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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Chevron 

Energy Solutions has requested a 516- 

acre right-of-way (ROW) authorization 

to construct and operate a 45-megawatt 

solar photovoltaic project and connect it 

to an existing Southern California 

Edison 33 kV distribution system on 

public lands located approximately 8 

miles east of Lucerne Valley, San 

Bernardino County, California. 

The proposed project would include a 

solar array, switchyard, a control and 

maintenance building, and parking area. 

The Draft EIS analyzes the site-specific 

impacts to the environment from the 

proposed project. Alternatives include: 

• A no action alternative with a plan 

amendment making the project area 

unavailable to other solar energy 

projects; 

• A no action alternative with a plan 

amendment making the project area 

available to other solar energy projects; 

• The proposed action; 

• A modified proposed action that 

reduces visual and biological impacts; 

and 

• A reduced footprint/reduced 

megawatts modified proposed action. 

Pursuant to BLM’s CDCA Plan (1980, 

as amended), sites associated with 

power generation or transmission not 

identified in the CDCA Plan will be 

considered through the plan 

amendment process. 

A Notice of Intent to Prepare an EIS 

and CDCA Plan amendment for the 

Lucerne Valley Solar Project was 

published in the Federal Register on 

July 23, 2009. This was followed by a 

30-day public scoping period which 

ended August 22, 2009. Scoping 

meetings were held on July 23, 2009 in 

Lucerne Valley, California, and on July 

30 in San Bernardino, California. 

Numerous public scoping comments 

were received. 

The main concerns included potential 

impacts to biological species, visual 

resources, and cultural resources, and 

appropriate use of public land. The 

issues and concerns identified in the 

scoping comments were addressed in 

the DEIS. 

Please note that public comments will 

be available for public review and 

disclosure at the above address during 

regular business hours (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.), 

Monday through Friday, except 

holidays. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, e-mail address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6; 40 CFR 

1506.10; 43 CFR 1610.2. 

Thomas Pogacnik, 

Deputy State Director, California. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R8–MB–2009–N286; 80213–9410– 

0000–7B] 

Federal Sport Fish Restoration; 

California Department of Fish and 

Game Fish Hatchery and Stocking 

Program 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability: Final 

environmental impact report/ 

environmental impact statement (EIR/ 

EIS). 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service (FWS) announces the 

availability of the final EIR/EIS for the 

California Department of Fish and 

Game’s (CDFG) Fish Hatchery and 

Stocking Program (Program). FWS is 

lead agency, under the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 

1969, as amended, for the EIR/EIS 

jointly prepared with CDFG. Under the 

Sport Fish Restoration Act (SFRA), FWS 

proposes to fund actions associated with 

the operation of CDFG’s 14 trout 

hatcheries and the Mad River Hatchery 

for the anadromous steelhead, and 

stocking from the 15 hatcheries. The 

Federal action does not include funding 

CDFG’s other anadromous fish 

hatcheries and associated stocking, nor 

its issuance of private stocking permits. 

SFRA funding may also support CDFG’s 

Fishing in the City and Classroom 

Aquarium Education Programs. CDFG is 

the lead agency under the California 

Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and 

proposes to implement hatchery 

operations and stocking funded by FWS, 

as well as all other components of the 

CDFG Program, including anadromous 

fish hatchery operations and associated 

stocking, and issuance of stocking 

permits to private parties seeking to 

stock fish in California’s inland waters. 

The final EIR/EIS presents Program 

impact analysis, mitigation for impacts, 

selection of the preferred alternative, 

and response to comments received 

during the comment period for the draft 

EIR/EIS. 

DATES: We anticipate that a Record of 

Decision will be issued by FWS in 2010, 

but no sooner than 30 days after the 

Federal Register publication date for 

this notice of availability. 

ADDRESSES: Download copies of the 

final EIR/EIS from the CDFG Web site at 

http://www.dfg.ca.gov/news/pubnotice/ 

hatchery/. Alternatively, you may send 

your request for copies of the final EIR/ 

EIS to Mr. Bart Prose by mail at U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service, 2800 Cottage 

Way, Room W–1729, Sacramento, CA 

95825; by e-mail to bart_prose@fws.gov; 

or by fax to (916) 978–6155. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Bart Prose: (916) 978–6152 (phone); 

bart_prose@fws.gov (e-mail). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

SFRA (Pub. L. 106–408), FWS has 

authority to grant Federal funds from 

the Sport Fish Restoration and Boating 

Trust Fund to support actions 

associated with CDFG’s Program. The 

Trust Fund is financed through 

collection of excise taxes on sportfishing equipment, electric motors, and 

sonar; import duties on fishing tackle, 

yachts, and pleasure craft; the portion of 

gasoline tax attributable to motorboats 

and small engines; and interest on the 

Fund. 

CDFG has been rearing and stocking 

fish in the inland waters of California 

since the late 1800s, when the State of 

California enacted legislation to restore 

and preserve fish in State waters. This 

legislation called for the newly formed 

California State Fish and Game 

Commission to establish ‘‘fish 

breederies’’ to stock and supply streams, 

lakes, and bays with both foreign and 

domestic fish. Since that time in the late 

1800s, CDFG has continued that 

mandate by rearing and stocking both 

inland trout and anadromous species of 

fish reared at 24 hatcheries and planting 

bases located throughout the State. 

For the past approximately 100 years, 

CDFG has stocked nonnative trout 

throughout the State. CDFG’s Program 

currently operates 14 trout hatcheries 

throughout the State, rearing 6 trout 

species and 3 salmon species. Trout 

hatcheries rear rainbow, golden, 

cutthroat, brown, lake, and brook trout. 

Salmon species reared include Chinook, 

Coho, and kokanee. CDFG’s Mad River 

Hatchery for anadromous fish presently 

rears only steelhead. Over the past 5 

years, CDFG planted over 3.6 million 

pounds of combined trout and inland 

salmon, annually, from its 14 trout 

hatcheries into hundreds of locations, 

including high mountain lakes, lowelevation reservoirs, and various 

streams and creeks. The Mad River 


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Hatchery planted over 39,000 pounds of 

steelhead, annually, into the Mad River. 

Funding CDFG Program activities 

provides freshwater angling 

opportunities and recreation throughout 

the State. Operations and stocking 

associated with the 14 trout hatcheries 

and the Mad River anadromous fish 

hatchery are eligible for SFRA grants. 

FWS does not fund operations or 

stocking associated with other 

anadromous hatcheries because they are 

mitigation hatcheries, which are funded 

through other sources. 

In 2005, State Assembly Bill 7 added 

Section 13007 to the California Fish and 

Game Code (FGC 13007), which 

established annual minimum release 

targets for hatchery trout based upon 

sport-fishing license sales, and required 

CDFG to deposit one-third of sportfishing license fees into its Hatchery and 

Inland Fisheries Fund for specified 

fisheries management purposes. Per 

CDFG’s implementation plan for FGC 

13007, funding for the stocking program 

was scheduled to increase from almost 

$8 million for State fiscal year (FY) 

2005–2006, to $15 million for State FY 

2006–2007. In addition, a State court 

order in 2006 required CDFG to 

complete an environmental review for 

its Program. To expedite Program 

changes due to FGC 13007, the courtordered environmental review, and 

associated SFRA funding contributions 

to the Program, FWS and CDFG agreed 

to prepare a joint EIR/EIS. FWS 

published a notice of intent to prepare 

the EIR/EIS in the Federal Register on 

August 5, 2008 (73 FR 45470). The 

notice of availability for the draft EIR/ 

EIS and 45-day comment period 

published in the Federal Register on 

October 8, 2009 (74 FR 51872). 

The objectives of CDFG’s Program are 

to continue the rearing and stocking of 

fish for the recreational use of anglers, 

while balancing the interaction between 

State- and privately stocked fish and 

threatened and endangered species. The 

purpose of FWS’s proposed SFRA 

funding is to support operations of 

CDFG’s 14 trout hatcheries and the Mad 

River Hatchery for the anadromous 

steelhead, and associated stocking of 

fish produced at those hatcheries. SFRA 

funding also supports CDFG’s Fishing in 

the City and Classroom Aquarium 

Education Programs. The need 

addressed by the proposed action is the 

support of viable recreational fishing in 

California, through increased angler 

success that is provided by stocking of 

hatchery fish in both urban and rural 

water bodies. Provision of SFRA funds 

for support of private stocking permits, 

or operation of other anadromous fish 

hatcheries and their associated stocking 

efforts, is outside the scope of actions 

contemplated by FWS at this time. 

Hatchery operations and stocking 

activities associated with CDFG’s inland 

water hatchery program, including 

potential increases in fish rearing and 

stocking in the future, have been 

evaluated for their effects on the 

environment. Potential impacts to 

native amphibians and fish, which have 

experienced declines within the state, 

are of chief interest. Results of the 

evaluations and alternative courses of 

action are presented in the draft EIR/ 

EIS, in accordance with CEQA (PRC 

21000 et seq.) and NEPA (42 U.S.C. 

4321 et seq.). 

Alternatives 

Four alternatives were developed for 

CDFG’s Fish Hatchery and Stocking 

Program, and each was included for 

detailed analysis in the draft EIS/EIR. 

All Program components are subject to 

CEQA, but only the subset of 

components with Federal discretionary 

involvement (associated with SFRA 

funding) are subject to NEPA; i.e., 

operations of CDFG’s 14 trout hatcheries 

and the Mad River Hatchery for 

steelhead, associated stocking of fish 

produced at those hatcheries, and the 

Fishing in the City and Classroom 

Aquarium Education Programs. Only 

the components of the 4 alternatives 

pertinent to NEPA are described here. 

Preferred Alternative 

Under the Preferred Alternative, FWS 

will continue to provide funding, as 

modified by certain mitigation 

provisions, for operations of CDFG’s 14 

trout hatcheries and the Mad River 

Hatchery for steelhead, and associated 

stocking of fish produced at those 

hatcheries. Hatchery operations will 

remain largely unchanged from those 

conducted during the last 5 years, with 

mitigation applied in some instances to 

protect water quality, check the spread 

of invasive species and pathogens, and 

manage ground water. Decisions on 

stocking of trout, where potential for 

significant impacts exist, will be made 

using a state-wide, pre-stocking 

evaluation protocol that emphasizes 

protection of native, sensitive, or 

legally-protected species. In high 

mountain lake areas where Aquatic 

Biodiversity Management Plans 

(ABMPs) have been prepared, stocking 

will continue to follow guidelines that 

ensure expansion of habitats for native 

amphibians and fish. In areas without 

ABMPs, trout stocking will be based on 

site-specific, pre-stocking evaluations of 

risk to native, sensitive, or legally 

protected species. ABMPs or other 

similar plans may be developed and 

implemented prior to stocking in those 

locations. Such plans could include 

eradication of nonnative fish from water 

bodies currently or formerly harboring 

sensitive native species, genetic analysis 

of native fish to determine degree of 

hybridization, cessation of nonnative 

trout stocking in waters occupied by 

native trout populations, and 

implementation of measures consistent 

with FWS recovery plans and CDFG 

management plans. Stocking of Mad 

River steelhead will continue with 

measures intended to reduce the 

interaction between hatchery reared fish 

and naturally reproducing populations 

and consistent with the Draft Hatchery 

and Genetic Management Plan 

submitted to the National Marine 

Fisheries Service. The Fishing in the 

City and Classroom Aquarium 

Education Programs will continue using 

conservation measures and uniform 

protocols developed to ensure that 

stocking locations are properly screened 

to protect native, sensitive, and legally 

protected species. Implementation of 

Program activities associated with 

application of pre-stocking evaluation 

protocols or development of ABMPs, 

may require additional, site-specific 

NEPA compliance tiered from the EIR/ 

EIS. 

Continuation of Interim Program 

Provisions Alternative 

Under the Continuation of Interim 

Program Provisions Alternative, FWS 

will continue to provide funding for 

operations of CDFG’s 14 trout hatcheries 

and the Mad River Hatchery for 

steelhead, and associated stocking of 

fish produced at those hatcheries, 

consistent with the court-ordered 

prohibitions and exceptions on fish 

stocking that were put into place for the 

interim period between the date of the 

court order and completion of the EIR/ 

EIS. The interim provisions prohibit 

stocking nonnative fish in any 

California fresh water body where 

surveys have demonstrated the presence 

of 25 specified amphibian or fish 

species, or where a survey for those 

species has not yet been completed. The 

order does not address the stocking of 

native fish into native waters. 

Exceptions to the prohibitions include 

stocking in human-made reservoirs 

larger than 1000 acres; stocking in 

human-made reservoirs less than 1000 

acres that are not connected to a river 

or stream, are not within California redlegged frog critical habitat, or are not 

where California red-legged frogs are 

known to exist; stocking as required for 

State or Federal mitigation; stocking for 

the purpose of enhancing salmon and 

steelhead populations and funded by 


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the Commercial Trollers Salmon Stamp; 

stocking of steelhead from the Mad 

River Hatchery into the Mad River 

Basin; CDFG’s Aquarium in the 

Classroom program; stocking actions to 

support scientific research; and stocking 

done under an existing private stocking 

permit or to be completed under a new 

permit with terms similar to one that 

was issued in the last 4 years. The 

Fishing in the City and Classroom 

Aquarium Education Programs will 

continue under uniform protocols 

developed to ensure that stocking 

locations are properly screened to 

protect native, sensitive, and legally 

protected species. 

Continuation of Existing Program 

Alternative 

The Continuation of Existing Program 

Alternative (equivalent to the CEQA No 

Project Alternative) is continuation of 

SFRA funding for the existing Fish 

Hatchery and Stocking Program. The 

hatcheries’ operation and stocking 

activities undertaken by CDFG over the 

past 5 years would continue unchanged 

(some activities may be inconsistent 

with the court-ordered prohibitions and 

exceptions), and the SFRA funding 

process for these activities will continue 

as it has over the same period. 

No Action Alternative 

Under the No Action Alternative, 

FWS would not approve SFRA grant 

funds to be used by CDFG to support 

actions associated with operations of the 

CDFG Fish Hatchery and Stocking 

Program. Because of State statutory and 

public trust requirements related to the 

hatchery program, CDFG would attempt 

to continue to implement its State 

hatchery program, seeking other funding 

sources to replace the Federal funds. 

Authority: National Environmental Policy 

Act (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.); Regulations for 

Implementing the Procedural Provisions of 

the National Environmental Policy Act (40 

CFR 1500–1508). 

Dated: December 16, 2009. 

Ren Lohoefener, 

Regional Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLCOS00000 L1120 PH] 

Notice of Public Meeting, Southwest 

Colorado Resource Advisory Council 

Meeting 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act (FLPMA) and the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act of 1972 (FACA), the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM) Southwest 

Colorado Resource Advisory Council 

(RAC) will meet in March 2010. 

DATES: A Southwest Colorado RAC 

meeting will be held March 5, 2010. 

ADDRESSES: The Southwest Colorado 

RAC meeting will be held March 5, 

2010, at the Devil’s Thumb Golf Course 

at 9900 Devil’s Thumb Drive, Delta, CO 

81416. The Southwest Colorado RAC 

meeting will begin at 9 a.m. and adjourn 

at approximately 4 p.m. A public 

comment period regarding matters on 

the agenda will be at 2:30 p.m. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lori 

Armstrong, BLM Southwest District 

Manager, 2505 S. Townsend Avenue, 

Montrose, CO; telephone 970–240–5300; 

or Erin Curtis, Public Affairs Specialist, 

2815 H Road, Grand Junction, CO, 

telephone 970–244–3097. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Southwest Colorado RAC advises the 

Secretary of the Interior, through the 

Bureau of Land Management, on a 

variety of public land issues in 

Colorado. 

Topics of discussion for all Southwest 

Colorado RAC meetings may include 

field manager and working group 

reports, recreation, fire management, 

land use planning, invasive species 

management, energy and minerals 

management, travel management, 

wilderness, land exchange proposals, 

cultural resource management, and 

other issues as appropriate. 

These meetings are open to the 

public. The public may present written 

comments to the RACs. Each formal 

RAC meeting will also have time, as 

identified above, allocated for hearing 

public comments. Depending on the 

number of persons wishing to comment 

and time available, the time for 

individual oral comments may be 

limited. 

Dated: January 22, 2010. 

Lori Armstrong, 

Southwest District Manager, Designated 

Federal Officer, Southwest Colorado RAC. 

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[USITC SE–10–001] 

Government in the Sunshine Act 

Meeting Notice 

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: United 

States International Trade Commission. 

TIME AND DATE: February 12, 2010 at 11 

a.m. 

PLACE: Room 110, 500 E Street, SW., 

Washington, DC 20436, Telephone: 

(202) 205–2000. 

STATUS: Open to the public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

1. Agenda for future meetings: none. 

2. Minutes. 

3. Ratification List. 

4. Inv. Nos. 701–TA–474 and 731– 

TA–1176 (Preliminary) (Drill Pipe from 

China)—briefing and vote. (The 

Commission is currently scheduled to 

transmit its determinations to the 

Secretary of Commerce on or before 

February 16, 2010; Commissioners’ 

opinions are currently scheduled to be 

transmitted to the Secretary of 

Commerce on or before February 23, 

2010.) 

5. Outstanding action jackets: None. 

In accordance with Commission 

policy, subject matter listed above, not 

disposed of at the scheduled meeting, 

may be carried over to the agenda of the 

following meeting. 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: February 2, 2010. 

William R. Bishop, 

Hearings and Meetings Coordinator. 

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BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree 

Under the Clean Air Act 

Under 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby 

given that on Thursday, January 21, 

2010, a proposed Consent Decree in 

United States, et al. v. Lafarge North 

America, Inc., et al., Civil Action No. 

10–CV–00044, was lodged with the 

United States District Court for the 

Southern District of Illinois. 

In a complaint that was filed 

simultaneously with the Consent 

Decree, the United States seeks 

injunctive relief and penalties against 

Lafarge North America, Inc., Lafarge 

Midwest, Inc. and Lafarge Building 

Materials, Inc. (collectively ‘‘Lafarge 

Companies’’), pursuant to Sections 

113(b) and 167 of the Clean Air Act 

(‘‘the Act’’), 42 U.S.C. 7413(b) and 7477, 


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