You were right--I've added your work email to my list. -- Janine Blaeloch, Director Western Land Exchange Project PO Box 95545 Seattle WA, 98145-2545 Ph 206.325.3503 Fx 206.325.3515 blaeloch@westlx.org www.westlx.org Message-ID: <37C417D0.F82AA3CC@westlx.org> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1999 12:20:32 -0400 From: Janine Blaeloch Organization: Western Land Exchange Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; U) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Deborah Kmon Subject: (no subject) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Deb: This is an excerpt from my work-in-progress, "Citizens Guide to Federal Land Exchanges"! Obviously they don't need to meet all of these criteria--probably only one. However, I think that on a project that is SIGNIFICANTLY COUNTER to any of these factors, we can make a case that a CE is bad. I am going to note #2 (we don't have the info); 4,5, and 9 and 10 (don't have info for last two). The citation for these is: FSH 5409.13.34-11 **************** The Forest Service has developed specific Categorical Exclusion criteria for land trades, listed in the Forest Service Handbook. These are: 1. Exchanges of similar grazing land with a rancher-permittee to reduce property lines. 2. Exchanges of timberland that have comparable species, volumes, aspect, and other factors. 3. Exchanges of small, relatively uniform or similar land to resolve property line problems. 4. Exchanges with State or local governments, companies, or other landowners that have similar resource management policies and practices. 5. Uncontroversial exchanges that have no apparent public interest. 6. Mineral-for-mineral exchanges within areas with no known mineral potential where the result is to merge the surface and subsurface estates. 7. Exchanges that Congress directs. 8. Exchanges that the Federal Court directs. 9. Exchanges that clearly show environmental improvement. 10. Exchanges that, based on previous experience, have limited context and intensity and produce little or no environmental effects, individually or cumulatively, to either the biological or physical components of the human environment. -- Janine Blaeloch, Director Western Land Exchange Project PO Box 95545 Seattle WA, 98145-2545 Ph 206.325.3503 Fx 206.325.3515 blaeloch@westlx.org www.westlx.org