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FOREST SERVICE MANUAL
PAYETTE NATIONAL FOREST (REGION 4)
MCCALL, ID
FSM 2200 – RANGE MANAGEMENT
CHAPTER – ZERO CODE
Supplement No.: r4_payette_2200-2004-01
Effective Date: July 16, 2004
Duration: This supplement is effective until superseded or removed.
Approved: /s/ Mark J. Madrid
MARK J. MADRID
Forest Supervisor
Date Approved: 07/02/2004
Posting Instructions: Supplements are numbered consecutively by Title and calendar year.
Post by document; remove entire document and replace it with this supplement. Retain this
transmittal as the first page(s) of this document. The last supplement to this title was PNF
Supplement 2200-92-1 to FSM 2200.
New Document(s):
2200
4 Pages
Superseded Document(s):
(Supplement Number and
Effective Date)
PNF Supplement 2200-92-1,
effective 10/30/92
4 Pages
Digest: In order by code, summarize the main additions, revisions, or removal of direction
incorporated in this supplement.
2204.3 – Establishes Payette NF delegation of authority to District Rangers.
PAYETTE NATIONAL FOREST SUPPLEMENT
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 16, 2004
DURATION: This supplement is effective until superseded or removed.
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2204.3 – Forest Supervisors
The below listed delegations are made to Forest supervisors. Where indicated, they have been
redelegated to District Rangers.
Responsibility/Authority
Delegated to
District Ranger
1. Establish range allotments or modify range allotment boundaries.
Yes
2. Approve allotment management plans.
Yes
3. Approve applications for and issue term, temporary, and livestock
use grazing permits.
Yes
4. Approve nonuse of term grazing permits for:
a. Permittee convenience for no more than three consecutive years
and not more than four years in any ten year period.
Yes
b. Resource Protection for no longer than the remaining term of
the term grazing permit.
Yes
c. The conduct of rangeland research by a fact-finding institution
or organization.
Yes
d. A conservation reserve agreement up to the length of the
approved agreements.
Yes
5. Confirm waivers and escrows of term grazing permits.
Yes
6. Establish criteria for issuing, extending, modifying, suspending, or
canceling term grazing, temporary grazing, and livestock-use permits.
No
7. Modify term grazing permits.
Yes
8. Suspend or cancel up to 100 percent of a term grazing, temporary
grazing, or livestock-use permit for violations of terms and conditions.
Yes
9. Develop and approve annual operating instructions (AOI’s).
Yes
PAYETTE NATIONAL FOREST SUPPLEMENT
EFFECTIVE DATE: July 16, 2004
DURATION: This supplement is effective until superseded or removed.
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Responsibility/Authority
Delegated to
District Ranger
10. Make seasonal extensions of term grazing, temporary grazing, and
livestock-use permits when justified by current year monitoring. (All
extensions will be charged.)
Yes
11. Issue all Bills for Collection for grazing fees.
Yes
12. Approve refund or credit of unused fees.
Yes
13. Establish base property requirements within limits set by the
Regional Forester.
No
14. Establish lower limits within limits set by the Regional Forester.
No
15. Issue term grazing permits to Indian tribes on the basis of rights reserved
by treaty.
No
16. Establish requirements for and approve performance bonds.
Yes
17. Recognize and withdraw recognition of local livestock associations,
and approve special rules for livestock associations.
Yes
18. Issue bill of sale to purchasers of impounded livestock.
Yes
19. Establish audit schedules for National Grassland Grazing Associations.
N/A
20. Determine allowable Land Use Practice costs on National Grasslands.
N/A
21. Determine, through appraisal, the adjusted value of permanent range
improvements, negotiate and settle compensation cases.
No
22. Close areas to livestock grazing or open previously closed range,
including livestock driveways, as allowed through the Forest Land
and Resource Management Plan process.
No
23. Administer requirements of the Wild Free-Roaming Horse and Burro Act.
N/A
24. Adjust boundaries or abolish wild free-roaming horse and burro
territories as allowed through the Forest Land and Resource
N/A
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DURATION: This supplement is effective until superseded or removed.
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Management Plan process.
Responsibility/Authority
Delegated to
District Ranger
25. Negotiate and authorize exchanges of grazing use with other
Federal and state agencies.
No
26. Approve agreements with the Bureau of Land Management under
the 1966 Memorandum of Understanding.
No
27. Approve plans and enter into agreements with local counties for
control of noxious weeds, vegetation destroying insects, animal
disease, and stray or unbranded livestock.
No
28. Approve agreements and memorandums of understanding with
Bureau of Land Management, Soil Conservation Service (NRCS),
And Science and Education Administration-Extension prepared under
the November 1980 Agreement.
No
29. Approve agreements under the author9ity of the 1976 Agreement
between the Forest Service and the Soil Conservation Service (NRCS).
No