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structure. There is a need to increase 

patch sizes to shift age and size class 

distributions to increase high quality 

early seral wildlife habitats. Landscape 

burning and timber harvest that mimics 

natural fire would help increase forest 

resilience, help reduce risk of wildfires, 

and help create high quality habitats 

that would benefit neotropical migratory 

birds, resident birds, small mammals, 

and big game species. Fire dependent 

wildlife species would benefit from 

landscape burning. 

Watershed Improvement 

Purpose: Reduce potential sediment 

inputs into the aquatic ecosystem from 

roads. 

Need: There are 283 miles of road 

within the project area, 200 of which are 

needed for current and future 

management. The remaining 83 miles of 

road have been cleared for 

decommissioning under the SF/WF 

Clear Creek Road Decommissioning EA 

(2011). The roads needed for 

management can contribute sediment to 

streams through road surface erosion 

and potential culvert failures. Surface 

erosion occurs during spring snowmelt 

and rain events. Dirt coming off roads is 

diverted into ditchlines which are often 

directed into streams. Preliminary 

surveys show most roads in the area are 

drained by ditches. Culvert failures can 

result from undersized, damaged or 

rusting culverts which can plug with 

debris and then fail as water saturates 

the surrounding fill. Failures can 

contribute large pulses of sediment into 

streams. Surveys indicate at least 60 

miles of road with culverts that are in 

need of replacement or cleaning. There 

is a minimum of 40 high or moderate 

priority culverts in need of replacement, 

and 12 in need of cleaning. There are an 

additional 40 low priority culverts in 

need of replacement and 15 in need of 

cleaning. The surveyed roads pose the 

highest risk to streams in the project 

area. 

The desired condition for roads is to 

have ditchlines that drain road surface 

water away from streams and onto the 

forest floor. All culverts at stream 

crossings are appropriately sized to 

allow for the passage of material within 

minimal risk of plugging. 

There is a need to drain roadside 

ditchline water away from streams by 

installing cross drain pipes near live 

stream crossings. The cross drain pipes 

collect ditchline water and direct it onto 

the forest floor. There is also a need to 

replace existing undersized, damaged, 

or rusting culverts on streams to 

minimize failure potential. 

The Proposed Action Would Improve 

Forest Health, Provide Goods and 

Services, Reduce Fuels and Improve 

Wildlife Habitat 

• Conduct ‘‘variable retention’’ 

regeneration harvest and post harvest 

burning activities on up to 2500 acres to 

create early successional plant 

communities and improve wildlife 

habitat while re-establishing long-lived 

early seral tree species. Variable 

retention harvest would include areas of 

full retention (clumps), irregular edges, 

and retention of snags and legacy trees 

to provide structure and a future source 

of woody debris. Openings will likely 

exceed 40 acres. 

• Commercially thin approximately 

7810 acres to reduce stand densities 

improve forest health and reduce the 

chance of crown fire. 

• Apply improvement harvest to 

approximately 311 acres (thin from 

below) to remove encroachment and 

ladder fuels from ponderosa pine 

dominated stands. 

• Construct a minimum temporary 

road system to carry out the proposed 

action. Roads would be 

decommissioned after use. 

• Pre-commercially thin 

approximately 1865 acres to reduce 

stand densities improve forest health 

and reduce fuels. 

• Restore approximately 42 acres of 

bunchgrass communities through 

prescribed burning and revegetation 

with native grasses to improve wildlife 

winter range through reestablishment of 

native grasses and forbs. 

• Apply approximately 1400 acres of 

low and mixed severity prescribed fire 

within the Clear Creek Roadless area to 

restore natural fire regimes, reduce 

fuels, improve wildlife habitat and 

create mosaic forest conditions. 

Proposed activities are consistent with 

Idaho Roadless Rule. There is no timber 

cutting planned within the Clear Creek 

Roadless area 

Reduce Sediment Production and 

Address Transportation Needs 

• Conduct maintenance on or 

improve 100–130 miles of system roads 

including culvert installation or 

replacement, ditch cleaning, and riprap 

placement for drainage improvement. It 

may also include gravel placement, road 

grading and dust abatement. 

• Additional site specific 

maintenance or improvements would 

occur to improve watershed conditions 

on up to 20 miles of roads outside of 

proposed treatment areas. 

• Decommission 2–5 miles of system 

roads no longer considered necessary 

for transportation needs. 

Possible Alternatives the Forest 

Service will consider include a noaction alternative, which will serve as a 

baseline for comparison of alternatives. 

The proposed action will be considered 

along with additional alternatives that 

will be developed to meet the purpose 

and need for action, and to address 

significant issues identified during 

scoping. 

The Responsible Official is the Nez 

Perce-ClearwaterForest Supervisor. 

12730 Highway 12, Orofinio, ID 83544. 

The Decision To Be Made is whether 

to adopt the proposed action, in whole 

or in part, or another alternative; and 

what mitigation measures and 

management requirements will be 

implemented. 

The Scoping Process for the EIS is 

being initiated with this notice. The 

scoping process will identify issues to 

be analyzed in detail and will lead to 

the developemnt of alternatives to the 

proposal. The Forest Service is seeking 

information and comments from other 

Federal, State, and local agencies; Tribal 

Governments; and organizations and 

individuals who may be interested in or 

affected by the proposed action. 

Comments received in response to this 

notice, including the names and 

addresses of those who comment, will 

be a part of the project record and 

available for public review. 

Early Notice of Importance of Public 

Participation in Subsequent 

Environmental Review: A draft 

environmental impact statement will be 

prepared for comment. The second 

major opportunity for public input will 

be when the draft EIS is published. The 

comment period for the draft EIS will be 

45 days from the date the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

publishes the notice of availability in 

the Federal Register. The Draft EIS is 

anticipated to be available for public 

review in February 2013. 

Dated: December 19, 2011. 

Rick Brazell, 

Forest Supervisor. 

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Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting 

of the Connecticut Advisory 

Committee 

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to 

the provisions of the rules and 

regulations of the U.S. Commission on 

Civil Rights (Commission), and the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act 

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Connecticut Advisory Committee to the 

Commission will be held at the 

University of Connecticut School of 

Law, Faculty Lounge, 55 Elizabeth 

Street, Hartford, CT 06105, and will 

convene at 12:00 noon (EST) Friday, 

January 13, 2012. The purpose of the 

planning meeting is to work to finalize 

the Committee report on racial profiling. 

Members of the public are entitled to 

submit written comments. The 

comments must be received in the 

regional office by Monday, February 13, 

2011. Comments may be mailed to the 

Eastern Regional Office, U.S. 

Commission on Civil Rights, 624 9th 

Street NW., Suite 740, Washington, DC 

20425, faxed to (202) 376–7548, or 

emailed to ero@usccr.gov. 

Persons needing accessibility services 

should contact the Eastern Regional 

Office at least ten (10) working days 

before the scheduled date of the 

meeting. 

Records generated from this meeting 

may be inspected and reproduced at the 

Eastern Regional Office, as they become 

available, both before and after the 

meeting. Persons interested in the work 

of this advisory committee are advised 

to go to the Commission’s Web site, 

http://www.usccr.gov, or to contact the 

Eastern Regional Office at the above 

email or street address. 

The meeting will be conducted 

pursuant to the provisions of the rules 

and regulations of the Commission and 

FACA. 

Dated in Washington, DC, December 31, 

2011. 

Peter Minarik, 

Acting Chief, Regional Programs 

Coordination Unit 

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Agenda and Notice of Public Meeting 

of the New Hampshire Advisory 

Committee 

Notice is hereby given, pursuant to 

the provisions of the rules and 

regulations of the U.S. Commission on 

Civil Rights (Commission), and the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA), that a briefing meeting and 

planning meeting of the New Hampshire 

Advisory Committee to the Commission 

will be held at the City Hall 

Auditorium, 1 City Hall Plaza, 

Manchester, NH 03101, and will 

convene at 5:30 p.m. (EST) on 

Wednesday, January 11, 2012. The 

purpose of briefing meeting is to learn 

about diversity issues in the public 

school system. The purpose of the 

planning meeting is to plan future 

activities. 

Members of the public are entitled to 

submit written comments. The 

comments must be received in the 

regional office by Monday, February 13, 

2012. Comments may be mailed to the 

Eastern Regional Office, U.S. 

Commission on Civil Rights, 624 9th 

Street NW., Suite 740, Washington, DC 

20425, fax to (202) 376–7548, or email 

to ero@usccr.gov. 

Persons needing accessibility services 

should contact the Eastern Regional 

Office at least ten (10) working days 

before the scheduled date of the 

meeting. 

Records generated from this meeting 

may be inspected and reproduced at the 

Eastern Regional Office, as they become 

available, both before and after the 

meeting. Persons interested in the work 

of this advisory committee are advised 

to go to the Commission’s Web site, 

www.usccr.gov, or to contact the Eastern 

Regional Office at the above email or 

street address. 

The meeting will be conducted 

pursuant to the provisions of the rules 

and regulations of the Commission and 

FACA. 

Dated in Washington, DC, December 31, 

2011. 

Peter Minarik, 

Acting Chief, Regional Programs 

Coordination Unit. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–831] 

Fresh Garlic From the People’s 

Republic of China: Final Results of 

Expedited Sunset Review of the 

Antidumping Duty Order 

AGENCY: Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce. 

SUMMARY: On September 1, 2011, the 

Department of Commerce (the 

Department) initiated the third sunset 

review of the antidumping duty order 

fresh garlic from the People’s Republic 

of China (‘‘PRC’’), pursuant to section 

751(c) of the Tariff Act of 1930, as 

amended (the Act). The Department has 

conducted an expedited (120-day) 

sunset review for this order pursuant to 

section 751(c)(3)(B) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.218(e)(1)(ii)(C)(2). As a result 

of this sunset review, the Department 

finds that revocation of the antidumping 

duty order would be likely to lead to 

continuation or recurrence of dumping. 

DATES: Effective Date: January 6, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Sean Carey or 

Dana Mermelstein, AD/CVD Operations, 

Office 6, Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th 

Street and Constitution Avenue NW., 

Washington, DC 20230; telephone: (202) 

482–3964 and (202) 482–1391, 

respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On September 1, 2011, the 

Department published the notice of 

initiation of the third sunset review of 

the antidumping duty order on fresh 

garlic from the PRC pursuant to section 

751(c) of the Act. See Initiation of FiveYear (‘‘Sunset’’) Review, 76 FR 54430 

(September 1, 2011). The Department 

received a notice of intent to participate 

from the Fresh Garlic Producers 

Association and its individual members: 

Christopher Ranch LLC; The Garlic 

Company; Valley Garlic, Inc.; and 

Vessey and Company, Inc. (collectively 

‘‘the domestic interested parties’’’), 

within the deadline specified in 19 CFR 

351.218(d)(1)(i). The domestic 

interested parties claimed interested 

party status under section 771(9)(C) of 

the Act as domestic producers and 

packagers of fresh garlic and a trade 

association whose members produce 

and process a domestic like product in 

the United States. The Department 

received an adequate substantive 

response to the notice of initiation from 

the domestic interested parties within 

the 30-day deadline specified in 19 CFR 

351.218(d)(3)(i). We received no 

responses from the respondent 

interested parties. As a result, pursuant 

to section 751(c)(5)(A) of the Act and 19 

CFR 351.218(e)(1)(ii)(C)(2), the 

Department conducted an expedited 

(120-day) sunset review of the order. 

Scope of the Order 

The products subject to the 

antidumping duty order are all grades of 

garlic, whole or separated into 

constituent cloves, whether or not 

peeled, fresh, chilled, frozen, 

provisionally preserved, or packed in 

water or other neutral substance, but not 

prepared or preserved by the addition of 

other ingredients or heat processing. 

The differences between grades are 

based on color, size, sheathing, and 

level of decay. 

The scope of the order does not 

include the following: (a) Garlic that has 

been mechanically harvested and that is 

primarily, but not exclusively, destined 


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