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Green River Wild and Scenic River 

segment, wilderness characteristics, 

threatened or endangered plant species, 

vegetation, visual resources, water 

resources, and wildlife. This is not an 

all-inclusive list, but rather a starting 

point for public input and a means of 

identifying resource disciplines needed 

to conduct the analysis. 

Juan Palma, 

State Director. 

[FR Doc. 2010–21184 Filed 8–24–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R4–R–2009–N272; 40136–1265–0000– 

S3] 

Black Bayou Lake National Wildlife 

Refuge, Ouachita Parish, LA 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability: Final 

comprehensive conservation plan and 

finding of no significant impact. 

SUMMARY: We, the Fish and Wildlife 

Service (Service), announce the 

availability of our final comprehensive 

conservation plan (CCP) and finding of 

no significant impact (FONSI) for the 

environmental assessment for Black 

Bayou Lake National Wildlife Refuge 

(NWR). In the final CCP, we describe 

how we will manage this refuge for the 

next 15 years. 

ADDRESSES: You may obtain a copy of 

the CCP by writing to: Mr. George 

Chandler, North Louisiana National 

Wildlife Refuge Complex, 11372 

Highway 143, Farmerville, LA 71241. 

The CCP may also be accessed and 

downloaded from the Service’s Web 

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

under ‘‘Final Documents.’’ 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

George Chandler; telephone: 318–726– 

4222; fax: 318–726–4667; e-mail: 

george_chandler@fws.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

Introduction 

With this notice, we finalize the CCP 

process for Black Bayou Lake NWR. We 

started this process through a notice in 

the Federal Register on May 8, 2008 (73 

FR 26139). 

The Black Bayou Lake NWR is a unit 

of the North Louisiana National Wildlife 

Refuge Complex. In addition to Black 

Bayou Lake NWR, the Complex includes 

D’Arbonne, Upper Ouachita, Handy 

Brake, and Red River NWRs, and the 

Louisiana Farm Service Agency Tracts. 

Each refuge has unique issues and has 

had separate planning efforts and public 

involvement. 

The Black Bayou Lake NWR plays an 

important role regionally in fulfilling 

the national goals of the National 

Wildlife Refuge System. Its close 

proximity to a major metropolitan 

center gives the public the ability to 

participate in educational opportunities 

that promote wildlife stewardship and 

to learn about environmental issues. 

Black Bayou Lake NWR, established 

in 1997, is 3 miles north of the city of 

Monroe, Louisiana, just east of Highway 

165 in Ouachita Parish. It contains 4,522 

acres of wetland, bottomland hardwood, 

and upland mixed pine/hardwood 

habitats. Although the suburban sprawl 

of the city of Monroe surrounds much 

of its boundary, the refuge itself 

represents many habitat types and is 

home to a diversity of plants and 

animals. Black Bayou Lake NWR is 

situated in the Mississippi Flyway, the 

Mississippi Alluvial Valley Bird 

Conservation Region, and the Lower 

Mississippi River Ecosystem. 

Black Bayou Lake NWR was 

established for ‘‘the conservation of the 

wetlands of the nation in order to 

maintain the public benefits they 

provide and to help fulfill international 

obligations contained in various 

migratory bird treaties and conventions’’ 

16 U.S.C. 3901 (b) (Wetlands Extension 

Act). 

The central physical feature of the 

refuge is the lake itself. Black Bayou 

Lake, consisting of approximately 1,500 

acres, is studded with baldcypress and 

water tupelo trees. The western half of 

the lake is open and deeper, unlike the 

eastern side, which is thick with trees 

and emergent vegetation. This portion of 

the lake is naturally filling in. The lake 

is owned by the city of Monroe, which 

manages its water level as a secondary 

source of municipal water. The Service 

has a 99-year free lease on the lake and 

some of its surrounding land, 

constituting a total of 1,620 acres. The 

refuge owns the remaining 2,902 acres, 

consisting of upland pine/hardwood 

and bottomland hardwood forests. 

We announce our decision and the 

availability of the final CCP and FONSI 

for Black Bayou Lake NWR in 

accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) [40 

CFR 1506.6(b)] requirements. We 

completed a thorough analysis of 

impacts on the human environment, 

which we included in the Draft 

Comprehensive Conservation Plan and 

Environmental Assessment (Draft CCP/ 

EA). The CCP will guide us in managing 

and administering Black Bayou Lake 

NWR for the next 15 years. Alternative 

B is the foundation for the CCP. 

The compatibility determinations for 

wildlife observation and photography; 

environmental education and 

interpretation; big game hunting; small 

game hunting; migratory bird hunting; 

fishing; hiking, jogging, and walking; 

boating; all-terrain vehicles; plant 

gathering; bicycling; and forest 

management/timber harvest are 

available in the CCP. 

Background 

The National Wildlife Refuge System 

Administration Act of 1966 (16 U.S.C. 

668dd–668ee) (Administration Act), as 

amended by the National Wildlife 

Refuge System Improvement Act of 

1997, requires us to develop a CCP for 

each national wildlife refuge. The 

purpose in developing a CCP is to 

provide refuge managers with a 15-year 

plan for achieving refuge purposes and 

contributing toward the mission of the 

National Wildlife Refuge System, 

consistent with sound principles of fish 

and wildlife management, conservation, 

legal mandates, and our policies. In 

addition to outlining broad management 

direction on conserving wildlife and 

their habitats, CCPs identify wildlifedependent recreational opportunities 

available to the public, including 

opportunities for hunting, fishing, 

wildlife observation, wildlife 

photography, and environmental 

education and interpretation. We will 

review and update the CCP at least 

every 15 years in accordance with the 

Administration Act. 

Comments 

We made copies of the Draft CCP/EA 

available for a 30-day public review and 

comment period via a Federal Register 

notice on September 20, 2009 (74 FR 

50237). We received four comments on 

the Draft CCP/EA. 

Selected Alternative 

The Draft CCP/EA identified and 

evaluated three alternatives for 

managing the refuge. After considering 

the comments we received and based on 

the professional judgment of the 

planning team, we selected Alternative 

B for implementation. 

Under Alternative B, biological 

potential of historical habitats will be 

restored and enhanced, with most 

management actions emphasizing 

natural ecological processes to foster 

habitat functions and wildlife 

populations. We will focus our efforts 

on reducing invasive species 

threatening the biological integrity of 

the refuge. Baseline inventorying and 

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be completed to gain information on a 

variety of species from reptiles and 

amphibians to game animals, as well as 

species of concern. Several cooperative 

projects will be conducted with 

universities, the Louisiana Department 

of Wildlife and Fisheries, and other 

agencies and individuals to provide 

biological information to be used in 

management decisions. To determine 

how forest management is affecting 

wildlife, partnerships will be developed 

to establish scientifically valid protocols 

and to collaboratively work on research 

projects. Upland forest management will 

focus on restoring the biological 

integrity of a mixed hardwood/pine 

forest by promoting upland hardwood 

species. We will increase our 

management of bottomlands to open 

canopy cover and increase understory 

vegetation. Water control structures and 

pumping capabilities will be improved 

to enhance moist-soil management for 

the benefit of wintering waterfowl and 

shorebirds. Invasive species will be 

mapped and protocols for control 

established. Partnerships will continue 

to be fostered for several biological 

programs, hunting regulations, law 

enforcement issues, and research 

projects. 

Public use will be similar to current 

management, with a few improvements 

based on additional resources. 

Environmental education will increase 

from the current conditions only 

slightly. The program will be enhanced 

and improved with the addition of two 

park rangers (visitor services and law 

enforcement). Within 3 years of the date 

of the CCP, we will develop a Visitor 

Services Plan to be used in maintaining 

quality public use facilities and 

opportunities at Black Bayou Lake 

NWR. 

Staffing will increase by four 

positions: A full-time law enforcement 

officer, a refuge operations specialist, a 

maintenance worker, and a park ranger 

(Visitor Services). This will enable us to 

increase biological inventorying and 

monitoring, enhance forest 

management, increase invasives control, 

enhance the public use program, and 

provide safe and compatible wildlifedependent recreation. 

Authority 

This notice is published under the 

authority of the National Wildlife 

Refuge System Improvement Act of 

1997, Public Law 105–57. 

Dated: January 13, 2010. 

Jeffrey M. Fleming, 

Acting Regional Director. 

[FR Doc. 2010–21121 Filed 8–24–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: Memphis Pink Palace Museum, 

Memphis, TN 

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 Memphis Pink Palace 

Museum, Memphis, TN, that meet the 

definition of unassociated funerary 

objects 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. 

The 92 unassociated funerary objects 

are whole and restored ceramic vessels 

from the Bradley site (3CT7), Crittenden 

County, AR. The collection was 

acquired as a donation from a private 

individual in 1958. 

The Bradley site was a village or town 

of the late Mississippian and protohistoric periods, located in Crittenden 

County, northeast Arkansas. 

Archeological evidence indicates that 

the site was occupied during the 

Nodena phase (A.D. 1350–1650). 

Funerary objects removed from the site 

have been dated to the period from A.D. 

1350–1650. The Bradley site is thought 

to be the capital of ‘‘Pacaha’’ identified 

in the DeSoto chronicles. Historical 

documentation indicates that this site 

dates into the 17th century and close to 

the time when the Quapaw Tribe was 

documented by early Europeans. 

Linguistic evidence indicates a possible 

link between ‘‘Capaha’’ (a.k.a. Pacaha) in 

a Spanish account, and a late 17th 

century Quapaw Indian village name 

‘‘Kappah’’ or ‘‘Kappa.’’ French maps and 

documents (A.D. 1673–1720), indicate 

that only the Quapaw had villages in 

this area of eastern Arkansas. Oral 

traditional evidence indicates that the 

Quapaw had a continuous presence in 

the area, including hunting lands, and 

that burial practices such as placement 

of food with the dead continues to be an 

important burial ritual. 

Archeological, historical and 

ethnographic sources indicate that the 

type of pottery found at the Bradley site 

was produced by the Quapaw (Morse 

1992). Descendants of the Quapaw are 

members of the Quapaw Tribe of 

Indians, Oklahoma. Finally, the Quapaw 

Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma, through the 

NAGPRA process, have previously been 

determined to be culturally affiliated 

with the Bradley site and have 

repatriated Native American human 

remains and associated funerary objects 

from the site. 

Officials of the Memphis Pink Palace 

Museum have determined that, 

pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 3001(3)(B), the 92 

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 

the death rite or ceremony and are 

believed, by a preponderance of the 

evidence, to have been removed from a 

specific burial site of a Native American 

individual. Officials of the Memphis 

Pink Palace Museum also 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 unassociated 

funerary objects and the Quapaw Tribe 

of Indians, Oklahoma. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the unassociated funerary 

objects should contact Louella Weaver, 

Memphis Pink Palace Museum, 3050 

Central Ave., Memphis, TN 38111, 

telephone (901) 320–6322, before 

September 24, 2010. Repatriation of the 

unassociated funerary objects to the 

Quapaw Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma, 

may proceed after that date if no 

additional claimants come forward. 

The Memphis Pink Palace Museum is 

responsible for notifying the Quapaw 

Tribe of Indians, Oklahoma, that this 

notice has been published. 

Dated: August 19, 2010 

David Tarler, 

Acting Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

[FR Doc. 2010–21191 Filed 8–24–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–50–S 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Inventory Completion: 

Department of Anthropology and 

Ethnic Studies, University of Nevada 

Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV 

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. 3003, of the 


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