Clearwater National Forest Releases DEIS for Travel Management Plan
Jul 15, 2009

United States Department of Agriculture
Forest Service
Clearwater National Forest
12730 Highway 12
Orofino, Idaho 83544-9333
208/476-4541
Fax: 208/476-8329

File Code: 1950-3
Date: July 2, 2009

Dear Planning Participant:

Thank you for your earlier comments on and interest in the Clearwater National Forest Travel Planning effort. I have identified Alternative C as the Preferred Alternative in the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS).

It is important that any comments you provide are substantive and specific. We have reviewed all new route proposals that were submitted during the initial scoping for this project. Route proposals that met the screening criteria were incorporated into at least one of the alternatives. Other route proposals may be considered in the future in smaller-scale project analyses.

The DEIS is available online at http://www.fs.fed.us/rl/clearwater/. Copies of the DEIS are also available at Clearwater National Forest offices and many local libraries, including those at Orofino, Deary, Elk River, Grangeville, Kamiah, Kooskia, Lewiston, Moscow, Pierce, Potlatch, and Weippe in Idaho, as well as Superior and Missoula, Montana.

How to Comment

Written, facsimile, hand-delivered, oral, and electronic comments concerning this project will be accepted for 45 calendar days following the printing of the legal notice in the Lewiston Morning Tribune. The publication date in the newspaper of record is the exclusive means for calculating the comment period for this project. Those wishing to comment should not rely on dates or timeframe information provided by any other source.

Written comments should be submitted to the project Team Leader at the following address:

Kamiah Ranger Station
Attn: Lois Foster, Travel Planning IDT Leader
Rt. 2, Box 191
Kamiah, ID 83536

Electronic comments must be submitted in a format such as an email message, plain text (.txt), rich text format (.rtf), or Microsoft Word (.doc) document to:

comments-northern-clearwater@fs.fed.us

Email comments must include the commenter's name, and the words "Travel Planning" should appear in the subject line of the message.

Appeal Eligibility

If you wish to comment, it is your responsibility to submit them by the close of the comment period. Those who provide comments during the comment period are eligible to appeal a decision on this project under 36 CFR 215.13, as published in the Federal Register regulations. If you have further concerns, please contact the Team Leader, Lois Foster, at 208-935-4258.

I appreciate your time and interest in the management of your National Forest.

Sincerely,

THOMAS K. REILLY
Forest Supervisor

Links

Clearwater NF Travel Planning - USFS [details]

Clearwater National Forest Travel Plan DEIS Announcement - USFS letter 7/2/09 [details]

Clearwater Forest releases travel planning draft environmental impact statement - USFS press release 7/16/09 [details]

Organizations

Clearwater National Forest

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