[Federal Register Volume 76, Number 4 (Thursday, January 6, 2011)]
[Notices]
[Pages 793-794]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2011-53]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-R9-MB-2010-N242; 91400-5110-0000-7B; 91400-9410-0000-7B]
Multistate Conservation Grant Program; Priority List for
Conservation Projects
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of receipt of priority list and approval of the
projects.
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SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), announce the FY
2011 priority list of wildlife and sport fish conservation projects
from the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (AFWA). As required
by the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Programs Improvement Act of
2000, AFWA submits a list of projects to us each year to consider for
funding under the Multistate Conservation Grant program. We have
reviewed the list and will award the grants from the list.
ADDRESSES: John C. Stremple, Multistate Conservation Grants Program
Coordinator, Division of Federal Assistance, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, 4401 North Fairfax Drive, Mail Stop MBSP-4020, Arlington, VA
22203.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John C. Stremple, (703) 358-2156
(phone) or [email protected] (e-mail).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration
Programs Improvement Act of 2000 (Improvement Act, Pub. L. 106-408)
amended the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 669
et seq.) and the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act (16 U.S.C.
777 et seq.) and established the Multistate
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Conservation Grant Program. The Improvement Act authorizes us to award
grants of up to $3 million annually from funds available under each of
the Restoration Acts, for a total of up to $6 million annually. We may
award grants from a list of priority projects recommended to us by
AFWA. The FWS Director, exercising the authority of the Secretary of
the Interior, need not fund all projects on the list, but all projects
funded must be on the list.
Grantees under this program may use funds for sport fisheries and
wildlife management and research projects, boating access development,
hunter safety and education, aquatic education, fish and wildlife
habitat improvements, and other purposes consistent with the enabling
legislation.
To be eligible for funding, a project must benefit fish and/or
wildlife conservation in at least 26 States, or in a majority of the
States in any one FWS Region, or it must benefit a regional association
of State fish and wildlife agencies. We may award grants to a State, a
group of States, or one or more nongovernmental organizations. For the
purpose of carrying out the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting and
Wildlife-Associated Recreation, we may award grants to the FWS, if
requested by AFWA, or to a State or a group of States. Also, AFWA
requires all project proposals to address its National Conservation
Needs, which are announced annually by AFWA at the same time as its
request for proposals. Further, applicants must provide certification
that no activities conducted under a Multistate Conservation grant will
promote or encourage opposition to regulated hunting or trapping of
wildlife or to regulated angling or taking of fish.
Eligible project proposals are reviewed and ranked by AFWA
Committees and interested nongovernmental organizations that represent
conservation organizations, sportsmen's organizations, and industries
that support or promote fishing, hunting, trapping, recreational
shooting, bowhunting, or archery. AFWA's Committee on National Grants
recommends a final list of priority projects to the directors of State
fish and wildlife agencies for their approval by majority vote. By
statute, AFWA then must transmit the final approved list to the FWS for
funding under the Multistate Conservation Grant program by October 1.
This year, we received a list of 12 recommended projects. We
recommend them for funding in 2011. AFWA's recommended list follows:
MSCGP 2011 Cycle Recommended Projects
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Total 2011
ID Title Submitter WR request SFR request grant request
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11-014................. Coordination of AFWA.............. $82,962.00 $82,962.00 $165,924.00
Farm Bill Program
Implementation to
Optimize Fish &
Wildlife Benefits
to the States.
11-058................. State Fish and AFWA.............. 83,325.00 83,325.00 166,650.00
Wildlife Agency
Director Travel
Coordination and
Administration.
11-060................. Assessing Agency Cornell University 90,042.00 90,042.00 180,085.00
Capacities to
Manage Fish and
Wildlife Health.
11-063................. National Fish AFWA.............. 0 240,000.00 240,000.00
Habitat Board
Action Plan
Implementation.
11-026................. Coordination of AFWA.............. 90,600.00 90,600.00 181,200.00
the Industry,
Federal and State
Agency Coalition.
11-001................. Review and AFWA.............. 46,200.00 46,200.00 92,400.00
Assessment of
Bioenergy
Provisions in the
2008 Farm Bill.
11-071................. Management AFWA.............. 487,923.00 487,923.00 975,846.00
Assistance Team.
11-015................. Economic and other AFWA.............. 85,525.00 85,525.00 171,050.00
Benefits of State
Public Access
Programs and
Implementation of
the Voluntary
Public Access and
Habitat Incentive
Program.
11-069................. Operation of the Arkansas Game & 0 296,000.00 296,000.00
Reservoir Fish.
Fisheries Habitat
Partnership.
11-023................. Trailblazer U.S. Sportsman.... 160,000.00 0 160,000.00
Adventure Alliance
Program: Foundation.
Involving Youth
and Families in
Conservation.
11-009................. Expanding Western Pheasants Forever 180,000.00 20,000.00 200,000.00
Farm Bill & Quail Forever.
Conservation
Program Delivery
through Biologist
Partnerships.
11-025................. Conservation WMI............... 261,000.00 0 261,000.00
Leaders for
Tomorrow
Professional
Development
Project.
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Total.............. .................. .................. 1,522,577.00 1,567,577.00 3,090,154.00
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Dated: October 28, 2010.
Rowan W. Gould,
Acting Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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