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S, PO Box 2415, Washington, DC

20013–2415 or call 202–720–8841.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 1949

Act requires that a limited global import

quota for upland cotton be determined

and announced immediately whenever

the average price of the base quality of

upland cotton in the designated spot

markets for a month exceeds 130

percent of the average price of such

quality of cotton in such markets for the

preceding 36 months. The limited global

import quota means a quantity of

imports that is not subject to the overquota tariff rate of a tariff-rate quota.

The December 1994 spot market average

for base quality cotton was 81.92 cents

per pound, which is 136 percent of the

60.06 cents-per-pound average of the

previous 36-month period from

December 1991 through November

1994.

The 1949 Act requires that if a quota

has been established under the authority

of section 103(B)(n) during the

preceding 12 months, the quantity of the

quota shall be the smaller of 21 days of

domestic mill consumption at the

seasonally-adjusted average rate of the

most recent 3 months for which data are

available (21-day supply) or the quantity

required to increase supply to 130

percent of demand. Since the 21-day

supply is smaller than the amount

needed to increase supply to 130

percent of demand, the quota is equal to

21 days of domestic mill consumption

of upland cotton at the seasonallyadjusted average rate for the period

September through November 1994. The

quota is not divided by staple length or

by country of origin. The quota does not

affect existing tariff rates or

phytosanitary regulations.

Authority: 7 U.S.C. 1444–2 (n) and U.S.

Note 6(b), Subchapter III, Chapter 99 of the

HTS.

Signed at Washington, DC, on February 10,

1995.

Richard E. Rominger,

Acting Secretary.

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Forest Service

Notice of the Preparation of the

Southern Appalachian Assessment,

and the Beginning of the Forest Plan

Revision Efforts for the National

Forests in Alabama, ChattahoocheeOconee, Cherokee, and Sumter

National Forests

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This Notice is to announce

the U.S. Forest Service’s participation in

the preparation of the Southern

Appalachian Assessment (SAA). This

Assessment is being prepared by the

U.S. Forest Service (the Southern

Region of the National Forest System

and the Southeastern Forest Experiment

Station) in cooperation with the other

Federal agencies that are members of

SAMAB (Southern Appalachian Man

and the Biosphere Cooperative). It will

include national forest lands of the

George Washington, Jefferson,

Nantahala-Pisgah, Cherokee, and

Chattahoochee National Forests; and

parts of the Sumter and Talladega

National Forests. Also involved will be

National Park Service lands in the Great

Smoky Mountains National Park,

Shenandoah National Park, and the Blue

Ridge Parkway.

This Notice also announces the

beginning of the efforts to revise the

Land and Resource Management Plans

(Forest Plans) for the National Forests in

Alabama, the Chattahoochee-Oconee,

the Cherokee, and the Sumter National

Forests. This is not the ‘‘Notice of

Intent’’ (NOI) for the Environmental

Impact Statements that will accompany

the Revised Forest Plans. Those NOIs

will be issued at a later date.

The Southern Appalachian

Assessment will support and facilitate

ecosystem management decisions to be

made in Forest Plan revisions. As the

National Forests in the Southern

Appalachians are conducting their local

efforts to describe their ‘‘Analysis of the

Management Situation’’ (AMS), they

will also be providing information for

the larger scale Southern Appalachian

Assessment.

The Assessment will be used to help

determine each National Forests’ ‘‘Need

for Change’’ section of their AMS. This

information will then be used to publish

the Notices of Intent to prepare the

Environmental Impact Statements,

which will begin the NEPA (National

Environmental Policy Act) processes

associated with each Forest Plan

revision.

Public involvement is critical

throughout these processes and it will

be requested and accepted continually

throughout these efforts. Formal public

involvement with the Forest Plan

revision efforts will also be conducted

through ‘‘Scoping’’, following the

issuance of the National Forests NOIs.

DATES: The Southern Appalachian

Assessment is scheduled to be

completed by January 1996.

The National Forests in Alabama, the

Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests,

the Cherokee National Forest, and the

Sumter National Forest are scheduled to

complete the drafts of their Analysis of

the Management Situation between

October 1995 and January 1996. During

this same time period, these Forests are

scheduled to issue their Notices of

Intent to Prepare an Environmental

Impact Statement (NOI) for their

Revised Land and Resource

Management Plans. A Revised NOI for

the Jefferson National Forest will also be

issued during this time period.

ADDRESSES: Requests for information,

and comments concerning this notice

can be sent to:

Director, Planning and Budget, USDA–

Forest Service, 1720 Peachtree Rd.

NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30367–9102.

Co–Team Leader, Southern Appalachian

Assessment, USDA–Forest Service,

1720 Peachtree Rd. NW, Atlanta,

Georgia 30367–9102.

Forest Supervisor, National Forests in

Alabama, 2946 Chestnut,

Montgomery, Alabama 36107–3010.

Forest Supervisor, ChattahoocheeOconee NFs, 508 Oak Street, NW,

Gainesville, Georgia 30501.

Forest Supervisor, Cherokee NF, 2800

N. Oconee St. NE, P.O. Box 2010,

Cleveland, Tennessee 37320–2010.

Forest Supervisor, Francis MarionSumter NFs, 4931 Broad River,

Columbia, South Carolina 29210–

4021.

Forest Supervisor, George Washington

NF, P.O. Box 233, Harrison Plaza,

Harrisonburg, Virginia 22801.

Forest Supervisor, Jefferson NF, 5162

Valley Pointe Parkway, Roanoke,

Virginia 24019–3050.

Forest Supervisor, National Forests in

North Carolina, 100 Post and Otis

Streets, P.O. Box 2750, Asheville,

North Carolina 28802.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For

more information concerning this notice

contact: Gary Pierson, Director of

Planning and Budget, Southern Region.

For more information on the Southern

Appalachian Assessment contact:

Forrest Carpenter, Co-Team Leader,

Southern Region.

For more information from the

individual National Forests contact:

Rick Morgan, Planning Team Leader,

National Forests in Alabama

Caren Briscoe, Planning Staff Officer,

Chattahoochee-Oconee NF

Red Anderson, Planning Team Leader,

Cherokee NF

Dave Plunkett, NEPA Coordinator,

George Washington NF

Nacy Ross, Planning Team Leader,

Jefferson NF

Larry Hayden, Planning Team Leader,

Nantahala-Pisgah NF

Richard Shelfer, Planning Team Leader,

Sumter NF
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Southern Region of the National

Forest System and the Southeastern

Forest Experiment Station, in

cooperation with the other Federal

agencies that are members of the

Southern Appalachian Man and the

Biosphere Cooperative (SAMAB, i.e.,

the Environmental Protection Agency,

the Forest Service, the Fish and Wildlife

Service, the National Park Service, the

Tennessee Valley Authority, the

Geological Survey, the Department of

Energy Oak Ridge National Laboratory,

the Economic Development

Administration, and the National

Biological Survey) have begun

conducting a Southern Appalachian

Assessment (SAA). The Assessment will

include the national forest lands of the

George Washington, Jefferson,

Nantahala-Pisgah, Cherokee, and

Chattahoochee National Forests, and

parts of the Sumter and Talladega

National Forests. The Assessment will

also include National Park Service lands

in the Great Smoky Mountains National

Park, Shenandoah National Park, and

the Blue Ridge Parkway.

The Assessment will facilitate an

interagency ecological approach to

management in the Southern

Appalachian area by collecting and

analyzing broad-scale biological,

physical, social and economic data to

serve as a foundation for more local

natural resource management decisions.

The Assessment will be organized

around four ‘‘themes’’—(1) Terrestrial

(which includes the Health of Forest

Ecosystems, and Plant and Animal

Resources); (2) Aquatic Resources; (3)

Air Quality and (4) the Human

Dimension of Ecosystems (which

includes Communities and Human

Influences; Roadless Areas and

Wilderness; Recreation, Wildlife and

Fish Supply and Demand; and the

Timber Economy of the Southern

Appalachians).

Public comment on the SAA process

began with a series of open town hall

meetings held in Asheville, NC;

Gainesville, GA; and Roanoke, VA in

August 1994. In addition, interested

members of the public were asked for

further written comments to be received

by September 15. As the Assessment

progresses, continued public

involvement will be facilitated through

additional meetings and newsletters.

2. Beginning of the Forest Plan Revision

Efforts for the National Forests in

Alabama, the Chattahoochee-Oconee,

the Cherokee, and the Sumter National

Forests

This Notice announces that the

National Forests in Alabama, the

Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests,

the Cherokee National Forest, and the

Sumter National Forest either have

already started or are beginning efforts

to revise their Land and Resource

Management Plans (LRMP). These

Forests are each in the process of

preparing their Analysis of the

Management Situation (AMS), one of

the first steps in the revision process.

This step includes updating resource

inventories, defining the current

situation, estimating supply capabilities

and resource demands, and determining

the ‘‘Need for Change’’ (36 CFR

291.12(e)(5)).

3. Public Involvement in Developing the

‘‘Need for Change’’ in an AMS

Determining the concerns and

expectations of National Forest

constituents and getting public input on

how well current forest plans are

working, or not working, are critical

elements of describing the ‘‘need to

change’’ a forest plan. An integral part

of determining the need for change is

public involvement. Each of the

National Forests described above either

have already, or will soon contact their

interested public to solicit their

participation in this step of the forest

plan revision process.

4. Relationship Between the AMS and

a Notice of Intent To Prepare an

Environmental Impact Statement

In the past, a ‘‘Notice of Intent to

Prepare an Environmental Impact

Statement’’ (NOI) was issued at the

beginning of the forest planning process,

including before the development of the

AMS.

This time, we are first defining the

current situation and an initial ‘‘need

for change’’ in a Draft AMS, and then

issuing a NOI prior to developing

alternatives. This will allow us to

incorporate a more definable ‘‘Proposed

Action’’ and ‘‘Purpose and Need’’ into

our NOIs, which will begin the formal

NEPA process of preparing the

Environmental Impact Statements (EIS)

that will accompany the Revised Land

and Resource Management Plans.

5. Relationship Between the Southern

Appalachian Assessment and the

Process for Revising the Southern

Appalachian National Forests’ LRMPs

The public has expressed concern that

the Southern Appalachian Assessment

will ‘‘delay’’ revising National Forest

Land and Resource Management Plans

in the Southern Appalachians.

However, the SAA is being conducted

concurrently, and in support of, the

forest plan revisions.

Many of the information needs for the

Forest AMSs and for the SAA are the

same. The Assessment will support the

revision of the LRMPs by determining

how the lands, resources, people and

management of the National Forests

interrelate within the larger context of

the Southern Appalachian area. The

SAA, however, will not be a ‘‘decision

document’’ and it will not involve the

NEPA process. As broad-scale issues are

identified and addressed at the subregional level in the Assessment, the

individual National Forest’s role in

resolving those broad-scale issues will

become a part of the ‘‘need for change’’

at the Forest level.

6. Issuing the Notice of Intent to

Prepare an EIS

The National Forests identified above

will issue their NOIs when enough

information from the SAA is available

for them to develop the ‘‘Need for

Change’’ section of their Draft AMS. The

Draft AMSs are scheduled to be

completed between October 1995 and

January 1996. Their NOIs are also

scheduled to be issued during this same

time period.

Each NOI will include a description

of a preliminary ‘‘Proposed Action’’ and

of some preliminary alternatives.

Scoping to receive public comments on

the preliminary proposed action and

preliminary alternatives will begin

following the publication of the NOIs.

These public comments will be used to

further refine the ‘‘Proposed Action’’

and the preliminary alternatives, to

possibly identify additional alternatives,

and to finalize the AMS and the ‘‘Need

for Change’’.

7. Status of the Jefferson, George

Washington, and Nantahala-Pisgah

National Forests

The Jefferson National Forest, which

is also currently working on its Revised

LRMP, previously issued a Notice of

Intent to Prepare an Environmental

Impact Statement for its Revised LRMP

on June 28, 1993. A Revised NOI for the

Forest will be issued between October

1995 and January 1996, to coincide with

the NOIs issued for the other National

Forests in the Southern Appalachians.

The George Washington National

Forest completed its Final Revised

Forest Plan on January 21, 1993, and the

Nantahala-Pisgah National Forests

completed a significant amendment,

Amendment 5 to their Land and
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Resource Management Plan on March

18, 1994. These two forests are not

currently involved in the revision

process. However, if information from

the Southern Appalachian Assessment

identifies conditions requiring additions

or changes to these plans to ensure

consistency between the National

Forests in the Southern Appalachians,

then amendments to these plans could

be considered.

8. The Responsible Official

The Responsible Official for the

Revised Land and Resource

Management Plans for the National

Forests in the Southern Appalachians is

Robert C. Joslin, Regional Forester,

Southern Region, 1720 Peachtree Road

NW, Atlanta, Georgia 30367.

Dated: February 13, 1995.

R. Gary Pierson,

Acting Deputy Regional Forester.

[FR Doc. 95–4000 Filed 2–16–95; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration

Notice of Environmental Technologies

Trade Advisory Committee (ETTAC)

Meeting

ACTION: Notice of Open Meeting.

SUMMARY: Pending availability of the

Environmental Technologies Trade

Advisory Committee (ETTAC) members,

ETTAC will hold its next meeting to

discuss future projects and current

issues which influence the export of

U.S. environmental technologies.

DATES: Monday, March 13, 1995, 9:00

am–4:00 pm.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at

the U.S. Department of Commerce,

Room 4830, 14th Street and

Constitution Avenue NW., Washington,

DC 20230.

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: The meeting will

be open to the public. Seating is limited

and will be on a first come, first serve

basis.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Anne Alonzo, Office of Environmental

Technologies Exports, Room 4324, U.S.

Department of Commerce, 14th Street

and Constitution Avenue, NW,

Washington, DC 20230, phone (202)

482–5225, facsimile (202) 482–5665,

TDD 1–800–833–8723.

Dated: February 13, 1995

Carlos Montoulieu

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for

Environmental Technologies Exports

[FR Doc. 95–3997 Filed 2–16–95; 8:45 am]

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

[I.D. 021095B]

Atlantic Striped Bass Fishery; 1993

Survey of Atlantic Striped Bass

Fisheries

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Summary and notice of

availability of survey results.

SUMMARY: NMFS announces the

availability and summarizes the results

of a survey of the Atlantic coast striped

bass fisheries for 1993. The Atlantic

Striped Bass Conservation Act (the Act),

requires NMFS to provide information

on the status of the fisheries.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the survey results

are available from William T. Hogarth,

NOAA/NMFS/FCM3, 1315 East-West

Highway, Room 14837 Silver Spring,

MD 20910.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

William T. Hogarth, (301) 713–2347.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The Act requires the Secretary of

Commerce and the Secretary of the

Interior to conduct a comprehensive

annual survey of the Atlantic striped

bass fisheries. The following is a

summary of the survey for 1993.

Management measures restricting the

harvest of striped bass by commercial

and recreational fisheries remained in

place during 1993, as the stocks

continue to rebuild.

The 1993 commercial harvest of

striped bass was 1,695,000 lb (769.5 mt),

an increase of 0.2 percent above the

landings of 1,692,000 lb in 1992. The

Chesapeake Bay area (Maryland,

Virginia, and the Potomac River)

accounted for 72 percent of the 1993

commercial landings. The recreational

catch in 1993 was an estimated 5.6

million striped bass, of which 561,000

were harvested; the remaining 5.1

million, were released alive. The

estimated weight of the recreational

harvest was 6.7 million lb (2,986.1 mt),

about four times that of the commercial

harvest.

Juvenile production in 1993 was

above the long-term averages for

Maryland, North Carolina, Virginia, and

Delaware. Information from sampling

the population of striped bass shows an

increased relative abundance from

recent year classes. Copies of the survey

are available upon request (see

ADDRESSES).

Dated: February 13, 1995.

Richard H. Schaefer,

Office of Fisheries Conservation and

Management, National Marine Fisheries

Service.

[FR Doc. 95–4037 Filed 2–16–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–22–F

Monterey Bay National Marine

Sanctuary Advisory Council; Meeting

AGENCY: Sanctuaries and Reserves

Division (SRD), Office of Ocean and

Coastal Resource Management (OCRM),

National Ocean Service (NOS), Nation

Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration (NOAA), Department of

Commerce.

ACTION: Monterey Bay National Marine

Sanctuary Advisory Council open

meeting.

SUMMARY: The Advisory Council was

established in December 1993 to advise

NOAA’s Sanctuaries and Reserves

Division regarding the management of

the Monterey Bay National Marine

Sanctuary.

TIME AND PLACE: Friday, February 24,

1995, from 8:30 until 5:00. The meeting

will be held at the Pacific Grove Natural

History Museum, 165 Forest Avenue

(intersection of Forest Avenue and

Central Avenue), Pacific Grove,

California.

AGENDA: General issues related to the

Monterey Bay National Marine

Sanctuary are expected to be discussed,

including a report from Fort Ord

officials concerning the former marine

impact areas, a discussion of Moss

Landing Harbor contaminant issues, a

discussion of Piedras Blancas elephant

seal harassment, a Sanctuary update,

and reports from working groups.

PUBLIC PARTICIPATION: The meeting will

be open to the public. Seats will be

available on a first-come, first-served

basis.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Scott Kathey at (408) 647–4201 or

Elizabeth Moore at (301) 713–3141.

Federal Domestic Assistance Catalog Number

11.429 Marine Sanctuary Program

Dated: February 13, 1995.

W. Stanley Wilson,

Assistant Administrator, for Ocean Services

and Coastal Zone Management.

[FR Doc. 95–4016 Filed 2–16–95; 8:45 am]

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