[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 194 (Tuesday, October 7, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 52311]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-26511]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service
[Docket No. 97-072-2]


Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement for the Importation 
of Logs, Lumber, and Other Unmanufactured Wood Articles

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of reopening and extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: We are reopening and extending the comment period for our 
notice announcing that we intend to prepare a supplement to the 
environmental impact statement, issued in July 1994, for the rulemaking 
proceeding entitled ``Importation of Logs, Lumber, and Other 
Unmanufactured Wood Articles.'' This reopening and extension will 
provide interested groups and individuals with additional time to 
prepare comments on the request for information.

DATES: Consideration will be given only to comments on Docket No. 97-
072-1 that are received on or before October 24, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Please send an original and three copies of your comments to 
Docket No. 97-072-1, Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD, APHIS, 
suite 3C03, 4700 River Road Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737-1238. Please 
state that your comments refer to Docket No. 97-072-1. Comments 
received may be inspected at USDA, room 1141, South Building, 14th 
Street and Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC, between 8 a.m. and 
4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays. Persons wishing to 
inspect comments are requested to call ahead on (202) 690-2817 to 
facilitate entry into the comment reading room.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Richard Orr, Entomologist, Risk 
Analysis Systems, PPD, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 117, Riverdale, MD 
20737-1238, (301) 734-8939, or Jack Edmundson, Project Leader, 
Environmental Analysis and Documentation, PPD, APHIS, 4700 River Road, 
Unit 149, Riverdale, MD 20737-1238, (301) 734-8565.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On August 26, 1997, we published in the Federal Register (62 FR 
45217, Docket No. 97-072-1) a notice advising the public that the 
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service would prepare a supplement 
to the environmental impact statement, issued in July 1994, for the 
rulemaking proceeding entitled ``Importation of Logs, Lumber, and Other 
Unmanufactured Wood Articles.'' Comments on that notice were invited 
and a comment due date of September 25, 1997, was established. We are 
now advising the public that an extension of the comment due date, to 
October 24, 1997, has been granted in response to several requests for 
such an extension. This action will allow interested groups and 
individuals additional time to prepare and submit comments.

    Done in Washington, DC, this 1st day of October 1997.
Terry L. Medley,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 97-26511 Filed 10-6-97; 8:45 am]
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