Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 197 / Friday, October 13, 2017 / Notices 47695 

Done in Washington, DC, this 6th day of 

October 2017. 

Michael C. Gregoire, 

Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant 

Health Inspection Service. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22228 Filed 10–12–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3410–34–P 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

Information Collection; Small Business 

Timber Sale Set-Aside Program; 

Appeal Procedures on Recomputation 

of Shares 

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Forest Service is seeking comments 

from all interested individuals and 

organizations on the extension with no 

revision of a currently approved 

information collection, Small Business 

Timber Sale Set-Aside Program; Appeal 

Procedures on Recomputation of 

Shares. 

DATES: Comments must be received in 

writing on or before December 12, 2017 

to be assured of consideration. 

Comments received after that date will 

be considered to the extent practicable. 

ADDRESSES: Comments concerning this 

notice should be addressed to Director, 

Forest Management, Mail Stop 1103, 

Forest Service, USDA, 1400 

Independence Avenue SW., 

Washington, DC 20250. 

Comments also may be submitted via 

facsimile to (703) 605–1575, or by email 

to wosbaprocess@fs.fed.us. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice may be made available to the 

public through relevant Web sites and 

upon request. For this reason, please do 

not include in your comments 

information of a confidential nature, 

such as sensitive personal information 

or proprietary information. If you send 

an email comment, your email address 

will be automatically captured and 

included as part of the comment that is 

placed in the public docket and made 

available on the Internet. Please note 

that responses to this public comment 

request containing any routine notice 

about the confidentiality of the 

communication will be treated as public 

comments that may be made available to 

the public notwithstanding the 

inclusion of the routine notice. 

The public may inspect the draft 

supporting statement and/or comments 

received at Forest Service, USDA, Forest 

Management Office, Third Floor SW 

Wing, 201 14th Street SW., Washington 

DC, during normal business hours. 

Visitors are encouraged to call ahead to 

(202) 205–1766 to facilitate entry to the 

building. The public may request an 

electronic copy of the draft supporting 

statement and/or any comments 

received be sent via return email. 

Requests should be emailed to 

wosbaprocess@fs.fed.us. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sharon Nygaard-Scott, Forest 

Management Staff, by phone (202) 205– 

1766 or by email at wosbaprocess@

fs.fed.us. Individuals who use 

telecommunication devices for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Relay 

Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339 

twenty-four hours a day, every day of 

the year, including holidays. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: Small Business Timber Sale SetAside Program; Appeal Procedures on 

Recomputation of Shares. 

OMB Number: 0596–0141. 

Expiration Date of Approval: 4/30/ 

2018. 

Type of Request: Extension without 

change of a currently approved 

information collection. 

Abstract: The Forest Service adopted 

the Small Business Timber Sale SetAside Program (Set-Aside Program) on 

July 26, 1990 (55 FR 30485). The 

Agency administers the Set-Aside 

Program in cooperation with the Small 

Business Administration (SBA) under 

the authorities of the Small Business 

Act (15 U.S.C. 631), the National Forest 

Management Act of 1976, and SBA 

regulations in 13 CFR part 121. The SetAside Program is designed to ensure 

that small business timber purchasers 

have the opportunity to purchase a fair 

proportion of National Forest System 

timber offered for sale. 

Under the Set-Aside Program, the 

Forest Service must recompute the 

shares of timber sales to be set aside for 

qualifying small businesses every 5 

years based on the actual volume of 

sawtimber that has been purchased by 

small businesses. Additionally, shares 

must be recomputed if there is a change 

in manufacturing capability, if the 

purchaser size class changes, or if 

certain purchasers discontinue 

operations. 

In 1992, the Agency adopted new 

administrative appeal procedures (36 

CFR part 215), which excluded the SetAside Program. Prior to adoption of 36 

CFR part 215, the Agency had accepted 

appeals of recomputation decisions 

under 36 CFR part 217; and therefore 

decided to establish procedures for 

providing notice to affected purchasers 

offering an opportunity to comment on 

the recomputation of shares (61 FR 

7468). The Conference Report 

accompanying the 1997 Omnibus 

Appropriation Act (Pub. L. 104–208) 

directed the Forest Service to reinstate 

an appeals process for decisions 

concerning recomputation of Small 

Business Set-Aside shares, structural 

recomputations of SBA shares, or 

changes in policies impacting the SetAside Program prior to December 31, 

1996. The Small Business Timber Sale 

Set-Aside Program; Appeal Procedures 

on Recomputation of Shares (36 CFR 

223.118; 64 FR 411, January 5, 1999) 

outlines the types of decisions that are 

subject to appeal, who may appeal 

decisions, the procedures for appeal 

decisions, the timelines for appeal, and 

the contents of the notice of appeal. 

The Forest Service provides 

qualifying timber sale purchasers 30- 

days for predecisional review and 

comment on draft decisions to reallocate 

shares, including the data used in 

making the proposed recomputation 

decision. Within 15 days after the close 

of the 30-day predecisional review 

period, an Agency official makes a 

decision on the shares to be set aside for 

small businesses and gives written 

notice of the decision to all parties on 

the national forest timber sale bidders 

list for the affected area. The written 

notice provides the date by which the 

appeal may be filed and how to obtain 

information on appeal procedures. 

Only those timber sale purchasers, or 

their representatives, who are affected 

by small business share timber sale setaside recomputation decisions and who 

have submitted predecisional 

comments, may appeal recomputation 

decisions. The appellant must file a 

notice of appeal with the appropriate 

Forest Service official within 20 days of 

the date on the notice of decision. The 

notice of appeal must include: 

1. The appellant’s name, mailing 

address, and daytime telephone 

number; 

2. The title or type of recomputation 

decision involved and date of the 

decision; 

3. The name of the responsible Forest 

Service official; 

4. A brief description and date of the 

decision being appealed; 

5. A statement of how the appellant 

is adversely affected by the decision 

being appealed; 

6. A statement of facts in dispute 

regarding the issue(s) raised by the 

appeal; 

7. Specific references to law, 

regulation, or policy that the appellant 

believes have been violated (if any) and 

the basis for such an allegation; 


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8. A statement as to whether and how 

the appellant has tried to resolve the 

appeal issues with the responsible 

Forest Service official, including 

evidence of submission of written 

comments at the predecisional stage; 

and 

9. A statement of the relief the 

appellant seeks. 

The data gathered in this information 

collection is not available from other 

sources. 

Estimate of Annual Burden: 9 hours. 

Type of Respondents: Timber sale 

purchasers, or their representatives, 

who are affected by recomputations of 

the small business share of timber sales. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Respondents: 40. 

Estimated Annual Number of 

Responses per Respondent: 2. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden on 

Respondents: 720 hours.. 

Comment Is Invited 

Comment is invited on: (1) Whether 

this collection of information is 

necessary for the stated purposes and 

the proper performance of the functions 

of the agency, including whether the 

information will have practical or 

scientific utility; (2) the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

collection of information, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (4) 

ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on 

respondents, including the use of 

automated, electronic, mechanical, or 

other technological collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology. 

All comments received in response to 

this notice, including names and 

addresses when provided, will be a 

matter of public record. Comments will 

be summarized and included in the 

submission request toward Office of 

Management and Budget approval. 

Dated: September 22, 2017. 

Glenn Casamassa, 

Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest 

System. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22154 Filed 10–12–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3411–15–P 

COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS 

Notice of Public Meeting of the 

Tennessee Advisory Committee 

AGENCY: U.S. Commission on Civil 

Rights. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given, 

pursuant to the provisions of the rules 

and regulations of the U.S. Commission 

on Civil Rights (Commission) and the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act that 

the Tennessee (State) Advisory 

Committee will hold a meeting on 

Wednesday, November 8, 2017 to 

continue the review and discussion of 

the hearing transcript on civil asset 

forfeiture. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 12:30 

p.m. EST. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be by 

teleconference. Toll-free call-in number: 

877–440–5788, conference ID: 6324926. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff 

Hinton, DFO, at jhinton@usccr.gov or 

(404) 562–7006. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Members 

of the public can listen to the 

discussion. This meeting is available to 

the public through the following tollfree call-in number: (877) 440–5788, 

conference ID: 6324926. Any interested 

member of the public may call this 

number and listen to the meeting. 

Callers can expect to incur charges for 

calls they initiate over wireless lines, 

and the Commission will not refund any 

incurred charges. Callers will incur no 

charge for calls they initiate over landline connections to the toll-free 

telephone number. Persons with hearing 

impairments may also follow the 

proceedings by first calling the Federal 

Relay Service at 1 (800) 977–8339 and 

providing the Service with the 

conference call number and conference 

ID number. 

Members of the public are also 

entitled to submit written comments; 

the comments must be received in the 

regional office by November 3, 2017. 

Written comments may be mailed to the 

Southern Regional Office, U.S. 

Commission on Civil Rights, 61 Forsyth 

Street, Suite 16T126, Atlanta, GA 30303. 

They may also be faxed to the 

Commission at (404) 562–7005, or 

emailed to Regional Director, Jeffrey 

Hinton at jhinton@usccr.gov. Persons 

who desire additional information may 

contact the Southern Regional Office at 

(404) 562–7000. 

Records generated from this meeting 

may be inspected and reproduced at the 

Southern Regional Office, as they 

become available, both before and after 

the meeting. Records of the meeting will 

be available via www.facadatabase.gov 

under the Commission on Civil Rights, 

Tennessee Advisory Committee link. 

Persons interested in the work of this 

Committee are directed to the 

Commission’s Web site, http://

www.usccr.gov, or may contact the 

Southern Regional Office at the above 

email or street address. 

Agenda 

Welcome and Call to Order 

Diane DiIanni, Tennessee SAC 

Chairman 

Jeff Hinton, Regional Director 

Regional Update—Jeff Hinton 

New Business: Continuation of the 

review and discussion of the 

hearing transcript on civil asset 

forfeiture Diane DiIanni, Tennessee 

SAC Chairman/Staff/Advisory 

Committee 

Public Participation 

Adjournment 

Dated: October 6, 2017. 

David Mussatt, 

Supervisory Chief, Regional Programs Unit. 

[FR Doc. 2017–22162 Filed 10–12–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

Foreign-Trade Zones Board 

[Order No. 2040] 

Approval of Expansion of Subzone 

124D; LOOP LLC; Lafourche and St. 

James Parishes, Louisiana 

Pursuant to its authority under the ForeignTrade Zones Act of June 18, 1934, as 

amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), the ForeignTrade Zones Board (the Board) adopts the 

following Order: 

Whereas, the Foreign-Trade Zones 

(FTZ) Act provides for ‘‘. . . the 

establishment . . . of foreign-trade 

zones in ports of entry of the United 

States, to expedite and encourage 

foreign commerce, and for other 

purposes,’’ and authorizes the ForeignTrade Zones Board to grant to qualified 

corporations the privilege of 

establishing foreign-trade zones in or 

adjacent to U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection ports of entry; 

Whereas, the Board’s regulations (15 

CFR part 400) provide for the 

establishment of subzones for specific 

uses; 

Whereas, the Port of South Louisiana, 

grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 124, has 

made application to the Board to 

expand Subzone 124D—Site 2 on behalf 

of LOOP LLC to include an adjacent 

70.761 acres in St. James, Louisiana 

(FTZ Docket B–30–2017, docketed May 

8, 2017); 

Whereas, notice inviting public 

comment has been given in the Federal 

Register (82 FR 25238, June 1, 2017) and 

the application has been processed 

pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board’s 

regulations; and, 


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