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legal requirements (why you are here 

and what you do), professional behavior 

(code of conduct), integrity, authority of 

protected species observer to call for 

shut-down of seismic acquisition 

operations, assigned duties—what can/ 

cannot be asked of the observer, 

reporting of violations and coercion; 

identification of GOM marine mammals 

and sea turtles, with emphasis on 

whales; cues and search methods for 

locating marine mammals, especially 

whales, and sea turtles; data collection 

and reporting requirements—forms and 

reports to MMS on the 1st and 15th of 

each month, whale in exclusion zone/ 

shut-down report within 24 hours. 

If you wish to comment in response 

to this notice, you may send your 

comments to the offices listed under the 

ADDRESSES section of this notice. OMB 

has up to 60 days to approve or 

disapprove the information collection 

but may respond after 30 days. 

Therefore, to ensure maximum 

consideration, OMB should receive 

public comments by December 22, 2006. 

Public Comment Procedures: MMS’s 

practice is to make comments, including 

the names and addresses of 

respondents, available for public 

review. Individual respondents may 

request that we withhold their address 

from the rulemaking record, which we 

will honor to the extent allowable by 

law. There may be circumstances in 

which we would withhold from the 

record a respondent’s identity, as 

allowable by the law. If you wish us to 

withhold your name and/or address, 

you must state this prominently at the 

beginning of your comment. In addition, 

you must present a rationale for 

withholding this information. This 

rationale must demonstrate that 

disclosure ‘‘would constitute an 

unwarranted invasion of privacy.’’

Unsupported assertions will not meet 

this burden. In the absence of 

exceptional, documentable 

circumstances, this information will be 

released. However, we will not consider 

anonymous comments. Except for 

proprietary information, we will make 

all 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. 

MMS Information Collection 

Clearance Officer: Arlene Bajusz (202) 

208–7744. 

Dated: September 26, 2006. 

E.P. Danenberger, 

Chief Office of Offshore Regulatory Programs. 

[FR Doc. E6–19687 Filed 11–21–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Availability of the Draft 

White-tailed Deer Management Plan 

Environmental Impact Statement, 

Catoctin Mountain Park, MD 

AGENCY: National Park Service, 

Department of the Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability of the 

Draft White-tailed Deer Management 

Plan/Environmental Impact Statement 

for Catoctin Mountain Park. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the 

National Park Service (NPS) announces 

the availability of the Draft White-tailed 

Deer Management Plan/Environmental 

Impact Statement (DEIS) for Catoctin 

Mountain Park, Thurmont, Maryland. 

The purpose of the DEIS is to identify 

a preferred white-tailed deer 

management plan from a range of 

alternatives that supports forest 

regeneration and provides for long-term 

protection, conservation, and restoration 

of native species and cultural resources. 

The DEIS evaluates four alternatives for 

managing white-tailed deer in the park. 

The document describes and analyzes 

the environmental impacts of three 

action alternatives and the no-action 

alternative. When implemented, the 

plan will guide deer management 

actions over the next 15 years. 

DATES: The NPS invites comments 

regarding the DEIS from the public. 

Comments will be accepted for a period 

of 60 days from the date the 

Environmental Protection Agency’s 

Notice of Availability is published in 

the Federal Register. In addition, the 

NPS intends to conduct a public 

meeting. Please check local newspapers, 

the park’s Web site, http://www.nps.gov/ 

cato, or contact the name listed below 

to find out when and where the meeting 

will be held. A brochure has been 

prepared that describes the DEIS and 

provides information regarding the 

public meeting. 

There are several ways to submit 

comments. During the public meeting, 

the NPS will accept written comments 

as well as provide for verbal comments 

to be recorded. We encourage comments 

to be submitted electronically through 

the NPS Planning, Environment, and 

Public Comment (PEPC) Web site 

http://parkplanning.nps.gov. Written 

comments may also be submitted to: 

Superintendent, Catoctin Mountain 

Park, 6602 Foxville Road, Thurmont, 

Maryland, 21788. 

ADDRESSES: The DEIS will be available 

for public review online at the PEPC 

Web site at http://parkplanning.nps.gov. 

Once on the PEPC Web site, select 

‘‘Catoctin Mountain Park’’ in order to 

access the DEIS. Bound copies of the 

DEIS will be available at the Catoctin 

Mountain Park Visitor Center located at 

the intersection of Maryland Route 77 

and Park Central Road, at park 

headquarters located approximately 2 

miles west of Thurmont on Maryland 

Route 77, and at public libraries in 

Frederick, Thurmont, Smithsburg, and 

Hagerstown, Maryland. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Donna Swauger, Environmental 

Protection Specialists, Catoctin 

Mountain Park, 6602 Foxville Road, 

Thurmont, Maryland 21788, (301) 416–

0135. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The DEIS 

evaluates four alternatives for managing 

white-tailed deer in the park. The 

document describes and analyzes the 

environmental impacts of three action 

alternatives and the no-action 

alternative. 

Alternative A (no action) would 

continue the existing deer management 

plan of limited fencing, use of repellents 

in landscaped areas, monitoring, data 

management, and research; no new deer 

management actions would be 

implemented. 

Alternative B would combine several 

non-lethal actions including large-scale 

exclosures (fencing), additional use of 

repellents in limited areas, and 

reproductive control of does to 

gradually reduce deer population in the 

park. 

Under Alternative C (NPS Preferred 

Alternative), qualified federal 

employees or contractors would directly 

reduce the deer population in the park 

through sharpshooting and capture and 

euthanasia, where appropriate. 

Alternative D would combine actions 

of Alternative C to directly reduce the 

deer population and reproductive 

control of does as under Alternative B 

to maintain population levels. 

Comments will be analyzed and 

responded to within the final Whitetailed Deer Management Plan/ 

Environmental Impact Statement. Our 

practice is to make 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 

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demonstrate that disclosure would 

constitute a clearly unwarranted 

invasion of privacy. Unsupported 

assertions will not meet this burden. In 

the absence of exceptional, documental 

circumstances, this information will be 

released. We will always make 

submissions from organizations or 

businesses, and from individuals 

identifying themselves as 

representatives of or officials of 

organizations or businesses, available 

for public inspection in their entirety. 

Dated: October 20, 2006. 

Joseph M. Lawler, 

Regional Director, National Capital Region. 

[FR Doc. 06–9331 Filed 11–21–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–59–M 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 

Pittsburgh, PA 

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 in the possession of Carnegie 

Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, 

PA. The human remains were removed 

from a site in Poinsett County, AR. 

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. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains was made by Carnegie Museum 

of Natural History professional staff in 

consultation with representatives of the 

Quapaw Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma. 

In 1974, human remains representing 

a minimum of one individual were 

removed from the Cummin’s Place (also 

known as Cumming’s Place, site 3PO5) 

in Poinsett County, AR, by Emil Alam 

during a pedestrian survey of the site. 

Mr. Alam donated the human remains 

as part of a larger collection to the 

Carnegie Museum of Natural History in 

1984. No known individual was 

identified. No associated funerary 

objects are present. 

The Cummin’s Place is a Parkin phase 

site of the Mississippian nucleation 

horizon (A.D. 1350–1650). Oral history 

evidence presented by representatives of 

the Quapaw Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma 

indicates that the region including 

Poinsett County has long been included 

in the traditional ancestral homelands 

and hunting territory of the Quapaw. 

European documentation concerning 

the geographical range of the Quapaw 

people, specifically French colonial 

documents and maps, indicate that only 

the Quapaw had villages in eastern 

Arkansas circa A.D. 1673–1720. 

Descendants of the Quapaw are 

members of the Quapaw Tribe of 

Indians, Oklahoma. In addition, the 

Quapaw Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma 

have previously repatriated Native 

American human remains and 

associated funerary objects from the 

Cummin’s Place in accordance with the 

Native American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act. 

Officials of the Carnegie Museum of 

Natural History have determined that, 

pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (9–10), the 

human remains described above 

represent the physical remains of one 

individual of Native American ancestry. 

Officials of the Carnegie Museum of 

Natural History also have determined 

that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001 (2), 

there is a relationship of shared group 

identity that can be reasonably traced 

between the Native American human 

remains and the Quapaw Tribe of 

Indians, Oklahoma. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the human remains 

should contact Dr. David R. Watters, 

Carnegie Museum of Natural History, 

5800 Baum Blvd., Pittsburgh, PA 15206, 

telephone (412) 665–2605, before 

December 22, 2006. Repatriation of the 

human remains to the Quapaw Tribe of 

Indians, Oklahoma may proceed after 

that date if no additional claimants 

come forward. 

The Carnegie Museum of Natural 

History is responsible for notifying the 

Quapaw Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma 

that this notice has been published. 

Dated: October 23, 2006. 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. E6–19788 Filed 11–21–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–50–S 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: Pierce 

College District, Lakewood, WA 

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 in the possession of the Pierce 

College District, Lakewood, WA. The 

human remains were removed from site 

45–PI–07, also known as the Purdy 1 

site, at Carr Inlet, Pierce County, WA. 

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. The National 

Park Service is not responsible for the 

determinations in this notice. 

A detailed assessment of the human 

remains was made by Pierce College 

professional staff in consultation with 

representatives of the Puyallup Tribe of 

the Puyallup Reservation, Washington. 

Between April 1975 and August 1976, 

the human remains of a number of 

Native American individuals were 

removed from site 45–PI–07, also 

known as the Purdy 1 site, at Carr Inlet, 

Pierce County, WA, by a Pierce College 

instructor, Dale McGinnis, and James 

Forrest, a Pierce College student. The 

human remains were initially brought to 

Fort Steilacoom Community College, 

now called Pierce College, for storage. 

At an unknown date, the human 

remains of an unknown number of 

individuals were re-interred by 

representatives of local Indian tribes 

and First Nations. In 1978, the human 

remains of a minimum of 29 individuals 

were transferred to the care of Mr. 

Forrest. In 2006, Mr. Forrest transferred 

the human remains to Pierce College. 

No known individuals were identified. 

No associated funerary objects are 

present. 

Site 45–PI–07 is a shell mound 

measuring 5 feet high, 30 feet wide, and 

120 feet long. Osteological and 

archeological analysis indicate that the 

human remains removed from site 45–

PI–07 are of Native American ancestry, 

based on the presence of extreme 

degrees of dental ware, marked 

shoveling of the exposed permanent 

incisors, blunt nasal sills, rounded 

chins, squatting facets on the talus, and 

their flex-kneed burial position, and site 

context. Archeological materials 

recovered from the site indicate a wide 

range of use during the prehistoric and 

historic periods. Site 45–PI–07 is 

located within the area long occupied 

by the Shotlemamish, a Southern 

Lushootseed speaking group. 


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