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Over a six-year period the Forest Service, working with the public, developed the Uncompahgre National Forest Travel Plan and decision. The process included 38 open public meetings, a Draft Environmental Impact Statement, a Final Environmental Impact Statement and a Record of Decision finally published in April of 2000 (published notices 62 FR 25162-25163, 63 FR 49911, 65 FR 26198). The Uncompahgre Travel Plan Decision of April 2000 was reversed on appeal. The issue of Forest Plan compliance with the standard for Habitat Capability was raised in the appeal. In his reversal decision, Deputy Regional Forester Tom Thompson instructed the Forest Supervisor to "promptly begin a new decisionmaking process" incorporating a "procedural remedy of the NEPA/NFMA flaw" discovered through the appeal. NEPA is the National Environmental Policy Act, which requires Environmental Analyses of proposed Federal actions; NFMA is the National Forest Management Act, which establishes Forest Plans. The Forest Service will prepare a supplement to the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Uncompahgre National Forest Travel Plan. The supplement will examine a proposed amendment to the Land and Resource Management Plan for the Grand Mesa, Uncompahgre, Gunnison National Forests (GMUG) to accommodate departure from the Forest Plan standards for Habitat Capability for an Uncompahgre Travel Plan Decision. Alternatives will be considered, including the No Action Alternative. Public Participation: Scoping is not a required part of the preparation of a Supplement to an EIS. However limited scoping was conducted, with a comment period from mid September through October 20, 2000. There was an open public meeting at the Montrose Pavilion on September 27, to discuss this proposal.
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