Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 163 / Thursday, August 21, 2008 / Notices 49487 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Meetings for the National 

Park Service (NPS) Subsistence 

Resource Commission (SRC) Program 

Within the Alaska Region 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of meetings for the 

National Park Service (NPS) Subsistence 

Resource Commission (SRC) program 

within the Alaska Region. 

SUMMARY: The NPS announces the SRC 

meeting schedules for the following 

areas: Aniakchak National Monument, 

Cape Krusenstern National Monument, 

Kobuk Valley National Park, Lake Clark 

National Park, and Wrangell-St. Elias 

National Park. The purpose of each 

meeting is to develop and continue 

work on NPS subsistence hunting 

program recommendations and other 

related subsistence management issues. 

Each meeting is open to the public and 

will have time allocated for public 

testimony. The public is welcome to 

present written or oral comments to the 

SRC. Each meeting will be recorded and 

meeting minutes will be available upon 

request from each Superintendent for 

public inspection approximately six 

weeks after each meeting. The NPS SRC 

program is authorized under Title VIII, 

Section 808 of the Alaska National 

Interest Lands Conservation Act, Pub. L. 

96–487, to operate in accordance with 

the provisions of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act. 

DATES: The Aniakchak National 

Monument SRC meeting will be held on 

Monday, October 6, 2008, from 9 a.m. to 

12 p.m., at the Katmai National Park and 

Preserve headquarters conference room 

in King Salmon, AK. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mary McBurney, Subsistence Manager, 

telephone: (907) 235–7891, or Ralph 

Moore, Superintendent, telephone: (907) 

246–2120, at Aniakchak National Park 

and Preserve, P.O. Box 7, King Salmon, 

AK 99613. 

DATES: The Cape Krusenstern National 

Monument SRC and the Kobuk Valley 

National Park SRC meetings will be held 

on Thursday, October 9, 2008 and 

Friday, October 10, 2008 from 9 a.m. to 

5 p.m., at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service Office in Kotzebue, AK. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ken 

Adkisson, Subsistence Manager, 

telephone (907) 443–2522, or Willie 

Goodwin, Subsistence Manager, and 

George Helfrich, Superintendent, 

telephone: (907) 442–3890, at Western 

Arctic Parklands, P.O. Box 1029, 

Kotzebue, AK 99752. 

DATES: The Lake Clark National Park 

SRC meeting will be held on September 

24, 2008, from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. at the 

Lake Clark National Park and Preserve 

Visitor Center in Port Alsworth, AK. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mary McBurney, Subsistence Manager, 

telephone: (907) 235–7891, or Joel Hard, 

Superintendent, and Michelle 

Ravenmoon, Subsistence Coordinator, 

telephone: (907) 781–2218, at Lake 

Clark National Park and Preserve, 1 Park 

Place, Port Alsworth, AK 99653. 

DATES: The Wrangell-St. Elias National 

Park SRC meeting will be held on 

Wednesday, October 29, 2008 and 

Thursday, October 30, 2008, from 9 a.m. 

to 5 p.m. at the Yakutat-Alaska Native 

Brotherhood Hall in Yakutat, AK. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Barbara Cellarius, Subsistence Manager, 

telephone: (907) 822–7236, or Meg 

Jensen, Superintendent, telephone: 

(907) 822–5234, at Wrangell-St. Elias 

National Park and Preserve, P.O. Box 

439, Copper Center, AK 99573. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: SRC 

meeting locations and dates may need to 

be changed based on weather or local 

circumstances. If meeting dates and 

locations are changed notice of each 

meeting will be published in local 

newspapers and announced on local 

radio stations prior to the meeting dates. 

The meetings may end early if all 

business is completed. 

The agendas for each meeting include 

the following: 

1. Call to Order (SRC Chair) 

2. SRC Roll Call and Confirmation of 

Quorum 

3. SRC Chair and Superintendent’s 

Welcome and Introductions 

4. Review and Approve Agenda 

5. Status of SRC Membership 

6. SRC Member Reports 

7. Superintendent and NPS Staff 

Reports 

8. Federal Subsistence Board Update 

(Review Proposals, Board Actions) 

9. State of Alaska Board Actions Update 

10. New Business 

11. Agency and Public Comments 

12. SRC Work Session 

13. Set Time and Place of Next SRC 

Meeting 

Adjournment 

Victor Knox, 

Deputy Regional Director. 

[FR Doc. E8–19437 Filed 8–20–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–HE–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Reclamation 

Odessa Subarea Special Study; 

Adams, Franklin, Grant, Lincoln and 

Walla Walla Counties, WA 

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(C) 

of the National Environmental Policy 

Act of 1969, as amended, the Bureau of 

Reclamation (Reclamation) proposes to 

prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) for the Odessa Subarea 

Special Study. The Washington 

Department of Ecology (Ecology) is a 

joint lead with Reclamation in the 

preparation of this Environmental 

Impact Statement which will also be 

used to comply with requirements of the 

Washington State Environmental Policy 

Act (SEPA). 

The purpose of Reclamation’s Odessa 

Subarea Special Study is to evaluate 

alternatives that would deliver project 

water from the Columbia Basin Project 

(CBP) to lands currently using 

groundwater for irrigation in the Odessa 

Ground Water Management Subarea. 

The Study is needed to fulfill the 

obligation Reclamation made in a 

Memorandum of Agreement between 

the State of Washington (State) and the 

Project irrigation districts in December 

2004, which included cooperating on a 

study to explore opportunities for 

delivery of Columbia Basin Project 

water to existing groundwater-irrigated 

lands within the Odessa Subarea. 

Action is needed to avoid significant 

economic loss, in the near term, to the 

region’s agricultural sector because of 

resource conditions associated with 

continued decline of the aquifers in the 

Odessa Subarea. Groundwater in the 

Odessa Subarea is currently being 

depleted to such an extent that water 

must be pumped from great depths. 

Pumping depths are 750 feet in some 

areas, and well depths are as great as 

2,100–2,400 feet. Well drilling costs and 

pumping water from this depth have 

resulted in expensive power costs and 

water quality concerns such as high 

water temperatures and high sodium 

concentrations. 

The ability of farmers to irrigate their 

crops is at risk. Domestic, commercial, 

municipal, and industrial uses and 

water quality are also affected. Those 

irrigating with wells of lesser depth live 

with uncertainty about future well 

production. 

Washington State University 

conducted a regional economic impact 

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study assessing the effects of lost potato 

production and processing in Adams, 

Franklin, Grant, and Lincoln counties 

from continued aquifer decline. 

Assuming that all potato production and 

processing is lost from the region, the 

analysis estimated the regional 

economic impact would be a loss of 

about $630 million dollars annually in 

regional sales, a loss of 3,600 jobs, and 

a loss of $211 million in regional 

income (Bhattacharjee and Holland 

2005). 

DATES: Scoping meetings will be held on 

September 10, 2008 and Sept 11, 2008, 

from 7 to 9 p.m., at the locations 

indicated under the ADDRESSES section. 

Written comments will be accepted 

through September 19, 2008, for 

inclusion in the scoping summary 

document. Requests for sign language 

interpretation for the hearing impaired 

or other special assistance needs should 

be submitted to Ellen Berggren as 

indicated under the FOR FUTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT section by August 

27, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Meetings will be held at: 

• Town of Coulee Dam Town Hall, 

300 Lincoln Avenue, Coulee Dam, WA 

99116 (September 10, 2008); 

• The Advanced Technologies 

Education Center (ATEC), Big Bend 

Community College, 7611 Bolling 

Street, NE., Moses Lake, WA 98837 

(September 11, 2008). 

The meeting facilities are physically 

accessible to people with disabilities. 

Comments and requests to be added 

to the mailing list may be submitted to 

Bureau of Reclamation, Pacific 

Northwest Regional Office, Attention: 

Ellen Berggren, Activity Manager, 1150 

N. Curtis Rd., Suite 100, Boise, ID 

83706. Comments may also be 

submitted electronically to 

StudyManager@pn.usbr.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Contact Ellen Berggren, Activity 

Manager, Telephone (208) 378–5090. 

TTY users in Washington may dial the 

following numbers to obtain a toll free 

TTY relay: 800–833–6384(V); for the 

hearing impaired 800–833–6388(T); for 

the deaf. 

Information on this project can also be 

found at: http://www.usbr.gov/pn/ 

programs/ucao_misc/odessa/ 

index.html. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Columbia Basin Project is a 

multipurpose water development 

project in the central part of the State of 

Washington (State). The Grand Coulee 

Dam Project was authorized for 

construction by the Act of August 30, 

1935, and reauthorized and renamed in 

the Columbia Basin Project Act of 

March 10, 1943. Congress authorized 

the CBP to irrigate a total of 1,029,000 

acres; about 671,000 acres are currently 

irrigated. 

Section 9(a) of the Reclamation 

Project Act of 1939 gave authority to the 

Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to 

approve a finding of feasibility and 

thereby authorize construction of a 

project upon submitting a report to the 

President and the Congress. The 

Secretary approved a plan of 

development for the Columbia Basin 

Project, known as House Document No. 

172 in 1945. House Document No. 172 

anticipated that development of the 

Columbia Basin Project would occur in 

phases over a 70-year period. 

Reclamation is authorized to implement 

additional development phases as long 

as the Secretary finds it to be 

economically justified and financially 

feasible. The Odessa Subarea Special 

Study is conducted under the authority 

of the Columbia Basin Project Act of 

1943, as amended, and the Reclamation 

Act of 1939. 

In response to the public’s concern 

about the declining aquifer and 

associated economic and other effects, 

Congress has funded Reclamation to 

investigate this problem. The State of 

Washington has partnered with 

Reclamation by providing funding and 

collaborating on various technical 

studies. 

The State, Reclamation, and irrigation 

districts signed the Columbia River 

Initiative Memorandum of 

Understanding (CRI MOU) in December 

2004, to promote a cooperative process 

for implementing activities to improve 

Columbia River water management and 

water management within the Columbia 

Basin Project. The Odessa Subarea 

Special Study implements Section 15 of 

the CRI MOU, which states in part that, 

‘‘The parties will cooperate to explore 

opportunities for delivery of water to 

additional existing agricultural lands 

within the Odessa Subarea.’’ In 

February 2006, the State legislature 

passed the Columbia River Water 

Resource Management Act (HB 2860) 

that directs Ecology to aggressively 

pursue development of water benefiting 

both instream and out-of-stream uses 

through storage, conservation, and 

voluntary regional water management 

agreements. Among the activities 

identified in the legislation, Ecology is 

directed to focus on ‘‘development of 

alternatives to ground water for 

agricultural users in the Odessa subarea 

aquifer.’’ Ecology is participating in the 

Odessa Subarea Special Study to 

provide support for state and local 

agency permit decisions that will likely 

be necessary to implement a water 

delivery project. 

Reclamation is developing 

alternatives to replace the current and 

increasingly unreliable groundwater 

supplies used for irrigation with a 

surface supply as part of continued 

phased development of the Columbia 

Basin Project. Reclamation can only 

deliver water to lands authorized to 

receive Columbia Basin Project water. 

An estimated 170,000 acres within the 

Odessa Subarea are now being irrigated 

with groundwater with an estimated 

140,000 of these acres eligible to receive 

Project surface water. Reclamation is 

considering alternatives that would 

provide a replacement surface water 

supply for up to 140,000 groundwaterirrigated acres within the Study area. 

Alternatives include two main 

components. 

• Water conveyance; this component 

consists of infrastructure such as canals, 

pumping plants and laterals to deliver 

surface water to groundwater-irrigated 

lands. These could include building a 

new East High canal system and 

reregulating reservoir in Black Rock 

Coulee north of Interstate 90 and/or 

expanding the capacity of the existing 

East Low Canal system and building a 

2.3 mile extension. 

• Water supply; this component 

consists of storage facilities that could 

store the replacement surface water 

supply for later use in the Odessa 

Subarea. These involve modifying 

operations at Banks Lake and/or 

constructing a new reservoir in Rocky 

Coulee. 

Alternatives would involve various 

combinations and configurations of 

these water conveyance and water 

supply components. 

Public Involvement 

Reclamation will conduct public 

scoping meetings to solicit comments on 

the alternatives developed to address 

the concerns in the Odessa Subarea and 

to identify potential issues and impacts 

associated with those alternatives. 

Reclamation will summarize comments 

received during the scoping meetings 

and from letters of comment received 

during the scoping period, identified 

under the DATES section, into a scoping 

summary document that will be made 

available to those who have provided 

comments. It will also be available to 

others upon request. 

If you wish to comment, you may 

mail us your comments as indicated 

under the ADDRESSES section. Our 

practice is to make comments, including 

names, home addresses, home phone 

numbers, and e-mail addresses of 

respondents, available for public 

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1The record is defined in sec. 207.2(f) of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (19 

CFR 207.2(f)). 

review. Individual respondents may 

request that we withhold their names 

and/or home addresses, etc., but if you 

wish us to consider withholding this 

information you must state this 

prominently at the beginning of your 

comments. In addition, you must 

present a rationale for withholding this 

information. This rationale must 

demonstrate that disclosure would 

constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of privacy. Unsupported 

assertions will not meet this burden. In 

the absence of exceptional, 

documentable circumstances, this 

information will be released. We will 

always make submissions from 

organizations or businesses, and from 

individuals identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses, available 

for public inspection in their entirety. 

J. William McDonald, 

Regional Director, Pacific Northwest Region. 

[FR Doc. E8–19376 Filed 8–20–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MN–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation Nos. 701–TA–457 and 731–

TA–1153 (Preliminary)] 

Certain Tow-Behind Lawn Groomers 

and Parts Thereof From China 

Determinations 

On the basis of the record1 developed 

in the subject investigations, the United 

States International Trade Commission 

(Commission) determines, pursuant to 

sections 705(b) and 735(b) of the Tariff 

Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671d(a) and 

1673d(a)) (the Act), that there is a 

reasonable indication that an industry 

in the United States is materially 

injured by reason of imports from China 

of certain tow-behind lawn groomers 

and parts thereof (‘‘TBLG’’), provided 

for in statistical reporting numbers 

8432.40.0000, 8432.80.0000, 

8432.90.0030, 8432.90.0080, 

8479.89.9897, 8479.90.9496, and 

9603.50.0000 of the Harmonized Tariff 

Schedule of the United States, that are 

alleged to be sold in the United States 

at less than fair value (LTFV) and 

alleged to be subsidized by the 

Government of China. 

Commencement of Final Phase 

Investigations 

Pursuant to section 207.18 of the 

Commission’s rules, the Commission 

also gives notice of the commencement 

of the final phase of its investigations. 

The Commission will issue a final phase 

notice of scheduling, which will be 

published in the Federal Register as 

provided in section 207.21 of the 

Commission’s rules, upon notice from 

the Department of Commerce 

(Commerce) of affirmative preliminary 

determinations in the investigations 

under sections 703(b) and 733(b) of the 

Act, or, if the preliminary 

determinations are negative, upon 

notice of affirmative final 

determinations in those investigations 

under section 705(a) and 735(a) of the 

Act. Parties that filed entries of 

appearance in the preliminary phase of 

the investigations need not enter a 

separate appearance for the final phase 

of the investigations. Industrial users, 

and, if the merchandise under 

investigation is sold at the retail level, 

representative consumer organizations 

have the right to appear as parties in 

Commission antidumping and 

countervailing duty investigations. The 

Secretary will prepare a public service 

list containing the names and addresses 

of all persons, or their representatives, 

who are parties to the investigations. 

Background 

On June 24, 2008, a petition was filed 

with the Commission and Commerce by 

Agri–Fab, Inc., Sullivan, IL, alleging that 

an industry in the United States is 

materially injured by reason of 

subsidized imports of TBLGs from 

China and LTFV sales of TBLG imports 

from China. Accordingly, effective June 

24, 2008, the Commission instituted 

countervailing duty investigation No. 

701–TA–457 (Preliminary) and 

antidumping investigation No. 731–TA–

1153 (Preliminary). 

Notice of the institution of the 

Commission’s investigations and of a 

public conference to be held in 

connection therewith was given by 

posting copies of the notice in the Office 

of the Secretary, U.S. International 

Trade Commission, Washington, DC, 

and by publishing the notice in the 

Federal Register of July 1, 2008 (72 FR 

37494). The conference was held in 

Washington, DC, on July 15, 2008, and 

all persons who requested the 

opportunity were permitted to appear in 

person or by counsel. 

The Commission transmitted its 

determinations in these investigations to 

the Secretary of Commerce on August 8, 

2008. The views of the Commission are 

contained in USITC Publication 4028 

(August 2008), entitled Certain TowBehind Lawn Groomers and Parts 

Thereof from China Investigation Nos. 

701–TA–457 and 731–TA–1153 

(Preliminary). 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: August 18, 2008. 

William R. Bishop, 

Acting Secretary to the Commission. 

[FR Doc. E8–19400 Filed 8–20–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree 

Under the Clean Air Act 

Notice is hereby given that on August 

13, 2008, a proposed Consent Decree 

(the ‘‘Decree’’) in United States v. Allied 

Waste Services of Massachusetts, LLC, 

Civil Action No. 08–11382, was lodged 

with the United States District Court for 

the District of New Jersey. 

In a complaint, filed simultaneously 

with the Decree, the United States 

alleges that Allied Waste Services of 

Massachusetts, LLC (‘‘Allied Waste’’) 

violated the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. 

7401 et seq., at four of its waste-hauling 

depots in western Massachusetts by 

allowing some of its diesel wastehauling trucks to idle in excess of five 

minutes, as prescribed by 30 CMR 

7.11(b), a regulation included in the 

Massachusetts State Implementation 

Plan. 

Pursuant to the Decree, Allied will 

implement a number of compliance 

measures, including: Requiring a 

supervisor to walk-through the four 

depots where violations were found 

(‘‘subject facilities’’) twice a day to 

identify and rectify illegal idling; the 

implementation of a driver training 

program that highlights Allied Waste’s 

anti-idling policy; the inclusion of the 

anti-idling policy as part of the subject 

facilities’ daily debriefing checklist to be 

reviewed with each driver of a wastehauling truck at the end of their route; 

the posting of ‘‘No Idling’’ signs at the 

subject facilities; and the certification by 

Allied Waste that all trucks equipped 

with automatic engine shut-offs are 

working and set to turnoff the engine at 

the expiration of five minutes of idling. 

If Allied Waste fails to conduct the 

aforementioned compliance measures, 

or is in future violation of 30 CMR 

7.11(b), it will be subject to stipulated 

penalties under the terms of the Decree. 

Allied Waste will pay a $195,000 civil 

monetary penalty to the United States 

pursuant to the Decree. 

The Department of Justice will 

receive, for a period of thirty (30) days 

from the date of this publication, 

comments relating to the Decree. 

Comments should be addressed to the 

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