33908 Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 119 / Monday, June 22, 1998 / Notices

Sale of Products’’; FmHA 441–18,

‘‘Consent to Payment of Proceeds from

Sale of Farm Products’’; FmHA 441–25,

‘‘Assignment of Proceeds from the Sale

of Dairy Products and Release of

Security Interest’’. The FSA loan

approval official must determine that

adequate security and repayment ability

exists before a loan is granted and that

funds are used only for those purposes

authorized by law.

Description of Respondents: Farm;

individuals or households; business or

other for-profit.

Number of Respondents: 52,210.

Frequency of Responses:

Recordkeeping: On occasion.

Total Burden Hours: 11,012.

Farm Service Agency

Title: Agreement For The Use of

Proceeds/Release of Chattel Security.

OMB Control Number: 0560–0171.

Summary of Collection: The

Consolidated Farm and Rural

Development Act (CONACT) requires

release of normal income security to pay

essential household and farm operating

expenses of the borrower, until the Farm

Service Agency (FSA) accelerates the

loans. The FSA agreed in the consent

decree to approve a borrower’s planned

use of proceeds from the disposition of

their chattel security, record any

changes to planned use, and record the

actual disposition of chattel security for

the year of operation. FSA will collect

information on the actual and planned

disposition of chattel security through

the use of form FmHA 1962–I.

Need and Use of the Information:

Information collected will be from FSA

borrowers who may be individual

farmers or farming partnerships or

corporations. The collection is on an

individual-case basis by FSA staff

directly from the borrower.

Description of Respondents: Farms;

business or other for-profit; individuals

or households.

Number of Respondents: 56,075.

Frequency of Responses:

Recordkeeping: Annually.

Total Burden Hours: 18,505.

Nancy Sternberg,

Departmental Information Clearance Officer.

[FR Doc. 98–16540 Filed 6–19–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–01–M

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Natural Resources Conservation

Service

Extension of the Period for Providing

Comments Concerning the Proposed

Revision of the NRCS Policy for

Nutrient Management Technical and

Program Assistance Activities

AGENCY: Natural Resources

Conservation Service (NRCS), U.S.

Department of Agriculture.

ACTION: Extension of the period for

providing comments concerning the

proposed revision of the NRCS policy

for nutrient management technical and

program assistance activities.

SUMMARY: NRCS advertised a notice of

intention to adopt a revised policy for

nutrient management related technical

and program assistance activities in the

Federal Register on April 22, 1998

(63FR19889). This notice is located on

pages 19889–19892 (Vol 63, Number

77). Published with the notice was draft

10a of the proposed policy. Because of

the significant public interest in this

proposed policy revision, NRCS has

extended the comment period for an

additional thirty (30) days.

EFFECTIVE DATES: Comments must be

received by July 22, 1998. This revised

policy will be adopted after the close of

the comment period. It will be issued as

either part 503 of the NRCS National

Agronomy Manual or in the NRCS

General Manual.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Questions or comments about this

policy should be directed to the

Ecological Sciences Division, NRCS,

Washington, DC. Submit questions or

comments in writing to Charles H.

Lander, Nutrient Management

Specialist, NRCS, Post Office Box 2890,

Room 6155–S, Washington, DC 20013–

2890.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section

343 of the Federal Agriculture

Improvement and Reform Act of 1996

requires NRCS to make available for

public review and comment proposed

revisions to conservation practice

standards used to carry out the highly

erodible land and wetland provisions of

the law. NRCS will receive comments

relative to the proposed changes

through July 22, 1998. Following that

period, a determination will be made by

NRCS regarding disposition of those

comments, and a final determination of

change will be made.

Signed in Washington, DC, on June 10,

1998.

Pearlie S. Reed,

Chief, Natural Resources Conservation

Service, Washington, DC.

[FR Doc. 98–16418 Filed 6–19–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–16–P

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Rural Utilities Service

Associated Electric Cooperative, Inc.;

Notice of Intent

AGENCY: Rural Utilities Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of intent to hold scoping

meeting and prepare an environmental

assessment and/or environmental

impact statement.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that

the Rural Utilities Service (RUS),

pursuant to the National Environmental

Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) (42 U.S.C.

4321 et seq.), the Council on

Environmental Quality (CEQ)

Regulations for Implementing NEPA (40

CFR Parts 1500–1508), and RUS

Environmental Policies and Procedures

(7 CFR Part 1794) proposes to prepare

an Environmental Assessment and/or an

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)

for its Federal action related to a

proposal by Associated Electric

Cooperative, Inc., to construct a 100

megawatt simple cycle electric

generating plant in Southeast Missouri.

Meeting Information

RUS will conduct a scoping meeting

in an open house forum on Thursday,

July 23, 1998, from 7 p.m. until 9 p.m.

in the commission courtroom at the

Stoddard County Courthouse in

Bloomfield Missouri. The courthouse is

located at 305 East Court Street.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bob

Quigel, Engineering and Environmental

Staff, Rural Utility Service, Stop 1571,

1400 Independence Avenue, SW,

Washington, DC 20250–1571, telephone

(202) 720–0468. Bob’s E-mail address is

bquigel@rus.usda.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Associated Electric Cooperative, Inc.,

proposes to construct the plant at one of

two potential sites. These sites are in the

Missouri counties of Butler and

Stoddard. The site in Butler County is

located on State Highway 51, 1.7 miles

north and 1.0 mile east of Fagus and the

site in Stoddard County is located 1.2

miles east of Idalia on County Road E.

The proposed project is a nominal 100

megawatt simple cycle combustion

turbine. It will be a single fuel gas-fired

combustion turbine that will be