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National Forests in North Carolina, 

North Carolina 

Forest Supervisor Decisions 

The Asheville Citizen-Times, 

published daily in Asheville, NC. 

District Ranger Decisions 

Appalachian Ranger District: The 

Asheville Citizen-Times, published 

daily in Asheville, NC. 

Cheoah Ranger District: Graham Star, 

published weekly (Thursday) in 

Robbinsville, NC. 

Croatan Ranger District: The Sun 

Journal, published daily in New Bern, 

NC. 

Grandfather Ranger District: 

McDowell News, published daily in 

Marion, NC. 

Nantahala Ranger District: The 

Franklin Press, published bi-weekly 

(Tuesday and Friday) in Franklin, NC. 

Pisgah Ranger District: The Asheville 

Citizen-Times, published daily in 

Asheville, NC. 

Tusquitee Ranger District: Cherokee 

Scout, published weekly (Wednesday) 

in Murphy, NC. 

Uwharrie Ranger District: 

Montgomery Herald, published weekly 

(Wednesday) in Troy, NC. 

Ouachita National Forest, Arkansas 

and Oklahoma 

Forest Supervisor Decisions 

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 

published daily in Little Rock, AR. 

District Ranger Decisions 

Caddo-Womble Ranger District: 

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, published 

daily in Little Rock, AR. 

Jessieville-Winona-Fourche Ranger 

District: Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, 

published daily in Little Rock, AR. 

Mena-Oden Ranger District: Arkansas 

Democrat-Gazette, published daily in 

Little Rock, AR. 

Oklahoma Ranger District (Choctaw; 

Kiamichi; and Tiak): Tulsa World, 

published daily in Tulsa, OK. 

Poteau-Cold Springs Ranger District: 

Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, published 

daily in Little Rock, AR. 

Ozark-St. Francis National Forests, 

Arkansas 

Forest Supervisor Decisions 

The Courier, published daily 

(Tuesday through Sunday) in 

Russellville, AR. 

District Ranger Decisions 

Bayou Ranger District: The Courier, 

published daily (Tuesday through 

Sunday) in Russellville, AR. 

Boston Mountain Ranger District: 

Southwest Times Record, published 

daily in Fort Smith, AR. 

Buffalo Ranger District: Newton 

County Times, published weekly in 

Jasper, AR. 

Magazine Ranger District: Southwest 

Times Record, published daily in Fort 

Smith, AR. 

Pleasant Hill Ranger District: Johnson 

County Graphic, published weekly 

(Wednesday) in Clarksville, AR. 

St. Francis National Forest: The Daily 

World, published daily (Sunday through 

Friday) in Helena, AR. 

Sylamore Ranger District: Stone 

County Leader, published weekly 

(Wednesday) in Mountain View, AR. 

National Forests and Grasslands in 

Texas, Texas 

Forest Supervisor Decisions 

The Lufkin Daily News, published 

daily in Lufkin, TX. 

District Ranger Decisions 

Angelina National Forest: The Lufkin 

Daily News, published daily in Lufkin, 

TX. 

Caddo & LBJ National Grasslands: 

Denton Record-Chronicle, published 

daily in Denton, TX. 

Davy Crockett National Forest: The 

Lufkin Daily News, published daily in 

Lufkin, TX. 

Sabine National Forest: The Lufkin 

Daily News, published daily in Lufkin, 

TX. 

Sam Houston National Forest: The 

Courier, published daily in Conroe, TX. 

Dated: April 3, 2009. 

Lesley A. Nettleton, 

Deputy Regional Forester. 

[FR Doc. E9–8093 Filed 4–9–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–11–M 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Animal and Plant Health Inspection 

Service 

[Docket No. APHIS–2009–0011] 

Potato Cyst Nematode; Update of 

Quarantined Areas 

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of changes to 

quarantined area. 

SUMMARY: We are advising the public 

that we have made changes to the area 

in the State of Idaho that is quarantined 

to prevent the spread of potato cyst 

nematode. The description of the 

quarantined area was updated on 

December 9, 2008, when 20 fields were 

removed from the quarantined area, and 

on January 14, 2009, when 17 additional 

fields were removed from the 

quarantined area. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Eileen Y. Smith, National Program 

Manager, Emergency and Domestic 

Programs, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River Road 

Unit 150, Riverdale, MD 20737–1236; 

(301) 734–5235. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The potato cyst nematode (PCN, 

Globodera pallida) is a major pest of 

potato crops in cool-temperature areas. 

Other solanaceous hosts include 

tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, tomatillos, 

and some weeds. The PCN is thought to 

have originated in Peru and is now 

widely distributed in many potatogrowing regions of the world. PCN 

infestations may be expressed as 

patches of poor growth. Affected potato 

plants may exhibit yellowing, wilting, 

or death of foliage. Even with only 

minor symptoms on the foliage, potato 

tuber size can be affected. Unmanaged 

infestations can cause potato yield loss 

ranging from 20 to 70 percent. The 

spread of this pest in the United States 

could result in a loss of domestic or 

foreign markets for U.S. potatoes and 

other commodities. 

The PCN quarantine regulations 

(§§ 301.86 through 301.86–9, referred to 

below as the regulations) set out 

procedures for determining the areas 

quarantined for PCN and impose 

restrictions on the interstate movement 

of regulated articles from quarantined 

areas. 

Section 301.86–3 of the regulations 

sets out the procedures for determining 

the areas quarantined for PCN. 

Paragraph (a) of § 301.86–3 states that, 

in accordance with the criteria listed in 

§ 301.86–3(c), the Administrator will 

designate as a quarantined area each 

field that has been found to be infested 

with PCN, each field that has been 

found to be associated with an infested 

field, and any area that the 

Administrator considers necessary to 

quarantine because of its inseparability 

for quarantine enforcement purposes 

from infested or associated fields. 

Paragraph (c) provides that the 

Administrator will designate a field as 

an infested field when PCN is found in 

the field. Paragraph (c) also provides 

that the Administrator will designate a 

field as an associated field when PCN 

host crops, as listed in § 301.86–2(b), 

have been grown in the field in the last 

10 years and the field shares a border 

with an infested field; the field came 

into contact with a regulated article 

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listed in § 301.86–2 from an infested 

field within the last 10 years; or, within 

the last 10 years, the field shared 

ownership, tenancy, seed, drainage or 

runoff, farm machinery, or other 

elements of shared cultural practices 

with an infested field that could allow 

spread of the PCN, as determined by the 

Administrator. 

Paragraph (b) describes the conditions 

for the designation of an area less than 

an entire State as a quarantined area. 

Less than an entire State will be 

designated as a quarantined area only if 

the Administrator determines that: 

• The State has adopted and is 

enforcing restrictions on the intrastate 

movement of the regulated articles that 

are equivalent to those imposed by the 

regulations on the interstate movement 

of regulated articles; and 

• The designation of less than the 

entire State as a quarantined area will 

prevent the interstate spread of PCN. 

We have determined that it is not 

necessary to designate the entire State of 

Idaho as a quarantined area. Idaho has 

adopted and is enforcing restrictions on 

the intrastate movement of regulated 

articles from that area that are 

equivalent to those we are imposing on 

the interstate movement of regulated 

articles. 

Paragraph (d) provides for the 

removal of fields from quarantine. An 

infested field will be removed from 

quarantine when a 3-year biosurvey 

protocol approved by APHIS has been 

completed and the field has been found 

to be free of PCN. An associated field 

will be removed from quarantine when 

the field has been found to be free of 

PCN according to a survey protocol 

approved by the Administrator as 

sufficient to support removal from 

quarantine. Any area other than infested 

or associated fields which has been 

quarantined by the Administrator 

because of its inseparability for 

quarantine enforcement purposes from 

infested or associated fields will be 

removed from quarantine when the 

relevant infested or associated fields are 

removed from quarantine. 

Paragraph (a) of § 301.86–3 further 

provides that the Administrator will 

publish the description of the 

quarantined area on the Plant Protection 

and Quarantine (PPQ) Web site, http:// 

www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_health/ 

plant_pest_info/potato/pcn.shtml. The 

description of the quarantined area will 

include the date the description was last 

updated and a description of the 

changes that have been made to the 

quarantined area. The description of the 

quarantined area may also be obtained 

by request from any local office of PPQ; 

local offices are listed in telephone 

directories. Finally, paragraph (a) 

establishes that, after a change is made 

to the quarantined area, we will publish 

a notice in the Federal Register 

informing the public that the change has 

occurred and describing the change to 

the quarantined area. 

We are publishing this notice to 

inform the public of changes to the PCN 

quarantined area in accordance with 

§ 301.86–3(a). On December 9, 2008, we 

updated the quarantined area to remove 

20 fields (1,183 acres in total) from the 

quarantined area. On January 14, 2009, 

we updated the quarantined area to 

remove an additional 17 fields (2,146 

acres in total) from the quarantined area. 

These actions removed a total of 3,329 

acres from quarantine. 

The fields were removed from 

quarantine as associated fields after 

being found to be free of PCN according 

to a survey protocol approved by the 

Administrator as sufficient to support 

removal from quarantine, under 

paragraph (d)(2) of § 301.86–3. The 

fields removed from quarantine were in 

Bingham, Bonneville, and Jefferson 

Counties. 

The current map of the quarantined 

area can be viewed on the PPQ Web site 

at http://www.aphis.usda.gov/ 

plant_health/plant_pest_info/potato/ 

pcn.shtml. 

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

7786; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.3. 

Done in Washington, DC, this 6th day of 

April 2009. 

Kevin Shea, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. E9–8101 Filed 4–9–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35). 

Agency: Bureau of Industry and 

Security (BIS), Department of 

Commerce. 

Title: Statement by Ultimate 

Consignee and Purchaser. 

OMB Control Number: 0694–0021. 

Form Number(s): BIS–711. 

Type of Request: Regular submission. 

Burden Hours: 76. 

Number of Respondents: 286. 

Average Hours per Response: 16 

minutes. 

Needs and Uses: This collection is 

required by section 748.11 of the Export 

Administration Regulations (EAR). In 

order to effectively control 

commodities, BIS must have sufficient 

information regarding the end-use and 

end-user of the U.S. origin commodities 

to be exported. The use of Form BIS– 

711 or letter puts the importer on notice 

of the special nature of the goods 

proposed for export and conveys a 

commitment against illegal disposition. 

The information will assist the licensing 

officer in making the proper decision on 

whether to approve or reject the 

application for the license. 

Affected Public: Businesses and other 

for-profit organizations. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain benefits. 

OMB Desk Officer: Jasmeet Seehra, 

(202) 395–3123. 

Copies of the above information 

collection proposal can be obtained by 

calling or writing Diana Hynek, 

Departmental Paperwork Clearance 

Officer, (202) 482–0266, Department of 

Commerce, Room 7845, 14th and 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20230 (or via the Internet at 

dHynek@doc.gov). 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to Jasmeet Seehra, OMB Desk 

Officer, 

Jasmeet_K._Seehra@omb.eop.gov, or fax 

number (202) 395–5167. 

Dated: April 7, 2009. 

Gwellnar Banks, 

Management Analyst, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–8220 Filed 4–9–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–33–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

The Department of Commerce will 

submit to the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) for clearance the 

following proposal for collection of 

information under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35). 

Agency: Bureau of Industry and 

Security (BIS). 

Title: Licensing Responsibilities and 

Enforcement. 

OMB Control Number: 0694–0122. 

Form Number(s): N/A. 

Type of Request: Regular submission. 

Burden Hours: 78,576. 

Number of Respondents: 1,821,891.