82 FR 34332 - Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Mountain Goat Management Plan, Olympic National Park, Clallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson and Mason County, Washington
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 140 (July 24, 2017)
National Park Service
Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 140 (July 24, 2017)
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| FR Document | 2017-15482 |
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 140 (Monday, July 24, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 34332-34333] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-15482] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR National Park Service [NPS-PWR-PWRO-21467; PPPWOLYMS1--PPMPSPD1Z.YM0000] Draft Environmental Impact Statement/Mountain Goat Management Plan, Olympic National Park, Clallam, Grays Harbor, Jefferson and Mason County, Washington AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice of availability. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: The National Park Service (NPS) announces the availability of a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for a Mountain Goat Management Plan (Plan) at Olympic National Park (Park), Washington. The DEIS evaluates the impacts of a range of alternatives for managing exotic mountain goats in the park. DATES: All written comments on the DEIS must be postmarked or submitted not later than 60 days following publication of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Notice of Availability of the DEIS in the Federal Register. After the EPA Notice of Availability is published, the NPS will schedule public meetings to be held during the comment period. Dates, times, and locations of these meetings will be announced in press releases and on the NPS Planning, Environment, and Public Comment Web site for the Plan/DEIS at http://parkplanning.nps.gov/olymgoat. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Please contact Christina Miller at (360) 565-3004. Information will be available for public review online at http://parkplanning.nps.gov/olymgoat and in the office of the Superintendent, Olympic National Park, 600 East Park Ave., Port Angeles, WA 98362. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the Plan/DEIS is to allow the NPS to reduce or eliminate impacts to park resources from exotic mountain goats, while reducing potential public safety issues associated with the presence of mountain goats in the Park. Management direction is needed to address resource management and human safety issues resulting from the presence of exotic mountain goats in the Park. This Plan/DEIS evaluates the impacts of the no-action alternative (Alternative A) and three action alternatives (Alternatives B, C, and D). Alternative D is identified as the agency's preferred alternative in the DEIS. Alternative A would involve full implementation of the 2011 Mountain Goat Action Plan, including management of individual mountain goats in visitor use areas according to a continuum of mountain goat-human interactions. Specific management actions could range from hazing to lethal removal of hazardous mountain goats. Alternative B would focus exclusively on the capture of mountain goats within the park and on adjacent Olympic National Forest lands followed by transfer of ownership to Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife (WDFW). Subsequent translocation would be conducted at the discretion of WDFW to other areas, including portions of the Cascade Mountain Range where mountain goats are native and supplementation of the existing population would further mountain goat conservation efforts. Alternative C would use lethal removal to significantly reduce or eliminate mountain goats from the park and adjacent Olympic National Forest lands. Alternative D would utilize a combination of capture and translocation and lethal removal tools to reduce or eliminate mountain goats from the Park. Capture and translocation would occur in most areas prior to direct reduction activities. Once a point of diminishing returns for capture operations is reached, management would continue using lethal removal activities. The U.S. Forest Service and the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife are cooperating agencies on this plan. How to Comment: You are encouraged to comment on the draft Mountain Goat Management Plan/EIS online at http://parkplanning.nps.gov/olymgoat. You may also mail or hand-deliver your comments to Olympic National Park, Attn: Mountain Goat Management Plan, 600 East Park Ave., Port Angeles, WA 98362. Written comments will also be accepted during scheduled public [[Page 34333]] meetings discussed above. Comments will not be accepted by email or in any other method than those specified above. Comments in any format (hard copy or electronic) submitted on behalf of others will not be accepted. 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. Authority: 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq. Dated: July 18, 2017. Laura E. Joss, Regional Director, Pacific West. [FR Doc. 2017-15482 Filed 7-21-17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4312-52-P
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Park Service is not responsible for the Confederated Tribes of the Colville SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
determinations in this notice. Reservation and Nez Perce Tribe purpose of the Plan/DEIS is to allow the
(previously listed as the Nez Perce Tribe NPS to reduce or eliminate impacts to
History and Description of the Cultural
of Idaho) may proceed. park resources from exotic mountain
Item(s)
The Museum of Anthropology at goats, while reducing potential public
In 1970, an unknown number of Washington State University is safety issues associated with the
human remains and cultural items were responsible for notifying the presence of mountain goats in the Park.
removed from site 45AS8 in Asotin Confederated Tribes of the Colville Management direction is needed to
County, WA. Thirteen historic era Reservation and Nez Perce Tribe address resource management and
burials were archeologically excavated (previously listed as the Nez Perce Tribe human safety issues resulting from the
from site 45AS8 as part of a highway of Idaho) that this notice has been presence of exotic mountain goats in the
relocation project. At that time, most of published. Park. This Plan/DEIS evaluates the
the human remains and associated impacts of the no-action alternative
Dated: May 24, 2017.
funerary objects were reburied on the (Alternative A) and three action
Nez Perce Reservation at the Old Melanie O’Brien,
alternatives (Alternatives B, C, and D).
Spalding Cemetery in Spalding, ID. In Manager, National NAGPRA Program.
Alternative D is identified as the
2013, the remaining 47 (unassociated) [FR Doc. 2017–15467 Filed 7–21–17; 8:45 am]
agency’s preferred alternative in the
funerary objects that were determined to BILLING CODE 4312–52–P DEIS. Alternative A would involve full
be from 45AS8 were located in storage implementation of the 2011 Mountain
at the Museum of Anthropology at Goat Action Plan, including
Washington State University. The 47 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
management of individual mountain
unassociated funerary objects are 8 lots goats in visitor use areas according to a
of flakes; 2 nails; 3 lots of small National Park Service
continuum of mountain goat-human
unidentifiable bone fragments; 4 lots of interactions. Specific management
glass beads; 23 lots of coffin fragments; [NPS–PWR–PWRO–21467; PPPWOLYMS1—
PPMPSPD1Z.YM0000] actions could range from hazing to
3 lots of metal fragments; and 4 lots of lethal removal of hazardous mountain
buttons. Draft Environmental Impact Statement/ goats. Alternative B would focus
Determinations Made by the Museum of Mountain Goat Management Plan, exclusively on the capture of mountain
Anthropology at Washington State Olympic National Park, Clallam, Grays goats within the park and on adjacent
University Harbor, Jefferson and Mason County, Olympic National Forest lands followed
Washington by transfer of ownership to Washington
Officials of the Museum of Department of Fish & Wildlife (WDFW).
Anthropology at Washington State AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. Subsequent translocation would be
University have determined that: ACTION: Notice of availability. conducted at the discretion of WDFW to
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B),
other areas, including portions of the
the 47 cultural items described above SUMMARY: The National Park Service Cascade Mountain Range where
are reasonably believed to have been (NPS) announces the availability of a mountain goats are native and
placed with or near individual human Draft Environmental Impact Statement supplementation of the existing
remains at the time of death or later as (DEIS) for a Mountain Goat Management population would further mountain goat
part of the death rite or ceremony and Plan (Plan) at Olympic National Park conservation efforts. Alternative C
are believed, by a preponderance of the (Park), Washington. The DEIS evaluates would use lethal removal to
evidence, to have been removed from a the impacts of a range of alternatives for significantly reduce or eliminate
specific burial site of a Native American managing exotic mountain goats in the mountain goats from the park and
individual. park.
• Pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(2), there adjacent Olympic National Forest lands.
DATES: All written comments on the Alternative D would utilize a
is a relationship of shared group DEIS must be postmarked or submitted
identity that can be reasonably traced combination of capture and
not later than 60 days following translocation and lethal removal tools to
between the unassociated funerary publication of the Environmental
objects and the Confederated Tribes of reduce or eliminate mountain goats
Protection Agency’s (EPA) Notice of from the Park. Capture and translocation
the Colville Reservation and Nez Perce Availability of the DEIS in the Federal
Tribe (previously listed as the Nez Perce would occur in most areas prior to
Register. After the EPA Notice of direct reduction activities. Once a point
Tribe of Idaho). Availability is published, the NPS will of diminishing returns for capture
Additional Requestors and Disposition schedule public meetings to be held operations is reached, management
Lineal descendants or representatives during the comment period. Dates, would continue using lethal removal
of any Indian tribe or Native Hawaiian times, and locations of these meetings activities. The U.S. Forest Service and
organization not identified in this notice will be announced in press releases and the Washington Department of Fish and
that wish to claim these cultural items on the NPS Planning, Environment, and Wildlife are cooperating agencies on
should submit a written request with Public Comment Web site for the Plan/ this plan.
information in support of the claim to DEIS at http://parkplanning.nps.gov/ How to Comment: You are encouraged
Mary Collins, Director Emeritus, the olymgoat. to comment on the draft Mountain Goat
Museum of Anthropology at FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Management Plan/EIS online at http://
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Washington State University, Pullman, Please contact Christina Miller at (360) parkplanning.nps.gov/olymgoat. You
WA 99164–4910 telephone (509) 592– 565–3004. Information will be available may also mail or hand-deliver your
6929, email collinsm@wsu.edu, by for public review online at http:// comments to Olympic National Park,
August 23, 2017. After that date, if no parkplanning.nps.gov/olymgoat and in Attn: Mountain Goat Management Plan,
additional claimants have come the office of the Superintendent, 600 East Park Ave., Port Angeles, WA
forward, transfer of control of the Olympic National Park, 600 East Park 98362. Written comments will also be
unassociated funerary objects to the Ave., Port Angeles, WA 98362. accepted during scheduled public
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| Dates | All written comments on the DEIS must be postmarked or submitted not later than 60 days following publication of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Notice of Availability of the DEIS in the Federal Register. After the EPA Notice of Availability is published, the NPS will schedule public meetings to be held during the comment period. Dates, times, and locations of these meetings will be announced in press releases and on the NPS Planning, Environment, and Public Comment Web site for the Plan/DEIS at http://parkplanning.nps.gov/ olymgoat. | |
| Contact | Please contact Christina Miller at (360) 565-3004. Information will be available for public review online at http://parkplanning.nps.gov/olymgoat and in the office of the Superintendent, Olympic National Park, 600 East Park Ave., Port Angeles, WA 98362. | |
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