federal_register: 00-17945
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| 00-17945 | Santa Fe Municipal Watershed Wildland-Urban Interface Fuels Reduction Project, Santa Fe National Forest, Santa Fe County, NM | Notice | The Forest Service and City of Santa Fe (City) are proposing a project to reduce the potential for a large scale, high intensity wildfire to destroy the municipal watershed and impact the City's potable water supply. Current conditions indicate that the watershed is at high risk of catastrophic wildfire and subsequent severe flooding. The Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to disclose the potential environmental effects of treating vegetation in portions of the municipal watershed to reduce the severity of a high intensity wildfire. The EIS will be prepared pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321, et seq.), the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) Regulations for Implementing the Procedural Provisions of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500 to 1508), and USDA NEPA Policies and Procedures (7 CFR part 1b; Forest Service Manual 1950). The City of Sante Fe, Sangre de Cristo Water Division, is a cooperating agency in the proposed project. The proposed project would be accomplished in multiple stages, treating several hundred acres each year, over a five-to-ten year period. Treatment effectiveness and results would be evaluated and adjustments made as needed, prior to implementing the following years treatments. The proposal involves thinning the smaller trees in the forest over approximately 2,500 acres. After removing thinned trees that are accessible along the existing road and chipping and hauling out the limbs and tops from along the road, any remaining thinned materials would be piled and burned. In addition, approximately 4,500 acres would be broadcast prescribed burned to reduce fuels on the steep, remote upper slopes. The proposed project does NOT involve road construction, commercial timber sales, or removal of mature trees. The proposed project would treat patches of forested land on both National Forest System and City lands within the Santa Fe municipal watershed. | 2000-07-17 | 2000 | 7 | https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/07/17/00-17945/santa-fe-municipal-watershed-wildland-urban-interface-fuels-reduction-project-santa-fe-national | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2000-07-17/pdf/00-17945.pdf | Agriculture Department; Forest Service | 12,209 | The Forest Service and City of Santa Fe (City) are proposing a project to reduce the potential for a large scale, high intensity wildfire to destroy the municipal watershed and impact the City's potable water supply. Current conditions indicate that... |