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the Lower Great Lakes Fish and Wildlife 

Conservation Office, currently located 

in Amherst, New York, in this new 

building. The 10,609 square-foot 

building would house a sales outlet for 

the Friends of Iroquois National 

Wildlife Refuge, an exhibit hall, multipurpose room, conference room, and 

office space to accommodate Service 

Refuge and Fisheries programs staff and 

New York State Department of 

Environmental Conservation staff. 

We would also continue our 

biological monitoring and inventory 

program, but regularly evaluate the 

results to help us better understand the 

implications of our management actions 

and identify ways to improve their 

effectiveness. 

Alternative C (Natural Systems) 

Refuge management under Alternative 

C would focus on restoration of natural 

ecosystem processes and functions. 

Habitat management would target a 

more natural state and emphasize 

restoration of native habitats. Refuge 

impoundments would no longer be 

actively managed, resulting in a 329- 

acre decrease in open water and 

emergent marsh habitat. Only the two 

largest grassland units would be 

managed, leading to a 50 percent 

reduction in the amount of grassland 

habitat. We would also discontinue 

active management of shrubland habitat, 

with only some native shrub swamp 

habitat remaining. Under this 

alternative, forest cover would increase 

by 1,548 acres through the natural 

succession of refuge grasslands, 

shrublands, open water, and emergent 

marsh habitat. Similar to Alternative B, 

non-native conifer plantations would be 

replaced with native tree species. 

We propose to limit public access to 

designated areas of the refuge yearround, allowing wildlife observation, 

hiking, and walking on established 

refuge nature trails. Also, we propose to 

co-locate the Lower Great Lakes Fish 

and Wildlife Conservation Office 

currently located in Amherst, New 

York, with a new visitor contact station 

and administration building at Iroquois 

NWR. 

Public Meetings 

We will give the public opportunities 

to provide input at an open house and 

public meeting at the refuge 

headquarters in Alabama, New York. 

You can obtain the schedule from the 

project leader or natural resource 

planner (see ADDRESSES or FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT above). You may 

also submit comments at any time 

during the planning process by any 

means shown in the ADDRESSES section. 

Public Availability of Comments 

Before including your address, phone 

number, e-mail address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comments, 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: September 9, 2010. 

James G. Geiger, 

Acting Regional Director, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, Hadley, MA 01035. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Jackson Hole Airport Agreement 

Extension, Final Environmental Impact 

Statement, Grand Teton National Park, 

Wyoming 

AGENCY: National Park Service, 

Department of the Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability of the 

Final Environmental Impact Statement 

for the Jackson Hole Airport Agreement 

Extension, Grand Teton National Park. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 42 

U.S.C. 4332(2)(C), the National Park 

Service announces the availability of a 

Final Environmental Impact Statement 

for the Jackson Hole Airport Agreement 

Extension, Grand Teton National Park, 

Wyoming. This effort addresses a 

request from the Jackson Hole Airport 

Board to amend the agreement between 

the Department of the Interior and the 

Airport Board in order to ensure that the 

airport remains eligible for funding 

through the Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA). The proposal 

would allow the agreement to be 

amended to provide two additional 10- 

year options that could be exercised by 

the Board, the first in 2013 and the 

second in 2023. By exercising these 

options, the Board would ensure that 

the airport remains eligible for Airport 

Improvement Program grants from the 

FAA, upon which commercial airports 

are dependent. These grants provide 

funds for projects such as maintenance 

of the runway and taxiways, purchase of 

capital equipment such as snowplows 

and fire engines, and other projects 

necessary for the airport to retain its 

certification as a commercial airport. 

Without such funds, the airport would 

at some point be unable to retain its 

certification and all commercial air 

service would be terminated. 

Alternatives considered in the EIS 

include Alternative 1: No Action—The 

airport would continue operations 

under the existing Agreement which 

currently has an expiration date of April 

27, 2033; and Alternative 2: Extend 

Agreement—This alternative would 

amend the text of the 1983 Agreement 

to provide the Jackson Hole Airport 

Board with options for two additional 

10-year terms. The proposed 

amendment would also add language to 

the Agreement strengthening the 

requirements of the Airport Board to 

work in good faith to further reduce and 

mitigate the impacts of the airport on 

the park to the lowest practicable level, 

consistent with the safe and efficient 

operation of the airport and within 

applicable laws and regulations. In 

addition, the Agreement would require 

the Airport Board to prepare a biennial 

report of its operations and 

accomplishments, including efforts to 

mitigate its impacts, and to periodically 

review the terms of the Agreement with 

the NPS at least every five years. 

Alternative 2 is the Preferred 

Alternative. 

DATES: The National Park Service will 

execute a Record of Decision (ROD) no 

sooner than 30 days following 

publication by the Environmental 

Protection Agency of the Notice of 

Availability of the Final Environmental 

Impact Statement. 

ADDRESSES: Information will be 

available for public inspection online at 

http://parkplanning.nps.gov/GRTE, in 

the office of the Superintendent, Mary 

Gibson Scott, Grand Teton National 

Park, P.O. Drawer 170, Moose, 

Wyoming. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gary 

Pollock, Grand Teton National Park, 

P.O. Drawer 170, Moose, Wyoming, 

307–739–3410, gary_pollock@nps.gov. 

Dated: September 17, 2010. 

John Wessels, 

Regional Director, Intermountain Region, 

National Park Service. 

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