[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 202 (Tuesday, October 20, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56043-56044]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-28020]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Announcement of Subsistence Resource Commission Meeting

SUMMARY: The Superintendent of Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and 
Preserve and the Chairperson of the Subsistence Resource Commission for 
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park announce a forthcoming meeting of the 
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park Subsistence Resource Commission. The 
following agenda items will be discussed:
    (1) Call to Order (Chairman).
    (2) Roll Call; Confirmation of Quorum.
    (3) Introduction of Commission members and guests.
    (4) Review Agenda
    (5) Superintendent's welcome and review of the Commission purpose.
    (6) Commission membership status.
    (7) Public and other agency comments.
    (8) Review and approval of minutes from April 6-7, 1998 meeting.
    (9) Report on October 1998 Chair Workshop.
    (10) Superintendent's report: Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and 
Preserve Chief of Resources, Chief Ranger, and Chief of Interpretation 
positions.
    (11) Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve staff reports.
    a. Mentasta Herd update.
    b. Response to Jack Hession Sierra Club letter.
    c. Response to Tom Carpenter Cordova letter.
    d. Status of Malaspina Forelands ATV study project.
    (12) Old business:
    a. Status of Environmental Assessment/rulemaking to add Northway, 
Tetlin, Tanacross, and Dot Lake as resident zone communities.
    b. Subsistence Hunting Program Recommendation 97-01 (establish 
minimum residency requirement for resident zone communities).
    c. Status report on draft subsistence plan, hunt maps, and 
subsistence brochure for Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve.
    d. Status report on inclusion of Healy Lake as a resident zone 
community.
    e. Review National Park Service response to Carl Morgan/Western 
Interior Regional Advisory Council request for customary trade and 
trapping regulation changes.
    f. Status report on Hunting Plan Recommendations 96-1 and 96-2 
(requesting a fall subsistence waterfowl season and authorization to 
take spring/summer migratory birds and eggs in Wrangell-St. Elias 
National Park response to Eastern Interior inquiry).
    (13) New Business:
    a. Inclusion of four wheeler's in draft subsistence plan (Chapter 
5: access, page).
    b. Maintenance of park lands (cleanup of antlers and horns).
    c. Federal Subsistence Program update.
    (1) Review actions taken by Federal Subsistence Board during Spring 
1998 meeting on Federal Subsistence Program 1998-99 proposed regulation 
changes.
    (2) Federal Subsistence Board Task Group request for customary and 
traditional process.
    (3) Review National Park Service response to Dan O'Connor letter 
(status on individual customary and traditional).
    (4) Review 1999-2000 Federal Subsistence Board proposals for Units 
5, 6, 11, 12, and 13.
    d. Update on federal fish management.
    (14) Public and other agency comments.
    (15) Subsistence Resource Commission work session to develop 
proposals and finalize recommendations.
    (16) Set time and place of next Subsistence Resource Commission 
meeting.
    (17) Adjourn meeting.

DATES: The meeting will begin at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, November 17, 1998, 
and conclude at approximately 9 p.m. The meeting will reconvene at 9 
a.m. on Wednesday, November 18, 1998, and adjourn at approximately 5 
p.m. The meeting will adjourn earlier if the agenda items are 
completed.

LOCATION: The meeting location is: Gulkana Community Hall, Gulkana, 
Alaska.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jonathan B. Jarvis, Superintendent,

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Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, P.O. Box 439, Copper 
Center, Alaska 99573. Phone (907) 822-5234.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Subsistence Resource Commissions are 
authorized under Title VIII, Section 808, of the Alaska National 
Interest Lands Conservation Act, Pub. L. 96-487, and operate in 
accordance with the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committees Act.
Robert D. Barbee,
Regional Director.
[FR Doc. 98-28020 Filed 10-19-98; 8:45 am]
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