Draft Long Range Transportation Plan for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Lands in the Midwest Region, 69123-69124 [2013-27433]
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[FWS–R3–R–2012–N270;
FXRS85550300000–XXX–FF03R04000]
Draft Long Range Transportation Plan
for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Lands in the Midwest Region
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability; request
for comments.
AGENCY:
We, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service (Service), announce the
availability of a draft long range
transportation plan for public review
and comment. The Draft Long Range
Transportation Plan outlines a strategy
for improving and maintaining
transportation assets that provide access
to Service-managed lands in the
Midwest Region (Illinois, Indiana, Iowa,
Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio,
and Wisconsin) over the next 20 years.
DATES: We must receive written
comments on or before December 18,
2013.
SUMMARY:
Document Review: If you
wish to review the draft plan, you may
obtain a copy by visiting our Web site
at https://www.fws.gov/midwest/
planning/currentplans.html.
Alternatively, you may contact
Brandon Jutz, Regional Transportation
Coordinator, Midwest Region, U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, 5600 American
Boulevard West, Suite 990,
Bloomington, MN (612–713–5407).
Submitting Comments: If you wish to
comment on the plan, you may submit
your comments in writing by any one of
the following methods:
• U.S. mail: Regional Transportation
Coordinator, at the above address.
• Hand-delivery: Regional
Transportation Coordinator, at the above
address.
• Fax: 612–713–5288.
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Brandon Jutz, at the above address,
phone number, or email.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
With this notice, we make the Draft
LRTP for the Midwest Region of the U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service available for
public review and comment. When
finalized, the LRTP will apply to
Service-managed lands in Illinois,
Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota,
Missouri, Ohio, and Wisconsin.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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ADDRESSES:
• Email: Brandon_Jutz@fws.gov.
For additional information about
submitting comments, see the ‘‘Public
Availability of Comments’’ section
below.
The Moving Ahead for Progress in the
21st Century Act (Map-21) requires all
Federal land management agencies to
conduct long-range transportation
planning in a manner that is consistent
with metropolitan planning
organization and State departments of
transportation planning. This LRTP was
initiated within the Service to achieve
the following:
• Establish a defensible structure for
sound transportation planning and
decision-making.
• Establish a vision, mission, goals,
and objectives for transportation
planning in the Service’s Midwest
Region.
• Implement coordinated and
cooperative transportation partnerships
in an effort to improve the Service’s
transportation infrastructure.
• Bring the Service into compliance
with the Moving Ahead for Progress in
the 21st Century Act (MAP–21), which
requires all Federal land management
agencies (FLMA) to conduct long-range
transportation planning in a manner
that is consistent with metropolitan
planning organization (MPO) and State
department of transportation (DOT)
planning.
• Integrate transportation planning
and funding for wildlife refuges and fish
hatcheries into existing and future
Service management plans and
strategies—e.g., comprehensive
conservation plans (CCPs) and
comprehensive hatchery management
plans (CHMPs).
• Increase awareness of Alternative
Transportation Systems (ATS) and
associated benefits.
• Develop best management practices
(BMP) for transportation improvements
on Service lands.
• Serve as a pilot project for the
implementation of a region-level
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transportation planning process within
the Service.
LRTP Mission, Goals, and Objectives
Through a collaborative effort, the
Refuge and Fisheries Programs, in
cooperation with the planning and
visitor services programs within the
Service’s Midwest Region, have
contributed to defining the mission,
goals, and objectives presented in this
document. The resulting mission, goals,
and objectives are intended to provide
a systematic approach to guide the
process for evaluating and selecting
transportation improvement for the
Service lands in the Midwest Region.
These guiding principles have shaped
the development, conclusions, and
recommendations of this LRTP.
Mission
To support the Service’s mission by
connecting people to fish, wildlife, and
their habitats through strategic
implementation of transportation
programs.
Goals and Objectives
This long-range transportation plan
has six categories of goals: Resource
protection, safety and condition,
welcome and orientation, planning,
partnerships, and sustainability. Under
each goal, we present distinct objectives
that move us to the goal.
• Natural Resource Protection: Ensure
that the transportation program helps to
conserve and enhance fish, wildlife, and
plant resources and their habitats.
Objective 1: Identify, research, and
adopt BMPs for planning, design,
construction, and maintenance that
mitigate impacts of transportation.
Objective 2: Reduce transportationrelated conflicts with fish and wildlife
corridors on or adjacent to Service
lands.
• Safety and Conditions: Provide a
safe and reliable transportation network
to and within Service lands.
Objective 1: Identify and reduce safety
problems and modal conflicts to and
within Service lands.
Objective 2: Ensure that missioncritical transportation assets are
maintained in ‘‘good’’ condition.
• Welcome and Orientation: Develop
and maintain a transportation network
that enhances the welcoming and
orienting experience of visitors.
Objective 1: Provide public
information to enable visitors to easily
get to refuges and hatcheries and to use
their sites.
Objective 2: Engage the visitors with
compelling information so he/she has a
better understanding of the purpose of
wildlife conservation and enjoyment of
natural resources.
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Objective 3: Create a consistent and
recognizable identity throughout all
Service units by using standard
materials for readily observed physical
elements associated with the
transportation system.
• Planning: Integrate appropriate
transportation planning into Service
plans and processes.
Objective 1: Ensure consistency and
coordination between the project, unit,
regional, and national levels of
planning.
Objective 2: Define need for
infrastructure improvements, and
prioritize projects using a scientific and
objective process.
• Partnerships: Develop partnerships
to leverage resources and develop
integrated transportation solutions.
Objective 1: Maximize leveraging
opportunities for both funding and
resources.
Objective 2: Work with partners to
address shared transportation issues
that impact Service goals.
• Sustainability: Adopt and promote
sustainable transportation practices.
Objective 1: Address climate change
and other environmental factors at all
levels of transportation planning,
design, project delivery, and
maintenance.
Objective 2: Improve access to and
within Service lands by transit or nonmotorized transportation and
information systems.
Objective 3: Reduce fossil fuel energy
consumption.
Next Steps
After this comment period ends, we
will analyze the comments and address
them in the form of a final LRTP.
Public Availability of Comments
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.
Charles M. Wooley,
Acting Regional Director, Midwest Region,
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Elizabeth W. Hadley, Redding Electric
Utility, 777 Cypress Avenue, Redding,
CA 96001; telephone: 530–339–7327;
email: ehadley@reupower.com.
Individuals with a disability may
request an accommodation by sending
an email to the point of contact and
those accommodations will be provided.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the requirements of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5
U.S.C. App., we announce that the
Trinity Adaptive Management Working
Group (TAMWG) will hold a meeting.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Background
Fish and Wildlife Service
The TAMWG affords stakeholders the
opportunity to give policy, management,
and technical input concerning Trinity
River (California) restoration efforts to
the Trinity Management Council (TMC).
The TMC interprets and recommends
policy, coordinates and reviews
management actions, and provides
organizational budget oversight.
[FWS–R8–FHC–2013–N251;
FXFR1334088TWG0W4–123–FF08EACT00]
Trinity Adaptive Management Working
Group; Public Meeting and
Teleconference
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
We, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, announce a public
meeting and teleconference meeting of
the Trinity Adaptive Management
Working Group (TAMWG).
DATES: Public meeting and
Teleconference: TAMWG will meet
from 10 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. Pacific Time
on Monday, December 9, 2013, and from
10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Pacific Time on
Tuesday, December 10, 2013. Deadlines:
For deadlines and directions on
registering to listen to the meeting by
phone, and submitting written material,
please see ‘‘Public Input’’ under
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
ADDRESSES: The in-person meeting will
be held at the Indian Creek Lodge,
59741 California 299, Douglas City, CA
96024. You may participate in person or
from your home phone.
SUMMARY:
Meeting Agenda
• Designated Federal Officer (DFO)
updates,
• TMC Chair report,
• Executive Director’s report,
• TRRP Contracting,
• BLM Land Acquisitions,
• Hatchery update and fish
projections,
• TRRCD weed management,
• Design update,
• 2014 Gravel Recommendation,
• Bylaw discussion,
• 2014 Flow Alternatives,
• Status of Klamath fall flow release,
• Mining issues,
• TRRP workgroup update, and
• Public Comment.
The final agenda will be posted on the
Internet at https://www.fws.gov/arcata.
Public Input
You must contact
Elizabeth Hadley (FOR
FURTHER
INFORMATION
CONTACT)
no later than
If you wish to
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Submit written information or questions for the TAMWG to consider during the teleconference ...................................
Submitting Written Information or
Questions
Interested members of the public may
submit relevant information or
questions for the TAMWG to consider
during the meeting. Written statements
must be received by the date listed in
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‘‘Public Input,’’ so that the information
may be available to the TAMWG for
their consideration prior to this
teleconference. Written statements must
be supplied to Elizabeth Hadley in one
of the following formats: One hard copy
with original signature, one electronic
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copy with original signature, and one
electronic copy via email (acceptable
file formats are Adobe Acrobat PDF, MS
Word, PowerPoint, or rich text file).
Registered speakers who wish to
expand on their oral statements, or
those who wished to speak but could
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-R3-R-2012-N270; FXRS85550300000-XXX-FF03R04000]
Draft Long Range Transportation Plan for U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service Lands in the Midwest Region
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce the
availability of a draft long range transportation plan for public
review and comment. The Draft Long Range Transportation Plan outlines a
strategy for improving and maintaining transportation assets that
provide access to Service-managed lands in the Midwest Region
(Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and
Wisconsin) over the next 20 years.
DATES: We must receive written comments on or before December 18, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Document Review: If you wish to review the draft plan, you
may obtain a copy by visiting our Web site at https://www.fws.gov/midwest/planning/currentplans.html.
Alternatively, you may contact Brandon Jutz, Regional
Transportation Coordinator, Midwest Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, 5600 American Boulevard West, Suite 990, Bloomington, MN (612-
713-5407).
Submitting Comments: If you wish to comment on the plan, you may
submit your comments in writing by any one of the following methods:
U.S. mail: Regional Transportation Coordinator, at the
above address.
Hand-delivery: Regional Transportation Coordinator, at the
above address.
Fax: 612-713-5288.
Email: Brandon_Jutz@fws.gov.
For additional information about submitting comments, see the
``Public Availability of Comments'' section below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brandon Jutz, at the above address,
phone number, or email.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Introduction
With this notice, we make the Draft LRTP for the Midwest Region of
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service available for public review and
comment. When finalized, the LRTP will apply to Service-managed lands
in Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Ohio, and
Wisconsin.
Background
The Moving Ahead for Progress in the 21st Century Act (Map-21)
requires all Federal land management agencies to conduct long-range
transportation planning in a manner that is consistent with
metropolitan planning organization and State departments of
transportation planning. This LRTP was initiated within the Service to
achieve the following:
Establish a defensible structure for sound transportation
planning and decision-making.
Establish a vision, mission, goals, and objectives for
transportation planning in the Service's Midwest Region.
Implement coordinated and cooperative transportation
partnerships in an effort to improve the Service's transportation
infrastructure.
Bring the Service into compliance with the Moving Ahead
for Progress in the 21st Century Act (MAP-21), which requires all
Federal land management agencies (FLMA) to conduct long-range
transportation planning in a manner that is consistent with
metropolitan planning organization (MPO) and State department of
transportation (DOT) planning.
Integrate transportation planning and funding for wildlife
refuges and fish hatcheries into existing and future Service management
plans and strategies--e.g., comprehensive conservation plans (CCPs) and
comprehensive hatchery management plans (CHMPs).
Increase awareness of Alternative Transportation Systems
(ATS) and associated benefits.
Develop best management practices (BMP) for transportation
improvements on Service lands.
Serve as a pilot project for the implementation of a
region-level transportation planning process within the Service.
LRTP Mission, Goals, and Objectives
Through a collaborative effort, the Refuge and Fisheries Programs,
in cooperation with the planning and visitor services programs within
the Service's Midwest Region, have contributed to defining the mission,
goals, and objectives presented in this document. The resulting
mission, goals, and objectives are intended to provide a systematic
approach to guide the process for evaluating and selecting
transportation improvement for the Service lands in the Midwest Region.
These guiding principles have shaped the development, conclusions, and
recommendations of this LRTP.
Mission
To support the Service's mission by connecting people to fish,
wildlife, and their habitats through strategic implementation of
transportation programs.
Goals and Objectives
This long-range transportation plan has six categories of goals:
Resource protection, safety and condition, welcome and orientation,
planning, partnerships, and sustainability. Under each goal, we present
distinct objectives that move us to the goal.
Natural Resource Protection: Ensure that the
transportation program helps to conserve and enhance fish, wildlife,
and plant resources and their habitats.
Objective 1: Identify, research, and adopt BMPs for planning,
design, construction, and maintenance that mitigate impacts of
transportation.
Objective 2: Reduce transportation-related conflicts with fish and
wildlife corridors on or adjacent to Service lands.
Safety and Conditions: Provide a safe and reliable
transportation network to and within Service lands.
Objective 1: Identify and reduce safety problems and modal
conflicts to and within Service lands.
Objective 2: Ensure that mission-critical transportation assets are
maintained in ``good'' condition.
Welcome and Orientation: Develop and maintain a
transportation network that enhances the welcoming and orienting
experience of visitors.
Objective 1: Provide public information to enable visitors to
easily get to refuges and hatcheries and to use their sites.
Objective 2: Engage the visitors with compelling information so he/
she has a better understanding of the purpose of wildlife conservation
and enjoyment of natural resources.
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Objective 3: Create a consistent and recognizable identity
throughout all Service units by using standard materials for readily
observed physical elements associated with the transportation system.
Planning: Integrate appropriate transportation planning
into Service plans and processes.
Objective 1: Ensure consistency and coordination between the
project, unit, regional, and national levels of planning.
Objective 2: Define need for infrastructure improvements, and
prioritize projects using a scientific and objective process.
Partnerships: Develop partnerships to leverage resources
and develop integrated transportation solutions.
Objective 1: Maximize leveraging opportunities for both funding and
resources.
Objective 2: Work with partners to address shared transportation
issues that impact Service goals.
Sustainability: Adopt and promote sustainable
transportation practices.
Objective 1: Address climate change and other environmental factors
at all levels of transportation planning, design, project delivery, and
maintenance.
Objective 2: Improve access to and within Service lands by transit
or non-motorized transportation and information systems.
Objective 3: Reduce fossil fuel energy consumption.
Next Steps
After this comment period ends, we will analyze the comments and
address them in the form of a final LRTP.
Public Availability of Comments
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.
Charles M. Wooley,
Acting Regional Director, Midwest Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service.
[FR Doc. 2013-27433 Filed 11-15-13; 8:45 am]
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