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Maintaining accurate records of 

permittee and lessee qualifications for a 

grazing permit or lease, base property 

used in conjunction with public lands, 

and the actual use made by livestock 

authorized to graze on the public lands, 

is an important and integral part of the 

program administration and grazing 

management. The regulations at 43 CFR 

4110.1 and 43 CFR 4110.2 require 

application and notice to the BLM to 

transfer grazing preference and to apply 

for a permit or lease in conjunction with 

a preference transfer. The regulations at 

43 CFR 4130.1 require existing 

permittees and lessees to apply to the 

BLM for changes in their authorized 

grazing. The regulations at 43 CFR 

4130.3–2(d) allow the BLM to require 

permittees or lessees operating under a 

grazing permit or lease to submit an 

actual grazing use report within 15 days 

after completing their annual grazing 

use, or as otherwise specified in the 

permit or lease. The regulations at 43 

CFR 4130.6–1 allow BLM to enter into 

‘‘exchange-of-use’’ agreements with 

applicants who own or control lands 

that are unfenced and intermingled with 

public lands within an allotment. The 

BLM requires applicants, permittees, 

and lessees to submit the required 

information on Forms 4130–1, 4130–1a, 

4130–1b, 4130–3a, 4130–4, and 4130–5. 

This OMB Control Number is currently 

scheduled to expire on April 30, 2024. 

The BLM request that OMB renew this 

OMB Control Number for an additional 

three (3) years. 

Title of Collection: Authorizing 

Grazing Use (43 CFR subparts 4110 and 

4130). 

OMB Control Number: 1004–0041. 

Form Numbers: 4130–1, 4130–1a, 

4130–1b, 4130–3a, 4130–4, and 4130–5. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: Any 

U.S. citizen or validly licensed business 

may apply for a BLM grazing permit or 

lease. The BLM administers nearly 

18,000 permits and leases for grazing 

domestic livestock, at least part of the 

year on public lands. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Respondents: 18,010. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 33,810. 

Estimated Completion Time per 

Response: Varies from 10 to 35 minutes, 

depending on activity. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 7,855. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain a benefit. 

Frequency of Collection: On occasion. 

Total Estimated Annual Nonhour 

Burden Cost: $30,000. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor and, notwithstanding any other 

provision of law, 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.). 

Darrin King, 

Information Collection Clearance Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–OIA–DTS–36352; 

PPWODIREI0–PIN00IO15.XI0000] 

U.S. Nomination to the World Heritage 

List: Okefenokee National Wildlife 

Refuge 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

decision to request that the Okefenokee 

National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia 

prepare a draft nomination for inclusion 

on the United Nations Educational, 

Scientific and Cultural Organization 

(UNESCO) World Heritage List. The 

decision is the result of consultation 

with the Federal Interagency Panel for 

World Heritage and the review of public 

comments submitted in response to an 

earlier notice. This notice complies with 

applicable World Heritage Program 

regulations. 

ADDRESSES: To request paper copies of 

documents discussed in this notice, 

contact April Brooks, Office of 

International Affairs, National Park 

Service, 1849 C St. NW, Room 2415, 

Washington, DC 20240, (202) 354–1808, 

or sending electronic mail (Email) to: 

april_brooks@nps.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jonathan Putnam, 202–354–1809. 

Information on the U.S. World Heritage 

program can be found at: https://

www.nps.gov/subjects/ 

internationalcooperation/ 

worldheritage.htm. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The World Heritage List is an 

international list of cultural and natural 

properties nominated by the signatories 

to the World Heritage Convention 

(1972). The United States was the prime 

architect of the Convention, an 

international treaty for preservation of 

natural and cultural heritage sites of 

global significance. The World Heritage 

Committee, composed of representatives 

of 21 nations periodically elected as the 

governing body of the World Heritage 

Convention, makes the final decisions 

on which nominations to accept on the 

World Heritage List. There are 1,157 

sites in 167 countries. Currently there 

are 24 World Heritage Sites in the 

United States. U.S. participation and the 

roles of the Department of the Interior 

(Department) and the National Park 

Service (NPS) are authorized by title IV 

of the Historic Preservation Act 

Amendments of 1980 and conducted in 

accordance with 36 CFR 73—World 

Heritage Convention. Each State Party to 

the Convention maintains a Tentative 

List, periodically updated, of properties 

that are considered suitable for 

nomination. Only properties on the 

Tentative List are eligible to officially 

prepare nominations that the 

Department may consider for 

submission. Okefenokee National 

Wildlife Refuge has been included on 

the U.S. Tentative List since 1982. 

Neither inclusion in the list nor 

inscription as a World Heritage Site 

imposes legal restrictions on owners or 

neighbors of sites, nor does it give the 

United Nations any management 

authority or ownership rights in U.S. 

World Heritage Sites, which continue to 

be subject only to U.S. law. 

The Assistant Secretary for Fish and 

Wildlife and Parks (Assistant Secretary) 

initiates the process to nominate U.S. 

sites to the World Heritage List by 

publishing a notice in the Federal 

Register seeking public comment on 

which properties on the U.S. Tentative 

List should be nominated next by the 

United States. The first notice (88 FR 

37270, as required by 36 CFR 73.7(c)) 

was published on June 7, 2023. 

Following the publication of the first 

notice, the Assistant Secretary consults 

the Federal Interagency Panel for World 

Heritage to review the public comments 

submitted and make a recommendation. 

If the Panel recommends that a property 

be nominated and the recommendation 

is accepted by the Assistant Secretary, a 

second notice is issued. This is the 

second notice as required by 36 CFR 

73.7(f) on the proposed nomination. The 

Panel assists the Department in 

implementing the Convention by 

making recommendations on U.S. 

World Heritage policy, procedures, and 

nominations. The Panel is chaired by 

the Assistant Secretary. 

Decision To Request the Preparation of 

a New U.S. World Heritage Nomination 

The Department received over 10,300 

comments in response to the first notice, 

many of them regarding Okefenokee 


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National Wildlife Refuge, all of which 

were expressions of support from the 

property owners, elected representatives 

at local, state, and Federal levels, 

individuals, institutions, and museums. 

There were no comments against 

nominating any property, including this 

site. Additional comments supported 

the nomination of other sites, in 

particular sites associated with Civil 

Rights Movement history. 

The Department considered all 

comments received as well as the advice 

of the Federal Interagency Panel for 

World Heritage. 

The Department has selected the 

Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge as 

a proposed U.S. nomination to the 

World Heritage List. With the assistance 

of the Department, including the 

completion of appropriate consultation 

with Native American Tribal 

governments, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, along with supporting 

organizations, is encouraged to develop 

a complete nomination, in accordance 

with 36 CFR part 73 and the nomination 

format required by the World Heritage 

Committee. 

Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge, 

Georgia, consists of more than 400,000 

acres embracing 92% of the Okefenokee 

Swamp, a large hydrologically intact 

swamp that is the source of two rivers, 

one that flows into the Atlantic and the 

other into the Gulf of Mexico. The 

Refuge also has extensive and 

essentially undisturbed peat deposits. 

Okefenokee is one of the world’s 

largest naturally driven freshwater 

ecosystems with a diversity of habitat 

types, including 21 vegetative types. 

The Refuge’s fauna is also renowned 

worldwide for its diversity of 

amphibians and reptiles, mammals, 

birds, fishes, and invertebrates and 

perhaps as many as 1,000 species of 

moths. Unlike many other significant 

wetland areas, the swamp is the source 

of rivers rather than their recipient, as 

in a delta, and therefore is generally 

unaffected by most disturbances to 

natural hydrology and water flow. The 

Refuge’s undisturbed peat beds store 

valuable information on environmental 

conditions over the past 5,000 years and 

are a significant source of information 

related to global changes. 

Next Steps 

A draft World Heritage nomination for 

Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge 

may now be prepared, in consultation 

with the National Park Service’s Office 

of International Affairs. The NPS will 

coordinate the review and evaluation of 

the draft nomination to ensure it meets 

the requirements of 36 CFR 73, and will 

cooperate with the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service and other partners. 

Following NPS review of a complete 

draft nomination, the Department may 

submit it to the World Heritage Centre 

for technical review by September 30 of 

any year. The Centre will then provide 

comments by November 15 of that year. 

The Federal Interagency Panel for World 

Heritage will review a draft nomination 

following receipt of the Centre’s 

comments and recommend to the 

Department whether the nomination 

should be formally submitted for 

consideration by the World Heritage 

Committee. Submittal to the World 

Heritage Centre by the Department 

through the Department of State can be 

made by February 1 of any year (prior 

to 2026, at which time a new procedure 

of the World Heritage Committee will 

take effect); the World Heritage 

Committee would then consider the 

nomination at its annual meeting in the 

summer of the following year, after an 

evaluation by an official Advisory Body 

to the Committee. 

Authority: 54 U.S.C. 307101; 36 CFR 

part 73. 

Shannon A. Estenoz, 

Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and 

Parks. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NRNHL–DTS#–36510; 

PPWOCRADI0, PCU00RP14.R50000] 

National Register of Historic Places; 

Notification of Pending Nominations 

and Related Actions 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The National Park Service is 

soliciting electronic comments on the 

significance of properties nominated 

before August 26, 2023, for listing or 

related actions in the National Register 

of Historic Places. 

DATES: Comments should be submitted 

electronically by October 10, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Comments are encouraged 

to be submitted electronically to 

National_Register_Submissions@

nps.gov with the subject line ‘‘Public 

Comment on <property or proposed 

district name, (County) Stategt;.’’ If you 

have no access to email, you may send 

them via U.S. Postal Service and all 

other carriers to the National Register of 

Historic Places, National Park Service, 

1849 C Street NW, MS 7228, 

Washington, DC 20240. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Sherry A. Frear, Chief, National Register 

of Historic Places/National Historic 

Landmarks Program, 1849 C Street NW, 

MS 7228, Washington, DC 20240, 

sherry_frear@nps.gov, 202–913–3763. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

properties listed in this notice are being 

considered for listing or related actions 

in the National Register of Historic 

Places. Nominations for their 

consideration were received by the 

National Park Service before August 26, 

2023. Pursuant to Section 60.13 of 36 

CFR part 60, comments are being 

accepted concerning the significance of 

the nominated properties under the 

National Register criteria for evaluation. 

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. 

Nominations submitted by State or 

Tribal Historic Preservation Officers 

Key: State, County, Property Name, 

Multiple Name (if applicable), Address/ 

Boundary, City, Vicinity, Reference 

Number. 

IOWA 

Woodbury County 

Dick’s Diner, 723 West 7th St., Sioux City, 

SG100009407 

KANSAS 

Bourbon County 

A.B. Paine Photo Supply Co., 523 South 

Main St., Fort Scott, SG100009415 

Cowley County 

Spring Creek Stone Arch Bridge (Masonry 

Arch Bridges of Kansas TR), Located in 

West Creswell Township, 2.5 mi. west of 

Arkansas City on 262nd Rd., Arkansas City 

vicinity, MP100009416 

Douglas County 

Sowers-Crawford Farms Historic District 

(Agriculture-Related Resources of Kansas 

MPS), 624 and 646 North 100 Rd., 

Overbrook vicinity, MP100009424 

Finney County 

The J.H. Stevens-C.L. Thompson Block 

Historic District, 401–409 North Main, 

Garden City, SG100009417 

Trego County 

Keraus Hardware Store, 121 North Main St., 

WaKeeney, SG100009418 

Wyandotte County 

Immanuel Baptist Church, 1335 Quindaro 

Blvd., Kansas City, SG100009419 


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