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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–R4–R–2008–N0250; 40136–1265–
0000–S3]
Currituck National Wildlife Refuge,
Currituck County, NC
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability: Final
comprehensive conservation plan and
finding of no significant impact.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: We, the Fish and Wildlife
Service (Service), announce the
availability of our final comprehensive
conservation plan (CCP) and finding of
no significant impact (FONSI) for
Currituck National Wildlife Refuge
(NWR).
A copy of the CCP may be
obtained by writing to: Mike Hoff,
Refuge Manager, Mackay Island
National Wildlife Refuge, P.O. Box 39,
Knotts Island, NC 27950. The CCP may
also be accessed and downloaded from
the Service’s Web site: https://
southeast.fws.gov/planning/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mike Hoff; Telephone: 252/429–3100;
Fax: 252/429–3185.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
ADDRESSES:
Introduction
With this notice, we finalize the CCP
process for Currituck NWR. We started
this process through a notice in the
Federal Register on November 3, 2000
(65 FR 66256).
Currituck NWR, in northeastern North
Carolina, consists of 4,570 acres of fee
simple land and 3,931 acres of
conservation easements. Of the fee
simple land, 2,202 acres are brackish
marsh, 778 acres are brackish shrub, 637
acres are maritime forest, 202 acres are
dune, and 143 acres are managed
wetlands (impoundments). Currituck
NWR was established in 1984 to
conserve and protect the coastal barrier
island ecosystem. These refuge lands are
managed to provide wintering habitat
for waterfowl, shorebirds, wading birds,
marsh birds, and neotropical migratory
songbirds, as well as to protect
threatened and endangered species,
such as piping plovers, sea turtles, and
the sea beach amaranth.
We announce our decision and the
availability of the final CCP and FONSI
for Currituck NWR in accordance with
the National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) [40 CFR 1506.6(b)]
requirements. We completed a thorough
analysis of impacts on the human
environment, which we included in the
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Draft CCP/EA. The CCP will guide us in
managing and administering Currituck
NWR for the next 15 years. Alternative
2 is the foundation for the CCP.
The compatibility determinations for
recreational hunting, fishing, wildlife
observation, wildlife photography,
environmental education and
interpretation, and trapping of selected
furbearers for nuisance animal
management are also available in the
CCP.
Background
The National Wildlife Refuge System
Improvement Act of 1997 (16 U.S.C.
668dd–668ee) (Improvement Act),
which amended the National Wildlife
Refuge System Administration Act of
1966, requires us to develop a CCP for
each national wildlife refuge. The
purpose for developing a CCP is to
provide refuge managers with a 15-year
plan for achieving refuge purposes and
contributing toward the mission of the
National Wildlife Refuge System,
consistent with sound principles of fish
and wildlife management, conservation,
legal mandates, and our policies. In
addition to outlining broad management
direction on conserving wildlife and
their habitats, CCPs identify wildlifedependent recreational opportunities
available to the public, including
opportunities for hunting, fishing,
wildlife observation, wildlife
photography, and environmental
education and interpretation. We will
review and update the CCP at least
every 15 years in accordance with the
Improvement Act.
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Comments
Approximately 100 copies of the Draft
CCP/EA were made available for a 30day public review period as announced
in the Federal Register on February 9,
2006 (71 FR 6786). Eleven comments on
the Draft CCP/EA were received. The
Draft CCP/EA identified and evaluated
three alternatives for managing the
refuge over a 15-year period.
Selected Alternative
After considering the comments we
received and based on the professional
judgment of the planning team, we
selected Alternative 2 for
implementation. The preferred
alternative will result in moderate
program increases. All habitats on the
refuge, including water levels of the
impoundments and the vegetation, will
be managed very intensively for
migrating waterfowl. The staff will
monitor vegetation in the marshes
before and after prescribed burns and
inventory vegetation in the maritime
swamp forest. The refuge will continue
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to allow the priority public uses (e.g.,
hunting, fishing, wildlife observation,
wildlife photography, and
environmental education and
interpretation) and will have the
capacity to increase the number of
opportunities for public use.
Authority: This notice is published under
the authority of the National Wildlife Refuge
System Improvement Act of 1997, Public
Law 105–57.
Dated: September 29, 2008.
Cynthia K. Dohner,
Acting Regional Director.
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National Park Service
Notice of Inventory Completion: Robert
S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology,
Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice is here given in accordance
with the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act
(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the
completion of an inventory of human
remains and associated funerary objects
in the possession of the Robert S.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology,
Phillips Academy, Andover, MA. The
human remains and associated funerary
objects were removed from Montezuma
County, CO, and San Juan County, NM.
This notice is published as part of the
National Park Service’s administrative
responsibilities under NAGPRA, 25
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 Native
American human remains and
associated funerary objects. The
National Park Service is not responsible
for the determinations in this notice.
A detailed assessment of the human
remains was made by Robert S. Peabody
Museum of Archaeology professional
staff in consultation with
representatives of the Hopi Tribe of
Arizona; Navajo Nation, Arizona, New
Mexico & Utah; Ohkay Owingeh, New
Mexico (formerly the Pueblo of San
Juan); Pueblo of Acoma, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Cochiti, New Mexico; Pueblo
of Isleta, New Mexico; Pueblo of Jemez,
New Mexico; Pueblo of Laguna, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Nambe, New Mexico;
Pueblo of Picuris, New Mexico; Pueblo
of Pojoaque, New Mexico; Pueblo of San
Felipe, New Mexico; Pueblo of San
Ildefonso, New Mexico; Pueblo of
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Sandia, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa
Ana, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santa
Clara, New Mexico; Pueblo of Santo
Domingo, New Mexico; Pueblo of Taos,
New Mexico; Pueblo of Tesuque, New
Mexico; Pueblo of Zia, New Mexico;
Ysleta del Sur Pueblo of Texas; and
Zuni Tribe of the Zuni Reservation, New
Mexico.
In 1898, human remains representing
a minimum of one individual were
removed from ‘‘cliff house,’’ Mesa
Verde, Montezuma, CO, by Warren King
Moorehead for Robert S. Peabody. No
known individual was identified. The
one associated funerary object is the
cotton cloth in which the mummified
infant is wrapped.
‘‘Cliff house’’ may be Cliff Palace or
it may be one of several unidentifiable
structures excavated by Moorehead.
Occupation dates for Mesa Verde are
A.D. 600 to A.D. 1300. Based on
Moorehead’s description and the cotton
wrapping, the human remains fall
within these dates. The Mesa Verde area
was the center of important cultural
developments archeologically classified
as Pueblo I-III periods, during which
people established aggregated
agricultural villages with distinctive
architecture, ceramics, and ceremonial
practices.
In 1897, human remains representing
a minimum of one individual were
removed from Pueblo Bonito, Chaco
Group, San Juan County, NM, by
Warren King Moorehead for Robert S.
Peabody. No known individual was
identified. The one associated funerary
object is a reed mat.
In 1897, human remains representing
a minimum of two individuals were
removed from Pueblo Bonito, Chaco
Group, San Juan County, NM, by
Warren King Moorehead for Robert S.
Peabody. No known individuals were
identified. No associated funerary
objects are present.
In 1897, five associated funerary
objects were removed from Pueblo
Bonito, Chaco Group, San Juan County,
NM, by Warren King Moorehead for
Robert S. Peabody. The human remains
are held by the Peabody Museum of
Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard
University, Cambridge, MA, which is a
separate institution from the Robert S.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology. The
five associated funerary objects are one
wood mat, one feathered robe, and three
ceramic pitchers.
Pueblo Bonito is the largest and most
famous site in Chaco Canyon, and
among the most well documented of the
12 Ancestral Puebloan ‘‘great houses’’
located there. As an architectural type,
it shares with the others multiple
stories, core-and-veneer masonry
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-R4-R-2008-N0250; 40136-1265-0000-S3]
Currituck National Wildlife Refuge, Currituck County, NC
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability: Final comprehensive conservation plan
and finding of no significant impact.
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SUMMARY: We, the Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce the
availability of our final comprehensive conservation plan (CCP) and
finding of no significant impact (FONSI) for Currituck National
Wildlife Refuge (NWR).
ADDRESSES: A copy of the CCP may be obtained by writing to: Mike Hoff,
Refuge Manager, Mackay Island National Wildlife Refuge, P.O. Box 39,
Knotts Island, NC 27950. The CCP may also be accessed and downloaded
from the Service's Web site: https://southeast.fws.gov/planning/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mike Hoff; Telephone: 252/429-3100;
Fax: 252/429-3185.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Introduction
With this notice, we finalize the CCP process for Currituck NWR. We
started this process through a notice in the Federal Register on
November 3, 2000 (65 FR 66256).
Currituck NWR, in northeastern North Carolina, consists of 4,570
acres of fee simple land and 3,931 acres of conservation easements. Of
the fee simple land, 2,202 acres are brackish marsh, 778 acres are
brackish shrub, 637 acres are maritime forest, 202 acres are dune, and
143 acres are managed wetlands (impoundments). Currituck NWR was
established in 1984 to conserve and protect the coastal barrier island
ecosystem. These refuge lands are managed to provide wintering habitat
for waterfowl, shorebirds, wading birds, marsh birds, and neotropical
migratory songbirds, as well as to protect threatened and endangered
species, such as piping plovers, sea turtles, and the sea beach
amaranth.
We announce our decision and the availability of the final CCP and
FONSI for Currituck NWR in accordance with the National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA) [40 CFR 1506.6(b)] requirements. We completed a
thorough analysis of impacts on the human environment, which we
included in the
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Draft CCP/EA. The CCP will guide us in managing and administering
Currituck NWR for the next 15 years. Alternative 2 is the foundation
for the CCP.
The compatibility determinations for recreational hunting, fishing,
wildlife observation, wildlife photography, environmental education and
interpretation, and trapping of selected furbearers for nuisance animal
management are also available in the CCP.
Background
The National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997 (16
U.S.C. 668dd-668ee) (Improvement Act), which amended the National
Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966, requires us to
develop a CCP for each national wildlife refuge. The purpose for
developing a CCP is to provide refuge managers with a 15-year plan for
achieving refuge purposes and contributing toward the mission of the
National Wildlife Refuge System, consistent with sound principles of
fish and wildlife management, conservation, legal mandates, and our
policies. In addition to outlining broad management direction on
conserving wildlife and their habitats, CCPs identify wildlife-
dependent recreational opportunities available to the public, including
opportunities for hunting, fishing, wildlife observation, wildlife
photography, and environmental education and interpretation. We will
review and update the CCP at least every 15 years in accordance with
the Improvement Act.
Comments
Approximately 100 copies of the Draft CCP/EA were made available
for a 30-day public review period as announced in the Federal Register
on February 9, 2006 (71 FR 6786). Eleven comments on the Draft CCP/EA
were received. The Draft CCP/EA identified and evaluated three
alternatives for managing the refuge over a 15-year period.
Selected Alternative
After considering the comments we received and based on the
professional judgment of the planning team, we selected Alternative 2
for implementation. The preferred alternative will result in moderate
program increases. All habitats on the refuge, including water levels
of the impoundments and the vegetation, will be managed very
intensively for migrating waterfowl. The staff will monitor vegetation
in the marshes before and after prescribed burns and inventory
vegetation in the maritime swamp forest. The refuge will continue to
allow the priority public uses (e.g., hunting, fishing, wildlife
observation, wildlife photography, and environmental education and
interpretation) and will have the capacity to increase the number of
opportunities for public use.
Authority: This notice is published under the authority of the
National Wildlife Refuge System Improvement Act of 1997, Public Law
105-57.
Dated: September 29, 2008.
Cynthia K. Dohner,
Acting Regional Director.
[FR Doc. E8-28705 Filed 12-3-08; 8:45 am]
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