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TABLE 3—MYPYRAMID MENU PLANNER ESTIMATED BURDEN HOURS—Continued 

Affected public Description of activity 

(b) 

Form 

No. 

(c) Number 

respondents 

(d) Frequency 

of responses 

per 

respondent 

(e) Est. total 

annual 

responses 

(f) Hours per 

response 

(g) Total 

burden (e x f) 

Total Burden Estimates...................................... ............ 650,000.00 ........................ 5,895,760.00 ........................ 1,344,064.90 

TABLE 4—MYPYRAMID MENU PLANNER ESTIMATED BURDEN HOURS—STUDENT FORMATIVE RESEARCH

Affected public Description of activity 

(b) 

Form 

No. 

(c) Number 

respondents 

(d) Frequency 

of responses 

per 

respondent 

(e) Est. total 

annual 

responses 

(c x d) 

(f) Hours per 

response 

(g) Total 

burden (e x f) 

Reporting Burden 

Students ...................... One time registration .. N/A 9 1.00 9.00 0.01670 0.15 

One time Log-in .......... N/A 9 1.00 9.00 0.0083 0.07 

Food/Physical Activity 

Data Entry for 1 Day.

N/A 9 1.00 9.00 0.5 4.50 

Repeat Log-ins for 1 

Year.

N/A 9 3.00 27.00 0.0083 0.22 

Repeat Food/Physical 

Activity Data Entries 

for 1 Year.

N/A 9 3.00 27.00 0.5 13.50 

Total Burden Estimates...................................... ............ 9 ........................ 81.00 ........................ 18.45 

Dated: January 13, 2009. 

Robert Post, 

Deputy Director, Center for Nutrition Policy 

and Promotion. 

[FR Doc. E9–1141 Filed 1–21–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–30–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Commodity Credit Corporation 

Chesapeake Bay Watershed Initiative 

AGENCY: Natural Resources 

Conservation Service and Commodity 

Credit Corporation, United States 

Department of Agriculture (USDA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability of program 

funds for the Chesapeake Bay 

Watershed Initiative. 

SUMMARY: The Commodity Credit 

Corporation (CCC) announces the 

availability of an additional $23 million 

of technical and financial assistance 

funds in fiscal year (FY) 2009 through 

the Chesapeake Bay Watershed 

Initiative to agricultural producers in 

eligible states. These states are: 

Delaware, Maryland, New York, 

Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West 

Virginia. The Chesapeake Bay 

Watershed Initiative funds are available 

to help producers implement natural 

resources conservation practices on 

agricultural lands in the Chesapeake 

Bay watershed. 

DATES: January 22, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Lillian Woods, Acting Director, 

Conservation Planning and Technical 

Assistance Division, Natural Resources 

Conservation Service, P.O. Box 2890, 

Washington, DC 20013; phone (202) 

720–8851; fax (202) 720–2998. Submit 

electronic requests for additional 

information to: 

dan.lawson@wdc.usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: CCC 

hereby announces up to $23 million to 

provide technical and financial 

assistance to producers under the 

Chesapeake Bay Watershed Initiative in 

FY 2009. 

Section 1240Q of the Food Security 

Act, as added by the Food, 

Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008 

(Pub. L. 110–246) (2008 Act), 

established the Chesapeake Bay 

Watershed Initiative and defined the 

Chesapeake Bay Watershed to mean all 

tributaries, backwaters, and side 

channels, including their watersheds, 

draining into the Chesapeake Bay. This 

area includes portions of the states of 

Delaware, Maryland, New York, 

Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West 

Virginia. The NRCS administers the 

Chesapeake Bay Watershed Initiative 

and carries out program implementation 

using funds, facilities, or authorities of 

CCC. The Initiative gives special, but 

not exclusive, consideration to 

producers’ applications in the following 

river basins: Susquehanna River, 

Shenandoah River, Potomac River 

(including North and South Potomac), 

and the Patuxent River. 

The Chesapeake Bay Watershed 

Initiative helps agricultural producers 

improve water quality and quantity, and 

restore, enhance, and preserve soil, air, 

and related resources in the Chesapeake 

Bay watershed through the 

implementation of conservation 

practices. These conservation practices 

reduce soil erosion and nutrient levels 

in ground and surface water, improve, 

restore, and enhance wildlife habitat, 

and help address air quality and related 

natural resource concerns. The Initiative 

is carried out through the various 

natural resources conservation programs 

authorized under subtitle D, Title XII of 

the Food Security Act of 1985, 16 U.S.C. 

3830–3839bb–5. The Chesapeake Bay 

Watershed Initiative assistance in FY 

2009 will be delivered through the 

Environmental Quality Incentives 

Program (EQIP). All EQIP requirements 

and policies will apply (see 7 CFR Part 

1466). 

Individuals interested in applying for 

Chesapeake Bay Watershed Initiative 

assistance may contact their local USDA 

service center in the eligible Chesapeake 

Bay Watershed Initiative states. For a 

listing of local service centers, consult: 

http://offices.sc.egov.usda.gov/locator/

app?agency=nrcs. 


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3984 Federal Register / Vol. 74, No. 13 / Thursday, January 22, 2009 / Notices 

Signed in Washington, DC on January 14, 

2009. 

Arlen L. Lancaster, 

Vice President, Commodity Credit 

Corporation and Chief, Natural Resources 

Conservation Service. 

[FR Doc. E9–1168 Filed 1–21–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–16–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Sequoia National Forest; California; 

Piute Fire Restoration 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

environmental impact statement. 

SUMMARY: The project area for this 

analysis is the approximately 32,890 

acre portion of the Piute Fire on 

National Forest System lands; 

approximately 1,700 acres of the fire 

restoration project area fall within the 

former Clear CreekProject area. The 

USDA Forest Service, Sequoia National 

Forest will prepare an environmental 

impact statement (EIS) for a proposal to 

treat approximately 2,260 acres of fire 

killed and damaged trees, both through 

removal and treating on site, in the 

Piute Fire burned area; some of these 

treatment areas are within the former 

Clear Creek Project area. The land 

allocations within the fire area, as 

identified in the Sierra Nevada Forest 

Plan SupplementalEIS, are old forest 

emphasis, general forest, threat zone, 

defense zone, protected activity centers 

for spotted owls, spotted owl home 

range core areas, and riparian 

conservation areas adjacent to 

perennial, seasonal, and ephemeral 

streams. 

There is a need in the Piute Fire area 

for: (1) the recovery of the economic 

value of timber killed or severely 

injured by the fire, in a expeditious 

manner, for the purposes of reducing 

the cost of reforestation activities and 

supplying wood fiber to local sawmills; 

(2) the prevention of a future high 

intensity, stand-replacing wildfire by 

reducing long term fuel loading for the 

purpose of facilitating future fire 

management techniques (prescribed fire 

and wildland fire use); (3) the 

recruitment and retention of both short 

and long term large down logs and snag 

habitat, for the purpose of providing 

sufficient burned forest habitat for 

dependent species; (4) the re-vegetation 

of conifer stands and other plant and 

animal habitats that were burned; (5) the 

improvement of long term soil 

productivity, by repairing roads and 

establishing effective ground cover in 

severely burned areas, for the purpose of 

minimizing soil erosion and begin to 

replace soil organic material; and (6) the 

reduction of safety hazards to the public 

and forest workers from falling trees. 

DATES: Comments concerning the scope 

of the analysis must be received by 

February 23, 2009. The draft 

environmental impact statement is 

expected August 2009, and the final 

environmental impact statement is 

expected February 2010. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments to: 

Sue Porter, Project Leader, Kern 

RiverRanger District, P.O. Box 9, 

Kernville, CA 93238, and Attention: 

Piute FireRestoration. Comments may 

be sent via e-mail smporter@fs.fed.us or 

via facsimile to 760–376–3795. 

Comments received in response to this 

solicitation, including the names and 

addresses of those who comment, will 

be part of the public record on this 

proposed action. Comments submitted 

anonymously will be accepted and 

considered; however, anonymous 

comments will not provide the 

respondent with standing to appeal the 

subsequent decision. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sue 

Porter, 760–376–3781, extension 650. 

Individuals who use telecommunication 

devices for the deaf (TDD) may call the 

Federal Information Relay Service 

(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 between 8 

a.m. and 8 p.m. Eastern Time, Monday 

through Friday. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose and Need for Action 

In June and July 2008, the Piute Fire 

burned approximately 37,025 acres on 

the Sequoia National Forest, Bureau of 

Land Management and private lands. 

The fire burned with varying intensity 

across a variety of plant 

communities(chaparral, oak woodland, 

Jeffrey pine, mixed conifer, pinyonjuniper, and desert shrub). 

Approximately 60% of the forested 

areas of the fire were burned such that 

75–100% of the trees were killed and 

the duff and litter that protected the soil 

was completely consumed. In these 

areas, the fire resulted in the destruction 

of wildlife habitat for sensitive species 

and the loss of old forest characteristics. 

Near the end of the fire, two localized, 

heavy rainstorm events occurred within 

the Piute Fire area. These events 

resulted in high rates of soil erosion in 

the fire area, sedimentation of streams, 

and debris flows that extended into the 

Kern River from Erskine Creek and 

ClearCreek and into the Walker Basin 

from Thompson Creek. 

The fire killed tens of thousands of 

trees that, if left untreated, will 

contribute to extremely high fuel 

loading over time. As these dead trees 

fall and fuel accumulates, future fires 

will be even more severe. Treating the 

dead and dying tree component of the 

landscape is the first step in restoring 

forest health, reducing long term fuel 

loading, and restoring the historic fire 

regime, thereby reducing the impacts of 

fires on the future forest and 

contributing to the restoration of old 

forest habitats. Without treatment to 

begin to restore the fire area, significant 

additional impacts to soil, water quality, 

heritage resources, and wildlife habitat 

are likely over the short and long term. 

This environmental impact statement 

(EIS) will address: treating the dead and 

dying tree component of the landscape, 

reforesting burned conifer areas, and 

repairing roads to reduce sediment 

delivery to streams. The process of 

completing these treatments would 

reduce soil erosion by immediately 

increasing effective ground cover (limbs, 

twigs, and small boles) and maintain 

soil productivity for tree growth. 

Proposed Action 

The proposed action would remove 

dead and dying trees, using groundbased logging methods, to recover the 

economic value of timber on about 510 

acres and treated on site to reduce 

future fuel loading on an additional 

1,750 acres. Trees posing a safety hazard 

to the public and forest workers would 

be removed along roads. Roads would 

be reconstructed and repaired to 

facilitate access to treatment areas and 

to improve watershed condition. Slash 

would be treated to provide ground 

cover and reduce short term fuel 

loading. Conifer seedlings would be 

planted to begin reforestation of the fire 

area. Protection would be applied to 

sensitive plant and wildlife species and 

heritage resources. 

The proposed action is consistent 

with the 1988 Sequoia National Forest 

Land and Resource Management Plan, 

as amended by the Sierra Nevada Forest 

PlanAmendment Record of Decision, 

and the 1990 Mediated Settlement 

Agreement. 

Possible Alternatives 

Other alternatives will be developed 

based on significant issues identified 

during the scoping process for the 

environmental impact statement. All 

alternatives will need to respond to the 

specific condition of providing benefits 

equal to or better than the current 

condition. Alternatives being 

considered at this time include: (1) No 

Action, and (2) the Proposed Action. 


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