[Federal Register: January 12, 2001 (Volume 66, Number 9)]
[Notices]               
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

RIN 0596-AB67

 
Forest Transportation System

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of final administrative policy.

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SUMMARY: In conjunction with the final rule published elsewhere in this 
part of today's Federal Register, the Forest Service is adopting a 
final policy governing the national forest transportation system. This 
action is necessary to ensure that National Forest System roads provide 
for public uses of National Forest System lands; provide for safe 
public access and travel; allow for economical and efficient 
management; to the extent practicable, begin to reverse adverse 
ecological impacts associated with roads; and meet all other current 
and future land and resource management objectives. The intended 
effects of this final policy are to ensure that decisions to construct, 
reconstruct, or decommission roads will be better informed by using a 
science-based roads analysis; that the availability of road maintenance 
funding will be considered when assessing the need for new road 
construction; and that, instead of focusing on constructing new roads, 
emphasis will be given to reconstructing and maintaining classified 
roads while decommissioning unnecessary classified and unclassified 
roads. The direction is being issued as amendments to Forest Service 
Manual Title 7700--Engineering, in Chapter 7700--Zero Code and in 
Chapter 7710--Transportation Atlas, Records, and Analysis.

EFFECTIVE DATE: The directives are effective January 12, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mike Ash, Deputy Director, Engineering 
Staff, Forest Service, 202-205-1400.