[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR219.30]

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              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
          CHAPTER II--FOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 219--PLANNING--Table of Contents
 
 Subpart A--National Forest System Land and Resource Management Planning
 
Sec. 219.30  Plan documentation.

    A plan is a repository of documents that integrates and displays the 
desired conditions, objectives, standards, and other plan decisions that 
apply to a unit of the National Forest System. The plan also contains 
maps, monitoring and evaluation results, the annual monitoring and 
evaluation report, and other information relevant to how the plan area 
is to be managed. Planning documents should be clear, understandable, 
and readily available for public review. Plan documents should be 
updated through amendments, revision, and routine maintenance 
(Sec. 219.31). Plan documents include, at a minimum, the following:
    (a) A summary of the plan. The summary is a concise description of 
the plan that includes a summary of the plan decisions and a description 
of the plan area and appropriate planning units. The summary should 
include a

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brief description of the ecological, social, and economic environments 
within the plan area and the overall strategy for maintenance or 
restoration of sustainability, including desired conditions and 
objectives for their achievement. The summary also includes appropriate 
maps, a description of the transportation system, utility corridors, 
land ownership patterns and proposed land ownership adjustments, charts, 
figures, photographs, and other information to enhance understanding.
    (b) Display of public uses. The plan documents must identify the 
suitability of the plan area for various uses (Sec. 219.26) such as 
recreation uses, livestock grazing, timber harvest, and mineral 
developments. The plan documents must identify land where timber may not 
be harvested and where timber production is an objective (Sec. 219.28). 
The plan documents also must describe the limitations on the removal of 
timber (Sec. 219.29) and the standards for timber harvest and 
regeneration methods (Sec. 219.7(c)).
    (c) Plan decisions. The plan documents must display or describe the 
plan decisions (Sec. 219.7).
    (d) Display of actions and outcomes. The plan documents must also 
contain:
    (1) An annually updated list or other display of proposed, 
authorized, and completed actions to achieve desired conditions and 
objectives within the plan area;
    (2) A 2-year schedule, updated annually, of anticipated outcomes 
which may include anticipated uses, values, products, or services based 
on an estimate of Forest Service budget and capacity to perform the 
identified program of work. The estimate of Forest Service budget and 
capacity should be based on recent funding levels;
    (3) A 2-year summary, updated annually, of the actual outcomes which 
may include specific uses, values, products, or services provided as a 
result of completed site-specific actions;
    (4) A projected range of outcomes which may include anticipated 
uses, values, products, and services for the next 15 years, assuming 
current or likely budgets while considering other spending levels as 
appropriate. These projections are estimates and as such often contain a 
high degree of uncertainty; they are intended to describe expected 
progress in achieving desired conditions and objectives within the plan 
area. The projections are to be updated during revision of each plan;
    (5) A description of the monitoring strategy to occur in the plan 
area and the annual monitoring and evaluation report; and
    (6) A summary of the projected program of work, updated annually, 
including costs for inventories, assessments, proposed and authorized 
actions, and monitoring. The projected program of work must be based on 
reasonably anticipated funding levels. Reasonably anticipated funding 
levels should be based on recent funding levels. The plan documents must 
also include a description of the total current-year budget, funded 
actions, projections for future budgets over the next 2 years; and a 
display of the budget trends over at least the past 5 years.
    (e) Other components. A plan must contain or reference a list of 
materials, Forest Service policies, and decisions used in forming plan 
decisions. The information should include, but is not limited to, lists 
of previous decision and environmental documents, assessments, 
conservation agreements and strategies, biological opinions, 
inventories, administrative studies, monitoring results, and research 
relevant to adoption of plan decisions.