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the NPS requests comments be 

submitted by May 15, 2015. The NPS 

intends to hold public open house 

meetings on the Livestock Grazing and 

Trailing Management Plan EIS in 

Torrey, Utah, in Hanksville, Utah, and 

via webinar during this scoping period. 

Specific dates, times, and locations will 

be made available via a press release to 

local media, a public scoping newsletter 

to be mailed or emailed to interested 

parties, and on the NPS’s Planning, 

Environment and Public Comment 

(PEPC) Web site at http://

parkplanning.nps.gov/care_lgtmp _eis. 

The NPS will provide additional 

opportunities for the public to offer 

written comments upon publication of 

the draft EIS. 

ADDRESSES: Information will be 

available for public review online at 

http://parkplanning.nps.gov/care_

lgtmp_eis; and in the Capitol Reef 

National Park offices at 52 W. 

Headquarters Drive, Torrey, UT 84775. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Contact Terry Fisk, Capitol Reef 

National Park Chief Resource 

Management and Science, or Leah 

McGinnis, Capitol Reef National Park 

Superintendent, at HC 70 Box 15, 

Torrey, UT 84775, or by telephone at 

(435) 425–4100. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

fundamental purpose of the national 

park system is the conservation of our 

nation’s natural and cultural heritage on 

park lands for the enjoyment of current 

and future generations. In some cases, 

Congress has mandated or authorized 

the continuation of pre-existing uses on 

park lands in the legislation establishing 

or authorizing a park unit, while still 

recognizing that the National Park 

Service (NPS) must manage such uses 

consistent with its overarching 

conservation mission. 

This conservation mission extends to 

all units of the national park system, 

including Capitol Reef National Park 

(Park), where Congress directed the 

Secretary of the Interior, to allow certain 

activities to continue on park lands 

under Public Law 92–207 and 100–446. 

Currently, two of the 19 livestock 

grazing permits that existed prior to the 

establishment of the Park—the Hartnet 

and Sandy 3 allotments—are still active. 

In addition, eight pre-existing stock 

trails used by 7 permittees still cross the 

Park: Jones Bench, Grey Bench/

Cathedral Valley, Highway 24, Oak 

Creek, Pleasant Creek, Notom Road, 

Divide Canyon and Dry Bench. The 

legislation for the park directs that 

livestock grazing permittees who legally 

used park lands when the Park was 

established may continue the practice 

during their lifetimes and the lifetimes 

of their children who were born on or 

before establishment of the park. The 

legislation for the Park also directs that 

livestock trailing be allowed to continue 

in perpetuity across the Park on 

traditional courses used by owners and 

operators of cattle herds prior to 

December 18, 1971. 

Historically, the NPS relied on the 

Bureau of Land Management to permit 

and manage livestock grazing in the 

Park. However, between 2000 and 2010, 

the NPS assumed sole management 

responsibility for the two active grazing 

allotments in the Park. As a result, the 

NPS is preparing a plan/EIS to provide 

guidance to the Park and its permit 

holders to promote the shared 

conservation and stewardship of the 

Park’s natural resources, ecological 

processes, and cultural resources while 

still permitting livestock grazing and 

trailing in accordance with the Park’s 

enabling legislation. A plan is needed 

because the park currently lacks a 

comprehensive approach for managing 

livestock grazing and trailing in a 

manner that addresses the potential 

impacts of these activities on the Park’s 

resources, including plants and animals 

listed under the Endangered Species Act 

and cultural resources protected under 

the National Historic Preservation Act. 

The NPS is the lead agency in this 

planning and EIS process. Other 

agencies with special expertise have 

accepted an invitation or requested to be 

cooperating agencies in the plan and EIS 

process, including the Bureau of Land 

Management; Emery County, Utah; 

Garfield County, Utah; Wayne County, 

Utah; and the State of Utah. 

The Park has already held preliminary 

discussions with technical specialists 

from these cooperating and other 

agencies and its permit holders. 

Through these discussions, the park has 

identified potential practices and tools 

that will be evaluated, along with any 

others that are identified through the 

public scoping process, to create 

alternatives for a long-term livestock 

grazing and trailing management plan. 

The practices and tools identified 

initially range from increased 

collaboration and communication with 

permittees, adjacent land managers, and 

visitors; to phased, adaptive 

implementation (based on monitoring 

results for desired resource and range 

conditions) of constructed 

improvements (e.g., fencing) and active 

livestock management practices (e.g., 

ongoing, ‘‘hands-on’’ management 

including potential adjustments to 

timing, duration, intensity, and 

distribution of grazing and trailing). 

The NPS has prepared a scoping 

newsletter that provides more 

information regarding the scope of the 

Livestock Grazing and Trailing 

Management Plan EIS, including the 

initial practices and tools under 

consideration. The newsletter has been 

distributed to interested parties and will 

be posted, along with other scoping 

materials, to the NPS PEPC Web site at 

http://parkplanning.nps.gov/care_

lgtmp_eis. 

If you wish to comment during the 

scoping process, the preferred method 

for submitting comments is on the NPS 

PEPC Web site at http://

parkplanning.nps.gov/care_lgtmp_eis. 

You may also mail comments to Capitol 

Reef National Park at HC 70 Box 15, 

Torrey, UT 84775, or hand-deliver them 

to 52 W. Headquarters Drive, Torrey, UT 

84775. 

Comments will also be accepted 

during public meetings; however, 

comments in any format (hard copy or 

electronic) submitted on behalf of others 

will not be accepted. 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. 

Dated: February 24, 2015. 

Sue E. Masica, 

Regional Director, Intermountain Region, 

National Park Service. 

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National Park Service 

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Notice of Public Meetings and 

Teleconferences for the National Park 

Service Alaska Region Subsistence 

Resource Commission Program 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Meeting Notices. 

SUMMARY: As required by the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. 

Appendix 1–16), the National Park 

Service (NPS) is hereby giving notice 

that the Cape Krusenstern National 

Monument Subsistence Resource 

Commission (SRC), the Gates of the 

Arctic National Park SRC, and the Lake 


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Clark National Park SRC will hold 

meetings to develop and continue work 

on NPS subsistence program 

recommendations, and other related 

regulatory proposals and resource 

management issues. The NPS SRC 

program is authorized by Section 808 of 

the Alaska National Interest Lands 

Conservation Act, (16 U.S.C. 3118), title 

VIII. 

Cape Krusenstern National Monument 

SRC Meeting/Teleconference Date and 

Location: The Cape Krusenstern 

National Monument SRC will meet from 

9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. or until business 

is completed on Tuesday, March 31, 

2015, at the Northwest Arctic Heritage 

Center in Kotzebue, AK. Teleconference 

participants must call the Cape 

Krusenstern National Monument office 

at (907) 442–3890 by Monday, March 

30, 2015, prior to the meeting to receive 

teleconference passcode information. 

For more detailed information regarding 

this meeting or if you are interested in 

applying for SRC membership, contact 

Designated Federal Official Frank Hays, 

Superintendent, at (907) 442–3890, or 

via email frank_hays@nps.gov, or 

Clarence Summers, Subsistence 

Manager, at (907) 644–3603 or via email 

clarence_summers@nps.gov. 

Gates of The Arctic National Park SRC 

Meeting/Teleconference Dates and 

Location: The Gates of the Arctic 

National Park SRC will meet from 9:00 

a.m. to 5:00 p.m. or until business is 

completed on Tuesday, April 21, 2015, 

and Wednesday, April 22, 2015, at the 

Allakaket Public School in Allakaket, 

AK. Teleconference participants must 

contact Marcy Okada, Subsistence 

Manager, at (907) 457–5752 or via email 

marcy_okadar@nps.gov by Friday, April 

17, 2015, prior to the meeting to receive 

teleconference passcode information. 

For more detailed information regarding 

this meeting, or if you are interested in 

applying for SRC membership, contact 

Designated Federal Official Greg 

Dudgeon, Superintendent, at (907) 457– 

5752, or via email greg_dudgeon@

nps.gov, or Clarence Summers, 

Subsistence Manager, at (907) 644–3603, 

or via email clarence_summers@

nps.gov. 

Lake Clark National Park SRC 

Meeting/Teleconference Date and 

Location: The Lake Clark National Park 

SRC will meet from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 

p.m. or until business is completed on 

Wednesday, April 22, 2015, at the 

Community Center in Pedro Bay, AK. 

Teleconference participants must call 

the Lake Clark National Park office at 

(907) 644–3626, by Monday, April 20, 

2015, prior to the meeting to receive 

teleconference passcode information. 

For more detailed information regarding 

this meeting, or if you are interested in 

applying for SRC membership, contact 

Designated Federal Official Margaret 

Goodro, Superintendent, at (907) 644– 

3626, or via email margaret_goodro@

nps.gov, or Clarence Summers, 

Subsistence Manager, at (907) 644–3603, 

or via email clarence_summers@

nps.gov. 

Proposed Meeting Agenda: The 

agenda may change to accommodate 

SRC business. The proposed meeting 

agenda for each meeting includes the 

following: 

1. Call to Order—Confirm Quorum 

2. Welcome and Introductions 

3. Review and Adoption of Agenda 

4. Approval of Minutes 

5. Superintendent’s Welcome and Review of 

the Commission Purpose 

6. Commission Membership Status 

7. SRC Chair and Members’ Reports 

8. Superintendent’s Report—NPS 

9. Old Business 

10. New Business 

11. Federal Subsistence Board Update 

12. Alaska Boards of Fish and Game Update 

13. National Park Service Reports 

a. Ranger Update 

b. Resource Management Update 

c. Subsistence Manager’s Report 

14. Public and Other Agency Comments 

15. Work Session 

16. Set Tentative Date and Location for Next 

SRC Meeting 

17. Adjourn Meeting 

SRC meeting locations and dates may 

change based on inclement weather or 

exceptional circumstances. If the 

meeting date and location are changed, 

the Superintendent will issue a press 

release and use local newspapers and 

radio stations to announce the 

rescheduled meeting. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: SRC 

meetings are open to the public and will 

have time allocated for public 

testimony. The public is welcome to 

present written or oral comments to the 

SRC. SRC meetings will be recorded and 

meeting minutes will be available upon 

request from the Superintendent for 

public inspection approximately six 

weeks after the meeting. Before 

including your address, telephone 

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 may 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. 

Dated: March 10, 2015. 

Alma Ripps, 

Chief, Office of Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

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Endangered Species Recovery Permit 

Applications 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of receipt of permit 

applications; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, invite the public to 

comment on the following applications 

to conduct certain activities with 

endangered species. With some 

exceptions, the Endangered Species Act 

(Act) prohibits activities with 

endangered and threatened species 

unless a Federal permit allows such 

activity. The Act also requires that we 

invite public comment before issuing 

recovery permits to conduct certain 

activities with endangered species. 

DATES: Comments on these permit 

applications must be received on or 

before April 15, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Written data or comments 

should be submitted to the Endangered 

Species Program Manager, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, Region 8, 2800 Cottage 

Way, Room W–2606, Sacramento, CA 

95825 (telephone: 916–414–6464; fax: 

916–414–6486). Please refer to the 

respective permit number for each 

application when submitting comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Daniel Marquez, Fish and Wildlife 

Biologist; see ADDRESSES (telephone: 

760–431–9440; fax: 760–431–9624). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

following applicants have applied for 

scientific research permits to conduct 

certain activities with endangered 

species under section 10(a)(1)(A) of the 

Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). We seek 

review and comment from local, State, 

and Federal agencies and the public on 

the following permit requests. 

Applicants 

Permit No. TE–67390A 

Applicant: Benjamin J. Smith, Mission 

Viejo, California 

The applicant requests a permit 

renewal to take (harass by survey) the 

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