Squirrel Meadows-Grand Targhee Resort Land Exchange Targhee National Forest, Teton County, WY

[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 147 (Monday, August 2, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 41911-41912]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-19647]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service


Squirrel Meadows-Grand Targhee Resort Land Exchange Targhee 
National Forest, Teton County, WY

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Revision of the Notice of Intent to prepare an Environmental 
Impact Statement for the Squirrel Meadows-Grand Targhee Resort Land 
Exchange as published in the Federal Register page 54039 to 54040 on 
October 17, 1997 (Vol. 62, No. 200). This revision includes a change of 
the Responsible Official, acres of land to be exchanged by both 
parties, and project schedule.

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SUMMARY: The USDA, Forest Service is preparing an Environmental Impact 
Statement to document the analysis and disclose the environmental 
impacts of a proposed land exchange with Booth Creek, Inc., dba Grant 
Targhee Resort.
    This revised Notice of Intent is to document some minor changes in 
the process.
    •  In the original NOI, the tentative date for filing the 
Draft EIS was May of 1998 and the Final EIS was scheduled for December, 
1998. Due to the gathering of additional social and economic 
information and the creation of additional design concepts, the Draft 
EIS is not scheduled to be filed in August, 1999, and the final EIS 
about April of 2000.
    •  The original Responsible Official was the Regional 
Forester, Intermountain Region. The Responsible Official now is Jerry 
B. Reese, Forest Supervisor, Targhee and Caribou National Forests, 420 
N. Bridge St, St. Anthony, Idaho 83445.
    •  The original NOI proposed exchanging up to 265 acres of 
NFS lands for 330 acres of private ground. The alternatives now is 
considered in the analysis propose exchanging up to 195 acres of NFS 
land for approximately 385 acres of private land.

DATES: These changes are minor and no formal comment period will be 
initiated.


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ADDRESSES: Send correspondence to Jack Haddox, Teton Basin Ranger 
District, PO Box 777, Driggs, Idaho 83422.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Questions concerning this revised 
Notice of Intent the proposed action and the EIS should be directed to 
Patty Bates, Teton Basin District Ranger, Targhee National Forest, 
Telephone: (208) 354-2312.

    Dated: July 23, 1999.
Jerry B. Reese,
Forest Supervisor, Targhee National Forest, Intermountain Region, USDA 
Forest Service.
[FR Doc. 99-19647 Filed 7-30-99; 8:45 am]
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