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The access road would be constructed 

parallel to the power line corridor. 

Overall, this alternative would result in 

approximately 38 additional acres of 

surface disturbance relative to the 

Proposed Action. Total surface 

disturbance would include 844 acres of 

BLM-administered land. Postreclamation topography would be 

similar to that of the Proposed Action, 

except the access road would be in a 

different location. 

The Renewable Energy Alternative 

would consist of the same overall 

operations as described for the Proposed 

Action except this alternative would 

include supporting the mine operations 

with a combination of renewable energy 

sources and a utility interconnection 

with future large-scale battery storage. 

This alternative would include the 

installation of a solar energy facility 

with enough solar electric photovoltaic 

capacity for the site to become a net 

generation facility with battery storage 

able to perform peak smoothing and 

daily load management. 

This alternative would result in 

approximately 33 additional acres of 

surface disturbance compared to the 

Proposed Action. Total surface 

disturbance for the Renewable Energy 

Alternative would include 839 acres of 

public lands. 

Under the No Action Alternative, the 

BLM would not authorize the Plan of 

Operations, and the operations 

described in the Proposed Action would 

not occur. Mineral resources would 

remain undeveloped, and the 

construction and operation of the 

proposed mine and associated facilities 

would not occur. 

Based on the analyses contained in 

the EIS for the proposed Gibellini 

Vanadium Mine Project, and after 

carefully considering input received 

from the public and cooperating 

agencies, the BLM has selected the 

Renewable Energy Alternative as the 

BLM’s environmentally preferred 

alternative. 

Public comments on the Draft EIS 

received and internal BLM review were 

considered and incorporated as 

appropriate into the Final EIS. Public 

comments resulted in the addition of 

clarifying text but did not significantly 

change the impact analyses. 

(Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1506.10.) 

Douglas W. Furtado, 

District Manager, Battle Mountain District. 

[FR Doc. 2023–19920 Filed 9–14–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–VRP–WS—NPS0036398 ; 

PPWOWMADL3, PPMPSAS1Y.TD0000 (222); 

OMB Control Number 1024–0022] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Backcountry/Wilderness 

Use Permit 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 we, 

the National Park Service (NPS) are 

proposing to renew an information 

collection with revisions. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before October 

16, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

suggestions on the information 

collection requirements should be 

submitted by the date specified above in 

DATES to https://www.reginfo.gov/ 

public/do/PRAMain. Find this 

particular information collection by 

selecting ‘‘Currently under Review— 

Open for Public Comments’’ or by using 

the search function. Please provide a 

copy of your comments to Phadrea 

Ponds, NPS Information Collection 

Clearance Officer (ADIR–ICCO), 13461 

Sunrise Valley Drive (MS–244) Reston, 

VA 20192 (mail); or phadrea_ponds@

nps.gov (email). Please include 1024– 

0022 in the subject line of your 

comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information about 

this Information Collection Request 

(ICR), contact Roger Semler, Chief, 

Wilderness Stewardship Division at 

roger_semler@nps.gov (email) or 202– 

430–7615 (Phone). Please reference 

OMB Control Number 1024–0022 in the 

subject line of your comments. 

Individuals in the United States who are 

deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have 

a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY, 

TDD, or TeleBraille) to access 

telecommunications relay services. 

Individuals outside the United States 

should use the relay services offered 

within their country to make 

international calls to the point of 

contact in the United States. You may 

also view the ICR at https://

www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA, 44 U.S.C. 

3501et seq.) and 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), we 

provide the public and other Federal 

agencies with an opportunity to 

comment on new, proposed, revised, 

and continuing collections of 

information. This helps us assess the 

impact of our information collection 

requirements and minimize the public’s 

reporting burden. It also helps the 

public understand our information 

collection requirements and provide the 

requested data in the desired format. 

A FederalRegister notice with a 60- 

day public comment period soliciting 

comments on this collection of 

information was published on (87 FR 

73776) on December 1, 2022. We 

received the following comments in 

response to that Notice: 

Comment #1: Email From John Ryter on 

12/1/2022 

I’d like to comment on the proposal 

to require permits for climbing in 

national parks. It’s hard to determine 

whether this proposal means climbers 

would be required to get permits in 

advance, and whether there would be 

limits on the number of permits 

available for a given day. If there is a 

limit on how many are available on a 

given day, I am concerned that the 

addition of permits would cause fewer 

climbers to abandon or reschedule their 

climbs due to weather, and we would 

see an increase in injuries, rescues, and 

fatalities occurring in national parks. 

This could be mitigated by reducing the 

time in advance that permits could be 

acquired (e.g., cannot get permits more 

than 4 days in advance), but that 

presents its own challenges. 

There are already cases where a 

permit is a de facto requirement for 

doing a climb, such as those where 

backcountry camping is necessary for 

most non-professional climbers. In my 

experience, this hasn’t been an issue 

(there have been enough sites available 

that it was possible to get a site the day 

of), but since so many climbs require 

early starts (6 a.m. or earlier), day-of 

permits would be pretty challenging to 

do. It would also be good to link those 

sorts of campsites, like the lower saddle 

of the Grand Teton, with the climbing 

permits in some way so people don’t 

end up with one and not the other. 

If it’s simply a sign-in sheet at the 

trailhead, that seems very reasonable 

and I have no concerns. My only other 

question is what the cutoff grade for 

climbing would be—all off-trail travel, 

class 3 or 4 or higher, or roped vs unroped? Either way, being able to do the 

permit at the trailhead or online would 

be a great idea. 

NPS Response/Action Taken 

During the 60-day Federal Register 

comment period, the National Park 

Service proposed creating a new Form 


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10–404C that intends to renew the 

current Backcountry/Wilderness related 

to permitting fixed anchors in the 

wilderness. After review and 

consultation, the NPS will not add the 

new form to the collection. 

Comment #2: Email From the Alaska 

State ANILCA Program Coordinator on 

1/26/2023 

A three-page letter (attached in 

ROCIS) submitted in PDF format was 

submitted expressing the State of 

Alaska’s viewpoints regarding a 

proposed new form 10–404C— 

Application to install fixed anchors in 

the wilderness. 

NPS Response/Action Taken 

During the 60-day Federal Register 

comment period, the National Park 

Service proposed creating a new Form 

10–404C. After review and consultation, 

the NPS will not add the new form to 

the collection. 

Comment #3: Email From Access Fund 

Vice President of Policy and 

Government Affairs on 1/27/2023 

A four-page letter (attached) was 

submitted expressing viewpoints and 

concerns regarding creating an 

application form regarding a proposed 

new form 10–404C—Application to 

install fixed anchors in the wilderness 

installation of fixed anchors in the 

wilderness. 

NPS Response/Action Taken 

During the 60-day Federal Register 

comment period, the National Park 

Service proposed creating a new Form 

10–404C. After review and consultation, 

the NPS will not add the new form to 

the collection. 

As part of our continuing effort to 

reduce paperwork and respondent 

burdens, we invite the public and other 

Federal agencies to comment on new, 

proposed, revised, and continuing 

collections of information. This helps us 

assess the impact of our information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. It also 

helps the public understand our 

information collection requirements and 

provide the requested data in the 

desired format. 

We are especially interested in public 

comment addressing the following: 

(1) Whether or not the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether or not the 

information will have practical utility. 

(2) The accuracy of our estimate of the 

burden for this collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used. 

(3) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected. 

(4) How might the agency minimize 

the burden of the collection of 

information on those who are to 

respond, including through the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of response. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. We will include or 

summarize each comment in our request 

to OMB to approve this ICR. Before 

including your address, phone number, 

email address, or other personal 

identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Abstract: The Backcountry/ 

Wilderness Use Permit is an extension 

of the NPS statutory authority and 

responsibility to protect the park areas 

it administers and to manage the public 

use thereof (54 U.S.C. 100101, 100751, 

and 320102). In 1976, the NPS initiated 

a backcountry registration system by the 

regulations codified in 36 CFR 1.5, 1.6, 

and 2.10. The NPS regulations codified 

in 36 CFR parts 1 through 7, 12, and 13 

are designated to implement statutory 

mandates that provide for resource 

protection and public enjoyment. The 

registration system aims to provide 

users access to backcountry and 

wilderness areas of national parks while 

enhancing the protection of natural and 

cultural resources by using better 

management practices by the park 

management. Data collected through the 

registration process serves as an 

important resource that informs 

backcountry/wilderness management 

and stewardship planning, decisionmaking, and operations, and provides a 

means of disseminating public safety 

and outdoor ethics messages regarding 

backcountry/wilderness travel and 

camping along with continuing 

opportunities for primitive and 

unconfined recreation. Permitting 

enhances the ability of the NPS to 

educate users on potential hazards, 

search and rescue efforts, and resource 

protection. The objectives of the permit 

system carried out by park managers are 

to ensure: 

(1) Requests by backcountry users are 

evaluated by park managers per 

applicable statutes and NPS regulations. 

(2) The use of consistent standards 

and permitting criteria throughout the 

agency. 

(3) To the extent possible, the use of 

a single and efficient permitting 

document, NPS Forms 10–404 

Backcountry/Wilderness Use Permit 

Application and 10–404A Backcountry/ 

Wilderness Use Permit Hangtag are used 

to provide access to NPS backcountry 

areas, including areas that require a 

reservation to enter where use limits are 

imposed per other NPS regulations. The 

10–404AK Alaska Backcountry/ 

Wilderness Use Permit Application, is 

used within Alaskan park units, Denali 

National Park and Preserve and Glacier 

Bay National Park and Preserve, due to 

unique, park-specific requirements like 

the additional permitted methods of 

travel as regulated by ANILCA Section 

1110(a). 

We’ve decided to not add the 

previously proposed (in the 60-day FRN 

publication) new form 10–404C 

Backcountry/Wilderness Use Permit 

Application for Climbing to this 

collection, upon consideration of the 

comments received during the 60-day 

comment period. 

Title of Collection: Backcountry/ 

Wilderness Use Permit, 36 CFR 1.5, 1.6, 

and 2.10. 

OMB Control Number: 1024–0022. 

Form Number: NPS Forms 10–404 

Backcountry/Wilderness Use Permit 

Application, 10–404A Backcountry/ 

Wilderness Use Permit Hangtag, 10– 

404AK Alaska Backcountry/Wilderness 

Use Permit Application. 

Type of Review: Renewal of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Individuals, private sector, and state, 

local, or tribal government entities 

applying to use backcountry and 

wilderness areas within units of the 

national park system. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 473,872. 

Estimated Completion Time per 

Response: Varies from 5 minutes to 8 

minutes depending on the activity. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 51,337. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain a benefit. 

Frequency of Collection: On occasion. 

Total Estimated Annual Nonhour 

Burden Cost: None. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor nor is a person required to 

respond to a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. 


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The authority for this action is the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 

Phadrea Ponds, 

Information Collection Clearance Officer, 

National Park Service. 

[FR Doc. 2023–19979 Filed 9–14–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–NPS0036554; 

PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000] 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 

Ethnology, Harvard University, 

Cambridge, MA 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native 

American Graves Protection and 

Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), the 

Peabody Museum of Archaeology and 

Ethnology, Harvard University (PMAE) 

has completed an inventory of human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

and has determined that there is a 

cultural affiliation between the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

and Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations in this notice. The human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

were removed from Los Angeles and 

Ventura Counties, CA. 

DATES: Repatriation of the human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

in this notice may occur on or after 

October 16, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Patricia Capone, PMAE, 11 

Divinity Avenue, Cambridge, MA 

02138, telephone (617) 496–3702, email 

pcapone@fas.harvard.edu. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA. The 

determinations in this notice are the 

sole responsibility of the PMAE. The 

National Park Service is not responsible 

for the determinations in this notice. 

Additional information on the 

determinations in this notice, including 

the results of consultation, can be found 

in the inventory or related records held 

by the PMAE. 

Description 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, 43 individuals were removed 

from Los Angeles County, CA. In 1877, 

Paul Schumacher led an expedition on 

behalf of the PMAE to the Channel 

Islands. Schumacher removed the 

human remains from an area he 

described as ‘‘Graves at the Isthmus’’ on 

Santa Catalina Island. The 15 associated 

funerary objects are one bone awl; one 

lot consisting of glass and shell beads; 

one lot consisting of brass buttons and 

glass and shell beads; one lot consisting 

of shell beads and faunal fragments; one 

lot consisting of fragmentary faunal 

remains; one lot consisting of a copper 

cup, cloth, basket fragments, and a 

string of beads; and nine bags of shells 

beads. 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, two individuals were 

removed from Los Angeles County, CA. 

During the 1877 expedition, 

Schumacher removed the human 

remains from an area he identified as 

Johnson’s Place on Santa Catalina 

Island. No associated funerary objects 

are present. 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, two individuals were 

removed from Los Angeles County, CA. 

As part of the same 1877 expedition, 

Schumacher removed the human 

remains from an area he identified as 

Pots Valley on Santa Catalina Island. No 

associated funerary objects are present. 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, 23 individuals were removed 

from Los Angeles County, CA. In 1877, 

Paul Schumacher visited San Clemente 

Island as part of the PMAE expedition 

and removed the human remains from 

unknown locations on San Clemente 

Island. No associated funerary objects 

are present. 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, five individuals were 

removed from Los Angeles County, CA. 

In 1878, Paul Schumacher led an 

expedition on behalf of the PMAE to the 

Channel Islands. During this expedition, 

he removed the human remains from a 

place he identified as Whitney’s Place 

on Santa Catalina Island. No associated 

funerary objects are present. 

Human remains representing, at 

minimum, one individual was removed 

from San Nicolas Island in Ventura 

County, CA, at an unknown date. Mrs. 

Thomas Bishop donated the human 

remains to the PMAE in 1907. Bishop 

likely acquired the human remains from 

Paul Schumacher after one of his 

expeditions to San Nicolas Island 

between 1875 and 1878. No known 

associated funerary objects are present. 

Cultural Affiliation 

The human remains and associated 

funerary objects in this notice are 

connected to one or more identifiable 

earlier groups, tribes, peoples, or 

cultures. There is a relationship of 

shared group identity between the 

identifiable earlier groups, tribes, 

peoples, or cultures and one or more 

Indian Tribes or Native Hawaiian 

organizations. The following types of 

evidence were used to reasonably trace 

the relationship: oral traditional, 

geographical, biological, kinship, and 

archeological. 

Oral tradition, geographical, 

biological, kinship, and archeological 

evidence indicate the southern Channel 

Islands are culturally affiliated to the 

mainland coastal groups that are known 

in the anthropological record as the 

Luisen ̃ o, Chumash, and Gabrielino 

peoples. (The Gabrielino, a nonfederally 

recognized Indian group, are related 

linguistically to the Luisen ̃ o.) 

Determinations 

Pursuant to NAGPRA and its 

implementing regulations, and after 

consultation with the appropriate 

Indian Tribes and Native Hawaiian 

organizations, the PMAE has 

determined that: 

• The human remains described in 

this notice represent the physical 

remains of 76 individuals of Native 

American ancestry. 

• The 15 objects described in this 

notice are reasonably believed to have 

been placed with or near individual 

human remains at the time of death or 

later as part of the death rite or 

ceremony. 

• There is a relationship of shared 

group identity that can be reasonably 

traced between the human remains and 

associated funerary objects described in 

this notice and the La Jolla Band of 

Luiseno Indians, California; Pala Band 

of Mission Indians; Pauma Band of 

Luiseno Mission Indians of the Pauma 

& Yuima Reservation, California; 

Pechanga Band of Indians (Previously 

listed as Pechanga Band of Luiseno 

Mission Indians of the Pechanga 

Reservation, California); Rincon Band of 

Luiseno Indians (Previously listed as 

Rincon Band of Luiseno Mission 

Indians of Rincon Reservation, 

California); Santa Ynez Band of 

Chumash Mission Indians of the Santa 

Ynez Reservation, California; and the 

Soboba Band of Luiseno Indians, 

California. 

Requests for Repatriation 

Written requests for repatriation of the 

human remains and associated funerary 

objects in this notice must be sent to the 

Responsible Official identified in 

ADDRESSES. Requests for repatriation 

may be submitted by: 

1. Any one or more of the Indian 

Tribes or Native Hawaiian organizations 

identified in this notice. 

2. Any lineal descendant, Indian 

Tribe, or Native Hawaiian organization 


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