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Procedures for Establishing Spring/Summer Subsistence Harvest Regulations for Migratory Birds in Alaska

Fri, Aug 16 2002 11:00:00 GMT

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service or we) adopts regulations establishing procedures for implementing a spring/summer migratory bird subsistence harvest in Alaska. The 1916 Convention for the Protection of Migratory Birds Between the United States and Great Britain (for Canada) established a closed season for the taking of migratory birds between March 10 and September 1. Residents of northern Alaska and Canada traditionally harvested migratory birds for nutritional purposes during the spring and summer months. The governments of Canada, Mexico, and the United States recently amended the 1916 Convention and the subsequent 1936 Mexico Convention for the Protection of Migratory Birds and Game Mammals. The amended treaties provide for the legal subsistence harvest of migratory birds and their eggs in Alaska and Canada during the closed season. This rule establishes procedures for implementing that change and for incorporating subsistence management into the continental migratory bird man

Migratory Bird Hunting; Proposed Frameworks for Late-Season Migratory Bird Hunting Regulations

Fri, Aug 16 2002 11:00:00 GMT

The Fish and Wildlife Service (hereinafter Service or we) is proposing to establish the 200203 lateseason hunting regulations for certain migratory game birds. We annually prescribe frameworks, or outer limits, for dates and times when hunting may occur and the number of birds that may be taken and possessed in late seasons. These frameworks are necessary to allow State selections of seasons and limits and to allow recreational harvest at levels compatible with population and habitat conditions.

Law and Order on Indian Reservations

Fri, Aug 16 2002 11:00:00 GMT

This is a notice of the Bureau of Indian Affairs' intent to reassume judicial jurisdiction for the OtoeMissouria Tribe of Oklahoma and administer court cases under the Court of Indian Offenses for the Southern Plains Region.

Agency Information Collection Activities: Submitted for Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Review; Comment Request

Fri, Aug 16 2002 11:00:00 GMT

To comply with the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA), we are notifying the public that we have submitted to OMB for review and approval the revised forms MMS123 and MMS123S, and the revised and renamed forms MMS124, MMS125, and MMS133. The modifications are an integral part of the new ``EForms Permit Process'' that we are developing to provide an electronic option for drilling and well permitting and information submission.

Kentucky Regulatory Program

Fri, Aug 16 2002 11:00:00 GMT

We are announcing receipt of a proposed amendment to the Kentucky regulatory program (the ``Kentucky program'') under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). Kentucky proposes additions to its rules about sedimentation ponds and intends to revise its program to be consistent with the corresponding Federal regulations. This document gives the times and locations that the Kentucky program and proposed amendment to that
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program are available for your inspection, the comment period during which you may submit written comments on the amendment, and the procedures that we will follow for the public hearing, if one is requested.

West Virginia Regulatory Program

Fri, Aug 16 2002 11:00:00 GMT

We, the Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement (OSM) are reopening the public comment period on an amendment to the West Virginia surface mining regulatory program (the West Virginia program) under the Surface Mining Control and Reclamation Act of 1977 (SMCRA or the Act). The program amendment consists of changes to the Code of State Regulations as contained in House Bill 4163. We are reopening the comment period to provide an opportunity to review and comment on additional amendments provided by the State and provisions that we inadvertently omitted identifying as being part of the State's original submittal of this amendment. The amendment is intended to improve the effectiveness of the West Virginia program.

This document gives the times and locations that the West Virginia program and the proposed amendment to that program are available for your inspection, the comment period during which you may submit written comments on the amendment, and the procedures that we will foll