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Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 197 / Friday, October 13, 2017 / Notices
Done in Washington, DC, this 6th day of
October 2017.
Michael C. Gregoire,
Acting Administrator, Animal and Plant
Health Inspection Service.
[FR Doc. 2017–22228 Filed 10–12–17; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Forest Service
Information Collection; Small Business
Timber Sale Set-Aside Program;
Appeal Procedures on Recomputation
of Shares
Forest Service, USDA.
Notice; request for comment.

AGENCY:
ACTION:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Forest Service is seeking comments
from all interested individuals and
organizations on the extension with no
revision of a currently approved
information collection, Small Business
Timber Sale Set-Aside Program; Appeal
Procedures on Recomputation of
Shares.
DATES: Comments must be received in
writing on or before December 12, 2017
to be assured of consideration.
Comments received after that date will
be considered to the extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: Comments concerning this
notice should be addressed to Director,
Forest Management, Mail Stop 1103,
Forest Service, USDA, 1400
Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20250.
Comments also may be submitted via
facsimile to (703) 605–1575, or by email
to [email protected].
Comments submitted in response to
this notice may be made available to the
public through relevant Web sites and
upon request. For this reason, please do
not include in your comments
information of a confidential nature,
such as sensitive personal information
or proprietary information. If you send
an email comment, your email address
will be automatically captured and
included as part of the comment that is
placed in the public docket and made
available on the Internet. Please note
that responses to this public comment
request containing any routine notice
about the confidentiality of the
communication will be treated as public
comments that may be made available to
the public notwithstanding the
inclusion of the routine notice.
The public may inspect the draft
supporting statement and/or comments
received at Forest Service, USDA, Forest
Management Office, Third Floor SW

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Wing, 201 14th Street SW., Washington
DC, during normal business hours.
Visitors are encouraged to call ahead to
(202) 205–1766 to facilitate entry to the
building. The public may request an
electronic copy of the draft supporting
statement and/or any comments
received be sent via return email.
Requests should be emailed to
[email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Sharon Nygaard-Scott, Forest
Management Staff, by phone (202) 205–
1766 or by email at wosbaprocess@
fs.fed.us. Individuals who use
telecommunication devices for the deaf
(TDD) may call the Federal Relay
Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339
twenty-four hours a day, every day of
the year, including holidays.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Small Business Timber Sale SetAside Program; Appeal Procedures on
Recomputation of Shares.
OMB Number: 0596–0141.
Expiration Date of Approval: 4/30/
2018.
Type of Request: Extension without
change of a currently approved
information collection.
Abstract: The Forest Service adopted
the Small Business Timber Sale SetAside Program (Set-Aside Program) on
July 26, 1990 (55 FR 30485). The
Agency administers the Set-Aside
Program in cooperation with the Small
Business Administration (SBA) under
the authorities of the Small Business
Act (15 U.S.C. 631), the National Forest
Management Act of 1976, and SBA
regulations in 13 CFR part 121. The SetAside Program is designed to ensure
that small business timber purchasers
have the opportunity to purchase a fair
proportion of National Forest System
timber offered for sale.
Under the Set-Aside Program, the
Forest Service must recompute the
shares of timber sales to be set aside for
qualifying small businesses every 5
years based on the actual volume of
sawtimber that has been purchased by
small businesses. Additionally, shares
must be recomputed if there is a change
in manufacturing capability, if the
purchaser size class changes, or if
certain purchasers discontinue
operations.
In 1992, the Agency adopted new
administrative appeal procedures (36
CFR part 215), which excluded the SetAside Program. Prior to adoption of 36
CFR part 215, the Agency had accepted
appeals of recomputation decisions
under 36 CFR part 217; and therefore
decided to establish procedures for
providing notice to affected purchasers
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the recomputation of shares (61 FR
7468). The Conference Report
accompanying the 1997 Omnibus
Appropriation Act (Pub. L. 104–208)
directed the Forest Service to reinstate
an appeals process for decisions
concerning recomputation of Small
Business Set-Aside shares, structural
recomputations of SBA shares, or
changes in policies impacting the SetAside Program prior to December 31,
1996. The Small Business Timber Sale
Set-Aside Program; Appeal Procedures
on Recomputation of Shares (36 CFR
223.118; 64 FR 411, January 5, 1999)
outlines the types of decisions that are
subject to appeal, who may appeal
decisions, the procedures for appeal
decisions, the timelines for appeal, and
the contents of the notice of appeal.
The Forest Service provides
qualifying timber sale purchasers 30days for predecisional review and
comment on draft decisions to reallocate
shares, including the data used in
making the proposed recomputation
decision. Within 15 days after the close
of the 30-day predecisional review
period, an Agency official makes a
decision on the shares to be set aside for
small businesses and gives written
notice of the decision to all parties on
the national forest timber sale bidders
list for the affected area. The written
notice provides the date by which the
appeal may be filed and how to obtain
information on appeal procedures.
Only those timber sale purchasers, or
their representatives, who are affected
by small business share timber sale setaside recomputation decisions and who
have submitted predecisional
comments, may appeal recomputation
decisions. The appellant must file a
notice of appeal with the appropriate
Forest Service official within 20 days of
the date on the notice of decision. The
notice of appeal must include:
1. The appellant’s name, mailing
address, and daytime telephone
number;
2. The title or type of recomputation
decision involved and date of the
decision;
3. The name of the responsible Forest
Service official;
4. A brief description and date of the
decision being appealed;
5. A statement of how the appellant
is adversely affected by the decision
being appealed;
6. A statement of facts in dispute
regarding the issue(s) raised by the
appeal;
7. Specific references to law,
regulation, or policy that the appellant
believes have been violated (if any) and
the basis for such an allegation;

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8. A statement as to whether and how
the appellant has tried to resolve the
appeal issues with the responsible
Forest Service official, including
evidence of submission of written
comments at the predecisional stage;
and
9. A statement of the relief the
appellant seeks.
The data gathered in this information
collection is not available from other
sources.
Estimate of Annual Burden: 9 hours.
Type of Respondents: Timber sale
purchasers, or their representatives,
who are affected by recomputations of
the small business share of timber sales.
Estimated Annual Number of
Respondents: 40.
Estimated Annual Number of
Responses per Respondent: 2.
Estimated Total Annual Burden on
Respondents: 720 hours..
Comment Is Invited
Comment is invited on: (1) Whether
this collection of information is
necessary for the stated purposes and
the proper performance of the functions
of the agency, including whether the
information will have practical or
scientific utility; (2) the accuracy of the
agency’s estimate of the burden of the
collection of information, including the
validity of the methodology and
assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4)
ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents, including the use of
automated, electronic, mechanical, or
other technological collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology.
All comments received in response to
this notice, including names and
addresses when provided, will be a
matter of public record. Comments will
be summarized and included in the
submission request toward Office of
Management and Budget approval.
Dated: September 22, 2017.
Glenn Casamassa,
Associate Deputy Chief, National Forest
System.
[FR Doc. 2017–22154 Filed 10–12–17; 8:45 am]

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BILLING CODE 3411–15–P

COMMISSION ON CIVIL RIGHTS
Notice of Public Meeting of the
Tennessee Advisory Committee
U.S. Commission on Civil
Rights.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:

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Notice is hereby given,
pursuant to the provisions of the rules
and regulations of the U.S. Commission
on Civil Rights (Commission) and the
Federal Advisory Committee Act that
the Tennessee (State) Advisory
Committee will hold a meeting on
Wednesday, November 8, 2017 to
continue the review and discussion of
the hearing transcript on civil asset
forfeiture.
DATES: The meeting will be held on
Wednesday, November 8, 2017, 12:30
p.m. EST.
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be by
teleconference. Toll-free call-in number:
877–440–5788, conference ID: 6324926.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeff
Hinton, DFO, at [email protected] or
(404) 562–7006.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Members
of the public can listen to the
discussion. This meeting is available to
the public through the following tollfree call-in number: (877) 440–5788,
conference ID: 6324926. Any interested
member of the public may call this
number and listen to the meeting.
Callers can expect to incur charges for
calls they initiate over wireless lines,
and the Commission will not refund any
incurred charges. Callers will incur no
charge for calls they initiate over landline connections to the toll-free
telephone number. Persons with hearing
impairments may also follow the
proceedings by first calling the Federal
Relay Service at 1 (800) 977–8339 and
providing the Service with the
conference call number and conference
ID number.
Members of the public are also
entitled to submit written comments;
the comments must be received in the
regional office by November 3, 2017.
Written comments may be mailed to the
Southern Regional Office, U.S.
Commission on Civil Rights, 61 Forsyth
Street, Suite 16T126, Atlanta, GA 30303.
They may also be faxed to the
Commission at (404) 562–7005, or
emailed to Regional Director, Jeffrey
Hinton at [email protected]. Persons
who desire additional information may
contact the Southern Regional Office at
(404) 562–7000.
Records generated from this meeting
may be inspected and reproduced at the
Southern Regional Office, as they
become available, both before and after
the meeting. Records of the meeting will
be available via www.facadatabase.gov
under the Commission on Civil Rights,
Tennessee Advisory Committee link.
Persons interested in the work of this
Committee are directed to the
Commission’s Web site, http://
www.usccr.gov, or may contact the
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Southern Regional Office at the above
email or street address.
Agenda
Welcome and Call to Order
Diane DiIanni, Tennessee SAC
Chairman
Jeff Hinton, Regional Director
Regional Update—Jeff Hinton
New Business: Continuation of the
review and discussion of the
hearing transcript on civil asset
forfeiture Diane DiIanni, Tennessee
SAC Chairman/Staff/Advisory
Committee
Public Participation
Adjournment
Dated: October 6, 2017.
David Mussatt,
Supervisory Chief, Regional Programs Unit.
[FR Doc. 2017–22162 Filed 10–12–17; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Foreign-Trade Zones Board
[Order No. 2040]

Approval of Expansion of Subzone
124D; LOOP LLC; Lafourche and St.
James Parishes, Louisiana
Pursuant to its authority under the ForeignTrade Zones Act of June 18, 1934, as
amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), the ForeignTrade Zones Board (the Board) adopts the
following Order:

Whereas, the Foreign-Trade Zones
(FTZ) Act provides for ‘‘. . . the
establishment . . . of foreign-trade
zones in ports of entry of the United
States, to expedite and encourage
foreign commerce, and for other
purposes,’’ and authorizes the ForeignTrade Zones Board to grant to qualified
corporations the privilege of
establishing foreign-trade zones in or
adjacent to U.S. Customs and Border
Protection ports of entry;
Whereas, the Board’s regulations (15
CFR part 400) provide for the
establishment of subzones for specific
uses;
Whereas, the Port of South Louisiana,
grantee of Foreign-Trade Zone 124, has
made application to the Board to
expand Subzone 124D—Site 2 on behalf
of LOOP LLC to include an adjacent
70.761 acres in St. James, Louisiana
(FTZ Docket B–30–2017, docketed May
8, 2017);
Whereas, notice inviting public
comment has been given in the Federal
Register (82 FR 25238, June 1, 2017) and
the application has been processed
pursuant to the FTZ Act and the Board’s
regulations; and,

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