[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR219.2]

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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.  219.2  Levels of planning and planning authority.

    Planning occurs at multiple organizational levels and geographic 
areas.
    (a) National. The Chief of the Forest Service is responsible for 
national planning, such as preparation of the Forest Service Strategic 
Plan required under the Government Performance and Results Act of 1993 
(5 U.S.C. 306; 31 U.S.C. 1115-1119; 31 U.S.C. 9703-9704), which is 
integrated with the requirements of the Forest and Rangeland Renewable 
Resources Planning Act of 1974, as amended by the NFMA. The Strategic 
Plan establishes goals, objectives, performance measures, and strategies 
for management of the National Forest System, as well as the other 
Forest Service mission areas.
    (b) Forest, grassland, prairie, or other comparable administrative 
unit. (1) Land management plans provide broad guidance and information 
for project and activity decisionmaking in a national forest, grassland, 
prairie, or other comparable administrative unit. The Supervisor of the 
National Forest, Grassland, Prairie, or other comparable administrative 
unit is the Responsible Official for development and approval of a plan, 
plan amendment, or plan revision for lands under the responsibility of 
the Supervisor, unless a Regional Forester, the Chief, or the Secretary 
chooses to act as the Responsible Official.
    (2) When plans, plan amendments, or plan revisions are prepared for 
more than one administrative unit, a unit Supervisor identified by the 
Regional Forester, or the Regional Forester, the Chief, or the Secretary 
may be the Responsible Official. Two or more Responsible Officials may 
undertake joint planning over lands under their respective 
jurisdictions.
    (3) The appropriate Station Director must concur with that part of a 
plan applicable to any experimental forest within the plan area.
    (c) Projects and activities. The Supervisor or District Ranger is 
the Responsible Official for project and activity decisions, unless a 
higher-level official chooses to act as the Responsible Official. 
Requirements for project or activity planning are established in the 
Forest Service Directive System. Except as specifically provided, none 
of the requirements of this subpart applies to projects or activities.
    (d) Developing, amending, and revising plans--(1) Plan development. 
If a new national forest, grassland, prairie, or other administrative 
unit of the National Forest System is established, the Regional 
Forester, or a forest, grassland, prairie, or other comparable unit 
Supervisor identified by the Regional Forester must either develop a 
plan for the unit or amend or revise an existing plan to apply to the 
lands within the new unit.
    (2) Plan amendment. The Responsible Official may amend a plan at any 
time.

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    (3) Plan revision. The Responsible Official must revise the plan if 
the Responsible Official concludes that conditions within the plan area 
have significantly changed. Unless otherwise provided by law, a plan 
must be revised at least every 15 years.