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

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] 

BILLING CODE 3410–11–M 

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 your 

comment 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 notice1 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 the 

comment 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 6th day 

of January 2010. 

Cindy Smith 

Administrator, Animal and Plant Health 

Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2010–762 Filed 1–15–10; 2:16 pm] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–S 

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. 


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

1To 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 your 

comment 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 13th 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] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–S 

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 


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