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Vol. 72, No. 109 

Thursday, June 7, 2007 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Siskiyou County Resource Advisory 

Committee 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Siskiyou County 

Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) 

will meet in Yreka, California, June 18, 

2007. The meeting will include routine 

business and discussion of future 

project submissions for RAC funding. 

DATES: The meeting will be held June 

18, 2007, from 4 p.m. until 6 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Yreka High School Library, Preece 

Way, Yreka, California. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bob 

Talley, Forest RAC coordinator, 

Klamath National Forest, (530) 841– 

4423 or electronically at 

rtalley@fs.fed.us. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

meeting is open to the public. Public 

comment opportunity will be provided 

and individuals will have the 

opportunity to address the Committee at 

that time. 

Dated: June 1, 2007. 

Margaret J. Boland, 

Designated Federal Official. 

[FR Doc. 07–2828 Filed 6–6–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–11–M 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Rural Utilities Service 

Information Collection Activity; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Rural Utilities Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended), the 

Rural Utilities Service an agency 

delivering the U.S. Department of 

Agriculture (USDA) Rural Development 

Utilities Programs, invites comments on 

this information collection for which 

approval from the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) will be requested. 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received by August 6, 2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michele Brooks, Acting Director, 

Program Development and Regulatory 

Analysis, USDA Rural Development, 

1400 Independence Ave., SW., STOP 

1522, Room 5168 South Building, 

Washington, DC 20250–1522. 

Telephone: (202) 690–1078. Fax: (202) 

720–8435. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office 

of Management and Budget’s (OMB) 

regulation (5 CFR 1320) implementing 

provisions of the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13) requires 

that interested members of the public 

and affected agencies have an 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection and recordkeeping activities 

(see 5 CFR 1320.8(d)). This notice 

identifies an information collection that 

RUS is submitting to OMB for 

extension. 

Comments are invited on: (a) Whether 

the proposed 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 the burden of 

the proposed collection of information 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (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. Comments may be sent to: 

Michele Brooks, Acting Director, 

Program Development and Regulatory 

Analysis, USDA Rural Development, 

STOP 1522, 1400 Independence Ave., 

SW., Washington, DC 20250–1522. FAX: 

(202) 720–8435. 

Title: 7 CFR Part 1730, Electric 

System Emergency Restoration Plan. 

OMB Control Number: 0572–0140. 

Type of Request: Request for an 

extension of a currently approved 

information collection. 

Abstract: Electric power systems have 

been identified in Presidential Decision 

Directive 63 (PDD–63), May 1998, as 

one of the critical infrastructures of the 

United States. The term ’’critical 

infrastructure’’ is defined in section 

1016(e) of the USA Patriot Act of 2001 

(42 U.S.C. 5195c(e)) as ‘‘systems and 

assets, whether physical or virtual, so 

vital to the United States that the 

incapacity or destruction of such 

systems and assets would have a 

debilitating impact on security, national 

economic security, national public 

health or safety, or any combination of 

those matters.’’ Damage to or loss of 

critical or significant parts of the U.S. 

electric power system can cause 

enormous damage to the environment, 

loss of life and economic loss and can 

affect the national security of the United 

States. Such damage or loss can be 

caused by acts of nature or human acts, 

ranging from an accident to an act of 

terrorism. Of particular concern are 

physical and cyber threats from 

terrorists. Protecting America’s critical 

infrastructure is the shared 

responsibility of Federal, State, and 

local government in active partnership 

with the private sector. Homeland 

Security Presidential Directive 7 

(HSPD–7), December 2003, established a 

national policy for Federal departments 

and agencies to identify and prioritize 

United States critical infrastructure and 

key resources and to protect them from 

terrorist attacks. America’s open and 

technologically complex society 

includes a wide array of critical 

infrastructure and key resources that are 

potential terrorist targets. The majority 

of these are owned and operated by the 

private sector and State or local 

governments. These critical 

infrastructures and key resources are 

both physical and cyber-based and span 

all sectors of the economy. A substantial 

portion of the electric infrastructure of 

the United States resides in, and is 

maintained by, rural America. To ensure 

that the electric infrastructure in rural 

America is adequately protected, RUS is 

instituting the requirement that all 

current electric borrowers enhance an 

existing ERP or, if none exists, develop 

and maintain an ERP. 

Title 7 CFR Part 1730, Electric System 

and Maintenance, establishes a 


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