Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 118 / Monday, June 19, 2000 / Notices 37999

WISCONSIN

Ozaukee County

Moquon Town Hall and Fire Station

Complex, 11333 N. Cedarburg Rd.,

Mequon, 00000779

Wood County

Pleasant Hill Residential Historic District,

Roughly bounded by E. First St., Ash Ave.,

E. Fourth St., and S. Cedar Ave.,

Marshfield, 00000780

[FR Doc. 00–15373 Filed 6–16–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–70–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Reclamation

[INT–FES 00–21]

Bostwick Division, FrenchmanCambridge Division, and Kanaska

Division, Almena Unit

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability for Final

Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS).

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(C)

of the National Environmental Policy

Act of 1969, as amended, the

Department of the Interior, Bureau of

Reclamation, has completed the FEIS on

the renewal of one long-term water

service contract and the conversion of

four long-term water service contracts to

repayment contracts for irrigation water

from Federal projects in the Republican

River basin in Nebraska and Kansas.

The FEIS describes six alternatives,

including no action and a new

‘‘Negotiated Alternative,’’ and evaluates

the environmental consequences of

renewing the long-term water service

contract, the conversion to repayment

contracts, and the modifications to

district operations.

Reclamation’s proposed action is to

renew the long-term water service

contract for the Frenchman Valley

Irrigation District and convert long-term

water service contracts for the

Frenchman-Cambridge, Bostwick in

Nebraska, Kansas-Bostwick, and

Almena irrigation districts. The

proposed action exercises the provisions

of several Federal laws applicable to

Reclamation.

ADDRESSES: Printed copies of a

Summary of the FEIS or the entire FEIS

(with appendices) may be obtained from

Judy O’Sullivan, Nebraska-Kansas Area

Office, P.O. Box 1607, Grand Island NE

68802 or by telephone at (308) 389–4622

x211. Copies are also available for

public inspection and review on the

Internet at ‘‘www.gp.usbr.gov’’ in the

‘‘Current Activities’’ section under

‘‘Environmental Activities.’’

See Supplementary Information

section for additional addresses where

the FEIS is available for public

inspection and review.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jill

Manring, Basin Study Coordinator,

Nebraska-Kansas Area Office, P.O. Box

1607, Grand Island NE 68802—

telephone (308) 389–4622 x214.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

FEIS Public Inspection and Review

Locations

Offices

• Bureau of Reclamation, NebraskaKansas Area Office, 203 West Second

Street, Grand Island NE 68801—

telephone (308) 389–4622

• Bureau of Reclamation, Great Plains

Regional Office, 316 North 26th Street,

Billings MT 59101—telephone (406)

247–7638

• Bureau of Reclamation,

Reclamation Service Center Library,

Building 67, Room 167, Denver Federal

Center, Sixth and Kipling, Denver CO

80225—telephone (303) 445–2072

• Bureau of Reclamation, Program

Analysis Office, Room 7456, 1849 C

Street NW, Washington DC 20240—

telephone (202) 208–4662

• Bostwick Irrigation District in

Nebraska, Red Cloud NE

• Kansas Bostwick Irrigation District

No. 2, Courtland KS

• Frenchman-Cambridge Irrigation

District, Cambridge NE

• Frenchman Valley Irrigation

District, Culbertson NE

• Almena Irrigation District No. 5,

Almena KS

Libraries

• Alma Public Library, West Second

Street, Alma NE 68920–3378

• Blue Hill Public Library, 317 West

Gage Street, Blue Hill NE 68930–2068

• Butler Memorial Library, 621

Pennsylvania, Cambridge NE 69022

• Franklin Public Library, 1502 P

Street, Franklin NE 68939–1200

• Hastings Public Library, 517 West

Fourth Street, Hastings NE 68901–7560

• Imperial Public Library, 703

Broadway Street, Imperial NE 69033–

4017

• Kearney Public Library, 2020 First

Avenue, Kearney NE 68847–5306

• McCook Library, 802 Norris

Avenue, McCook NE 69001–3143

• Nelson Public Library, 10 West

Third Street, Nelson NE 68961–1246

• Red Cloud Public Library, 537

North Webster Street, Red Cloud NE

68970–2421

• Carnegie Public Library, 449 North

Kansas Street, Superior NE 68978–1852

• Trenton Village Library, 406 East

First Street, Trenton NE 69044

• Wauneta City Library, 319 North

Tecumseh, Wauneta NE 69045–2011

• Almena Public Library, 415 Main,

Almena KS 67622

• Belleville Public Library, 1327

Nineteenth Street, Belleville KS 66935

• Courtland City Library, 403 Main

Street, Courtland KS 66939

• Northwest Kansas Library System, 2

Washington Square, Norton KS 67654

The FEIS considers the effects of

renewing one long-term water service

contract and converting four long-term

water service contracts to repayment

contracts. The authority for contract

renewal and conversion is found in the

Act of July 2, 1956, 70 Stat. 483, and the

Act of June 21, 1963, 77 Stat. 68, which

requires the Secretary of the Department

of the Interior to renew long-term water

service contracts and to convert longterm water service contracts to

repayment contracts upon request.

Federally-developed impoundments

in the Republican River Basin have been

providing supplemental irrigation water

to the irrigation districts since 1956.

These irrigation districts include the

Almena, Bostwick, Frenchman Valley,

Frenchman-Cambridge, and KansasBostwick irrigation districts. The

original long-term water service

contracts had terms of 40 years and

began to expire in 1996. In order to

continue the rights and obligations of

the original contracts during the

contract renewal process, these

contracts were extended for an

additional four years as authorized by

Congress in the Irrigation Project

Extension Act of 1996, Public Law 104–

326.

The long-term water service contract

with the Frenchman Valley Irrigation

District will have a term of 40 years

beginning on January 1, 2001. The

repayment contracts with the Almena,

Bostwick, Frenchman-Cambridge, and

Kansas-Bostwick irrigation districts will

each have a repayment period of 40

years.

The FEIS evaluated six alternatives,

including the No Action Alternative and

a new Negotiated Alternative, and

described the environmental

consequences of contract renewal and

conversion. The following issues are

considered in the FEIS: water resources,

water quality, recreation, regional

income, environmental justice, reservoir

riparian vegetation, riverine riparian

vegetation, wetlands, threatened and

endangered species, avian and

terrestrial wildlife, migratory waterfowl,

aquatic resources, biodiversity, Indian

trust assets, cultural resources, sacred

sites, and cumulative impacts.

38000 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 118 / Monday, June 19, 2000 / Notices

1The products and investigation numbers for the

various countries are: Argentina: light-walled

rectangular tube (731–TA–409); Brazil: circular

welded nonalloy steel pipe (731–TA–532); Canada:

oil country tubular goods (731–TA–276); India:

welded carbon steel pipe and tube (731–TA–271);

Korea: circular welded nonalloy steel pipe (731–

TA–533); Mexico: circular welded nonalloy steel

pipe (731–TA–534); Singapore: small diameter

standard and rectangular pipe and tube (731–TA–

296); Taiwan: small diameter carbon steel pipe and

tube (731–TA–132), oil country tubular goods (731–

TA–277), light-walled rectangular tube (731–TA–

410), and circular welded nonalloy steel pipe (731–

TA–536); Turkey: welded carbon steel pipe and

tube (701–TA–253 and 731–TA–273); Thailand:

welded carbon steel pipe and tube (731–TA–252);

and Venezuela: circular welded nonalloy steel pipe

(731–TA–537).

1The record is defined in sec. 207.2(f) of the

Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (19

CFR § 207.2(f)).

The terms and conditions of the

proposed long-term water service and

repayment contracts represent

Reclamation’s preferred alternative

described as the Negotiated Alternative

in the FEIS. The Negotiated Alternative

combines features of the Irrigation and

Multi-Use alternatives that are designed

to continue delivery of irrigation water

and maintain limited reservoir

recreation and fisheries. When

compared to the No Action Alternative,

there are no significant environmental,

socioeconomic, or agricultural impacts

associated with the Negotiated

Alternative. The current operations of

some of the reservoirs will be modified

to establish a new minimum pool

elevation to benefit reservoir recreation

and fisheries.

Ten Indian tribes, the Mni-SOSE

Intertribal Water Rights Coalition, and

the Bureau of Indian Affairs, have been

contacted regarding Indian trust assets

that may be affected by the proposed

action. No potentially-affected Indian

trust assets have been identified.

The DEIS was issued on October 14,

1999. Responses to comments received

from agencies, interested organizations,

and individuals on the DEIS are

addressed in the FEIS. No decision will

be made on the proposed action until 30

days following the release of the FEIS.

Following the 30-day waiting period,

Reclamation will complete and sign a

Record of Decision (ROD). The ROD will

describe the action to be implemented

and will discuss factors contributing to

that decision.

Dated: June 6, 2000.

Fred R. Ore,

Area Manager, Nebraska-Kansas Area Office.

[FR Doc. 00–14810 Filed 6–16–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–MN–P

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

COMMISSION

Certain Pipe and Tube From Argentina,

Brazil, Canada, India, Korea, Mexico,

Singapore, Taiwan, Thailand, Turkey,

and Venezuela 1

AGENCY: United States International

Trade Commission.

ACTION: Reopening of the record and

request for additional comments on the

subject 5-year reviews.

SUMMARY: On June 8, 2000, the U.S.

International Trade Commission (the

Commission) reopened the record in the

above reviews for the purpose of

considering new factual information,

submitted by any person and not

already submitted for the record,

regarding the agreement between

Siderca SA of Argentina and the United

Steelworkers of America concerning the

planned reactivation of the steel tube

mill located in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario,

Canada, formerly operated by Algoma

Steel Inc. of Canada, for the production

of oil country tubular goods (65 FR

37409, June 14, 2000).

The Commission hereby gives notice

that it is reopening the record in these

reviews for the additional purpose of

considering new factual information,

submitted by any person and not

already submitted for the record,

regarding the announced merger of

Maverick Tube Corp. of the United

States and Prudential Steel Ltd. of

Canada.

The Commission is not reopening the

record for any purpose other than to

receive new factual information from

any person on these issues only and

comments from any party on this new

factual information. The record

reopened on June 8, 2000, and will close

on June 14, 2000. On June 15, 2000, the

Commission will make available to

parties all information on which they

have not had an opportunity to

comment.

On or before June 19, 2000, parties

may submit final comments, not to

exceed 10 pages, double-spaced and

single-sided, on stationery measuring

81⁄2 by 11 inches, addressing only new

factual information released to parties

on June 15, 2000, regarding the two

issues detailed above, but such final

comments must not contain any new

factual information not previously

submitted for the record and must

otherwise comply with section 207.68 of

the Commission’s rules.

All written submissions must conform

with the provisions of section 201.8 of

the Commission’s rules; any

submissions that contain business

proprietary information (BPI) must also

conform with the requirements of

sections 201.6, 207.3, and 207.7 of the

Commission’s rules. The Commission’s

rules do not authorize filing of

submissions with the Secretary by

facsimile or electronic means.

In accordance with sections 201.16

and 207.3 of the Commission’s rules,

each document filed by a party to these

reviews must be served on all other

parties to these reviews (as identified by

either the public or BPI service list), and

a certificate of service must be timely

filed. The Secretary will not accept a

document for filing without a certificate

of service.

For further information concerning

the reviews see the Commission’s Rules

of Practice and Procedure, part 201,

subparts A through E (19 CFR part 201),

and part 207, subparts A and F (19 CFR

part 207).

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 13, 2000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Brian R. Allen (202–708–4728), Office of

Investigations, U.S. International Trade

Commission, 500 E Street SW,

Washington, DC 20436. Hearingimpaired persons can obtain

information on this matter by contacting

the Commission’s TDD terminal on 202–

205–1810. Persons with mobility

impairments who will need special

assistance in gaining access to the

Commission should contact the Office

of the Secretary at 202–205–2000.

General information concerning the

Commission may also be obtained by

accessing its internet server (http://

www.usitc.gov).

Authority: These reviews are being

conducted under authority of title VII of the

Tariff Act of 1930; this notice is published

pursuant to section 207.21 of the

Commission’s rules.

Issued: June 14, 2000.

By order of the Commission.

Donna R. Koehnke,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 00–15385 Filed 6–16–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P

INTERNATIONAL TRADE

COMMISSION

[Investigation No. 731–TA–853 (Final)]

Certain Structural Steel Beams From

Japan

Determination

On the basis of the record 1 developed

in the subject investigation, the United

States International Trade Commission

determines, pursuant to section 735(b)

of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C.

1673d(b)) (the Act), that an industry in