[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 77 (Friday, April 20, 2018)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17564-17565]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2018-08300]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

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Notice of Public Meeting, BLM Alaska Resource Advisory Council

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act 
of 1976, and the Federal Advisory Committee Act of 1972, the U.S. 
Department of the Interior, Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) Alaska 
Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will meet as indicated below.

DATES: The Alaska RAC will hold a public meeting on Wednesday, May 16, 
2018, from 9 a.m. until 5 p.m., and Thursday, May 17, 2018, from 9 a.m. 
until 4 p.m. A public comment period will be held on Wednesday from 
noon to 1 p.m. and on Thursday, from 3 p.m. until 3:30 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place in the Minto Room at the 
Westmark Fairbanks Hotel & Conference Center, 813 Noble Street, 
Fairbanks, Alaska. The agenda will be posted online by May 1, 2018, at 
www.blm.gov/site-page/get-involved-resource-advisory-council/near-you/alaska/rac.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lesli Ellis-Wouters, Communications 
Director, BLM Alaska State Office, 222 W. 7th Avenue #13, Anchorage, AK 
99513; [email protected]; 907-271-4418. People who use a 
telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay 
Service (FRS) at 1-800-877-8339 to contact the above individual during 
normal business hours. The FRS is available 24 hours a day, seven days 
a week, to leave a message or question with the above individual. You 
will receive a reply during normal business hours.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 15-member BLM Alaska RAC was chartered 
to provide advice to the BLM and the Secretary of the Interior on a 
variety of planning and management issues associated with public land 
management in Alaska. All advisory council meetings are open to the 
public.
    The agenda will include updates on the National Petroleum Reserve 
in Alaska (NPR-A), the Greater Mooses Tooth Unit 2 project and proposed 
Willow Development. There will be updates on current BLM Alaska 
planning efforts, such as the Road to Ambler Mining District 
Environmental Impact Statement and the Bering Sea-Western Interior and 
Central Yukon Resource Management Plans. Four BLM Alaska RAC 
subcommittees including Placer Mining, Recreation, Alaska Native Claims 
Settlement Act, and Areas of Critical Environmental Concern will give 
their reports.
    A focus on cooperative management will explore partnership 
opportunities for the BLM with the State of Alaska, other Federal 
agencies, local and Tribal governments, and nongovernmental 
organizations. A session on Alaska subsistence will include Federal and 
State responsibilities for the Federal Subsistence Management Program. 
Ahtna, Inc., one of the 13 Alaska Native Regional Corporations 
established under the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, will give a 
presentation about cooperative subsistence management and effective 
collaboration between the native corporations and Federal and State 
agencies.
    The RAC will hear Intertribal Coalition presentations from the 
Tanana Chiefs Conference, Kuskokwim Fish Intertribal Commission, and 
Ahtna Intertribal Resource Commission. Presentations on BLM Alaska's 
conservation science partnerships will explore Landscape Conservation 
Cooperatives (LCCs), including the Northwest Boreal LCC, Western Alaska 
LCC, Arctic LCC, and Aleutian Bering Sea Islands LCC.
    During the public comment period, depending upon the number of 
people wishing to comment, time for individual oral comments may be 
limited. Please be prepared to submit written comments. If you have 
information to distribute to the RAC, please do so prior to the start 
of the meeting.
    You can submit written comments by email to 
[email protected]. Before including your address, phone 
number, email address, or other personal identifying information in 
your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment--including 
your personal identifying information--may be made publicly available 
at any time. 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: 43 CFR 1784.4-2.

Karen E. Mouritsen,
Acting State Director, Alaska.
[FR Doc. 2018-08300 Filed 4-19-18; 8:45 am]
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