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Notices Federal Register

51437 

Vol. 73, No. 171 

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Cooperative State Research, 

Education, and Extension Service 

Notice of Solicitation for Membership 

to the Forestry Research Advisory 

Council 

AGENCY: Cooperative State Research, 

Education, and Extension Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of solicitation for 

membership. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 

U.S.C. app), the United States 

Department of Agriculture (USDA) 

announces solicitation for nominations 

to fill twelve vacancies on the Forestry 

Research Advisory Council. The 

Council membership is appointed with 

staggered terms of one, two, and three 

years. Nominations for a three-year 

appointment for all twelve positions are 

sought. 

DATES: Nominations must be received 

on or before October 10, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: The nominee’s name, 

resume, and completed Form AD–755 

must be sent to the Office of the Forestry 

Research Advisory Council; Cooperative 

State Research, Education, and 

Extension Service; U.S. Department of 

Agriculture; Room 3213 Waterfront 

Center; 800 9th Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20024 for express mail 

or overnight courier service. 

Nominations sent via the U.S. Postal 

Service must be sent to the following 

address: Cooperative State Research, 

Education, and Extension Service; U.S. 

Department of Agriculture; Office of the 

Forestry Research Advisory Council; 

Mail Stop 2210; 1400 Independence 

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250– 

2210. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Catalino A. Blanche, Designated Federal 

Officer, Forestry Research Advisory 

Council; Office of the Forestry Research 

Advisory Council; telephone: (202) 401– 

4190; fax: (202) 401–1706; e-mail: 

cblanche@csrees.usda.gov, or contact 

Daina D. Apple, Senior Staff Assistant, 

Research and Development, Forest 

Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture; 

telephone: (202) 205–1452; fax: (202) 

205–1530; e-mail: dapple@fs.fed.us. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Forestry Research Advisory Council was 

established to provide advice to the 

Secretary of Agriculture on efficiently 

accomplishing the purposes of the 

McIntire-Stennis Act of 1962 (16 U.S.C. 

582a, et seq.). The Council also provides 

advice related to the Forest Service 

research program, authorized by the 

Forest and Rangeland Resources 

Research Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95–307, 

92 Stat. 353, as amended, 16 U.S.C. 

1600 (note)). The Council is composed 

of 20 voting members from the 

following membership categories: 

• Federal and State agencies 

concerned with developing and 

utilizing the Nation’s forest resources 

which includes the National Forest 

System and Forest and Range 

Experiment Stations leaders, Forest 

Service; 

• The forest industries; 

• The forestry schools of the State 

certified eligible institutions and State 

agricultural experiment stations; and 

• Volunteer public groups concerned 

with forests and related natural 

resources. 

Nominees will be carefully reviewed for 

their broad expertise, leadership, and 

relevancy to a membership category. 

Nominations for one individual who fits 

several of the categories or for more than 

one person who fits one category will be 

accepted. Please indicate the specific 

membership category for each nominee. 

Each nominee must complete Form 

AD–755, Advisory Committee 

Membership Background Information 

(which can be obtained from the contact 

persons above or from the following 

Web site: http://www.ree.usda.gov/ 

nareeeab/downloads/forms/AD– 

755.pdf). All nominations will be vetted 

before selection. Appointments to the 

Forestry Research Advisory Council will 

be made by the Secretary of Agriculture. 

Applicants are strongly encouraged to 

submit nominations via overnight mail 

or delivery service to ensure timely 

receipt by the USDA. 

Done at Washington, DC, this 25th day of 

August 2008. 

Gale Buchanan, 

Under Secretary, Research, Education, and 

Economics. 

[FR Doc. E8–20317 Filed 9–2–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Foreign Agricultural Service 

Assessment of Fees for Dairy Import 

Licenses for the 2009 Tariff-Rate 

Import Quota Year 

AGENCY: Foreign Agricultural Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces that 

the fee to be charged for the 2009 tariffrate quota (TRQ) year for each license 

issued to a person or firm by the 

Department of Agriculture authorizing 

the importation of certain dairy articles, 

which are subject to tariff-rate quotas set 

forth in the Harmonized Tariff Schedule 

(HTS) of the United States, will be 

$150.00 per license. 

DATES: Effective Date: January 1, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jorge Martinez, Dairy Import Licensing 

Program, Import and Trade Support 

Programs Division, STOP 1021, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, 1400 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20250–1021 or 

telephone at (202) 720–9439 or e-mail at 

Jorge.Martinez@fas.usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Dairy 

Tariff-Rate Import Quota Licensing 

Regulation promulgated by the 

Department of Agriculture and codified 

at 7 CFR 6.20–6.37 provides for the 

issuance of licenses to import certain 

dairy articles that are subject to TRQs 

set forth in the HTS. Those dairy articles 

may only be entered into the United 

States at the in-quota TRQ tariff rates by 

or the account of a person or firm to 

whom such licenses have been issued 

and only in accordance with the terms 

and conditions of the regulation. 

Licenses are issued on a calendar year 

basis, and each license authorizes the 

license holder to import a specified 

quantity and type of dairy article from 

a specified country of origin. The use of 

licenses by the license holder to import 

dairy articles is monitored by the Daiiy 

Import Licensing Program, Import and 


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51438 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 171 / Wednesday, September 3, 2008 / Notices 

Trade Support Programs Division, 

Foreign Agricultural Service, U.S. 

Department of Agriculture, and the U.S. 

Customs and Border Protection, U.S. 

Department of Homeland Security. 

The regulation at 7 CFR 6.33(a) 

provides that a fee will be charged for 

each license issued to a person or firm 

by the Licensing Authority in order to 

reimburse the Department of 

Agriculture for the costs of 

administering the licensing system 

under this regulation. 

The regulation at 7 CFR 6.33(a) also 

provides that the Licensing Authority 

will announce the annual fee for each 

license and that such fee will be set out 

in a notice to be published in the 

Federal Register. Accordingly, this 

notice sets out the fee for the licenses to 

be issued for the 2009 calendar year. 

Notice 

The total cost to the Department of 

Agriculture of administering the 

licensing system for 2009 has been 

estimated to be $360,000, and the 

estimated number of licenses expected 

to be issued is 2,400. Of the total cost, 

$235,000 represents staff and 

supervisory costs directly related to 

administering the licensing system, and 

$125,000 represents other miscellaneous 

costs, including travel, postage, 

publications, forms, Internet software 

development, and ADP system 

contractors. 

Accordingly, notice is hereby given 

that the fee for each license issued to a 

person or firm for the 2009 calendar 

year, in accordance with 7 CFR 6.33, 

will be $150 per license. 

Issued at Washington, DC the 9th day of 

July, 2008. 

Ronald Lord, 

Licensing Authority. 

[FR Doc. E8–20133 Filed 9–2–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–10–M 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Foreign Agricultural Service 

Meeting of the Advisory Committee on 

Emerging Markets 

AGENCY: Foreign Agricultural Service, 

USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the provisions of 

section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463), notice 

is hereby given that the next meeting of 

the Advisory Committee on Emerging 

Markets will be held on September 10– 

11, 2008. The role of the committee is 

to provide information and advice, 

based upon knowledge and expertise of 

the members, useful to the U.S. 

Department of Agriculture (USDA) in 

implementing the Emerging Markets 

Program. The committee also advises 

USDA on the involvement of the U.S. 

private sector in cooperative work with 

emerging markets in food and rural 

business systems, and reviews proposals 

submitted to the Program. 

DATES: The meeting will convene on 

September 10, 2008, from 9:30 a.m. to 

5:30 p.m., and on September 11, 2008, 

from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held on 

the 4th Floor, Room 411 Portals 

Building, 1250 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20024. Please submit 

comments by e-mail to 

Nancy.Hirschhorn@fas.usda.gov or by 

fax to (202) 690–0193. Persons with 

disabilities who require an alternative 

means of communication of information 

(Braille, large print, audiotape, etc.) 

should contact USDA’s Target Center at 

(202) 720–2600 (voice and TDD). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nancy Hirschhorn by e-mail at 

emo@fas.usda.gov or by telephone (202) 

720–6896. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

purpose of this meeting is to review and 

discuss those proposals submitted for 

participation in the fiscal year 2009 

Emerging Markets Program, which 

qualify for finding from the program. 

The meeting is open to the public and 

members of the public may provide 

comments, but they should not make 

any oral comments at the meeting 

unless invited to do so by the cochairpersons. The proposals will be 

posted on the Federal Advisory 

Committees Database at http://fido.gov/ 

facadatabase/public.asp. 

Dated: August 21, 2008. 

Michael W. Yost, 

Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service. 

[FR Doc. E8–20134 Filed 9–2–08; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–10–M 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Notice of Proposed New Fee Sites and 

Fee Increase at Existing Fee Sites; 

Federal Lands Recreation 

Enhancement Act (Title VIII, Pub. L. 

108–447) 

AGENCY: Fremont-Winema National 

Forests, USDA Forest Service. 

ACTION: Notice of proposal to implement 

camping fees at full service 

campgrounds, and to increase camp fees 

at existing fee sites. 

SUMMARY: The Fremont-Winema 

National Forests are planning to start 

charging fees at ten recreation 

campground sites, and increase camp 

fees at three existing fee sites and five 

recreation cabin rentals. The Forest is 

committed to responsibly serving the 

public by efficiently operating and, 

when necessary, modifying the services 

to ensure developed recreation sites are 

managed to health and safety standards, 

and provide recreation opportunities 

strategically across the Forests. As 

demographics change and new 

challenges are presented, it is the 

Forest’s responsibility to respond and 

ensure that appropriate recreation 

services and facilities are available to 

the public. Fees are assessed based on 

the level of amenities and services 

provided, cost of operation and 

maintenance, market assessment and 

public comment. The fees listed are 

only proposed and will be determined 

upon further analysis and public 

comment. Funds from fees would be 

used for the continued operation and 

maintenance of these recreation sites. 

Aspen Cabin, Bald Butte Lookout, 

Currier Guard Station, Drake Peak 

Lookout and Hager Mountain Lookout 

will continue to be available for 

overnight rental. The facilities are 

currently available for rent at either $25 

or $30 per night. A financial analysis is 

being completed to determine the 

appropriate rental fee to cover operating 

expenses. Future fees may range 

between $40 and $50 per night. Lookout 

and forest cabin rentals offer a unique 

experience and are a widely popular 

offering on National Forests. Fees would 

continue to help protect and maintain 

lookout and cabin rentals and their 

historic integrity. 

The fee structure at Digit Point 

Campground is proposed to change from 

the required $10.00 per campsite plus 

$5.00 for an extra vehicle for overnight 

use to $12.00 per campsite plus $5.00 

for an extra vehicle. A fee of $5.00 per 

campsite is proposed when the water 

system is no longer active, primarily in 

the spring and fall. 

The fee structure at Williamson River 

Campground is proposed to change from 

$6.00 per campsite plus $2.00 for an 

extra vehicle for overnight use to $10.00 

per campsite plus $4.00 for an extra 

vehicle. 

The fee structure at East Bay 

Campground is proposed to change from 

$8.00 per campsite plus $2.00 for an 

extra vehicle for overnight use to $10.00 

per campsite plus $4.00 for an extra 

vehicle. 

Campbell, Deadhorse, Cottonwood, 

Dog Lake, Lofton, Marster Springs, 

Silver Creek Marsh (campground and 


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