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Meeting Accommodations: If you are 

a person requiring reasonable 

accommodation, please make requests 

in advance for sign language 

interpreting, assistive listening devices 

or other reasonable accommodation. For 

access to the facility or proceedings, 

please contact the person listed in the 

section titled FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. All reasonable 

accommodation requests are managed 

on a case by case basis. 

Dated: May 24, 2018. 

Christopher French, 

Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest 

System. 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest; 

Notice of Availability of the Draft 

Record of Decision and Final 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Boardman to Hemingway 

Transmission Line Project, Oregon 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The USDA Forest Service 

(USFS), Wallowa-Whitman National 

Forest, announces the availability of the 

Draft Record of Decision (ROD) for the 

Boardman to Hemingway Transmission 

Line Project (B2H Project) for public 

review. The proposed actions and 

activities described in the Draft ROD are 

subject to project-level predecisional 

administrative review (known as an 

‘‘objection’’ process) and a 45-day 

objection filing period began with 

publication of a legal notice in the Baker 

City Herald. The USFS previously 

notified the public that the agency 

would waive its administrative review 

procedures and adopt the Bureau of 

Land Management’s (BLM) protest 

procedures for its decisions to issue a 

special use authorization and to amend 

the Forest Plan. Following further 

review of the scope of the decisions that 

the USFS will make and the applicable 

regulations, the USFS determined it 

must instead follow their own agency’s 

project-level predecisional 

administrative review process. 

DATES: An individual or entity who 

meets eligibility for objecting to a draft 

decision outlined in 36 CFR 218.5 and 

wishes to file an objection must do so 

within 45 days of the date that the 

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest 

published the Legal Notice in the 

newspaper of record, the Baker City 

Herald. The publication date of the 

Legal Notice is the exclusive means for 

calculating the time to file an objection. 

ADDRESSES: The Final Environmental 

Impact Statement (FEIS) was circulated 

by the BLM. The USFS adopted the 

FEIS. As a cooperating agency for the 

B2H Project, the USFS need not 

recirculate the FEIS. However, the 

document remains available for review 

on the Applicant’s project 

website at https://www.boardmanto

hemingway.com/documents.aspx and 

copies are available upon request. 

Copies of the Draft ROD were sent to 

Federal, Tribal, State, and local 

governments potentially affected by the 

proposed USFS decision, to public 

libraries in the area, and to interested 

parties that previously requested a DVD 

copy. Interested persons may also 

review the FEIS and Draft ROD, along 

with the legal notice announcing the 

objection period, on the internet at 

https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/ 

?project=26709. 

The reviewing officer for this project 

is James Pen ̃ a, Regional Forester, Pacific 

Northwest Region. Written objections, 

including any attachments, must be 

filed with the reviewing officer and may 

be sent as follows: 

Postal delivery (via USPS): Reviewing 

Officer, Pacific Northwest Region, 

USDA Forest Service, Attn. 1570 

Appeals and Objections, P.O. Box 3623, 

Portland, OR 97208–3623. 

Email: objections-pnw-regionaloffice@fs.fed.us with OBJECTION and 

‘‘B2H Project’’ in the subject line. 

Hand delivered (including courier 

delivery): Pacific Northwest Regional 

Office, Edith Green Wendell Wyatt 

Federal Building, 1220 SW 3rd Avenue, 

Portland, Oregon. Hand deliveries can 

occur between 8:00 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., 

Monday–Friday, except legal holidays; 

Faxed: 503–808–2339, with 

OBJECTION and ‘‘B2H Project’’ noted 

on the cover sheet. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Arlene Blumton, Forest Service Project 

Lead; by telephone at 541–962–8522; or 

email to boardmantohemingway@

fs.fed.us. Individuals who use 

telecommunication devices for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 

between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern 

Time, Monday through Friday. 

For information about the BLM’s 

involvement, contact: Renee Straub, 

Assistant Field Manager, Bureau of 

Land Management, Vale District Office; 

100 Oregon St., Vale, Oregon 97918; by 

telephone 541–473–6289. Persons who 

use a telecommunications device for the 

deaf may call the Federal Relay Service 

(FRS) at (800) 877–8339 to contact the 

above individual during normal 

business hours. The FRS is available 24 

hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a 

message or question with the above 

individual. You will receive a reply 

during normal business hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as 

amended (NEPA), and the Federal Land 

Policy and Management Act of 1976, as 

amended (FLPMA), the Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM), together with 

cooperating agencies including the 

USFS, prepared a FEIS and proposed 

Land Use Plan Amendments for the B2H 

Project. The Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) published a Notice of 

Availability (NOA) for the FEIS in the 

Federal Register on November 25, 2016 

(81 FR 85222). BLM published a NOA 

for the FEIS in the Federal Register on 

November 28, 2016 (81 FR 85632). The 

USFS adopted the FEIS and related 

documents prepared by the lead agency 

(BLM) following 40 CFR 1506.3. A NOA 

announcing USFS’s adoption of the 

FEIS was published by the EPA in the 

Federal Register on June 30, 2017 (82 

FR 29589). 

The FEIS analyzes the potential 

environmental impacts of BLM granting 

a right-of-way to Idaho Power Company 

(Applicant) to use BLM-managed lands 

to construct and operate an 

approximately 300 mile long overhead, 

single-circuit, 500-kilovolt (kV) 

alternating-current electric transmission 

line with ancillary facilities. The FEIS 

also analyzes the potential 

environmental impacts of the USFS 

issuing a special use authorization for 

the construction, operation, and 

maintainenance of those portions of the 

transmission line and ancillary facilities 

located on lands administered by the 

USFS. In addition, the FEIS analyzes the 

potential environmental impacts of an 

amendment to the Wallowa-Whitman 

National Forest’s 1990 Land and 

Resource Management Plan (Forest 

Plan) that are necessary to make the 

Forest Plan consistent with the B2H 

Project. 

The USFS Responsible Official, the 

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest 

Supervisor, must respond to the 

Applicant’s request for use of National 

Forest System lands and determine 

whether to issue a special-use 

authorization for the construction, 

operation, and maintenance of the 

Proposed Action and, if issued, 

determine what terms and conditions 

should apply. The USFS Responsible 

Official must also approve any 

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to make the Forest Plan consistent with 

the Project. The USFS Responsible 

Official’s decisions will be separate 

from the decisions that BLM made in 

their November 17, 2017 Record of 

Decision. 

The FEIS and the USFS’s Draft Record 

of Decision (ROD) are available for 

public review. As required by 36 CFR 

218.7(c), the Wallowa-Whitman 

National Forest published a Legal 

Notice of the opportunity to object in 

the newspaper of record, the Baker City 

Herald. Eligible individuals and entities 

may file objections pursuant to 36 CFR 

218 Subparts A and B. The USFS 

previously notified the public that, 

pursuant to 36CFR 219.59(a), the agency 

would waive its administrative review 

procedures and adopt the BLM’s protest 

procedures for its decisions to issue a 

special use authorization and to amend 

the Forest Plan (NOA for the Draft EIS, 

79 FR 75834). Following further review 

of the scope of the decisions that the 

USFS will make and the applicable 

regulations, the USFS determined it 

must instead follow the project-level 

predecisional administrative review 

process described at 36 CFR 218 

Subparts A and B. 

Dated: May 9, 2018. 

Chris French, 

Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest 

System. 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

National Institute of Food and 

Agriculture 

Notice of Intent To Revise Currently 

Approved Information Collection 

AGENCY: National Institute of Food and 

Agriculture, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Office 

of Management and Budget (OMB) 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, this 

notice announces the National Institute 

of Food and Agriculture’s (NIFA) 

intention to revise a currently approved 

information collection, 0524–0039 

entitled, ‘‘NIFA Application Kit’’. NIFA 

does not plan to make any language 

changes to this information collection. 

DATES: Written comments on this notice 

must be received by August 6, 2018 to 

be assured of consideration. Comments 

received after that date will be 

considered to the extent practicable. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments 

concerning this notice and requests for 

copies of the information collection may 

be submitted by any of the following 

methods: Email: rmartin@nifa.usda.gov; 

Fax: 202–720–0857; Mail: Office of 

Information Technology (OIT), NIFA, 

USDA, STOP 2216, 1400 Independence 

Avenue SW, Washington, DC 20250– 

2216. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert Martin; Email: rmartin@

nifa.usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: NIFA Application Kit. 

OMB Number: 0524–0039. 

Expiration Date of Current Approval: 

October 31, 2018. 

Type of Request: Intent to extend a 

currently approved information 

collection for three years. 

Abstract: The National Institute of 

Food and Agriculture (NIFA) sponsors 

ongoing agricultural research, extension, 

and education programs under which 

competitive, formula, and special 

awards of a high-priority nature are 

made. Because competitive applications 

are submitted, many of which 

necessitate review by peer panelists, it 

is particularly important that applicants 

provide the information in a 

standardized fashion to ensure equitable 

treatment for all. Standardization is also 

important to applicants to other 

programs as it lends itself to a more 

efficient process and minimizes 

administrative burden. For this reason, 

NIFA uses standard forms in the SF–424 

Research and Related (R&R) form family 

which includes agency-specific forms 

for the application process. NIFA issues 

Requests for Applications (RFA) that 

includes the instructions for the 

preparation and submission of 

applications. These instructions 

provide, where appropriate, the 

necessary format for information in 

order to expedite, to the extent possible, 

the application review process. NIFA 

requires submission of applications 

electronically through Grants.gov. 

The forms and narrative information 

are mainly used for application 

evaluation and administration purposes. 

While some of the information is used 

to respond to inquiries from Congress 

and other government agencies, the 

forms are not designed to be statistical 

surveys. 

Also included in this information 

collection is one form which only 

applies to recipients of a NIFA 

fellowship/scholarship. The form is 

only used to document pertinent 

demographic data on the fellows/ 

scholars, documentation of the progress 

of the fellows/scholars under the 

program, and performance outcomes of 

the student beneficiaries. 

Respondents: Universities, non-profit 

institutions, State, local, or Tribal 

government, and a limited number of 

for-profit institutions and individuals. 

Estimated Number of Responses by 

Form: 

Letter of Intent: 2.739. 

Form NIFA–2008 Assurance 

Statement(s): 2,000. 

Supplemental Information: 5,377. 

Application Type: 2,200. 

Proposal Type Form: 2,687. 

NIFA–2010 Fellowships/Scholarships 

Entry/Exit: 150. 

The individual form burden is as 

follows (calculated based on a survey of 

grant applicants conducted by NIFA): 

Letter of Intent: 2 hours. 

Form NIFA–2008 Assurance 

Statement(s): 30 minutes. 

Supplemental Information: 2 hours. 

Proposal Type Form: 15 minutes. 

NIFA–2010 Fellowships/Scholarships 

Entry/Annual Update/Exit: 3 hours. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: The annual total burden 

on the public for all forms is estimated 

to be 18,354 hours. 

Frequency of Respondents: Annually. 

Comments: 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 should be sent to the 

address stated in the preamble. 

All responses to this notice will be 

summarized and included in the request 

for OMB approval. All comments also 

will become a matter of public record. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 30th day of 

May 2018. 

Thomas G. Shanower, 

Acting Director, National Institute of Food 

and Agriculture. 

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