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Impact (FONSI) for the Environmental 

Assessment (EA) for the Togiak National 

Wildlife Refuge (Togiak Refuge). In this 

revised CCP, we describe how we will 

manage this refuge for the next 15 years. 

ADDRESSES: You may view or obtain 

copies of the revised CCP and FONSI by 

any of the following methods. You may 

request a paper copy, a summary, or a 

CD–ROM containing both. 

Agency Web Site: Download a copy of 

the documents at http://alaska.fws.gov/ 

nwr/planning/togpol.htm. 

E-mail: fw7_togiak_planning@fws.gov. 

Mail: Maggi Arend, Planning Team 

Leader, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 

1011 East Tudor Road, MS 231, 

Anchorage, AK 99503–6199. 

In-Person Viewing or Pickup: Call 

(907) 786–3393 to make an appointment 

during regular business hours at the 

USFWS Regional Office, 1011 E. Tudor 

Road, Anchorage, AK 99503 or call 

(907) 883–5312 to make an appointment 

during regular business hours at Togiak 

Refuge, 6 Main Street, Dillingham, AK 

99576. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Maggi Arend, Planning Team Leader, 

(907) 786–3393 or 

fw7_togiak_planning@fws.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Introduction 

With this notice, we finalize the CCP 

process for the Togiak Refuge. We 

started this process with a Notice of 

Intent in the Federal Register (64 FR 

25899, May. 13, 1999) and a revised 

Notice of Intent in the Federal Register 

(71 FR 42116, July 25, 2006). We 

announced the availability of the draft 

CCP and EA, and requested comments 

in a notice of availability in the Federal 

Register (72 FR 54921, Sept. 27, 2007). 

Togiak Refuge is located 400 miles 

west of Anchorage, Alaska. The Refuge 

is bordered to the south by Bristol Bay, 

to the west by Kuskokwim Bay, to the 

north by Yukon Delta National Wildlife 

Refuge and to the east by Wood-Tikchik 

State Park. Of the 4.7 million acres 

within the boundary, 4.2 million acres 

is under management by the Service, 

including the 2.3 million-acre Togiak 

Wilderness. Three major watersheds, 

the Kanketok, Goodnews, and Togiak 

rivers, provide abundant fish habitat 

within the Refuge, where more than 1 

million salmon come to spawn each 

year. The Refuge also includes coastal 

areas varying from sandy beaches to 

steep rocky cliffs, including rare 

protected haul outs for Pacific Walrus. 

We announce our decision and the 

availability of the FONSI for the revised 

CCP for the Togiak Refuge in accordance 

with National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) (40 CFR 1506.6(b)) 

requirements. We completed a thorough 

analysis of impacts on the human 

environment in the EA that 

accompanied the draft revised CCP. 

The CCP will guide us in managing 

and administering the Togiak Refuge for 

the next 15 years. The revised CCP is 

Alternative 1, the preferred alternative 

in the draft CCP, developed in response 

to public scoping comments. 

Background 

The Alaska National Interest Lands 

Conservation Act of 1980 (94 Stat. 2371; 

ANILCA) and the National Wildlife 

Refuge System Improvement Act of 

1997 (16 U.S.C. 668dd–668ee) require 

us to develop a CCP for each Alaska 

refuge. The purpose for developing a 

CCP is to provide refuge managers with 

a 15-year plan for achieving refuge 

purposes and contributing toward the 

mission of the National Wildlife Refuge 

System, consistent with sound 

principles of fish and wildlife 

management, conservation, legal 

mandates, and our policies. We will 

review and update the CCP at least 

every 15 years in accordance with 

national policy and ANILCA. 

ANILCA requires us to designate areas 

according to their respective resources 

and values and to specify programs and 

uses within the areas designated. To 

meet this requirement, the Alaska 

Region established management 

categories for refuges including 

Wilderness, Minimal, Moderate, 

Intensive, and Wild River management. 

In the past, additional categories, 

including Cooperative Management 

were also included but are no longer 

used. For each management category we 

identified appropriate activities, public 

uses, commercial uses, and facilities. 

This revision reclassifies Cooperative 

Management lands as Minimal 

Management. Only Minimal and 

Wilderness management categories are 

applied to Togiak Refuge. 

Draft CCP Alternatives 

The Draft Plan identified one 

significant planning issue, the effect of 

management on activities and uses 

within the Togiak Refuge. Two 

alternatives were considered in the 

environmental assessment. Alternative 

1, the Proposed Action, includes 

implementation of updated management 

guidelines, converting lands in 

Cooperative Management into Minimal 

Management, and adds Refuge goals and 

objectives. Alternative 2, Current 

Management, would continue to 

implement current management as 

outlined in the 1987 Comprehensive 

Plan, including the use of the 

Cooperative Management category. The 

Refuge would not have a clearly stated 

vision statement, goals and objectives to 

guide management. 

Comments on the Draft CCP 

Comments on the draft CCP/EA for 

Togiak Refuge were solicited by the 

Service from October 3, 2007, through 

January 18, 2008. During the public 

review and comment period the Service 

held public meetings in Anchorage, 

Dillingham, Quinhagak, Goodnews Bay, 

and Togiak, Alaska. The planning team 

reviewed, analyzed, and summarized all 

comments received at the public 

meetings and in writing. 

Selected Alternative—Alternative 1 

Two alternatives were considered in 

the environmental assessment. 

Alternative 1, the Proposed Action, 

encompasses policy development, 

changes, and clarifications made in the 

years since the implementation of the 

original Comprehensive Plan in 1987. It 

also converts lands in Cooperative 

Management into Minimal Management, 

and adds a Refuge vision statement, 

goals and objectives. 

Dated: September 18, 2009. 

Gary Edwards, 

Acting Regional Director, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, Anchorage, Alaska. 

[FR Doc. E9–23029 Filed 9–23–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLWY–957400–09–L14200000–BJ0000] 

Notice of Filing of Plats of Survey, 

Wyoming 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Filing of Plats of 

Survey, Wyoming. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) has filed the plats of 

survey of the lands described below in 

the BLM Wyoming State Office, 

Cheyenne, Wyoming, on the dates 

indicated. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Bureau of Land Management, 5353 

Yellowstone Road, P.O. Box 1828, 

Cheyenne, Wyoming 82003. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: These 

surveys were executed at the request of 

the Bureau of Land Management, and 

are necessary for the management of 

resources. The lands surveyed are: 

The supplemental plat representing 

the segregation of Tract 54 from Tract 52 


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in Section 24, Township 41 North, 

Range 117 West, of the Sixth Principal 

Meridian, Wyoming, was accepted May 

13, 2009. 

The plat representing the entire 

record of the corrective dependent 

resurvey of the subdivision of section 4, 

Township 12 North, Range 60 West, of 

the Sixth Principal Meridian, Wyoming, 

Group No. 806, was accepted June 29, 

2009. 

The supplemental plat showing 

corrected lotting and acreage based on 

the plat approved March 4, 1993, 

Township 49 North, Range 78 West, of 

the Sixth Principal Meridian, Wyoming, 

was accepted June 29, 2009. 

The plat representing the entire 

record of the dependent resurvey of 

portions of the subdivisional lines, Tract 

37 and subdivision of Section 10, 

designed to restore the corners in their 

true original locations according to the 

best available evidence, Township 18 

North, Range 99 West, of the Sixth 

Principal Meridian, Wyoming, Group 

No. 690, was accepted July 7, 2009. 

The plat and field notes representing 

the dependent resurvey of a portion of 

the Fourth Standard Parallel North, 

through Ranges 82 and 83 West, a 

portion of the south and east 

boundaries, a portion of the 

subdivisional lines, and the subdivision 

of certain sections, Township 16 North, 

Range 83 West, of the Sixth Principal 

Meridian, Wyoming, Group No. 681, 

was accepted September 8, 2009. 

The plat and field notes representing 

the dependent resurvey of a portion of 

the Fourth Standard Parallel North, 

through Ranges 81 and 82 West, a 

portion of the south and east 

boundaries, a portion of the 

subdivisional lines, and the subdivision 

of certain sections, Township 16 North, 

Range 82 West, of the Sixth Principal 

Meridian, Wyoming, Group No. 682, 

was accepted September 8, 2009. 

The plat and field notes representing 

the dependent resurvey of a portion of 

the subdivisional lines and the 

subdivision of section 14, Township 51 

North, Range 93 West, of the Sixth 

Principal Meridian, Wyoming, Group 

No. 786, was accepted September 8, 

2009. 

Copies of the preceding described 

plats and field notes are available to the 

public at a cost of $1.10 per page. 

Dated: September 18, 2009. 

John P. Lee, 

Chief Cadastral Surveyor, Division of Support 

Services. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: The 

Colorado College, Colorado Springs, 

CO; Correction 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Notice is here given in accordance 

with the Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act 

(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the 

completion of an inventory of human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

under the control of The Colorado 

College, Colorado Springs, CO. The 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects were removed from Canyon de 

Chelly, Apache County, AZ. 

This notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 

U.S.C. 3003 (d)(3). The determinations 

in this notice are the sole responsibility 

of the museum, institution, or Federal 

agency that has control of the Native 

American human remains and 

associated funerary objects. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

This notice corrects the minimum 

number of individuals and associated 

funerary objects in a Notice of Inventory 

Completion previously published in the 

Federal Register (72 FR 19920, April 14, 

2004), and replaces it in its entirety with 

the following: 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains was made by The Colorado 

College professional staff in 

consultation with representatives of the 

Hopi Tribe of Arizona; Navajo Nation, 

Arizona, New Mexico & Utah; Ohkay 

Owingeh, New Mexico (formerly the 

Pueblo of San Juan); Pueblo of Acoma, 

New Mexico; Pueblo of Cochiti, New 

Mexico; Pueblo of Isleta, New Mexico; 

Pueblo of Jemez, New Mexico; Pueblo of 

Laguna, New Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, 

New Mexico; Pueblo of Picuris, New 

Mexico; Pueblo of Pojoaque, New 

Mexico; Pueblo of San Felipe, New 

Mexico; Pueblo of San Ildefonso, New 

Mexico; Pueblo of Sandia, New Mexico; 

Pueblo of Santa Ana, New Mexico; 

Pueblo of Santa Clara, New Mexico; 

Pueblo of Santo Domingo, New Mexico; 

Pueblo of Taos, New Mexico; Pueblo of 

Tesuque, New Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, 

New Mexico; Ysleta del Sur Pueblo of 

Texas; and Zuni Tribe of the Zuni 

Reservation, New Mexico. 

In 1897–1898, human remains 

representing 11 individuals were 

removed from a cliff ruin in Chinlee 

Canon (a.k.a. Canyon de Chelly), 

Apache County, AZ, under the auspices 

of the C.B. Lang Expedition of 1897– 

1898. Prior to 1900, General William 

Jackson Palmer acquired what became 

known as the Lang-Bixby Collection, 

which he subsequently transferred to 

The Colorado College. After the 

museum was disbanded, the human 

remains were transferred to the 

College’s Anthropology Department. 

The associated funerary objects that 

were not in direct contact with the 

human remains were transferred to the 

Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center 

(CSFAC) (formerly the Taylor Museum). 

A permanent loan agreement with the 

CSFAC is dated 1986. The six associated 

funerary objects are a cotton robe or 

blanket, which may also include 

feathers, that encases the human 

remains of a naturally mummified 

infant; two fragments of cotton cloth 

believed to have been a part of the robe 

or blanket; a yucca basket; a piece of 

bark; and one lot of cotton fabric 

identified at the time of collection as 

resembling a lamp wick; all of the 

funerary objects are associated with the 

human remains of a naturally 

mummified infant. 

A physical anthropological 

assessment of the human remains 

resulted in a determination that the 

human remains are ancestral Puebloan 

based on the type of cranial 

deformation. This determination is 

supported by the funerary objects 

associated with one of the individuals, 

as well as the provenience. 

In 1897–1898, human remains 

representing two individuals were 

removed from Chinlee Canon (a.k.a. 

Canyon de Chelly), Apache County, AZ, 

under the auspices of the C.B. Lang 

Expedition of 1897–1898. Prior to 1900, 

General William Jackson Palmer 

acquired what became known as the 

Lang-Bixby Collection, which he 

subsequently transferred to The 

Colorado College. After the museum 

was disbanded, the human remains 

were transferred to the College’s 

Anthropology Department. No known 

individuals were identified. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

Canyon de Chelly, which is also 

known as Chinlee Canon, was a site of 

ancestral Puebloan occupation. 

Currently, the site is within the Navajo 

Indian Reservation. The Colorado 

College has determined that the lands 

from which the human remains and 

associated funerary objects were 

collected were not Federal lands at the 

time of collection. 

A relationship of shared group 

identity can reasonably be traced 

between ancestral Puebloan and modern 

Puebloan peoples based on oral 


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