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receive on or before the date listed 

under the heading DATES at the 

beginning of this notice. 

The EA may be viewed 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 EA 

by calling or writing to the person listed 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. Please refer to the title of the 

EA when requesting copies. 

The EA 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 1), and (4) APHIS’ NEPA 

Implementing Procedures (7 CFR part 

372). 

Done in Washington, DC, this 6th day of 

March 2009. 

Kevin Shea, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. E9–5370 Filed 3–11–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food Safety and Inspection Service 

[Docket No. FSIS–2009–0009] 

National Advisory Committee on 

Microbiological Criteria for Foods 

AGENCY: Food Safety and Inspection 

Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces that 

the National Advisory Committee on 

Microbiological Criteria for Foods 

(NACMCF) will hold public meetings of 

the full Committee and subcommittees 

on March 16–20, 2009. The Committee 

will discuss: (1) Determination of the 

most appropriate technologies for the 

Food Safety and Inspection Service 

(FSIS) to adopt in performing routine 

and baseline microbiological analyses, 

and (2) Parameters for inoculated-pack 

challenge study protocols. 

DATES: The full Committee will hold an 

open meeting on Friday, March 20, 

2009, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. The 

Subcommittee on Determination of the 

Most Appropriate Technologies for the 

FSIS to Adopt in Performing Routine 

and Baseline Microbiological Analyses 

will hold open meetings on Monday, 

March 16, and Tuesday, March 17, 

2009, from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and 

Wednesday, March 18, from 8:30 a.m. to 

12 p.m. The Subcommittee on 

Parameters for inoculated-pack 

challenge study protocols will hold 

open meetings on Wednesday, March 

18, and Thursday, March 19, 2009, from 

8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The March 16–19, 2009, 

subcommittee meetings will be held at 

the Aerospace Center, 901 D Street, SW., 

Rooms 369–371, Washington, DC 20024. 

The March 20, 2009, full Committee 

meeting will be held in the conference 

room at the south end of the U.S. 

Department of Agriculture (USDA) 

cafeteria located in the South Building, 

1400 Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20250. All documents 

related to the full Committee meeting 

will be available for public inspection in 

the FSIS Docket Room, USDA, 1400 

Independence Avenue, SW., Room 2534 

South Building, Washington, DC 20250, 

between 8:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, as soon as they 

become available. The NACMCF 

documents will also be available on the 

Internet at http://www.fsis.usda.gov/ 

Regulations_&_Policies/ 

2009_Notices_Index/index.asp. 

FSIS will finalize an agenda on or 

before the meeting dates and post it on 

the FSIS Web page at http:// 

www.fsis.usda.gov/News/ 

Meetings_&_Events/. Please note that 

the meeting agenda is subject to change 

due to the time required for Committee 

discussions; thus, sessions could start or 

end earlier or later than anticipated. 

Please plan accordingly if you would 

like to attend a particular session or 

participate in a public comment period. 

Also, the official transcript of the 

March 20, 2009, full Committee 

meeting, when it becomes available, 

will be kept in the FSIS Docket Room 

at the above address and will also be 

posted on http://www.fsis.usda.gov/ 

About/NACMCF_Meetings/. 

The mailing address for the contact 

person is: Karen Thomas-Sharp, USDA, 

FSIS, Office of Public Health Science, 

1400 Independence Avenue, SW., 333 

Aerospace Center, Washington, DC 

20250–3766. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Persons interested in making a 

presentation, submitting technical 

papers, or providing comments at the 

March 20, plenary session should 

contact Karen Thomas-Sharp, phone 

(202) 690–6620, fax (202) 690–6334, email: Karen.thomas-sharp@fsis.usda.gov 

or at the mailing address above. Persons 

requiring a sign language interpreter or 

other special accommodations should 

notify Mrs. Thomas-Sharp by March 9, 

2009. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The NACMCF was established in 

1988, in response to a recommendation 

of the National Academy of Sciences for 

an interagency approach to 

microbiological criteria for foods, and in 

response to a recommendation of the 

U.S. House of Representatives 

Committee on Appropriations, as 

expressed in the Rural Development, 

Agriculture, and Related Agencies 

Appropriation Bill for fiscal year 1988. 

The charter for the NACMCF is 

available for viewing on the FSIS 

Internet Web page at http:// 

www.fsis.usda.gov/About/ 

NACMCF_Charter/. 

The NACMCF provides scientific 

advice and recommendations to the 

Secretary of Agriculture and the 

Secretary of Health and Human Services 

on public health issues relative to the 

safety and wholesomeness of the U.S. 

food supply, including development of 

microbiological criteria and review and 

evaluation of epidemiological and risk 

assessment data and methodologies for 

assessing microbiological hazards in 

foods. The Committee also provides 

scientific advice and recommendations 

to the Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention and the Departments of 

Commerce and Defense. 

Mr. Ronald F. Hicks, Acting Deputy 

Under Secretary for Food Safety, USDA, 

is the Committee Chair; Dr. Stephen 

Sundlof, Director of the Food and Drug 

Administration’s Center for Food Safety 

and Applied Nutrition (CFSAN), is the 

Vice-Chair; and Gerri Ransom, FSIS, is 

the Executive Secretary. 

At the subcommittee meetings the 

week of March 16–19, 2009, the groups 

will discuss: 

• The determination of the most 

appropriate technologies for the FSIS to 

adopt in performing routine and 

baseline microbiological analyses, and 

• Parameters for inoculated-pack 

challenge study protocols. 

Documents Reviewed by NACMCF 

FSIS intends to make available to the 

public all materials that are reviewed 

and considered by NACMCF regarding 

its deliberations. Generally, these 

materials will be made available as soon 

as possible after the full Committee 

meeting. Further, FSIS intends to make 

these materials available in electronic 

format on the FSIS Web page (http:// 

www.fsis.usda.gov), as well as in hard 

copy format in the FSIS Docket Room. 

Often, an attempt is made to make the 

materials available at the start of the full 


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Committee meeting when sufficient 

time is allowed in advance to do so. 

Disclaimer: NACMCF documents and 

comments posted on the FSIS Web site 

are electronic conversions from a variety 

of source formats. In some cases, 

document conversion may result in 

character translation or formatting 

errors. The original document is the 

official, legal copy. 

In order to meet the electronic and 

information technology accessibility 

standards in Section 508 of the 

Rehabilitation Act, NACMCF may add 

alternate text descriptors for non-text 

elements (graphs, charts, tables, 

multimedia, etc.). These modifications 

only affect the online copies of the 

documents. 

Copyrighted documents will not be 

posted on the FSIS Web site, but will be 

available for inspection in the FSIS 

Docket Room. 

Additional Public Notification 

Public awareness of all segments of 

rulemaking and policy development is 

important. Consequently, in an effort to 

ensure that minorities, women, and 

persons with disabilities are aware of 

this notice, FSIS will announce it online 

through the FSIS Web page located at 

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/regulations/ 

2009_Notices_Index/. FSIS will also 

make copies of this Federal Register 

publication available through the FSIS 

Constituent Update, which is used to 

provide information regarding FSIS 

policies, procedures, regulations, 

Federal Register notices, FSIS public 

meetings, and other types of information 

that could affect or would be of interest 

to constituents and stakeholders. The 

Update is communicated via Listserv, a 

free electronic mail subscription service 

for industry, trade groups, consumer 

interest groups, health professionals, 

and other individuals who have asked 

to be included. The Update is also 

available on the FSIS Web page. 

Through the Listserv and Web page, 

FSIS is able to provide information to a 

much broader and more diverse 

audience. In addition, FSIS offers an 

electronic mail subscription service 

which provides automatic and 

customized access to selected food 

safety news and information. This 

service is available at http:// 

www.fsis.usda.gov/news_and_events/ 

email_subscription/. Options range from 

recalls to export information to 

regulations, directives and notices. 

Customers can add or delete 

subscriptions themselves, and have the 

option to password protect their 

accounts. 

Done at Washington, DC, on March 6, 

2009. 

Bryce Quick, 

Deputy Administrator, FSIS. 

[FR Doc. E9–5308 Filed 3–11–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–DM–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Galena Project, Malheur National 

Forest, Grant County, OR 

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 a proposed 

action to improve forest health and 

reduce the fire hazard within the 

Vinegar Creek and Little Boulder/ 

Deerhorn Creek subwatersheds. The 

Galena Project planning area, located 

approximately 2 miles west of Bates, 

Oregon, encompasses approximately 

38,200 acres of National Forest System 

Lands administered by the Blue 

Mountain Ranger District, Malheur 

National Forest. 

DATES: Comments concerning the scope 

of the analysis must be received by 

April 13, 2009. The draft environmental 

impact statement is expected August, 

2009 and the final environmental 

impact statement is expected December, 

2009. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to 

the Responsible Official, Doug 

Gochnour, Forest Supervisor, Malheur 

National Forest, 431 Patterson Bridge 

Road, P.O. Box 909, John Day, Oregon 

97845. Comments may also be sent via 

e-mail to comments-pacificnorthwestmalheur@fs.fed.us or via facsimile to 

541–575–3002. 

It is important that reviewers provide 

their comments at such times and in 

such a way that they are useful to the 

Agency’s preparation of the EIS. 

Therefore, comments should be 

provided prior to the close of the 

comment period and should clearly 

articulate the reviewer’s concerns and 

contentions. The submission of timely 

and specific comments can affect a 

reviewer’s ability to participate in 

subsequent administrative review 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 review or 

judicial review. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eric 

Wunz, Project Manager, Malheur 

National Forest, 431 Patterson Bridge 

Road, P.O. Box 909, John Day, Oregon, 

telephone 541–575–3167, e-mail 

ewunz@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: 

Purpose and Need for Action 

The purpose and need of the Galena 

project is to improve the forest health 

and reduce the fire hazard within the 

Vinegar Creek and Little Boulder/ 

Deerhorn Creek subwatersheds. 

Proposed Action 

This action includes precommercial 

thinning on approximately 2,800 acres, 

commercial harvest on approximately 

6,900 acres, and underburning on 

approximately 24,000 acres. Harvest 

methods would include ground-based 

and skyline logging systems. Several 

roads are to be relocated out of riparian 

areas, resulting in new road 

construction in some locations. Other 

road activities include maintenance and 

reconstruction of existing roads, 

opening and re-closing existing closed 

roads, and building short temporary 

roads that are to be decommisioned after 

use. No commercial harvest or road 

construction is proposed within 

Appendix C Inventoried Dixie Butte and 

Vinegar Hill-Indian Rock Roadless 

Areas. Two Forest Plan amendments 

would be included that would allow 

reduction of satisfactory cover on 128 

acres in the warm dry forest type and to 

add additional designated and 

replacement old growth stands to meet 

current Forest Plan standards. 

Possible Alternatives 

Alternatives will include the 

proposed action, no action, and 

additional alternatives that respond to 

issues generated during the scoping 

process. The agency will give notice of 

the full environmental analysis and 

decision-making process to interested 

and affected people may participate and 

contribute to the final decision. 

Responsible Official and Nature of 

Decision To Be Made 

The Responsible Official is Doug 

Gochnour, Forest Supervisor of the 


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