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ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) 

and the Farm Service Agency (FSA) is 

seeking from all interested individuals 

and organizations on an extension with 

revision of a currently approved 

information collection associated with 

form CCC–10 used to support the CCC 

and FSA Farm Loan Programs (FLPs). 

DATES: Comments on this notice must be 

received on or beforeMarch 24, 2008 to 

be assured consideration. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Chris Kyer, USDA, Farm Service 

Agency, Price Support Division, phone 

(202) 720–7935. 

ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit 

comments on this Notice. In your 

comment, include volume, date and 

page number of this issue of the Federal 

Register. You may submit comments by 

any of the following methods: 

E-mail: Send comments to: 

chris.kyer@wdc.usda.gov. 

Fax: (202) 690–1536. 

Mail: Chris Kyer, Program Manager, 

USDA, Farm Service Agency, Price 

Support Division, 1400 Independence 

Avenue, SW., STOP 0512, Washington, 

DC 20250–0512. 

Comments also should be to the Desk 

Officer for Agriculture, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget, 

Washington, DC 20503. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: 

Representations for Commodity Credit 

Corporation or Farm Service Agency 

Loans and Authorization to File a 

Financing Statement and Related 

Documents. 

OMB Control Number: 0560–0215. 

Expiration Date of Approval: 

September 30, 2008. 

Type of Request: Extension and 

revision. 

Abstract: Form CCC–10 is necessary 

to: (a) Gather or verify basic data 

provided by a CCC or FSA loan 

applicant that is required on a financing 

statement filed by CCC or FSA to perfect 

a security interest in collateral used to 

secure a loan; and (b) obtain loan 

applicant permission to file a financing 

statement prior to the execution of a 

security agreement. 

Estimate of Burden: Public reporting 

burden for this collection of information 

is estimated to average 5 minutes per 

response. The average travel time, 

which is included in the total annual 

burden, is estimated to be 1 hour per 

respondent. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

55,500. 

Estimated Number of Responses per 

Respondent: 1. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden On 

Respondents: 32,357 hours. 

Comments are invited on the 

following: 

(1) 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; 

(2) The accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of burden, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; 

(3) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility and clarity of the information to 

be collected; or; 

(4) 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. 

All comments received in response to 

this notice, including names and 

addresses when provided, will be a 

mater of public records. Comments will 

be summarized and included in the 

request for OMB approval of the 

information collection. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on January 15, 

2008. 

Teresa C. Lasseter, 

Executive Vice President, Commodity Credit 

Corporation, Administrator, Farm Service 

Agency. 

[FR Doc. E8–1044 Filed 1–22–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–05–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Bull Run Watershed Management Unit 

Agreement, Multnomah County, OR 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability of Final 

Agreement. 

SUMMARY: The Mt. Hood National Forest 

(Forest) in coordination with the City of 

Portland Water Bureau (City) has 

prepared 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 replaces the 1979 

Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). 

This new Agreement provides the 

revised administrative direction and 

agreements needed to structure the 

parties’ roles, responsibilities, business 

processes, and working relationships for 

the coming decades. The Agreement 

was approved on December 17, 2007. A 

copy of the Final Agreement is available 

on the following Internet Web sites, 

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

projects & plans, or http:// 

www.portlandonline.com/water/. Hard 

copies of the Final Agreement may be 

obtained by contacting the contact 

person listed below. 

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, 

(e-mail: 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 new agreement replaces the 

1979 MOU, aligns practice with existing 

legislation, and provides the revised 

administrative direction and agreements 

needed to structure the parties’ roles, 

responsibilities, business processes, 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 


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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 

prepared this 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 was approved on 

December 17, 2007. In completing the 

Agreement, the Forest and the City 

responded to comments received during 

the comment period and also jointly 

prepared a Report to the Community. 

This Report discussed the history and 

background of discussions that led to 

the new agreement. This Report is also 

available on both of the Web sites listed 

above. 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: January 2, 2008. 

Gary L. Larsen, 

Forest Supervisor. 

[FR Doc. 08–229 Filed 1–22–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–11–M 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Natural Resources Conservation 

Service 

Notice of Proposed Changes to the 

Natural Resources Conservation 

Service’s National Handbook of 

Conservation Practices 

AGENCY: Natural Resources 

Conservation Service (NRCS), USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of availability of 

proposed changes in the NRCS National 

Handbook of Conservation Practices for 

public review and comment. 

SUMMARY: It is NRCS’s intention to issue 

a series of new or revised conservation 

practice standards in its National 

Handbook of Conservation Practices. 

These standards include: ‘‘Filter Strip 

(Code 393),’’ ‘‘Hillside Ditch (Code 

423),’’ ‘‘Access Control (formerly titled 

Use Exclusion) (Code 472),’’ ‘‘Drainage 

Water Management (Code 554),’’

‘‘Vegetated Treatment Area (formerly 

titled Wastewater Treatment Strip) 

(Code 635),’’ and ‘‘Constructed Wetland 

(Code 656).’’ NRCS State 

Conservationists who choose to adopt 

these practices for use within their 

States will incorporate them into 

Section IV of their respective electronic 

Field Office Technical Guides. These 

practices may be used in conservation 

systems that treat highly erodible land 

(HEL) or on land determined to be a 

wetland. 

EFFECTIVE DATES: Comments will be 

received for a 30-day period 

commencing with this date of 

publication. Final versions of these new 

or revised conservation practice 

standards will be adopted after the close 

of the 30-day period, after consideration 

of all comments. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

submitted by one of the following 

methods: 

1. In writing to: National Agricultural 

Engineer, NRCS, Post Office Box 2890, 

Washington, DC 20013–2890; or 

2. Electronically by e-mail to: 

daniel.meyer@wdc.usda.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Copies of these standards can be 

downloaded and/or printed from the 

following Web site: ftp://ftpfc.sc.egov.usda.gov/NHQ/practicestandards/federal-register/. Also, copies 

of these standards are available from 

National Headquarters in Washington, 

DC. Submit inquiries in writing to 

Daniel Meyer, National Agricultural 

Engineer, NRCS, Post Office Box 2890, 

Room 6139–S, Washington, DC 20013–

2890; or electronically to: 

daniel.meyer@wdc.usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

343 of the Federal Agriculture 

Improvement and Reform Act of 1996 

requires NRCS to make available for 

public review and comment all 

proposed revisions to conservation 

practice standards used to carry out the 

HEL and wetland provisions of the law. 

For the next 30 days, NRCS will receive 

comments relative to the proposed 

changes. Following that period, a 

determination will be made by NRCS 

regarding disposition of those comments 

and a final determination of changes 

will be made. 

Signed in Washington, DC, January 9, 

2008. 

Arlen L. Lancaster, 

Chief. 

[FR Doc. E8–1115 Filed 1–22–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–16–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Office of the Secretary 

Estimates of the Voting Age 

Population for 2007 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, 

Commerce. 

ACTION: General Notice announcing 

population estimates. 

SUMMARY: This Notice announces the 

voting age population estimates, as of 

July 1, 2007, for each state and the 

District of Columbia. We are giving this 

notice in accordance with the 1976 

amendment to the Federal Election 

Campaign Act, Title 2, United States 

Code, Section 441a(e). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Enrique Lamas, Chief, Population 

Division, Bureau of the Census, 

Department of Commerce, Room HQ–

5H174, Washington, DC 20233, 

telephone 301–763–2071. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

requirements of the 1976 amendment to 

the Federal Election Campaign Act, 

Title 2, United States Code, Section 

441a(e), I hereby give notice that the 

estimates of the voting age population 

for July 1, 2007, for each state and the 

District of Columbia are as shown in the 

following table. 

ESTIMATES OF THE POPULATION OF

VOTING AGE FOR EACH STATE AND

THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: JULY 1, 

2007 

Area Population 18 

and over 

United States .......................... 227,719,424 

Alabama .......................... 3,504,314 

Alaska .............................. 501,260 

Arizona ............................ 4,668,889 

Arkansas .......................... 2,134,260 

California ......................... 27,169,291 

Colorado .......................... 3,668,836 

Connecticut ...................... 2,682,093 

Delaware ......................... 659,118 

District of Columbia ......... 474,572 

Florida .............................. 14,207,683 

Georgia ............................ 7,013,141 

Hawaii .............................. 997,694 

Idaho ................................ 1,091,690 

Illinois ............................... 9,653,389 

Indiana ............................. 4,758,771 

Iowa ................................. 2,276,643 

Kansas ............................. 2,079,915 

Kentucky .......................... 3,237,501 


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