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If the hearing date is not acceptable, 

I would be glad to set another date that 

is mutually agreeable to the parties. The 

hearing will be governed by the 

procedures prescribed by federal 

regulations at 42 CFR part 430. 

I am designating Mr. Benjamin R. 

Cohen as the presiding officer. If these 

arrangements present any problems, 

please contact the Mr. Cohen at (410) 

786–3169. In order to facilitate any 

communication that may be necessary 

between the parties prior to the hearing, 

please notify the presiding officer to 

indicate acceptability of the hearing 

date that has been scheduled and 

provide names of the individuals who 

will represent the state at the hearing. 

Sincerely, 

Marilyn Tavenner 

Section 1116 of the Social Security 

Act (42 U.S.C. 1316; 42 CFR 430.18) 

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

program No. 13.714, Medicaid Assistance 

Program.) 

Dated: November 26, 2014. 

Marilyn Tavenner, 

Administrator, Centers for Medicare & 

Medicaid Services. 

[FR Doc. 2014–28427 Filed 12–2–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4120–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–HQ–EA–2014–N246; FF09F42300– 

FVWF97920900000–XXX] 

Sport Fishing and Boating Partnership 

Council 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of teleconference. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (Service), announce a 

public teleconference of the Sport 

Fishing and Boating Partnership 

Council (Council). 

DATES: Teleconference: Friday, 

December 19, 2014, 10:30 a.m. to 12 

p.m. (Eastern daylight time). For 

deadlines and directions on registering 

to listen to the teleconference, 

submitting written material, and giving 

an oral presentation, please see ‘‘Public 

Input’’ under SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Brian Bohnsack, Council Coordinator, 

via U.S. mail at 5275 Leesburg Pike, 

Mailstop FAC, Falls Church, VA 22041; 

via telephone at (703) 358–2435; via fax 

at (703) 358–2487; or via email at brian_

bohnsack@fws.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the requirements of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 

U.S.C. App., we announce that the Sport 

Fishing and Boating Partnership 

Council will hold a teleconference. 

Background 

The Council was formed in January 

1993 to advise the Secretary of the 

Interior, through the Director of the 

Service, on nationally significant 

recreational fishing, boating, and 

aquatic resource conservation issues. 

The Council represents the interests of 

the public and private sectors of the 

sport fishing, boating, and conservation 

communities and is organized to 

enhance partnerships among industry, 

constituency groups, and government. 

The 18-member Council, appointed by 

the Secretary of the Interior, includes 

the Service Director and the president of 

the Association of Fish and Wildlife 

Agencies, who both serve in ex officio 

capacities. Other Council members are 

directors from State agencies 

responsible for managing recreational 

fish and wildlife resources and 

individuals who represent the interests 

of saltwater and freshwater recreational 

fishing, recreational boating, the 

recreational fishing and boating 

industries, recreational fisheries 

resource conservation, Native American 

tribes, aquatic resource outreach and 

education, and tourism. Background 

information on the Council is available 

at http://www.fws.gov/sfbpc. 

Meeting Agenda 

The Council will hold a 

teleconference to: 

• Consider and approve the Council’s 

Boating Infrastructure Grant Program 

Review Committee’s funding 

recommendations for fiscal year 2015 

proposals; 

• Discuss a proposed pilot project 

associated with permitting recreational 

projects; 

• Schedule an upcoming winter 

meeting; and 

• Consider other Council business. 

The final agenda will be posted on the 

Internet at http://www.fws.gov/sfbpc. 

Public Input 

If you wish to 

You must contact the Council 

Coordinator (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) no later than 

Listen to the teleconference ....................................................................................................................................... Monday, December 15, 2014. 

Submit written information or questions before the teleconference for the council to consider during the teleconference.Monday, December 15, 2014. 

Give an oral presentation during the teleconference ................................................................................................ Monday, December 15, 2014. 

Submitting Written Information or 

Questions 

Interested members of the public may 

submit relevant information or 

questions for the Council to consider 

during the teleconference. Written 

statements must be received by the date 

listed in ‘‘Public Input’’ under 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION, so that the 

information may be made available to 

the Council for their consideration prior 

to this teleconference. Written 

statements must be supplied to the 

Council Coordinator in one of the 

following formats: One hard copy with 

original signature, or one electronic 

copy via email (acceptable file formats 

are Adobe Acrobat PDF, MS Word, MS 

PowerPoint, or rich text file). 

Giving an Oral Presentation 

Individuals or groups requesting to 

make an oral presentation during the 

teleconference will be limited to 2 

minutes per speaker, with no more than 

a total of 15 minutes for all speakers. 

Interested parties should contact the 

Council Coordinator, in writing 

(preferably via email; see FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT), to be placed on 

the public speaker list for this 

teleconference. To ensure an 

opportunity to speak during the public 

comment period of the teleconference, 

members of the public must register 

with the Council Coordinator. 

Registered speakers who wish to expand 

upon their oral statements, or those who 

had wished to speak but could not be 


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accommodated on the agenda, may 

submit written statements to the 

Council Coordinator up to 30 days 

subsequent to the teleconference. 

Meeting Minutes 

Summary minutes of the 

teleconference will be maintained by 

the Council Coordinator (see FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) and will 

be available for public inspection within 

90 days of the meeting and will be 

posted on the Council’s Web site at 

http://www.fws.gov/sfbpc. 

Rowan W. Gould, 

Acting Director. 

[FR Doc. 2014–28436 Filed 12–2–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–NCR–NACA–15371; 

PX.P0136318C.00.1] 

Final Anacostia Park Wetlands and 

Resident Canada Goose Management 

Plan/Environmental Impact Statement 

AGENCY: National Park Service, U.S. 

Department of the Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability. 

SUMMARY: The National Park Service 

(NPS) announces the availability of a 

Final Environmental Impact Statement 

(FEIS) for the Anacostia Park Wetlands 

and Resident Canada Goose 

Management Plan, Anacostia Park, 

Washington, DC The plan provides 

integrated tools to protect and manage 

previously restored wetlands in the 

park, as well as other park resources, 

including management of the resident 

Canada goose population. 

DATES: The NPS will execute a Record 

of Decision (ROD) no sooner than 30 

days from the date of publication of the 

Notice of Availability of the FEIS and 

Plan by the Environmental Protection 

Agency. 

ADDRESSES: The FEIS and Plan is 

available in electronic format online at 

http://parkplanning.nps.gov/anac. This 

Web site also provides information 

where public review copies of the FEIS 

and Plan are available for viewing. A 

limited number of compact discs and 

hard copies of the FEIS and Plan are 

available at National Capital Parks-East, 

1900 Anacostia Drive SE., Washington, 

DC 20020. You may also request a CD 

or hard copy by contacting Gopaul 

Noojibail, Acting Superintendent of 

National Capital Parks-East, 1900 

Anacostia Drive SE., Washington, DC 

20020, or by telephone at (202) 690– 

5127. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Gopaul Noojibail, Acting 

Superintendent of National Capital 

Parks-East, 1900 Anacostia Drive SE., 

Washington, DC 20020, or by telephone 

at (202) 690–5127. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FEIS 

and Plan responds to, and incorporates 

as appropriate, agency and public 

comments received on the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) 

and Plan which was available for public 

review from July 21, 2011, to September 

26, 2011. A public meeting, including 

hearing, was held on September 7, 2011, 

to gather input on the DEIS and Plan. 

Thirteen pieces of correspondence were 

received during the public review 

period. Agency and public comments 

and NPS responses are provided in 

Appendix F of the FEIS and Plan. 

The FEIS and Plan evaluates five 

alternatives for managing wetlands and 

resident Canada geese in the park. The 

document describes and analyzes the 

environmental impacts of the no-action 

alternative and four action alternatives. 

When approved, the Plan will guide 

wetland and resident Canada goose 

management actions in Anacostia Park 

(including Kenilworth Park & Aquatic 

Gardens) over the next 15 years. 

The alternatives included in this plan 

and FEIS are presented as a two-tiered 

approach, which includes techniques 

for wetland vegetation management and 

also for goose management. Wetland 

vegetation management includes the 

following elements: hydrology, 

vegetation, cultural/education, wetland 

restoration, and park operations. 

Alternative B has been identified as 

the NPS preferred alternative. This 

alternative combines high wetland 

management and high goose 

management techniques, including 

lethal control. This alternative would 

provide the park with the maximum 

number of techniques to implement at 

most locations to best protect park 

resources. 

This alternative includes the 

following wetland management 

techniques: Using adaptive management 

to monitor and manage vegetation for 

impacts due to excessive goose 

herbivory; working with the 

Washington, DC harbormaster to enforce 

no wake zones, which would minimize 

shoreline erosion; managing invasive 

species; a high density planting effort 

with persistent, native species at 

variable growth heights; removing the 

sheet piling along the Anacostia River 

Fringe Wetlands; increasing education 

and interpretation; improving trash 

management; reducing impervious 

areas; and creating new rain gardens for 

improving stormwater management. The 

NPS would also commit to using 

adaptive management to monitor and 

manage the resident Canada goose 

population. Management actions are: 

lethal control (round-up, capture, 

euthanasia, and shooting) until the 

resident Canada goose population goal 

of 54 is met planting new buffers along 

the shorelines throughout the park; 

increasing the width of existing 

vegetation buffers; and reproductive 

control (egg addling). Additional 

wetland and resident Canada goose 

techniques available to the park are 

described in detail in the FEIS and plan, 

and would be implemented on as 

needed basis to achieve wetland and 

goose desired conditions. Many of these 

additional techniques would be subject 

to further planning and compliance. 

Alternative B would fully meet the 

plan objectives and has more certainty 

of success than the other alternatives 

analyzed. The potential for 

implementing the maximum wetland 

and resident Canada goose management 

techniques would ensure that benefits to 

natural resources of the park are 

realized and sustained over the life of 

the plan. 

Dated: May 2, 2014. 

Stephen E. Whitesell, 

Regional Director, National Park Service, 

National Capital Region. 

[FR Doc. 2014–28437 Filed 12–2–14; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–JK–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–NERO–CACO–17197; PPNECACOS0, 

PPMPSD1Z.YM0000] 

Notice of January 12, 2015, Meeting for 

Cape Cod National Seashore Advisory 

Commission 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Meeting notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the date 

of the 297th Meeting of the Cape Cod 

National Seashore Advisory 

Commission. 

DATES: The public meeting of the Cape 

Cod National Seashore Advisory 

Commission will be held on Monday, 

January 12, 2015, at 1:00 p.m. 

(EASTERN). 

ADDRESSES: The Commission members 

will meet in the conference room at park 

headquarters, 99 Marconi Site Road, 

Wellfleet, Massachusetts 02667. 


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