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Done at Washington, DC, on: July 26, 2007. 

Alfred V. Almanza, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. E7–14805 Filed 7–30–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–DM–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Black Hills National Forest, Hell Canon 

Ranger District, Custer, South 

Dakota—Norbeck Wildlife Project 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

environmental impact statement. 

SUMMARY: This project proposes to 

implement wildlife habitat 

improvements on about 6,049 acres 

within the Norbeck Wildlife Preserve on 

the Hell Canyon Ranger District of the 

Black Hills National Forest. In addition, 

the project proposes to conduct 

prescribed burning on 7,391 acres of the 

Black Elk Wilderness. This project will 

analyze effects of these treatments 

within the constraints of the Black Hills 

National Forest Revised Land and 

Resource Management Plan (BHNF 

LRMP), as amended. 

DATES: Comments concerning the scope 

of the analysis should be received 

within 30 days after publication of this 

notice in the Federal Register. The draft 

environmental impact statement is 

expected in March, 2008 and the final 

environmental impact statement is 

expected July, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Send writhen comments to 

Michael Lloyd, District Ranger, Hell 

Canyon Ranger District, 330 Mt. 

Rushmore Rod., Custer, South Dakota 

57730. Comment may also be submitted 

by e-mail to: comments-rockymountain-black-hills-hellcanyon@fs.fed.us. with ‘‘Norbeck’’ as 

subject. Electronic comments must be 

submitted in word (.doc), RichText (.rtf), 

or Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) format. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Alice Allen, Project Coordinator, Blacks 

Hills National Forest, Hell Canyon 

Ranger District, at 330 Mt. Rushmore 

Rd., Custer, South Dakota 57730, phone 

(605) 673–4853. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose and Need for Action: The 

purpose for the proposed action is to 

benefit ‘‘game animals and birds’’ by 

improving habitat conditions in the 

Norbeck Wildlife Preserve. In addition, 

there is a need to protect these habitats 

for game animals and birds in Norbeck 

from a wildfire escaping from the Black 

Elk Wilderness. The EIS will determine 

current conditions, analyze 

environmental consequences of habitat 

improvements on those conditions, and 

assist the decision maker in selecting 

management/monitoring strategies 

consistent with meeting desired 

conditions in the BHNF LRMP, 

including the goals for ‘‘Management 

Areas 5.4A—Norbeck Wildlife Preserve’’

and ‘‘Management Area 1.1A—Black Elk 

Wilderness’’. The Forest Service seeks 

to provide high quality habitat for 

‘‘game animals and birds’’ in accordance 

with the Norbeck Organic Act of June 5, 

1920. 

Proposed Action: The Norbeck 

Wildlife Project proposes to manage 

vegetation to benefit game animals and 

birds on about 6,049 acres within the 

Norbeck Wildlife Preserve. The project 

also proposes to use prescribed fire on 

7,391 acres of the Black Elk Wilderness 

to help protect these habitats from 

wildfire escaping from the wilderness. 

The Forest Service will evaluate, 

analyze and determine the effects of the 

proposed treatments on Norbeck focus 

species (Griebel, Burns and Deisch 

2007) including mountain goat, bighorn 

sheep, elk, white-tailed deer, turkey, 

bluebird, golden-crowned kinglet, 

brown creeper, ruffed grouse, song 

sparrow, northern goshawk and blackbacked woodpecker. 

Possible Alternatives: The No Action 

alternative would not authorize habitat 

improvements of any type on any 

portion of the project area at this time. 

Other alternatives may be developed in 

response to public comments. 

Responsible Official: The Responsible 

Official for this project is Michael D. 

Lloyd, District Ranger, Hell Canyon 

Ranger District, Black Hills National 

Forest, 330 Mt. Rushmore Rd., Custer, 

South Dakota. 

Nature of Decision to be Made: The 

Forest Service will evaluate the 

proposed action and alternatives. After 

reviewing the proposed action, the 

alternatives, the environmental analysis, 

and considering public comment, the 

District Ranger will reach a decision 

that is in accordance with the purpose 

and need for this project. The decision 

will include, but not be limited to: 

(1) Whether or not to undertake 

vegetative treatments to improve habitat 

conditions for game animals and birds 

in Norbeck Wildlife Preserve, 

(2) Whether or not to undertake 

prescribed burning in the Black Elk 

Wilderness to protect these habitats 

from fire escaping from the wilderness, 

(3) If so, what actions are appropriate 

and under what conditions actions will 

take place. 

Public Comment: This notice of intent 

initiates the scoping process which 

guides the development of the 

environmental impact statement. The 

District desires to involve interested 

parties in identifying issues related to 

habitat management for game animals 

and birds. Comments will help the 

planning team identify key issues and 

opportunities to develop habitat 

improvements, monitoring strategies, 

and alternatives. 

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: July 24, 2007. 

Craig Bobzien, 

Forest Supervisor, 

[FR Doc. 07–3710 Filed 7–30–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–11–M 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign–Trade Zones Board 

[Docket 25–2007] 

Foreign–Trade Zone 44 - Mount Olive, 

New Jersey, Application for Expansion 

of FTZ 44 and Expansion of Scope of 

Manufacturing Authority 

An application has been submitted to 

the Foreign–Trade Zones Board (the 

Board) by the New Jersey Commerce, 

Economic Growth & Tourism 

Commission, grantee of FTZ 44, 

requesting authority to expand FTZ 44 

and to expand the scope of 

manufacturing authority for Givaudan 

Fragrances Corporation (Givaudan) 

within FTZ 44, in the Mt. Olive, New 

Jersey area, adjacent to the Newark/New 

York CBP port of entry. The application 

was submitted pursuant to the 

provisions of the Foreign–Trade Zones 

Act, as amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), 

and the regulations of the Board (15 CFR 

Part 400). It was formally filed on July 

20, 2007. 

FTZ 44 was approved on October 18, 

1978 (Board Order No. 139, 43 FR 

50234, 10/27/78) and expanded on May 

29, 2001 (Board Order 1168, 66 FR 

31611, 6/12/01). The zone project 

currently consists of the following sites: 

Site 1 (80 acres) - located within the 

650–acre International Trade Center, 

300 Waterloo Road in the Township of 

Mt. Olive (Morris County) (includes the 

Givaudan facility–228,000 sq. ft., of 

which 42,007 sq. ft. are approved on a 

temporary basis until April 1, 2009 

(A(27f)-17–2007)); and, Site 2 (309 

acres, 2 parcels) - within the Rockefeller 

Cranbury Industrial Park, located at Half 

Acre Road in Cranbury Township 

(Middlesex County). 

The applicant is requesting authority 

to clarify the existing boundaries of Site 

1, expand Site 1 to include additional 

acreage, delete two acres from Site 2, 

and to include four additional sites in 

the Mt. Olive, New Jersey, area: Site 1: 

clarify existing FTZ boundaries (80.03 

acres) and expand the site to include an 

additional 0.5 acres in Mt. Olive which 

will include a 42,007 sq. ft. warehouse 

building on a permanent basis (new 

total acreage - 80.53 acres); Site 2: delete 

two acres due to changed circumstances 

(new total acreage - 307 acres); Proposed 

Site 3 (177 acres) - Central Crossings 

Business Park, located on Bordertown–

Hedding Road, Township of Bordertown 

(Burlington County); Proposed Site 4 (57 

acres) - Old York Office Park, located on 

Old York Road, Township of 

Bordertown (Burlington County); 

Proposed Site 5 (40 acres) - Rockefeller 

Group Foreign Trade Zone 

Meadowlands, located on County Road, 

Jersey City (Hudson County); and, 

Proposed Site 6 (275 acres) - Norfolk 

Southern Rail Yard, off of County Road 

in Jersey City and Secaucus (Hudson 

County). 

The applicant is also requesting an 

expansion of the scope of manufacturing 

authority for Givaudan located in Site 1. 

Givaudan’s original manufacturing 

authority under zone procedures within 

FTZ 44 was granted for the manufacture 

of flavors and fragrances, which are 

used in cosmetics, perfumes and 

household products. Givaudan is now 

requesting authority to utilize a broader 

range of 6–digit input classifications for 

finished product classification 3302.90 

(fragrance compounds). Materials 

sourced from abroad account for 

approximately seventy–five percent of 

all materials used in production. These 

are as follows: cereal groats and pellets, 

natural gums and resins, fish–liver oils, 

olive oil, sunflower–seed oil and other 

oils, other fixed vegetable fats and oils 

including linseed oil, corn oil, and 

sesame oil, extracts and other essences 

of coffee, tea or mate, undenatured ethyl 

alcohol, residues of starch manufacture 

and similar residues, petroleum oils, 

carboxylic acids, carboxyimide–

function compounds, nitrogen function 

compounds, dextrins and other 

modified starches, wood tar, industrial 

monocarboxylic fatty acids, polymers of 

propylene, and polyacetals. The duy 

rates for these inputs and their final 

products range from duty–free to ten 

percent. 

Zone procedures would exempt 

Givaudan from customs duty payments 

on foreign materials used in production 

for export. On domestic shipments, the 

company would be able to defer 

customs duty payments on foreign 

materials, and to choose the duty rate 

that applies to the finished products 

instead of the rates otherwise applicable 

to the foreign input materials. The 

application indicates that the savings 

from zone procedures would help 

improve the plant’s international 

competitiveness. Approximately ten 

percent of production is exported. 

In accordance with the Board’s 

regulations, a member of the FTZ Staff 

has been designated examiner to 

investigate the application and report to 

the Board. 

Public comment on the application is 

invited from interested parties. 

Submissions (original and 3 copies) 

shall be addressed to the Board’s 

Executive Secretary at the address 

below. The closing period for their 

receipt is October 1, 2007. Rebuttal 

comments in response to material 

submitted during the foregoing period 

may be submitted during the subsequent 

15–day period (to October 15, 2007). 

A copy of the application and 

accompanying exhibits will be available 

for public inspection at each of the 

following locations: the Office of the 

New Jersey Commerce, Economic 

Growth & Tourism Commission, 20 

West State Street, Trenton, NJ 08625–

0820; and, the Office of the Executive 

Secretary, Foreign–Trade Zones Board, 

Room 2111, U.S. Department of 

Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20230. 


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