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To invite public review and comment
on the draft Polar Bear Plan, we
published a notice of availability
initiating a 45-day public comment
period for the draft Polar Bear Plan on
July 6, 2015 (80 FR 38458); we extended
that comment period an additional 30
days on August 14, 2015 (80 FR 48908).
The final Polar Bear Plan and the
associated documents reflect the
comments and recommendations the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service received
on that draft.
Polar bears evolved to utilize the
Arctic sea ice niche. They are
distributed throughout most ice-covered
seas of the United States, Canada, the
Russian Federation, Norway, and
Greenland/Denmark (collectively the
Range States), in the Northern
Hemisphere and are managed in 19
subpopulations around the Arctic (see
Figure 1 of the Polar Bear Plan). The
current global polar bear population is
estimated to be 22,000 to 31,000.
Ongoing and projected loss of the
polar bear’s crucial sea ice habitat
threatens the species throughout all of
its range. The projected loss of sea ice
will diminish productivity, abundance,
and availability of ice seals, the polar
bear’s primary prey base, and increase
energetic requirements of polar bears for
movement and obtaining food. It will
also affect access to traditional denning
areas. In turn, these factors will cause
declines in the condition of polar bears
from nutritional stress and reduced
productivity. The eventual effect of this
loss of sea ice is that the polar bear
population will decline. The rate and
magnitude of decline will vary
geographically, based on differences in
the rate, timing, and magnitude of
impacts. However, within the
foreseeable future, the worldwide
population will be affected, and the
species is likely to become in danger of
extinction throughout all of its range (73
FR 28292–28293, May 15, 2008). Global
climate change resulting from
greenhouse gas emissions is the root
cause of the loss of Arctic sea ice.
The Plan
The Polar Bear Plan addresses both
the MMPA and the ESA, as they relate
to polar bear conservation and recovery;
it also reflects the input and values of
stakeholders closely connected with
polar bears and their habitat, including
the State of Alaska, the North Slope
Borough, Alaska Native peoples, the
Polar Bear Range States, conservation
groups, and the oil and gas industry, as
well as the general public. All of these
sources informed the Polar Bear Plan’s
fundamental goals, which focus on
conservation of polar bears while
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recognizing values associated with
subsistence take, human safety, and
economic activity. The goals will be
used to guide management, research,
monitoring, and communication into
the future. Although the fundamental
goals target three geographic scales
(rangewide, intermediate (ecoregion),
and subpopulation (stock)), specific
actions under the Polar Bear Plan
pertain primarily to the polar bear
subpopulations present in Alaska. The
Polar Bear Plan also contains specific
recovery criteria, expressed in
fundamental, demographic, and threatsbased terms, to determine when the
polar bear should be considered for
delisting under the ESA and
fundamental and demographic criteria
to guide conservation efforts associated
with the MMPA.
Conservation and recovery actions are
specified in the Polar Bear Plan. The
single most important action for the
recovery of polar bears is global
reduction of atmospheric greenhouse
gases, which, if achieved, should result
in reduced global climate change,
including Arctic warming and sea ice
loss. Along with communicating that
fact, the Polar Bear Plan identifies a
suite of high-profile actions designed to
ensure that polar bears remain in
sufficient number and diversity so that
they are in a position to recover once
climate change is addressed. Those
actions include the following:
• Limit global atmospheric levels of
greenhouse gases to levels appropriate
for supporting polar bear recovery and
conservation, primarily by reducing
greenhouse gas emissions;
• Support international conservation
efforts through the Range States
relationships;
• Manage human–bear conflicts;
• Collaboratively manage subsistence
harvest;
• Protect denning habitat;
• Minimize risks of contamination
from spills;
• Conduct strategic monitoring and
research.
The full cost of implementing the
Polar Bear Plan over the next 5 years is
approximately $66,720,000.
Authority: We developed our Polar Bear
Plan under the authority of ESA section 4(f),
16 U.S.C. 1533(f), as well as section 115(b)
of the MMPA, 16 U.S.C. 1383b(b). We
publish this notice under ESA section 4(f) (16
U.S.C. 1531 et seq.).
Dated: December 20, 2016.
Gregory Siekaniec,
Regional Director, Alaska Region, U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service.
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United
States International Trade Commission.
TIME AND DATE: January 18, 2017 at 9:30
a.m.
PLACE: Room 101, 500 E Street SW.,
Washington, DC 20436, Telephone:
(202) 205–2000.
STATUS: Open to the public.
MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED:
1. Agendas for future meetings: None
2. Minutes
3. Ratification List
4. Vote in Inv. No. 731–TA–718 (Fourth
Review)(Glycine from China). The
Commission is currently scheduled
to complete and file its
determinations and views of the
Commission by January 31, 2017.
5. Vote in Inv. Nos. 731–TA–825 and
826 (Third Review)(Polyester Staple
Fiber from Korea and Taiwan). The
Commission is currently scheduled
to complete and file its
determinations and views of the
Commission by January 31, 2017.
6. Outstanding action jackets: None.
In accordance with Commission
policy, subject matter listed above, not
disposed of at the scheduled meeting,
may be carried over to the agenda of the
following meeting.
AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING:
By order of the Commission.
Issued: January 4, 2017.
William R. Bishop,
Supervisory Hearings and Information
Officer.
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in the subject investigations, the United
States International Trade Commission
(‘‘Commission’’) determines, pursuant
to the Tariff Act of 1930 (‘‘the Act’’),
that there is a reasonable indication that
an industry in the United States is
materially injured by reason of imports
of hardwood plywood from China,
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INTERNATIONAL TRADE COMMISSION
[USITC SE-17-001]
Sunshine Act Meeting
AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: United States International Trade
Commission.
TIME AND DATE: January 18, 2017 at 9:30 a.m.
PLACE: Room 101, 500 E Street SW., Washington, DC 20436, Telephone:
(202) 205-2000.
STATUS: Open to the public.
MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED:
1. Agendas for future meetings: None
2. Minutes
3. Ratification List
4. Vote in Inv. No. 731-TA-718 (Fourth Review)(Glycine from China). The
Commission is currently scheduled to complete and file its
determinations and views of the Commission by January 31, 2017.
5. Vote in Inv. Nos. 731-TA-825 and 826 (Third Review)(Polyester Staple
Fiber from Korea and Taiwan). The Commission is currently scheduled to
complete and file its determinations and views of the Commission by
January 31, 2017.
6. Outstanding action jackets: None.
In accordance with Commission policy, subject matter listed above,
not disposed of at the scheduled meeting, may be carried over to the
agenda of the following meeting.
By order of the Commission.
Issued: January 4, 2017.
William R. Bishop,
Supervisory Hearings and Information Officer.
[FR Doc. 2017-00279 Filed 1-5-17; 4:15 pm]
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