24446 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 81 / Wednesday, April 26, 2000 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

Survey and Manage Strategy for

National Forests and Bureau of Land

Management Districts Within the

Range of the Northern Spotted Owl

AGENCIES: Forest Service, USDA; Bureau

of Land Management, USDI.

ACTION: Revised notice of intent to

prepare an environmental impact

statement.

SUMMARY: The original notice of intent

(NOI) was published in Federal Register

on November 25, 1998 (63 FR 65167).

This notice stated that the Forest

Service and Bureau of Land

Management (BLM) were in the process

of preparing a Supplemental EIS (SEIS)

considering alternatives to make

changes in mitigation measures first

adopted in the Standards and

Guidelines for Management of habitat

for Late-Successional and Old-Growth

Forest Related Species Within the Range

of the Northern Spotted Owl (Northwest

Forest Plan), and incorporated into

planning documents for administrative

units of the Forest Service and BLM.

This revised NOI changes how the

Record of Decision will be issued;

changes the Responsible Official;

changes what Forest Service planning

documents are being amended, corrects

the statements concerning appeal

procedures; and changes the title of the

SEIS. The Final SEIS is expected to be

released in May 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Hugh Snook, EIS Team Coordinator,

P.O. Box 3623, Portland, Oregon 97208–

3623, telephone (503) 808–2197.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A single

Record of Decision will be issued and

will apply to public lands within the

range of the Northern Spotted Owl that

are administered by the BLM and the

Forest Service. This includes lands in

Oregon, Washington, and northern

California. The Record of Decision will

be signed jointly by the two responsible

officials.

The responsible officials for this

document have been changed. The

responsible official for lands

administered by the Forest Service will

be the Secretary of Agriculture. The

responsible official for public lands

administered by the BLM will be the

Secretary of Interior.

In addition to Land and Resource

Management Plans for National Forests

and Resource Management Plans for

BLM Districts as listed in the original

NOI, selection of an alternative of this

SEIS would amend Forest Service

Regional Guides for the Pacific

Northwest and Pacific Southwest

Regions.

The Record of Decision for this SEIS

will not be subject to appeal under

either Forest Service or BLM appeal

procedures. A decision by the Secretary

of Agriculture is not subject to

administrative appeal under the Forest

Service appeal regulations (36 CFR Part

217). A decision by the Secretary of

Interior is not subject to administrative

appeal under BLM protest procedures

(43 CFR 4.410). Therefore, the Record of

Decision will be the final agency for

amendment of these standards and

guidelines in the applicable planning

documents.

In the original NOI, the title for the

SEIS was identified as ‘‘Survey an

Manage Strategy for National Forests

and Bureau of Land management

Districts Within the Range of the

Northern Spotted Owl’’. The changed

title more accurately reflects the

analysis and decision to be made.

Therefore, this title is revised to: ‘‘For

Amendment to the Survey and Manage,

Protection Buffer, and Other Mitigation

Measures Standards and Guidelines’’.

Dated: April 19, 2000.

Harv Forsgren,

Regional Forester, Pacific Northwest Region,

Forest Service.

April 14, 2000.

Elaine Y. Zielinski,

State Director, Oregon and Washington,

Bureau of Land Management.

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

Western Washington Cascades

Provincial Interagency Executive

Committee (PIEC) Advisory Committee

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: The Western Washington

Cascades Provincial Interagency

Executive Committee Advisory

Committee (Provincial Advisory

Committee) will meet on Thursday, May

18, 2000, at the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie

National Forest Headquarters, 21905

64th Avenue West, in Mountlake

Terrace, WA. The meeting will begin at

9 a.m. and continue until about 3 p.m.

Agenda items to be covered include: (1)

Review and discussion of the Finney

Adaptive Management Area (AMA), (2)

Formulation and evaluation of options

for the Finney AMA, (3) Determining

how to better utilize active watershed

groups, (4) Chilliwack River Monitoring

Project, and (5) Salmon of the Skagit

River.

In addition to the Advisory

Committee meeting, a field trip for

Advisory Committee members will take

place the previous day, Wednesday,

May 17, 2000. Members will tour

portions of the Finney basin on the

Darrington Ranger District, commencing

at 9 a.m. at the Darrington District

Office, 1405 Emens Street, Darrington,

Washington, and ending back at the

same Office about 4:30 p.m. The

purpose of the trip is to orient Advisory

Committee members to the Finney

Adaptive Management Area issues and

opportunities. All Western Washington

Cascades Provincial Advisory

Committee meetings are open to the

public. Interested citizens are

encouraged to attend. Interested citizens

are also welcome to join the May 17

field trip; however, they must provide

their own transportation.

The Provincial Advisory Committee

provides advice regarding ecosystem

management for federal lands within the

Western Washington Cascades Province,

as well as advice and recommendations

to promote better integration of forest

management activities among federal

and non-federal entities. The Advisory

Committee is a key element of

implementation of the Northwest Forest

Plan.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Direct questions regarding this meeting

to Penny Sundblad, Province Liaison,

USDA Forest Service, Mt. BakerSnoqualmie National Forest, Mt. Baker

Ranger District, 2105 State Route 20,

Sedro-Woolley, Washington 98284

(360–856–5700, Extension 321).

Authority: 5 U.S.C. appendix.

Dated: April 20, 2000.

Ronald R. DeHart,

Designated Federal Official.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 14–2000]

Foreign-Trade Zone 149—Freeport,

Texas, Area; Application for Expansion

An application has been submitted to

the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board

(the Board) by the Brazos River Harbor