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Voters can determine the location of 

county FSA offices by contacting (1) 

The nearest FSA office, (2) the State 

FSA office, or (3) through an online 

search of FSA’s Web site at: http:// 

www.fsa.usda.gov/pas/default.asp. 

From the options available on this Web 

site select ‘‘State Offices,’’ click on your 

State, select ‘‘County Offices,’’ and click 

on the map to select a county. 

Form LS–379 and supporting 

documentation may be returned in 

person, by mail, or facsimile to the 

appropriate county FSA office. Form 

LS–379 and accompanying 

documentation returned in person or by 

facsimile, must be received in the 

appropriate FSA office prior to the close 

of business on February 28, 2011. Form 

LS–379 and accompanying 

documentation returned by mail must 

be postmarked no later than midnight of 

February 28, 2011, and received in the 

county FSA office by close of business 

on March 7, 2011. 

In accordance with Paperwork 

Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35), 

the information collection requirements 

have been approved under OMB 

number 0581–0093. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 7411–7425. 

Dated: December 15, 2010. 

Robert C. Keeney, 

Acting Associate Administrator, Agricultural 

Marketing Service. 

[FR Doc. 2010–33135 Filed 1–3–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2010–0125] 

Secretary’s Advisory Committee on 

Animal Health; Meeting 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: This is a notice to inform the 

public of the first meeting of the 

Secretary’s Advisory Committee on 

Animal Health. The meeting is being 

organized by the Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

DATES: The meeting will be held January 

20 and 21, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

each day. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in 

the Jamie L. Whitten Building, 1400 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20250, in rooms 104– 

A and 107–A. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Michael R. Doerrer, Chief Operating 

Officer, Veterinary Services, APHIS, 

USDA, 4700 River Road Unit 37, 

Riverdale, MD 20737; (301) 734–5034; email: 

SACAH.Management@aphis.usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Secretary’s Advisory Committee on 

Animal Health (the Committee) advises 

the Secretary of Agriculture on means to 

prevent, conduct surveillance on, 

monitor, control, or eradicate animal 

diseases of national importance. In 

doing so, the Committee will consider 

public health, conservation of natural 

resources, and the stability of livestock 

economies. 

Tentative topics for discussion at the 

upcoming meeting include: 

• Animal disease traceability. 

• Aquaculture and animal health. 

• Emergency response and 

management. 

• Trade and emerging global animal 

health issues. 

• The U.S. Department of 

Agriculture’s role in public health 

initiatives. 

• National disease management 

programs. 

• Veterinary Services reorganization 

efforts. 

Additional details on the agenda and 

meeting can be found on the 

Committee’s Web site at http:// 

www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/ 

acah/. 

The meeting will be open to the 

public and attendees should plan to 

arrive between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. Picture 

identification is required to gain access 

to the Whitten Building. The Animal 

and Plant Health Inspection Service 

(APHIS), which is organizing the 

meeting, asks that those planning to 

attend the meeting let APHIS know by 

sending an email through an access 

portal on the Committee’s Web site or 

directly to 

SACAH.Management@aphis.usda.gov. 

Please provide your name and 

organizational affiliation (if any), state 

which meeting date or dates you plan to 

attend, and indicate whether you wish 

to present an oral statement during the 

meeting. 

Attendees will have the opportunity 

to present oral statements or questions 

on meeting topics at specific times 

during the meeting. Written statements 

on meeting topics may also be filed at 

the meeting. Additionally, statements 

may be filed with the Committee before 

or after the meeting by sending them via 

email to 

SACAH.Management@aphis.usda.gov. 

This notice of meeting is given 

pursuant to section 10 of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 

2). 

Done in Washington, DC, December 28, 

2010. 

Kevin Shea, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2010–33206 Filed 1–3–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Sisters Ranger District; Deschutes 

National Forest; Oregon; Popper 

Vegetation Management Project 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

environmental impact statement. 

SUMMARY: The USDA, Forest Service, 

will prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) on a proposed action to 

manage forest fuels and forest stand 

densities, including areas within a 

designated wildland urban interface, on 

the Sisters Ranger District, Deschutes 

National Forest. In addition, the 

proposal would decommission and 

close Forest Roads. The proposed action 

would be located on National Forest 

System lands south of the city of Sisters, 

Oregon; east of the Three Sisters 

Wilderness; north of the boundary with 

the BendFort Rock Ranger District; and 

west of the 33,000 acre Cascade 

Timberlands property which is being 

considered as a future Community 

Forest. The legal location is Townships 

16 and 17 south and Range 9 east, 

Willamette Meridian. The project area is 

managed under the Northwest Forest 

Plan: Matrix (12,813 acres); Late 

Successional Reserve (3,078 acres); and 

Administratively Withdrawn (1,301 

acres). The project area also contains 

1,336 acres of Riparian Reserves. The 

alternatives will include the proposed 

action, no action, and additional 

alternatives that respond to issues 

generated during the scoping process. 

The agency will give notice of the full 

environmental analysis and the decision 

making process so interested and 

affected people may participate and 

contribute to the final decision. 

DATES: Comments concerning the scope 

of analysis should be received by 30 

days following the date that this notice 

appears in the Federal Register. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to 

Michael Keown, Team Leader, Sisters 

Ranger District, Pine Street and 

Highway 20, POB 249, Sisters, Oregon 

97759, or submit to commentspacificnorthwest-deschutessisters@fs.fed.us. Please put ‘‘Popper 

Vegetation Management Project’’ in the 


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subject line of your e-mail. You will 

have another opportunity for comment 

when the alternatives have been 

developed and the Environmental 

Impact Statement is made available. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Keown, Team Leader, Sisters 

Ranger District, Pine Street and 

Highway 20, POB 249, Sisters, Oregon 

97759, phone (541) 549–7700. 

Responsible Official: The responsible 

offical will be John Allen, Deschutes 

National Forest Supervisor, 1001 SW 

Emkay, Bend, Oregon 97701. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose and Need: The need for this 

site specific proposal is to reduce fuels 

loadings and forest vegetation density to 

lessen the risk that ongoing disturbance 

agents such as wildfire, insects, and 

disease would lead to a large scale 

threat to public firefighter, nearby 

communities and private property, and 

loss of key ecosystem components such 

as special habitats, scenic views, and 

large trees. The purpose of the project is 

to reduce the threat of large scale 

wildfire to people, property, and 

important ecosystem components; 

improve forest health; contribute wood 

products and restoration work to the 

local and regional economy; and 

reintroduce fire in fire dependent 

ecosystems in the Popper project area. 

Proposed Action: The Forest Service 

proposed action would include 

combinations of thinning forest stands, 

mowing brush, and controlled burning 

of forest fuels on about 12,390 acres of 

the 17,194-acre project area, including 

about 4,277 acres in a designated 

wildland-urban interface. About 2,259 

acres of thinning would occur within 

existing tree plantations to create more 

structurally diverse forests; about 1,418 

acres of the lodgepole pine plant 

community would be managed to 

maintain ongoing public firewood 

cutting; about 2,480 acres would be 

thinned from below to maintain fire 

climax ponderosa pine; about 1,344 

acres would be thinned and group 

openings created to restore and 

maintain ponderosa pine in the mixed 

conifer plant community; about 583 

acres would be thinned, mowed, and 

burned to control dwarf mistletoe in 

ponderosa pine stands; about 3,201 

acres of Inventoried Roadless Area (IRA) 

would be prescribed burned to provide 

a mosaic of age classes and stand 

structures within large areas of 

homogeneous stand structure (no roads 

will be built and no timber will be sold 

in Inventoried Roadless Areas); about 

235 acres of Riparian Reserves would be 

thinned and burned to maintain and 

restore riparian function; and about 521 

acres would be prescribed burned only 

to manage in-growth of trees, reduce 

forest fuels, and reintroduce fire back 

into the ecosystem. About 4,648 acres in 

the Popper project area would not be 

treated to provide a spatial array of acres 

across the area to provide dispersal and 

foraging habitat for various wildlife 

species and other ecological processes. 

These no treatment areas include 

nesting, roosting, and foraging habitat 

for the northern spotted owl; areas of 

topography greater than 35% slope; and 

sensitive habitats among others. 

Comment. Public comments about 

this proposal are requested in order to 

assist in identifying issues, determine 

how to best manage the resources, and 

to focus the analysis. Comments 

received to this notice, 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, 

those who submit anonymous 

comments will not have standing to 

appeal the subsequent decision under 

36 CFR part 215. Additionally, pursuant 

to 7 CFR 1.27(d), any person may 

request the agency to withhold a 

submission from the public record by 

showing how the Freedom of 

Information Act (FOIA) permits such 

confidentiality. Persons requesting such 

confidentiality should be aware that, 

under FOIA, confidentiality may be 

granted in only very limited 

circumstances, such as to protect trade 

secrets. The Forest Service will inform 

the requester of the agency’s decision 

regarding the request for confidentiality, 

and where the request is denied the 

agency will return the submission and 

notify the requester that the comments 

may be resubmitted with or without 

name and address within a specified 

number of days. 

A draft EIS will be filed with the 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

and available for public review by Fall 

2011. The EPA will publish a Notice of 

Availability (NOA) of the draft EIS in 

the Federal Register. The final EIS is 

scheduled to be available Spring 2012. 

The comment period on the draft EIS 

will be 45 days from the date the EPA 

publishes the notice of availability in 

the Federal Register. 

The Forest Service believes, at this 

early stage, it is important to give 

reviewers notice of several court rulings 

related to public participation in the 

environmental review process. First, 

reviewers of a draft EIS must structure 

their participation in the environmental 

review of the proposal so that it is 

meaningful and alerts an agency to the 

reviewer’s position and contentions 

[Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. 

v. NRDC, 435 U.S. 519, 553 (1978)]. 

Also, environmental objections that 

could be raised at the draft EIS stage but 

that are not raised until after completion 

of the final EIS may be waived or 

dismissed by the courts [City of Angoon 

v. Harris, 490 F. Supp. 1334, 1338 (E.D. 

Wis. 1980)]. Because of these court 

rulings, it is very important that those 

interested in this proposed action 

participate by the close of the 45-day 

comment period so that comments and 

objections are made available to the 

Forest Service at a time when it can 

meaningfully consider them and 

respond to them in the final EIS. 

To assist the Forest Service in 

identifying and considering issues and 

concerns on the proposed action, 

comments on the draft EIS should be as 

specific as possible. It is also helpful if 

comments refer to specific pages or 

chapters of the draft statement. 

Comments may also address the 

adequacy of the draft EIS of the merits 

of the alternatives formulated and 

discussed in the statement. Reviewers 

may wish to refer to the Council on 

Environmental Quality Regulations for 

implementing the procedural provisions 

of the National Environmental Policy 

Act at 40 CFR 1503.3 in addressing 

these points. 

In the final EIS, the Forest Service is 

required to respond to comments 

received during the comment period for 

the draft EIS. The Forest Service is the 

lead agency and the responsible official 

is the Forest Supervisor, Deschutes 

National Forest. The responsible official 

will decide where, and whether or not 

to treat forest stands to achieve the 

purpose and need for the project. The 

responsible official will also decide how 

to mitigate impacts of these actions and 

will determine when and how 

monitoring of effects will take place. 

The Popper Vegetation Management 

Project decision and the reasons for the 

decision will be documented in the 

Record of Decision. That decision will 

be subject to Forest Service Appeal 

Regulations (35 CFR part 215). 

Dated: December 27, 2010. 

Robert Flores, 

Acting District Ranger, Sisters Ranger District. 

[FR Doc. 2010–33090 Filed 1–3–11; 8:45 am] 

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