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DATES: We must receive written data or 

comments on the application by October 

26, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: 

Document availability and comment 

submission: Use one of the following 

methods to request documents or 

submit comments. Requests and 

comments should specify the applicant 

and application number, i.e., U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service, Colorado Field 

Office; PER4054943. 

• Email: permitsR6ES@fws.gov. 

• U.S. Mail: Tom McDowell, Division 

Manager, Ecological Services, U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service, P.O. Box 25486 

DFC, Denver, CO 80225. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Robert Krijgsman, Recovery Permits 

Coordinator, Ecological Services, 303– 

236–4347 (phone), or permitsR6ES@

fws.gov (email). 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-ofcontact in the United States. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We, the 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite 

review and comment from the public 

and local, State, Tribal, and Federal 

agencies on an application we have 

received for a permit to conduct certain 

activities with endangered species 

under section 10(a)(1)(A) of the 

Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 

amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), 

and our regulations in the Code of 

Federal Regulations (CFR) at 50 CFR 

part 17. Documents and other 

information submitted with the 

application are available for review, 

subject to the requirements of the 

Privacy Act and the Freedom of 

Information Act. 

Background 

With some exceptions, the ESA 

prohibits take of listed species unless a 

Federal permit is issued that authorizes 

such take. The ESA’s definition of 

‘‘take’’ includes hunting, shooting, 

harming, wounding, or killing, and also 

such activities as pursuing, harassing, 

trapping, capturing, or collecting. 

A recovery permit issued by us under 

section 10(a)(1)(A) of the ESA 

authorizes the permittee to take 

endangered or threatened species while 

engaging in activities that are conducted 

for scientific purposes that promote 

recovery of species or for enhancement 

of propagation or survival of species. 

These activities often include the 

capture and collection of species, which 

would result in prohibited take if a 

permit were not issued. Our regulations 

implementing section 10(a)(1)(A) for 

these permits are found at 50 CFR 17.22 

for endangered wildlife species, 50 CFR 

17.32 for threatened wildlife species, 50 

CFR 17.62 for endangered plant species, 

and 50 CFR 17.72 for threatened plant 

species. 

Permit Application Available for 

Review and Comment 

The ESA requires that we invite 

public comment before issuing these 

permits. Accordingly, we invite local, 

State, Tribal, and Federal agencies and 

the public to submit written data, views, 

or arguments with respect to these 

applications. The comments and 

recommendations that will be most 

useful and likely to influence agency 

decisions are those supported by 

quantitative information or studies. 

Proposed activities in the following 

permit request are for the recovery and 

enhancement of propagation or survival 

of the species in the wild: 

Permit No. Applicant Species Location Activity Permit action 

PER4054943 ................ U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, Colorado 

Field Office, Lakewood, CO.

• Gray wolf (Canis 

lupus) • Mexican 

wolf (Canis lupus 

baileyi).

Arizona, Colorado, 

Kansas, Nebraska, 

New Mexico, North 

Dakota, Oklahoma, 

South Dakota, and 

Utah.

Capture, handle, anesthetize, collar, track, 

tag, administer first 

aid, transport, hold, 

relocate, collect tissue, collect biological 

samples, and 

euthanize moribund 

individuals.

New. 

Public Availability of Comments 

Written comments we receive become 

part of the administrative record 

associated with this action. 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. 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 disclosure in 

their entirety. 

Next Steps 

If we decide to issue a permit to the 

applicant listed in this notice, we will 

publish a notice in the Federal Register. 

Authority 

We publish this notice under section 

10(c) of the Endangered Species Act of 

1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et 

seq.). 

Marjorie Nelson, 

Acting Assistant Regional Director, MountainPrairie Region. 

[FR Doc. 2023–20833 Filed 9–25–23; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R3–FAC–2023–N078; FF03F43100– 

XXXF1611NR; OMB Control Number 1018– 

0179] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget; Sea 

Lamprey Control Program 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we, 

the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

(Service), are proposing to renew an 

information collection, without change. 


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DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before October 

26, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be 

submitted within 30 days of publication 

of this notice at 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 the 

Service Information Collection 

Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, MS: PRB (JAO/3W), 

5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 

22041–3803 (mail); or by email to Info_

Coll@fws.gov. Please reference ‘‘1018– 

0179’’ in the subject line of your 

comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Madonna L. Baucum, Service 

Information Collection Clearance 

Officer, by email at Info_Coll@fws.gov, 

or by telephone at (703) 358–2503. 

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-ofcontact in the United States. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the Paperwork 

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

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

provide the general 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. 

On June 26, 2023, we published in the 

Federal Register (88 FR 41414) a notice 

of our intent to request that OMB 

approve this information collection. In 

that notice, we solicited comments for 

60 days, ending on August 25, 2023. In 

an effort to increase public awareness 

of, and participation in, our public 

commenting processes associated with 

information collection requests, the 

Service also published the Federal 

Register notice on Regulations.gov 

(Docket No. FWS–R3–FAC–2023–0096) 

to provide the public with an additional 

method to submit comments (in 

addition to the typical Info_Coll@

fws.gov email and U.S. mail submission 

methods). We received one comment in 

response to that notice which did not 

address the information collection 

requirements. No response to that 

comment is required. 

As part of our continuing effort to 

reduce paperwork and respondent 

burdens, we are again soliciting 

comments from the public and other 

Federal agencies on the proposed ICR 

that is described below. 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; and 

(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. 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: Service staff at the Service’s 

Marquette and Ludington biological 

stations fulfill U.S. obligations under 

the Convention on Great Lakes Fisheries 

Between the United States of America 

and Canada, Washington, 1954, and the 

Great Lakes Fishery Act of 1956 (16 

U.S.C. 931 et seq.). The Service works 

with State, Tribal, and other Federal 

agencies to monitor progress towards 

fish community objectives for sea 

lampreys in each of the Great Lakes, and 

also to develop and implement actions 

to achieve these objectives. Activities 

are closely coordinated with those of 

State, Tribal, and other Federal and 

provincial management agencies, 

nongovernmental organizations, private 

landowners, and the public. Our 

primary goal is to conduct ecologically 

sound and publicly acceptable 

integrated sea lamprey control. 

The Sea Lamprey Control Program is 

administered and funded by the Great 

Lakes Fishery Commission (GLFC) and 

implemented by two control agents, the 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and 

Fisheries and Oceans Canada, who often 

partner on larger projects. The sea 

lamprey (Petromyzon marinus), a 

parasitic fish species native to the 

Atlantic Ocean, parasitizes other fish 

species by sucking their blood and other 

bodily fluids. Having survived through 

at least four major extinction events, the 

species has remained largely unchanged 

for more than 340 million years. The sea 

lamprey differs from many other fishes, 

in that it does not have jaws or other 

bony structures, but instead has a 

skeleton made of cartilage. Sea lampreys 

prey on most species of large Great 

Lakes fish such as lake trout, salmon, 

lake sturgeon, whitefish, burbot, 

walleye, and catfish. 

In the 1800s, sea lampreys invaded 

the Great Lakes system via locks and 

shipping canals. Their aggressive 

behavior and appetite for fish blood 

wreaked havoc on native fish 

populations, decimating an already 

vulnerable lake trout fishery. The first 

recorded observation of a sea lamprey in 

the Great Lakes was in 1835 in Lake 

Ontario. For a time, Niagara Falls served 

as a natural barrier, confining sea 

lampreys to Lake Ontario and 

preventing them from entering the 

remaining four Great Lakes. However, in 

the early 1900s, modifications were 

made to the Welland Canal, which 

bypasses Niagara Falls and provides a 

shipping connection between Lakes 

Ontario and Erie. These modifications 

allowed sea lampreys access to the rest 

of the Great Lakes system. Within a 

short time, sea lampreys spread 

throughout the system: into Lake Erie by 

1921, Lakes Michigan and Huron by 

1936 and 1937, and Lake Superior by 

1938. Sea lampreys were able to thrive 

once they invaded the Great Lakes, 

because of the availability of excellent 

spawning and larval habitat, an 

abundance of host fish, a lack of 

predators, and their high reproductive 

potential—a single female can produce 

as many as 100,000 eggs. 

The Sea Lamprey Control Program 

(SLCP) maintains an internal database. 

In existence for more than 20 years, it 

contains information critical to the 

delivery and evaluation of an integrated 

control program to manage invasive sea 

lamprey populations in the five Great 

Lakes. The storage of data in this 

database not only documents the history 

of the SLCP since inception in 1953, but 


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it also provides data to steer assessment 

and control of invasive sea lamprey 

populations in the Great Lakes in 

partnership with the GLFC. We provide 

annual population data to Federal and 

State regulatory agencies to inform 

critical evaluations used to receive the 

appropriate permits to allow us to 

conduct sea lamprey control actions. 

The SLCP database maintains the 

points of contact for landowners to 

request landowner permission to access 

their land for treatment. The Service 

collects basic contact information for 

the landowner (name, home address, 

phone number, cell phone number, and 

email address), along with alternate 

contact information, whether they allow 

access to their land, methods of 

transportation allowed on property, 

whether a gate key or gate combination 

is needed to access the land, whether 

the landowner irrigates the land, and an 

opportunity to ask additional questions 

about treatment or sea lamprey 

management. 

Title of Collection: Sea Lamprey 

Control Program. 

OMB Control Number: 1018–0179. 

Form Number: None. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Individuals, private sector, and State/ 

local/Tribal governments. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Respondents: 640. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 640. 

Estimated Completion Time per 

Response: 5 minutes. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 53 (rounded). 

Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. 

Frequency of Collection: Annually. 

Total Estimated Annual Nonhour 

Burden Cost: None. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor and a person is not required to 

respond to a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. 

The authority for this action is the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

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

Madonna Baucum, 

Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[BLM_NV_FRN_MO4500172230] 

Temporary Closure of Public Lands for 

the 2023–2027 Rise Lantern Festival, 

Clark County, NV 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of temporary closure. 

SUMMARY: The Las Vegas Field Office 

announces the temporary closure of 

certain public lands under its 

administration in Clark County, Nevada. 

This temporary closure is being made in 

the interest of public safety for the Rise 

Lantern Festival over a 2-day period the 

first full weekend of October of each 

year from 2023 to 2027. This closure 

controls access to multiple points of 

entry to the festival located on the Jean 

Dry Lake to minimize the risk of vehicle 

collisions involving festival participants 

and workers. The temporary closure 

also ensures adequate time to conduct 

clean-up of the festival location. 

DATES: The temporary closure will take 

effect over a 2-day period the first full 

weekend of October of each year from 

2023 to 2027. 

ADDRESSES: The temporary closure 

order and map of the closure area will 

be posted at the BLM Las Vegas Field 

Office, 4701 North Torrey Pines Drive, 

Las Vegas, Nevada 89130, and on the 

BLM website: www.blm.gov. These 

materials will also be posted at the 

access point of Jean Dry Lake and the 

surrounding areas. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Braden Yardley, Outdoor Recreation 

Planner, (702) 515–5089, or byardley@

blm.gov. 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-ofcontact in the United States. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Las 

Vegas Field Office announces the 

temporary closures of certain public 

lands under its administration. This 

action is being taken to help ensure 

public safety during the official 

permitted running of the Rise Lantern 

Festival. The public lands affected by 

this closure are described as follows: 

Mount Diablo Meridian, Nevada 

T. 24 S., R. 60 E., 

Secs. 20 and 21, those portions lying 

easterly and southerly of the easterly and 

southerly right-of-way boundary of State 

Route 604; 

Secs. 22 and 27, those portions lying 

westerly and southerly of the westerly 

and southerly right-of-way boundary of 

the Southern Nevada Lightweight Road; 

Sec. 28; 

Sec. 29, those portions lying easterly and 

southerly of the easterly and southerly 

right-of-way boundary of the State Route 

604; 

Sec. 31, those portions of the E1/2 lying 

easterly and southerly of the easterly and 

southerly right-of-way boundary of the 

State Route 604, excepting NVCC– 

0000360; 

Sec. 32, those portions lying easterly and 

southerly of the easterly and southerly 

right-of-way boundary of the State Route 

604; 

Secs. 33 and 34. 

T. 25 S., R. 60 E., 

Sec. 2, W1/2; 

Secs. 3 thru 5; 

Sec. 6, those portions lying easterly and 

southerly of the easterly and southerly 

right-of-way boundary of the State Route 

604, excepting NVCC–0000360; 

Sec. 7, excepting NVCC–0000360; 

Secs. 8 thru 10; 

Sec. 11, W1/2; 

Sec. 14, W1/2; 

Secs. 15 thru 17. 

The area described contains 

approximately 12,030 acres, according 

to the BLM National PLSS CadNSDI and 

the official plats of the surveys of the 

said lands, on file with the BLM. 

Temporary closure information will 

be posted along roads leading into the 

public lands to notify the public. The 

closure area includes the Jean Dry Lake 

and is bordered by Hidden Valley to the 

east, Sheep Mountain to the southwest, 

and the right-of-way boundary of State 

Route 604. Under the authority of 

Section 303(a) of the Federal Lands 

Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 

U.S.C. 1733[a]), 43 CFR 8360.0–7 and 43 

CFR 8364.1, the BLM will enforce the 

following rules in the area described 

above: 

The entire area as listed in the legal 

description earlier is closed to all 

vehicles and personnel except law 

enforcement, emergency vehicles, event 

personnel, event participants, and 

spectators. Access routes leading to the 

closed area will be signed to indicate a 

closure ahead. No vehicle stopping or 

parking in the closed area, except in 

designated parking areas, will be 

permitted. Event participants and 

spectators are required to remain within 

designated areas only. 

The following restrictions will be in 

effect for the duration of the closure to 

ensure public safety of participants and 

spectators. Unless otherwise authorized, 

the following activities within the 

closure area are prohibited: 

• Camping; 


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