53980 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 170 / Thursday, September 2, 2010 / Notices 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Availability of the Record of 

Decision; Elk Management Plan/ 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

Theodore Roosevelt National Park 

ACTION: Notice of Availability of the 

Record of Decision on the Elk 

Management Plan/Environmental 

Impact Statement for Theodore 

Roosevelt National Park, Billings and 

McKenzie Counties, ND. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 102(2)(C) 

of the National Environmental Policy 

Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)), the 

National Park Service (NPS) announces 

the availability of the Record of 

Decision (ROD) for the Elk Management 

Plan/Environmental Impact Statement 

(Plan/EIS) for Theodore Roosevelt 

National Park (Park), Billings and 

McKenzie Counties, North Dakota. On 

June 4, the Midwest Regional Director 

approved the ROD for the project. As 

soon as practicable, the NPS will begin 

to implement the Preferred Alternative 

contained in the final Plan/EIS. 

The NPS will implement the Preferred 

Alternative, as described in the final 

Plan/EIS released on March 8, 2010. The 

Preferred Alternative will make use of 

skilled public volunteers to assist the 

Park with culling the elk herd through 

the use of firearms. The initial reduction 

phase would reduce the elk herd, now 

estimated at 1,000 elk, to approximately 

200 elk within 5 years, by removing 

approximately 275 elk per year. 

Following the initial reduction phase, 

the Park would take an additional 20 to 

24 elk per year for the remaining 10 

years of the Plan in order to maintain a 

consistent population level. 

Following each year of the initial 

reduction phase, the NPS will evaluate 

the program in order to determine if its 

population goals are being met. If 

population goals are being achieved, the 

park will continue with the use of 

firearms. Should the park determine 

that its population goals are not being 

met following the first two years of the 

initial reduction phase, it would 

continue with direct reduction activities 

but would also have the ability to use 

a roundup or other capture method and 

then euthanize and/or translocate elk in 

order to meet its population objectives. 

Should the park need to capture 

animals, whether elk are euthanized or 

translocated will depend on whether 

adequate sampling has occurred to meet 

chronic wasting disease (CWD) 

surveillance goals, whether CWD is 

detected in the herd and whether there 

are willing recipients that can meet all 

Federal and State requirements to 

transport and receive live elk. 

The ROD includes a statement of the 

decision made, synopses of other 

alternatives considered, the basis for the 

decision, a description of the 

environmentally preferable alternative, 

a finding on impairment of park 

resources and values, a listing of 

measures to minimize environmental 

harm, and an overview of public 

involvement in the decisionmaking 

process. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Superintendent Valerie Naylor, 

Theodore Roosevelt National Park, P.O. 

Box 7, Medora, North Dakota 58645– 

0007. You may also view the document 

via the Internet through the NPS 

Planning, Environment, and Public 

Comment Web site (http:// 

parkplanning.nps.gov); click on the link 

to Theodore Roosevelt National Park. 

Dated: July 21, 2010. 

Ernest Quintana, 

Regional Director, Midwest Region. 

[FR Doc. 2010–21903 Filed 9–1–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–AD–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLWYD01000–2010–LL13100000–NB0000– 

LXSI016K0000] 

Notice of Field Tours for the Pinedale 

Anticline Working Group 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act (1976), the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (1972), and the Record 

of Decision (ROD) for the Pinedale 

Anticline Project Area (PAPA) 2008 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement (SEIS), and the Pinedale 

Anticline Working Group (PAWG) 

charter, the U.S. Department of the 

Interior, the Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) PAWG will conduct 

field tours of the Pinedale Anticline 

Project Area (PAPA). Tours are open to 

the public. 

DATES: September 30, 2010, and May 5, 

2011, at 12 p.m. MST. Members of the 

public are asked to RSVP no later than 

one week prior to each field trip to 

Shelley Gregory, BLM Pinedale Field 

Office, P.O. Box 768, Pinedale, WY 

82941; 307–367–5328; 

shelley_gregory@blm.gov. 

ADDRESSES: BLM Pinedale Field Office, 

1625 West Pine Street, Pinedale, WY. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Shelley Gregory, BLM Pinedale Field 

Office, P.O. Box 768, Pinedale, WY 

82941; 307–367–5328; 

shelley_gregory@blm.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

PAWG was established by the EIS ROD 

for the PAPA on July 27, 2000, and 

carried forward with the release of the 

ROD for the PAPA SEIS on September 

12, 2008. 

The PAWG is a Federal Advisory 

Committee Act group which develops 

recommendations and provides advice 

to the BLM on mitigation, monitoring, 

and adaptive management issues as oil 

and gas development in the PAPA 

proceeds. Additional information about 

the PAWG can be found at: http:// 

www.blm.gov/wy/st/en/field_offices/ 

pinedale/pawg.html. 

Dated: August 27, 2010. 

Donald A. Simpson, 

State Director. 

[FR Doc. 2010–21914 Filed 9–1–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLWYD01000–2009–LL13100000–NB0000– 

LXSI016K0000] 

Notice of Rescheduled Meetings of the 

Pinedale Anticline Working Group 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act (1976) and the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (1972), the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM) Pinedale 

Anticline Working Group (PAWG) will 

conduct meetings in Pinedale, 

Wyoming. These meetings are open to 

the public. 

DATES: The August 26, 2010, September 

23, 2010, and October 28, 2010 meetings 

have been cancelled. The PAWG will 

meet on the following dates: October 1, 

2010, November 4, 2010, February 3, 

2011, and May 6, 2011, beginning at 

10 a.m. MST. 

ADDRESSES: BLM Pinedale Field Office, 

1625 West Pine Street, Pinedale, WY. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Shelley Gregory, Bureau of Land 

Management, Pinedale Field Office, 

1625 West Pine Street., P.O. Box 768, 

Pinedale, WY 82941; 307–367–5328; 

shelley_gregory@blm.gov. 


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