuine rarity or because of a lack of information about them, the Agencies did not know whether they would adequately be protected by other elements of the Northwest Forest Plan. The standards and guidelines for these mitigation measures are known as Survey and Manage, Protection Buffers, and Protect Sites From Grazing. This decision Record of Decision - 1 Survey and Manage and other Mitigation Measures also addresses standards and guidelines protecting certain bat roosts and calls special attention to recreation sites. Considerable new information has been acquired about these species since they were included in Survey and Manage in 1994. More than 47,000 individual data records have been gathered from historical information as well as various agency surveys. The 1994 Northwest Forest Plan anticipated species would be moved to different categories or would be removed from Survey and Manage as new information indicated they were more secure than originally projected. This is appropriate; many species were included simply because information available at the time indicated they were very rare or endemics and other standards and guidelines from the Northwest Forest Plan might not adequately provide for them. In 1994, for example, the terrestrial mollusk papillose tail-dropper (Prophysaon dubium) was known only from two sites in the Northwest Forest Plan area. Since then, the Agencies have compiled nearly 1,000 records representing 300 to 500 individual sites.
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