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process, as required under the

provisions of section 10(a) of the Act.

The Services will evaluate the

incidental take permit application and

associated Plan in accordance with

section 10(a) of the Act and its

implementing regulations. The

environmental review of the permit

application and the Plan will be

conducted in accordance with the

requirements of the National

Environmental Policy Act and its

implementing regulations. A No Action

alternative will be considered consistent

with the requirements of the National

Environmental Policy Act. Another

possible alternative is a ‘‘Listed Species

Only’’ alternative. A revised Plan under

this alternative would only address the

habitat needs of the northern spotted

owl, marbled murrelet, and coho

salmon; there would be no permit

coverage for species currently not listed

under the Act. Further consideration of

a reasonable range of project alternatives

will be given during and subsequent to

this scoping process.

Dated: November 14, 1997.

Thomas Dwyer,

Acting Regional Director, Region 1, Portland,

Oregon.

[FR Doc. 97–30609 Filed 11–20–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Geological Survey

Federal Geographic Data Committee

(FGDC); Application Notice

Announcing the Opening Date for

Transmittal of Applications Under

Three FGDC National Spatial Data

Infrastructure (NSDI) Partnership

Funding Programs for Fiscal Year (FY)

1998 Under the Catalog of Federal

Domestic Assistance No. 15.809

National Spatial Data Infrastructure

Competitive Cooperative Agreements

Program

AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice inviting applications for

the NSDI Cooperative Agreements

Program awards, the NSDI Benefits

Program awards, and the NSDI

Framework Demonstration Projects

Program awards, for fiscal year 1998,

with performance to begin in September

1998.

SUMMARY: The purpose of the FGDC

National Spatial Data Infrastructure

(NSDI) Partnership Funding Programs is

to facilitate and foster partnerships and

alliances within and among various

public and private entities to assist in

building the NSDI. The NSDI consists of

policies, standards, agreements, and

partnerships among a variety of sectors

and disciplines that promotes more

cost-effective production, ready

availability, and greater use of high

quality geospatial data. Three separate

but related programs constitute the

FGDC Partnership Funding Programs:

the NSDI Cooperative Agreements

Program, the NSDI Benefits Program,

and the NSDI Framework

Demonstration Projects Program.

The Cooperative Agreements Program

funds projects focused on promoting

metadata collection and creating

clearinghouses of geographic data

linked to the Internet, developing NSDI

standards, advancing the NSDI through

education, and organizing and

strengthening State-wide or regional

programs for geographic data sharing.

The Benefits Program funds projects

that assess the qualitative or

quantitative benefits of using a shared

data resource to solve particular

problems over a given geographic area.

The Framework Demonstration

Projects Program funds projects that

demonstrate technical, operational and

business capabilities to collaboratively

create and maintain certain categories of

commonly needed ‘‘Framework’’ data.

Activities initiated under each of the

three mentioned programs will promote

development and maintenance of and

access to data sets that are needed for

national, regional, State, and local

analyses.

Applications must involve partnering

between two or more organizations.

Applications may be submitted by

Federal agencies, State and local

government agencies, educational

institutions, private firms, private

foundations, and Federally

acknowledged or State-recognized

Native American tribes or groups.

Applications from Federal agencies will

not be competed against applications

from other sources. Participants are

expected to cost share in the project.

Authority for this program is contained

in the Organic Act of March 3, 1879, 43

U.S.C. 31 and Executive Order 12906.

DATES: The program announcements

and application forms for each of the

three aforementioned programs are

expected to be available on or about

November 29, 1997. Applications must

be received on or before February 28,

1998.

ADDRESSES: Copies of Program

Announcement #1434–HQ–98–PA–

00044 for the NSDI Cooperative

Agreements Program, Program

Announcement #1434–HQ–98–PA–

00046 for the NSDI Benefits Program,

and Program Announcement #1434–

HQ–98–PA–00045 for the NSDI

Framework Demonstration Projects

Program may be obtained by writing to

Ms. Karen Staubs, U.S. Geological

Survey, Office of Acquisition and

Federal Assistance, Mail Stop 205B,

12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston,

Virginia 20192, (703) 648–7372, fax

(703) 648–7901. Also, copies of each

Program Announcement will be

available through the Internet at

<www.usgs.gov\contracts\index.html>.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

For the NSDI Cooperative Agreements

Program contact Ms. Kathleen Craig,

U.S. Geological Survey, Office of

Acquisition and Federal Assistance,

Mail Stop 205B, 12201 Sunrise Valley

Drive, Reston, Virginia 20192; (703)

648–7357, fax (703) 648–7901.

For the NSDI Benefits Program

contact Ms. Deborah Walsh, U.S.

Geological Survey, Office of Acquisition

and Federal Assistance, Mail Stop 205B,

12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston,

Virginia 20192; (703) 648–7384, fax

(703) 648–7901.

For the NSDI Framework

Demonstration Projects Program contact

Ms. Tammy Fanning, U.S. Geological

Survey, Office of Acquisition and

Federal Assistance, Mail Stop 205B,

12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Reston,

Virginia 20192; (703) 648–7363, fax

(703) 648–7901.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the

NSDI Cooperative Agreements Program

proposals are to be directed towards any

of four components of the NSDI. The

first is the establishment of a National

Geospatial Data Clearinghouse for

finding and accessing geospatial data.

Second is the development and

promulgation of standards in data

collection, documentation, transfer, and

search and query. Third is the

development and implementation of

educational outreach programs to

increase the awareness and

understanding of the NSDI vision and

concepts. Fourth is the building and

strengthening of relationships among

organizations to support digital

geographic data coordination.

Under the NSDI Benefits Program,

proposals are to be directed towards

projects that assess the benefits of using

shared geographic data, or spatially

referenced information, to aid a public

decision-making process within a

particular geographic area. Assessment

of the benefits of data sharing can be by

quantitative or qualitative measures. No

restriction is placed on the primary

issue or problem being addressed. The

problem may be environmental,

economic, social, or cultural. Defined
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geographic areas might include

watersheds, ecosystems, counties,

municipalities, regions, and so forth.

Under the NSDI Framework

Demonstration Projects Program,

proposals are to be directed towards

projects that demonstrate or

operationalize the framework concept.

Projects can address initial or advanced

technical, operational, and business

aspects/capabilities to collaboratively

create and maintain certain categories of

commonly needed ‘‘Framework’’ data,

or deal with specific framework topics

such as coding permanent feature

identifiers, data integration,

generalization, transactions and feature

maintenance, feature level metadata,

and data certification. Framework data

are defined as geodetic control,

cadastral, digital orthoimagery,

elevation, bathymetry, transportation,

hydrography, and governmental units.

Dated: November 12, 1997.

Jack Fischer,

Associate Chief, Operations.

[FR Doc. 97–30580 Filed 11–20–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–31–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Indian Affairs,

Saginaw Chippewa Tribe Liquor

Ordinance

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice is published in

accordance with authority delegated by

the Secretary of the Interior to the

Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs by

209 DM 8, and in accordance with the

Act of August 15, 1953, 67 Stat. 586, 18

U.S.C. 1161, as interpreted by the

Supreme Court in, Rice v. Rehner, 463

U.S. 713 (1983). I certify that the

Saginaw Chippewa Tribe of Michigan

Liquor Ordinance was duly adopted by

Resolution No. 97–067 of the Saginaw

Chippewa Tribe of Michigan Tribal

Council on June 26, 1997. The

ordinance provides for the regulation,

sale, possession and use of alcoholic

liquor within the Tribe’s jurisdiction.

DATES: This ordinance is effective as of

November 21, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jerry

Cordova, Office of Tribal Services, 1849

C Street, N.W., MS 4641 MIB,

Washington, D.C. 20240–4401;

telephone (202) 208–4401.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Saginaw Chippewa Tribe of Michigan

Liquor Ordinance shall read as follows:

Chapter 8.7 Liquor Control Act

8.7.1 Legislative Findings. The

Saginaw Chippewa Tribal Council

hereby finds as follows:

8.7.1.1 The Council has authority to

adopt this Act pursuant to powers

vested in it by Article VI, sections 1(e),

(i), (j), (k), (n), (o), and Article VI,

section 2 of the Amended Tribal

Constitution, said Constitution and

Bylaws having been ratified by the Tribe

on March 27, 1937, and approved by the

Secretary of Interior on May 6, 1937,

with revised amendments approved on

November 4, 1986. Further, the

Supreme Court held in United States v.

Mazurie, 419 U.S. 544 (1975), that

Congress through 18 U.S.C. 1161

delegated to Indian tribes authority to

control the introduction, distribution,

and use of alcoholic beverages into

Indian country.

8.7.1.2 The importation,

distribution, manufacture, and sale of

alcoholic liquor for commercial

purposes on the Isabella Reservation

(‘‘Reservation’’) is a matter of special

concern to the Tribe.

8.7.1.3 Federal law as embodied in

18 U.S.C. 1161 provides that certain

sections of the United States Code,

commonly referred to as Federal Indian

Liquor Laws, shall not apply to any act

or transaction within any area of Indian

country, provided such act or

transaction is in conformity with both

the laws of the state in which such act

or transaction occurs, and with an act

duly adopted by the tribe having

jurisdiction over such area of Indian

country.

8.7.2 Declaration of Policy.

8.7.2.1 The Council hereby declares

that the policy of the Tribe is to

eliminate the problems associated with

unlicensed, unregulated, and unlawful

importation, distribution, manufacture,

and sale of alcoholic liquor for

commercial purposes on the

Reservation, and to promote temperance

in the use and consumption of alcoholic

liquor by increasing tribal control over

such activities on the Reservation.

8.7.2.2 The importation,

distribution, manufacture, and sale of

alcoholic liquor for commercial

purposes on the Reservation shall be

lawful, provided that such activity is

conducted by the Tribe or by an

authorized tribal enterprise, and is in

conformity with this Act. Such

conditions are necessary to increase the

Tribe’s ability to control and regulate

the distribution, sale, and possession of

alcoholic liquor, while at the same time

provide an important and necessary

source of revenue for continued

operation of the tribal government and

delivery of tribal governmental services.

8.7.3 Short Title. This Act shall be

known and cited as the ‘‘Saginaw

Chippewa Liquor Control Act.’’

8.7.4 Purpose. The purpose of this

Act is to prohibit the importation,

manufacture, distribution, and sale of

alcoholic liquor for commercial

purposes on the Reservation except

pursuant to a license issued by the

Council under the provisions of this Act

and other tribal laws.

8.7.5 Application of 18 U.S.C. 1161.

The importation, manufacture,

distribution, and sale of alcoholic liquor

for commercial purposes on the

Reservation shall be ‘‘in conformity

with’’ this Act and the laws of the State

of Michigan as that phrase is used in 18

U.S.C. 1161.

8.7.6 Incorporation by Reference of

Michigan Laws.

8.7.6.1 In accordance with 18 U.S.C.

1161, the Tribe hereby adopts and

applies as tribal law those Michigan

laws, as amended, relating to the sale

and regulation of alcoholic beverages

encompassing the following areas: Sale

to a minor; sale to a visibly intoxicated

individual; sale of adulterated or

misbranded liquor; hours of operation;

and similar substantive provisions,

including such other laws prohibiting

the sale of alcoholic beverages to certain

categories of individuals. Said tribal

laws which are defined by reference to

the substantive areas of Michigan laws

referred to in this section shall apply in

the same manner and to the same extent

as such laws apply elsewhere in

Michigan to off-Reservation transactions

unless otherwise agreed by the Tribe

and State; provided, that nothing in this

Act shall be construed as a consent by

the Tribe to the jurisdiction of the State

of Michigan or any of its courts or

subordinate political subdivisions or

municipalities within the Reservation

over any activity arising under or

related to the subject of this Act nor

shall anything in this Act constitute an

express or implied waiver of the

sovereign immunity of the Tribe.

8.7.6.2 The Tribe, for resale by the

Tribe, shall purchase spirits from the

Michigan Liquor Control Commission,

and beer and wine from distributors

licensed by the Michigan Liquor Control

Commission, at the same price and on

the same basis that such beverages are

purchased by similar licensees.

8.7.6.3 In the event of any conflict or

inconsistency between ‘‘adopted and

applied’’ Michigan laws and this Act,

the provisions of this Act shall govern.

8.7.6.4 Whenever such Michigan

laws are incorporated herein by

reference, amendments thereto shall