80_FR_48225 80 FR 48071 - Feral Swine Damage Management Final Environmental Impact Statement; Record of Decision

80 FR 48071 - Feral Swine Damage Management Final Environmental Impact Statement; Record of Decision

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 154 (August 11, 2015)

Page Range48071-48072
FR Document2015-19699

This notice advises the public of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service's record of decision for the final environmental impact statement titled ``Feral Swine Damage Management: A National Approach.''

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 154 (Tuesday, August 11, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 154 (Tuesday, August 11, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 48071-48072]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-19699]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service

[Docket No. APHIS-2013-0031]


Feral Swine Damage Management Final Environmental Impact 
Statement; Record of Decision

AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice advises the public of the Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service's record of decision for the final environmental 
impact statement titled ``Feral Swine Damage Management: A National 
Approach.''

DATES: Effective August 11, 2015.

ADDRESSES: You may read the final environmental impact statement and 
the record of decision in our reading room. The reading room is located 
in room 1141 of the USDA South Building, 14th Street and Independence 
Avenue SW., Washington, DC. Normal reading room hours are 8 a.m. to 
4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday, except holidays. To be sure someone 
is there to help you, please call (202) 799-7039 before coming.
    The record of decision, final environmental impact statement, and 
supporting information may also be found by visiting the APHIS feral 
swine environmental impact statement Web page at www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlife-damage/fseis. To obtain copies of the documents, contact the 
person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. Kimberly Wagner, USDA-APHIS 
Wildlife Services, 732 Lois Drive, Sun Prairie, WI; (608) 837-2737; 
[email protected].

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 12, 2015, the U.S. Environmental 
Protection Agency (EPA) published in the Federal Register (80 FR 33519, 
Document No. 2015-14435) a notice of the availability of a final 
environmental impact statement (FEIS) by the Animal and Plant Health 
Inspection Service (APHIS) titled ``Feral Swine Damage Management: A 
National Approach.''
    Under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) implementing 
regulations in 40 CFR 1506.10, with limited exceptions, an Agency must 
wait a minimum of 30 days after publication of the EPA's notice of an 
FEIS before issuing a record of decision regarding actions covered by 
that FEIS. Accordingly, this notice advises the public that the waiting 
period has elapsed, and APHIS has issued a record of decision to 
implement the preferred alternative described in the FEIS titled 
``Feral Swine Damage Management: A National Approach.''
    APHIS' record of decision has been prepared in accordance with: (1) 
NEPA, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.); (2) regulations of the 
Council on Environmental Quality for implementing the procedural 
provisions of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500-1508); (3) USDA regulations 
implementing NEPA (7 CFR part 1b); and (4) APHIS' NEPA Implementing 
Procedures (7 CFR part 372).

    Done in Washington, DC, this 5th day of August 2015.
Kevin Shea,
Administrator, Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 2015-19699 Filed 8-10-15; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 154 / Tuesday, August 11, 2015 / Notices 48071 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Health Inspection Service (APHIS) uses under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Charles L. Brown, Imported Fire Ant ant bait products in conjunction with CONTACT. Quarantine Policy Manager, Plant chemical treatment to prevent the After the close of the comment period, Health Programs, PPQ, APHIS, 4700 artificial spread and dissemination of APHIS will publish a notice announcing River Road Unit 39, Riverdale, MD IFA. The quarantine requirements our final determination and, if 20737; (301) 851–2119. involve the use of chemical treatments appropriate, any changes we made as a SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The on commodities to insure that result of the comments. regulations in 7 CFR chapter III are shipments from nurseries, sod farms, Authority: 7 U.S.C. 7701–7772 and 7781– intended, among other things, to and field-growing nursery facilities are 7786; 21 U.S.C. 136 and 136a; 7 CFR 2.22, prevent the introduction or free of IFA. Changes in availability of 2.80, and 371.3. dissemination of plant pests and insecticides that are effective against Done in Washington, DC, this 5th day of noxious weeds into or within the United IFA, as well as ensuring a range of pest August 2015. States. Under the regulations, certain management options, requires APHIS to Kevin Shea, plants, fruits, vegetables, and other periodically evaluate new treatment options. Administrator, Animal and Plant Health articles must be treated before they may Inspection Service. be moved into the United States or Currently, ant bait products are used in conjunction with the application of a [FR Doc. 2015–19700 Filed 8–10–15; 8:45 am] interstate. The phytosanitary treatments regulations contained in part 305 of 7 chlorpyrifos (insecticide) drench BILLING CODE 3410–34–P CFR chapter III (referred to below as the treatment to prevent the artificial spread regulations) set out standards for of IFA. Although effective, we have determined that it is necessary to DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE treatments required in parts 301, 318, and 319 of 7 CFR chapter III for fruits, modify the technique used to apply Animal and Plant Health Inspection vegetables, and other articles. drench treatment to increase the Service Section 305.3 of the regulations sets effectiveness of the treatment. In forth a notice-based process for adding, addition, we are adding two options to [Docket No. APHIS–2013–0031] revising, and removing the treatments the list of insecticidal baits that are from the Plant Protection and already approved for use for IFA. The Feral Swine Damage Management Quarantine (PPQ) 1 Treatment Manual. additional insecticidal baits are being Final Environmental Impact Statement; In that section, paragraph (b) sets out added to provide a broader range of Record of Decision the process for adding, revising, or chemical treatment options and are not removing treatment schedules when being proposed as additional treatments AGENCY: Animal and Plant Health there is an immediate need to make a beyond what is currently required in the Inspection Service, USDA. change. The circumstances in which an quarantine program. Both products have ACTION: Notice. immediate need exists are described in commercial uses in nurseries and will § 305.3(b)(1). give growers additional options for the SUMMARY: This notice advises the public • PPQ has determined that an bait treatment of field grown nursery of the Animal and Plant Health approved treatment schedule is stock or for use in the imported fire ant Inspection Service’s record of decision ineffective at neutralizing the targeted detection, control, exclusion, and for the final environmental impact plant pest(s); enforcement program for nurseries statement titled ‘‘Feral Swine Damage • PPQ has determined that, in order producing containerized plants (7 CFR Management: A National Approach.’’ to neutralize the targeted plant pest(s), 301.81–11). DATES: Effective August 11, 2015. the treatment schedule must be Therefore, APHIS has added two ADDRESSES: You may read the final administered using a different process additional insecticidal baits, Abamectin environmental impact statement and the than was previously used; and Metaflumizone, to the list of record of decision in our reading room. • PPQ has determined that a new chemicals already allowed in the IFA The reading room is located in room treatment schedule is effective, based on program and modified a drench 1141 of the USDA South Building, 14th efficacy data, and that ongoing trade in treatment (Chlorpyrifos) for balled-and- Street and Independence Avenue SW., an article or articles may be adversely burlapped nursery stock for use in Washington, DC. Normal reading room impacted unless the new treatment control of IFA. hours are 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday schedule is approved for use; or The reasons for these changes are through Friday, except holidays. To be • The use of a treatment schedule is further described in two treatment sure someone is there to help you, no longer authorized by the U.S. evaluation documents (TEDs) we have please call (202) 799–7039 before Environmental Protection Agency or by prepared to support this action. In coming. any other Federal entity. addition, we have prepared a supplemental environmental assessment The record of decision, final In order to limit the artificial spread environmental impact statement, and of the imported fire ant (IFA), domestic (EA) to include the human and environmental impacts that can be supporting information may also be movement of all nursery stock found by visiting the APHIS feral swine (containerized or balled-and-burlapped) reasonably expected to occur as a result of the new treatment options available environmental impact statement Web and grass sod from IFA-infested areas of page at www.aphis.usda.gov/wildlife- the United States to uninfested areas is for controlling IFA; as described in the new treatment evaluation documents. damage/fseis. To obtain copies of the asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES regulated under 7 CFR 301.81–2. documents, contact the person listed Specifically, the Animal and Plant The TEDs and supplemental EA may be viewed on the Regulations.gov Web site under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. 1 The PPQ Treatment Manual is available at or in our reading room (see ADDRESSES http://www.aphis.usda.gov/import_export/plants/ above for a link to Regulations.gov and FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. manuals/index.shtml or by contacting the Animal information on the location and hours of Kimberly Wagner, USDA–APHIS and Plant Health Inspection Service, Plant Protection and Quarantine, Manuals Unit, 92 the reading room). You may also request Wildlife Services, 732 Lois Drive, Sun Thomas Johnson Drive, Suite 200, Frederick, MD paper copies of the TEDs and EA by Prairie, WI; (608) 837–2737; 21702. calling or writing to the person listed kimberly.k.wagner@aphis.usda.gov. 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48072 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 154 / Tuesday, August 11, 2015 / Notices SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June regulations of the Council on ACTION: Notice and Opportunity for 12, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Environmental Quality for Public Comment. Protection Agency (EPA) published in implementing the procedural provisions the Federal Register (80 FR 33519, of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500–1508); (3) Pursuant to Section 251 of the Trade Document No. 2015–14435) a notice of USDA regulations implementing NEPA Act 1974, as amended (19 U.S.C. 2341 the availability of a final environmental (7 CFR part 1b); and (4) APHIS’ NEPA et seq.), the Economic Development impact statement (FEIS) by the Animal Implementing Procedures (7 CFR part Administration (EDA) has received and Plant Health Inspection Service 372). petitions for certification of eligibility to (APHIS) titled ‘‘Feral Swine Damage Done in Washington, DC, this 5th day of apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance Management: A National Approach.’’ August 2015. Under the National Environmental from the firms listed below. Kevin Shea, Accordingly, EDA has initiated Policy Act (NEPA) implementing Administrator, Animal and Plant Health investigations to determine whether regulations in 40 CFR 1506.10, with Inspection Service. limited exceptions, an Agency must increased imports into the United States [FR Doc. 2015–19699 Filed 8–10–15; 8:45 am] of articles like or directly competitive wait a minimum of 30 days after publication of the EPA’s notice of an BILLING CODE 3410–34–P with those produced by each of these FEIS before issuing a record of decision firms contributed importantly to the regarding actions covered by that FEIS. total or partial separation of the firm’s Accordingly, this notice advises the DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE workers, or threat thereof, and to a public that the waiting period has decrease in sales or production of each elapsed, and APHIS has issued a record Economic Development Administration petitioning firm. of decision to implement the preferred Notice of Petitions by Firms For alternative described in the FEIS titled Determination of Eligibility To Apply ‘‘Feral Swine Damage Management: A for Trade Adjustment Assistance National Approach.’’ APHIS’ record of decision has been AGENCY:Economic Development prepared in accordance with: (1) NEPA, Administration, Department of as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.); (2) Commerce. LIST OF PETITIONS RECEIVED BY EDA FOR CERTIFICATION ELIGIBILITY TO APPLY FOR TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE [7/31/2015 through 8/5/2015] Date accepted for Firm name Firm address Product(s) investigation Custom Engineering 2800 McClelland Avenue, Erie, PA 16514 ........ 8/5/2015 The firm manufactures medium to heavy steel Company. platens, fabrications and hydraulic press components. Relius Medical, LLC ...... 615 Wooten Road, Suite 150, Colorado 8/4/2015 The firm manufactures orthopedic devices pro- Springs, CO 80915. duced from various high performance metal alloys. Propac Images, Inc ....... 1292 Wagner Drive, Albertville, AL 35950 ........ 8/4/2015 The firm manufactures framed art, mirrors, and canvas art. American Grass Seed 32345 McLagan Drive , Tangent, OR 97398 .... 8/5/2015 The firm produces grass seed. Producers, Inc. del Carmen, LLC ........... 800 North Tucker Street St., Louis, MO 63101 8/5/2015 The firm produces pre-cooked pre-packed black bean food products. Any party having a substantial Dated: August 5, 2015. requesting subzone status subject to the interest in these proceedings may Michael S. DeVillo, existing activation limit of FTZ 61 on request a public hearing on the matter. Eligibility Examiner. behalf of Parapiezas Corporation. A written request for a hearing must be [FR Doc. 2015–19670 Filed 8–10–15; 8:45 am] Pursuant to an application amendment submitted to the Trade Adjustment BILLING CODE 3510–WH–P in October 2013, the subzone would Assistance for Firms Division, Room consist of one site in Cataño, Puerto 71030, Economic Development Rico. Administration, U.S. Department of DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE The amended application was Commerce, Washington, DC 20230, no processed in accordance with the FTZ later than ten (10) calendar days Foreign-Trade Zones Board Act and Regulations, including notices following publication of this notice. in the Federal Register inviting public [S–65–2013] comment (78 FR 28800, 5–16–2013; 78 Please follow the requirements set FR 75332, 12–11–2013). The FTZ staff asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES forth in EDA’s regulations at 13 CFR Approval of Subzone Status, Parapiezas Corporation, Cataño, examiner reviewed the amended 315.9 for procedures to request a public application and determined that it Puerto Rico hearing. The Catalog of Federal meets the criteria for approval. Domestic Assistance official number On May 9, 2013, the Executive Pursuant to the authority delegated to and title for the program under which Secretary of the Foreign-Trade Zones the FTZ Board’s Executive Secretary (15 these petitions are submitted is 11.313, (FTZ) Board docketed an application CFR Sec. 400.36(f)), the amended Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms. submitted by the Puerto Rico Trade & application to establish Subzone 61P is Export Company, grantee of FTZ 61, approved, subject to the FTZ Act and VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:44 Aug 10, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\11AUN1.SGM 11AUN1


Document Created: 2016-09-27 22:24:53
Document Modified: 2016-09-27 22:24:53
CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
GS 4.107:
AE 2.106:
PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice.
DatesEffective August 11, 2015.
ContactDr. Kimberly Wagner, USDA-APHIS Wildlife Services, 732 Lois Drive, Sun Prairie, WI; (608) 837-2737; [email protected]
FR Citation80 FR 48071 
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