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requesting a 3-year term of approval for 

this information collection activity. 

DATES: Public comments on this 

Information Collection Request (ICR) 

will be accepted on or before October 5, 

2009. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to: Ms. Jo 

A. Pendry, Chief, Commercial Services 

Program, National Park Service, 1201 

Eye Street, NW., 11th Floor, 

Washington, DC 20005, or via e-email at 

jo_pendry@nps.gov, or via fax at 202/ 

371–2090. 

To Request a Draft of Proposed 

Collection of Information Contact: Ms. 

Jo A. Pendry, Chief, Commercial 

Services Program, National Park 

Service, 1201 Eye Street, NW., 11th 

Floor, Washington, DC 20005 or via fax 

at 202/371–2090. You are entitled to a 

copy of the entire ICR package free-ofcharge. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 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 Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) control 

number. 

OMB Control Number: 1024–0125. 

Title: Submission of Offers in 

Response to Concession Opportunities. 

Current Expiration Date: 01/31/2010. 

Form(s): None. 

Type of Request: Extension of a 

currently approved collection of 

information. 

Abstract: The regulations at 36 CFR 

part 51 primarily implement Title IV of 

the National Parks Omnibus 

Management Act of 1998 (Pub. L. 105– 

391 or the Act), which provides 

legislative authority, policies and 

requirements for the solicitation, award 

and administration of National Park 

Service (NPS) concession contracts. The 

regulations require the submission of 

offers by parties interested in applying 

for a NPS concession contract. 

Affected public: Businesses and 

nonprofit organizations. 

Obligation to respond: Required to 

obtain or retain a benefit. 

Frequency of response: On occasion. 

Estimated total annual responses: 

240. 

Estimated average completion time 

per response: 320 hours. 

Estimated annual reporting burden: 

76,800 hours. 

Estimated annual nonhour cost 

burden: $1,120,000. 

Comments are invited on: (1) The 

practical utility of the information being 

gathered; (2) the accuracy of the burden 

hour estimate; (3) ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (4) 

ways to minimize the burden to 

respondents, including use of 

automated information collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology. Before including your 

address, phone number, e-mail 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 NPS will be able 

to do so. All responses to the notice will 

be summarized and included in the 

request for the Office of Management 

and Budget approval. 

Dated: August 3, 2009. 

Cartina Miller, 

NPS Information Collection Clearance 

Officer. 

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BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R7–R–2009–N135; 70133–1265–0000– 

U4] 

Izembek National Wildlife Refuge, Cold 

Bay, AK 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (Service), intend to 

prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) for a proposed land 

exchange of certain lands owned by the 

State of Alaska and certain lands owned 

by the King Cove Corporation and 

evaluation of a road corridor through 

the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge 

and the Izembek Wilderness Area. We 

furnish this notice to advise the public 

and other agencies of our intentions and 

to seek information and suggestions on 

the scope of issues to be addressed in 

the EIS. Special mailings, newspaper 

articles, and other media releases will 

announce additional opportunities to 

provide written and oral input. 

DATES: While we are initiating the EIS, 

progress will be dependent on specific 

appropriations to fund this effort. Public 

scoping meetings will be held in 

Washington, DC, as well as in 

Anchorage, King Cove, Cold Bay, Sand 

Point, and Nelson Lagoon in Alaska. At 

least 30 days prior to each meeting, we 

will announce dates, times, and 

locations. 

ADDRESSES: Additional information 

concerning the proposed land exchange 

is at http://izembek.fws.gov/EIS.htm. 

Send your comments or requests for 

information by any of the following 

methods: 

• E-mail: izembek_eis@fws.gov; 

• Fax: Attn: Helen Clough, (907) 786– 

3965; or 

• U.S. Mail: Helen Clough, Project 

Coordinator, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, 1011 East Tudor Rd., MS–231, 

Anchorage, AK 99503. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Helen Clough, 907–786–3357 (phone), 

or at the addresses above. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

The Izembek National Wildlife Refuge 

(417,533 acres) and the North Creek 

(8,452 acres) and Pavlof (1,447,264 

acres) units of the Alaska Peninsula 

National Wildlife Refuge are located at 

the westernmost tip of the Alaska 

Peninsula. The 1,008,697-acre Unimak 

Island (the easternmost Aleutian Island 

of the Alaska Maritime National 

Wildlife Refuge) lies across the Isanotski 

Strait. To the north of the Izembek 

Refuge is the Bering Sea; to the south is 

the Pacific Ocean. The Alaska Peninsula 

is dominated by the rugged Aleutian 

Range, part of the Aleutian arc chain of 

volcanoes. Landforms include 

mountains, active volcanoes, U-shaped 

valleys, glacial moraines, low tundra 

wetlands, lakes, sand dunes, and 

lagoons. Elevations range from sea level 

to the 9,372-foot Shishaldin Volcano. 

Shishaldin Volcano is a designated 

National Natural Landmark. Several 

major lagoons are within the Izembek 

Refuge boundary. These lagoons contain 

some of the world’s largest eelgrass 

beds. The lagoons are under the 

jurisdiction of the State of Alaska. 

Izembek Lagoon is designated the 

Izembek State Game Refuge. Birds from 

all over the Arctic funnel through 

Izembek Refuge each fall on their way 

to wintering grounds throughout the 

world. More than 98 percent of the 

world’s Pacific black brant use Izembek 

Lagoon as a staging area for their fall 

migration to Mexico. Other birds that 

use the refuge include golden plovers, 

ruddy turnstones, western sandpipers, 

tundra swans, Steller’s eiders, and 

emperor geese. The refuge also is home 

to large concentrations of brown bears 

and other large mammals such as 

caribou and wolves. The red, pink, 

chum, and silver salmon that use the 

waters within the refuge enrich the 

entire ecosystem with the nutrients they 

bring from the sea. The refuge also has 

a rich human history, from ancient 

settlements of Alaska Natives, through 

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traders, to a World War II outpost. The 

Izembek Wilderness covers much of the 

refuge and includes pristine streams, 

extensive wetlands, steep mountains, 

tundra, and sand dunes, and provides 

high scenic, wildlife, and scientific 

values, as well as outstanding 

opportunities for solitude and primitive 

recreation. 

The King Cove Corporation is an 

Alaska Native Village Corporation 

established under the Alaska Native 

Claims Settlement Act of 1971 (ANCSA; 

43 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) Under the 

authority of ANCSA, Congress granted 

to King Cove Corporation land 

entitlements within and adjacent to 

Izembek Refuge. The State of Alaska 

also owns lands, submerged lands, 

shorelands, and tidelands within and 

adjacent to Izembek and Alaska 

Peninsula Refuges, including the 

Izembek State Game Refuge. 

Alaska Maritime National Wildlife 

Refuge stretches from the Arctic Ocean 

to the southeast panhandle of Alaska 

and protects breeding habitat for 

seabirds, marine mammals, and other 

wildlife on more than 2,500 islands, 

spires, rocks, and coastal headlands. 

Sitkinak Island, which lies within the 

boundaries of the Alaska Maritime 

National Wildlife Refuge, is primarily 

owned by the State of Alaska, with two 

parcels owned by the Service. 

In the Omnibus Public Land 

Management Act of 2009 (H.R. 146, 

Subtitle E; the Act), Congress directs us 

to prepare an EIS under the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as 

amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and its 

implementing regulations (40 CFR parts 

1500–1508) to evaluate the impacts of a 

proposed land exchange with the State 

of Alaska and the King Cove 

Corporation for the purpose of 

constructing a single-lane gravel road 

between the communities of King Cove 

and Cold Bay, Alaska. The land 

exchange would involve the removal of 

approximately 206 acres within the 

Izembek Wilderness portion of Izembek 

National Wildlife Refuge for the road 

corridor and approximately 1,600 acres 

of Federal land within the Alaska 

Maritime National Wildlife Refuge on 

Sitkinak Island. In exchange, we would 

receive approximately 43,093 acres of 

land owned by the State of Alaska and 

approximately 13,300 acres of land 

owned by the King Cove Corporation. 

These lands are located around Cold 

Bay and adjacent to the North Creek 

Unit of Alaska Peninsula National 

Wildlife Refuge. 

The preparation of this EIS is to begin 

not later than 60 days after the Secretary 

receives notification by the State and 

the King Cove Corporation of their 

intention to exchange lands in 

accordance with the Act. The Secretary 

received notification by the King Cove 

Corporation on May 19, 2009, and by 

the State of Alaska on June 19, 2009. 

This notice initiates the process and 

opens the period for public scoping. 

Formal public involvement activities 

will begin when we receive funds 

appropriated to support this effort. At 

that time we will announce additional 

public involvement activities. 

In accordance with Section 

6402(b)(2)(B) of the Act, the EIS will 

analyze the proposed land exchange and 

the potential construction and operation 

of a road between the communities of 

King Cove and Cold Bay, Alaska, and 

will evaluate a specific road corridor 

through the Izembek Refuge that will be 

identified in consultation with the State 

of Alaska, the City of King Cove, and the 

Agdaagux Tribe of King Cove. The 

alternatives anticipated at this time 

include the existing situation (no land 

exchange or road construction) and the 

proposed land exchange and road 

construction and operation as outlined 

in the Act. In preparing the EIS, the 

Service will solicit comments from 

public locally, regionally, and 

nationally. As required in the Act, 

subsequent to the preparation of the EIS 

and in conjunction with the Record of 

Decision, the Secretary of the Interior 

will determine whether the land 

exchange (including the construction of 

the proposed road) is in the public 

interest. 

Public Availability of Comments 

Before including your address, phone 

number, e-mail 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 to withhold it 

from public review, we cannot 

guarantee we will be able to do so. 

Dated: July 31, 2009. 

Gary Edwards, 

Acting Regional Director, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, Anchorage, Alaska. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Notice of Availability for the Record of 

Decision on the Final General 

Management Plan/Environmental 

Impact Statement, Minuteman Missile 

National Historic Site, South Dakota 

AGENCY: Department of the Interior, 

National Park Service. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 102(2)(C) 

of the National Environmental Policy 

Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(C)), the 

National Park Service (NPS) announces 

the availability of the Record of 

Decision (ROD) for the Final General 

Management Plan (GMP)/Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS), Minuteman 

Missile National Historic Site, South 

Dakota. On July 2, the acting regional 

director for the NPS Midwest Region 

approved the ROD for the Final GMP/ 

EIS. As soon as practicable, the NPS 

will begin to implement the selected 

alternative. 

The selected alternative, with the 

concept of presenting the national 

historic site as a symbol of the Cold 

War, will restore Delta One to its readyalert status and rehabilitate Delta Nine 

to its stand-down appearance. These 

facilities will be presented as symbols 

commemorating the history and 

significance of the Cold War, the arms 

race, and the intercontinental ballistic 

missile in the second half of the 20th 

century. 

The selected alternative includes 

locating a 7,700-square-foot visitor/ 

administrative facility northwest of exit 

131 on Interstate 90, built in two stages. 

Under the selected alternative, visitors 

will drive their personal cars to the 

Delta One facility and, with 

reservations, go on a ranger-led tour. 

Visitors will also drive their personal 

cars to Delta Nine for a self-guided tour. 

A shuttle system to Delta One will be 

developed for operation when the level 

of visitation warrants. The chain link 

security gate at Delta One will remain 

locked during business hours except 

during shuttle tours. The gate at Delta 

Nine will remain open during business 

hours. 

Visitors benefit from this plan because 

of a rich range of options to see and 

learn about the missile sites as symbols 

that commemorate the Cold War, 

including guided tours, onsite 

interpretive media, and interpretive 

programs at the visitor/administrative 

facility. 

The ROD includes a statement of the 

decision made, synopses of other 

alternatives considered, the basis for the 

decision, a description of the 

environmentally preferable alternative, 

a finding on impairment of park 

resources and values, a listing of 

measures to minimize environmental 

harm, and an overview of public 

involvement in the decision-making 

process. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Superintendent Mark Herberger, 

Minuteman Missile National Historic 

Site, 21280 South Dakota Highway 240, 


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