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LaFond, Agricultural Marketing Service, 

Fruits and Vegetables Division, Mail 

Stop 0235, Room 2086, USDA, 1400 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: 

(202) 690–4944, Fax: (202) 720–0016, 

Email: dorian.lafond@usda.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ABOUT THE

PUBLIC MEETING CONTACT: Kenneth 

Lowery, U.S. Codex Office, 1400 

Independence Avenue, Room 4861, 

Washington, DC 20250. Telephone: 

(202) 690–4042, Fax: (202) 720–3157, 

Email: Kenneth.Lowery@fsis.usda.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Codex was established in 1963 by two 

United Nations organizations, the Food 

and Agriculture Organization and the 

World Health Organization. Through 

adoption of food standards, codes of 

practice, and other guidelines 

developed by its committees, and by 

promoting their adoption and 

implementation by governments, Codex 

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and ensure fair practices in the food 

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The CCFFV is responsible for 

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Issues To Be Discussed at the Public 

Meeting 

The following items on the Agenda 

for the 20th Session of the CCFFV will 

be discussed during the public meeting: 

• Matters arising from Codex and 

other Committees; 

• Matters arising from other 

international organizations on the 

standardization of fresh fruits and 

vegetables 

• Draft Standard for Aubergines; 

• Draft Standard for Garlic; 

• Draft Standard for Kiwifruit; 

• Draft Standard for Ware Potatoes; 

• Proposed Draft Standard for Fresh 

Date; 

• Proposals for new work on Codex 

standards for fresh fruits and vegetables; 

• Proposed layout for Codex 

standards for fresh fruits and vegetables 

(Outstanding issues); and 

• Discussion paper on Glossary of 

terms used in the Layout for Codex 

standards for fresh fruits and vegetables. 

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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, 

Evanston-Mountain View Ranger 

District; Utah; West Fork Smiths Fork 

Colorado River Cutthroat Trout 

Enhancement 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement. 

SUMMARY: The Evanston-Mountain View 

Ranger District of the Uinta-WasatchCache National Forest (‘‘Forest 

Service’’), in cooperation with the Utah 

Division of Wildlife Resources (UDWR), 

proposes to treat the streams in the West 

Fork Smiths Fork drainage including 

some waters within the High Uintas 

Wilderness and High Uintas Inventoried 

Roadless Area with rotenone to remove 

non-native fish species and enhance 

habitat for native Colorado River 

cutthroat trout (CRCT; Onchorhynchus 

clarki pleuriticus). 

Implementation of this proposal 

would require the use of a piscicide (a 

substance used to kill fish; i.e., 

rotenone) to remove competing and 

hybridizing non-native fish species from 

selected streams. Non-native fish 

species to be removed are primarily 

rainbow trout (Oncorhynchus mykiss) 

and hybridized Colorado River cutthroat 

trout, although all fish species would be 

removed from the project area. 

Following the last treatment of the 

selected streams, CRCT, sculpin (Cottus 

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platyrhynchus), and speckled dace 

(Rhinichthys osculus) (all native to the 

drainage) would be restocked. Tiger 

trout (Salmo trutta x Salvelinus 

fontinalis) are a sterile hybrid that may 

be stocked in the project area to provide 

fishing opportunities while the CRCT 

population is expanding. 

The waters proposed for treatments 

include selected streams that are the 

headwaters of the West Fork Smiths 

Fork drainage, on the north slope of the 

Uinta Mountains. Implementation 

would potentially begin during the 

summer or fall of 2018. Treatments of 

all identified target waters is expected to 

take place over the course of two to 

three years. Monitoring will occur after 

the treatments to ensure all fish are 

removed throughout the project area. 

Once the treatment is completed and 

CRCT, sculpin, mountain sucker, 

speckled dace and tiger trout are 

stocked back in the drainage, 

populations will be monitored every 

five to ten years to ensure the native 

populations are well established. 

DATES: Comments concerning the scope 

of the analysis must be received by 

September 25, 2017. The Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) 

is expected January 2018 and the Final 

Environmental Impact Statement is 

expected July 2018. Those who wish to 

establish standing to object under 36 

CFR part 218 subparts A and B should 

submit scoping comments no later than 

30 days after publication of this notice 

of intent or during the comment period 

for the DEIS. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments 

concerning the scope of the analysis, 

including any attachments, must be sent 

via regular mail, hand-delivered or 

express delivered to: Logan Ranger 

District, Attn: West Fork Smiths Fork 

CRCT Enhancement, 1500 E Highway 

89, Logan, UT 84321. The office 

business hours for submitting handdelivered comments are 8:00 a.m. to 

4:30 p.m. Monday through Friday, 

excluding federal holidays. Electronic 

comments must be submitted in a 

format such as an email message or 

attached to an email in a format such as, 

.pdf, .txt, .rtf, .doc, or .docx to: 

comments-intermtn-wasatch-cacheevanston-mtnview@fs.fed.us. Comments 

may also be faxed to 435–755–3639. 

Public scoping meetings are not being 

considered at this time. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul 

Chase, Fisheries Biologist, at 435–755– 

3629 or pchase@fs.fed.us. 

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: This 

process is being conducted pursuant to 

the National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA), the Council on Environmental 

Quality Regulations for Implementing 

the NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500–1508), 

and Forest Service NEPA regulations. 

This project is subject to pre-decisional 

administrative review pursuant to 36 

CFR part 218, subparts A and B. Also 

called the ‘‘objection process’’ the predecisional administrative review 

process replaced the appeal process in 

March 2013. Only persons or 

organizations who have previously 

submitted ‘‘specific written comments’’ 

regarding the proposed project during 

any designated opportunity for public 

comment are eligible to file an 

objection. Opportunity for public 

comment on a DEIS includes request for 

comments during scoping, the 40 CFR 

1506.10 comment period, or other 

public involvement opportunity where 

written comments are requested by the 

responsible official (36 CFR 218.5). An 

objection period for the draft Record of 

Decision and Final Environmental 

Impact Statement will be provided, 

consistent with those subparts. 

Purpose and Need for Action 

The purpose of the project is to permit 

the UDWR, having jurisdiction by law, 

to manage, protect, maintain, enhance, 

rehabilitate, and extend the fish and 

wildlife populations of the State of 

Utah, to conduct activities in order to 

protect known populations of 

indigenous species (i.e., CRCT) that 

could become threatened or endangered 

where necessary for their perpetuation 

and to aid in their recovery in 

previously occupied habitat. The Forest 

Service purpose and need is centric to 

responding to UDWR’s proposal to use 

piscicide in wilderness as necessary to 

conduct fish removal prior to restocking 

with CRCT. 

The purpose of this project is to 

establish Colorado River cutthroat trout 

(CRCT) populations free of competing 

and hybridizing fish species (rainbow 

trout) in streams in the West Fork 

Smiths Fork drainage on the EvanstonMountain View Ranger District of the 

Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest. 

Removal of competing and hybridizing 

non-native fish is necessary to enhance 

habitat and restore genetically pure 

native CRCT populations to suitable 

habitats within the West Fork Smiths 

Fork drainage. Therefore, the primary 

objective is to remove rainbow and 

hybridized cutthroat trout that occur 

within these waters. 

The upper reaches of the West Fork 

Smiths Fork drainage is within the High 

Uintas Wilderness and considered by 

state and Forest Service fisheries 

biologists to be critical and essential 

habitat in the watershed. Moreover, a 

wilderness is to be ‘‘protected and 

managed so as to preserve its natural 

conditions’’ meaning that wilderness 

ecological systems are substantially free 

from the effects of modern civilization. 

To preserve this quality, it is necessary 

to take action to correct unnatural 

conditions and address the scenic and 

conservation public purposes of 

wilderness, even if they were present at 

the time of wilderness designation. Any 

impacts resulting from the influence of 

modern civilization (such as the effects 

on indigenous CRCT from historic 

stocking of non-native rainbow trout) 

affect the natural quality of wilderness 

character. 

In order to preserve the natural 

conditions within the wilderness and 

conserve the native CRCT and repopulate West Fork Smiths Fork with 

native CRCT the presence of the nonnative hybridized CRCT and rainbow 

trout must be addressed in upper 

reaches of the West Fork Smiths Fork 

drainage. Limiting the project to the 

stream segments outside wilderness is 

not sufficient due to stream 

connectivity; the existing rainbow and 

hybridized CRCT within wilderness 

would continue downstream 

progression in the absence of a 

migration barrier. 

This action is being considered at this 

time because these non-native fish 

species continue to threaten CRCT 

populations through competition and 

hybridization. This action is important 

to meet the objective identified in the 

CRCT Conservation Strategy to ‘‘secure 

or enhance CRCT populations’’ by 

removing non-native fish species. Once 

hybridization and repeated backcrossing 

of CRCT populations has begun, options 

for restoring a genetically pure stock are 

few. If mating between CRCT and 

rainbow trout or nonnative cutthroat 

continues for a number of generations 

and if hybrids do not show reduced 

fitness, then the genes of non-native 

stocks will pervade virtually all 

remaining individuals to produce a 

hybrid swarm within a particular area. 

Removal of hybrids often fails for two 

reasons: First, whereas it is often 

possible to recognize first-generation 

hybrids between rainbow trout and 

cutthroat trout visually, backcrosses and 

later-generation individuals can be 

indistinguishable from genetically pure 

adults without the aid of genetic testing; 

second, if introgressive hybridization 

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generations, nearly all individuals will 

carry at least some introduced genes, 

and reducing this influence to 

undetectable levels is probably futile. 

Establishing populations of 

indigenous CRCT free from the threats 

from non-native trout would greatly 

benefit CRCT recovery efforts within the 

species historic range, which includes 

portions of Utah, Wyoming, and 

Colorado. The project would contribute 

to the conservation of the species and 

reduce the potential need for federal 

protection under the Endangered 

Species Act. 

This action is tiered to the 2003 

Revised Land and Resource 

Management Plan [for the] UintaWasatch-Cache National Forest, as 

amended through the September 2015 

Plan, and helps move the project area 

towards desired conditions described in 

that plan. The UDWR and Forest Service 

want to ensure the persistence of the 

CRCT within its historic range. This 

includes preserving genetic integrity 

and providing adequate populations to 

maintain intrinsic and recreational 

values. This proposed project would not 

require a Forest Plan amendment. 

Proposed Action 

The Forest Service proposes to permit 

the UDWR, being the agency responsible 

for the management of fish populations, 

to treat target waters with piscicide 

(rotenone) to remove competing and 

hybridizing non-native trout species 

within the proposed project area. Target 

streams are located within the West 

Fork Smiths Fork drainage including 

some areas within the High Uintas 

Wilderness. The waters proposed for 

treatments includes approximately 12 

stream miles (approximately 4 miles 

outside of wilderness and 8 miles 

within wilderness) on the north slope of 

the Uinta Mountains. Implementation 

would potentially begin during the 

summer or fall of 2018. Treatments of 

all identified target waters is expected to 

take place over the course of 2 to 3 

years. 

The following is a summary of the 

proposed suite of activities for the West 

Fork Smiths Fork Colorado River 

Cutthroat Trout Enhancement project. 

The UDWR would take the lead in 

implementing the treatment project 

within target waters of the proposed 

project areas. The Forest Service would 

assist as the agency responsible for 

management of fish habitat. 

Transporting Crew Members, 

Equipment, and Supplies. Crew 

members, equipment, and supplies will 

be brought into the High Uintas 

Wilderness by foot and pack stock using 

designated trails; mechanical transport 

will not be used. Implementation of the 

proposed treatment project would 

require small crews to camp near the 

target waters. Crew members would set 

up base camp(s) in the wilderness to 

stay overnight. The actual dispensing of 

rotenone, which would require the most 

man-power (approximately 8–10 

people), would occur over a short one 

to two day period in the late summer or 

fall of each year. On those days, crew 

members would disperse along the 

stream corridors and would be spread 

out at approximately one-half mile 

intervals along streams targeted for 

piscicide application; crew members 

would return to camp after the 

application has concluded for the day. 

On the final day crew members, 

equipment, and supplies would be 

hiked out and/or removed with pack 

stock using designated trails. 

The neutralization stage (one to two 

week period) which would occur 

outside the wilderness, would require 

that crew members set up a base camp 

at the Hewinta Guard Station. 

Piscicide Application (‘‘Treatment’’) 

and Neutralization. The proposed 

project would be implemented during a 

two week period in July through 

September of each year. Rotenone liquid 

would be applied up to a concentration 

of 1.0 parts per million of product 

however the minimum concentration 

needed to remove target species would 

be used. All target waters to be treated 

that year would be treated with 

rotenone during a one to two-day 

period. Streams would be treated a 

minimum of two times. This would 

likely be completed in consecutive years 

but could be within the same year. If 

two treatments occur within the same 

year, a one to two months resting period 

would occur between treatments. 

Liquid emulsifiable rotenone would 

be used to treat the flowing water 

sections following procedures outlined 

in the Rotenone Standard Operating 

Procedures Manual (SOP). Rotenone 

would be applied from drip stations 

located at approximately 0.5–1.0 mile 

intervals for a 6-hour period. 

Pressurized backpack sprayers would 

also be used to apply rotenone to 

springs and backwater areas; motorized 

transport would not be used during this 

process. A small amount of rotenone 

may be used to treat small side 

tributaries or standing water. Sentinel 

fish would be placed in live cages at 

strategic locations along the stream to 

monitor the effectiveness of the 

treatment. 

Procedures outlined in the Rotenone 

SOP would be followed for neutralizing 

rotenone-treated waters. Potassium 

permanganate would be dispensed at or 

near the fish migration barrier at the 

downstream end of the project area 

(outside of the wilderness). Potassium 

permanganate would be dispensed to 

neutralize rotenone and prevent 

mortality of non-target organisms 

beyond target treatment areas. 

Powdered potassium permanganate 

would be used as a neutralizing agent 

for the rotenone. The application rate of 

potassium permanganate would be 

determined after the pre-treatment 

factors of water temperature and 

hardness are measured. The 

neutralization zone for the project 

would be approximately the 30-minute 

travel distance downstream from the 

location potassium permanganate is 

dispensed into the stream. 

Neutralization of rotenone would take 

an estimated one to two weeks, 

dependent on temperature and other 

factors. Continuous use of the auger and 

gas powered generator would be 

necessary to effectively dispense 

potassium permanganate during this 

one to two week period (occurs outside 

of wilderness). 

Fish Recovery. Dead fish would be 

washed downstream, consumed by 

scavenging wildlife or provide needed 

nutrients for repopulating aquatic 

macroinvertebrates; dead fish would not 

be collected. 

Public Access and Area Closures. 

Public access into the High Uintas 

Wilderness would remain open to the 

public during the treatment, however 

closures (1–2 days) for public access to 

the target stream(s) during the treatment 

would occur. UDWR would post signs 

warning of the upcoming treatment 

prior to starting and actual closure signs 

would be posted along the trail(s) 

during the treatment. These temporary 

signs would be removed at the 

conclusion of each treatment. Public 

access would be allowed during the 

neutralization phase. 

Fish Stocking. UDWR would be the 

entity responsible for reintroducing/ 

stocking fish species; fish would be 

released throughout the drainage. 

Buckets required to carry fish for 

restocking would be transported by 

small crews using designated trails and 

disperse along the stream corridors. 

Trucks would transport fish to the 

project area; no aircraft or mechanical 

transport would be used in wilderness. 

Fish reintroduction/stocking would 

occur a few weeks after the last 

treatment (year two). Treated waters 

would be restocked with CRCT, sculpin, 

mountain sucker, speckled dace, and 

tiger trout. Tiger trout are a sterile 

hybrid that would be stocked in the 

project area to provide fishing 

opportunities while the CRCT 


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population is expanding following the 

last treatment of the selected water. 

Once CRCT are well established, tiger 

trout will no longer be stocked and will 

disappear from the system over 4–5 

years. 

Monitoring. Monitoring will occur 

after both the first and second 

treatments to ensure all fish are 

removed throughout the proposed 

project area. Once the treatment is 

completed and CRCT, sculpin, 

mountain sucker, speckled dace and 

tiger trout are stocked back in the 

drainage, populations will be monitored 

every 5–10 years to ensure the native 

populations are well established. 

Possible Alternatives 

At this time, there are two alternatives 

that are being considered: Alternative 1 

(No Action) and Alternative 2 (Proposed 

Action). Alternative 1 would not 

authorize the application of piscicide in 

the wilderness and associated suite of 

activities. Alternative 2 is described 

above. During the course of 

development of the Environmental 

Impact Statement it is possible that the 

public, Forest Service staff, or both will 

identify additional alternatives to be 

evaluated. 

Lead and Cooperating Agencies 

The Evanston-Mountain View Ranger 

District of the Uinta-Wasatch-Cache 

National Forest will be the lead agency 

preparing the Environmental Impact 

Statement. The Utah Division of 

Wildlife Resources will be a cooperating 

agency. 

Responsible Official 

Unless specified otherwise, the 

Regional Forester is responsible for 

approving all measures that implement 

Forest Service Manual direction on the 

use of other resources in wilderness. 

Specific responsibilities include 

approving the use of pesticides within 

wilderness. 

The responsible official for this 

project is the Regional Forester for the 

Intermountain Region (R4). 

Nature of Decision To Be Made 

The decision to be made includes 

whether or not to approve the proposed 

suite of activities, in whole or in part, 

specifically: (1) Application of piscicide 

(‘‘treatment’’) within designated 

wilderness on National Forest System 

(NFS) land and neutralization outside of 

designated wilderness on NFS land; (2) 

seasonal and multi-year timing of the 

action; (3) method of transport for 

materials, equipment, and personnel to 

treatment areas; (4) closing public 

access to the stream during the 

treatment; (5) restocking with CRCT, 

sculpin, mountain sucker, speckled 

dace, and tiger trout; (6) monitoring 

following treatment and neutralization; 

and, (7) what mitigation measures will 

be implemented. Because the majority 

of streams occur within wilderness, 

methodologies and activities selected 

for implementation must conform to 

special land use restrictions as much as 

possible. 

Preliminary Issues 

Preliminary issues that have been 

identified include potential impacts to 

fisheries and aquatic resources, health 

and human safety, wilderness and other 

undeveloped lands, wildlife (terrestrial), 

soil and water resources, wilderness, 

and wildlife. Additional issues may 

arise based on comments received from 

the public during the scoping and 

comment processes. 

Permits or Licenses Required 

The Utah Division of Wildlife 

Resources would submit a Pesticide Use 

Proposal as well as a National Pollutant 

Discharge Elimination System to the 

Regional Forester for approval. These 

permits are required to allow 

application of the piscicide to targeted 

waters within wilderness. 

Scoping Process 

This notice of intent initiates the 

scoping process, which guides the 

development of the Environmental 

Impact Statement. In addition to and 

concurrent with publication of this 

notice of intent, a public scoping 

document was published to the projectspecific information page on the UintaWasatch-Cache National Forest Web site 

at: https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/ 

?project=51924, and a postcard was sent 

to individuals, entities, and 

organizations informing them that the 

notice of intent and public scoping 

document had been published. 

Comments may be submitted in a 

variety of ways, specifically: Via regular 

mail, hand-delivered or express 

delivered, via fax, and via email. 

Comments sought include specific 

comments to the proposed action, 

appropriate information that could be 

pertinent to analysis of environmental 

consequences, identification of 

significant issues, and identification of 

potential alternatives. 

It is important that reviewers provide 

their comments at such times and in 

such manner that they are useful to the 

agency’s preparation of the 

Environmental Impact Statement. 

Therefore, comments should be 

provided prior to the close of the 

scoping period and should clearly 

articulate the reviewer’s concerns and 

contentions. 

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. 

Dated: August 1, 2017. 

Jeanne M. Higgins, 

Acting Associate Deputy Chief, National 

Forest System. 

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BILLING CODE 3411–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Northern New Mexico Resource 

Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Northern New Mexico 

Resource Advisory Committee (RAC) 

will meet in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The 

committee is authorized under the 

Secure Rural Schools and Community 

Self-Determination Act (the Act) and 

operates in compliance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act. The purpose 

of the committee is to improve 

collaborative relationships and to 

provide advice and recommendations to 

the Forest Service concerning projects 

and funding consistent with the Act. 

RAC information can be found at the 

following Web site: https://

www.fs.usda.gov/main/santafe/ 

workingtogether/advisorycommittees. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

September 12–13, 2017, from 9:00 a.m. 

to 4:00 p.m. 

All RAC meetings are subject to 

cancellation. For status of meeting prior 

to attendance, please contact the person 

listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Santa Fe National Forest (NF) 

Supervisor’s Office, 11 Forest Lane, 

Santa Fe, New Mexico. 

Written comments may be submitted 

as described under SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION. All comments, including 

names and addresses when provided, 

are placed in the record and are 

available for public inspection and 

copying. The public may inspect 

comments received at the Santa Fe NF 

Supervisor’s Office. Please call ahead to 

facilitate entry into the building. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Reuben Montes, RAC Coordinator, by 


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