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2Study of the impacts of global climate change is an evolving field, and additional research is needed to understand the phenomenon’s likely 

effects on estuarine habitats and processes with specificity. At this time, the Independent Scientific Advisory Board of the Northwest Power and 

Conservation Council expects that the regional effects of global climate change in the next century will include more precipitation falling as rain 

rather than snow, reduced snow pack, and late-summer/early-fall stream flows, and associated rises in stream temperature (Independent Scientific Advisory Board 2007). The climate-related management actions in Table 1 reflect these expected impacts. Although the management actions clearly would not change the threat of global climate change itself, they have the potential to lessen its impact on salmonids in the estuary. 

Even if climate cycles and global climate change have effects different from those assumed in this document, the management actions that 

Table 1 associates with climate would provide benefits to salmonids by addressing other threats, such as water withdrawal, urban and industrial 

practices, and reservoir heating. All three of the management actions associated with climate in Table 1 are associated with other threats listed 

in Table 1. 3 Unless otherwise noted, the term best management practices is used in the Estuary Module to indicate general methods or techniques found 

to be most effective in achieving an objective. NMFS envisions that in implementation, specific best management practices would be developed 

or recommended. 

Note: Italics indicate an action’s second occurrence in the table, in connection with a different threat. 

Identifying management actions that 

could reduce threats to salmon and 

steelhead as they rear in or migrate 

through the estuary is an important step 

toward improving conditions for 

salmonids during a critical stage in their 

life cycles. However, actual 

implementation of management actions 

is constrained by a variety of factors, 

such as technical, economic, and private 

property considerations. In some cases, 

it will be impossible to realize an 

action’s full potential because its 

implementation is constrained by past 

societal decisions that are functionally 

irreversible. An important assumption 

of the Estuary Module is that the 

implementation of each of the 23 

management actions is constrained in 

some manner. 

The Estuary Module makes another 

important assumption about 

implementation: although 

implementation of actions is 

constrained, even constrained 

implementation can make important 

contributions to the survival of 

salmonids in the estuary and plume. 

Within the context of these two 

fundamental assumptions, the Estuary 

Module evaluates the costs and 

potential benefits of recovery actions. 

Potential Survival Benefits 

To help characterize potential 

survival improvements, the Estuary 

Module uses a planning exercise that 

involves distributing a plausible 

survival improvement target of 20 

percent across the actions to 

hypothesize the portion of that total 

survival improvement target that might 

result from each action. The primary 

purpose of the survival improvement 

target is to help compare the relative 

potential benefits of different 

management actions. The survival 

improvement target does not account for 

variation at the ESU, population, and 

subpopulation scales, and is not 

intended for use in life cycle modeling, 

except as a starting point in the absence 

of more rigorous data. 

Time and Cost Estimates 

Each action in the Estuary Module is 

broken down into a number of specific 

projects or units, and per-unit costs for 

each project are identified. The costs 

reflect assumptions about the 

constraints to implementation and the 

degree to which it is possible to reduce 

those constraints. 

Given those constraints, the Estuary 

Module estimates that the cost of 

implementing all 23 actions and 

associated research and monitoring over 

a 25-year time period is $592.15 million. 

Costs of tributary actions and the total 

estimated time and cost of recovery for 

each affected ESU or DPS will be 

provided in ESU- and DPS-level 

recovery plans. 

Monitoring and Adaptive Management 

Research, monitoring, and evaluation 

(RME) within an adaptive management 

framework is a critical element of 

recovery planning for ESA-listed 

species. Monitoring for the Estuary 

Module will build on ongoing efforts. In 

particular, the Federal Columbia River 

Estuary Research, Monitoring, and 

Evaluation Program (Johnson et al., 

2008) is an appropriate monitoring plan 

on which to base RME for the Estuary 

Module, particularly because it links 

Estuary Module RME to RME for the 

2008 Federal Columbia River Power 

System Biological Opinion and its 2010 

Supplement (NMFS, 2008 and 2010). 

The Estuary Module also identifies 

other applicable monitoring plans and 

guidance documents as well as 

additional monitoring needs, 

particularly in the area of action 

effectiveness monitoring. 

Conclusion 

The Estuary Module contributes to all 

the Columbia Basin salmon and 

steelhead recovery plans by analyzing 

limiting factors and threats related to 

survival of listed salmon and steelhead 

in the Columbia River estuary, 

identifying site-specific management 

actions related to those limiting factors 

and threats, and estimating the cost and 

time to implement those actions. NMFS 

will incorporate the Estuary Module by 

reference into all Columbia Basin 

salmon and steelhead recovery plans. 

We conclude that the Estuary Module 

provides information that helps to meet 

the requirements for recovery plans 

under ESA section 4(f), and adopt it as 

a component of Columbia Basin ESA 

recovery plans. 

References 

A complete list of all references cited 

herein is available upon request (see FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section). 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq. 

Dated: February 9, 2011. 

Therese Conant, 

Acting Chief, Endangered Species Division, 

Office of Protected Resources, National 

Marine Fisheries Service. 

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Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

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DoD. 

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SUMMARY: In compliance with Section 

3506(c)(2)(A) of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the Office of the 

Assistant Secretary of Defense for 

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thereof. Comments are invited on: (a) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

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information collection on respondents, 

including through the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

DATES: Consideration will be given to all 

comments received by April 15, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number and title, 

by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

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Instructions: All submissions received 

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received without change, including any 

personal identifiers or contact 

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request more information on this 

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obtain a copy of the proposal and 

associated collection instruments, 

please write to Defense Health 

Information Management System 

(DHIMS), Attn: COL DaCosta Barrow, 

5109 Leesburg Pike, Skyline 6, Suite 

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DHIMS at 703–998–6900. 

Title; Associated Form; and OMB 

Number: Enterprise Blood Management 

System (EBMS); OMB Control Number 

0720–TBD. 

Needs and Uses: EBMS is a 

commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) 

automated information system (AIS) 

software application that provides the 

Military Health System (MHS) with a 

comprehensive enterprise wide Blood 

Donor Management System (DBMS) and 

Blood Transfusion Management System 

(BTMS) with capabilities to manage 

blood donors (both in-house and at 

mobile collection sites), including 

Theater and VA; manage blood products 

both fresh and frozen throughout the 

collection, processing, testing, storing, 

and shipping procedures; interface with 

testing instrumentation for enterprise 

(Global) results management; shipping 

blood with in-transit visibility and 

shipping data transmit and receive; 

automate, enterprise-wide ‘‘lookback’’ 

for donors, patients, and products; 

automated, blood order issue, and 

transfusion records; manage enterprise 

inventory (Global). It has built-in 

safeguards to limit access and visibility 

of personal or sensitive information in 

accordance with the Privacy Act of 

1974. The application will account for 

everyone that donates blood and 

receives blood transfusions in the 

MHS—Active Duty, Reserves, National 

Guard, government civilian, contractors 

and volunteers assigned or borrowed— 

this also includes non-appropriated 

fund employees and foreign nationals. 

Affected Public: Contractors, civilians, 

and foreign nationals donating to the 

Military Health Systems. 

Annual Burden Hours: 766. 

Number of Respondents: 4,600. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Average Burden per Response: 10 

minutes. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Summary of Information Collection 

In order to attain standardization, 

ensure a safe blood product, and comply 

with Federal law, all Military blood 

facilities are licensed and/or registered 

by the Food and Drug Administration 

(FDA) and must operate according to 

Title 21, Code of Federal Regulations, 

Part 211, Current Good Manufacturing 

Practices for Finished Pharmaceuticals, 

Part 610 series, Biologics, and Part 820 

series, Medical Devices. 

EBMS is a commercial-off-the-shelf 

(COTS) FDA 510K cleared Medical 

Device automated information system 

(AIS) software application that provides 

the Military Health System (MHS) with 

a comprehensive enterprise wide Blood 

Donor Management System (DBMS) and 

Blood Transfusion Management System 

(BTMS) with capabilities to manage 

blood donors (both in-house and at 

mobile collection sites), including 

Theater and VA; manage blood products 

both fresh and frozen throughout the 

collection, processing, testing, storing, 

and shipping procedures; interface with 

testing instrumentation for enterprise 

(Global) results management; shipping 

blood with in-transit visibility and 

shipping data transmit and receive; 

automate, enterprise-wide ‘‘lookback’’ 

for donors, patients, and products; 

automated, blood order issue, and 

transfusion records; manage enterprise 

inventory (Global). It has built-in 

safeguards to limit access and visibility 

of personal or sensitive information in 

accordance with the Privacy Act of 

1974. The application will account for 

everyone that donates blood and 

receives blood transfusions in the 

MHS—Active Duty, Reserves, National 

Guard, government civilian, contractors 

and volunteers assigned or borrowed— 

this also includes non-appropriated 

fund employees and foreign nationals. 

EBMS is a n-tier enterprise solution. 

The solution will use COTS products, 

installed at a Central Server location. 

EBMS which is delineated in several 

DoD issuances, including DoD Directive 

6000.12, DoD Instruction 6480.4, and 

AR10–64, has applicability at the 

headquarters level allowing Armed 

Services Blood Program (ASBP) and 

Service Blood Program Office (SBPO) to 

use this product to conduct its own dayto-day blood inventory management. 

This comprehensive tool provides the 

capability to manage inventory, monitor 

adverse trends, review lookback case, 

manage donor deferrals and develop 

standard operation procedure. Deciding 

to implement EBMS within MHS, 

provides an enterprise solution for 

transfusion and donor processing that 

can be applied to enterprise-wide blood 

inventory, and traceability through out 

patient and donor life. 

The information in EBMS is personal 

or sensitive; therefore, it contains builtin safeguards to limit access and 

visibility of this information. EBMS uses 

role-based security so a user sees only 

the information for which permission 

has been granted. It uses state-of-themarket 128-bit encryption security for 

our transactions. It is DITSCAP certified 

having been subjected to and passed 

thorough security testing and evaluation 

by independent parties. It meets 

safeguards specified by the Privacy Act 

of 1974 in that it maintains a published 

DoD Privacy Impact Assessment and 

System of Record covering Active Duty 

Military, Reserve, National Guard, and 

government civilian employees, to 

include non-appropriated fund 

employees and foreign nationals, DoD 

contractors, and volunteers. EBMS is 

hosted in a secure facility managed by 

the Defense Information Systems 

Agency. 

Morgan F. Park, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

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Meeting 

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1972 (5 U.S.C., appendix as amended), 

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