81_FR_9837 81 FR 9799 - Non-Subsistence Take of Wildlife, and Public Participation and Closure Procedures, on National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska

81 FR 9799 - Non-Subsistence Take of Wildlife, and Public Participation and Closure Procedures, on National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 38 (February 26, 2016)

Page Range9799-9800
FR Document2016-04133

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), are extending the comment period for our January 8, 2016, proposed rule to amend our regulations for National Wildlife Refuges (refuges) in Alaska. This action ensures that the public has an additional opportunity to comment on the proposed rule. We are also rescheduling the Kodiak open house and public hearing to March 2, 2016.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 38 (Friday, February 26, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 38 (Friday, February 26, 2016)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 9799-9800]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-04133]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

50 CFR Parts 32 and 36

[Docket No. FWS-R7-NWRS-2014-0005; FF07R06000 167 FXRS12610700000]
RIN 1018-BA31


Non-Subsistence Take of Wildlife, and Public Participation and 
Closure Procedures, on National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Proposed rule; extension of comment period and rescheduled 
public open house and hearing.

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SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), are 
extending the comment period for our January 8, 2016, proposed rule to 
amend our regulations for National Wildlife Refuges (refuges) in 
Alaska. This action ensures that the public has an additional 
opportunity to comment on the proposed rule. We are also rescheduling 
the Kodiak open house and public hearing to March 2, 2016.

DATES: 
    Comment submission: Submit your comments on the proposed rule on or 
before April 7, 2016. Comments submitted electronically using the 
Federal eRulemaking Portal (see ADDRESSES, below) must be received by 
11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the closing date.
    Public meetings: The rescheduled open house and public hearing in 
Kodiak will be held on March 2, 2016; the open house will be held from 
4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., and the public hearing will be held from 5:30 
p.m. to 7:30 p.m.

ADDRESSES: 
    Document availability: You may obtain copies of the proposed rule 
and associated draft environmental assessment at http://www.regulations.gov at Docket No. FWS-R7-NWRS-2014-0005.
    Comment submission: You may submit comments on the proposed rule by 
any one of the following methods:
    (1) Electronically: Go to the Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. In the Search box, enter FWS-R7-NWRS-2014-0005, 
which is the docket number for this rulemaking. Then click on the 
Search button. On the resulting page, you may submit a comment by 
clicking on ``Comment Now!''
    (2) By hard copy: Submit by U.S. mail or hand-delivery to: Public 
Comments Processing, Attn: FWS-R7-NWRS-2014-0005; Division of Policy, 
Performance, and Management Programs; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 
MS: BPHC; 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041-3803.
    (3) At open houses or public hearings: Written comments will be 
accepted by Service personnel at any of the nine scheduled open houses 
or public hearings. Public testimony will be recorded and submitted for 
the record at only the public hearings via a court reporter.
    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.
    Public meetings: The rescheduled open house and public hearing will 
be held at the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center, 402 
Center Ave., Kodiak, Alaska; 907-487-2600. For the dates and times of 
the other open houses and public hearings, see our Federal Register 
document announcing these open houses and public hearings (81 FR 886; 
January 8, 2016).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephanie Brady, Chief of Conservation 
Planning and Policy, National Wildlife Refuge System, Alaska Regional 
Office, 1011 E. Tudor Rd., Mail Stop 211, Anchorage, AK 99503; 
telephone (907) 306-7448.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On January 8, 2016, we published a proposed 
rule (81 FR 887) to clarify how our existing mandates for the 
conservation of natural and biological diversity, biological integrity, 
and environmental health on refuges in Alaska relate to predator 
control; to

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prohibit several particularly effective methods and means for take of 
predators; and to update our public participation and closure 
procedures. The proposed rule would not change Federal subsistence 
regulations or restrict the taking of fish or wildlife for subsistence 
uses under Federal subsistence regulations.
    We received multiple requests from several entities, including the 
Alaska Congressional Delegation and the Governor of Alaska, to extend 
the comment period on the proposed rule. In order to provide all 
interested parties an additional opportunity to review and comment on 
our proposed rule, we are extending the comment period on the proposed 
rule for an additional 30 days, until April 7, 2016.
    If you previously submitted comments or information on the proposed 
rule, please do not resubmit them. We have incorporated them into the 
public record, and we will fully consider them in our final rulemaking. 
Our final determination concerning the proposed rulemaking will take 
into consideration all written comments and any additional information 
we receive.
    You may submit your comments and any associated materials 
concerning the proposed rule by one of the methods listed in ADDRESSES. 
We request that you send comments only by the methods described in 
ADDRESSES.
    If you submit information via 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 on http://www.regulations.gov.

Authority

    The authority for this action is 5 U.S.C. 301; 16 U.S.C. 460k et 
seq., 664, 668dd-668ee, 715i, and 3101 et seq.

     Dated: February 19, 2016.
Michael J. Bean,
Deputy Assistant Secretary, Fish and Wildlife and Parks.
[FR Doc. 2016-04133 Filed 2-25-16; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4333-15-P

Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 38 / Friday, February 26, 2016 / Proposed Rules 9799 comments and information during this during this reopened public comment hearing will be held from 5:30 p.m. to reopened comment period. We are period, on the specific assumptions and 7:30 p.m. specifically soliciting comments from conclusions regarding the proposed ADDRESSES: peer reviewers (see Peer Review, below), delisting and draft post-delisting Document availability: You may but we are providing all interested monitoring plan. We will summarize the obtain copies of the proposed rule and parties with this additional time to opinions of these reviewers in the final associated draft environmental submit information. Please refer to the decision documents, and we will assessment at http:// proposed rule for more information on consider their input and any additional www.regulations.gov at Docket No. our proposed action and the specific information we receive as part of our FWS–R7–NWRS–2014–0005. information we seek. process of making a final decision on Comment submission: You may You may submit your comments and the proposal and the draft post-delisting submit comments on the proposed rule materials concerning the proposed rule monitoring plan. Such communication by any one of the following methods: or the associated draft post-delisting may lead to a final decision that differs (1) Electronically: Go to the Federal monitoring plan by one of the methods from the proposal. eRulemaking Portal: http:// listed in ADDRESSES. Before including www.regulations.gov. In the Search box, Dated: February 17, 2016. your address, phone number, email enter FWS–R7–NWRS–2014–0005, address, or other personal identifying Stephen Guertin, which is the docket number for this information in your comment, you Acting Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. rulemaking. Then click on the Search should be aware that your entire button. On the resulting page, you may comment—including your personal [FR Doc. 2016–04095 Filed 2–25–16; 8:45 am] submit a comment by clicking on identifying information—may be made BILLING CODE 4333–15–P ‘‘Comment Now!’’ publicly available at any time. All (2) By hard copy: Submit by U.S. mail comments and recommendations, or hand-delivery to: Public Comments including names and addresses, will DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Processing, Attn: FWS–R7–NWRS– become part of the administrative 2014–0005; Division of Policy, Fish and Wildlife Service record. Performance, and Management If you submit information via http:// Programs; U.S. Fish and Wildlife www.regulations.gov, your entire 50 CFR Parts 32 and 36 Service, MS: BPHC; 5275 Leesburg Pike, comment—including any personal [Docket No. FWS–R7–NWRS–2014–0005; Falls Church, VA 22041–3803. identifying information—will be posted FF07R06000 167 FXRS12610700000] (3) At open houses or public hearings: on the Web site. While you can ask us Written comments will be accepted by in your comment to withhold your RIN 1018–BA31 Service personnel at any of the nine personal identifying information from scheduled open houses or public public review, we cannot guarantee that Non-Subsistence Take of Wildlife, and hearings. Public testimony will be we will be able to do so. Public Participation and Closure recorded and submitted for the record at If you mail or hand-deliver a Procedures, on National Wildlife only the public hearings via a court hardcopy comment that includes Refuges in Alaska reporter. personal identifying information, you AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, We request that you send comments may request at the top of your document Interior. only by the methods described above. that we withhold this information from ACTION: Proposed rule; extension of We will post all comments on http:// public review, but we cannot guarantee comment period and rescheduled public www.regulations.gov. This generally that we will be able to do so. To ensure open house and hearing. means that we will post any personal that the electronic docket for this information you provide us. rulemaking is complete and all SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Public meetings: The rescheduled comments we receive are publicly Wildlife Service (Service), are extending open house and public hearing will be available, we will post all hardcopy the comment period for our January 8, held at the Kodiak National Wildlife submissions on http:// 2016, proposed rule to amend our Refuge Visitor Center, 402 Center Ave., www.regulations.gov. regulations for National Wildlife Kodiak, Alaska; 907–487–2600. For the Peer Review Refuges (refuges) in Alaska. This action dates and times of the other open In accordance with our policy ensures that the public has an houses and public hearings, see our published in the Federal Register on additional opportunity to comment on Federal Register document announcing July 1, 1994 (59 FR 34270), and the the proposed rule. We are also these open houses and public hearings OMB’s Final Information Quality rescheduling the Kodiak open house (81 FR 886; January 8, 2016). Bulletin for Peer Review, dated and public hearing to March 2, 2016. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: December 16, 2004, we are soliciting the DATES: Stephanie Brady, Chief of Conservation expert opinions of at least three Comment submission: Submit your Planning and Policy, National Wildlife appropriate and independent specialists comments on the proposed rule on or Refuge System, Alaska Regional Office, regarding the science in our proposed before April 7, 2016. Comments 1011 E. Tudor Rd., Mail Stop 211, rule published on September 1, 2015 (80 submitted electronically using the Anchorage, AK 99503; telephone (907) FR 52717), and the associated draft post- Federal eRulemaking Portal (see 306–7448. Lhorne on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with PROPOSALS delisting monitoring plan. The purpose ADDRESSES, below) must be received by SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On of such review is to ensure that we base 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the closing January 8, 2016, we published a our decisions on scientifically sound date. proposed rule (81 FR 887) to clarify how data, assumptions, and analyses. We are Public meetings: The rescheduled our existing mandates for the sending peer reviewers copies of the open house and public hearing in conservation of natural and biological proposed rule and the draft post- Kodiak will be held on March 2, 2016; diversity, biological integrity, and delisting monitoring plan. We are the open house will be held from 4:00 environmental health on refuges in inviting peer reviewers to comment, p.m. to 5:00 p.m., and the public Alaska relate to predator control; to VerDate Sep<11>2014 13:20 Feb 25, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\26FEP1.SGM 26FEP1

9800 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 38 / Friday, February 26, 2016 / Proposed Rules prohibit several particularly effective DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ‘‘NOAA–NMFS–2015–0124’’ by any of methods and means for take of the following methods: predators; and to update our public National Oceanic and Atmospheric • Electronic Submissions: Submit all participation and closure procedures. Administration electronic public comments via the The proposed rule would not change Federal e-Rulemaking Portal: http:// Federal subsistence regulations or 50 CFR Part 622 www.regulations.gov. Go to restrict the taking of fish or wildlife for www.regulations.gov/ [Docket No. 150623546–6098–01] #!docketDetail;D=NOAA-NMFS-2015- subsistence uses under Federal subsistence regulations. 0124, click the ‘‘Comment Now!’’ icon, RIN 0648–BF18 complete the required fields, and enter We received multiple requests from or attach your comments. Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of several entities, including the Alaska Mexico, and South Atlantic; • Mail: Submit written comments to Congressional Delegation and the Marı́a del Mar López, Southeast Amendments to the Reef Fish, Spiny Governor of Alaska, to extend the Regional Office, NMFS, 263 13th Lobster, Queen Conch, and Corals and comment period on the proposed rule. Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL 33701. Reef Associated Plants and In order to provide all interested parties Invertebrates Fishery Management Instructions: Comments sent by any an additional opportunity to review and Plans of Puerto Rico and the U.S. other method, to any other address or comment on our proposed rule, we are Virgin Islands individual, or received after the end of extending the comment period on the the comment period, may not be proposed rule for an additional 30 days, AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries considered by NMFS. All comments until April 7, 2016. Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and received are a part of the public record Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and will generally be posted for public If you previously submitted Commerce. viewing on www.regulations.gov comments or information on the ACTION: Proposed rule; request for without change. All personal identifying proposed rule, please do not resubmit information (e.g., name, address, etc.), them. We have incorporated them into comments. confidential business information, or the public record, and we will fully SUMMARY: NMFS proposes to implement otherwise sensitive information consider them in our final rulemaking. measures described in Amendment 7 to submitted voluntarily by the sender will Our final determination concerning the the Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for be publicly accessible. NMFS will proposed rulemaking will take into the Reef Fish Fishery of Puerto Rico and accept anonymous comments (enter ‘‘N/ consideration all written comments and the U.S. Virgin Islands (USVI) (Reef Fish A’’ in the required fields if you wish to any additional information we receive. FMP), Amendment 6 to the FMP for the remain anonymous). You may submit your comments and Spiny Lobster Fishery of Puerto Rico Electronic copies of the AM any associated materials concerning the and the USVI (Spiny Lobster FMP), Application Amendment, which proposed rule by one of the methods Amendment 5 to the FMP for Corals and includes an environmental assessment, listed in ADDRESSES. We request that Reef Associated Plants and Invertebrates a Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) you send comments only by the of Puerto Rico and the USVI (Coral analysis, and a regulatory impact review methods described in ADDRESSES. FMP), and Amendment 4 to the FMP for may be obtained from the Southeast the Queen Conch Resources of Puerto Regional Office Web site at http:// If you submit information via http:// Rico and the USVI (Queen Conch FMP), sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/sustainable_ www.regulations.gov, your entire as prepared by the Caribbean Fishery fisheries/caribbean/index.html. submission—including any personal Management Council (Council). In FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: identifying information—will be posted combination, these amendments Marı́a del Mar López, telephone: 727– on the Web site. If your submission is represent the Application of 824–5305; email: maria.lopez@ made via a hardcopy that includes Accountability Measures (AM) noaa.gov. personal identifying information, you Amendment (AM Application SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In the may request at the top of your document Amendment). If implemented, the AM Caribbean EEZ, the reef fish, spiny that we withhold this information from Application Amendment would resolve lobster, queen conch, and corals and public review. However, we cannot an existing inconsistency between reef associated plants and invertebrates guarantee that we will be able to do so. language in the FMPs and the fisheries are managed under their We will post all hardcopy submissions regulations implementing the respective FMPs. The FMPs were on http://www.regulations.gov. application of AMs in the U.S. prepared by the Council and are Caribbean exclusive economic zone Authority implemented through regulations at 50 (EEZ). The purpose of the AM CFR part 622 under the authority of the Application Amendment is to ensure The authority for this action is 5 Magnuson-Stevens Fishery the authorizing FMPs are consistent U.S.C. 301; 16 U.S.C. 460k et seq., 664, Conservation and Management Act with the regulations governing AMs in 668dd–668ee, 715i, and 3101 et seq. (Magnuson-Stevens Act). the Caribbean EEZ. Additionally, this Dated: February 19, 2016. proposed rule would clarify the AM Background Michael J. Bean, closure provisions, the application of The final rule implementing the spiny lobster ACL in the Puerto Rico Lhorne on DSK5TPTVN1PROD with PROPOSALS Deputy Assistant Secretary, Fish and Wildlife Amendment 2 to the Queen Conch FMP and Parks. management area of the Caribbean EEZ, and Amendment 5 to the Reef Fish FMP [FR Doc. 2016–04133 Filed 2–25–16; 8:45 am] and the minimum size limit for queen (2010 Caribbean Annual Catch Limit conch in the Caribbean EEZ. (ACL) Amendment) established ACLs BILLING CODE 4333–15–P DATES: Written comments must be and AMs for species/species groups that received on or before March 28, 2016. were at the time experiencing ADDRESSES: You may submit comments overfishing (i.e., parrotfish, snapper, on the proposed rule identified by grouper, queen conch) (76 FR 82404, VerDate Sep<11>2014 13:20 Feb 25, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\26FEP1.SGM 26FEP1


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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionProposed Rules
ActionProposed rule; extension of comment period and rescheduled public open house and hearing.
DatesComment submission: Submit your comments on the proposed rule on or before April 7, 2016. Comments submitted electronically using the
ContactStephanie Brady, Chief of Conservation Planning and Policy, National Wildlife Refuge System, Alaska Regional Office, 1011 E. Tudor Rd., Mail Stop 211, Anchorage, AK 99503; telephone (907) 306-7448.
FR Citation81 FR 9799 
RIN Number1018-BA31
CFR Citation50 CFR 32
50 CFR 36
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