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We must receive written data or
comments on the application by October
26, 2023.
ADDRESSES:
Document availability and comment
submission: Use one of the following
methods to request documents or
submit comments. Requests and
comments should specify the applicant
and application number, i.e., U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, Colorado Field
Office; PER4054943.
• Email: [email protected].
• U.S. Mail: Tom McDowell, Division
Manager, Ecological Services, U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, P.O. Box 25486
DFC, Denver, CO 80225.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Robert Krijgsman, Recovery Permits
Coordinator, Ecological Services, 303–
236–4347 (phone), or permitsR6ES@
fws.gov (email). Individuals in the
United States who are deaf, deafblind,
hard of hearing, or have a speech
disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or
TeleBraille) to access
telecommunications relay services.
Individuals outside the United States
should use the relay services offered
within their country to make
international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States.
DATES:

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PER4054943 ................

We, the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite
review and comment from the public
and local, State, Tribal, and Federal
agencies on an application we have
received for a permit to conduct certain
activities with endangered species
under section 10(a)(1)(A) of the
Endangered Species Act of 1973, as
amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.),
and our regulations in the Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR) at 50 CFR
part 17. Documents and other
information submitted with the
application are available for review,
subject to the requirements of the
Privacy Act and the Freedom of
Information Act.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background
With some exceptions, the ESA
prohibits take of listed species unless a
Federal permit is issued that authorizes
such take. The ESA’s definition of
‘‘take’’ includes hunting, shooting,
harming, wounding, or killing, and also
such activities as pursuing, harassing,
trapping, capturing, or collecting.
A recovery permit issued by us under
section 10(a)(1)(A) of the ESA
authorizes the permittee to take
endangered or threatened species while
engaging in activities that are conducted

Applicant

Species
• Gray wolf (Canis
lupus) • Mexican
wolf (Canis lupus
baileyi).

U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, Colorado
Field Office, Lakewood, CO.

for scientific purposes that promote
recovery of species or for enhancement
of propagation or survival of species.
These activities often include the
capture and collection of species, which
would result in prohibited take if a
permit were not issued. Our regulations
implementing section 10(a)(1)(A) for
these permits are found at 50 CFR 17.22
for endangered wildlife species, 50 CFR
17.32 for threatened wildlife species, 50
CFR 17.62 for endangered plant species,
and 50 CFR 17.72 for threatened plant
species.
Permit Application Available for
Review and Comment
The ESA requires that we invite
public comment before issuing these
permits. Accordingly, we invite local,
State, Tribal, and Federal agencies and
the public to submit written data, views,
or arguments with respect to these
applications. The comments and
recommendations that will be most
useful and likely to influence agency
decisions are those supported by
quantitative information or studies.
Proposed activities in the following
permit request are for the recovery and
enhancement of propagation or survival
of the species in the wild:

Location

Activity

Arizona, Colorado,
Kansas, Nebraska,
New Mexico, North
Dakota, Oklahoma,
South Dakota, and
Utah.

Capture, handle, anesthetize, collar, track,
tag, administer first
aid, transport, hold,
relocate, collect tissue, collect biological
samples, and
euthanize moribund
individuals.

Permit action
New.

Public Availability of Comments

Next Steps

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Written comments we receive become
part of the administrative record
associated with this action. 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. All submissions from
organizations or businesses, and from
individuals identifying themselves as
representatives or officials of
organizations or businesses, will be
made available for public disclosure in
their entirety.

If we decide to issue a permit to the
applicant listed in this notice, we will
publish a notice in the Federal Register.

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Authority
We publish this notice under section
10(c) of the Endangered Species Act of
1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et
seq.).
Marjorie Nelson,
Acting Assistant Regional Director, MountainPrairie Region.
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0179]

Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget; Sea
Lamprey Control Program
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of information collection;
request for comment.
AGENCY:

In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we,
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
(Service), are proposing to renew an
information collection, without change.

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Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before October
26, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be
submitted within 30 days of publication
of this notice at https://
www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain.
Find this particular information
collection by selecting ‘‘Currently under
Review—Open for Public Comments’’ or
by using the search function. Please
provide a copy of your comments to the
Service Information Collection
Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, MS: PRB (JAO/3W),
5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA
22041–3803 (mail); or by email to Info_
[email protected]. Please reference ‘‘1018–
0179’’ in the subject line of your
comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Madonna L. Baucum, Service
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, by email at [email protected],
or by telephone at (703) 358–2503.
Individuals in the United States who are
deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have
a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY,
TDD, or TeleBraille) to access
telecommunications relay services.
Individuals outside the United States
should use the relay services offered
within their country to make
international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA, 44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.) and 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), we
provide the general public and other
Federal agencies with an opportunity to
comment on new, proposed, revised,
and continuing collections of
information. This helps us assess the
impact of our information collection
requirements and minimize the public’s
reporting burden. It also helps the
public understand our information
collection requirements and provide the
requested data in the desired format.
On June 26, 2023, we published in the
Federal Register (88 FR 41414) a notice
of our intent to request that OMB
approve this information collection. In
that notice, we solicited comments for
60 days, ending on August 25, 2023. In
an effort to increase public awareness
of, and participation in, our public
commenting processes associated with
information collection requests, the
Service also published the Federal
Register notice on Regulations.gov
(Docket No. FWS–R3–FAC–2023–0096)
to provide the public with an additional
method to submit comments (in
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fws.gov email and U.S. mail submission
methods). We received one comment in
response to that notice which did not
address the information collection
requirements. No response to that
comment is required.
As part of our continuing effort to
reduce paperwork and respondent
burdens, we are again soliciting
comments from the public and other
Federal agencies on the proposed ICR
that is described below. We are
especially interested in public comment
addressing the following:
(1) Whether or not the collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether or not the
information will have practical utility;
(2) The accuracy of our estimate of the
burden for this collection of
information, including the validity of
the methodology and assumptions used;
(3) Ways to enhance the quality,
utility, and clarity of the information to
be collected; and
(4) How might the agency minimize
the burden of the collection of
information on those who are to
respond, including through the use of
appropriate automated, electronic,
mechanical, or other technological
collection techniques or other forms of
information technology, e.g., permitting
electronic submission of response.
Comments that you submit in
response to this notice are a matter of
public record. 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.
Abstract: Service staff at the Service’s
Marquette and Ludington biological
stations fulfill U.S. obligations under
the Convention on Great Lakes Fisheries
Between the United States of America
and Canada, Washington, 1954, and the
Great Lakes Fishery Act of 1956 (16
U.S.C. 931 et seq.). The Service works
with State, Tribal, and other Federal
agencies to monitor progress towards
fish community objectives for sea
lampreys in each of the Great Lakes, and
also to develop and implement actions
to achieve these objectives. Activities
are closely coordinated with those of
State, Tribal, and other Federal and
provincial management agencies,
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primary goal is to conduct ecologically
sound and publicly acceptable
integrated sea lamprey control.
The Sea Lamprey Control Program is
administered and funded by the Great
Lakes Fishery Commission (GLFC) and
implemented by two control agents, the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and
Fisheries and Oceans Canada, who often
partner on larger projects. The sea
lamprey (Petromyzon marinus), a
parasitic fish species native to the
Atlantic Ocean, parasitizes other fish
species by sucking their blood and other
bodily fluids. Having survived through
at least four major extinction events, the
species has remained largely unchanged
for more than 340 million years. The sea
lamprey differs from many other fishes,
in that it does not have jaws or other
bony structures, but instead has a
skeleton made of cartilage. Sea lampreys
prey on most species of large Great
Lakes fish such as lake trout, salmon,
lake sturgeon, whitefish, burbot,
walleye, and catfish.
In the 1800s, sea lampreys invaded
the Great Lakes system via locks and
shipping canals. Their aggressive
behavior and appetite for fish blood
wreaked havoc on native fish
populations, decimating an already
vulnerable lake trout fishery. The first
recorded observation of a sea lamprey in
the Great Lakes was in 1835 in Lake
Ontario. For a time, Niagara Falls served
as a natural barrier, confining sea
lampreys to Lake Ontario and
preventing them from entering the
remaining four Great Lakes. However, in
the early 1900s, modifications were
made to the Welland Canal, which
bypasses Niagara Falls and provides a
shipping connection between Lakes
Ontario and Erie. These modifications
allowed sea lampreys access to the rest
of the Great Lakes system. Within a
short time, sea lampreys spread
throughout the system: into Lake Erie by
1921, Lakes Michigan and Huron by
1936 and 1937, and Lake Superior by
1938. Sea lampreys were able to thrive
once they invaded the Great Lakes,
because of the availability of excellent
spawning and larval habitat, an
abundance of host fish, a lack of
predators, and their high reproductive
potential—a single female can produce
as many as 100,000 eggs.
The Sea Lamprey Control Program
(SLCP) maintains an internal database.
In existence for more than 20 years, it
contains information critical to the
delivery and evaluation of an integrated
control program to manage invasive sea
lamprey populations in the five Great
Lakes. The storage of data in this
database not only documents the history
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it also provides data to steer assessment
and control of invasive sea lamprey
populations in the Great Lakes in
partnership with the GLFC. We provide
annual population data to Federal and
State regulatory agencies to inform
critical evaluations used to receive the
appropriate permits to allow us to
conduct sea lamprey control actions.
The SLCP database maintains the
points of contact for landowners to
request landowner permission to access
their land for treatment. The Service
collects basic contact information for
the landowner (name, home address,
phone number, cell phone number, and
email address), along with alternate
contact information, whether they allow
access to their land, methods of
transportation allowed on property,
whether a gate key or gate combination
is needed to access the land, whether
the landowner irrigates the land, and an
opportunity to ask additional questions
about treatment or sea lamprey
management.
Title of Collection: Sea Lamprey
Control Program.
OMB Control Number: 1018–0179.
Form Number: None.
Type of Review: Extension of a
currently approved collection.
Respondents/Affected Public:
Individuals, private sector, and State/
local/Tribal governments.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Respondents: 640.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 640.
Estimated Completion Time per
Response: 5 minutes.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 53 (rounded).
Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary.
Frequency of Collection: Annually.
Total Estimated Annual Nonhour
Burden Cost: None.
An agency may not conduct or
sponsor and a person is not required to
respond to a collection of information
unless it displays a currently valid OMB
control number.
The authority for this action is the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44
U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
Madonna Baucum,
Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[BLM_NV_FRN_MO4500172230]

Temporary Closure of Public Lands for
the 2023–2027 Rise Lantern Festival,
Clark County, NV
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of temporary closure.
AGENCY:

The Las Vegas Field Office
announces the temporary closure of
certain public lands under its
administration in Clark County, Nevada.
This temporary closure is being made in
the interest of public safety for the Rise
Lantern Festival over a 2-day period the
first full weekend of October of each
year from 2023 to 2027. This closure
controls access to multiple points of
entry to the festival located on the Jean
Dry Lake to minimize the risk of vehicle
collisions involving festival participants
and workers. The temporary closure
also ensures adequate time to conduct
clean-up of the festival location.
DATES: The temporary closure will take
effect over a 2-day period the first full
weekend of October of each year from
2023 to 2027.
ADDRESSES: The temporary closure
order and map of the closure area will
be posted at the BLM Las Vegas Field
Office, 4701 North Torrey Pines Drive,
Las Vegas, Nevada 89130, and on the
BLM website: www.blm.gov. These
materials will also be posted at the
access point of Jean Dry Lake and the
surrounding areas.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Braden Yardley, Outdoor Recreation
Planner, (702) 515–5089, or byardley@
blm.gov. Individuals in the United
States who are deaf, deafblind, hard of
hearing, or have a speech disability may
dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to
access telecommunications relay
services. Individuals outside the United
States should use the relay services
offered within their country to make
international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Las
Vegas Field Office announces the
temporary closures of certain public
lands under its administration. This
action is being taken to help ensure
public safety during the official
permitted running of the Rise Lantern
Festival. The public lands affected by
this closure are described as follows:
SUMMARY:

Mount Diablo Meridian, Nevada
T. 24 S., R. 60 E.,
Secs. 20 and 21, those portions lying
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southerly right-of-way boundary of State
Route 604;
Secs. 22 and 27, those portions lying
westerly and southerly of the westerly
and southerly right-of-way boundary of
the Southern Nevada Lightweight Road;
Sec. 28;
Sec. 29, those portions lying easterly and
southerly of the easterly and southerly
right-of-way boundary of the State Route
604;
Sec. 31, those portions of the E1/2 lying
easterly and southerly of the easterly and
southerly right-of-way boundary of the
State Route 604, excepting NVCC–
0000360;
Sec. 32, those portions lying easterly and
southerly of the easterly and southerly
right-of-way boundary of the State Route
604;
Secs. 33 and 34.
T. 25 S., R. 60 E.,
Sec. 2, W1/2;
Secs. 3 thru 5;
Sec. 6, those portions lying easterly and
southerly of the easterly and southerly
right-of-way boundary of the State Route
604, excepting NVCC–0000360;
Sec. 7, excepting NVCC–0000360;
Secs. 8 thru 10;
Sec. 11, W1/2;
Sec. 14, W1/2;
Secs. 15 thru 17.

The area described contains
approximately 12,030 acres, according
to the BLM National PLSS CadNSDI and
the official plats of the surveys of the
said lands, on file with the BLM.
Temporary closure information will
be posted along roads leading into the
public lands to notify the public. The
closure area includes the Jean Dry Lake
and is bordered by Hidden Valley to the
east, Sheep Mountain to the southwest,
and the right-of-way boundary of State
Route 604. Under the authority of
Section 303(a) of the Federal Lands
Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43
U.S.C. 1733[a]), 43 CFR 8360.0–7 and 43
CFR 8364.1, the BLM will enforce the
following rules in the area described
above:
The entire area as listed in the legal
description earlier is closed to all
vehicles and personnel except law
enforcement, emergency vehicles, event
personnel, event participants, and
spectators. Access routes leading to the
closed area will be signed to indicate a
closure ahead. No vehicle stopping or
parking in the closed area, except in
designated parking areas, will be
permitted. Event participants and
spectators are required to remain within
designated areas only.
The following restrictions will be in
effect for the duration of the closure to
ensure public safety of participants and
spectators. Unless otherwise authorized,
the following activities within the
closure area are prohibited:
• Camping;

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