Call for Nominations for the National Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board, 67795-67796 [2023-21721]
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Annual estimates
Mode
Completion
time per
response
(avg.
minutes)
Number of
respondents
Burden
hours **
All non-response surveys ............................................................................................................
Focus groups/In-person interviews ..............................................................................................
784
59
5
60
65
59
Annual Total .........................................................................................................................
22,009
........................
7,249
3 Year Total ..........................................................................................................................
66,027
........................
21,747
* Includes 2-minute contact time for some surveys, interviews, and focus groups, and approximately 2,500 electronic surveys.
** All figures are rounded.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[BLM_HQ_FRN_MO4500173718]
Call for Nominations for the National
Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of call for nominations.
AGENCY:
The purpose of this notice is
to solicit public nominations for three
positions on the Wild Horse and Burro
Advisory Board (Board) that will
become vacant on January 11, 2024. The
Board provides advice concerning the
management, protection, and control of
wild free-roaming horses and burros on
public lands administered by the
Department of the Interior, through the
Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and
the Department of Agriculture, through
the U.S. Forest Service.
DATES: Nominations must be post
marked or submitted to the following
addresses no later than November 16,
2023.
ADDRESSES: All mail sent via the U.S.
Postal Service should be addressed as
follows:
Wild Horses and Burro Division, U.S.
Department of the Interior, Bureau of
Land Management, Attn: Dorothea
Boothe, HQ–260, 9828 31st Avenue;
Phoenix, AZ 85051.
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All packages that are sent via FedEx
or UPS should be addressed as follows:
U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management, Wild
Horse and Burro Division, Attn:
Dorothea Boothe, 9828 31st Avenue,
Phoenix, AZ 85051. Please consider
emailing PDF documents to Ms. Boothe
at dboothe@blm.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Dorothea Boothe, Wild Horse and Burro
Program Coordinator, telephone: 602–
906–5543, email: dboothe@blm.gov.
Individuals in the United States who are
deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have
a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY,
TDD, or TeleBraille) to access
telecommunications relay services.
Individuals outside the United States
should use the relay services offered
within their country to make
international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Members
of the Board serve without
compensation; however, while away
from their homes or regular places of
business, Board and subcommittee
members engaged in Board or
subcommittee business approved by the
Designated Federal Officer (DFO) may
be allowed travel expenses, including
per diem in lieu of subsistence under 5
U.S.C. 5703, in the same manner as
persons employed intermittently in
government service. Nominations for a
term of 3 years are needed to represent
the following categories of interest:
• Natural Resource Management;
• Public Interest (Equine Behavior);
and
• Wild Horse and Burro Research.
The Board will meet one to four times
annually. The DFO may call additional
meetings in connection with special
needs for advice. Individuals may
nominate themselves or others. Any
individual or organization may
nominate one or more persons to serve
on the Board.
Nominations should include a resume
providing an adequate description of the
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nominee’s qualifications, including
information that would enable the
Departments of the Interior and
Agriculture to make an informed
decision regarding meeting the
membership requirements of the Board
and permit the Departments to contact
a potential member. Nominations are to
be sent to the address listed under
ADDRESSES. To assist nominees in
developing nominations packets, please
visit the BLM website at https://
www.blm.gov/programs/wild-horse-andburro/get-involved/advisory-board and
use the document template, Applying to
Serve on the Advisory Board.
As appropriate, certain Board
members may be appointed as special
government employees (SGEs). Please
be aware that applicants selected to
serve as SGEs will be required, prior to
appointment, to file a Confidential
Financial Disclosure Report in order to
avoid involvement in real or apparent
conflicts of interest. You may find a
copy of the Confidential Financial
Disclosure Report at the following Web
site: https://www.doi.gov/ethics/
financial-disclosure. Additionally, after
appointment, members appointed as
SGEs will be required to meet
applicable financial disclosure and
ethics training requirements. Please
contact (202) 202–208–7960 or DOI_
Ethics@sol.doi.gov with any questions
about the ethics requirements for
members appointed as SGEs.
Membership Selection: Individuals
shall qualify to serve on the Board
because of their education, training, or
experience that enables them to give
informed and objective advice regarding
the interest they represent. They should
demonstrate experience or knowledge of
the area of their expertise and a
commitment to collaborate in seeking
solutions to resource management
issues. The Board is structured to
provide fair membership and balance,
both geographic and interest specific, in
terms of the functions to be performed
and points of view to be represented.
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Members are selected with the objective
of providing representative counsel and
advice about public land and resource
planning.
Pursuant to section 7 of the Wild
Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act,
members of the Board cannot be
employed by the State or Federal
Government.
(Authority: 43 CFR 1784.4–1)
Brian St George,
Acting Assistant Director, Resources and
Planning.
[FR Doc. 2023–21721 Filed 9–29–23; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–NERO–GATE–36563; PPNEGATEB0,
PPMVSCS1Z.Y00000]
Notice of Cancellation and
Rescheduling of the Public Meeting of
the Gateway National Recreation Area
Fort Hancock 21st Century Advisory
Committee
National Park Service, Interior.
Meeting notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the
Federal Advisory Committee Act of
1972, the National Park Service (NPS) is
hereby giving notice that the Gateway
National Recreation Area Fort Hancock
21st Century Advisory Committee
(Committee) has rescheduled a public
meeting originally scheduled for
September 19, 2023.
DATES: The virtual meeting will take
place on Thursday, November 16, 2023.
The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. until
2 p.m., with a public comment period
at 11:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. (eastern), with
advance registration required.
Individuals that wish to participate
must contact the person listed in the
SUMMARY:
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
section no later than November 11,
2023, to receive instructions for
accessing the meeting.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: This
will be a virtual meeting. Anyone
interested in attending should contact
Daphne Yun, Acting Public Affairs
Officer, Gateway National Recreation
Area, 210 New York Avenue, Staten
Island, New York 10305, by telephone
(718) 815–3651, or by email daphne_
yun@nps.gov. Individuals in the United
States who are deaf, deafblind, hard of
hearing, or have a speech disability may
dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to
access telecommunications relay
services. Individuals outside the United
States should use the relay services
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offered within their country to make
international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Committee was established on April 18,
2012, by authority of the Secretary of
the Interior (Secretary) under 54 U.S.C.
100906(a) and is regulated by the
Federal Advisory Committee Act. The
Committee provides advice to the
Secretary, through the Director of the
NPS, on matters relating to the Fort
Hancock Historic District of Gateway
National Recreation Area. All meetings
are open to the public.
Purpose of the Meeting: The Gateway
National Recreation Area will discuss
leasing updates, working group updates,
social equity related to leasing, and
general park updates. The final agenda
will be posted on the Committee’s
website at https://www.nps.gov/gate/
learn/management/forthancock21.htm.
The website includes meeting minutes
from all prior meetings.
Interested persons may present, either
orally or through written comments,
information for the Committee to
consider during the public meeting.
Written comments will be accepted
prior to, during, or after the meeting.
Members of the public may submit
written comments by mailing them to
the person listed in the FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section.
Due to time constraints during the
meeting, the Committee is not able to
read written public comments
submitted into the record. Individuals
or groups requesting to make oral
comments at the public Committee
meeting will be limited to no more than
three minutes per speaker. All
comments will be made part of the
public record and will be electronically
distributed to all Committee members.
Detailed minutes of the meeting will be
available for public inspection within
90 days of the meeting.
Meeting Accessibility/Special
Accommodations: The meeting is open
to the public. Please make requests in
advance for sign language interpreter
services, assistive listening devices, or
other reasonable accommodations. We
ask that you contact the person listed in
the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
section of this notice at least seven (7)
business days prior to the meeting to
give the Department of the Interior
sufficient time to process your request.
All reasonable accommodation requests
are managed on a case-by-case basis.
Public Disclosure of Comments:
Before including your address, phone
number, email address, or other
personal identifying information in your
written comments, you should be aware
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that your entire comment including
your personal identifying information
will be publicly available. 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.
Authority: 5 U.S.C. ch. 10.
Alma Ripps,
Chief, Office of Policy.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–SERO–NCPTT–36535;
PPWOCRADS2, PCU00PT14.GT0000]
Request for Nominations for the
Preservation Technology and Training
Board
National Park Service, Interior.
Request for nominations.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The National Park Service
(NPS), U.S. Department of the Interior,
is requesting nominations for qualified
persons to serve as members of the
Preservation Technology and Training
Board (Board).
DATES: Written nominations must be
postmarked by November 1, 2023.
ADDRESSES: Nominations should be sent
to Kirk A. Cordell, Executive Director,
National Center for Preservation
Technology and Training, National Park
Service, 645 University Parkway,
Natchitoches, Louisiana 71457, or email
at ncptt@nps.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kirk
A. Cordell, via telephone (318) 356–
7444. Individuals in the United States
who are deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing,
or have a speech disability may dial 711
(TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access
telecommunications relay services.
Individuals outside the United States
should use the relay services offered
within their country to make
international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Established within the Department of
the Interior, the National Center for
Preservation Technology and Training
(Center) is located at Northwestern State
University of Louisiana in Natchitoches,
Louisiana. Title IV, section 404 of
Public Law 102–575, October 30, 1992,
established the Board to provide advice
and professional oversight to the
Secretary of the Interior and the Center
regarding the activities of the Center and
to submit an annual report to the
President and the Congress.
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[BLM_HQ_FRN_MO4500173718]
Call for Nominations for the National Wild Horse and Burro
Advisory Board
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of call for nominations.
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SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is to solicit public nominations
for three positions on the Wild Horse and Burro Advisory Board (Board)
that will become vacant on January 11, 2024. The Board provides advice
concerning the management, protection, and control of wild free-roaming
horses and burros on public lands administered by the Department of the
Interior, through the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), and the
Department of Agriculture, through the U.S. Forest Service.
DATES: Nominations must be post marked or submitted to the following
addresses no later than November 16, 2023.
ADDRESSES: All mail sent via the U.S. Postal Service should be
addressed as follows:
Wild Horses and Burro Division, U.S. Department of the Interior,
Bureau of Land Management, Attn: Dorothea Boothe, HQ-260, 9828 31st
Avenue; Phoenix, AZ 85051.
All packages that are sent via FedEx or UPS should be addressed as
follows:
U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management, Wild
Horse and Burro Division, Attn: Dorothea Boothe, 9828 31st Avenue,
Phoenix, AZ 85051. Please consider emailing PDF documents to Ms. Boothe
at [email protected].
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dorothea Boothe, Wild Horse and Burro
Program Coordinator, telephone: 602-906-5543, email: [email protected].
Individuals in the United States who are deaf, deafblind, hard of
hearing, or have a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or
TeleBraille) to access telecommunications relay services. Individuals
outside the United States should use the relay services offered within
their country to make international calls to the point-of-contact in
the United States.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Members of the Board serve without
compensation; however, while away from their homes or regular places of
business, Board and subcommittee members engaged in Board or
subcommittee business approved by the Designated Federal Officer (DFO)
may be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of
subsistence under 5 U.S.C. 5703, in the same manner as persons employed
intermittently in government service. Nominations for a term of 3 years
are needed to represent the following categories of interest:
Natural Resource Management;
Public Interest (Equine Behavior); and
Wild Horse and Burro Research.
The Board will meet one to four times annually. The DFO may call
additional meetings in connection with special needs for advice.
Individuals may nominate themselves or others. Any individual or
organization may nominate one or more persons to serve on the Board.
Nominations should include a resume providing an adequate
description of the nominee's qualifications, including information that
would enable the Departments of the Interior and Agriculture to make an
informed decision regarding meeting the membership requirements of the
Board and permit the Departments to contact a potential member.
Nominations are to be sent to the address listed under ADDRESSES. To
assist nominees in developing nominations packets, please visit the BLM
website at https://www.blm.gov/programs/wild-horse-and-burro/get-involved/advisory-board and use the document template, Applying to
Serve on the Advisory Board.
As appropriate, certain Board members may be appointed as special
government employees (SGEs). Please be aware that applicants selected
to serve as SGEs will be required, prior to appointment, to file a
Confidential Financial Disclosure Report in order to avoid involvement
in real or apparent conflicts of interest. You may find a copy of the
Confidential Financial Disclosure Report at the following Web site:
https://www.doi.gov/ethics/financial-disclosure. Additionally, after
appointment, members appointed as SGEs will be required to meet
applicable financial disclosure and ethics training requirements.
Please contact (202) 202-208-7960 or [email protected] with any
questions about the ethics requirements for members appointed as SGEs.
Membership Selection: Individuals shall qualify to serve on the
Board because of their education, training, or experience that enables
them to give informed and objective advice regarding the interest they
represent. They should demonstrate experience or knowledge of the area
of their expertise and a commitment to collaborate in seeking solutions
to resource management issues. The Board is structured to provide fair
membership and balance, both geographic and interest specific, in terms
of the functions to be performed and points of view to be represented.
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Members are selected with the objective of providing representative
counsel and advice about public land and resource planning.
Pursuant to section 7 of the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros
Act, members of the Board cannot be employed by the State or Federal
Government.
(Authority: 43 CFR 1784.4-1)
Brian St George,
Acting Assistant Director, Resources and Planning.
[FR Doc. 2023-21721 Filed 9-29-23; 8:45 am]
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