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Permit TE–10808A 

Applicant: Sorola Natural Resources 

Consulting, LLC, Del Rio, Texas. 

Applicant requests a new permit for 

research and recovery purposes to 

conduct presence/absence surveys for 

golden-cheeked warbler (Dendroica 

chrysoparia), black-capped vireo (Vireo 

atricapilla), Tobusch fishhook cactus 

(Sclerocactus brevihaatus tobuschii), 

and Texas snowbells (Styrax 

platanifolius) within Texas. 

Permit TE–021340 

Applicant: HDR Engineering, Phoenix, 

Arizona. 

Applicant requests an amendment to 

a current permit for research and 

recovery purposes to conduct presence/ 

absence surveys for southwestern 

willow flycatcher (Empidonax taillii 

extimus) within Texas. 

Permit TE–11152A 

Applicant: Fort Defiance Branch of 

Natural Resources, Fort Defiance, 

Arizona. 

Applicant requests a new permit for 

research and recovery purposes to 

conduct presence/absence surveys for 

southwestern willow flycatcher 

(Empidonax taillii extimus) within 

Arizona and New Mexico. 

Permit TE–212896 

Applicant: University of Florida, 

Gainesville, Florida. 

Applicant requests an amendment to 

a current permit to allow lethal take of 

a limited number of humpback chub 

(Gila cypha) within Arizona. 

Permit TE–001623 

Applicant: American Southwest 

Ichthyological Researchers, LLC, 

Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

Applicant requests an amendment to 

their current permit to conduct 

population monitoring, spawning 

activities, and downstream transport 

studies for Colorado pikeminnow 

(Ptychochelius lucius) and razorback 

sucker (Xyrauchen texanus) in the San 

Juan River Basin, New Mexico. 

Permit TE–13192A 

Applicant: AMEC Earth and 

Environmental, Inc., Albuquerque, 

New Mexico. 

Applicant requests a new permit for 

research and recovery purposes to 

monitor the Alamosa springsnail 

(Tryonia alamosae) in Socorro County, 

New Mexico. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq. 

Dated: May 21, 2010. 

Thomas L. Bauer, 

Regional Director, Southwest Region, Fish 

and Wildlife Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[WY–930–1610–DR] 

Notice of Availability of Record of 

Decision for the Kemmerer Resource 

Management Plan/Environmental 

Impact Statement 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) announces the 

availability of the Record of Decision 

(ROD)/Approved Resource Management 

Plan (RMP) for the Kemmerer Field 

Office planning area located in Lincoln, 

Sweetwater, and Uinta counties, 

Wyoming. The Wyoming State Director 

signed the ROD on May 24, 2010, which 

constitutes the final decision of the BLM 

and makes the Approved RMP effective 

immediately. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the ROD/ 

Approved RMP are available upon 

request from the Field Manager, 

Kemmerer Field Office, Bureau of Land 

Management, 312 Highway 189 North, 

Kemmerer, Wyoming 83101; from the 

Wyoming State Office, Bureau of Land 

Management, 5353 Yellowstone Road, 

Cheyenne, Wyoming 82003; or via the 

Internet at: http://www.blm.gov/rmp/ 

kemmerer/docs.htm. Copies of the ROD/ 

Approved RMP are available for public 

inspection at the addresses listed above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information, contact John 

Christensen, Kemmerer Field Manager, 

or Michele Easley, Kemmerer Assistant 

Field Manager and RMP team leader, at 

the Kemmerer Field Office, 312 

Highway 189 North, Kemmerer, 

Wyoming 83101; telephone at (307) 

828–4500; or e-mail 

John_Christensen@blm.gov and 

Michelle_Easley@blm.gov, respectively. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

approved Kemmerer RMP was revised 

collaboratively with the State of 

Wyoming, county governments, other 

Federal agencies, and tribal 

governments. The Kemmerer RMP 

planning area includes approximately 

1.4 million acres of BLM-administered 

public lands and 1.6 million acres of 

Federal mineral lands under Federal, 

state, and private surface ownership. 

The Approved RMP establishes the 

goals, objectives, and management 

actions to meet desired resource 

conditions; identifies comprehensive 

management direction for all resources 

and uses; identifies lands that are open 

or available for certain uses along with 

associated surface restrictions; and 

identifies lands closed to certain uses. 

The Approved RMP makes broad-scale 

decisions to guide future site-specific 

project implementation for wind energy, 

fluid minerals, and coal resource 

development in the Kemmerer planning 

area. The agency preferred alternative 

(Alternative D, in the Proposed RMP/ 

Final Environmental Impact Statement 

(EIS), with modifications) is the selected 

alternative for the Approved RMP. 

After the publication of the Proposed 

RMP/Final EIS on August 22, 2008, the 

BLM received 10 protest letters. As a 

result of these protests, the BLM made 

modifications to the proposed plan that 

are reflected in the Approved RMP. The 

BLM eliminated Christy Canyon as a 

forage reserve allotment since a lack of 

available water and a short growing 

season preclude full-season emergency 

relief for livestock operations. The BLM 

also made other minor editorial 

modifications in preparing the 

Approved RMP. These modifications 

provided further clarification of some of 

the decisions. 

In addition, the BLM received protests 

asserting that the public was not 

provided adequate opportunity to 

comment on expanded sage-grouse 

restrictions in the Proposed RMP/Final 

EIS. To resolve the issues raised in these 

protests, the Approved RMP adopts the 

sage-grouse restrictions originally 

presented in the Draft RMP/EIS (and 

reflected in the no action alternative in 

the Proposed RMP/Final EIS). The BLM 

Wyoming State Office, however, is also 

initiating the process to amend the 

Kemmerer, Casper, Pinedale, Rock 

Springs, Newcastle, and Rawlins RMPs. 

These RMP amendments will revise 

sage-grouse and sagebrush management 

direction to incorporate policies set 

forth in BLM Wyoming Instruction 

Memoranda (IM) WY–2010–012 and 

WY–2010–013. The IMs may be 

accessed at the following Web address: 

http://www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/ 

programs.wildlife.html. 

To ensure appropriate management of 

sage-grouse habitat during the 

amendment process (and associated 

NEPA analysis), the BLM will undertake 

the following actions: 

1. The BLM will apply the direction 

provided in IM WY–2010–012 and IM 

WY–2010–013 to specific projects, as 

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2. As the BLM considers 

implementing decisions governed by the 

Approved Kemmerer RMP, the BLM 

will coordinate with Federal, state, and 

local agencies to ensure that the policies 

established by the Governor of 

Wyoming’s Executive Order on SageGrouse (E.O. 2008–2), including 

managing sage-grouse habitats in 

support of population objectives 

consistent with the Governor’s SageGrouse Core Population Area strategy, 

are considered and implemented, as 

appropriate. 

3. The BLM will apply expanded 

sage-grouse restrictions when supported 

by site-specific environmental analysis. 

4. The BLM will make use of 

statewide sage-grouse seasonal habitat 

models and sagebrush mapping as they 

are developed. 

5. The BLM will provide for 

additional sage-grouse protections 

through a statewide oil and gas lease 

stipulation—Lease Notice No.3: ‘‘Greater 

Sage-Grouse Habitat: The lease may in 

part, or in total, contain important 

Greater sage-grouse habitats as 

identified by the BLM, either currently 

or prospectively. The operator may be 

required to implement specific 

measures to reduce impacts of oil and 

gas operations on the Greater sagegrouse populations and habitat quality. 

Such measures shall be developed 

during the Application for Permit to 

Drill (APD) on-site and environmental 

review process and will be consistent 

with the lease rights granted.’’ 

The Governor’s consistency review of 

the Proposed RMP/Final EIS identified 

a concern which prompted the BLM to 

clarify the definition of surfacedisturbing activity to maintain 

consistency with other BLM Wyoming 

Field Offices. 

The decisions identifying designated 

routes of travel and closures for 

motorized vehicles are implementation 

decisions and are appealable under 43 

CFR part 4. These decisions are 

contained in Table 1–1 of the Approved 

RMP. Any party adversely affected by 

the proposed route identifications may 

appeal within 30 days of publication of 

this Notice of Availability pursuant to 

43 CFR, part 4, subpart E. The appeal 

should state the specific route(s), as 

identified in Table 1–1 of the Approved 

RMP, on which the decision is being 

appealed. The appeal must be filed with 

the Kemmerer Field Manager at the 

above listed address. Please consult the 

appropriate regulations (43 CFR, part 4, 

subpart E) for further appeal 

requirements. 

Donald A. Simpson 

State Director. 

[FR Doc. 2010–12969 Filed 5–28–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Intent to Repatriate Cultural 

Items: University of Idaho, Alfred W. 

Bowers Laboratory of Anthropology, 

Moscow, ID 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Notice is here given in accordance 

with the Native American Graves 

Protection and Repatriation Act 

(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent 

to repatriate cultural items in the 

possession of the University of Idaho, 

Alfred W. Bowers Laboratory of 

Anthropology, Moscow, ID, that meet 

the definitions of ‘‘unassociated funerary 

objects’’ and ‘‘sacred object’’ under 25 

U.S.C. 3001. 

This notice is published as part of the 

National Park Service’s administrative 

responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25 

U.S.C. 3003(d)(3). The determinations in 

this notice are the sole responsibility of 

the museum, institution, or Federal 

agency that has control of the cultural 

items. The National Park Service is not 

responsible for the determinations in 

this notice. 

In 1963, five unassociated funerary 

objects were removed from the 

Whitebird Site, 10–IH–84. The five 

unassociated funerary objects are one 

square wood stick, one brass or copper 

button, one dentalium vulgare shell, 

one-end rounded cork, and one bone 

whistle. This site is located within the 

area ceded by the Nez Perce to the 

United States pursuant to the Nez Perce 

Treaty of June 9, 1863 (14 Stat. 647). 

The site is within the area recognized by 

a final judgment of the Indian Claims 

Commission as the aboriginal land of 

the Nez Perce Tribe, Idaho (18 Ind. Cl. 

Comm. 1, 1967). Finally, the site is a 

known Nez Perce burial site. 

Currently, the Whitebird Site is 

federally-owned and administered by 

the National Park Service; however, at 

the time of excavation, Harry Hagen 

owned this property. The objects were 

removed during the survey and 

subsequent construction of an alternate 

road (Route (F–41/3(13)). Although the 

site did not yield human remains at the 

time of the excavation, it was noted that 

the site had been ‘‘almost completely 

potted by amateurs,’’ (Idaho 

Archaeological Site Survey, recorded by 

Perry Silver, Idaho State Archaeological 

Society). 

In addition to being a funerary object, 

the bone whistle has been described as 

possibly sacred. Bone whistles are used 

in special ceremonies, and may have 

been buried with the person who owned 

it. Based on consultation evidence with 

the Nez Perce Tribe, the bone whistle 

has been determined to be a sacred 

object. 

Officials from the University of Idaho 

Alfred W. Bowers Laboratory of 

Anthropology have determined that, 

pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the 

five cultural items described above are 

reasonably believed to have been placed 

with or near individual human remains 

at the time of death or later as part of 

a death rite or ceremony and are 

believed, by a preponderance of the 

evidence, to have been removed from a 

burial site of Native American 

individuals. Officials of the University 

of Idaho, Alfred W. Bowers Laboratory 

of Anthropology also have determined 

that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(C), 

the one cultural item described above is 

a specific ceremonial object needed by 

traditional Native American religious 

leaders for the practice of traditional 

Native American religions by their 

present-day adherents. Lastly, officials 

of the University of Idaho, Alfred W. 

Bowers Laboratory of Anthropology 

have determined that, pursuant to 25 

U.S.C. 3001(2), there is a relationship of 

shared group identity that can be 

reasonably traced between the sacred 

object and unassociated funerary objects 

and the Nez Perce Tribe, Idaho. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the unassociated funerary 

objects and/or sacred object should 

contact Leah K. Evans-Janke, University 

of Idaho, Alfred W. Bowers Laboratory 

of Anthropology, Moscow, ID 83844– 

1111, telephone (208) 885–3733, before 

July 1, 2010. Repatriation of the 

unassociated funerary objects and 

sacred object to the Nez Perce Tribe, 

Idaho, may proceed after that date if no 

additional claimants come forward. 

The University of Idaho, Alfred W. 

Bowers Laboratory of Anthropology is 

responsible for notifying the Nez Perce 

Tribe, Idaho, that this notice has been 

published. 

Dated: May 5, 2010 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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