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Notices Federal Register

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Vol. 71, No. 248 

Wednesday, December 27, 2006 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

December 20, 2006. 

The Department of Agriculture has 

submitted the following information 

collection requirement(s) to OMB for 

review and clearance under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13. Comments 

regarding (a) whether the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of burden including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; (d) ways to minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on those who are to respond, including 

through the use of appropriate 

automated, electronic, mechanical, or 

other technological collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology should be addressed to: Desk 

Officer for Agriculture, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB), oira_submission@omb.eop.gov 

or fax (202) 395–5806 and to 

Departmental Clearance Office, USDA, 

OCIO, Mail Stop 7602, Washington, DC 

20250–7602. Comments regarding these 

information collections are best assured 

of having their full effect if received 

within 30 days of this notification. 

Copies of the submission(s) may be 

obtained by calling (202) 720–8958. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor a collection of information 

unless the collection of information 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number and the agency informs 

potential persons who are to respond to 

the collection of information that such 

persons are not required to respond to 

the collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

Food and Nutrition Service 

Title: Performance Reporting System, 

Management Evaluation. 

OMB Control Number: 0584–0010. 

Summary of Collection: The purpose 

of the Performance Reporting System is 

to ensure that each State agency and 

project area is operating the Food Stamp 

Program in accordance with the Act, 

regulations, and the State agency’s Plan 

of Operation. Section 11 of the Food 

Stamp Act of 1977, amended, requires 

State agencies to maintain necessary 

records to ascertain that the Food Stamp 

Program is operating in compliance 

with the Act and regulations and must 

make these records available to the Food 

and Nutrition Service (FNS) for 

inspection. 

Need and Use of the Information: FNS 

will use the information to evaluate 

state agency operations and to collect 

information that is necessary to develop 

solutions to improve the State’s 

administration of Program policy and 

procedures. Each State agency is 

required to submit one review schedule 

every one, two, or three years, 

depending on the project areas make-up 

of the state. 

Description of Respondents: State, 

Local, or Tribal Government. 

Number of Respondents: 54. 

Frequency of Responses: 

Recordkeeping; Reporting: Annually. 

Total Burden Hours: 492,356. 

Ruth Brown, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. E6–22095 Filed 12–26–06; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Central Kupreanof Timber Harvest 

Environmental Impact Statement 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement. 

SUMMARY: The Department of 

Agriculture, Forest Service, will prepare 

an Environmental Impact Statement 

(EIS) on a proposal to harvest timber 

and to develop a road management plan 

for the Central Kupreanof Timber 

Harvest on the northwest and central 

part of Kupreanof Island, on the 

Petersburg Ranger Districts, Tongass 

National Forest. The proposed action 

provides for multiple timber sale 

opportunities and will result in the 

production of approximately 40 million 

board feet (mmbf) of timber from 

approximately 2,025 acres of forested 

land. Up to 11.1 miles of new forest 

system road and up to 7.0 miles of 

temporary road may be necessary for 

timber harvest. A range of alternatives, 

responsive to significant issues, will be 

developed and will include a no action 

alternative. The existing log transfer 

facility (LTF) at Little Hamilton in 

Hamilton Bay would be used. This 

project is within the Mitkof/Kupreanof 

biogeographic province. The Record of 

Decision will disclose whether and 

where the Forest Supervisor has 

decided to provide timber harvest units, 

roads and associated timber harvesting 

facilities. 

DATES: A scoping letter was mailed out 

in October 2006. Individuals who want 

to receive a copy of this mailing or who 

want to be on the project mailing list 

should contact the Petersburg Ranger 

District at the address below. The Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement is 

projected to be filed with the 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

in the summer of 2007 and will begin 

a 45-day public comment period. The 

Final Environmental Impact Statement 

and Record of Decision are scheduled to 

be published in late 2007. 

ADDRESSES: You may comment on the 

project in the following ways: Send 

written comments to the Petersburg 

Ranger District, Tongass National 

Forest, Attn: Central Kupreanof Timber 

Harvest EIS, PO Box 1328, Petersburg, 

AK 99833, or hand deliver them to the 

Petersburg Ranger District, 12 N Nordic 

Drive, Petersburg, Alaska. The FAX 

number is (907) 772–5995. Send e-mail 

comments to: comments-alaska-tongasspetersburg@fs.fed.us with Central 

Kupreanof EIS on the subject line. 

Include your name, address and 

organization name if you are 

commenting as a representative. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions about the proposal and EIS 

should be directed to Patricia Grantham, 

District Ranger, Petersburg Ranger 

District, Tongass National Forest, PO 

Box 1328, Petersburg, AK 99833, 


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telephone (907) 772–3871, or Tiffany 

Benna, NEPA Coordinator, Petersburg 

Ranger District, PO Box 1328, 

Petersburg, AK 99833, telephone (907) 

772–3871. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The 152,511-acre Central 

Kupreanof project area is located within 

Value Comparison Units 426, 427.1, 

429, 436 and 438 on Kupreanof Island, 

on the Petersburg Ranger District of the 

Tongass National Forest. Portions of two 

roadless areas, North Kupreanof #211 

and South Kupreanof #214, as identified 

by the Forest Plan and Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement, are 

located within the project area. The 

project area includes four small oldgrowth habitat reserves as designated in 

the Forest Plan. 

There will be no proposed timber 

harvest in areas of old-growth reserve 

management prescriptions. However, 

roads may be proposed through oldgrowth reserves to access suitable and 

available forestland outside the reserves. 

A Forest Plan amendment would be 

required if a decision is made to modify 

the small old-growth habitat reserve 

boundaries associated with this project. 

Purpose and Need for Action 

The purpose and need for the 

proposed action responds to the goals 

and objectives identified by the Tongass 

Land Management Plan, as amended, 

and helps move the area toward the 

desired conditions as described in the 

Forest Plan. The Forest Supervisor is the 

Responsible Official for this action and 

will decide whether or not to harvest 

timber from the Central Kupreanof 

TImber Harvest project area, and if so, 

how this timber will be harvested. The 

decision will be based on the 

information that is disclosed in the 

environmental impact statement. The 

responsible official will consider 

comments, responses, the disclosure of 

environmental consequences, and 

applicable laws, regulations and 

policies in making the decision and will 

state that rationale in the Record of 

Decision. 

The Forest Plan goals and objectives 

applicable to the Central Kupreanof 

Timber Harvest include: 

• Manage the timber resource for 

production of saw timber and other 

wood products from suitable timber 

lands made available for timber harvest, 

on an even-flow, long-term sustained 

yield basis and in an economically 

efficient manner. 

• Seek to provide a timber supply 

sufficient to meet the annual market 

demand for Tongass National Forest 

timber and the market demand for the 

planning cycle. 

• Provide a diversity of opportunities 

for resource uses that contribute to the 

local and regional economies of 

Southeast Alaska. 

Proposed Action: The Central 

Kupreanof Timber Harvest proposes 

harvest of approximately 40 million 

board feet (mmbf) of timber from 

approximately 2,025 acres of forested 

land. Up to 11.1 miles of new forest 

system road and up to 7.0 miles of 

temporary road may be necessary for 

timber harvest. The existing log transfer 

facility (LTF) at Little Hamilton in 

Hamilton Bay would be used. 

Public Participation: This notice of 

intent initiates the scoping process 

which guides the development of the 

environmental impact statement. Public 

participation has been an integral 

component of the study process and 

will continue to be especially important 

at several points during the analysis. 

The Forest Service will be seeking 

information, comments, and assistance 

from Tribal Governments and 

corporations, Federal, State, and local 

agencies, individuals and organizations 

that may be interested in, or affected by, 

the proposed activities. Written scoping 

comments were solicited through an 

informal scoping package that was sent 

to the project mailing list on October 6, 

2006. The scoping package will be 

available at open houses in Petersburg, 

Alaska and Kake, Alaska. The scoping 

process includes: (1) Identification of 

potential issues; (2) identification of 

issues to be analyzed in depth; (3) 

elimination of non-significant issues or 

those which have been covered by a 

previous environmental review. 

Preliminary Issues: Preliminary issues 

identified for analysis in the EIS include 

the potential effects of the project on 

and the relationship of the project to: 

subsistence, road management, and 

timber sale economics. 

Based on results of scoping and the 

resource capabilities within the project 

area, alternative, including a ‘‘no 

action’’ alternative, will be developed 

for the Draft Environmental Impact 

Statement. Subsistence hearings, as 

provided for in Title VIII, Section 810 of 

the Alaska National Interest Lands 

Conservation Act (ANILCA), will be 

conducted, if necessary, during the 

comment period on the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement. 

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 published 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. 

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 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.2nd 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 of the proposed action, 

comments during scoping and 

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. 

Comment submitted anonymously 

will be accepted and considered; 

however, those who submit anonymous 

comments will not have standing to 

appeal the subsequent decision under 

36 CFR parts 215 or 217. Additionally, 

pursuant to 7 CFR 1.27(d), any person 

may request the agency to withhold a 

submission from the public record by 


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showing how the Freedom of 

Information Act of (FOIA) permits such 

confidentiality. Requesters should be 

aware that, under FOIA, confidentiality 

may be granted in only very limited 

circumstances, such as to protect trade 

secrets. The Forest Service will inform 

the requester 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 7 days. 

Permits: Permits required for 

implementation include the following: 

1. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 

—Approval of discharge of dredged or 

fill material into the waters of the 

United States under Section 404 of 

the Clean Water Act; 

—Approval of the construction of 

structures or work in navigable waters 

of the United States under Section 10 

of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899; 

2. Environmental Protection Agency. 

—General National Pollutant Discharge 

Elimination System Permit for Log 

Transfer Facilities in Alaska; 

—Review Spill Prevention Control and 

Countermeasure Plan; 

3. State of Alaska, Department of 

Natural Resources. 

—Tideland Permit and Lease or 

Easement; 

—Certification of Compliance with 

Alaska Water Quality Standards (401 

Certification) Chapter 20. 

4. Office of Project Management & 

Permitting (DNR). 

—Coastal Zone Consistency 

Determination concurrence. 

5. State of Alaska, Department of 

Environmental Conservation. 

—Solid Waste Disposal Permit; 

Responsible Official: Forrest Cole, 

Forest Supervisor, Tongass National 

Forest, Federal Building, Ketchikan, 

Alaska 99901. 

Nature of Decision To Be Made: The 

Forest Supervisor is the Responsible 

Official for this action and will decide 

whether or not to harvest timber from 

the Central Kupreanof Timber Harvest 

project area, and if so, the amount, 

location and method how this timber 

will be harvested. The decision will be 

based on the information that is 

disclosed in the environmental impact 

statement. The responsible official will 

consider comments, responses, the 

disclosure of environmental 

consequences, and applicable laws, 

regulations, and policies in making the 

decision and will state that rationale in 

the Record of Decision. 

(Authority: 40 CFR 1501.7 and 1508.22; 

Forest Service Handbook 1909.15, Section 

21) 

Dated: December 12, 2006. 

Charley Streuli, 

Acting Forest Supervisor. 

[FR Doc. 06–9847 Filed 12–26–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–11–M 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Economic Development Administration 

Notice of Petitions by Firms for 

Determination of Eligibility to Apply for 

rade Adjustment Assistance 

AGENCY: Economic Development 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice and Opportunity for 

Public Comment. 

Pursuant to Section 251 of the Trade 

Act of 1974 (19 U.S.C. 2341 et seq.), the 

Economic Development Administration 

(EDA) has received petitions for 

certification of eligibility to apply for 

Trade Adjustment Assistance from the 

firms listed below. EDA has initiated 

separate investigations to determine 

whether increased imports into the 

United States of articles like or directly 

competitive with those produced by 

each firm contributed importantly to the 

total or partial separation of the firm’s 

workers, or threat thereof, and to a 

decrease in sales or production of each 

petitioning firm. 

LIST OF PETITIONS RECEIVED BY EDA FOR CERTIFICATION OF ELIGIBILITY TO APPLY FOR TRADE ADJUSTMENT

ASSISTANCE FOR THE PERIOD

[November 21, 2006 Through December 20, 2006] 

Firm Address Date petition accepted Product 

E.F Young Jr. 

Manufacturing, Inc.

425 26th Avenue, Meridian, 

MS 39301.

11/22/2006 Ethnic hair care products and 

related toiletries 

Elements/Jill 

Schwartz, 

Inc..

343 Main Street, ≤Great Barrington, MA 01230.11/28/2006 Decorative home accessories 

Woodcraft, Inc 105 Austin Road, Morristown, 

TN 37816.

11/28/2006 Edged glued panels, laminated wood squares and 

cut-to-specification blanks 

for the furniture industry 

Reynolds & 

Reynolds, Inc.

521 E. Fourth Street, Bethlehem, PA 18015.12/6/2006 Electronic emergency energy 

equipment for elevators 

Sabel Engineering Corporation.P.O. Box 1223–20366, E. 8th 

Street, Sonoma, CA 95476.

12/6/2006 Packaging machinery (case 

packaging): targeted to 

food, dairy, pharmaceutical, 

and printing and binding industries. Bottom, in line 

loading and carousel loading versions. 

Anco International, Inc.19851 Cajon Blvd., San 

Bernardino, CA 92407.

12/6/2006 Hose couplings and support 

equipment 

Mid-Atlantic 

Finishing 

Corporation.

4656 Addison Road, Capitol 

Heights, MD 20743.

12/7/2006 Articles of copper and metal 

finishing products 

Syracuse China 

Company.

208 Court Street, Syracuse, 

NY 13208.

12/11/2006 High quality china dinnerware 


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