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Notices Federal Register

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Vol. 70, No. 211 

Wednesday, November 2, 2005 

AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL 

DEVELOPMENT 

Notice of Public Information 

Collections Being Reviewed by the 

U.S. Agency for International 

Development; Comments Requested 

SUMMARY: U.S. Agency for International 

Development (USAID) is making efforts 

to reduce the paperwork burden. USAID 

invites the general public and other 

Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on the 

following proposed and/or continuing 

information collections, as required by 

the Paperwork Reduction Act for 1995. 

Comments are requested concerning: (a) 

Whether the proposed or continuing 

collections of information are necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the agency, including 

whether the information shall have 

practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the 

burden estimates; (c) ways to enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information collected; and (d) ways to 

minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on the respondents, 

including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

January 3, 2006. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Beverly Johnson, Bureau for 

Management, Office of Administrative 

Services, Information and Records 

Division, U.S. Agency for International 

Development, Room 2.07–106, RRB, 

Washington, DC 20523, (202) 712–1365 

or via e-mail bjohnson@usaid.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB No: OMB 0412–NEW. 

Form No.: N/A. 

Title: Summer Internship Application. 

Type of Review: NEW Information 

Collection. 

Purpose: The United States Agency 

for International Development, Africa 

Bureau, intends to use the Summer 

Internship Application to collect 

information from approximately 300 

student applicants to its summer 

internship programs for USAID 

Missions in Africa and in Washington, 

DC. 

Annual Reporting Burden: 

Respondents: 300. 

Total annual responses: 300. 

Total annual hours requested: 150 

hours. 

Dated: October 27, 2005. 

Joanne Paskar, 

Chief, Information and Records Division, 

Office of Administrative Services, Bureau for 

Management. 

[FR Doc. 05–21871 Filed 11–1–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6116–01–M 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Lassen National Forest, Hat Creek 

Ranger District, CA, North 49 Project 

Forest Health Recovery Project 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: The Forest Service proposes 

to develop a network of defensible fuel 

profile zones (DFPZ’s) and wildland 

urban interface zones (WUIs), conduct 

area thinning, reduce surface fuels, 

establish group selection harvest units, 

and restore remnant aspen stands on the 

Hat Creek Ranger District in the Lassen 

National Forest. Treatments within 

DFPZs would include 9,975 acres of 

forest and plantation thinning followed 

by underburning and/or mechanical 

fuels reduction. Approximately 2,060 

acres would be underburned only. 

Treatments outside of DFPZs would 

include 3,660 acres of forest and 

plantation thinning followed by 

underburning and/or mechanical fuels 

reduction to develop three WUIs. A 

modified thinning prescription would 

be applied in some areas to maintain 

wildlife habitat and structural diversity. 

An additional 95 acres of brushfield 

treatments would also be completed 

outside of DFPZs. Group selection 

treatments would be implemented on 

1,186 acres across the project area and 

49 acres of aspen would be restored. 

Approximately 1.4 miles of new system 

roads and 0.7 miles of temporary nonsystem roads would be constructed. 

Approximately 3.9 miles of roads would 

be decommissioned. The project would 

be implemented through a combination 

of commercial timber sales, service 

contracts, and force account crews. 

These management activities were 

developed to implement and be 

consistent with the Lassen National 

Forest (LNF) Land and Resource 

Management Plan (LRMP, 1993), as 

amended by the Herger-Feinstein 

Quincy Library Group Forest Recovery 

Act FEIS, FSEIS, and ROD’s (1999, 

2003), and the Sierra Nevada Forest 

Plan Amendment FEIS (2001) and 

FSEIS/ROD (2004). 

Decision to be made: The decision to 

be made is whether to implement the 

proposed action as described above, to 

meet the purpose and need for action 

through some other combination of 

activities, or to take no action at this 

time. 

Scoping process: Comments 

concerning the scope of the analysis 

should be received in writing within 15 

days of the date of publication of this 

Notice of Intent in the Federal Register. 

The project was initially listed in the 

Forest’s February 2004 quarterly edition 

of the Schedule of Proposed Actions 

(SOPA). Scoping letters were sent in 

March 2004 to those who responded to 

the SOPA and other identified 

interested and affected individuals and 

government agencies. In the SOPA, the 

mode of environmental documentation 

was predicted as an environmental 

assessment. 

At this time, the environmental 

analysis will be documented in an 

environmental impact statement. Since 

only minor changes are being made to 

the proposed action that was previously 

scoped, the scoping period at this time 

is brief. Those who responded during 

the March 2004 scoping period will be 

contacted again. In addition, scoping 

letters previously received by the Forest 

Service from the first scoping period 

will continue to be used for this process. 

A public scoping meeting is not 

anticipated at this time. 

The scoping process will be used to 

identify issues regarding the proposed 

action. An issue is defined as a point of 

dispute, debate, or disagreement related 

to a specific proposed action based on 

its anticipated effects. Significant issues 

brought to our attention are used during 

an environmental analysis to develop 

alternatives to the proposed action. 

Some issues raised in scoping may be 

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considered non-significant because they 

are: (1) Beyond the scope of the 

proposed action and its purpose and 

need; (2) already decided by law, 

regulation, or the Land and Resource 

Management Plan; (3) irrelevant to the 

decision to be made; or (4) conjectural 

and not supported by scientific or 

factual evidence. 

Alternatives: Alternatives proposed to 

date are the Proposed Action as describe 

above and the No Action. 

Identification of permits or licenses 

required: No permits or licenses have 

been identified to implement the 

proposed action. 

Lead, joint lead, and cooperating 

agencies: The USDA Forest Service is 

the lead agency for this proposal; there 

are no cooperating agencies. 

Estimated dates for filing: The 

expected filing date with the 

Environmental Protection Agency for 

the draft EIS March 6, 2006. The 

expected filing date for the final EIS is 

July 24, 2006. 

Person to which comments may be 

mailed: Comments may be submitted to: 

District Ranger, Hat Creek Ranger 

District, at P.O. Box 220, Fall River 

Mills, CA, 96028 or (530) 336–5758 (fax) 

during normal business hours. The Hat 

Creek Ranger District business hours are 

from 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Monday 

through Friday. Electronic comments, in 

acceptable plain text (.txt), rich text 

(.rtf), or Word (.doc) formats, may be 

submitted to: commentspacificsouthwest-lassenhatcreek@fs.fed.us using Subject: North 

49 Forest Health Recovery Project. 

Reviewer’s obligation to comment: 

The comment period on the draft EIS 

will be 49 days from the date the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

publishes the notice of availability of 

the draft EIS in the Federal Register. 

The Forest Service believes, at this 

early stage, it is important to give 

reviewers notice of several court rulings 

related to public participation in the 

environmental review process. First, 

reviewers of draft 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. City of Angoon 

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

1986) and 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 on Environmental 

Quality Regulations for implementing 

the procedural provisions of the 

National Environmental Policy Act at 40 

CFR 1503.3 in addressing these points. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Scott Stawiarski, Interdisciplinary Team 

Leader, may be contacted by phone at 

(530) 336–5521 for more information 

about the proposed action and the 

environmental impact statement or at 

the Hat Creek Ranger District, P.O. Box 

220, Fall River Mills, CA 96028. 

Responsible official and mailing 

address: Laurie Tippin, Forest 

Supervisor, 2550 S. Riverside Drive, 

Susanville, CA 96130. 

Dated: October 27, 2005. 

Elizabeth Norton, 

Acting Forest Supervisor, Lassen National 

Forest. 

[FR Doc. 05–21798 Filed 11–1–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5410–99–M 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Siskiyou County Resource Advisory 

Committee 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Siskiyou County 

Resource Advisory Committee will meet 

in Yreka, California, November 14, 

2005. The meeting will include routine 

business and the review and 

recommendation for implementation of 

submitted project proposals. 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

November 14, 2005, from 4 p.m. until 7 

p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Yreka High School Library, Preece 

Way, Yreka, California. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bob 

Talley, RAC Coordinator, Klamath 

National Forest, (530) 841–4423 or 

electronically at rtalley@fs.fed.us. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

meeting is open to the public. Public 

comment opportunity will be provided 

and individuals will have the 

opportunity to address the Committee at 

that time. 

Dated: October 27, 2005. 

Margaret J. Boland, 

Designated Federal Official. 

[FR Doc. 05–21797 Filed 11–1–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–11–M 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Economic Development Administration 

Announcement of Performance Review 

Board Members 

AGENCY: Economic Development 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

names of new and existing members of 

the Economic Development 

Administration’s Performance Review 

Board. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Deanna Shepherd, Economic 

Development Administration, Office of 

Human Resources, at (202) 482–2686, 

Room 7217, Washington, DC 20230. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 5 CFR 

430.310 requires agencies to publish 

notice of Performance Review Board 

appointees in the Federal Register 

before their service begins. The role of 

the Performance Review Board is to 

review and make recommendations to 

the appointing authority on 

performance management issues such as 

appraisals, pay adjustments, bonuses, 

and Presidential Rank Awards for 

members of the Senior Executive 

Service. Sandy K. Baruah, Acting 

Assistant Secretary of Commerce for 

Economic Development, Economic 

Development Administration (EDA) has 

named the following members of the 

Economic Development Administration 

Performance Review Board: 

1. Aimee Strudwick, Chief of Staff to 

the Deputy Secretary, Office of the 

Secretary, (Chairperson) (new); 

2. Barbara Retzlaff, Director, Office of 

Budget, Office of the Secretary (new); 

3. John Kneuer, Deputy Assistant 

Secretary of Commerce for