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Order
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
By virtue of the authority vested in
the Secretary of the Interior by Section
204 of the Federal Land Policy and
Management Act of 1976, (43 U.S.C.
1714), it is ordered as follows:
1. Subject to valid existing rights, the
following described public lands are
hereby withdrawn from settlement, sale,
location, and entry under the general
land laws, including the United States
mining laws, but not from leasing under
the mineral leasing laws, and
administrative jurisdiction is transferred
to the Department of the Navy for use
as a mountain warfare training facility:
National Park Service
San Bernardino Meridian
DATES:
T. 17 S., R. 5 E.,
Sec. 14, W1⁄2;
Sec. 15, SE1⁄4NE1⁄4 and S1⁄2SE1⁄4;
Sec. 22, lots 1 and 2, NE1⁄4, E1⁄2NW1⁄4,
E1⁄2SW1⁄4, and W1⁄2SE1⁄4;
Sec. 23, lots 1 and 2, N1⁄2, E1⁄2SW1⁄4, and
SE1⁄4;
Sec. 24, lots 4, 5, 20, 22, 24, 26, and
SW1⁄4SW1⁄4;
Sec. 25;
Sec. 26, lots 1 and 2, NE1⁄4, E1⁄2NW1⁄4,
NE1⁄4SW1⁄4, N1⁄2SE1⁄4, and SE1⁄4SE1⁄4;
Sec. 27, lots 1, 9, and 10;
Sec. 34, lot 7, and NE1⁄4SE1⁄4;
Sec. 35, lots 2, 3, and 4, NE1⁄4, S1⁄2NW1⁄4,
N1⁄2SW1⁄4, and N1⁄2SE1⁄4.
T. 18 S., R. 5 E.,
Sec. 2, NE1⁄4NE1⁄4.
The areas described aggregate 3,385.89
acres, more or less, in San Diego County.
2. The withdrawal made by this order
does not alter the applicability of those
public land laws governing the use of
the lands under lease, license, or permit,
or governing the disposal of their
mineral or vegetative resources other
than those under the mining laws.
3. This withdrawal will expire 20
years from the effective date of this
order unless, as a result of a review
conducted before the expiration date
pursuant to Section 204(f) of the Federal
Land Policy and Management Act, (43
U.S.C. 1714(f)), the Secretary determines
that the withdrawal shall be extended.
Dated: December 14, 2012.
Rhea S. Suh,
Assistant Secretary—Policy, Management
and Budget.
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Notice of February 1, 2013, Meeting for
Kalaupapa Federal Advisory
Commission
National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Meeting Notice.
AGENCY:
This notice sets the date of
February 1, 2013, meeting of the
Kalaupapa Federal Advisory
Commission.
SUMMARY:
The public meeting of the
Kalaupapa Federal Advisory
Commission will be held on Friday,
February 1, 2013, at 9:00 a.m. (Hawaii
Standard Time).
Location: The meeting will be held at
McVeigh Social Hall, Kalaupapa
National Historical Park, Kalaupapa,
Hawaii 96742.
Agenda
The February 1, 2013, Commission
meeting will consist of the following:
1. Approval of Agenda.
2. Approval of June 14, 2012,
Minutes.
3. Superintendent’s Report.
4. Paschoal Hall Interpretive Exhibits
Update.
5. Maintenance of the Cemeteries at
Kalaupapa Update.
6. Memorial Update.
7. Public Comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Further information concerning this
meeting may be obtained from the
Superintendent, Kalaupapa National
Historical Park, P.O. Box 2222,
Kalaupapa, Hawaii 96742, telephone
(808) 567–6802 x 1100.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
meeting is open to the public. Interested
persons may make oral/written
presentations to the Commission or file
written statements. Such requests
should be made to the Superintendent
at least seven days prior to the meeting.
Before including your address, phone
number, email 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.
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Dated: January 3, 2013.
Stephen Prokop,
Superintendent, Kalaupapa National
Historical Park.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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Submission of U.S. Nomination to the
World Heritage List
National Park Service, Interior.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The Department of the
Interior is submitting a nomination to
the World Heritage List for the
Monumental Earthworks of Poverty
Point in West Carroll Parish, Louisiana.
This is the third notice required by the
National Park Service’s World Heritage
Program regulations.
DATES: The World Heritage Committee
will likely consider the nomination at
its 38th annual session in mid-2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Stephen Morris, Chief, Office of
International Affairs at 202–354–1803 or
Jonathan Putnam, International
Cooperation Specialist at 202–354–
1809. Complete information about U.S.
participation in the World Heritage
Program and the process used to
develop the U.S. World Heritage
Tentative List is posted on the National
Park Service, Office of International
Affairs Web site at: https://www.nps.gov/
oia/topics/worldheritage/
worldheritage.htm.
To request paper copies of documents
discussed in this notice, please contact
April Brooks, Office of International
Affairs, National Park Service, 1201 Eye
Street NW., (0050) Washington, DC
20005; Email: April_Brooks@nps.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
constitutes the official notice of the
decision by the United States
Department of the Interior to submit a
nomination to the World Heritage List
for ‘‘Monumental Earthworks of Poverty
Point’’ in West Carroll Parish,
Louisiana, and serves as the Third
Notice referred to in 36 CFR 73.7(j) of
the World Heritage Program regulations
(36 CFR part 73).
The nomination is being submitted
through the U.S. Department of State to
the World Heritage Centre of the United
Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for
consideration by the World Heritage
SUMMARY:
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Committee, which will likely occur at
the Committee’s 38th annual session in
mid-2014.
This property has been selected from
the U.S. World Heritage Tentative List.
The Tentative List consists of properties
that appear to qualify for World Heritage
status and which may be considered for
nomination by the United States to the
World Heritage List.
The U.S. World Heritage Tentative
List appeared in a Federal Register
notice on December 14, 2010 (73 FR
77901–77903), with a request for public
comment on possible nominations from
the 13 sites on the Tentative List. A
summary of the comments received, the
Department of the Interior’s responses to
them and the Department’s decision to
request preparation of this nomination
appeared in a subsequent Federal
Register Notice published on July 14,
2011 (76 FR 41517–41521). These are
the First and Second Notices required
by 36 CFR 73.7(c) and (f).
In making the decision to submit this
U.S. World Heritage nomination,
pursuant to 36 CFR 73.7(h) and (i), the
Department’s Assistant Secretary for
Fish and Wildlife and Parks evaluated
the draft nomination and the
recommendations of the Federal
Interagency Panel for World Heritage.
She determined that the property meets
the prerequisites for nomination by the
United States to the World Heritage List
that are detailed in 36 CFR part 73. It
is nationally significant, having been
designated by Congress as a National
Monument and by the Department of
the Interior as a National Historic
Landmark. The owner of the site, the
State of Louisiana, has concurred in
writing with the nomination, and the
property, a State Historic Site, is well
protected legally and functionally, as
documented in the nomination. It
appears to meet at least one of the
World Heritage criteria.
The Monumental Earthworks of
Poverty Point are nominated under
World Heritage cultural criterion (iii) as
provided in 36 CFR 73.9(b), as an
exceptional testimony to the vanished
culture of the people who lived in the
Lower Mississippi Valley 2,500–4,000
years ago. Located in northeastern
Louisiana on a bayou of the Mississippi,
the site is a vast, integrated complex of
earthen monuments, constructed 3,100–
3,700 years ago. It consists of six
enormous, concentric earthen ridges
with an outer diameter of more than a
half mile, and several large mounds,
including one of the largest in North
America. This constructed landscape
was the largest and most elaborate of its
time on the continent; the particular
form of the complex is not duplicated
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anywhere else in the world. Even more
significantly and unusually, it was built
by a settlement of hunter-gatherers, not
agricultural people, which challenges
some conventional assumptions about
what such a society could achieve.
The World Heritage List is an
international list of cultural and natural
properties nominated by the signatories
to the World Heritage Convention
(1972). The United States was the prime
architect of the Convention, an
international treaty for the preservation
of natural and cultural heritage sites of
global significance proposed by
President Richard M. Nixon in 1972,
and the U.S. was the first nation to ratify
it. The World Heritage Committee,
composed of representatives of 21
nations elected as the governing body of
the World Heritage Convention, makes
the final decisions on which
nominations to accept on the World
Heritage List at its annual meeting each
summer. The United States has served
four terms on the World Heritage
Committee, but is not currently a
member.
There are 962 World Heritage sites in
157 of the 190 signatory countries. The
United States has 21 sites inscribed on
the World Heritage List.
U.S. participation and the role of the
Department of the Interior are
authorized by Section 401 of Title IV of
the Historic Preservation Act
Amendments of 1980, (16 U.S.C. 470a–
1), and conducted by the Department
through the National Park Service in
accordance with the regulations at 36
CFR part 73 which implement the
Convention pursuant to the 1980
Amendments. The Department of the
Interior has the lead role for the U.S.
Government in the implementation of
the Convention; the National Park
Service serves as the principal technical
agency within the Department for World
Heritage matters and manages all or
parts of 17 of the 21 U.S. World Heritage
Sites.
The World Heritage Committee’s
Operational Guidelines require
participating nations to provide
tentative lists, which aid in evaluating
properties for the World Heritage List on
a comparative international basis and
help the Committee to schedule its
work. The current U.S. Tentative List
was transmitted to the UNESCO World
Heritage Centre on January 24, 2008.
Neither inclusion in the Tentative List
nor inscription as a World Heritage Site
imposes legal restrictions on owners or
neighbors of sites, nor does it give the
United Nations any management
authority or ownership rights in U.S.
World Heritage Sites, which continue to
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be subject only to U.S. federal and local
laws, as applicable.
Dated: December 12, 2012.
Rachel Jacobson,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish
and Wildlife and Parks.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation
and Enforcement
Notice of Proposed Information
Collection
Office of Surface Mining
Reclamation and Enforcement, Interior.
ACTION: Notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the
Office of Surface Mining Reclamation
and Enforcement (OSM) is announcing
that the information collection request
for the State Regulatory Authority:
Inspection and Enforcement, has been
forwarded to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review and
approval. This information collection
request describes the nature of the
information collection and its expected
burden and cost.
DATES: OMB has up to 60 days to
approve or disapprove the information
collection requests but may respond
after 30 days. Therefore, public
comments should be submitted to OMB
by February 19, 2013, in order to be
assured of consideration.
ADDRESSES: Submit comments to the
Office of Information and Regulatory
Affairs, Office of Management and
Budget, Department of the Interior Desk
Officer, via email at
OIRA_submission@omb.eop.gov, or by
facsimile to (202) 395–5806. Also,
please send a copy of your comments to
John Trelease, Office of Surface Mining
Reclamation and Enforcement, 1951
Constitution Ave. NW., Room 203—SIB,
Washington, DC 20240, or electronically
to jtrelease@osmre.gov. Please reference
1029–0051 in your correspondence.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To
receive a copy of the information
collection request, contact John Trelease
at (202) 208–2783. You may also contact
Mr. Trelease at jtrelease@osmre.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB
regulations at 5 CFR part 1320, which
implement provisions of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13),
require that interested members of the
public and affected agencies have an
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
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Submission of U.S. Nomination to the World Heritage List
AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Department of the Interior is submitting a nomination to
the World Heritage List for the Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point
in West Carroll Parish, Louisiana. This is the third notice required by
the National Park Service's World Heritage Program regulations.
DATES: The World Heritage Committee will likely consider the nomination
at its 38th annual session in mid-2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephen Morris, Chief, Office of
International Affairs at 202-354-1803 or Jonathan Putnam, International
Cooperation Specialist at 202-354-1809. Complete information about U.S.
participation in the World Heritage Program and the process used to
develop the U.S. World Heritage Tentative List is posted on the
National Park Service, Office of International Affairs Web site at:
https://www.nps.gov/oia/topics/worldheritage/worldheritage.htm.
To request paper copies of documents discussed in this notice,
please contact April Brooks, Office of International Affairs, National
Park Service, 1201 Eye Street NW., (0050) Washington, DC 20005; Email:
April_Brooks@nps.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This constitutes the official notice of the
decision by the United States Department of the Interior to submit a
nomination to the World Heritage List for ``Monumental Earthworks of
Poverty Point'' in West Carroll Parish, Louisiana, and serves as the
Third Notice referred to in 36 CFR 73.7(j) of the World Heritage
Program regulations (36 CFR part 73).
The nomination is being submitted through the U.S. Department of
State to the World Heritage Centre of the United Nations Educational,
Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) for consideration by the
World Heritage
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Committee, which will likely occur at the Committee's 38th annual
session in mid-2014.
This property has been selected from the U.S. World Heritage
Tentative List. The Tentative List consists of properties that appear
to qualify for World Heritage status and which may be considered for
nomination by the United States to the World Heritage List.
The U.S. World Heritage Tentative List appeared in a Federal
Register notice on December 14, 2010 (73 FR 77901-77903), with a
request for public comment on possible nominations from the 13 sites on
the Tentative List. A summary of the comments received, the Department
of the Interior's responses to them and the Department's decision to
request preparation of this nomination appeared in a subsequent Federal
Register Notice published on July 14, 2011 (76 FR 41517-41521). These
are the First and Second Notices required by 36 CFR 73.7(c) and (f).
In making the decision to submit this U.S. World Heritage
nomination, pursuant to 36 CFR 73.7(h) and (i), the Department's
Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks evaluated the draft
nomination and the recommendations of the Federal Interagency Panel for
World Heritage. She determined that the property meets the
prerequisites for nomination by the United States to the World Heritage
List that are detailed in 36 CFR part 73. It is nationally significant,
having been designated by Congress as a National Monument and by the
Department of the Interior as a National Historic Landmark. The owner
of the site, the State of Louisiana, has concurred in writing with the
nomination, and the property, a State Historic Site, is well protected
legally and functionally, as documented in the nomination. It appears
to meet at least one of the World Heritage criteria.
The Monumental Earthworks of Poverty Point are nominated under
World Heritage cultural criterion (iii) as provided in 36 CFR 73.9(b),
as an exceptional testimony to the vanished culture of the people who
lived in the Lower Mississippi Valley 2,500-4,000 years ago. Located in
northeastern Louisiana on a bayou of the Mississippi, the site is a
vast, integrated complex of earthen monuments, constructed 3,100-3,700
years ago. It consists of six enormous, concentric earthen ridges with
an outer diameter of more than a half mile, and several large mounds,
including one of the largest in North America. This constructed
landscape was the largest and most elaborate of its time on the
continent; the particular form of the complex is not duplicated
anywhere else in the world. Even more significantly and unusually, it
was built by a settlement of hunter-gatherers, not agricultural people,
which challenges some conventional assumptions about what such a
society could achieve.
The World Heritage List is an international list of cultural and
natural properties nominated by the signatories to the World Heritage
Convention (1972). The United States was the prime architect of the
Convention, an international treaty for the preservation of natural and
cultural heritage sites of global significance proposed by President
Richard M. Nixon in 1972, and the U.S. was the first nation to ratify
it. The World Heritage Committee, composed of representatives of 21
nations elected as the governing body of the World Heritage Convention,
makes the final decisions on which nominations to accept on the World
Heritage List at its annual meeting each summer. The United States has
served four terms on the World Heritage Committee, but is not currently
a member.
There are 962 World Heritage sites in 157 of the 190 signatory
countries. The United States has 21 sites inscribed on the World
Heritage List.
U.S. participation and the role of the Department of the Interior
are authorized by Section 401 of Title IV of the Historic Preservation
Act Amendments of 1980, (16 U.S.C. 470a-1), and conducted by the
Department through the National Park Service in accordance with the
regulations at 36 CFR part 73 which implement the Convention pursuant
to the 1980 Amendments. The Department of the Interior has the lead
role for the U.S. Government in the implementation of the Convention;
the National Park Service serves as the principal technical agency
within the Department for World Heritage matters and manages all or
parts of 17 of the 21 U.S. World Heritage Sites.
The World Heritage Committee's Operational Guidelines require
participating nations to provide tentative lists, which aid in
evaluating properties for the World Heritage List on a comparative
international basis and help the Committee to schedule its work. The
current U.S. Tentative List was transmitted to the UNESCO World
Heritage Centre on January 24, 2008.
Neither inclusion in the Tentative List nor inscription as a World
Heritage Site imposes legal restrictions on owners or neighbors of
sites, nor does it give the United Nations any management authority or
ownership rights in U.S. World Heritage Sites, which continue to be
subject only to U.S. federal and local laws, as applicable.
Dated: December 12, 2012.
Rachel Jacobson,
Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Parks.
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