34654 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 105 / Wednesday, May 31, 2000 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

Bonners Ferry Ranger District Salvage

Sales; Idaho Panhandle National

Forests; Boundary County, ID

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) to disclose the potential

environmental effects of salvage

harvesting up to 20,000 acres of dead

and damaged trees in scattered areas

located on the Bonners Ferry Ranger

District, Idaho Panhandle National

Forests. Harvest of these trees is

proposed to reduce hazardous fuels, to

restore productive stand conditions

and/or ecological functioning in areas

affected by windstorms, insects, disease

and other damaging events. Salvage

harvest of these threes will help provide

products for local post and pole mills,

small sawmills, and other forest product

manufacturers.

DATES: Written comments and

suggestions should be received on or

before July 3, 2000. The draft

environmental impact statement is

expected to be filed with the

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

and available for public review in

August 2000. A Final Environmental

Impact Statement will be published to

sooner than September 2000.

ADDRESSES: Submit written comments

and suggestions on the proposal, or

requests to be placed on the project

mailing list, to District Ranger, Bonners

Ferry Ranger District, Route 4, Box

4860, Bonners Ferry, Idaho 83805–9764.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Barry Wynsma, project leader, Bonners

Ferry Ranger District, Idaho Panhandle

National Forests, Route 4, Box 4860,

Bonners Ferry, Idaho 83805–9764, email address: bwynsma@fs.fed.us

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Windstorms, heavy snowfall, insects

and disease and other events annually

result in mortality and damage to

numerous timber stands across the

Bonners Ferry Ranger District. If

untreated, affected stands can display a

significant reduction productivity, can

increase fire risks, and can create

favorable conditions for increases in

insect populations that can spread to

adjacent healthy stands. Salvage

harvesting within affected stands can

restore the stands to more desirable

conditions.

Such events typically occur in small

areas and are scattered across the

District. Due to the scattered nature of

these stands and the relatively small

amount of salvageable material, salvage

harvests have historically been

accomplished through the use of small

timber sales, generally purchased by

local small timber operators. Small

salvage sale contracts typically include

between 50 to 100 thousand board feet

of dead trees (about 10 to 20 log-truck

loads) per contract. Trees salvaged from

such areas are utilized for firewood,

paper pulp, house logs, sawlogs and a

wide variety of other value-added

products such as rustic furniture and

musical instruments. These small

industries are considered an import

component of the local economic

structure. The District has historically

offered and sold an average of two to

three million board feet of forest

products per year of these types of

salvage sales.

Salvage harvest can have adverse

effects on other resource values and is

not appropriate in many areas. To

reduce the potential for adverse effects

and to clarify the analysis necessary to

determine the effects of the proposed

action, the District conducted a

screening process to avoid areas of the

forest that contain resource values

highly sensitive to proposed salvage

harvest activities.

The acres within which salvage

activities would be allowed through this

proposed action are outside of riparian

buffer zones, sensitive plant protection

areas, designated old-growth stands,

roadless areas, wetland and cultural

resource protection zones. Also, the

proposed salvage areas and activities are

compatible with management strategies

and Recovery Plans for Threatened or

Endangered Species or their habitat and

also with visual resources.

Preliminary issues include potential

effects to Threatened, Endangered, and

Sensitive wildlife, fish and plant species

and water quality.

The Forest Service will develop a

range of alternatives, including a No

Action alternative to respond to issues

raised during this scoping period.

The draft environmental impact

statement is expected to be filed with

the Environmental Protection Agency

(EPA) and available for public review in

August 2000. At that time, the EPA will

publish a Notice of Availability of the

draft environmental impact statement in

the Federal Register. The comment

period on the draft environmental

impact statement will be 45 days from

the date the EPA publishes the Notice

of Availability in the Federal Register.

A final environmental impact statement

will be published after all comments are

reviewed and responded to. A Record of

Decision will be published at the time

the Final EIS is released. The final

decision will be subject to

administrative review under CFR

215.17.

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 draft environmental impact

statements 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

environmental impact statement stage

but that are not raised until after

completion of the final environmental

statement may be waived or dismissed

by the courts (City of Angoon v. Hodel,

803 F.2d 1016, 1022 (9th Cir. 1986) and

Wisconsin Heritages, Inc. 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

substantive 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 environmental impact

statement.

To assist the Forest Service in

identifying and considering issues and

concerns regarding the proposed action,

comments on the draft environmental

impact statement should be as specific

as possible. It is also helpful if

comments refer to specific pages or

chapters of the draft environmental

impact statement. Comments may also

address the adequacy of the draft

environmental impact statement or 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.

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,

those who submit anonymous

comments may not have standing to

appeal the subsequent decision under

36 CFR part 215. Additionally, pursuant

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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 the FOIA, confidentiality may be

granted in only very limited

circumstances, such as to protect trade

secrets. The Forest Service will inform

the reqester 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.

I am the responsible official for this

environmental analysis. My address is

Supervisor’s Office, Idaho Panhandle

National Forests, 315 Schreiber Way,

Coeur d’Alene, ID 83814.

Dated: May 24, 2000.

David J. Wright,

Forest Supervisor.

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BILLING CODE 3410–11–M

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

California Coast Provincial Advisory

Committee (PAC)

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: The California Coast

Provincial Advisory Committee (PAC)

will meet on June 14 and 15, 2000, at

the Town Hall in Fort Bragg, California.

The meeting will be held from 10 a.m.

to 5 p.m. on Wednesday, June 14, and

from 8:30 a.m. to noon, on Thursday,

June 15. The Town Hall is located at 363

No. Main St. in Fort Bragg. Agenda

items to be covered include: (1) Issues

criteria and process; (2) status of

watershed analyses on federal lands in

the Province, their effectiveness and

prioritization; (3) Protection of federal

habitat for remnant native fish stocks;

(4) regional Ecosystem Office (REO)

update to include Survey and Manage

Environmental Impact Statement, PAC

rechartering and Interagency Species

Management List; (5) Regional

Interagency Executive Committee (REIC)

and Interagency Advisory Committee

(IAC) communication with the PAC; (6)

Megram Fire update; (7) presentation on

the Forest Service Roadless Area

Conservation proposal; (8) Northwest

Forest Plan regional implementation

monitoring schedule for 2000; (9)

National Marine Fisheries Service

presentation on impacts of Judge

Rothstein’s ruling; and (10) open public

comment. All California Coast

Provincial Advisory Committee

meetings are open to the public.

Interested citizens are encouraged to

attend.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Direct questions regarding this meeting

to James Fenwood, Forest Supervisor, or

Phebe Brown, Province Coordinator,

USDA, Mendocino National Forest, 825

N. Humboldt Avenue, Willows, CA,

95988, (530) 934–3316.

Dated: May 23, 2000.

James D. Fenwood,

Forest Supervisor.

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Deschutes Provincial Interagency

Executive Committee (PIEC), Advisory

Committee

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: The Deschutes PIEC Advisory

Committee will meet from 9 a.m. to 12

p.m. on June 9, 2000 at Red Oaks

Square, 1230 NE. 3rd, Suite A–262,

Bend, Oregon. Agenda items include

PAC comments for the Interior

Columbia Basin Ecosystem Management

Project, Info Sharing Around the

Province, and a Public Forum from

11:30 a.m. till 12 p.m. All Deschutes

Province Advisory Committee Meetings

are open to the public.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mollie Chaudet, Province Liaison,

USDA, Bend-Ft. Rock Ranger District,

1230 N.E. 3rd., Bend, OR, 97701, Phone

(541) 383–4769.

Dated: May 23, 2000.

Rebecca Heath,

Acting Deschutes National Forest Supervisor.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

[A–560–807]

Notice of Final Determination of Sales

at Less Than Fair Value: Certain ColdRolled Flat-Rolled Carbon-Quality Steel

Products From Indonesia

AGENCY: Import Administration,

International Trade Administration,

Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of final determination of

sales at less than fair value.

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 31, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Arland DiGirolamo or Abdelali

Elouaradia at (202) 482–1278 or (202)

482–0498, respectively; Import

Administration, Room 1870,

International Trade Administration,

U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th

Street and Constitution Avenue, NW,

Washington, DC 20230.

The Applicable Statute and Regulations

Unless otherwise indicated, all

citations to the Tariff Act of 1930, as

amended (the Act), are references to the

provisions effective January 1, 1995, the

effective date of the amendments made

to the Act by the Uruguay Round

Agreements Act (URAA). In addition,

unless otherwise indicated, all citations

to the Department of Commerce (the

Department) regulations are to 19 CFR

Part 351 (1998).

Final Determination

We determine that cold-rolled flatrolled carbon-quality steel products

(cold-rolled steel products) from

Indonesia are being sold, or are likely to

be sold, in the United States at less than

fair value (LTFV), as provided in section

735 of the Act. The estimated margins

of sales at LTFV are shown in the

‘‘Suspension of Liquidation’’ section of

this notice.

Case History

The preliminary determination in this

investigation was issued on December

28, 1999. See Notice of Preliminary

Determination of Sales at Less than Fair

Value and Postponement of Final

Determination: Certain Cold-Rolled FlatRolled Carbon-Quality Steel Products

from Indonesia, 65 FR 1103 (January 7,

2000) (Preliminary Determination). The

investigation covers one manufacturer/

exporter, PT Krakatau Steel (Krakatau).

The period of the investigation (POI) is

April 1, 1998 through March 31, 1999.

From January 10 through January 14,

2000, the Department conducted a sales

verification of Krakatau’s sales data. The

Department found that Krakatau had

failed to report a large percentage of its

U.S. sales of subject merchandise. Based

on these findings, the Department

canceled its cost verification of

Krakatau, and issued a memorandum

recommending the issuance of a final

determination based on total facts

available. See Memorandum from The

Team to Holly Kuga, dated February 28,

2000 (AFA Memo). On March 7, 2000,