48120 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 152 / Monday, August 8, 2011 / Notices 

Done in Washington, DC, this 4th day of 

August 2011. 

Gregory L. Parham, 

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2011–20177 Filed 8–5–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Black Hills National Forest, Custer, 

SD—Mountain Pine Beetle Response 

Project 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

environmental impact statement. 

SUMMARY: This project proposes to treat 

areas newly infested by mountain pine 

beetles on approximately 325,000 acres 

of the Black Hills National Forest. 

Treatments would occur in both South 

Dakota and Wyoming, and on all four 

Ranger Districts. Treatments would be 

carried out within the scope of direction 

provided in the Revised Land and 

Resource Management Plan for the 

Black Hills National Forest, as amended. 

DATES: Comments concerning the scope 

of the analysis must be received by 

September 7, 2011. The draft 

environmental impact statement is 

expected in February 2012, and the final 

environmental impact statement is 

expected in August 2012. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to 

Craig Bobzien, Forest Supervisor, Black 

Hills National Forest, 1019 N. 5th Street, 

Custer, SD 57730. Comments may also 

be sent via e-mail to comments-rockymountain-black-hills@fs.fed.us, with 

‘‘MPB Response Project’’ in the subject 

line. Electronic comments must be 

submitted in Word (.doc), Rich Text 

(.rtf), or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Katie Van-Alstyne, project team leader, 

Black Hills National Forest, Mystic 

Ranger District, Rapid City, SD 57701, 

phone (605) 343–1567. 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: 

Purpose and Need for Action 

The purposes of the project are to 

reduce the threat to ecosystem 

components including forest resources 

on National Forest System (NFS) lands 

from the ongoing mountain pine beetle 

epidemic, and to help protect local 

communities and resources on adjacent 

lands of other ownerships from largescale wildfire by reducing hazardous 

fuel levels. 

Proposed Action 

Background The Black Hills National 

Forest (the Forest) lies in the Black Hills 

of western South Dakota and eastern 

Wyoming. Of the roughly 1.5 million 

acres in the Black Hills, about 1.2 

million acres are National Forest System 

(NFS) lands, with lands of other 

ownership comprising another 300,000 

acres. The predominant tree species on 

lands of all ownerships in the Black 

Hills is ponderosa pine (Pinus 

ponderosae). Since 1997 the Black Hills 

area has experienced a significant 

increase in pine tree mortality from an 

outbreak of mountain pine beetle 

(Dendroctonus ponderosae). In many 

parts of the Forest beetle populations 

are at or approaching epidemic levels. 

The outbreak in the Black Hills is part 

of a larger bark beetle epidemic which 

has recently affected more than 40 

million acres of forest land in the 

western United States. 

In the Black Hills mountain pine 

beetles (MPB) typically prefer stands of 

dense, mature pine trees. Tree stands in 

this condition are frequent and 

continuous throughout the area. Once 

attacked by beetles, most trees typically 

die, and eventually fall to the ground, 

adding dead and dry fuels within an 

area already rated as having high 

wildfire hazard. Since 1980, due to 

several factors including drought the 

Forest has seen a dramatic increase in 

acreage burned by wildfires. In that 

period over 250,000 acres have burned, 

consuming forest resources and posing 

threats to lands of other ownership 

intermingled with NFS lands. 

Proposal The primary management 

tools for reducing beetle-caused tree 

mortality are removing infested trees, 

and reducing the density of remaining 

trees to lessen the susceptibility to 

attack. The Forest Service is working to 

manage persistent and increasing 

populations of the mountain pine beetle 

across the Forest. As part of that larger 

effort the Forest is proposing the 

Mountain Pine Beetle Response Project 

(MPBRP—the project). The project 

would be conducted as an authorized 

hazardous fuels reduction project under 

the authority of the Healthy Forests 

Restoration Act of 2003 (HFRA). The 

proposed action would treat newly 

detected infestations that may occur on 

about 325,000 acres of NFS lands to 

reduce and slow the spread of MPB. 

Specifically, newly infested trees would 

be removed, or made unsuitable for 

occupancy by beetles, before beetles can 

mature and further disperse to other 

trees. Some surrounding mature trees at 

risk of infestation may also be removed. 

A variety of treatment options would be 

available for use depending on 

conditions encountered on infested 

sites. Actual treatments used at any 

specific location would be determined 

at the time of implementation. 

Treatment options would include 

commercial tree removal using groundbased or cable logging equipment, or 

helicopter; non-commercial methods 

such as chipping trees or cutting them 

into short sections; and spraying small 

areas of trees to prevent infestation. 

Some temporary road construction is 

proposed, although generally road 

access would use existing road 

templates where available. Roads would 

be closed after use. 

Possible Alternatives 

The No Action alternative would not 

authorize any actions on the project area 

at this time. Other alternatives may be 

developed in response to public 

comments. 

Lead and Cooperating Agencies 

No cooperating agencies have been 

identified. 

Responsible Official 

The Responsible Official for this 

project is the Forest Supervisor, Black 

Hills National Forest, 1019 North 5th 

Avenue, Custer, South Dakota, 57730. 

Nature of Decision To Be Made 

After considering the proposed action 

and any alternatives, the environmental 

analysis, and public comment, the 

Forest Supervisor will decide whether 

to conduct treatments to reduce and 

slow the progress of the beetle 

epidemic. If an action alternative is 

selected, the Supervisor will decide 

where treatments may occur, and what 

actions are appropriate and may be 

taken. Finally, the decision will include 

the scope of monitoring that should 

occur. No Forest Plan amendment is 

proposed. 

Scoping Process 

This notice of intent initiates the 

scoping process, which guides the 

development of the environmental 

impact statement. The Forest Service 

seeks to involve interested parties in 

identifying issues related to responding 

to and managing the ongoing insect 

outbreak. Public comment will help the 

planning team identify key issues and 

opportunities to develop appropriate 

responses and alternatives, and 

monitoring strategies, and to evaluate 

the effects of the proposal. 

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Three public meetings are planned at 

this stage of project analysis. Those will 

be held August 23, 2011, in Sundance, 

Wyoming, at the Crook County 

Courthouse; August 25 in Hill City, 

South Dakota, at the high school; and 

August 30 in Spearfish, SD, at the 

Holiday Inn. All meetings will begin at 

6 p.m. Mountain Time (MT), and end at 

8 p.m. M.T. In addition, three public 

meetings will be held during the 

comment period on the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement. 

The Forest Service recognizes the 

broad public interest in the 

communities and counties lying in or 

adjacent to the Black Hills, as well as 

the States of South Dakota and 

Wyoming. The initial mailing list for 

this project includes counties and 

municipalities lying wholly or partially 

within the Forest boundary. 

It is important that reviewers provide 

their comments at such times and in 

such manner that they are useful to the 

agency’s preparation of the 

environmental impact statement. 

Therefore, comments should be 

provided prior to the close of the 

comment period and should clearly 

articulate the reviewer’s concerns and 

contentions. 

Comments received in response to 

this solicitation, including names and 

addresses of those who comment, will 

be part of the public record for this 

proposed action. Comments submitted 

anonymously will be accepted and 

considered, however. 

August 2, 2011. 

Dennis Jaeger, 

Deputy Forest Supervisor. 

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[Docket 51–2011] 

Foreign-Trade Zone 77—Memphis, TN; 

Application for Reorganization and 

Expansion Under Alternative Site 

Framework 

An application has been submitted to 

the Foreign-Trade Zones (FTZ) Board 

(the Board) by the City of Memphis, 

grantee of FTZ 77, requesting authority 

to reorganize the zone under the 

alternative site framework (ASF) 

adopted by the Board (74 FR 1170, 1/12/ 

09 (correction 74 FR 3987, 1/22/09); 75 

FR 71069–71070, 11/22/10). The ASF is 

an option for grantees for the 

establishment or reorganization of 

general-purpose zones and can permit 

significantly greater flexibility in the 

designation of new ‘‘usage-driven’’ FTZ 

sites for operators/users located within 

a grantee’s ‘‘service area’’ in the context 

of the Board’s standard 2,000-acre 

activation limit for a general-purpose 

zone project. The application was 

submitted pursuant to the Foreign-Trade 

Zones Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a81u), and the regulations of the Board 

(15 CFR part 400). It was formally filed 

on August 3, 2011. 

FTZ 77 was approved by the Board on 

April 2, 1982 (Board Order 189, 47 FR 

16191, 04/15/82), expanded on June 17, 

1992 (Board Order 582, 57 FR 28483, 

06/25/92) and expanded and 

reorganized on September 27, 2001 

(Board Order 1193, 66 FR 52741, 10/17/ 

01). 

The current zone project includes the 

following sites: Site 1 (22 acres)—Port of 

Memphis at President’s Island Industrial 

Park, intersection of Port Street and 

Channel Avenue, Memphis; Site 2 (7 

acres)—Spinnaker Inc., 5000 East Raines 

Road, Memphis; Site 3 (109 acres 

total)—Contract Warehouse Associates 

and Barrett Distribution Centers, (106 

acres) at 4836 Hickory Hill Road, 

Memphis; and Cox Construction (Parcel 

3, 3 acres), 227 Highway 45 West, 

Humboldt; Site 4 (419 acres total)—at 

Memphis Depot Business Park (Parcel 1, 

391 acres) at 2163 Airways Blvd., 

Memphis; Flextronics Inc. (Parcel 2, 24 

acres) at 5200 Tradeport Street, 6100 

Holmes St, and 6380 Holmes Street, 

Memphis; and, Ozburn Hessey Logistics 

(Parcel 3, 4 acres) at 5265 Hickory Hill 

Road, Memphis; Site 5 (5 acres)— 

Quality Packaging Services 

International, 3755 Knight Arnold Road, 

Memphis; Site 6 (0.5 acres)—FedEx 

Supply Chain Services, Inc., 5025 

Tuggle Road, Memphis; Site 7 (30 

acres)—Del-Nat Tire Corporation, 2365 

Texas Drive, Memphis; Site 8 (79 

acres)—Patterson Warehouses, Inc., 

5388 Airways Blvd., Memphis; and, Site 

9 (50 acres)—Baxter Healthcare 

Corporation, 4835 S. Mendenhall Road, 

Memphis. 

The grantee’s proposed service area 

under the ASF would be Shelby County, 

Tennessee, as described in the 

application. If approved, the grantee 

would be able to serve sites throughout 

the service area based on companies’ 

needs for FTZ designation. The 

proposed service area is within the 

Memphis Customs and Border 

Protection port of entry. 

The applicant is requesting authority 

to reorganize and expand its existing 

zone project under the ASF as follows: 

to remove parcel 3 of Site 3; to clarify 

the boundaries of parcel 1 of the 391- 

acre Memphis Depot Business Park 

within Site 4; to renumber parcel 2 of 

Site 4 as Site 11; to renumber parcel 3 

of Site 4 as Site 12; and, to include an 

additional 16 acres at Site 6 (new total— 

16.5 acres). Site 4 would become a 

magnet site and Sites 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, 7, 8, 

9, 11 and 12 would become ‘‘usagedriven’’ sites. The applicant is also 

requesting approval of the following 

‘‘magnet’’ site: Proposed Site 10 (2, 000 

acres)—Frank C. Pidgeon Industrial 

Park, Paul Lowery Road in the 

southwest corner of the Memphis city 

limits. The ASF allows for the possible 

exemption of one magnet site from the 

‘‘sunset’’ time limits that generally 

apply to sites under the ASF, and the 

applicant proposes that proposed 

magnet Site 10 be so exempted. Because 

the ASF only pertains to establishing or 

reorganizing a general-purpose zone, the 

application would have no impact on 

FTZ 77’s authorized subzones. 

In accordance with the Board’s 

regulations, Kathleen Boyce of the FTZ 

Staff is designated examiner to evaluate 

and analyze the facts and information 

presented in the application and case 

record and to report findings and 

recommendations to the Board. 

Public comment is invited from 

interested parties. Submissions (original 

and 3 copies) shall be addressed to the 

Board’s Executive Secretary at the 

address below. The closing period for 

their receipt is October 7, 2011. Rebuttal 

comments in response to material 

submitted during the foregoing period 

may be submitted during the subsequent 

15-day period to October 24, 2011. 

A copy of the application will be 

available for public inspection at the 

Office of the Executive Secretary, 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room 2111, 

U.S. Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20230–0002, and in the ‘‘Reading 

Room’’ section of the Board’s Web site, 

which is accessible via http:// 

www.trade.gov/ftz. For further 

information, contact Kathleen Boyce at 

Kathleen.Boyce@trade.gov or (202) 482– 

1346. 

Andrew McGilvray, 

Executive Secretary. 

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