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All comments received will be

evaluated and considered in making the

final decision.

DATES: Comments must be received in

writing by May 29, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Send requests for

documents to: Forest Supervisor, Mark

Twain National Forest, 401 Fairgrounds

Road, Rolla, MO 65401 Or via the forest

web page at www.fs.fed.us/r9/

marktwain

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kristine Swanson, Integrated Resources

Staff Officer, at 573–364–4621, ext. 416.

TDD 573–364–6844; or direct electronic

mail to

mailroomlr9lmarktwain@fs.fed.us

with the words ‘‘NEPA Supervisors

Office’’ in the subject line.

Responsible Official: Randy Moore,

Forest Supervisor, 401 Fairgrounds

Road, Rolla, MO 65401.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This

amendment would add standards and

guidelines to the Wildlife Habitat

Management section and Recreation and

Heritage Resource Management sections

of the Mark Twain Land and Resource

Management Plan. This new guidance

responds to new management guidance,

revised Forest Service policy and

regulatory mandates, the Forest Service

Natural Resource Agenda, and will

make the Forest Plan easier to read,

understand, and implement in the areas

of fisheries, heritage and recreation

resource management only.

This is a non-significant amendment.

Dated: May 21, 2001.

Randy Moore,

Forest Supervisor.

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BILLING CODE 3410–11–M

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service

Suction Dredging Activities; Siskiyou

National Forest, Josephine, Coos, and

Curry County, OR; Del Norte County,

CA

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an

Environmental Impact Statement.

SUMMARY: The USDA, Forest Service

(UFS), Siskiyou Forest National Forest,

will prepare an Environmental Impact

Statement (EIS). The purpose of the EIS

is to summarize and disclose the

environmental effects of a Proposed

Action to approve proposed Plans of

Operation for suction dredging within

Riparian Reserves on mining claims

located across the Siskiyou National

Forest.

The Proposed Action is designed to be

consistent with the Siskiyou National

Forest Land and Resource Management

Plan (1989), as amended by the Record

of Decision for the Northwest Forest

Plan (1994), and is scheduled for

implementation during Calendar Year

2002.

Among several requirements, the 1994

Northwest Forest Plan Standard and

Guideline MM–1 required that all

minerals operations within Riparian

Reserves must have an approved Plan of

Operation. Additionally, a 1999 lawsuit

ruling re-affirmed that the Siskiyou

National Forest must implement the

Northwest Forest Plan Standard and

Guideline MM–1. The Siskiyou National

Forest invites you to submit written

issues with the Proposed Action. In

addition, written issues will be solicited

during public scoping efforts. The forest

will also give notice of the full

environmental analysis and decision

making process so that interested and

affected people are made aware as to

how they may participate and

contribute to the final decision.

DATES: Issues concerning the Proposed

Action must be received by June 29,

2001.

ADDRESSES: Submit written issues

regarding the Proposed Action to Jack

Williams, Forest Supervisor, Siskiyou

National Forest, 333 W. 8th Street, P.O.

Box 520, Medford Oregon 97501.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Direct questions about the Proposed

Action and EIS to Roger Mendenhall,

Interdisciplinary Team Leader, Siskiyou

National Forest, 200 N.E. Greenfield,

P.O. Box 440, Grants Pass, Oregon

97526–0242; phone # 541–471–6500.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Plans

of Operation for suction dredging would

occur within all of the major watersheds

of Siskiyou National Forest.

The Forest Service will consider

submitted issues to the Proposed Action

in determining the kinds and depths of

analysis needed. They may also be used

to develop additional alternatives to the

Proposed Action that would respond to

significant issues. The no-action

alternative, not approving the Plans of

Operation, will also be considered.

Public participation will be important

at several times during the analysis. The

first time is during scoping. Reviewers

may wish to refer to the Council on

Environmental Quality Regulations for

implementing the procedural provisions

of the National Environmental Policy

Act at 40 CFR 1501.7. The Agency will

be seeking written issues with the

Proposed Action from Federal, State,

and local agencies, affected Indian

tribes, and individuals who may be

interested in or affected by the Proposal.

The Draft EIS is expected to be filed

with the Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA) and be available for

review by July 2001. The comment

period for the Draft EIS will be 45 days

from the date that the EPA publishes the

Notice of Availability in the Federal

Register.

Submissions received in response to

this notice, including names and

addresses of those who comment, will

be considered part of the public record

on this Proposed Action and will be

available for public inspection.

Comments submitted anonymously will

be accepted and considered, however,

those who submit anonymous

comments will not have standing to

appeal the subsequent decision under

36 CFR part 215. Additionally, pursuant

to 7 CFR 1.27(d), any person may

request the agency to withhold a

submission from the public record by

showing how the Freedom of

Information Act (FOIA) Permits such

confidentiality. Person requesting such

confidentiality should be aware that,

under the FOIA, confidentially may be

granted in only very limited

circumstances, such as to protect trade

secrets. The Forest Service will inform

the request of the agency’s decision

regarding the request for confidentiality,

and where the request is denied, he

agency will return the submission and

notify the requester that the comments

may be resubmitted with or without

name and address within a specified

number of days.

The Forest Service believes it is

important to give Reviewers notice, at

this early stage, of several court rulings

related to public participation in the

environmental review process. First, a

reviewers of a Draft EIS must structure

their submissions in the environmental

review process so that they are specific,

meaningful, and alerts an agency to

reviewer’s position and contentions.

Vermont Yankee Power Corp. v. NRDC,

435 U.S. 519, 533 (1978). Also,

environmental objections that could be

raised at the Draft EIS stage, but that are

not raised until after the completion of

the final EIS, may be waived or

dismissed by the courts. City of Angoon

v. Hodel, 803 F.2d. 1016, 1022 (9th Cir.

1986) and Wisconsin Heritages, Inc. v.

Harris, 409 F. Supp. 1334, 1338 (E.D.

Wis. 1980). Because of these court

rulings, it is very important that those

interested in this Proposed Action

participate by the close of the 45 day

comment period so that substantive

comments and objections are made

available to the Forest Service at a time

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when it can meaningfully consider and

respond to them in the Final EIS.

To assist the Forest Service in

identifying and considering comments,

comments on the Draft EIS should be as

specific as possible. It is also helpful if

comments refer to specific pages or

chapters of the Draft EIS. Comments

may address the adequacy of the Draft

EIS or the merits of the alternatives

formulated and discussed in EIS.

Reviewers may wish to refer to the

Council on Environmental Quality

Regulations for implementing the

procedural provisions of the National

Environmental Policy Act at 40 CFR

1503.3 in addressing these points.

After the 45 day comment period ends

on the Draft EIS, comment will be

considered and analyzed by the Agency

in preparing the Final EIS. The Final

EIS is scheduled for completion by

October 2001. In the Final EIS, the

Forest Service is required to respond to

respond to the comments and responses

received during the comment period

that pertain to the environmental

consequences discussed in the Draft

EIS, applicable laws, regulations, and

policies considered in making the

decision regarding the proposal.

The Forest Service Responsible

Official is Jack Williams, Forest

Supervisor, of the Siskiyou National

Forest. The Responsible Official will

consider the Final EIS, applicable laws,

regulations, policies, and analysis files

in making a decision. The Responsible

Official will document the decision and

rationale in the Record of Decision. The

decision will be subject to appeal by the

general public under regulation 36 CFR

215.

Dated: May 17, 2001.

Jack E. Williams,

Forest Supervisor.

[FR Doc. 01–13374 Filed 5–25–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3410–11–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

Materials Technical Advisory

Committee; Notice of Partially Closed

Meeting

The Materials Technical Advisory

Committee will meet on June 13, 2001,

10:30 a.m., Herbert C. Hoover Building,

Room 3884, 14th Street between

Constitution & Pennsylvania Avenues,

NW., Washington, DC. The Committee

advises the Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Export Administration

with respect to technical questions that

affect the level of export controls

applicable to materials and related

technology.

Agenda

Public Session

1. Opening remarks and

introductions.

2. Presentation of papers and

comments by the public.

3. Status report on proposed revision

to missile technology controls for

composites and composite production

equipment: relationship of cure

temperature and glass transition

temperature after curing.

Closed Session

4. Discussion of matters properly

classified under Executive Order 12958,

dealing with U.S. export control

programs and strategic criteria related

thereto.

A limited number of seats will be

available during the public session of

the meeting. Reservations are not

accepted. To the extent time permits,

members of the public may present oral

statements to the Committee. Written

statements may be submitted at any

time before or after the meeting.

However, to facilitate distribution of

public presentation materials to

Committee members, the materials

should be forwarded prior to the

meeting to the address below: Ms. Lee

Ann Carpenter, OSIES/EA/BXA MS:

3876, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14

St. & Constitution Ave., NW.,

Washington, DC 20230.

The Assistant Secretary for

Administration, with the concurrence of

the delegate of the General Counsel,

formally determined on March 7, 2000,

pursuant to section 10(d) of the Federal

Advisory Committee Act, as amended,

that the series of meetings or portions of

meetings of the Committee and of any

Subcommittee thereof dealing with the

classified materials listed in 5 U.S.C.

552(c)(1) shall be exempt from the

provisions relating to public meetings

found in section 10(a)(1) and (a)(3) of

the Federal Advisory Committee Act.

The remaining series of meetings or

portions thereof will be open to the

public. A copy of the Notice of

Determination to close meetings or

potions of meetings of the Committee is

available for public inspection and

copying in the Central Reference and

Records Inspection Facility, Room 6020,

U.S. Department of Commerce,

Washington, DC. For more information

or copies of the minutes call Ms. Lee

Ann Carpenter at (202) 482–2583.

Dated: May 22, 2001.

Lee Ann Carpenter,

Committee Liaison Officer.

[FR Doc. 01–13390 Filed 5–25–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–JT–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

Regulations and Procedures Technical

Advisory Committee; Notice of

Partially Closed Meeting

The Regulations and Procedures

Technical Advisory Committee (RPTAC)

will meet June 12, 2001, 9 a.m., Room

3884, in the Herbert C. Hoover Building,

14th Street between Constitution and

Pennsylvania Avenues, NW.,

Washington, DC. The Committee

advises the Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Export Administration on

implantation of the Export

Administration Regulations (EAR) and

provides for continuing review to

update the EAR as needed.

Agenda

Public Session

1. Opening remarks by the Chairman.

2. Presentation of papers or comments

by the public.

3. Update on pending regulations.

4. Work group activity reports and

discussion.

5. Update on Bureau of Export

Administration initiatives.

Closed Session

6. Discussion of matters properly

classified under Executive Order

12958, dealing with the U.S. export

control program and strategic criteria

related thereto.

A limited number of seats will be

available for the public session.

Reservations are not accepted. To the

extent that time permits, members of the

public may present oral statements to

the Committee. The public may submit

written statements at any time before or

after the meeting. However, to facilitate

the distribution of public presentation

materials to the Committee members,

the Committee suggests that presenters

forward the public presentation

materials prior to the meeting to the

following address: Ms. Lee Ann

Carpenter, OSIES/EA/BXA MS: 3876,

14th St. & Constitution Ave., NW., U.S.

Department of Commerce, Washington,

DC 20230.

The Assistant Secretary for

Administration, with the concurrence of

the delegate of the General Counsel,

formally determined on February 12,

2001, pursuant to Section 10(d) of the