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extension of a currently approved
information collection used in support
of the Noninsured Crop Disaster
Assistance Program (NAP). The
information collected is needed to
determine eligibility to obtain NAP
assistance.
DATES: Comments must be received on
or before February 20, 2007 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 Clay
Lagasse, Section Head; Common
Disaster Provisions Section, Disaster
Branch; Production, Emergencies and
Compliance Division, Farm Service
Agency, USDA, Mail Stop 0517, 1400
Independence Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20250–0522 and to the
Desk Officer for Agriculture, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget,
Washington, DC 20503. Comments also
may be submitted by e-mail to:
Clay.Lagasse@wdc.usda.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Clay
Lagasse, Section Head, Common
Disaster Provisions Section, Disaster
Assistance Branch, (202) 205–9893.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description of Information Collection
Title: Noninsured Crop Disaster
Assistance Program.
OMB Number: 0560–0175.
Expiration Date of Approval: July 31,
2007.
Type of Request: Extension with
revision.
Abstract: The Noninsured Crop
Assistance Program is authorized under
7 U.S.C. 7333 and implemented under
regulations issued at 7 CFR Part 1437.
The NAP is administered under the
general supervision of the Executive
Vice-President of CCC (who also serves
as Administrator, FSA), and is carried
out by FSA State and County
committees. The information collected
allows CCC to provide assistance under
NAP for losses of commercial crops or
other agricultural commodities (except
livestock) for which catastrophic risk
protection under 7 U.S.C. 1508 is not
available, and that is produced for food
or fiber. Additionally, NAP provides
assistance for losses of floriculture,
ornamental nursery, Christmas tree
crops, turf grass sod, seed crops,
aquaculture (including ornamental fish),
sea oats and sea grass, industrial crops,
and tropical agricultural crops. The
information collected is necessary to
determine whether a producer and crop
or commodity meet applicable
conditions for assistance and to
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determine compliance with existing
rules. Producers must annually: (1)
Request NAP coverage by completing an
application for coverage and paying a
service fee by the CCC-established
application closing date; (2) file a
current crop-year report of acreage for
the covered crop or commodity; and (3)
certify production of each covered crop
or commodity. When damage to a
covered crop or commodity occurs,
producers must file a notice of loss with
the local FSA administrative county
office within 15 calendar days of
occurrence or 15 calendar days of the
date damage to the crop or commodity
becomes apparent. Producers must also
file an application for payment and
certification of income with the local
FSA administrative county office.
Estimate of Burden: Public reporting
burden for this information collection is
estimated to average 0.6 hours per
response.
Type of Respondents: Producers of
commercial crops or other agricultural
commodities (except livestock).
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 291,500.
Estimated Annual Number of
Responses per Respondent: 3.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 2,143,562.
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 for Office of Management
and Budget approval.
Signed at Washington, DC, on December
15, 2006.
Teresa Lasseter,
Administrator, Farm Service Agency, and
Executive Vice-President, Commodity Credit
Corporation.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Foreign Agricultural Service
Advisory Committee on Emerging
Markets: Nominations
SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that
nominations are being sought for twenty
(20) qualified persons to serve on the
Advisory Committee on Emerging
Markets (the Committee). The role of the
Committee is to provide information
and advice, based upon knowledge and
expertise of the members, useful to the
Department of Agriculture (USDA) in
implementing the Emerging Markets
Program (EMP). The Committee also
advises USDA on ways to increase the
involvement of the U.S. private sector in
emerging markets in food and rural
business systems and reviews proposals
submitted to the Program for funding
technical assistance activities.
DATES: Written nominations must be
received by the Foreign Agricultural
Service (FAS) by 5 p.m. on January 22,
2007.
ADDRESSES: All nominating materials
should be sent to Ms. Nancy
Hirschhorn, Foreign Agricultural
Service, Stop 1052, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, 1400 Independence
Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250–
1052. Forms may also be submitted by
fax to (202) 690–0193.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Persons interested in serving on the
Committee, or in nominating
individuals to serve, should contact Ms.
Nancy Hirschhorn, Foreign Agricultural
Service, by telephone (202) 720–6896,
by fax (202) 690–0193, or by electronic
mail to emo@fas.usda.gov and request
Form AD–755 and Form SF–181.
Persons with disabilities who require an
alternative means for communication of
information (Braille, large print,
audiotape, etc.) should contact USDA’s
Target Center at (202) 720–2600 (voice
and TDD).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Committee is authorized by section
1542 of the Food, Agriculture,
Conservation and Trade Act of 1990, as
amended. The overall purpose of the
Committee is to provide USDA with
information that may be useful in
carrying out the provisions of the
Emerging Markets Program. The
Committee is composed of
representatives of the various sectors of
the food and rural business systems of
the United States. More information
about the purpose and function of the
Committee and about the Emerging
Markets Program may be found at the
FAS/Emerging Markets Program Web
site: https://www.fas.usda.gov/mos/em-
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markets/em-markets.asp. Form AD–755
is required and is available on the EMP
home page at https://www.fas.usda.gov/
mos/em-markets/Form%20AD–755.doc.
Form SF–181 is requested, but optional,
and is available at https://www.opm.gov/
forms/pdf_fill/sf181.pdf. The members
of the Committee are appointed by the
Secretary of Agriculture and serve at the
discretion of the Secretary. Committee
members serve without compensation,
but can receive reimbursement for travel
expenses to attend committee meetings,
if requested, in accordance with USDA
travel regulations.
The Committee has a balanced
membership of up to 20 members,
representing a broad cross-section of the
U.S. agricultural and agribusiness
industry. All appointments will expire
two years from the date of appointment.
The Secretary may renew an
appointment for one or more additional
terms.
Most meetings will be held in
Washington, DC, though other locations
may be selected on an occasional basis.
Committee meetings will be open to the
public, unless the Secretary of
Agriculture determines that the
Committee will be discussing issues, the
disclosure of which justify closing all or
a portion of a meeting, in accordance
with 5 U.S.C. 552b(c).
Nominations are open to all
individuals without regard to race,
color, religion, sex, national origin, age,
physical handicap, marital status, or
sexual orientation. To ensure that the
work of the Committee takes into
account the needs of the diverse groups
served by USDA, membership shall
include, to the extent practicable,
individuals with demonstrated ability to
represent the interest of minorities,
women, and persons with disabilities.
Members should have experience,
expertise, and knowledge of
international agriculture and of trade
and development issues as they affect
emerging markets. No persons,
company, producer, farm organization,
trade association, or other entity has a
right to representation on the
Committee. In making selections, every
effort will be made to maintain balanced
representation of the various broad
industries within the United States as
well as geographic diversity.
W. Kirk Miller,
Acting Administrator, Foreign Agricultural
Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service.
Flathead National Forest, Swan Lake
Ranger District, Montana; Cooney
McKay Project Environmental Impact
Statement
Forest Service, USDA.
Notice of intent to prepare an
environmental impact statement.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: The Forest Service will
prepare an Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) for a proposal to harvest
timber, reduce hazardous forest fuels,
and construct temporary roads within
the Cooney McKay Project area. The
project area is approximately 35 miles
southeast of Bigfork, Montana, in the
vicinity of the community of Condon,
Montana. The Forest Service is seeking
further information and comments from
Federal, State, and local agencies and
other individuals or organizations that
maybe interested in or affected by the
proposed actions. These comments will
be used to prepare the draft EIS.
DATES: The draft environmental impact
statement is expected in March 2007
and the final environmental impact
statement is expected in May 2007.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments to
Steve Brady, District Ranger, Swan Lake
Ranger District, 200 Ranger Station
Road, Bigfork, MT 59911.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sue
Tebay, Project Writer-Editor, Swan Lake
Ranger District, 200 Ranger Station
Road, Bigfork, MT 59911.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Forest Plan
The EIS will tier to the Flathead
National Forest Land and Resource
Management Plan (LRMP) and EIS of
January, 1986, and its subsequent
amendments, which provide overall
guidance of all land management
activities on the Flathead National
Forest.
Background and Existing Condition
Information
The Forest Services believes that a
combination of factors such as natural
succession processes, extended regional
drought patterns, introduction of
invasive plants, human development
patterns, along with unintended
consequences of past management
practices (e.g., fire suppression policies)
have crated and continue to lead to
vegetative conditions that do not wholly
meet the desired future condition for the
project area, as described in the Forest
Plan. The consequences of these
environmental changes and past
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management practices place portions of
the forested landscape at an elevated
risk to unwanted disturbances such as
insect epidemics, wide-scale disease
infections, and high-severity wildfire.
Purpose and Need for Action
The purpose and need for the Cooney
McKay project include: (1) Improving
the general health, resiliency, and
sustainability of forest vegetative
communities within the project area; (2)
reducing the risk of insect epidemics
and disease infestations within the
project area; (3) reducing the hazardous
forest fuels buildup on National Forest
System lands adjacent to private lands
within the project area; (4) providing for
a safer environment for the public and
firefighters should a wildfire occur
within the project area; increase the
probability of stopping wildfires on
National Forest Services lands before
they burn onto private lands; and (5)
providing commercial and personal-use
wood products for the local
communities.
Proposed Action
To move toward the desired future
(vegetative) condition of restoring and
maintaining a healthy forest in the
project area, the Cooney McKay
proposal includes mechanical and/or
hand vegetation treatments of mature
and immature forest, ecosystem
maintenance burning on approximately
2,500 acres of upper elevation forest and
shrubland stands; hand planting of
approximately 302 acres; and invasive
plants/noxious weed treatment on
traveled roadways. In addition,
approximately 900 acres may be
understory or jackpot burned following
treatment. The proposal includes the
construction and subsequent
reclamation of approximately 2 miles of
temporary roads on National Forest
System lands to access treatment units.
Best Management Practices would be
applied to all temporary roads
constructed and roads temporarily
opened, as well as all system roads used
in association with this project for
access and product removal.
The proposed management actions
summarized above are being considered
together because they represent either
connected or cumulative actions as
defined by the Council on
Environmental Quality (40 CFR
1508.25).
Possible Alternatives
Alternatives may be developed to
respond to concerns that the proposed
action could potentially result in
adverse impacts to white-tailed deer
winter habitat or that the proposed
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Foreign Agricultural Service
Advisory Committee on Emerging Markets: Nominations
SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that nominations are being sought for
twenty (20) qualified persons to serve on the Advisory Committee on
Emerging Markets (the Committee). The role of the Committee is to
provide information and advice, based upon knowledge and expertise of
the members, useful to the Department of Agriculture (USDA) in
implementing the Emerging Markets Program (EMP). The Committee also
advises USDA on ways to increase the involvement of the U.S. private
sector in emerging markets in food and rural business systems and
reviews proposals submitted to the Program for funding technical
assistance activities.
DATES: Written nominations must be received by the Foreign Agricultural
Service (FAS) by 5 p.m. on January 22, 2007.
ADDRESSES: All nominating materials should be sent to Ms. Nancy
Hirschhorn, Foreign Agricultural Service, Stop 1052, U.S. Department of
Agriculture, 1400 Independence Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20250-1052.
Forms may also be submitted by fax to (202) 690-0193.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Persons interested in serving on the
Committee, or in nominating individuals to serve, should contact Ms.
Nancy Hirschhorn, Foreign Agricultural Service, by telephone (202) 720-
6896, by fax (202) 690-0193, or by electronic mail to emo@fas.usda.gov
and request Form AD-755 and Form SF-181. Persons with disabilities who
require an alternative means for communication of information (Braille,
large print, audiotape, etc.) should contact USDA's Target Center at
(202) 720-2600 (voice and TDD).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Committee is authorized by section 1542
of the Food, Agriculture, Conservation and Trade Act of 1990, as
amended. The overall purpose of the Committee is to provide USDA with
information that may be useful in carrying out the provisions of the
Emerging Markets Program. The Committee is composed of representatives
of the various sectors of the food and rural business systems of the
United States. More information about the purpose and function of the
Committee and about the Emerging Markets Program may be found at the
FAS/Emerging Markets Program Web site: https://www.fas.usda.gov/mos/
em-
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markets/em-markets.asp. Form AD-755 is required and is available on the
EMP home page at https://www.fas.usda.gov/mos/em-markets/
Form%20AD-755.doc. Form SF-181 is requested, but optional, and is
available at https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf181.pdf. The
members of the Committee are appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture
and serve at the discretion of the Secretary. Committee members serve
without compensation, but can receive reimbursement for travel expenses
to attend committee meetings, if requested, in accordance with USDA
travel regulations.
The Committee has a balanced membership of up to 20 members,
representing a broad cross-section of the U.S. agricultural and
agribusiness industry. All appointments will expire two years from the
date of appointment. The Secretary may renew an appointment for one or
more additional terms.
Most meetings will be held in Washington, DC, though other
locations may be selected on an occasional basis. Committee meetings
will be open to the public, unless the Secretary of Agriculture
determines that the Committee will be discussing issues, the disclosure
of which justify closing all or a portion of a meeting, in accordance
with 5 U.S.C. 552b(c).
Nominations are open to all individuals without regard to race,
color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical handicap, marital
status, or sexual orientation. To ensure that the work of the Committee
takes into account the needs of the diverse groups served by USDA,
membership shall include, to the extent practicable, individuals with
demonstrated ability to represent the interest of minorities, women,
and persons with disabilities.
Members should have experience, expertise, and knowledge of
international agriculture and of trade and development issues as they
affect emerging markets. No persons, company, producer, farm
organization, trade association, or other entity has a right to
representation on the Committee. In making selections, every effort
will be made to maintain balanced representation of the various broad
industries within the United States as well as geographic diversity.
W. Kirk Miller,
Acting Administrator, Foreign Agricultural Service.
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