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tbeckman
Thursday, October 4, 2012 - 1:21pm
Dear Mr. Bauer:
The Association of Clean Water Administrators (ACWA) and the National Association of State Foresters (NASF)2 appreciate the opportunity to comment on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency`s (EPA’s) notice of proposed rulemaking to revise stormwater regulations to specify that a Clean Water Act (CWA) National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit is not required for stormwater discharges from logging roads under Phase I of the stormwater program. Our...
Forest Resource Advisory Council Letter: Recommendations to Secretary of Agriculture (Sept 14, 2012)
tbeckman
Friday, September 14, 2012 - 12:52pm
Last week the Chair of the Forestry Research Advisory Council (FRAC), Jason Grabosky of Rutgers University, gave a briefing on the Council’s 2012 recommendations to the Secretary. Attending from REE were Undersecretary Woteki and Deputy Undersecretary Bartuska, NRE Undersecretary Blazer, Deputy Chief Reaves, and NIFA Assistant Director Frank Boteler. FRAC is a statutory advisory committee that advises the Secretary of Agriculture on regional and national forestry and natural resource...
tbeckman
Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 12:38pm
The Fire Suppression Funding Solutions Partner Caucus write to you in regard to your recent notification to Congress laying out a strategy for transferring $400 million from non-fire sources to the fire suppression account. We respectfully request that the Department of Agriculture make a request to Congress for an emergency supplemental in the amount of $400 million to fund the Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement (FLAME) Act account or provide other reimbursement options...
tbeckman
Tuesday, September 11, 2012 - 12:31pm
The Fire Suppression Funding Solutions Partner Caucus writes to you in regard to the recent notification from the Department of Agriculture laying out a U.S. Forest Service (USFS) strategy for transferring $400 million from non-fire sources to the fire suppression account. We respectfully request that Congress provide an emergency supplemental in the amount of $400 million to fund the USFS reserve account established under the Federal Land Assistance, Management, and Enhancement (FLAME) Act or...
NASF Letter: McCain/Feinstein/Nelson - Support of Wildfire Suppression Aircraft Transfer Act of 2012
gosullivan
Friday, August 3, 2012 - 11:54am
August 3, 2012
The Honorable John McCain
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
The Honorable Diane Feinstein
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
The Honorable Bill Nelson
United States Senate
Washington, DC 20510
Dear Senators McCain, Feinstein and Nelson:
The National Association of State Foresters (NASF) greatly appreciates your efforts to enhance the nation’s ability to respond to wildland fire by enhancing the aviation resources at the USDA Forest Service. State foresters...
gosullivan
Friday, July 27, 2012 - 3:13pm
July 25, 2012
Dear Chairman Mica and Ranking Member Rahall:
We are writing to thank you for scheduling a markup of H.R. 2541, the Silviculture Regulatory Consistency Act, and to express our support for committee approval of this important bipartisan legislation that will protect jobs, natural resources and recreational opportunities on federal, state, local, tribal and private forestlands. We commend Representatives Jaime Herrera Beutler (RWash.) and Kurt Schrader (D-Ore.) for advancing this...
gosullivan
Thursday, July 12, 2012 - 9:38am
July 6, 2012
The Honorable Frank Lucas
U.S. House of Representatives
Rayburn House Office Building, Room: 2311
Washington, DC 20515
The Honorable Collin Peterson
U.S. House of Representatives
Rayburn House Office Building, Room: 2211
Dear Chairman Lucas and Ranking Member Peterson,
On behalf of the millions of forest owners, conservationists, hunters, anglers, forest product manufacturers, and natural resource professionals represented in the Forests in the Farm Bill...
tbeckman
Wednesday, July 11, 2012 - 3:06pm
To Whom it May Concern:
The National Association of State Foresters (NASF) is a non-profit organization comprised of the directors of forestry agencies in the states, territories and the District of Columbia of the United States. As leaders in natural resource management across the country we strongly support a goal of preventing the man-caused extinction of plant and animal species. Our principal clientele are private forest landowners in the United States. We appreciate that U. S. Fish &...
gosullivan
Monday, July 2, 2012 - 9:00am
Ron Buckhalt
Office of Procurement and Property Management
RE: Comment on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Guidelines for Designating Biobased Products for Federal Procurement amendments.
The National Association of State Foresters (NASF) respectfully submits the following comments in response to the USDA, Office of Procurement and Property Management publication of the Proposed rule and amendments regarding Guidelines for Designating Biobased Products for Federal Procurement (...
gosullivan
Friday, June 22, 2012 - 9:40pm
June 22, 2012
Jeremy Bauer
Water Docket, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Mailcode: 2822T
1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, DC 20460
Attention: Water Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OW-2012-0195
Dear Mr. Bauer:
The National Association of State Foresters (NASF)1 and the Association of Clean Water Administrators (ACWA)2 appreciate the opportunity to comment on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency`s (EPA’s) notice of intent (NOI) to revise stormwater regulations to
specify that a Clean...