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Vol. 75, No. 5 

Friday, January 8, 2010 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

January 4, 2010. 

The Department of Agriculture has 

submitted the following information 

collection requirement(s) to OMB for 

review and clearance under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 

Public Law 104–13. Comments 

regarding (a) 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; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of burden including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; (c) 

ways to enhance the quality, utility and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; (d) 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 should be addressed to: Desk 

Officer for Agriculture, Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB), 

OIRA_Submission@OMB.EOP.GOV or 

fax (202) 395–5806 and to Departmental 

Clearance Office, USDA, OCIO, Mail 

Stop 7602, Washington, DC 20250– 

7602. Comments regarding these 

information collections are best assured 

of having their full effect if received 

within 30 days of this notification. 

Copies of the submission(s) may be 

obtained by calling (202) 720–8681. 

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: Marketing Order Online System 

(MOLS) Survey. 

OMB Control Number: 0581–NEW. 

Summary of Collection: Under 

Section 608(e) of the Agricultural 

Marketing Agreement Act of 1937, as 

amended (7 U.S.C. 601–674), certain 

imported fruit, vegetable and specialty 

crop commodities must meet the same 

quality standards applied to 

domestically-produced commodities 

when regulated by Federal marketing 

orders. Reports are required under 

import regulations 7 CFR part 944.350 

(fruits); 980.501 (vegetables) and 

999.500 (specialty crops). Using the 

Marketing Order Online System 

(MOLS), importers and receivers can 

search, review and submit the required 

form FV–6 ‘‘Importer’s Exempt 

Commodity Form’’ prior to importation. 

AMS has developed a customer 

satisfaction survey, form FV–660, to 

gather specific information from 

respondents currently utilizing the 

MOLS. 

Need and Use of the Information: The 

survey will collect information on a 

voluntary basis, and the identities will 

be kept confidential. The type of 

information being requested on the 

survey includes, among other 

information, customer expectations of 

the overall quality, performance, 

attractiveness and features of the online 

system, customer experience in 

requesting a new certificate, editing a 

pending certificate, ease in accessing, 

entering data or submitting the 

information online and experience or 

problems when printing. A cover memo 

will accompany the survey explaining 

the purpose and providing information 

to access the survey through an Internet 

link. Results of the survey will allow 

AMS to better serve the fruit, vegetable 

and specialty crop importing and 

handling community. 

Description of Respondents: Business 

or other for-profit. 

Number of Respondents: 200. 

Frequency of Responses: Reporting: 

One time. 

Total Burden Hours: 50. 

Charlene Parker, 

Departmental Information Collection 

Clearance Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2010–46 Filed 1–7–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Lower Orogrande Project, Clearwater 

National Forest, Clearwater County, ID 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

environmental impact statement. 

SUMMARY: The USDA, Forest Service, 

will prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) to disclose the 

environmental effects of improvements 

on watershed, vegetation, and wildlife 

habitat in the Lower Orogrande project 

area on the North Fork Ranger District 

of the Clearwater National Forest. The 

Lower Orogrande project area is located 

entirely within the Orogrande Creek 

watershed, which contains the 

Tamarack Creek, Jazz Creek, and Pine 

Creek sub watersheds as part of the 

headwaters of the North Fork Clearwater 

River Subbasin. 

DATES: Comments on this project must 

be received, in writing, within 30 days 

following the publication of this notice 

in the Federal Register. A 45-day public 

comment period will follow the release 

of the draft environmental impact 

statement that is expected in October 

2010. The final environmental impact 

statement is expected in May 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

suggestions concerning the scope of this 

project should be sent to Douglas Gober 

(dgober@fs.fed.us), District Ranger, 

North Fork Ranger District, 12730 

Highway 12, Orofino, ID 83844. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

George Harbaugh (gharbaugh@fs.fed.us), 

Project Leader, Lochsa Ranger District. 

Phone: (208) 935–4260. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Lower 

Orogrande project area contains 

approximately 21,560 acres of National 

Forest lands. The legal location is 

mostly in portions of Townships 37 and 

38 North and Ranges 7 and 8 East, Boise 

Meridian, Clearwater County, Idaho. 

The proposed actions would occur on 

National Forest lands and are all outside 


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the boundaries of any inventoried 

roadless area or any areas considered for 

inclusion to the National Wilderness 

System as recommended by the 

Clearwater National Forest Plan or by 

any past of present legislative 

wilderness proposals. 

Purpose and Need for Action is to: (1) 

Reduce stream sediment (i.e. reduce 

road densities and control erosion 

sources on roads to be retained, 

especially in RHCAs) and remove 

barriers to fish passage and other 

aquatic organisms to allow for 

unrestricted access to historic habitats; 

(2) restore white pine and larch 

(regeneration harvest), improve stand 

vigor (commercial thinning), and start 

the trend to improve species diversity 

and balance vegetative successional 

stages across the landscape to create 

stand conditions that are resilient and 

allow for rapid recovery after 

disturbances; and (3) promote a trend in 

the balance of successional stages 

toward the historical range and promote 

a trend towards increased wildlife 

security. 

The Proposed Action would address 

improvements to the area’s watershed, 

vegetation, and wildlife habitat. 

Watershed improvements include: (1) 

Decommissioning 6 miles of system 

roads and 65 miles of non-system roads; 

(2) improving and/or reconstructing up 

to 5 miles of existing roads to fix erosion 

problems; and (3) replacing 40 

undersized culverts. 

Up to 30 miles of existing roads 

would need improvement or 

reconstruction, up to 60 miles of 

existing roads would need 

reconditioning; all for logging access. 

No new road construction is anticipated 

at this time. Opportunities for 

precommercial thinning will be 

identified later in the process. 

Improvements to wildlife habitat 

would include (1) conducting vegetation 

treatments to promote better 

successional stage balance. This action 

would correspond directly to the 

proposed commercial thinning and 

regeneration harvest activities; (2) 

restricting road access (closed to all 

vehicles year round) on 14.5 miles of 

existing roads to improve elk security. 

Proposed access restrictions are a result 

of a Road and Trail Analysis being 

completed for this project; and (3) 

designating additional stands for 

management as mature and old growth 

forest habitats. 

Possible Alternatives the Forest 

Service will analyze include a ‘‘no 

action’’ alternative in which none of the 

proposed activities would be 

implemented. Additional alternatives 

that meet the project purpose and need 

may be considered in response to issues 

raised by the public during scoping. 

The Responsible Official is the Forest 

Supervisor of the Clearwater National 

Forest, 12730 Highway 12, Orofino, ID 

83544. The Responsible Official will 

decide if the proposed project will be 

implemented and will document the 

decision and reasons for the decision in 

a Record of Decision. That decision will 

be subject to Forest Service Appeal 

Regulations. The responsibility for 

preparing the DEIS and FEIS has been 

delegated to Douglas Gober, District 

Ranger, North Fork Ranger District, 

12730 Highway 12, Orofino, ID 83844. 

The Scoping Process for the EIS is 

being intiated with this notice, and 

written comments regarding the analysis 

should be received within 30 days 

following the publication of this notice 

in the Federal Register. Additional 

scoping will follow the release of the 

DEIS, expected in October 2010. 

Preliminary Issues identified that 

could be affected by proposed activities 

include: Air quality, economic 

feasibility, fish habitat, heritage 

resources, old growth habitat, soil 

productivity, spread of noxious weeds, 

threatened/endangered/sensitive and 

management indicator species of 

wildlife and plants, tribal treaty rights, 

water quality, and wildlife habitat. 

Early Notice of Importance of Public 

Participation in Subsequent 

Environmental Review: A draft 

environmental impact statement will be 

prepared for comment. The comment 

period on the draft environmental 

impact statement will be 45 days from 

the date the Clearwater National Forest 

publishes a legal notice in the Lewiston 

Morning Tribune (Lewiston, Idaho), the 

Forest’s paper of record. A notice of 

availability will also be published 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: January 4, 2010. 

Rick Brazell, 

Forest Supervisor. 

[FR Doc. 2010–109 Filed 1–7–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–11–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Food Safety and Inspection Service 

[Docket No. FSIS–2009–0037] 

Codex Alimentarius Commission: 

Meeting of the Codex Committee on 

Milk and Milk Products 

AGENCY: Office for Food Safety, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting and 

request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Office for Food Safety, 

and the Agricultural Marketing Service 

(AMS) of the U.S. Department of 

Agriculture (USDA), are sponsoring a 

public meeting on January 13, 2010. The 

objective of the public meeting is to 

provide information and receive public 

comments on agenda items and draft 

United States positions that will be 

discussed at the 9th Session of the 

Codex Committee on Milk and Milk 

Products (CCMMP) of the Codex 


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