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Notices Federal Register

39784 

Vol. 72, No. 139 

Friday, July 20, 2007 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Office of the Secretary 

Roadless Area Conservation National 

Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice; request for nominations. 

SUMMARY: The current terms of the 

members of the Roadless Area 

Conservation National Advisory 

Committee (RACNAC) will expire in 

September 2007. The Secretary invites 

nominations of persons to serve on this 

committee for a two year period, to run 

from September 2007 to September 

2009. Nominations should describe and 

document the proposed member’s 

qualifications for membership. 

DATES: Nomination packages must 

include a signed and dated copy of form 

AD–755—Advisory Committee 

Membership Background Information. 

Form AD–755 may be obtained at 

http://www.ocio.usda.gov/forms/ 

ocio_forms.html. Nominations must be 

received in writing by August 20, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Nominations for 

membership on the RACNAC may be 

sent via fax to the Director, Ecosystem 

Management Coordination at 202–205– 

1012, or via mail to the Director, 

Ecosystem Management Coordination, 

USDA Forest Service, 1400 

Independence Ave., SW., Mail Stop 

1104, Washington, DC 20250. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jessica Call, RACNAC Coordinator, at 

jessicacall@fs.fed.us or (202) 205–1056, 

USDA Forest Service, 1400 

Independence Avenue, SW., Mailstop 

1104, Washington, DC 20250. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

purpose of the RACNAC is to provide 

advice and recommendations to the 

Secretary on the management and 

conservation of roadless areas, 

including, but not limited to, petitions 

by the States to the Secretary, or his 

designee, under the authority of the 

Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 

553(e) and 7 CFR 1.28). The RACNAC 

reviews submitted petitions and 

provides advice and recommendations 

to the Secretary. The RACNAC also 

provides advice and recommendations 

to the Secretary on any subsequent 

State-specific rulemakings. 

The RACNAC consists of up to 15 

members appointed by the Secretary of 

Agriculture. Officers or employees of 

the Forest Service may not serve as 

members of the Committee. The 

Committee chair shall be elected by the 

members. The RACNAC shall be 

composed of a balanced group of 

representatives of diverse national 

organizations who can provide insights 

into the major contemporary issues 

associated with the conservation and 

management of inventoried roadless 

areas. Members operate in a manner 

designed to establish a consensus of 

opinion in order to develop 

recommendations that reflect relevant 

needs and perspectives. Members seek 

to reach mutual agreement on a course 

of action on issues. Collectively, the 

members should represent a diversity of 

organizations and perspectives. 

Members will work together to draft 

recommendations that are 

representative of the diverse values and 

interests represented in the Committee. 

Appointment to the RACNAC will be 

made by the Secretary of Agriculture. 

Equal opportunity practices will be 

followed in all appointments to the 

RACNAC. To ensure the 

recommendations of the RACNAC have 

taken into account the needs of the 

diverse groups served by the 

Department, membership will include, 

to the extent practicable, individuals 

with demonstrated ability to represent 

minorities, women and persons with 

disabilities. 

Dated: July 13, 2007. 

Gilbert L. Smith Jr., 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Administration. 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Kootenai National Forest, Rexford 

Ranger District, Montana; YoungDodge Environmental Impact 

Statement 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

environmental impact statement. 

SUMMARY: The USDA—Forest Service 

will prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) to disclose the 

environmental effects of timber harvest, 

prescribed burning, road management, 

recreation improvements, and special 

use permits in the Young-Dodge 

Decision Area (Decision Area) on the 

Rexford Ranger District of the Kootenai 

National Forest. The Forest Service is 

seeking comments from Federal; State, 

and local agencies and individuals and 

organizations that may be interested in 

or affected by the proposed actions. The 

comments will be used to prepared the 

draft EIS (DEIS). 

DATES: Written comments concerning 

the scope of the analysis must be 

postmarked by or received within 30 

days following publication of this 

notice. The draft environmental impact 

statement is expected in April 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments 

concerning the proposed action to Glen 

M. McNitt, District Ranger, Rexford 

Ranger District, 1299 U.S. Highway 93 

N, Eureka, MT 59917. All comments 

received must contain: name of 

commenter, postal service mailing 

address, and date of comment. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Chris Fox, Interdisciplinary Team 

Leader, Rexford Ranger District, 1299 

U.S. Highway 93N, Eureka, MT 59917. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Decision Area is located approximately 

15 miles northwest of Eureka, Montana, 

and contains approximately 37,900 

acres of land within the Kootenai 

National Forest. Proposed activities 

include all or portions of the following 

areas: T.37N R.28W and part of T.37N 

R.29W, PMM, Lincoln County, 

Montana. 

All proposed activities are outside the 

boundaries of any areas considered for 

inclusion to the National Wilderness 

System as recommended by the 

Kootenai National Forest Plan or by any 

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past or present legislative wilderness 

proposals. A prescribed burn is 

proposed within the boundary of the 

Robinson Mountain Inventoried 

Roadless Area. 

Purpose and Need for Action 

The purpose and need for the project 

is to: (1) Reduce fuel accumulations, 

both inside and outside the WildlandUrban Interface, to decrease the 

likelihood that fires would become 

stand-replacing wildfires; (2) Restore 

historical vegetation species and stand 

structure; and (3) Restore historical 

patch sizes. Other consideration are: (4) 

Identify the minimum transportation 

system necessary to provide safe, 

reasonable, and efficient access for 

Forest Service administrative activities 

and fire suppression, recreation use and 

public access, and private land owners 

and utility companies; (5) Manage the 

transportation system to reduce effects 

to threatened, endangered, sensitive, 

and management indicator species 

habitat and security; streams, riparian 

areas, and wetlands; big game winter 

range; and old growth habitat, and to 

minimize road maintenance costs; (6) 

Evaluate recreation facilities and 

opportunities to meet growing and 

anticipated demand; and (7) Evaluate 

existing and proposed Special Use 

Permits. 

Proposed Action 

The Forest Service proposes to use 

regeneration harvest (shelterwood and 

seedtree prescriptions) on 

approximately 2,000 acres, and 

commercial thinning on approximately 

1,120 acres. 

The Proposed Action would result in 

26 openings over 40 acres, ranging from 

41 to 1,121 acres. A 60-day public 

review period and approval by the 

Regional Forester for exceeding the 40- 

acre limitation for regeneration harvest 

would be required prior to the signing 

of the Record of Decision. This 60-day 

period is initiated with this Notice of 

Intent. 

The Proposed Action includes 

approximately 2,660 acres of 

underburning following timber harvest, 

460 acres of excavator piling and 

burning, and approximately 2,050 acres 

of prescribed burning without timber 

harvest. Approximately 1,650 acres will 

be mechanically pre-treated followed by 

prescribed burning. Additionally, the 

Proposed Action includes 31 acres of 

post and pole harvest, 366 acres of 

roadside salvage, and up to 200 acres of 

salvage of incidental mortality 

associated with prescribed burning. 

The Proposed Action includes 

maintenance activities on portions of 

approximately 70 miles of road to meet 

Best Management Practices; 

decommissioning approximately 12 

miles of roads currently restricted yearlong to motorized vehicles; placing 

approximately 26 miles of roads, which 

are currently restrict year-long to motor 

vehicles, in intermittent stored service; 

placing seasonal restrictions on 

motorized vehicle use on approximately 

6 miles of roads; adding approximately 

9 miles of ‘‘unauthorized’’ roads to the 

National Forest Road System; and 

realigning and reconstructing 

approximately .25 miles of a road which 

is of poor standard and receiving heavy 

use. 

The Proposed Action includes the 

construction of a boat ramp and 

installation of a rest room, and 

improvements to a trail. 

The Proposed Action also includes a 

number of special use permits which 

will expire during the period this 

project will be implemented, and two 

proposed special use permits for utility 

lines. 

The Proposed Action may require 

several project-specific Forest Plan 

amendments to meet the project’s 

objectives: 

An amendment to allow harvest in 

units adjacent to existing openings in 

Management Area (MA) 12 (Big Game 

Summer Range). The amendment would 

be needed to suspend Wildlife and Fish 

Standard #7 and Timber Standard #2 for 

this area. These standards state the 

movement corridors and adjacent hiding 

cover be retained. 

The resulting opening sizes more 

closely correlate to natural disturbance 

patterns. Snags and down woody 

material would be left to provide 

wildlife habitat and maintain soil 

productivity. 

A third amendment to allow the open 

road density in MA 12 to be managed 

at greater than 0.75 miles/square mile 

during project implementation may be 

required. The amendment would be 

necessary to suspend Facilities Standard 

#3, which states that open road density 

should be maintained at 0.75 miles/ 

square mile. 

Possible Alternatives 

The Forest Service will consider a 

range of alternatives. One of these will 

be the ‘‘no action’’ alternative, in which 

none of the proposed activities will be 

implemented. Additional alternatives 

will be considered to achieve the 

project’s purpose and need for action, 

and to respond to specific resource 

issues and public concerns. 

Responsible Official 

Paul Bradford, Forest Supervisor, 

Kootenai National Forest, 1101 Highway 

2 West, Libby, MT 59923. 

Nature of the Decision To Be Made 

This project will provide 

approximately 10 MMBF of commercial 

forest products, reduce hazardous fuels 

within and outside the wildland-urban 

interface, provide for recreation 

facilities, and evaluate special-use 

permits. 

Scoping Process 

In March 2007, efforts were made to 

involve the public in considering 

management opportunities within the 

Decision Area. Open houses were held 

on March 14 and 15, 2007. A scoping 

package was mailed for public review 

on May 4, 2007. An open house was 

held on May 16, 2007, and field trips 

were held on May 17, 2007 and June 28, 

2007. The proposal will be included in 

the quarterly Schedule of Proposed 

Actions. Comments received prior to 

this notice will be included in the 

documentation for the EIS. 

Preliminary Issues 

A preliminary issue identified reflects 

concern over the amount of regeneration 

harvest (approximately 2,000 acres) 

proposed in watersheds were logging 

has occurred and grizzly bears and lynx 

may be present. 

Comment Requested 

This Notice of intent initiates the 

scoping process which guides the 

development of the environment impact 

statement. At this stage of the planning 

process, site-specific public comments 

are being requested to determine the 

scope of the analysis, and identify 

significant issues and alternatives to the 

Proposed Action. 

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 will be 45 days 

from the date the Environmental 

Protection Agency published the notice 

of availability in the Federal Register. 

The Forest Service believes it is 

important to give reviewers notice of 

several court rulings related to public 

participating in the environmental 

review process. First, reviewers of DEIS’

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 

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Power Corp. v. NRDC, 435 U.S. 519, 553 

(1978). Also, environmental objections 

that could be raised at the draft 

environmental impact statement stage 

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, 1339 (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 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 statements. 

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 10, 2007. 

Paul Bradford, 

Forest Supervisor. 

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COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM 

PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR 

SEVERELY DISABLED 

Procurement List; Proposed Additions 

and Deletions 

ACTION: Proposed Additions to and 

Deletions from the Procurement List. 

SUMMARY: The Committee is proposing 

to add to the Procurement List a product 

and a service to be furnished by 

nonprofit agencies employing persons 

who are blind or have other severe 

disabilities, and to delete a product and 

a service previously furnished by such 

agencies. 

Comments Must Be Received On or 

Before: August 19, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Committee for Purchase 

From People Who Are Blind or Severely 

Disabled, Jefferson Plaza 2, Suite 10800, 

1421 Jefferson Davis Highway, 

Arlington, Virginia 22202–3259. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR TO SUBMIT

COMMENTS CONTACT: Kimberly M. Zeich, 

Telephone: (703) 603–7740, Fax: (703) 

603–0655, or e-mail 

CMTEFedReg@jwod.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published pursuant to 41 

U.S.C. 47(a) (2) and 41 CFR 51–2.3. Its 

purpose is to provide interested persons 

an opportunity to submit comments on 

the proposed actions. 

Additions 

If the Committee approves the 

proposed additions, the entities of the 

Federal Government identified in this 

notice for each product or service will 

be required to procure the products and 

services listed below from nonprofit 

agencies employing persons who are 

blind or have other severe disabilities. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification 

I certify that the following action will 

not have a significant impact on a 

substantial number of small entities. 

The major factors considered for this 

certification were: 

1. If approved, the action will not 

result in any additional reporting, 

recordkeeping or other compliance 

requirements for small entities other 

than the small organizations that will 

furnish the products and services to the 

Government. 

2. If approved, the action will result 

in authorizing small entities to furnish 

the products and services to the 

Government. 

3. There are no known regulatory 

alternatives which would accomplish 

the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 46–48c) in 

connection with the products and 

services proposed for addition to the 

Procurement List. 

Comments on this certification are 

invited. Commenters should identify the 

statement(s) underlying the certification 

on which they are providing additional 

information. 

End of Certification 

The following products and service 

are proposed for addition to 

Procurement List for production by the 

nonprofit agencies listed: 

Products: 

Portfolio, Writing, CAMO (ACU Digitized): 

NSN: 7510–00–NIB–0753—Memo size; 

NSN: 7510–00–NIB–0764—Letter Size; 

NSN: 7510–00–NIB–0765—Memo Size; 

NSN: 7510–00–NIB–0766—Letter Size; 

NSN: 7510–00–NIB–0805—US Army Logo. 

Memo Size; 

NSN: 7510–00–NIB–0808—Pocket Size. 

Coverage: A-List for the total Government 

requirements as specified by the General 

Services Administration. 

Portfolio, Writing, Custom Color and Logo: 

NSN: 7510–00–NIB–0806—Memo Size. 

Coverage: B-List for the requirements of the 

General Services Administration. 

NPA: New York City Industries for the Blind, 

Inc., Brooklyn, NY. 

Contracting Activity: General Services 

Administration, Office Supplies & Paper 

Products Acquisition Ctr, New York, NY. 

Service: 

Service Type/Location: Commissary 

Warehousing, Warehouse Building 3335, 

3335 Central Avenue, Suite 100, Eielson 

AFB, AK. 

NPA: Fairbanks Resource Agency, Fairbanks, 

AK. 

Contracting Activity: Defense Commissary 

Agency, Fort Lee, VA. 

Deletions 

Regulatory Flexibility Act Certification 

I certify that the following action will 

not have a significant impact on a 

substantial number of small entities. 

The major factors considered for this 

certification were: 

1. If approved, the action may result 

in additional reporting, recordkeeping 

or other compliance requirements for 

small entities. 

2. If approved, the action may result 

in authorizing small entities to furnish 

the services to the Government. 

3. There are no known regulatory 

alternatives which would accomplish 

the objectives of the Javits-WagnerO’Day Act (41 U.S.C. 46–48c) in 

connection with the services proposed 

for deletion from the Procurement List. 

End of Certification 

The following product and service are 

proposed for deletion from the 

Procurement List: 

Product: 

Tube, Mailing and Filing: 

NSN: 8110–00–969–5406—Tube, Mailing 

and Filing. 

NPA: MacDonald Training Center, Inc., 

Tampa, FL. 

Contracting Activity: General Services 

Administration, Office Supplies & Paper 

Products Acquisition Ctr, New York, NY. 

Service: 

Service Type/Location: Commissary Shelf 

Stocking, Custodial & Warehousing, 

Marine Corps Base, Twenty-Nine Palms, 

CA. 

NPA: PRIDE Industries, Inc., Roseville, CA. 

Contracting Activity: Defense Commissary 

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