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will influence the scope of the 

environmental analysis, including 

alternatives and mitigation measures. 

The EIS will identify and describe the 

effects of the Proposed Action on the 

human environment. The BLM also 

requests the identification of potential 

impacts that should be analyzed. 

Impacts should be a result of the action; 

therefore, please identify the activity 

along with the potential impact. 

Anticipated Permits and Authorizations 

If approved, the BLM would issue a 

right-of-way grant for BLM-managed 

lands, and the USFS would amend the 

existing transmission easement for the 

Control Silver Peak 55 kV transmission 

line for USFS-managed lands. Other 

Federal, State, and local authorizations 

will be required for the Project. These 

could include authorizations under the 

Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, 

the Endangered Species Act, the Clean 

Water Act, 14 CFR part 77, and other 

laws and regulations determined to be 

applicable to the Project. 

Schedule for the Decision-Making 

Process 

The BLM will provide additional 

opportunities for public participation 

consistent with the NEPA process, 

including a 45-day comment period on 

the draft EIS. The draft EIS is 

anticipated to be available for public 

review late summer 2024; the final EIS 

is anticipated to be released in fall 2025 

and the Record of Decision in winter 

2025/2026. 

Public Scoping Process 

This notice initiates the scoping 

period. 

The BLM will be holding two public 

scoping meetings and one virtual 

meeting. The in-person public meetings 

will be held at the BLM Bishop Field 

Office—USFS Inyo National Forest 

Office in Bishop, CA. The specific dates 

and times of the in-person and virtual 

scoping meetings will be announced at 

least 15 days in advance through local 

media, a news release, social media, and 

the BLM National NEPA Register (see 

ADDRESSES). Participants must register 

in advance to attend the virtual scoping 

meeting. 

The date(s) and location(s) of any 

additional scoping meetings will be 

announced in advance through local 

media, a BLM-California news release, 

social media, and the BLM National 

NEPA Register (see ADDRESSES). 

Lead and Cooperating Agencies 

The BLM is the lead Federal agency 

for this EIS and the related National 

Historic Preservation Act Section 106 

process. The following have agreed to 

participate in the environmental 

analysis of the Project as Cooperating 

Agencies: USFS Inyo National Forest, 

Inyo County, the Los Angeles 

Department of Water and Power, the 

United States Fish and Wildlife Service, 

and the United States Environmental 

Protection Agency. Additional Federal, 

State, and local agencies; Tribes; and 

eligible stakeholders interested in the 

scoping process may request or be 

requested by the BLM to participate in 

the development of the EIS as a 

Cooperating Agency. 

Responsible Official 

The BLM California State Director is 

the responsible official who will make 

the decisions below. 

Nature of Decisions To Be Made 

The BLM will use the analysis in the 

EIS to inform the following: whether to 

grant, grant with conditions, or deny the 

application for a right-of-way. Pursuant 

to 43 CFR 2805.10, if the BLM issues a 

grant, the BLM decision maker may 

include terms, conditions, and 

stipulations determined to be in the 

public interest. 

Additional Information 

The BLM will identify, analyze, and 

consider mitigation to address the 

reasonably foreseeable impacts to 

resources from the proposed action and 

all analyzed reasonable alternatives and, 

in accordance with 40 CFR 1502.14(e), 

include appropriate mitigation measures 

not already included in the proposed 

action or alternatives. Mitigation may 

include avoidance, minimization, 

rectification, reduction or elimination 

over time, and compensation; and may 

be considered at multiple scales, 

including the landscape scale. 

The BLM will utilize and coordinate 

the NEPA process to help support 

compliance with applicable procedural 

requirements under the Endangered 

Species Act (16 U.S.C. 1536) and 

Section 106 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act (54 U.S.C. 306108) as 

provided in 36 CFR 800.2(d)(3), 

including public involvement 

requirements of Section 106. The 

information about historic and cultural 

resources and threatened and 

endangered species within the area 

potentially affected by the proposed 

project will assist the BLM in 

identifying and evaluating impacts to 

such resources. 

The BLM will consult with Indian 

Tribal Nations on a government-togovernment basis in accordance with 

Executive Order 13175, BLM Manual 

Section 1780, and other Departmental 

policies. Tribal concerns, including 

impacts on Indian trust assets and 

potential impacts to cultural resources, 

will be given due consideration. Indian 

Tribal Nations that may be interested in 

or affected by the proposed Project are 

invited to participate in the scoping 

process and may request or be requested 

by the BLM to participate in the 

development of the environmental 

analysis as a cooperating agency. The 

BLM has sent invitations to potentially 

affected Tribal Nations and initiated 

government-to-government consultation 

meetings and intends to continue 

coordination throughout the NEPA 

process. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

(Authority: 40 CFR 1501.9) 

Karen E. Mouritsen, 

Bureau of Land Management, California State 

Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[BLM_HQ_FRN_MO4500176406] 

Notice of Availability of the Final 

Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement for Approval of Herbicide 

Active Ingredients for Use on Public 

Lands 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: In compliance 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) 

announces the availability of the final 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

for the Approval of Herbicide Active 

Ingredients for Use on Public Lands. 

DATES: The BLM will not issue a 

decision on the proposal for a minimum 

of 30 days after the date that the 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

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(NOA) in the Federal Register. The EPA 

usually publishes its NOAs on Fridays. 

ADDRESSES: The final EIS and 

documents pertinent to this proposal are 

available for review on the BLM 

ePlanning project website at https://

go.usa.gov/xtk6a. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Seth 

Flanigan, Project Manager, telephone: 

208–373–4094; email: sflanigan@

blm.gov. Individuals in the United 

States who are deaf, deafblind, hard of 

hearing, or have a speech disability may 

dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to 

access telecommunications relay 

services for contacting Mr. Flanigan. 

Individuals outside the United States 

should use the relay services offered 

within their country to make 

international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

document provides notice that the BLM 

has prepared a final programmatic EIS 

for a review of active ingredients that 

may be approved for use in vegetation 

treatments on BLM-managed public 

lands. 

Purpose and Need for the Proposed 

Action 

The BLM’s purpose and need is to 

improve the effectiveness of its invasive 

plant management efforts by allowing 

the use of EPA-registered active 

ingredients not currently authorized for 

use on BLM public lands. Approving 

additional active ingredients would 

diversify the BLM’s herbicide treatment 

options and help meet the purposes that 

were first identified in the 2007 and 

2016 programmatic EISs related to 

vegetation treatments, which are to 

make herbicides available for vegetation 

treatment on public lands and to 

describe the stipulations that apply to 

their use. 

Proposed Action and Alternatives 

The proposed action is to approve the 

following herbicide active ingredients 

for use in vegetation treatments on 

public lands: aminocyclopyrachlor, 

clethodim, fluozifop-p-butyl, 

flumioxazin, imazamox, indaziflam, and 

oryzalin. These active ingredients are 

registered by the EPA. As part of the 

process for evaluating whether to 

approve these active ingredients, the 

BLM will adopt and depend on Human 

Health and Ecological Risk Assessments 

prepared by the U.S. Forest Service. 

Schedule for the Decision-Making 

Process 

The BLM anticipates releasing a 

Record of Decision in January 2024. 

Responsible Official 

Assistant Director for Resources and 

Planning. 

Nature of Decision To Be Made 

Through this process, the BLM will 

decide whether to approve the seven 

additional herbicide active ingredients 

identified earlier for use on BLMmanaged public lands. This decision 

will be based on the best available 

science and current needs for vegetation 

management. Any authorization to 

apply any of these active ingredients at 

a particular site will be made through a 

separate, site-specific decision and so is 

not within the scope of the 

programmatic EIS or potential decision 

described in this notice. 

Public Participation 

In addition to making the draft 

programmatic EIS available for public 

comment and review, the BLM hosted a 

virtual public meeting during the public 

comment period. The agency received 

46 comments, which were incorporated 

in the final programmatic EIS as 

appropriate. In coordination with 

comments received from Native 

American Tribes, the BLM emphasizes, 

in the EIS, the need to coordinate with 

local Tribes during implementationlevel analyses and authorizations to 

reduce and avoid impacts to Tribes that 

may gather and use native plant 

materials for cultural or subsistence 

purposes. 

Comments on the draft EIS received 

from the public and from internal BLM 

review were considered and 

incorporated as appropriate into the 

final EIS. These comments resulted in 

the addition of clarifying text but did 

not significantly change the impact 

analysis. 

(Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1506.10) 

Brian St George, 

Acting Assistant Director for Resources and 

Planning. 

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[USITC SE–23–059] 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: United 

States International Trade Commission. 

TIME AND DATE: January 10, 2024 at 11:00 

a.m. 

PLACE: Room 101, 500 E Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20436, Telephone: 

(202) 205–2000. 

STATUS: Open to the public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

1. Agendas for future meetings: none. 

2. Minutes. 

3. Ratification List. 

4. Commission vote on Inv. No. 701– 

TA–686 (Final) (Brass Rod from India). 

The Commission currently is scheduled 

to complete and file its determinations 

and views of the Commission on 

February 1, 2024. 

5. Outstanding action jackets: none. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Sharon Bellamy, Supervisory Hearings 

and Information Officer, 202–205–2000. 

The Commission is holding the 

meeting under the Government in the 

Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. 552(b). In 

accordance with Commission policy, 

subject matter listed above, not disposed 

of at the scheduled meeting, may be 

carried over to the agenda of the 

following meeting. 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: December 27, 2023. 

Sharon Bellamy, 

Supervisory Hearings and Information 

Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2023–28825 Filed 12–27–23; 11:15 am] 

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation. No. 337–TA–1384] 

Certain Passive Optical Network 

Equipment; Notice of Institution of 

Investigation 

AGENCY: U.S. International Trade 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that a 

complaint was filed with the U.S. 

International Trade Commission on 

November 14, 2023, under section 337 

of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended, 

on behalf of Optimum Communications 

Services, Inc. of Jersey City, New Jersey. 

An amended complaint was filed on 

November 22, 2023. The complaint, as 

amended, alleges violations of section 

337 based upon the importation into the 

United States, the sale for importation, 

and the sale within the United States 

after importation of certain passive 

optical network equipment by reason of 

the infringement of certain claims of 

U.S. Patent No. 7,558,260 (‘‘the ’260 

patent’’) and U.S. Patent No. 7,333,511 

(‘‘the ’511 patent’’). The complaint 

further alleges that an industry in the 

United States exists as required by the 

applicable Federal Statute. The 

complainant requests that the 

Commission institute an investigation 


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