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additional 15-year period. The
extension is necessary to continue
protection of the Spencer Glacier
Material Site, which was established on
behalf of the United States Forest
Service in order to make high quality
rock and gravel available from the site
to nearby communities for private and
public works projects.
DATES:
Effective Date: May 28, 2014.
National Park Service
Dated: December 20, 2013.
Jonathan B. Jarvis,
Director, National Park Service.
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Notice of Designation of Potential
Wilderness as Wilderness, Congaree
National Park, South Carolina
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AGENCY:
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ACTION:
The
purpose for which the withdrawal was
first made requires this extension to
continue to make high quality rock and
gravel available for private and public
works projects from the Spencer Glacier
Material Site located in the Chugach
National Forest. The withdrawal
extended by this order will now expire
on May 27, 2029, unless, as a result of
a review conducted prior to the
expiration date pursuant to Section
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Public Land Order No. 7393 (64 FR 29064
(1999)), which withdrew approximately 600
acres of National Forest System land from
location and entry under the United States
mining laws to make high quality rock and
gravel available from the Spencer Glacier
Material Site to nearby communities for
private and public works projects, is hereby
extended for an additional 15-year period
until May 27, 2029.
Dated: May 18, 2014.
Anne J. Castle,
Assistant Secretary—Water and Science.
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National Park Service, Interior.
The Congaree Swamp
National Monument Expansion and
Wilderness Act of 1988 (Pub. L. 100–
524, October 24, 1988) designated
approximately 15,010 acres of Congaree
Swamp National Monument, now
Congaree National Park, as wilderness,
and approximately 6,840 acres as
potential wilderness additions. Section
2(b) of Public Law 100–524 authorizes
the Secretary of the Interior to convert
any designated potential wilderness at
Congaree National Park to designated
wilderness upon publication in the
Federal Register of a notice that any
non-Federal interests in land have been
acquired and all uses thereon prohibited
by the Wilderness Act of 1964 (Pub. L.
88–577) have ceased.
Accordingly, this notice hereby
converts approximately 6,690 acres of
designated potential wilderness at
Congaree National Park to designated
wilderness. The converted acreage
comprises all but about 60 acres of
designated potential wilderness in the
park that have been acquired to date by
the United States. The approximately 90
acres of private land still remaining
within the park’s designated potential
wilderness are not affected by this
Notice. These private lands, if acquired
by the United States, may be converted
to designated wilderness at a later date.
A map showing the lands hereby
converted to designated wilderness is
on file at the administrative office of
Congaree National Park.
All interests in the lands converted to
designated wilderness via this Notice
have been acquired by the United
States, and there are no current, or
proposed, uses of the 6,690 acres that
are incompatible with wilderness
designation. These 6,690 acres shall be
added to the 15,010 acres of designated
wilderness within the Congaree
National Park Wilderness and managed
in accordance with the Wilderness Act
of 1964.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
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Notice of Designation.
SUMMARY:
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Notice of Availability of the Final
Environmental Impact Statement for
the Fishery Management Plan,
Biscayne National Park, Florida
National Park Service,
Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Availability of the
Final Environmental Impact Statement
for the Fishery Management Plan,
Biscayne National Park, Florida.
AGENCY:
Pursuant to 102(2)(C) of the
National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, 42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C), the National
Park Service (NPS), announces the
availability of the Final Environmental
Impact Statement (FEIS) for the Fishery
Management Plan (FMP) for Biscayne
National Park (Park), Florida. The
authority for publishing this notice is 40
CFR 1506.6.
The FMP is designed to guide fishery
management decisions in the park for
the next five to ten years. An FMP is
needed to guide sustainable use of the
Park’s fishery-related resources, as
recent studies suggest that many of
these resources are in decline. The
development of the alternatives and the
identification of the preferred
alternative were based on a combination
of public input from three public
comment periods and three series of
public meetings, the input of the FMP
Working Group, inter-agency meetings,
and environmental and socioeconomic
analyses.
SUMMARY:
The NPS will execute a Record
of Decision (ROD) [no sooner than 30
days following publication of the
Environmental Protection Agency of its
Notice of Availability of the FEIS/GMP
in the Federal Register.]
ADDRESSES: Biscayne National Park,
9700 SW 328th Street, Homestead,
Florida, 33033. Electronic copies of the
final document, including responses to
public comments received and the
entire Biological Opinion issued by the
National Marine Fisheries Service, will
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Vanessa McDonough, Biscayne National
Park, 9700 SW 328th Street, Homestead,
FL, 33033; 305–230–1144, extension
027; vanessa_mcdonough@nps.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Final
FMP responds to, and incorporates
agency and public comments received
on the Draft EIS, which was available
for public review from August 5, 2009,
through October 6, 2009. Three public
meetings were held on September 15th
through 17th, 2009, and a total of 337
comments were received. The NPS
responses to substantive agency and
public comments are provided in
Appendix 8 of the FEIS.
The FMP FEIS offers five management
alternatives, including the no action
alternative (Alternative 1) and four
action alternatives. Alternatives 2
through 5 represent progressively
increasing levels of change from current
regulations and management
approaches, and thus would result in
differing future levels of fishery
resources and gear-related habitat
impacts in Biscayne National Park.
Alternative 1: The No-Action
alternative serves as a basis of
comparison with the other alternatives.
Alternative 1 is characterized by the
continuation of current fisheries
management and no new regulatory
changes would be triggered by the
establishment of the FMP.
Alternative 2, Maintain at or Above
Current Levels: Management actions
would be enacted to maintain Biscayne
National Park’s fisheries resources at or
above current existing levels. Actions
would be implemented in conjunction
with the FWC and could include
moderate increases in minimum harvest
sizes, moderate decreases in bag limits,
and seasonal and/or spatial closures.
Numbers of commercial fishers would
remain at current levels or decrease over
time. Additional Park-specific
regulations and management actions
could be enacted to maintain current
levels only if levels of fish stocks or
recreational fishing experience decline,
or if fishing-related habitat impacts
increase.
Alternative 3, Improve Over Current
Levels: Management actions would be
enacted in conjunction with the FWC to
increase the abundance and average size
of fishery-targeted species within the
Park by at least 10 percent over existing
conditions. A range of management
actions to achieve the desired resource
status would be considered, and include
moderate increases in minimum harvest
sizes, moderate decreases in bag limits,
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seasonal and/or spatial closures. Under
this alternative, the recreational Lobster
Mini-Season would be eliminated in the
Park and regulations would be enacted
to prohibit the use of an air providing
equipment (e.g. scuba or hookah) or use
of gear with a trigger mechanism while
spearfishing. Numbers of commercial
fishers would remain at current levels or
decrease over time. This alternative
would require implementation of new
regulations governing fishing activities
within the Park that would be
accomplished through continued
collaboration with the FWC.
Promulgation of any new regulations
would include additional opportunities
for public comment.
Alternative 4, Rebuild and Conserve
Park Fisheries Resources, (preferred
alternative): Management strategies
would seek a balance between
enjoyment, extraction, and conservation
of fishery resources, while ensuring
sustainable fishing activities.
Management actions would be enacted
in conjunction with the FWC to increase
the abundance and average size of
fishery-targeted species within the Park
by at least 20 percent over existing
conditions, as well as to reduce fishingrelated habitat impacts. Possible
management actions to achieve
substantial improvement of fisheries
resources could include considerable
increases in minimum size limits,
designation of slot limits, substantial
decreases in bag limits, and seasonal
and/or spatial closures. Alternative 4
includes many of the same concepts
previously described for Alternative 3.
However numbers of commercial fishers
would decrease over time via
establishment of a non-transferable useor-lose permit system, and a no-trawl
zone within the Bay would be proposed
for consideration by the FWC. This
alternative would require considerable
changes to current fishing regulations
within the Park, and would be
accomplished through continued
collaboration with the FWC.
Promulgation of any new regulations
would include additional opportunities
for public comment.
Alternative 5, Restore Park Fisheries
Resources: This alternative would
require the most change from current
management strategies in order to return
the sizes and abundance of targeted
species within 20 percent of their
estimated, historic levels and to prevent
further decline in fishing-related habitat
impacts. Possible management actions
to achieve the desired conditions would
be enacted in conjunction with the FWC
and could include substantial increases
in minimum size limits, designation of
slot limits, substantial decreases in bag
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limits, seasonal and/or spatial closures,
prohibition of extractive fishing (i.e.
only allowing catch-and-release fishing),
and a temporary moratorium on all
fishing activity within the Park. Among
the five alternatives, this alternative
would require the most extreme changes
to current fishing regulations within the
Park. These changes would be
accomplished through continued
collaboration with the FWC.
Promulgation of any new regulations
would include additional opportunities
for public comment.
After careful consideration of public
and agency comment, Alternative 4
continues to be the NPS preferred
alternative because it results in the most
equitable balance between protection
and recreational enjoyment of the Park’s
fisheries resources. The NPS feels that
Alternative 4 will allow for fishing
activities to continue at a sustainable
level that does not compromise the
long-term health of the Park’s fisheries
resources.
The responsible official for this final
FMP/EIS is the Regional Director for the
Southeast Region, Stan Austin.
Dated: May 12, 2014.
Sherri L. Fields,
Acting Regional Director, Southeast Region.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS-SERO-BISC-15012; PPSESEROC3, PPMPSAS1Y.YP0000]
Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Impact
Statement for the Fishery Management Plan, Biscayne National Park,
Florida
AGENCY: National Park Service, Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Availability of the Final Environmental Impact
Statement for the Fishery Management Plan, Biscayne National Park,
Florida.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to 102(2)(C) of the National Environmental Policy Act
of 1969, 42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C), the National Park Service (NPS),
announces the availability of the Final Environmental Impact Statement
(FEIS) for the Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for Biscayne National Park
(Park), Florida. The authority for publishing this notice is 40 CFR
1506.6.
The FMP is designed to guide fishery management decisions in the
park for the next five to ten years. An FMP is needed to guide
sustainable use of the Park's fishery-related resources, as recent
studies suggest that many of these resources are in decline. The
development of the alternatives and the identification of the preferred
alternative were based on a combination of public input from three
public comment periods and three series of public meetings, the input
of the FMP Working Group, inter-agency meetings, and environmental and
socioeconomic analyses.
DATES: The NPS will execute a Record of Decision (ROD) [no sooner than
30 days following publication of the Environmental Protection Agency of
its Notice of Availability of the FEIS/GMP in the Federal Register.]
ADDRESSES: Biscayne National Park, 9700 SW 328th Street, Homestead,
Florida, 33033. Electronic copies of the final document, including
responses to public comments received and the entire Biological Opinion
issued by the National Marine Fisheries Service, will
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be available online at https://parkplanning.nps.gov/BISC.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Vanessa McDonough, Biscayne National
Park, 9700 SW 328th Street, Homestead, FL, 33033; 305-230-1144,
extension 027; vanessa_mcdonough@nps.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Final FMP responds to, and incorporates
agency and public comments received on the Draft EIS, which was
available for public review from August 5, 2009, through October 6,
2009. Three public meetings were held on September 15th through 17th,
2009, and a total of 337 comments were received. The NPS responses to
substantive agency and public comments are provided in Appendix 8 of
the FEIS.
The FMP FEIS offers five management alternatives, including the no
action alternative (Alternative 1) and four action alternatives.
Alternatives 2 through 5 represent progressively increasing levels of
change from current regulations and management approaches, and thus
would result in differing future levels of fishery resources and gear-
related habitat impacts in Biscayne National Park.
Alternative 1: The No-Action alternative serves as a basis of
comparison with the other alternatives. Alternative 1 is characterized
by the continuation of current fisheries management and no new
regulatory changes would be triggered by the establishment of the FMP.
Alternative 2, Maintain at or Above Current Levels: Management
actions would be enacted to maintain Biscayne National Park's fisheries
resources at or above current existing levels. Actions would be
implemented in conjunction with the FWC and could include moderate
increases in minimum harvest sizes, moderate decreases in bag limits,
and seasonal and/or spatial closures. Numbers of commercial fishers
would remain at current levels or decrease over time. Additional Park-
specific regulations and management actions could be enacted to
maintain current levels only if levels of fish stocks or recreational
fishing experience decline, or if fishing-related habitat impacts
increase.
Alternative 3, Improve Over Current Levels: Management actions
would be enacted in conjunction with the FWC to increase the abundance
and average size of fishery-targeted species within the Park by at
least 10 percent over existing conditions. A range of management
actions to achieve the desired resource status would be considered, and
include moderate increases in minimum harvest sizes, moderate decreases
in bag limits, seasonal and/or spatial closures. Under this
alternative, the recreational Lobster Mini-Season would be eliminated
in the Park and regulations would be enacted to prohibit the use of an
air providing equipment (e.g. scuba or hookah) or use of gear with a
trigger mechanism while spearfishing. Numbers of commercial fishers
would remain at current levels or decrease over time. This alternative
would require implementation of new regulations governing fishing
activities within the Park that would be accomplished through continued
collaboration with the FWC. Promulgation of any new regulations would
include additional opportunities for public comment.
Alternative 4, Rebuild and Conserve Park Fisheries Resources,
(preferred alternative): Management strategies would seek a balance
between enjoyment, extraction, and conservation of fishery resources,
while ensuring sustainable fishing activities. Management actions would
be enacted in conjunction with the FWC to increase the abundance and
average size of fishery-targeted species within the Park by at least 20
percent over existing conditions, as well as to reduce fishing-related
habitat impacts. Possible management actions to achieve substantial
improvement of fisheries resources could include considerable increases
in minimum size limits, designation of slot limits, substantial
decreases in bag limits, and seasonal and/or spatial closures.
Alternative 4 includes many of the same concepts previously described
for Alternative 3. However numbers of commercial fishers would decrease
over time via establishment of a non-transferable use-or-lose permit
system, and a no-trawl zone within the Bay would be proposed for
consideration by the FWC. This alternative would require considerable
changes to current fishing regulations within the Park, and would be
accomplished through continued collaboration with the FWC. Promulgation
of any new regulations would include additional opportunities for
public comment.
Alternative 5, Restore Park Fisheries Resources: This alternative
would require the most change from current management strategies in
order to return the sizes and abundance of targeted species within 20
percent of their estimated, historic levels and to prevent further
decline in fishing-related habitat impacts. Possible management actions
to achieve the desired conditions would be enacted in conjunction with
the FWC and could include substantial increases in minimum size limits,
designation of slot limits, substantial decreases in bag limits,
seasonal and/or spatial closures, prohibition of extractive fishing
(i.e. only allowing catch-and-release fishing), and a temporary
moratorium on all fishing activity within the Park. Among the five
alternatives, this alternative would require the most extreme changes
to current fishing regulations within the Park. These changes would be
accomplished through continued collaboration with the FWC. Promulgation
of any new regulations would include additional opportunities for
public comment.
After careful consideration of public and agency comment,
Alternative 4 continues to be the NPS preferred alternative because it
results in the most equitable balance between protection and
recreational enjoyment of the Park's fisheries resources. The NPS feels
that Alternative 4 will allow for fishing activities to continue at a
sustainable level that does not compromise the long-term health of the
Park's fisheries resources.
The responsible official for this final FMP/EIS is the Regional
Director for the Southeast Region, Stan Austin.
Dated: May 12, 2014.
Sherri L. Fields,
Acting Regional Director, Southeast Region.
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