Department of Agriculture February 6, 2008 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

Basin Electric Power Cooperative, Inc.; Notice of Intent To Hold Public Scoping Meeting and Prepare an Environmental Assessment
Document Number: E8-2101
Type: Notice
Date: 2008-02-06
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Rural Utilities Service
The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) an Agency delivering the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Utilities Programs, hereinafter referred to as Rural Development and/or Agency, intends to hold a public scoping meeting and prepare an Environmental Assessment (EA) in connection with possible impacts related to a project being proposed by Basin Electric Power Cooperative, Inc. (Basin Electric), of Bismarck, North Dakota. The proposal consists of the construction and operation of a natural gas-fired combustion turbine generation facility referred to as the Culbertson Unit 1 East Side Peaking Project, consisting of a single maximum net 100 Megawatt (MW) unit, at a site near Culbertson, Montana.
Avocados Grown in South Florida; Order Amending Marketing Order No. 915
Document Number: 08-536
Type: Rule
Date: 2008-02-06
Agency: Agricultural Marketing Service, Department of Agriculture
This final rule amends Marketing Order No. 915 (order), which regulates the handling of avocados grown in South Florida. The amendments are based on those proposed by the Florida Avocado Administrative Committee (committee), which is responsible for local administration of the order. The amendments will: Add authority for the committee to borrow funds; revise voting requirements for changing the assessment rate; allow for District 1 nominations to be conducted by mail; and, add authority for the committee to accept voluntary contributions. All of the proposals were favored by avocado growers in a mail referendum, held July 23 through August 6, 2007. The amendments are intended to improve the operation and functioning of the marketing order program.
Centennial Salvage Timber Sale; Caribou-Targhee National Forest, Fremont and Clark Counties, ID
Document Number: 08-514
Type: Notice
Date: 2008-02-06
Agency: Department of Agriculture, Forest Service
The Forest Supervisor of the Caribou-Targhee National Forest gives notice of the agency's intent to withdraw the Centennial Salvage Timber Sale Environmental Impact Statement. The project is being withdrawn because the trees proposed for harvest are no longer marketable and the project, as originally proposed, no longer meets resource objectives. The original NOI was published in the Federal Register on September 9, 2004 (54627-54628). A revised NOI was published on December 1, 2004 (69883).
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