Ochoco National Forest, Lookout Mountain Ranger District; Oregon; Mill Creek; Allotment Management Plans EIS, 3195-3196 [2010-811]
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Number of
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Type of respondents
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600
Estimated
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responses per
respondent
Average burden
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Request for Comments: Comments
submitted in response to this notice will
be summarized and/or included in the
request for OMB approval of the
information collection. All comments
will become a matter of public record.
Comments are invited on: (a) Whether
the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the VMLRP,
including whether the information will
have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of
the public burden estimate (the
estimated amount of time needed for
individual respondents to provide the
requested information), including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used; (c) ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; (d) ways to
minimize the public burden through the
use of appropriate automated,
electronic, mechanical, or other
technological collection techniques or
other forms of information technology;
and (e) estimates of capital or start-up
costs and costs of operation,
maintenance, and purchase of services
to provide information.
Obtaining a Copy of the Information
Collection: A copy of the information
collection is available at the VMLRP
Web site: https://www.nifa.usda.gov/
vmlrp.
(c) List of Recommenders: Identifies
colleagues that can speak to the
applicant’s capability to fulfill program
obligations. A minimum of three
recommendations is required for each
application.
(d) Loan Information Form:
Authorizes the disclosure of information
to the lenders and their authorized
collection agents to confirm that the
applicant’s loans are current in their
repayment status.
(e) Contract: A legal agreement that
binds the selected applicant and the
Secretary of USDA and/or NIFA
Director to the terms and conditions for
participation in the VMLRP, including
obligations of both parties.
(f) Certifications for Application:
Validates the contractual agreement,
accuracy of information provided by the
applicant, and request for confidential
recommendations.
(g) Intent of Employment: Section 1
provides information on the shortage
situation the applicant intends to fill
upon receipt of a VMLRP award.
Section 2 confirms the applicant’s
ability to secure an offer of employment
or establish and/or maintain a practice
in a veterinary shortage situation within
the time period specified in the VMLRP
service agreement offer.
Proposed VMLRP Application Forms
and Reporting Requirements
II. Recommendation Form
Pursuant to the requirements enacted
in the NVMSA of 2004 (as revised), and
the implementing regulation for this
Act, the National Institute of Food and
Agriculture hereby proposes to
implement:
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I. Application Forms
The following forms are to be
completed and submitted by the
applicant by the established deadline.
(a) Applicant Information Form:
Collects relevant identifying, contact,
and employment information from the
applicant. Authorizes the disclosure of
information that confirms the applicant
is not under a service obligation or has
a Federal judgment lien against his/her
property.
(b) Personal Statement: Includes a
discussion of applicant knowledge,
skills, abilities, and experience relative
to the shortage situation applied for.
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To be completed and submitted by
colleagues identified by the applicant
no later than 15 days after the
established application deadline.
Includes ratings and short answers to
assess applicant’s capabilities to provide
veterinary services in the specific
shortage situation the applicant is
applying for. At least three separate
recommendations are required.
III. Reporting Requirements
Program participants will be required
to verify that the terms of the VMLRP
contract are being met on a quarterly
basis. Subsequent quarterly loan
repayments will not be disbursed until
this verification is provided. This report
will be due ten business days after the
end of each three month interval during
the VMLRP contract for the previous
three month period and must include:
(a) A listing of states, counties, and/
or insular areas served.
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Annual
burden hours
requested
1,350
(b) A listing of veterinary services and
activities provided in the shortage
situation.
(c) Percentage time (on a 40-hour
week basis) providing service to
veterinary shortage situation identified
in the agreement.
Program participants are responsible
for notifying NIFA of any changes in the
service being provided in the specified
shortage situation during the three-year
period. It is strongly recommended that
program participants advise NIFA of
these changes at least two months in
advance to allow sufficient processing
time. Failure to provide the updated
information may result in the
termination of the VMLRP contract and
the program participant may be subject
to penalties as outlined in Section C,
Paragraph 3 of the contract.
Done at Washington, DC, January 12, 2010.
Dr. Molly Jahn,
Acting Under Secretary for Research,
Education, and Economics.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Ochoco National Forest, Lookout
Mountain Ranger District; Oregon; Mill
Creek; Allotment Management Plans
EIS
Forest Service, USDA.
Notice of intent to prepare an
environmental impact statement.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: The Ochoco National Forest is
preparing an environmental impact
statement (EIS) to analyze the effects of
changing grazing management in four
grazing allotments on the Lookout
Mountain Ranger District. These four
allotments are: Cox, Craig, Mill Creek,
and Old Dry Creek. The proposed action
will reauthorize term grazing permits,
make rangeland improvements, improve
transitory range condition, manage
livestock use and distribution to
facilitate the improvement of riparian
conditions, including streambank
stability, riparian vegetation, and water
temperature, and will conduct riparian
restoration activities on some streams in
the project area. These actions are
needed to achieve and maintain
consistency with the Ochoco National
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Forest Land and Resource Management
Plan, as amended.
DATES: Comments concerning the scope
of the analysis must be received by
February 19, 2010. The draft
environmental impact statement is
expected to be completed and available
for public comment in June 2010. The
final environmental impact statement is
expected to be completed in September
2010.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments to
Bill Queen, District Ranger, Lookout
Mountain District, Ochoco National
Forest, 3160 NE. Third Street,
Prineville, Oregon 97754. Alternately,
electronic comments may be sent to
comments-pacificnorthwestochoco@fs.fed.us. Electronic comments
must be submitted as part of the actual
e-mail message, or as an attachment in
plain text (.txt), Microsoft Word (.doc),
rich text format (.rtf), or portable
document format (.pdf).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tory
Kurtz, Project Leader, at 3160 NE. Third
Street, Prineville, Oregon 97754, or at
(541) 416–6500, or by e-mail at
tlkurtz@fs.fed.us.
Responsible Official: The responsible
official will be Jeff Walter, Forest
Supervisor, Ochoco National Forest,
3160 NE. Third Street, Prineville,
Oregon 97754.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Purpose and Need. The purpose of
this proposal is to reauthorize livestock
grazing consistent with Forest Plan
standards and guidelines. There is a
need to make range improvements and
change livestock management to move
towards desired conditions for stream
shade and bank stability. Based on
surveys many of the streams in the
project area do not meet the desired
condition for shade or bank stability.
Livestock grazing is one of the factors
that contribute to low levels of shade
and unstable stream banks. Active
riparian restoration activities will
facilitate the achievement of the desired
condition.
Proposed Action. The proposed action
includes a variety of management
strategies and activities, including
active management of livestock, resting
of some areas while riparian resources
improve, implementation of deferred
rotation grazing systems, new water
developments, relocation or
improvement of existing water
developments, protection of heritage
resources, planting of riparian
hardwoods, placing logs and rocks in
and along stream channels, protection of
riparian vegetation and streambanks,
and temporary reductions in AUMs.
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Issues. Preliminary issues identified
include the potential effect of the
proposed action on livestock grazing, on
heritage resources, on fisheries, on
sensitive plants, and on the introduction
and/or spread of invasive plants, as well
as the cumulative effects of the
proposed action where associated
activities overlap with other
management activities.
Comment. Public comments about
this proposal are requested in order to
assist in identifying issues, determine
how to best manage the resources, and
to focus the analysis. Comments
received to this notice, including names
and addresses of those who comment,
will be considered part of the public
record on this proposed action and will
be available for public inspection.
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 parts 215 and 217. Additionally,
pursuant to 7 CFR 1.27(d), any person
may request the agency to withhold a
submission from the public record by
showing how the Freedom of
Information Act (FOIA) permits such
confidentiality. Persons requesting such
confidentiality should be aware that,
under FOIA, confidentiality may be
granted in only very limited
circumstances, such as to protect trade
secrets. The Forest Service will inform
the requester of the agency’s decision
regarding the request for confidentiality,
and where the request is denied, the
agency will return the submission and
notify the requester that the comments
may be resubmitted with or without
name and address within a specified
number of days.
A draft EIS will be filed with the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
and available for public review by June,
2010. The EPA will publish a Notice of
Availability (NOA) of the draft EIS in
the Federal Register. The final EIS is
scheduled to be available September,
2010.
The comment period on the draft EIS
will be 45 days from the date the EPA
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 a draft EIS 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)].
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Also, environmental objections that
could be raised at the draft EIS stage but
that are not raised until after completion
of the final EIS may be waived or
dismissed by the courts [City of Angoon
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 45-day
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 EIS.
To assist the Forest Service in
identifying and considering issues and
concerns on the proposed action,
comments on the draft EIS 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 EIS of 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 National Environmental Policy
Act at 40 CFR 1503.3 in addressing
these points.
In the final EIS, the Forest Service is
required to respond to substantive
comments received during the comment
period for the draft EIS. The Forest
Service is the lead agency and the
responsible official is the Forest
Supervisor, Ochoco National Forest.
The responsible official will decide
whether and how to reissue grazing
permits in the Cox, Craig, Mill Creek
and Old Dry Creek allotments. The
responsible official will also decide how
to mitigate impacts of these actions and
will determine when and how
monitoring of effects will take place.
The Mill Creek Allotment
Management Plans decision and the
reasons for the decision will be
documented in the record of decision.
That decision will be subject to Forest
Service Appeal Regulations (35 CFR
Part 215).
Dated: January 12, 2010.
William R. Queen,
District Ranger.
[FR Doc. 2010–811 Filed 1–19–10; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Ochoco National Forest, Lookout Mountain Ranger District; Oregon;
Mill Creek; Allotment Management Plans EIS
AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement.
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SUMMARY: The Ochoco National Forest is preparing an environmental
impact statement (EIS) to analyze the effects of changing grazing
management in four grazing allotments on the Lookout Mountain Ranger
District. These four allotments are: Cox, Craig, Mill Creek, and Old
Dry Creek. The proposed action will reauthorize term grazing permits,
make rangeland improvements, improve transitory range condition, manage
livestock use and distribution to facilitate the improvement of
riparian conditions, including streambank stability, riparian
vegetation, and water temperature, and will conduct riparian
restoration activities on some streams in the project area. These
actions are needed to achieve and maintain consistency with the Ochoco
National
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Forest Land and Resource Management Plan, as amended.
DATES: Comments concerning the scope of the analysis must be received
by February 19, 2010. The draft environmental impact statement is
expected to be completed and available for public comment in June 2010.
The final environmental impact statement is expected to be completed in
September 2010.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments to Bill Queen, District Ranger,
Lookout Mountain District, Ochoco National Forest, 3160 NE. Third
Street, Prineville, Oregon 97754. Alternately, electronic comments may
be sent to comments-pacificnorthwest-ochoco@fs.fed.us. Electronic
comments must be submitted as part of the actual e-mail message, or as
an attachment in plain text (.txt), Microsoft Word (.doc), rich text
format (.rtf), or portable document format (.pdf).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tory Kurtz, Project Leader, at 3160
NE. Third Street, Prineville, Oregon 97754, or at (541) 416-6500, or by
e-mail at tlkurtz@fs.fed.us.
Responsible Official: The responsible official will be Jeff Walter,
Forest Supervisor, Ochoco National Forest, 3160 NE. Third Street,
Prineville, Oregon 97754.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Purpose and Need. The purpose of this proposal is to reauthorize
livestock grazing consistent with Forest Plan standards and guidelines.
There is a need to make range improvements and change livestock
management to move towards desired conditions for stream shade and bank
stability. Based on surveys many of the streams in the project area do
not meet the desired condition for shade or bank stability. Livestock
grazing is one of the factors that contribute to low levels of shade
and unstable stream banks. Active riparian restoration activities will
facilitate the achievement of the desired condition.
Proposed Action. The proposed action includes a variety of
management strategies and activities, including active management of
livestock, resting of some areas while riparian resources improve,
implementation of deferred rotation grazing systems, new water
developments, relocation or improvement of existing water developments,
protection of heritage resources, planting of riparian hardwoods,
placing logs and rocks in and along stream channels, protection of
riparian vegetation and streambanks, and temporary reductions in AUMs.
Issues. Preliminary issues identified include the potential effect
of the proposed action on livestock grazing, on heritage resources, on
fisheries, on sensitive plants, and on the introduction and/or spread
of invasive plants, as well as the cumulative effects of the proposed
action where associated activities overlap with other management
activities.
Comment. Public comments about this proposal are requested in order
to assist in identifying issues, determine how to best manage the
resources, and to focus the analysis. Comments received to this notice,
including names and addresses of those who comment, will be considered
part of the public record on this proposed action and will be available
for public inspection. 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 parts 215
and 217. Additionally, pursuant to 7 CFR 1.27(d), any person may
request the agency to withhold a submission from the public record by
showing how the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) permits such
confidentiality. Persons requesting such confidentiality should be
aware that, under FOIA, confidentiality may be granted in only very
limited circumstances, such as to protect trade secrets. The Forest
Service will inform the requester of the agency's decision regarding
the request for confidentiality, and where the request is denied, the
agency will return the submission and notify the requester that the
comments may be resubmitted with or without name and address within a
specified number of days.
A draft EIS will be filed with the Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) and available for public review by June, 2010. The EPA will
publish a Notice of Availability (NOA) of the draft EIS in the Federal
Register. The final EIS is scheduled to be available September, 2010.
The comment period on the draft EIS will be 45 days from the date
the EPA 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
a draft EIS 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 EIS stage but that are not
raised until after completion of the final EIS may be waived or
dismissed by the courts [City of Angoon 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 45-day 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 EIS.
To assist the Forest Service in identifying and considering issues
and concerns on the proposed action, comments on the draft EIS 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 EIS of 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 National Environmental Policy Act at
40 CFR 1503.3 in addressing these points.
In the final EIS, the Forest Service is required to respond to
substantive comments received during the comment period for the draft
EIS. The Forest Service is the lead agency and the responsible official
is the Forest Supervisor, Ochoco National Forest. The responsible
official will decide whether and how to reissue grazing permits in the
Cox, Craig, Mill Creek and Old Dry Creek allotments. The responsible
official will also decide how to mitigate impacts of these actions and
will determine when and how monitoring of effects will take place.
The Mill Creek Allotment Management Plans decision and the reasons
for the decision will be documented in the record of decision. That
decision will be subject to Forest Service Appeal Regulations (35 CFR
Part 215).
Dated: January 12, 2010.
William R. Queen,
District Ranger.
[FR Doc. 2010-811 Filed 1-19-10; 8:45 am]
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