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meat products derived from such 

animals whose diet, throughout their 

lifespan, with the exception of milk (or 

milk replacer) consumed prior to 

weaning, is solely derived from forage, 

which for the purpose of this claim, is 

any edible herbaceous plant material 

that can be grazed or harvested for 

feeding, with the exception of grain. 

Forage-based diets can be derived from 

grass (annual and perennial), forbs (e.g., 

legumes, Brassica), and browse. 

Animals cannot be fed grain or grain 

byproducts and must have continuous 

access to pasture during the growing 

season. Growing season is defined as the 

time period extending from the average 

date of the last frost in spring to the 

average date of the first frost in the fall 

in the local area of production. Hay, 

haylage, baleage, silage, crop residue 

without grain, and other roughage 

sources also may be included as 

acceptable feed sources. Consumption 

of seeds naturally attached to forage is 

acceptable. However, crops normally 

harvested for grain (including but not 

limited to corn, soybean, rice, wheat, 

and oats) are only eligible feed if they 

are foraged or harvested in the 

vegetative state (pre-grain). 

Upon request, verification of this 

claim will be accomplished through an 

audit of the production process. The 

producer must be able to verify for AMS 

that the grass (forage) marketing claim 

standard requirements are being met 

through a detailed documented quality 

management system. 

Claim and Standard 

Grass (Forage) Fed—Grass and forage 

shall be the feed source consumed for 

the lifetime of the ruminant animal, 

with the exception of milk consumed 

prior to weaning. The diet shall be 

derived solely from forage consisting of 

grass (annual and perennial), forbs (e.g., 

legumes, Brassica), browse, or cereal 

grain crops in the vegetative (pre-grain) 

state. Animals cannot be fed grain or 

grain byproducts and must have 

continuous access to pasture during the 

growing season. Hay, haylage, baleage, 

silage, crop residue without grain, and 

other roughage sources may also be 

included as acceptable feed sources. 

Routine mineral and vitamin 

supplementation may also be included 

in the feeding regimen. If incidental 

supplementation occurs due to 

inadvertent exposure to non-forage 

feedstuffs or to ensure the animal’s well 

being at all times during adverse 

environmental or physical conditions, 

the producer must fully document (e.g., 

receipts, ingredients, and tear tags) the 

supplementation that occurs including 

the amount, the frequency, and the 

supplements provided. 

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1621–1627. 

Dated: October 10, 2007. 

Lloyd C. Day, 

Administrator, Agricultural Marketing 

Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Bridger-Teton National Forest, Greys 

River Ranger District, Wyoming. Upper 

Greys Vegetation Treatment 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

environmental impact statement. 

SUMMARY: The analysis area of 11,855 

acres is located in the Upper Greys 

River watershed on the Greys River 

Ranger District of the Bridger-Teton 

National Forest. It is approximately 20 

miles southeast of Afton, Wyoming on 

the west slope of the Wyoming Range. 

All lands within the 11,855 acre 

analysis area are National Forest System 

lands, within Lincoln County, 

Wyoming. The legal description 

includes portions of: T30N, R116W and 

T29N, R116W. 

DATES: Comments concerning the scope 

of the analysis must be received by 

November 15, 2007. The draft 

environmental impact statement is 

expected in February 2008 and the final 

environmental impact statement is 

expected in April 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to: 

District Ranger, Greys River Ranger 

District, P.O. Box 339, Afton, Wyoming. 

For further information, mail 

correspondence to: 

mailroom_r4_bridger_teton@fs.fed.us 

and on the subject line put only ‘‘Upper 

Greys River Vegetation Treatment.’’

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

District Ranger, Greys River Ranger 

District, P.O. Box 339, 641 N. 

Washington St., Afton, Wyoming 83110, 

or phone (307) 886–5310. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose and Need for Action 

The purpose of the proposed action is 

to attain desired vegetation conditions 

including increased diversity of tree age 

and size classes, improve the health and 

vigor of some mature timber stands and 

reduce the risk of stand replacing fire. 

It further reduces soil erosion and 

sedimentation from existing sources. A 

stand replacing fire is highly likely in 

this area due to dense, mature forests 

with an abundance of down dead and 

ladder fuels and would be apt to change 

the area from mature forest to grasses 

and forbs, damage existing seedlings, 

saplings and young forest. The loss of 

vegetation would also create conditions 

conducive to excess soil erosion over 

the landscape. The Bridger-Teton 

National Forest Land and Resource 

Management Plan (LRMP) and the 2004 

Greys River Landscape Scale 

Assessment (LSA) have both identified 

opportunities for vegetation treatments 

to help improve resource conditions. 

The LSA found that the lodgepole pine 

vegetation in the Greys River falls 

outside the range of properly 

functioning condition and identified an 

opportunity to treat over 7,000 acres by 

2010. 

Alternative 1—Proposed Action 

This proposal was developed 

primarily to help achieve desired 

conditions described in the LSA while 

responding to issues from previous 

public scoping, changes in resource 

demand, and recently identified 

resource issues. It is designed to 

improve Forest resource conditions as 

identified in the LSA. 

The proposal is to treat approximately 

591 acres and reduce existing sediment 

sources within the 11,855 acre analysis 

area which lies in the upper Greys River 

drainage. The proposed action would 

take place from approximately 2008 

through 2011 and would include: 

1. Commercial harvest of 

approximately 591 acres of mixed 

conifer timber. 

• Approximately 436 acres would be 

treated using a clearcutting silvicultural 

system. 

• Approximately 155 acres would be 

treated using a selection silvicultural 

system to remove dead and dying trees, 

low vigor trees, or small groups of trees 

less than 2 acres in size, while retaining 

40 to 70% of healthy trees in the stand. 

• Approximately 4.5 miles of 

temporary road would be constructed 

and then closed and rehabilitated after 

use. These would be mostly short spurs 

to access log landing areas off the main 

roads. Approximately 1.5 miles of 

existing closed roads would be used for 

timber hauling and closed and 

rehabilitated after use. 

2. Identifying segments of existing 

logging roads and trails, including all 

culverts and creek crossings, that have 

the potential to erode, particularly those 

segments that are delivering, or have the 

potential to deliver, sediment to stream 

channels and other water bodies. 

Restore identified areas to Elimination 

Class 3 and 4 (as defined in the Forest 

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Plan). Segments of the designated road 

system would be reconstructed to 

improve drainage, reduce sediments, 

ensure fish passage and provide 

improved public safety before log 

hauling could occur. 

3. Treating slash created from timber 

harvest by broadcast burn or pile burn. 

All treatments are planned within 

Desired Future Condition (DFC) area 1B. 

The management emphasis for DFC 1B 

is scheduled wood fiber production and 

use, livestock production, and other 

commodity outputs. 

Possible Alternatives 

Alternative 2—No Action Alternative 

This alternative is required under 

NEPA regulations and also serves as a 

baseline of information for comparison 

of other alternatives. Though this 

alternative does not respond to the 

purpose and need for action, it does 

address some issues. 

Responsible Official 

Jay Dunbar, District Forest Ranger, 

Greys River Ranger District, Afton, 

Wyoming. 

Nature of Decision To Be Made 

This decision will be whether or not 

to implement specific vegetation 

management projects and associated 

road improvements, as allowed in the 

LRMP and LSA. The decision would 

include any mitigation measures needed 

in addition to those prescribed in the 

LRMP. 

Scoping Process 

The Forest Service is seeking 

information, comments, and assistance 

from individuals, organizations, tribal 

governments, and federal, state, and 

local agencies interested in or affected 

by this project. In addition, comments 

submitted on the March 9, 2007 scoping 

effort will also be considered in 

preparation of the Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement. Public participation 

will be solicited by notifying in person 

and/or by mail known interested and 

affected publics. News releases will be 

used to give the public general notice. 

Public participation activities would 

include requests for written comments. 

The first formal opportunity to comment 

is to respond to this notice of intent, 

which initiates the scoping process (40 

CFR 1501.7). Scoping includes: (1) 

Identifying potential issues, (2) 

narrowing the potential issues and 

identifying significant issues of those 

that have been covered by prior 

environmental review, (3) exploring 

alternatives in addition to No Action, 

and (4) identifying potential 

environmental effects of the proposed 

action and alternatives. 

Preliminary Issues 

The Forest Service has identified the 

following potential issues. Your input is 

especially valuable here. It will help us 

determine which of these merit detailed 

analysis. It will also help identify 

additional issues related to the proposed 

action that may not be listed here. 

Issue 1—The effects of vegetative 

treatment on lynx foraging habitat, 

security cover for elk and other habitat, 

including Snake River cutthroat trout 

habitat. 

Issue 2—The effects of vegetative 

treatment on forest health, specifically 

the high proportion of older age class 

conifer stands and declining tree 

condition, including high dwarf 

mistletoe infection levels in lodgepole 

pine. 

Issue 3—The effects of vegetative 

treatment on fuel loading. High fuel 

loadings exist in dead and down 

material, as well as from recent 

mortality losses, due to mountain pine 

beetle and long-term site productivity. 

Issue 4—The effects of roads and 

harvest activities on water quality. 

Comment Requested 

This notice of intent initiates the 

scoping process which guides the 

development of the environmental 

impact statement. 

Early Notice of Importance of Public 

Participation in Subsequent 

Environmental Review 

The Draft EIS (DEIS) is proposed to be 

filed with the Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) and to be available for 

public comment in the winter of 2008. 

At that time, the EPA will publish a 

notice of availability for the DEIS in the 

Federal Register. The comment period 

on the DEIS will be 45 days from the 

date the EPA publishes the notice of 

availability 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 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 (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. 

Comments received, including the 

names and addresses of those who 

comment, will be considered part of the 

public record on this proposal and will 

be available for public inspection. 

Authority: 40 CFR 1501.7 and 1508.22; 

Forest Service Handbook 1909.15, Section 

21. 

Dated: October 4, 2007. 

Heidi Whitlatch, 

Acting District Forest Ranger. 

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BILLING CODE 3410–11–M 

BROADCASTING BOARD OF 

GOVERNORS 

Meeting 

Date and Time: Wednesday, October 17, 

2007. 1 p.m.–2:45 p.m. 

Place: Office of Cuba Broadcasting, 

Conference Room, 4201 NW. 77th Ave., 

Miami, FL 33166. 

Closed Meeting: The members of the 

Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) 

will meet in closed session to review 

and discuss a number of issues relating 

to U.S. Government-funded nonmilitary international broadcasting. 

They will address internal procedural, 

budgetary, and personnel issues, as well 

as sensitive foreign policy issues 

relating to potential options in the U.S. 

international broadcasting field. This 

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