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Cunningham Wash to the Graham Well, 

intersecting Butler Valley Road, then 

north and west on the countymaintained road to the ‘‘Bouse Y’’ 

intersection, 2 miles north of Bouse, 

Arizona. The course proceeds north, 

paralleling the Bouse-Swansea Road to 

the Midway (Pit) intersection, then west 

along the North Boundary (power line) 

Road of the East Cactus Plain 

Wilderness Area to Parker-Swansea 

Road. The course turns west into 

Osborne Wash crossing the CAP Canal, 

along the north boundary of the Cactus 

Plain Wilderness Study Area; it 

continues west staying in Osborne Wash 

and crossing Shea Road along the 

southern boundary of Gibraltar 

Wilderness, rejoining Osborne Wash at 

the CRIT Reservation boundary. 

Closure Restrictions: The following 

acts are prohibited during the temporary 

land closures in order to provide for 

public and race participant safety: 

1. Being present on or driving on the 

designated race course or the adjacent 

lands described above. All spectators 

must stay within the designated 

spectator areas. The spectator areas have 

protective fencing and barriers. This 

does not apply to race participants, race 

officials, or emergency vehicles 

authorized or operated by local, State, or 

Federal government agencies. 

Emergency medical response shall only 

be conducted by personnel and vehicles 

operating under the guidance of the La 

Paz County Emergency Medical Services 

and Fire, the Arizona Department of 

Public Safety, or the BLM. 

2. Vehicle parking or stopping in 

areas affected by the closures, except 

where such is specifically allowed 

(designated spectator areas). 

3. Camping in the closed area 

described above, except in the 

designated spectator areas. 

4. Discharge of firearms. 

5. Possession or use of any fireworks. 

6. Cutting or collecting firewood of 

any kind, including dead and down 

wood or other vegetative material. 

7. Operating any off-road vehicle (as 

defined by 43 CFR 8340.0–7(a)). 

8. Operating any vehicle in the area of 

the temporary closure or on roads 

within the event area at a speed of more 

than 35 miles per hour. This does not 

apply to registered race vehicles during 

the race, while on the designated race 

course. 

9. Failing to obey any official sign 

posted by the BLM, La Paz County, or 

the race promoter. 

10. Parking any vehicle in violation of 

posted restrictions, or in such a manner 

as to obstruct or impede normal or 

emergency traffic movement or the 

parking of other vehicles, create a safety 

hazard, or endanger any person, 

property, or feature. Vehicles parked in 

violation are subject to citation, 

removal, and/or impoundment at the 

owner’s expense. 

11. Failing to obey any person 

authorized to direct traffic or control 

access to event area including law 

enforcement officers, BLM officials, and 

designated race officials. 

12. Failing to observe spectator area 

quiet hours of 10 p.m. to 6 a.m. 

13. Failing to keep campsite or race 

viewing site free of trash and litter. 

14. Allowing any pet or other animal 

to be unrestrained. All pets must be 

restrained by a leash of not more than 

6 feet in length. 

15. Reserving sites within the 

spectator area. Spectators are prohibited 

from denying other visitors or parties 

the use of unoccupied portions of the 

spectator area. 

Exceptions to Closure: The 

restrictions do not apply to emergency 

or law enforcement vehicles owned by 

the United States, the State of Arizona, 

or La Paz County, and designated race 

officials, participants, pit crews, or 

persons operating on their behalf. All 

BITD registered media personnel are 

permitted access to existing routes 50 

feet from the race course per BITD 

standards. Outside of the race corridor, 

other lands in the Field Office will 

remain open and available for offhighway vehicle access and all other 

recreation activities. 

Penalties: Any person who violates 

these temporary closures may be tried 

before a United States Magistrate and 

fined in accordance with 18 U.S.C. 

3571, imprisoned no more than 12 

months under 43 U.S.C. 1733(a) and 43 

CFR 8360.0–7, or both. In accordance 

with 43 CFR 8365.1–7, State or local 

officials may also impose penalties for 

violations of Arizona law. 

Effect of Closure: The entire area 

encompassed by the designated course 

and all areas outside the course as 

described above and in the time period 

as described above are closed to all 

vehicles. The authorized applicant or 

their representatives are required to post 

warning signs, control access to, and 

clearly mark the event route and areas, 

common access roads, and road 

crossings during the closure period. 

Support vehicles under permit for 

operation by event participants must 

follow the race permit stipulations. 

Authority: 43 CFR 8364.1. 

Jason West, 

Field Manager. 

[FR Doc. 2017–28217 Filed 12–28–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–32–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Reclamation 

[RR02800000, 18XR0680A1, 

RX.17868949.0000000] 

Notice of Intent To Prepare a Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement, 

Revisions to the Coordinated LongTerm Operation of the Central Valley 

Project and State Water Project, and 

Related Facilities 

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of intent; request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Reclamation 

(Reclamation) intends to prepare a 

programmatic environmental impact 

statement (EIS) for analyzing potential 

modifications to the continued longterm operation of the federal Central 

Valley Project (CVP), for its authorized 

purposes, in a coordinated manner with 

the State Water Project (SWP), for its 

authorized purposes. Reclamation 

proposes to evaluate alternatives that 

maximize water deliveries and optimize 

marketable power generation consistent 

with applicable laws, contractual 

obligations, and agreements; and to 

augment operational flexibility by 

addressing the status of listed species. 

Reclamation is seeking suggestions and 

information on the alternatives and 

topics to be addressed and any other 

important issues related to the proposed 

action. 

DATES: Submit written comments on the 

scope of the EIS by February 1, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to 

Katrina Harrison, Project Manager, 

Bureau of Reclamation, Bay-Delta 

Office, 801 I Street, Suite 140, 

Sacramento, CA 95814–2536; fax to 

(916) 414–2425; or email at kharrison@

usbr.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Katrina Harrison at (916) 414–2425; or 

email at kharrison@usbr.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Agencies Involved 

Reclamation will request the 

following agencies participate as 

cooperating agencies for preparation of 

the EIS in accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), as 

amended: U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service (USFWS), National Marine 

Fisheries Service (NMFS), U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers; Western Area Power 

Administration, and U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency. 

Reclamation has also identified 

Indian tribes and other Federal, State, 


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and local agencies (e.g., public water 

agencies, power marketing agencies, 

power customers, etc.) as potential 

cooperating agencies, and Reclamation 

will invite them to participate as 

cooperating agencies. 

II. Why We Are Taking This Action 

The CVP is a major water source for 

agricultural, municipal and industrial 

(M&I), and fish and wildlife demands in 

California. State and Federal regulatory 

actions, federal trust responsibilities, 

and other agreements, have significantly 

reduced the water available for delivery 

south of the Sacramento-San Joaquin 

River Delta, in order, among other 

things, to protect water quality within 

the delta and prevent jeopardy and 

adverse modification of critical habitat 

of threatened and endangered species. 

This project will evaluate alternatives to 

restore, at least in part, water supply, in 

consideration of all of the authorized 

purposes of the CVP. 

In this programmatic EIS, 

Reclamation will analyze potential 

modifications to the continued longterm operation of the CVP (proposed 

action), in a coordinated manner with 

the SWP, to achieve the following: 

• Maximize water supply delivery, 

consistent with applicable law, 

contracts and agreements, considering 

new and/or modified storage and export 

facilities. 

• Review and consider modifications 

to regulatory requirements, including 

existing Reasonable and Prudent 

Alternative actions identified in the 

Biological Opinions issued by the 

USFWS and NMFS in 2008 and 2009, 

respectively. 

• Evaluate stressors on fish other than 

CVP and SWP operations, beneficial 

non-flow measures to decrease stressors, 

and habitat restoration and other 

beneficial measures for improving 

targeted fish populations. 

• Evaluate potential changes in laws, 

regulations and infrastructure that may 

benefit power marketability. 

Reclamation has decided to prepare 

an EIS. As an example for why NEPA 

is required related to CVP operation, in 

2014, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals 

determined that the current, 

coordinated operation of the CVP and 

SWP under biological opinions issued 

by the USFWS and NMFS in 2008 and 

2009, respectively, was a major Federal 

action that affected the quality of the 

human environment that required the 

preparation of an EIS. San Luis & DeltaMendota Water Authority (SLDMWA) v. 

Jewell, 747 F.3d 581 (9th Cir. 2014); 

SLDMWA v. Locke, 776 F.3d 971 (9th 

Cir. 2014). This EIS is expected to be 

primarily programmatic in nature. It is 

anticipated that this current 

programmatic effort will be followed by 

tiered project-level NEPA analyses to 

implement various site specific projects 

or detailed programs that were generally 

described in the programmatic EIS. 

III. Purpose and Need for Action 

The need for the action is to increase 

operational flexibility, as further 

described in Section II above. The 

purpose of the action considered in this 

EIS is to continue the operation of the 

CVP in a coordinated manner with the 

SWP, for its authorized purposes, in a 

manner that enables Reclamation and 

California Department of Water 

Resources to maximize water deliveries 

and optimize marketable power 

generation consistent with applicable 

laws, contractual obligations, and 

agreements; and to augment operational 

flexibility by addressing the status of 

listed species. 

IV. Project Area (Area of Analysis) 

The project area includes the existing 

CVP and SWP Service Areas, proposed 

CVP Service Areas, and storage and 

export facilities (including potential 

modifications), within the Sacramento 

and San Joaquin watersheds (including 

external watersheds connected through 

facilities). The project area also includes 

potential improvements and 

developments of other water supply or 

power generation programs. 

The CVP is Reclamation’s largest 

federal reclamation project. Reclamation 

operates the CVP in coordination with 

the SWP, under the Coordinated 

Operation Agreement between the 

federal government and the State of 

California (authorized by Pub. L. 99– 

546). The CVP and SWP operate 

pursuant to water rights permits and 

licenses issued by the State Water 

Resources Control Board. The CVP and 

SWP water rights allow appropriation of 

water by directly using and/or diverting 

water to storage for later withdrawal and 

use, or use and re-diversion to storage 

further downstream for later 

consumptive use. Among the conditions 

of their water rights, are requirements of 

the projects to either bypass or 

withdraw water from storage and to 

help satisfy specific water quality, 

quantity and operations criteria in 

source rivers and within the Delta. The 

CVP and SWP are currently operated in 

accordance with the 2008 USFWS 

Biological Opinion and the 2009 NMFS 

Biological Opinion, both of which 

concluded that the coordinated longterm operation of the CVP and SWP, as 

proposed in Reclamation’s 2008 

Biological Assessment, was likely to 

jeopardize the continued existence of 

listed species and destroy or adversely 

modify designated critical habitat. Both 

Biological Opinions included 

Reasonable and Prudent Alternatives 

designed to allow the CVP and SWP to 

continue operating without causing 

jeopardy to listed species or destruction 

or adverse modification to designated 

critical habitat. Reclamation accepted 

and then began Project operations 

consistent with the USFWS and NMFS 

Reasonable and Prudent Alternatives. 

V. Alternatives To Be Considered 

As required by NEPA, the EIS will 

include and consider a proposed action 

and a reasonable range of alternatives, 

including a No Action Alternative. 

Reasonable alternatives to the proposed 

action may include a combination of: 

• Operations in coordination with 

new or proposed facilities to increase 

water supply deliveries and marketable 

power generation: 

Æ Actions that increase storage 

capacity upstream of the Delta for the 

CVP 

Æ Actions that increase storage 

capacity south of the Delta 

Æ Actions that increase export 

capabilities through the Delta 

Æ Actions to generate additional 

water or that improve and optimize the 

utilization of water such as 

desalinization, water conservation, or 

water reuse 

• Modified operations of the CVP and 

SWP with and without new or proposed 

facilities including possible requests to 

modify environmental and regulatory 

requirements, and sharing of water and 

responsibilities in the Delta 

• Habitat restoration and ecosystem 

improvement projects intended to 

increase fish populations which would 

be factored into the regulatory process 

• Modification to existing state and 

federal facilities to reduce impacts to 

listed species 

The Final EIS will identify an agencypreferred alternative. 

Alternatives could affect all or various 

facilities and/or operations of the CVP, 

and may also include actions that affect 

SWP and local project operations. 

Reclamation will engage with California 

Department of Water Resources and 

local stakeholders in developing the 

proposed action and reasonable 

alternatives. Reclamation will also 

consider reasonable alternatives 

identified through the scoping process. 

The proposed EIS will address 

operations of the CVP and SWP, 

operations in coordination with new or 

proposed projects, and habitat 

restoration in the Project area, designed 

to increase operational flexibility, 

increase water supply for CVP 


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authorized purposes, and/or increase 

power marketability. 

VI. Indian Trust Assets and 

Environmental Justice 

There are Indian Trust Asset issues 

and there may be environmental justice 

issues related to the Trinity River, as 

well as potential impacts within other 

areas. 

VII. Statutory Authority 

NEPA [42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.] requires 

that Federal agencies conduct an 

environmental analysis of their 

proposed actions to determine if the 

actions may significantly affect the 

human environment. As required by 

NEPA, Reclamation will develop an EIS 

which will analyze the potential direct, 

indirect, and cumulative environmental 

effects that may result from the 

implementation of the proposed action 

and alternatives. 

The Rivers and Harbors Act of August 

26, 1937 (50 Stat. 844, as amended and 

supplemented) provides for operation of 

the CVP. 

VIII. Request for Comments 

The purposes of this notice are: 

• To advise other agencies, CVP and 

SWP water users and power customers, 

affected tribes, and the public of our 

intention to gather information to 

support the preparation of an EIS; 

• To obtain suggestions and 

information from other agencies, 

interested parties, and the public on the 

scope of alternatives and issues to be 

addressed in the EIS; and 

• To identify important issues raised 

by the public related to the development 

and implementation of the proposed 

action. 

Reclamation invites written 

comments from interested parties to 

ensure that the full range of alternatives 

and issues related to the development of 

the proposed action are identified. 

Comments during this stage of the 

scoping process will only be accepted in 

written form. Written comments may be 

submitted by mail, electronic mail, 

facsimile transmission or in person to 

the contact listed in the ADDRESSES

section of this notice. Comments and 

participation in the scoping process are 

encouraged. 

IX. Public Disclosure 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address or other personal 

identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

X. How To Request Reasonable 

Accommodation 

If special assistance is required, 

please contact Katrina Harrison at the 

address provided above or TDD 916– 

978–5608. Information regarding this 

proposed action is available in 

alternative formats upon request. 

Dated: December 20, 2017. 

David Murillo, 

Regional Director, Mid-Pacific Region. 

[FR Doc. 2017–28215 Filed 12–28–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4332–90–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

Notice of Receipt of Complaint; 

Solicitation of Comments Relating to 

the Public Interest 

AGENCY: U.S. International Trade 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the U.S. International Trade 

Commission has received a complaint 

entitled Certain Subsea 

Telecommunications Systems and 

Components Thereof, DN 3283; the 

Commission is soliciting comments on 

any public interest issues raised by the 

complaint or complainant’s filing 

pursuant to the Commission’s Rules of 

Practice and Procedure. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lisa 

R. Barton, Secretary to the Commission, 

U.S. International Trade Commission, 

500 E Street SW, Washington, DC 

20436, telephone (202) 205–2000. The 

public version of the complaint can be 

accessed on the Commission’s 

Electronic Document Information 

System (EDIS) at https://edis.usitc.gov, 

and will be available for inspection 

during official business hours (8:45 a.m. 

to 5:15 p.m.) in the Office of the 

Secretary, U.S. International Trade 

Commission, 500 E Street SW, 

Washington, DC 20436, telephone (202) 

205–2000. 

General information concerning the 

Commission may also be obtained by 

accessing its internet server at United 

States International Trade Commission 

(USITC) at https://www.usitc.gov. The 

public record for this investigation may 

be viewed on the Commission’s 

Electronic Document Information 

System (EDIS) at https://edis.usitc.gov. 

Hearing-impaired persons are advised 

that information on this matter can be 

obtained by contacting the 

Commission’s TDD terminal on (202) 

205–1810. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Commission has received a complaint 

and a submission pursuant to § 210.8(b) 

of the Commission’s Rules of Practice 

and Procedure filed on behalf of 

Neptune Subsea LP Ltd.; Neptune 

Subsea Acquisitions Ltd.; and Xtera, 

Inc. on December 22, 2017. The 

complaint alleges violations of section 

337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 

1337) in the importation into the United 

States, the sale for importation, and the 

sale within the United States after 

importation of certain subsea 

telecommunications systems and 

components thereof. The complaint 

names as respondents Nokia 

Corporation, Finland; Nokia Solutions 

and Networks B.V., the Netherlands; 

Nokia Solutions and Networks Oy, 

Finland; Alcatel-Lucent Submarine 

Networks SAS, France; Nokia Solutions 

and Networks US LLC, Phoenix, AZ; 

NEC Corporation, Japan; NEC Networks 

& System Integration Corporation, 

Japan; and NEC Corporation of America, 

Irving, TX. The complainant requests 

that the Commission issue a limited 

exclusion order, cease and desist orders, 

and impose a bond upon respondents’ 

alleged infringing articles during the 60- 

day Presidential review period pursuant 

to 19 U.S.C. 1337(j). 

Proposed respondents, other 

interested parties, and members of the 

public are invited to file comments, not 

to exceed five (5) pages in length, 

inclusive of attachments, on any public 

interest issues raised by the complaint 

or § 210.8(b) filing. Comments should 

address whether issuance of the relief 

specifically requested by the 

complainant in this investigation would 

affect the public health and welfare in 

the United States, competitive 

conditions in the United States 

economy, the production of like or 

directly competitive articles in the 

United States, or United States 

consumers. 

In particular, the Commission is 

interested in comments that: 

(i) Explain how the articles 

potentially subject to the requested 

remedial orders are used in the United 

States; 

(ii) identify any public health, safety, 

or welfare concerns in the United States 

relating to the requested remedial 

orders; 

(iii) identify like or directly 

competitive articles that complainant, 

its licensees, or third parties make in the 

United States which could replace the 


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