19856 Federal Register / Vol. 51, No. 106 / Tuesday, June 3, 1986 / Proposed Rules .. 9.856..-... Comments received before the closing (b) Approved map. The appropriate 27 CFR Part 9 date will be carefully considered. map for determining the boundaries of Comments received after the closing the Bell Mountain viticultural area is [Notice No. 595] date and too late for consideration will one U.S.G.S. map, titled: Willow City be treated as suggestions for possible Quadrangle, 7.5 minute series, 1967. Revision of the Boundary of the future ATF action. (c) Boundary-(1) General.The Bell Monticello Viticultural Area ATF will not recognize any material Mountain viticultural area is located in AGENCYV Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco or comments as confidential. Comments Gillespie County, Texas. The starting and Firearms (ATF), Department of the may be disclosed to the public. Any point of the following boundary Treasury. material which the commenter considers description is the summit of Bell ACTION. Notice of proposed rulemaking. to be confidential or inappropriate for Mountain (1,956 feet). disclosure to the public should not be (2) Boundary Description-(i)From SUMMARY: ATF is proposing to amend included in the comment. The name of the'starting point, the boundary the approved boundary of the the person submitting a comment is not proceeds due southward for exactly one Monticello viticultural area to include exempt from disclosure. half mile; vineyards which were omitted from the Any person who desires an (ii) Then southeastward in a straight original petition which ATF adopted in opportunity to comment orally at a line to the intersection of Willow City T.D. ATF-164 (49 FR 2757). This public hearing on these proposed Loop Road with an unnamed proposal is based on a petition regulations should submit his or her unimproved road, where marked with submitted by Edward W. Schwab, request, in writing, to the Director within an elevation of 1,773 feet; Autumn Hill Vineyards, located in the 45-day comment period. The request (iii) Then generally soutlward along Stanardsville, Virginia. The should include reasons why the Willow City Loop Road (a light-duty establishment of viticultural areas and commenter feels that a-public hearing is road) to Willow City. the subsequent use of viticultural area necessary. The Director, however, names as appellations of origin in wine (iv) Then continuing southward and reserves the right to determine, in light labeling and advertising will help westward along the same light-duty of all circumstances, whether a public consumers better identify wines they road to the intersection having an hearing will be held. purchase. The use of viticultural area elevation of 1,664 feet; List of Subjects in 27 CFR Part 9 appellations of origin will also help (v) Then continuing westward along wineries distinguish their products from Administrative practice and the light-duty road to the intersection wines made in other areas. having an elevation of 1,702 feet; procedures, Consumer protection, DATE: Written comments must be Viticultural areas, Wine. (vi) Then turning southward along the received by July 3, 1986. light-duty road to the intersection having Drafting Information an elevation of 1,736 feet; ADDRESSES: Send written comments to: Chief, FAA, Wine and Beer Branch, The principal author of.this document (vii) Then turning westward along the is Mr. Steve Simon of the FAA, Wine Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and light-duty road to the intersection having Firearms, P.O. Box 385, Washington, DC and Beer Branch, Bureau of Alcohol, an elevation of 1,784 feet; Tobacco and Firearms. 20044,-0385. (viii) Then turning southward and Copies of the petition and the written Issuance then westward, following the light-duty comments received in response to this road to its intersection with Texas notice will be available for public PART 9-AMERICAN VITICULTURAL Highway 16, where marked with an inspection during normal business hours AREAS elevation of 1,792 feet; at: ATF Reading Room, Room 4406, Ariel (ix) Then due westward to the Accordingly, the Director proposes the Rios Federal Building, 12th and amendment of 27 CFR Part 9 as follows: longitude line 980 45'; Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington, Paragraph A. The authority citation (x) Then northward along that DC. for Part 9 continues to read as follows: longitude line to a point due west of an FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: unnamed peak with an elevation of 1,784 James A. Hunt, Coordinator, FAA, Wine Authority: 27 U.S.C. 205. feet; and Beer Branch, (202) 566-7626. Par. B. The table of sections in 27 CFR (xi) Then due eastward to the summit SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Six wine Part 9, Subpart C, is amemded to add of that unnamed peak; grape growers in the Charlottesville area the title of of § 9.55, to read as follows: (xii) Then in a straight line eastward of Virginia first petitioned ATF to to the intersection of an unnamed establish a viticultural area to be known unimproved road with Texas Highway as "Monticello." In response to the Subpart C-Approved American Viticultural 16, where marked with an elevation of Areas petition, AFT published a notice of 1,822 feet; proposed rulemaking, Notice No. 399 (46 Sec. (xiii) Then following that unnamed FR 59274), on December 4,1981, to road, taking the right-hand fork at an establish a viticultural area in the 9.55 Bell Mountain. intersection, to a point due west of the Charlottesville, Virginia, area to be summit of Bell Mountain; known as "Monticello." During the Par. C. Subpart C of 27 CFR Part 9 is (xiv) Then due eastward to the comment period The Jefferson Wine amended by adding § 9.55, which reads summit of Bell Mountain. Grape Growers Society petitioned for an as follows: enlargement of the Monticello Approved: May 19, 1986. viticultural area boundary. ATF § 9.55 Bell Mountain. Stephen E. Higgins, published an amended notice of (a) Name. The name of the viticultural Director. proposed rulemaking, Notice No. 434 (47 area described in this section is "Bell [FR Doc. 86-12248 Filed 6-2-88; 8:45 am] FR 52200), on November 19, 1982. All the Mountain." BILLING CODE 4810-31-M comments received favored the enlarged Federal Register [Vol. 51, No. 106 / Tuesday, June 3, 1986 / Proposed Rules 19857 boundary for the Monticello viticultural Public Participation-Written Comments this notice because no requirement to area. collect information is proposed. Based on the above discussion, ATF is On January 23, 1984, ATF published issuing this notice of proposed List of Subjects in 27 CFR Part 9 T.D. ATF-164 (49 FR 2757) establishing rulemaking to request comments the Monticello viticultural area. On Administrative practice and concerning this proposed revision of the procedures, Consumer protection, November 9, 1984, a petition was Monticello viticultural area boundary. received from Mr. Edward W. Schwab, Viticultural areas, Wine. ATF will not recognize any material Managing Partner, Autumn Hill or comments as confidential. Comments Drafting Information Vineyards, to include Greene County in may be disclosed to the public. Any the Monticello viticultural area. Mr. The principal author of this document material which the respondent considers Schwab said he became aware of the is James A. Hunt, FAA, Wine and Beer to be confidential or inappropriate for Monticello viticultural area after it was Branch, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and disclosure to the public should not be established and he was not aware of the Firearms. included in the comment. The name of rulemaking process that had taken any person submitting a comment is not Authority and Issuance place. exempt from disclosure. Greene County is a small county PART 9--AMENDEDI Regulatory Flexibility Act which borders the northern boundary of 27 CFR Part 9-American Viticultural the Monticello viticultural area. Mr. The provisions of the Regulatory Areas is amended as follows: Schwab submitted a statement and Flexibility Act relating to an initial and Paragraph 1. The authority citation for evidence from the Virginia Cooperative final regulatory flexibility analysis (5 Part 9 continues to read as follows: Extension Service Agriculture Extension U.S.C. 603, 604) are not applicable to this Authority: 27 U.S.C. 205. Agent that the petitioned for area has proposal because the notice of proposed essentially the same topography, soil rulemaking, if promulgated as a final Par. 2. Section 9.48(c) is revised to add types, amount of rainfall, elevation and rule, will not have a significant the amended boundaries and by adding temperatures as found in the bordering economic impact on a substantial numbers to the descriptions to read as Monticello viticultural area. Mr. Schwab number of small entities. The proposal follows: amended his petition to.exclude a- will not impose, or otherwise cause, a § 9.48 MonUcello. montainous area in the western part of significant increase in reporting, Greene County so that the revised area" recordkeeping, or other compliance (c) Boundaries. (1) From Norwood, would be even more similar to the burdens on a substantial number of Virginia, following the Tye River west existing Monticello viticultural area. small entities. The proposal is not and northwest until it-intersects with the The existing Monticello viticultural expected to have significant secondary eastern boundary of the George area is approximately 1250 square miles or incidental effects on a substantial Washington National Forest; (2) and therefore extends many miles from number of small entities. following this boundary northeast to its name sake and home of Thomas Accordingly, It is hereby certified Virginia Rt. 664; (3) then west following Jefferson in Charlottesville, Virginia. under the provisions of section 3 of the Rt. 664 to its intersection with the The evidence during the rulemaking Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C.