Availability of a Draft Pest Risk Assessment for Lemons From Argentina, 45216-45217 [E7-15816]

Download as PDF 45216 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 155 / Monday, August 13, 2007 / Notices Respondents: Operators of nongovernment facilities who wish to be accredited to perform laboratory testing or phytosanitary inspection services in connection with APHIS’ export certification program and certain employees of such nongovernment facilities. Estimated annual number of respondents: 15. Estimated annual number of responses per respondent: 5.8. Estimated annual number of responses: 87. Estimated total annual burden on respondents: 300 hours. (Due to averaging, the total annual burden hours may not equal the product of the annual number of responses multiplied by the reporting burden per response.) All responses to this notice will be summarized and included in the request for OMB approval. All comments will also become a matter of public record. Done in Washington, DC, this 8th day of August 2007. Cindy Smith, Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. [FR Doc. E7–15804 Filed 8–10–07; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3410–34–P DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service [Docket No. APHIS–2007–0059] Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Foreign Animal and Poultry Diseases Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA. ACTION: Notice of intent. jlentini on PROD1PC65 with NOTICES AGENCY: SUMMARY: We are giving notice that the Secretary of Agriculture intends to reestablish the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Foreign Animal and Poultry Diseases for a 2-year period. The Secretary of Agriculture has determined that the Committee is necessary and in the public interest. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Bethany O’Brien, Acting Director of Outreach and Liaisons, Emergency Management and Diagnostics, VS, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 41, Riverdale, MD 20737–1231; (301) 734– 8073. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the Secretary’s Advisory Committee on Foreign Animal and Poultry Diseases is to advise the Secretary of Agriculture regarding program operations and measures to suppress, control, or eradicate an VerDate Aug<31>2005 16:19 Aug 10, 2007 Jkt 211001 outbreak of foot-and-mouth disease, or other destructive foreign animal or poultry disease, in the event these diseases should enter the United States. The Committee also advises the Secretary of Agriculture of means to prevent these diseases. Done in Washington, DC, this 7th day of August 2007. Gilbert Smith, Acting Assistant Secretary for Administration. [FR Doc. E7–15819 Filed 8–10–07; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3410–34–P DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service [Docket No. APHIS–2007–0112] Availability of a Draft Pest Risk Assessment for Lemons From Argentina Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA. ACTION: Notice of availability and request for comments. AGENCY: SUMMARY: We are advising the public that a draft pest risk assessment has been prepared by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service relative to our consideration of a request to allow the importation into the continental United States of fresh lemons from Argentina. We are making this draft pest risk assessment available to the public for review and comment. DATES: We will consider all comments that we receive on or before October 12, 2007. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by either of the following methods: Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to https://www.regulations.gov, select ‘‘Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’’ from the agency drop-down menu, then click ‘‘Submit.’’ In the Docket ID column, select APHIS–2007– 0112 to submit or view public comments and to view supporting and related materials available electronically. Information on using Regulations.gov, including instructions for accessing documents, submitting comments, and viewing the docket after the close of the comment period, is available through the site’s ‘‘User Tips’’ link. Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: Please send four copies of your comment (an original and three copies) to Docket No. APHIS–2007–0112, Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 3A–03.8, 4700 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 River Road Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737–1238. Please state that your comment refers to Docket No. APHIS– 2007–0112. Reading Room: You may read any comments that we receive on the draft pest risk assessment 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, please call (202) 690–2817 before coming. Other Information: Additional information about APHIS and its programs is available on the Internet at https://www.aphis.usda.gov. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Juan Roman, Import Specialist, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 20737–1237; (301) 734– 8758. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background The regulations in ‘‘Subpart-Fruits and Vegetables’’ (7 CFR 319.56 through 319.56–46, referred to below as the regulations) prohibit or restrict the importation of fruits and vegetables into the United States from certain parts of the world to prevent the introduction and dissemination of plant pests that are new to or not widely distributed within the United States. The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is considering a request to amend the regulations to allow the importation of fresh lemons from Argentina into the continental United States. We have prepared a draft pest risk assessment entitled ‘‘Risk Assessment for the Importation of Fresh Lemon (Citrus limon (L.) Burm. F.) Fruit from Northwest Argentina into the Continental United States’’ (August 2007) in order to consider the pest risks associated with the importation of fresh lemons from Argentina into the continental United States. We are making the draft pest risk assessment available to the public for review and comment. The draft pest risk assessment may be viewed on the Regulations.gov Web site or in our reading room (see ADDRESSES above for instructions for accessing Regulations.gov and information on the location and hours of the reading room). You may request paper copies of the draft pest risk assessment by calling or writing to the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Please refer to the title of the draft pest risk assessment when requesting copies. E:\FR\FM\13AUN1.SGM 13AUN1 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 155 / Monday, August 13, 2007 / Notices This notice solicits public comments on the draft pest risk assessment. We will also make the draft pest risk assessment available for public comment during the comment period for any proposed rule related to the importation of lemons from Argentina. Authority: 7 U.S.C. 450, 7701–7772, and 7781–7786; 21 U.S.C. 136 and 136a; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.3. Done in Washington, DC, this 7th day of August 2007. Cindy Smith, Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service. [FR Doc. E7–15816 Filed 8–10–07; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3410–34–P DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Forest Service Fuel Reduction Activities Within the City of Bozeman’s Municipal Watershed on the Gallatin National Forest and City of Bozeman Lands, MT Gallatin National Forest; Gallatin County, MT Forest Service, USDA. Revised notice; intent to prepare environmental impact statement. The original notice was published in the Federal Register/Vol. 70, No. 200, October 18, 2005/notices, pages 60488– 60489. AGENCY: jlentini on PROD1PC65 with NOTICES ACTION: SUMMARY: On October 18, 2005, the USDA Forest Service announced its intent to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to disclose the environmental effects of a proposed fuels reduction project in the municipal watershed of the City of Bozeman, Montana. This Revised Notice is being published because the projected date of June, 2006 for filing the Draft EIS with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was not met and the Draft EIS is now expected to be filed in September of 2007. The project’s purpose and need is to begin reducing the potential severity and extent of future wildland fires in the Bozeman and Hyalite Municipal Watersheds, begin creating vegetation and fuel conditions that will reduce the risk of excess sediment and ash reaching the municipal water treatment plant in the event of a severe wildland fire, begin creating vegetation and fuel conditions that will provide for firefighter and public safety by modifying potential fire behavior, and reduce fuel conditions in the wildland/urban interface (WUI). A range of 3 to 5 alternatives are targeted for consideration in this planning process. VerDate Aug<31>2005 16:19 Aug 10, 2007 Jkt 211001 Initial comments on this proposal were received by November 11, 2005. ADDRESSES: Written comments should be sent to Jim Devitt, Gallatin National Forest Supervisors Office, P.O. Box 130, Bozeman, Montana 59771–0130. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jim Devitt, Bozeman Municipal Watershed Project Interdisciplinary Team Leader, Gallatin National Forest Supervisors Office, (406) 587–6749. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The need of this project, as identified by the Gallatin National Forest and the City of Bozeman, is to maintain a high-quality, long term, and predictable water supply for Bozeman area residents. The Bozeman Municipal Watershed analysis area is a landscape dominated by steep canyons and timbered slopes. The two drainages are very popular and receive heavy use for outdoor recreation activities such as pleasure driving, hiking, biking, camping, picnicking, fishing, and hunting, to name a few. The Bozeman Municipal Water project will apply to portions of National Forest System Lands and City of Bozeman land within the Bozeman and Hyalite Watersheds. There are several homes and sub-divisions within one half mile of the forest boundary or within the WUI. Fire simulation models showed that a large fire started in either Bozeman Creek or Hyalite Creek could easily burn into the adjacent drainage, resulting in a situation where both major sources of city water supply are simultaneously impacted. The Forest Service and City of Bozeman believe it is timely to begin addressing this project’s purpose. The purpose and need for this project would be achieved by: (1) Partial harvesting and thinning in about 2,200 acres of mature timber stands. Ground based, skyline, and helicopter harvest systems would be used to implement this harvest and thinning. (2) Mechanical cutting and piling of younger, small diameter trees on about 1,150 acres. Hand piling would be used in some places. (3) Prescribed burning in the thinned stands after harvest or cutting. (4) Broadcast burning in less dense stands of timber. To facilitate public comment, the Forest Service prepared a scoping document. This document identified one possible set of treatment options and can be viewed on the Gallatin National Forest Web site at www.fs.fed.us/r1/gallatin. A copy can also be obtained by calling or writing the contact person identified above. DATES: PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 45217 The Draft EIS was originally expected to be filed with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and available for public review in June of 2006. That time period was not met and the Draft EIS is now expected to be filed with the EPA in September of 2007. At that time, the EPA will publish a Notice of Availability of the Draft EIS in the Federal Register. The comment period on the Draft EIS is estimated to be 45 days from the date the EPA’s notice of availability appears in the Federal Register. The Final EIS is scheduled for completion in the spring of 2008. To assist the Forest Service in identifying and considering issues, comments should be specific to concerns associated with fuel reduction activities within a municipal watershed. Reviewers may wish to refer to the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations for implementing the procedural provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act at 40 CFR 1503.3 in structuring comments. The Forest Service believes, at this stage, it is important to give reviewers notice of several court rulings related to public participation in the environmental review process. First, reviewers of draft environmental impact statements must structure their participation in the environmental review of the proposal so that it is meaningful and alerts an agency to the reviewer’s position and contentions. Vermont Yankee Nuclear Power Corp. v. NRDC, 435 U.S. 519, 553 (1978). Also, environmental objections that could be raised at the draft environmental impact statement stage but that are not raised until after completion of the final environmental impact statement may be waived or dismissed by the courts. City of Angoon v. Hodel, 803 F.2d 1016, 1022 (9th Cir. 1986) and Wisconsin Heritages, Inc. v. Harris, 490 F. Supp. 1334, 1338 (E.D. Wis. 1980). Because of these court rulings, it is very important that those interested in this proposed action participate during comment periods provided so that substantive comments and objections are made available to the Forest Service at a time when they can meaningfully consider them. To assist the Forest Service in identifying and considering issues, comments should be specific to concerns associated with the management of roads and trails on the Gallatin National Forest. Reviewers may wish to refer to the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations for implementing the procedural provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act at 40 CFR 1503.3 in structuring comments. E:\FR\FM\13AUN1.SGM 13AUN1

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[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 155 (Monday, August 13, 2007)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-15816]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

[Docket No. APHIS-2007-0112]


Availability of a Draft Pest Risk Assessment for Lemons From 
Argentina

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of availability and request for comments.

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SUMMARY: We are advising the public that a draft pest risk assessment 
has been prepared by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service 
relative to our consideration of a request to allow the importation 
into the continental United States of fresh lemons from Argentina. We 
are making this draft pest risk assessment available to the public for 
review and comment.

DATES: We will consider all comments that we receive on or before 
October 12, 2007.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments by either of the following methods:
    Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to https://www.regulations.gov, 
select ``Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service'' from the agency 
drop-down menu, then click ``Submit.'' In the Docket ID column, select 
APHIS-2007-0112 to submit or view public comments and to view 
supporting and related materials available electronically. Information 
on using Regulations.gov, including instructions for accessing 
documents, submitting comments, and viewing the docket after the close 
of the comment period, is available through the site's ``User Tips'' 
link.
    Postal Mail/Commercial Delivery: Please send four copies of your 
comment (an original and three copies) to Docket No. APHIS-2007-0112, 
Regulatory Analysis and Development, PPD, APHIS, Station 3A-03.8, 4700 
River Road Unit 118, Riverdale, MD 20737-1238. Please state that your 
comment refers to Docket No. APHIS-2007-0112.
    Reading Room: You may read any comments that we receive on the 
draft pest risk assessment 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, please call (202) 690-2817 before coming.
    Other Information: Additional information about APHIS and its 
programs is available on the Internet at https://www.aphis.usda.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Juan Roman, Import Specialist, 
PPQ, APHIS, 4700 River Road Unit 133, Riverdale, MD 20737-1237; (301) 
734-8758.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    The regulations in ``Subpart-Fruits and Vegetables'' (7 CFR 319.56 
through 319.56-46, referred to below as the regulations) prohibit or 
restrict the importation of fruits and vegetables into the United 
States from certain parts of the world to prevent the introduction and 
dissemination of plant pests that are new to or not widely distributed 
within the United States.
    The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is 
considering a request to amend the regulations to allow the importation 
of fresh lemons from Argentina into the continental United States. We 
have prepared a draft pest risk assessment entitled ``Risk Assessment 
for the Importation of Fresh Lemon (Citrus limon (L.) Burm. F.) Fruit 
from Northwest Argentina into the Continental United States'' (August 
2007) in order to consider the pest risks associated with the 
importation of fresh lemons from Argentina into the continental United 
States. We are making the draft pest risk assessment available to the 
public for review and comment.
    The draft pest risk assessment may be viewed on the Regulations.gov 
Web site or in our reading room (see ADDRESSES above for instructions 
for accessing Regulations.gov and information on the location and hours 
of the reading room). You may request paper copies of the draft pest 
risk assessment by calling or writing to the person listed under FOR 
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Please refer to the title of the draft 
pest risk assessment when requesting copies.

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    This notice solicits public comments on the draft pest risk 
assessment. We will also make the draft pest risk assessment available 
for public comment during the comment period for any proposed rule 
related to the importation of lemons from Argentina.

    Authority: 7 U.S.C. 450, 7701-7772, and 7781-7786; 21 U.S.C. 136 
and 136a; 7 CFR 2.22, 2.80, and 371.3.

    Done in Washington, DC, this 7th day of August 2007.
Cindy Smith,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. E7-15816 Filed 8-10-07; 8:45 am]
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