83 FR 54702 - Payette National Forest; Idaho; Granite Meadows Project
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 211 (October 31, 2018)
Forest Service
Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 211 (October 31, 2018)
| Page Range | 54702-54704 | |
| FR Document | 2018-23826 |
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 211 (Wednesday, October 31, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 54702-54704] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-23826] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Forest Service Payette National Forest; Idaho; Granite Meadows Project AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The Payette National Forest will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to document the potential effects of the Granite Meadows Project. The Granite Meadows Project is located north of New Meadows, Idaho and north and west of McCall, Idaho on the Boise Meridian, within Adams, Valley and Idaho Counties. The analysis will evaluate and disclose the effects of implementing treatments on the National Forest to meet the purpose and need for the project. Proposed treatments include timber harvest, thinning, prescribed fire, road treatments and road decommissioning, watershed improvement and restoration treatments, and recreation improvements. Coordination with existing permittees on grazing schedules would also be included to meet the purpose and need related to fuels reduction. DATES: Comments concerning the scope of the analysis must be received by December 17, 2018. The draft EIS is expected in late July 2019, and the final EIS is expected in December 2019. ADDRESSES: Send written comments to: Keith Lannom, Forest Supervisor, 500 N Mission Street, Building 2, McCall, Idaho 83638. Comments may also be sent via facsimile to 208-634-0744. Comments may also be submitted through the Granite Meadows Project web page at http://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=54029. To submit comments using the web form select ``Comment/Object on Project'' under ``Get Connected'' on the right panel of the project's web page. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erin Phelps, New Meadows District Ranger, 208-347-0300, [email protected]. Individuals who use telecommunication devices for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern Time, Monday through Friday. Additional project information is available on the project page of the Payette National Forest website at: http://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=54029. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Granite Meadows Project area totals approximately 83,000 acres, and includes approximately 70,000 acres of National Forest System (NFS) lands within the New Meadows and McCall Ranger Districts on the Payette National Forest. Additionally, the project area includes approximately 7,000 acres of state land and 6,000 acres of private land, where proposed treatments would be covered under the Wyden Authority (Wyden Amendment, Section 323(A) of the Department of Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 as included in Pub. L. 105-277, Div. A, Section 101(e) as amended by Pub. L. 111- 11, Section 3001). Actions proposed for use under the Wyden Authority would meet the intent and requirements of state and federal laws for actions on private and/or state lands. The project is located in the Hard Creek, Hartsell Creek-North Fork Payette River, Elk Creek-Little Salmon River, Lower Meadows Valley-Little Salmon River, Round Valley Creek-Little Salmon River, Sixmile Creek-Little Salmon River, Box Creek-North Fork Payette River, Fisher Creek, and Payette Lake subwatersheds with the Little Salmon and North Fork of the Payette subbasins. Purpose and Need for Action The Granite Meadows project is a landscape-scale effort to improve conditions across multiple resource areas. The need for the project is based on the difference between the existing and desired conditions. The desired conditions for this project are based upon the Payette Forest Plan (USDA Forest Service 2003), and the Watershed Condition Framework (USDA Forest Service 2011). There is a need to increase the diversity and resilience of the landscape with an emphasis on promoting early seral and fire resistent species (e.g., ponderosa pine and western larch), and improving watershed function and integrity. There is also a need to reduce the threat of unnaturally high wildfire intensity, especially in areas adjacent to communities. Additionally, there is a need to address the potential for user conflict and improve forest user safety, and effectively manage areas experiencing detrimental impacts from dispersed or unauthorized recreation. There is also a need for economic [[Page 54703]] stimulation for the communities adjacent to and within the project area. The purpose of the Granite Meadows Project is to: A. Move vegetation toward desired conditions defined in the Forest Plan with an emphasis on improving wildlife habitat; reducing the risk of uncharacteristic and undesirable wildland fire; returning fire to the ecosystem; promoting the development of large tree forest structures mixed with a mosaic of size classes; improving growth, maintaining and promoting seral species composition (e.g., quaking aspen, whitebark pine, western larch, ponderosa pine, and Douglas-fir), and increasing resiliency to insects, disease, and fire. B. Support the development of fire-adapted rural communities. C. Provide for a safe, sustainable and efficient NFS transportation network for administration, utilization, and protection of NFS lands, and reduce road-related negative effects to resources. D. Move subwatersheds within the project area toward the desired conditions for soil, water, riparian, and aquatic resources. E. Implement site-specific streambank and wetland restoration activities where stream channels, wetlands, or riparian areas are in a degraded condition. F. Manage recreation use by improving trails, addressing unauthorized trails, improving other recreation infrastructure, and thus improve soil and water conditions while also minmizing the potential for conflicts between users, and addressing the risk to forest users. G. Contribute to the economic vitality of the communities adjacent to the Payette National Forest through improvements to recreational opportunities, timber sales, and other removals of forest products, which also fosters a resilient, adaptive ecosystem to mitigate wildfire risk and strengthen communities. Proposed Action The Proposed Action for the Granite Meadows project includes vegetative treatments (commerical, non-commerical, prescribed burning, and associated actions); watershed improvement and restoration treatments; and recreation improvements. Additionally, coordination with existing permittees on grazing programs would occur within the project area to meet the purpose and need of reducing the risk of uncharacteristic and undesirable wildland fire. Vegetative Treatments The Forest Service proposes a combination of commercial treatments, non-commerical treatments (NCT) and prescribed burning across the project area. Treatments would be designed to improve wildlife habitat conditions, increase growth rates and tree vigor, improve stand resiliency to natural disturbance, reduce density-related competition, reduce the likelihood of extreme fire behavior in thinned tree stands, and increase potential for firefighter and public safety through reduced fire intensity, if a wildfire should occur. Treatments could occur within the outer portions of some riparian conservation areas (RCAs) where necessary to meet the purpose and need. Treatments would incorporate mitigation measures to address potential effects to soil, water, riparian and aquatic resources. Recurrent application of the necessary treatments (primarily prescribed fire) every 5 to 20 years would maintain the desired condition. Commercial Vegetative Treatments: Treatments would occur on approximately 25,000 acres and would a incorporate a variety of silvicultural systems, including both intermediate and regneration treatments, depending on stand conditions and species composition. The primary target for commercial treatments are accessible stands where removal of commercial sized trees would aid in achieving one or more of the following: Maintaining or restoring the desired vegetative conditions at the landscape scale; meeting wildland urban interface (WUI) objectives (e.g., supports the development of fire-adapted rural communities and/or reduces the risk of uncharacteristic and undesirable wildland fire); and/or meeting recreation objectives, such as improving skier experience and safety at Brundage Ski Resort. Non-Commercial Treatments: Non-commercial thinning (NCT) would occur on approximately 75,000 acres and would be completed in areas of commercial harvest as well as outside of commercial harvest. This would consist of trees generally less than ten inches diameter at breast height (DBH). Primary target acres for NCT consist of stands within \1/ 2\ mile of structures; plantations; high-use recreation areas where vegetation management would maintain or enhance recreation objectives; areas with forest health concerns due to insect and disease; areas with with undesirable competition to early seral species; areas where density related stress/mortality is undesirable; and/or roadside treatments to improve ingress and egress routes. Prescribed Fire Treatments: Prescribed fire treatments would occur on approximately 83,000 acres. Nearly all of the project area (excluding the Bruin Mountain Reasearch Natural Area and additional areas deemed unsuited or critical) would be considered for prescribed fire over the next 20 years. Commercial activities would generally be completed prior to the application of fire, except where the application of fire prior to thinning does not affect commercial activities. Approximately 500 to 10,000 acres of prescribed fire would be applied annually. Associated Actions: Activities associated with implementing the above vegetative treaments include road maintenance and use; temporary roads, road relocation, rock pits, brush disposal, site preparation, and planting. Treatments on Private and State Lands Within the Project Area Through agreements between the USDA Forest Service, willing private landowners, county governments, and Idaho Department of Lands (i.e., those identified within the project area boundary), treatments would seek to meet the purpose and need for the project and could include non-commercial thinning, prescribed fire, brush disposal, planting and seeding of native vegetation, watershed improvements (e.g., culvert replacements and stream stabilization), and road repair. Actions proposed as part of this project would comply with all laws applicable to management of state and private land. Agreements under the Wyden Authority would not restrict or preclude these land owners from managing or implementing other additional activities on their lands. Funding for activities outside the scope or purpose authorized under the Wyden Authority would have to be funded by other sources. Watershed Improvement and Restoration Treatments These activities would include NFS road treatments, unauthorized route treatments, streambank and wetland restoration activities, and fish passage improvements. Road management actions for this project would utilize the McCall and New Meadows Ranger District Travel Analysis recommendations (completed in 2014 and 2015, respectively). Unauthorized routes not needed for future management would also be evaluated for some level of restoration treatment as required by Forest Service Manual 7734.01. and 7734.02. Site-specific [[Page 54704]] streambank and wetland restoration actions would occur in Sater Meadows, Mud Creek, or other areas across the project area where stream channels, wetlands, or riparian areas are in a degraded condition. Actions to improve stream channels, riparian habitat, and wetlands may include: Streambank stabilization, minor channel re-alignment, fence reconstruction, and planting native vegetation. These actions may also include placement of instream or streambank structures such as, but not limited to, rock, large woody debris, beaver dam analogs (BDAs), and barriers to prevent unauthorized motorized travel in sensitive areas. Road-crossing improvements have been identified in the project area to improve fish passage and hydrologic connectivity, including crossings in the Round Valley Creek Little Salmon River subwatershed, the Sixmile Creek Little Salmon River subwatershed, and in the Upper Goose Creek subwatershed. Recreation Improvements To meet the purpose and need for the project, recreation improvements would include: (A) Improving the existing trail system by establishing user- created (unauthorized) trails as system trails where appropriate, converting some roads to trails, and removing user-created trails that negetatively impact watershed and soil health; (B) replacing or repairing existing facilities, including restrooms and lake amenities; (C) addressing dispersed recreation issues by enhancing sites, hardening sites, closing some sites, and/or sign installation; (D) managing roads (including relocation), posting signage and/or considering closure orders (temporary and/or permanent) to address public safety in areas where conflicting use occurs; and (E) improving skier experience and safety through vegetative treatments within the Brundage Mountain Resort's ski area. More detailed information on the purpose and need for the project as well as the Proposed Action can be found on the project page of the Payette National Forest website at: http://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=54029. Responsible Official The Forest Supervisor of the Payette National Forest is the Responsible Official. Nature of Decision To Be Made The Responsible Official will decide whether or not, and in what manner, lands within the Granite Meadows project area would be treated to best meet the purpose and need. The decision will be based on a consideration of the environmental effects of implementing the proposed action or alternatives. The Responsible Official may select the proposed action, any alternative analyzed in detail, a modified proposed action or alternative, or no action. If an action alternative is selected, the Responsible Official will determine what design features, mitigation measures and monitoring requirements are included in the decision. Scoping Process This notice of intent initiates the scoping process, which helps guide the development of the environmental impact statement. It is important that reviewers provide their comments at such times and in such a manner that they are useful to the Agency's preparation of the environmental impact statement. Therefore, comments should be provided prior to the close of the comment period and should clearly articulate the reviewer's concerns and contentions. Comments received in response to this solicitation, including names and addresses of those who comment, will be part of the public record for this project. Comments submitted anonymously however will also be accepted and considered; however, anonymous comments will not provide the Agency with the ability to provide the respondent with subsequent information concerning the project. Dated October 11, 2018. Allen Rowley, Acting Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest System. 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managerial actions. The data collected request for Office of Management and (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 between 8
from the public, in concert with the Budget approval. a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern Time, Monday
carrying capacity study, will help Dated: October 18, 2018. through Friday. Additional project
determine future management objectives Gregory C. Smith,
information is available on the project
and actions related to the Whole page of the Payette National Forest
Acting Associate Deputy Chief, National
Enchilada trail system. Forest System.
website at: http://www.fs.usda.gov/
If the survey were not to occur, vital project/?project=54029.
[FR Doc. 2018–23827 Filed 10–30–18; 8:45 am]
stakeholder information would be SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
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absent from the recreation carrying Granite Meadows Project area totals
capacity study and would be incomplete approximately 83,000 acres, and
for all intents and purposes. Without the DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE includes approximately 70,000 acres of
survey, the subsequent carrying capacity National Forest System (NFS) lands
study would be incomplete and lacking Forest Service within the New Meadows and McCall
baseline data including public Ranger Districts on the Payette National
perceptions about use and conditions. Payette National Forest; Idaho; Granite Forest. Additionally, the project area
The aforementioned 2013 Needs Meadows Project includes approximately 7,000 acres of
Assessment that requires the Manti-La state land and 6,000 acres of private
Sal National Forest to conduct a AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.
land, where proposed treatments would
carrying capacity study, and by proxy, ACTION:Notice of intent to prepare an
be covered under the Wyden Authority
a public survey, would be unmet and environmental impact statement.
(Wyden Amendment, Section 323(A) of
the Forest Service could not potentially SUMMARY: The Payette National Forest the Department of Interior and Related
increase commercial use on the Whole will prepare an environmental impact Agencies Appropriations Act, 1999 as
Enchilada trail system. This trail has statement (EIS) to document the included in Pub. L. 105–277, Div. A,
seen increased use and popularity in the potential effects of the Granite Meadows Section 101(e) as amended by Pub. L.
last decade and current management Project. The Granite Meadows Project is 111–11, Section 3001). Actions
standards may be inadequate for natural located north of New Meadows, Idaho proposed for use under the Wyden
resource protection and public demand/ and north and west of McCall, Idaho on Authority would meet the intent and
access to this trail system. the Boise Meridian, within Adams, requirements of state and federal laws
Estimate of Annual Burden: Each Valley and Idaho Counties. The analysis for actions on private and/or state lands.
survey will take anywhere from 15–20 will evaluate and disclose the effects of The project is located in the Hard Creek,
minutes to complete fully. implementing treatments on the Hartsell Creek-North Fork Payette River,
Type of Respondents: Public National Forest to meet the purpose and Elk Creek-Little Salmon River, Lower
individuals: Trail users (hikers, bikers, need for the project. Proposed Meadows Valley-Little Salmon River,
etc.), outfitter and guides (commercially treatments include timber harvest, Round Valley Creek-Little Salmon
using the trail), and local business thinning, prescribed fire, road River, Sixmile Creek-Little Salmon
owners (whom use the trail). treatments and road decommissioning, River, Box Creek-North Fork Payette
Estimated Annual Number of watershed improvement and restoration River, Fisher Creek, and Payette Lake
Respondents: 1,000 Maximum for one treatments, and recreation subwatersheds with the Little Salmon
year in 2019. improvements. Coordination with and North Fork of the Payette subbasins.
Estimated Annual Number of existing permittees on grazing schedules
Responses per Respondent: 1. Purpose and Need for Action
would also be included to meet the
Estimated Total Annual Burden on purpose and need related to fuels The Granite Meadows project is a
Respondents: 20,000 minutes. reduction. landscape-scale effort to improve
Comment is invited on: (1) Whether conditions across multiple resource
this collection of information is DATES: Comments concerning the scope areas. The need for the project is based
necessary for the stated purposes and of the analysis must be received by on the difference between the existing
the proper performance of the functions December 17, 2018. The draft EIS is and desired conditions. The desired
of the Agency, including whether the expected in late July 2019, and the final conditions for this project are based
information will have practical or EIS is expected in December 2019. upon the Payette Forest Plan (USDA
scientific utility; (2) the accuracy of the ADDRESSES: Send written comments to: Forest Service 2003), and the Watershed
Agency’s estimate of the burden of the Keith Lannom, Forest Supervisor, 500 N Condition Framework (USDA Forest
collection of information, including the Mission Street, Building 2, McCall, Service 2011).
validity of the methodology and Idaho 83638. Comments may also be There is a need to increase the
assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance sent via facsimile to 208–634–0744. diversity and resilience of the landscape
the quality, utility, and clarity of the Comments may also be submitted with an emphasis on promoting early
information to be collected; and (4) through the Granite Meadows Project seral and fire resistent species (e.g.,
ways to minimize the burden of the web page at http://www.fs.usda.gov/ ponderosa pine and western larch), and
collection of information on project/?project=54029. To submit improving watershed function and
respondents, including the use of comments using the web form select integrity. There is also a need to reduce
automated, electronic, mechanical, or ‘‘Comment/Object on Project’’ under the threat of unnaturally high wildfire
other technological collection ‘‘Get Connected’’ on the right panel of intensity, especially in areas adjacent to
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techniques or other forms of information the project’s web page. communities. Additionally, there is a
technology. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erin need to address the potential for user
All comments received in response to Phelps, New Meadows District Ranger, conflict and improve forest user safety,
this notice, including names and 208–347–0300, ephelps@fs.fed.us. and effectively manage areas
addresses when provided, will be a Individuals who use telecommunication experiencing detrimental impacts from
matter of public record. Comments will devices for the deaf (TDD) may call the dispersed or unauthorized recreation.
be summarized and included in the Federal Information Relay Service There is also a need for economic
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streambank and wetland restoration Nature of Decision To Be Made of Agriculture’s (USDA), invites
actions would occur in Sater Meadows, The Responsible Official will decide comments on this information
Mud Creek, or other areas across the whether or not, and in what manner, collection for which the Agency intends
project area where stream channels, lands within the Granite Meadows to request approval from the Office of
wetlands, or riparian areas are in a project area would be treated to best Management and Budget (OMB).
degraded condition. Actions to improve meet the purpose and need. The DATES: Comments on this notice must be
stream channels, riparian habitat, and decision will be based on a received by December 31, 2018.
wetlands may include: Streambank consideration of the environmental Development Innovation Center—
stabilization, minor channel re- effects of implementing the proposed Regulatory Team, USDA, 1400
alignment, fence reconstruction, and action or alternatives. The Responsible Independence Ave. SW, STOP 1522,
planting native vegetation. These Official may select the proposed action, Room 5162 South Building,
actions may also include placement of any alternative analyzed in detail, a Washington, DC 20250–1522.
instream or streambank structures such modified proposed action or alternative, Telephone: (202) 690–1078. Email:
as, but not limited to, rock, large woody or no action. If an action alternative is Michele.Brooks@wdc.usda.gov.
debris, beaver dam analogs (BDAs), and selected, the Responsible Official will SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office
barriers to prevent unauthorized determine what design features, of Management and Budget’s (OMB)
motorized travel in sensitive areas. mitigation measures and monitoring regulation (5 CFR 1320) implementing
Road-crossing improvements have been requirements are included in the provisions of the Paperwork Reduction
identified in the project area to improve decision. Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13) requires
fish passage and hydrologic that interested members of the public
connectivity, including crossings in the Scoping Process
and affected agencies have an
Round Valley Creek Little Salmon River This notice of intent initiates the opportunity to comment on information
subwatershed, the Sixmile Creek Little scoping process, which helps guide the collection and recordkeeping activities
Salmon River subwatershed, and in the development of the environmental (see 5 CFR 1320.8(d)). This notice
Upper Goose Creek subwatershed. impact statement. It is important that identifies an information collection that
Recreation Improvements reviewers provide their comments at the Agency is submitting to OMB for
such times and in such a manner that revision.
To meet the purpose and need for the they are useful to the Agency’s Comments are invited on (a) whether
project, recreation improvements would preparation of the environmental impact the collection of information is
include: statement. Therefore, comments should necessary for the proper performance of
(A) Improving the existing trail be provided prior to the close of the the functions of the agency, including
system by establishing user-created comment period and should clearly whether the information will have
(unauthorized) trails as system trails articulate the reviewer’s concerns and practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
where appropriate, converting some contentions. agency’s estimate of burden including
Comments received in response to the validity of the methodology and
roads to trails, and removing user-
this solicitation, including names and assumption used; (c) ways to enhance
created trails that negetatively impact
addresses of those who comment, will the quality, utility, and clarity of the
watershed and soil health;
be part of the public record for this information to be collected; and (d)
(B) replacing or repairing existing project. Comments submitted ways to minimize the burden of the
facilities, including restrooms and lake anonymously however will also be collection of information on those who
amenities; accepted and considered; however, are to respond, including through the
(C) addressing dispersed recreation anonymous comments will not provide use of appropriate automated,
issues by enhancing sites, hardening the Agency with the ability to provide electronic, mechanical, or other
sites, closing some sites, and/or sign the respondent with subsequent technological collection techniques on
installation; information concerning the project. other forms and information technology.
(D) managing roads (including Dated October 11, 2018. Comments may be sent to Michele
relocation), posting signage and/or Allen Rowley, Brooks, Team Lead, Rural Development
considering closure orders (temporary Acting Associate Deputy Chief, National Innovation Center—Regulatory Team,
and/or permanent) to address public Forest System. USDA, 1400 Independence Ave. SW,
safety in areas where conflicting use [FR Doc. 2018–23826 Filed 10–30–18; 8:45 am] STOP 1522, Room 5162 South Building,
occurs; and BILLING CODE 3411–15–P Washington, DC 20250–1522.
(E) improving skier experience and Telephone: (202) 690–1078. Email:
safety through vegetative treatments Michele.Brooks@wdc.usda.gov.
within the Brundage Mountain Resort’s DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Title: 7 CFR Part 4280–E, Rural
ski area. Business Development Grants.
Rural Business—Cooperative Service OMB Control Number: 0570–0070.
More detailed information on the Type of Request: Extension of
purpose and need for the project as well Information Collection Activity; currently approved package.
as the Proposed Action can be found on Comment Request Abstract: The Agricultural Act of
the project page of the Payette National 2014, Public Law 113–79 (2014 Farm
AGENCY: Rural Business—Cooperative
Forest website at: http:// Bill) (7 U.S.C. 1932(c)), authorizes the
Service, USDA.
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www.fs.usda.gov/project/ Rural Business Development Grant
ACTION: Notice and request for
?project=54029. (RBDG) program to facilitate the
comments.
Responsible Official development of small and emerging
SUMMARY: In accordance with the private businesses, industries, and
The Forest Supervisor of the Payette Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the related employment as well as
National Forest is the Responsible Rural Business—Cooperative Service, an identifying and analyzing business
Official. agency of the United States Department opportunities, establishing business
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| Section | Notices | |
| Action | Notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement. | |
| Dates | Comments concerning the scope of the analysis must be received by December 17, 2018. The draft EIS is expected in late July 2019, and the final EIS is expected in December 2019. | |
| Contact | Erin Phelps, New Meadows District Ranger, 208-347-0300, [email protected] Individuals who use telecommunication devices for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern Time, Monday through Friday. Additional project information is available on the project page of the Payette National Forest website at: http://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=54029. | |
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