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(3) The comment causes the NRC staff § 72.214 List of approved spent fuel identify the wines they may purchase. to make a change (other than editorial) storage casks. We invite comments on this proposed to the CoC or TS. * * * * * addition to our regulations, particularly These comments will be addressed in Certificate Number: 1004. from bottlers who use brand names a subsequent final rule. The NRC will Initial Certificate Effective Date: similar to Chehalem Mountains. not initiate a second comment period on January 23, 1995. DATES: We must receive written this action. Amendment Number 1 Effective Date: comments on or before December 8, List of Subjects in 10 CFR Part 72 April 27, 2000. 2003. Amendment Number 2 Effective Date: Administrative practice and September 5, 2000. ADDRESSES: You may send comments to procedure, Criminal penalties, Amendment Number 3 Effective Date: any of the following addresses: • Manpower training programs, Nuclear September 12, 2001. Chief, Regulations and Procedures materials, Occupational safety and Amendment Number 4 Effective Date: Division, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and health, Penalties, Radiation protection, February 12, 2002. Trade Bureau, P.O. Box 50221, Reporting and recordkeeping Amendment Number 5 Effective Date: Washington, DC 20091–0221 (Attn: requirements, Security measures, Spent November 3, 2003. Notice No. 18). • fuel, Whistleblowing. Amendment Number 6 Effective Date: 202–927–8525 (facsimile). For the reasons set out in the December 22, 2003. • [email protected] (e-mail). preamble and under the authority of the SAR Submitted by: Transnuclear, Inc. • http://www.ttb.gov/alcohol/rules/ Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended; SAR Title: Final Safety Analysis index.htm. An online comment form is the Energy Reorganization Act of 1974, Report for the Standardized NUHOMS posted with this notice on our Web site. as amended; and 5 U.S.C. 553, the NRC Horizontal Modular Storage System for You may view copies of this notice, is proposing to adopt the following Irradiated Nuclear Fuel. the petition, the appropriate maps, and amendments to 10 CFR part 72. Docket Number: 72–1004. any comments received about this PART 72—LICENSING Certificate Expiration Date: January notice by appointment in our library, REQUIREMENTS FOR THE 23, 2015. 1310 G Street, NW., Washington, DC INDEPENDENT STORAGE OF SPENT Model Number: Standardized 20005; phone 202–927–8210 for an NUCLEAR FUEL, HIGH-LEVEL NUHOMS–24P, NUHOMS–52B, appointment. You may also access RADIOACTIVE WASTE, AND NUHOMS–61BT, NUHOMS–32PT, copies of the notice and comments REACTOR-RELATED WASTE and NUHOMS–24PHB. online at http://www.ttb.gov/alcohol/ GREATER THAN CLASS C WASTE * * * * * rules/index.htm. See the Public Participation section of 1. The authority citation for part 72 Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 11th day this notice for specific instructions and of September, 2003. continues to read as follows: requirements for submitting comments For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Authority: Secs. 51, 53, 57, 62, 63, 65, 69, and for information on how to request 81, 161, 182, 183, 184, 186, 187, 189, 68 Stat. William D. Travers, a public hearing. Executive Director for Operations. 929, 930, 932, 933, 934, 935, 948, 953, 954, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: N.A. 955, as amended, sec. 234, 83 Stat. 444, as [FR Doc. 03–25367 Filed 10–6–03; 8:45 am] amended (42 U.S.C. 2071, 2073, 2077, 2092, Sutton, Specialist, Regulations and BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 2093, 2095, 2099, 2111, 2201, 2232, 2233, Procedures Division (Oregon), Alcohol 2234, 2236, 2237, 2238, 2282); sec. 274, Pub. and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, 946 L. 86–373, 73 Stat. 688, as amended (42 Northwest Circle Blvd., #286, Corvallis, U.S.C. 2021); sec. 201, as amended, 202, 206, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY OR 97330; telephone 415–271–1254. 88 Stat. 1242, as amended, 1244, 1246 (42 SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: U.S.C. 5841, 5842, 5846); Pub. L. 95–601, sec. Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade 10, 92 Stat. 2951 as amended by Pub. L. 102– Bureau TTB Background 486, sec. 7902, 106 Stat. 3123 (42 U.S.C. Background on Viticultural Areas 5851); sec. 102, Pub. L. 91–190, 83 Stat. 853 27 CFR Part 9 (42 U.S.C. 4332); secs. 131, 132, 133, 135, TTB Authority 137, 141, Pub. L. 97–425, 96 Stat. 2229, 2230, [Notice No. 18] 2232, 2241, sec. 148, Pub. L. 100–203, 101 The Federal Alcohol Administration Stat. 1330–235 (42 U.S.C. 10151, 10152, RIN: 1513–AA57 Act (FAA Act) at 27 U.S.C. 205(e) 10153, 10155, 10157, 10161, 10168). requires that alcohol beverage labels Section 72.44(g) also issued under secs. Proposed Chehalem Mountains provide the consumer with adequate 142(b) and 148(c), (d), Pub. L. 100–203, 101 Viticultural Area (2002R–214P) Stat. 1330–232, 1330–236 (42 U.S.C. information regarding a product’s 10162(b), 10168(c),(d)). Section 72.46 also AGENCY: Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and identity, while prohibiting the use of issued under sec. 189, 68 Stat. 955 (42 U.S.C. Trade Bureau (TTB), Treasury. misleading information on such labels. 2239); sec. 134, Pub. L. 97–425, 96 Stat. 2230 ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking. The FAA Act also authorizes the (42 U.S.C. 10154). Section 72.96(d) also Secretary of the Treasury to issue issued under sec. 145(g), Pub. L. 100–203, SUMMARY: The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax regulations to carry out its provisions, 101 Stat. 1330–235 (42 U.S.C. 10165(g)). and the Secretary has delegated this Subpart J also issued under secs. 2(2), 2(15), and Trade Bureau (TTB) proposes to 2(19), 117(a), 141(h), Pub. L. 97–425, 96 Stat. establish the Chehalem Mountains authority to the Alcohol and Tobacco 2202, 2203, 2204, 2222, 2244, (42 U.S.C. viticultural area located in Yamhill, Tax and Trade Bureau. 10101, 10137(a), 10161(h)). Subparts K and L Washington, and Clackamas Counties, Regulations in 27 CFR Part 4, Labeling are also issued under sec. 133, 98 Stat. 2230 Oregon. This proposed viticultural area and Advertising of Wine, allow the (42 U.S.C. 10153) and sec. 218(a), 96 Stat. is entirely within the approved establishment of definitive viticultural 2252 (42 U.S.C. 10198). Willamette Valley viticultural area. We areas and the use of their names as 2. In § 72.214, Certificate of designate viticultural areas to allow appellations of origin on wine labels Compliance 1004 is revised to read as bottlers to better describe the origin of and in wine advertisements. Title 27 follows: wines and allow consumers to better CFR Part 9, American Viticultural

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Areas, contains the list of approved If a wine is not eligible for the and in 1848 Joseph B. Rogers had the viticultural areas. appellation, the bottler must change the town of ‘‘Chehalem’’ platted on property brand name or other label reference and he owned where Newberg, Oregon, Definition obtain approval of a new label. Different stands today. The town had one of the Title 27 CFR 4.25(e)(1) defines an rules apply if a wine in this category earliest post offices in Yamhill County American viticultural area as a bearing a brand name traceable to a (established March 14, 1851), but the delimited grape-growing region label approved prior to July 7, 1986. See office closed within a year. distinguishable by geographic features 27 CFR 4.39(i) for details. The petition supplies evidence that whose boundaries have been delineated Chehalem has been used since that time in subpart C of part 9. These Chehalem Mountains Petition to name a Parks and Recreation District, designations allow consumers and We have received a petition from Alex businesses (27 examples), housing vintners to attribute a given quality, Sokol-Blosser, secretary of the North developments, and public roads. The reputation, or other characteristic of Willamette Valley AVA Group two public middle schools in the wine made from grapes grown in an area proposing establishment of a new Newberg school district are named to its geographic origin. viticultural area to be called ‘‘Chehalem Chehalem Valley and Mountain View. Mountains.’’ David Adelsheim, Paul Additionally, Chehalem has long been Requirements Hart, and Richard Ponzi authored the used in geographic names, such as Section 4.25(e)(2) outlines the petition. The proposed viticultural area Chehalem Creek, which runs through procedure for proposing an American is wholly within Oregon’s Willamette Chehalem Valley, which, in turn, forms viticultural area. Any interested person Valley approved viticultural area. It is the south side of the Chehalem may petition TTB to establish a grape- located toward the northern end of the Mountains. The entry for Chehalem growing region as a viticultural area. valley and begins approximately 19 Mountains in ‘‘Oregon Geographic The petition must include: miles southwest of Portland, Oregon Names’’ by Lewis L. McArthur reads, • Evidence that the proposed and 45 miles inland from the Pacific ‘‘These are the highest mountains in the viticultural area is locally and/or Ocean. It includes 106 square miles Willamette Valley * * *. The Chehalem nationally known by the name specified (67,840 acres) and straddles the Mountains and some independent spurs in the petition; boundary between Yamhill and extend from the Willamette River east of • Historical or current evidence that Washington Counties and extends well Newberg to the foothills of the Coast the boundaries of the proposed into Clackamas County. As of 2002 at range south of Forest Grove, Oregon.’’ viticultural area are as specified in the least 80 vineyards, totaling over 1,100 The term ‘‘Chehalem Mountains’’ petition; acres, plus 12 commercial wineries exist figures prominently on four of the six • Evidence of growing conditions, within the proposed boundaries of the USGS quadrangle maps (Newberg, such as climate, soils, elevation, Chehalem Mountains viticultural area, Oregon; Dundee, Oregon; Laurelwood, physical features, etc., that distinguish with more added each year. Oregon; and Scholls, Oregon) submitted the proposed area from surrounding The proposed Chehalem Mountains with this petition. The petitioners state areas; viticultural area constitutes a single, that the Chehalem Mountains (including • A description of the specific continuous landmass (measuring over the Parrett Mountain spur, the Ribbon boundaries of the proposed viticultural 20 miles in length and 5 miles in width) Ridge spur, and multiple other named area, based on features shown on United uplifted above the floor of the hills, peaks, and ridges, such as Laurel States Geological Survey (USGS) or Willamette Valley. The 200-foot Ridge, Bald Peak, Iowa Hill, Spring Hill, USGS-approved maps; and elevation line generally defines the and Fern Hill) constitute a single • Copies of the appropriate map(s) perimeter of the area, which consists of uplifted landmass easily distinguished with the boundaries prominently a series of ridges and highpoints, from the surrounding valley floor areas. marked. including two highly delineated spurs, Further, they contend that the historical Impact on Current Wine Labels Ribbon Ridge and Parrett Mountain. The name ‘‘Chehalem Mountains’’ (plural) is petitioners decided to use physical meant to include hilltops, ridges, and As appellations of origin, viticultural features and elevation as the primary spurs, even one as large as Parrett area names have geographic factors in defining the boundaries of the Mountain. significance. Our 27 CFR part 4 label proposed area. regulations prohibit the use of a brand Boundary Evidence name with geographic significance on a Name Evidence The petitioners state they know of no wine unless the wine meets the The petitioners indicate the area is previous attempts to define the exact appellation of origin requirements for locally known as the Chehalem boundaries of the Chehalem Mountains. the named area. Our regulations also Mountains. They cite references that However, the evidence submitted uses prohibit any other label references that state the modern word ‘‘Chehalem’’ physical features and elevation as the suggest an origin other than the true comes from the Indian name primary factors in defining the place of origin of the wine. ‘‘Chahelim,’’ which is listed under the boundaries of the proposed area, as well If we establish this proposed heading Atfalati (Tualatin) in the as historical information relating to viticultural area, bottlers who use brand ‘‘Handbook of American Indians.’’ This viticultural activity. names, including trademarks, like name was given to the more than 20 The petition includes maps that show Chehalem Mountains must ensure that bands of Indians living in the general the Chehalem Mountains constitute a their existing products are eligible to vicinity of the Chehalem Mountains in single, continuous landmass, uplifted use the viticultural area’s name as an the early 1800s. above the floor of the Willamette Valley, appellation of origin. For a wine to be Further, the petitioners state the word which is delineated for much of the eligible, at least 85 percent of the grapes ‘‘Chehalem’’ appears to have entered the west side and all of the north side by the in the wine must have been grown vocabulary of the early European valley formed by the Tualatin River and within the viticultural area, and the settlers in the north Willamette Valley its tributaries. On the east side, it is wine must meet the other requirements prior to 1840. A lumber mill was separated from the high ground around of 27 CFR 4.25(e)(3). installed on Chehalem Creek in 1834, Tonquin by wetlands of Rock Creek and

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Seely Ditch. The southern boundaries Tualatin River and the Chehalem at the lowest point to almost 60 inches are formed by the flood plain of the Valley. at the highest elevations on Bald Peak. Willamette River in the east and by the The sometimes steep, sometimes This is in contrast to Hillsboro and Chehalem Valley in the west. The gentle slopes of the Chehalem Beaverton just north of the Chehalem lowlands are all below the 200-foot Mountains are highly differentiated Mountains and French Prairie just south level. from the almost flat Willamette Valley of the Mountains with the lowest annual The petitioners used elevation, slope, floor. In some areas (the west side of precipitation in the Willamette Valley— and soil criteria in delineating the line Ribbon Ridge and the southeast side of under 36 inches. The annual average between what constitutes ‘‘mountains’’ Parrett Mountain), the slope of the rainfall for the Portland International and what is ‘‘valley floor.’’ They state Mountains descends steeply, then Airport, located east of the proposed the foot of the Chehalem Mountains suddenly becomes almost level, making area, is 36 inches while the Coast Range, generally lies between 200 and 250 feet the transition from Mountains to valley located west of the Chehalem above sea level. Therefore, the petition floor instantaneous and Mountains, has an average of over 100 includes all land in the area above the incontrovertible. However, for the inches of rain per year. 200-foot level, with the exception of two majority of its perimeter, the slopes of The other uplifted hills in the highly urbanized areas located east and the Chehalem Mountains shift more Willamette Valley have somewhat north of Newberg, Oregon, and west and gradually to gentle slopes, then finally higher rainfall levels than the south of Sherwood, Oregon. The to the valley floor. The petitioners used surrounding valley floor (for example, proposed area excludes flat or barely the elevation/slope/soil criteria to Eola Hills has 40 to 48 inches and Red sloping lands and includes hillsides. All determine the boundary lines in areas Hills has 40 to 44 inches), but none so hillside soils, whether marine, where the distinction is not as obvious. dramatic as the Chehalem Mountains. The petitioners also state that the sediment, basaltic, loess, or, in some Elevation cases, alluvial (where it is found in Chehalem Mountains have the greatest The Chehalem Mountains are the variation in temperature within the hillside locations) are included in the highest mountains within the Willamette Valley due to the range in proposed boundaries of the petitioned Willamette Valley. Their tallest point is elevation (200 to 1,633 feet). According Chehalem Mountains viticultural area. Bald Peak, which lies 7 miles northwest to data obtained from the Oregon The petitioners also assert the of Newberg and rises to 1,633 feet above Climate Service, heat summation during Chehalem Mountains are made up of a sea level. The valley floors, surrounding the growing season varies from over series of ridges and highpoints that the Mountains on all sides, drop below 2,200 degree-days at the base of the include two highly delineated spurs, 200 feet. The 200-foot contour line south side of the Mountains to less than Ribbon Ridge and Parrett Mountain, completely encircles the Chehalem 1,800 degree-days on the north side of which are both heavily planted to Mountains and clearly differentiates the the top of the Mountains. These vineyards. When drawn around the Mountains from the valley. The variations can result in three-week landmass of what is historically called petitioners state that these elevation differences in the ripening of Pinot Noir the Chehalem Mountains, the 200-foot differences are significant in grapes. Evapotranspiration (the loss of contour line encloses both the Ribbon distinguishing the Chehalem Mountains water from soil and plants by a Ridge and Parrett Mountain spurs. from the surrounding areas. Most of the combination of evaporation and Regarding historical evidence, the existing vineyards in the proposed transpiration) is about 3 inches less on first modern vineyard on the Chehalem viticultural area are located between the the higher parts of the Chehalem Mountains dates to 1968, when Dick 200- to 1,000-foot elevation lines. The Mountains compared to the surrounding Erath purchased 49 acres on Dopp Road petitioners assert that the areas below valleys, mostly due to temperature in Yamhill County. He called the the 200-foot level have alluvial soils differences. property Chehalem Mountain Vineyards with greater depth, fertility, and water- and planted it the following spring. holding capacity, which extend the Soil The petitioners state that, in general, Growing Conditions growing period of the vine and delay the ripening of vineyards reds, as well as the proposed area contains a The petitioners state that the result in greater exposure to frost. combination of loess, sedimentary, proposed Chehalem Mountains Therefore, the alluvial soils on the basaltic, and alluvial soils. These were viticultural area’s boundaries are based valley floor are not included in the deposited over a 17-million-year period primarily on a combination of terrain, proposed boundaries. through a series of events that included elevation, and climate factors that uplifting of the mountains from the contrast with the surrounding Climate shallow waters of the Pacific Ocean, Willamette Valley, Coast Range, and The petitioners state that the element huge eruptions of basaltic lava from the Columbia Gorge. of climate that best distinguishes the Columbia River Basalt Group, wind Chehalem Mountains is annual Physical Features blowing silt from Eastern Oregon and precipitation. Since they are the highest Washington, and alluvial deposition The physical appearance of the mountains in the Willamette Valley, from the Missoula Flood. Chehalem Mountains is the most they provide the largest obstacle to The diverse soils contained in the significant geographical feature to eastward moving storms. As the moist proposed Chehalem Mountains distinguish them from surrounding air is forced over the Chehalem viticulture area have yielded successful areas. Due to their height and length Mountains, the water vapor in the vineyards since 1968. Much of the (over 20 miles), the Chehalem cooling air condenses and falls to earth Ribbon Ridge spur is covered by Mountains are a significant landform in as terrain-induced rain. According to sedimentary soil (Willakenzie Series) northern Willamette Valley. They can be data obtained from the ‘‘Atlas of and is heavily planted to red wine seen from Portland’s West Hills and Oregon,’’ second edition (University of grapes. The central and southern from much of the northern Willamette Oregon Press, 2001), annual rainfall Chehalem Mountains also contain large Valley floor. They are the major within the boundaries of the proposed deposits of basaltic soils (mainly Jory separation between the basin of the viticultural area ranges from 37 inches Series) that contain many vineyards of

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white grapes, as well as extensive names of geographic significance, as on the TTB Web site. We may omit plantings of Pinot Noir. The Laurelwood discussed above under ‘‘Impact on voluminous attachments or material that Series of the loess soils also covers Current Wine Labels.’’ we consider unsuitable for posting. In much of the central Chehalem Although we do not acknowledge all cases, the full comment will be Mountains. receipt, we will consider your available in our library. To access the However, the petitioners assert that comments if we receive them on or online copy of this notice, visit at http:/ soil does not distinguish the Chehalem before the closing date. We will /www.ttb.gov/alcohol/rules/index.htm. Mountains from the surrounding hill consider comments received after the Select the ‘‘View Comments’’ link under formations. The sedimentary western closing date if we can. We regard all this notice number to view the posted flank of the Mountains has soils that are comments as originals. comments. much like those further to the west in Confidentiality the hills surrounding the Yamhill River Regulatory Analyses and Notices We do not recognize any submitted Basin. The basaltic-origin soils along Paperwork Reduction Act much of the southern slope and the material as confidential. All comments Parrett Mountains spur are similar to the are part of the public record and subject We propose no requirement to collect soils further south on the Red Hills and to disclosure. Do not enclose in your information. Therefore, the provisions the east side of the Eola Hills. The comments any material you consider of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, confidential or inappropriate for public eolian soils on most of the north side of 44 U.S.C. 3507, and its implementing disclosure. the Mountains are much like those on regulations, 5 CFR part 1320, do not the hills further north and east in the Submitting Comments apply. Tualatin basin (e.g., Cooper and Bull You may submit comments in any of Regulatory Flexibility Act Mountains). All the alluvial soils at the four ways: base of the Chehalem Mountains are • By mail: You may send written We certify that this regulation, if much like those of the surrounding comments to TTB at the address listed adopted, will not have a significant valley flood plains. The petitioners in the ADDRESSES section. economic impact on a substantial contend that the soils contained in the • By facsimile: You may submit number of small entities, including proposed viticultural area are not what comments by facsimile transmission to small businesses. The proposal imposes make it unique. Rather, geographic 202–927–8525. Faxed comments must— no new reporting, recordkeeping, or features other than soil are what (1) Be on 8.5- by 11-inch paper; other administrative requirements. strongly differentiate the Chehalem (2) Contain a legible, written Mountains from the surrounding valley signature; and The establishment of viticultural areas floors and from the surrounding hill (3) Be five or less pages long. This represents neither our endorsement nor formations. limitation assures electronic access to approval of the quality of wine made our equipment. We will not accept from grapes grown in the designated Boundary Description faxed comments that exceed five pages. areas. Rather, this system allows us to See the narrative boundary • By e-mail: You may e-mail identify areas distinct from one another. description of the petitioned viticultural comments to [email protected]. Comments In turn, identifying viticultural areas area in the proposed regulation transmitted by electronic mail must— lets wineries describe more accurately published at the end of this notice. (1) Contain your e-mail address; the origin of their wines to consumers (2) Reference this notice number on and helps consumers identify the wines Maps the subject line; and they purchase. Thus, any benefit The petitioner provided the required (3) Be legible when printed on 8.5- by derived from using a viticultural area maps, and we list them in the proposed 11-inch paper. name results from a proprietor’s efforts • regulations. By online form: We provide a and consumer acceptance of wines from comment form with the online copy of Public Participation that area. Therefore, no regulatory this notice on our Web site at http:// flexibility analysis is required. Comments Sought www.ttb.gov/alcohol/rules/index.htm. Select the ‘‘Send comments via e-mail’’ Executive Order 12866 We request comments from anyone link under this notice number. interested. Please support your You may also write to the This proposed rule is not a comments with specific information Administrator before the comment ‘‘significant regulatory action’’ as about the proposed area’s name, closing date to ask for a public hearing. defined by Executive Order 12866. growing conditions, or boundaries. All The Administrator reserves the right to Therefore, no regulatory assessment is comments must include this notice determine, in light of all circumstances, required. number and your name and mailing whether a public hearing will be held. address. They must be legible and Drafting Information Public Disclosure written in language acceptable for B. J. Kipp of the Regulations and public disclosure. You may view copies of this notice, Procedures Division (Portland, Oregon) Because of the potential impact of a the petition, the appropriate maps, and drafted this notice. Chehalem Mountains viticultural area any comments received by appointment on current brand names that include in our library at 1310 G Street, NW., List of Subjects in 27 CFR Part 9 ‘‘Chehalem,’’ we are particularly Washington, DC 20005. You may also interested in comments regarding the obtain copies at 20 cents per 8.5- x 11- Wine. proposed area’s name. Are there other inch page. Contact us at the above Authority and Issuance names for this area that would not address or telephone 202–927–8210 to conflict with current brand names? We schedule an appointment or to request For the reasons discussed in the are also interested in suggestions for copies of comments. preamble, we propose to amend title 27, preventing conflicts between For your convenience, we will post chapter 1, part 9, Code of Federal viticultural area names and brand this notice and the comments received Regulations, as follows:

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PART 9—AMERICAN VITICULTURAL (7) Proceed west 0.3 miles to the end R3W, T1S, (0.45 miles south of Simpson AREAS of Bell Road at intersection with Oregon Road) and proceed south 0.5 miles along highway 219; the 240-foot contour line, through a 1. The authority citation for part 9 (8) Proceed west across highway 219 crescent shape to the western edge of continues to read as follows: on North Valley Road (which was Bell the Scholls Quadrant; Authority: 27 U.S.C. 205. Road) 0.45 miles to the intersection with (24) Continue on the Laurelwood the 250-foot contour line; Quadrangle in the southeast corner of 2. Subpart C is amended by adding (9) Proceed northwest 1.2 miles along Section 9._ to read as follows: section 25, R3W, T1S and proceed along the 250-foot contour line to the western the 240-foot contour line west and then Subpart C—Approved American edge of the Newberg Quadrangle; south 2.3 miles to where it crosses Viticultural Areas (10) Proceed south 0.05 miles along Laurel Road West; the western edge of the Newberg (25) Proceed east along Laurel Road * * * * * Quadrangle, section 42, R3W, T3S, to West 0.1 miles to its intersection with the intersection with the 240-foot __ the 200-foot contour line; § 9. Chehalem Mountains contour line; (26) Proceed southwest and then east (a) Name. The name of the viticultural (11) Continue onto the Dundee along the 200-foot contour line around area described in this section is Quadrangle map, section 42, R3W, T3S the Burris Creek Valley to the eastern ‘‘Chehalem Mountains’’. and proceed west 2.15 miles along the edge of the Laurelwood Quadrangle in (b) Approved Maps. The six, 1:24,000 240-foot contour line to where the line the northeast corner of section 12, R3W, scale, USGS, topographic maps used to crosses the unnamed Sullivan Lane (that T2S; determine the boundaries of the lane is east of and parallel to Calkins (27) Continue on the western edge of Chehalem Mountains viticultural area Lane); Scholls Quadrangle, section 12, R3W, are titled: (12) Proceed south along Sullivan T2S, 0.13 miles south of Laurel Road (1) Newberg Quadrangle, Oregon, 7.5 Lane 0.25 miles to the intersection with West and proceed along the 200-foot Minute Series, 1961 (photorevised North Valley Road; contour line generally southeast, 1985); (13) Proceed west along North Valley skirting the valley of McFee Creek for (2) Dundee Quadrangle, Oregon, 7.5 Road 0.1 miles to the intersection with 4.2 miles to the valley of Heaton Creek, Minute Series, 1956 (revised 1993); the 200-foot contour line; to the southern edge of the Scholls map; (3) Laurelwood Quadrangle, Oregon, (14) Proceed northwest along the 200- (28) Continue on the northern edge of 7.5 Minutes Series 1956 (revised 1992); foot contour 0.9 miles to a point where the Newberg Quadrangle, section 28, (4) Scholls Quadrangle, Oregon, 7.5 the contour line crosses an unnamed R2W, T2S and proceed along the 200- Minute Series, 1961 (photorevised creek that parallels Dopp Road; foot contour line south in a brief U- (15) Proceed north along the creek 1985); shaped formation for 0.1 miles, then 0.03 miles to the intersection with Dopp (5) Beaverton Quadrangle, Oregon, 7.5 north back to the northern edge of the Minute Series, 1961 (photorevised Road; (16) Proceed north along Dopp Road Newberg Quadrangle; 1984); and (29) Continue on Scholls Quadrangle, to the intersection with the 240-foot (6) Sherwood Quadrangle, Oregon, 7.5 section 21, R2W, T2S and proceed along contour line; Minute Series, 1961 (photorevised the 200-foot contour line generally 1985). (17) Proceed along the 240-foot contour line, first north, then south, northeast for 3.25 miles around Laurel (c) Boundary. The Chehalem Ridge to the southeastern edge of the Mountains viticultural area is located in then west, then north to a point 2.9 miles northwest, where the contour line Scholls Quadrangle; Yamhill, Washington, and Clackamas (30) Continue on the Beaverton Counties, Oregon. The area’s boundaries hits the north edge of the map. (This section coincides with the southeast, Quadrangle, section 24 R2W, T2S, 0.8 are defined as follows: miles north of Lebeau Road and proceed (1) The point of beginning (Newberg southwest, and north boundaries of the concurrently proposed Ribbon Ridge along the 200-foot contour line Quadrangle) is in Yamhill County, American viticultural area.); southeast for 1 mile to the southern edge section 15, R2W, T3S, and 3 miles east (18) Continue onto the Laurelwood of the map, section 19, R1W, T2S. of the city of Newberg where the 250- Quadrangle, section 58, R3W, T2S and (31) Continue onto the Sherwood foot contour line crosses Oregon proceed generally north along the 240- Quadrangle, section 30, R1W, T2S, 0.1 highway 99W, as that highway ascends foot contour line 7.5 miles to where the miles east of Elwert Road, proceed west the Chehalem Mountains; contour line crosses Sandstrom Road; 0.55 miles to the northwestern edge of (2) Proceed northwest 0.7 miles along (19) Proceed west 0.15 miles on the Sherwood Quadrangle, and then the 250-foot contour line until that line Sandstrom Road to its third intersection proceed 0.05 miles across the most crosses Benjamin Road (shown but with the 200-foot contour line, just prior southwestern edge of the Beaverton unnamed on Newberg Quadrangle); to Spring Hill Road; Quadrangle; (3) Proceed west 0.5 miles along (20) Proceed northwest, then (32) Continue onto Scholls Benjamin Road across the railroad northeast, and southeast 2.7 miles along Quadrangle in the southeast corner of tracks until it intersects with Spring the 200-foot contour line around Fern section 24, R2W, TS2 and proceed west Brook Road (also unnamed); Hill and Blooming Hill Roads to where then southeast along the 200-foot (4) Proceed southwest 0.3 miles along it crosses La Follette Road; contour line around the north fork of Spring Brook Road (parallel to railroad (21) Proceed south 0.2 miles on La Chicken Creek to the southeast corner of tracks) to its intersection with Follette Road to its intersection with the the map; Mountainview Drive (unnamed); 240-foot contour line; (33) Continue onto the Newberg (5) Proceed west 0.35 miles on (22) Proceed generally south, then Quadrangle, section 25, R2W, TS2 (0.2 Mountainview Drive to its intersection east 4 miles along the 240-foot contour miles from the northeast corner of the with the unnamed Aspen Way; line to the eastern edge of the map) and proceed along the 200-foot (6) Proceed north and west on Aspen Laurelwood Quadrangle; contour line until it exits the eastern Way 1.2 miles to its intersection with (23) Continue on the western edge of edge of the map, 0.25 miles south of the Bell Road; the Scholls Quadrangle, section 25, northeast corner;

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(34) Continue onto the Sherwood (49) Continue on the Newberg origin of wines and allow consumers to Quadrangle, section 25, R2W, T2S and Quadrangle, section 76, R2W, T4S, 0.3 better identify the wines they may proceed along the 200-foot contour line miles north of the north bank of the purchase. We invite comments on this (0.25 miles south of the map’s northwest Willamette River and proceed along the proposed addition to our regulations, corner) around the south fork of 200-foot contour line west by northwest particularly from bottlers who use brand Chicken Creek to the western edge of 1.1 miles to the intersection with names similar to ‘‘Yamhill-Carlton the map, 0.3 miles south; Wilsonville Road; District.’’ (35) Continue on the Newberg (50) Proceed northwest, then north 1.9 Quadrangle, section 25, R2W, T2S (0.55 miles across an unnamed tributary creek DATES: We must receive written miles south of the map’s northeast of Spring Brook; comments on or before December 8, corner and proceed along the 200-foot (51) Proceed along the unnamed 2003. contour line around the Chicken Creek tributary 0.25 miles in a south by ADDRESSES: You may send comments to lowlands to the eastern edge of the map, southwest direction to the intersection any of the following addresses— with the 200-foot contour line; 0.25 miles south of where it entered; • Chief, Regulations and Procedures (36) Continue on the Sherwood (52) Proceed along the base of Grouse Division, Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Quadrangle, section 25, R2W, T2S (0.8 Butte, following the 200-foot contour Trade Bureau, P.O. Box 50221, miles south of the map’s northwest line to a point 0.45 miles northwest to Washington, DC 20091–0221 (Attn: corner and proceed generally east 0.4 the intersection of the contour line and Notice No. 19); miles to Elwert Road; Wilsonville Road; • (37) Proceed south on Elwert Road (53) Proceed east along Wilsonville 202–927–8525 (facsimile); 0.85 miles to its intersection with Road 0.45 miles back to the intersection • [email protected] (e-mail); Oregon highway 99W; of the road with an unnamed tributary • http://www.ttb.gov/alcohol/rules/ (38) Proceed south by southwest along creek of Spring Brook; index.htm. An online comment form is highway 99W 0.45 miles across the (54) Proceed northeast along the posted with this notice on our Web site. north fork of Cedar Creek to the unnamed tributary creek of Spring You may view copies of this notice, intersection of highway 99W and the Brook 0.05 miles to the intersection the petition, the appropriate maps, and 250-foot contour line; with the 250-foot contour line; any comments received about this (39) Proceed generally south along the (55) Proceed generally north along the notice by appointment at our library, 250-foot contour line 0.6 miles to its 250-foot contour line 1.4 miles to its 1310 G Street NW., Washington, DC intersection with Middleton Road; intersection with Corral Creek Road 20202; telephone 202–927–8210 for an (40) Proceed southwest on Middleton (misnamed Ladd Hill Road on the appointment. You may also access Road 0.3 miles to the point where it Newberg Quadrangle); and copies of the notice and comments becomes Rein Road; (56) Proceed north along Corral Creek (41) Proceed south on Rein Road 0.15 online at http://www.ttb.gov/alcohol/ Road 0.6 miles to the intersection with rules/index.htm. miles across Cedar Creek to the Oregon highway 99W, which is the intersection of Rein Road and the 200- point of beginning. See the Public Participation section of foot contour line; this notice for specific instructions and (42) Proceed generally east along the Signed: September 17, 2003. requirements for submitting comments 200-foot contour line 1.2 miles to its Arthur J. Libertucci, and for information on how to request intersection with Brookman Road Administrator. a public hearing. (shown but unnamed on map); [FR Doc. 03–25372 Filed 10–6–03; 8:45 am] FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: N.A. (43) Proceed on Brookman Road 0.35 BILLING CODE 4810–31–P Sutton, Specialist, Regulations and miles east, then north 0.25 miles, then Procedures Division (Oregon), Alcohol east 0.15 miles (paralleling the and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, 946 DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY Clackamas/Washington County lines); Northwest Circle Blvd., #286, Corvallis, (44) Proceed east 0.85 miles across OR 97330; telephone 415–271–1254. Ladd Hill Road and continue along the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Clackamas/Washington County lines to Bureau SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: the intersection with Baker Road 27 CFR Part 9 Homeland Security Act Impact on (shown as Brown Road on the map); Rulemaking (45) Now in Clackamas County, [Notice No. 19] proceed along Baker Road south by Effective January 24, 2003, the southeast 1 mile to the second RIN: 1513–AA59 Homeland Security Act of 2003 divided the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and intersection with the 250-foot contour Proposed Establishment of the Firearms (ATF) into two new agencies, line; Yamhill-Carlton District Viticultural the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade (46) Proceed along the 250-foot Area (2002R–216P) contour line in a semicircle, first east, Bureau (TTB) in the Department of the then southeast, then southwest and AGENCY: Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Treasury and the Bureau of Alcohol, return to Baker Road; Trade Bureau, Treasury. Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives in the (47) Proceed south along Baker Road ACTION: Notice of proposed rulemaking. Department of Justice. Regulation of 0.15 miles to its intersection with the alcohol beverage labels, including 200-foot contour line; SUMMARY: The Alcohol and Tobacco Tax viticultural area designations, is the (48) Proceed along the 200-foot and Trade Bureau proposes to establish responsibility of the new TTB. contour line in a generally southwest the ‘‘Yamhill-Carlton District’’ References to ATF in this document direction 4.45 miles along the viticultural area in northwest Oregon. relate to events that occurred prior to southwestern flank of the Parrett The proposed area is located within the January 24, 2003, or to functions that Mountain spur of the Chehalem approved Willamette Valley viticultural the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Mountains to the western edge of the area. We designate viticultural areas to Firearms and Explosives continues to map; allow bottlers to better describe the perform.

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