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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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