81 FR 87053 - Recirculation and Adoption of the Central Everglades Planning Project Final Environmental Impact Statement

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 232 (December 2, 2016)

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FR Document		2016-28988

The National Park Service (NPS), Everglades National Park (ENP), intends to adopt the Central Everglades Planning Project (CEPP) Final Environmental Impact Statement (Final EIS) issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE) in July 2014. Under applicable Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations, the NPS may adopt and recirculate the COE's Final EIS because the NPS proposed action is substantially the same as the action covered by the COE's Final EIS, and the NPS and partner agencies are ready to initiate detailed planning and compliance for these components of the plan.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

[NPS-SERO-EVER-22108; PPSESERO03, PPMPSAS1Y.YP0000]


Recirculation and Adoption of the Central Everglades Planning 
Project Final Environmental Impact Statement

AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The National Park Service (NPS), Everglades National Park 
(ENP), intends to adopt the Central Everglades Planning Project (CEPP) 
Final Environmental Impact Statement (Final EIS) issued by the U.S. 
Army Corps of Engineers (COE) in July 2014. Under applicable Council on 
Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations, the NPS may adopt and 
recirculate the COE's Final EIS because the NPS proposed action is 
substantially the same as the action covered by the COE's Final EIS, 
and the NPS and partner agencies are ready to initiate detailed 
planning and

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compliance for these components of the plan.

DATES: The NPS will execute the Record of Decision (ROD) no sooner than 
30 days following publication by the Environmental Protection Agency of 
its Notice of Availability of the Final EIS in the Federal Register.

ADDRESSES: An electronic copy of the Central Everglades Planning 
Project Final EIS, including Appendix C (Environmental and Cultural 
Resources), is available for download on the Army Corps of Engineers 
Web site at: http://www.saj.usace.army.mil/Missions/Environmental/Ecosystem-Restoration/Central-Everglades-Planning-Project/.
    A hard copy of the Final EIS can be viewed at Everglades National 
Park Headquarters, 40001 State Road 9336, Homestead, Florida 33034.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pedro Ramos, Superintendent, 
Everglades National Park, [email protected], 305-242-7712, or Ben 
West, Chief, Planning & Compliance, SE Regional Office, 
[email protected], 404-507-5700.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NPS is adopting the CEPP Final EIS, 
prepared by the COE. The CEQ regulations allow Federal agencies to 
adopt an EIS prepared by another Federal agency that meets the 
standards for an adequate statement. When the proposed actions are 
``substantially the same,'' the adopting agency only needs to 
recirculate it as a final EIS. CEQ's regulations implementing NEPA 
strongly encourage agencies to reduce paperwork and delay (40 CFR 
1500.4, 1500.5.). One of the methods identified by CEQ to accomplish 
this goal is adopting the environmental documents prepared by other 
agencies in appropriate circumstances (40 CFR 1500.4(n), 1500.5(h), and 
1506.3).
    The CEPP combines several components of the Comprehensive 
Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP), and is designed to redirect water 
that is currently being discharged to the Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of 
Mexico to the Everglades and Florida Bay. The project optimizes the use 
of public lands to move additional water to the south. The CEPP will 
deliver approximately 210,000 acre-feet of water from Lake Okeechobee 
to the central Everglades every year. The recommended plan, Alternative 
4R2, includes features to store, treat, and deliver water as sheetflow 
at the top of Water Conservation Area (WCA) 3A and calls for removal of 
barriers to sheetflow flow between WCA-3A, WCA 3B, and Everglades 
National Park.
    These actions have been addressed in general or program-level terms 
and include guidelines for future coordination requirements and 
programmatic consultations as methods of ensuring the project is 
avoiding and minimizing impacts to resources to the extent practicable, 
and complying with all applicable environmental laws and regulations. 
Because of the complexity of the plan, detailed designs are likely to 
be developed and implemented in phases.
    The NPS is adopting the Final EIS, and will refine its direction in 
more focused environmental reviews and provide site specific impact 
analysis prior to implementation of proposed actions. The NPS will 
prepare its own Record of Decision for the Selected Alternative (4R2) 
in accordance with 40 CFR 1505.2. 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 
at any time. While you can ask us in your comment to withhold your 
personal identifying information from public review, we cannot 
guarantee that we will be able to do so.

    Dated: November 10, 2016.
Stan Austin,
Regional Director, Southeast Region.
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Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the • Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there Southern Ute Reservation; Ute
Southern Ute Reservation. is a relationship of shared group Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain
identity that can be reasonably traced Reservation (Colorado, New Mexico,
History and Description of the Remains
between the Native American human and Utah); Ysleta del Sur Pueblo of
The Cahone (Explorer’s Camp) Site is remains and associated funerary objects Texas; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni
a medium sized late Pueblo II site and the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Kewa Reservation, New Mexico.
located on private land in Dolores Pueblo, New Mexico (previously listed Indiana University is responsible for
County, CO. Excavations were directed as the Pueblo of Santo Domingo); Ohkay notifying the Hopi Tribe of Arizona;
by Samuel Tobin in 1946, by Alfred Owingeh, New Mexico (formerly the Kewa Pueblo, New Mexico (previously
Guthe in 1947, and by George Neumann Pueblo of San Juan); Pueblo of Acoma, listed as the Pueblo of Santo Domingo);
of Indiana University in 1948. Human New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, New Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico (formerly
remains, representing a minimum of 8 Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; the Pueblo of San Juan); Pueblo of
individuals, were recovered from this Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti,
site. The 194 associated funerary objects Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New
are 4 ceramic sherds, 188 pebbles, 1 New Mexico; Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico;
fused 2nd and 3rd deer tarsal, and 1 Mexico; Pueblo of Pojoaque, New Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo
stone tool. Mexico; Pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico; of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Evidence demonstrating cultural Pueblo of San Felipe, New Mexico; Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of
continuity between Ancestral Puebloan Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of
and modern day Puebloan tribes Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico; Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of San
includes geographical, archeological, Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico; Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San
historical, architectural, and oral Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico; Pueblo of Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa
traditions. These descendants are Tesuque, New Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa
members of the present day tribes of the New Mexico; Southern Ute Indian Tribe Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos,
Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Kewa Pueblo, of the Southern Ute Reservation; Ute New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New
New Mexico (previously listed as the Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Santo Domingo); Ohkay Reservation (Colorado, New Mexico, Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the
Owingeh, New Mexico (formerly the and Utah); Ysleta del Sur Pueblo of Southern Ute Reservation; Ute
Pueblo of San Juan); Pueblo of Acoma, Texas; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain
New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, New Reservation, New Mexico. Reservation (Colorado, New Mexico,
Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; and Utah); Ysleta del Sur Pueblo of
Additional Requestors and Disposition Texas; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni
Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; Pueblo of
Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, Lineal descendants or representatives Reservation, New Mexico.
New Mexico; Pueblo of Picuris, New of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian Dated: November 18, 2016.
Mexico; Pueblo of Pojoaque, New organization not identified in this notice
Melanie O’Brien,
Mexico; Pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico; that wish to request transfer of control
Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
Pueblo of San Felipe, New Mexico; of these human remains and associated
funerary objects should submit a written [FR Doc. 2016–28955 Filed 12–1–16; 8:45 am]
Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico; request with information in support of BILLING CODE 4312–52–P

Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico; the request to Dr. Jayne-Leigh Thomas,
Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico; Pueblo of NAGPRA Director, Indiana University,
NAGPRA Office, Student Building 318, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Tesuque, New Mexico; Pueblo of Zia,
New Mexico; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo of 701 E. Kirkwood Avenue, Bloomington, National Park Service
Texas; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni IN 47405, telephone (812) 856–5315,
Reservation, New Mexico. email thomajay@indiana.edu, by [NPS–SERO–EVER–22108; PPSESERO03,
January 3, 2017. After that date, if no PPMPSAS1Y.YP0000]
Evidence demonstrating cultural
continuity between the Cahone Ruin additional requestors have come
forward, transfer of control of the Recirculation and Adoption of the
site and the Southern Ute Indian Tribe Central Everglades Planning Project
of the Southern Ute Reservation and the human remains and associated funerary
objects to the Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Final Environmental Impact Statement
Ute Mountain Tribe of the Ute Mountain
Reservation (Colorado, New Mexico, Kewa Pueblo, New Mexico (previously AGENCY: National Park Service,
and Utah) tribes includes geographical, listed as the Pueblo of Santo Domingo); Department of the Interior.
linguistic, and oral history evidence. Ohkay Owingeh, New Mexico (formerly ACTION: Notice of availability.
the Pueblo of San Juan); Pueblo of
Determinations Made by the Indiana Acoma, New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, SUMMARY: The National Park Service
University New Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New (NPS), Everglades National Park (ENP),
Officials of Indiana University have Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; intends to adopt the Central Everglades
determined that: Pueblo of Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo Planning Project (CEPP) Final
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(9), the of Nambe, New Mexico; Pueblo of Environmental Impact Statement (Final
human remains described in this notice Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo of EIS) issued by the U.S. Army Corps of
represent the physical remains of 8 Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of Engineers (COE) in July 2014. Under
asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES

individuals of Native American Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of San applicable Council on Environmental
ancestry. Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San Quality (CEQ) regulations, the NPS may
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(A), Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa adopt and recirculate the COE’s Final
the 194 objects described in this notice Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa EIS because the NPS proposed action is
are reasonably believed to have been Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos, substantially the same as the action
placed with or near individual human New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New covered by the COE’s Final EIS, and the
remains at the time of death or later as Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico; NPS and partner agencies are ready to
part of the death rite or ceremony. Southern Ute Indian Tribe of the initiate detailed planning and

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compliance for these components of the These actions have been addressed in of these human remains and associated
plan. general or program-level terms and funerary objects should submit a written
DATES: The NPS will execute the Record include guidelines for future request to the Peabody Museum of
of Decision (ROD) no sooner than 30 coordination requirements and Natural History. If no additional
days following publication by the programmatic consultations as methods requestors come forward, transfer of
Environmental Protection Agency of its of ensuring the project is avoiding and control of the human remains and
Notice of Availability of the Final EIS in minimizing impacts to resources to the associated funerary objects to the lineal
the Federal Register. extent practicable, and complying with descendants, Indian tribes, or Native
ADDRESSES: An electronic copy of the all applicable environmental laws and Hawaiian organizations stated in this
Central Everglades Planning Project regulations. Because of the complexity notice may proceed.
Final EIS, including Appendix C of the plan, detailed designs are likely DATES: Lineal descendants or
(Environmental and Cultural to be developed and implemented in representatives of any Indian tribe or
Resources), is available for download on phases. Native Hawaiian organization not
the Army Corps of Engineers Web site The NPS is adopting the Final EIS, identified in this notice that wish to
at: http://www.saj.usace.army.mil/ and will refine its direction in more request transfer of control of these
Missions/Environmental/Ecosystem- focused environmental reviews and human remains and associated funerary
Restoration/Central-Everglades- provide site specific impact analysis objects should submit a written request
Planning-Project/. prior to implementation of proposed with information in support of the
A hard copy of the Final EIS can be actions. The NPS will prepare its own request to the Peabody Museum of
viewed at Everglades National Park Record of Decision for the Selected Natural History at the address in this
Headquarters, 40001 State Road 9336, Alternative (4R2) in accordance with 40 notice by January 3, 2017.
Homestead, Florida 33034. CFR 1505.2. Before including your
ADDRESSES: Professor David Skelly,
address, phone number, email address,
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Director, Yale Peabody Museum of
or other personal identifying
Pedro Ramos, Superintendent, Natural History, P.O. Box 208118, New
information in your comment, you
Everglades National Park, pedro_ Haven, CT 06520–8118, telephone (203)
should be aware that your entire
ramos@nps.gov, 305–242–7712, or Ben 432–3752.
comment, including your personal
West, Chief, Planning & Compliance, SE SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is
identifying information, may be made
Regional Office, ben_west@nps.gov, here given in accordance with the
publicly available at any time. While
404–507–5700. Native American Graves Protection and
you can ask us in your comment to
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NPS withhold your personal identifying Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C.
is adopting the CEPP Final EIS, information from public review, we 3003, of the completion of an inventory
prepared by the COE. The CEQ cannot guarantee that we will be able to of human remains and associated
regulations allow Federal agencies to do so. funerary objects under the control of the
adopt an EIS prepared by another Peabody Museum of Natural History,
Federal agency that meets the standards Dated: November 10, 2016.
Yale University, New Haven, CT. The
for an adequate statement. When the Stan Austin,
human remains and associated funerary
proposed actions are ‘‘substantially the Regional Director, Southeast Region.
objects were removed from Site 16,
same,’’ the adopting agency only needs [FR Doc. 2016–28988 Filed 12–1–16; 8:45 am] Chandler Lake, Brooks Range, North
to recirculate it as a final EIS. CEQ’s BILLING CODE 4312–52–P Slope Borough, AK.
regulations implementing NEPA This notice is published as part of the
strongly encourage agencies to reduce National Park Service’s administrative
paperwork and delay (40 CFR 1500.4, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
1500.5.). One of the methods identified U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in
by CEQ to accomplish this goal is National Park Service
this notice are the sole responsibility of
adopting the environmental documents [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–22446; the museum, institution, or Federal
prepared by other agencies in PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] agency that has control of the Native
appropriate circumstances (40 CFR American human remains and
1500.4(n), 1500.5(h), and 1506.3). Notice of Inventory Completion:
associated funerary objects. The
The CEPP combines several Peabody Museum of Natural History,
National Park Service is not responsible
components of the Comprehensive Yale University, New Haven, CT
for the determinations in this notice.
Everglades Restoration Plan (CERP), and AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
is designed to redirect water that is Consultation
ACTION: Notice.
currently being discharged to the A detailed assessment of the human
Atlantic Ocean and Gulf of Mexico to SUMMARY: The Peabody Museum of remains was made by Peabody Museum
the Everglades and Florida Bay. The Natural History has completed an of Natural History professional staff in
project optimizes the use of public lands inventory of human remains and consultation with representatives of the
to move additional water to the south. associated funerary objects, in Village of Anaktuvuk Pass.
The CEPP will deliver approximately consultation with the appropriate
210,000 acre-feet of water from Lake Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian History and Description of the Remains
Okeechobee to the central Everglades organizations, and has determined that In 1956, human remains representing
asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES

every year. The recommended plan, there is a cultural affiliation between the one individual were removed from a
Alternative 4R2, includes features to human remains and associated funerary Nunamiut burial site identified as Site
store, treat, and deliver water as objects and present-day Indian tribes or 16, Chandler Lake, Brooks Range, North
sheetflow at the top of Water Native Hawaiian organizations. Lineal Slope Borough, AK and donated to the
Conservation Area (WCA) 3A and calls descendants or representatives of any Peabody Museum of Natural History the
for removal of barriers to sheetflow flow Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian same year. The human remains
between WCA–3A, WCA 3B, and organization not identified in this notice represent one individual identified as a
Everglades National Park. that wish to request transfer of control probable male, aged approximately 30–

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Collection		Federal Register
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Publisher		Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
Section		Notices
Action		Notice of availability.
Dates		The NPS will execute the Record of Decision (ROD) no sooner than 30 days following publication by the Environmental Protection Agency of its Notice of Availability of the Final EIS in the Federal Register.
Contact		Pedro Ramos, Superintendent, Everglades National Park, [email protected], 305-242-7712, or Ben West, Chief, Planning & Compliance, SE Regional Office, [email protected], 404-507-5700.
FR Citation		81 FR 87053

81 FR 87053 - Recirculation and Adoption of the Central Everglades Planning Project Final Environmental Impact Statement

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORNational Park Service

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 232 (December 2, 2016)

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service