This order revokes two Secretarial Orders in their entireties, as they affect approximately 278 acres of National Forest System lands withdrawn for use by the Forest Service for a tree nursery and an administrative site. This order opens 120 acres to such forms of disposition as may by law be made of National Forest System lands and to mining. The

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : Land Management Bureau

This order revokes a Bureau of Reclamation Order and a Secretarial Order in their entireties as they affect 60 acres of National Forest System lands in Salt Lake and Wasatch Counties withdrawn from surface entry and mining and reserved on behalf of the Bureau of Reclamation for the Provo River Project. The lands are no longer needed for

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : Land Management Bureau

The USGS-CCSP Committee for Synthesis and Assessment Product 3.4 (SAP 3.4): Abrupt Climate Change, will meet at the Memorial Union Building, Oregon State University in Corvallis, Oregon on June 19, 2008 between 8:30 a.m. and 3 p.m. Pacific Daylight Time.

Agenda: The goal of the meeting is to discuss the comments received during the public

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : Geological Survey

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce the reopening of the public comment period and the scheduling of a public hearing on our December 12, 2007 proposed rule (72 FR 70715) to designate critical habitat for the Salt Creek tiger beetle (Cicindela nevadica lincolniana) under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act).

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : Fish and Wildlife Service

The following permits were issued.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : Fish and Wildlife Service

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce a meeting of the Lake Champlain Sea Lamprey Control Alternatives Workgroup (Workgroup). The Workgroup's purpose is to provide, in an advisory capacity, recommendations and advice on research and implementation of sea lamprey control techniques alternative to lampricide that are technically

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : Fish and Wildlife Service

Nominations for the following properties being considered for listing or related actions in the National Register were received by the National Park Service before May 17, 2008. Pursuant to Sec. 60.13 of 36 CFR Part 60 written comments concerning the significance of these properties under the National Register criteria for evaluation may be

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : National Park Service

The public is invited to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : Fish and Wildlife Service

We, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM), are announcing receipt of a proposed amendment to the Wyoming Abandoned Mine Land Reclamation (AMLR) Plan (hereinafter, the Wyoming Plan) under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). Wyoming intends to revise its Plan by submitting a revision to

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement Office

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce a 90day finding on a petition to list the cactus ferruginous pygmyowl (Glaucidium ridgwayi cactorum) (pygmyowl) as threatened or endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). We find that the petition presents substantial scientific or commercial information

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : Fish and Wildlife Service

This notice announces a meeting of the Sporting Conservation Council (Council). The meeting agenda includes policy discussions on implementation of the Executive Order on hunting heritage and wildlife conservation and plans for a 2008 Conference on North American Wildlife Policy regarding the North American Conservation Model; State/Federal/ Tribal

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : Fish and Wildlife Service

This notice provides the official MMS documentation of which Gulf of Mexico price thresholds have been exceeded by annual market prices for oil or gas, by lease vintage, for calendar year 2007. This notice also explains in detail how MMS calculates the annual oil and gas prices and applicable price thresholds used to determine whether royalty

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : Minerals Management Service

Pursuant to 25 CFR 83.10(h), the Department of the Interior (Department) gives notice that the Assistant SecretaryIndian Affairs (ASIA) proposes to determine that the Biloxi, Chitimacha Confederation of Muskogees, Inc. (BCCM), c/o Randy Verdun, 114 Retreat Drive, Bourg, Lousiana 70343, is not an Indian tribe within the meaning of Federal law.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : Indian Affairs Bureau

Pursuant to 25 CFR 83.10(h), the Department of the Interior (Department) gives notice that the Assistant SecretaryIndian Affairs (ASIA) proposes to determine that the PointeauChien Indian Tribe, c/ o Charles Verdin, P.O. Box 416, Montegut, Louisiana 70377, is not an Indian tribe within the meaning of Federal law.

This notice is based on a

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : Indian Affairs Bureau

This notice advises the public that the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) as lead agency, with the Cowlitz Indian Tribe (Tribe), National Indian Gaming Commission (NIGC), Federal Highway
Administration, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Washington Department of Transportation, Clark County, Clark County Sheriff's Office, Cowlitz County, City of La

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : Indian Affairs Bureau

We, the Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce the availability of an incidental take permit (ITP) and Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP). Polk County Utilities (applicants) request an ITP pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(B) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). The applicants anticipate taking about 6.63 acres of sand skink

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : Fish and Wildlife Service

In accordance with 43 CFR 420 ``Off Road Vehicle Use'', the Bureau of Reclamation is opening a 35 acre area to offroadvehicle (ORV) use at Belle Fourche Reservoir. The legal description of the ORV area is: T. 9 N., R. 4 E., Section 18, SE1/4 NE1/4 and NE1/4 SE1/4. The ORV area will allow Reclamation to direct and concentrate ORV use and

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : Reclamation Bureau

The Department of the Interior is submitting the information collection, titled the Bureau of Indian Education Higher Education Grant Application Form, OMB Control 10760101, for
reinstatement. The Higher Education Grant Application Form needs to be reinstated because it expired during the renewal process.

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : Indian Affairs Bureau

Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3005, of the intent to repatriate cultural items in the possession of the University of New Hampshire, Durham, NH, that meet the definition of ``unassociated funerary objects'' under 25 U.S.C. 3001.

This notice is published

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : National Park Service

Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the completion of an inventory of human remains in the possession of Hastings Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Hastings, NE. The human remains were removed from Douglas County, NE.

This notice is published

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : National Park Service

Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the completion of an inventory of human remains in the possession and control of the Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI. The human remains were removed from Lanai Island, HI.

This notice is published as part of the

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : National Park Service

Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the completion of an inventory of human remains in the possession of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology at Phillips Academy, Andover, MA. The human remains were removed from Barnstable County, MA.

This

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : National Park Service

Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the completion of an inventory of human remains and associated funerary objects in the possession of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology at Phillips Academy, Andover, MA. The human remains and associated

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : National Park Service

Notice is here given in accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, 25 U.S.C. 3003, of the completion of the inventory of human remains in the possession of the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX. The human remains were removed from the Spiro site, 41LF42,

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : National Park Service

Calnev Pipeline Company LLC (applicant) has applied to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) for a 5year incidental take permit for one covered species pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(B) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). The application addresses the potential for ``take'' of the endangered San Bernardino kangaroo rat

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR : Fish and Wildlife Service