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Vol. 75, No. 186 

Monday, September 27, 2010 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Ketchikan-Misty Fiords Ranger 

District; Tongass National Forest; 

Alaska; Ketchikan-Misty Fiords Ranger 

District Outfitter/Guide Management 

Plan 

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) on a proposed action to 

allocate about 54,000 visitor days (of the 

estimated recreation carrying capacity of 

approximately 148,000 days) annually 

for outfitter and guide use on the 

Ketchikan-Misty Fiords Ranger District. 

The decision on the EIS will allocate 

recreation carrying capacity on the 

District to outfitters and guides through 

special use permits that serve the public 

need for guide services. The allocation 

will set limits for outfitter and guide use 

levels, but will not limit or regulate use 

by unguided visitors. The alternatives 

will include the proposed action, no 

action, and additional alternatives that 

respond to issues identified during 

scoping. The agency will give notice of 

the full environmental analysis and 

decision-making process so interested 

and affected people may participate and 

contribute to the final decision. 

DATES: Comments concerning the scope 

of the analysis must be received by 

November 1, 2010. The draft 

environmental impact statement is 

expected to be completed in March 2011 

and the final environmental impact 

statement is expected in August 2011. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to 

Sue Jennings, Interdisciplinary Team 

Leader, Ketchikan-Misty Fiords Ranger 

District, 3031 Tongass Ave., Ketchikan, 

AK 99901, Fax: (907) 225–8738 or online at comments-alaska-tongassketchikan-mistyfiord@fs.fed.us. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sue 

Jennings, Interdisciplinary Team 

Leader, (907) 772–5864, by email: 

sjennings@fs.fed.us, or Ketchikan-Misty 

Fiords Ranger District, 3031 Tongass 

Ave., Ketchikan, AK 99901. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose and Need for Acton 

In 2007, the Forest Supervisor 

determined a need existed for outfitter 

and guide services within Wilderness 

Areas on the Tongass. In 2008, a 

Determination of Need for Commercial 

Uses on the Ketchikan-Misty Fiords 

Ranger District was completed that 

demonstrated the need for commercially 

guided opportunities on the wilderness 

and non-wilderness portions of the 

District. 

This action responds to the goals and 

objectives outlined in the Forest Plan, 

which provides standards and 

guidelines for authorizing the services 

of qualified outfitters and guides to the 

public in areas with an identified need 

for the services and the use is 

compatible with the objectives and 

management direction of the affected 

Land Use Designation. 

A district-wide outfitter/guide plan is 

needed because the current permitting 

process: 

• Does not satisfy Forest Service 

direction for issuing long-term (5–10 

year) priority use permits, 

• Does not provide managers with a 

district-wide strategy for reducing 

conflicts between guided and unguided 

visitors and ensuring a range of 

recreational opportunities are offered 

across the District, 

• Does not allow the Forest Service to 

respond to special use permit 

applications in a timely manner because 

each application involves a separate 

analysis and scoping process consistent 

with the National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA), and 

• Does not fully address cumulative 

impacts of outfitter/guide use on forest 

resources, including wilderness 

character. 

The purpose of this plan is to: 

• Determine visitor capacity estimates 

and outfitter and guided use allocations 

for 28 recreation use areas on the 

Ketchikan-Misty Fiords Ranger District, 

• Provide opportunities for guided 

use while minimizing resource impacts 

and conflicts between guided and 

unguided visitors, 

• Satisfy Forest Service requirements 

for issuance of long-term, priority use 

permits, 

• Provide standards and indicators 

for monitoring social conditions across 

the District, 

• Develop an adaptive management 

strategy for adjusting guided use 

allocations based on monitoring 

information collected during the life of 

this plan, and 

• Improve the Forest Service’s ability 

to process permits in a timely manner. 

If there is a demonstrated need for 

commercial service(s) and these services 

are deemed appropriate, the Forest 

Service may issue Special Use 

Authorizations (SUAs) to individual(s) 

or organization(s) (USDA 2008a, p.3–20) 

to provide the services. This action also 

responds to Forest Service policy (FSM 

2720 and FSH2709.11), which allows 

for issuance of priority use permits, after 

a needs assessment and resource 

capacity analysis have been completed 

to identify the public or agency need for 

outfitting and guiding activities and to 

assess the amount of use that may be 

conducted without detrimental social 

and environmental impacts. Multi-year 

priority use permits allow outfitters and 

guides to make financial commitments 

necessary to continue providing service 

to the public. 

The overall goal of the project is to 

work with the public to provide 

opportunities for guided and unguided 

use, while minimizing conflicts and 

protecting forest resources. 

Proposed Action 

The action proposed by the Forest 

Service to meet the purpose and need is 

to authorize outfitter and guide 

operations through the issuance of 

special use permits based on the 

Determination of Need for Commercial 

Uses on the Ketchikan-Misty Fiords 

Ranger District (2008), visitor capacity 

estimates, and guided use allocations for 

the District’s 28 recreation use areas. 

This proposed action would authorize 

the issuance of commercial outfitter/ 

guide permits for KMRD. The proposed 

action allocates zero to 75 percent of the 

visitor capacity in the 28 use areas to 

outfitters and guides during the summer 

season and zero to 40 percent during the 

spring and fall seasons. Overall, the 

proposal would allocate approximately 

54,000 visitor days annually for outfitter 

and guide use on the KMRD (5,124 


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visitor days in the spring, 44,420 visitor 

days in the summer, and 4,456 visitor 

days in the fall). Some of the areas with 

a proposed allocation of 75 percent are 

in wilderness areas that are little used 

by unguided visitors. Due to very low 

outfitter and guide use in the winter, 

there are no winter allocations proposed 

with this project; winter permitting will 

follow the current process. 

The Proposed Action includes the 

ability to use adaptive management to 

maintain a range of quality recreation 

experiences across the District and a 

balance between guided and unguided 

use. Adaptive management may result 

in increased or decreased allocations for 

specific recreation use areas based on 

standards and the level of effects. 

All outfitter and guide operations will 

be subject to area-wide and site-specific 

mitigation measures to protect natural 

and historic resources and minimize 

crowding and conflicts between guided 

and unguided visitors. 

For those operators who have 

demonstrated satisfactory performance, 

the District Ranger may issue priority 

use permits based on the guided use 

allocations, for a period of up to 10 

years, in accordance with FSH 2709.11, 

Chapter 40. Authorized use may also be 

temporary in nature (authorized for less 

than one year). 

Possible Alternatives 

A full range of alternatives will be 

considered including a ‘‘No Action’’ 

alternative in which no change from the 

current management of the outfitter and 

guide special uses program would 

occur; outfitter and guide special use 

permits would continue to be issued on 

a temporary basis. Based on preliminary 

issues gathered through collaborative 

meetings prior to scoping, two 

additional alternatives are under 

consideration. One alternative may 

allocate one-half of the estimated 

carrying capacity to outfitters and 

guides across the 28 recreation use 

areas. Another alternative may propose 

minimal (15 percent) allocations in 

some wilderness-recreation-use-areas, 

no allocations in some sensitive areas 

and areas heavily used by unguided 

visitors, 25 percent use in the Margaret 

Bay Use Area, and 50 percent allocation 

in other areas during the summer 

season. These alternatives could be 

adjusted and/or additional alternatives 

proposed based on comments received 

during scoping. 

Responsible Official 

The Ketchikan-Misty Fiords District 

Ranger is the responsible official for this 

proposal: Ketchikan-Misty Fiords 

District Ranger, 3031 Tongass Ave., 

Ketchikan, AK 99901. 

Nature of Decision To Be Made 

The District Ranger will decide how 

to manage the outfitter and guide 

special use program by allocating a 

portion of the total estimated recreation 

carrying capacity for commercial use, 

while protecting forest resources and 

taking into account the needs of 

unguided visitors. 

Given the purpose and need, the 

District Ranger will review the proposed 

action and the other alternatives in 

order to make the following decisions: 

• The locations, limitations, 

management, and allocations for 

outfitter and guide permits and 

opportunities on the Ketchikan-Misty 

Fiords Ranger District, for the next five 

to ten years; 

• The extent, type, amount, and 

location of outfitter and guide use to 

allocate within the Misty Fiords 

Wilderness Area; 

• How best to manage outfitter and 

guide use on the KMRD to minimize 

potential impacts to all resources; and 

• What, if any, mitigation measures 

and monitoring are needed. 

The District Ranger will also decide 

whether and how to use adaptive 

management to potentially increase or 

decrease allocations for specific 

recreation use areas in order to maintain 

a range of quality recreation experiences 

across the District and a balance 

between guided and unguided use. 

Scoping Process 

The public will have an opportunity 

to participate at several points during 

the analysis, including the scoping 

period after publication of the Notice of 

Intent and the draft EIS in the Federal 

Register. Notification of these 

opportunities will also appear in 

subsequent issues of the Tongass 

National Forest’s Schedule of Proposed 

Activities; letters to agencies, 

organizations, and individuals who 

have previously indicated their interest 

in such activities; and in the Ketchikan 

Daily News. A public meeting is 

planned in Ketchikan on October 26, 

2010 at the Ketchikan-Misty Fiords 

Ranger District Office, 3031 Tongass 

Ave., Ketchikan, AK 99901, from 6 p.m. 

to 8 p.m. Public meetings and 

subsistence hearings are expected in 

Ketchikan, Saxman, Hyder, and 

Metlakatla during the spring of 2011, 

after the DEIS is published in the 

Federal Register. The scoping process 

will include identifying major issues to 

be analyzed in depth, eliminating nonsignificant issues, considering 

alternatives based on issues recognized 

during scoping activities, and 

identifying potential environmental 

effects of the proposed action and 

alternatives (i.e. direct, indirect, and 

cumulative effects). 

Preliminary Issues 

Preliminary issues were identified 

during collaborative meetings held 

before scoping began on this project. 

Preliminary issues include the potential 

effects of the proposed action on 

businesses, wilderness, heritage 

resources, and visitors’ experience 

(through crowding and noise 

disturbance). 

Permits or Licenses Required 

The Forest Service is not required to 

obtain permits or licenses to implement 

this project. However, outfitter and 

guide permit holders are responsible for 

obtaining necessary permits from 

federal and state agencies prior to 

commencing outfitting and guiding. 

Comment Requested 

This Notice of Intent initiates the 

scoping process, which guides the 

development of the environmental 

impact statement. Public comments 

about this proposal are requested in 

order to assist in properly scoping 

issues, to determine how best to manage 

the resources, and to fully analyze 

environmental effects. Please identify 

issues of concern to you and the 

Ketchikan-Misty Fiords Ranger District 

communities about recreational use. 

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 Environmental Protection 

Agency publishes the notice of 

availability in the Federal Register. It is 

important that reviewers provide their 

comments at such times and in such a 

way that they are useful to the Agency’s 

preparation of the EIS. Therefore, 

comments should be provided prior to 

the close of the comment period and 

should clearly articulate the reviewer’s 

concerns and contentions. The 

submission of timely and specific 

comments can affect a reviewer’s ability 

to participate in subsequent 

administrative review or judicial 

review. Comments received in response 

to this solicitation, including names and 

addresses of those who comment, will 

be part of the public record for this 

proposed action. Comments submitted 

anonymously will be accepted and 

considered; however, anonymous 

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1See Dongguan Bon Ten Furniture Co., Ltd. v. 

United States, Court No. 09–00396: Final Results of 

Redetermination Pursuant To Remand, dated 

August 9, 2010 (‘‘Bon Ten v. United States’’). 

2See Wooden Bedroom Furniture from the 

People’s Republic of China: Final Results of 

Antidumping Duty Administrative Review and New 

Shipper Reviews, 74 FR 41374 (August 17, 2009) 

(‘‘Final Results’’), and accompanying Issues and 

Decision Memorandum, as amended by Wooden 

Bedroom Furniture From the People’s Republic of 

China: Amended Final Results of Antidumping 

Duty Administrative Review and New Shipper 

Reviews, 74 FR 55810 (October 29, 2009) 

(‘‘Amended Final Results’’). 

3See Wooden Bedroom Furniture from the 

People’s Republic of China: Final Results of Fourth 

New Shipper Reviews, 73 FR 64916 (October 31, 

2008) (‘‘NSR Final Results’’). 

4See Final Results at Comment 29. 

5See id. 

6See Amended Final Results and the 

Department’s memorandum entitled, ‘‘Ministerial 

Error Memorandum for the Final Results of the 

2007 Administrative and New Shipper Reviews of 

Wooden Bedroom Furniture from the People’s 

Republic of China,’’ dated October 7, 2009, at Issue 

4. 

respondent with standing to participate 

in subsequent administrative review or 

judicial review. 

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: September 20, 2010. 

Jeffrey DeFreest, 

District Ranger. 

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BILLING CODE 3410–11–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Modoc County Resource Advisory 

Committee 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Modoc County Resource 

Advisory Committee will meet in 

Alturas, CA. The committee is meeting 

as authorized under the Secure Rural 

Schools and Community SelfDetermination Act (Pub. L. 110–343) 

and in compliance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act. The purpose 

of the meeting is to review Resource 

Advisory Committee Project 

Applications. 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

October 4, 2010, 4 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

Modoc National Forest Office, 

Conference Room, 800 West 12th St., 

Alturas. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kimberly H. Anderson, Forest 

Supervisor and Designated Federal 

Officer, at (530) 233–8700; or Resource 

Advisory Coordinator, Stephen Riley at 

(530) 233–8771. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

business meeting on October 4, 2010 

will begin at 4 p.m., at the Modoc 

National Forest Office, Conference 

Room, 800 West 12th St., Alturas, 

California 96101. Agenda topics will 

include recruiting new project proposals 

that meet the intent of Public Law 110– 

343. Time will also be set aside for 

public comments at the beginning of the 

meeting. 

Dated: September 20, 2010. 

Kimberly H. Anderson, 

Forest Supervisor. 

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BILLING CODE 3410–11–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

[A–570–890] 

Wooden Bedroom Furniture From the 

People’s Republic of China: Notice of 

Court Decision Not in Harmony With 

Final Results of Administrative Review 

AGENCY: Import Administration, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce 

DATES: Effective Date: September 27, 

2010. 

SUMMARY: On September 17, 2010, the 

United States Court of International 

Trade (‘‘Court’’ or ‘‘CIT’’) sustained the 

U.S. Department of Commerce’s 

(‘‘Department’’) final results of 

redetermination pursuant to the Court’s 

remand.1 Consistent with the decision 

of the United States Court of Appeals for 

the Federal Circuit (‘‘CAFC’’) in Timken 

Co. v. United States, 893 F.2d 337 (Fed. 

Cir. 1990) (‘‘Timken’’), the Department is 

notifying the public that the final 

judgment in this case is not in harmony 

with the Department’s final results of 

the administrative review (‘‘AR’’) of the 

antidumping duty order on wooden 

bedroom furniture (‘‘WBF’’) from the 

People’s Republic of China (‘‘PRC’’) 

covering the period of review (‘‘POR’’) of 

January 1, 2007, through December 31, 

2007.2

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Frances Veith, Antidumping and 

Countervailing Duty Operations, Office 

8, Import Administration, International 

Trade Administration, U.S. Department 

of Commerce, 14th Street, and 

Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington, 

DC 20230; telephone: (202) 482–4295. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 

17, 2009, the Department published its 

Final Results. In response to Bon Ten’s 

arguments in its administrative case 

brief, the Department determined not to 

rescind the AR with respect to Bon Ten 

because Bon Ten had not demonstrated 

that it had no shipments during the 

2007 AR POR outside of the single 

shipment reviewed during a new 

shipper review (‘‘NSR’’) 3 that 

overlapped, in part, with the 2007 AR 

POR.4 Additionally, because Bon Ten 

had not demonstrated its eligibility for 

a separate rate in the 2007 AR, the 

Department maintained its 

determination to treat Bon Ten as part 

of the PRC-wide entity.5

On August 14, 2009, Bon Ten 

submitted comments alleging that the 

Department made a ministerial error 

with respect to the Final Results. Bon 

Ten’s ministerial error allegation 

focused on the Department’s finding in 

the Final Results that Bon Ten had not 

provided any assertion prior to the 

submission of its case brief that it had 

no shipments during the 2007 AR POR 

outside of the shipment reviewed in the 

context of the NSR. Bon Ten argued that 

the Department did not consider its 

February 5, 2009, submission 

concerning its shipments during the 

2007 AR POR in that finding. 

In the Amended Final Results, the 

Department determined that, although it 

had inadvertently overlooked Bon Ten’s 

February 5, 2009, submission for 

purposes of the Final Results, Bon Ten’s 

allegation did not reflect a ministerial 

error. The Department reasoned that 

Bon Ten’s allegation required 

reconsideration of a methodological 

issue, namely whether the review 

should be rescinded with respect to Bon 

Ten based upon its February 5, 2009, 

submission. Accordingly, the 

Department continued to treat Bon Ten 

as part of the PRC-wide entity for the 

AR in the Amended Final Results. 

However, the Department clarified that 

Bon Ten lost the separate rate status it 

was granted during the NSR starting on 

August 1, 2007, which is the first day of 

the administrative review that did not 

overlap with Bon Ten’s NSR POR (i.e., 

January 1, 2007, through July 31, 2007).6

On October 16, 2009, Bon Ten filed a 

complaint with the Court challenging 

the Department’s determination not to 

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