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<br />) <br />FROM :DWR DIIJ4 <br />I <br />, <br /> <br />I <br />Ie) <br /> <br />FAX NO. :970 249 8728 <br /> <br />Mar. 01 2004 02:04PM P3 <br /> <br />Discretionary' Review Decision <br />On The <br />Chief's Appeal Decision <br />Regarding the <br /> <br />Arapaho aod Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland <br /> <br />Revised Land and R~source Management Plan <br /> <br />Northel'n Colorado Wat~r Cons.rvation District, "t al (#98-13-00-0016) <br /> <br />Procedural DackJrroulJd <br /> <br />This is my discretionary review deci.sion under 36 CFR 217 on thc January 15. 2003 <br />appeal decision oftbo Reviewil1g Officer for tho Chief ofthc forest Se.rvioe reglll'ding the <br />appeal by the Northem Colorado Water Conservation Disrrict and others, of the Arapaho <br />and Roosevelt National Forests and Pawnee National Grassland (ARNFPNG) Revised <br />Land and Resource Management Plan (Revised Forest Plan) and its accompanying Final <br />Environmental Impact Stn.tement (pElS). Acting Regional Forester Tom L. Thompson <br />signed the Record of Decision (ROD) approving the Revised Forest PIal) on November <br />19,1997. <br /> <br />.; <br /> <br />Thc appellants nre: <br /> <br />Northern Colorado Water COllsetvali()ll Di.~trict, City of Greoley and Greeley Water and <br />Sewer Bonrd, Coalition .l:i:,r Sustainable Resources, Inc., Sabre Middlekauff, Poudre <br />Canyon Group S.ien:a ClLlb(2), Cache La Poudre Water Users Association and Water <br />Supply and Storage Company, City of Boulder., and Pawnee Grazing Association. <br /> <br />GiGlia Manning, Reviewing Officer for the Chief, signed tbe uppea! decision (Chief's <br />appeal dccision) on January 15, 2003. I requested the appe,t1 record Ji'om the Chief on <br />January 30,2003. The appeal rec.ord was receive.d 011 FehmUTY 4, 2003, I am)ounced my <br />decision to review the Chief's appeal decision on February 19,2003. My decision is <br />based 011 a review ofthe appeal record and the Chief's uppeal decision. <br /> <br />The reJie:f1'equested and the procedll1'al background are bmh summarized in the Chief's <br />appeal decision, <br /> <br />Statutory and Regulatory Authorities <br /> <br />Regnlarions goveming forest plan appeals were promulgated ill 1989 at 36 CFR 217 (47 <br />FR 3357, January 23,1989). These regulations are not based on any stattJtory <br />requirement for an appeal process, but illstcad aid the Department of Agricultttre in <br />meeting its responsibilities under the Organic Administration Act (16 USC 472,551), the <br />Multiple-Use Sustai.ned-Yield Act (MUSYA) (16 use 528-531) md the Natioll>!l Fore,t <br />Management Act (NFMA) (16 USC1600,et 5e<).). The Under Secretary of Agrioultu,e <br />. is respollsible :for pro!ec!i.llg, managing, and administerIng !he National .Forests (7 CF.R <br />