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through timber harvest and prescribed

burning in the Roosevelt Drive and Lime

Kiln areas of the Highland Mountains.

The project area is located

approximately 10 miles south of Butte,

MT.

The Forest Service proposes to

selectively treat approximately 366

acres of sawtimber and post and poles,

predominantly mature Douglas-fir and

lodgepole pine. Approximately .5 mile

of temporary road construction is

proposed to access the harvest units.

Additionally, .6 mile of existing deadend spur roads would be closed within

5 years of the vegetative treatments.

DATES: Comments concerning the scope

of the analysis should be received in

writing by July 5, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to

Bruce Schuelke, Butte Ranger District,

1820 Meadowlark, Butte, MT 59701.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Bruce Schuelke, Interdisciplinary Team

Leader, (406) 494–0241.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

primary purpose of this proposal is to

maintain a healthy Lodgepole Pine and

Douglas-Fir overstory. The desired

condition would be more resistant to

catastrophic fires; to promote vegetation

components that evolved ecological

with disturbance; and to reduce the risk

of insect infestations. The proposal

would encourage aspen reestablishment through harvesting and

underburning; and is designed to reduce

the overall sedimentation in Backtail

Creek. The proposal would harvest

timber in two areas using commercial

thinning, clearcutting and sanitation

salvage. Approximately 3,000 CCF of

sawtimber and approximately 36,000

posts and poles would be harvested.

The project tiers to the National Fire

Plan by reducing hazardous fuels along

the wildland-urban interface. This

project levels EIS will tier to the

Deerlodge National Forest Land and

Resource Management Plan (Forest

Plan) and incorporate by reference the

Forest Plan (September 1987), which

provides overall guidance of all land

management activities on the

Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest,

including timber. This project was

previously analyzed as Lime Kiln

Timber Sale E.A.

Public participation is important to

the analysis. Part of the goal of public

involvement is to identify additional

issues and to refine the general tentative

issues. To date, over 200 letters were

sent to interested people, adjacent

landowners, organizations, business, as

well as Federal, State, County, and

Tribal organizations. Two field trips

were held in the summers of 1996 and

1997. Comments from the public and

other agencies are being used to prepare

the Draft EIS. The scoping process to

date has identified potential issues;

identified major issues to be analyzed in

depth, and eliminated minor issues or

those that have been covered by a

relevant previous environmental

analysis. Public comments received

during initial scooping identified the

following issues: effects to wildlife

habitats, visual quality, recreation,

economic impacts, and adjacent private

land. Potential alternatives may harvest

less timber, or emphasize harvest in

other areas.

During the scoping process, the Forest

Service is seeking additional

information and comments from

Federal, State, and local agencies and

other individuals or organizations who

may be interested in or affected by the

proposed action. The United States Fish

and Wildlife Service will be consulted

concerning effects to threatened and

endangered species. The agency invites

written comments and suggestions on

this action, particularly in terms of

identification of issues and alternative

development.

The Beaverhead-Deerlodge National

Forest is the lead agency for this

proposal. The Forest Supervisor for the

Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest,

420 Barrett Street, Dillon, MT 59725

will be making the decision on this

action. The draft should be available for

review in September 2001 and the final

EIS is scheduled for completion in

November 2001.

The comment period on the draft

environmental impact statement will be

45 days from the date the

Environmental Protection Agency

publishes the notice of availability in

the Federal Register.

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,

reviewers of draft environmental impact

statements must structure their

participation in the environmental

review of the proposal so that it is

meaningful and alerts an agency to the

reviewer’s position and contentions.

Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v.

NRDC, 435 U.S. 519, 553 (1978). Also,

environmental objections that could be

raised at the draft environmental impact

statement stage but that are not raised

until after completion of the final

environmental impact statement may be

waived or dismissed by the courts.

Wisconsin Heritages, Inc. v. Harris, 490

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 when it can meaningfully

consider them and respond to them in

the final environmental impact

statement.

To assist the Forest Service in

identifying and considering issues and

concerns on the proposed action,

comments on the draft environmental

impact statement should be as specific

as possible. It is also helpful if

comments refer to specific pages or

chapters of the draft statement.

Comments may also address the

adequacy of the draft environmental

impact statement or the merits of the

alternatives formulated and discussed in

the statement. (Reviewers may wish to

refer to the Council of Environmental

Quality Regulations for implementing

the procedural provisions of the

National Environmental Policy Act at 40

CFR 1503.3 in addressing these points.).

Dated: May 23, 2001.

Janette S. Kaiser,

Forest Supervisor.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Submission for OMB Review;

Comment Request

DOC has submitted to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) for

clearance the following proposal for

collection of information under the

provisions of the Paperwork Reduction

Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35).

Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.

Title: 2002 Economic Census covering

the Utilities; Transportation and

Warehousing; Finance and Insurance;

and Real Estate, Rental and Leasing

Sectors.

Form Number(s): The 36 report forms

are too numerous to list here.

Agency Approval Number: None.

Type of Request: New collection.

Burden: 829,579 hours in FY 2003.

Number of Respondents: 633,007.

Avg Hours Per Response: 1.3 hours.

Needs and Uses: The 2002 Economic

Census covering the Utilities;

Transportation and Warehousing;

Finance and Insurance; and Real Estate,

Rental and Leasing Sectors will use a

mail canvas, supplemented by data from

Federal administrative records, to

measure the economic activity of more

than 994,000 establishments in these

sectors of the economy as classified in

the North American Industry

Classification System (NAICS).

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The Utilities sector comprises

establishments primarily engaged in the

provision of utility services through a

permanent infrastructure. The

Transportation sector comprises

establishments primarily engaged in

transporting people and goods. The

Warehousing sector comprises

establishments primarily engaged in

warehousing and storage for goods. The

Finance and Insurance sector comprises

two types of establishments: those

engaged in financial transactions, that

is, transactions involving the creation,

liquidation, or change in ownership of

financial assets, or in facilitating

financial transactions; and those

engaged in the intermediating as the

consequence of pooling risks and

facilitating such intermediation. The

Real Estate subsector comprises

establishments primarily engaged in

leasing real estate to others, as well as

real estate managers, agents, and

brokers. The Rental and Leasing

subsector comprises establishments

primarily engaged in acquiring, owning,

and making available a wide variety of

tangible goods such as machinery,

equipment, computers, and consumer

goods to businesses or individuals, in

return for a periodic rental or lease

payment.

The economic census will produce

basic statistics by kind of business for

number of establishments, revenue,

payroll, and employment. It also will

yield a variety of subject statistics,

including sources of revenue, and other

industry-specific measures, such as

insurance benefits paid to

policyholders, exported services,

purchased transportation, and exported

energy. Basic statistics will be

summarized for the United States,

states, metropolitan areas and, in some

cases, for counties and places having

2,500 inhabitants or more. Tabulations

of subject statistics also will present

data for the United States and, in some

cases, for states.

Affected Public: Businesses or other

for-profit organizations, individuals or

households, not-for-profit institutions,

State, local or Tribal governments.

Frequency: One time.

Respondent’s Obligation: Mandatory.

Legal Authority: Title 13 U.S.C.,

Sections 131 and 224.

OMB Desk Officer: Susan Schechter,

(202) 395–5103.

Copies of the above information

collection proposal can be obtained by

calling or writing Madeleine Clayton,

Departmental Paperwork Clearance

Officer, (202) 482–3129, Department of

Commerce, room 6086, 14th and

Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington,

DC 20230 (or via the Internet at

mclayton@doc.gov).

Written comments and

recommendations for the proposed

information collection should be sent

within 30 days of publication of this

notice to Susan Schechter, OMB Desk

Officer, room 10201, New Executive

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: May 25, 2001.

Madeleine Clayton,

Departmental Paperwork Clearance Officer,

Office of the Chief Information Officer.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

[052401A]

Submission for OMB Review;

Comment Request

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Department of Commerce has submitted

to the Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) for clearance the following

proposal for collection of information

under the provisions of the Paperwork

Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35).

Agency: National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

Title: North Carolina and Louisiana

Commercial King and/or Spanish

Mackerel Fishermen Pilot Economic

Study.

Form Number(s): None.

OMB Approval Number: None.

Type of Request: Regular submission.

Burden Hours: 154.

Number of Respondents: 140.

Average Hours Per Response: 12

minutes per screening form, 5 minutes

for a captain form when completed by

an owner, 20 minutes for an owner

form, 15 minutes for a captain form

when the captain is not an owner, and

15 minutes for a trip questionnaire.

Needs and Uses: The North Carolina

and Louisiana Commercial King and/or

Spanish Mackerel Fishermen Pilot

Economic Survey will consist of

telephone screening followed by inperson interviews of commercial

fishermen in North Carolina and

Louisiana possessing Federal

commercial mackerel fishing permits.

The survey will provide NMFS with

economic information to better estimate

the effects of regulations proposed for

the king and Spanish mackerel

commercial fisheries. The survey will

also provide a better basis for designing

statistically-random surveys for other

strata of the population of boats that

engage in these and other fisheries

throughout the southeast (coastal states

of North Carolina to Texas). Monitoring

of these fisheries is required under the

Magnuson-Stevens Fishery

Conservation and Management Act.

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations.

Frequency: One-time, three times a

year.

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.

OMB Desk Officer: David Rostker,

(202) 395–3897.

Copies of the above information

collection proposal can be obtained by

calling or writing Madeleine Clayton,

Departmental Paperwork Clearance

Officer, (202) 482–3129, Department of

Commerce, Room 6086, 14th and

Constitution Avenue, NW, Washington,

DC 20230 (or via the Internet at

MClayton@doc.gov).

Written comments and

recommendations for the proposed

information collection should be sent

within 30 days of publication of this

notice to David Rostker, OMB Desk

Officer, Room 10202, New Executive

Office Building, Washington, DC 20503.

Dated: May 22, 2001

Madeleine Clayton,

Departmental Paperwork Clearance Officer,

Office of the Chief Information Officer.

[FR Doc. 01–13680 Filed 5–30–01; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Foreign-Trade Zones Board

[Docket 47–99]

Foreign-Trade Zone 207—Richmond

International Airport, Virginia,

Withdrawal of Application for Subzone

Status for Alfa Laval Thermal, Inc.,

Heat Exchangers and Parts

Manufacturing Facilities in Richmond,

Virginia Area

Notice is hereby given of the

withdrawal of the application submitted

by the Capital Region Airport

Commission, grantee of FTZ 207,

requesting special-purpose subzone

status for the manufacturing facilities

(heat exchangers and parts) of Alfa

Laval Thermal, Inc., located at sites in

the Richmond, Virginia, area. The

application was filed on October 14,

1999 (64 FR 57627, 10/26/99).

The withdrawal was requested

because of changed circumstances, and

the case has been closed without

prejudice.

Dated: May 18, 2001.

Dennis Puccinelli,

Executive Secretary.

[FR Doc. 01–13682 Filed 5–30–01; 8:45 am]

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