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FOREST SERVICE MANUAL
Mountlake Terrace, Washington
FSM TITLE 1200 - ORGANIZATION
MBS Supplement No. 1200-2000-4
Effective June 9, 2000
POSTING NOTICE: Supplements are numbered consecutively by Title and
calendar year. Post by document name. Remove entire document and replace with
this supplement. Retain this transmittal as the first page of this document. The
last supplement to this Title was MBS Supplement 1200-2000-3 to FSM 1236.42.
This supplement supersedes MBS Supplement 1200-2000-1.
Document Name
1230.53
1236.51
Superseded
New
(Number of Pages)
2
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Digest:
1236.51 – Retains existing direction and corrects numbering to be in alignment with
the current manual.
JOHN PHIPPS
Forest Supervisor
MBS SUPPLEMENT 1200-2000-4
EFFECTIVE 06/09/2000
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FSM TITLE 1200 - ORGANIZATION
MBS SUPPLEMENT 1200-2000-4
EFFECTIVE 06/09/2000
CHAPTER 1230 - DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY AND RESPONSIBILITY
1236.51 – District Rangers. District Rangers are delegated the authority for all
plans and projects not specifically reserved for higher level approval (See FSM
2404.13 for limitations on timber sales). This delegation includes the
responsibilities of conducting appropriate public participation activities, meeting all
legal and regulatory requirements (e.g., NFMA, ESA and NHPA), preparing
environmental analyses, preparing appropriate National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) documentation, and approving the projects via appropriate decision
documents.
Corrections, supplements, or revisions to a plan or project will be approved by the
same level approving the original plan or project.
Development and implementation of all projects must include adequate scoping,
public participation activities, environmental analysis, design, review, approval,
monitoring, and evaluation. This requirement applies whether the project is
planned for contract, force account, partnerships or other methods of
accomplishment. See FSM 1950 and FSH 1909.15 for information on NEPA
procedures for analysis and required documentation.
District Rangers are responsible for scheduling the various steps of the project
planning process to ensure all necessary actions are completed prior to making a
decision on the project.
District Rangers will assure that appropriate resource specialists are included in
the analysis and planning of the project. Sharing of specialists and collaboration
among units may be necessary and is encouraged to ensure appropriate skill are
applied on each project.
Line and Staff Officers will review a reasonable sample of projects to assure projects
are completed as planned and designed.