83_FR_27455 83 FR 27342 - National Invasive Species Council; Notice of Public Meeting

83 FR 27342 - National Invasive Species Council; Notice of Public Meeting

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of the Secretary

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 113 (June 12, 2018)

Page Range27342-27343
FR Document2018-12608

Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act, notice is hereby given of a meeting of the Invasive Species Advisory Committee.

Federal Register, Volume 83 Issue 113 (Tuesday, June 12, 2018) 
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 113 (Tuesday, June 12, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27342-27343]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2018-12608]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Office of the Secretary

[18XD4523WS, DS61500000, DWSN00000.000000, DP.61501]


National Invasive Species Council; Notice of Public Meeting

AGENCY: Policy and International Affairs, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee 
Act, notice is hereby given of a meeting of the Invasive Species 
Advisory Committee.

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DATES: Teleconference Meeting of the Invasive Species Advisory 
Committee: Thursday, July 19, 2018; 1:00-3:00 p.m. (EDT).

ADDRESSES: U.S. Department of the Interior, Stuart Udall Building 
(MIB), 1849 C Street NW, Rachel Carson Room (basement level), 
Washington, DC 20240.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kelsey Brantley, Coordinator for NISC 
and ISAC Operations, National Invasive Species Council Secretariat, 
(202) 208-4122; Fax: (202) 208-4118, email: 
[email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of the Advisory Committee (ISAC) 
is to provide advice to the National Invasive Species Council (NISC), 
as authorized by Executive Orders 13112 and 13751, on a broad array of 
issues related to preventing the introduction of invasive species and 
providing for their control and minimizing the economic, ecological, 
and human health impacts that invasive species cause. The Council is 
co-chaired by the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of 
Agriculture, and the Secretary of Commerce. The duty of the Council is 
to provide national leadership regarding invasive species issues. The 
purpose of a meeting on Thursday, July 19, 2018 via teleconference, in 
lieu of physical travel, is to convene the full ISAC to enable NISC 
leadership and ISAC membership to discuss the recommendations arising 
from the ISAC annual meeting held February 27-March 1, 2018 in 
Washington, DC. Members of the public are welcome to participate by 
accessing the teleconference. The toll-free conference phone number and 
access code can be obtained through online registration at https://goo.gl/forms/iitamLBaFYuvdeYB2. Alternatively, members of the public 
can listen to the teleconference in person at the U.S. Department of 
the Interior Stuart Udall Building in Washington, DC (see ADDRESSES 
section above). All visiting members of the public must be cleared 
through building security prior to being escorted to the meeting room. 
Note: Other than during the public comment period, public participation 
is in an observer capacity. The maximum capacity of the teleconference 
is 100 participants. For record keeping purposes, participants will be 
required to provide their name and contact information to the operator 
before being connected.

    Authority: 5 U.S.C. Appendix 2.

Jamie K. Reaser,
Executive Director, National Invasive Species Council.
[FR Doc. 2018-12608 Filed 6-11-18; 8:45 am]
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27342 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 113 / Tuesday, June 12, 2018 / Notices advance by calling the Regulations We are soliciting comments on the the Earth. This project will collect Division at 202–708–3055 (this is not a proposed ICR that is described below. information from individuals to better toll-free number). Individuals with We are especially interested in public understand the abundance, distribution, speech or hearing impairments may comment addressing the following and variability of berry resources in the access this number via TTY by calling issues: (1) Is the collection necessary to Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta region of the Federal Relay Service at 800–877– the proper functions of the USGS; (2) Alaska. The people of the YK delta hold 8339. Copies of all comments submitted will this information be processed and information about the long-term are available for inspection and used in a timely manner; (3) is the distribution and abundance of berries downloading at www.regulations.gov. estimate of burden accurate; (4) how that is useful for understanding current Dated: June 7, 2018. might the USGS enhance the quality, and future changes to berry habitat that Aaron Santa Anna, utility, and clarity of the information to has the potential to impact wildlife be collected; and (5) how might the populations of the Yukon Delta region Assistant General Counsel for Regulations. USGS minimize the burden of this and the Yukon Delta National Wildlife [FR Doc. 2018–12591 Filed 6–11–18; 8:45 am] collection on the respondents, including Refuge. BILLING CODE 4210–67–P through the use of information Title of Collection: Yukon- technology. Kuskokwim Delta Berry Outlook. Comments that you submit in OMB Control Number: 1028–0122. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR response to this notice are a matter of Form Number: None. public record. We will include or Type of Review: Revision of a Geological Survey summarize each comment in our request currently approved collection. [GR.18.DJ52.CDQ03.00; OMB Control to OMB to approve this ICR. Before Respondents/Affected Public: Number 1028–0122] including your address, phone number, Individuals residing in Alaska Native email address, or other personal Villages. Agency Information Collection identifying information in your Total Estimated Number of Annual Activities; Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta comment, you should be aware that Respondents: 150. Berry Outlook your entire comment—including your Total Estimated Number of Annual AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey, personal identifying information—may Responses: 150. Interior. be made publicly available at any time. Estimated Completion Time per While you may ask us in your comment Response: Twenty-five minutes. ACTION: Notice of information collection; to withhold your personal identifying Total Estimated Number of Annual request for comment. information from public review, we Burden Hours: 62.5 hours. SUMMARY: In accordance with the cannot guarantee that we will be able to Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the do so. Frequency of Collection: Part A one- U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) is Abstract: The Yukon-Kuskokwim time; Part B annually for three years. proposing to renew an information (YK) Delta Berry Outlook is a data and Total Estimated Annual Non-hour collection (IC) with revisions. observer driven ecological monitoring Burden Cost: None. DATES: Interested persons are invited to and modeling framework that forecasts An agency may not conduct or submit comments on or before August changes in berry habitat and abundance sponsor and a person is not required to 13, 2018. with environmental change. To create a respond to a collection of information ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the berry monitoring protocol and modeling unless it displays a currently valid OMB information collection request (ICR) by framework we will solicit local control number. mail to the U.S. Geological Survey, knowledge of berry distribution and abundance from members of YK delta The authorities for this action are the Information Collections Clearance Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 Officer, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS communities using a survey instrument. This survey is comprised of two parts, U.S.C. 3501, et seq.). 159, Reston, VA 20192; or by email to gs-info_collections@usgs.gov. Please Part A and Part B. Part A consists of Pierre Glynn, reference OMB Control Number 1028– propositions that respondents are asked Chief, Water Cycle Branch. 0122 in the subject line of your to agree or disagree with using a Likert [FR Doc. 2018–12560 Filed 6–11–18; 8:45 am] comments. scale. Propositions are on the subject of BILLING CODE 4338–11–P timing, abundance, and distribution of FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To four types of berries prevalent in the request additional information about region. Part B consists of questions DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR this ICR, contact Nicole Herman-Mercer concerning the abundance of that year’s by email at nhmercer@usgs.gov, or by berry harvest. Office of the Secretary telephone at 303–236–5031. Personally Identifiable Information SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We, the (PII) will be limited to four elements: [18XD4523WS, DS61500000, U.S. Geological Survey, in accordance DWSN00000.000000, DP.61501] Names, phone numbers, emails, and the with the Paperwork Reduction Act of name of the village they reside in. This National Invasive Species Council; 1995, provide the general public and PII will be collected so that researchers Notice of Public Meeting other Federal agencies with an may communicate project results and opportunity to comment on proposed, solicit feedback on the project itself for AGENCY: Policy and International revised, and continuing collections of sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES evaluation purposes. Statistical analysis Affairs, Interior. information. This helps us assess the will be performed on the survey ACTION: Notice of public meeting. impact of our information collection responses in to ascertain if a consensus requirements and minimize the public’s exists among participants within SUMMARY: Pursuant to the provisions of reporting burden. It also helps the villages and among villages. the Federal Advisory Committee Act, public understand our information The USGS mission is to serve the notice is hereby given of a meeting of collection requirements and provide the Nation by providing reliable scientific the Invasive Species Advisory requested data in the desired format. information to describe and understand Committee. VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:21 Jun 11, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00036 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\12JNN1.SGM 12JNN1

Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 113 / Tuesday, June 12, 2018 / Notices 27343 DATES: Teleconference Meeting of the Authority: 5 U.S.C. Appendix 2. public. However, the public is required Invasive Species Advisory Committee: Jamie K. Reaser, to provide its own transportation for the Thursday, July 19, 2018; 1:00–3:00 p.m. field trip. Information to be distributed Executive Director, National Invasive Species (EDT). Council. to the Farmington District RAC is requested prior to the start of each ADDRESSES: U.S. Department of the [FR Doc. 2018–12608 Filed 6–11–18; 8:45 am] meeting. Interior, Stuart Udall Building (MIB), BILLING CODE 4334–63–P Agenda items for the July 10 meeting 1849 C Street NW, Rachel Carson Room include updates on: The 2017/2018 RAC (basement level), Washington, DC nominations; the RAC charter; 20240. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Farmington Field Office Resource Bureau of Land Management Management Plan Amendment; updates FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: in the Taos planning area; general Kelsey Brantley, Coordinator for NISC [LLNMF00000.L13100000.PP0000 18X recreation planning for the Taos and and ISAC Operations, National Invasive LXSSG0860000] Farmington Field Offices; updates in the Species Council Secretariat, (202) 208– San Pedro Area; BLM efforts to gather 4122; Fax: (202) 208–4118, email: Notice of Public Meeting, Farmington additional cultural/ethnographic data kelsey_brantley@ios.doi.gov. District Resource Advisory Council, for cultural site protection; the New Mexico SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The postponement of the 2018 spring oil and purpose of the Advisory Committee AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, gas leasing in the Farmington Field (ISAC) is to provide advice to the Interior. Office area; and the methane emission ACTION: Notice of public meeting. rules. There will be a discussion on the National Invasive Species Council Rio Grande Trail/State Partnership and (NISC), as authorized by Executive SUMMARY: In accordance with the a potential event scheduled for October Orders 13112 and 13751, on a broad Federal Land Policy and Management 2, 2018, to celebrate the 50th array of issues related to preventing the Act of 1976 and the Federal Advisory Anniversary of the National Trails introduction of invasive species and Committee Act of 1972, the U.S. System Act of 1968; and any other providing for their control and Department of the Interior, Bureau of topics that may reasonably come before minimizing the economic, ecological, Land Management (BLM) Farmington the Farmington District RAC may also and human health impacts that invasive District Resource Advisory Council be addressed. On July 11, the RAC will species cause. The Council is co-chaired (RAC) will meet as indicated below. participate in a field trip to the Rio by the Secretary of the Interior, the DATES: The Farmington District RAC Grande Trail improvement areas. More Secretary of Agriculture, and the will hold a public meeting on Tuesday, information is available at https:// Secretary of Commerce. The duty of the July 10, 2018, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 www.blm.gov/get-involved/resource- Council is to provide national p.m., and a field trip on Wednesday, advisory-council/near-you/new-mexico/ leadership regarding invasive species July 11, 2018, from 8:00 a.m. to 12:00 farmington-district-rac. issues. The purpose of a meeting on p.m. The July 10, 2018, meeting will Thursday, July 19, 2018 via include a public comment period from ADDRESSES: The Farmington District teleconference, in lieu of physical 3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Depending on the RAC will meet at the Kit Carson travel, is to convene the full ISAC to number of persons wishing to comment Electrical Cooperative Boardroom at 118 enable NISC leadership and ISAC and time available, the amount of time Cruz Alta Road, Taos, NM 87571. The membership to discuss the for individual oral comments may be field trip participants will depart from recommendations arising from the ISAC limited. The public may also submit the BLM Taos Field Office at 226 Cruz annual meeting held February 27– written comments to Zach Stone, Alta Road, Taos, NM 87571. March 1, 2018 in Washington, DC. Farmington District, New Mexico, 6251 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: College Blvd., Suite A, Farmington, NM Members of the public are welcome to Zach Stone, Public Affairs Specialist, participate by accessing the 87402; or by email at zstone@blm.gov, or BLM Farmington District Office, 6251 by telephone (505) 564–7677, no later teleconference. The toll-free conference College Blvd., Suite A, Farmington, NM phone number and access code can be than July 9, 2018, to be made available 87402, (505) 564–7677, or zstone@ to the RAC at the July 10, 2018, meeting. obtained through online registration at blm.gov. Persons who use a All written comments received prior to https://goo.gl/forms/iitamLBa telecommunications device for the deaf the meeting will be provided to the FYuvdeYB2. Alternatively, members of (TDD) may call the Federal Relay council members. the public can listen to the Service (FRS) at (800) 877–8339. The Before including your address, phone teleconference in person at the U.S. FRS is available 24 hours a day, 7 days number, email address, or other Department of the Interior Stuart Udall a week, to leave a message or question personal identifying information in your Building in Washington, DC (see with Mr. Stone. You will receive a reply comments, please be aware that your ADDRESSES section above). All visiting during normal business hours. entire comment, including your members of the public must be cleared SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The personal identifying information, may through building security prior to being Farmington District RAC consists of 10 be made publicly available at any time. escorted to the meeting room. Note: members chartered and appointed by While you can ask us in your comment Other than during the public comment the Secretary of the Interior. Their to withhold your personal identifying period, public participation is in an diverse perspectives are represented in information from public review, we sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES observer capacity. The maximum commodity, conservation, and general cannot guarantee that we will be able to capacity of the teleconference is 100 interests. They provide advice to BLM do so. Individuals who plan to attend participants. For record keeping resource managers regarding and need special assistance, such as purposes, participants will be required management plans and proposed sign language interpretation, tour to provide their name and contact resource actions on public land in the transportation or other reasonable information to the operator before being BLM’s Farmington District. Both the accommodations, should contact the connected. field trip and meeting are open to the BLM as provided above. 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Document Created: 2018-06-12 00:47:09
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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
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of public meeting.
DatesTeleconference Meeting of the Invasive Species Advisory Committee: Thursday, July 19, 2018; 1:00-3:00 p.m. (EDT).
ContactKelsey Brantley, Coordinator for NISC and ISAC Operations, National Invasive Species Council Secretariat, (202) 208-4122; Fax: (202) 208-4118, email: [email protected]
FR Citation83 FR 27342 
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