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of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500–1508), (3) 

USDA regulations implementing NEPA 

(7 CFR part 1b), and (4) APHIS’ NEPA 

Implementing Procedures (7 CFR part 

372). Based on that EA, APHIS has 

reached a finding of no significant 

impact with regard to the determination 

that Monsanto soybean line MON 89788 

and lines developed from it are no 

longer regulated articles under its 

regulations in 7 CFR part 340. Copies of 

the EA and finding of no significant 

impact are available as indicated in the 

ADDRESSES and FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT sections of this 

notice. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 7701–7772 and 7781–

7786; 31 U.S.C. 9701; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 

371.3. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 27th day of 

July 2007. 

Kevin Shea, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. E7–15001 Filed 8–1–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2007–0106] 

Secretary’s Advisory Committee on 

Foreign Animal and Poultry Diseases; 

Meeting 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 

II), we are giving notice of a meeting of 

the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on 

Foreign Animal and Poultry Diseases. 

DATES: A session open to the public will 

be held on August 21, 2007, from 8 a.m. 

to 5 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in 

the Jamie L. Whitten Federal Building, 

12th Street and Jefferson Drive, SW., 

Washington, DC, in room 107A. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Bethany O’Brien, Acting Director 

Interagency Coordination, National 

Center for Animal Health Emergency 

Management, VS, APHIS, 4700 River 

Road, Unit 41, Riverdale, MD 20737; 

(301) 734–0825. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Secretary’s Advisory Committee on 

Foreign Animal and Poultry Diseases 

(the Committee) advises the Secretary of 

Agriculture on actions necessary to 

prevent the introduction of foreign 

diseases of livestock and poultry into 

the United States. In addition, the 

Committee advises the Secretary on 

contingency planning and on 

maintaining a state of preparedness to 

deal with these diseases, if introduced. 

The meeting will focus on the U.S. 

animal health emergency management 

system and on the foreign animal 

disease situation worldwide and its 

relevance to the United States. The 

session will be open to the public. 

However, due to time constraints, the 

public will not be allowed to participate 

in the Committee’s discussions. 

You may obtain an agenda for the 

meeting by contacting Dr. Bethany 

O’Brien at the address listed under FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Written 

statements on meeting topics may be 

filed with the Committee before or after 

the meeting by sending them to the 

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. Written 

statements may also be filed at the 

meeting. Please refer to Docket No. 

APHIS–2007–0106 when submitting 

your statements. 

Upon entering the Whitten Building, 

visitors should inform security 

personnel that they are attending the 

Advisory Committee meeting on Foreign 

Animal and Poultry Diseases. Photo 

identification is required. Visitor badges 

must be worn at all times while inside 

the building. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 27th day of 

July 2007. 

Kevin Shea, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. E7–14987 Filed 8–1–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food Safety and Inspection Service 

[Docket No. FSIS–2007–0027] 

National Advisory Committee on Meat 

and Poultry Inspection 

AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection 

Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App., 

the National Advisory Committee on 

Meat and Poultry Inspection (NACMPI) 

will hold a public meeting on August 8–

9, 2007, to review and discuss the 

following issues: (1) Data Collection and 

Analysis at the Food Safety and 

Inspection Service (FSIS): Standard 

Operating Procedures, (2) Linking FSIS 

Activities to its Public Health Goals, and 

(3) Pilot Project to Explore Mechanisms 

for Sharing Industry Data with FSIS. 

The first issue, Data Collection and 

Analysis at FSIS: Standard Operating 

Procedures, will be presented to the 

entire Committee for discussion during 

the morning session on August 8, 2007. 

The other two issues will be presented 

to the entire Committee in the afternoon 

session. The committee will then divide 

into two subcommittees. These 

subcommittees will meet in the 

afternoon of August 8, 2007, to discuss 

the issues Linking FSIS Activities to its 

Public Health Goals and Pilot Project to 

Explore Mechanisms for Sharing 

Industry Data with FSIS. Each 

subcommittee will provide a report of 

their comments and recommendations 

to the full committee on the morning of 

August 9, 2007. 

DATES: The full Committee will hold a 

public meeting on Wednesday, August 

8, and Thursday, August 9, 2007, from 

8:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Subcommittees will 

hold open meetings on Wednesday, 

August 8, 2007, from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: All Committee meetings 

will take place at George Mason 

University, 3401 N. Fairfax Drive, 

Arlington, VA 22201. A meeting agenda 

is available on the Internet at the 

NACMPI Web site, http:// 

www.fsis.usda.gov/about_fsis/nacmpi/ 

index.asp. The NACMPI meeting 

agenda, together with information and 

resource materials on public healthbased inspection, is also available on 

the Internet at, http:// 

www.fsis.usda.gov/ 

Regulations_&_Policies/ 

Risk_Based_Inspection/index.asp. FSIS 

welcomes comments on the topics to be 

discussed at the NACMPI public 

meeting. Comments may be submitted 

by any of the following methods: 

Electronic mail: 

NACMPI@fsis.usda.gov. 

Mail, including floppy disks or CD–

ROMs: Send to National Advisory 

Committee on Meat and Poultry 

Inspection, United States Department of 

Agriculture, Food Safety and Inspection 

Service, 14th & Independence Avenue, 

SW., Mail Drop 405 Aerospace, 

Washington, DC 20250. 

Hand- or courier-delivered items: 

Deliver to Loraine Cannon at 901 D 

Street SW., Washington, DC. To deliver 

these items, the building security guard 

must first call (202) 690–6520. 

Facsimile: Send to Loraine Cannon, 

(202) 690–6519. All submissions 

received must include the Agency name 

and docket number FSIS–2007–0027. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert Tynan for technical information 

at (202) 720–3884, or e-mail 

robert.tynan@fsis.usda.gov and Loraine 

Cannon for meeting information at (202) 

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690–6647, Fax (202) 690–6519, or e-mail 

NACMPI@fsis.usda.gov. Persons 

requiring a sign language interpreter or 

other special accommodations should 

notify Loraine Cannon at the numbers 

above or by e-mail. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The NACMPI provides advice and 

recommendations to the Secretary of 

Agriculture pertaining to the Federal 

and State meat and poultry inspection 

programs, pursuant to sections 7(c), 24, 

205, 301(a)(3), 301(a)(4), and 301(c) of 

the Federal Meat Inspection Act [21 

U.S.C. 607(c), 624, 645, 661(a)(3), 

661(a)(4), and 661(c)] and sections 

5(a)(3), 5(a)(4), 5(c), 8(b), and 11(e) of 

the Poultry Products Inspection Act [21 

U.S.C. 454(a)(3), 454(a)(4), 454(c), 

457(b), and 460(e)]. 

The Administrator of FSIS is the 

chairperson of the Committee. 

Membership of the Committee is drawn 

from representatives of consumer 

groups; producers, processors, and 

marketers from the meat, poultry and 

egg product industries; State and local 

government officials; and academia. The 

current members of the NACMPI are: 

Ms. Kibbe M. Conti, Northern Plains 

Nutrition Consulting, Rapid City, SD; 

Mr. Brian R. Covington, Keystone Foods 

LLC, West Conshohocken, PA; Dr. 

Catherine N. Cutter, Pennsylvania State 

University, University Park, PA; Dr. 

James S. Dickson, Iowa State University, 

Ames, IA; Mr. Kevin M. Elfering, 

Minnesota Department of Agriculture, 

St. Paul, MN; Mr. Mike W. Finnegan, 

Montana Meat & Poultry Inspection 

Bureau, Helena, MT; Ms. Carol Tucker 

Foreman, Consumer Federation of 

America, Chevy Chase, MD; Dr. Andrea 

L. Grondahl, North Dakota Department 

of Agriculture, Bismarck, ND; Dr. Joseph 

J. Harris, Southwest Meat Association, 

Bryan, TX; Dr. Craig W. Henry, Food 

Products Association, Washington, DC; 

Ms. Cheryl D. Jones, Morehouse School 

of Medicine, Atlanta, GA; Mr. Michael 

E. Kowalcyk, DunnhumbyUSA LLC, 

Cincinnati, OH; Dr. Shelton E. Murinda, 

California State Polytechnic University, 

Pomona, CA; Dr. Edna Negron-Bravo, 

University of Puerto Rico, Mayaguez, 

PR; Dr. Michael L. Rybolt, National 

Turkey Federation, Washington, DC; Mr. 

Mark P. Schad, Schad Meats, Inc., 

Cincinnati, OH; and Dr. Stanley A. 

Stromberg, Oklahoma Department of 

Agriculture, Food, and Forestry, 

Oklahoma City, OK. 

The Committee has subcommittees to 

deliberate on specific issues and make 

recommendations to the whole 

Committee. The Committee makes 

recommendations to the Secretary of 

Agriculture. 

All interested parties are welcome to 

attend the Meetings and to submit 

written comments and suggestions 

concerning issues the Committee will 

review and discuss. The comments and 

the official transcript of the meeting, 

when they become available, will be 

kept in the FSIS Docket Room, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, Food Safety 

and Inspection Service, 300 12th Street, 

SW., Room 102, Cotton Annex, 

Washington, DC 20250, and posted on 

the Agency’s NACMPI Web site, 

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/about_fsis/ 

nacmpi/index.asp. 

Members of the public will be 

required to register before entering the 

meeting. 

Additional Public Notification 

Public awareness of all segments of 

rulemaking and policy development is 

important. Consequently, in an effort to 

ensure that minorities, women, and 

persons with disabilities are aware of 

this notice, FSIS will announce it online through the FSIS Web page located 

at http://www.fsis.usda.gov/regulations/ 

2007 Notices Index/. FSIS will also 

make copies of this Federal Register 

publication available through the FSIS 

Constituent Update, which is used to 

provide information regarding FSIS 

policies, procedures, regulations, 

Federal Register notices, FSIS public 

meetings, and other types of information 

that could affect or would be of interest 

to constituents and stakeholders. The 

Update is communicated via Listserv, a 

free electronic mail subscription service 

for industry, trade and farm groups, 

consumer interest groups, allied health 

professionals, and other individuals 

who have asked to be included. The 

Update is available on the FSIS Web 

page. Through the Listserv and Web 

page, FSIS is able to provide 

information to a much broader and more 

diverse audience. In addition, FSIS 

offers an e-mail subscription service 

which provides automatic and 

customized access to selected food 

safety news and information. This 

service is available at http:// 

www.fsis.usda.gov/news and events/ 

email subscription/. Options range from 

recalls to export information to 

regulations, directives and notices. 

Customers can add or delete 

subscriptions themselves and have the 

option to password protect their 

account. 

Done in Washington, DC on July 24, 2007. 

Alfred V. Almanza, 

Administrator. 

[FR Doc. 07–3783 Filed 7–30–07; 4:29 pm] 

BILLING CODE 3410–DM–M 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Colville National Forest; Washington; 

Republic Ranger Station Excess 

Residence Sale 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

environmental impact statement. 

SUMMARY: The Colville National Forest, 

USDA Forest Service, will prepare an 

EIS (environmental impact statement) 

on a proposal to sell a 0.4-acre parcel of 

land with a residential building, located 

on the Republic Ranger District 

administrative compound, within the 

City of Republic, Ferry County 

Washington. The parcel and Building 

are no longer needed to meet public 

service of Forest Service mission 

requirements. The Forest Service 

Facility Realignment and Enhancement 

Act of 2005 authorized the Secretary of 

Agriculture to sell administrative sites 

that are no longer needed for National 

Forest System purposes. Project 

implementation is scheduled for Fiscal 

Year 2008. This project is not associated 

with the proposed Secure Rural Schools 

Land Sale Initiative. The Colville 

National Forest invites written 

comments and suggestions on the scope 

of the analysis. The agency will give 

notice of the full environmental analysis 

and decision-making process so 

interested and affected people may 

participate and contribute to the final 

decision. 

DATES: Comments concerning the scope 

of the analysis must be received by 

August 31, 2007. The draft 

environmental impact statement is 

expected in November 2007 and the 

final environmental impact statement is 

expected in January 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to 

Rick Brazell, Forest Supervisor, Colville 

National Forest, 765 South Main, 

Colville, WA 99114 (phone 509–684–

7000). Comments may be submitted 

electronically to commentspacificnorthwest-colville@fs.fed.us. 

Comments may also be sent by fax to 

(509) 775–7401. Include your name and 

mailing address with your comments so 

documents pertaining to this project 

may be mailed to you. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ed 

Shaw, Reality Specialist, Colville 

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