81_FR_17780 81 FR 17719 - Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking

81 FR 17719 - Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 61 (March 30, 2016)

Page Range17719-17720
FR Document2016-07113

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce a public meeting of the Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking (Council). The Council's purpose is to provide expertise and support to the Presidential Task Force on Wildlife Trafficking. You may attend the meeting in person, or you may participate via telephone. At this time, we are inviting submissions of questions and information for consideration during the meeting.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 61 (Wednesday, March 30, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 61 (Wednesday, March 30, 2016)]
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[FR Doc No: 2016-07113]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

[FWS-HQ-IA-2014-0019; FXIA167109ADV16-156-FF09A00000]


Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce a 
public meeting of the Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking 
(Council). The Council's purpose is to provide expertise and support to 
the Presidential Task Force on Wildlife Trafficking. You may attend the 
meeting in person, or you may participate via telephone. At this time, 
we are inviting submissions of questions and information for 
consideration during the meeting.

DATES: Meeting: The meeting will be held on Friday, April 15, 2016, 
from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eastern Time.
    Registering to Attend the Meeting: To attend the meeting in person, 
you must register by close of business on April 8, 2016. (You do not 
need to register to listen via phone.) Please submit your name, email 
address, and phone number to Mr. Cade London to complete the 
registration process (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT). Because 
there is limited seating available, registrations will be taken on a 
first-come, first-served basis. Members of the public requesting 
reasonable accommodations, such as hearing interpreters, must contact 
Mr. London, in writing (preferably by email), no later than April 5, 
2015.
    Submitting Questions or Information: If you want to provide us with 
questions and information to be considered during the meeting, your 
material must be received or postmarked on or before April 8, 2015. 
Comments submitted electronically using the Federal eRulemaking Portal 
(see ADDRESSES section) must be received by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on 
April 8, 2015.
    Making an Oral Presentation at the Meeting: If you want to make an 
oral presentation at the meeting (in person or by phone), contact Mr. 
London no later than April 8, 2015 (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION 
CONTACT). For more information, see Making an Oral Presentation under 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.

ADDRESSES: Meeting Location: The meeting will be held at the U.S. 
Department of the Interior, South Interior Building Auditorium, 1951 
Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20240.
    Meeting Call-In Numbers: Members of the public unable to attend the 
meeting in person may call in at 888-606-5920 (toll free) or 630-395-
0312 (toll) using the dial-in passcode 1214001. To ensure that enough 
call-in lines are available, we request that members of the public 
register as call-in participants at https://www.mymeetings.com/emeet/rsvp/index.jsp?customHeader=mymeetings&Conference_ID=7459947&passcode=1214001
. Members may register to give an oral presentation over the phone as 
well. For more information, see Making an Oral Presentation under 
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
    Submitting Questions or Information: You may submit questions or 
information for consideration during the meeting by one of the 
following methods:
    1. Electronically: Go to the Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. In the Search box, enter FWS-HQ-IA-2014-0019. Then 
click on the ``Search'' button. You may submit questions or information 
by clicking on ``Comment Now!''
    2. By hard copy: Submit by U.S. mail or hand-delivery to: Public 
Comments Processing, Attn: FWS-HQ-IA-2014-0019; Division of Policy, 
Performance, and Management Programs; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; 
5275 Leesburg Pike, MS: BPHC; Falls Church, VA 22041-3803.
    We will not accept email or faxes. We request that you send 
comments only by the methods described above. We will post all comments 
on http://www.regulations.gov. This generally means that we will post 
any personal information you provide us (see the Submitting Public 
Comments section for more information).
    Reviewing Comments Received by the Service: See Reviewing Public 
Comments in the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Cade London, Policy Advisor, 
International Affairs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, by email at 
[email protected] (preferable method of contact); by U.S. mail at 
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; 5275 Leesburg Pike, MS: IA; Falls 
Church, VA 22041-3803; by telephone at (703) 358-2584; or by fax at 
(703) 358-2276.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In accordance with the requirements of the 
Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App.), we announce that the 
Advisory Council on Wildlife Trafficking (Council) will hold a meeting 
to discuss the implementation of the National Strategy for Combating 
Wildlife Trafficking, and other Council business as appropriate. The 
Council's purpose is to provide expertise and support to the 
Presidential Task Force on Wildlife Trafficking.
    You may attend the meeting in person, or you may participate via 
telephone. At this time, we are inviting submissions of questions and 
information for consideration during the meeting.

Background

    Executive Order 13648 established the Advisory Council on Wildlife 
Trafficking on August 30, 2013, to advise the Presidential Task Force 
on Wildlife Trafficking, through the Secretary of the Interior, on 
national strategies to combat wildlife trafficking, including, but not 
limited to:
    1. Effective support for anti-poaching activities;
    2. Coordinating regional law enforcement efforts;
    3. Developing and supporting effective legal enforcement 
mechanisms; and
    4. Developing strategies to reduce illicit trade and consumer 
demand for illegally traded wildlife, including protected species.
    The eight-member Council, appointed by the Secretary of the 
Interior, includes former senior leadership within the U.S. Government, 
as well as chief executive officers and board members from conservation 
organizations and the private sector. For more information on the 
Council and its members, visit http://www.fws.gov/international/advisory-council-wildlife-trafficking/.

Meeting Agenda

    The Council will consider:
    1. Task Force discussions,
    2. Administrative topics, and
    3. Public comment and response.
    The final agenda will be posted on the Internet at http://www.fws.gov/international/advisory-council-wildlife-trafficking/.

Making an Oral Presentation

    Members of the public who want to make an oral presentation in 
person or by telephone at the meeting will be prompted during the 
public comment section of the meeting to provide their presentation 
and/or questions. If you want to make an oral presentation in person or 
by phone, contact Mr. Cade London (FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) no 
later than the date given in the DATES section.
    Registered speakers who want to expand on their oral statements, or 
those who wanted to speak but could not be accommodated on the agenda, 
are invited to submit written statements to the Council after the 
meeting. Such written statements must be received by Mr. London, in 
writing (preferably via email), no later than April 22, 2016.

Submitting Public Comments

    You may submit your questions and information by one of the methods 
listed in ADDRESSES. We request that you send comments by only one of 
the methods described in ADDRESSES.
    If you submit information via the Federal eRulemaking Portal 
(http://www.regulations.gov), your entire submission--including any 
personal identifying information--will be posted on the Web site.
    If your submission is made via a hardcopy that includes personal 
identifying information, you may request at the top of your document 
that we withhold this information from public review. However, we 
cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so. We will post all 
hardcopy submissions at http://www.regulations.gov.

Reviewing Public Comments

    Comments and materials we receive will be available for public 
inspection at http://www.regulations.gov. Alternatively, you may view 
them by appointment during normal business hours at 5275 Leesburg Pike, 
Falls Church, VA 22041-3803. Please contact Mr. London (see FOR FURTHER 
INFORMATION CONTACT).

Obtaining Meeting Minutes

    Summary minutes of the meeting will be available on the Council Web 
site at http://www.fws.gov/international/advisory-council-wildlife-trafficking/. Alternatively, you may view them by appointment during 
normal business hours at 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041-
3803. Please contact Mr. London (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT).

Gloria Bell,
Deputy Assistant Director, International Affairs, U.S. Fish and 
Wildlife Service.
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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 61 / Wednesday, March 30, 2016 / Notices 17719 Public Input Meeting Minutes section) must be received by 11:59 p.m. Summary minutes of the meeting will Eastern Time on April 8, 2015. Then you must be maintained by the Council Making an Oral Presentation at the contact the Meeting: If you want to make an oral Council Coordi- Coordinator (see FOR FURTHER nator (see FOR INFORMATION CONTACT) and will be presentation at the meeting (in person or If you wish to by phone), contact Mr. London no later FURTHER IN- available for public inspection within FORMATION 90 days of the meeting. They will be than April 8, 2015 (see FOR FURTHER CONTACT) no INFORMATION CONTACT). For more later than posted on the Council’s Web site at http://www.fws.gov/sfbpc. information, see Making an Oral Attend the meeting ........... Wednesday, April Presentation under SUPPLEMENTARY James W. Kurth, INFORMATION. 27, 2016. Submit written information Wednesday, April Acting Director. ADDRESSES: Meeting Location: The or questions before the 27, 2016. [FR Doc. 2016–07133 Filed 3–29–16; 8:45 am] meeting will be held at the U.S. meeting for the Council BILLING CODE 4333–15–P to consider during the Department of the Interior, South meeting. Interior Building Auditorium, 1951 Give an oral presentation Wednesday, April DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, during the meeting. 27, 2016. DC 20240. Fish and Wildlife Service Meeting Call-In Numbers: Members of Attendance the public unable to attend the meeting [FWS–HQ–IA–2014–0019; FXIA167109ADV16–156–FF09A00000] in person may call in at 888–606–5920 The Council meeting will be held at (toll free) or 630–395–0312 (toll) using the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Advisory Council on Wildlife the dial-in passcode 1214001. To ensure Administration’s Florida Keys Eco- Trafficking that enough call-in lines are available, Discovery Center, 35 East Quay Road, we request that members of the public Key West, Florida. Signs will be posted AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, register as call-in participants at to direct attendees to the specific Interior. https://www.mymeetings.com/emeet/ conference room. ACTION: Notice of meeting. rsvp/index. jsp?customHeader=mymeetings& Submitting Written Information or SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Conference_ID=7459947&passcode= Questions Wildlife Service (Service), announce a 1214001. Members may register to give public meeting of the Advisory Council Interested members of the public may an oral presentation over the phone as on Wildlife Trafficking (Council). The submit relevant information or well. For more information, see Making Council’s purpose is to provide an Oral Presentation under questions for the Council to consider expertise and support to the Presidential SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. during the meeting. Written statements Task Force on Wildlife Trafficking. You must be received by the date listed may attend the meeting in person, or Submitting Questions or Information: you may participate via telephone. At You may submit questions or above in ‘‘Public Input.’’ Written this time, we are inviting submissions of information for consideration during the statements must be supplied to the questions and information for meeting by one of the following Council Coordinator either by sending consideration during the meeting. methods: one hard copy with original signature DATES: Meeting: The meeting will be 1. Electronically: Go to the Federal via the mail or one electronic copy via held on Friday, April 15, 2016, from 9 eRulemaking Portal: http:// email (acceptable file formats are Adobe a.m. to 1 p.m. Eastern Time. www.regulations.gov. In the Search box, Acrobat PDF, MS Word, MS Registering to Attend the Meeting: To enter FWS–HQ–IA–2014–0019. Then PowerPoint, or rich text file). click on the ‘‘Search’’ button. You may attend the meeting in person, you must Giving an Oral Presentation register by close of business on April 8, submit questions or information by 2016. (You do not need to register to clicking on ‘‘Comment Now!’’ Individuals or groups requesting to 2. By hard copy: Submit by U.S. mail listen via phone.) Please submit your make an oral presentation during the or hand-delivery to: Public Comments name, email address, and phone number meeting will be limited to 2 minutes per Processing, Attn: FWS–HQ–IA–2014– to Mr. Cade London to complete the speaker, with no more than a total of 30 0019; Division of Policy, Performance, registration process (see FOR FURTHER minutes for all speakers. Interested INFORMATION CONTACT). Because there is and Management Programs; U.S. Fish parties should contact the Council limited seating available, registrations and Wildlife Service; 5275 Leesburg Coordinator, in writing (preferably via will be taken on a first-come, first- Pike, MS: BPHC; Falls Church, VA email; see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION served basis. Members of the public 22041–3803. CONTACT), to be placed on the public requesting reasonable accommodations, We will not accept email or faxes. We speaker list for this meeting. To ensure such as hearing interpreters, must request that you send comments only by an opportunity to speak during the contact Mr. London, in writing the methods described above. We will public comment period of the meeting, (preferably by email), no later than April post all comments on http:// members of the public must register 5, 2015. www.regulations.gov. This generally asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES with the Council Coordinator. Submitting Questions or Information: means that we will post any personal Registered speakers who want to expand If you want to provide us with questions information you provide us (see the on their oral statements, or those who and information to be considered during Submitting Public Comments section for wanted to speak but could not be the meeting, your material must be more information). accommodated on the agenda, may received or postmarked on or before Reviewing Comments Received by the submit written statements to the April 8, 2015. 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17720 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 61 / Wednesday, March 30, 2016 / Notices FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. international/advisory-council-wildlife- Mr. London (see FOR FURTHER Cade London, Policy Advisor, trafficking/. INFORMATION CONTACT). International Affairs, U.S. Fish and Making an Oral Presentation Gloria Bell, Wildlife Service, by email at cade_ london@fws.gov (preferable method of Deputy Assistant Director, International Members of the public who want to Affairs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. contact); by U.S. mail at U.S. Fish and make an oral presentation in person or [FR Doc. 2016–07113 Filed 3–29–16; 8:45 am] Wildlife Service; 5275 Leesburg Pike, by telephone at the meeting will be MS: IA; Falls Church, VA 22041–3803; BILLING CODE 4333–15–P prompted during the public comment by telephone at (703) 358–2584; or by section of the meeting to provide their fax at (703) 358–2276. presentation and/or questions. If you DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In want to make an oral presentation in accordance with the requirements of the person or by phone, contact Mr. Cade Bureau of Land Management Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 London (FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) no later than the date given in [16X.LLWO320000.L13200000.PP0000] U.S.C. App.), we announce that the Advisory Council on Wildlife the DATES section. Notice of Intent To Prepare a Trafficking (Council) will hold a Registered speakers who want to Programmatic Environmental Impact meeting to discuss the implementation expand on their oral statements, or Statement To Review the Federal Coal of the National Strategy for Combating those who wanted to speak but could Program and To Conduct Public Wildlife Trafficking, and other Council not be accommodated on the agenda, are Scoping Meetings business as appropriate. The Council’s invited to submit written statements to purpose is to provide expertise and the Council after the meeting. Such AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, support to the Presidential Task Force written statements must be received by Interior. on Wildlife Trafficking. Mr. London, in writing (preferably via ACTION: Notice. You may attend the meeting in email), no later than April 22, 2016. person, or you may participate via SUMMARY: In compliance with the telephone. At this time, we are inviting Submitting Public Comments National Environmental Policy Act of submissions of questions and You may submit your questions and 1969, as amended (NEPA), the Bureau of information for consideration during the information by one of the methods Land Management (BLM), Washington meeting. listed in ADDRESSES. We request that Office, intends to prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Background you send comments by only one of the Statement (EIS) to review the Federal methods described in ADDRESSES. Executive Order 13648 established the coal program. Advisory Council on Wildlife If you submit information via the This Notice of Intent begins the Trafficking on August 30, 2013, to Federal eRulemaking Portal (http:// process of defining the scope of the advise the Presidential Task Force on www.regulations.gov), your entire Programmatic EIS by providing Wildlife Trafficking, through the submission—including any personal background on the Federal coal program Secretary of the Interior, on national identifying information—will be posted and identifying the issues that may be strategies to combat wildlife trafficking, on the Web site. addressed in the Programmatic EIS. This including, but not limited to: If your submission is made via a Notice informs the public about: 1. Effective support for anti-poaching hardcopy that includes personal Concerns that have been raised about activities; identifying information, you may the Federal coal program; issues that are 2. Coordinating regional law request at the top of your document that expected to be assessed in the enforcement efforts; we withhold this information from Programmatic EIS; and potential 3. Developing and supporting public review. However, we cannot modifications to the Federal coal effective legal enforcement mechanisms; guarantee that we will be able to do so. program suggested by stakeholders and We will post all hardcopy submissions during the listening sessions that could 4. Developing strategies to reduce at http://www.regulations.gov. be considered in the Programmatic EIS. illicit trade and consumer demand for Reviewing Public Comments This Notice of Intent also announces illegally traded wildlife, including plans to conduct public scoping protected species. Comments and materials we receive meetings, invites public participation in The eight-member Council, appointed will be available for public inspection at the scoping process, and solicits public by the Secretary of the Interior, includes http://www.regulations.gov. comments for consideration in former senior leadership within the U.S. Alternatively, you may view them by establishing the scope and content of Government, as well as chief executive appointment during normal business the Programmatic EIS. officers and board members from hours at 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls DATES: The BLM will invite interested conservation organizations and the Church, VA 22041–3803. Please contact agencies, States, American Indian tribes, private sector. For more information on Mr. London (see FOR FURTHER local governments, industry, the Council and its members, visit INFORMATION CONTACT). organizations and members of the http://www.fws.gov/international/ Obtaining Meeting Minutes public to submit comments or advisory-council-wildlife-trafficking/. suggestions to assist in identifying asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Summary minutes of the meeting will significant issues and in determining Meeting Agenda be available on the Council Web site at the scope of this Programmatic EIS. The Council will consider: http://www.fws.gov/international/ The BLM will be holding public 1. Task Force discussions, advisory-council-wildlife-trafficking/. scoping meetings to obtain comments 2. Administrative topics, and Alternatively, you may view them by on the Programmatic EIS and plans to 3. 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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of meeting.
DatesMeeting: The meeting will be held on Friday, April 15, 2016, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Eastern Time.
ContactMr. Cade London, Policy Advisor, International Affairs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, by email at [email protected] (preferable method of contact); by U.S. mail at U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; 5275 Leesburg Pike, MS: IA; Falls Church, VA 22041-3803; by telephone at (703) 358-2584; or by fax at (703) 358-2276.
FR Citation81 FR 17719 
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