[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
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[CITE: 36CFR215.4]

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              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
          CHAPTER II--FOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 215_NOTICE, COMMENT, AND APPEAL PROCEDURES FOR NATIONAL FOREST 
SYSTEM PROJECTS AND ACTIVITIES--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  215.4  Actions not subject to legal notice and opportunity to comment.

    The procedures for legal notice (Sec.  215.5) and opportunity to 
comment (Sec.  215.6) do not apply to:
    (a) Projects and activities which are categorically excluded from 
documentation in an environmental impact statement (EIS) or 
environmental assessment (EA) pursuant to FSH 1909.15, Chapter 30, 
section 31;
    (b) Proposed amendments to, revision of, or adoption of land and 
resource management plans that are made separately from any proposed 
actions, and which are therefore subject to either the objection process 
of Sec.  219.32 or the administrative appeal and review procedures of 
part 217 in effect prior to November 9, 2000 (see 36 CFR parts 200 to 
299, Revised as of July 1, 2000);
    (c) Projects and activities not subject to the provisions of the 
National Environmental Policy Act and the implementing regulations at 40 
CFR parts 1500-1508 and the National Forest Management Act and the 
implementing regulations at 36 CFR part 219;
    (d) Determinations by the Responsible Official, after consideration 
of new information or changed circumstances, that a revision of the EA 
is not required (1909.15, Chapter 10, section 18); and
    (e) Rules promulgated in accordance with the Administrative 
Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 551 et seq.) or policies and procedures issued 
in the Forest Service Manual and Handbooks (part 216).
    (f) Hazardous fuel reduction projects conducted under the provisions 
of section 105 of the HFRA, except as provided in part 218, subpart A, 
of this title.

[68 FR 33595, June 4, 2003, as amended at 69 FR 1533, Jan. 9, 2004]