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Significant Guidance Documents
In order to increase the quality and transparency of agency guidance practices and to comply with OMB's "Final Bulletin for Agency Good Guidance Practices" published in the Federal Register on January 25, 2007 (72 FR 3432440), Forest Service is providing the information below on its significant guidance documents. The term guidance document means an agency statement of general applicability and future effect, other than a regulatory action, that sets forth a policy on a statutory, regulatory or technical issue or an interpretation of a statutory or regulatory issue.
Additional background information is available in the memoranda at:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/whitehouse.gov/files/omb/memoranda/2007/m07-07.pdfIf you wish to contact Forest Service regarding any significant guidance document, please do so by sending an email to wo_directives@fs.fed.us or by mailing a letter to the following office:
Office of Regulatory & Management Services
Forest Service
1400 Independence Ave., SW
Washington, DC 20250
Additionally, you may submit comments through www.regulations.gov on new or revised significant guidance documents open for comment as indicated in the chart below.
| Title | Date of Issuance | Revision to Previously Issued Guidance | Statutory/CFR Citation |
NEPA Document link (DOC) |
02/14/2007 | No | 40 CFR 1507.3; CEQ regulations on agency compliance with NEPA |
| National Forest System Land Management Planning Categorical Exclusion, FSH 1909.15, chapter 30 Document link (DOC) |
12/15/2006 | No | 40 CFR 1507.3; CEQ regulations on agency compliance with NEPA 36 CFR part 219, subpart A, National Forest System Land and Resource Management Planning |
| Forest Service Trails Accessibility Guidelines, FSM chapter 2350 Document link (TXT) |
05/22/2006 | No | Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 (42 USC 4151 et seq.) Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (79 USC 791 (Section 504) |
| Forest Service Outdoor Recreation Accessibility Guidelines, FSM Chapter 2330 Document link (DOC) |
05/22/2006 | No | Architectural Barriers Act of 1968 (42 USC 4151 et seq.) Rehabilitation Act of 1973 (79 USC 791 (Section 504) |
| Road Management Policy, FSM Chapter 7710 Document link (DOC) |
12/16/2003 | Yes; Replaced policy issued on 1/12/2001 and interim policy issued on 6/12/2003 | 36 CFR part 212, Travel Management |
| NEPA Documentation Needed for Limited Timber Harvest on National Forest System Lands, FSH 1909.15, chapter 30 Document link (DOC) |
07/29/2003 |
No | 40 CFR 1507.3; CEQ regulations on agency compliance with NEPA |
| NEPA Documentation Needed for Fire Management Activities, FSH 1909.15, chapter 30 Document link (DOC) |
06/05/2003 | No | 40 CFR 1507.3; CEQ regulations on agency compliance with NEPA |
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NEPA – National Environmental Policy Act
FSM – Forest Service Manual
FSH – Forest Service Handbook
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