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Vol. 75, No. 248 

Tuesday, December 28, 2010 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

December 22, 2010. 

The Department of Agriculture has 

submitted the following information 

collection requirement(s) to OMB for 

review and clearance under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13. Comments 

regarding (a) Whether the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of burden including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on those who are to respond, including 

through the use of appropriate 

automated, electronic, mechanical, or 

other technological collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology should be addressed to: Desk 

Officer for Agriculture, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB), 

OIRA_Submission@OMB.EOP.GOV or 

fax (202) 395–5806 and to Departmental 

Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail 

Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250– 

7602. Comments regarding these 

information collections are best assured 

of having their full effect if received 

within 30 days of this notification. 

Copies of the submission(s) may be 

obtained by calling (202) 720–8958. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor a collection of information 

unless the collection of information 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number and the agency informs 

potential persons who are to respond to 

the collection of information that such 

persons are not required to respond to 

the collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

Title: Small-Scale Livestock 

Operations 2011 Study. 

OMB Control Number: 0579–NEW. 

Summary of Collection: Under the 

Animal Health Protection Act (7 U.S.C. 

8301 et seq.), the Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is 

authorized, among other things, to 

protect the health of our Nation’s 

livestock and poultry populations by 

preventing the introduction and 

interstate spread of serious diseases and 

pests of livestock and for eradicating 

such diseases from the United States 

when feasible. In connection with this 

mission, APHIS operates the National 

Animal Health Monitoring System 

(NAHMS), which collects nationally 

representative, statistically valid, and 

scientifically sound data on the 

prevalence and economic importance of 

livestock diseases and associated risk 

factors. As part of an ongoing series of 

NAHMS studies on the U.S. livestock 

population, APHIS plans to conduct the 

Small-Scale Livestock Operations 2011 

Study. A small-scale farm is defined by 

the USDA as a farm with annual sales 

less than $250,000. 

Need and Use of the Information: The 

study is designed to collect information 

on operations with total annual sales 

between $10,000 and $250,000. The 

study questionnaire will be 

administered via mail with a telephone 

follow-up for those who do not respond. 

The information collected through the 

Small-Scale Livestock Operations study 

will be analyzed and organized into 

descriptive reports. The Small-Scale 

Livestock Operations study will collect 

data that will assist APHIS in its ability 

to support farmers in times of unusual 

economic distress or disaster, such as a 

foreign animal disease outbreak. The 

information collected will provide 

insight into how these small scale 

producers can best be served in an 

animal disease outbreak. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit. 

Number of Respondents: 16,000. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

Annually. 

Total Burden Hours: 4,128. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2010–32627 Filed 12–27–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Buckhorn Exploration Project 2010, 

Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest, 

Okanogan County, Washington 

ACTION: Notice of Extension of Scoping 

Period for Environmental Impact 

Statement. 

Joint Lead Agencies: Forest Service, 

Department of Agriculture; and 

Department of Natural Resources, 

Washington State. 

Cooperating Agencies: Bureau of Land 

Management, Department of the 

Interior; and Department of Ecology, 

Washington State. 

On November 26, 2010, the 

Department of Agriculture, Forest 

Service, in cooperation with the 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM), Washington 

State Department of Natural Resources 

(DNR), and Washington Department of 

Ecology (WADOE), announced the 

intent to prepare an Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS) for a proposal by 

Echo Bay Exploration, Inc. (Echo Bay) to 

explore their mineral holdings northeast 

of Tonasket, Washington (FR 72781, 

Vol. 75, No. 227). 

That notice of intent identified 

January 3, 2011 as the time by which 

comments on the scope of the project 

must be received. That period is now 

being extended until January 18, 2011. 

Comments must be received by this new 

date. For further information, contact 

Phillip Christy, District Environmental 

Coordinator, 1 West Winesap, Tonasket, 

Washington 98855, phone (509) 486– 

5137, Kelly Courtright, BLM Mining 

Engineer, 1103 N. Fancher Road, 

Spokane, WA 99212, phone (509) 536– 

1218, or Fred Greef, SEPA Coordinator, 

Washington State Department of Natural 

Resources, P.O. Box 7015, Olympia, WA 

98504–7015, phone (360) 902–1628. 

Individuals who use telecommunication 

devices for the deaf (TDD) may call the 

Federal Information Relay Service 

(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 between 8 


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a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern Time, Monday 

through Friday. 

Dated: December 20, 2010. 

Maureen R. Hanson, 

Acting Forest Supervisor. 

[FR Doc. 2010–32621 Filed 12–27–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–11–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Huron-Manistee National Forests, 

Michigan, Land and Resource 

Management Plan Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent to prepare a 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement. 

SUMMARY: The Huron-Manistee National 

Forests (Forest Service) will prepare a 

supplemental environmental impact 

statement (SEIS) to assess the 

environmental impacts of a Land and 

Resource Management Plan alternative 

that would ban firearm hunting and 

snowmobile use (subject to existing 

rights) on National Forest System lands 

within Semiprimitive Nonmotorized 

Management Areas and would ban 

firearm hunting (subject to existing 

rights) in Primitive Area (Nordhouse 

Dunes Wilderness). This analysis will 

remedy deficiencies identified by the 

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth 

Circuit Court in the original 

Environmental Impact Statement 

prepared for the Huron-Manistee Land 

and Resource Management Plan 

Revision of 2006. The decision which 

results may amend the Huron-Manistee 

National Forests Land and Resource 

Management Plan. The objectives of the 

analysis, consistent with existing 

regulatory direction as identified by the 

court, are to coordinate recreation 

planning with the State of Michigan 

with the aim (to the extent feasible) to 

reduce duplication in meeting 

recreation demands, to minimize 

conflicts between off-road vehicle use 

and other uses of the Forests, and to 

identify recreational preferences of user 

groups and the settings needed to 

provide quality recreational 

opportunities. 

DATES: Comments concerning the scope 

of the analysis must be received by 

February 11, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to 

Lee Evison, Forest Planner, HuronManistee National Forests, 1755 S. 

Mitchell Street, Cadillac, MI, 49601; fax: 

231–775–5551. Send electronic 

comments to: comments-eastern-huronmanistee@fs.fed.us. Comments sent via 

e-mail should contain the subject line: 

‘‘Forest Plan SEIS’’. 

Comments received in response to 

this solicitation, including names and 

addresses of those who comment, will 

be considered part of the public record 

on this proposed action and will be 

available for public inspection. 

Comments submitted anonymously will 

be accepted and considered; however, 

anonymous comments may limit the 

respondent’s ability to participate in 

subsequent administrative or judicial 

review. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ken 

Arbogast, Huron-Manistee National 

Forests; telephone: 231–775–2421; fax: 

231–775–5551. See address above under 

ADDRESSES. Copies of documents may 

be requested at the same address. 

Another means of obtaining information 

is to visit the Forest Web page at http:// 

www.fs.fed.us/r9/hmnf then click on 

‘‘Land and Resources Management’’, 

then ‘‘Forest Land and Resource 

Management Plan’’. 

Individuals who use 

telecommunication devices for the deaf 

(TTY) may call 1–231–775–3183. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose and Need for Action 

On September 29, 2010, the United 

States Court of Appeals for the Sixth 

Circuit issued an opinion in the case of 

Meister v. U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, et al., No. 09–1712 

(September 29, 2010), which found 

deficiencies in the analysis supporting 

the revised Land and Resource 

Management Plan for the HuronManistee National Forests. Specifically, 

the court found that: 

1. The Forest Service’s estimates of 

snowmobile and cross-country visitors 

to the Forests were arbitrary, 

2. The Service did not coordinate its 

recreation planning with the State of 

Michigan, as required, to reduce 

duplication in recreation demands with 

respect to gun hunting and 

snowmobiling, 

3. The Service’s reasons for keeping 

certain trails open to snowmobile use 

were arbitrary, and 

4. The Service violated the National 

Environmental Policy Act when it failed 

to consider closing Primitive and 

Semiprimitive Nonmotorized areas to 

gun hunting and snowmobile use. 

Proposed Action 

The Forest Service proposes to 

remedy the deficiencies identified by 

the court by supplementing the 

Environmental Impact Statement for the 

Forest Land and Resource Management 

Plan. The supplement will evaluate an 

alternative that closes Semiprimitive 

Nonmotorized Management Areas to 

snowmobile use and firearm hunting 

(subject to existing rights) and closes 

Primitive Area (Nordhouse Dunes 

Wilderness) to firearm hunting (subject 

to existing rights). 

The Forest Service proposes to utilize 

such studies as: The National Visitor 

Use Monitoring study (2009); 

Michigan’s Statewide Comprehensive 

Outdoor Recreation Plan (SCORP 2008– 

2012); Social and Economic Assessment 

for the Michigan National Forests 

(2003); Social and Economic 

Assessment for Michigan’s State Forests 

(2006); Demographics, Recruitment, and 

Retention of Michigan Hunters by Brian 

J. Frawley; Demographics, Recruitment, 

and Retention of Michigan Hunters: 

2005 Update; A Portrait of Hunters and 

Hunting License Trends in Michigan by 

the National Shooting Sports 

Foundation on Behalf of the Michgan 

Department of Natural Resources; 

Assessment of Snowmobiling in 

Michigan by Snowmobilers with 

Michigan Trail Permits (2009) by 

Charles Nelson; Opinions of Selected 

Stakeholders Concerning Semiprimitive Area Designation in the 

Huron-Manistee National Forests (1994) 

by Charles Nelson. 

Possible Alternatives 

No Action Alternative: The Forest 

Service would continue to implement 

the 2006 Forest Plan in its current form. 

Current direction would continue to 

guide management of the Semiprimitive 

Nonmotorized Management Areas and 

Primitive Area (Nordhouse Dunes 

Wilderness). There would be no changes 

to the management of these areas. 

Modified Closure Alternative: The 

Forest Service would ban firearm 

hunting and snowmobile use in some 

portion of the 13 existing Semiprimitive 

Nonmotorized Areas and the Primitive 

Area (Nordhouse Dunes Wildnerness). 

Other reasonable alternatives may be 

developed to respond to issues raised 

during public participation. 

Lead and Cooperating Agencies 

The lead agency for this proposal is 

the U.S. Forest Service. The Forest 

Service has invited the Michigan 

Department of Natural Resources and 

Environment (MDNRE) to become a 

Cooperating Agency. 

Responsible Official for Lead Agency 

The Responsible Official for the 

decision is the Regional Forester of the 

Eastern Region of the Forest Service. 


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