Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 9 / Friday, January 12, 2001 / Notices 2925

Rhode Island National Wildlife Refuge

Complex, Shoreline Plaza Route 1A,

P.O. Box 307, Charlestown, Rhode

Island 02813, telephone 401–364–9124.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The draft

Comprehensive Conservation Plan and

Environmental Assessment fully

describes, evaluates, and compares four

alternatives for managing the natural

resources and public use opportunities

on the Rhode Island National Wildlife

Refuge Complex. One of the alternatives

represents the Service’s Proposed

Action. The four alternatives are:

Alternative A

This is the No Action Alternative

required by the Council of

Environmental Quality’s regulations on

the implementation of the National

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).

Selection of this alternative would not

change our current management

programs on any of the five refuges. Our

land acquisition program would

continue to be focused on the 735 acres

remaining within the currently

approved acquisition boundaries. We

would continue to emphasize

management for the federally threatened

piping plover and restoration of earlysuccessional coastal sandplain habitats

and wetlands. Public use opportunities

would not change appreciably.

Alternative B

Alternative B is the Service’s

Proposed Action; that is, the alternative

currently recommended for approval.

Selection of this alternative would

expand all Refuge boundaries,

increasing our current land acquisition

goal by 3,200 acres. Alternative B would

increase protection and management for

endangered, threatened, and other

species of concern, increase restoration

of early-successional native habitats and

wetlands, and increase biological

inventories and monitoring.

Opportunities would increase for all six

priority public uses, which include

hunting, fishing, wildlife observation

and photography, environmental

education and interpretation.

Compatibility determinations for the

proposed priority public use activities

are included as an appendix to the

document. These compatibility

determinations establish which public

uses support the achievement of refuge

purposes or the National Wildlife

Refuge System mission and would be

allowed on refuge land.

Alternative C

This alternative would also increase

protection, management, restoration,

monitoring and inventories of species

and habitats similar to Alternative B.

However, selection of this alternative

would increase our current land

acquisition goal by 11,500 acres. Refuge

staff would take the lead in

accomplishing interagency, watershedbased planning initiatives, respective

recovery team tasks, and ecosystem

team priorities. This alternative would

eliminate existing incompatible, nonwildlife dependent uses by 2002, three

years sooner than the other alternatives.

Environmental education would be

emphasized over other priority public

uses on each refuge.

Alternative D

This alternative would maintain

current biological resource program

priorities, which include protecting

piping plover, and managing earlysuccessional native habitats and

wetlands. Selection of this alternative

would pursue the current land

acquisition goal of 735 acres, similar to

Alternative A. This alternative is

distinguished from the others by the

amount of resources directed towards

expanding all priority public use

opportunities on each refuge.

Dated: January 8, 2001.

Dr. Mamie A. Parker,

Acting Regional Director, U.S. Fish and

Wildlife Service, Hadley, Massachusetts.

[FR Doc. 01–1021 Filed 1–11–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

Notice of Receipt of Applications for

Permit; Endangered Species

The following applicants have

applied for a permit to conduct certain

activities with endangered species. This

notice is provided pursuant to Section

10(c) of the Endangered Species Act of

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

seq.). Written data or comments should

be submitted to the Director, U.S. Fish

and Wildlife Service, Division of

Management Authority, 4401 North

Fairfax Drive, Room 700, Arlington,

Virginia 22203 and must be received by

the Director within 30 days of the date

of this publication.

Applicant: Henry Doorly Zoo, Omaha,

NE, PRT–035467

The applicant requests a permit to

export cryopreserved semen collected

from one captive born male gorilla

(Gorilla gorilla) to the Johannesburg

Zoological Gardens, Parkview, South

Africa for the purpose of enhancement

of the survival of the species through

captive propagation by artificial

insemination.

Applicant: Rosita H. Roden, New

York, NY, PRT—037356

The applicant requests a permit to

import headdresses and other

indigenous ceremonial products derived

from wild Harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja)

Razor-billed curassow (Mitu mitu),

Jabiru (Jabiru mycteria), and Woolly

spider monkey (Brachyteles

arachnoides) from the Amazon

Rainforest in Brazil. The purpose of the

import is to enhance the survival of the

species.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife has

information collection approval from

OMB through February 28, 2001. OMB

Control Number 1018–0093. Federal

Agencies may not conduct or sponsor

and a person is not required to respond

to a collection of information unless it

displays a current valid OMB control

number.

Documents and other information

submitted with these applications are

available for review, subject to the

requirements of the Privacy Act and

Freedom of Information Act, by any

party who submits a written request for

a copy of such documents to the

following office within 30 days of the

date of publication of this notice: U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of

Management Authority, 4401 North

Fairfax Drive, Room 700, Arlington,

Virginia 22203. Phone: (703/358–2104);

Fax: (703/358–2281).

Dated: January 8, 2000.

Anna Barry,

Branch of Permits, Division of Management

Authority.

[FR Doc. 01–1012 Filed 1–11–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

Klamath River Basin Fisheries Task

Force; Meeting

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to section 10(a)(2) of

the Federal Advisory Committee Act (5

U.S.C. App. I), this notice announces a

meeting of the Klamath River Basin

Fisheries Task Force, established under

the authority of the Klamath River Basin

Fishery Resources Restoration Act (16

U.S.C. 460ss et seq.). The meeting is

open to the public.

DATES: The Klamath River Basin

Fisheries Task Force (Task Force) will

meet from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on February

8, 2001, and from 8 a.m. to 3:45 p.m. on

February 9, 2001.