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producer prices of 20 percent or more 

during the marketing period beginning 

September 1, 2005, and ending August 

31, 2006. If the determination is 

positive, all apiarists who produce and 

market their natural honey in Michigan 

will be eligible to apply to the Farm 

Service Agency for no cost technical 

assistance and for adjustment assistance 

payments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jean-Louis Pajot, Coordinator, Trade 

Adjustment Assistance for Farmers, 

FAS, USDA, (202) 720–2916, e-mail: 

trade.adjustment@fas.usda.gov. 

Dated: February 5, 2007. 

Michael W. Yost, 

Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service. 

[FR Doc. E7–2778 Filed 2–15–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Foreign Agricultural Service 

Trade Adjustment Assistance for 

Farmers 

AGENCY: Foreign Agricultural Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

The Administrator, Foreign 

Agricultural Service (FAS), today 

accepted a petition filed by National 

Grape Cooperative Association 

representing New York, Pennsylvania, 

and Ohio Concord juice grape producers 

for trade adjustment assistance. The 

Administrator will determine within 40 

days whether or not increasing imports 

of grape juice, not concentrated, 

contributed importantly to a decline in 

domestic producer prices of 20 percent 

or more during the marketing period 

beginning August 1, 2005, and ending 

July 31, 2006. If the determination is 

positive, all Concord juice grape 

producers who produce and market 

their Concord juice grapes in New York, 

Pennsylvania, and Ohio will be eligible 

to apply to the Farm Service Agency for 

no cost technical assistance and for 

adjustment assistance payments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jean-Louis Pajot, Coordinator, Trade 

Adjustment Assistance for Farmers, 

FAS, USDA, (202) 720–2916, e-mail: 

trade.adjustment@fas.usda.gov. 

Dated: February 5, 2007. 

Michael W. Yost, 

Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service. 

[FR Doc. E7–2777 Filed 2–15–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Bull Run Watershed Management Unit 

Agreement, Multnomah County, OR 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability of Draft 

Agreement. 

SUMMARY: The Mt. Hood National Forest 

(Forest) in coordination with the City of 

Portland Water Bureau (City) is 

preparing a new Bull Run Watershed 

Management Unit Agreement pursuant 

to Public Law 95–200, Section 2(d). This 

Agreement will guide and be applicable 

to all occupancy, use, and management 

of the Bull Run Watershed Management 

Unit by the City and the Forest. This 

Agreement will replace the existing 

1979 Memorandum of Understanding 

(MOU). The new Agreement will 

provide the revised administrative 

direction and agreements needed to 

structure the parties’ roles, 

responsibilities, business processes and 

working relationships for the coming 

decades. Consideration and approval of 

the Agreement is scheduled for June 

2007. The Forest and the City invite 

written comments on the content and 

scope of the Agreement. A copy of the 

draft Agreement is available on the 

following Internet Web sites, http:// 

www.fs.fed.us/r6/mthood or http:// 

www.potlandonline.com/water/. Hard 

copies of the draft Agreement may be 

obtained by contacting the contact 

person listed below. 

DATES: Comments concerning the 

content and scope of analysis should be 

postmarked by April 16, 2007. Two 

Public meetings are scheduled. The 

meeting dates are: 

1. March 20, 2007, 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 

p.m., Portland, OR. 

2. March 21, 2007, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., 

Sandy, OR. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments and 

suggestions concerning the Agreement 

to Gary Larsen, Forest Supervisor, Mt. 

Hood National Forest, 16400 Champion 

Way, Sandy, Oregon 97055–7248. 

Comment may also be emailed to: 

comments-pacificnorthwestmthood@fs.fed.us. Include your name 

and mailing address with your 

comments so documents pertaining to 

this Agreement may be mailed to you. 

The meeting location are: 

1. Portland—Jean Vollum Natural 

Capital Center—Billy Frank Jr. 

Conference Center, 721 NW., 9th 

Avenue, Portland, OR 97209. 

2. Sandy—Mt Hood National Forest 

Headquarters, 16400 Champion Way, 

Sandy, OR 97030. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions about the Agreement or 

requests for copies should be directed to 

Rick Acosta, Mt. Hood National Forest, 

Public Affairs Officer, 16400 Champion 

Way, Sandy, Oregon, 97055–7248, (emal: racosta@fs.fed.us), or phone: 503–

668–1791, or Terry Black, City of 

Portland Water Bureau, Outreach 

Specialist, 1120 SW., 5th Avenue, 

Portland, OR 97204, (e-mail: 

Terry.Black@ci.portland.or.us), or 

phone: 503–823–1168. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Bull 

Run watershed, located in the Mt. Hood 

National Forest, is the largest and oldest 

of the several water supplies serving the 

Portland metropolitan area. Its role in 

the region’s past, present and future, 

along with its unprecedented level of 

water quality, make it a high priority for 

both the City and the Forest Service to 

take the steps necessary to ensure its 

continuing quality, productivity and 

protection. 

As the City and the Forest Service 

began to look closely at the 

administrative and policy frameworks 

that guided their interactions they noted 

that much of that framework dated from 

the late 1970s and arose from the 

direction provided in the 1977 Bull Run 

Management Act (Pub. L. 95–200). As 

little of that framework had been 

updated over time, its applicability to 

current issues and needs is limited. 

Thus, this Agreement replaces the 

existing 1979 MOU, aligns practice with 

existing legislation, and provides the 

revised administrative direction and 

agreements needed to structure the 

parties’ roles, responsibilities, business 

process and working relationships for 

the coming decades. 

The City and the Forest Service, along 

with community interests in the greater 

Portland metropolitan area, have had a 

long and sometimes contentious history 

of working together to protect and 

manage the valuable ecological and 

water resources of the Bull Run 

watershed. But with the coming of the 

21st century, the issues and conflicts in 

policy and direction that held attention 

for the last fifty years have all but 

disappeared. Now, the parties are 

turning to the future, responding to new 

fiscal realities, and working together to 

frame the structures, processes, roles 

and responsibilities that will allow them 

to act effectively as joint stewards of this 

valuable regional and national resource, 

in concert with citizens who 

increasingly desire to redeem their 

responsibilities in stewardship of their 

lands. 

Officials from the City of Portland and 

the Mount Hood National Forest are 


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proposing a new Agreement between 

the City and the Forest Service to 

identify preferred administrative 

arrangements for their joint management 

of the Bull Run Watershed Management 

Unit. The purpose and hope of the 

Agreement is to document a new and 

more relevant relationship between the 

City and the Forest Service for the longterm stewardship of the Bull Run 

Watershed Management Unit that is 

built on a firm foundation of citizen 

involvement. 

The final Agreement is scheduled to 

be available in June 2007. In completing 

the Agreement, the Forest and the City 

will respond to comments received 

during the comment period. The Agency 

officials are Gary Larsen, Forest 

Supervisor, Mt. Hood National Forest 

for the Forest Service, and the City 

official is Randy Leonard, 

Commissioner-in-Charge, City of 

Portland Water Bureau for the City of 

Portland. 

(Authority: Sec. 2, Pub. L. 95–200, 91 

Stat. 1425 (16 U.S.C. 482b) 

Dated: February 12, 2007. 

Gary L. Larsen, 

Forest Supervisor. 

[FR Doc. 07–717 Filed 2–15–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Becker Vegetation Management 

Project, Boise National Forest, Idaho 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Prepare 

Environmental Impact Statement. 

SUMMARY: The Boise Ranger District of 

the Boise National Forest will prepare 

an environmental impact statement 

(EIS) for a resource management project 

in the Crooked River Watershed. The 

14,500 acre project area is located 

approximately 18 miles northeast of 

Idaho City, Idaho, and about 48 miles 

northeast of Boise, Idaho. 

The agency invites written comments 

and suggestions on the scope of the 

analysis. The agency also hereby gives 

notice of the environmental analysis 

and decision-making process that will 

occur on the proposal so interested and 

affected people are aware of how they 

may participate and contribute to the 

final decision. At this time no public 

meetings to discuss the project are 

planned. 

Proposed Action: The primary 

purposes of the project are: (1) Manage 

the stand density, structure, and species 

composition to provide conditions that 

are more resistant to insect and disease 

infestations and uncharacteristic 

wildfire. Move towards the Forest Plan 

vegetation desired conditions, and 

maintain or increase the large tree 

component. (2) Modify stand density, 

structure, and species composition, to 

restore suitable habitat for white-headed 

woodpecker and flammulated owls. (3) 

Provide commercial timber that will 

contribute to the annual harvest of 

expected timber volume on the Boise 

National Forest while moving towards 

attaining the Forest Plan desired 

vegetative conditions. (4) Reduce tree 

stocking & brush within plantations in 

order to maintain good tree growth and 

vigor, to reduce fire hazard by removal 

of developing ladder fuels, and to 

reduce future susceptibility to insects 

and disease infestations. (5) Improve 

water quality and aquatic habitat by 

reducing long term sedimentation 

caused by existing roads. 

The Proposed Action would 

commercial harvest trees, and in some 

areas use a combination of commercial 

harvest thinning and pre-commercial 

thinning from approximately 1,970 

acres in the 14,500 acre project area. 

Regeneration harvest would occur on 

approximately 1,100 acres where insect 

and disease infestation is particularly 

severe. In addition approximately 4,700 

acres would have only pre-commercial 

removal of small diameter trees 

(including 1,688 acres of plantations). 

Within these areas of mechanical 

vegetation treatment, aspen clones 

would be managed by removing and 

reducing conifer competition in the 

immediate vicinity. Brush removal 

would occur within approximately 450 

additional acres of conifer plantations. 

An estimated 14.0 MMBF of timber 

would be harvested using ground-based 

yarding systems. 

Prescribed burning would occur 

within approximately 12,000 acres of 

project area to breakup the horizontal 

and vertical fuel continuity to reduce 

the chance of uncharacteristic stand 

replacement fires. Approximately 1,550 

acres would be a natural fuels burn area 

where no mechanical treatment would 

occur, these acres would include target 

areas and conditional or incidental burn 

areas. A burn block of approximately 

10,620 acres would target mechanically 

treated areas (commercial and precommercial thinning) and also include 

conditional or incidental burn areas. 

Approximately 15 acres would be 

targeted for native plant restoration. 

Whitebark pine restoration and 

enhancement is proposed in a 40 acre 

area around the summit of Pilot Peak. 

The proposed action would 

decommission and remove these from 

the transportation system approximately 

22 miles of currently authorized roads. 

Approximately 3.7 miles of temporary 

road would be constructed, and 

approximately 0.8 miles of new road 

would be constructed. Approximately 

6.5 miles of road currently not 

authorized would be improved by 

construction and added to the 

transportation system. Approximately 

15.6 miles of road would be closed 

(these would remain as authorized 

roads) that are currently open, and 10.9 

miles of closed road would be opened. 

Three culverts that are currently 

posing a fish migration barrier will be 

replaced and one would be removed as 

part of road decommissioning. 

Possible Alternatives to the Proposed 

Action: One alternative to the Proposed 

Action that will be considered is a no 

action alternative. Other alternatives 

will likely be developed as issues are 

identified and information received. 

Decisions to be Made: The Boise 

National Forest Supervisor will decide 

the following: What amount and 

distribution of commercial tree harvest 

and pre-commercial tree thinning or 

removal should be implemented to 

achieve the project objectives? What 

amount of prescribed fire should be 

implemented to achieve the project 

objectives? What amount of plantation 

thinning or brush removal should be 

implemented to achieve the project 

objectives? Which roads should be 

adopted as part of the forest-wide 

minimum transporation system? What 

existing roads are needed for long term 

management of the area? What 

additional roads, if any, are needed to 

implement the action? What roads are 

not needed and should be 

decommissioned or obliterated? What 

roads currently open should be closed? 

What culverts that are currently 

functioning as fish migration barriers 

should be replaced? Should 

opportunities for aspen enhancement 

and whitebark pine restoration be 

implemented as part of the planned 

actions? Should opportunities for native 

plant restoration be implemented? 

DATES: Comments concerning the 

proposed project and analysis are 

encouraged and should be postmarked 

or received within 30 days following 

publication of this announcement in the 

Federal Register. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

addressed to the Boise National Forest, 

ATTN: Daniel Schlender, 1249 South 

Vinnell Way, Suite 200, Boise, ID 83709 

or sent electronically to commentsintermtn-boise-idaho-city@fs.fed.us. 

Electronic comments must be submitted 

in plain text or another format 


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