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Forest Service
The U.S.Forest Service was established in 1905 under the Transfer Act of February 1, 1905 (16 U.S.C. 472) which transferred the Federal forest reserves and the responsibility for their management from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture. The mission of the USDA Forest Service is to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of the Nation’s forests and grasslands to meet the needs of present and future generations.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service (Agency), is proposing to revise its regulations governing occupancy and use of the surface of National Forest System lands in connection with prospecting, exploration, development, mining, processing, and reclamation and reasonably incident uses authorized by U.S. mining laws and the Organic...
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA or Department) is finalizing revisions to its regulations governing Federal oil and gas resources within the National Forest System (NFS). The Department is making these revisions to update and modernize its existing regulations. In addition, conforming technical amendments to other parts of the Code of...
The Forest Service is amending its locatable minerals rules to provide mine operators with a broader array of options for securing financial assurance for funding reclamation work. Locatable mineral operations on National Forest System lands must be conducted to minimize adverse environmental impacts on National Forest surface resources, which...
The Forest Service proposes regulations to impose new fees to recover the agency's costs for processing proposals related to mineral activity on National Forest System lands. This would include costs for actions such as environmental review and analysis, monitoring authorized activities, and other processing-related costs. The proposed rule...
The Forest Service (Forest Service or Agency), United States Department of Agriculture, published a proposed rule in the Federal Register on March 9, 2023, initiating a 60-day comment period on the proposed rule to amend its special use regulations to update the processing and monitoring fee schedules based on current Agency costs; to provide...
The Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, is amending the 1997 Targhee National Forest Land Management Plan (Forest Plan). The Forest Service has prepared a Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Grand Targhee Resort Master Development Plan Projects and Record of Decision (ROD) that includes a programmatic plan amendment...
The White River National Forest is withdrawing its notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement for the Camp Hale Restoration and Enhancement Project on the Eagle-Holy Cross Ranger District to re-evaluate resource needs within the project area.
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Forest Service is seeking comments from all interested individuals and organizations on the reinstatement of a previously approved information collection, Pesticide-Use Proposal.
This notice lists the newspapers that will be used by ranger districts, national forests and grasslands, and the regional offices of the Alaska, Pacific Northwest, and Pacific Southwest Regions to publish legal notices. The intended effect of this action is to inform interested members of the public which newspapers the Forest Service will use...
The United States Department of Agriculture (Department), Forest Service (Forest Service or Agency), is proposing to amend its land use regulations to exempt administrative site leases from the regulations for special uses. The purpose of this deregulatory action is to better align Forest Service leasing activities with private real estate...
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Forest Service (Agency) is seeking comments from all interested individuals and organizations on the extension with no revision of a currently approved information collection, Equal Opportunity Program Delivery Compliance Review Tool.
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Forest Service is seeking comments from all interested individuals and organizations on the renewal of a currently approved information collection, Qualified Products Lists for Fire Chemicals for Wildland Fire Management.
A previous notice for this project was published in 2019 (84 FR 44843) when the National Forests and Grasslands in Texas (NFGT) was also preparing for forest plan revision; however, the need for the project, expected relationship to the forest plan, and responsible official have changed since that publication. This notice is revising the...
The Flathead National Forest is withdrawing its notice of intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), along with the resulting draft EIS, final EIS and draft Record of Decision (ROD) for the Mid-Swan Landscape Restoration and Wildland Urban Interface Fuels Project.
In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the Forest Service (Agency) is seeking comments from all interested individuals and organizations on the extension without revision of a currently approved information collection, SF-299 Application for Transportation, Utility Systems, Telecommunications and Facilities on Federal Lands and...