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Vol. 79, No. 10 

Wednesday, January 15, 2014 

AFRICAN DEVELOPMENT 

FOUNDATION 

Public Quarterly Meeting of the Board 

of Directors 

AGENCY: United States African 

Development Foundation. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The US African Development 

Foundation (USADF) will hold its 

quarterly meeting of the Board of 

Directors to discuss the agency’s 

programs and administration. 

DATES: The meeting date is Wednesday, 

January 29th, 2014, 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 

p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting location is 

1400 I Street Northwest, Suite #1000 

(Main Conference Room), Washington, 

DC 20005–2246. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Rabayah Akhter, 202–233–8811. 

Authority: Public Law 96–533 (22 U.S.C. 

290h). 

Dated: January 8, 2014. 

Shari Berenbach, 

President and CEO. 

[FR Doc. 2014–00559 Filed 1–14–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6117–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Caribou-Targhee National Forest, 

Westside Ranger District, Idaho 

Pocatello, Midnight, and Michaud 

Allotment Management Plan Revisions 

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 

environmental effects to authorize 

livestock grazing on all or portions of 

the Pocatello, Midnight, and Michaud 

allotments. The project area is within 

the Portneuf River and American Falls 

Subbasins. The project area is 10 miles 

south of Pocatello, Idaho and 

encompasses 43,200 acres of the 

National Forest Systems Lands 

administered by the Westside Ranger 

District, Caribou-Targhee National 

Forest. 

DATES: ‘‘Comments concerning the 

scope of the analysis must be received 

by February 14, 2014. The draft 

environmental impact statement is 

expected June 2014 and the final impact 

statement is expected December 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to 

District Ranger Jeffery Hammes, 

Westside Ranger District, 4350 Cliffs 

Drive, Pocatello, ID 83204. Comments 

may also be sent via email to 

[comments-intermtn-caribou-targheewestside@fs.fed.us>], or via facsimile to 

208–236–7555. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Heidi Heyrend, Rangeland Management 

Specialist, 1405 Hollipark Drive, Idaho 

Falls, Idaho 83401. Telephone: 208 524– 

7500, email hheyrend@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. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose and Need for Action 

The purpose of this project is to 

reauthorize livestock grazing in a 

manner that maintains and/or moves the 

area toward Forest Plan objectives and 

desired conditions. The previous AMPs 

were completed in 1992. Since that 

time, the following have occurred: The 

Forest Plan was revised in 2003; Term 

Grazing Permits were modified with the 

Forest Plan Grazing Management 

riparian and upland forage utilization 

standards in 2005; and Lower Portneuf 

Watershed Analysis (LPWA) was 

completed and included revised 

management recommendations as well 

as identified areas not meeting Forest 

Plan Desired Condition in 2010. There 

is a need for change from the current 

management as the allotments are not 

meeting or moving toward desired 

conditions in an acceptable timeframe. 

Specific desired conditions that are not 

being met include: riparian conditions, 

and water resource and quality, and 

recreation. 

Proposed Action 

The proposed action would 

reauthorize livestock grazing within the 

project area and would implement a 

grazing management strategy that would 

result in improvement of riparian, water 

quality, and aquatic resources, and 

reduces the recreation conflict. The 

allotment management plan outlines 

livestock management objectives, 

practices (including maximum amount 

of use to meet management objectives), 

structural and non-structural 

improvement necessary to meet 

management objectives, and a 

monitoring plan to determine whether 

management objectives are being met 

and adaptive management actions 

employed. The proposed actions 

includes direction for livestock grazing 

in riparian areas using the Caribou 

Riparian Grazing Implementation Guide 

(i.e. site-specific riparian grazing 

management standards); adjusted 

structural range improvements (i.e. 

fences and water development) to 

reduce the impacts to riparian areas and 

disperse recreation management 

prescription; and defines the adaptive 

management strategies to meet 

management objectives and practices. 

Possible Alternatives 

In addition to the proposed action, the 

no graze alternative was also identified 

to be analyzed in the environment 

analysis. ‘‘No grazing’’ means that the 

Forest Service would not reauthorize 

livestock grazing within the project area 

(FSH 2209.13–92.31). Permitted 

livestock grazing would be eliminated 

on the Pocatello, Midnight, and 

Michaud Allotments. The livestock 

grazing permits would be cancelled. In 

accordance with agency regulations (36 

CFR 222.4), grazing would cease two 

years after the notice of cancellation. 

Current livestock management would 

continue during that two-year interval. 

Responsible Official 

The Westside District Ranger, Jeffery 

Hammes, will be the responsible official 

for making the decision and providing 

direction for the analysis. 

Nature of Decision To Be Made 

The responsible official will decide 

whether or not to re authorize livestock 

grazing within the Pocatello, Midnight, 


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