87750 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 242 / Tuesday, December 19, 2023 / Notices 

Tameka Owens, 

Assistant Administrator, Food and Nutrition 

Service. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27763 Filed 12–18–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–30–C 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Northwest Forest Plan Area Advisory 

Committee; Notice of Meeting 

AGENCY: Forest Service, Agriculture 

(USDA). 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Northwest Forest Plan 

Advisory Committee will hold a public 

meeting according to the details shown 

below. The Committee is authorized 

under the National Forest Management 

Act (the Act) and operates in 

compliance with the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (FACA). The purpose of 

the Committee is to provide advice and 

pragmatic recommendations regarding 

potential regional scale land 

management planning approaches and 

solutions within the Northwest Forest 

Plan Area within the context of the 2012 

planning rule. 

DATES: An in-person and virtual meeting 

will be held on January 30, 2024, 9 

a.m.–4 p.m. Pacific standard time (PST), 

January 31, 2024, 9 a.m.–4 p.m. PST, 

and February 1, 2024, 9 a.m.–12 p.m. 

PST. 

Written and Oral Comments: Anyone 

wishing to provide in-person oral 

comments must pre-register by 11:59 

p.m. PST on January 24, 2024. Written 

public comments will be accepted 

through 11:59 p.m. PST on January 24, 

2024. Comments submitted after this 

date will be provided by the Forest 

Service to the Committee, but the 

Committee may not have adequate time 

to consider those comments prior to the 

meeting. 

All committee meetings are subject to 

cancellation. For status of the meeting 

prior to attendance, please contact the 

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. 

ADDRESSES: This meeting will be held in 

person at the University of Oregon, 1395 

University Street, Eugene, OR 97403. 

Committee information and meeting 

details can be found at the following 

website: https://www.fs.usda.gov/detail/ 

r6/landmanagement/planning/

?cid=fseprd1076013 or by contacting the 

person listed under FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT. 

Written Comments: Written comments 

must be sent by email to sm.fs.nwfp_

faca@usda.gov or via mail (i.e., 

postmarked) to Katie Heard, USDA 

Forest Service, 1220 Southwest 3rd 

Avenue, Suite G015, Portland, OR 

97204. The Forest Service strongly 

prefers comments be submitted 

electronically. 

Oral Comments: Persons or 

organizations wishing to make oral 

comments must pre-register by 11:59 

p.m. PST, January 24, 2024, and 

speakers can only register for one 

speaking slot. Requests to pre-register 

for oral comments must be sent by email 

to sm.fs.nwfp_faca@usda.gov or via mail 

(i.e., postmarked) to Katie Heard, USDA 

Forest Service, 1220 Southwest 3rd 

Avenue, Suite G015, Portland, OR 

97204. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jennifer Eberlien, Designated Federal 

Officer (DFO), by phone at 707–562– 

9000 or email at Jennifer.Eberlien@

usda.gov or Katie Heard, FACA 

Coordinator, at Kathryn.Heard@

usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

purpose of the meeting is to: 

1. Review subcommittee 

considerations regarding initial 

recommendations for updates to the 

Northwest Forest Plan; 

2. Work to refine recommendations 

and identify next steps to develop 

Northwest Forest Plan components; and 

3. Schedule the next meeting. 

The agenda will include time for 

individuals to make oral statements of 

three minutes or less. Individuals 

wishing to make an oral statement 

should make a request in writing at least 

three days prior to the meeting date to 

be scheduled on the agenda. Written 

comments may be submitted to the 

Forest Service up to 14 days after the 

meeting date listed under DATES. 

Please contact the person listed under 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT, by 

or before the deadline, for all questions 

related to the meeting. All comments, 

including names and addresses when 

provided, are placed in the record and 

are available for public inspection and 

copying. The public may inspect 

comments received upon request. 

Meeting Accommodations: The 

meeting location is compliant with the 

Americans with Disabilities Act, and the 

USDA provides reasonable 

accommodation to individuals with 

disabilities where appropriate. If you are 

a person requiring reasonable 

accommodation, please make requests 

in advance for sign language 

interpretation, assistive listening 

devices, or other reasonable 

accommodation to the person listed 

under the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section or contact USDA’s 

TARGET Center at (202) 720–2600 

(voice and TTY) or USDA through the 

Federal Relay Service at (800) 877–8339. 

Additionally, program information may 

be made available in languages other 

than English. 

USDA programs are prohibited from 

discriminating based on race, color, 

national origin, religion, sex, gender 

identity (including gender expression), 

sexual orientation, disability, age, 

marital status, family/parental status, 

income derived from a public assistance 

program, political beliefs, or reprisal or 

retaliation for prior civil rights activity, 

in any program or activity conducted or 

funded by USDA (not all bases apply to 

all programs). Remedies and complaint 

filing deadlines vary by program or 

incident. 

Equal opportunity practices in 

accordance with USDA’s policies will 

be followed in all appointments to the 

Committee. To ensure that the 

recommendations of the Committee 

have taken in account the needs of the 

diverse groups served by USDA, 

membership shall include to the extent 

possible, individuals with demonstrated 

ability to represent minorities, women, 

and persons with disabilities. USDA is 

an equal opportunity provider, 

employer, and lender. 

Dated: December 13, 2023. 

Cikena Reid, 

USDA Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2023–27769 Filed 12–18–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3411–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Rural Utilities Service 

[Docket #: RUS–22–TELECOM–0058] 

Notice of Funding Opportunity for the 

Community Connect Grant Program 

for Fiscal Year 2023 

AGENCY: Rural Utilities Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice, correction, and 

extension of application window. 

SUMMARY: The Rural Utilities Service 

(RUS or the Agency), a Rural 

Development (RD) agency of the United 

States Department of Agriculture 

(USDA), published a Notice of Funding 

Opportunity (NOFO) in the Federal 

Register on March 20, 2023, to 

announce the acceptance of applications 

under the Community Connect Grant 

(CCG) program for Fiscal Year 2023. The 

NOFO also announced the availability 

of approximately $79 million for FY 

2023 that would be made available to 

eligible applicants to construct 

broadband networks that provide 


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