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REPORTING BURDEN

Respondent 

Estimated 

number of 

respondents 

Responses 

annually per 

respondent 

Total annual 

responses 

Estimated average number 

of hours per 

response 

Estimated total 

annual hours 

of response 

burden 

SFA Directors 

SFA Director Survey 

Completed interviews ........................................................... 600 1.00 600 0.4175 250.500 

Attempted interviews ............................................................ 150 1.00 150 0.0500 7.500 

SFA Recruitment Interview 

Completed interviews ........................................................... 300 1.00 300 0.3006 90.180 

Attempted interviews ............................................................ 75 1.00 75 0.0500 3.750 

Total for SFA Directors 

Completed interviews ........................................................... 600 1.00 900 0.3785 340.680 

Attempted interviews ............................................................ 150 1.00 225 0.0500 11.250 

School Foodservice Managers 

School Food Service Manager Survey 

Completed interviews ........................................................... 900 1.00 900 0.3340 300.600 

Attempted interviews ............................................................ 47 1.00 47 0.0500 2.350 

Menu Survey 

Completed interviews ........................................................... 900 1.00 900 6.1002 5,490.180 

Attempted interviews ............................................................ 47 1.00 47 0.0500 2.350 

Total for School Food Service Managers 

Completed interviews ........................................................... 900 1.00 1,800 3.2171 5,790.780 

Attempted interviews ............................................................ 47 1.00 94 0.0500 4.700 

Principals 

Completed interviews ........................................................... 855 1.00 855 0.3340 285.570 

Attempted interviews ............................................................ 92 1.00 92 0.0500 4.600 

School Liaisons 

Completed checklists ........................................................... 855 1.00 855 0.5000 427.500 

Attempted checklists ............................................................ 92 1.00 92 0.0500 4.600 

Total Responding Burden ............................................. 3,591 1.37 4,913 1.3983 6,869.680 

Estimated Time per Response: 1.3983 

hours. As shown in the above table, the 

estimated time of response varies from 

20 minutes (0.3340 hours) to 6.1002 

hours for responders and 5 minutes for 

non-responders, depending on the 

respondent group and instrument. 

Dated: March 3, 2009. 

E. Enrique Gomez, 

Acting Administrator, Food and Nutrition 

Service. 

[FR Doc. E9–4838 Filed 3–6–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–30–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Umatilla National Forest, Pomeroy 

Ranger District, Pomeroy, WA; South 

George Vegetation and Fuels 

Management Project 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

environmental impact statement. 

SUMMARY: The USDA Forest Service will 

prepare an environmental impact 

statement (EIS) to disclose 

environmental effects on proposed 

resource management actions in South 

George project planning area. This 

project would improve the health and 

vigor of upland forest stands by 

managing vegetation composition, 

structure, stand density, and diversity, 

and decrease the susceptibility to future 

wildland fires of uncharacteristic 

intensity by reducing ladder, surface, 

and canopy fuels. The project planning 

area is approximately 21,000 acres in 

size. Proposed project activities consist 

of commercial timber harvest, including 

treatment of activity and natural fuels 

within harvest units, non commercial 

thinning for fuels reduction purposes, 

temporary road construction (that will 

be decommissioned after project use), 

danger tree removal along haul routes, 

and landscape prescribed burning. 

DATES: Comments concerning the scope 

of the analysis must be received by 

April 8, 2009. The draft environmental 

impact statement is expected September 


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2009 and the final environmental 

impact statement is expected December 

2009. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to 

Monte Fujishin, District Ranger, 

Pomeroy Ranger District, 71 West Main 

Street, Pomeroy, WA 99347. Comments 

may also be sent via e-mail to 

comments-pacificnorthwest-umatillapomeroy@fs.fed.us or via facsimile to 

(509) 843–4621. Comments may be hand 

delivered to the Pomeroy Ranger District 

office between the hours of 7:30 a.m. 

and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, 

excluding Federal holidays. 

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. 

Comments received in response to 

this solicitation, including names and 

addresses of those who comment, will 

be part of the public record for this 

proposed action. Comments submitted 

anonymously will be accepted and 

considered; however, anonymous 

comments will not provide the 

respondent with standing to participate 

in subsequent administrative appeal or 

judicial review. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ed 

Koberstein, Project Team Leader, 

Pomeroy Ranger District, telephone 

(509) 843–1891 or e-mail 

ekoberstein@fs.fed.us. Individuals who 

use telecommunication devices for the 

deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1– 

800–877–8339 between 8 a.m. and 8 

p.m., Eastern Time, Monday through 

Friday. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: South 

George project planning area is 

primarily located in Asotin County, 

Washington with a small portion in 

Garfield County, Washington. The legal 

description of the area is as follows: 

portions of T.7N., R.44E., section 1; 

T.7N., R.43E., sections 1–2; T.8N., 

R.43E., sections 1, 2, 10–15, 21–28, 33- 

36; T.8N., R.44E., sections 5–8, 17–20, 

26–36; and T. 9N., R.43E., section 35. It 

is within South Fork Asotin Creek and 

Upper George Creek Subwatersheds of 

Asotin Watershed. Asotin Creek and 

Wenatchee Creek inventoried roadless 

areas (IRAs) are adjacent on the west 

and south sides of the project planning 

area. Existing forest roads (4400, 4300, 

and 4304) separate the IRAs from the 

project planning area boundary. 

Anatone Wildland Urban Interface 

(WUI) area is near the eastern boundary 

of the project planning area and is 

identified in the Asotin County 

Community Wildfire Protection Plan 

(CWPP). Approximately 550 acres 

within the project planning area is 

owned by Washington State Department 

of Fish and Wildlife. 

Purpose and Need for Action 

The purpose and need for action in 

this project is to improve health, vigor, 

and resilience to fire, insects, and 

disease in upland forests that are 

outside their historical 3 pre-fire 

suppression conditions for species 

composition, structural diversity, 

stocking densities, and fuel loads. 

Additionally there is a need to provide 

sawlogs and wood fiber products for 

utilization by regional and local 

industry. 

Findings from historical range of 

variability analysis show that dry 

upland forest sites once dominated by 

old forest stands of ponderosa pine have 

closed in with shade tolerant species 

such as Douglas-fir and grand fir. 

Species composition on dry-forest sites 

indicates that Douglas-fir and grand fir 

are over-represented, and ponderosa 

pine is under-represented. For moist 

forest sites, species composition 

analysis shows that Douglas-fir, western 

larch, and lodgepole pine are underrepresented and below their historical 

range, while grand fir and spruce-fir are 

over-represented. Findings also show 

that existing insect and disease 

susceptibility based upon historical 

range of variability is well above normal 

levels for defoliators (western spruce 

budworm and Douglas-fir tussock 

moth), fir engraver beetles, and root 

diseases (Armillaria and laminated root 

disease). The following statements 

summarize the purpose of and need for 

action in South George project planning 

area: 

Vegetation—There is a need to 

manage vegetation composition, 

structure, stand density, and diversity of 

landscape patterns toward desired 

future conditions across the landscape 

by favoring fire tolerant species, 

increasing old forest structure, and 

reducing stocking density to levels that 

resist insects, diseases, and standreplacing wildfire(s). 

Fuels—There is a need to improve 

suppression capability near private 

lands, and treat forest stands that 

deviate from natural fire regimes in 

terms of fire return interval and 

vegetative change from historical 

composition and density, specifically in 

condition class 2 (moderately altered 

from historical range) and condition 

class 3 (significantly altered from 

historical range). This would decrease 

the potential risk to wildfires of 

uncharacteristic intensity by reducing 

fuel loads to levels expected under 

natural fire disturbance regimes. This 

would be achieved by lowering stand 

densities, increasing the relative 

abundance of fire tolerant species, 

reducing existing ladder, surface, and 

canopy fuels, and reintroducing 

landscape prescribed fire into the 

ecosystem. 

Timber Production—There is a need 

to provide sawlogs and wood fiber for 

utilization by regional and local 

economies. 

Proposed Action—Following are brief 

descriptions of activities proposed for 

implementation, along with associated 

activities that would occur 

concurrently. 

Timber Harvest—Commercially 

harvest approximately 4,200 acres. Free 

thinning (an unevenaged prescription 

utilized when remaining structure and 

composition is paramount and suited 

for restoring old-growth character of 

forests as well as reducing risk of 

wildfire) would be the primary 

silviculture prescription (approximately 

3,300 acres). Some shelterwood and 

seed-tree prescriptions (approximately 

900 acres) would be used in declining 

stands where thinning would not restore 

stand health or vigor. Treatments would 

tend to favor early seral tree species 

such as ponderosa pine and western 

larch. Harvest methods would include 

conventional ground based tractor 

logging (approximately 3,000 acres), 

skyline logging (approximately 900 

acres) and helicopter logging 

(approximately 300 acres). Some 

treatment units may include the 

removal of sawlogs, small diameter trees 

(generally less than 7.0 inches diameter 

at breast height), and excess down wood 

for use as woody biomass products. 

Harvest objectives would vary by stand 

condition and fuel management 

objectives. The focus of treatment would 

be based on the desired quality of each 

treatment area after management rather 

than the quantity of products removed 

from each area. 

Fuel Treatments (activity and 

natural)—Treat to convert stands in 

condition classes 2 and 3 to condition 

class 1 (within historical range). 

Treatments would be designed to reduce 

ladder fuels to lower the risk of fire 

spread into the upper canopy, and 

reduce ground fuel that could contribute 

to uncharacteristic wildfire intensity 

and resource damage. Treatments would 


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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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