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It is the practice of the NPS to make 

all comments, including names and 

addresses of respondents who provide 

that information, available for public 

review following the conclusion of the 

NEPA process. Individuals may request 

that the NPS withhold their name and/ 

or address from public disclosure. If you 

wish to do this, you must state this 

prominently at the beginning of your 

comments. Commentators using the 

Web site can make such a request by 

checking the box ‘‘keep my information 

private.’’ NPS will honor such requests 

to the extent allowable by law, but you 

should be aware that NPS may still be 

required to disclose your name and 

address pursuant to the Freedom of 

Information Act. 

Description of Respondents: 1⁄4

medium to large publicly owned 

companies and 3⁄4 private entities. 

Estimated Annual Reporting Burden: 

4224 hours. 

Estimated Average Burden Hours per 

Response: 176 Hours. 

Estimated Average Number of 

Respondents: 24 annually. 

Estimated Frequency of Response: 24 

annually. 

Dated: September 17, 2006. 

Leonard E. Stowe, 

NPS, Information and Collection Clearance 

Officer. 

[FR Doc. 06–7717 Filed 9–15–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–M 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

60-Day Notice of Intention To Request 

Clearance of Collection of Information; 

Opportunity for Public Comment 

AGENCY: Department of the Interior, 

National Park Service. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: Under provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 and 5 

CFR Part 1320, Reporting and Record 

Keeping Requirements, the NPS invites 

comments on the need for gathering the 

information in the proposed survey 

(OMB #1024–XXXX). 

DATES: Public comments will be 

accepted on or before November 17, 

2006. 

ADDRESSES: Send Comments to: Kirsten 

M. Leong, NPS SCEP Student, 

Department of Natural Resources, 

Cornell University, 306 Fernow Hall, 

Ithaca, NY 14853; Phone: 607–255–

4136; e-mail: kml47@cornell.edu. 

To Request a Draft of Proposed 

Collection of Information Contact: 

Kirsten M. Leong, NPS SCEP Student, 

Department of Natural Resources, 

Cornell University, 306 Fernow Hall, 

Ithaca, NY 14853; Phone: 607–255–

4136; e-mail: kml47@cornell.edu. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Margaret Wild, Biological Resource 

Management Division, 1201 Oakridge 

Dr., Suite 200, Fort Collins, CO 80525; 

Phone: 970–225–3593; e-mail: 

Margaret_Wild@nps.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Title: 

Identifying Capacity for Local 

Community Participation in Wildlife 

Management Planning: White-tailed 

Deer in Northeastern NPS Units. 

Bureau Form Number: None. 

OMB Number: To be requested. 

Expiration Date: To be requested. 

Type of Request: New collection. 

Description of Need: NPS and DOI 

policies have begun to place more 

emphasis on civic engagement and 

public participation in park 

management (NPS Director’s Order 

75A), as well as communication and 

collaboration with local communities 

(NPS Director’s Order 52A. Discussions 

with NPS natural resource managers 

indicate a need for tools to better 

understand local community residents 

and ways to engage them in 

management and planning, especially in 

situations where local communities may 

be impacted by NPS management 

decisions. 

Biological studies have been 

conducted on white-tailed deer 

(Odocoileus virginianus) in park units of 

the northeastern U.S. for over two 

decades to determine deer population 

density, movement, and impact on park 

resources. Because deer biology has 

been relatively well-studied in parks, 

management issues related to deer were 

chosen as a model system to study the 

ways in which input from local 

stakeholders can affect wildlife 

management planning. Five sites were 

chosen to represent various stages of 

deer-issue maturity and amount of 

outreach efforts related to these issues: 

The Potomac Gorge area of Chesapeake 

and Ohio Canal National Historical 

Park; Fire Island National Seashore; 

Morristown National Historical Park; 

Prince William Forest Park; and Valley 

Forge National Historical Park. Fire 

Island National Seashore is the only 

park identified with a long history of 

deer issues and experience with deer 

outreach activities. Valley Forge 

National Historical Park and 

Morristown National Historical Park 

represent parks with a long history of 

deer issues and limited deer outreach 

activities. Prince William Forest Park 

and Chesapeake and Ohio National 

Historical Park (Potomac Gorge area) 

represent parks with relatively young 

deer issues and relatively few outreach 

activities related to deer. No parks with 

young deer issues and many deer 

outreach activities were identified. 

This study will focus on residents of 

communities near these parks, using a 

mail-back survey to describe and 

understand their opinions and 

experiences related to the role of parks 

in deer and other wildlife management, 

their understanding of deer issues and 

ways to address them in parks, and the 

influence of public input in wildlife 

management in parks. Follow-up 

telephone interviews with nonrespondents (up to 100 per park) will be 

conducted to assess non-response bias. 

This information will assist park staff in 

improving communication with the 

public in the event that these parks 

consider managing impacts related to 

deer in the future. However, any formal 

management that is considered will be 

subject to public input requirements of 

the National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA, 42 U.S.C. 4231 et seq.). 

Therefore, research associated with this 

study should not be considered 

equivalent to public scoping related to 

a NEPA process. In addition, insights 

from this study will enhance NPS 

ability to respond to other natural 

resource management issues that 

involve local communities. 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. 

Automated data collection: This 

information will be primarily collected 

via mail-back questionnaire. Telephone 

interviews will be conducted with a 

small number of non-respondents to the 

mail survey. No automated data 

collection will take place. 

Description of respondents: Residents 

of communities near: the Potomac Gorge 

area of Chesapeake and Ohio Canal 

National Historical Park; Fire Island 

National Seashore; Morristown National 

Historical Park; Prince William National 

Historical Park; and Valley Forge 

National Historical Park. 

Estimated average number of 

respondents: 2,500 (2,000 respondents 

for mail survey; 500 respondents for 

telephone interviews). 

Estimated average number of 

responses: 2,500 (2,000 respondents for 


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mail survey; 500 respondents for 

telephone interviews). 

Estimated average burden hours per 

response: 1⁄3 hour for mail survey 

respondents; 1⁄12 hour for follow-up 

telephone interview respondents. 

Frequency of Response: 1 time per 

respondent. 

Estimated annual reporting burden: 

709 hours. 

Dated: September 7, 2006. 

Leonard E. Stowe, 

NPS, Information Collection Clearance 

Officer. 

[FR Doc. 06–7719 Filed 9–15–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–M 

DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Legislative Environmental Impact 

Statement on Gull Egg Harvest by the 

Huna Tlingit in Glacier Bay National 

Park 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare a 

Legislative Environmental Impact 

Statement. 

SUMMARY: The National Park Service 

(NPS) is preparing a Legislative 

Environmental Impact Statement (LEIS) 

on the potential harvest of gull eggs by 

the Huna Tlingit in Glacier Bay National 

Park. The purpose of the LEIS is to 

respond to Section 4 of the Glacier Bay 

National Park Resource Management 

Act of 1999 (Pub. L. 106–455) which 

requires the Secretary of Interior, in 

consultation with local residents, to 

assess whether sea gull eggs can be 

collected in the park on a limited basis 

without impairing the biological 

sustainability of the gull population in 

the park. The Act further requires that 

if the study determines that the limited 

collection of sea gull eggs can occur 

without impairing the biological 

sustainability of the gull population in 

the park, the Secretary shall submit 

recommendations for legislation to 

Congress. 

The proposed action alternative will 

include harvesting glaucous-winged gull 

(Larus glaucescens) eggs by tribal 

members of the Hoonah Indian 

Association (HIA) under a traditional 

harvest strategy cooperatively produced 

by NPS and HIA The traditional harvest 

strategy would outline the methods by 

which eggs could be harvested, harvest 

limits, and monitoring actions that 

would be implemented to ensure that 

park purposes and values would remain 

unimpaired. A second alternative will 

consider more limited egg harvest 

opportunities. A no action alternative, 

which would continue to preclude egg 

harvest throughout the park will also be 

included in the LEIS. 

Scoping: The National Park Service 

seeks input from interested groups, 

organizations, individuals and 

government agencies. Written and 

verbal scoping comments are being 

solicited. Further information on this 

LEIS process is available by contacting 

the National Park Service at Glacier Bay 

National Park and Preserve. 

Our practice is to make comments, 

including names, home addresses, home 

phone numbers, and email addresses of 

respondents, available for public 

review. Individual respondents may 

request that we withhold their names 

and/or home addresses, etc., but if you 

wish us to consider withholding this 

information you must state this 

prominently at the beginning of your 

comments. In addition, you must 

present a rationale for withholding this 

information. This rationale must 

demonstrate that disclosure would 

constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of privacy. Unsupported 

assertions will not meet this burden. In 

the absence of exceptional, 

documentable circumstances, this 

information will be released. We will 

always make submissions from 

organizations or businesses, and from 

individuals identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses, available 

for public inspection in their entirety. 

The LEIS is being prepared in 

accordance with the requirements of the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 4331 et 

seq.) and its implementing regulations 

at 40 CFR part 1500 and the process for 

proposals for legislation (40 CFR 

1506.8). 

DATES: Comments concerning the scope 

of this project should be received on or 

before November 17, 2006. The draft 

LEIS is projected to be available in early 

2007. Submit electronic comments to 

http://parkplanning.nps.gov. Written 

comments may be mailed to the address 

provided below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mary Beth Moss, Project Manager, 

Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, 

P.O. Box 140, Gustavus, AK 99826. 

Telephone (907) 945–3545 x31, Fax 

(907) 945–3703. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Glacier 

Bay National Park is the traditional 

homeland of the Huna Tlingit people. 

The Huna Tlingit harvested eggs at gull 

rookeries in Glacier Bay, including the 

large nesting site on South Marble 

Island, prior to the park being 

established in 1925. Until recently, the 

Migratory Bird Treaty Act prohibited 

the harvest of gull eggs, and by statute 

and NPS regulations, harvest is still 

precluded within park boundaries. 

Legislation is necessary to authorize the 

collection of sea gull eggs in the park, 

and regulations would need to be 

promulgated to implement the gull egg 

collection program in accordance with 

the provisions of Section 4 of Pub. L. 

106–455. 

Dated: August 9, 2006. 

Victor Knox, 

Acting Regional Director, Alaska. 

[FR Doc. 06–7716 Filed 9–15–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–HX–M 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Availability of the Record of 

Decision for the Environmental Impact 

Statement on the South Denali 

Implementation Plan, Denali National 

Park and Preserve, AK 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability of the 

Record of Decision for the 

Environmental Impact Statement on the 

South Denali Implementation Plan. 

SUMMARY: The National Park Service 

(NPS) announces the availability of the 

Record of Decision (ROD) for the 

Environmental Impact Statement on the 

South Denali Implementation Plan, 

Denali National Park and Preserve, 

Alaska. 

This Record of Decision documents 

the decision by the NPS, in cooperation 

with the State of Alaska and MatanuskaSusitna Borough to adopt the South 

Denali Implementation Plan. The Final 

South Denali Implementation Plan and 

Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) 

was prepared cooperatively by the 

National Park Service, the State of 

Alaska, and the Matanuska-Susitna 

Borough to provide specific direction 

for expanded visitor facilities and 

recreational opportunities in the South 

Denali region until 2021. South Denali 

is defined to include the local 

communities, the Petersville Road 

corridor, the western section of Denali 

State Park, the northern part of the 

Peters Hills, lands east of the Peters 

Hills to the eastern boundary of Denali 

State Park, and the Parks Highway 

corridor from Rabideaux Creek north 

through the state park. 

The NPS selected Alternative C, as 

described in the FEIS. Of the two action 

alternatives, this alternative best meets 

the objectives of the plan for resource 


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