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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
[Docket No. APHIS–2007–0150]
Public Meeting; Veterinary Biologics
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: This is the second notice to
producers and users of veterinary
biological products and other interested
individuals that we will be holding our
14th public meeting to discuss
regulatory and policy issues related to
the manufacture, distribution, and use
of veterinary biological products. This
notice provides information on the
agenda, as well as the dates, times, and
place of the meeting. It also identifies a
contact person for obtaining registration
forms, lodging information, and copies
of the agenda.
DATES: The public meeting will be held
Monday, April 7, 2008, through
Wednesday, April 9, 2008, from noon to
approximately 5 p.m. on Monday, from
8:30 a.m. to approximately 5 p.m. on
Tuesday, and from 8 a.m. to
approximately noon on Wednesday.
ADDRESSES: The public meeting will be
held in the Scheman Building at the
Iowa State Center, Iowa State
University, Ames, IA.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Betty Light, Center for Veterinary
Biologics, VS, APHIS, 510 South 17th
Street, Suite 104, Ames, IA 50010–8197;
phone (515) 232–5785 extension 128,
fax (515) 232–7120; or e-mail
Betty.J.Light@aphis.usda.gov.
In a notice
published in the Federal Register on
December 13, 2007 (72 FR 70819,
Docket No. APHIS–2007–0150), we
announced that the Center for
Veterinary Biologics (CVB) would be
holding its 14th annual veterinary
biologics public meeting and requested
that interested persons submit
suggestions for agenda topics. Based on
the responses and on other
considerations, the agenda for the 14th
public meeting will include, but is not
limited to, the following:
• Influenza related topics (avian,
canine, equine, and swine);
• Control of E. coli O157:H7
contamination in beef cattle;
• Agroterrorism; and
• Veterinary Services and CVB
regulatory updates.
In addition, we will utilize handouts
and information stations to provide
updates concerning compliance
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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activities, adjuvant approval, the
evaluation of Erysipelothrix
rhusiopathiae surface protective antigen
A (spa A), Clostridium haemolyticum
Beta Toxin as a protective immunogen,
risk analysis, the CVB quality
management system, CVB export
services, expediting the processing of
submissions to CVB, the International
Institute for Cooperation in Animal
Biologics, International Harmonization,
the International Cooperation on
Harmonization of Technical
Requirements for Registration of
Veterinary Medicinal Products (VICH),
changes to regulations and memoranda,
and licensing diagnostic test kits.
Registration forms, lodging
information, and copies of the agenda
for the 14th public meeting may be
obtained from the person listed under
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. This
information is also available on the
Internet at https://www.aphis.usda.gov/
animal_health/vet_biologics/
vb_pubmtg.shtml.
The registration deadline is March 26,
2008. A block of hotel rooms has been
set aside for this meeting until March
26, 2008. Early reservation of rooms is
strongly encouraged.
Done in Washington, DC, this 7th day of
March 2008.
Kevin Shea,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Farm Service Agency
Request for an Extension of a
Currently Approved Information
Collection; County Committee
Elections
Farm Service Agency, USDA.
Notice; request for comments.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Farm Service Agency (FSA) is seeking
comments from all interested
individuals and entities on an extension
of a currently approved information
collection associated with the FSA
County Committee Elections. The
collection of information from FSA
Farmers and Ranchers is used to receive
nominations from eligible voters for the
County Committee.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be
received on or before May 12, 2008 to
be assured consideration.
Additional Information: We invite
you to submit comments on this Notice.
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In your comment, include volume, date
and page number of this issue of the
Federal Register. You may submit
comments by any of the following
methods:
Mail: Kenneth Nagel, Field Operations
Manager for the Deputy Administrator
for Field Operations, Farm Service
Agency, USDA, STOP 0542, 1400
Independence Avenue, Washington, DC
20250.
E-mail: Send comments to:
Kenneth.nagel@wdc.usda.gov.
Fax: (202) 720–6964.
Comments also should be sent to the
Desk Officer for Agriculture, Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Office of Management and Budget,
Washington, DC 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Kenneth Nagel, Field Operations
Manager, telephone (202) 720–7890.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: County Committee Election.
OMB Control Number: 0560–0229.
Expiration Date of Approval:
September 30, 2008.
Type of Request: Extension.
Abstract: This information collection
is necessary to effectively allow farmers
and ranchers to nominate potential
candidates for the county committee
election in accordance with the
requirements as authorized by the Soil
Conservation and Domestic Allotment
Act, as amended. Specifically, the
Agency uses the information annually
or if needed through-out the year for
special elections to create ballots for
county committee elections.
Estimate of Respondent Burden:
Public reporting burden for this
collection of information is estimated to
average 10 minutes per response. The
average travel time, which is included
in the total burden, is estimated to be 1
hour per respondent.
Respondents: Any individual with
farming interest in the Local
Administrative Area (LAA) (eligible
voters).
Estimated Number of Respondents:
10,000.
Estimated Number of Responses per
Respondent: 1.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 6700.
Comments are invited on:
(1) Whether the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether information
will have practical utility;
(2) The accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of burden including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used;
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(3) Ways to enhance the quality,
utility and clarity of the information
collected; or
(4) Ways to minimize the burden of
the information collection on those who
are to respond through the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology.
All responses received in response to
this notice, including names and
addresses when provided, will be a
matter of public records. Comments will
be summarized and included in the
request for Office of Management and
Budget approval of the information
collection.
Signed in Washington, DC on March 6,
2008.
Teresa C. Lasseter,
Administrator, Farm Service Agency.
[FR Doc. E8–4989 Filed 3–12–08; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Rosemont Copper Project, Coronado
National Forest, Pima County, Arizona
Forest Service, USDA.
Notice of intent to prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement.
AGENCY:
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ACTION:
SUMMARY: In accordance with the
President’s Council on Environmental
Quality Regulations Implementing the
Procedural Provisions of the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest
Service, announces its intent to prepare
an environmental impact statement to
document and publicly disclose the
environmental effects of proposed
construction and operation of an openpit mine on National Forest System land
and the effects of any necessary
amendments to the Coronado National
Forest Land and Resource Management
Plan. The proposed mining project
would be located on 995 acres of private
land and 3,670 acres of National Forest
System land about 30 miles southeast of
Tucson, Arizona, within Townships 18
and 19, Ranges 15 and 16, Gila and Salt
River Meridian, Pima County, Arizona.
Land under the jurisdiction of the U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Land Management, and the State of
Arizona may be affected by certain
activities associated with the proposed
project. Production of 234 million
pounds of copper, 4.5 million pounds of
molybdenum, and 2.7 million ounces of
silver is estimated annually over a
period of approximately 20 years.
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To be given full consideration
during this National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA) review, written and
oral comments concerning the scope of
the environmental impact statement
(EIS) analysis must be received by the
Coronado National Forest (Forest)
within 30 days following the
publication of this notice in the Federal
Register. Written and oral comments
may also be submitted during open
houses that will be held by the Forest
Service as follows:
1. March 18, 2008, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.,
Pima Community College, Desert Vista
Campus, 5901 South Calle Santa Cruz,
Tucson, Arizona;
2. March 19, 2008, 6:30 p.m. to
8:30 p.m., Canoa Hills Recreation
Center, 3660 South Camino del Sol,
Green Valley, Arizona; and
3. March 20, 2008, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m.,
Patagonia Union High School, Highway
82, Patagonia, Arizona.
A Draft EIS (DEIS) for the Rosemont
Copper Project (Project) is expected to
be filed with the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) in March 2009,
at which time EPA will publish a Notice
of Availability (NOA) of the Draft EIS in
the Federal Register. The NOA will
begin a period of public review of the
DEIS that will extend 45 days from the
date of publication of the NOA in the
Federal Register. The Final EIS (FEIS)
and a Record of Decision (ROD) are
scheduled to be completed in November
2009.
ADDRESSES: Written comments on this
notice may be mailed or hand-delivered
to ATTN: Ms. Beverley Everson,
Geologist, Coronado National Forest,
300 W. Congress St., Tucson, Arizona
85701. Comments may be also be
submitted by facsimile to (520) 388–
8305 and by electronic mail (e-mail) to
comments-southwesterncoronado@fs.fed.us. Postal envelopes
and the subject line of email and
facsimiles should include the words
‘‘Rosemont Copper Project EIS.’’
Addresses for open house meetings are
given above.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information on the Rosemont
Copper Project (Project), please contact
Ms. Beverley Everson in writing at the
address above or by telephone at (520)
388–8428. Questions on the Forest
Service NEPA process may be directed
to Ms. Andrea Wargo Campbell, Forest
NEPA Coordinator, at the same address
and telephone (520) 388–8352.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DATES:
Background
The Project area is located on the
Nogales Ranger District, Coronado
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National Forest, in the northern Santa
Rita Mountains in Pima County,
Arizona, where production of copper
began in the 1880s and continued until
1951. Although several exploration
projects have been undertaken since
then, there has been no recent
production of copper ore. In the past
few years, a significant increase in the
value of copper has made mining of
certain claims in the area economically
viable.
The Project is proposed by the
Rosemont Copper Company (Company),
a subsidiary of Augusta Resource
Corporation, which acquired the
Rosemont Mine property in 2005. In
July 2007, the Company submitted a
Mine Plan of Operations (MPO),
including a reclamation plan, to the
Forest, requesting approval to construct
and operate ore-mining and related
facilities on and adjacent to National
Forest System (NFS) land in Pima
County, Arizona.
There are 132 patented lode claims,
850 unpatented lode claims, and 14
parcels of fee land in the Project area.
Lode deposits that would be mined as
part of the Project are, for the most part,
on Company (private) property. Most
unpatented claims were staked on
Federal land managed by the Forest
Service; however, a few of these claims
in the northwest portion of the property
are on Federal land managed by the
BLM.
Proposed Action
The EIS will disclose the potential
environmental and social impacts of (1)
Approval by the Forest Service of an
MPO and reclamation plan that
addresses construction and operation of
an open-pit mine and related facilities
on claims held by the Company, and (2)
amendment of the Coronado National
Forest Land and Resource Management
Plan (Forest Plan), if necessary, to allow
specific mining activities to be
undertaken on NFS land. Connected
actions related to the MPO (e.g.,
construction of roads, utilities) will also
be evaluated in the EIS, regardless of
whether they are proposed to be
undertaken on NFS land. Impacts of
reasonably foreseeable actions in the
Project area will be considered in
combination with the impacts of the
Project to estimate the potential
cumulative impacts of Project
implementation.
The Project would be undertaken on
a mosaic of privately owned and
Federally managed land. Extraction of
ore from an approximately 2,900-footdeep open-pit mine would be conducted
primarily on private land. Processing,
waste management, and other support
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[FR Doc No: E8-4989]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Farm Service Agency
Request for an Extension of a Currently Approved Information
Collection; County Committee Elections
AGENCY: Farm Service Agency, USDA.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Farm Service Agency (FSA) is seeking comments from all interested
individuals and entities on an extension of a currently approved
information collection associated with the FSA County Committee
Elections. The collection of information from FSA Farmers and Ranchers
is used to receive nominations from eligible voters for the County
Committee.
DATES: Comments on this notice must be received on or before May 12,
2008 to be assured consideration.
Additional Information: We invite you to submit comments on this
Notice. In your comment, include volume, date and page number of this
issue of the Federal Register. You may submit comments by any of the
following methods:
Mail: Kenneth Nagel, Field Operations Manager for the Deputy
Administrator for Field Operations, Farm Service Agency, USDA, STOP
0542, 1400 Independence Avenue, Washington, DC 20250.
E-mail: Send comments to: Kenneth.nagel@wdc.usda.gov.
Fax: (202) 720-6964.
Comments also should be sent to the Desk Officer for Agriculture,
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, Washington, DC 20503.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kenneth Nagel, Field Operations
Manager, telephone (202) 720-7890.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: County Committee Election.
OMB Control Number: 0560-0229.
Expiration Date of Approval: September 30, 2008.
Type of Request: Extension.
Abstract: This information collection is necessary to effectively
allow farmers and ranchers to nominate potential candidates for the
county committee election in accordance with the requirements as
authorized by the Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act, as
amended. Specifically, the Agency uses the information annually or if
needed through-out the year for special elections to create ballots for
county committee elections.
Estimate of Respondent Burden: Public reporting burden for this
collection of information is estimated to average 10 minutes per
response. The average travel time, which is included in the total
burden, is estimated to be 1 hour per respondent.
Respondents: Any individual with farming interest in the Local
Administrative Area (LAA) (eligible voters).
Estimated Number of Respondents: 10,000.
Estimated Number of Responses per Respondent: 1.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on Respondents: 6700.
Comments are invited on:
(1) Whether the collection of information is necessary for the
proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether
information will have practical utility;
(2) The accuracy of the agency's estimate of burden including the
validity of the methodology and assumptions used;
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(3) Ways to enhance the quality, utility and clarity of the
information collected; or
(4) Ways to minimize the burden of the information collection on
those who are to respond through the use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
All responses received in response to this notice, including names
and addresses when provided, will be a matter of public records.
Comments will be summarized and included in the request for Office of
Management and Budget approval of the information collection.
Signed in Washington, DC on March 6, 2008.
Teresa C. Lasseter,
Administrator, Farm Service Agency.
[FR Doc. E8-4989 Filed 3-12-08; 8:45 am]
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