Nebraska Travel Management DEIS Released
Sep 23, 2009

The Nebraska National Forest and Grasslands (NNFG) Draft Environmental Impact Statement for designation of a motorized travel access system is available for review. The document and associated maps can be found on the Forest Service web site at http://www.fs.fed.us/r2/nebraska/projects/travel_management/index.shtml. For additional information or to request a CD with the complete document please contact Nebraska Travel Management project leader Mark Reichert by email (mreichert@fs.fed.us), or by phone (530-841-4422).


Location
Actions would occur on most lands administered by the Nebraska National Forest and Grasslands (except the Fort Pierre National Grassland) including the Buffalo Gap National Grassland, Oglala National Grassland, Samuel R. McKelvie National Forest, and the Pine Ridge and Bessey Units.

Actions Proposed
The Nebraska Travel Management proposed actions are designed to manage motorized access and move the area toward desired conditions defined in the Travel Management Rule. Within Alternative 2, the Preferred Alternative, the Nebraska Travel Management project proposes to designate approximately 794 miles of existing Forest Service Roads and unauthorized travel routes as open to motorized travel and 1,818 acres that will be open to off road motorized use. This draft is provided so the public may review and comment on the proposal and alternatives to the proposal, prior to our making a decision. Our regulations provide the public with a period of 45 days wherein you may review and comment on the actions, reasons and analysis disclosed in the draft of the EIS.

How to Comment
Comments on the Nebraska Travel Management DEIS must be made within a 45-day period following publication of its Notice of Availability (NOA) in the Federal Register. The Environmental Protection Agency publishing date of the NOA is September 25, 2009.

Written, facsimile, and electronic comments concerning this action will be accepted. The publication date of the NOA in the Federal Register is the exclusive means for calculating the comment period for a proposed action documented in a draft EIS. Those wishing to comment should not rely upon dates or timeframe information provided by any other source. Written comments must be submitted to the Responsible Official (that is, the person who will make this decision):

Jane Darnell, Forests and Grasslands Supervisor
Nebraska National Forest and Grasslands
c/o Mark Reichert
1312 Fairlane Road
Yreka, CA 96097

Electronic facsimile must be sent to (530) 841-4463 and date stamped no later than the 45th day after publication in the Federal Register.

Electronic comments must be submitted in a format such as an email message, plain text (.txt), rich text format (.rtf), or Word (.doc) to comments-rocky-mountain-nebraska@fs.fed.usmreichert@fs.fed.us), or by phone (530-841-4422).

Links

Nebraska Travel Management Planning [details]

Organizations

Nebraska National Forests and Grasslands

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