81_FR_75581 81 FR 75371 - National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council

81 FR 75371 - National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 210 (October 31, 2016)

Page Range75371-75372
FR Document2016-26200

The National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council (Council) will meet in Washington, DC The Council is authorized under Section 9 of the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act, as amended by Title XII, Section 1219 of Public Law 101-624 (the Act) (16 U.S.C. 2105g) and the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) (5 U.S.C. App. II). Additional information concerning the Council, can be found by visiting the Council's Web site at: http://www.fs.fed.us/ucf/ nucfac.shtml.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 210 (Monday, October 31, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 210 (Monday, October 31, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 75371-75372]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-26200]


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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE

Forest Service


National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council

AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council 
(Council) will meet in Washington, DC The Council is authorized under 
Section 9 of the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act, as amended by 
Title XII, Section 1219 of Public Law 101-624 (the Act) (16 U.S.C. 
2105g) and the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) (5 U.S.C. App. 
II). Additional information concerning the Council, can be found by 
visiting the Council's Web site at: http://www.fs.fed.us/ucf/nucfac.shtml.

DATES: The meeting will be held on the following dates and times:
     Monday, November 13, 2016, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. 
Central Time or until Council business is completed. All meetings are 
subject to cancellation. For an updated status of meeting prior to 
attendance, please contact the person listed under FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Santa Fe Room, Indianapolis 
Marriot Downtown, 350 West Maryland Street, Indianapolis, Indiana.
    Written comments concerning this meeting should be submitted as 
described under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. All comments, including 
names and addresses, when provided, are placed in the record and 
available for public inspection and copying. The public may inspect 
comments received at the USDA Forest Service, Sidney Yates Building, 
Room 3SC-01C, 201 14th Street SW., Washington, DC 20024. Please call 
ahead at 202-205-7829 to facilitate entry into the building.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nancy Stremple, Executive Staff, 
National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council, Sidney Yates 
Building, Room 3SC-01C, 201 14th Street SW., Washington, DC 20024 by 
telephone at 202-205-7829, or by email at [email protected], or by 
cell phone at 202-309-9873, or via facsimile at 202-690-5792. 
Individuals who use telecommunication devices for the deaf (TDD) may 
call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 
between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, Monday through 
Friday.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the meeting is to:
    1. Introduce new members;
    2. Finalize the 2016 Accomplishment and Recommendations;
    3. Update status of the 2017 grant review;
    4. Listen to local constituents urban forestry concerns;
    5. Provide updates on the 10-year action plan (2016-2026);
    6. Receive Forest Service budget and program updates; and
    The meeting is open to the public. The agenda will include time for 
people to make oral statements of three minutes or less. Individuals 
wishing to make an oral statement should submit a request in writing by 
November 1, 2016, to be scheduled on the agenda. Council discussion is 
limited to Forest Service staff and Council members, however anyone who 
would like to bring urban and community forestry matters to the 
attention of the Council may file written statements with the Council's 
staff before or after the meeting. Written comments and time requests 
for oral comments must be sent to Nancy Stemple, Executive Staff, 
National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council, Sidney Yates 
Building, Room 3SC-01C, 201 14th Street SW., Washington, DC 20024, or 
by email at [email protected].
    Meeting Accommodations: If you are a person requiring reasonable 
accommodation, please make requests in advance for sign language 
interpreting, assistive listening devices or other reasonable 
accommodation for access to the facility or proceedings by contacting 
the person listed in the section titled FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 
CONTACT. All reasonable accommodation requests are managed on a case by 
case basis.

    Dated: October 25, 2016.
Steven W. Koehn,
Director, Cooperative Forestry.
[FR Doc. 2016-26200 Filed 10-28-16; 8:45 am]
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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 210 / Monday, October 31, 2016 / Notices 75371 SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The the Forest Service concerning projects Meeting Accommodations: If you are purpose of the meeting is to: and funding consistent with Title II of a person requiring reasonable 1. Discuss current and emerging the Act. Additional RAC information accommodation, please make requests recommendation efforts and develop a can be found at the following Web site: in advance for sign language briefing-paper for incoming http://www.fs.usda.gov/main/allegheny/ interpreting, assistive listening devices Administration; workingtogether/advisorycommittees. or other reasonable accommodation for 2. Meet partners to hear concerns and DATES: The meeting will be held access to the facility or proceedings by opportunities to collaborate; and Thursday, December 8, 2016, at 10:00 contacting the person listed in the 3. Conduct Work Group break out a.m. EST. section titled FOR FURTHER INFORMATION sessions. All RAC meetings are subject to CONTACT. All reasonable The meeting is open to the public. accommodation requests are managed cancellation. For status of meeting prior The agenda will include time for people on a case-by-case basis. to attendance, please contact the person to make oral statements of three minutes Dated: October 24, 2016. listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION or less. Individuals wishing to make an CONTACT. Sherry A. Tune, oral statement should submit a request ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at Forest Supervisor. in writing by November 3, 2016 to be the Allegheny National Forest [FR Doc. 2016–26165 Filed 10–28–16; 8:45 am] scheduled on the agenda. Anyone who would like to bring related matters to Supervisor’s Office, 4 Farm Colony BILLING CODE 3411–15–P the attention of the Committee may file Drive, Warren, Pennsylvania. written statements with the Committee Written comments may be submitted as described under SUPPLEMENTARY DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE staff before November 3, 2016. Written comments and time requests for oral INFORMATION. All comments, including Forest Service comments must be sent to Scott Stewart, names and addresses when provided, 1400 Independence Ave. SW., Mailstop are placed in the record and are National Urban and Community 1123, Washington, DC 20250; or by available for public inspection and Forestry Advisory Council email to sstewart@fs.fed.us. A summary copying. The public may inspect of the meeting will be posted at http:// comments received at the Allegheny AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. www.fs.fed.us/spf/coop/frcc within 21 National Forest Supervisor’s Office. ACTION: Notice of meeting. days after the meeting. Please call ahead at 814–728–6100 to SUMMARY: The National Urban and Meeting Accommodations: If you are facilitate entry into the building. Community Forestry Advisory Council a person requiring reasonable FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: (Council) will meet in Washington, DC accommodation, please make requests Ruth Sutton, RAC Coordinator by phone The Council is authorized under Section in advance for sign language at 814–728–6100, or via email at 9 of the Cooperative Forestry Assistance interpreting, assistive listening devices rsutton@fs.fed.us. Act, as amended by Title XII, Section or other reasonable accommodations for Individuals who use 1219 of Public Law 101–624 (the Act) access to the facility or proceedings by telecommunication devices for the deaf (16 U.S.C. 2105g) and the Federal contacting the person listed under the (TDD) may call the Federal Information Advisory Committee Act (FACA) (5 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. All Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 U.S.C. App. II). Additional information reasonable accommodation requests are between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., concerning the Council, can be found by managed on a case by case basis. Eastern Standard Time, Monday visiting the Council’s Web site at: http:// Dated: October 21, 2016. through Friday. Please make requests in www.fs.fed.us/ucf/nucfac.shtml. Patricia Hirami, advance for sign language interpreting, DATES: The meeting will be held on the Associate Deputy Chief, State and Private assistive listening devices or other following dates and times: Forestry. reasonable accommodation for access to • Monday, November 13, 2016, from [FR Doc. 2016–26195 Filed 10–28–16; 8:45 am] the facility or proceedings by contacting 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Central Time or BILLING CODE 3411–15–P the person listed above. until Council business is completed. All SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The meetings are subject to cancellation. For purpose of the meeting is to review and an updated status of meeting prior to DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE approve project submissions. attendance, please contact the person The meeting is open to the public. listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Forest Service The agenda will include time for people CONTACT. to make oral statements of three minutes ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at Allegheny Resource Advisory or less. Individuals wishing to make an the Santa Fe Room, Indianapolis Marriot Committee Meeting oral statement should request in writing Downtown, 350 West Maryland Street, AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. by November 30, 2016, to be scheduled Indianapolis, Indiana. ACTION: Notice of meeting. on the agenda. Anyone who would like Written comments concerning this to bring related matters to the attention meeting should be submitted as SUMMARY: The Allegheny Resource of the committee may file written described under SUPPLEMENTARY Advisory Committee (RAC) will meet in statements with the committee staff INFORMATION. All comments, including Warren, Pennsylvania. The committee is before or after the meeting. Written names and addresses, when provided, authorized under the Secure Rural comments and requests for time to make are placed in the record and available sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES Schools and Community Self- oral comments must be sent to Ruth for public inspection and copying. The Determination Act (the Act) and Sutton, RAC Coordinator, Allegheny public may inspect comments received operates in compliance with the Federal National Forest Supervisor’s Office, 4 at the USDA Forest Service, Sidney Advisory Committee Act. The purpose Farm Colony Drive, Warren, Yates Building, Room 3SC–01C, 201 of the committee is to improve Pennsylvania 16365; by email to 14th Street SW., Washington, DC 20024. collaborative relationships and to rsutton@fs.fed.us, or via facsimile to Please call ahead at 202–205–7829 to provide advice and recommendations to 814–726–1465. facilitate entry into the building. VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:53 Oct 28, 2016 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\31OCN1.SGM 31OCN1

75372 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 210 / Monday, October 31, 2016 / Notices FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE Committee Membership Background Nancy Stremple, Executive Staff, Information, OMB Number 0505–0001), National Urban and Community National Agricultural Statistics Service available on the Internet at https:// Forestry Advisory Council, Sidney www.nass.usda.gov/About_NASS/ Yates Building, Room 3SC–01C, 201 Notice of Invitation for Nominations to Advisory_Committee_on_Agriculture_ 14th Street SW., Washington, DC 20024 the Advisory Committee on Agriculture Statistics/AD-755.pdf. This form may by telephone at 202–205–7829, or by Statistics also be requested by telephone, fax, or email at nstremple@fs.fed.us, or by cell AGENCY: National Agricultural Statistics email using the information above. phone at 202–309–9873, or via facsimile Service (NASS), Department of Completed forms may be faxed to the at 202–690–5792. Individuals who use Agriculture. number above, mailed, or completed telecommunication devices for the deaf and emailed directly from the Internet ACTION: Solicitation of Nominations to (TDD) may call the Federal Information site. For more information on the the Advisory Committee on Agriculture Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 Advisory Committee on Agriculture Statistics. between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., Statistics, see the NASS Web site at Eastern Standard Time, Monday SUMMARY: In accordance with the https://www.nass.usda.gov/About_ through Friday. Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 NASS/Advisory_Committee_on_ SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S.C. App. 2, this notice announces an Agriculture_Statistics/index.php. The purpose of the meeting is to: invitation from the Office of the Committee draws on the experience and 1. Introduce new members; Secretary of Agriculture for nominations expertise of its members to form a 2. Finalize the 2016 Accomplishment to the Advisory Committee on collective judgment concerning and Recommendations; Agriculture Statistics. agriculture data collected and the 3. Update status of the 2017 grant On August 15, 2016, the Secretary of statistics issued by NASS. This input is review; Agriculture renewed the Advisory vital to keep current with shifting data 4. Listen to local constituents urban Committee charter for a two-year term to needs in the rapidly changing forestry concerns; expire on August 15, 2018. The purpose agricultural environment and keeps 5. Provide updates on the 10-year of the Committee is to advise the NASS informed of emerging issues in action plan (2016–2026); Secretary of Agriculture on the scope, the agriculture community that can 6. Receive Forest Service budget and timing, content, etc., of the periodic affect agriculture statistics activities. program updates; and censuses and surveys of agriculture, The Committee, appointed by the The meeting is open to the public. other related surveys, and the types of Secretary of Agriculture, consists of 20 The agenda will include time for people information to obtain from respondents members representing a broad range of to make oral statements of three minutes concerning agriculture. The Committee disciplines and interests, including, but or less. Individuals wishing to make an also prepares recommendations not limited to, producers, oral statement should submit a request regarding the content of agriculture representatives of national farm in writing by November 1, 2016, to be reports and presents the views and organizations, agricultural economists, scheduled on the agenda. Council needs for data of major suppliers and rural sociologists, farm policy analysts, discussion is limited to Forest Service users of agriculture statistics. educators, State agriculture staff and Council members, however representatives, and agriculture-related DATES: The nomination period for anyone who would like to bring urban business and marketing experts. interested candidates will close 30 days Members serve staggered 2-year terms, and community forestry matters to the after publication of this notice. with terms for half of the Committee attention of the Council may file written statements with the Council’s staff ADDRESSES: You may submit members expiring in any given year. before or after the meeting. Written nominations by any of the following Nominations are being sought for 10 comments and time requests for oral methods: open Committee seats. Members can comments must be sent to Nancy • Email: Scan the completed form serve up to 3 terms for a total of 6 Stemple, Executive Staff, National and email to: HQOA@nass.usda.gov. consecutive years. The Chairperson of • eFax: 855–493–0445. the Committee shall be elected by Urban and Community Forestry • Mail: Nominations should be Advisory Council, Sidney Yates members to serve a 1-year term. mailed to Renee Picanso, Associate Equal opportunity practices, in line Building, Room 3SC–01C, 201 14th Administrator, National Agricultural Street SW., Washington, DC 20024, or with USDA policies, will be followed in Statistics Service, U.S. Department of all membership appointments to the by email at nstremple@fs.fed.us. Agriculture, 1400 Independence Avenue Meeting Accommodations: If you are Committee. To ensure that the SW., Room 5041 South Building, recommendations of the Committee a person requiring reasonable Washington, DC 20250–2010. have taken into account the needs of the accommodation, please make requests • Hand Delivery/Courier: Hand in advance for sign language diverse groups served by USDA, deliver to: Renee Picanso, Associate membership will include to the extent interpreting, assistive listening devices Administrator, National Agricultural or other reasonable accommodation for possible, individuals with demonstrated Statistics Service, U.S. Department of ability to represent the needs of all access to the facility or proceedings by Agriculture, 1400 Independence Avenue contacting the person listed in the racial and ethnic groups, women and SW., Room 5041 South Building, men, and persons with disabilities. section titled FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Washington, DC 20250–2010. CONTACT. All reasonable The duties of the Committee are FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: solely advisory. The Committee will sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES accommodation requests are managed on a case by case basis. Renee Picanso, Associate Administrator, make recommendations to the Secretary National Agricultural Statistics Service, of Agriculture with regards to the Dated: October 25, 2016. (202) 720–2707. agricultural statistics programs of NASS, Steven W. Koehn, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Each and such other matters as it may deem Director, Cooperative Forestry. person nominated to serve on the advisable, or which the Secretary of [FR Doc. 2016–26200 Filed 10–28–16; 8:45 am] committee is required to submit the Agriculture; Under Secretary for BILLING CODE 3411–15–P following form: AD–755 (Advisory Research, Education, and Economics; or VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:53 Oct 28, 2016 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\31OCN1.SGM 31OCN1


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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of meeting.
DatesThe meeting will be held on the following dates and times:
ContactNancy Stremple, Executive Staff, National Urban and Community Forestry Advisory Council, Sidney Yates Building, Room 3SC-01C, 201 14th Street SW., Washington, DC 20024 by telephone at 202-205-7829, or by email at [email protected], or by cell phone at 202-309-9873, or via facsimile at 202-690-5792. Individuals who use telecommunication devices for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-800-877-8339 between 8:00 a.m. and 8:00 p.m., Eastern Standard Time, Monday through Friday.
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