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Notices Federal Register

36450 

Vol. 87, No. 117 

Friday, June 17, 2022 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request; Reinstatement and 

Revision of a Previously Approved 

Information Collection 

The Department of Agriculture will 

submit the following information 

collection requirement(s) to OMB for 

review and clearance under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13 on or after the date 

of publication of this notice. Comments 

are requested regarding: whether the 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of burden including 

the validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; ways to enhance the 

quality, utility and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and ways to 

minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on those who are to 

respond, including through the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology Comments 

regarding these information collections 

are best assured of having their full 

effect if received by July 18, 2022. 

Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be 

submitted within 30 days of the 

publication of this notice on the 

following website www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. Find this 

particular information collection by 

selecting ‘‘Currently under 30-day 

Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or 

by using the search function. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor a collection of information 

unless the collection of information 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number and the agency informs 

potential persons who are to respond to 

the collection of information that such 

persons are not required to respond to 

the collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

Agricultural Marketing Service 

Title: United States Warehouse Act 

(USWA). 

OMB Control Number: 0581–0305. 

Summary of Collection: AMS is 

responsible, as required by the USWA, 

7 U.S.C. 869 et seq., to license public 

warehouse operators that are in the 

business of storing agricultural 

products, to examine such federally 

licensed warehouses and to license 

qualified persons to sample, inspect, 

weigh, and classify agricultural 

products. AMS licenses under the 

USWA cover approximately half of all 

commercial grain and cotton warehouse 

capacities in the United States. The 

regulations that implement the USWA 

govern the establishment and 

maintenance of systems under which 

documents, including documents of title 

on shipment, payment, and financing, 

may be issued, or transferred for 

agricultural products. Some of these 

systems and documents issued may be 

electronic. The regulations are found at 

7 CFR 869 et seq. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

This information collection allows AMS 

to effectively administer the regulations, 

licensing, and electronic provider 

agreements and related reporting and 

recordkeeping requirements as specified 

in the USWA. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit. Farms. 

Number of Respondents: 3,000. 

Frequency of Responses: 

Recordkeeping; Reporting: On occasion; 

Weekly. 

Total Burden Hours: 38,917. 

Agricultural Marketing Service 

Title: FarmerFairness.gov USDA/DOJ 

Complaint Web Portal. 

OMB Control Number: 0581–0333. 

Summary of Collection: The P&S Act 

and the regulations issued under the 

P&S Act authorize the collection of 

information for the purpose of enforcing 

the P&S Act and regulations and for 

conducting studies requested by 

Congress. The laws and regulations 

relating to competition in the meat and 

poultry industries confer separate and 

overlapping jurisdiction to the U.S. 

Department of Agriculture and the U.S. 

Department of Justice. Farmers, 

ranchers, and other interested persons 

may not be aware of this and may not 

know to whom or how to file a 

complaint or tip if they suspect a 

violation of those laws or regulations. 

This joint complaint portal allows those 

farmers, ranchers and interested persons 

to go to one website to submit 

information and USDA and DOJ will 

determine the appropriate jurisdiction 

and any follow up actions. 

Need and Use of the Information: 

This information collection is necessary 

for PSD and DOJ to monitor and 

examine complaints regarding financial, 

competitive, and trade practices in the 

livestock, meat packing and poultry 

industries. 

Description of Respondents: State, 

Local, and Tribal Governments. 

Number of Respondents: 110. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

Annually. 

Total Burden Hours: 165. 

Levi S. Harrell, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2022–13122 Filed 6–16–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Kootenai National Forest, Lincoln 

County; Montana; Montanore Mine 

Project—Withdrawal of Draft 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement 

AGENCY: Forest Service, Agriculture 

(USDA). 

ACTION: Notice; withdrawal. 

SUMMARY: The Kootenai National Forest 

is withdrawing its draft Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement 

(DSEIS) for the 2019 Montanore Mine 

Project. The Montanore Mine Project 

Notice of Intent was published in the 

Federal Register on December 28, 2017 

(82 FR 61533) and the NOA was 

published in the Federal Register on 

June 21, 2019 (84 FR 29201). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions concerning this notice should 

be directed to Craig Towery at 

craig.towery@usda.gov or 406–283– 

7657. 

Individuals who use 

telecommunication devices for the deaf 


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and hard of hearing (TDD) may call the 

Federal Relay Service (FRS) at 1–800– 

877–8339, 24 hours a day, every day of 

the year, including holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Hecla 

Mining Company has withdrawn from 

consideration the current Plan of 

Operations for the Montanore Project 

which eliminates the need for the 

current draft Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement. 

Dated: June 13, 2022. 

Deborah Hollen, 

Acting Associate Deputy Chief, National 

Forest System. 

[FR Doc. 2022–13089 Filed 6–16–22; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3411–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Natural Resources Conservation 

Service 

[Docket No. NRCS–2022–0004] 

Notice of Intent To Prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Central Oregon Irrigation District 

Pilot Butte Canal Infrastructure 

Modernization Project, Deschutes 

County, Oregon 

AGENCY: Natural Resources 

Conservation Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). 

SUMMARY: The Natural Resources 

Conservation Service (NRCS) Oregon 

State Office announces its intent to 

prepare an EIS for the Central Oregon 

Irrigation District (COID) Pilot Butte 

Canal (PBC) Project in the proximity of 

Redmond and Bend, Oregon. The EIS 

process will examine three alignment 

alternatives for replacing the existing 

PBC with a piped and pressurized 

system. The purpose of the new system 

is to promote irrigation water 

conservation in COID-owned 

infrastructure, improve water delivery 

reliability to COID patrons, and reduce 

long-term operation and maintenance 

costs. NRCS is requesting comments to 

identify significant issues and potential 

alternatives, information, and analyses 

relevant to the proposed action from all 

interested individuals, Tribes, and 

Federal, State and local agencies and 

jurisdictions. 

DATES: We will consider comments that 

we receive by July 18, 2022. Comments 

received later will be considered to the 

extent possible. 

ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit 

comments in response to this notice. 

You may submit your comments 

through one of the methods below: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov and search 

for docket ID NRCS–2022–0004. Follow 

the online instructions for submitting 

comments; or 

• Mail or Hand Delivery: Craig 

Horrell, District Manager, Central 

Oregon Irrigation District, 1055 SW Lake 

CT, Redmond, OR 97756. 

All comments received will be posted 

and made publicly available on 

www.regulations.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gary 

Diridoni, telephone: (503) 414–3092; 

email: gary.diridoni@usda.gov. In 

addition, for questions related to 

submitting comments: StingRay 

Communications—ShanRae Hawkins, 

telephone: (541) 390–6411; email: 

shanrae@hellostingray.com; or the PBC 

Project website at: www.coidpiping.com. 

Persons with disabilities who require 

alternative means for communication 

should contact the U.S. Department of 

Agriculture (USDA) Target Center at 

(202) 720–2600 (voice). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose and Need 

The PBC Project would be 

implemented as agricultural water 

management, as authorized under 

Sections 3 and 4 of Public Law 83–566. 

The primary purpose of agricultural 

water management on PBC is 

conservation of irrigation water in 

COID-owned infrastructure, 

improvement of water delivery 

reliability to COID patrons, and 

reduction in long-term operation and 

maintenance costs on approximately 21 

miles of the COID-owned canal. The 

PBC Project is needed to address water 

loss in COID conveyance systems and 

water delivery, operation, and 

maintenance inefficiencies. Specifically, 

the PBC Project will address water loss 

due to seepage and evaporation. It will 

also support local agricultural land use 

and increase public safety for PBC. The 

need for watershed planning is 

established and implementation of 

management actions are authorized 

under Public Law 83–566, the 

Watershed Protection and Flood 

Prevention Act of 1954, as amended, 

and Public Law 78–534, the Flood 

Control Act of 1944. Further context for 

the need for watershed planning in 

COID is provided below. 

COID was largely developed over 100 

years ago to provide irrigation water to 

patented lands in the Central Oregon 

Region. COID operates and maintains a 

combined total of over 700 miles of 

open and unlined main and lateral 

canals that serve approximately 50,000 

acres of irrigated lands that stretch north 

from Bend, Oregon to the Crooked 

River, and east to Powell Butte. COID’s 

PBC also conveys water to the Lone Pine 

Irrigation District located on the north 

side of the Crooked River east of 

Terrebonne, Oregon and to the North 

Unit Irrigation District’s (NUID) main 

canal near Smith Rock. 

The volcanic nature of the Central 

Oregon geology presents fractured 

basalt, cinder and varied substrates that 

result in a propensity for seepage losses 

in many areas of COID’s canal system. 

Optimization of water use in the Central 

Oregon basin is critical to maintaining 

the balance of water use as societal and 

environmental needs continue to change 

over time. Within the Basin over the 

next 30 years the irrigation districts will 

be increasing streamflow in the 

Deschutes River system to protect 

threatened species, which leaves less 

water available to support agricultural 

production. The saved water that would 

be made available by modernizing 

COID’s conveyance system would be 

critical to supporting agricultural 

production. Additionally, 

modernization will result in other 

benefits such as energy conservation, 

increased hydropower opportunities, 

reduced operations, and maintenance 

costs, increased operational efficiencies 

and increased public safety. 

Consistent with its System 

Improvement Plans (2016, 2017) and 

Capital Plan (2018), COID developed the 

Smith Rock-King Way Infrastructure 

Modernization Project Final Watershed 

Plan-Environmental Assessment 

(Watershed Plan-EA) for which NRCS 

issued a Finding of No Significant 

Impact in 2020 (https://oregonwater

shedplans.org/central-oregon-id). The 

Watershed Plan-EA included piping the 

north end of PBC; fully piping the G– 

4 Lateral; partially piping the J-Lateral; 

and constructing the L-Lateral crossing 

of the NUID Canal. With completion of 

the work identified in the 2020 Final 

Watershed Plan-EA, water would also 

be conveyed from COID’s system to 

NUID. The proposed alternatives 

analyzed under this EIS would extend 

improvements to PBC that are currently 

being completed under the 2020 Smith 

Rock-King Way Watershed Plan-EA. 

Preliminary Proposed Action and 

Alternatives Including No Action 

The proposed action considered 

under this EIS would complement 

projects already being completed under 

an approved 2020 Final Watershed-Plan 

EA and FONSI. These projects are 

located along PBC beginning around NE 

17th Street in Redmond, Oregon and 

continuing to PBC’s diversion point in 

Bend, Oregon. 


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