Rehabilitation of Floodwater Retarding Structure No. 4 of the Martinez Creek Watershed, Bexar County, TX, 8763-8764 [05-3394]
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Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 35 / Wednesday, February 23, 2005 / Notices
Done in Washington, DC, this 16th day of
February, 2005.
Elizabeth E. Gaston,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. E5–701 Filed 2–22–05; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
[Docket No. 05–006–1]
Ventria Bioscience; Availability of
Environmental Assessment for Field
Test of Genetically Engineered Rice
Expressing Lactoferrin
AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
SUMMARY: We are advising the public
that the Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service has prepared an
environmental assessment for a
confined field planting of rice plants
genetically engineered to express the
protein lactoferrin. This environmental
assessment is available for public
review and comment.
DATES: We will consider all comments
we receive on or before March 25, 2005.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
by either of the following methods:
• EDOCKET: Go to https://
www.epa.gov/feddocket to submit or
view public comments, access the index
listing of the contents of the official
public docket, and to access those
documents in the public docket that are
available electronically. Once you have
entered EDOCKET, click on the ‘‘View
Open APHIS Dockets’’ link to locate this
document.
• Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery:
Please send four copies of your
comment (an original and three copies)
to Docket No. 05–006–1, Regulatory
Analysis and Development, PPD,
APHIS, Station 3C71, 4700 River Road
Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737–1238.
Please state that your comment refers to
Docket No. 05–006–1.
Reading Room: You may read the
environmental assessment and any
comments that we receive on this
docket in our reading room. The reading
room is located in room 1141 of the
USDA South Building, 14th Street and
Independence Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC. Normal reading room
hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday
through Friday, except holidays. To be
sure someone is there to help you,
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Other Information: You may view
APHIS documents published in the
Federal Register and related
information on the Internet at https://
www.aphis.usda.gov/ppd/rad/
webrepor.html.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.
Levis Handley, Biotechnology
Regulatory Services, APHIS, 4700 River
Road Unit 147, Riverdale, MD 20737–
1236; (301) 734–5721. To obtain copies
of the environmental assessment,
contact Ms. Ingrid Berlanger, at (301)
734–4885; e-mail
ingrid.e.berlanger@aphis.usda.gov. The
environmental assessment is also
available on the Internet at https://
www.aphis.usda.gov/brs/aphisdocs/
04_30201r_ea.pdf.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
regulations in 7 CFR part 340,
‘‘Introduction of Organisms and
Products Altered or Produced Through
Genetic Engineering Which Are Plant
Pests or Which There Is Reason to
Believe Are Plant Pests,’’ regulate,
among other things, the introduction
(importation, interstate movement, or
release into the environment) of
organisms and products altered or
produced through genetic engineering
that are plant pests or that there is
reason to believe are plant pests. Such
genetically engineered organisms and
products are considered ‘‘regulated
articles.’’ A permit must be obtained or
a notification acknowledged before a
regulated article may be introduced into
the United States. The regulations set
forth the permit application
requirements and the notification
procedures for the importation,
interstate movement, and release into
the environment of a regulated article.
On October 28, 2004, the Animal and
Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS)
received a permit application (APHIS
permit number 04–302–01r) from
Ventria Bioscience, Sacramento, CA, for
a permit for a confined field planting of
rice (Oryza sativa) plants genetically
engineered to express a gene coding for
the protein lactoferrin, rice line LF164–
12. The field planting is to be conducted
in Scott County, MO. The subject rice
plants have been genetically engineered,
using micro-projectile bombardment, to
express human lactoferrin protein.
Expression of the gene is controlled by
the rice glutelin 1 promoter, the rice
glutelin 1 signal peptide, and the NOS,
(nopaline synthase) terminator sequence
from Agrobacterium tumefaciens. The
gene is expressed only in the
endosperm. In addition, the plants
contain the coding sequence for the
gene hygromycin phosphotransferase
(hpt), an enzyme which confers
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tolerance to the antibiotic hygromycin.
This gene is a selectable marker that is
only expressed during plant cell culture
and is not expressed in any tissues of
the mature plant. Expression of the gene
is controlled by the rice glucanase 9
(Gns 9) promoter and the Rice Alpha
Amylase 1A (RAmy1A) terminator. The
genetically engineered rice plants are
considered regulated articles under the
regulations in 7 CFR part 340 because
they contain gene sequences from plant
pathogens.
The purpose of the field planting is
for pure seed production and for the
extraction of lactoferrin for a variety of
research and commercial products. The
planting will be conducted using
physical confinement measures. In
addition, the experimental protocols
and field plot design, as well as the
procedures for termination of the field
planting, are designed to ensure that
none of the subject rice plants persist in
the environment beyond the termination
of the experiments.
To provide the public with
documentation of APHIS’ review and
analysis of any potential environmental
impacts and plant pest risk associated
with the proposed confined field
planting of the subject rice plants, an
environment assessment (EA) has been
prepared. The EA was prepared in
accordance with (1) The National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969
(NEPA), as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et
seq.), (2) regulations of the Council on
Environmental Quality for
implementing the procedural provisions
of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500–1508), (3)
USDA regulations implementing NEPA
(7 CFR part 1b), and (4) APHIS’ NEPA
Implementing Procedures (7 CFR part
372). Copies of the EA are available
from the individual listed under FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Done in Washington, DC, this 16th day of
February 2005.
Elizabeth E. Gaston,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. E5–703 Filed 2–22–05; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Natural Resources Conservation
Service
Rehabilitation of Floodwater Retarding
Structure No. 4 of the Martinez Creek
Watershed, Bexar County, TX
AGENCY: Natural Resources
Conservation Service.
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Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 35 / Wednesday, February 23, 2005 / Notices
ACTION: Notice of a finding of no
significant impact.
SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 102(2)(c)
of the National Environmental Policy
Act of 1969; the Council on
Environmental Quality Regulations (40
CFR part 1500); and the Natural
Resources Conservation Service
Regulations (7 CFR part 650); the
Natural Resources Conservation Service,
U.S. Department of Agriculture, gives
notice that an environmental impact
statement is not being prepared for the
rehabilitation of Floodwater Retarding
Structure No. 4 of the Martinez Creek
Watershed, Bexar County, Texas.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Larry D. Butler, Ph.D, State
Conservationist, Natural Resources
Conservation Service, 101 South Main,
Temple, Texas 76501–7682, telephone
(254) 742–9800.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
environmental assessment of this
federally assisted action indicates that
the project will not cause significant
local, regional, or national impacts on
the environment. As a result of these
findings, Larry D. Butler, Ph.D, State
Conservationist, has determined that the
preparation and review of an
environmental impact statement is not
needed for this project.
The project will rehabilitate
Floodwater Retarding Structure No. 4 to
maintain the present level of flood
control benefits and comply with the
current performance and safety
standards.
Rehabilitation of the site will require
the dam to be modified to meet current
performance and safety standards for a
high hazard dam. The modification will
consist of raising the top of dam 2.8 feet,
replacing the 24 inch principal spillway
pipe with a 42 inch principal spillway
pipe, and lowering the sediment pool by
3.6 feet. The detention pool area would
increase slightly due to the decreased
size of the sediment pool. All disturbed
areas will be planted with plants that
have wildlife values. The proposed
work will not affect any prime farmland,
endangered or threatened species,
wetlands, or cultural resources.
Federal assistance will be provided
under authority of the Small Watershed
Rehabilitation Amendments of 2000
(Section 313, Pub. L. 106–472). Total
project cost is estimated to be
$1,026,400, of which $745,800 will be
paid from the Small Watershed
Rehabilitation funds and $280,600 from
local funds.
The notice of a Finding of No
Significant Impact (FONSI) has been
forwarded to the Environmental
Protection Agency and to various
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Federal, State, and local agencies and
interested parties. A limited number of
copies of the FONSI are available to fill
single copy requests at the above
address. Basic data developed during
the environmental assessment are on
file and may be reviewed by contacting
Larry D. Butler, Ph.D, State
Conservationist.
No administrative action on
implementation of the proposal will be
taken until 30 days after the date of this
publication in the Federal Register.
Larry D. Butler,
State Conservationist.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Submission for OMB Review;
Comment Request
DOC has submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) for
clearance the following proposal for
collection of information under the
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction
Act (44 U.S.C. chapter 35).
Agency: U.S. Census Bureau.
Title: 2005 Census Survey of
Maricopa County, Arizona.
Form Number(s): CSMA–1, CSMA–
1(PV), CSMA–1 L1, CSMA–1 L2,
CSMA–1 L3, CSMA–2, CSMA–1(RI),
SC–116, and SC–351(GQ).
Agency Approval Number: None.
Type of Request: New collection.
Burden: 12,042 hours.
Number of Respondents: 118,607.
Avg. Hours Per Response: Housing
Units—6 min.; Group Quarters—10
min.; Reinterview—8 min.
Needs and Uses: In lieu of a Special
Census, the Maricopa Association of
Governments (MAG), at the request of
their member jurisdictions (24 cities and
towns within Maricopa County),
requested the U.S. Census Bureau to
conduct a data collection effort for the
purpose of updating population and
housing unit information from the
Census 2000. This data collection effort
is called the 2005 Census Survey of
Maricopa County, Arizona (CSMA). The
CSMA will produce September 1, 2005
estimates for housing units, occupied
housing units, resident population;
resident population living in housing
units; and resident population not living
in housing units (group quarters and
outdoor locations) for Maricopa County,
24 cities in the county, the balance of
the county, 5 sub-areas for Phoenix, and
2 sub-areas for Mesa. The resident
population estimates will be used to
distribute state-shared revenues.
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The MAG requested that we produce
the estimates by a survey of housing
units and a 100 percent enumeration of
the non-housing unit population.
The Census Bureau will conduct a
survey of housing units to produce the
estimates for resident population in
housing units, the number of housing
units, and the number of occupied
housing units. We will contact each
identified group quarters and visit
outdoor locations to obtain the resident
population not living in housing units.
We will sum the two resident
populations to produce the total number
of residents.
We will mail each sample housing
unit a questionnaire to determine
whether it was occupied on September
1, 2005. If it was occupied, we will ask
for the total number of people living in
the housing unit and for each person’s
name, age, and sex. We will follow-up
with each housing unit that does not
return its questionnaire and conduct
either a computer assisted telephone
interview or a personal visit interview.
We will use a vendor’s data base to
obtain phone numbers by matching on
the address.
We will have a reinterview program
for the cases completed by personal
visit. The reinterview program will
contact approximately ten percent of the
personal visit cases to check the
enumerators’ work. Reinterview is
necessary to deter the falsification of
data by enumerators in the field. Its
primary purpose is to identify
enumerators who intentionally falsify
data, and to promptly remove them.
Reinterview is also used for quality
assurance purposes to ensure that
enumerators are following procedures
correctly, and to retrain those who are
not.
Affected Public: Individuals or
households; business or other for-profit;
not-for-profit institutions.
Frequency: One time.
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Legal Authority: 13 U.S.C. 8.
OMB Desk Officer: Susan Schechter,
(202) 395–5103.
Copies of the above information
collection proposal can be obtained by
calling or writing Diana Hynek,
Departmental Paperwork Clearance
Officer, (202) 482–0266, Department of
Commerce, room 6625, 14th and
Constitution Avenue, NW., Washington,
DC 20230 (or via the Internet at
dhynek@doc.gov).
Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent
within 30 days of publication of this
notice to Susan Schechter, OMB Desk
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Natural Resources Conservation Service
Rehabilitation of Floodwater Retarding Structure No. 4 of the
Martinez Creek Watershed, Bexar County, TX
AGENCY: Natural Resources Conservation Service.
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ACTION: Notice of a finding of no significant impact.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969; the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations
(40 CFR part 1500); and the Natural Resources Conservation Service
Regulations (7 CFR part 650); the Natural Resources Conservation
Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, gives notice that an
environmental impact statement is not being prepared for the
rehabilitation of Floodwater Retarding Structure No. 4 of the Martinez
Creek Watershed, Bexar County, Texas.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Larry D. Butler, Ph.D, State
Conservationist, Natural Resources Conservation Service, 101 South
Main, Temple, Texas 76501-7682, telephone (254) 742-9800.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The environmental assessment of this
federally assisted action indicates that the project will not cause
significant local, regional, or national impacts on the environment. As
a result of these findings, Larry D. Butler, Ph.D, State
Conservationist, has determined that the preparation and review of an
environmental impact statement is not needed for this project.
The project will rehabilitate Floodwater Retarding Structure No. 4
to maintain the present level of flood control benefits and comply with
the current performance and safety standards.
Rehabilitation of the site will require the dam to be modified to
meet current performance and safety standards for a high hazard dam.
The modification will consist of raising the top of dam 2.8 feet,
replacing the 24 inch principal spillway pipe with a 42 inch principal
spillway pipe, and lowering the sediment pool by 3.6 feet. The
detention pool area would increase slightly due to the decreased size
of the sediment pool. All disturbed areas will be planted with plants
that have wildlife values. The proposed work will not affect any prime
farmland, endangered or threatened species, wetlands, or cultural
resources.
Federal assistance will be provided under authority of the Small
Watershed Rehabilitation Amendments of 2000 (Section 313, Pub. L. 106-
472). Total project cost is estimated to be $1,026,400, of which
$745,800 will be paid from the Small Watershed Rehabilitation funds and
$280,600 from local funds.
The notice of a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) has been
forwarded to the Environmental Protection Agency and to various
Federal, State, and local agencies and interested parties. A limited
number of copies of the FONSI are available to fill single copy
requests at the above address. Basic data developed during the
environmental assessment are on file and may be reviewed by contacting
Larry D. Butler, Ph.D, State Conservationist.
No administrative action on implementation of the proposal will be
taken until 30 days after the date of this publication in the Federal
Register.
Larry D. Butler,
State Conservationist.
[FR Doc. 05-3394 Filed 2-22-05; 8:45 am]
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