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Tuesday, September 06, 2005, at
18:00 hours.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the Diamond Valley School, 35
Hawkside Drive, Markleeville,
California 96120. Send written commtns
to Franklin Pemberton, Alpine County
RAC coordinator, c/o USDA Forest
Service, Humboldt-Toiyabe N.F., Carson
Ranger District 1536 So. Carson Street,
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Alpine Co. RAC Coordinator, Franklin
Pemberton at (775) 884–8150; or Gary
Schiff, Carson District Ranger and
Designated Federal Officer, at (775)
884–8100, or electronically to
fpemberton@fs.fed.us.
(Authority: 40 CFR 1501.7 and 1508.22;
Forest Service Handbook 1909.15, Section
21)
RAC Meeting
Dated: August 10, 2005.
Craig Bobzien,
Forest Supervisor, Black Hills National Forest.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the authorities in
the Federal Advisory Committees Act
(Pub. L. 92–463) and under the Secure
Rural Schools and Community SelfDetermination Act of 2000 (Pub. L. 106–
393) the Alpine County Resource
Advisory Committee (RAC) will meet on
Tuesday, September 06, 2005 at 18:00 at
the Diamond Valley School for business
meetings. The purpose of the meeting is
to discuss issues relating to
implementing the Secure Rural Schools
and Community Self-Determination Act
of 2000 (Payment to States) and
expenditure of Title II funds. The
meetings are open to the public.
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Dated: August 10, 2005.
Gary Schiff,
Designated Federal Official.
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Forest Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:
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meeting is open to the public. Council
discussion is limited to Forest Service
staff and Council members. However,
persons who wish to bring urban and
community forestry matters to the
attention of the council may file written
statements with the Council staff before
and after the meeting.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Discuss corrections to Project
Status/Monitoring.
II. Review RAC Financial
Information/Discuss Fund Distribution.
III. Schedule next meeting.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Grain Inspection, Packers and
Stockyards Administration
[05–MN–A]
Cancellation of Minnesota’s
Designation and the Opportunity for
Designation in the Minnesota Area
Grain Inspection, Packers and
Stockyards Administration, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The United States Grain
Standards Act, as amended (Act),
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provides that official agency
designations will be cancelled upon
request by the official agency with a 90
day written notice to Grain Inspection,
Packers and Stockyards Administration
(GIPSA). The Minnesota Department of
Agriculture (Minnesota), designated to
provide official inspection and weighing
services until September 30, 2006, has
requested GIPSA to cancel the
designation, covering official domestic
services, effective November 9, 2005.
Minnesota will continue to provide
export services under a delegation
agreement with GIPSA. Accordingly,
GIPSA is announcing that Minnesota’s
designation will be canceled, on or
about November 9, 2005. GIPSA is
asking for applicants for domestic
service in the Minnesota area.
DATES: Applications and comments
must be postmarked or electronically
dated on or before September 16, 2005.
ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit
applications and comments on this
notice. You may submit applications
and comments by any of the following
methods:
• Hand Delivery or Courier: Deliver to
Janet M. Hart, Chief, Review Branch,
Compliance Division, GIPSA, USDA,
Room 1647–S, 1400 Independence
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250.
• Fax: Send by facsimile transmission
to (202) 690–2755, attention: Janet M.
Hart.
• E-mail: Send via electronic mail to
Janet.M.Hart@usda.gov.
• Mail: Send hardcopy to Janet M.
Hart, Chief, Review Branch, Compliance
Division, GIPSA, USDA, STOP 3604,
1400 Independence Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20250–3604.
Read Applications and Comments:
All applications and comments will be
available for public inspection at the
office above during regular business
hours (7 CFR 1.27(b)).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Janet M. Hart at 202–720–8525, e-mail
Janet.M.Hart@usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
action has been reviewed and
determined not to be a rule or regulation
as defined in Executive Order 12866
and Departmental Regulation 1512–1;
therefore, the Executive Order and
Departmental Regulation do not apply
to this action.
Section 7(f)(1) of the Act authorizes
GIPSA’s Administrator to designate a
qualified applicant to provide official
services in a specified area after
determining that the applicant is better
able than any other applicant to provide
such official services. GIPSA designated
Minnesota, headquarters in Saint Paul,
Minnesota, to provide official
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inspection services under the Act on
April 1, 2005.
Section 7(g)(1) of the Act provides
that designations of official agencies
will end not later than triennially and
may be renewed according to the
criteria and procedures prescribed in
section 7(f) of the Act. The designation
of Minnesota ends on September 30,
2006, according to the Act. However,
Minnesota asked GIPSA for a voluntary
cancellation of their designation
effective November 9, 2005.
Accordingly, Minnesota’s designation
will cease effective November 8, 2005,
and GIPSA is asking for applicants to
provide official service.
Pursuant to section 7(f)(2) of the Act,
the following geographic area, the entire
State of Minnesota, except those export
port locations within the State, is
assigned to this official agency.
Interested persons are hereby given the
opportunity to apply for designation to
provide official services in the
geographic areas specified above under
provisions of section 7(f) of the Act and
section 800.196(d) of the regulations
issued thereunder. Persons wishing to
apply for designation should contact the
Compliance Division at the address
listed above for forms and information,
or obtain applications at the GIPSA Web
site, https://www.usda.gov/gipsa/
oversight/parovreg.htm.
Authority: Pub. L. 94–582, 90 Stat. 2867,
as amended (7 U.S.C. 71 et seq.).
David R. Shipman,
Acting Administrator, Grain Inspection,
Packers and Stockyards Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Census Bureau
2006 Census Test Coverage Followup
Operation
ACTION:
Proposed collection; comment
request.
SUMMARY: The Department of
Commerce, as part of its continuing
effort to reduce paperwork and
respondent burden, invites the general
public and other Federal agencies to
take this opportunity to comment on
proposed and/or continuing information
collections, as required by the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995,
Public Law 104–13 (44 U.S.C.
3506(c)(2)(A)).
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted on or before October 17,
2005.
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Direct all written comments
to Diana Hynek, Departmental
Paperwork Clearance Officer,
Department of Commerce, Room 6625,
14th and Constitution Avenue, NW.,
Washington, DC 20230 (or via the
Internet at DHynek@doc.gov).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Requests for additional information or
copies of the information collection
instrument(s) and instructions should
be directed to Frank Vitrano, U.S.
Census Bureau, Building 2, Room 2012,
Washington, DC 20233–9200, 301–763–
3961.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
ADDRESSES:
I. Abstract
Improving coverage, or how well the
Census Bureau counts people and
housing units in the census, is one of
the major goals for the 2010 Census. The
U.S. Census Bureau has designed a
series of tests intended to examine new
methods for improving overall coverage
of the population and housing.
Favorable results will be implemented
in the 2010 Decennial Census Program.
In preparation for the 2010 Census, the
Census Bureau has conducted two
previous operations designed to
evaluate the effectiveness of new
procedures for improving coverage and
reducing duplication. These coverage
measurement operations are the 2004
Census Test Coverage Research
Followup (OMB Approval Number
0607–0910) and the 2005 National
Census Test Coverage Followup (OMB
Approval Number 0607–0916.)
The 2006 Census Test is part of the
cycle of tests leading up to the 2010
Census. Like other tests, the primary
goals of this test are designed to
evaluate new methods and systems
intended to improve accuracy, provide
more timely and relevant data, reduce
risks, and/or contain costs. In support of
these goals, the 2006 Coverage Followup
(CFU) operation is designed to study a
method to improve coverage that
collects additional information from
households that might have coverage
problems. This includes households
where persons might have been counted
more than once (e.g., students who are
counted at their parents’ home but also
counted where they reside while they
are attending school) and persons who
might not have been included in the
household count (e.g., newborn babies
or roommates). This operation also will
contact large households (those with
more than six persons listed on their
mail-back questionnaires) in order to
ensure that everyone is included in the
census. Another category of households
that we will attempt to contact are those
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that contain persons identified through
the StARS database (an administrative
records database built from six national
level data files) but who were not
included on the appropriate census
questionnaire. Finally, this operation
will include households where the
count of persons does not equal the
number of persons for which census
data were provided during enumeration
II. Method of Collection
The 2006 Census Test CFU operation
will be conducted in selected locations
in Travis County, Texas and the
Cheyenne River Reservation and Off
Reservation Trust Land, South Dakota in
two phases: telephone and personal
visit.
The telephone operation will be
conducted April 21, 2006, through
August 31, 2006, with an expected
workload of approximately 25,000
housing units in Travis County and
approximately 400 housing units in the
Cheyenne River Reservation. During this
operation, the CFU interviewers will
attempt to contact, via telephone, a
portion of the households that fall
within the CFU sample that provided a
telephone number on the questionnaire.
The followup interviews will be
conducted by U.S. Census Bureau staff
at two of the U.S. Census Bureau’s
telephone call centers, located in
Jeffersonville, IN and Tucson, AZ. These
interviews will be conducted by
computer-assisted telephone
interviewing (CATI). The CATI
instrument will be in English, or in
Spanish for those respondents who wish
to report their information in the
Spanish language. We expect an
approximately 60% response rate for the
telephone operation. Nonrespondents
during this operation will be sent for
personal visit followup.
The personal visit operation will be
conducted July 21, 2006, through
August 31, 2006, with an expected
workload of approximately 28,000
housing units in Travis County and
approximately 400 housing units in the
Cheyenne River Reservation, including
those nonrespondents from the
telephone operation. During this
operation, enumerators will attempt to
enumerate respondents using a paper
questionnaire. We expect an
approximately 90% response rate for the
personal visit operation.
The purpose of the CFU telephone
and personal visit contact is to identify
those persons who may have been
counted in more than one household or
erroneously excluded from any
household. The items included in the
2006 CFU questionnaire are probes that
are intended to indicate whether
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration
[05-MN-A]
Cancellation of Minnesota's Designation and the Opportunity for
Designation in the Minnesota Area
AGENCY: Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration, USDA.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The United States Grain Standards Act, as amended (Act),
provides that official agency designations will be cancelled upon
request by the official agency with a 90 day written notice to Grain
Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration (GIPSA). The
Minnesota Department of Agriculture (Minnesota), designated to provide
official inspection and weighing services until September 30, 2006, has
requested GIPSA to cancel the designation, covering official domestic
services, effective November 9, 2005. Minnesota will continue to
provide export services under a delegation agreement with GIPSA.
Accordingly, GIPSA is announcing that Minnesota's designation will be
canceled, on or about November 9, 2005. GIPSA is asking for applicants
for domestic service in the Minnesota area.
DATES: Applications and comments must be postmarked or electronically
dated on or before September 16, 2005.
ADDRESSES: We invite you to submit applications and comments on this
notice. You may submit applications and comments by any of the
following methods:
Hand Delivery or Courier: Deliver to Janet M. Hart, Chief,
Review Branch, Compliance Division, GIPSA, USDA, Room 1647-S, 1400
Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250.
Fax: Send by facsimile transmission to (202) 690-2755,
attention: Janet M. Hart.
E-mail: Send via electronic mail to Janet.M.Hart@usda.gov.
Mail: Send hardcopy to Janet M. Hart, Chief, Review
Branch, Compliance Division, GIPSA, USDA, STOP 3604, 1400 Independence
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250-3604.
Read Applications and Comments: All applications and comments will
be available for public inspection at the office above during regular
business hours (7 CFR 1.27(b)).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Janet M. Hart at 202-720-8525, e-mail
Janet.M.Hart@usda.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This action has been reviewed and determined
not to be a rule or regulation as defined in Executive Order 12866 and
Departmental Regulation 1512-1; therefore, the Executive Order and
Departmental Regulation do not apply to this action.
Section 7(f)(1) of the Act authorizes GIPSA's Administrator to
designate a qualified applicant to provide official services in a
specified area after determining that the applicant is better able than
any other applicant to provide such official services. GIPSA designated
Minnesota, headquarters in Saint Paul, Minnesota, to provide official
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inspection services under the Act on April 1, 2005.
Section 7(g)(1) of the Act provides that designations of official
agencies will end not later than triennially and may be renewed
according to the criteria and procedures prescribed in section 7(f) of
the Act. The designation of Minnesota ends on September 30, 2006,
according to the Act. However, Minnesota asked GIPSA for a voluntary
cancellation of their designation effective November 9, 2005.
Accordingly, Minnesota's designation will cease effective November 8,
2005, and GIPSA is asking for applicants to provide official service.
Pursuant to section 7(f)(2) of the Act, the following geographic
area, the entire State of Minnesota, except those export port locations
within the State, is assigned to this official agency. Interested
persons are hereby given the opportunity to apply for designation to
provide official services in the geographic areas specified above under
provisions of section 7(f) of the Act and section 800.196(d) of the
regulations issued thereunder. Persons wishing to apply for designation
should contact the Compliance Division at the address listed above for
forms and information, or obtain applications at the GIPSA Web site,
https://www.usda.gov/gipsa/oversight/parovreg.htm.
Authority: Pub. L. 94-582, 90 Stat. 2867, as amended (7 U.S.C.
71 et seq.).
David R. Shipman,
Acting Administrator, Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards
Administration.
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