Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 149 / Thursday, August 1, 1996 / Notices 40183 Frequency of Responses: Reporting: Room 416, BARC±W, Beltsville, Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests; On occasion. Maryland 20705±2350. September 25, 1985 Total Burden Hours: 4. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cherokee National Forest; April 1, 1986 Jefferson National Forest; October 16, • Food and Consumer Service Andrew Watkins of the Office of Technology Transfer at the Beltsville 1985 Sumter National Forest; August 2, 1985 Title: Negative Quality Control address given above: telephone: 301/ Review ScheduleÐStatus of Sample 504±6905. The agency invites written comments Selection and CompletionÐStatistical within the scope of the analysis SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Summary of Sample Disposition. described below. In addition, the agency Federal Government's plant variety gives notice that an open and full Summary: As part of a Performance protection rights to this variety are Reporting System, each state agency is environmental analysis and decision- assigned to the United States of making process will occur on the required to provide a systematic means America, as represented by the of determining the accuracy of proposed actions so that interested and Secretary of Agriculture. It is in the affected people are aware of how they household eligibility and measuring the public interest to so License this extent to which households receive the may participate and contribute to the invention, for the University of Georgia final decision. food stamp allotment to which they are Research Foundation has submitted a DATES: The agency expects to file the entitled. complete and sufficient application for draft EISs (DEIS) with the Need and Use of the Information: The a license. The prospective exclusive information serves as an objective Environmental Protection Agency and license will be royalty-bearing and will make them available for public measure of program operations at the comply with the terms and conditions state level and is essential to the comment in January of 1998. The of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR 404.7. The Agency expects to file the final EISs in determination of a state agency's prospective exclusive license may be entitlement to an increased federal share December of 1998. Comments granted unless, within ninety days from concerning the scope of the analysis of its administrative costs or liability for the date of this published Notice, ARS sanctions. should be received by December 2, receives written evidence and argument 1996. Description of Respondents: State, which establishes that the grant of the ADDRESSES: Submit written comments Local or Tribal Government; Individuals license would not be consistent with the to Forest Supervisors of the appropriate or households; Federal Government. requirements of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 Forest at the following addresses: Number of Respondents: 35,132. CFR 404.7. National Forests in Alabama, 946 Frequency of Responses: R.M. Parry, Jr., Recordkeeping; Reporting: Monthly; Chestnut, Montgomery, AL 36107± Assistant Administrator. Annually. 3010 Total Burden Hours: 107,135. [FR Doc. 96±19519 Filed 7±31±96; 8:45 am] Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests, Donald E. Hulcher, BILLING CODE 3410±03±M 508 Oak Street, NW, Gainesville, GA 30501 Deputy Departmental Clearance Officer. Cherokee National Forest, 2800 N. [FR Doc. 96±19552 Filed 7±31±96; 8:45 am] Forest Service Ocoee Street (P.O. Box 2010), BILLING CODE 3410±01±M Cleveland, TN 37320±2010 Revised Land and Resource Jefferson National Forest, 5162 Management Plans for the National Valleypointe Parkway, Roanoke, VA Agricultural Research Service Forests in Alabama, Chattahoochee/ 24019 Oconee National Forests, Cherokee Sumter National Forest, 4931 Broad Notice of Intent To Grant Exclusive National Forest, Jefferson National River Road, Columbia, SC 29210± License Forest, and the Sumter National Forest 4021 AGENCY: Agricultural Research Service, AGENCY: Forest Service, USDA. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: USDA National Forests in Alabama: Planning ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare Team LeaderÐRick MorganÐphone: ACTION: Notice of availability and intent Environmental Impact Statements to grant exclusive license. (334) 832±4470 (NOI). Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forests: Planning Staff OfficerÐCaren SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that a SUMMARY: Pursuant to 36 CFR 219.10(g), Federally owned cultivar of centipede BriscoÐphone: (770) 536±0541 the Regional Forester for the Southern Cherokee National Forest: Planning Staff grass, ``TifBlair,'' is available for Region gives notice of the agency's licensing and that the United States OfficerÐKeith SandiferÐphone: (615) intent to prepare Environmental Impact 476±9700 Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Statements (EIS) for the revisions of the Research Service, intends to grant an Jefferson National Forest: Planning Staff Forest Land and Resource Management OfficerÐKenneth LandgrafÐphone: exclusive license to the University of Plans (Forest Plans) for the above named Georgia Research Foundation. (540) 265±5100 National Forests. For the Jefferson Sumter National Forest: Planning Team Application for a Plant Variety National Forest, this notice revises their LeaderÐTony WhiteÐphone: (803) Protection Certificate for this cultivar June 28, 1993 notice of intent to prepare 561±4000 has been filed with the Plant Variety an EIS to revise their Forest Plan. RESPONSIBLE OFFICIAL: The Regional Protection Office in the United States According to 36 CFR 219.10(g), forest Department of Agriculture. Forester for the Southern Region located plans are ordinarily revised on a 10±15 at 1720 Peachtree Road, NW, Atlanta, DATES: Comments must be received on year cycle. Several amendments have Georgia 30367, is the responsible or before October 30, 1996. been made to each plan since it official. ADDRESSES: Send comments to: USDA- originated. The existing forest plans ARS-Office of Technology Transfer, were approved on the following dates: Affected Counties Beltsville Agricultural Research Center, National Forests in Alabama; March 10, This Notice of Intent affects the Baltimore Boulevard, Building 005, 1986 following Counties: 40184 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 149 / Thursday, August 1, 1996 / Notices National Forests in Alabama: Bibb, consolidate and integrate ecological larger-scale analysis in the Southern Calhoun, Cherokee, Chilton, Clay, information for the Chattooga River Appalachian Assessment. Cleburne, Dallas, Hale, Perry, Talladega, Watershed which is located at the The Assessment supports the revision Tuscaloosa, Franklin, Lawrence, junction of North Carolina, South of the LRMPs by describing how the Winston, Covington, Escambia, and Carolina, and Georgia; and includes lands, resources, people and Macon; Alabama. three National Forests. management of the National Forests Chattahoochee-Oconee National Information from these analyses that interrelate within the larger context of Forests: Banks, Catoosa, Chattooga, cross State boundaries and involve the Southern Appalachian area. The Dawson, Fannin, Floyd, Gilmer, multiple National Forests, along with SAA, however, is not a ``decision Gordon, Habersham, Lumpkin, Murray, the individual National Forests efforts to document'' and it did not involve the Rabun, Stephens, Towns, Union, update their `'analysis of the National Environmental Policy Act Walker, White, Whitfield, Green, Jasper, management situation'' (AMS), are now (NEPA) process. As broad-scale issues Jones, Monroe, Morgan, Oconee, being used by these National Forests to were identified at the sub-regional level Oglethorpe, and Putnam: Georgia. determine what decisions in their Land (Southern Appalachian Mountain area) Cherokee National Forest: Polk, and Resource Management Plans in the Assessment, the individual McMinn, Monroe, Greene, Cocke, (LRMP) should be re-analyzed or National Forest's role in resolving these Unicoi, Sullivan, Washington, Johnson, changed in revising their LRMPs. broad-scale issues becomes a part of the and Carter; Tennessee. ``need for change'' at the Forest level. 2. The Southern Appalachian Jefferson National Forest: Letcher and Public involvement has been Assessment Pike; KentuckyÐMonroe; West important throughout both of these VirginiaÐBedford, Bland, Botetourt, Recently the U.S. Forest Service has processes. Continuing public Carroll, Craig, Dickenson, Giles, participated in the preparation of the involvement leading to formulation of Grayson, Lee, Montgomery, Pulaski, Southern Appalachian Assessment alternatives for the forest plan revision Roanoke, Rockbridge, Scott, Smyth, (SAA). The Assessment culminated in a analysis efforts will now be conducted Tazewell, Washington, Wise, and final Summary Report and four through the ``scoping'' period that Wythe; Virginia. Technical Reports that are now follows the issuance of this Notice of Sumter National Forest: Abbeville, available to the public. It was prepared Intent. Chester, Edgefield, Fairfield, by the U.S. Forest Service (the Southern 3. The Beginning of the Forest Plan Greenwood, Laurens, McCormick, Region of the National Forest System and the Southern Forest Experiment Revision Efforts for the National Forests Newberry, Oconee, Saluda, and Union; in Alabama, the Chattahoochee-Oconee, South Carolina. Station) in cooperation with the other Federal and state agencies that are the Cherokee, and the Sumter National SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: members of SAMBA (Southern Forests A. Background Information Appalachian Man and