[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 177 (Wednesday, September 14, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 56437-56438]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-19822]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

[FWS-HQ-FAC-2022-N048; FX.IA167209TRG00-FF09W12000-223]


Theodore Roosevelt Genius Prize Advisory Council Meeting

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of teleconference/web meeting.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gives notice of a 
teleconference/web meeting of the Theodore Roosevelt Genius Prize 
Advisory Council, in accordance with the Federal Advisory Committee 
Act.

DATES: Teleconference/web meeting: The Council will meet October 4-6, 
2022, from 11 a.m. until 4 p.m. on Tuesday, October 4, 2022, and from 
12 p.m. until 4 p.m. on Wednesday and Thursday, October 5-6, 2022 
(eastern time).
    Registration: Registration is required. The deadline for 
registration is September 29, 2022.
    Accessibility: The deadline for accessibility accommodation 
requests is September 27, 2022. Please see Accessibility Information, 
below.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held via teleconference and broadcast 
over the internet. To register and receive the web address and 
telephone number for participation, contact the Designated Federal 
Officer (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) or visit the Council's 
website at https://

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www.fws.gov/program/theodore-roosevelt-genius-prize-advisory-council.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Stephanie Rickabaugh, Designated 
Federal Officer, by telephone at (571) 421-6758, or by email at 
[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: The Theodore Roosevelt Genius Prize Advisory 
Council was established by the John D. Dingell, Jr., Conservation, 
Management, and Recreation Act, March 12, 2019 (Pub. L. 116-9); the 
America's Conservation Enhancement Act, October 30, 2020 (Pub. L. 116-
188); and the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 (15 
U.S.C. 3719). The Council's purpose is to develop recommendations for 
the Secretary of the Interior regarding any opportunities for 
technological innovation that were raised during the prize competition 
process to assist in addressing the statutes' six areas of concern: 
preventing wildlife poaching and trafficking, promoting wildlife 
conservation, managing invasive species, protecting endangered species, 
promoting nonlethal human-wildlife conflict, and reducing human-
predator conflict.
    This meeting is open to the public. The meeting agenda will include 
presentations on winning technologies from the Theodore Roosevelt 
Genius Prize Competitions; reports from subcommittees about 
opportunities for technological innovation; and opportunities for 
public comment. The final agenda and other related meeting information 
will be posted on the Council's website at https://www.fws.gov/program/theodore-roosevelt-genius-prize-advisory-council.

Public Input

    If you wish to provide oral public comment or provide a written 
comment for the Council to consider, contact the Council's Designated 
Federal Officer (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) no later than 
Thursday, September 29, 2022.
    Depending on the number of people who want to comment and the time 
available, the amount of time for individual oral comments may be 
limited. Interested parties should contact the Designated Federal 
Officer, in writing (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT), for 
placement on the public speaker list for this meeting. Requests to 
address the Council during the meeting will be accommodated in the 
order the requests are received. Registered speakers who wish to expand 
upon their oral statements, or those who had wished to speak but could 
not be accommodated on the agenda, may submit written statements to the 
Designated Federal Officer up to 30 days following the meeting.

Accessibility Information

    Please make requests in advance for sign language interpreter 
services, assistive listening devices, or other reasonable 
accommodations. Please contact the Designated Federal Officer (see FOR 
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT) at least 7 business days prior to the 
meeting to give the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sufficient time to 
process your request. All reasonable accommodation requests are managed 
on a case-by-case basis.

Public Disclosure

    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: 5 U.S.C. appendix 2.

Paul Rauch,
Assistant Director, Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration, U.S. Fish and 
Wildlife Service.
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