[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 210 (Monday, October 30, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 64660-64661]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-27558]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation Service


Notice of Proposed Change to Section IV of the Virginia Field 
Office Technical Guide

AGENCY: Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), U.S. Department 
of Agriculture.

ACTION:  Notice of Availability of proposed changes in the Virginia 
NRCS Field Office Technical Guide for review and comment.

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SUMMARY: It has been determined by the NRCS State Conservationist for 
Virginia that changes must be made in the NRCS Field Office Technical 
Guide specifically in practice standards: #7021, Agrichemical Handling 
Facility; #314, Brush Management; #327, Conservation Cover; #328, 
Conservation Crop Rotation; #330, Contour Farming; #329B, Residue 
Management, Mulch Till; and #329C, Residue Management, Ridge Till to 
account for improved technology. These practices will be used to plan 
and install conservation

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practices on cropland, pastureland, woodland, and wildlife land.

DATES: Comments will be received on or before November 29, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Inquire in writing to M. Denise 
Doetzer, State Conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation Service 
(NRCS), 1606 Santa Rosa Road, Suite 209, Richmond, Virginia 23229-5014; 
Telephone number (804) 287-1665; Fax number (804) 287-1738. Copies of 
the practice standards will be made available upon written request to 
the address shown above or on the Virginia NRCS web site. http://www.va.nrcs.gov/Data Tech Refs/Standards&Specs/EDITStds/
EditStandards.htm.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 343 of the Federal Agriculture 
Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 states that revisions made after 
enactment of the law to NRCS Field Office technical guides used to 
carry out highly erodible land and wetland provisions of the law shall 
be made available for public review and comment. For the next 30 days, 
the NRCS in Virginia will receive comments relative to the proposed 
changes. Following that period, a determination will be made by the 
NRCS in Virginia regarding disposition of those comments and a final 
determination of change will be made to the subject standards.

    Dated: October 19, 2000.
M. Denise Doetzer,
State Conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation Service, 
Richmond, Virginia.
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