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CHAPTER 2 COMMENT DOCUMENTS

2.1 INTRODUCTION

Chapter 2 is a compendium of the comment documents received during the public comment period, annotated to show their comments.

The green pages" at the very front of this volume provide a set of instructions for locating documents and comments that are of particular interest.

2.2 INDEX OF COMMENT DOCUMENTS

The documents appearing in this chapter are categorized and organized according to their origin. The sequencing of document categories is as follows:

• Letters from the Federal Government (FG).
• Letters from Tribal Governments, i.e., Indian Tribes or Intertribal Councils (TG).
• Letters from State governments (SG).
• Letters from Municipal governments, including counties (MG).
• Letters from private companies or organizations (CO).
• Letters, cards, and other documents from private citizens (PC).
• Transcripts from public hearings, including the Technical Exchange (HT).

The parenthetical code after each of the above categories comprises the first two characters of document numbers for that category. For example, document numbers of letters from State governments begin with "SG".

**All Comment files are in PDF (.pdf) format.**

• Federal Government
• Tribal Government
• State Government
• Companies and Organizations
• Private Citizens
• Technical Exchange

How to Find a Comment Document in Chapter 2

The documents appearing in chapter 2 are categorized and organized according to their origin. The sequencing of document categories is as follows:

¥ Letters from the Federal Government (FG)

¥ Letters from Tribal Governments, i.e.,

Indian Tribes or Intertribal Councils (TG)

¥ Letters from State governments (SG)

¥ Letters from Municipal governments,

including counties (MG)

¥ Letters from private companies or

organizations (CO)

¥ Letters, cards and other documents from

private citizens (PC)

¥ Transcripts from public hearings, including

the Technical Exchange (HT)

The parenthetical code after each of the above categories comprises the first two characters of document numbers for that category. For example, document numbers of letters from State governments begin with ÒSGÓ and are sequentially numbered within the category, e.g., SG-001, SG-002, etc.

Table GPÐ1 following this page lists all documents in each category. The name of each commentor (either an organization or a private citizen) is presented along with the comment number(s) and the document number(s) given by each commentor. If the commentor represented an agency or organization, the organizationÕs name was used and the individual commentorÕs name(s) was presented in parenthesis. By reviewing this list, the commentor may go directly to a facsimile (in chapter 2) of a particular document or hearing transcript of interest.

For example, to locate the document from the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, look under the listings for State Governments (SG) until the name of the agency is found. Note the accompanying document number, which in this example is ÒSG-009Ó. Then turn through the documents of the ÒSGÓ section (in chapter 2) until you find the document number ÒSG-009Ó (i.e, the ninth document in the ÒSGÓ section) at the top of a document. That will be the facsimile copy of the document submitted by the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. In reviewing that document, note the vertical bars that appear in the margin of the document. These show the portions of text representing the comments that are subsequently addressed in chapter 3. The code ÒSG-009/1Ó beside the first vertical bar identifies the first comment within document number SG-009. Also shown is an ÒRCÓ code (9.009) for the comment, which is used to later locate the responses to those comments in chapter 3.

Chapter 1 of this volume contains an overview of the comments and responses which are individually listed in chapter 3. Table GPÐ2 of these green pages provides a listing of the comment numbers for each document submitted. One may identify a document of interest in Table GPÐ1, and then using the document number for that document, find a listing in Table GPÐ2 of all comment numbers that appear in that document and the information necessary to locate the responses to those comments. Thus, without reading the source document, one could go directly from Table GPÐ2 to chapter 3 to see the specific comments and responses applicable to that document.