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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection
Service
[Docket No. APHIS–2010–0125]
Secretary’s Advisory Committee on
Animal Health; Meeting
Animal and Plant Health
Inspection Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of public meeting.
AGENCY:
This is a notice to inform the
public of the first meeting of the
Secretary’s Advisory Committee on
Animal Health. The meeting is being
organized by the Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service.
DATES: The meeting will be held January
20 and 21, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
each day.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in
the Jamie L. Whitten Building, 1400
Independence Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20250, in rooms 104–
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Officer, Veterinary Services, APHIS,
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Secretary’s Advisory Committee on
Animal Health (the Committee) advises
the Secretary of Agriculture on means to
prevent, conduct surveillance on,
monitor, control, or eradicate animal
diseases of national importance. In
doing so, the Committee will consider
public health, conservation of natural
resources, and the stability of livestock
economies.
Tentative topics for discussion at the
upcoming meeting include:
• Animal disease traceability.
• Aquaculture and animal health.
• Emergency response and
management.
• Trade and emerging global animal
health issues.
• The U.S. Department of
Agriculture’s role in public health
initiatives.
• National disease management
programs.
• Veterinary Services reorganization
efforts.
Additional details on the agenda and
meeting can be found on the
Committee’s Web site at https://
www.aphis.usda.gov/animal_health/
acah/.
The meeting will be open to the
public and attendees should plan to
arrive between 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. Picture
identification is required to gain access
to the Whitten Building. The Animal
and Plant Health Inspection Service
(APHIS), which is organizing the
meeting, asks that those planning to
attend the meeting let APHIS know by
sending an email through an access
portal on the Committee’s Web site or
directly to
SACAH.Management@aphis.usda.gov.
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Kevin Shea,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Sisters Ranger District; Deschutes
National Forest; Oregon; Popper
Vegetation Management Project
Forest Service, USDA.
Notice of intent to prepare an
environmental impact statement.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The USDA, Forest Service,
will prepare an Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) on a proposed action to
manage forest fuels and forest stand
densities, including areas within a
designated wildland urban interface, on
the Sisters Ranger District, Deschutes
National Forest. In addition, the
proposal would decommission and
close Forest Roads. The proposed action
would be located on National Forest
System lands south of the city of Sisters,
Oregon; east of the Three Sisters
Wilderness; north of the boundary with
the BendFort Rock Ranger District; and
west of the 33,000 acre Cascade
Timberlands property which is being
considered as a future Community
Forest. The legal location is Townships
16 and 17 south and Range 9 east,
Willamette Meridian. The project area is
managed under the Northwest Forest
Plan: Matrix (12,813 acres); Late
Successional Reserve (3,078 acres); and
Administratively Withdrawn (1,301
acres). The project area also contains
1,336 acres of Riparian Reserves. The
alternatives will include the proposed
action, no action, and additional
alternatives that respond to issues
generated during the scoping process.
The agency will give notice of the full
environmental analysis and the decision
making process so interested and
affected people may participate and
contribute to the final decision.
DATES: Comments concerning the scope
of analysis should be received by 30
days following the date that this notice
appears in the Federal Register.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments to
Michael Keown, Team Leader, Sisters
Ranger District, Pine Street and
Highway 20, POB 249, Sisters, Oregon
97759, or submit to commentspacificnorthwest-deschutessisters@fs.fed.us. Please put ‘‘Popper
Vegetation Management Project’’ in the
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subject line of your e-mail. You will
have another opportunity for comment
when the alternatives have been
developed and the Environmental
Impact Statement is made available.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michael Keown, Team Leader, Sisters
Ranger District, Pine Street and
Highway 20, POB 249, Sisters, Oregon
97759, phone (541) 549–7700.
Responsible Official: The responsible
offical will be John Allen, Deschutes
National Forest Supervisor, 1001 SW
Emkay, Bend, Oregon 97701.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Purpose and Need: The need for this
site specific proposal is to reduce fuels
loadings and forest vegetation density to
lessen the risk that ongoing disturbance
agents such as wildfire, insects, and
disease would lead to a large scale
threat to public firefighter, nearby
communities and private property, and
loss of key ecosystem components such
as special habitats, scenic views, and
large trees. The purpose of the project is
to reduce the threat of large scale
wildfire to people, property, and
important ecosystem components;
improve forest health; contribute wood
products and restoration work to the
local and regional economy; and
reintroduce fire in fire dependent
ecosystems in the Popper project area.
Proposed Action: The Forest Service
proposed action would include
combinations of thinning forest stands,
mowing brush, and controlled burning
of forest fuels on about 12,390 acres of
the 17,194-acre project area, including
about 4,277 acres in a designated
wildland-urban interface. About 2,259
acres of thinning would occur within
existing tree plantations to create more
structurally diverse forests; about 1,418
acres of the lodgepole pine plant
community would be managed to
maintain ongoing public firewood
cutting; about 2,480 acres would be
thinned from below to maintain fire
climax ponderosa pine; about 1,344
acres would be thinned and group
openings created to restore and
maintain ponderosa pine in the mixed
conifer plant community; about 583
acres would be thinned, mowed, and
burned to control dwarf mistletoe in
ponderosa pine stands; about 3,201
acres of Inventoried Roadless Area (IRA)
would be prescribed burned to provide
a mosaic of age classes and stand
structures within large areas of
homogeneous stand structure (no roads
will be built and no timber will be sold
in Inventoried Roadless Areas); about
235 acres of Riparian Reserves would be
thinned and burned to maintain and
restore riparian function; and about 521
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acres would be prescribed burned only
to manage in-growth of trees, reduce
forest fuels, and reintroduce fire back
into the ecosystem. About 4,648 acres in
the Popper project area would not be
treated to provide a spatial array of acres
across the area to provide dispersal and
foraging habitat for various wildlife
species and other ecological processes.
These no treatment areas include
nesting, roosting, and foraging habitat
for the northern spotted owl; areas of
topography greater than 35% slope; and
sensitive habitats among others.
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 part 215. 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 Fall
2011. 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 Spring 2012.
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
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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 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 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, Deschutes
National Forest. The responsible official
will decide where, and whether or not
to treat forest stands to achieve the
purpose and need for the project. 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 Popper Vegetation Management
Project 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: December 27, 2010.
Robert Flores,
Acting District Ranger, Sisters Ranger District.
[FR Doc. 2010–33090 Filed 1–3–11; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Sisters Ranger District; Deschutes National Forest; Oregon;
Popper Vegetation Management Project
AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.
ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an environmental impact statement.
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SUMMARY: The USDA, Forest Service, will prepare an Environmental Impact
Statement (EIS) on a proposed action to manage forest fuels and forest
stand densities, including areas within a designated wildland urban
interface, on the Sisters Ranger District, Deschutes National Forest.
In addition, the proposal would decommission and close Forest Roads.
The proposed action would be located on National Forest System lands
south of the city of Sisters, Oregon; east of the Three Sisters
Wilderness; north of the boundary with the BendFort Rock Ranger
District; and west of the 33,000 acre Cascade Timberlands property
which is being considered as a future Community Forest. The legal
location is Townships 16 and 17 south and Range 9 east, Willamette
Meridian. The project area is managed under the Northwest Forest Plan:
Matrix (12,813 acres); Late Successional Reserve (3,078 acres); and
Administratively Withdrawn (1,301 acres). The project area also
contains 1,336 acres of Riparian Reserves. The alternatives will
include the proposed action, no action, and additional alternatives
that respond to issues generated during the scoping process. The agency
will give notice of the full environmental analysis and the decision
making process so interested and affected people may participate and
contribute to the final decision.
DATES: Comments concerning the scope of analysis should be received by
30 days following the date that this notice appears in the Federal
Register.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments to Michael Keown, Team Leader, Sisters
Ranger District, Pine Street and Highway 20, POB 249, Sisters, Oregon
97759, or submit to comments-pacificnorthwest-deschutes-sisters@fs.fed.us. Please put ``Popper Vegetation Management Project''
in the
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subject line of your e-mail. You will have another opportunity for
comment when the alternatives have been developed and the Environmental
Impact Statement is made available.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Keown, Team Leader, Sisters
Ranger District, Pine Street and Highway 20, POB 249, Sisters, Oregon
97759, phone (541) 549-7700.
Responsible Official: The responsible offical will be John Allen,
Deschutes National Forest Supervisor, 1001 SW Emkay, Bend, Oregon
97701.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Purpose and Need: The need for this site specific proposal is to
reduce fuels loadings and forest vegetation density to lessen the risk
that ongoing disturbance agents such as wildfire, insects, and disease
would lead to a large scale threat to public firefighter, nearby
communities and private property, and loss of key ecosystem components
such as special habitats, scenic views, and large trees. The purpose of
the project is to reduce the threat of large scale wildfire to people,
property, and important ecosystem components; improve forest health;
contribute wood products and restoration work to the local and regional
economy; and reintroduce fire in fire dependent ecosystems in the
Popper project area.
Proposed Action: The Forest Service proposed action would include
combinations of thinning forest stands, mowing brush, and controlled
burning of forest fuels on about 12,390 acres of the 17,194-acre
project area, including about 4,277 acres in a designated wildland-
urban interface. About 2,259 acres of thinning would occur within
existing tree plantations to create more structurally diverse forests;
about 1,418 acres of the lodgepole pine plant community would be
managed to maintain ongoing public firewood cutting; about 2,480 acres
would be thinned from below to maintain fire climax ponderosa pine;
about 1,344 acres would be thinned and group openings created to
restore and maintain ponderosa pine in the mixed conifer plant
community; about 583 acres would be thinned, mowed, and burned to
control dwarf mistletoe in ponderosa pine stands; about 3,201 acres of
Inventoried Roadless Area (IRA) would be prescribed burned to provide a
mosaic of age classes and stand structures within large areas of
homogeneous stand structure (no roads will be built and no timber will
be sold in Inventoried Roadless Areas); about 235 acres of Riparian
Reserves would be thinned and burned to maintain and restore riparian
function; and about 521 acres would be prescribed burned only to manage
in-growth of trees, reduce forest fuels, and reintroduce fire back into
the ecosystem. About 4,648 acres in the Popper project area would not
be treated to provide a spatial array of acres across the area to
provide dispersal and foraging habitat for various wildlife species and
other ecological processes. These no treatment areas include nesting,
roosting, and foraging habitat for the northern spotted owl; areas of
topography greater than 35% slope; and sensitive habitats among others.
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 part 215.
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 Fall 2011. 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 Spring 2012.
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 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
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, Deschutes National Forest. The responsible official
will decide where, and whether or not to treat forest stands to achieve
the purpose and need for the project. 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 Popper Vegetation Management Project 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: December 27, 2010.
Robert Flores,
Acting District Ranger, Sisters Ranger District.
[FR Doc. 2010-33090 Filed 1-3-11; 8:45 am]
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