[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 218 (Friday, November 12, 1999)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61661-61662]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-29618]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service


Announcement of Subsistence Resource Commission Meeting.

SUMMARY: The Acting 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, staff, and guests.
    (4) Review Agenda.
    (5) Review and approval of minutes from April 20-21, 1999 meeting.
    (6) Acting Superintendent's welcome and review of the Commission 
purpose--Hunter.
    (7) Commission membership status.
    (8) Public and other agency comments.
    (9) Report on October 1999 Chair Workshop.
    (10) Acting Superintendent's report.
    a. Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve Superintendent and 
Yakutat District Ranger Positions.
    (11) Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve staff reports.
    a. Mentasta Herd Update.
    (12) Old Business:
    a. Status report on inclusion of Healy Lake as a resident zone 
community.
    b. Status of EA/rulemaking to add Northway, Tetlin, Tanacross and 
Dot Lake as resident zone communities.
    c. Cordova Public Meeting.
    (1) Status of C & T proposals.
    (2) Request for resident zone status.
    d. Status of Malaspina Forelands ATV study project.
    e. Possible restrictions of the harvest of ewe sheep.
    f. Subsistence Hunting Program Recommendation 97-01: establish 
minimum residency requirement for resident zone communities.
    g. SRC Chairs Customary Trade Concerns.
    h. Status report on Hunting Plan Recommendation 96-1 and 96-2:

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migratory bird--fall, spring, and summer harvest.
    i. Tolsona resident zone request.
    j. Status report on subsistence plan, hunt maps, and subsistence 
brochure for Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve.
    (13) New Business:
    a. Update on Federal Fish Management.
    b. Federal Subsistence Program update.
    (1) Review actions taken by Federal Subsistence Board during Spring 
1999 meeting on Federal Subsistence Program 1999-2000 proposed 
regulation changes.
    (2) Review FSB final version of Individual C&T policy.
    (3) Review request for delegating SRC hunting plan recommendation 
response to the Regional Director in Alaska.
    (4) Review 2000-2001 Federal Subsistence Board Proposals for Units 
5, 6, 11, 12, and 13.
    c. Review FSB response to George Midvag letter--re: Slana C&T.
    b. Election of Officers.
    (14) Public and other agency comments.
    (15) Subsistence Resource Commission work session to develop 
proposals/finalize recommendations.
    (16) Set time and place of next Subsistence Resource Commission 
meeting.
    (17) Adjourn meeting.

DATES: The meeting will begin at 9 a.m. on Tuesday, November 30, 1999, 
and conclude at approximately 5 p.m. The meeting will reconvene at 9 
a.m. on Wednesday, December 1, 1999, and adjourn at approximately 5 
p.m. The meeting will adjourn earlier if the agenda items are 
completed.

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Hunter Sharp, Acting Superintendent, 
Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, P.O. Box 439, Copper 
Center, Alaska 99573. Phone (907) 822-5234.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Subsistence Resource Commission is 
authorized under Title VIII, Section 808, of the Alaska National 
Interest Lands Conservation Act, Pub. L. 96-487, and operates in 
accordance with the provisions of the Federal Advisory Committees Act.
Darwin Aho,
Acting Regional Director.
[FR Doc. 99-29618 Filed 11-10-99; 8:45 am]
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