Endangered and Threatened Species; Take of Anadromous Fish, 62516-62517 [2021-24572]

Download as PDF 62516 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 215 / Wednesday, November 10, 2021 / Notices NOAA Tribal Consultation Handbook. Under these policies and procedures, NOAA offers affected federally recognized Tribes government-togovernment consultation at the earliest practicable time it can reasonably anticipate that a proposed policy or initiative may have Tribal implications. Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1431 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.; 40 CFR 1500–1508 (NEPA Implementing Regulations); Companion Manual for NOAA Administrative Order 216–6A. John Armor, Director, Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration The permits and related documents are available for review upon written request via email to NMFS.Pr1Comments@noaa.gov. [RTID 0648–XB573] FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marine Mammals and Endangered Species Shasta McClenahan, Ph.D. (Permit Nos. 20532–01 and 25740) and Sara Young (Permit No. 25786); at (301) 427–8401. ADDRESSES: DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce. ACTION: Notice; issuance of permits and permit amendments. AGENCY: Notice is hereby given that permits and permit amendments have been issued to the following entities under the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA) and the Endangered Species Act (ESA), as applicable. SUMMARY: [FR Doc. 2021–24609 Filed 11–9–21; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–NK–P Notices were published in the Federal Register on the dates listed below that requests for a permit or permit amendment had been submitted by the below-named applicants. To locate the Federal Register notice that announced our receipt of the application and a complete description of the activities, go to www.federalregister.gov and search on the permit number provided in Table 1 below. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: TABLE 1—ISSUED PERMITS AND PERMIT AMENDMENTS khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES Permit No. RTID 20532–01 ..... 0648–XE766 25740 ........... 0648–XB363 25786 ........... 0648–XB299 Stephen John Trumble, Ph.D., Baylor University, 101 Bagby Avenue, Waco, TX 76706. Center for Coastal Studies, 5 Holway Avenue, Provincetown, MA 02657 (Responsible Party: Richard Delaney). NMFS’ Southwest Fisheries Science Center, 8901 La Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037 (Responsible Party: George Watters, Ph.D.). In compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), a final determination has been made that the activities proposed are categorically excluded from the requirement to prepare an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement. As required by the ESA, as applicable, issuance of these permit was based on a finding that such permits: (1) Were applied for in good faith; (2) will not operate to the disadvantage of such endangered species; and (3) are consistent with the purposes and policies set forth in Section 2 of the ESA. Authority: The requested permits have been issued under the MMPA of 1972, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), the regulations governing the taking and importing of marine mammals (50 CFR part 216), the ESA of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), and the regulations governing the taking, importing, and exporting of endangered and threatened species (50 CFR parts 222–226), as applicable. VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:30 Nov 09, 2021 Previous Federal Register Notice Applicant Jkt 256001 84 FR 10795; March 22, 2019. 86 FR 47478; August 25, 2021. October 19, 2021. 86 FR 42790; August 5, 2021. October 26, 2021. Dated: November 4, 2021. Julia M. Harrison, Chief, Permits and Conservation Division, Office of Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service. [FR Doc. 2021–24518 Filed 11–9–21; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–22–P DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [RTID 0648–XB567] Endangered and Threatened Species; Take of Anadromous Fish National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce. ACTION: Notice of availability; proposed evaluation and pending determinations for five resource management plans in the Hood Canal Basin. AGENCY: Notice is hereby given that NMFS has drafted Proposed Evaluation and Pending Determinations (PEPD) for five resource management plans (RMPs) for the rearing and releasing Chinook SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00009 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 Issuance date October 26, 2021. salmon, coho salmon, and chum salmon, and for research of Puget Sound Steelhead in the Hood Canal Basin of Washington State. The RMPs are in the form of hatchery and genetic management plans (HGMPs) for hatchery programs operated by Long Live the Kings (LLTK), the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe (PGST), the Skokomish Tribe (ST), and Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW). In 2016 NMFS certified that the five HGMPs satisfied limit 6 of the 4(d) rule. The revised HGMPs will replace the versions of the same plans now in place. NMFS is notifying the public of the availability and opportunity to comment on PEPDs for the new programs. The hatchery programs are intended to contribute to fulfilling Federal tribal trust responsibilities and treaty rights guaranteed through treaties and affirmed in U.S. v. Washington (1974). The program operators submitted revised HGMPs for the following changes: (1) Improve the available forage to southern resident killer whales; and (2) investigate genetic diversity of Puget Sound Steelhead and the effects of release timing on marine survival of fall Chinook salmon. E:\FR\FM\10NON1.SGM 10NON1 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 215 / Wednesday, November 10, 2021 / Notices Comments must be received at the appropriate address (see ADDRESSES) no later than 5 p.m. Pacific time on December 10, 2021. Comments received after this date may not be considered. ADDRESSES: Written comments should be addressed to the NMFS Sustainable Fisheries Division, 1201 NE Lloyd Blvd., Portland, OR 97232. Comments may be submitted by email. The mailbox address for providing email comments is: Hatcheries.Public.Comment@noaa.gov. Include in the subject line of the email comment the following identifier: Comments on Hood Canal hatchery programs. Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.; 16 U.S.C. 742a et seq. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: AGENCY: DATES: Scott Sebring at (360) 819–7873 or by email at scott.sebring@noaa.gov. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES Jkt 256001 BILLING CODE 3510–22–P DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Department of the Army Performance Review Board Membership Department of the Army, DoD. Notice. Notice is given of the names of members of a Performance Review Board for the Department of the Army. DATES: October 29, 2021. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Barbara Smith, Civilian Senior Leader Management Office, 111 Army Pentagon, Washington, DC 20310–0111, email: Barbara.M.Smith.civ@army.mil or Phone: (703) 693–1126. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 4314(c)(1) through (5) of Title 5, U.S.C., requires each agency to establish, in accordance with regulations, one or more Senior Executive Service performance review boards. The boards shall review and evaluate the initial appraisal of senior executives’ performance by supervisors and make recommendations to the appointing authority or rating official relative to the performance of these executives. The Department of the Army Performance Review Board will be composed of a subset of the following individuals: 1. Ms. Lisha Adams, Executive Deputy to the Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command, Redstone Arsenal, AL 2. Ms. Christina Altendorf, Chief, Engineering and Construction Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington, DC 3. Mr. Stephen Austin, Assistant Chief of the Army Reserve, Office of the Chief of Army Reserve, Washington, DC 4. Mr. Mark Averill, Deputy Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army & Director Resources and Program Agency, Office of the Administrative Assistant to the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC 5. Mr. Patrick Baker, Director, CCDC Army Research Laboratory, U.S. SUMMARY: Background Section 9 of the ESA and Federal regulations prohibit the ‘‘taking’’ of a species listed as endangered or threatened. The term ‘‘take’’ is defined under the ESA to mean harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such conduct. NMFS may make exceptions to the take prohibitions in section 9 of the ESA for programs that are approved by NMFS under the 4(d) rule for salmon and steelhead (50 CFR 223.203(b)). The operators and funding agencies, including the LLTK, PGST, ST, and WDFW, have submitted revised HGMPs to NMFS pursuant to NMFS’ 4(d) rule of the ESA for hatchery activities. The operators propose to provide additional forage to southern resident killer whales, a species listed as endangered under the ESA that relies on adult salmon as a food resource. The operators of the Hood Canal steelhead supplementation program propose to investigate genetic effects of naturalorigin steelhead dispersal throughout the Hood Canal Basin. The operators of the Hoodsport fall Chinook salmon program propose to investigate the effects of release timing on survival of adult fall Chinook salmon, a non-ESAlisted stock. 16:41 Nov 09, 2021 [FR Doc. 2021–24572 Filed 11–9–21; 8:45 am] ACTION: Endangered Species Act (ESA)-Listed Species Covered in This Notice • Puget Sound Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha): Threatened, naturally and artificially propagated; • Puget Sound Steelhead (O. mykiss): Threatened, naturally and artificially propagated; and • Hood Canal summer chum salmon (O. keta): Threatened. VerDate Sep<11>2014 Dated: November 5, 2021. Angela Somma, Chief, Endangered Species Conservation Division, Office of Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service. PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 62517 Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, Adelphi, MD 6. MG Christine A. Beeler, Commanding General, U.S. Army Contracting Command, U.S. Army Materiel Command, Redstone Arsenal, AL 7. Dr. David Bridges, Senior Research Scientist (Environmental Science), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS 8. Mr. William Brinkley, Deputy Chief of Staff, G–1/4 (Personnel and Logistics), U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Eustis, VA 9. LTG Gary Brito, Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, G–1, Washington, DC 10. Ms. Kimberly Buehler, Director, Army Office of Small Business Programs, Office of the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC 11. Ms. Carol Burton, Director, Civilian Human Resources Agency, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, G–1, Washington, DC 12. Mr. Douglas Bush, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisitions, Logistics and Technology), Washington, DC 13. LTG Christopher Cavoli, Commanding General, U.S. Army Europe, Wiesbaden, Germany 14. GEN Edward Daly, Commanding General, U.S. Army Materiel Command, Redstone Arsenal, AL 15. Mr. John Daniels, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army (Plans, Programs and Resources), Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisition, Logistics & Technology), Washington, DC 16. LTG Scott Dingle, The Surgeon General, Pentagon, Washington, DC 17. Ms. Karen Durham-Aguilera, Executive Director of the Army National Cemeteries Program, Office of the Secretary of the Army, Washington, DC 18. LTG Jason Evans, Deputy Chief of Staff, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, G–9, Washington, DC 19. Ms. Jeannette Evans-Morgis, Chief Systems Engineer, Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Army (Acquisitions, Logistics and Technology), Washington, DC 20. Dr. Elizabeth Fleming, Deputy Director, Engineer Research and Development Center, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg, MS 21. Dr. Karl Friedl, Senior Research Scientist (Performance Physiology), U.S. Army Medical Command, Natick, MA 22. GEN Paul Funk, Commanding General, U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Eustis, VA E:\FR\FM\10NON1.SGM 10NON1

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[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 215 (Wednesday, November 10, 2021)]
[Notices]
[Pages 62516-62517]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-24572]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[RTID 0648-XB567]


Endangered and Threatened Species; Take of Anadromous Fish

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of availability; proposed evaluation and pending 
determinations for five resource management plans in the Hood Canal 
Basin.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that NMFS has drafted Proposed 
Evaluation and Pending Determinations (PEPD) for five resource 
management plans (RMPs) for the rearing and releasing Chinook salmon, 
coho salmon, and chum salmon, and for research of Puget Sound Steelhead 
in the Hood Canal Basin of Washington State. The RMPs are in the form 
of hatchery and genetic management plans (HGMPs) for hatchery programs 
operated by Long Live the Kings (LLTK), the Port Gamble S'Klallam Tribe 
(PGST), the Skokomish Tribe (ST), and Washington Department of Fish and 
Wildlife (WDFW). In 2016 NMFS certified that the five HGMPs satisfied 
limit 6 of the 4(d) rule. The revised HGMPs will replace the versions 
of the same plans now in place. NMFS is notifying the public of the 
availability and opportunity to comment on PEPDs for the new programs. 
The hatchery programs are intended to contribute to fulfilling Federal 
tribal trust responsibilities and treaty rights guaranteed through 
treaties and affirmed in U.S. v. Washington (1974). The program 
operators submitted revised HGMPs for the following changes: (1) 
Improve the available forage to southern resident killer whales; and 
(2) investigate genetic diversity of Puget Sound Steelhead and the 
effects of release timing on marine survival of fall Chinook salmon.

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DATES: Comments must be received at the appropriate address (see 
ADDRESSES) no later than 5 p.m. Pacific time on December 10, 2021. 
Comments received after this date may not be considered.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should be addressed to the NMFS Sustainable 
Fisheries Division, 1201 NE Lloyd Blvd., Portland, OR 97232. Comments 
may be submitted by email. The mailbox address for providing email 
comments is: [email protected]. Include in the subject 
line of the email comment the following identifier: Comments on Hood 
Canal hatchery programs.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Scott Sebring at (360) 819-7873 or by 
email at [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Endangered Species Act (ESA)-Listed Species Covered in This Notice

     Puget Sound Chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha): 
Threatened, naturally and artificially propagated;
     Puget Sound Steelhead (O. mykiss): Threatened, naturally 
and artificially propagated; and
     Hood Canal summer chum salmon (O. keta): Threatened.

Background

    Section 9 of the ESA and Federal regulations prohibit the 
``taking'' of a species listed as endangered or threatened. The term 
``take'' is defined under the ESA to mean harass, harm, pursue, hunt, 
shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage 
in any such conduct. NMFS may make exceptions to the take prohibitions 
in section 9 of the ESA for programs that are approved by NMFS under 
the 4(d) rule for salmon and steelhead (50 CFR 223.203(b)).
    The operators and funding agencies, including the LLTK, PGST, ST, 
and WDFW, have submitted revised HGMPs to NMFS pursuant to NMFS' 4(d) 
rule of the ESA for hatchery activities. The operators propose to 
provide additional forage to southern resident killer whales, a species 
listed as endangered under the ESA that relies on adult salmon as a 
food resource. The operators of the Hood Canal steelhead 
supplementation program propose to investigate genetic effects of 
natural-origin steelhead dispersal throughout the Hood Canal Basin. The 
operators of the Hoodsport fall Chinook salmon program propose to 
investigate the effects of release timing on survival of adult fall 
Chinook salmon, a non-ESA-listed stock.
    Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.; 16 U.S.C. 742a et seq.

    Dated: November 5, 2021.
Angela Somma,
Chief, Endangered Species Conservation Division, Office of Protected 
Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2021-24572 Filed 11-9-21; 8:45 am]
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