Federal Register / Vol. 89, No. 30 / Tuesday, February 13, 2024 / Notices 10095 

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 

Forest Service 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R7–SM–2023–N101; FF07J00000– 

245–FXRS12610700000] 

Alaska Subsistence Regional Advisory 

Council Meetings for 2024 

AGENCY: Forest Service, Agriculture; 

Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of meetings. 

SUMMARY: The Federal Subsistence 

Board (Board) announces the public 

meetings of the 10 Alaska Subsistence 

Regional Advisory Councils (Councils) 

for the winter and fall cycles of 2024. 

The Councils each meet approximately 

twice a year to provide advice and 

recommendations to the Board about 

subsistence hunting and fishing issues 

on Federal public lands in Alaska. 

DATES: 

Winter 2024 Meetings: The Councils 

will meet during a joint session on 

March 5, 2024, will hold joint training 

session on March 6, 2024, and will hold 

individual concurrent sessions on 

March 7–8, 2024, in Anchorage, Alaska. 

The meetings will begin at 8 a.m. Alaska 

time and end at approximately 5 p.m. 

each day. For more information about 

accessing the meetings, visit the Federal 

Subsistence Management Program 

website, at https://www.doi.gov/ 

subsistence/regions. 

Fall 2024 Meetings: The Councils will 

meet between August 19 and October 

30, 2024, as shown in table 1. For more 

information about accessing the 

meetings, including start times, visit 

https://www.doi.gov/subsistence/ 

regions. 

TABLE 1—FALL 2024 MEETINGS OF THE ALASKA SUBSISTENCE REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCILS

Regional Advisory Council Dates Location 

Southeast Alaska—Region 1 .................................................................................. October 22–24 ....................................... Ketchikan. 

Southcentral Alaska—Region 2 .............................................................................. October 10–11 ....................................... Anchorage. 

Kodiak/Aleutians—Region 3 .................................................................................... September 4–6 ...................................... Unalaska. 

Bristol Bay—Region 4 ............................................................................................. October 29–30 ....................................... Dillingham. 

Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta—Region 5 ....................................................................... August 27–29 ......................................... Bethel. 

Western Interior—Region 6 ..................................................................................... October 2–3 ........................................... Galena. 

Seward Peninsula—Region 7 ................................................................................. October 24–25 ....................................... Nome. 

Northwest Arctic—Region 8 .................................................................................... October 28–29 ....................................... Kotzebue. 

Eastern Interior—Region 9 ...................................................................................... October 8–10 ......................................... Tanana. 

North Slope—Region 10 ......................................................................................... August 19–20 ......................................... Utqiagvik. 

All meetings are open to the public. 

ADDRESSES: Specific information about 

meeting locations and the final agendas 

can be found at https://www.doi.gov/ 

subsistence/regions. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Chair, Federal Subsistence Board, c/o 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; 

Attention: Amee Howard, Acting 

Assistant Regional Director, Office of 

Subsistence Management; (907) 786– 

3888 (phone) or subsistence@fws.gov 

(email). For questions specific to 

National Forest System lands, contact 

Gregory Risdahl, Subsistence Program 

Leader, (907) 302–7354 (phone) or 

gregory.risdahl@usda.gov (email). 

Individuals in the United States who are 

deaf, blind, 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. 

Reasonable Accommodations: The 

Federal Subsistence Board is committed 

to providing access to these meetings for 

all participants. Please make requests in 

advance for sign language interpreter 

services, assistive listening devices, or 

other reasonable accommodations. 

Please make requests to Katerina 

Wessels, (907) 786–3885 (phone) or 

katerina_wessels@fws.gov (email), at 

least 7 business days prior to the 

meeting you would like to attend, to 

give the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

sufficient time to process your request. 

All reasonable accommodation requests 

are managed on a case-by-case basis. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Federal Subsistence Board (Board) 

announces the 2024 public meeting 

schedule for the 10 Alaska Subsistence 

Regional Advisory Councils (Councils), 

in accordance with the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. ch. 

10). Established in 1993, the Councils 

are statutory Federal advisory 

committees that provide a public forum 

for their regions and recommendations 

to the Board about subsistence hunting, 

trapping, and fishing issues on Federal 

public lands in Alaska, as authorized by 

section 805 of the Alaska National 

Interest Lands Conservation Act 

(ANILCA; 16 U.S.C. 3111–3126). 

The Councils are a crucial link 

between federally qualified subsistence 

users and the Board. The Board is a 

multi-agency body that includes 

representatives of the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, National Park Service, 

Bureau of Land Management, Bureau of 

Indian Affairs, and U.S. Forest Service, 

as well as a chair and two public 

members who are appointed by the 

Secretary of the Interior with the 

concurrence of the Secretary of 

Agriculture. 

Each Council meets approximately 

two times per calendar year, once in the 

winter and once in the fall, to attend to 

business and develop proposals and 

recommendations to the Board. 

Meeting Agendas 

Winter Meetings 

• Joint session of 10 Councils: 

Æ Regional reports on subsistence 

uses and issues for each region. 

Æ Office of Subsistence Management, 

Federal Subsistence Board, and other 

agency reports. 

Æ Current trends in impacts to 

subsistence. 

Æ Youth engagement in subsistence 

management. 

Æ Awards and recognition of the 

Council members. 

• Individual Council breakout 

sessions: 

Æ General Council business: Review 

and adoption of agenda, election of 

officers, review and approval of 

previous meeting minutes, Council 

Chair and members reports, public and 

Tribal comments on non-agenda items. 

Æ Develop proposals and accept 

public comments on potential changes 

to regulations for subsistence take of 

fish and shellfish. 

Æ Review and approve annual report. 


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Æ Agency, Tribal governments, Native 

organizations, State of Alaska, and 

nongovernmental organizations reports. 

Æ Future meeting dates. 

Fall Meetings 

• General Council business: Review 

and adoption of agenda, review and 

approval of previous meeting minutes, 

Council Chair and members reports, 

public and Tribal comments on nonagenda items. 

• Prepare recommendations and 

accept public comments on proposals to 

change subsistence take of fish and 

shellfish regulations and review and 

prepare recommendations on fisheries 

closures. 

• Define issues for upcoming annual 

report. 

• Develop priority information needs 

for the Fisheries Resource Monitoring 

Program. 

• Agency, Tribal governments, Native 

organizations, State of Alaska, and 

nongovernmental organizations reports. 

Future meeting dates. 

A notice will be published with 

specific dates, times, and meeting 

locations in local and statewide 

newspapers prior to both series of 

meetings; in addition, announcements 

will be made on local radio stations and 

posted on social media and the Federal 

Subsistence Management Program 

website (https://www.doi.gov/ 

subsistence/regions). Locations and 

dates may change based on weather or 

local circumstances. A teleconference 

will substitute for an in-person meeting 

if public health or safety restrictions are 

in effect. The final draft agendas, callin numbers, instructions on how to 

participate and provide public 

comments, and other related meeting 

information will be posted on the 

Federal Subsistence Management 

Program website and at https://

www.facebook.com/subsistencealaska/. 

Transcripts of the meetings are 

maintained by the program and will be 

available for public inspection within 

14 days after each meeting at https://

www.doi.gov/subsistence/regions. 

Public Submission of Comments 

Time will be allowed for any 

individual or organization wishing to 

present oral or written comments. If you 

are not available to submit your 

comments, you may have another party 

present your comments on your behalf. 

Any written comments received will be 

presented to the Council members by 

staff. 

Public Availability of Comments 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personally identifiable information in 

your comment, you should be aware 

that your entire comment—including 

your personal identifiable information— 

may be made publicly available at any 

time. While you can ask us in your 

comment to withhold your personal 

identifiable information from public 

review, we cannot guarantee that we 

will be able to do so. 

Authority 

5 U.S.C. ch. 10. 

Amee Howard, 

Acting Assistant Regional Director, U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service. 

Gregory Risdahl, 

Subsistence Program Leader, USDA—Forest 

Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of the Secretary 

[XXXD5198NI DS61100000 

DNINR0000.000000 DX61104] 

Notice of Call for Nominations for the 

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Public Advisory 

Committee 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, Interior. 

ACTION: Call for Nominations Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the 

Interior is soliciting nominations for the 

Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Public Advisory 

Committee (Committee). This 

Committee advises the Exxon Valdez 

Oil Spill Trustee Council on decisions 

related to the planning, evaluation, 

funds allocation, and conduct of injury 

assessment and restoration activities 

related to the T/V Exxon Valdez oil spill 

of March 1989. 

DATES: All nominations must be 

received by March 29, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Send nomination packages 

by hard copy or via email to Shiway 

Wang, Executive Director, Exxon Valdez 

Oil Spill Trustee Council, 4230 

University Drive, Suite 220, Anchorage, 

Alaska 99508–4650, or at shiway.wang@

alaska.gov. Also please copy Joy 

Maglaqui, Executive Assistant, on any 

email correspondence at joy.maglaqui@

alaska.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Grace Cochon, Department of the 

Interior, Office of Environmental Policy 

and Compliance, telephone number: 

(907) 786–3620; email: grace_cochon@

ios.doi.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Committee was created pursuant to 

Paragraph V.A.4 of the Memorandum of 

Agreement and Consent Decree entered 

into by the United States of America 

and the State of Alaska on August 27, 

1991, and approved by the United States 

District Court for the District of Alaska 

in settlement of United States of 

America v. State of Alaska, Civil Action 

No. A91–081 CV. The Committee 

advises the Trustee Council on matters 

relating to decisions on injury 

assessment, restoration activities, or 

other use of natural resource damage 

recoveries obtained by the government. 

The Trustee Council consists of 

representatives of the U.S. Department 

of the Interior, U.S. Department of 

Agriculture, National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration, Alaska 

Department of Fish and Game, Alaska 

Department of Environmental 

Conservation, and Alaska Department of 

Law. 

The Committee consists of 10 

members to reflect balanced 

representation from each of the 

following principal interests: 

aquaculture/mariculture, commercial 

tourism, conservation/environmental, 

recreation, subsistence use, commercial 

fishing, native landownership, sport 

hunting/fishing, science/technology, 

and public-at-large. We are soliciting 

nominations for seven positions that 

represent aquaculture/mariculture, 

commercial tourism, recreation, 

subsistence use, commercial fishing, 

native landownership, and public-atlarge interests. The Committee members 

will be selected and appointed by the 

Secretary of the Interior to serve a fouryear term. 

Nomination Process: Nominations for 

membership may be submitted by any 

source. Nominations should include a 

re ́sume ́ providing an adequate 

description of the nominee’s 

qualifications, including information 

that would enable the Department of the 

Interior to evaluate the nominee’s ability 

to meet Committee membership 

requirements and to contact a potential 

member. 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. ch. 10. 

Lisa M. Fox, 

Regional Environmental Officer, Office of 

Environmental Policy and Compliance. 

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