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Forest Service

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DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice of issuance of agency directive.

SUBJECT CATEGORY: Direction for Processing Interstate Natural Gas Pipeline Proposals on National Forest System Lands

DATES: This amendment is effective December 28, 2007.

DOCUMENT SUMMARY: The Forest Service is amending its Forest Service Manual chapter 2720, to incorporate without change, an interim directive to guide its employees in processing proposals for interstate natural gas pipeline projects. This amendment is designed to update existing direction in the Forest Service Manual chapter 2720, consistent with a May 2002 interagency agreement between the Department of Agriculture and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. The agreement establishes procedures for responding to and processing applications for interstate natural gas pipeline projects when the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission will be the lead agency in conducting the required environmental and historic preservation reviews.

SUMMARY: National Forest System land management planning directives—; Interstate natural gas pipeline projects,

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

The amendment to FSM 2720 provides Forest Service field officers with specific procedures to assure that the agency carries out the streamlining processes in the interagency agreement and directs that field officers fully engage as a cooperating agency in the FERC's processing of these types of applications.

Dated: December 19, 2007.
Abigail R. Kimbell,
Chief, Forest Service.
[FR Doc. E725163 Filed 122707; 8:45 am]
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT Julett Denton, Lands Staff (202-205- 1256).

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