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had wished to speak but could not be
accommodated on the agenda, may
submit written statements to the
Council Designated Federal Officer up
to 30 days subsequent to the meeting.
Meeting Minutes
Summary minutes of the conference
will be maintained by the Council
Designated Federal Officer (see FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT). They
will be available for public inspection
within 90 days of the meeting, and will
be posted on the Council’s Web site at
http://www.fws.gov/whhcc.

the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
section of this notice.
The meeting is open to the public;
however, transportation, lodging, and
meals are the responsibility of the
participating individuals.
Persons who use a
telecommunications device for the deaf
(TDD) may call the Federal Information
Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339
to leave a message or question for the
above individual. The FIRS is available
24 hours a day, seven days a week.
Replies are provided during normal
business hours.
Authority: 43 CFR 1784.4–1

Joshua Winchell,
Designated Federal Officer, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service.

Jenna Whitlock,
Acting State Director.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

National Park Service

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Utah Resource Advisory Council
Meeting

Proposed Information Collection;
Backcountry/Wilderness Use Permit

Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of meeting.
AGENCY:

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ACTION:

In accordance with the
Federal Land Policy and Management
Act, the Bureau of Land Management’s
(BLM) Utah Resource Advisory Council
(RAC) will host a meeting.
DATES: On Oct. 17, 2016, the RAC will
take a field tour of the San Rafael Desert
Master Leasing Plan project area from
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Attendance is
optional. On Oct. 18, the RAC will meet
from 8:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
ADDRESSES: On Oct. 18, the RAC will
meet at the John Wesley Powell River
History Museum, 1765 E. Main Street,
Green River, Utah 84525.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If
you wish to attend the field tour,
contact Lola Bird, Public Affairs
Specialist, Bureau of Land Management,
Utah State Office, 440 West 200 South,
Suite 500, Salt Lake City, Utah 84101;
phone (801) 539–4033; or, lbird@
blm.gov no later than Tuesday, Oct. 11,
2016.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Agenda
topics will include the San Rafael Desert
Master Leasing Plan and sage-grouse
plan grazing thresholds.
A half-hour public comment period
will take place on Oct. 18 from 12:30–
1:00 p.m., where the public may address
the RAC. Written comments may also be
sent to the BLM at the address listed in
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National Park Service, Interior.
Notice; request for comments.

AGENCY:

We (National Park Service,
NPS) will ask the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) to approve the
information collection (IC) described
below. As required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 and as part of our
continuing efforts to reduce paperwork
and respondent burden, we invite the
general public and other Federal
agencies to take this opportunity to
comment on this IC. This IC is
scheduled to expire on May 31, 2017.
We may not conduct or sponsor a
survey, and a person is not required to
respond to a collection of information,
unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number.
DATES: To ensure that we are able to
consider your comments on this IC, we
must receive them by November 14,
2016.
SUMMARY:

Send your comments on the
IC to Madonna L. Baucum, Information
Collection Clearance Officer, National
Park Service, 12201 Sunrise Valley
Drive, MS–242, Reston, VA 20192
(mail); or [email protected]
(email). Please include ‘‘1024–0022’’ in
the subject line of your comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
request additional information about
this IC, contact Roger Semler, Chief,
Wilderness Stewardship Division,
ADDRESSES:

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Visitor & Resource Protection
Directorate, National Park Service, 1201
I Street NW., Room 940, Washington,
DC 20005 (mail); or roger_semler@
nps.gov (email). Please include ‘‘1024–
0022’’ in the subject line.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
I. Abstract
In 1976, the NPS initiated a
backcountry registration system in
accordance with the regulations found
at 36 CFR 1.5, 1.6 and 2.10. The
objective of the registration system is to
provide users access to backcountry and
wilderness areas of national parks with
continuing opportunities for solitude
and primitive and unconfined
recreation, while enhancing protection
of natural and cultural resources and
providing a means of disseminating
public safety and outdoor ethics
messages regarding backcountry/
wilderness travel and camping. NPS
backcountry/wilderness program
managers, by designating access and
travel routes and camping locations, can
redistribute backcountry/wilderness
users in response to closures and public
use adverse impacts to natural and
cultural resources. The system also
facilitates redistribution of backcountry/
wilderness users due to public safety
hazards related to high fire danger,
flood, wind, snow or ice hazards hazard,
bear activity, or other situations that
may temporarily close or restrict access
to a portion of the backcountry/
wilderness.
The NPS uses the registration system
as a means of ensuring backcountry/
wilderness users receive up-to-date
information on outdoor ethics which
minimize social and resource impacts
including, but not limited to, sanitation
procedures, food storage, campfire use,
campsite selection, as well as wildlife
activity, trail conditions and weather
forecasts to address concerns for visitor
safety. Data collected through the
registration process is also an important
source of information for first
responders in the event of an emergency
requiring deployment of search and
rescue personnel to backcountry/
wilderness areas. The registration
system also serves to document the
spatial and temporal extent, distribution
and demographics associated with
backcountry/wilderness use and social
considerations and perceptions of
backcountry/wilderness visitors. All of
this information serves as an important
resource that informs backcountry and
wilderness management and
stewardship planning, decision making,
and operations.
The Backcountry/Wilderness Use
Permit is an extension of the NPS

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statutory authority responsibility to
protect the park areas it administers and
to manage the public use thereof (54
U.S.C. 100101, 100751, 3210102). NPS
regulations codified in 36 CFR parts 1
through 7, 12 and 13 are designated to
implement statutory mandates that
provide for resource protection and
pubic enjoyment. NPS Forms 10–404,
‘‘Backcountry/Wilderness Use Permit
Application’’ and 10–404A,
‘‘Backcountry/Wilderness Use Permit
Hangtag’’ are the primary forms used to
provide access into NPS backcountry
areas including those areas that require
a reservation to enter where use limits
are imposed in accordance with other
NPS regulations. Such permitting
enhances the ability to the NPS to
educate users on potential hazards,
search and rescue efforts, and resource
protection.

Dated: September 8, 2016.
Madonna L. Baucum,
Information Collection Clearance Officer,
National Park Service.
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II. Data

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

OMB Control Number: 1024–0022.
Expiration Date: May 31, 2016.
Title: Backcountry/Wilderness Use
Permit (36 CFR 1.5, 1.6, and 2.10).
Service Form Numbers: NPS Forms
10–404, Backcountry/Wilderness Use
Permit’’ and 10–404A, ‘‘Backcountry/
Wilderness Use Permit Hangtag’’.
Type of Request: Revision of a
currently approved collection of
information.
Description of Respondents:
Individuals wishing to use backcountry
and wilderness areas within national
parks.
Estimated Average Number of
Responses: 285,000.
Frequency of Response: 1 per
respondent.
Estimated Average Time Burden per
Respondent: 5 minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Reporting
Burden: 23,750 hours.
Respondent’s Obligation: Required to
obtain or retain a benefit.

Bureau of Reclamation

III. Comments

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summarize each comment in our request
to OMB to approve this IC. 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.

We invite comments concerning this
information collection on:
• Whether or not the collection of
information is necessary, including
whether or not the information will
have practical utility;
• The accuracy of our estimate of the
burden for this collection of
information;
• Ways to enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and
• Ways to minimize the burden of the
collection of information on
respondents.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. We will include or

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Notice of Cancellation To Prepare a
Draft Environmental Impact Statement
for the San Carlos Irrigation Project,
Arizona
Bureau of Reclamation,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

The Bureau of Reclamation
(Reclamation) is terminating preparation
of an Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS) for the San Carlos Irrigation
Project. The proposed project scope has
been modified, and Reclamation has
determined that an Environmental
Assessment (EA) rather than an EIS is
the appropriate level of environmental
documentation for the proposed action.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Sean Heath at (623) 773–6250, or email
at [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
proposed project includes rehabilitation
and modernization of San Carlos
Irrigation Project Joint Works and
District Works irrigation canals. Primary
components of the rehabilitation are the
lining of all or most of the main canals
with concrete to reduce seepage and
evaporation losses from the system, the
modification of the canal prism (crosssections and profiles) to increase system
efficiency, the inclusion of a water
storage facility, and modernized
measurement and control amenities to
improve delivery service. To protect and
preserve the new lined conveyance
system, separate storm water drainage
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facilities would be dedicated to cross
drainage storm water management.
A Notice of Intent to prepare the EIS
for the San Carlos Irrigation Project was
published in the Federal Register on
August 31, 2010 (75 FR 53332). The
proposed action was originally scoped
as an EIS. Publication of the Federal
Register notice was followed with a
scoping letter to potentially interested
individuals, organizations, tribes, and
agencies, and posting of the notice on
Reclamation’s Phoenix Area Office Web
site. In addition, a news release was
submitted to 12 news media outlets.
Two public scoping meetings were held
to solicit public comment. Reclamation
received nine comment letters regarding
the proposed action, none of which
identified potentially significant effects
to the human environment.
The Notice of Intent described a
proposal to rehabilitate and line up to
40 miles of major canals, such as the
Florence-Casa Grande, Casa Grande, and
North Side canals, along with
construction of new check structures
and cross-drainage features. During
preparation of the EIS, a new alternative
was subsequently developed that would
reduce potential environmental impacts
of the project. The new alternative
would accommodate the delivery of
irrigation flows during construction,
thereby reducing potential adverse
impacts to sensitive riparian habitat and
bird species on the Gila River.
Furthermore, the geographic scope of
the rehabilitation was reduced from 40
miles to 25 miles. Reclamation has not
identified other environmental effects of
the proposed action that are potentially
significant and would warrant us to
consider preparation of an EIS over an
EA. Based on the reduction in scope,
and the limited response to solicitation
of comments, Reclamation has
determined that an EA is the
appropriate level of environmental
analysis for the proposed action.
Dated: September 8, 2016.
Marc Maynard,
Acting Regional Director, Lower Colorado
Region.
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