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which are intermingled with private 

lands, for commercial guides and 

transporters whose clients are big game 

hunting. Alternative B proposes that a 

formal partnership be created between 

the Refuge and local entities to jointly 

maintain a shared facility of one or more 

buildings with capacity for office, 

meeting, and storage space in a 

community within the refuge. 

Alternative B proposes a study of 

traditional access methods for 

subsistence purposes. Alternative B 

proposes that local public use and 

access needs be addressed by creating 

formal partnerships between the Refuge 

and various local entities. 

Alternative C would generally 

continue to follow management 

direction described in Alternative A as 

modified by subsequent programspecific plans. Alternative C would also 

identify any specific changes or updates 

in management direction as well as 

adopt the new goals and objectives for 

Refuge management. Alternative C 

proposes that the Refuge manager could 

open or close some public lands, which 

are intermingled with private lands, to 

use by commercial guides and 

transporters whose clients are big game 

hunting. Alternative C proposes that the 

Refuge independently maintain a 

facility of one or more buildings with 

capacity for office, meeting, and storage 

space in a community within the refuge. 

Alternative C proposes the same study 

of traditional access methods for 

subsistence purposes. Alternative C 

would address local public use and 

access needs slightly different from 

Alternative B by proposing to expand or 

improve some opportunities for public 

use and access on Refuge lands. 

Public Meetings 

We will involve the public through 

open houses, meetings, written 

comments, and personal interviews 

with community members. We will mail 

documents to our national and local 

Refuge mailing lists. Public meetings 

will be held in communities in the 

Refuge area, including Kotzebue, 

Noorvik, and Selawik. Dates, times, and 

locations of each meeting or open house 

will be announced in advance in local 

media. 

Submitting Comments/Issues for 

Comment 

We particularly seek comments on the 

following issues: 

• Management of use by commercial 

guides and transporters to maintain big 

game hunting opportunities while 

reducing social conflict in the region; 

• How to best conduct a traditional 

access study of use for subsistence 

purposes on Refuge lands; 

• Proactively addressing climate 

change; and 

• Providing more outreach and better 

communication for the public. 

We consider comments substantive if 

they: 

• Question, with reasonable basis, the 

accuracy of the information in the 

document; 

• Question, with reasonable basis, the 

adequacy of the environmental 

assessment; 

• Present reasonable alternatives 

other than those presented in the draft 

CCP and the EA; and/or 

• Provide new or additional 

information relevant to the assessment. 

Next Steps 

After this comment period ends, we 

will analyze the comments and address 

them in the form of a final CCP and 

decision document. 

Public Availability of Comments 

Before including your address, phone 

number, e-mail address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, 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: October 12, 2010. 

Gary Edwards, 

Acting Regional Director, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, Anchorage, Alaska. 

[FR Doc. 2010–26655 Filed 10–20–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLES956000–L14200000–BJ0000– 

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Eastern States: Filing of Plat of Survey 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Filing of Plat of 

Survey; North Carolina. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) will file the plat of 

survey of the lands described below in 

the BLM–Eastern States office in 

Springfield, Virginia, 30 calendar days 

from the date of publication in the 

Federal Register. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Bureau of Land Management-Eastern 

States, 7450 Boston Boulevard, 

Springfield, Virginia 22153. Attn: 

Cadastral Survey. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

survey was requested by the Bureau of 

Indian Affairs. 

The lands surveyed are: 

Swain County, North Carolina 

The plat of survey represents the 

dependent resurvey of a portion of the 

Qualla Indian Boundary, land held in 

trust for the Eastern Band of Cherokee 

Indians, in Swain County, in the State 

of North Carolina, and was accepted 

September 7, 2010. 

We will place a copy of the plat we 

described in the open files. It will be 

available to the public as a matter of 

information. 

If BLM receives a protest against the 

survey, as shown on the plat, prior to 

the date of the official filing, we will 

stay the filing pending our 

consideration of the protest. 

We will not officially file the plat 

until the day after we have accepted or 

dismissed all protests and they have 

become final, including decisions on 

appeals. 

Dated: October 12, 2010. 

John Sroufe, 

Acting Chief Cadastral Surveyor. 

[FR Doc. 2010–26590 Filed 10–20–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–GJ–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Notice of Intent To Repatriate Cultural 

Items: U.S. Department of Defense, 

Army Corps of Engineers, Portland 

District, Portland, OR and University of 

Oregon Museum of Natural and 

Cultural History, Eugene, OR 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

Notice is hereby 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, for which 

the University of Oregon Museum of 

Natural and Cultural History, Eugene, 

OR, and U.S. Department of Defense, 

Army Corps of Engineers, Portland 

District, Portland, OR, have joint 

responsibility, that meet the definition 

of unassociated funerary objects under 

25 U.S.C. 3001. 

This notice is published as part of the 

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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. 

Native American cultural items 

described in this notice were excavated 

under Antiquities Act permits by the 

University of Oregon, Eugene, OR, on 

Army Corps of Engineers project land. 

Following excavations at the site 

described below, and under the 

provisions of the permits, the University 

of Oregon retained the collections for 

preservation. 

Between 1959 and 1968, cultural 

items were removed from site 35–GM– 

9, also known as the Wildcat Canyon 

site, Gilliam County, OR, during 

excavations by the University of Oregon 

prior to construction of the John Day 

Dam. The cultural items were 

accessioned by the University of Oregon 

Museum following each successive field 

season. The 1,420 objects recovered 

from Area 3 of site 35–GM–9, a 

cemetery primarily used from 

approximately 2,500–2,000 B.P., are 

categorized as unassociated funerary 

objects because specific associations 

with individual burials cannot be 

determined due to unclear spatial 

distributions of the artifacts in relation 

to particular sets of human remains. The 

1,420 unassociated funerary objects are 

32 projectile points, 25 projectile point 

fragments, 30 blades, 52 blade 

fragments, 1 multipurpose tool, 3 stone 

mauls, 1 obsidian chopper, 17 pestles, 

14 pestle fragments, 1 hammerstone, 10 

worked/flaked cobbles, 5 river pebbles, 

1 flaked pebble, 1 rectangular flat stone, 

1 flake knife, 12 gravers, 7 burins, 1 

spokeshave, 1 core, 12 scrapers, 2 end 

scraper fragments, 12 bifaciallymodified flakes, 55 unifacially-modified 

flakes, 7 curved flakes, 1 lamellar flake, 

2 worked chert flakes, 935 unmodified 

flakes, 3 stone drills, 6 drill fragments, 

5 stone clinkers, 1 possible metate, 1 

galena atlatl weight, 1 bolas stone, 1 

polishing stone, 2 worked shale or slate 

fragments, 5 abraders, 1 shaft smoother, 

2 shaft smoother fragments, 1 antler awl 

fragment, 3 bone awl fragments, 1 bone 

shaft wrench, 1 bone tube, 17 worked 

antlers, 10 burned antlers, 1 deer jaw, 19 

worked bones, 1 cut bone, 1 burned 

bone fragment, 1 notched bone, 2 

decorated bones, 3 bone strips, 52 

miscellaneous non-human bones and 

bone fragments, 2 stone pendant 

fragments, 1 shell pendant, 1 pebble 

pendant, 2 dentalia, 1 unspecified bead, 

14 bone beads, 1 antler bead, 2 nose 

plugs, 1 worked pumice piece, 8 red 

ochre pieces, 1 shell, 1 grooved slate 

tool and 3 shell flecks. 

Site 35–GM–9 is located along the 

south side shoreline of the Columbia 

River, approximately 9.5 river miles east 

of the John Day River confluence. The 

multicomponent site contains multiple 

activity areas that are believed to have 

been repeatedly occupied from 

approximately 9,000 B.P. to A.D. 1750. 

Site 35–GM–9 frequently served as a 

village, camping area and cemetery. 

Area 3 is believed to have primarily 

served as a burial area. The burial 

pattern observed within Area 3 is 

consistent with customs of Columbia 

Plateau Native American groups. 

Excavation and museum documentation 

indicate that the objects are consistent 

with cultural items typically found in 

context with burials characteristic of the 

Mid-Columbia River Basin. 

Oral traditions and ethnographic 

reports indicate that site 35–GM–9 lies 

within the historic territory of Sahaptinspeaking Tenino or Warm Springs 

peoples whose descendants are 

culturally affiliated with the present-day 

Confederated Tribes of the Warm 

Springs Reservation of Oregon. The 

Confederated Tribes of the Warm 

Springs Reservation are composed of 

three Wasco bands, four Warm Springs 

bands, and Northern Paiutes. The 

Columbia River-based Wasco were the 

easternmost group of Chinookanspeaking Indians. The Sahaptinspeaking Warm Springs bands lived 

farther east along the Columbia River 

and its tributaries. Northern Paiutes, 

who spoke a Uto-Aztecan language, 

historically occupied much of 

southeastern Oregon. The Confederated 

Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation 

of Oregon peoples also traditionally 

shared the site area with relatives and 

neighbors whose descendants may be 

culturally affiliated with the 14 

Sahaptin, Salish and Chinookanspeaking tribes and bands of the 

present-day Confederated Tribes and 

Bands of the Yakama Nation, 

Washington. Yakama homelands were 

traditionally located on the Washington 

side of the Columbia River between the 

eastern flanks of the Cascade Range and 

the lower reaches of the Yakima River 

drainage. 

Officials of the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Portland District, and 

University of Oregon Museum of 

Natural and Cultural History, have 

determined that, pursuant to 25 U.S.C. 

3001(3)(B), the 1,420 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 specific burial sites 

of Native American individuals. 

Officials of the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Portland District, and 

University of Oregon Museum of 

Natural and Cultural History, have also 

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 Confederated 

Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation 

of Oregon and/or Confederated Tribes 

and Bands of the Yakama Nation, 

Washington. 

Representatives of any other Indian 

tribe that believes itself to be culturally 

affiliated with the unassociated funerary 

objects should contact Daniel Mulligan, 

NAGPRA Coordinator, Environmental 

Resources Branch, U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Portland District, P.O. Box 

2946, Portland, OR 97208–2946, 

telephone (503) 808–4768, before 

November 22, 2010. Repatriation of the 

unassociated funerary objects to the 

Confederated Tribes of the Warm 

Springs Reservation of Oregon and/or 

Confederated Tribes and Bands of the 

Yakama Nation, Washington, may 

proceed after that date if no additional 

claimants come forward. 

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 

Portland District, is responsible for 

notifying the Confederated Tribes of the 

Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon; 

Confederated Tribes and Bands of the 

Yakama Nation, Washington; 

Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla 

Indian Reservation, Oregon; and Nez 

Perce Tribe, Idaho, that this notice has 

been published. 

Dated: October 14, 2010. 

Sherry Hutt, 

Manager, National NAGPRA Program. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

Flight 93 National Memorial Advisory 

Commission 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of November 13, 2010, 

Meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the date 

of the November 13, 2010, meeting of 

the Flight 93 Advisory Commission. 

DATES: The public meeting of the 

Advisory Commission will be held on 

Saturday, November 13, 2010, from 

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