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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kyle 

Hensley, (503) 808–6132, Branch of 

Geographic Sciences, Bureau of Land 

Management, 1220 SW. 3rd Avenue, 

Portland, Oregon 97204. Persons who 

use a telecommunications device for the 

deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1– 

800–877–8339 to contact the above 

individual during normal business 

hours. The FIRS is available 24 hours a 

day, 7 days a week, to leave a message 

or question with the above individual. 

You will receive a reply during normal 

business hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A person 

or party who wishes to protest against 

this survey must file a written notice 

with the Oregon State Director, Bureau 

of Land Management, stating that they 

wish to protest. A statement of reasons 

for a protest may be filed with the notice 

of protest and must be filed with the 

Oregon State Director within thirty days 

after the protest is filed. If a protest 

against the survey is received prior to 

the date of official filing, the filing will 

be stayed pending consideration of the 

protest. A plat will not be officially filed 

until the day after all protests have been 

dismissed or otherwise resolved. 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. 

Timothy J. Moore, 

Acting Chief Cadastral Surveyor of Oregon/ 

Washington. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R4–R–2014–N152; 

FXRS12650400000S3–123–FF04R02000] 

Theodore Roosevelt and Holt Collier 

National Wildlife Refuges, Mississippi; 

Draft Comprehensive Conservation 

Plan and Environmental Assessment 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability; request 

for comments. 

SUMMARY: We, the Fish and Wildlife 

Service (Service), announce the 

availability of a Draft Comprehensive 

Conservation Plan and Environmental 

Assessment (Draft CCP/EA) for 

Theodore Roosevelt and Holt Collier 

National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs) in 

Sharkey and Washington Counties, 

Mississippi, for public review and 

comment. In this Draft CCP/EA, we 

describe the alternative proposed to 

manage these refuges for the 15 years 

following approval of the final CCP. 

DATES: To ensure consideration, we 

must receive your written comments by 

April 13, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may obtain a copy of 

the Draft CCP/EA by contacting Justin 

Sexton, Refuge Manager, by mail at 

Yazoo National Wildlife Refuge, 595 

Yazoo Refuge Rd., Hollandale, MS 

38748, or by phone at (662) 839–2638. 

Alternatively, you may download the 

document from our Internet Site at 

http://southeast.fws.gov/planning under 

‘‘Draft Documents.’’ Comments on the 

Draft CCP/EA may be submitted to the 

above postal address or by email to 

Justin Sexton at Justin_Sexton@fws.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Justin Sexton, (662) 839–2638 (phone) 

or Justin_Sexton@fws.gov (email). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Introduction 

With this notice, we continue the CCP 

process, which started through a notice 

in the Federal Register on July 30, 2013 

(78 FR 18231). For more about the 

refuges and our CCP process, please see 

that notice. 

The refuges are located in Central 

Mississippi. They are two of seven 

refuges in the Theodore Roosevelt NWR 

Complex. The two refuges were 

established for conservation purposes. 

The enacting legislation for both refuges 

is section 145 of Public Law 108–199, 

the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 

2004. This Act renamed The Bogue 

Phalia Unit of Yazoo NWR as Holt 

Collier NWR. This is the first NWR to 

be named in honor of an African 

American historical legend and famed 

hunting guide to President Roosevelt. 

Legislative authority for Holt Collier 

NWR therefore also comes from the Fish 

and Wildlife Coordination Act, which 

established Yazoo NWR. 

Holt Collier NWR consists of 

approximately 2,233 acres of Farm 

Service Agency lands in Washington 

County, and it is located 5 miles east of 

Hollandale in the Darlove area. Its 

approved acquisition boundary is 

18,000 acres. The refuge is open yearround for wildlife-related activities such 

as hunting, wildlife observation, and 

nature photography. The refuge habitat 

is former agricultural lands, most of 

which, in the past 15 years, have been 

reforested to bottomland hardwood. 

Theodore Roosevelt NWR is located 

in Sharkey County south of Cary, 

Mississippi. Congress authorized 6,600 

acres to be acquired through donation 

and land exchange. To date 1,674 acres 

have been established in fee title. The 

habitat consists mainly of converted, 

agricultural lands now reforested to 

trees more indicative of the native 

bottomland hardwood forest. Farmlands 

and open water also occur. The refuge 

is not open to the public. There are no 

public facilities located on either refuge. 

Background 

The CCP Process 

The National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) 

System Improvement Act of 1997 

(Improvement Act) requires us to 

develop a CCP for each national wildlife 

refuge. CCPs are developed to provide 

refuge managers with a 15-year plan for 

achieving refuges’ purposes and 

contributing toward the mission of the 

NWR System, consistent with sound 

principles of fish and wildlife 

management, conservation, legal 

mandates, and our policies. CCPs 

describe a broad management direction 

for conserving wildlife and their 

habitats. They propose wildlifedependent recreational opportunities to 

be made available to the public. These 

include opportunities for hunting, 

fishing, wildlife observation, wildlife 

photography, and environmental 

education and interpretation. We will 

review the CCP annually and revise it as 

needed in accordance with the 

Improvement Act. 

Priority resource issues addressed in 

the Draft CCP/EA include: Fish and 

Wildlife Populations, Habitat 

Management, Resource Protection, 

Visitor Services, and Refuge 

Administration. See Chapter III in the 

Draft CCP for a full description. 

CCP Alternatives, Including Our 

Proposed Alternative (B) 

We developed three alternatives for 

managing the refuge (Alternatives A, B, 

and C), with Alternative B as our 

proposed alternative. A full description 

of each alternative is in the CCP 

(Chapter IV) and Chapters III and IV of 

the EA. We summarize each alternative 

below. 

Alternative A: Current Management (No 

Action) 

Alternative A continues the refuges’ 

limited management activities and 

programs at levels similar to the current 

and past few years of management. 

Theodore Roosevelt NWR would remain 

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closed until a sufficient land area is 

accumulated to accommodate public 

use. 

We would continue to approve and 

support Special Use Permits to outside 

agencies to conduct research on the 

refuges. While there is no active 

research or management for listed 

species that may occur on the refuges, 

the Service supports State research 

efforts for the Louisiana black bear. 

Waterfowl are the priority species for 

management on the Complex. Both 

refuges have a passive role in providing 

sanctuary for waterfowl. Native wildlife 

species benefit from waterfowl and 

timber management on the Complex. At 

Holt Collier NWR, hunting programs 

aim to manage white-tailed deer and 

there are partnerships for healthy herd 

efforts and studies. 

The refuges’ primary mission is to 

provide sanctuary for wildlife, 

particularly migratory birds (waterfowl). 

Major reforestation efforts in recent 

decades returned converted agricultural 

lands to bottomland hardwood forest. 

The Service would continue to acquire 

lands to grow the refuges. There is no 

active management of forest or water 

resources. Invasive species such as feral 

swine would be controlled, and grant 

opportunities and partnerships would 

be pursued to fund and/or conduct 

trapping. 

Efforts to promote visitor safety, 

protect resources, and ensure public 

compliance with refuge regulations 

would continue as a collateral duty of 

one law enforcement officer for three 

refuges. Complex personnel also 

provide safety and refuge regulation 

information. A law enforcement stepdown plan is under development for the 

Complex. In keeping with the Service’s 

responsibilities under cultural and 

historic preservation laws, cultural 

resource protection is addressed in 

refuge operations. 

The Delta area is known for its 

cultural history, and these refuges were 

created to honor and promote it. The 

Consolidated Appropriations Act of 

2004 established the refuges and 

appropriated funds for an 

environmental education and 

interpretive center. The Congressional 

sponsors of the Act intended for it to be 

named for Holt Collier, a historic figure 

of the area. The Service would 

incorporate the environmental 

education and interpretive facilities 

within a Visitor Center for the Complex 

located at Theodore Roosevelt NWR. 

Efforts would continue to identify a site 

for the Visitor Center to showcase the 

Delta’s rich cultural heritage. At present 

the Complex provides information and 

interpretation via its and each refuge’s 

Web sites and by staffing events or 

public talks. There are no volunteer or 

Friends programs to provide a base of 

support for staff assistance. 

Access to both refuges is via State 

roads and highways that pass through 

the refuges. Wildlife viewing 

opportunities for both refuges are 

limited. Theodore Roosevelt NWR is 

closed to public use, and Holt Collier 

NWR has limited public use, mainly 

hunting. The only facility on either 

refuge is the hunter information station 

at Holt Collier NWR. When Theodore 

Roosevelt NWR has acquired enough 

land to support public use, it would be 

opened to wildlife-dependent public 

uses including hunting and fishing. No 

funding would be sought for positions 

to further manage the refuges. 

Alternative B: Minimally Developed 

Refuges 

As these are newer refuges authorized 

by Congress in 2004, the focus of this 

plan is to develop them. Congress 

established the refuges with a mandate 

to expand them to their designated land 

acreages. Therefore, our efforts over the 

next 15 years will be focused on land 

acquisition to build-out the refuges to 

their approved acquisition boundaries. 

Passive habitat protection and the 

addition of new resource lands 

beneficial to wildlife will help preserve 

habitat in perpetuity and to lessen 

fragmentation. This plan has the 

objective of providing sanctuary to 

migratory species as a group, not just 

priority waterfowl species. White-tailed 

deer management would continue 

through the Holt Collier NWR hunt 

program and eventually at Theodore 

Roosevelt NWR. Integrated damage 

control of invasive and nuisance species 

would lessen the negative effects on the 

refuges’ habitats. 

Another primary focus of the plan is 

to create a visitor services program to 

enhance environmental education and 

outreach efforts substantially and to 

reach larger numbers of residents, 

students, educators, and visitors. It 

places priority on wildlife-dependent 

uses, such as hunting, fishing and 

wildlife observation. The details of 

these allowable uses are specified in 

appropriate use and compatibility 

determinations (Appendices E and F). 

Priority public uses, such as hunting, 

are allowed at Holt Collier NWR. At a 

time when sufficient land is amassed to 

allow for ample public use 

opportunities, Theodore Roosevelt NWR 

would be opened to hunting. Public use 

would be phased into both refuges. 

Compatibility determinations are 

updated and proposed for the priority 

public uses and for research and 

monitoring. For both refuges, some 

commercial uses would be allowed 

under a Commercial Special Use Permit, 

including commercial photography, 

firewood gathering, timber harvest for 

forest management, and trapping. 

The Consolidated Appropriations Act 

of 2004 appropriated funds for a Visitor 

Center to provide visitor services and to 

promote the Delta area’s natural 

resources and cultural heritage. A major 

focus of this plan and Service efforts 

will be to site, build, and staff the 

Visitor Center. Key interpretive 

messages would focus on natural 

resources (e.g., Louisiana black bear) 

and cultural heritage and would reach a 

broader audience and geographic area. 

Currently the Service is working on 

accepting a 5-acre land donation and 

purchasing the adjacent 20 acres to 

serve as the site for the Visitor Center. 

All preliminary, site-suitability work 

has been completed. Once a location is 

secured for the Visitor Center, regular 

Service procedures would be followed 

for site and building design and 

construction. Staffing is proposed to run 

the Visitor Center, to provide 

environmental and interpretive 

programs, and to coordinate volunteers. 

This CCP assumes a modest growth of 

refuge resources over its 15-year 

implementation period. This plan 

proposes to staff the refuges with three 

new positions as new funding is 

available. Current partnerships would 

be maintained and new ones would be 

sought. Daily operation of the refuges 

will be guided by this CCP and through 

the implementation of nine projects and 

six step-down management plans as 

detailed in Chapter V, Plan 

Implementation. 

The goals, objectives, and strategies 

presented are the Service’s responses to 

the issues, concerns, and needs 

expressed by the planning team, refuge 

partners, and the public. They reflect 

the Service’s commitment to achieve the 

mandates of the Improvement Act, the 

mission of the Refuge System, and the 

purposes and vision of the refuges. 

Assuming adequate resources are 

provided through Congressional budget 

and grant funding, the Service aims to 

accomplish these goals, objectives, and 

strategies within the next 15 years. 

Alternative C: Optional Alternative 

Like Alternative B, Alternative C 

presents a management scenario in 

which the newer refuges are minimally 

developed to allow for basic natural 

resource management, for the promotion 

of cultural heritage, and for wildlifedependent public use. It also provides 

for modest staffing and management 

capability, adding three positions to the 

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three identified in Alternative B. 

Whereas the facilities for public use will 

mainly be off site and associated with 

the administrative Visitors Center site 

for both Alternatives A and B, 

Alternative C adds facilities to the 

refuges proper to provide for basic 

visitor use and to promote wildlifedependent recreation, mainly fishing 

and wildlife observation and 

photography. The refuges would add a 

maintenance compound on each refuge 

and visitor services facilities to promote 

access and use. These include adding a 

system of trails for each refuge and 

providing fishing access via a primitive 

boat launch at Coon Bayou. To enhance 

wildlife viewing, a photography 

observation platform and/or photo 

blinds would be constructed at each 

refuge. 

The Service would expand its survey 

and monitoring of priority species as 

proposed in Alternative B to obtain 

baseline data for native species, none of 

which have been inventoried or their 

presence documented (e.g., selected 

mammals, fish, reptiles, amphibians and 

invertebrates). Also, active habitat 

management (e.g., cooperative farming, 

moist soil management) could occur. 

Nuisance animal control and invasive 

plant species management would 

continue as described in Alternative B 

and conducted opportunistically. 

Alternative C includes adding the 

positions proposed in Alternative B plus 

three others: A Federal Wildlife Officer 

position, a Visitor Services Specialist, 

and an office/administrative assistant or 

clerk position, which, among 

administrative duties, would serve as a 

receptionist at the Visitor Center. With 

additional staffing, the Visitor Center 

could be open more hours. 

Next Step 

After the comment period ends, we 

will analyze the comments and address 

them. 

Public Availability 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. 

Authority 

This notice is published under the 

authority of the National Wildlife 

Refuge System Improvement Act of 

1997 (16 U.S.C. 668dd et seq.). 

Dated: January 5, 2015. 

Mike Oetker, 

Acting Regional Director. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLCA942000 L57000000.BX0000 14X 

L5017AR] 

Filing of Plats of Survey: California 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The plats of survey of lands 

described below are scheduled to be 

officially filed in the Bureau of Land 

Management, California State Office, 

Sacramento, California. 

DATES: April 13, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: A copy of the plats may be 

obtained from the California State 

Office, Bureau of Land Management, 

2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, 

California 95825, upon required 

payment. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Chief, Branch of Geographic Services, 

Bureau of Land Management, California 

State Office, 2800 Cottage Way W–1623, 

Sacramento, California 95825, (916) 

978–4310. Persons who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1 (800) 877–8339 

to contact the above individual during 

normal business hours. The FIRS is 

available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 

to leave a message or question with the 

above individual. You will receive a 

reply during normal business hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A person 

or party who wishes to protest a survey 

must file a notice that they wish to 

protest with the Chief, Branch of 

Geographic Services. A statement of 

reasons for a protest may be filed with 

the notice of protest and must be filed 

with the Chief, Branch of Geographic 

Services within thirty days after the 

protest is filed. If a protest against the 

survey is received prior to the date of 

official filing, the filing will be stayed 

pending consideration of the protest. A 

plat will not be officially filed until the 

day after all protests have been 

dismissed or otherwise resolved. 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. 

Mount Diablo Meridian, California 

T. 32 S., R. 16 E., dependent resurvey and 

subdivision, accepted February 12, 2015. 

T. 39 N., R. 14 E., dependent resurvey and 

subdivision, accepted February 12, 2015. 

San Bernardino Meridian, California 

T. 7 S., R. 13 E., addendum plat of section 

21, accepted February 12, 2015. 

T. 7 S., R. 13 E., addendum plat of section 

13, accepted February 12, 2015. 

Authority: 43 U.S.C., Chapter 3. 

Dated: March 5, 2015. 

Lance J. Bishop, 

Chief Cadastral Surveyor, California. 

[FR Doc. 2015–05785 Filed 3–12–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–40–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Antitrust Division 

Notice Pursuant to the National 

Cooperative Research and Production 

Act of 1993; Pistoia Alliance, Inc. 

Notice is hereby given that, on 

February 12, 2015, pursuant to Section 

6(a) of the National Cooperative 

Research and Production Act of 1993, 

15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (‘‘the Act’’), 

Pistoia Alliance, Inc. has filed written 

notifications simultaneously with the 

Attorney General and the Federal Trade 

Commission disclosing changes in its 

membership. The notifications were 

filed for the purpose of extending the 

Act’s provisions limiting the recovery of 

antitrust plaintiffs to actual damages 

under specified circumstances. 

Specifically, Amgen, Thousand Oaks, 

CA; quattro research GmbH, Munich, 

GERMANY; Cambridgene, Cambridge, 

Cambridgeshire, UNITED KINGDOM; 

Dotmatics Limited, Bishop Stortford, 

Hertfordshire, UNITED KINGDOM; Paul 

Willer (individual member), Sudbury, 

Suffolk, UNITED KINGDOM; H. 

Lundbeck A/S, Valby, DENMARK; and 

Jeeva Informatics Solutions, Derwood, 

MD, have been added as parties to this 

venture. 

Also, ChemITment, Amston, CT; 

Progenus, Namur, BELGIUM; Answer 

Consulting, Woking, UNITED 

KINGDOM; IrisNote, Inc., Columbus, 

OH; Blue Reference, Inc., Bend, OR; and 

Ingrid Akerblom, Lansdale, PA, have 

withdrawn as parties to this venture. 

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