Department of the Interior May 8, 2006 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

This notice announces a meeting of the Arizona Resource Advisory Council (RAC). The business meeting will be held on June 8, 2006, in Elgin, Arizona, at the National Audubon Society Appleton-Whittell Research Ranch located at 366 Research Ranch Road (approximately 55 miles from Tucson east on I-10 and south on State Route 83S past Sonoita, AZ). It will begin at 9:30 a.m. and conclude at 4:30 p.m. The agenda items to be covered include: Review of the March 2, 2006 Meeting Minutes; BLM State Director's Update on Statewide Issues; Presentations on BLM's Invasive Weeds Program and the San Juan Bautista De Anza TrailArizona segment, Updates on the Recreation Resource Advisory Committee and Arizona Land Use Planning; RAC Questions on Written Reports from BLM Field Managers; Field Office Rangeland Resource Team Proposals; Reports by the Standards and Guidelines, Recreation, Off-Highway Vehicle Use, Public Relations, Land Use Planning and Tenure, and Wild Horse and Burro Working Groups; Reports from RAC members; and Discussion of future meetings. A public comment period will be provided at 11:30 a.m. on June 8, 2006, for any interested publics who wish to address the Council.

The Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) has received requests from Shell Offshore, Inc. (Shell), ConocoPhillips Alaska, Inc. (CPAI), and GXT Houston (GXT) for authorizations to take small numbers of marine mammals by harassment incidental to conducting open-water seismic operations in the Chukchi Sea. In accordance with provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), as amended, the Service requests comments on its proposed authorization for the operators identified above to incidentally take, by harassment, small numbers of Pacific walrus and polar bears in the Chukchi Sea area between June 1, 2006, and November 30, 2006.