81_FR_70635 81 FR 70438 - Announcement of Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Natural Resource Science Meeting

81 FR 70438 - Announcement of Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Natural Resource Science Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Geological Survey

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 197 (October 12, 2016)

Page Range70438-70439
FR Document2016-24569

In accordance with the requirements of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2, we announce that the Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Natural Resource Science will hold a meeting.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 197 (Wednesday, October 12, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 197 (Wednesday, October 12, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70438-70439]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-24569]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Geological Survey

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Announcement of Advisory Committee on Climate Change and Natural 
Resource Science Meeting

AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey, Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the requirements of the Federal Advisory 
Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2, we announce that the Advisory Committee 
on Climate Change and Natural Resource Science will hold a meeting.

DATES: Meeting: The meeting will be held as follows: Wednesday, 
November 9, 2016, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; and Thursday, November 
10, 2016 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (All times Mountain Time Zone).

ADDRESSES: 1064 E Lowell St. Tucson, AZ 85721. The SW CSC is located on 
the campus of the University of Arizona in the ENR2 building. The 
November 9-10 meeting will be held in ENR2 S225.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Robin O'Malley, Designated Federal 
Officer, Policy and Partnership Coordinator, National Climate Change 
and Wildlife Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise 
Valley Drive, Mail Stop 516, Reston, VA 20192, [email protected], (703) 
648-4086.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Chartered in May 2013, the Advisory 
Committee on Climate Change and Natural Resource Science (ACCCNRS) 
advises the Secretary of the Interior on the establishment and 
operations of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) National Climate Change 
and Wildlife Science Center (NCCWSC) and the Department of the Interior 
(DOI) Climate Science Centers (CSCs). ACCCNRS members represent the 
Federal Government, state and local governments, including state 
membership entities, non-governmental organizations, including those 
whose primary mission is professional/scientific and those whose 
primary mission is conservation and related scientific and advocacy 
activities, American Indian tribes and other Native American entities, 
academia, landowners, businesses, and organizations representing 
landowners or businesses. Duties of the committee include: (A) Advising 
on the contents of a national strategy identifying key science 
priorities to advance the management of natural resources in the face 
of climate change; (B) advising on the nature, extent, and quality of 
relations with and engagement of key partners at the regional/CSC 
level; (C) advising on the nature and effectiveness of mechanisms to 
ensure the identification of key priorities from management partners 
and to effectively deliver scientific results in useful forms; (D) 
advising on mechanisms that may be employed by the NCCWSC to ensure 
high standards of scientific quality and integrity in its products, and 
to review and evaluate the performance of individual CSCs, in advance 
of opportunities to re-establish expiring agreements; and (E) 
coordinating as appropriate with the Landscape Conservation 
Cooperatives Council. More information about the ACCCNRS is available 
at https://nccwsc.usgs.gov/acccnrs.
    Meeting Agenda: The objectives of this meeting are to address 
NCCWSC + CSC strategic planning and the work of the SW CSC. A full 
final agenda will be posted on https://nccwsc.usgs.gov/acccnrs prior to 
the meeting.
    Public Input: All Committee meetings are open to the public. 
Interested members of the public may present, either orally or through 
written comments, information for the Committee to consider during the 
public meeting. The public will have approximately 15 minutes to make 
comment on both Wednesday, November 9, 2016, from 4:00 p.m. to 4:15 
p.m. and Thursday, November 10, 2016 from 11:00 p.m. to 11:15 p.m. (all 
times Mountain Time Zone), although interested parties should consult 
the final agenda to determine if these times have changed.
    Individuals or groups requesting to make comment at the public 
Committee meeting will be limited to 2 minutes per speaker. The 
Committee will endeavor to provide adequate opportunity for all 
speakers, within available time limits. Speakers who wish to expand 
upon their oral statements, or those who had

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wished to speak, but could not be accommodated during the public 
comment period, are encouraged to submit their comments in written form 
to the Committee after the meeting.
    Written comments should be submitted, prior to, during, or after 
the meeting, to Mr. Robin O'Malley, Designated Federal Officer, by U.S. 
Mail to: Mr. Robin O'Malley, Designated Federal Officer, U.S. 
Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Mail Stop 516, Reston, 
VA 20192, or via email, at [email protected].
    The meeting location is open to the public. Space is limited, so 
all interested in attending should pre-register. Please submit your 
name, estimate time of arrival, email address and phone number to 
Kristen Donahue via email at [email protected], or phone at (703) 648-
4087, by close of business on November 7, 2016. Persons with 
disabilities requiring special services, such as an interpreter for the 
hearing impaired, should also contact Kristen Donahue at least seven 
calendar days prior to the meeting. We will do our best to accommodate 
those who are unable to meet this deadline.

Robin O'Malley,
Designated Federal Officer.
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70438 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 197 / Wednesday, October 12, 2016 / Notices responses to telephone surveys at 25 identifying information in your represent the Federal Government, state minutes per survey; 784 nonresponses comment, you should be aware that and local governments, including state at 5 minutes per survey; and 59 your entire comment, including your membership entities, non-governmental responses from focus groups at 1 hour personal identifying information, may organizations, including those whose per focus group annually. be made publicly available at any time. primary mission is professional/ Questions asked under the While you can ask us in your comment scientific and those whose primary programmatic clearance must show a to withhold your personal identifying mission is conservation and related clear tie to Service management needs. information from public review, we scientific and advocacy activities, The programmatic review may only be cannot guarantee that we will be able to American Indian tribes and other Native used for noncontroversial information do so. American entities, academia, collections that are unlikely to attract or Dated: October 5, 2016. landowners, businesses, and include topics of significant public organizations representing landowners Tina A. Campbell, interest. OMB must approve all or businesses. Duties of the committee Chief, Division of Policy, Performance, and include: (A) Advising on the contents of collections before we can collect the Management Programs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife information. Service. a national strategy identifying key science priorities to advance the II. Data [FR Doc. 2016–24567 Filed 10–11–16; 8:45 am] management of natural resources in the BILLING CODE 4333–15–P OMB Control Number: 1018–XXXX. face of climate change; (B) advising on Title: Programmatic Clearance for U.S. the nature, extent, and quality of Fish and Wildlife Service Social Science relations with and engagement of key Research. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR partners at the regional/CSC level; (C) Service Form Number: None. Geological Survey advising on the nature and effectiveness Type of Request: Request for a new of mechanisms to ensure the OMB control number. [GX17EN05ESB0500] identification of key priorities from Description of Respondents: Persons management partners and to effectively visiting units managed by the Service; Announcement of Advisory Committee deliver scientific results in useful forms; potential visitors, including ‘‘virtual on Climate Change and Natural (D) advising on mechanisms that may be visitors’’ who access content from a Resource Science Meeting employed by the NCCWSC to ensure Service Web site; local community AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey, high standards of scientific quality and members; educators taking part in Department of the Interior. integrity in its products, and to review programs both on and off Service lands; ACTION: Notice of meeting. and evaluate the performance of government officials representing the individual CSCs, in advance of local area, landowners, partners, SUMMARY: In accordance with the opportunities to re-establish expiring stakeholders, and tribal interests. requirements of the Federal Advisory agreements; and (E) coordinating as Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. App. 2, we appropriate with the Landscape Frequency of Collection: On occasion. announce that the Advisory Committee Conservation Cooperatives Council. Estimated Number of Annual on Climate Change and Natural More information about the ACCCNRS Responses: 22,009. Resource Science will hold a meeting. is available at https://nccwsc.usgs.gov/ Estimated Completion Time per DATES: Meeting: The meeting will be acccnrs. Response: Varies from 5 minutes to 1 held as follows: Wednesday, November Meeting Agenda: The objectives of hour. 9, 2016, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; and this meeting are to address NCCWSC + Estimated Annual Burden Hours: Thursday, November 10, 2016 from 8:00 CSC strategic planning and the work of 7,249. a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (All times Mountain the SW CSC. A full final agenda will be Estimated Annual Nonhour Burden Time Zone). posted on https://nccwsc.usgs.gov/ Cost: None. acccnrs prior to the meeting. ADDRESSES: 1064 E Lowell St. Tucson, Public Input: All Committee meetings III. Comments AZ 85721. The SW CSC is located on are open to the public. Interested We invite comments concerning this the campus of the University of Arizona members of the public may present, information collection on: in the ENR2 building. The November 9– either orally or through written • Whether or not the collection of 10 meeting will be held in ENR2 S225. comments, information for the information is necessary, including FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Committee to consider during the public whether or not the information will Robin O’Malley, Designated Federal meeting. The public will have have practical utility; Officer, Policy and Partnership approximately 15 minutes to make • The accuracy of our estimate of the Coordinator, National Climate Change comment on both Wednesday, burden for this collection of and Wildlife Science Center, U.S. November 9, 2016, from 4:00 p.m. to information; Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley 4:15 p.m. and Thursday, November 10, • Ways to enhance the quality, utility, Drive, Mail Stop 516, Reston, VA 20192, 2016 from 11:00 p.m. to 11:15 p.m. (all and clarity of the information to be romalley@usgs.gov, (703) 648–4086. times Mountain Time Zone), although collected; and SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Chartered interested parties should consult the • Ways to minimize the burden of the in May 2013, the Advisory Committee final agenda to determine if these times collection of information on on Climate Change and Natural have changed. respondents. Resource Science (ACCCNRS) advises Individuals or groups requesting to mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES Comments that you submit in the Secretary of the Interior on the make comment at the public Committee response to this notice are a matter of establishment and operations of the U.S. meeting will be limited to 2 minutes per public record. We will include or Geological Survey (USGS) National speaker. The Committee will endeavor summarize each comment in our request Climate Change and Wildlife Science to provide adequate opportunity for all to OMB to approve this IC. Before Center (NCCWSC) and the Department speakers, within available time limits. including your address, phone number, of the Interior (DOI) Climate Science Speakers who wish to expand upon email address, or other personal Centers (CSCs). ACCCNRS members their oral statements, or those who had VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:13 Oct 11, 2016 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00053 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\12OCN1.SGM 12OCN1

Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 197 / Wednesday, October 12, 2016 / Notices 70439 wished to speak, but could not be come forward, transfer of control of the records may reflect Dr. William accommodated during the public human remains to the lineal Laughlin’s opinion, based on skull comment period, are encouraged to descendants, Indian tribes, or Native morphology, that the remains submit their comments in written form Hawaiian organizations stated in this represented a population preceding to the Committee after the meeting. notice may proceed. modern Aleut peoples, but this cannot Written comments should be DATES: Representatives of any Indian be confirmed. The human remains are submitted, prior to, during, or after the tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations, thought to represent an adult male, 35– meeting, to Mr. Robin O’Malley, including Alaska Native Tribes, not 45 years old. Skeletal analysis indicated Designated Federal Officer, by U.S. Mail identified in this notice that wish to an individual of Native American to: Mr. Robin O’Malley, Designated request transfer of control of these affiliation. Federal Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, human remains should submit a written 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Mail Stop request with information in support of Determinations Made by the Alaska 516, Reston, VA 20192, or via email, at the request to the Alaska Region USFWS Region USFWS romalley@usgs.gov. at the address in this notice by The meeting location is open to the Officials of the Alaska Region USFWS November 14, 2016. public. Space is limited, so all have determined that: ADDRESSES: Edward J. DeCleva, Regional interested in attending should pre- Archaeologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the register. Please submit your name, Service, Alaska Region, 1011 East Tudor human remains described in this notice estimate time of arrival, email address Road, MS–235, Anchorage, AK 99503, represent the physical remains of one and phone number to Kristen Donahue telephone (907) 786–3399, email individual of Native American ancestry. via email at nccwsc@usgs.gov, or phone Edward_decleva@fws.gov. • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there at (703) 648–4087, by close of business SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is is a relationship of shared group on November 7, 2016. Persons with here given in accordance with the identity that can be reasonably traced disabilities requiring special services, Native American Graves Protection and between the Native American human such as an interpreter for the hearing Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. remains and the Native Village of Atka. impaired, should also contact Kristen 3003, of the completion of an inventory Donahue at least seven calendar days Additional Requestors and Disposition of human remains under the control of prior to the meeting. We will do our best the Alaska Region USFWS. The human to accommodate those who are unable Lineal descendants or representatives remains were removed from Rat Island, to meet this deadline. of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian AK. This notice is published as part of the organization not identified in this notice Robin O’Malley, National Park Service’s administrative that wish to request transfer of control Designated Federal Officer. responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 of these human remains and associated [FR Doc. 2016–24569 Filed 10–11–16; 8:45 am] U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in funerary objects should submit a written BILLING CODE 4338–11–P this notice are the sole responsibility of request with information in support of the museum, institution, or Federal the request to Edward J. DeCleva, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR agency that has control of the Native Regional Archaeologist, U.S. Fish and American human remains. The National Wildlife Service, Alaska Region, 1011 National Park Service Park Service is not responsible for the East Tudor Road, MS–235, Anchorage, determinations in this notice. AK 99503, telephone (907) 786–3399, [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–21929; PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] email Edward_decleva@fws.gov, by Consultation November 14, 2016. After that date, if Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S. A detailed assessment of the human no additional requestors have come Fish and Wildlife Service, Alaska remains was made by the Alaska Region forward, transfer of control of the Region, Anchorage, AK USFWS professional staff in human remains and associated funerary consultation with representatives of the objects to the Native Village of Atka may AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. Native Village of Atka, Atxam am proceed. ACTION: Notice. Corporation, and the Aleut Corporation. The Alaska Region USFWS is SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife History and Description of the Remains responsible for notifying the Native Service, Alaska Region, Anchorage, AK In 1951, human remains representing, Village of Atka, Atxam am Corporation, (Alaska Region USFWS), has completed at minimum, one individual were and the Aleut Corporation that this an inventory of human remains, in removed from Rat Island, AK. In 1952, notice has been published. consultation with the appropriate they were transferred to the University Dated: September 26, 2016. Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian of Oregon Museum of Natural and Melanie O’Brien, organizations, including Alaska Native Cultural History by Dr. H. Powers, Tribes, and has determined that there is USGS. It is likely that the remains were Manager, National NAGPRA Program. a cultural affiliation between the human received under the oversight of Dr. [FR Doc. 2016–24593 Filed 10–11–16; 8:45 am] remains and present-day Indian tribes or William S. Laughlin, who was BILLING CODE 4312–52–P Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal connected to the University of Oregon at descendants or representatives of any that time, but there is no further mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian information. No known individuals organization, including Alaska Native were identified. No funerary objects Tribes, not identified in this notice that were recovered. wish to request transfer of control of The Rat Islands were occupied by these human remains should submit a Native Aleuts from at least 6000 years written request to the Alaska Region ago until modern times. The label of the USFWS. 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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of meeting.
DatesMeeting: The meeting will be held as follows: Wednesday, November 9, 2016, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; and Thursday, November 10, 2016 from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (All times Mountain Time Zone).
ContactMr. Robin O'Malley, Designated Federal Officer, Policy and Partnership Coordinator, National Climate Change and Wildlife Science Center, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Mail Stop 516, Reston, VA 20192, [email protected], (703) 648-4086.
FR Citation81 FR 70438 
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