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the obsidian blade was ever buried with
any individual. However, based on the
information from consultation, officials
of the Horner Collection, Oregon State
University reasonably believes that the
cultural item is an unassociated
funerary object.
In 1993, two obsidian spear points
were found in museum collections with
no accession numbers and are without
provenience information. In 1999, one
bag containing approximately 300 small
projectile points made of obsidian and
chert was found in museum collections
with no accession number and no
provenience information.
The two obsidian spear points and
bag of projectile points are typical items
that have been found at ancient burials
and were commonly left as offerings in
the belief that the projectile points
could be used for hunting in the spirit
world. The Horner Collection, Oregon
State University has no documentation
that the cultural items were ever buried
with any individual. However, based on
the museum records and information
from consultation, officials of the
Horner Collection, Oregon State
University reasonably believes that the
three cultural items are unassociated
funerary objects.
Officials of the Horner Collection,
Oregon State University have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (3)(B), the 12 cultural items
described above are reasonably believed
to have been placed with or near
individual human remains at the time of
death or later as part of the death rite
or ceremony and are believed, by a
preponderance of the evidence, to have
been removed from a specific burial site
of an Native American individual.
Officials of the Horner Collection,
Oregon State University also have
determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3001 (2), there is a relationship of
shared group identity that can be
reasonably traced between the
unassociated funerary objects and the
Santa Rosa Indian Community of the
Santa Rosa Rancheria, California.
Representatives of any other Indian
tribe that believes itself to be culturally
affiliated with the unassociated funerary
objects should contact Sabah Randhawa,
Executive Vice President and Provost,
President’s Office, Oregon State
University, 600 Kerr Administration
Building, Corvallis, OR 97331,
telephone (541) 737–8260, before
January 29, 2007. Repatriation of the
unassociated funerary objects to the
Santa Rosa Indian Community of the
Santa Rosa Rancheria, California may
proceed after that date if no additional
claimants come forward.
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The Horner Collection, Oregon State
University is responsible for notifying
the Duckwater Shoshone Tribe of the
Duckwater Reservation, Nevada; Karuk
Tribe of California; Pit River Tribe,
California; Redding Rancheria,
California; Santa Rosa Indian
Community of the Santa Rosa
Rancheria, California; Smith River
Rancheria, California; Southern Ute
Indian Tribe of the Southern Ute
Reservation, Colorado; and Yurok Tribe
of the Yurok Reservation, California that
this notice has been published.
Dated: November 22, 2006.
Sherry Hutt,
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Reclamation
Yakima River Basin Water Storage
Feasibility Study; Benton, Yakima, and
Kittitas Counties, Washington
Bureau of Reclamation,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare a
combined Planning Report and
Environmental Impact Statement.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(C)
of the National Environmental Policy
Act of 1969, as amended, the Bureau of
Reclamation (Reclamation) proposes to
prepare a combined Planning Report
and Environmental Impact Statement
(PR/EIS) on the Yakima River Basin
Water Storage Feasibility Study. The
Washington Department of Ecology
(Ecology) is a joint lead with
Reclamation in the preparation of this
Environmental Impact Statement which
will also be used to comply with
requirements of the Washington State
Environmental Policy Act (SEPA).
The purpose of Reclamation’s Yakima
River Basin Water Storage Feasibility
Study is to evaluate alternatives that
would create additional water storage
for the Yakima River basin and assess
their potential to supply the water
needed for ecosystem aquatic habitat,
basin-wide agriculture, and municipal
demands. The need for the study is
based on the existing finite water supply
and limited storage capability of the
Yakima River basin in low water years.
This finite supply and limited storage
capacity do not meet the water supply
demands in all years and result in
significant adverse impact to the
Yakima River basin’s economy, which is
agriculture-based, and to the basin’s
aquatic habitat, specifically,
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anadromous fisheries. The study seeks
to identify means of increasing water
storage available, including storage of
Columbia River water, for purposes of
improving anadromous fish habitat and
meeting irrigation and municipal water
supply needs.
DATES: Two scoping meetings, preceded
by open houses, will be held on January
23, 2007, at the following times:
Open Houses: 1 to 2 p.m.; and 6 to
7 p.m.
Scoping Meetings: 2 to 4 p.m.; and
7 to 9 p.m.
Written comments will be accepted
through January 31, 2007, for inclusion
in the scoping summary document.
Requests for sign language
interpretation for the hearing impaired
should be submitted to David
Kaumheimer as indicated under the For
Further Information section by January
8, 2007.
ADDRESSES: Meetings will be held at the
Yakima Convention Center, 10 North
8th Street, Yakima, WA 98901–2058.
The meeting facilities are physically
accessible to people with disabilities.
Comments and requests to be added
to the mailing list may be submitted to
Bureau of Reclamation, Upper Columbia
Area Office, Attention: David
Kaumheimer, Environmental Programs
Manager, 1917 Marsh Road, Yakima,
Washington 98901–2058. Comments
may also be submitted electronically to
storagestudy@pn.usbr.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Contact David Kaumheimer,
Environmental Programs Manager,
Telephone: (509) 575–5848, extension
232. TTY users may dial 711 to obtain
a toll free TTY relay. Information on this
project can also be found at https://
www.usbr.gov/pn/programs/
storage_study/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Reclamation has undertaken this study
as a potential means to augment water
supplies in the Yakima River Basin for
the benefit of anadromous fish, irrigated
agriculture, and municipal water supply
under the authority of Public Law 108–
7, Section 214 which was passed by
Congress on February 20, 2003. Public
Law 108–7 states:
The Secretary of the Interior, acting
through the Bureau of Reclamation, shall
conduct a feasibility study of options for
additional water storage in the Yakima River
Basin, Washington, with emphasis on the
feasibility of storage of Columbia River water
in the potential Black Rock Reservoir and the
benefit of additional storage to endangered
and threatened fish, irrigated agriculture, and
municipal water supply. There are
authorized to be appropriated such sums as
may be necessary to carry out this Act.
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Ecology will be a joint lead with
Reclamation in the preparation of this
Environmental Impact Statement.
Ecology has indicated that under SEPA
they will evaluate a range of alternatives
that include both storage, the subject of
the Yakima River Basin Water Storage
Feasibility Study, and non-storage
components. As a result the jointly
prepared EIS will provide NEPA
coverage for storage alternatives that
Reclamation may consider as part of the
Yakima River Basin Water Storage
Feasibility Study as well as SEPA
coverage for a broader range of
alternatives that Ecology may consider.
The alternatives being investigated by
Reclamation include additional storage
of Yakima River water, as well as water
exchanges with the Columbia River. The
in-basin alternatives would entail
diverting excess water flows from the
Yakima River after all water rights and
fish target flows are met. Previous
Yakima River Basin investigations, such
as the Yakima River Basin Water
Enhancement Program and the
Watershed Management Plan for the
Yakima River Basin, are being used to
develop in-basin water storage
alternatives.
The water exchange alternatives
would involve new storage and the
pumping of water from the Columbia
River. The Black Rock Dam and
Reservoir alternative would pump 3,500
or 6,000 cfs from above Priest Rapids to
a reservoir east of the city of Yakima
which would then be delivered to
irrigation districts downstream of the
city. Deliveries from Black Rock
Reservoir would offset existing
diversions from the Yakima River.
Those foregone diversions would be
used to improve flows for anadromous
fish and provide additional supplies in
drought years to existing irrigators
beyond what would otherwise have
been available. Water stored as part of
the project would not be used to expand
irrigation in the Yakima Basin. An
alternative which would pump water
from the mouth of the Yakima River
would involve a storage reservoir in the
Yakima Basin to re-regulate irrigation
flow releases for the benefit of instream
flows and a water exchange to reduce
some Yakima River diversions.
Other combinations of storage and
pumping of water from the Columbia
River for delivery by exchange to the
Yakima River Basin may be identified
during the public scoping process.
Reclamation plans to conduct public
scoping meetings to solicit input on the
alternatives to augment water supplies
in the Yakima River and impacts
associated with those alternatives.
Reclamation will summarize comments
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received during the scoping meetings
and letters received during the scoping
period, identified under the Dates
section, into a scoping summary
document which will be provided to
those who submitted comments. The
scoping summary will also be available
to others upon request.
If you wish to comment, you may
mail us your comments as indicated
under the Addresses section. Our
practice is to make comments, including
names, home addresses, home phone
numbers, and e-mail addresses of
respondents, available for public
review. Individual respondents may
request that we withhold their names
and/or home addresses, etc., but if you
wish us to consider withholding this
information you must state this
prominently at the beginning of your
comments. In addition, you must
present a rationale for withholding this
information. This rationale must
demonstrate that disclosure would
constitute a clearly unwarranted
invasion of privacy. Unsupported
assertions will not meet this burden. In
the absence of exceptional, documentable circumstances, this information
will be released. We will always make
submissions from organizations or
businesses, and from individuals
identifying themselves as
representatives or officials of
organizations or businesses, available
for public inspection in their entirety.
Kathyrn A. Marshall,
Acting Regional Director, Pacific Northwest
Region.
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China, Indonesia, or Korea of coated free
sheet paper,2 provided for in
subheadings 4810.13.19, 4810.13.20,
4810.13.50, 4810.13.70, 4810.14.19,
4810.14.20, 4810.14.50, 4810.14.70,
4810.19.19, and 4810.19.20 of the
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the
United States, that are alleged to be
subsidized or sold in the United States
at less than fair value (LTFV).
Pursuant to section 207.18 of the
Commission’s rules, the Commission
also gives notice of the commencement
of the final phase of its investigations.
The Commission will issue a final phase
notice of scheduling, which will be
published in the Federal Register as
provided in section 207.21 of the
Commission’s rules, upon notice from
the Department of Commerce
(Commerce) of affirmative preliminary
determinations in the investigations
under sections 703(b) and 733(b) of the
Act, or, if the preliminary
determinations are negative, upon
notice of affirmative final
determinations in those investigations
under sections 705(a) and 735(a) of the
Act. Parties that filed entries of
appearance in the preliminary phase of
the investigations need not enter a
separate appearance for the final phase
of the investigations. Industrial users,
and, if the merchandise under
investigation is sold at the retail level,
representative consumer organizations
have the right to appear as parties in
Commission antidumping and
countervailing duty investigations. The
Secretary will prepare a public service
list containing the names and addresses
of all persons, or their representatives,
who are parties to the investigations.
Determinations
On the basis of the record 1 developed
in the subject investigations, the United
States International Trade Commission
(Commission) determines, pursuant to
sections 703(a) and 733(a) of the Tariff
Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1671b(a) and
1673b(a)) (the Act), that there is a
reasonable indication that an industry
in the United States is materially
injured by reason of imports from
Background
On October 31, 2006, a petition was
filed with the Commission and
Commerce by New Page Corp., Dayton,
OH, alleging that an industry in the
United States is materially injured or
threatened with material injury by
reason of subsidized and LTFV imports
of coated free sheet paper from China,
Indonesia, and Korea. Accordingly,
effective October 31, 2006, the
Commission instituted countervailing
duty investigations Nos. 701-TA–444–
446 (Preliminary) and antidumping duty
investigations Nos. 731-TA–1107–1109
(Preliminary).
Notice of the institution of the
Commission’s investigations and of a
public conference to be held in
connection therewith was given by
posting copies of the notice in the Office
1 The record is defined in sec. 207.2(f) of the
Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (19
CFR 207.2(f)).
2 Chairman Daniel R. Pearson dissenting.
Commissioner Jennifer A. Hillman did not
participate in these investigations.
INTERNATIONAL TRADE
COMMISSION
[Investigation Nos. 701–TA–444–446
(Preliminary) and 731-TA–1107–1109
(Preliminary)]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Reclamation
Yakima River Basin Water Storage Feasibility Study; Benton,
Yakima, and Kittitas Counties, Washington
AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare a combined Planning Report and
Environmental Impact Statement.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental
Policy Act of 1969, as amended, the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation)
proposes to prepare a combined Planning Report and Environmental Impact
Statement (PR/EIS) on the Yakima River Basin Water Storage Feasibility
Study. The Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) is a joint lead
with Reclamation in the preparation of this Environmental Impact
Statement which will also be used to comply with requirements of the
Washington State Environmental Policy Act (SEPA).
The purpose of Reclamation's Yakima River Basin Water Storage
Feasibility Study is to evaluate alternatives that would create
additional water storage for the Yakima River basin and assess their
potential to supply the water needed for ecosystem aquatic habitat,
basin-wide agriculture, and municipal demands. The need for the study
is based on the existing finite water supply and limited storage
capability of the Yakima River basin in low water years. This finite
supply and limited storage capacity do not meet the water supply
demands in all years and result in significant adverse impact to the
Yakima River basin's economy, which is agriculture-based, and to the
basin's aquatic habitat, specifically, anadromous fisheries. The study
seeks to identify means of increasing water storage available,
including storage of Columbia River water, for purposes of improving
anadromous fish habitat and meeting irrigation and municipal water
supply needs.
DATES: Two scoping meetings, preceded by open houses, will be held on
January 23, 2007, at the following times:
Open Houses: 1 to 2 p.m.; and 6 to 7 p.m.
Scoping Meetings: 2 to 4 p.m.; and 7 to 9 p.m.
Written comments will be accepted through January 31, 2007, for
inclusion in the scoping summary document. Requests for sign language
interpretation for the hearing impaired should be submitted to David
Kaumheimer as indicated under the For Further Information section by
January 8, 2007.
ADDRESSES: Meetings will be held at the Yakima Convention Center, 10
North 8th Street, Yakima, WA 98901-2058. The meeting facilities are
physically accessible to people with disabilities.
Comments and requests to be added to the mailing list may be
submitted to Bureau of Reclamation, Upper Columbia Area Office,
Attention: David Kaumheimer, Environmental Programs Manager, 1917 Marsh
Road, Yakima, Washington 98901-2058. Comments may also be submitted
electronically to storagestudy@pn.usbr.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Contact David Kaumheimer,
Environmental Programs Manager, Telephone: (509) 575-5848, extension
232. TTY users may dial 711 to obtain a toll free TTY relay.
Information on this project can also be found at https://www.usbr.gov/
pn/programs/storage_study/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Reclamation has undertaken this study as a
potential means to augment water supplies in the Yakima River Basin for
the benefit of anadromous fish, irrigated agriculture, and municipal
water supply under the authority of Public Law 108-7, Section 214 which
was passed by Congress on February 20, 2003. Public Law 108-7 states:
The Secretary of the Interior, acting through the Bureau of
Reclamation, shall conduct a feasibility study of options for
additional water storage in the Yakima River Basin, Washington, with
emphasis on the feasibility of storage of Columbia River water in
the potential Black Rock Reservoir and the benefit of additional
storage to endangered and threatened fish, irrigated agriculture,
and municipal water supply. There are authorized to be appropriated
such sums as may be necessary to carry out this Act.
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Ecology will be a joint lead with Reclamation in the preparation of
this Environmental Impact Statement. Ecology has indicated that under
SEPA they will evaluate a range of alternatives that include both
storage, the subject of the Yakima River Basin Water Storage
Feasibility Study, and non-storage components. As a result the jointly
prepared EIS will provide NEPA coverage for storage alternatives that
Reclamation may consider as part of the Yakima River Basin Water
Storage Feasibility Study as well as SEPA coverage for a broader range
of alternatives that Ecology may consider.
The alternatives being investigated by Reclamation include
additional storage of Yakima River water, as well as water exchanges
with the Columbia River. The in-basin alternatives would entail
diverting excess water flows from the Yakima River after all water
rights and fish target flows are met. Previous Yakima River Basin
investigations, such as the Yakima River Basin Water Enhancement
Program and the Watershed Management Plan for the Yakima River Basin,
are being used to develop in-basin water storage alternatives.
The water exchange alternatives would involve new storage and the
pumping of water from the Columbia River. The Black Rock Dam and
Reservoir alternative would pump 3,500 or 6,000 cfs from above Priest
Rapids to a reservoir east of the city of Yakima which would then be
delivered to irrigation districts downstream of the city. Deliveries
from Black Rock Reservoir would offset existing diversions from the
Yakima River. Those foregone diversions would be used to improve flows
for anadromous fish and provide additional supplies in drought years to
existing irrigators beyond what would otherwise have been available.
Water stored as part of the project would not be used to expand
irrigation in the Yakima Basin. An alternative which would pump water
from the mouth of the Yakima River would involve a storage reservoir in
the Yakima Basin to re-regulate irrigation flow releases for the
benefit of instream flows and a water exchange to reduce some Yakima
River diversions.
Other combinations of storage and pumping of water from the
Columbia River for delivery by exchange to the Yakima River Basin may
be identified during the public scoping process.
Reclamation plans to conduct public scoping meetings to solicit
input on the alternatives to augment water supplies in the Yakima River
and impacts associated with those alternatives. Reclamation will
summarize comments received during the scoping meetings and letters
received during the scoping period, identified under the Dates section,
into a scoping summary document which will be provided to those who
submitted comments. The scoping summary will also be available to
others upon request.
If you wish to comment, you may mail us your comments as indicated
under the Addresses section. Our practice is to make comments,
including names, home addresses, home phone numbers, and e-mail
addresses of respondents, available for public review. Individual
respondents may request that we withhold their names and/or home
addresses, etc., but if you wish us to consider withholding this
information you must state this prominently at the beginning of your
comments. In addition, you must present a rationale for withholding
this information. This rationale must demonstrate that disclosure would
constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of privacy. Unsupported
assertions will not meet this burden. In the absence of exceptional,
document-able circumstances, this information will be released. We will
always make submissions from organizations or businesses, and from
individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of
organizations or businesses, available for public inspection in their
entirety.
Kathyrn A. Marshall,
Acting Regional Director, Pacific Northwest Region.
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