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performance of the functions of the 

Agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) Evaluate the accuracy of our 

estimate of the burden of the collection 

of information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

(4) Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, through use, as 

appropriate, of automated, electronic, 

mechanical, and other collection 

technologies; e.g., permitting electronic 

submission of responses. 

Estimate of Burden: The public 

burden for this collection of information 

is estimated to average 1.97 hours per 

response. 

Respondents: Importers, exporters, 

processing operators, foreign federal 

governments, foreign veterinarians, port 

personnel, museums, educational 

institutions, transportation operators, 

and carrier personnel. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Respondents: 3,437. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Responses per Respondent: 63. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Responses: 216,399. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 427,877 hours. (Due to 

averaging, the total annual burden hours 

may not equal the product of the annual 

number of responses multiplied by the 

reporting burden per response.) 

All responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for OMB approval. All comments will 

also become a matter of public record. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 19th day of 

December 2018. 

Kevin Shea, 

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2018–28046 Filed 12–26–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Commodity Credit Corporation 

Foreign Agricultural Service 

Notice of Request for Extension of 

Currently Approved Information 

Collection 

AGENCY: Foreign Agricultural Service 

and Commodity Credit Corporation, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice announces the Commodity Credit 

Corporation’s (CCC) intention to request 

an extension from the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for a 

currently approved information 

collection process in support of the 

Technical Assistance for Specialty 

Crops (TASC) program. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by February 25, 2019 to be 

assured of consideration. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments, 

identified by Document Number, by any 

of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for sending comments. 

• Email: Podadmin@fas.usda.gov. 

Include document number in the subject 

line of the message. 

• Fax: 202–720–9361. 

• Mail: 1400 Independence Avenue 

SW, Room 6512, Washington, DC 20250. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency names and 

document number for this notice. All 

comments received will be posted 

without change to regulations.gov, 

including any personal information 

provided. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Curt 

Alt, 202 720–4327, Podadmin@

fas.usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Technical Assistance for 

Specialty Crops. 

OMB Number: 0551–0038. 

Expiration Date of Approval: February 

28, 2019. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved information 

collection. 

Abstract: This information is needed 

to administer CCC’s Technical 

Assistance for Specialty Crops program. 

The information will be gathered from 

applicants desiring to receive grants 

under the program to determine the 

viability of the request for funds. 

Regulations governing the program 

appear at 7 CFR part 1487 and are 

available on the Foreign Agricultural 

Service’s website. 

Estimate of Burden: This program is 

currently suspended pending the 

passage of a new Farm Bill. However, in 

case the program is re-authorized by 

Congress in the future, the agency 

intends to keep the OMB control 

number for this program active. 

Assuming the program is re-authorized 

in substantially its current form, the 

agency estimates that the public 

reporting burden for the associated 

collection of information would average 

32 hours per respondent. 

Respondents: U.S. government 

agencies, State government agencies, 

non-profit trade associations, 

universities, agricultural cooperatives, 

and private companies. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

50. 

Estimated Time per Respondent: 32. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 1,600 hours. 

Copies of this information collection 

can be obtained from Connie Ehrhart, 

the Agency Information Collection 

Coordinator, at (202) 690–1578. 

Request for Comments: Send 

comments regarding the accuracy of the 

burden estimate, ways to minimize the 

burden, including through the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

or any other aspect of this collection of 

information, to: Director, Program 

Operations Division, Foreign 

Agricultural Service, Room 6512, 1400 

Independence Avenue SW, Washington, 

DC 20250. Facsimile submissions may 

be sent to (202) 720–9361 and electronic 

mail submissions should be addressed 

to: podadmin@fas.usda.gov. 

All responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for OMB approval. All comments will 

also become a matter of public record. 

Dated: December 18, 2018. 

Robert Stephenson, 

Executive Vice President, Commodity Credit 

Corporation. 

Dated: December 17, 2018. 

Kenneth Isley, 

Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service. 

[FR Doc. 2018–28048 Filed 12–26–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–10–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Final Record of Decisions for the 

Flathead National Forest Land 

Management Plan and Forest Plan 

Amendments for the Kootenai, HelenaLewis and Clark, and Lolo National 

Forests 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of plan approval for the 

Flathead National Forest and plan 

amendments approval for the Kootenai, 

Helena-Lewis and Clark, and Lolo 

National Forests. 

SUMMARY: Chip Weber, the Forest 

Supervisor for the Flathead National 

Forest, Northern Region, signed the 

record of decision (ROD) for the 

Flathead National Forest Land 

Management Plan (Forest Plan). The 

responsible officials, William Avey, 

Forest Supervisor for the Helena-Lewis 

and Clark National Forest; Chad Benson, 


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Acting Forest Supervisor for the 

Kootenai National Forest; and Joe 

Alexander, Acting Forest Supervisor for 

the Lolo National Forest, signed the 

ROD for the Northern Continental 

Divide Ecosystem grizzly bear 

amendments (Amendments). The final 

RODs document the rationale for 

approving the Forest Plan and 

Amendments and are consistent with 

the reviewing officers’ responses to 

objections and instructions. 

DATES: The revised Forest Plan for the 

Flathead National Forest will become 

effective 30 days after the publication of 

this notice of approval in the Federal 

Register. The Amendments will become 

effective with this publication in the 

Federal Register. To view the final 

RODs, final environmental impact 

statement (FEIS), the Forest Plan, 

Amendments, and other related 

documents, please visit the Flathead 

National Forest Plan Revision website 

at: https://www.fs.usda.gov/goto/ 

flathead/fpr or the Amendments 

website at: https://www.fs.usda.gov/ 

goto/flathead/gbamend. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Information about the Forest Plan for 

the Flathead National Forest can be 

obtained from Anastasia Allen, 

weekdays, 8:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. 

Mountain Time at the Flathead National 

Forest Supervisor’s Office (phone: 406– 

758–5320). Information about the 

Amendments can be obtained by 

contacting Timory Peel, weekdays, 8:30 

to 5:00 p.m. Mountain Time at the 

Northern Region Office (phone: 406– 

329–3678). Written requests for 

information may be sent to Flathead 

National Forests, Attn: Plan Revision, 

650 Wolfpack Way, Kalispell, Montana 

59901. 

Individuals who use 

telecommunication devices for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 

between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern 

Time, Monday through Friday. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Forest 

Plan describes the Flathead National 

Forest’s distinctive roles and 

contributions within the broader 

landscape and details forest-wide 

management area and geographic area 

desired conditions, objectives, 

standards, and guidelines. The Forest 

Plan identifies suitable uses of National 

Forest System lands and provides 

estimates of the planned timber sale 

quantity. The Forest Plan identifies 

priority watersheds for restoration, and 

includes recommended wilderness areas 

and eligible wild and scenic rivers. This 

Forest Plan provides for efficient and 

effective management of the Flathead 

National Forest with desired conditions 

for coordination, partnerships, and 

shared stewardship with State, local, 

and Tribal governements, other federal 

agencies, adjacent landowners, and 

stakeholders. 

The Forest Service is concurrently 

amending the Forest Plans of the 

Helena-Lewis and Clark, Kootenai, and 

Lolo National Forests to incorporate 

habitat management direction for the 

Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem 

grizzly bear population. The Flathead 

National Forest has incorporated the 

grizzly bear habitat management 

direction as part of its Forest Plan. Plan 

components (desired conditions, 

standards, and guidelines) that conserve 

grizzly bear habitat will be added to the 

Helena-Lewis and Clark, Kootenai, and 

Lolo Forest Plans. These plan 

components will guide future land 

management actions related to 

motorized access and secure core 

developed recreation sites, vegetation 

management, livestock grazing, and 

energy and mineral development. In 

general, habitat conditions in the 

primary conservation area will be 

maintained at levels that occurred 

during the time period when the grizzly 

bear population was known to be 

growing and increasing in distribution 

and will contribute to sustaining the 

recovery of the grizzly bear population. 

The Flathead National Forest initiated 

plan revision in fall 2013 with field 

trips and stakeholder meetings. The 

Forest invited State, local and Tribal 

governments, and other federal agencies 

from around the region to participate in 

the process to revise the Forest Plan. An 

interagency working group met 

regularly throughout the plan revision 

effort. The Forest received almost 

54,000 public comments on the Forest 

Plan and Amendments. Public 

involvement for the Amendments was 

initiated with the publication of a 

Notice of Intent in the Federal Register 

on March 6, 2015. Open houses were 

held in seven communities throughout 

the Northern Continental Divide 

Ecosystem during the scoping period to 

provide information about the proposed 

action and accept public comments. 

The development of the Forest Plan 

and Amendments was shaped by the 

best available science, current laws, and 

public input. The 60-day timeframe for 

the opportunity to object ended on 

February 12, 2018. The Forest Service 

received 69 eligible objections. The 

reviewing officers issued their written 

responses to the objection issues on 

August 16, 2018. The Regional Forester, 

Reviewing Official, provided the Forest 

Supervisors with minor clarification 

instructions for most of the objection 

issues. The final RODs document the 

rationale for approving the Forest Plan 

and Amendments and are consistent 

with the reviewing officers’ responses to 

objections and instructions. 

Responsible Officials 

The Responsible Officials for 

approving the Forest Plan and 

Amendments are as follows: Chip 

Weber, Forest Supervisor, Flathead 

National Forest; William Avey, Forest 

Supervisor, Helena-Lewis and Clark 

National Forest; Chad Benson, Acting 

Forest Supervisor, Kootenai National 

Forest; and Joe Alexander, Acting Forest 

Supervisor, Lolo National Forest. 

Dated: December 17, 2018. 

Allen Rowley, 

Acting Associate Deputy Chief, National 

Forest System. 

[FR Doc. 2018–27969 Filed 12–26–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3411–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Klamath National Forest; California; 

Crawford Vegetation Management 

Project 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Withdrawal of notice of intent 

to prepare an environmental impact 

statement. 

SUMMARY: The Klamath National Forest 

is withdrawing the Notice of Intent 

(NOI) to prepare an Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS) for the Crawford 

Vegetation Management Project. The 

original NOI was published in the 

Federal Register on January 27, 2014 

(79 FR 4323). Upon further evaluation, 

there are no expected significant 

impacts to the human environment 

associated with the project. As a result, 

the Klamath National Forest is now 

preparing an environmental assessment 

(EA). All comments previously received 

regarding this project will be retained 

and considered in the development of 

the EA. If it is determined that the 

project may have significant impacts, 

the EIS process will be reinitiated and 

a NOI will be published. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions concerning this notice and 

requests to be added to the project 

mailing list should be directed to Lisa 

Bousfield, Happy Camp/Oak Knoll 

Ranger District, 63822 State Highway 

96, P.O. Box 377, Happy Camp, CA 

96039; by telephone at (530) 493–1766; 

or via email at lbousfield@fs.fed.us. 

Individuals who have previously 

submitted comments on this project will 


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