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production at the camp would not
exceed 500 gallons per day.
• Limited boating would be allowed
through the Grand Canyon of the
Tuolumne, from Pothole Dome to Pate
Valley. Overnight boating would be
permitted under the Wilderness
overnight trailhead quota system used to
manage the user capacity in Wilderness
zones; only noncommercial boating
would be permitted. The NPS would
provide for such use on a trial basis,
monitoring and adjusting the
management of this recreational
opportunity as needed.
• Twenty-one campsites in Loop A of
the Tuolumne Meadows Campground
that are within 100 feet of the river
would be relocated within the
campground to protect riparian
vegetation along the Lyell Fork.
• The mountaineering school
function would be retained and
accommodated at the Tuolumne
Meadows Lodge.
• The NPS would seek to move the
dining hall and kitchen at Tuolumne
Meadows Lodge upslope within the
Tuolumne Meadows Lodge complex,
more than 150 feet from the banks of the
Dana Fork. This move would be
dependent on identification of a suitable
site and consultation with the California
State Historic Preservation Officer.
• The grazing capacity for meadows
along the Lyell Fork would be adjusted
from a capacity of 192 grazing-nights
per season to a flexible capacity of 167–
249 grazing-nights per season,
depending on snowfall and rainfall
patterns.
• The percentage of total use
allocated to commercial use in
Wilderness portions of the Tuolumne
River Corridor would be adjusted to a
slightly higher percentage. Such uses
would consist of no more than 15% of
total use in the Lyell Canyon portion of
the river corridor.
• The Draft EIS mistakenly showed
that the ranger station in Tuolumne
Meadows would be relocated to the
existing visitor center. The Final EIS
confirms that the ranger station would
remain in its existing location. The
maintenance offices would occupy the
old visitor center once the new visitor
contact station is constructed.
• An employee fuel station would be
provided at the maintenance yard.
Visitors who ran out of gas could also
obtain fuel.
Decision Process: The Record of
Decision will be prepared not sooner
than 30 days after release of the Final
Tuolumne River Plan/EIS. As a
delegated EIS process, the official
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Director, Pacific West Region, NPS;
subsequently the official responsible for
implementation of the approved
Tuolumne River Plan is the
Superintendent, Yosemite National
Park.
Dated: November 22, 2013.
Martha J. Lee,
Acting Regional Director, Pacific West Region.
Editorial Note: This document was
received by the Office of the Federal Register
on March 11, 2014.
[FR Doc. 2014–05658 Filed 3–13–14; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
[OMB Number 1010—New]

Information Collection: Social
Indicators in Coastal Alaska: Arctic
Communities Survey; Proposed
Collection for OMB Review; Comment
Request; MMAA104000
ACTION:

60-Day notice.

To comply with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), the Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management (BOEM) is inviting
comments on a new collection of
information that we will submit to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and approval. The
information collection request (ICR)
pertains to a survey conducted in
northern coastal Alaska communities.
DATES: Submit written comments by
May 13, 2014.
ADDRESSES: Please send your comments
on this ICR to the BOEM Information
Collection Clearance Officer, Arlene
Bajusz, Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management, 381 Elden Street, HM–
3127, Herndon, Virginia 20170 (mail); or
arlene.bajusz@boem.gov (email); or
703–787–1209 (fax). Please reference
ICR 1010—New Alaska Survey in your
comment and include your name and
return address.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Arlene Bajusz, Office of Policy,
Regulations, and Analysis at (703) 787–
1025. You may also request a free copy
of the survey. For more information on
the survey, contact Chris Campbell in
the BOEM Alaska Regional Office at
(907) 334–5264.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
OMB Control Number: 1010—New.
Title: Social Indicators in Coastal
Alaska: Arctic Communities Survey.
Abstract: This is a new collection that
involves a survey of the Alaska coastal
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area along the Arctic. Section 20 of the
Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) Lands
Act (OCSLA) requires the Secretary of
the Department of the Interior (DOI) to
monitor and assess the impacts of
resource development activities in
Federal waters on human, marine, and
coastal environments. The OCSLA
authorizes the Secretary of the Interior
to conduct studies in areas or regions of
lease sales to ascertain the
‘‘environmental impacts on the marine
and coastal environments of the outer
Continental shelf and the coastal areas
which may be affected by oil and gas
development’’ (43 U.S.C. 1346) (Pub. L.
95–372).
The National Environmental Policy
Act (NEPA) of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321–
4347) requires that all Federal agencies
use a systematic, interdisciplinary
approach to ensure the integrated use of
the natural and social sciences in any
planning and decision making that may
have an effect on the human
environment. The Council on
Environmental Quality’s Regulations for
Implementing Procedural Provisions of
NEPA (40 CFR 1500–1508) state that the
‘‘human environment’’ is to be
‘‘interpreted comprehensively’’ to
include ‘‘the natural and physical
environment and the relationship of
people with that environment’’ (40 CFR
1508.14). An action’s ‘‘aesthetic,
historic, cultural, economic, social or
health’’ effects must be assessed,
‘‘whether direct, indirect, or
cumulative’’ (40 CFR 1508.8).
The BOEM is the DOI agency that
conducts OCS lease sales and monitors
and mitigates adverse impacts that
might be associated with offshore
resource development. The BOEM
Environmental Studies Program
implements and manages the
responsibilities of research. This new
survey will facilitate the meeting of
DOI/BOEM information needs by
quantifying measures of well-being and
the living conditions of residents in
coastal Alaska areas, with specific focus
on six In˜upiat coastal Alaska Native
communities in the North Slope
Borough (Barrow, Point Hope,
Wainwright, Nuiqsut, Kaktovik, Point
Lay).
The BOEM will use the information
collected from this survey to learn about
local social systems and well-being in a
way that may shape development
strategies and serve as an interim
baseline for impact mitigation and/or
monitoring to compare against future
research in these areas. Without these
data, BOEM will not have sufficient
information to make informed oil and
gas leasing and development decisions
for these areas. The studies will help

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BOEM identify and mitigate impacts of
offshore oil and gas exploration and
development on Alaska Native
communities.
Survey Instrument: The Social
Indicators survey is voluntary and will
be given to the head of each selected
household in the study communities.
The survey instrument was developed
through collaborative discussions with
key community members tasked to serve
on the North Slope Management Board,
specifically established to deal with this
study.
Interview Methods: The interviews
will be conducted in person in a setting
most comfortable for the respondents.
This personal method is more expensive
and time consuming for the researchers,
but these drawbacks are outweighed by
improvements in the quality of
information obtained and the rapport
established between the surveyor and
the person interviewed. Telephone
interviews have not been successful on
the North Slope. Each respondent will
be paid an honorarium for taking part in
the study. Responses are voluntary.
Frequency: One-time event.
Description of Respondents:
Respondents are members of the
Alaskan coastal communities in the
North Slope Borough.
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Hour Burden: We
estimate 1,001 respondents and expect
each interview to last 1 hour for a total
of 1,001 burden hours.
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping Non-Hour Cost Burden:
We have identified no non-hour
paperwork cost burdens for this
collection.
Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA
(44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) provides that an
agency may not conduct or sponsor a
collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number. Until OMB approves a
collection of information, you are not
obligated to respond.
Comments: We invite comments on:
(1) Whether the proposed collection of
information is necessary for the agency
to perform its duties, including whether
the information is useful; (2) the
accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the
burden of the proposed collection of
information; (3) ways to enhance the
quality, usefulness, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4)
ways to minimize the burden on the
respondents, including the use of
automated collection techniques or
other forms of information technology.
We will summarize written responses
to this notice and address them in our
submission for OMB approval. As a
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any necessary adjustments to the burden
in our submission to OMB.
Public Availability of Comments:
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.
Dated: March 5, 2014.
Deanna Meyer-Pietruszka,
Chief, Office of Policy, Regulations, and
Analysis.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Ocean Energy Management
[Docket No. BOEM–2014–0009]

Notice of Intent To Prepare an
Environmental Assessment for
Proposed Wind Energy-Related
Research Activities on the Atlantic
Outer Continental Shelf Offshore
Virginia and Notice of Public Scoping
Meeting MMAA104000
Bureau of Ocean Energy
Management (BOEM), Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Intent.
AGENCY:

In compliance with the
National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA) of 1969, as amended (42 U.S.C.
4231 et seq.), BOEM intends to prepare
an Environmental Assessment (EA) to
consider the reasonably foreseeable
environmental consequences associated
with the approval of wind energyrelated research activities offshore
Virginia as proposed by the Virginia
Department of Mines, Minerals and
Energy (DMME). BOEM is seeking
public input regarding important
environmental issues and the
identification of reasonable alternatives
that should be considered in the EA.
In addition to the request for written
comments, BOEM is holding a public
scoping meeting to solicit comments on
the scope of the EA. The meeting will
be held from 5:00 p.m.–8:00 p.m. EDT
on Thursday, April 3, 2014, at the
Virginia Aquarium and Marine Science
Center, 717 General Booth Boulevard,
Virginia Beach, Virginia 23451.

SUMMARY:

Authority: The Notice of Intent to prepare
an EA is published pursuant to 43 CFR
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Comments should be submitted
no later than April 14, 2014.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michelle Morin, BOEM, Environment
Branch for Renewable Energy, 381
Elden Street, HM 1328, Herndon,
Virginia 20170–4817; (703) 787–1340 or
michelle.morin@boem.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
DATES:

1. Background
On December 9, 2013, BOEM
published a Determination of No
Competitive Interest (78 FR 73882) for a
research lease requested by DMME.
BOEM may issue DMME a research
lease. A lease issued to DMME would be
considered under BOEM’s Finding of
No Significant Impact (FONSI) and EA
for Lease Issuance and Site Assessment
Activities on the Atlantic Outer
Continental Shelf Offshore New Jersey,
Delaware, Maryland and Virginia,
which can be found at http://
www.boem.gov/Renewable-EnergyProgram/Smart-From-The-Start/
index.aspx. DMME has submitted a
Research Activities Plan (RAP) to
BOEM. The RAP describes the proposed
construction, operation, maintenance,
and decommissioning of the Virginia
Offshore Wind Technology
Advancement Project (VOWTAP), and
includes the results of site
characterization studies, such as
geophysical, geotechnical,
archaeological, and biological surveys.
The RAP can be found at the following
URL: http://www.boem.gov/RenewableEnergy-Program/State-Activities/
Virginia.aspx.
DMME’s proposed project, VOWTAP,
would consist of two 6-MW wind
turbine generators (WTGs), a 34.5kilovolt (kV) alternating current (AC)
submarine cable interconnecting the
WTGs (inter-array cable), a 34.5 kV AC
submarine transmission cable (export
cable), and a 34.5 kV underground cable
(onshore interconnection cable) that
would connect the VOWTAP with
existing infrastructure located in the
City of Virginia Beach. Interconnection
with the existing infrastructure also
would require an onshore switch
cabinet, an underground fiber optic
cable, and a new interconnection station
to be located entirely within the
boundaries of the Camp Pendleton State
Military Reservation (Camp Pendleton),
in the City of Virginia Beach.
The offshore components of the
VOWTAP, including the WTGs and
inter-array cable, would be located on
the Outer Continental Shelf
approximately 24 nautical miles
offshore Virginia Beach, Virginia, while
the export cable would traverse both

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