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Notices Federal Register

66496 

Vol. 71, No. 220 

Wednesday, November 15, 2006 

AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 

DEVELOPMENT 

Bureau for Democracy, Conflict and 

Humanitarian Assistance, Office of 

Food for Peace; Announcement of 

Draft FY 2007 Food for Peace 

Guidelines and Procedures for 

International Food Relief Partnership 

Transportation and Distribution 

Applications; Notice 

Pursuant to the Agricultural Trade 

Development and Assistance Act of 

1954 (Pub. L. 480, as amended), notice 

is hereby given that the draft FY 2007 

Food for Peace Guidelines and 

Procedures for International Food Relief 

Partnership Transportation and 

Distribution Applications are available 

to interested parties for general viewing 

and comments. 

Individuals who wish to access the 

draft guidelines and procedures should 

visit the Food for Peace Web site at 

http://www.usaid.gov/our_work/

humanitarian_assistance/ffp/, or 

contact the Office of Food for Peace, via 

AMEX International, Attn: 2007 IFRP 

Applications, 1300 Pennsylvania 

Avenue, NW., Suite 700, Washington, 

DC 20004 or IFRP@amexdc.com. 

William Hammink, 

Director, Office of Food for Peace, Bureau 

for Democracy, Conflict and Humanitarian 

Assistance. 

[FR Doc. E6–19256 Filed 11–14–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6116–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Commodity Credit Corporation 

Bulk Grain Available for Sale Online 

AGENCY: Commodity Credit Corporation, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces that 

the Commodity Credit Corporation 

(CCC) will make available for sale a 

portion of its grain inventory beginning 

November 20, 2006, via the Internet at 

http://www.GrainLink.com. This is the 

first time that CCC will use GrainLink 

to provide online marketing services to 

sell bulk grain, including wheat, rice, 

soybeans, barley, corn, grain sorghum, 

and oats that CCC owns via the Internet. 

This notice is to announce the sale and 

introduce this new process to the 

industry. 

DATES: Effective Date: November 15, 

2006. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jose 

Gonzalez, Inventory Program Manager, 

Warehouse and Inventory Division, 

Farm Service Agency, USDA, STOP 

0553, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20250–0553. 

Telephone: (202) 690–2534. E-mail: 

jose.gonzalez@usda.gov. Persons with 

disabilities who require alternative 

means for communication (Braille, large 

print, audiotape, etc.) should contact the 

USDA Target Center at (202) 720–2600 

(voice and TDD). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: CCC 

acquires bulk grain through the 

forfeiture of marketing assistance loans 

obtained in accordance with Title 1, 

Subtitle B, of the Farm Security and 

Rural Investment Act of 2002. CCC’s 

general sales policy is to maximize the 

returns to the Corporation. The 

authorities for selling CCC-owned grain 

include the CCC Charter Act and section 

165 of the Federal Agriculture 

Improvement and Reform Act of 1996. 

The regulations at 7 CFR part 1402 

contain CCC policy for certain 

commodities available for sale by CCC. 

CCC has contracted with Farms 

Technology, LLC, of Overland Park, 

Kansas to provide online marketing 

services to sell CCC-owned bulk grain 

(wheat, rice, soybeans, barley, corn, 

grain sorghum, and oats), via an Internet 

based cash grain marketing platform 

called GrainLink.com. CCC will 

entertain offers from prospective buyers 

for the purchase of grain owned by CCC 

that is included in the inventory listed 

on GrainLink.com. Prospective buyers 

may also visit the DACO Web site at 

http://www.fsa.usda.gov/daco/ 

default.htm to review the entire catalog 

of grain inventory. Under ‘‘Related 

Topics’’, click on ‘‘Procurement and 

Sales’’ and then ‘‘Sales’’ to access 

inventories of various commodities. 

Parties interested in purchasing CCCowned grain that is not available for sale 

via GrainLink.com may contact CCC 

merchandisers directly at (816) 926– 

3816 to discuss grain availability. 

A portion of CCC’s grain inventory 

will be available for sale at http:// 

www.GrainLink.com beginning 

November 20, 2006, from 9:30 a.m. to 

1:30 p.m. central daylight time (CDT). 

This inventory will be made available 

for advance review only, from 9 a.m. to 

4 p.m. CDT, on November 16 and 

November 17, 2006. Additional CCC 

grain inventory may be placed on 

GrainLink at anytime following 

November 20, 2006, without prior 

notification to the public. Interested 

parties are encouraged to check the 

GrainLink Web site on a regular basis 

for inventory that may be made 

available for sale. 

To allow access to GrainLink’s ‘‘Real 

Time Bid Service’’ Farms Technology 

requires users to enter into a 

participation agreement and pay a 

monthly subscription fee. There are no 

commission charges to place bids 

online; however, successful bidders are 

charged a commission fee of $.01 per 

bushel (wheat, barley, oats, corn, 

soybeans) or $.01 per hundredweight 

(grain sorghum or rice) for completed 

sales. 

Additional information on Farms 

Technology services is available by 

contacting Jason Tatge, Chief Executive 

Officer, by telephone at (888) 393–6471, 

or by e-mail at Jason@farmstech.com. 

Any questions about this notice may 

be directed to Jose Gonzalez by calling 

(202) 690–2534 or e-mail 

jose.gonzalez@usda.gov. 

Signed at Washington, DC, November 9, 

2006. 

Teresa C. Lasseter, 

Executive Vice President, Commodity Credit 

Corporation. 

[FR Doc. 06–9212 Filed 11–9–06; 3:40 pm] 

BILLING CODE 3410–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Cherry Dinner Project, Clearwater 

National Forest, Latah County, ID 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

environmental impact statement. 


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SUMMARY: The USDA, Forest Service, 

will prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) to disclose the 

environmental effects of timber harvest 

prescribed fire, watershed restoration, 

and access management activities in the 

Cherry Dinner project area on the 

Palouse Ranger District of the 

Clearwater National Forest. The Cherry 

Dinner project area is located between 

the towns of Helmer and Bovill within 

the Hog Meadow Creek and Little 

Boulder Creek drainages, approximately 

25 air-miles north of the town of 

Orofino, Idaho. 

DATES: Comments on this project must 

be received, in writing, within 30 days 

following the publication of this notice 

in the Federal Register. A 45-day public 

comment period will follow the release 

of the draft environmental impact 

statement that is expected in April 2007. 

The final environmental impact 

statement is expected in September 

2007. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

suggestions concerning the scope of this 

project should be sent to Kara Chadwick 

(kchadwick@fs.fed.us), District Ranger, 

Palouse Ranger District, 1700 Highway 

6, Potlatch, ID 83855. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

George Harbaugh (gharbaugh@fs.fed.us), 

Project Leader, Lochsa Ranger District. 

Phone: (208) 926–4274. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Cherry Dinner project area contains 

approximately 20,470 acres, of which 

14,670 acres are National Forest lands 

and 5,800 acres are other ownership 

(State, timber companies, and private). 

The legal location is mostly in portions 

of T40N, R1W and small portions of 

T40N, R1E, T41N, R1W, and T39N, 

R1W, Boise Meridian, Latah County, 

Idaho. The proposed actions would 

occur on National Forest lands and are 

all outside the boundaries of any 

inventoried roadless area or any areas 

considered for inclusion to the National 

Wilderness System as recommended by 

the Clearwater National Forest Plan or 

by any past or present legislative 

wilderness proposals. 

Purpose and Need for Action is to: (1) 

Improve species diversity and 

productivity by reestablishing seral 

species, such as western white pine, 

ponderosa pine, and western larch, 

which historical dominated the cover 

type in this area; (2) reduce fuel buildup 

in stands in the wildland urban 

interface (WUI) where fire suppression 

has interrupted the short-return fire 

interval and resulted in unnaturally 

high amounts of fuel and overgrown 

understory, and create a more defensible 

space to control wildfire on Forest 

Service land adjacent to private 

structures and homes; (3) reduce longterm sedimentation to streams caused 

by existing unsurfaced roads, and 

stabilize stream banks made unstable by 

motorized vehicles, cattle trailing, and 

channelization (historic railroad grades); 

(4) update fish/water quality standards 

in Appendix K of the Clearwater Forest 

Plan to better meet the Clean Water Act 

standards of supporting fisheries and 

reflect better information on fisheries 

collected in stream surveys; and (5) 

provide for a reasonable level of human 

access, reduce user conflicts, and 

provide the necessary resource 

protection required by law, regulation, 

and good stewardship practices. 

The Proposed Action would harvest 

timber from about 2,210 acres, using 

regeneration harvest methods, 

improvement cuts, and commercial 

thinning. Road activities associated with 

the timber sales would include 

constructing 8.1 miles of permanent 

road, reconstructing 9.4 miles of 

existing roads, and constructing 1.5 

miles of temporary road (to be 

decommissioned after harvest activity). 

Understory slashing and prescribed fire 

would be applied on 310 acres to 

reintroduce fire, not associated with 

timber harvest. Watershed 

improvements would include 24.2 miles 

of road decommissioning, putting 24.6 

miles of existing roads into intermittent 

stored service (self-maintaining), and 

stabilizing 4.8 miles of streambanks 

along the East Fork Potlatch River and 

its tributaries. Access management 

would consist of constructing a 0.5 mile 

OHV connector trail and managing area 

roads and trails based on a Roads 

Analysis. Other components of the 

proposed action include designating 

approximately 1,700 of forest to be 

managed for old growth and raising 

fish/water quality standards on 3 

streams to incorporate better 

information on fish and their habitat. 

There is also the opportunity to 

precommercial thin approximately 200 

acres of young stands scattered 

throughout the project area. 

Possible Alternatives the Forest 

Service will consider include the ‘‘no 

action’’ alternative in which none of the 

proposed activities would be 

implemented. Additional alternatives 

being considered examine varying levels 

and locations for the proposed activities 

to achieve the proposal’s purpose and 

need, as well as to respond to the issues 

and other resource concerns. 

The Responsible Official is the Forest 

Supervisor of the Clearwater National 

Forest, 12730 Highway 12, Orofino, ID 

83544. The Responsible Official will 

decide if the proposed project will be 

implemented and will document the 

decision and reasons for the decision in 

a Record of Decision. That decision will 

be subject to Forest Service Appeal 

Regulations. The responsibility for 

preparing the DEIS and FEIS has been 

delegated to Kara Chadwick, District 

Ranger, Palouse Ranger District, 1700 

Highway 6, Potlatch, ID 83855. 

The Scoping Process for the EIS is 

being initiated with this notice, and 

written comments regarding the analysis 

should be received within 30 days 

following the publication of this notice 

in the Federal Register. Additional 

scoping will follow the release of the 

DEIS, expected in April 2007. This 

proposal also includes eight openings 

greater than 40 acres that would be 

created by timber harvest. A 60-day 

public review period was initiated on 

April 19, 2005, and approval to exceed 

40 acres was received from the Regional 

Office on November 22, 2005. However, 

additional comments on this issue will 

be accepted during this 30-day scoping 

period. 

Issues identified through previous 

scoping that could be affected by 

proposed activities include: Access 

management, air quality, economic 

feasibility, fish habitat, heritage 

resources, sensitive and management 

indicator species of wildlife, sensitive 

plants, snag habitat, soil productivity, 

spread of noxious weeds, tribal treaty 

rights, and water quality. Issues 

expected not to be affected by the 

proposal include impacts of grazing, old 

growth habitat, risk of landslides, and 

threatened and endangered wildlife and 

plant species. Issues found to be outside 

the scope of the project or not consistent 

with Forest Plan standards include 

developing a wildland fire use plan and 

using prescribed fire over timber 

harvest. 

Early Notice of Importance of Public 

Participation in Subsequent 

Environmental Review: A draft 

environmental impact statement will be 

prepared for comment. The comment 

period on the draft environmental 

impact statement will be 45 days from 

the date the Environmental Protection 

Agency publishes the notice of 

availability in the Federal Register. 

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. 

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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 impact 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 on 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 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, including the 

names and addresses of those who 

comment, will be considered part of the 

public record on this proposal and will 

be available for public inspection. 

(Authority: 40 CFR 1501.7 and 1508.22; 

Forest Service Handbook 1909.15, Section 

21) 

Dated: November 7, 2006. 

Thomas K. Reilly, 

Forest Supervisor. 

[FR Doc. 06–9199 Filed 11–14–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–11–M 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Notice of Southwest Idaho Resource 

Advisory Committee Meeting 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the authorities in 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(Pub. L. 92–463) and under the Secure 

Rural Schools and Community SelfDetermination Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106–

393), The Boise and Payette National 

Forests’ Southwest Idaho Resource 

Advisory Committee will conduct a 

business meeting, which is open to the 

public. 

DATES: Wednesday, December 6, 2006, 

beginning at 10:30 a.m. 

ADDRESSES: Idaho Counties Risk 

Management Program Building, 3100 

South Vista Avenue, Boise, Idaho. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Agenda 

topics will include review and approval 

of project proposals, and is an open 

public forum. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Doug Gochnour, Designated Federal 

Officer, at 208–392–6681 or e-mail 

dgochnour@fs.fed.us. 

Dated: November 8, 2006. 

Richard A. Smith, 

Forest Supervisor, Boise National Forest. 

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BILLING CODE 3410–11–M 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Natural Resources Conservation 

Service 

Notice of Availability of the ‘‘Natural 

Resources Conservation Service 

Conservation Programs Manual—Part 

513: Resource Conservation and 

Development (RC&D) Program’’

AGENCY: Natural Resources 

Conservation Service, Department of 

Agriculture. 

ACTION: Notice; correction. 

SUMMARY: The Natural Resources 

Conservation Service (NRCS) published 

in the Federal Register notice of 

October 24, 2006, (71 FR 62246) a 

document with an incorrect URL. The 

incorrect URL is located in the SUMMARY

section on page 62247. This notice 

corrects the previously published 

document. 

The Department of Agriculture 

(USDA), NRC seeks comments on the 

proposed revision of the ‘‘Natural 

Resources Conservation Service 

Conservation Programs Manual—Part 

513: Resource Conservation and 

Development (RC&D) Program.’’ USDA 

asks for comments from RC&D Council 

members and individuals from tribal, 

State, and local governments and 

organizations involved in either natural 

resource conservation or community 

development groups. These comments 

will assist USDA in policy development 

and implementation of the RC&D 

Program. This manual is used by NRCS, 

other USDA staff members, RC&D 

Council members, and others that either 

develop RC&D applications or 

participate in the RC&D Program. 

This revision of the manual reflects 

changes in the NRCS organizational 

structure, incorporates new area 

planning requirements, provides 

guidelines for the RC&D Program 

Operations Information Tracking 

System, and incorporates additional 

exhibits to increase clarity. It is 

available for download at http:// 

policy.nrcs.usda.gov/scripts/lpsiis.dll/ 

NB/NB_390_7_1_a.pdf. 

DATES: Effective Dates: Comments will 

be received for a 60-day period 

commencing with the date of this 

publication. 

ADDRESSES: Address all requests and 

comments to: Terry D’Addio, National 

RC&D Program Manager, NRCS, Room 

5245–South, 1400 Independence 

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250–

9410. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Terry D’Addio: (202) 720–0557; fax: 

(202) 690–0639; e-mail: 

terry.d’addio@wdc.usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

‘‘Conservation Programs Manual: Part 

513—RC&D Program’’ is a document 

used by NRCS, other USDA staff 

members, RC&D Council members, and 

others that either develop RC&D 

applications or participate in the RC&D 

Program. The purpose of this document 

is to provide policy guidance for the 

RC&D Program, not to establish 

regulatory requirements. The RC&D 

Program was authorized to encourage 

and improve the capability of State and 

local units of government and local 

nonprofit organizations in rural areas to 

plan, develop, and implement programs 

for resource conservation and 

development. Through the 

establishment of RC&D areas, the 

program establishes or improves 

coordination systems in communities, 

and builds community leadership skills 

to effectively use Federal, State, and 

local programs for the communities’

benefit. Current program objectives 

focus on improvements achieved 

through natural resources conservation 

and community development. Such 

activities lead to sustainable 

communities, prudent land use, and the 

sound management and conservation of 

natural resources. 

Assistance is provided, as authorized 

by the Secretary of Agriculture, to 

designated RC&D areas through their 

organized RC&D Councils (comprised of 

local affected officials and civic 

leaders). RC&D Councils, in association 

with local, State, and Federal 

governments and other non-profit 

organizations, initiate and lead the 

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