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must state this prominently at the 

beginning of your comments. Such 

requests will be honored to the extent 

allowed by law. All submissions from 

organizations or businesses, and from 

individuals identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses, will be 

made available for public inspection in 

their entirety. 

Notice is hereby given that an 

opportunity for a public meeting is 

afforded in connection with the 

proposed withdrawal. All interested 

persons who desire a public meeting for 

the purpose of being heard on the 

proposed withdrawal must submit a 

written request to the Regional Director, 

Bureau of Reclamation, Lower Colorado 

Regional Office. 

For a period of 2 years from the date 

of publication of this notice in the 

Federal Register, the land will be 

segregated as specified above unless the 

application is denied or canceled or the 

withdrawal is approved prior to that 

date. The temporary land uses which 

may be permitted during this 

segregative period include licenses, 

permits, rights-of-ways, and disposal of 

vegetative resources other than under 

the mining laws. 

The withdrawal proposal will be 

processed in accordance with the 

regulations set forth in 43 CFR part 

2300. 

(Authority: 43 CFR 2310.3–1) 

Dated: October 2, 2006. 

Michael A. Taylor, 

Deputy State Director, Resources. 

[FR Doc. E6–16842 Filed 10–11–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MN–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

60-Day Notice of Intention To Request 

Clearance of Information Collection—

Opportunity for Public Comment 

AGENCY: Department of the Interior, 

National Park Service. 

ACTION: Notice and request for comment. 

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1955 (Pub. 

L. 104–13, 44 U.S.C. 3507) and 5 CFR 

part 1320, Reporting and Recordkeeping 

Requirements, the National Park Service 

(NPS) invites public comments on a 

revision of a currently approved 

information collection (OMB# 1024–

0232). 

DATES: Public Comments on the 

proposed ICR will be accepted on or 

before December 11, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Diane 

Miller, National Coordinator, National 

Underground Railroad Network to 

Freedom Program, National Park 

Service, Midwest Regional Office, 601 

Riverfront Drive, Omaha, Nebraska, 

68102. All responses to this notice will 

be summarized and included in the 

requests for Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) approval. All comments 

will become a matter of public record. 

Copies of the proposed ICR can be 

obtained from Diane Miller, National 

Coordinator, National Underground 

Railroad Network to Freedom Program, 

National Park Service, Midwest 

Regional Office, 601 Riverfront Drive, 

Omaha, Nebraska 68102. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Diane Miller, 402–661–1588 or James 

Hill 402–661–1590. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Title: NPS National Underground 

Railroad Network to Freedom 

Application. 

Bureau Form Number: n/a. 

OMB Number: 1024–0232. 

Expiration Date: 12/31/2006. 

Type of request: Revision of a 

currently approved information 

collection. 

Description of need: The NPS has 

identified guidelines and criteria for 

associated elements to qualify for the 

Network. The application form 

documents spies, programs, and 

facilities and demonstrates that they 

meet the criteria established for 

inclusion. The documentation will be 

incorporated into a database that will be 

available to the general public for 

information purposes. Public Law 105–

2103 authorizes the NPS to develop and 

administer the National Underground 

Railroad Network for Freedom 

Application, a nationwide collection of 

governmental and non-governmental 

sites, facilities, and programs associated 

with the historic Underground Railroad 

movement. The NPS has developed the 

application process through which 

associated elements can be included in 

the Network. The information collected 

will (a) verify associations to the 

Underground Railroad, (b) measure 

minimum levels of standards for 

inclusion in the Network, and (c) 

identify general needs for technical 

assistance. The NPS specifically 

requests comments on: (1) The need for 

information including whether the 

information has practical utility; (2) the 

accuracy of the reporting burden hours 

estimates, (3) was to enhance the 

quality, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (40 ways to minimize 

the burden of information collection on 

respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Automated data collection: 

Respondents must verify associations 

and characteristics through descriptive 

texts that are the result of historical 

research. Evaluations are based on 

subjective analysis of the information 

provided, which often includes copies 

of rare documents and photographs. 

Much of the information is submitted in 

electronic format, but at the present 

time, there is no automated way to 

gather all of the required information. 

Description of respondents: The 

affected public are State, tribal, and 

local governments, Federal agencies, 

businesses, non-profit organizations, 

and individuals throughout the United 

States. Nominations to the Network are 

voluntary. 

Estimated average number of 

respondents: 70. 

Estimated average number of 

responses: 70. 

Estimated average burden hours per 

response: 15. 

Estimated frequency of response: 

Once per respondent. 

Estimated annual reporting burden: 

1,050 hours. 

Dated: September 17, 2006. 

Leonard E. Stowe, 

NPS, Information Collection Clearance 

Officer. 

[FR Doc. 06–8629 Filed 10–11–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–M 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Final Environmental Impact Statement 

and General Management Plan, Ebey’s 

Landing National Historical Reserve, 

Island County, WA; Notice of 

Availability 

Summary: Pursuant to the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 42 

U.S.C. 4332(2)(c), and the Council on 

Environmental Quality Regulations (40 

CFR part 1500–1508), the National Park 

Service has prepared and announces the 

availability of a Final Environmental 

Impact Statement (FEIS) for the 

proposed general management plan 

(GMP) for Ebey’s Landing National 

Historical Reserve located in Island 

County, Washington. In addition to a 

‘‘no-action’’ alternative which would 

maintain current management, the FEIS 

describes and analyzes two ‘‘action’’

alternatives which respond to concerns 

and issues the public identified during 

the scoping process, as well as various 

conservation planning requirements. 

The alternatives present varying 


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management strategies that address 

visitor use and preservation of cultural 

and natural resources that protect and 

interpret the rural community on 

Whidbey Island from 19th century 

exploration and settlement in Puget 

Sound to the present time. Development 

concept plans for three sites are 

described. The potential environmental 

consequences of all the alternatives, and 

mitigation strategies, are identified and 

analyzed; a determination as to the 

‘‘environmentally preferred’’ alternative 

is also provided. 

Background: A Notice of Intent 

announcing preparation of the Draft EIS 

and general management plan was 

published in the Federal Register on 

May 22, 2000. Public engagement and 

information measures have included 

public meetings, presentations and 

meetings with organizations located 

within Ebey’s Landing National 

Historical Reserve (Reserve) and 

additional organizations, newsletter 

mailings, local press releases, website 

postings, and postcards. Preceding the 

formal GMP planning process, the 

National Park Service (NPS) organized 

an interdisciplinary planning team to 

initiate a new general management plan 

for the Reserve. The team included both 

the Reserve’s Trust Board (which 

included members from the NPS, 

Washington State, Island County and 

Town of Coupeville) and staff, and staff 

from the NPS Pacific West Regional 

Office in Seattle, Washington. The 

purpose of these initial meetings was to 

help characterize the scale and extent of 

the planning process. 

The official public scoping process 

began in June 2000 when NPS staff 

produced and mailed a newsletter to 

approximately 650 people on the 

Reserve’s mailing list. In addition, over 

2800 newsletters were distributed at 

local public places such as libraries, 

civic buildings, businesses, and local 

parks. The planning team held a series 

of public scoping meetings in Seattle 

(June 20) and Coupeville (June 21). In 

total, 141 verbal comments were 

recorded from three meetings. 

Individual scoping meetings were also 

held between August 2000 and January 

2001 to meet with organizations located 

within the Reserve to discuss issues of 

mutual interest. Other meetings with 

additional organizations were 

scheduled. Scoping letters and 

comments were received until August 

15, 2000 (a total of 36 letters were 

received during the public scoping 

period). 

On August 18, 2005, the NPS mailed 

230 copies of the draft GMP/EIS to 

agencies, governmental representatives, 

organizations, and interested 

individuals. Copies of the draft GMP/ 

EIS were placed in the Coupeville 

public library for public review. The 

Reserve’s Notice of Availability was 

published in the Federal Register on 

September 2, 2005 to announce release 

of the Draft GMP/EIS for public review. 

The EPA’s notice of filing of the draft 

EIS (August 26, 2005) and a revised 

Notice of Availability (September 13, 

2005) provided opportunity for public 

comment through December 1, 2005. All 

comments received until December 15 

are included in the official record. 

The NPS and Reserve staff placed 

advertisements announcing locations, 

times, and dates for public meetings in 

the Puget Consumer Cooperative Sound 

Consumer, in Seattle, Washington, the 

Whidbey News-Times in Oak Harbor, 

and the Coupeville Examiner in 

Coupeville, Washington. Press releases 

were sent to the following local and 

regional newspapers to publicize release 

of the draft GMP/EIS and dates, times, 

and locations of public meetings: 

Coupeville Examiner, Whidbey NewsTimes, Skagit Valley Herald, EverettHerald, Anacortes American, Journal of 

the San Juan Islands, South Whidbey 

Record, Bellingham Herald, Market 

Place, Peninsula Daily News, and 

Sequim Gazette. 

A total of 2,000 newsletters were 

printed containing a summary of the 

draft GMP, also announcing the public 

meetings. Each newsletter included a 

postage-paid return form for public 

comments. Newsletters were available at 

the following locations: Island County 

Planning Office, the Town of Coupeville 

Planning Office, the Coupeville Public 

Library, Island Country Historical 

Museum in Coupeville, and Fort Ebey 

and Fort Casey state parks, the 

Coupeville Post Office, Coupeville 

Wharf, Coupeville Arts Center, the Oak 

Harbor and Coupeville Chamber of 

Commerce offices, local restaurants and 

other Coupeville businesses. Additional 

copies were also available at the 

Reserve’s Trust Board office. All 

material was also made available online 

at http://parkplanning.nps.gov/ebla. 

The public was also able to provide 

comments electronically through this 

Web site. 

The NPS and the Reserve’s Trust 

Board hosted three public open houses, 

one in Seattle (September 12, 2005) and 

two in Coupeville (both on September 

15, 2005). The purpose of the meetings 

was to provide an opportunity for the 

public to meet with Reserve Trust Board 

members and staff, and NPS staff to 

discuss the draft GMP/EIS and provide 

comments. A total of 74 people attended 

the sessions and 179 comments were 

recorded. In addition to these oral 

comments, at the close of the draft 

GMP/EIS public comment period a total 

of 51 pieces of written correspondence 

had been received from individuals, 

agencies and organizations. Minor 

changes to the Preferred Alternative 

were made as a result of public 

comment; however, there were no 

substantive modifications. Responses to 

comments are provided in the FEIS. 

Throughout the planning process, the 

public’s comments and 

recommendations have provided the 

foundation for the proposed GMP, 

represented in the Reserve’s purpose 

and significance, interpretive themes, 

and proposed actions. 

Proposed Plan and Alternatives: 

Alternative A constitutes the No Action 

alternative and assumes that existing 

programs, facilities, staffing, and 

funding, would generally continue at 

their current levels. The NPS would 

dispose of NPS-owned and managed 

farms within the Reserve to the private 

sector after placing conservation 

easements on them. 

Alternative B is the Preferred 

Alternative. The Reserve’s Trust Board, 

and the NPS, in cooperation with 

partners, would enhance existing 

programs and resources management, as 

well as administrative, maintenance, 

and visitor services within the Reserve. 

To maintain and protect the rural 

landscape, the NPS would continue to 

purchase conservation easements on 

priority properties based upon a new 

land protection plan. The NPS would 

exchange two NPS-owned farms, Farms 

I and II, to private owners for additional 

protection on other properties within 

the Reserve. As part of the exchange of 

Farm II, the new farm owner would be 

required to construct a new 

maintenance building on the West Ridge 

property, which would remain in NPS 

ownership. The Sheep Barn at West 

Ridge would be rehabilitated for dry 

storage using preservation funds. 

Additional historic buildings would 

also be rehabilitated to the Secretary of 

the Interior’s Standards. In addition, a 

minor boundary adjustment would be 

recommended. To orient and inform the 

visitor about the Reserve, three gateway 

kiosks would be developed along State 

Route 20 and a visitor center/contact 

station would be sited in an historic 

building in Coupeville or within the 

historic district. 

As noted above, several minor 

modifications were made to the 

preferred alternative based upon public 

comments. A recommendation that 

Island County adopt a regulatory 

overlay zone for historic preservation 

over the unincorporated portion of the 

Reserve has been removed; the proposed 


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GMP has also been updated to include 

historic preservation and land use 

measures undertaken by Island County 

since project planning was initiated. A 

second change involved recognizing the 

efforts by others and not the NPS to 

establish a marine science center within 

the Reserve and encouraging those ongoing efforts. Also, since release of the 

draft GMP/EIS, Bell Farm has been 

removed from the proposed boundary in 

both Alternatives B and C at the owner’s 

request. 

Alternative C changes the 

management structure of the Reserve 

from a Trust Board of volunteers to a 

paid Commission structure. Many 

actions are similar to Alternative B but 

with some distinctions. Approximately 

five acres of NPS-owned land at Farm II 

would be retained for administrative 

and maintenance use before exchanging 

the remaining farmland to a private farm 

owner for additional protection on other 

properties within the Reserve. One of 

the three gateways would be in a 

historic building in the north of the 

Reserve. The Reserve would also partner 

for a visitor contact facility at a 

proposed marine science center. 

Copies: The Final EIS/GMP is now 

available. Interested persons and 

organizations wishing to review the 

Final EIS/GMP may obtain the 

document by contacting Rob Harbor, 

Reserve Manager, Ebey’s Landing 

National Historical Reserve, P.O. Box 

774, Coupeville, WA 98239, or via 

telephone at (360) 678–6084. This 

document may also be reviewed at the 

Coupeville Library, or a copy can be 

obtained electronically at http:// 

parkplanning.nps.gov/ebla. Please note 

that names and addresses of all 

respondents will become part of the 

public record. It is the practice of the 

NPS to make all comments, including 

names, home addresses, home phone 

numbers, and e-mail 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 rational 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 business, and from 

individuals identifying themselves as 

representatives of or officials of 

organizations or businesses, available 

for public inspection in their entirety. 

Decision Process: Following release of 

the Final GMP/EIS, a Record of Decision 

will be prepared and approved not 

sooner than 30 days after the EPA has 

published its notice of filing of the 

document in the Federal Register. A 

notice regarding the approved GMP will 

be similarly published. As a delegated 

EIS, the official responsible for the final 

decision is the Regional Director, Pacific 

West Region. Subsequently, official 

responsibilities for implementing the 

approved GMP reside with the Trust 

Board, Ebey’s Landing National 

Historical Reserve and the Reserve 

Manager. 

Dated: August 14, 2006. 

Jonathan B. Jarvis, 

Regional Director, Pacific West Region. 

[FR Doc. 06–8626 Filed 10–11–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–GW–M 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Native American Graves Protection 

and Repatriation Review Committee: 

Meeting 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Notice is here given in accordance 

with the Federal Advisory Committee 

Act, 5 U.S.C. Appendix (1988), of a 

meeting of the Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Review 

Committee (Review Committee). The 

Review Committee will meet on 

November 3–4, 2006, at the Westin 

Tabor Center, 1672 Lawrence Street, 

Denver, CO 80202, telephone (303) 572–

9100. Meeting sessions will begin at 

8:30 a.m. and end at 5 p.m. each day. 

The agenda for the meeting includes 

an overview of activities of the National 

NAGPRA Program during fiscal year 

2006; assisting in the resolution of a 

dispute between the White Mountain 

Apache Tribe and the Field Museum; 

discussion of the use of ‘‘compromise of 

claim’’ language in Federal Register 

notices and repatriation agreements; 

several requests for recommendations 

regarding the disposition of culturally 

unidentifiable human remains; 

discussion of the recent decision in the 

case of Fallon Paiute-Shoshone Tribe v. 

U.S. Bureau of Land Management; and 

presentations and statements by Indian 

tribes, Native Hawaiian organizations, 

museums, Federal agencies, and the 

public. 

To schedule a presentation to the 

Review Committee during the meeting, 

submit a written request with an 

abstract of the presentation and contact 

information for the presenters. Persons 

also may submit written statements for 

consideration by the Review Committee 

during the meeting. Send requests and 

statements to the Designated Federal 

Officer, NAGPRA Review Committee by 

U.S. Mail to the National Park Service, 

1849 C Street NW (2253), Washington, 

DC 20240; or by commercial delivery to 

the National Park Service, 1201 Eye 

Street NW, 8th floor, Washington, DC 

20005. Because increased security in the 

Washington, DC, area may delay 

delivery of U.S. Mail to Government 

offices, copies of mailed requests and 

statements should also be faxed to (202) 

371–5197. 

Transcripts of Review Committee 

meetings are available approximately 

eight weeks after each meeting at the 

National NAGPRA Program office, 1201 

Eye Street NW, 8th floor, Washington, 

DC. To request electronic copies of 

meeting transcripts, send an e-mail 

message to TimlMcKeown@nps.gov. 

Information about NAGPRA, the Review 

Committee, and Review Committee 

meetings is available at the National 

NAGPRA Web site, http:// 

www.cr.nps.gov/nagpra; for the Review 

Committee’s meeting procedures, select 

‘‘Review Committee,’’ then select 

‘‘Procedures.’’

The Review Committee was 

established by the Native American 

Graves Protection and Repatriation Act 

of 1990 (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3001 et 

seq. Review Committee members are 

appointed by the Secretary of the 

Interior. The Review Committee is 

responsible for monitoring the NAGPRA 

inventory and identification process; 

reviewing and making findings related 

to the identity or cultural affiliation of 

cultural items, or the return of such 

items; facilitating the resolution of 

disputes; compiling an inventory of 

culturally unidentifiable human 

remains that are in the possession or 

control of each Federal agency and 

museum and recommending specific 

actions for developing a process for 

disposition of such human remains; 

consulting with Indian tribes and Native 

Hawaiian organizations and museums 

on matters within the scope of the work 

of the committee affecting such tribes or 

organizations; consulting with the 

Secretary of the Interior in the 

development of regulations to carry out 

NAGPRA; and making 

recommendations regarding future care 

of repatriated cultural items. The 

Review Committee’s work is completed 


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