Department of Agriculture
Department of Agriculture's Categorical Exclusions (opens in new tab)Categorical Exclusion
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)
Exclusion Text
(USDA-22c-USFS) Repair and maintenance of roads, trails, and landline boundaries. Examples include, but are not limited to: (i) Authorizing a user to grade, resurface, and clean the culverts of an established National Forest System (NFS) road; (ii) Grading a road and clearing the roadside of brush without the use of herbicides; (iii) Resurfacing a road to its original condition; (iv) Pruning vegetation and cleaning culverts along a trail and grooming the surface of the trail; and (v) Surveying, painting, and posting landline boundaries.
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