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6. Public and Other Agency Comments 

7. Old Business 

8. New Business 

a. Regional Office Update 

b. State Game Board Actions on 

NCPA’s Proposals 

c. Wildlife Regulatory Timeline for 

Federal Subsistence Board Actions 

d. Project Updates 

e. Denali’s Subsistence Management 

Plan 

f. Response to letter from the Public 

9. NPS Reports and Updates 

a. Ranger Division Update 

b. Resource Management Program 

Update Fish and Wildlife Updates 

10. Public and Other Agency Comments 

11. Set Time and Place of next Denali 

SRC Meeting 

12. Adjournment 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: SRC 

meeting location and date may need to 

be changed based on weather or local 

circumstances. If meeting date and 

location are changed, a notice will be 

published in local newspapers and 

announced on local radio stations prior 

to the meeting date. The meeting may 

end early if all business is completed. 

Dated: December 23, 2008. 

Sue E. Masica, 

Regional Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Submission of U.S. Nominations to the 

World Heritage List 

AGENCY: Department of the Interior, 

National Park Service. 

ACTION: Notice of Decision To Submit 

Nominations to the World Heritage List. 

SUMMARY: This notice constitutes the 

official publication of the decision to 

submit nominations to the World 

Heritage List for Papahanaumokuakea 

Marine National Monument, Hawaii, 

and Mount Vernon, Virginia, and serves 

as the Third Notice referred to in Sec. 

73.7(j) of the World Heritage Program 

regulations (36 CFR part 73). 

The nominations are being submitted 

through the Department of State for 

consideration by the World Heritage 

Committee, which will likely occur at 

the Committee’s 34th annual session in 

mid-2010. 

These two properties have been 

selected from the U.S. World Heritage 

Tentative List. The Tentative List 

consists of properties that appear to 

qualify for World Heritage status and 

which may be considered for 

nomination by the United States to the 

World Heritage List. The current U.S. 

Tentative List was transmitted to the 

UNESCO World Heritage Centre on 

January 24, 2008. 

The new U.S. Tentative List appeared 

in a Federal Register notice on March 

19, 2008 (73 FR 14835–14838, March 

19, 2008) with a request for public 

comment on possible initial 

nominations from the 14 sites on the 

U.S. Tentative List, particularly for the 

two sites named above. 

The comments received and the 

Department of the Interior’s responses to 

them as well as the Department’s 

decision to request preparation of these 

two nominations appeared in a 

subsequent Federal Register Notice 

published on July 8, 2008 (73 FR 39036– 

39039, July 8, 2008). The Department 

considered public comments received 

during the comment period as well as 

the advice of the Federal Interagency 

Panel for World Heritage in making the 

decisions to submit the two U.S. World 

Heritage nominations. Both properties 

meet the legal prerequisites for 

nomination by the United States to the 

World Heritage List. They appear to 

meet one or more of the World Heritage 

criteria and all owners of the two sites 

support the nomination of these 

nationally significant properties to the 

World Heritage List. 

Papahanaumokuakea Marine National 

Monument was selected for nomination 

in part because it would, as a marine 

site and a mixed cultural and natural 

site in the Pacific, fill conspicuous gaps 

in the U.S. portfolio of World Heritage 

Sites. Similar gaps likewise exist in the 

World Heritage List as a whole, wherein 

few marine, Pacific, or mixed sites are 

listed. The State of Hawaii, the U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service and the National 

Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration, the three co-stewards of 

the Monument, are strongly supportive 

of the nomination. 

George Washington’s Mount Vernon 

likewise would fill a gap in the U.S. 

cultural site list and on the World 

Heritage List as a whole. It is an 

outstanding example of a type of 

colonial cultural landscape that was tied 

to the plantation economy based on 

slavery that prevailed in the American 

South during the colonial and early 

Federal periods. It is also the primary 

illustration of the early historic 

preservation movement in the United 

States. The Mount Vernon Ladies 

Association, the owner, strongly 

supports the property’s nomination. 

DATES: The World Heritage Committee 

will likely consider the nominations at 

its 34th annual session in mid-2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Stephen Morris, 202–354–1803 or 

Jonathan Putnam, 202–354–1809. For 

summary information on the U.S. 

Tentative List and how it was 

developed, please see the March 19, 

2008, Federal Register notice (73 FR 

14835–14838, March 19, 2008). 

Complete information about U.S. 

participation in the World Heritage 

Program and the process used to 

develop the Tentative List is posted on 

the Office of International Affairs Web 

site at: http://www.nps.gov/oia/topics/

worldheritage/tentativelist.htm. 

To request paper copies of documents 

discussed in this notice, please contact 

April Brooks, Office of International 

Affairs, National Park Service, 1201 Eye 

Street, NW., (0050) Washington, DC 

20005. E-mail: April_Brooks@nps.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The World Heritage List is an 

international list of cultural and natural 

properties nominated by the signatories 

to the World Heritage Convention 

(1972). The United States was the prime 

architect of the Convention, an 

international treaty for the preservation 

of natural and cultural heritage sites of 

global significance proposed by 

President Richard M. Nixon in 1972, 

and the U.S. was the first nation to ratify 

it. In 2005, the United States was 

elected to a fourth term on the World 

Heritage Committee and will serve until 

2009. The Committee, composed of 

representatives of 21 nations elected as 

the governing body of the World 

Heritage Convention, makes the final 

decisions on which nominations to 

accept on the World Heritage List at its 

annual meeting each summer. 

There are 878 sites in 145 of the 185 

signatory countries. Currently there are 

20 World Heritage Sites in the United 

States already listed. 

U.S. participation and the roles of the 

Department of the Interior and the 

National Park Service are authorized by 

Title IV of the Historic Preservation Act 

Amendments of 1980 and conducted in 

accordance with 36 CFR 73—World 

Heritage Convention. The Department of 

the Interior has the lead role for the U.S. 

Government in the implementation of 

the Convention; the National Park 

Service serves as the principal technical 

agency within the Department for World 

Heritage matters and manages all or 

parts of 17 of the 20 U.S. World Heritage 

Sites currently listed. 

A Tentative List is a national list of 

natural and cultural properties 

appearing to meet the World Heritage 

Committee’s eligibility criteria for 

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nomination to the World Heritage List. 

It is a list of candidate sites which a 

country intends to consider for 

nomination within a given time period. 

A country cannot nominate a property 

unless it has been on its Tentative List 

for a minimum of a year. Countries also 

are limited to nominating no more than 

two sites in any given year. 

The World Heritage Committee’s 

Operational Guidelines ask participating 

nations to provide Tentative Lists, 

which aid in evaluating properties for 

the World Heritage List on a 

comparative international basis and 

help the Committee to schedule its work 

over the long term. The Guidelines 

recommend that a nation review its 

Tentative List at least once every 

decade. 

Neither inclusion in the Tentative List 

nor inscription as a World Heritage Site 

imposes legal restrictions on owners or 

neighbors of sites, nor does it give the 

United Nations any management 

authority or ownership rights in U.S. 

World Heritage Sites, which continue to 

be subject only to U.S. and local laws. 

Inclusion in the Tentative List merely 

indicates that the property may be 

further examined for possible World 

Heritage nomination in the future. 

U.S. World Heritage Nominations: 2009 

Papahanaumokuakea Marine National 

Monument, Hawaii 

This 1,200-mile-long string of islands, 

atolls, coral reefs and adjacent waters, 

running northwest from the main 

Hawaiian islands and encompassing 

over 89 million acres, is one of the 

world’s largest and most significant 

marine protected areas. Scattered in the 

deep ocean are some 10 small islands 

along with extensive reefs and shoals. In 

this remote and still relatively pristine 

part of the Pacific, marine life 

flourishes, and the area is home to a 

large number of species found nowhere 

else in the world, including a wide array 

that are threatened and endangered. 

Large populations of seabirds nest on 

isolated sandy shores and the waters 

harbor impressive numbers of large 

predatory fish. The geology of the 

islands is also highly significant—the 

chain represents the longest, clearest, 

and oldest example of island formation 

and atoll evolution in the world. 

Native Hawaiians reached these 

islands at least 1,000 years before any 

other people and established 

settlements on some of them. The 

islands, along with their significant 

archeological sites, retain great cultural 

and spiritual significance to Native 

Hawaiians. 

Mount Vernon, Virginia 

George Washington’s long-time home, 

with its associated gardens and grounds, 

forms a remarkably well-preserved and 

extensively documented example of a 

plantation landscape of the 18th-century 

American South. It was based on 

English models but modified and 

adapted to its American context, which 

included slave labor as an economic 

basis. There is a core of 14 surviving 

18th-century structures set in a 

landscape of gardens, fences, lanes, 

walkways, and other features, situated 

along the Potomac River, that changed 

and developed over many years in 

Washington’s family. The Mount 

Vernon Ladies’ Association has owned 

and maintained the property for 150 

years. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 470a–1, a–2, d; 36 

CFR 73. 

Dated: January 16, 2009. 

Lyle Laverty, 

Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and 

Parks. 

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation Nos. 731–TA–1146–1147 

(Final)] 

1–Hydroxyethylidene-1,1– 

Diphosphonic Acid (HEDP) From China 

and India 

AGENCY: United States International 

Trade Commission. 

ACTION: Revised schedule for the subject 

investigations. 

DATES: Effective Date: January 15, 2009. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nathanael Comly (202–205–3174), 

Office of Investigations, U.S. 

International Trade Commission, 500 E 

Street, SW., Washington, DC 20436. 

Hearing-impaired persons can obtain 

information on this matter by contacting 

the Commission’s TDD terminal on 202– 

205–1810. Persons with mobility 

impairments who will need special 

assistance in gaining access to the 

Commission should contact the Office 

of the Secretary at 202–205–2000. 

General information concerning the 

Commission may also be obtained by 

accessing its internet server (http:// 

www.usitc.gov). The public record for 

these investigations may be viewed on 

the Commission’s electronic docket 

(EDIS) at http://edis.usitc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Effective 

October 21, 2008, the Commission 

established a schedule for the conduct 

of the final phase of the subject 

investigations (73 FR 67545, November 

14, 2008). As a result of subsequent 

events, however, the Commission is 

revising its schedule. 

The Commission’s new schedule for 

the investigations is as follows: The 

Commission will make its final release 

of information on March 30, 2009; and 

final party comments are due on April 

1, 2009. 

For further information concerning 

these investigations see the 

Commission’s notice cited above and 

the Commission’s Rules of Practice and 

Procedure, part 201, subparts A through 

E (19 CFR part 201), and part 207, 

subparts A and C (19 CFR part 207). 

Authority: These investigations are being 

conducted under authority of title VII of the 

Tariff Act of 1930; this notice is published 

pursuant to section 207.21 of the 

Commission’s rules. 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: January 15, 2009. 

Marilyn R. Abbott, 

Secretary to the Commission. 

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Executive Office for Immigration 

Review 

[OMB Number 1125–0005] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comments Requested 

ACTION: 60-Day Notice of Information 

Collection Under Review: Notice of 

Entry of Appearance as Attorney or 

Representative Before the Board of 

Immigration Appeals (Form EOIR–27). 

The Department of Justice (DOJ), 

Executive Office for Immigration 

Review (EOIR) will be submitting the 

following information collection request 

to the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for review and approval in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. The proposed 

information collection is published to 

obtain comments from the public and 

affected agencies. Comments are 

encouraged and will be accepted for 

‘‘sixty days’’ until March 31, 2009. This 

process is conducted in accordance with 

5 CFR 1320.10. 

If you have comments especially on 

the estimated public burden or 

associated response time, suggestions, 

or need a copy of the proposed 

information collection instrument with 

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