Special use permit for North Elizabethton Water Co-op to construct approximately 1 mile of public water distribution line along Moody Road, near Elizabethton, Tennessee.
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| Categorical Exclusion | USDA-28d-USFS |
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Special use permit for North Elizabethton Water Co-op to construct approximately 1 mile of public water distribution line along Moody Road, near Elizabethton, Tennessee.
| Categorical Exclusion | USDA-28d-USFS |
https://usfs-public.box.com/s/xb4mkfbjnkhx187n0bpq6dol3m8kjppd. This project restores safe access, repairs or replaces associated infrastructure, addresses storm impacts and deferred maintenance, and improves infrastructure resilience within public-use recreation footprint boundaries.
The Sugar Mountain Project would utilize commercial timber harvest, wildlife opening enhancements, timber stand improvements, prescribed fire, and other associated actions to increase early successional habitat and improve forest health.
TVA proposes to change out one existing transmission structure, str 2 on L5942, above the Apalachia Powerhouse.
| Categorical Exclusion | USDA-27d-USFS |
| Decision Signed Date | 3/26/2026 |
The Hardshell Church in Tellico Plains, TN is partially located on the Tellico Ranger District. The church submitted a special use application to install a septic tank to add indoor toilets to their facility. The drain field would be located on the previously disturbed area surrounding the church.
| Categorical Exclusion | USDA-28d-USFS |
| Decision Signed Date | 2/22/2026 |
The project proposes to complete non-commercial silvicultural and wildlife activities and prescribed fire in the Miller Ridge area of the Tellico Ranger District. The work would aim to improve forest health and wildlife habitat.
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | 218 (2013) Non-HFRA |
| Project Activity | Fuel Treatments (Non-Activity Fuels); Forest Vegetation Improvements |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Tellico Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
The Forest Service have developed a proposal to make improvements to the campground and associated infrastructure at the Horse Creek Recreation Area. The reconfiguration would increase accessibility for recreational vehicle camping.
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.2 (22), 36 Cfr 220.6(E)(22) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Developed Site Management |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Unaka Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
This project authorizes the installation of an aquatic organism passage structure on the Right Prong of Mill Creek in Carter County, Tennessee. This project will improve aquatic habitat and reduce erosion potential on NFSR 56.
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.2 (18), 36 Cfr 220.6(E)(18) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Road Maintenance; Road Improvements/Construction; Watershed Improvements |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Watauga Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
Backcountry Horsemen of East Tennessee have submitted a new proposal to build a connector trail between FSR303 and FSR530211 in Carter County, TN.
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.2 (1), 36 Cfr 220.6(E)(1) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Trail Management |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Watauga Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
The FY25 Citico Trail Management Project would conduct trail reconstruction, trail reroutes, trail closures, and complete trail removal/recontouring on Little Citico Horse Trails 3 and 4 and Tavern Branch Trail.
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.2 (20), 36 Cfr 220.6(E)(20) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Trail Management; Watershed Improvements |
| Fiscal Year 2025 Citico Trail Management Project | Decision Signed Date: 10/02/2025 |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Tellico Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
The Forest Service proposes to acquire: 68 acres m/l flanking the Ocoee River Gorge Portal in Polk County, TN. The parcel would be managed under the 7.A Scenic Byway Corridors RLRMP Prescription.
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.12 (6), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(6) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Land Purchases |
| K-1615 Sugarloaf Mountain Land Acquisition DM and EC Worksheet | Decision Signed Date: 09/23/2025 |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Ocoee - Hiwassee Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
Project is for a late summer 2025 rally car race and potential future rally car races through December 2030. A rally car race is a timed motorsport event where vehicles do not race side by side but are timed for overall time.
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.12 (12), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(12) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Special Use Authorizations |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Ocoee - Hiwassee Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
The project would conduct forest restoration and improvement actions under the programmatic environmental assessment, Restoration of Dry Forest Communities. Additional actions in the project area would include road improvements and prescribed fire.
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | 218 (2013) Non-HFRA |
| Project Activity | Forest Vegetation Improvements; Species Habitat Improvements; Timber Sales (Green) |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Tellico Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
Tennessee Eastman Hiking and Canoeing Club have submitted a proposal to perform needed repairs to the Roan High Knob shelter along the Appalachian Trail in Carter County, Tennessee.
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.12 (5), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(5) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Developed Site Management; Dispersed Recreation Mgmt.; Facility Maintenance |
| Decision Decided Date | 04/29/2025 |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Watauga Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
The Forest Service proposes to acquire: 29.336 acres more or less situated on the waters of Stoney Creek (USA Tract U-1634 & U-1634a in Carter County).
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.12 (6), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(6) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Land Purchases |
| Decision Decided Date | 08/12/2024 |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Watauga Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
The Southern Appalachian Forests(Cherokee National Forest, George Washington and Jefferson National Forests, National Forests in North Carolina and Chattahoochee - Oconee National Forest seek to implement large landscape watershed resiliency efforts.
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | 218 (2013) Non-HFRA |
| Project Activity | Road Decommissioning; Species Habitat Improvements; Noxious Weed Treatments; Species Population Enhancements; Road Maintenance; Road Improvements/Construction; Travel Management; Watershed Improvements |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Cherokee National Forest All Units |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
The Forest Service is proposing to acquire 1 parcel in Carter County (U-1636), approximately 52 acres.
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.12 (6), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(6) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Land Purchases |
| Decision Decided Date | 01/30/2024 |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Watauga Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
The Forest Service is proposing to acquire: 24.38 acres m/l in the Underwood Spring Drainage and 93.8 acres m/l in the Doe Creek Drainage.
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.12 (6), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(6) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Land Purchases |
| Decision Decided Date | 01/31/2024 |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Watauga Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
The Forest Service is proposing to acquire 2 parcels in Johnson County (U-1632 and U-1633) 14 acres and 41 acres respectively.
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.12 (6), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(6) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Land Purchases |
| Decision Decided Date | 12/11/2023 |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Watauga Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
Hollybush Gap Tract Land Acquisition: 17.18 acres the Granny Lewis Creek drainage. Buffalo Mtn Land Acquisition: 22.26 acres adjacent to Buffalo Mountain ATV Trail.
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.12 (6), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(6) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Land Purchases |
| Decision Decided Date | 06/09/2022 |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Watauga Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
This project would allow routine maintenance on existing trails on the south zone of the Cherokee National Forest and minor reroutes where ground disturbance from natural events, such as tree windfall or landslide, are causing resource damage.
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.2 (1), 36 Cfr 220.6(E)(1) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Trail Management |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Ocoee - Hiwassee Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
Daniel Cates:The Forest Service proposes to acquire 14.79 acres in Carter County, TN. Tiger Creek:The Forest Service proposes to acquire 52 acres in Carter County, TN.
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.12 (6), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(6) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Land Purchases |
| Decision Decided Date | 01/26/2021 |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Watauga Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
The Forest Service proposes to acquire 74.714 acres, more or less, situated on Flat Spring Ridge, North of the tristate corner (NC, TN, VA).
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.12 (6), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(6) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Land Purchases |
| Decision Decided Date | 12/14/2020 |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Watauga Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Warranty Deed: Richard A. Wolfe, Eric A. Wolfe and Travis L. Wolfe to THE CONSERVATION FUND and THE NATURE CONSERVANCY; Deed Book 211, Pages 200 %u2013 204 of the Johnson County, Tennessee registry. |
Acquisition of property known as the Tank Hollow/ Buffalo Rock tract along the French Broad River in Cocke County TN.
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.12 (6), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(6) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Land Purchases |
| Decision Decided Date | 12/14/2020 |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Unaka Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Deed Book 1528, pages 584 to 599 and as shown in the Survey By Randall Freeman signed 2/28/2020 recorded in Book 1528, Page 278, and in Plat cabinet G, slide 19, all in the Cocke County, TN Registry |
Demolition of two structures that are a public heath and safety concern.
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.12 (1), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(1) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Trail Management |
| Decision Decided Date | 08/19/2020 |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Watauga Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
The Forest Service proposes to acquire 65.269 acres, more or less, situated in Civil District No. 1 of Carter County, Tennessee (Shell Creek Road)
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.12 (6), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(6) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Land Purchases |
| Decision Decided Date | 03/10/2020 |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Watauga Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
Acquire 1,051 acres located in Johnson County northeast of Mountain City, Tennessee.
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.12 (6), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(6) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Land Purchases |
| Decision Decided Date | 04/06/2016 |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Watauga Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
Replace the existing kiosk with a 3-panel kiosk and construct a 200 foot split rail fence that will start about 25 feet behind the kiosk.
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.12 (5), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(5) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Facility Maintenance |
| Decision Decided Date | 11/01/2018 |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Unaka Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
Acquire three inholdings with total acreage of 548 acres.This acquisition complements the Goals, Objectives, and Desired Future Conditions and would adopt the 7.E.2-"Dispersed Recreation Area" prescription
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.12 (6), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(6) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Land Purchases |
| Decision Decided Date | 08/15/2018 |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Unaka Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
This project proposes to redesign both parking areas to better organize their use and provide for perhaps 2-5 additional spaces at any given time. Both projects will be within currently impacted areas and the adjacent impacted areas.
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.12 (5), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(5) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Trail Management |
| Decision Decided Date | 06/29/2018 |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Watauga Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
Acquire 186 acre in Johnson County and 324 acres in Carter County TN.
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.12 (6), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(6) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Land Purchases |
| Decision Decided Date | 05/31/2018 |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Watauga Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
Repair, stabilize, and help prevent further erosion on approx. 1000 feet of farm road leading from the barn at the Osborne Farm to the bog and cabin.
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.12 (4), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(4) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Road Maintenance |
| Decision Decided Date | 09/28/2017 |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Watauga Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
The Forest Service proposes to acquire 488 acres, more or less, located in the Fourth Civil District of Washington County southwest of Johnson City, Tennessee.
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.12 (6), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(6) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Land Purchases |
| Decision Decided Date | 07/17/2017 |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Unaka Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
Reconstructing the road in one location on FSR 22501 and doing heavy maintenance on 19 other locations along FSR%u2019s 2250, 2251& 22501 in the Gulf area of the Cherokee NF
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.12 (4), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(4) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Road Maintenance |
| Decision Decided Date | 07/17/2017 |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Unaka Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |
The Forest Service proposes to acquire 19.439 acres, more or less, located in the First Civil District of Carter County south of U.S. Highway 321
| Categorical Exclusion | 32.12 (6), 36 Cfr 220.6(D)(6) |
| Special Authority | Not Applicable / Other |
| Notice and Comment Regulation | Not Subject to Regulations |
| Project Activity | Land Purchases |
| Decision Decided Date | 08/24/2016 |
| Forests | Cherokee National Forest |
| Districts | Watauga Ranger District |
| Legal Land Description | Not Applicable |