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also reduce fuel continuity in areas 

adjacent to private lands. Treatment 

objectives would be achieved though a 

combination of the following activities 

(more than one treatment may occur on 

a single acre): mechanical thinning 

(approximately 1,300 acres), prescribed 

burning of activity fuels (approximately 

2,100 acres), grapple piling of activity 

fuels (approximately 1,000 acres) and 

yarding with tops attached. Noncommercial thinning by hand or 

mechanical methods would remove 

trees that are less than 10 inches 

diameter at breast height in stands with 

excess ladder fuels (approximately 200 

acres). 

Road Management—To accomplish 

implementation of proposed activities 

approximately 32 miles of closed system 

roads and 45 miles of seasonally open 

roads would be used as haul routes. All 

system roads would remain the same 

after project implementation, closed 

roads would continue to be closed and 

seasonally open roads would continue 

with that designation. Approximately 

3.0 miles of temporary road would be 

constructed, of which 1.4 miles would 

be constructed over previous road 

templates. All temporary roads would 

be decommissioned after project activity 

use. No new road construction is 

proposed. 

Danger Tree Removal—Danger trees 

would be felled and removed along all 

previously described haul routes used 

for timber sale activity. If considered 

economically feasible, they would be 

sold as part of a timber sale. Danger 

trees within Riparian Habitat 

Conservation Areas (RHCAs) would not 

be removed; they would be cut and left 

to provide additional coarse woody 

debris. 

Landscape Prescribed Fire— 

Landscape prescribed fire would occur 

across approximately 3,000 acres within 

the project planning area. This 

treatment would reintroduce fire to a 

fire-dependent ecosystem to lessen the 

effects of a future uncharacteristic large 

wildfire and improve forage quality for 

big game. In the project planning area, 

fire intensities would be kept low by 

keeping fire out of the overstory and 

burning mainly surface fuels. Individual 

tree and group torching would likely 

occur in areas where there is sufficient 

ladder fuels and in timber stands with 

high occurrences of mistletoe. Upon 

completion the area would likely be a 

mosaic of unburned, lightly burned, 

moderately burned, and intensely 

burned patches. 

Responsible Official 

Monte Fujishin, District Ranger, 

Pomeroy Ranger District, Umatilla 

National Forest, 71 West Main Street, 

Pomeroy, Washington 99347. 

Nature of Decision To Be Made 

The decision to be made is whether to 

approve the proposed action or any 

alternative way to achieve the desired 

outcome. No Forest Plan amendment is 

proposed. 

Scoping Process 

This notice of intent initiates the 

scoping process, which guides the 

development of the environmental 

impact statement. Comments and input 

regarding this proposed action are being 

requested from the public and other 

interested parties in conjunction with 

this notice of intent. The comment 

period will be open for thirty days, 

beginning on the date of publication of 

this notice of intent. Response to the 

draft environmental impact statement 

will be sought from interested tribes and 

public beginning approximately in 

September 2009. 

It is important that reviewers provide 

their comments at such times and in 

such a manner that they are useful to 

the agency’s preparation of the 

environmental impact statement. 

Therefore, comments should be 

provided prior to the close of the 

comment period and should clearly 

articulate the reviewer’s concerns and 

comments. The submission of timely 

and specific comments can affect a 

reviewer’s ability to participate in 

subsequent administrative appeal or 

judicial review. 

Dated: March 2, 2009. 

Monte Fujishin, 

District Ranger. 

[FR Doc. E9–4764 Filed 3–6–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–11–M 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Notice of Southwest Idaho Resource 

Advisory Committee Meeting 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the authorities in 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(Pub. L. 92–463) and under the Secure 

Rural Schools and Community SelfDetermination Act of 2000, as amended, 

(Pub. L. 110–343), the Boise and Payette 

National Forests’ Southwest Idaho 

Resource Advisory Committee will 

conduct a business meeting. The 

meeting is open to the public. 

DATES: Thursday, March 19, beginning 

at 10:30 a.m. 

ADDRESSES: Idaho Counties Risk 

Management Program Building, 3100 

South Vista Avenue, Boise, Idaho. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Agenda 

topics will include review and approval 

of project proposals, and is an open 

public forum. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kimberly Brandel, Designated Federal 

Official, at (208) 347–0301 or e-mail 

kbrandel@fs.fed.us. 

Dated: February 27, 2009. 

Suzanne C. Rainville, 

Forest Supervisor, Payette National Forest. 

[FR Doc. E9–4765 Filed 3–6–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–11–M 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

A–331–802 

Certain Frozen Warmwater Shrimp 

from Ecuador: Preliminary Results of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative 

Review 

AGENCY: Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce 

SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce 

(the Department) is conducting an 

administrative review of the 

antidumping duty order on certain 

frozen warmwater shrimp from Ecuador 

with respect to 81 companies. The 

respondents which the Department 

selected for individual examination are 

Promarisco, S.A. (Promarisco) and 

Sociedad Nacional de Galapagos, S.A. 

(Songa). The respondents which were 

not selected for individual examination 

are listed in the ‘‘Preliminary Results of 

Review’’ section of this notice. This is 

the third administrative review of this 

order. The period of review (POR) 

covers February 1, 2007, through August 

14, 2007. 

We preliminarily determine that sales 

made to the United States by Promarisco 

and Songa have been made below 

normal value (NV). In addition, based 

on the preliminary results for the 

respondents selected for individual 

examination, we have determined a 

preliminary weighted–average margin 

for those companies that were not 

individually examined. 

If the preliminary results are adopted 

in our final results of administrative 

review, we will instruct U.S. Customs 

and Border Protection (CBP) to assess 

antidumping duties on all appropriate 

entries. Interested parties are invited to 

comment on the preliminary results. 

EFFECTIVE DATE: March 9, 2009. 


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