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In addition, FSIS offers an e-mail 

subscription service which provides 

automatic and customized access to 

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Done at Washington, DC on March 30, 

2011. 

Karen Stuck, 

U.S. Manager for Codex Alimentarius. 

[FR Doc. 2011–8399 Filed 4–7–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Final Tropic to Hatch 138 kV 

Transmission Line Project 

Environmental Impact Statement and 

Proposed Grand Staircase-Escalante 

National Monument Management Plan 

Amendment 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA; Bureau 

of Land Management, USDI and 

National Park Service, USDI. 

ACTION: Notice of availability 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969, as amended, and the Federal Land 

Policy and Management Act of 1976, as 

amended, the Forest Service (FS), with 

the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) 

and National Park Service (NPS) as 

cooperating agencies, has prepared a 

Final Environmental Impact Statement 

(FEIS) for the Tropic to Hatch 138 kV 

Transmission Line Project and a 

Proposed Management Plan 

Amendment (PMPA) for the Grand 

Staircase-Escalante National Monument, 

and by this notice is announcing its 

availability. 

DATES: BLM planning regulations state 

that any person who meets the 

conditions as described in the 

regulations may protest the BLM’s 

PMPA/FEIS. A person who meets the 

conditions and files a protest must file 

the protest within 30 days of the date 

that the Environmental Protection 

Agency publishes this Notice of 

Availability in the Federal Register. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the Tropic to 

Hatch 138 kV Transmission Line Project 

FEIS/PMPA for the Grand StaircaseEscalante National Monument have 

been sent to affected Federal, State, and 

local government agencies and to other 

stakeholders. Copies of the FEIS/PMPA 

are available for public inspection at the 

following BLM offices: Grand StaircaseEscalante National Monument 

Headquarters, 190 E. Center Street, 

Kanab, UT; Kanab Field Office, 318 N 

100 E, Kanab, UT; Utah State Office, 440 

W 200 S, Salt Lake City, UT. Interested 

persons may also download and/or 

review the FEIS/PMPA on the Internet 

at http://fs.usda.gov/goto/dixie/projects. 

All protests related to the Grand 

Staircase Escalante National Monument 

PMPA must be in writing and mailed to 

one of the following addresses: 

Regular mail Overnight mail 

BLM Director (210), Attention: Brenda Williams, P.O. Box 71383, 

Washington, DC 20035.

BLM Director (210), Attention: Brenda Williams, 20 M Street, SE, 

Room 2134LM, Washington, DC 20036. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Susan Baughman, Dixie National Forest, 

USDA Forest Service, Tropic to Hatch 

138kV Transmission Line Project EIS 

Project Leader, 1789 N. Wedgewood 

Lane, Cedar City, Utah 84720 or; 

Matthew Betenson, Assistant Grand 

Staircase-Escalante National Monument 

Manager—Planning and Support 

Services, 190 E Center, Kanab, Utah 

84741/phone (435) 644–4309. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FEIS/ 

PMPA evaluates the environmental 

effects of the construction, operation, 

and maintenance of the Tropic to Hatch 

138 kV Transmission Line proposed by 

Garkane Energy Cooperative in Garfield 

County, Utah, on lands currently 

managed by the U.S. Forest Service, 

Dixie National Forest; U.S. Bureau of 

Land Management, Kanab Field Office, 

Grand Staircase-Escalante National 

Monument; State of Utah School and 

Institutional Trust Lands 

Administration; and potentially the 

National Park Service, Bryce Canyon 

National Park. The transmission line 

would be approximately 30 miles long, 

beginning in Tropic, Utah and 

extending west to Hatch, Utah. 

Associated Federal actions include 

Dixie National Forest issuance of a 

special use easement, Bureau of Land 

Management issuance of a right-of-way, 

proposed amendment to the Grand 

Staircase-Escalante National Monument 

Management Plan and issuance of a 

right-of-way, potential Bryce Canyon 

National Park issuance of a special park 

permit for a right-of-way, and Utah 

School and Institutional Trust Lands 

Administration issuance of a right-ofway for construction and operation of 

the project. The Preferred Alternative in 

the FEIS/PMPA would amend the Grand 

Staircase-Escalante National Monument 

Management Plan (2000) by: (a) 

Designating a 300-foot wide Passage 

Zone along an approximate three and 

three-quarter mile path through an area 

currently designated as Primitive Zone 

in the Monument Management Plan, 

and (b) changing the existing VRM Class 

designation from Class II to Class III 

within this linear area. The plan 

amendment decisions would be 

necessary to accommodate the potential 

new transmission line. 

Comments on the Draft RMP/Draft EIS 

Plan Amendment were received from 

the public and from internal interagency 

governmental review. These comments 

were considered and incorporated as 

appropriate into the FEIS/PMPA. Public 

comments resulted in the addition of 

clarifying text, but did not significantly 

change the FEIS/PMPA. This final 

document is expected to be used in 

conjunction with the Draft EIS 

published in December 2009. The two 

documents, together, make up the FEIS/ 

PMPA for the Tropic to Hatch 138 kV 

Transmission Line. 

Instructions for filing a protest with 

the Director of the BLM regarding the 

FEIS/PMPA may be found in the ‘‘Dear 

Reader Letter’’ of the Tropic to Hatch 

138 kV Transmission Line FEIS and at 

43 CFR 1610.5–2. E-mail and faxed 

protests will not be accepted as valid 

protests unless the protesting party also 

provides the original letter by either 

regular or overnight mail postmarked by 

the close of the protest period. Under 

these conditions, the BLM will consider 

the e-mail or faxed protest as an 

advance copy and it will receive full 

consideration. If you wish to provide 

the BLM with such advance 

notification, please direct faxed protests 


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to the attention of the BLM protest 

coordinator at (202) 912–7212, and emails to Brenda_HudgensWilliams@blm.gov. 

All protests, including the follow-up 

letter to e-mails or faxes, must be in 

writing and mailed to the appropriate 

address, as set forth in the ADDRESSES

section above. Before including your 

phone number, e-mail address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

protest, you should be aware that your 

entire protest—including your personal 

identifying information—may be made 

publicly available at any time. While 

you can ask us in your protest to 

withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Authority: 42 U.S.C. 4321–4347, 40 CFR 

1500–1508, 43 CFR 1610.2, 43 CFR 1610.5, 

and 36 CFR 220. 

Dated: March 24, 2011. 

Robert G. MacWhorter, 

Forest Supervisor—Dixie National Forest. 

[FR Doc. 2011–8062 Filed 4–7–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Census Bureau 

Proposed Information Collection; 

Comment Request; Survey of Income 

and Program Participation (SIPP) 2011 

Re-engineered SIPP—Field Test 

AGENCY: U.S. Census Bureau, 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Commerce, as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, invites the general 

public and other Federal agencies to 

take this opportunity to comment on 

proposed and/or continuing information 

collections, as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)). 

DATES: To ensure consideration, written 

comments must be submitted on or 

before June 7, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Diana Hynek, Departmental 

Paperwork Clearance Officer, 

Department of Commerce, Room 6616, 

14th and Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20230 (or via the 

Internet at dHynek@doc.gov). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

instrument(s) and instructions should 

be directed to Patrick J. Benton, Census 

Bureau, Room HQ–6H045, Washington, 

DC 20233–8400, (301) 763–4618. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

I. Abstract 

The Census Bureau plans to conduct 

a field test for the Re-engineered SIPP 

from January to May of 2011. The SIPP 

is a household-based survey designed as 

a continuous series of national panels. 

The SIPP is molded around a central 

‘‘core’’ of labor force and income 

questions that remain fixed throughout 

the life of the panel and then 

supplemented with questions designed 

to address specific needs. Examples of 

these types of questions include medical 

expenses, child care, retirement and 

pension plan coverage, marital history, 

and others. 

The 2011 Re-engineered SIPP 

instrument is a revision of the 2010 ReSIPP test instrument, in which 

respondents were interviewed during 

the 2010 Dress Rehearsal Re-SIPP Field 

Test. The Re-engineered SIPP will 

interview respondents in one year 

intervals, using the previous calendar 

year as the reference period. 

The content of the Re-engineered SIPP 

will match that of the 2008 Panel SIPP 

very closely. The Re-engineered SIPP 

will not contain free-standing topical 

modules. However, a portion of the 

2008 Panel topical module content will 

be integrated into the Re-engineered 

SIPP interview. The Re-engineered SIPP 

will use an Event History Calendar 

(EHC) which records dates of events and 

spells of coverage. The EHC should 

provide increased accuracy to dates 

reported by respondents. 

The SIPP represents a source of 

information for a wide variety of topics 

and allows information for separate 

topics to be integrated to form a single, 

unified database so that the interaction 

between tax, transfer, and other 

government and private policies can be 

examined. Government domestic policy 

formulators depend heavily upon the 

SIPP information concerning the 

distribution of income received directly 

as money or indirectly as in-kind 

benefits and the effect of tax and 

transfer programs on this distribution. 

They also need improved and expanded 

data on the income and general 

economic and financial situation of the 

U.S. population, which the SIPP has 

provided on a continuing basis since 

1983. The SIPP has measured levels of 

economic well-being and permitted 

changes in these levels to be measured 

over time. 

Approximately 4,000 households will 

be selected for the 2011 Re-engineered 

SIPP field test, of which, 3200 

households are expected to be 

interviewed. We estimate that each 

household contains 2.1 people aged 15 

and above, yielding approximately 

6,720 person-level interviews in this 

field test. Interviews take 60 minutes on 

average. The total annual burden for 

2011 Re-engineered SIPP field test 

interviews would be 6,720 hours in FY 

2011. 

II. Method of Collection 

The 2011 Re-engineered SIPP field 

test instrument will consist of one 

household interview which will 

reference the calendar year 2010. The 

interview is conducted in person with 

all household members 15 years old or 

over using regular proxy-respondent 

rules. 

III. Data 

OMB Control Number: 0607–0957. 

Form Number: SIPP/CAPI Automated 

Instrument. 

Type of Review: Regular. 

Affected Public: Individuals or 

Households. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

6,720 people. 

Estimated Time per Response: 60 

minutes per person on average. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 6,720. 

Estimated Total Annual Cost: The 

only cost to respondents is their time. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Legal Authority: Title 13, United 

States Code, Section 182. 

IV. Request for Comments 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed collection of information 

is necessary for the proper performance 

of the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden 

(including hours and cost) of the 

proposed collection of information; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on respondents, including through the 

use of automated collection techniques 

or other forms of information 

technology. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for OMB 

approval of this information collection; 

they also will become a matter of public 

record. 


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