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entirety. Comments submitted
anonymously will be accepted and
considered; however, those who submit
anonymous comments will not have
standing to appeal the subsequent
decision under 36 CFR part 215.
Comments and FS responses will be
addressed and contained in the Final
EIS.
Early Notice of Importance of Public
Participation in Subsequent
Environmental Review
A draft environmental impact
statement will be prepared for comment.
The comment period on the draft
environmental impact statement will be
45 days from the date the
Environmental Protection Agency
publishes the notice of availability in
the Federal Register.
The Forest Service believes, at this
early 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 by the close of the
comment period so that substantive
comments and objections are made
available to the Forest Service at a time
when it can meaningfully consider them
and respond to them in the final
environmental impact statement.
To assist the Forest Service in
identifying and considering issues and
concerns on the proposed action,
comments on the draft environmental
impact statement should be as specific
as possible. It is also helpful if
comments refer to specific pages or
chapters of the draft statement.
Comments may also address the
adequacy of the draft environmental
impact statement or the merits of the
alternatives formulated and discussed in
the statement. Reviewers may wish to
refer to the Council on Environmental
Quality Regulations for implementing
the procedural provisions of the
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National Environmental Policy Act at 40
CFR 1503.3 in addressing these points.
Comments received, including the
names and addresses of those who
comment, will be considered part of the
public record on this proposal and will
be available for public inspection.
Authority: 40 CFR 1501.7 and 1508.22;
Forest Service Handbook 1909.15, Section
21.
Dated: March 11, 2008.
Larry R. Velarde,
Acting District Ranger.
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written comments to the Lake Tahoe
Basin Management Unit at the contact
address stated above.
Dated: March 13, 2008.
Gina Thompson,
Acting Forest Supervisor.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
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New Mexico Collaborative Forest
Restoration Program Technical
Advisory Panel
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
AGENCY:
Forest Service
ACTION:
Lake Tahoe Basin Federal Advisory
Committee
SUMMARY: The New Mexico
Collaborative Forest Restoration
Program Technical Advisory Panel will
meet in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The
purpose of the meeting is to provide
recommendations to the Regional
Forester, USDA Forest Service
Southwestern Region, on which forest
restoration grant proposals submitted in
response to the Collaborative Forest
Restoration Program Request For
Proposals best meet the objectives of the
Community Forest Restoration Act
(Title VI, Pub. L. No. 106–393).
DATES: The meeting will be held April
21–25, 2008, beginning at 1 p.m. on
Monday, April 21 and ending at
approximately 4 p.m. on Friday, April
25.
Forest Service, USDA.
Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: The Lake Tahoe Basin Federal
Advisory Committee will hold a
meeting on April 4, 2008, at the Aspen
Room, Lake Tahoe Community College,
One College Drive, South Lake Tahoe,
CA 96150. This Committee, established
by the Secretary of Agriculture on
December 15, 1998 (64 FR 2876), is
chartered to provide advice to the
Secretary on implementing the terms of
the Federal Interagency Partnership on
the Lake Tahoe Region and other
matters raised by the Secretary.
DATES: The meeting will be held April
4, 2008, beginning at 1 p.m. and ending
at 4 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at
the Aspen Room, Lake Tahoe
Community College, One College Drive,
South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Arla
Hains, Lake Tahoe Basin Management
Unit, Forest Service, 35 College Drive,
South Lake Tahoe, CA 96150, (530)
543–2773.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Items to
be covered on the agenda include: (1)
Final recommendation for the Southern
Nevada Public Land Management Act
(SNPLMA) Round 9 Capital projects;
and, (2) Public Hearing. All Lake Tahoe
Basin Federal Advisory Committee
meetings are open to the public.
Interested citizens are encouraged to
attend at the above address. Issues may
be brought to the attention of the
Committee during the open public
comment period at the meeting or by
filing written statements with the
Secretary for the Committee before or
after the meeting. Please refer any
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Forest Service, USDA.
Notice of meeting.
The meeting will be held at
the MCM Elegante Hotel, 2020 Menaul
NE, Albuquerque, NM 87107, Tel. 505–
884–2511. Written comments should be
sent to Walter Dunn, at the Cooperative
and International Forestry Staff, USDA
Forest Service, 333 Broadway SE,
Albuquerque, NM 87102. Comments
may also be sent via e-mail to
wdunn@fs.fed.us, or via facsimile to
Walter Dunn at (505) 842–3165.
All comments, including names and
addresses when provided, are placed in
the record and are available for public
inspection and copying. The public may
inspect comments received at the
Cooperative and International Forestry
Staff, USDA Forest Service, 333
Broadway SE, Albuquerque, or during
the Panel meeting at the MCM Elegante
Hotel, 2020 Menaul NE, Albuquerque,
NM 87107, Tel. 505–884–2511.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Walter Dunn, Designated Federal
Official, at (505) 842–3425, or Melissa
Zaksek, at (505) 842–3289, Cooperative
and International Forestry Staff, USDA
ADDRESSES:
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Forest Service, 333 Broadway SE,
Albuquerque, NM 87102.
Individuals who use
telecommunication devices for the deaf
(TDD) may call the Federal Information
Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339
between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern
Standard Time, Monday through Friday.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
meeting is open to the public. Panel
discussion is limited to Forest Service
staff and Panel members. However,
project proponents may respond to
questions of clarification from Panel
members or Forest Service staff. Persons
who wish to bring Collaborative Forest
Restoration Program grant proposal
review matters to the attention of the
Panel may file written statements with
the Panel staff before or after the
meeting. Public input sessions will be
provided and individuals who
submitted written statements prior to
the public input sessions will have the
opportunity to address the Panel at
those sessions.
Dated: March 13, 2008.
Faye L. Krueger,
Deputy Regional Forester.
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COMMITTEE FOR PURCHASE FROM
PEOPLE WHO ARE BLIND OR
SEVERELY DISABLED
Information Collection Submitted to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for Approval Under the
Paperwork Reduction Act; Nonprofit
Agency Recordkeeping Requirements
Committee for Purchase From
People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled.
ACTION: Notice; request for comments.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Committee for Purchase
From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled (The Committee) is submitting
the collection of information listed
below to OMB for approval under the
provisions of the Paperwork Reduction
Act. This notice solicits comments on
that collection of information.
DATES: The Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) has up to 60 days to
approve or disapprove information
collection but may respond after 30
days. Therefore, to ensure maximum
consideration, your comments should
be received by OMB by April 20, 2008.
ADDRESSES: Written comments should
be addressed to the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Attention: Desk Officer for the
Committee for Purchase from People
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Who Are Blind or Severely Disabled,
Office of Management and Budget, 725
17th Street, NW., Room 10222,
Washington, DC 20503. Commenters are
encouraged to submit responses
electronically by e-mail to:
oira_submission@omb.eop.gov or via fax
to (202) 395–6974. Commenters should
include the following subject line in
their response: ‘‘Comment: 3037–0005
Nonprofit Agency Responsibilities.’’
Persons submitting comments
electronically should not submit paper
copies.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Janet Yandik, Information Management
Specialist, Committee for Purchase
From People Who Are Blind or Severely
Disabled, 1421 Jefferson Davis Highway,
Jefferson Plaza 2, Suite 10800,
Arlington, VA 22202–3259; phone (703)
603–2147; fax (703) 603–0655; or e-mail
rulescomment@abilityone.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office
of Management and Budget (OMB)
regulations at 5 CFR part 1320, which
implement provisions of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501
et seq.), require that interested members
of the public and affected agencies have
an opportunity to comment on
information collection and
recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR
1320.8(d)). The Committee is submitting
a request to OMB to renew its approval
of the collection of information for
nonprofit agency responsibilities related
to recordkeeping. The Committee is
requesting a 3-year term of approval for
this information collection activity.
Federal agencies may not conduct or
sponsor, and a person is not required to
respond to, a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number. The OMB control
number for this collection of
information is 3037–0005.
The Javits-Wagner-O’Day (JWOD) Act
of 1971 (41 U.S.C. 46–48c) is the
authorizing legislation for the
AbilityOne Program. (The name of the
JWOD Program was changed to the
AbilityOne Program on November 28,
2006, Federal Register Volume 71,
Number 227, Page 68492–68494). The
AbilityOne Program creates jobs and
training opportunities for people who
are blind or who have other severe
disabilities. Its primary means of doing
so is by requiring Government agencies
to purchase selected products and
services from nonprofit agencies
employing such individuals. The JWOD
Act, through the AbilityOne Program, is
administered by the Committee. Two
national, independent organizations,
National Industries for the Blind (NIB)
and NISH, help State and private
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nonprofit agencies participate in the
AbilityOne Program. The implementing
regulations for the JWOD Act, which are
located at 41 CFR Chapter 51, detail the
recordkeeping requirements imposed on
nonprofit agencies participating in the
AbilityOne Program. Section 51–2.4 of
the regulations describes the criteria
that the Committee must consider when
adding a product or service to its
Procurement List. One of these criteria
is that a proposed addition must
demonstrate a potential to generate
employment for people who are blind or
severely disabled. The Committee
decided that evidence that employment
will be generated for those individuals
consists of recordkeeping that tracks
direct labor and revenues for products
or services sold through an AbilityOne
Program contract. This recordkeeping
can be done on each individual
AbilityOne project or by product or
service family. In addition, Section 51–
4.3 of the regulations requires that
nonprofit agencies keep records on
direct labor hours performed by each
worker and keep an individual record or
file for each blind or severely disabled
individual documenting that
individual’s disability and capabilities
for competitive employment. The
records that nonprofit agencies must
keep in accordance with Section 51–4.3
of the regulations constitute the bulk of
the hour burden associated with this
OMB control number.
On December 21, 2007, the Committee
published in the Federal Register
(Volume 72, Number 245, Pages 72665–
72666) a notice requesting public
comment on these recordkeeping
requirements for 60 days, ending
February 19, 2008. By that date, the
Committee received comments from 44
respondents with a total of 75
comments.
Seven comments were received
opposing the request by indicating that
this is a new recordkeeping
requirement. There is nothing new in
the Committee’s request. The Committee
did make a change in its recordkeeping
requirements in 2002 to add
recordkeeping of the direct labor hours
and sales for AbilityOne projects on at
least a product or service family basis.
This change was approved by OMB and
was renewed in 2005. There is no
change to the recordkeeping
requirements that the Committee is
requesting OMB to approve again.
Eight comments were received
questioning the necessity of the
recordkeeping requirement and if it has
any practical utility. The JWOD Act
requires that 75% of the direct labor of
all work done at a participating
nonprofit agency be done by people
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
New Mexico Collaborative Forest Restoration Program Technical
Advisory Panel
AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
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SUMMARY: The New Mexico Collaborative Forest Restoration Program
Technical Advisory Panel will meet in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The
purpose of the meeting is to provide recommendations to the Regional
Forester, USDA Forest Service Southwestern Region, on which forest
restoration grant proposals submitted in response to the Collaborative
Forest Restoration Program Request For Proposals best meet the
objectives of the Community Forest Restoration Act (Title VI, Pub. L.
No. 106-393).
DATES: The meeting will be held April 21-25, 2008, beginning at 1 p.m.
on Monday, April 21 and ending at approximately 4 p.m. on Friday, April
25.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the MCM Elegante Hotel, 2020
Menaul NE, Albuquerque, NM 87107, Tel. 505-884-2511. Written comments
should be sent to Walter Dunn, at the Cooperative and International
Forestry Staff, USDA Forest Service, 333 Broadway SE, Albuquerque, NM
87102. Comments may also be sent via e-mail to wdunn@fs.fed.us, or via
facsimile to Walter Dunn at (505) 842-3165.
All comments, including names and addresses when provided, are
placed in the record and are available for public inspection and
copying. The public may inspect comments received at the Cooperative
and International Forestry Staff, USDA Forest Service, 333 Broadway SE,
Albuquerque, or during the Panel meeting at the MCM Elegante Hotel,
2020 Menaul NE, Albuquerque, NM 87107, Tel. 505-884-2511.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Walter Dunn, Designated Federal
Official, at (505) 842-3425, or Melissa Zaksek, at (505) 842-3289,
Cooperative and International Forestry Staff, USDA
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Forest Service, 333 Broadway SE, Albuquerque, NM 87102.
Individuals who use telecommunication devices for the deaf (TDD)
may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339
between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, Monday through
Friday.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The meeting is open to the public. Panel
discussion is limited to Forest Service staff and Panel members.
However, project proponents may respond to questions of clarification
from Panel members or Forest Service staff. Persons who wish to bring
Collaborative Forest Restoration Program grant proposal review matters
to the attention of the Panel may file written statements with the
Panel staff before or after the meeting. Public input sessions will be
provided and individuals who submitted written statements prior to the
public input sessions will have the opportunity to address the Panel at
those sessions.
Dated: March 13, 2008.
Faye L. Krueger,
Deputy Regional Forester.
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