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interrupt or delay operations for more 

than 60 days. 

In addition to the changes listed 

above, the Integrated Resources Contract 

provisions differ from the timber sale 

contracts in the following areas: 

1. Integrated resource contract 

provision I/IT2.3-Contract Term 

Extension, combines timber sale 

contract provisions B/BT8.23-Contract 

Term Extension, and B/BT8.231, 

Conditions for Contract Term Extension. 

2. Integrated resource contract 

provisions J/JT.4-Damages for Failure to 

Complete Contract or Termination for 

Breach, expands timber sale contract 

provision B/BT6.31 to address 

stewardship projects. 

3. The timber sale contracts under 

provision B/BT6.9 required the 

purchaser to provide access to records 

to enable the Forest Service to develop 

and evaluate appraisal data. The 

Integrated Resource Contracts do not 

contain a comparable requirement 

because the services components of 

these contracts would skew operating 

costs rendering the data unreliable for 

comparative purposes. 

Conclusion 

Comments will be considered when 

the Forest Service prepares the final 

Integrated Resource Contracts, FS–

2400–13 and FS–2400–13T. When the 

Integrated Resource Contracts are 

finalized, a subsequent notice will be 

published in the Federal Register.

Dated: September 22, 2004. 

Dale N. Bosworth, 

Chief.

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BILLING CODE 3410–11–P

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation 

Service 

Supplemental Watershed Plan No. 1 

East Fork of the Grand River 

Watershed and Environmental 

Assessment for East Fork of the Grand 

River Watershed Plan and 

Environmental Impact Statement 

(Approved 1996), Ringgold and Union 

Counties, IA, and Harrison and Worth 

Counties, MO

AGENCY: Natural Resources 

Conservation Service.

ACTION: Notice of finding of no 

significant impact. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 

102(2)(c)of the National Environmental 

Policy Act of 1969; the Council on 

Environmental Quality Regulations (40 

CFR part 1500); and the Natural 

Resources Conservation Service 

Regulations (7 CFR part 650); the 

Natural Resources Conservation Service, 

U.S. Department of Agriculture, gives 

notice than an environmental impact 

statement is not being prepared for the 

Supplemental Watershed Plan No. 1 for 

East Fork of the Grand River Watershed 

Plan and Environmental Impact 

Statement (Approved 1996), Ringgold 

and Union Counties, Iowa, and Harrison 

and Worth Counties, Missouri.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Richard Van Klaveren, State 

Conservationist, Natural Resources 

Conservation Service, 210 Walnut 

Street, 693 Federal Building, Des 

Moines, IA 50309–2180.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

environmental assessment of this 

federally assisted action indicates that 

the project will not cause significant 

impacts on the environment. As a result 

of these findings, Richard Van Klaveren, 

State Conservationist, has determined 

that the preparation and review of an 

environmental impact statement are not 

needed for this project. 

This document sets forth a 

supplement to the East Fork of the 

Grand Watershed Plan–EIS that slightly 

relocates and enlarges multipurpose 

structure GB–3 from a permanent pool 

of 350 acres to 565 acres. The 565 acre 

site will be renamed Gooseberry Lake. 

The increase in size is to meet 

additional other agricultural water 

management and recreation needs. 

Gooseberry Lake and its 6210 acre 

watershed are northeast of Mount Ayr 

and are located entirely in Ringgold 

County, Iowa. 

The Notice of a Finding of No 

Significant Impact (FONSI) has been 

forwarded to the Environmental 

Protection Agency and to various 

Federal, State, and local agencies. A 

limited number of copies of the FONSI 

are available to fill single copy requests 

at the above address. The FONSI is also 

available at the Iowa NRCS Web site at 

http://www.ia.nrcs.usda.gov. A copy of 

the Supplemental Watershed Plan–

Environmental Assessment may be 

obtained by contacting Richard Van 

Klaveren. 

No administrative action will be taken 

until 30 days after the date of this 

publication in the Federal Register.

Dated: September 28, 2004. 

Richard Van Klaveren, 

State Conservationist.

Finding of No Significant Impact for the 

Supplemental Watershed Plan No. 1 East 

Fork of the Grand River Watershed and 

Environmental Assessment Ringgold County, 

Iowa 

Introduction 

The Supplemental Watershed Plan No. 1 

East Fork of the Grand River Watershed and 

Environmental Assessment (EA) describes 

the recommended alternative which is a 

modification of the GB–3 multipurpose site 

that was part of the East Fork of the Grand 

River Watershed Plan and Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS). The Supplemental 

Watershed Plan No. 1–EA compares the 

effects that will arise from the installation of 

Gooseberry Lake to those that would have 

occurred from the installation of the original 

GB–3 structure. 

This modification of the GB–3 site is 

necessary to meet the Sponsors’ request to 

increase the water supply and recreation 

resources from those originally planned for 

GB–3 lake site in order to satisfy increased 

demands for these resources from the public. 

The East Fork of the Grand River 

Watershed Plan and EIS was approved in 

1996 under the authority of the Watershed 

Protection and Flood Prevention Act of 1954 

(Public Law No. 566, 83rd Congress). 

This supplemental plan–EA is being 

planned and will be implemented under the 

same authority. It is being planned and is in 

compliance with all National Environmental 

Policy Act (NEPA) and the National Historic 

Preservation Act of 1966 as amended (NHPA) 

provisions. The policies and procedures of 

the Watershed Protection and Flood 

Prevention Act, Public Law 83–566 as 

amended (16 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.) are being 

utilized for the planning and implementation 

of this project. 

An environmental evaluation was 

undertaken by the Natural Resources 

Conservation Service (NRCS) in conjunction 

with the development of this supplemental 

plan–EA. This evaluation was undertaken in 

consultation with local, State and Federal 

agencies as well as interested organizations 

and individuals. Copies of the supplemental 

plan–EA are available for public review from 

the following location: Natural Resources 

Conservation Service, 210 Walnut Street, 693 

Federal Building, Des Moines, IA 50309–

2180.

Recommended Action 

Site GB–3 will be moved downstream 

and increased in size. This relocated 

structure site is renamed Gooseberry 

Lake. The Gooseberry Lake Association 

will acquire the 2,365 acres needed for 

Gooseberry Lake and surrounding area 

for public use as a fish and wildlife area. 

The Gooseberry Lake will have a 

permanent pool of 565 acres, 1,393 acres 

managed as wildlife habitat, and 182 

acre county park. The dam and 

floodwater storage pool comprise the 

balance of the 2,365 project acres. 

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Access roads, parking areas, boat ramps, 

wildlife plantings in the adjacent lands, 

fishing jetties, in-lake facilities, 

underwater fish structures, etc., will be 

installed by the Iowa Department of 

Natural Resources (IDNR) with their 

own funds. The Ringgold County 

Conservation Board (RCCB) will install 

the recreation facilities such as roads, 

campgrounds, cabins, restrooms, picnic 

areas, beach, parking lots, etc. 

Effects of the Recommended Actions 

There are no cultural resources in the 

area of potential effect. Construction of 

recreation facilities (i.e. access roads, 

cabins, boat ramps, etc.) will need 

further cultural resources survey. 

Construction discoveries will be 

handled in accordance with NRCS 

General Manual, Section 420, Part 401. 

Construction of the dam and 

multipurpose pool inundates 24,000 feet 

(8 acres) of low quality ephemeral and 

intermittent warm water stream channel 

habitat. This conversion creates 565 

acres of high quality warm water 

lacustrine habitat. 

No jurisdictional wetlands were 

identified in either the planned 

multipurpose pool, flood pool, or at the 

structure site. 

Ringgold County is within the 

summer range of the Indiana Bat (myotis 

sodalis). However, since less than five 

percent of the project area is in 

woodland, suitable habitat for this 

species does not occur at the project 

site. No other Federal or state listed T&E 

species are known to occur in the 

Gooseberry Lake project area, nor are 

there any areas of suitable habitat for 

those species listed for Ringgold County 

in this project area. 

While 110.1 acres woody wildlife 

habitat with a value of 73.6 Habitat 

Units will be lost to the structure and 

pool, the installation of planned 

measures will produce 248 additional 

acres of woody wildlife habitat worth 

110.8 Habitat Units. This will produce 

a net project gain of 147.9 acres and 37.8 

habitat units. 

Grassland wildlife habitat on 425 

acres with a value of 117.7 Habitat Units 

will be lost due to the project. The 

installation of planned measures will 

produce 650 acres additional acres of 

grassland wildlife habitat worth 299 

Habitat Units. This will produce a net 

project gain of 225 acres and 181.3 

habitat units. 

Installation of the project will convert 

2,365 acres of cropland, hayland, and 

pasture to non-agricultural land uses. 

This includes 725 acres of prime 

farmland. 

Alternative Actions 

The only alternative action to the 

proposed action considered in the 

supplemental plan–EA would be to 

construct Site GB–3 approved in the 

original watershed plan–EIS. That 

alternative action was rejected by the 

Sponsors. The supplemental plan is the 

only alternative that meets the local 

Sponsors objectives and is acceptable to 

local residents. The plan is the National 

Economic Development (NED) plan. 

Consultation and Public Participation 

The Gooseberry Lake Agency has held 

more than 40 meetings beginning in 

2000. All have been conducted in 

accordance with the Iowa Open 

Meetings Law. This means that the 

public has been notified of each meeting 

and allowed to attend and participate in 

each meeting. Typically, 10–25 

members of the public attend these 

regular meetings; two to five request 

time on the agenda to speak. One or 

more members of the NRCS staff were 

at each of those meetings in order to 

answer questions and receive 

comments. 

Ongoing public participation 

identified the need to include detailed 

information on recreation benefits and 

other direct costs related to lost farm 

income. This was done and was 

discussed in the supplemental plan–EA. 

NRCS hosted a week long open house 

at Mount Ayr, Iowa in February 2004. 

Numerous displays and information 

related to the East Fork of the Grand 

Watershed and the proposed 565 acre 

Gooseberry Lake were available during 

the open house. NRCS staff answered 

questions from the over 80 public 

participants. 

Seven Indian tribal contacts and one 

local historical society were notified of 

this intended action in accordance with 

36CFR800. They were consulted about 

their knowledge of historical properties 

in the project area. No response was 

received from the tribes or the local 

historical society. 

The draft supplemental plan was 

provided to local, state, and federal 

agencies and non-governmental 

organizations for a 45 day long 

interagency review beginning in March, 

2004. Any private citizens who 

requested the document were also 

mailed copies and requested to 

comment during the interagency review 

comment period. Seventy-eight copies 

of the supplemental plan–EA were 

distributed to the above agencies and 

private citizens during the interagency 

comment period. The NRCS also posted 

the draft supplemental plan on its Iowa 

Web site, at http://

www.ia.nrcs.usda.gov. News releases 

were issued to state and local media 

announcing its availability on the Web 

site and that hard copies could be 

obtained by contacting the NRCS–Iowa 

state office. Requests for review and 

input into the document were part of 

the news releases. 

Significant comments were received 

from five private citizens, four 

government agencies, and one nongovernmental organization. These 

comments were addressed in the final 

supplemental plan–EA. 

Conclusion 

The Environmental Assessment 

summarized above indicates that this 

Federal action will not cause significant 

impacts on the environment. Therefore, 

based on the above findings, I have 

determined that an environmental 

impact statement for the Supplemental 

Watershed Plan No. 1 East Fork of the 

Grand River Watershed is not required.

Dated: September 28, 2004.

Richard Van Klaveren, 

State Conservationist.

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BILLING CODE 3410–16–P

ANTITRUST MODERNIZATION 

COMMISSION 

Public Meeting

AGENCY: Antitrust Modernization 

Commission.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

SUMMARY: The Antitrust Modernization 

Commission will hold a public meeting 

on October 20, 2004. The purpose of the 

meeting will be to (1) discuss the 

criteria and processes upon which the 

Commission will employ in selecting 

issues for further study and (2) discuss 

the nature of the report the Commission 

will issue.

DATES: October 20, 2004, 10 a.m. until 

1 p.m., unless earlier adjourned. All 

interested members of the public may 

attend. Registration is not required.

ADDRESSES: Federal Trade Commission, 

Conference Center Rooms A & B, 601 

New Jersey Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Andrew J. Heimert, Executive Director & 

General Counsel, Antitrust 

Modernization Commission: telephone: 

(202) 326–2487; e-mail: info@amc.gov.

Mr. Heimert is also the Designated 

Federal Officer (DFO) for the Antitrust 

Modernization Commission.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Antitrust Modernization Commission