### 2845 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 11 / Tuesday, January 19, 2010 / Notices

1 To view the notice, the environmental assessment, and the comments we have received, go to (http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS2008-0059 ). **SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION :**  The original notice of intent to prepare the Deerfield Wind Project EIS was published in the Federal Register on July 15, 2005 (Vol. 70, No. 135, page 409750). A revised notice of intent was published in the Federal Register on September 27, 2007 (Vol. 72, No. 187, page 54893) to notice the public of changes to the project timeline, minor modifications to the proposed action, and asked for comments on those modifications. A draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) was released to the public in September 2008. A Notice of Availability (NOA) for the Deerfield Wind Project DEIS was published in the Federal Register on October 3, 2008 (Vol. 73, No. 193, page 57620) requesting comments on the DEIS through November 28, 2008.

Upon release of the SDEIS, the forest will publish a NOA in the Federal Register and take comments on the SDEIS. The comment period dates will be published in the NOA. Responsible Official

At the present time, Jerri Marr, Acting Forest Supervisor, Green Mountain and Finger Lakes National Forests, 231 North Main Street, Rutland, VT 05701– 2417, is the Responsible Official. The forest expects to fill the Forest Supervisor position on a permanent basis within the next two to three months. That person would become the Responsible Official for the project.

Dated: January 11, 2010. Jerri Marr, Forest Supervisor.
[FR Doc. 2010–652 Filed 1–15–10; 8:45 am]

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**DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE**

**Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service** 

**[Docket No. APHIS-2008-0059]**

**ArborGen, LLC; Availability of an Environmental Assessment for**  **Controlled Release of a Genetically Engineered Eucalyptus Hybrid** 

**AGENCY :**  Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.

**ACTION :**  Notice; reopening of comment period.

**SUMMARY :**  We are reopening the comment period for an environmental assessment for a proposed controlled field release of a genetically engineered clone of a Eucalyptus hybrid. This action will allow interested persons additional time to prepare and submit comments on the revised environmental
assessment.

**DATES :**  We will consider all comments that we receive on or before February 18, 2010.

**ADDRESSES :**  You may submit comments by either of the following methods:

∑ Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to (http://www.regulations.gov/ fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS2008-0059) to submit or view comments and to view supporting and related materials available electronically.

∑ Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: Please send two copies of your comment to Docket No. APHIS-2008-0059, Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 3A-03.8, 4700 River Road Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737-1238. Please state that yourcomment refers to Docket No. APHIS2008-0059.

Reading Room: You may read any comments that we receive on the environmental assessment in our reading room. The reading room is located in room 1141 of the USDA South Building, 14th Street and Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC. Normal reading room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays. To be sure someone is there to help you, please call (202) 690-2817 before coming.

Other Information: Additional information about APHIS and its programs is available on the Internet at (http://www.aphis.usda.gov ).

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT :**  Biotechnology Regulatory Services, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 147, Riverdale, MD 20737-1236; (301) 734- 7324. To obtain copies of the environmental assessment, contact Ms. Cynthia Eck at (301) 734-0667; email: ( cynthia.a.eck@aphis.usda.gov ).

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION :**  On June 3, 2009, APHIS published a notice 1 in the Federal Register (74 FR 26648-26649, Docket No. APHIS-2008-0059) announcing the availability of an environmental assessment for public review and comment for a proposed controlled field release of a genetically engineered clone of a Eucalyptus hybrid.

Comments on the environmental assessment were required to be received on or before July 6, 2009. Commenters noted that one of the documents cited in the environmental assessment, a U.S. Forest Service assessment of hydrological impacts from Eucalyptus

, was not available for review and requested that the document be made available and the comment period for the environmental assessment extended. APHIS has amended the environmental assessment to include the Forest Service document and other relevant information, and is reopening thecomment period on Docket No. APHIS2008-0059 for an additional 30 days. This action will allow interested persons additional time to prepare and submit comments. We will also consider all comments received between July 7, 2009 (the day after the close of the original comment period), and the date of this notice.

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 7701-7772 and 7781- 7786; 31 U.S.C. 9701; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and
371.3.

Done in Washington, DC, this 6 th day of January 2010.

Cindy Smith Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. [FR Doc. 2010–762 Filed 1–15–10; 2:16 pm]

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**DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE**

**Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service** 

**[Docket No. APHIS-2006-0172]**

**Interstate Movement of Garbage from Hawaii; Availability of an**  **Environmental Assessment**

**AGENCY :**  Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.

**ACTION :**  Notice of availability and request for comments.

**SUMMARY :**  We are advising the public that the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has prepared an environmental assessment relative to a request to allow the interstate movement of garbage from Hawaii to a landfill in the State of Washington. The environmental assessment documents our review and analysis of the environmental impacts associated with, and alternatives to, the movement of palletized or containerized baled municipal solid waste to three existing ports on the Columbia River via barge and the transfer and transportation of the waste via truck or rail to the landfill. We are making the assessment available to the public for review and comment.

**DATES :**  We will consider all comments that we receive on or before February 18, 2010.


### 2846 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 11 / Tuesday, January 19, 2010 / Notices

1 To view the REA and finding of no significant impact, go to (http://www.regulations.gov/ fdmspublic/component/ main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS-2007-0070). **ADDRESSES :**  You may submit comments by either of the following methods:

∑ Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to (http://www.regulations.gov/ fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocketDetail&d=APHIS2006-0172 ) to submit or view comments and to view supporting and related materials available electronically.

∑ Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: Please send two copies of your comment to Docket No. APHIS-2006-0172, Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 3A-03.8, 4700 River Road Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737-1238. Please state that yourcomment refers to Docket No. APHIS2006-0172.

Reading Room: You may read any comments that we receive on this docket in our reading room. The reading room is located in room 1141 of the USDA South Building, 14th Street and Independence Avenue SW., Washington, DC. Normal reading room hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays. To be sure someone is there to help you, please call (202) 690-2817 before coming.

Other Information: Additional information about APHIS and its programs is available on the Internet at (http://www.aphis.usda.gov ).

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT :**  Ms. Shannon Hamm, Associate Deputy Administrator, Policy and Program Development, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 20, Riverdale, MD 20737-1231; (301) 734-4957.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION :**  Background

The importation and interstate movement of garbage is regulated by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) under 7 CFR 330.400 and 9 CFR 94.5 (referred to below as the regulations) in order to protect against the introduction into and dissemination within the United States of plant and animal pests and diseases.

In November 2009, APHIS received a revised petition from Hawaiian Waste Systems, LLC, to transport 150,000 tons of municipal solid waste (MSW) annually in plastic airtight bales that are either palletized or containerized in 20- and 40-foot shipping containers from the State of Hawaii to Roosevelt Regional Landfill in Washington State by any of three methods:

∑ Barge to Teevin Brother Terminal in Rainier, WA, followed by truck or rail transportation;

∑ Barge to the Port of Longview, WA, followed by truck or rail transportation;

or ∑ Barge to the Port of Portland, OR, followed by truck or rail transportation.

APHIS had previously prepared a regional programmatic environmental assessment (REA) titled ‘‘Regional Movement of Plastic-baled Municipal Solid Waste from Hawaii to Washington, Oregon, and Idaho: Environmental Assessment’’ (February 2008). 1 The REA evaluated the environmental effects of transporting baled MSW by tug boat and barge across the Pacific Ocean and up the Columbia River. The REA included a general analysis of landfills that could accept MSW in the various States as well as an analysis of environmental effects of transportation via rail or truck from a port on the Columbia River to a MSW landfill. A finding of no significant impact for the February 2008 REA was issued by APHIS in June 2008.

The environmental assessment that we are making available through this notice, titled ‘‘ Site Specific Environmental Assessment for Hawaiian Waste Management Systems, LLC to Transport Municipal Solid Waste from Hawaii to Roosevelt Regional Landfill ’’ (December 2009), is tiered to the REA and analyzes the site-specific environmental effects of Hawaiian Waste Systems’ revised petition.

We are making the environmental assessment available to the public for review and comment. We will consider all comments that we receive during the comment period (see **DATES** at the beginning of this notice). The environmental assessment may be viewed on the Internet on the Regulations.gov Web site or in our reading room (see **ADDRESSES** above for instructions for accessing Regulations.gov and information on the location and hours of the reading room). You may request paper copies of the documents by calling or writing to the person listed under **FOR FURTHER**
**INFORMATION CONTACT** . Please refer to the title of the document when requesting copies.

The environmental assessment has been prepared in accordance with: (1) The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), as amended (42 U.S.C.
4321 et seq .), (2) regulations of the Council on Environmental Quality for implementing the procedural provisions of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500-1508), (3) USDA regulations implementing NEPA (7 CFR part 1b), and (4) APHIS’ NEPA Implementing Procedures (7 CFR part 372). Done in Washington, DC, this 13 th day of January 2010.

Kevin Shea Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. [FR Doc. 2010–944 Filed 1–15–10; 1:08 pm]

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**DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE**

**Forest Service**

**Plan Revision for Prescott National Forest, Yavapai and Coconino**  **Counties, AZ**

**AGENCY :**  Forest Service, USDA.

**ACTION :**  Notice of intent to revise Land and Resource Management Plan.

**SUMMARY :**  As directed by the National Forest Management Act, the USDA Forest Service is revising the Prescott National Forest Land and Resource Management Plan (Forest Plan) and will also prepare an environmental impact statement for this revised plan. This notice briefly describes the nature of the decision to be made, the need for change and proposed action, and information concerning public participation. It also provides estimated dates for filing the environmental impact statement, the names and addresses of the responsible agency official, and the individuals who can provide additional information. Finally, this notice briefly describes the applicable planning rule and how work done on the plan revision under the 2008 planning rule will be used or modified for completing this plan revision.

The Prescott National Forest revised Forest Plan will supersede the land management plan previously approved by the Regional Forester on August 4, 1987, and amended 17 times from 1988 to 2008. Four of those amendments addressed project specific needs and the balance addressed programmatic needs. Programmatic needs for amendment included direction for habitat conservation for selected species, designation of a botanical area, treatment of noxious weeds, changes in utility corridor locations, clarification of grazing capacity, and adjustments to Prescott National Forest travel management policy. This amended Plan will remain in effect until the revision takes effect.

**DATES :**  Comments concerning the need for change provided in this notice will be most useful in the development of the draft revised plan and draft environmental impact statement if received by February 15, 2010. The