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regarding the establishment and 

implementation of existing and 

proposed policies and authorities with 

regard to wildlife and habitat 

conservation endeavors that benefit 

wildlife resources; encourage 

partnership among the public, sporting 

conservation organizations, and Federal, 

State, Tribal, and Territorial 

governments; and benefit recreational 

hunting and recreational shooting 

sports. 

DATES: Comments regarding the reestablishment of the Council charter 

must be submitted no later than March 

12, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

via email to doug_hobbs@fws.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Douglas Hobbs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, Designated Federal Officer, by 

telephone at (703) 358–2336, or by 

email at doug_hobbs@fws.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 

Hunting and Wildlife Conservation 

Council (Council) is re-established 

under the authority of the Secretary of 

the Interior and regulated by the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, as amended 

(FACA; 5 U.S.C. Ch. 10). The Council’s 

duties are strictly advisory and consist 

of, but are not limited to, providing 

recommendations for implementation of 

Executive Order (E.O.) 13443, 

Facilitation of Hunting Heritage and 

Wildlife Conservation; E.O. 14008, 

Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and 

Abroad; and Secretarial Order 3362, 

Improving Habitat Quality in Western 

Big Game Winter Range and Migration 

Corridors. Duties include, but are not 

limited to: 

A. Assessing and quantifying 

implementation of E.O. 13443, E.O. 

14008, and Secretarial Order 3362 

across relevant departments, agencies, 

and offices and making 

recommendations to enhance and 

expand their implementation as 

identified; 

B. Making recommendations 

regarding policies and programs that 

accomplish the following objectives: 

1. Conserve and restore wetlands, 

grasslands, forests, and other important 

wildlife habitats, and improve 

management of rangelands and 

agricultural lands to benefit wildlife; 

2. Promote opportunities for fair chase 

hunting and safe recreational shooting 

sports and wildlife-associated recreation 

on public and private lands; encourage 

hunting and recreational shooting sports 

safety, including by developing 

sighting-in ranges on public lands; 

recruit and retain hunters; and increase 

public awareness of the importance of 

wildlife conservation and the social and 

economic benefits of fair chase hunting, 

safe recreational shooting sports, and 

wildlife-associated recreation; and 

3. Encourage coordination among the 

public; the hunting and shooting sports 

communities; wildlife conservation 

groups; wildlife-associated recreation 

interests; and Federal, State, Tribal, and 

territorial governments. 

The Council will meet at least two 

times per year. 

Public Disclosure of Comments: 

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. 

Certification Statement: I hereby 

certify that the Hunting and Wildlife 

Conservation Council is necessary, in 

the public interest, and is in connection 

with the performance of duties imposed 

on the Department of the Interior and 

the Department of Agriculture under 43 

U.S.C. 1457 and provisions of the Fish 

and Wildlife Act of 1956 (16 U.S.C. 

742a), the Federal Land Policy and 

Management Act of 1996 (43 U.S.C. 

1701 et seq.), the National Forest 

Management Act of 1976 (16 U.S.C. 

1600 et seq.), the National Wildlife 

Refuge System Improvement Act of 

1997 (16 U.S.C. 668dd-668ee), and 

Executive Order 13443, Facilitation of 

Hunting Heritage and Wildlife 

Conservation. 

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

Deb Haaland, 

Secretary, Department of the Interior. 

[FR Doc. 2024–03828 Filed 2–23–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[Docket No. FWS–HQ–IA–2024–0030; 

FXIA16710900000–245–FF09A30000] 

Foreign Endangered Species; Receipt 

of Permit Applications 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of receipt of permit 

applications; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, invite the public to 

comment on applications to conduct 

certain activities with foreign species 

that are listed as endangered under the 

Endangered Species Act (ESA). With 

some exceptions, the ESA prohibits 

activities with listed species unless 

Federal authorization is issued that 

allows such activities. The ESA also 

requires that we invite public comment 

before issuing permits for any activity 

otherwise prohibited by the ESA with 

respect to any endangered species. 

DATES: We must receive comments by 

March 27, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: 

Obtaining Documents: The 

applications, application supporting 

materials, and any comments and other 

materials that we receive will be 

available for public inspection at 

https://www.regulations.gov in Docket 

No. FWS–HQ–IA–2024–0030. 

Submitting Comments: When 

submitting comments, please specify the 

name of the applicant and the permit 

number at the beginning of your 

comment. You may submit comments 

by one of the following methods: 

• Internet: https://

www.regulations.gov. Search for and 

submit comments on Docket No. FWS– 

HQ–IA–2024–0030. 

• U.S. Mail: Public Comments 

Processing, Attn: Docket No. FWS–HQ– 

IA–2024–0030; U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service Headquarters, MS: PRB/3W; 

5275 Leesburg Pike; Falls Church, VA 

22041–3803. 

For more information, see Public 

Comment Procedures under 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Timothy MacDonald, by phone at 703– 

358–2185 or via email at DMAFR@

fws.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 


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international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Public Comment Procedures 

A. How do I comment on submitted 

applications? 

We invite the public and local, State, 

Tribal, and Federal agencies to comment 

on applications. Before issuing any of 

the requested permits, we will take into 

consideration any information that we 

receive during the public comment 

period. 

You may submit your comments and 

materials by one of the methods in 

ADDRESSES. We will not consider 

comments sent by email or to an address 

not in ADDRESSES. We will not consider 

or include in our administrative record 

comments we receive after the close of 

the comment period (see DATES). 

When submitting comments, please 

specify the name of the applicant and 

the permit number at the beginning of 

your comment. Provide sufficient 

information to allow us to authenticate 

any scientific or commercial data you 

include. The comments and 

recommendations that will be most 

useful and likely to influence agency 

decisions are: (1) Those supported by 

quantitative information or studies; and 

(2) those that include citations to, and 

analyses of, the applicable laws and 

regulations. 

B. May I review comments submitted by 

others? 

You may view and comment on 

others’ public comments at https://

www.regulations.gov unless our 

allowing so would violate the Privacy 

Act (5 U.S.C. 552a) or Freedom of 

Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552). 

C. Who will see my comments? 

If you submit a comment at https://

www.regulations.gov, your entire 

comment, including any personal 

identifying information, will be posted 

on the website. If you submit a 

hardcopy comment that includes 

personal identifying information, such 

as your address, phone number, or 

email address, you may request at the 

top of your document that we withhold 

this information from public review. 

However, we cannot guarantee that we 

will be able to do so. Moreover, 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. 

II. Background 

To help us carry out our conservation 

responsibilities for affected species, and 

in consideration of section 10(c) of the 

Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 

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

we invite public comments on permit 

applications before final action is taken. 

With some exceptions, the ESA 

prohibits certain activities with listed 

species unless Federal authorization is 

issued that allows such activities. 

Permits issued under section 10(a)(1)(A) 

of the ESA allow otherwise prohibited 

activities for scientific purposes or to 

enhance the propagation or survival of 

the affected species. Service regulations 

regarding prohibited activities with 

endangered species, captive-bred 

wildlife registrations, and permits for 

any activity otherwise prohibited by the 

ESA with respect to any endangered 

species are available in title 50 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations in part 17. 

III. Permit Applications 

Applicant: U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service Forensics Laboratory, Ashland, 

OR; Permit No. PER8152300 

The applicant requests a permit to 

import a specimen derived from a 

rhinoceros species (Rhinoceros 

unicornis) from Canada for law 

enforcement purposes. This notification 

is for a single import. 

Applicant: Saint Louis Zoo, St. Louis, 

MO; Permit No. PER8298704 

The applicant requests a permit to reexport two live, captive-born horned 

guans (Oreophasis derbianus) from 

Saint Louis Zoo, Missouri, to Africam 

Safari, Mexico, for the purpose of 

enhancing the propagation or survival of 

the species. This notification is for a 

single re-export. 

Applicant: The Board of Trustees of the 

University of Illinois DBA Sponsored 

Programs Administration, Champaign, 

IL; Permit No. PER7081584 

The applicant requests authorization 

to import biological samples from wild 

or captive-born populations of cheetah 

(Acinonyx jubatus), northern white 

rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum 

cottoni), Sumatran rhinoceros 

(Dicerorhinus sumatrensis), black 

rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis), Asian 

elephant (Elephas maximus), Pakistan 

sand cat (Felis margarita scheffeli), 

black-footed cat (Felis nigripes), largeeared hutia (Capromys auritus), 

Cabrera’s hutia (Capromys 

angelcabrerai), dwarf hutia (Capromys 

nana), little earth hutia (Capromys 

sanfelipensis), lion (Panthera leo leo), 

jaguar (Panthera onca), leopard 

(Panthera pardus), tiger (Panthera 

tigris), Javan rhinoceros (Rhinoceros 

sondaicus), great Indian rhinoceros 

(Rhinoceros unicornis), Cuban 

solenodon (Solenodon cubanus), 

Haitian solenodon (Solenodon 

paradoxus), Central American tapir 

(Tapirus bairdii), and Asian tapir 

(Tapirus indicus) for the purpose of 

scientific research. This notification 

covers activities to be conducted by the 

applicant over a 5-year period. 

IV. Next Steps 

After the comment period closes, we 

will make decisions regarding permit 

issuance. If we issue permits to any of 

the applicants listed in this notice, we 

will publish a notice in the Federal 

Register. You may locate the notice 

announcing the permit issuance by 

searching https://www.regulations.gov 

for the permit number listed above in 

this document. For example, to find 

information about the potential issuance 

of Permit No. 12345A, you would go to 

regulations.gov and search for 

‘‘12345A’’. 

V. Authority 

We issue this notice under the 

authority of the Endangered Species Act 

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

seq.), and its implementing regulations. 

Timothy MacDonald, 

Government Information Specialist, Branch 

of Permits, Division of Management 

Authority. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Geological Survey 

[GX24AC0000EXP00] 

Advisory Committee for Science 

Quality and Integrity Establishment; 

Request for Nominations 

AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey, 

Department of the Interior 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act 

(FACA) of 1972, the U.S. Geological 

Survey (USGS) is establishing and 

seeking nominations for the Advisory 

Committee for Science Quality and 

Integrity (Committee). The Committee 

will advise the Secretary of the Interior 

and the Director of the USGS on matters 

related to the responsibilities of the 

USGS Office of Science Quality and 

Integrity (OSQI) including monitoring 

and enhancing the integrity, quality, 

and health of all USGS science through 


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