44610 Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 151 / Monday, August 7, 2006 / Notices 

site: www.fs.fed.us/r1/wmpz. CD 

(Compact Disk) copies of the Plans have 

been mailed to persons on our current 

mailing list and are available to others 

on request. Plans are also available for 

viewing at Supervisors Offices and 

Ranger Stations on the Bitterroot, 

Flathead and Lolo National Forests. 

Please note that all comments, names, 

and addresses become part of the public 

record and are subject to the Freedom of 

Information Act, except for proprietary 

documents and information. 

Dated: July 31, 2006. 

Deborah L.R. Austin, 

Forest Supervisor, Lolo National Forest. 

[FR Doc. 06–6706 Filed 8–4–06; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Notice of Resource Advisory 

Committee, Custer, SD 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to authorities in the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public 

Law 92–463) and the Secure Rural 

Schools and Community Self 

determination Act of 2000 (Public Law 

106–393), the Black Hills National 

Forest’s Custer County Resource 

Advisory Committee will meet on 

Tuesday, August 15, 2006 in Custer, 

South Dakota for a business meeting. 

The meeting is open to the public. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

business meeting on August 15 will 

begin at 6 p.m. at the Black Hills 

National Forest Supervisor’s office at 

25041 North Highway 16, Custer, South 

Dakota. Agenda topics will include 

election of officers and discussion of 

potential projects. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mike Lloyd, Hell Canyon District Ranger 

and Designated Federal Officer, at 605–

673–4853. 

Dated: August 1, 2006. 

Michael D. Lloyd, 

District Ranger. 

[FR Doc. 06–6704 Filed 8–4–06; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Rural Utilities Service 

Highwood Generating Station 

AGENCY: Rural Utilities Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of Extension of Public 

Comment Period and Additional Public 

Hearing, Draft Environmental Impact 

Statement, Highwood Generating 

Station, Great Falls, Montana. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the Rural Utilities Service (RUS) is 

extending the public comment period 

for the Draft Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) for the Highwood 

Generating Station (HGS), and, as 

requested, is conducting an additional 

public hearing. The Draft EIS was 

prepared pursuant to the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 

(NEPA) (U.S.C. 4231 et seq.) in 

accordance with the Council on 

Environmental Quality (CEQ) 

regulations for implementing the 

procedural provisions of NEPA (40 CFR 

1500–1508) and RUS regulations (7 CFR 

1794). This document has been 

prepared jointly with the Montana 

Department of Environmental Quality 

(MDEQ). 

The Draft EIS is to evaluate the 

potential environmental impacts of and 

alternatives to the Southern Montana 

Electric Transmission & Generation 

Cooperative, Inc. (SME) application for 

a loan guarantee to construct a 250 

megawatt (MW) coal-fired power plant 

near Great Falls, Montana. SME is 

proposing to use a coal combustion 

technology known as circulating 

fluidized bed (CFB). Along with other 

proposed pollution controls collectively 

known as Best Available Control 

Technology (BACT), the HGS would be 

among the cleanest-burning coal-fired 

power plants currently operating in the 

United States. SME also proposes to 

construct and operate four, 1.5–MW 

wind turbines to generate supplemental 

electrical power at the preferred project 

location eight miles east of Great Falls. 

Receipt of the Draft EIS was 

announced by the U. S. Environmental 

Protection Agency in the Federal 

Register on July 3, 2006 (official date 

June 30, 2006). Requests for extension of 

public comment periods may be 

honored per 40 CFR 1506.10. The initial 

45-day public comment period was to 

end on August 15, 2006. With the 15- 

day extension, the new deadline for 

public comments is now August 30, 

2006. 

In addition to the public hearing held 

in Great Falls, Montana on July 27, an 

additional hearing will be held in 

Havre, Montana. The Havre public 

hearing will be held on August 7, 2006 

at the Applied Technology Center 

Auditorium at MSU Northern, 300 West 

11th Street, Havre, MT. An open house 

will be held from 5–7 p.m., with the 

hearing beginning at 7 p.m. The hearing 

will include a presentation summarizing 

the findings of the Draft EIS and the 

opportunity for attendees to submit both 

oral and written comments. In 

accordance with 40 CFR Section 1503.1, 

Inviting Comments, the purpose of the 

meeting will be to solicit comments 

from interested parties on the Draft EIS 

for the Highwood Generating Station. 

DATES: Written comments on this Draft 

EIS will be accepted on or before August 

30, 2006. 

ADDRESS FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: To 

send comments or for more information, 

contact: Richard Fristik, USDA, Rural 

Development, Utilities Programs, 1400 

Independence Avenue, Mail Stop 1571, 

Room 2237, Washington, DC 20250–

1571, telephone (202) 720–5093, fax 

(202) 720–0820, or e-mail: 

Richard.Fristik@wdc.usda.gov. 

A copy of the Draft EIS can be 

obtained or viewed online at http:// 

www.usda.gov/rus/water/ees/eis.htm. 

The files are in a portable document 

format (pdf); in order to review or print 

the document, users need to obtain a 

free copy of Acrobat Reader. The 

Acrobat Reader can be obtained from 

http://www.adobe.com/prodindex/ 

acrobat/readstep.html. 

Copies of the Draft EIS will be 

available for public review during 

normal business hours at the following 

locations: 

Montana State Library System, Attn: 

Roberta Gebhardt, P.O. Box 201800, 

Helena, MT 59620–1800, (406) 444–

5393. 

University of Montana at Missoula, 32 

Campus Drive 59801, Mansfield 

Library, Missoula, MT 59812, (406) 

243–6866. 

Missoula Public Library, 301 East Main, 

Missoula, MT 59802–4799, (406) 721–

2665. 

Montana State University Libraries, P. 

O. Box 173320, Bozeman, MT 59717–

3320, (406) 994–3119. 

Great Falls Public Library, 301 2nd Ave 

North, Great Falls MT 59401–2593, 

(406) 453–0349. 

Chouteau County Library, 1518 Main, 

Fort Benton, MT 59442. 

Branches: Box 1247, Big Sandy, MT 

59520; Box 316, Geraldine, MT 59446. 

MSU-Northern Library, P. O. Box 7751, 

Havre, MT 59501–7751. 

Havre-Hill County Library, 402 3rd St., 

Havre, MT 59501–3644. 

Stone Child College Library, R. R. 1 Box 

1082, Box Elder, MT 59521. 

Belt Public Library, 70 Castner St., Belt, 

MT 59411–0467. 

Wedsworth Memorial Library, 9–1⁄2

Front St., Cascade, MT 59421–0526. 

Fort Belknap College Library and Tribal 

Archives, P. O. Box 159, Harlem, MT 

59526. 

Harlem Public Library, 37 First Ave., 

SE, Harlem, MT 59526. 


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