81_FR_21447 81 FR 21378 - Notice of Public Meeting, North Slope Science Initiative-Science Technical Advisory Panel

81 FR 21378 - Notice of Public Meeting, North Slope Science Initiative-Science Technical Advisory Panel

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 69 (April 11, 2016)

Page Range21378-21379
FR Document2016-08239

In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act and the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the U.S. Department of the Interior, North Slope Science Initiative (NSSI)--Science Technical Advisory Panel (STAP) will meet as indicated below.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 69 (Monday, April 11, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 69 (Monday, April 11, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21378-21379]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-08239]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

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Notice of Public Meeting, North Slope Science Initiative--Science 
Technical Advisory Panel

AGENCY: North Slope Science Initiative, Bureau of Land Management 
Alaska, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act 
and the Federal Advisory Committee Act, the U.S. Department of the 
Interior, North Slope Science Initiative (NSSI)--Science Technical 
Advisory Panel (STAP) will meet as indicated below.

DATES: The meeting will be held May 9-10, 2016, in Barrow, Alaska. The 
meeting will be held in the I[ntilde]upiat Heritage Center, 5421 
Northstar St., Barrow, AK 99723. The meeting will begin on Monday, May 
9, 2016, at 1:00 p.m. and again on Tuesday, May 10, at 8:30 a.m. There 
will be an opportunity for public comment from 4:30 to 5:00 p.m. on 
Monday, May 9. Depending on the number of persons wishing to comment 
and time available, the time for individual oral comments may be 
limited.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Denny Lassuy, Acting Director, North 
Slope Science Initiative, Bureau of Land Management, 222 W. Seventh 
Avenue, #13, Anchorage, AK 99513, (907) 271-3212 or email 
[email protected]. Persons who use a telecommunications device for the 
deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1-
800-877-8339 to contact the above individual during normal business 
hours. The FIRS is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to 
leave a message or question with the above individual. You will receive 
a reply during normal business hours.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NSSI STAP provides advice and 
recommendations to the NSSI Oversight Group regarding priority 
information needs for management decisions across the North Slope of 
Alaska. These priority information needs may include recommendations on 
inventory, monitoring, and research activities that contribute to 
informed resource management decisions. This meeting will include 
interagency coordination on planned 2016 and 2017 research and 
monitoring projects, plus discussions and updates on the ongoing North 
Slope Development Scenarios Project, the Arctic Waterway Safety 
Committee's effort to develop a communications protocol to reduce 
potential conflicts between research vessels and subsistence users, and 
a Barrow Area Information Database presentation on their Decision 
Support Tools Development project. Individuals who plan to attend and 
need special assistance, such as sign language interpretation, 
transportation, or other reasonable accommodations, should contact the 
NSSI Director. The public may present written comments to the STAP 
through the NSSI Acting Director. Before including your address, phone 
number, email address, or other personal identifying information in 
your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment--including 
your personal identifying information--may be made publicly available. 
While you can ask us in your comment to withhold your personal 
identifying information

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from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.

Bud C. Cribley,
State Director.
[FR Doc. 2016-08239 Filed 4-8-16; 8:45 am]
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21378 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 69 / Monday, April 11, 2016 / Notices (2) describe the cumulative impacts of Nevada. The dates of the public scoping meeting will be held in the Iñupiat development on the Reservation; and (3) meetings will be included in notices to Heritage Center, 5421 Northstar St., identify and propose mitigation be posted in local papers (Mohave Barrow, AK 99723. The meeting will measures that would minimize or Valley Daily News, Needles Desert Star, begin on Monday, May 9, 2016, at 1:00 prevent significant adverse impacts. and Laughlin Nevada Times) 15 days p.m. and again on Tuesday, May 10, at Consistent with these objectives, the EIS before the meetings and will also be 8:30 a.m. There will be an opportunity will analyze the proposed Project and available on the EIS Web site for public comment from 4:30 to 5:00 appurtenant features, viable (FortMojaveSolarProjectEIS.com). p.m. on Monday, May 9. Depending on alternatives, and the No Action the number of persons wishing to Public Comment Availability alternative. comment and time available, the time The EIS will provide a framework for Comments, including names and for individual oral comments may be BIA and BLM to make determinations addresses of respondents, will be limited. and to decide whether to take the available for public review at the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: aforementioned Federal actions. In mailing address shown in the Denny Lassuy, Acting Director, North addition, BIA and BLM will use and ADDRESSES section during regular Slope Science Initiative, Bureau of Land coordinate the NEPA commenting business hours, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Management, 222 W. Seventh Avenue, process to satisfy its obligations under Monday through Friday, except #13, Anchorage, AK 99513, (907) 271– Section 106 of the National Historic holidays. Before including your address, 3212 or email dlassuy@blm.gov. Persons Preservation Act (NHPA) (54 U.S.C. phone number, email address, or other who use a telecommunications device 306108), as provided for in 36 CFR personal identifying information in your for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 800.2(d)(3). Native American Tribal comment, you should be aware that Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1– consultations will be conducted in your entire comment—including your 800–877–8339 to contact the above accordance with Departmental policy, personal identifying information—may individual during normal business and Tribal concerns, including potential be made publicly available at any time. hours. The FIRS is available 24 hours a impacts on Indian trust assets, will be day, seven days a week, to leave a Authority given due consideration. Other Federal message or question with the above agencies may rely on the EIS to make This notice is published in accordance with 40 CFR 1501.7 of the individual. You will receive a reply decisions under their authority and the during normal business hours. Tribe may also use the EIS to support Council of Environmental Quality regulations and 43 CFR 46.235 of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NSSI any of their decisions. USFWS will review the EIS for consistency with the Department of the Interior Regulations STAP provides advice and Endangered Species Act, as amended, implementing the procedural recommendations to the NSSI Oversight and other implementing acts, and may requirements of the NEPA (42 U.S.C. Group regarding priority information rely on the EIS to support its decisions 4321 et seq.), and in accordance with needs for management decisions across and opinions regarding the Project. the exercise of authority delegated to the the North Slope of Alaska. These Issues to be covered during the Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs by priority information needs may include scoping process may include, but would part 209 of the Department Manual. recommendations on inventory, not be limited to, Project impacts on: monitoring, and research activities that Dated: March 31, 2016. Air quality, geology and soils, surface contribute to informed resource Lawrence S. Roberts, management decisions. This meeting and groundwater resources, biological Acting Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs. will include interagency coordination resources, threatened and endangered [FR Doc. 2016–08264 Filed 4–8–16; 8:45 am] on planned 2016 and 2017 research and species, cultural resources, socioeconomic conditions, land use, BILLING CODE 4337–15–P monitoring projects, plus discussions aesthetics, environmental justice, and updates on the ongoing North Slope climate change, greenhouse gas (GHG) Development Scenarios Project, the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Arctic Waterway Safety Committee’s emissions, and Indian trust resources. In addition to those already identified effort to develop a communications Bureau of Land Management above, additional Federal, State, and protocol to reduce potential conflicts local agencies, along with other [16X LLAK910000.L13100000.DB0000. between research vessels and LXSINSSI0000] subsistence users, and a Barrow Area stakeholders that may be interested in or affected by the BIA’s decision on the Information Database presentation on Notice of Public Meeting, North Slope their Decision Support Tools proposed Project, are invited to Science Initiative—Science Technical participate in the scoping process. Development project. Individuals who Advisory Panel plan to attend and need special Submission of Public Comments AGENCY: North Slope Science Initiative, assistance, such as sign language Please include your name, return Bureau of Land Management Alaska, interpretation, transportation, or other address, and the caption ‘‘EIS, Fort Interior. reasonable accommodations, should Mojave Solar Project,’’ on the first page ACTION: Notice of public meeting. contact the NSSI Director. The public of any written comments. You may also may present written comments to the submit comments at the public scoping SUMMARY: In accordance with the STAP through the NSSI Acting Director. meetings or via the EIS Web site at Federal Land Policy and Management Before including your address, phone Act and the Federal Advisory mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES FortMojaveSolarProjectEIS.com. number, email address, or other The public scoping meetings will be Committee Act, the U.S. Department of personal identifying information in your held to further describe the Project and the Interior, North Slope Science comment, you should be aware that identify potential issues and alternatives Initiative (NSSI)—Science Technical your entire comment—including your to be considered in the EIS. One public Advisory Panel (STAP) will meet as personal identifying information—may scoping meeting will be held on the indicated below. be made publicly available. While you Reservation and another public scoping DATES: The meeting will be held May 9– can ask us in your comment to withhold meeting will be held in Laughlin, 10, 2016, in Barrow, Alaska. The your personal identifying information VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:37 Apr 08, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00070 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\11APN1.SGM 11APN1

Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 69 / Monday, April 11, 2016 / Notices 21379 from public review, we cannot floodplain, creating a potential except for conveyance under the R&PP guarantee that we will be able to do so. contamination source for the Humboldt Act, but not leasing under the mineral River. Accordingly, a new facility must leasing laws and the mineral material Bud C. Cribley, be constructed at a different location. disposal laws. State Director. Written comments may be submitted The sale parcel is described as: [FR Doc. 2016–08239 Filed 4–8–16; 8:45 am] concerning the suitability of the land for Mount Diablo Meridian, Nevada BILLING CODE 4310–JA–P development for a new wastewater T. 36 N., R. 37 E., treatment and effluent disposal facility. Sec. 28; Sec. 32, NE1⁄4, NW1⁄4, SW1⁄4, N1⁄2, SE1⁄4, Comments on the classification are DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR restricted to whether the land is and W1⁄2, SW1⁄4, SE1⁄4. Bureau of Land Management The areas described aggregate 1,220 acres. physically suitable for the proposed use, 640 acres located in T. 36 N., R 37 E., sec. whether the use will maximize the [LLNVW01000.L144000000.EU0000.241A; 28, will be patented in year one, with 580 future use or uses of the land, whether N–98298; 15–08807; MO #4500089711; TAS: acres of T. 36 N., R. 37 E., sec. 32, to be the use is consistent with local planning 15X] patented in subsequent years in compliance and zoning, or whether the use is with R&PP regulations. consistent with state and Federal Notice of Realty Action: Segregation The new plan of development will programs. Written comments can be and Classification for Conveyance for consist of a new wastewater treatment submitted by postal service or overnight Recreation and Public Purposes and effluent disposal plant, and effluent mail to the Field Manager, BLM Patent, in Humboldt County, NV disposal facilities that include an Humboldt River Field Office. The land AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, effluent pipeline, rapid infiltration will not be offered for conveyance until Interior. basins; a storage basin, an influent after the classification becomes ACTION: Notice. pumping station; and irrigation pivots. effective. The land is not required for any Before including your address, phone SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land number, email address, or other Federal purpose. The conveyance is Management (BLM), Winnemucca personal identifying information in your consistent with the BLM Winnemucca District, Nevada, has found suitable for comment, you should be aware that District Office Resource Management classification and conveyance 1,220 your entire comment—including your Plan and the Record of Decision, dated acres of public land in Humboldt personal identifying information—may May 2015, and is in the public interest. County, Nevada, under the provisions of be made publicly available at any time. This proposal was analyzed as the Recreation and Public Purposes While you can ask us in your comment Environmental Assessment DOI–BLM– (R&PP) Act, as amended, and provisions to withhold your personal identifying NV–W010–2014–0031. of the Taylor Grazing Act. The City of information from public review, we The conveyance will be subject to the Winnemucca proposes to use the land cannot guarantee that we will be able to provisions of the R&PP Act and for a new wastewater treatment and do so. applicable regulations and will be effluent disposal facility to serve Any comments regarding this sale subject to the following terms, Winnemucca, Nevada. will be reviewed by the BLM Nevada conditions, and reservations of the DATES: Submit written comments State Director who may sustain, vacate, United States: regarding this conveyance, 1. A right-of-way is reserved for or modify this realty action. In the classification, segregation, on or before ditches and canals constructed by the absence of any adverse comments, this May 26, 2016. authority of the United States, Act of realty action will become the final ADDRESSES: Send written comments to August 30, 1890 (43 U.S.C. 945); determination of the Department of Stephen Sappington, Field Manager, 2. All mineral deposits in the lands so Interior. BLM Humboldt River Field Office, 5100 patented, and to it, or persons Authority: 43 CFR 2741.5 E. Winnemucca Blvd., Winnemucca, authorized by it, the right to prospect Nevada 89445. David Kampwerth, for, mine and remove such deposits FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kurt Field Manager, Humboldt River Field Office. from the same under applicable law and Miers, Project Lead, by telephone at such regulations as the Secretary of the [FR Doc. 2016–08254 Filed 4–8–16; 8:45 am] 775–623–1569 or email at wfoweb@ Interior may deem necessary are BILLING CODE 4310–HC–P blm.gov with City of Winnemucca R&PP reserved to the United States, together (Miers) in the subject line. Persons who with all necessary access and exit rights; use a telecommunications device for the 3. The parcel is subject to valid DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR deaf (TDD) may call the Federal existing rights; National Park Service Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1– 4. An appropriate indemnification 800–877–8339 to contact the above clause protecting the United States from [NPS–IMR–GLAC- 19715; PPIMGLAC4G individual during normal business claims arising out of the patentee’s use, PPMPSAS1Z.YP0000] hours. The FIRS is available 24 hours a occupancy, or occupation on the leased/ day, 7 days a week, to leave a message Fisheries Management, Aquatics patented lands; or question with the above individual. 5. No portion of the land patented Restoration, and Climate Change You will receive a reply during normal shall revert back to the United States Response Plan, Environmental Impact business hours. Statement, Glacier National Park, mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES under any circumstance. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The City 6. Additional terms and conditions Montana of Winnemucca proposes to construct a that the authorized officer deems AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. new wastewater treatment and effluent appropriate. Upon publication of this ACTION: Notice of Intent. disposal facility in order to facilitate Notice in the Federal Register, the expansion/growth in the area. The parcel will be segregated from all other SUMMARY: The National Park Service current facility has been deemed by the forms of appropriation under the public (NPS) is preparing an Environmental USEPA and NDEP to be located in a land laws, including the mining laws, Impact Statement (EIS) for the Fisheries VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:37 Apr 08, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00071 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\11APN1.SGM 11APN1


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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
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ActionNotice of public meeting.
DatesThe meeting will be held May 9-10, 2016, in Barrow, Alaska. The meeting will be held in the I[ntilde]upiat Heritage Center, 5421 Northstar St., Barrow, AK 99723. The meeting will begin on Monday, May 9, 2016, at 1:00 p.m. and again on Tuesday, May 10, at 8:30 a.m. There will be an opportunity for public comment from 4:30 to 5:00 p.m. on Monday, May 9. Depending on the number of persons wishing to comment and time available, the time for individual oral comments may be limited.
ContactDenny Lassuy, Acting Director, North Slope Science Initiative, Bureau of Land Management, 222 W. Seventh Avenue, #13, Anchorage, AK 99513, (907) 271-3212 or email [email protected] Persons who use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1- 800-877-8339 to contact the above individual during normal business hours. The FIRS is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week, to leave a message or question with the above individual. You will receive a reply during normal business hours.
FR Citation81 FR 21378 
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