. Dear Reviewer: During the past year we have solicited your ideas for the Alaska Regional Plan. As you know, the planning process was extended because of the Alaska Lands Bill issues including pending expiration of the Secretarial withdrawals covering much of Alaska at the time. We resumed the Regional planning process after the Alaska Lands Act passed in December of 1980. Forest Service planning is guided by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 and the Renewable Resources Planning Act (RPA) of 1974 as amended in 1976 by the National Forest Management Act (NFMA). This legislat
. Dear Reviewer: During the past year we have solicited your ideas for the Alaska Regional Plan. As you know, the planning process was extended because of the Alaska Lands Bill issues including pending expiration of the Secretarial withdrawals covering much of Alaska at the time. We resumed the Regional planning process after the Alaska Lands Act passed in December of 1980. Forest Service planning is guided by the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 and the Renewable Resources Planning Act (RPA) of 1974 as amended in 1976 by the National Forest Management Act (NFMA). This legislation directs the Forest Service to establish National, regional, and local resource goals and oojectives based on periodic assessments of the future supply of and demand for renewable resources from public and private forest and range lands. During RPA planning, national objectives, or targets, are set for the Forest Service's share of the production of those goods and services. This was last done in 1980 and will be revised again in 1985. Objectives from the current program are then distributed to the various Forest Service Regions. The Regional Plan (enclosed) displays the distribution of those Regional objectives to the National Forests and establishes planning direction to guide Forest planning. It also establishes certain standards and guidelines for management activities identified in the NFMA Regulations and for selected regional issues and concerns. Enclosed in this package you will find: Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS); Draft Regional Plan (DRP). This Regional Plan is the product of a dynamic and evolving planning process that builds upon past efforts such as the Southeast Alaska Area Guide and the Tongass Forest Land Management Plan. Many will recognize the contribution of these projects to the Regional Plan. That is as it should be. Your past efforts to assist us in directing our management has been invaluable. The worth of your suggestions is shown by the
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