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entities; (2) the clarification, § 76.1710 [Removed and reserved] Information Collection Requirements: consolidation, or simplification of ■ 4. Remove and reserve § 76.1710. Send your comments and suggestions compliance or reporting requirements [FR Doc. 2020–06631 Filed 4–1–20; 8:45 am] on the information collection under the rule for small entities; (3) the BILLING CODE 6712–01–P requirements to the Service Information use of performance, rather than design, Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish standards; and (4) an exemption from and Wildlife Service, 5275 Leesburg coverage of the rule, or any part thereof, Pike, MS: PRB/PERMA (JAO/1N), Falls for small entities. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Church, VA 22041–3803 (mail); or Info_ 32. The NPRM seeks comment on Fish and Wildlife Service [email protected] (email). Please reference whether to eliminate or modify a OMB Control Number 1018–0171 in the current requirement that cable operators 50 CFR Part 20 subject line of your comments. maintain records in their online public FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: inspection file, specifically the cable [Docket No. FWS–HQ–MB–2019–0004; Jerome Ford, U.S. Fish and Wildlife operator interests in video programming FF09M21200–201–FXMB1231099BPP0] Service, Department of the Interior, recordkeeping requirement. Eliminating RIN 1018–BD89 (202) 208–1050. or modifying this obligation would SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: reduce the overall public inspection file Migratory Bird Hunting; Proposed burden on cable operators. There could Migratory Bird Hunting Regulations on Process for the Annual Migratory Game also be an impact on small independent Certain Federal Indian Reservations Bird Hunting Regulations video programmers to the extent any and Ceded Lands for the 2020–21 As part of the Department of the programmers relied on the public file in Season Interior’s retrospective regulatory question for information that is not review, we developed a schedule for AGENCY: easily available elsewhere. The NPRM Fish and Wildlife Service, migratory game bird hunting regulations seeks comment on eliminating or Interior. that is more efficient and provides modifying this public file requirement, ACTION: Proposed rule. hunting season dates much earlier than including any comments that might was possible under the old process. SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife oppose eliminating or modifying this Under the new process, we develop Service (hereinafter, Service or we) requirement. proposed hunting season frameworks proposes special migratory bird hunting for a given year in the fall of the prior regulations for certain Tribes on Federal F. Federal Rules That May Duplicate, year. We then finalize those frameworks Indian reservations, off-reservation trust Overlap, or Conflict With the Proposed a few months later, thereby enabling the lands, and ceded lands for the 2020–21 Rule State agencies to select and publish migratory bird hunting season. 33. None. their season dates in early summer. We DATES: Written Comments: You must provided a detailed overview of the new List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 76 submit comments on the proposed process in the August 3, 2017, Federal regulations by May 4, 2020. Register (82 FR 36308). Cable Television, Reporting and Information Collection Requirements: recordkeeping requirements. If you wish to comment on the Special Migratory Bird Hunting Federal Communications Commission. information collection requirements in Regulations for Indian Tribes Cecilia Sigmund, this proposed rule, please send your We developed the guidelines for comments and suggestions on this Federal Register Liaison Officer. establishing special migratory bird information collection by June 1, 2020 hunting regulations for Indian Tribes in Proposed Rules to: Service Information Collection response to tribal requests for Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and recognition of their reserved hunting For the reasons discussed in the Wildlife Service, 5275 Leesburg Pike, rights and, for some Tribes, recognition preamble, the Federal Communications MS: PRB/PERMA (JAO/1N), Falls of their authority to regulate hunting by Commission amends 47 part 76 as Church, VA 22041–3803 (mail); or Info_ both tribal and nontribal hunters on follows: [email protected] (email). their reservations. The guidelines PART 76—MULTICHANNEL VIDEO ADDRESSES: Written Comments: You include possibilities for: AND CABLE TELEVISION SERVICE may submit comments on the proposals (1) On-reservation hunting by both by one of the following methods: tribal and nontribal hunters, with • ■ Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// hunting by nontribal hunters on some 1. The authority citation for part 76 www.regulations.gov. Follow the reservations to take place within Federal continues to read as follows: instructions for submitting comments frameworks but on dates different from Authority: 47 U.S.C. 151, 152, 153, 154, on Docket No. FWS–HQ–MB–2019– those selected by the surrounding 301, 302, 302a, 303, 303a, 307, 308, 309, 312, 0004. State(s); 315, 317, 325, 339, 340, 341, 503, 521, 522, • U.S. mail or hand delivery: Public (2) On-reservation hunting by tribal 531, 532, 534, 535, 536, 537, 543, 544, 544a, Comments Processing, Attn: FWS–HQ– members only, outside of the usual 545, 548, 549, 552, 554, 556, 558, 560, 561, MB–2019–0004, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Federal frameworks for season dates and 571, 572, 573. Service; MS: PRB/PERMA (JAO/1N); length, and for daily bag and possession § 76.504 [Amended] 5275 Leesburg Pike; Falls Church, VA limits; and 22041–3803. (3) Off-reservation hunting by tribal ■ 2. Amend § 76.504 by removing Note We will post all comments on http:// members on ceded lands, outside of 2. www.regulations.gov. This generally usual framework dates and season means that we will post any personal length, with some added flexibility in § 76.1700 [Amended] information you provide us (see Public daily bag and possession limits. ■ 3. Amend § 76.1700 by removing and Comments, below, for more In all cases, the regulations reserving paragraph (a)(7). information). established under the guidelines must

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be consistent with the March 10 to reviewed the current status of migratory this regulatory cycle, we have combined September 1 closed season mandated by bird hunting on Federal Indian elements of the document that is the 1916 Convention between the reservations, and evaluated the potential described in the diagram as United States and Great Britain (for impact of such guidelines on migratory Supplemental Proposals with the Canada) for the Protection of Migratory birds. We concluded that the impact of document that is described as Proposed Birds (Treaty). The guidelines apply to migratory bird harvest by tribal Season Frameworks. those Tribes having recognized reserved members hunting on their reservations On October 8–9, 2019, we held open hunting rights on Federal Indian is minimal. meetings with the Flyway Council reservations (including off-reservation One area of interest in Indian Consultants, at which the participants trust lands) and on ceded lands. They migratory bird hunting regulations reviewed information on the current also apply to establishing migratory bird relates to hunting seasons for nontribal status of migratory game birds and hunting regulations for nontribal hunters on dates that are within Federal developed recommendations for the hunters on all lands within the exterior frameworks, but which are different 2020–21 regulations for these species. boundaries of reservations where Tribes from those established by the State(s) On March 19, 2020, we published in have full wildlife management authority where the reservation is located. A large the Federal Register (85 FR 15870) the over such hunting or where the Tribes influx of nontribal hunters onto a proposed frameworks for the 2020–21 and affected States otherwise have reservation at a time when the season is season migratory bird hunting reached agreement over hunting by closed in the surrounding State(s) could regulations. nontribal hunters on lands owned by result in adverse population impacts on non-Indians within the reservation. one or more migratory bird species. The Population Status and Harvest Tribes usually have the authority to guidelines make this unlikely, and we Each year we publish various species regulate migratory bird hunting by may modify regulations or establish status reports that provide detailed nonmembers on Indian-owned experimental special hunts, after information on the status and harvest of reservation lands, subject to Service evaluation of information obtained by migratory game birds, including approval. The question of jurisdiction is the Tribes. information on the methodologies and We conclude the guidelines provide more complex on reservations that results. These reports are available at appropriate opportunity to include lands owned by non-Indians, the address indicated under FOR especially when the surrounding States accommodate the reserved hunting FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT or from rights and management authority of have established or intend to establish our website at https://www.fws.gov/ Indian Tribes while ensuring that the regulations governing hunting by non- birds/surveys-and-data/reports-and- migratory bird resource receives Indians on these lands. In such cases, publications/population-status.php. we encourage the Tribes and States to necessary protection. The conservation We used the following annual reports reach agreement on regulations that of this important international resource published in August 2019 in the would apply throughout the is paramount. Further, the guidelines development of proposed frameworks reservations. When appropriate, we will should not be viewed as inflexible. In consult with a Tribe and State with the this regard, we note that they have been for the migratory bird hunting aim of facilitating an accord. We also employed successfully since 1985. We regulations: Adaptive Harvest will consult jointly with tribal and State conclude they have been tested Management, 2020 Hunting Season; officials in the affected States where adequately, and, therefore, we made American Woodcock Population Status, Tribes wish to establish special hunting them final beginning with the 1988–89 2019; Band-tailed Pigeon Population regulations for tribal members on ceded hunting season (53 FR 31612, August Status, 2019; Migratory Bird Hunting lands. Because of past questions 18, 1988). We should stress here, Activity and Harvest During the 2017– regarding interpretation of what events however, that use of the guidelines is 18 and 2018–19 Hunting Seasons; trigger the consultation process, as well not mandatory, and no action is Mourning Dove Population Status, 2019; as who initiates it, we provide the required if a Tribe wishes to observe the Status and Harvests of Sandhill Cranes, following clarification. hunting regulations established by the Mid-continent, Rocky Mountain, Lower We routinely provide copies of State(s) in which the reservation is Colorado River Valley and Eastern Federal Register publications pertaining located. Populations, 2019; and Waterfowl to migratory bird management to all Population Status, 2019. Regulations Schedule for 2020 State Directors, Tribes, and other Our long-term objectives continue to interested parties. It is the responsibility On October 15, 2019, we published a include providing opportunities to of the States, Tribes, and others to notify proposal to amend title 50 of the Code harvest portions of certain migratory us of any concern regarding any of Federal Regulations (CFR) at part 20 game bird populations and to limit feature(s) of any regulations. When we (84 FR 55120). The proposal provided a harvests to levels compatible with each receive such notification, we will background and overview of the population’s ability to maintain healthy, initiate consultation. migratory bird hunting regulations viable numbers. Having taken into Our guidelines provide for the process, and addressed the account the zones of temperature and continued harvest of waterfowl and establishment of seasons, limits, and the distribution, abundance, economic other migratory game birds by tribal other regulations for hunting migratory value, breeding habits, and times and members on reservations where such game birds under §§ 20.101 through lines of flight of migratory birds, we harvest has been a customary practice. 20.107, 20.109, and 20.110 of subpart K. believe that the proposed hunting We do not oppose this harvest, provided This document is the second in a series seasons provided for herein are it does not take place during the closed of proposed and final rules for migratory compatible with the current status of season defined by the Treaty, and does game bird hunting regulations. Major migratory bird populations and long- not adversely affect the status of the steps in the 2020–21 regulatory cycle term population goals. Additionally, we migratory bird resource. Before relating to open public meetings and are obligated to, and do, give serious developing the guidelines, we reviewed Federal Register notifications were consideration to all information we available information on the current illustrated in the diagram at the end of receive during the public comment status of migratory bird populations, the October 15, 2019, proposed rule. For period.

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Hunting Season Proposals From Indian The requested season dates and bag Sandhill Cranes: 1854 and 1837 Ceded Tribes and Organizations limits are similar to past regulations. Territories Only For the 2020–21 hunting season, we Harvest levels are not expected to Season Dates: Begin September 1 and received requests from 26 Tribes and change significantly. Standardized end November 30, 2020. Indian organizations. In this proposed check station data from the 1993–94 and Daily Bag Limit: Two sandhill cranes. rule, we respond to these 26 requests 1994–95 hunting seasons indicated no A crane carcass tag is required prior to and also evaluate anticipated requests significant changes in harvest levels and hunting. for 6 Tribes from whom we usually hear that the large majority of the harvest is by nontribal hunters. Tundra and Trumpeter Swans: but from whom we have not yet Reservation Only received proposals. We actively solicit We propose to approve the Tribes’ regulatory proposals from other tribal request for special migratory bird Season Dates: Begin September 1 and groups that are interested in working regulations for the 2020–21 hunting end November 30, 2020. cooperatively for the benefit of season. Daily Bag Limit: Two swans. Swan waterfowl and other migratory game (b) Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior carcass tags are required prior to birds. We encourage Tribes to work with Chippewa Indians, Cloquet, Minnesota hunting. us to develop agreements for (Tribal Members Only) Coots and Common Moorhens (Common management of migratory bird resources Gallinules): All Areas on tribal lands. Since 1996, the Service and the Fond The proposed frameworks for flyway du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Season Dates: Begin September 1 and regulations were published in the Indians have cooperated to establish end November 30, 2020. Federal Register on March 19, 2020 (85 special migratory bird hunting Daily Bag Limit: 20 coots and FR 15870). As previously discussed, no regulations for tribal members. The common moorhens, singly or in the action is required by Tribes wishing to Fond du Lac’s proposal covers land set aggregate. apart for the band under the Treaties of observe migratory bird hunting Sora and Virginia Rails: All Areas regulations established by the State(s) 1837 and 1854 in northeastern and east- Season Dates: Begin September 1 and where they are located. The proposed central Minnesota and the Band’s end November 30, 2020. regulations for the 32 Tribes that meet Reservation near Duluth. Daily Bag Limit: 25 sora and Virginia the established criteria or have recently The band’s proposal for 2020–21 is rails, singly or in the aggregate. proposed seasons are shown below. essentially the same as that approved last year. The proposed 2020–21 Common Snipe: All Areas (a) Confederated Salish and Kootenai waterfowl hunting season regulations Tribes, Flathead Indian Reservation, for Fond du Lac are as follows: Season Dates: Begin September 1 and Pablo, Montana (Tribal and Nontribal end November 30, 2020. Hunters) Ducks Daily Bag Limit: Eight common snipe. For the past several years, the A. 1854 and 1837 Ceded Territories: Woodcock: All Areas Season Dates: Begin September 1 and Confederated Salish and Kootenai Season Dates: Begin September 1 and Tribes and the State of Montana have end November 30, 2020. Daily Bag Limit: 18 ducks, including end November 30, 2020. entered into cooperative agreements for Daily Bag Limit: Three woodcock. the regulation of hunting on the no more than 12 mallards (only 3 of Flathead Indian Reservation. The State which may be hens), 9 black ducks, 9 Mourning Dove: All Areas and the Tribes are currently operating scaup, 9 wood ducks, 9 redheads, 9 Season Dates: Begin September 1 and under a cooperative agreement signed in pintails, and 9 canvasbacks. end November 30, 2020. 1990, which addresses fishing and B. Reservation: Daily Bag Limit: 30 mourning doves. hunting management and regulation Season Dates: Begin September 1 and The following general conditions issues of mutual concern. This end November 30, 2020. apply: agreement enables all hunters to utilize Daily Bag Limit: 12 ducks, including 1. While hunting waterfowl, a tribal waterfowl hunting opportunities on the no more than 8 mallards (only 2 of member must carry on his/her person a reservation. which may be hens), 6 black ducks, 6 valid Ceded Territory License. As in the past, tribal regulations for scaup, 6 redheads, 6 pintails, 6 wood 2. Shooting hours for migratory birds nontribal hunters would be at least as ducks, and 6 canvasbacks. are one-half hour before sunrise to one- restrictive as those established for the Mergansers half hour after sunset. Pacific Flyway portion of Montana. A. 1854 and 1837 Ceded Territories: 3. Except as otherwise noted, tribal Goose, duck, and coot season dates Season Dates: Begin September 1 and members will be required to comply would also be at least as restrictive as end November 30, 2020. with tribal codes that will be no less those established for the Pacific Flyway Daily Bag Limit: 15 mergansers, restrictive than the provisions of portion of Montana. Shooting hours for including no more than 6 hooded Chapter 10 of the Model Off-Reservation waterfowl hunting on the Flathead mergansers. Code. Except as modified by the Service Reservation are sunrise to sunset. Steel B. Reservation: rules adopted in response to this shot or other federally approved Season Dates: Begin September 1 and proposal, these amended regulations nontoxic shots are the only legal end November 30, 2020. parallel Federal requirements in 50 CFR shotgun loads on the reservation for Daily Bag Limit: 10 mergansers, part 20 as to hunting methods, waterfowl or other game birds. including no more than 4 hooded transportation, sale, exportation, and For tribal members, the Tribe mergansers. other conditions generally applicable to proposes outside frameworks for ducks migratory bird hunting. and geese of September 1, 2020, through Canada Geese: All Areas 4. Band members in each zone will March 9, 2021. Daily bag and possession Season Dates: Begin September 1 and comply with State regulations providing limits were not proposed for tribal end November 30, 2020. for closed and restricted waterfowl members. Daily Bag Limit: 20 geese. hunting areas.

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5. There are no possession limits for Bay Population will be harvested by the regulations for Tribal members in both migratory birds. For purposes of Tribe. Michigan and Wisconsin since the enforcing bag limits, all migratory birds For woodcock, the Tribe proposes a 1986–87 hunting season. In 1987, in the possession or custody of band September 1 through November 14, GLIFWC requested, and we approved, members on ceded lands will be 2020, season. The daily bag limit will regulations to permit Tribal members to considered to have been taken on those not exceed five birds. For mourning hunt on ceded lands in Minnesota, as lands unless tagged by a tribal or State doves, snipe, and rails, the Tribe well as in Michigan and Wisconsin. The conservation warden as having been proposes a September 1 through States of Michigan and Wisconsin taken on-reservation. All migratory November 14, 2020, season. The daily originally concurred with the birds that fall on reservation lands will bag limit would be 25 mourning dove, regulations, although both Wisconsin not count as part of any off-reservation 10 snipe, and 10 rail. and Michigan have raised various bag or possession limit. For sandhill crane, the Tribe proposes concerns over the years. Minnesota did The band anticipates harvest will be a September 1 through November 14, not concur with the original regulations, 2020, season. The daily bag limit would fewer than 500 ducks and geese, and stressing that the State would not be 2 birds and a season limit of 10 birds. fewer than 10 sandhill cranes. recognize Chippewa Indian hunting We propose to approve the request for For snipe and rails, the Tribe rights in Minnesota’s treaty area until a special migratory bird hunting proposes a September 1 through court with jurisdiction over the State regulations for the Fond du Lac Band of November 14, 2020, season. The daily acknowledges and defines the extent of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians. bag limit would be 10 birds per species. Shooting hours would be from one- these rights. In 1999, the U.S. Supreme (c) Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and half hour before sunrise to one-half hour Court upheld the existence of the tribes’ Chippewa Indians, Suttons Bay, after sunset. All other Federal treaty reserved rights in Minnesota v. Michigan (Tribal Members Only) regulations contained in 50 CFR part 20 Mille Lacs Band, 199 S. Ct. 1187 (1999). In the 1995–96 migratory bird would apply. The Tribe proposes to We acknowledge all of the States’ seasons, the Grand Traverse Band of monitor harvest closely through game concerns, but point out that the U.S. Ottawa and Chippewa Indians and the bag checks, patrols, and mail surveys. Government has recognized the Indian Service first cooperated to establish Harvest surveys from the 2013–14 treaty reserved rights, and that special regulations for waterfowl. The hunting season indicated that acceptable hunting regulations have Grand Traverse Band is a self-governing, approximately 30 tribal hunters been successfully implemented in federally recognized Tribe located on harvested an estimated 100 ducks and Minnesota, Michigan, and Wisconsin. the west arm of Grand Traverse Bay in 45 Canada geese. Consequently, in view of the above, we Leelanau County, Michigan. The Grand We propose to approve the Grand have approved regulations since the Traverse Band is a signatory Tribe of the Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa 1987–88 hunting season on ceded lands Treaty of 1836. We have approved Indians 2020–21 special migratory bird in all three States. In fact, this special regulations for tribal members of hunting proposal. recognition of the principle of treaty the 1836 treaty’s signatory Tribes on (d) Great Lakes Indian Fish and Wildlife reserved rights for band members to ceded lands in Michigan since the Commission, Odanah, Wisconsin (Tribal hunt and fish was pivotal in our 1986–87 hunting season. Members Only) decision to approve a 1991–92 season For the 2020–21 season, the Tribe for the 1836 ceded area in Michigan. Since 1985, various bands of the Lake requests that the tribal member duck Since then, in the 2007 Consent Decree, Superior Tribe of Chippewa Indians season run from September 1, 2020, the 1836 Treaty Tribes and the Michigan have exercised judicially recognized, through January 20, 2021. A daily bag Department of Natural Resources and off-reservation hunting rights for limit of 35 would include no more than Environment established court- migratory birds in Wisconsin. The 8 pintail, 4 canvasback, 5 hooded approved regulations pertaining to off- merganser, 8 black ducks, 10 wood specific regulations were established by reservation hunting rights for migratory ducks, 8 redheads, and 20 mallards the Service in consultation with the birds. (only 10 of which may be hens). Wisconsin Department of Natural For Canada and snow geese, the Tribe Resources and the Great Lakes Indian For 2020, GLIFWC proposes off- proposes a September 1, 2020, through Fish and Wildlife Commission reservation special migratory bird February 15, 2021, season. For white- (GLIFWC), an intertribal agency hunting regulations on behalf of the fronted geese and brant, the Tribe exercising delegated natural resource member Tribes of the Voigt Intertribal proposes a September 20 through management and regulatory authority Task Force of GLIFWC (for the 1837 and December 30, 2020, season. The daily from its member Tribes in portions of 1842 Treaty areas in Wisconsin and bag limit for Canada and snow geese Wisconsin, Michigan, and Minnesota. Michigan), the Mille Lacs Band of would be 15, and the daily bag limit for Beginning in 1986, a Tribal season on Ojibwe and the six Wisconsin Bands white-fronted geese, including brant, ceded lands in the western portion of (for the 1837 Treaty area in Minnesota), would be 5 birds. We further note that, the Michigan Upper Peninsula was and the Bay Mills Indian Community based on available data (of major goose developed in coordination with the (for the 1836 Treaty area in Michigan). migration routes), it is unlikely that any Michigan Department of Natural Member Tribes of the Task Force are as Canada geese from the Southern James Resources. We have approved follows:

Wisconsin Minnesota Michigan

Bad River Band of the Lake Superior Tribe of Chippewa Mille Lacs Band of Chippewa Indians ...... Lac Vieux Desert Band of Chippewa Indi- Indians. ans Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa In- Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Keweenaw Bay Indian Community. dians. Chippewa Indians. Lac du Flambeau Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indi- ans..

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Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians ...... St. Croix Chippewa Indians of Wisconsin ...... Sokaogon Chippewa Community (Mole Lake Band) ......

This year, GLIFWC proposes to harvest which would trigger emergency Season Dates: Begin September 1 and continue certain experimental closure of the swan season from 10 to end December 31, 2020. regulatory changes approved during the 20. About 92 percent of the estimated Daily Bag Limit: 5 cranes and no 2017–18 season but first implemented hunting days took place in Wisconsin, seasonal bag limit in the 1837 and 1842 in 2018 (83 FR 5037, February 5, 2018). with the remainder occurring in Treaty areas; 3 crane and no seasonal First, in the 1837 and 1842 Treaty Michigan. As in past years, most bag limit in the 1836 Treaty area. Areas, GLIFWC allows up to 50 Tribal hunting took place in or near counties G. Swans: 1837 and 1842 Ceded hunters to use electronic calls for any with reservations. Territories only. open season under a limited and The proposed 2020–21 waterfowl Season Dates: Begin September 1 and experimental design under a special hunting season regulations apply to all end December 31, 2020. Tribal permit. In addition to obtaining a treaty areas (except where noted) for Daily Bag Limit: 5 swans. All special permit, the Tribal hunter is GLIFWC as follows: harvested swans must be registered by required to complete and submit a hunt presenting the fully-feathered carcass to Ducks diary for each hunt where electronic a tribal registration station or GLIFWC calls were used. Second, GLIFWC Season Dates: Begin September 1 and warden. If the total number of trumpeter allows the take of migratory birds end December 31, 2020. swans harvested reaches 20, the swan (primarily waterfowl) with the use of Daily Bag Limit: 50 ducks in the 1837 season will be closed by emergency hand-held nets, hand-held snares, and/ and 1842 Treaty Area; 30 ducks in the tribal rule. or capture of birds by hand in the 1837 1836 Treaty Area. General Conditions and 1842 Treaty Areas. This use of nets, Mergansers A. All tribal members will be required snares, or hand-capture includes the to obtain a valid tribal waterfowl take of birds at night. Both the use of Season Dates: Begin September 1 and hunting permit. electronic calls and the use of nets, end December 31, 2020. B. Except as otherwise noted, tribal snares, or hand-capture are considered Daily Bag Limit: 10 mergansers. members will be required to comply 3-year experimental seasons. We Geese with tribal codes that will be no less propose to approve the continuation of restrictive than the model ceded all these experimental proposals again Season Dates: Begin September 1 and territory conservation codes approved this year. For more specific discussion end December 31, 2020. In addition, any by Federal courts in the Lac Courte on these regulatory changes, we refer portion of the ceded territory that is Oreilles v. State of Wisconsin (Voigt) the reader to the August 27, 2017, and open to State-licensed hunters for goose and Mille Lacs Band v. State of February 5, 2018, rules (82 FR 39716 hunting outside of these dates will also Minnesota cases. Chapter 10 in each of and 83 FR 5037). be open concurrently for tribal members. these model codes regulates ceded Under GLIFWC’s proposed 2020–21 Daily Bag Limit: 20 geese in aggregate. territory migratory bird hunting. Both regulations, GLIFWC expects total ceded versions of Chapter 10 parallel Federal territory harvest to be approximately Other Migratory Birds requirements as to hunting methods, 2,000 to 3,000 ducks, 400 to 600 geese, A. Coots and Common Moorhens transportation, sale, exportation, and 50 sandhill cranes, and 30 swans, which (Common Gallinules): other conditions generally applicable to is roughly similar to anticipated levels Season Dates: Begin September 1 and migratory bird hunting. They also in the previous year. end December 31, 2020. automatically incorporate by reference Recent GLIFWC harvest surveys Daily Bag Limit: 20 coots and the Federal migratory bird regulations (1996–98, 2001, 2004, 2007–08, 2011, common moorhens (common adopted in response to this proposal. 2012, and 2015) indicate that tribal off- gallinules), singly or in the aggregate. C. Particular regulations of note reservation waterfowl harvest has B. Sora and Virginia Rails: include: averaged fewer than 1,100 ducks and Season Dates: Begin September 1 and 1. Nontoxic shot will be required for 250 geese annually. In the latest survey end December 31, 2020. all waterfowl hunting by tribal year for which we have specific results Daily Bag and Possession Limits: 20, members. (2018), an estimated 197 hunters hunted singly, or in the aggregate, 25. 2. Tribal members in each zone will a total of 1,480 days and harvested 1,980 C. Common Snipe: comply with tribal regulations ducks (1.4 ducks per day) and 495 Season Dates: Begin September 1 and providing for closed and restricted geese. The greatest number of ducks end December 31, 2020. waterfowl hunting areas. These reported harvested in a single day was Daily Bag Limit: 16 common snipe. regulations generally incorporate the 12, while the highest number of geese D. Woodcock: same restrictions contained in parallel reported taken on a single outing was Season Dates: Begin September 4 and State regulations. 17. Mallards, wood ducks, and blue- end December 31, 2020. 3. There are no possession limits, winged teal composed about the greatest Daily Bag Limit: 10 woodcock. with the exception of 2 swans (in the percentage of the duck harvest. Thirty- E. Mourning Dove: 1837 and 1842 aggregate) and 25 rails (in the aggregate). one sandhill cranes were reported Ceded Territories only. For purposes of enforcing bag limits, all harvested in 2018. Nine trumpeter Season Dates: Begin September 1 and migratory birds in the possession and swans were harvested in the 2019–20 end November 29, 2020. custody of tribal members on ceded season. The Tribe is proposing the Daily Bag Limit: 15 mourning doves. lands will be considered to have been threshold level of trumpeter swan F. Sandhill Cranes: taken on those lands unless tagged by a

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tribal or State conservation warden as required to obtain a special permit; they (f) Kalispel Tribe, Kalispel Reservation, taken on reservation lands. All will be required to complete a hunt Usk, Washington (Tribal Members and migratory birds that fall on reservation diary for each hunt where these Nontribal Hunters) lands will not count as part of any off- methods are used; and they will be The Kalispel Reservation was reservation bag or possession limit. required to submit the hunt diary to the established by Executive Order in 1914, 4. The baiting restrictions included in Commission within 2 weeks of the end and currently comprises approximately the respective section 10.05(2)(h) of the of the season in order to be eligible to 4,600 acres. The Tribe owns all model ceded territory conservation obtain a permit to net migratory birds Reservation land and has full codes will be amended to include for the following year. Required management authority. The Kalispel language which parallels that in place information will include the date, time, Tribe has a fully developed wildlife for nontribal members as published at and location of the hunt; number of program with hunting and fishing 64 FR 29799, June 3, 1999. 5. There are no shell limit restrictions. hunters; the number of each species codes. The Tribe enjoys excellent 6. Hunting hours are from 30 minutes harvested per hunting event; and other wildlife management relations with the before sunrise to 30 minutes after information deemed appropriate. Diary State. The Tribe and the State have an sunset, except that, within the 1837 and results will be summarized and operational memorandum of 1842 Ceded Territories, hunters may use documented in a Commission report, understanding with emphasis on non-mechanical nets or snares that are which will be submitted to the Service. fisheries but also for wildlife. operated by hand to take those birds Barring unforeseen results, this We have yet to hear from the Kalispel subject to an open hunting season at any experimental application would be Tribe. The nontribal member seasons time (see #8 below for further replicated for 3 years (through the 2020– described below would pertain to a 176- information). Hunters shall also be 21 season), after which a full evaluation acre waterfowl management unit and permitted to capture, without the aid of would be completed. 800 acres of reservation land with a guide for waterfowl hunting. The Tribe other devices (i.e., by hand) and We propose to approve the above immediately kill birds subject to an is utilizing this opportunity to GLIFWC regulations for the 2020–21 rehabilitate an area that needs open season, regardless of the time of hunting season. day. protection because of past land use 7. An experimental application of (e) Jicarilla Apache Tribe, Jicarilla practices, as well as to provide electronic calls will be implemented in Indian Reservation, Dulce, New Mexico additional waterfowl hunting in the the 1837 and 1842 Ceded Territories. Up (Tribal Members and Nontribal Hunters) area. Beginning in 1996, the requested to 50 tribal hunters will be allowed to regulations also included a proposal for use electronic calls. Individuals using The Jicarilla Apache Tribe has had Kalispel-member-only migratory bird these devices will be required to obtain special migratory bird hunting hunting on Kalispel-ceded lands within a special permit; they will be required regulations for tribal members and Washington, Montana, and Idaho. to complete a hunt diary for each hunt nonmembers since the 1986–87 hunting The Kalispel Tribe usually proposes where electronic calls are used; and season. The Tribe owns all lands on the tribal and nontribal member waterfowl they will be required to submit the hunt reservation and has recognized full seasons. The Tribe usually requests that diary to the Commission within 2 weeks wildlife management authority. In both duck and goose seasons open at the of the end of the season in order to be general, the proposed seasons would be earliest possible date and close on the eligible to obtain a permit for the more conservative than allowed by the latest date under Federal frameworks. following year. Required information Federal frameworks of last season and For nontribal hunters on Tribally will include the date, time, and location by States in the Pacific Flyway. managed lands, the Tribe usually of the hunt; number of hunters; the requests the seasons open at the earliest The Tribe proposes a 2020–21 number of each species harvested per possible date and remain open, for the waterfowl and Canada goose season hunting event; if other hunters were in maximum amount of open days. The the area, any interactions with other beginning October 3, 2020, and a closing Tribe usually requests a season for hunters; and other information deemed date of November 30, 2020. Daily bag ducks run September 21–22 and appropriate. Diary results will be and possession limits for waterfowl September 28–29, 2020, and from summarized and documented in a would be the same as Pacific Flyway October 1, 2020, to January 8, 2021. In Commission report, which will be States. The Tribe proposes a daily bag that period, nontribal hunters would be submitted to the Service. Barring limit for Canada geese of two. Other allowed to hunt approximately 107 unforeseen results, this experimental regulations specific to the Pacific days. Hunters should obtain further application would be replicated for 3 Flyway guidelines for New Mexico information on specific hunt days from years (through the 2020–21 season), would be in effect. the Kalispel Tribe. after which a full evaluation would be During the Jicarilla Game and Fish For nontribal hunters on Tribally completed. Department’s 2017–18 season, estimated managed lands, the Tribe also usually 8. Within the 1837 and 1842 Ceded duck harvest was 82. The species requests a season for geese run Territories, tribal members will be composition included mainly mallards, September 21–22 and September 28–29, allowed to use non-mechanical, hand- gadwall, and bufflehead. The estimated 2020, and from October 1, 2020, to operated nets (i.e., throw/cast nets or harvest of geese was six birds. January 8, 2021. Total number of days hand-held nets typically used to land should not exceed 107. Nontribal The proposed regulations are fish) and hand-operated snares, and may hunters should obtain further chase and capture migratory birds essentially the same as were established information on specific hunt days from without the aid of hunting devices (i.e., last year. The Tribe anticipates the the Tribe. Daily bag and possession by hand). At this time, non-attended maximum 2020–21 waterfowl harvest limits would be the same as those for nets or snares shall not be authorized would be around 200 ducks and 20 the State of Washington. under this regulation. Tribal members geese. The Tribe reports past nontribal using nets or snares to take migratory We propose to approve the Tribe’s harvest of 1.5 ducks per day. Under the birds, or taking birds by hand, will be requested 2020–21 hunting seasons. proposal, the Tribe expects harvest to be

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similar to last year, that is, fewer than the annual goose harvest is local birds limits would be five coot and five 100 geese and 200 ducks. produced in the Klamath Basin. gallinule. All other State and Federal We propose to approve those 2020–21 For white-fronted geese, ross geese, regulations contained in 50 CFR part 20, special migratory bird hunting snow geese, and brant, the Tribe such as use of nontoxic shot and regulations. proposes a September 7 through December 9, 2020, season. Daily bag possession of a signed migratory bird (h) Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe, Cass limits would be five geese. hunting and conservation stamp, would Lake, Minnesota (Tribal Members Only) be required. For Canada geese only, the Tribe For tribal members on Kalispel-ceded The Leech Lake Band of Ojibwe is a proposes a September 1, 2020, through lands, the Kalispel Tribe usually federally recognized Tribe located in January 31, 2021, season with a daily proposes season dates for ducks of Cass Lake, Minnesota. The reservation bag limit of five. The possession limit October 1, 2020, through January 31, employs conservation officers to enforce would be twice the daily bag limit. 2021, and for geese of September 10, conservation regulations. The Service For snipe, woodcock, rails, and 2020, through January 31, 2021. Daily and the Tribe have cooperatively mourning doves, the Tribe proposes a bag and possession limits would established migratory bird hunting September 1 to November 14, 2020, parallel those in the Federal regulations regulations since 2000. season. The daily bag limit would be 10 contained in 50 CFR part 20. For the 2020–21 season, the Tribe common snipe, 5 woodcock, 10 rails, requests a duck season starting on The Tribe reports that there was no and 10 mourning doves. Possession September 12 and ending December 31, tribal harvest. Under the proposal, the limits for all species would be twice the 2020, and a goose season to run from Tribe expects harvest to be fewer than daily bag limit. September 12 through December 31, 200 birds for the season with fewer than For sandhill crane, the Tribe proposes 2020. Daily bag limits for ducks would 100 geese. Tribal members would be a September 1, through December 31, be 10, including no more than 5 pintail, required to possess a signed Federal 2020, season with a daily bag limit of 5 canvasback, and 5 black ducks. Daily migratory bird stamp and a tribal ceded five. The possession limit would be bag limits for geese would be 10. lands permit. twice the daily bag limit. Possession limits would be twice the The Tribe monitors harvest through We propose to approve the Kalispel daily bag limit. Shooting hours are one- mail surveys. General conditions are as Tribe regulations, upon receipt of their half hour before sunrise to one-half hour follows: proposal and if these dates conform to after sunset. A. All tribal members will be required Federal flyway frameworks for the The annual harvest by tribal members to obtain a valid tribal resource card and Pacific Flyway. on the Leech Lake Reservation is 2020–21 hunting license. (g) Klamath Tribe, Chiloquin, Oregon estimated at 250 to 500 birds. B. Except as modified by the Service (Tribal Members Only) We propose to approve the Leech rules adopted in response to this Lake Band of Ojibwe’s requested 2020– proposal, these amended regulations The Klamath Tribe currently has no 21 special migratory bird hunting parallel all Federal regulations reservation, per se. However, the season. contained in 50 CFR part 20. Shooting Klamath Tribe has reserved hunting, hours will be from one-half hour before fishing, and gathering rights within its (i) Little River Band of Ottawa Indians, Manistee, Michigan (Tribal Members sunrise to sunset. former reservation boundary. This area C. Particular regulations of note Only) of former reservation, granted to the include: Klamaths by the Treaty of 1864, is over The Little River Band of Ottawa (1) Nontoxic shot will be required for 1 million acres. Tribal natural resource Indians (LRBOI) is a self-governing, all waterfowl hunting by tribal management authority is derived from federally recognized Tribe located in members. the Treaty of 1864, and carried out Manistee, Michigan, and a signatory (2) Tribal members in each zone will cooperatively under the judicially Tribe of the Treaty of 1836. We have comply with tribal regulations enforced Consent Decree of 1981. The approved special regulations for tribal providing for closed and restricted parties to this Consent Decree are the members of the 1836 treaty’s signatory waterfowl hunting areas. These Federal Government, the State of Tribes on ceded lands in Michigan since regulations generally incorporate the Oregon, and the Klamath Tribe. The the 1986–87 hunting season. Ceded same restrictions contained in parallel Klamath Indian Game Commission sets lands are located in Lake, Mason, State regulations. the seasons. The tribal biological staff Manistee, and Wexford Counties. The D. Tribal members hunting in and tribal regulatory enforcement Band proposes regulations to govern the Michigan will comply with tribal codes officers monitor tribal harvest by hunting of migratory birds by Tribal that contain provisions parallel to frequent bag checks and hunter members within the 1836 Ceded Michigan law regarding duck blinds and interviews. Territory as well as on the Band’s decoys. For the 2020–21 seasons, the Tribe Reservation. We plan to approve Little River Band requests proposed season dates of LRBOI proposes a duck and of Ottawa Indians’ 2020–21 special October 5, 2020, through January 31, merganser season from September 1, migratory bird hunting seasons. 2021. Daily bag limits would be 9 for 2020, through January 31, 2021. A daily ducks, 9 for geese, and 9 for coot, with bag limit of 12 ducks would include no (j) The Little Traverse Bay Bands of possession limits twice the daily bag more than 2 pintail, 2 canvasback, 3 Odawa Indians, Petoskey, Michigan limit. Shooting hours would be one-half black ducks, 3 wood ducks, 3 redheads, (Tribal Members Only) hour before sunrise to one-half hour 6 mallards (only 2 of which may be a The Little Traverse Bay Bands of after sunset. Steel shot is required. hen), 1 bufflehead, and 1 hooded Odawa Indians (LTBB) is a self- Based on the number of birds merganser. Possession limits would be governing, federally recognized Tribe produced in the Klamath Basin, this twice the daily bag limit. located in Petoskey, Michigan, and a year’s harvest would be similar to last For coots and gallinules, the Tribe signatory Tribe of the Treaty of 1836. year’s. Information on tribal harvest proposes a September 14, 2020, through We have approved special regulations suggests that more than 70 percent of January 31, 2021, season. Daily bag for tribal members of the 1836 treaty’s

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signatory Tribes on ceded lands in cranes to assess any impacts of tribal concurrent with Federal regulations. Michigan since the 1986–87 hunting hunting on the population. The Tribe’s proposed nontribal-member season. We propose to approve the Little light goose season would run from For the 2020–21 season, the LTBB Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians’ October 24, 2020, through February 7, proposes regulations similar to those of requested 2020–21 special migratory 2021, and February 8 through March 10, other Tribes in the 1836 treaty area. The bird hunting regulations. 2021. The light goose daily bag limit LTBB proposes the regulations to govern (k) Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, Lower Brule would be 20 or the maximum number the hunting of migratory birds by tribal Reservation, Lower Brule, South Dakota that Federal regulations allow with no members on the LTBB reservation and (Tribal Members and Nontribal Hunters) possession limits. within the 1836 Treaty Ceded Territory. The Tribe proposes a dove season for The tribal member duck and merganser The Lower Brule Sioux Tribe first non-Tribal members from September 1 season would run from September 1, established tribal migratory bird hunting through November 29, 2020. The dove 2020, through January 31, 2021. A daily regulations for the Lower Brule daily bag limit would be 15. bag limit of 20 ducks and 10 mergansers Reservation in 1994. The Lower Brule For tribal members, the Lower Brule would include no more than 5 hen Reservation is about 214,000 acres in Sioux Tribe proposes a duck, merganser, mallards, 5 pintail, 5 canvasback, 5 size and is located on and adjacent to and coot season from September 1, scaup, 5 hooded merganser, 5 black the Missouri River, south of Pierre. Land 2020, through March 10, 2021. The ducks, 5 wood ducks, and 5 redheads. ownership on the reservation is mixed, daily bag limit would be six ducks, For Canada geese, the LTBB proposes and until recently, the Lower Brule including no more than two hen mallard a September 1, 2020, through February Tribe had full management authority and five mallards total, one pintail, two 8, 2021, season. The daily bag limit for over fish and wildlife via a redheads, two canvasback, three wood Canada geese would be 20 birds. We memorandum of agreement (MOA) with ducks, three scaup, two bonus teal further note that, based on available the State of South Dakota. The MOA during the first 16 days of the season, data (of major goose migration routes), provided the Tribe jurisdiction over fish and one mottled duck or the maximum it is unlikely that any Canada geese from and wildlife on reservation lands, number that Federal regulations allow. the Southern James Bay Population including deeded and U.S. Army Corps The daily bag limit for mergansers would be harvested by the LTBB. of Engineers-taken lands. For the 2020– would be five, only two of which could Possession limits are twice the daily bag 21 season, the two parties have come to be hooded mergansers. The daily bag limit. an agreement that provides the public a limit for coots would be 15. Possession For woodcock, the LTBB proposes a clear understanding of the Lower Brule limits would be three times the daily September 1 to December 1, 2020, Sioux Wildlife Department license bag limits. season. The daily bag limit will not requirements and hunting season The Tribe’s proposed Canada goose exceed 10 birds. For snipe, the LTBB regulations. The Lower Brule season for tribal members would run proposes a September 1 to December 31, Reservation waterfowl season is open to from September 1, 2020, through March 2020, season. The daily bag limit will tribal and nontribal hunters. 10, 2021, with a daily bag limit of six not exceed 15 birds. For mourning For the 2020–21 migratory bird Canada geese. The Tribe’s proposed doves, the LTBB proposes a September hunting season, the Lower Brule Sioux white-fronted goose tribal season would 1 to November 14, 2020, season. The Tribe proposes a nontribal member run from September 1, 2020, through daily bag limit will not exceed 15 birds. duck, merganser, and coot season length March 10, 2021, with a daily bag limit For Virginia and sora rails, the LTBB of 97 days, or the maximum number of of two white-fronted geese or the proposes a September 1 to December 31, days allowed by Federal frameworks in maximum number that Federal 2020, season. The daily bag limit will the High Plains Management Unit for regulations allow. The Tribe’s proposed not exceed 20 birds per species. For this season. The Tribe proposes a duck light goose tribal season would run from coots and gallinules, the LTBB proposes season from October 3, 2020, through September 1, 2020, through March 10, a September 1 to December 31, 2020, January 7, 2021. The daily bag limit 2021. A conservation order will also season. The daily bag limit will not would be six birds or the maximum occur March 10, through May 1, 2021. exceed 20 birds per species. The number that Federal regulations allow, The light goose daily bag limit would be possession limit will not exceed 2 days’ including no more than two hen mallard 20 or the maximum number that Federal bag limit for all birds. and five mallards total, two pintail, two regulations allow, with no possession The LTBB also proposes a sandhill redhead, two canvasback, three wood limits. crane season to begin September 1 and duck, three scaup, and one mottled The Tribe proposes a dove season for end December 1, 2020. The daily bag duck. Two bonus blue-winged teal are Tribal members from September 1, limit will not exceed two birds. The allowed during October 3–18, 2020. The 2020, through January 31, 2021. The possession limit will not exceed two daily bag limit for mergansers would be dove daily bag limit would be 15. times the bag limit. five, only two of which could be a In the 2018 season, nontribal All other Federal regulations hooded merganser. The daily bag limit members harvested 430 geese and 743 contained in 50 CFR part 20 would for coots would be 15. Possession limits ducks. In the 2018 season, duck harvest apply. would be three times the daily bag species composition was primarily Harvest surveys from the 2016–17 limits. mallard (70 percent), green-winged teal hunting season indicated that The Tribe’s proposed nontribal- (6 percent), and gadwall (5 percent). approximately 8 hunters harvested 10 member Canada goose season would run Tribal members harvested different waterfowl species. No sandhill from October 24, 2020, through approximately 58 ducks and 115 geese cranes were reported harvested during February 7, 2021 (107-day season in 2018. the 2016–17 season. The LTBB proposes length), with a daily bag limit of six The Tribe anticipates a duck and to monitor harvest closely through game Canada geese. The Tribe’s proposed goose harvest similar to those of the bag checks, patrols, and mail surveys. In nontribal member white-fronted goose previous years. All basic Federal particular, the LTBB proposes season would run from October 24, regulations contained in 50 CFR part 20, monitoring the harvest of Southern 2020, through January 19, 2021, with including the use of nontoxic shot, James Bay Canada geese and sandhill daily bag and possession limits Migratory Bird Hunting and

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Conservation Stamps, etc., would be steel, tungsten-iron, tungsten-polymer, We propose to approve these 2020–21 observed by the Tribe’s proposed tungsten-matrix, and tin shot are special migratory bird hunting regulations. In addition, the Lower allowed for hunting waterfowl. It is regulations. Brule Sioux Tribe has an official unlawful to use or possess lead shot (n) Makah Indian Tribe, Neah Bay, Conservation Code that was established while hunting waterfowl. Washington (Tribal Members Only) by Tribal Council Resolution in June The Tribe typically anticipates 1982 and updated in 1996. harvest to be fewer than 10 birds. Tribal The Makah Indian Tribe and the We plan to approve the Tribe’s reservation police and Tribal fisheries Service have been cooperating to requested regulations for the Lower enforcement officers have the authority establish special regulations for Brule Reservation if the nontribal to enforce these migratory bird hunting migratory game birds on the Makah members seasons’ dates fall within final regulations. Reservation and traditional hunting Federal flyway frameworks. The Service proposes to approve the land off the Makah Reservation since special migratory bird hunting the 2001–02 hunting season. Lands off (l) Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, Port the Makah Reservation are those Angeles, Washington (Tribal Members regulations for the Lower Elwha Klallam contained within the boundaries of the Only) Tribe, upon receipt of their proposal. State of Washington Game Management Since 1996, the Service and the Point (m) Lummi Nation Tribal Community, Units 601–603. No Point Treaty Tribes, of which Lower Bellingham, Washington (Tribal The Makah Indian Tribe proposes a Elwha was one, have cooperated to Members Only) duck and coot hunting season from establish special regulations for This year, the Service and the Lummi September 26, 2020, to January 31, migratory bird hunting. The Tribes are Nation Tribal Community began 2021. The daily bag limit is seven now acting independently, and it is our cooperating to establish special ducks, including no more than seven understanding that the Lower Elwha regulations for migratory bird hunting. mallards (only two hen mallard), two Klallam Tribe would like to establish The Lummi Nation Tribal Community is canvasback, one pintail, three scaup, migratory bird hunting regulations for a federally recognized Indian Tribe. The and two redhead. The daily bag limit for tribal members for the 2020–21 season. Lummi Reservation is situated to the coots is 25. The Tribe has a year-round The Tribe has a reservation on the west of Bellingham and to the south of closure on wood ducks and harlequin Olympic Peninsula in Washington State Ferndale, Washington, and was ducks. Shooting hours for all species of and is a successor to the signatories of established by the Treaty of Point Elliott waterfowl are one-half hour before the Treaty of Point No Point of 1855. of January 22, 1855. sunrise to sunset. For the 2020–21 season, we have yet For geese, the Tribe proposes that the For the 2020–21 season, the Tribal to hear from the Lower Elwha Klallam season open on September 26, 2020, and Community requests to establish a Tribe. The Tribe usually requests close January 31, 2021. For brant, the migratory bird hunting season on all special migratory bird hunting Tribe proposes that the season open on areas that are open and unclaimed and regulations for ducks (including December 19, 2020, and close January consistent with the meaning of the mergansers), geese, coots, band-tailed 24, 2021. The daily bag limit for geese treaty. The Tribe proposes their duck pigeons, snipe, and mourning doves. is four and two brant (when open). The (including mergansers and coot) and The Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe usually Tribe notes that there is a year-round goose seasons run from September 1, requests a duck and coot season from closure on dusky Canada geese. September 13 to January 4. The daily 2020, to March 9, 2021. The daily bag For band-tailed pigeons, the Tribe bag limit will be seven ducks, including limit on ducks is 20. The daily bag limit proposes that the season open no more than two hen mallards, one for coot is 25. For geese, the daily bag September 15 and close December 31, pintail, one canvasback, and two limit is 10. The season on brant runs 2020. The daily bag limit for band-tailed redheads. The daily bag and possession from September 1, 2020, to March 9, pigeons is two. limit on harlequin duck will be one per 2021. The daily bag limit is five. The Tribe anticipates that harvest season. The coot daily bag limit will be The Tribe proposes the snipe season under this regulation will be relatively 25. The possession limit will be twice run from September 1, 2020, to March low since there are no known dedicated the daily bag limit, except as noted 9, 2021. The daily bag limit for snipe is waterfowl hunters and any harvest of above. 15. The Tribe proposes the mourning waterfowl or band-tailed pigeons is For geese, the Tribe usually requests dove season run from September 1, usually incidental to hunting for other a season from September 13 to January 2020, to March 9, 2021. The daily bag species, such as deer, elk, and bear. The 4. The daily bag limit will be four, limit for mourning dove is 15. The Tribe Tribe expects fewer than 50 ducks and including no more than three light proposes the band-tailed pigeon season 10 geese to be harvested during the geese. The season on Aleutian Canada run from September 1, 2020, to March 2020–21 migratory bird hunting season. geese will be closed. 9, 2021. The daily bag limit for band- All other Federal regulations For brant, the Tribe usually proposes tailed pigeon is three. The Lummi contained in 50 CFR part 20 would to close the season. Nation Tribal Community requests apply. The following restrictions are For mourning doves, band-tailed possession limits to be twice the daily also proposed by the Tribe: pigeon, and snipe, the Tribe usually bag limits, except coot is three times the (1) As per Makah Ordinance 44, only requests a season from September 1 to daily bag limit. shotguns may be used to hunt any January 11, with a daily bag limit of 10, The Community anticipates that the species of waterfowl. Additionally, 2, and 8, respectively. The possession regulations will result in the harvest of shotguns must not be discharged within limit will be twice the daily bag limit. approximately 600 ducks and 200 geese. 0.25 mile of an occupied area. All Tribal hunters authorized to hunt The Lummi utilize a report card and (2) Hunters must be eligible, enrolled migratory birds are required to obtain a permit system to monitor harvest and Makah tribal members and must carry tribal hunting permit from the Lower will implement steps to limit harvest their Indian Treaty Fishing and Hunting Elwha Klallam Tribe pursuant to tribal where conservation is needed. All tribal Identification Card while hunting. No law. Hunting hours would be from one- regulations will be enforced by tribal tags or permits are required to hunt half hour before sunrise to sunset. Only fish and game officers. waterfowl.

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(3) The Cape Flattery area is open to Tribe has treaty-reserved hunting rights, than 10 band-tailed pigeons; fewer than waterfowl hunting, except in designated or has documented traditional use. 1,000 ducks, coots, and mergansers; and wilderness areas, or within 1 mile of (2) Shooting hours for all species of fewer than 1,000 Canada geese for the Cape Flattery Trail, or in any area that waterfowl are one-half hour before 2020–21 season. The Tribe measures is closed to hunting by another sunrise to one-half after sunset. harvest by mail survey forms. Through ordinance or regulation. (3) Hunters must be eligible enrolled the established Navajo Nation Code, (4) The use of live decoys and/or Muckleshoot Tribal members and must titles 17 and 18, and 23 U.S.C. 1165, the baiting to pursue any species of carry their Tribal identification while Tribe will take action to close the waterfowl is prohibited. hunting. season, reduce bag limits, or take other (5) Steel or bismuth shot only for (4) Tribal members hunting migratory appropriate actions if the harvest is waterfowl is allowed; the use of lead birds must also have a combined detrimental to the migratory bird shot is prohibited. Migratory Bird Hunting Permit and resource. (6) The use of dogs is permitted to Harvest Report Card. We propose to approve the Navajo hunt waterfowl. (5) The use of live decoys and/or Nation’s 2020–21 special migratory bird The Service proposes to approve the baiting to pursue any species of hunting regulations. Makah Indian Tribe’s requested 2020– waterfowl is prohibited. (q) Oneida Tribe of Indians of 21 special migratory bird hunting (6) Hunting for migratory birds is with Wisconsin, Oneida, Wisconsin (Tribal regulations. shotgun only. Only steel, tungsten-iron, tungsten-polymer, tungsten-matrix, and Members Only) (o) Muckleshoot Indian Tribe, Auburn, tin shot are allowed for hunting Since 1991–92, the Oneida Tribe of Washington (Tribal Members Only) waterfowl. It is unlawful to use or Indians of Wisconsin and the Service The Muckleshoot Tribe is a federally possess lead shot while hunting have cooperated to establish uniform recognized Tribe with reserved hunting waterfowl. regulations for migratory bird hunting rights under the Treaty of Medicine The Service proposes to approve the by tribal and nontribal hunters within Creek 1854 and Treaty of Point Elliott Muckleshoot Indian Tribe’s 2020–21 the original Oneida Reservation 1855. Hunting occurs within the treaty special migratory bird hunting boundaries. Since 1985, the Oneida areas as well as on lands traditionally regulations. Tribe’s Conservation Department has hunted by the Muckleshoot Indian enforced the Tribe’s hunting regulations (p) Navajo Nation, Navajo Indian Tribe. within those original reservation limits. Reservation, Window Rock, Arizona The Muckleshoot Indian Tribe The Oneida Tribe also has a good (Tribal Members and Nontribal Hunters) proposes a duck and coot hunting working relationship with the State of season from September 1, 2020, to Since 1985, we have established Wisconsin, and the majority of the March 10, 2021. The daily bag limit is uniform migratory bird hunting seasons and limits are the same for the seven ducks, including no more than regulations for tribal members and Tribe and Wisconsin. two hen mallard, two canvasback, two nonmembers on the Navajo Indian For the 2020–21 season, the Tribe pintail, three scaup, two redhead, two Reservation (in parts of Arizona, New submitted a proposal requesting special scoter, two long-tailed duck, and two Mexico, and Utah). The Navajo Nation migratory bird hunting regulations. For goldeneye. The daily bag limit for coots owns almost all lands on the reservation ducks, the Tribe’s proposal describes is 25. The Tribe has a limit on harlequin and has full wildlife management the general outside dates as being ducks of one per season. authority. September 12 through December 6, For geese, the Tribe proposes that the For the 2020–21 season, the Navajo 2020. The Tribe proposes a daily bag season open on September 1, 2020, and Nation requests the earliest opening limit of six birds, which could include close March 10, 2021. The daily bag dates and longest duck, merganser, no more than six mallards (three hen limit for geese is 4 Canada geese, 6 light Canada goose, and coot seasons, and the mallards), six wood ducks, one redhead, geese, 10 white-fronted geese, and 2 same daily bag and possession limits two pintails, and one hooded brant. The Tribe notes that there is a allowed to Pacific Flyway States under merganser. year-round closure on dusky Canada final Federal frameworks for tribal and For geese, the Tribe requests a season geese. nontribal members. between September 1 and December 31, For band-tailed pigeons, mourning For both mourning dove and band- 2020, with a daily bag limit of five dove, and snipe, the Tribe proposes that tailed pigeons, the Navajo Nation Canada geese. If a quota of 500 geese is the season open September 1, 2020, and usually proposes seasons of September attained before the season concludes, close March 10, 2021. The daily bag 1–30, 2020, with daily bag limits of 10 the Tribe will recommend closing the limits are 2, 15, and 8, respectively. and 5, respectively. Possession limits season early. The Tribe anticipates that harvest would be twice the daily bag limits. For woodcock, the Tribe proposes a under this regulation will be relatively The Nation requires tribal members season between September 1 and low since no known harvest has and nonmembers to comply with all November 1, 2020, with a daily bag and occurred over the past 20 years, and basic Federal migratory bird hunting possession limit of two and four, there are no known dedicated waterfowl regulations in 50 CFR part 20 pertaining respectively. or other migratory bird hunters. Harvest to shooting hours and manner of taking. For mourning dove, the Tribe will be for personal cultural and In addition, each waterfowl hunter age proposes a season between September 1 subsistence purposes. We anticipate 16 or older must carry on his/her person and November 1, 2020, with a daily bag fewer than 100 ducks and 100 geese a valid Migratory Bird Hunting and and possession limit of 10 and 20, may be harvested. Conservation Stamp (Duck Stamp), respectively. All other Federal regulations which must be signed in ink across the The Tribe proposes shooting hours be contained in 50 CFR part 20 would face. Special regulations established by one-half hour before sunrise to 15 apply. The following restrictions are the Navajo Nation also apply on the minutes after sunset. Nontribal hunters also proposed by the Tribe: reservation. hunting on the Reservation or on lands (1) Hunting can occur on reservation The Tribe anticipates a total harvest of under the jurisdiction of the Tribe must and off reservation on lands where the fewer than 500 mourning doves; fewer comply with all State of Wisconsin

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regulations, including shooting hours of geese, and white-fronted geese would be coot, gallinule, sora, and Virginia rail is one-half hour before sunrise to sunset, 5, 3, and 10, respectively. The Council 20 in the aggregate. season dates, and daily bag limits. notes that there is a year-round closure For woodcock and mourning dove, Tribal members and nontribal hunters on dusky Canada geese. For brant, the the Tribe proposes a season between hunting on the Reservation or on lands Council usually proposes the season September 1, 2020, and January 31, under the jurisdiction of the Tribe must open on November 9, 2020, and close 2021, with daily bag limits of 10 and 25, observe all basic Federal migratory bird January 31, 2021, for the Port Gamble hunting regulations found in 50 CFR S’Klallam Tribe, and open on January 11 respectively. part 20, with the following exceptions: and close January 26, 2021, for the For sandhill crane, the Tribe proposes Oneida members would be exempt from Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe. The daily a season between September 1, 2020, the purchase of the Migratory Bird bag limit for brant would be two. and January 31, 2021, with a daily bag Hunting and Conservation Stamp (Duck For band-tailed pigeons, the Port limit of one. Gamble S’Klallam Tribe season would Stamp); and shotgun capacity is not All Saginaw Tribe members usually open September 1, 2020, and limited to three shells. exercising hunting treaty rights are The Service proposes to approve the close March 10, 2021. The Jamestown required to comply with Tribal 2020–21 special migratory bird hunting S’Klallam Tribe season would usually regulations for the Oneida Tribe of open September 7, 2020, and close Ordinance 11. Hunting hours would be Indians of Wisconsin. January 20, 2021. The daily bag limit for from one-half hour before sunrise to band-tailed pigeons would be two. For one-half hour after sunset. All other (r) Point No Point Treaty Council Tribes, snipe, the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe regulations in 50 CFR part 20 apply, Kingston, Washington (Tribal Members season would usually open September including the use of only nontoxic shot Only) 1, 2020, and close March 10, 2021. The for hunting waterfowl. We are establishing uniform migratory Jamestown S’Klallam Tribe season The Service proposes to approve the bird hunting regulations for tribal would usually open September 7, 2020, request for 2020–21 special migratory members on behalf of the Point No Point and close March 10, 2021. The daily bag bird hunting regulations for the Saginaw Treaty Council Tribes, consisting of the limit for snipe would be eight. For Tribe of Chippewa Indians. Port Gamble S’Klallam and Jamestown mourning dove, the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribes. The two tribes have S’Klallam Tribe season would usually (t) Sauk-Suiattle Indian Tribe, reservations and ceded areas in open September 1, 2020, and close Darrington, Washington (Tribal northwestern Washington State and are January 31, 2021. The Jamestown Members Only) the successors to the signatories of the S’Klallam Tribe would usually open Treaty of Point No Point of 1855. These September 7, 2020, and close January We have yet to hear from the Sauk- proposed regulations would apply to 20, 2021. The daily bag limit for Suiattle Indian Tribe (SSIT), but it is our tribal members both on and off mourning dove would be 10. understanding that the SSIT will request reservations within the Point No Point The Tribe anticipates a total harvest of a 2020–21 hunting season on all open Treaty Areas; however, the Port Gamble fewer than 100 birds for the 2020–21 and unclaimed lands under the Treaty S’Klallam and Jamestown S’Klallam season. The tribal fish and wildlife of Point Elliott of January 22, 1855. The Tribal season dates differ only where enforcement officers have the authority Tribe’s reservation is located in indicated below. to enforce these tribal regulations. Darrington, Washington, just west of the For the 2020–21 season, we have yet We propose to approve the Point No North Cascade Mountain range in Skagit to hear from the Point No Point Treaty Point Treaty Council Tribe’s upon County on the Sauk and Suiattle Rivers. Council for either the Jamestown receipt of their 2020–21 special The Tribe owns and manages all the S’Klallam or Port Gamble S’Klallam migratory bird season proposal. land on the reservation and some lands Tribes. For ducks, the Jamestown (s) Saginaw Tribe of Chippewa Indians, surrounding or near the reservation in S’Klallam Tribe season would usually Skagit and Snohomish Counties. All of open September 1, 2020, and close Mt. Pleasant, Michigan (Tribal Members Only) the lands that are Tribal or Reservation March 10, 2021, and coots would open lands are closed for non-Tribal hunting, September 7, 2020, and close February The Saginaw Tribe of Chippewa unless opened by an SSIT Special 2, 2021. The Port Gamble S’Klallam Indians is a federally recognized, self- Regulation. Tribes duck and coot seasons would governing Indian Tribe, located on the usually open from September 1, 2020, to Isabella Reservation lands bound by The Tribe usually proposes special March 10, 2021. The daily bag limit Saginaw Bay in Isabella and Arenac migratory bird hunting regulations for would be seven ducks, including no Counties, Michigan. ducks, geese, brant, and coot with more than two hen mallards, one For ducks, mergansers, and common outside dates of September 1 through canvasback, one pintail, two redhead, snipe, the Tribe proposes outside dates January 31. The Tribe usually proposes and four scoters. The daily bag limit for as September 1, 2020, through January a daily bag limit of 10 ducks, 5 geese, coots would be seven. The daily bag 31, 2021. The Tribe proposes a daily bag 5 brant, and 25 coot. limit and possession limit on harlequin limit of 20 ducks, which could include Hunting hours would be from one- ducks would be one per season. The no more than 5 each of the following: half hour before sunrise to one-half hour daily possession limits are double the Hen mallards, wood duck, black duck, after sunset. All other regulations in 50 daily bag limits except where noted. pintail, red head, scaup, and CFR part 20 apply, including the use of For geese, the Point No Point Treaty canvasback. The merganser daily bag only nontoxic shot for hunting Council usually proposes the season limit is 10, with no more than 5 hooded waterfowl. open on September 7, 2020, and close mergansers and 16 for common snipe. March 10, 2021, for the Jamestown For geese, coot, gallinule, sora, and The Service proposes to approve the S’Klallam Tribe, and open on September Virginia rail, the Tribe requests a season request for 2020–21 special migratory 1, 2020, and close March 10, 2021, for from September 1, 2020, to January 31, bird hunting regulations for the Sauk- the Port Gamble S’Klallam Tribe. The 2021. The daily bag limit for geese is 20, Suiattle Indian Tribe, upon receipt of daily bag limits for Canada geese, light in the aggregate. The daily bag limit for their proposal.

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(u) Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Department has disputed tribal dates fall within the final Federal Indians, Sault Ste. Marie, Michigan jurisdiction, especially for hunting by flyway frameworks (applies to nontribal (Tribal Members Only) nontribal members on reservation lands hunters only). The Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of owned by non-Indians. As a compromise, since 1985, we have (w) Skokomish Tribe, Shelton, Chippewa Indians is a federally Washington (Tribal Members Only) recognized, self-governing Indian Tribe, established the same waterfowl hunting distributed throughout the eastern regulations on the reservation and in a Since 1996, the Service and the Point surrounding off-reservation State zone. Upper Peninsula and northern Lower No Point Treaty Tribes, of which the The regulations were requested by the Peninsula of Michigan. The Tribe has Skokomish Tribe was one, have Tribes and provided for different season retained the right to hunt, fish, trap, and cooperated to establish special dates than in the remainder of the State. gather on the lands ceded in the Treaty regulations for migratory bird hunting. We agreed to the season dates because of Washington (1836). they would provide additional The Tribes have been acting The Tribe proposes special migratory protection to mallards and pintails. The independently since 2005. The Tribe bird hunting regulations. For ducks, State of Idaho concurred with the has a reservation on the Olympic mergansers, and common snipe, the zoning arrangement. We have no Peninsula in Washington State and is a Tribe proposes outside dates as objection to the State’s use of this zone successor to the signatories of the Treaty September 15 through December 31, again in the 2020–21 hunting season, of Point No Point of 1855. 2020. The Tribe proposes a daily bag provided the duck and goose hunting The Skokomish Tribe requests a duck limit of 20 ducks, which could include season dates are the same as on the and coot season from September 16, no more than 10 mallards (5 hen reservation. 2020, to February 28, 2021. The daily mallards), 5 wood duck, 5 black duck, In a proposal for the 2020–21 hunting and 5 canvasbacks. The merganser daily bag limit is seven ducks, including no season, the Shoshone–Bannock Tribes more than two hen mallards, one bag limit is 10 in the aggregate and 16 request a continuous duck (including for common snipe. pintail, one canvasback, and two mergansers and coots) season, with the redheads. The daily bag and possession For geese, teal, coot, gallinule, sora, maximum number of days and the same and Virginia rail, the Tribe requests a limit on harlequin duck is one per daily bag and possession limits season. The coot daily bag limit is 25. season from September 1 to December permitted for Pacific Flyway States 31, 2020. The daily bag limit for geese The possession limit is twice the daily under the final Federal frameworks. The bag limit, except as noted above. is 20 in the aggregate. The daily bag Tribes propose a duck and coot season limit for coot, teal, gallinule, sora, and with, if the same number of hunting For geese, the Tribe requests a season Virginia rail is 20 in the aggregate. days is permitted as last year, an from September 16, 2020, to February For woodcock, the Tribe proposes a opening date of October 3, 2020, and a 28, 2021. The daily bag limit is four, season between September 2 and closing date of January 19, 2021. The including no more than three light December 1, 2020, with a daily bag and Tribes anticipate harvest will be about geese. The season on Aleutian Canada possession limit of 10 and 20, 7,500 ducks. geese is closed. For brant, the Tribe respectively. The Tribes also request a continuous proposes a season from November 1, For mourning dove, the Tribe goose season with the maximum 2020, to February 15, 2021, with a daily proposes a season between September 1 number of days and the same daily bag bag limit of two. The possession limit is and November 14, 2020, with a daily and possession limits permitted in twice the daily bag limit. bag and possession limit of 10 and 20, Idaho under Federal frameworks. The For mourning doves, band-tailed respectively. Tribes propose that, if the same number pigeon, and snipe, the Tribe requests a In 2018, the total estimated waterfowl of hunting days is permitted as in season from September 16, 2020, to hunters were 4,183, who harvested previous years, the season would have February 28, 2021, with a daily bag limit approximately 1,520 ducks. All Sault an opening date of October 3, 2020, and of 10, 2, and 8, respectively. The Ste. Marie Tribe members exercising a closing date of January 19, 2021. The possession limit is twice the daily bag hunting treaty rights within the 1836 Tribes anticipate harvest will be about Ceded Territory are required to submit 5,000 geese. limit. annual harvest reports including date of The Tribes request a common snipe All Tribal hunters authorized to hunt harvest, number and species harvested, season with the maximum number of migratory birds are required to obtain a and location of harvest. Hunting hours days and the same daily bag and tribal hunting permit from the would be from one-half hour before possession limits permitted in Idaho Skokomish Tribe pursuant to tribal law. sunrise to one-half hour after sunset. All under Federal frameworks. The Tribes Hunting hours would be from one-half other regulations in 50 CFR part 20 propose that, if the same number of hour before sunrise to sunset. Only apply, including the use of only hunting days is permitted as in previous steel, tungsten-iron, tungsten-polymer, nontoxic shot for hunting waterfowl. years, the season would have an tungsten-matrix, and tin shot are The Service proposes to approve the opening date of October 3, 2020, and a allowed for hunting waterfowl. It is request for 2020–21 special migratory closing date of January 19, 2021. unlawful to use or possess lead shot bird hunting regulations for the Sault Nontribal hunters must comply with while hunting waterfowl. Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians. all basic Federal migratory bird hunting The Tribe anticipates harvest to be regulations in 50 CFR part 20 pertaining (v) Shoshone–Bannock Tribes, Fort Hall fewer than 150 birds. The Skokomish to shooting hours, use of steel shot, and Indian Reservation, Fort Hall, Idaho Public Safety Office enforcement manner of taking. Special regulations (Nontribal Hunters) officers have the authority to enforce established by the Shoshone–Bannock Almost all of the Fort Hall Indian Tribes also apply on the reservation. these migratory bird hunting Reservation is tribally owned. The We note that the requested regulations regulations. Tribes claim full wildlife management are nearly identical to those of last year, We propose to approve the authority throughout the reservation, and we propose to approve them for the Skokomish Tribe’s 2020–21 migratory but the Idaho Fish and Game 2020–21 hunting season if the seasons’ bird hunting season.

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(x) Spokane Tribe of Indians, Spokane (y) Squaxin Island Tribe, Squaxin Island federally recognized Tribe and reserves Indian Reservation, Wellpinit, Reservation, Shelton, Washington the Treaty Right to hunt (U.S. v. Washington (Tribal Members Only) (Tribal Members Only) Washington). The Tribe proposes their duck The Spokane Tribe of Indians wishes The Squaxin Island Tribe of (including mergansers and coot) and to establish waterfowl seasons on their Washington and the Service have goose seasons run from October 1, 2020, reservation for its membership to access cooperated since 1995, to establish to March 10, 2021. The daily bag limit as an additional resource. An special tribal migratory bird hunting on ducks (including sea ducks and established waterfowl season on the regulations. These special regulations mergansers) is 10 including no more reservation will allow access to a apply to tribal members on the Squaxin than seven mallards, 3 pintail, 3 resource for members to continue Island Reservation, located in western redhead, 3 scaup, and 3 canvasback. practicing a subsistence lifestyle. Washington near Olympia, and all lands The daily bag limit for coot is 25. For The Spokane Indian Reservation is within the traditional hunting grounds geese, the daily bag limit is 6 Canada located in northeastern Washington of the Squaxin Island Tribe. geese, 12 white-fronted geese, and 8 State. The reservation comprises For the 2020–21 season, we have yet light geese. The season on brant is approximately 157,000 acres. The to hear from the Squaxin Island Tribe. closed. Possession limits are three times boundaries of the Reservation are the The Tribe usually requests to establish the daily bag limits. Columbia River to the west, the Spokane duck and coot seasons that would run The Tribe proposes the snipe season River to the south (now Lake Roosevelt), from September 1 through January 15. run from October 1, 2020, to January 31, Tshimikn Creek to the east, and the 48th The daily bag limit for ducks would be 2021. The daily bag limit for snipe is 10. Parallel as the north boundary. Tribal five per day and could include only one Possession limit is two times the daily membership comprises approximately canvasback. The season on harlequin bag limit. 2,300 enrolled Spokane Tribal Members. ducks is closed. For coots, the daily bag The Tribe proposes the swan season These proposed regulations would limit is 25. For snipe, the Tribe usually run from October 1, 2020, to January 31, allow Tribal Members, spouses of proposes that the season start on 2021. The bag limit for swan is two per Spokane Tribal Members, and first- September 15 and end on January 15. season. generation descendants of a Spokane The daily bag limit for snipe would be Harvest is regulated by a punch card Tribal Member with a tribal permit and eight. For band-tailed pigeon, the Tribe system. Tribal members hunting on Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and usually proposes that the season start on lands under this proposal will observe Conservation Stamp an opportunity to September 1 and end on December 31. all basic Federal migratory bird hunting utilize the reservation and ceded lands The daily bag limit would be five. The regulations found in 50 CFR part 20, for waterfowl hunting. These possession limit would be twice the which will be enforced by the regulations would also benefit tribal daily bag limit. Stillaguamish Tribal law enforcement. membership through access to this The Tribe usually proposes a season Tribal members are required to use steel resource throughout Spokane Tribal on geese starting September 15 and shot or a nontoxic shot as required by ceded lands in eastern Washington. By ending on January 15. The daily bag Federal regulations. Spokane Tribal Referendum, spouses of limit for geese would be four, including The Tribe anticipates a total harvest of Spokane Tribal Members and children no more than two snow geese. The 200 ducks, 100 geese, 50 mergansers, of Spokane Tribal Members not enrolled season on Aleutian and cackling Canada 100 coots, and 100 snipe. Anticipated are allowed to harvest game animals geese would be closed. For brant, the harvest needs include subsistence and within the Spokane Indian Reservation Tribe usually proposes that the season ceremonial needs. Certain species may with the issuance of hunting permits. start on September 1 and end on be closed to hunting for conservation The Tribe requests to establish duck December 31. The daily bag limit for purposes, and consideration for the seasons that would run from September brant would be two. The possession needs of certain species will be 2, 2020, through January 31, 2021. The limit would be twice the daily bag limit. addressed. tribe is requesting the daily bag limit for We propose to approve the Tribe’s The Service proposes to approve the ducks to be consistent with final Federal 2020–21 special migratory bird hunting Stillaguamish Tribe’s request for 2020– frameworks. The possession limit is regulations, upon receipt of their 21 special migratory bird hunting twice the daily bag limit. proposal. regulations. The Tribe proposes a season on geese starting September 2, 2020, and ending (z) Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians, (aa) Swinomish Indian Tribal on January 31, 2021. The Tribe is Arlington, Washington (Tribal Members Community, LaConner, Washington requesting the daily bag limit for geese Only) (Tribal Members Only) to be consistent with final Federal The Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians In 1996, the Service and the frameworks. The possession limit is and the Service have cooperated to Swinomish Indian Tribal Community twice the daily bag limit. establish special regulations for began cooperating to establish special Based on the quantity of requests the migratory game birds since 2001. For regulations for migratory bird hunting. Spokane Tribe of Indians has received, the 2020–21 season, the Tribe requests The Swinomish Indian Tribal the Tribe anticipates harvest levels for regulations to hunt all open and Community is a federally recognized the 2020–21 season for both ducks and unclaimed lands under the Treaty of Indian Tribe consisting of the geese to be fewer than 100 total birds, Point Elliott of January 22, 1855, Swinomish, Lower Skagit, Samish, and with goose harvest at fewer than 50. including their main hunting grounds Kikialous. The Swinomish Reservation Hunter success will be monitored around Camano Island, Skagit Flats, and was established by the Treaty of Point through mandatory harvest reports Port Susan to the border of the Tulalip Elliott of January 22, 1855, and lies in returned within 30 days of the season Tribes Reservation. Ceded lands are the Puget Sound area north of Seattle, closure. located in Whatcom, Skagit, Snohomish, Washington. We propose to approve the Spokane and Kings Counties, and a portion of For the 2020–21 season, the Tribal Tribe’s requested 2020–21 special Pierce County, Washington. The Community requests to establish a migratory bird hunting regulations. Stillaguamish Tribe of Indians is a migratory bird hunting season on all

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areas that are open and unclaimed and and 75, respectively, and for snipe 8 and and a possession limit of 10. For brant, consistent with the meaning of the 24, respectively. Ceremonial hunting the Tribe proposes a season from treaty. The Tribe proposes their duck may be authorized by the Department of November 1 to 10, 2020, with a daily (including mergansers and coot) and Natural Resources at any time upon bag and possession limit of two. goose seasons run from September 1, application of a qualified tribal member. The Tribe proposes a mourning dove 2020, to March 9, 2021. The daily bag Such a hunt must have a bag limit season between September 1 and limit on ducks is 20. The daily bag limit designed to limit harvest only to those December 31, 2020, with a daily bag for coot is 25. For geese, the daily bag birds necessary to provide for the limit of 12 and possession limit of 15. limit is 10. The season on brant runs ceremony. The anticipated migratory bird from September 1, 2020, to March 9, For geese, tribal members propose a harvest under this proposal would be 2021. The daily bag limit is five. season from September 1, 2020, through 100 ducks, 5 geese, 2 brant, and 10 The Tribe proposes the snipe season February 28, 2021. The goose daily bag coots. Tribal members must have the run from September 1, 2020, to March and possession limits would be 10 and tribal identification and tribal harvest 9, 2021. The daily bag limit for snipe is 30, respectively, except that the bag report card on their person to hunt. 15. The Tribe proposes the mourning limits for cackling Canada geese and Tribal members hunting on the dove season run from September 1, dusky Canada geese would be those Reservation will observe all basic 2020, to March 9, 2021. The daily bag established in accordance with final Federal migratory bird hunting limit for mourning dove is 15. The Tribe Federal frameworks. The daily bag and regulations found in 50 CFR part 20, proposes the band-tailed pigeon season possession limits for black brant is 5 except shooting hours would be 15 run from September 1, 2020, to March and 10, respectively. minutes before official sunrise to 15 9, 2021. The daily bag limit for band- All hunters on Tulalip Tribal lands minutes after official sunset. tailed pigeon is three. The Swinomish are required to adhere to shooting hour We propose to approve the Tribe’s Indian Tribal Community requests regulations set at one-half hour before 2020–21 special migratory bird hunting possession limits to be twice the daily sunrise to sunset, special tribal permit regulations. bag limits, except coot is three times the requirements, and a number of other (dd) Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head, daily bag limit. tribal regulations enforced by the Tribe. Aquinnah, Massachusetts (Tribal The Community anticipates that the Each nontribal hunter 16 years of age Members Only) regulations will result in the harvest of and older hunting pursuant to Tulalip approximately 600 ducks and 200 geese. Tribes’ Ordinance No. 67 must possess The Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head is The Swinomish utilize a report card and a valid Federal Migratory Bird Hunting a federally recognized Tribe located on permit system to monitor harvest and and Conservation Stamp and a valid the island of Martha’s Vineyard in will implement steps to limit harvest State of Washington Migratory Massachusetts. The Tribe has where conservation is needed. All tribal Waterfowl Stamp. Each hunter must approximately 560 acres of land, which regulations will be enforced by tribal validate stamps by signing across the it manages for wildlife through its fish and game officers. face. natural resources department. The Tribe We propose to approve these 2020–21 Although the season length requested also enforces its own wildlife laws and special migratory bird hunting by the Tulalip Tribes appears to be quite regulations through the natural regulations. liberal, harvest information indicates a resources department. We have yet to hear from the (dd) The Tulalip Tribes of Washington, total take by tribal and nontribal hunters of fewer than 1,000 ducks and 500 geese Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head. The Tulalip Indian Reservation, Marysville, Tribe usually proposes a duck season of Washington (Tribal Members Only) annually. We propose to approve the Tulalip October 8 through February 16. The The Tulalip Tribes are the successors Tribe’s request for 2020–21 special Tribe usually proposes a daily bag limit in interest to the Tribes and bands migratory bird hunting regulations. of eight birds, which could include no signatory to the Treaty of Point Elliott of more than four hen mallards, four January 22, 1855. The Tulalip Tribes’ (cc) Upper Skagit Indian Tribe, Sedro mottled ducks, one fulvous whistling government is located on the Tulalip Woolley, Washington (Tribal Members duck, four mergansers, three scaup, two Indian Reservation just north of the City Only) hooded mergansers, three wood ducks, of Everett in Snohomish County, The Upper Skagit Indian Tribe and one canvasback, two redheads, two Washington. The Tribes or individual the Service have cooperated to establish pintail, and four of all other species not tribal members own all of the land on special regulations for migratory game listed. The season for harlequin ducks is the reservation, and they have full birds since 2001. The Tribe has usually closed. The Tribe usually wildlife management authority. All jurisdiction over lands within Skagit, proposes a teal (green-winged and blue) lands within the boundaries of the Island, and Whatcom Counties, season of October 8 through February Tulalip Tribes Reservation are closed to Washington. The Tribe issues tribal 16. A daily bag limit of 10 teal would nonmember hunting unless opened by hunters a harvest report card that will be in addition to the daily bag limit for Tulalip Tribal regulations. be shared with the State of Washington. ducks. For ducks, mergansers, coot, and For the 2020–21 season, the Tribe For sea ducks, the Tribe usually snipe, the Tribe proposes seasons for requests a duck season starting October proposes a season between October 1 tribal members from September 1, 2020, 1, 2020, and ending February 28, 2021. and February 16, with a daily bag limit through February 28, 2021. Daily bag The Tribe proposes a daily bag limit of of seven, which could include no more and possession limits would be 15 and 15 with a possession limit of 20. The than one hen eider and four of any one 30 ducks, respectively, except that for Tribe requests a coot season starting species unless otherwise noted above. blue-winged teal, canvasback, October 1, 2020, and ending February For Canada geese, the Tribe usually harlequin, pintail, and wood duck, the 15, 2021. The coot daily bag limit is 20 requests a season between September 3 bag and possession limits would be the with a possession limit of 30. and 15 and between October 22 and same as those established in accordance The Tribe proposes a goose season February 16, with a daily bag limit of with final Federal frameworks. For coot, from October 1, 2020, to February 28, eight Canada geese. For snow geese, the daily bag and possession limits are 25 2021, with a daily bag limit of 7 geese tribe usually requests a season between

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September 3 and 13, and between one-half hour after sunset. Nontoxic tailed pigeons and mourning doves November 19 and February 16, with a shot is required. would be 3 and 10, respectively. daily bag limit of 15 snow geese. Based on past harvest surveys, the Possession limits for the above For woodcock, the Tribe usually Tribe anticipates harvest of 1,000 to species are twice the daily bag limits. proposes a season between October 8 2,000 Canada geese and 1,000 to 1,500 Shooting hours would be from one-half and November 24, with a daily bag limit ducks. The White Earth Reservation hour before sunrise to sunset. There of three. For sora and Virginia rails, the Tribal Council employs four full-time would be no open season for sandhill Tribe usually requests a season of conservation officers to enforce cranes, rails, and snipe on the White September 3 through November 3, with migratory bird regulations. Mountain Apache lands under this a daily bag limit of 5 sora and 10 We propose to approve the Tribe’s proposal. Virginia rails. For snipe, the Tribe 2020–21 special migratory bird hunting A number of special regulations apply usually requests a season of September regulations. to tribal and nontribal hunters, which 3 through December 8, with a daily bag may be obtained from the White (ff) White Mountain Apache Tribe, Fort limit of eight. Mountain Apache Tribe Game and Fish Apache Indian Reservation, Whiteriver, Prior to 2012, the Tribe had 22 Department. Arizona (Tribal Members and Nontribal registered tribal hunters and estimates We plan to approve the White Hunters) harvest to be no more than 15 geese, 25 Mountain Apache Tribe’s requested mallards, 25 teal, 50 black ducks, and 50 The White Mountain Apache Tribe 2020–21 special migratory bird hunting of all other species combined. Tribal owns all reservation lands, and the regulations. members hunting on the Reservation Tribe has recognized full wildlife will observe all basic Federal migratory management authority. Public Comments bird hunting regulations found in 50 The hunting zone for waterfowl is The Department of the Interior’s CFR part 20. The Tribe requires hunters restricted and is described as: The policy is, whenever possible, to afford to register with the Harvest Information length of the Black River west of the the public an opportunity to participate Program. Bonito Creek and Black River in the rulemaking process. Accordingly, We propose to approve the Tribe’s confluence and the entire length of the we invite interested persons to submit 2020–21 special migratory bird hunting Salt River forming the southern written comments, suggestions, or regulations, upon receipt of their boundary of the reservation; the White recommendations regarding the proposal. River, extending from the Canyon Day proposed regulations. Before (ee) White Earth Band of Ojibwe, White Stockman Station to the Salt River; and promulgating final migratory game bird Earth, Minnesota (Tribal Members Only) all stock ponds located within Wildlife hunting regulations, we will consider all The White Earth Band of Ojibwe is a Management Units 4, 5, 6, and 7. Tanks comments we receive. These comments, federally recognized tribe located in located below the Mogollon Rim, within and any additional information we northwest Minnesota and encompasses Wildlife Management Units 2 and 3, receive, may lead to final regulations all of Mahnomen County and parts of will be open to waterfowl hunting that differ from these proposals. Becker and Clearwater Counties. The during the 2020–21 season. The length You may submit your comments and reservation employs conservation of the Black River east of the Black materials concerning this proposed rule officers to enforce migratory bird River/Bonito Creek confluence is closed by one of the methods listed in regulations. The Tribe and the Service to waterfowl hunting. All other waters ADDRESSES. We will not accept first cooperated to establish special of the reservation would be closed to comments sent by email or fax. We will tribal regulations in 1999. waterfowl hunting for the 2020–21 not consider hand-delivered comments The White Earth Band of Ojibwe season. that we do not receive, or mailed requests a duck season to start For nontribal and tribal hunters, the comments that are not postmarked, by September 12 and end December 13, Tribe proposes a continuous duck, coot, the date specified in DATES. 2020. For ducks, they request a daily merganser, gallinule, and moorhen We will post all comments in their bag limit of 10, including no more than hunting season, with an opening date of entirety—including your personal 2 hen mallards, 2 pintail, and 2 October 17, 2020, and a closing date of identifying information—on http:// canvasback. For mergansers, the Tribe January 24, 2021. The Tribe proposes a www.regulations.gov. Before including proposes the season to start September daily duck (including mergansers) bag your address, phone number, email 12 and end December 13, 2020. The limit of seven, which may include no address, or other personal identifying merganser daily bag limit would be five, more than two redheads, two pintail, information in your comment, you with no more than two hooded three scaup, seven mallards (including should be aware that your entire mergansers. For geese, the Tribe no more than two hen mallards), and comment—including your personal proposes an early season from two canvasback. The daily bag limit for identifying information—may be made September 1 through 25, 2020, and a coots, gallinules, and moorhens would publicly available at any time. While late season from September 26 through be 25, singly or in the aggregate. you can ask us in your comment to December 13, 2020. The early season For geese, the Tribe proposes a season withhold your personal identifying daily bag limit is 10 geese, and the late from October 17, 2020, through January information from public review, we season daily bag limit is 5 geese. 24, 2021. Hunting would be limited to cannot guarantee that we will be able to For coots, the Tribe proposes a Canada geese, and the daily bag limit do so. September 1 through November 30, would be three. Comments and materials we receive, 2020, season with daily bag limits of 20 Season dates for band-tailed pigeons as well as supporting documentation we coots. For snipe, woodcock, rail, and and mourning doves would start used in preparing this proposed rule, mourning dove, the Tribe proposes a September 1 and end September 15, will be available for public inspection September 1 through November 30, 2020, in Wildlife Management Unit 10 on http://www.regulations.gov, or by 2020, season with daily bag limits of 10, and all areas south of Y–70 and Y–10 in appointment, during normal business 10, 25, and 25, respectively. Shooting Wildlife Management Unit 7, only. hours, at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife hours are one-half hour before sunrise to Proposed daily bag limits for band- Service, Division of Migratory Bird

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Management, 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls information collection requirements and (1) Information Requested to Establish Church, VA 22041–3803. minimize the public’s reporting burden. Annual Migratory Bird Hunting We will consider, but possibly may It also helps the public understand our Seasons: not respond in detail to, each comment. information collection requirements and (A) Tribes that wish to use the As in the past, we will summarize all provide the requested data in the guidelines to establish special hunting comments we receive during the desired format. regulations for the annual migratory comment period and respond to them Migratory game birds are those bird game bird hunting season are required after the closing date in the preamble of species so designated in conventions to submit a proposal that includes: a final rule. between the United States and several (i) The requested migratory game bird hunting season dates and other details Required Determinations foreign nations for the protection and management of these birds. Under the regarding the proposed regulations; Based on our most current data, we Migratory Bird Treaty Act (16 U.S.C. (ii) Harvest anticipated under the are affirming our required 703–712), the Secretary of the Interior is proposed regulations; and determinations made in the October 15 authorized to determine when ‘‘hunting, (iii) Tribal capabilities to enforce proposed rule; for descriptions of our taking, capture, killing, possession, sale, migratory game bird hunting actions to ensure compliance with the purchase, shipment, transportation, regulations. following statutes and Executive Orders, carriage, or export of any * * * bird, or (B) State and U.S. territory see our October 15, 2019, proposed rule any part, nest, or egg’’ of migratory game governments that wish to establish (84 FR 55120): birds can take place, and to adopt annual migratory game bird hunting • National Environmental Policy Act regulations for this purpose. These seasons are required to provide the Consideration; requested dates and other details for • regulations are written after giving due Endangered Species Act regard to ‘‘the zones of temperature and hunting seasons in their respective Consideration; States or Territories. • to the distribution, abundance, Regulatory Flexibility Act; economic value, breeding habits, and (2) Reports: The following reports are • Small Business Regulatory times and lines of migratory flight of requested from the States and are Enforcement Fairness Act; such birds’’ and are updated annually submitted either annually or every 3 • Unfunded Mandates Reform Act; years as explained in the following text. • Executive Orders 12630, 12866, (16 U.S.C. 704(a)). This responsibility has been delegated to the Service as the (A) Reports from Experimental 12988, 13132, 13175, 13211, 13563, and Hunting Seasons and Season Structure 13771. lead Federal agency for managing and conserving migratory birds in the Changes: Atlantic Flyway Council: Paperwork Reduction Act United States. However, migratory game • bird management is a cooperative effort Delaware—Experimental tundra This proposed rule contains existing swan season (yearly updates and final and new information collections. All of State, Tribal, and Federal governments. Migratory game bird report) information collections require approval • Florida—Experimental teal-only hunting seasons provide opportunities under the Paperwork Reduction Act of season (yearly updates and final report) for recreation and sustenance; aid 1995 (PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). We Mississippi Flyway Council: Federal, State, and tribal governments in may not conduct or sponsor and you are • Alabama—Experimental sandhill the management of migratory game not required to respond to a collection crane season (yearly updates and final birds; and permit harvests at levels of information unless it displays a report) Central Flyway Council: currently valid Office of Management compatible with migratory game bird • Nebraska—Experimental teal season and Budget (OMB) control number. The population status and habitat (yearly updates and final report) OMB has reviewed and approved the conditions. • New Mexico—Experimental information collection requirements The Service develops migratory game sandhill crane season in Estancia Valley associated with migratory bird surveys bird hunting regulations by establishing (yearly updates and final report) and the procedures for establishing the frameworks, or outside limits, for • Wyoming—Split (3–way) season for annual migratory bird hunting seasons season lengths, bag limits, and areas for Canada geese (final report only) Pacific under the following OMB control migratory game bird hunting. Flyway Council: numbers: Acknowledging regional differences in • California—Zones and split season • 1018–0019, ‘‘North American hunting conditions, the Service has for white-fronted geese (final report Woodcock Singing Ground Survey’’ administratively divided the Nation into only) (expires 6/30/2021). four Flyways for the primary purpose of (B) Additional State-specific Annual • 1018–0023, ‘‘Migratory Bird managing migratory game birds. Each Reports: Surveys, 50 CFR 20.20’’ (expires 8/31/ Flyway (Atlantic, Mississippi, Central, State-specific: 2020—includes Migratory Bird Harvest and Pacific) has a Flyway Council, a • Arizona—Sandhill crane racial Information Program, Migratory Bird formal organization generally composed composition of the harvest conducted at Hunter Surveys, Sandhill Crane Survey, of one member from each State and 3-year intervals and Parts Collection Survey). Province in that Flyway. The Flyway • North Carolina and Virginia— • 1018–0171, ‘‘Establishment of Councils, established through the Tundra swan harvest and hunter Annual Migratory Bird Hunting Association of Fish and Wildlife participation data Seasons, 50 CFR part 20’’ (expires 06/ Agencies, also assist in researching and • Montana (Central Flyway portion), 30/2021). providing migratory game bird North Dakota, and South Dakota— In accordance with the PRA and 5 management information for Federal, Tundra swan harvest and hunter CFR 1320.8(d)(1), we provide the State, and Provincial governments, as participation data (yearly) general public and other Federal well as private conservation entities and • Montana (Pacific Flyway portion)— agencies with an opportunity to the general public. Swan harvest-monitoring program to comment on our proposal to renew We request the following information measure species composition (yearly) OMB control number 1018–0171. This to establish annual migratory bird • Montana (Pacific Flyway portion), helps us assess the impact of our hunting seasons: Utah, and Nevada—Swan harvest-

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monitoring program to measure the Description of Respondents: State and (4) Ways to minimize the burden of species composition and report Tribal governments. the collection of information on those detailing swan harvest, hunter Respondent’s Obligation: Required to who are to respond, including through participation, reporting compliance, and obtain or retain a benefit. the use of appropriate automated, monitoring of swan populations in Frequency of Collection: Annually. electronic, mechanical, or other designated hunt areas (yearly) Estimated Number of Annual technological collection techniques or Reports and monitoring are used for a Respondents: 82 (from 52 State other forms of information technology, variety of reasons. Some are used to governments and Territories and 30 e.g., permitting electronic submission of monitor species composition of the Tribal governments). response. harvest for those areas where species Estimated Number of Annual Send your comments and suggestions intermingling can confound harvest Responses: 99 (includes State and Tribal on this information collection by the management and potential overharvest governments and additional reports date indicated under Information of one species can be a management from States). Collection Requirements in DATES to the concern. Others are used to determine Average Completion Time per Service Information Collection overall harvest for those species and/or Response: Varies from 4 hours to 650 Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish and areas that are not sampled well by our hours, depending on the activity. Wildlife Service, 5275 Leesburg Pike, overall harvest surveys due to either the Estimated Total Annual Burden MS: PRB/PERMA (JAO/1N), Falls limited nature/area of the hunt or Hours: 9,878. Church, VA 22041–3803 (mail); or Info_ season or where the harvest needs to be Estimated Annual Non-hour Burden [email protected] (email). Please reference closely monitored. Experimental season Cost: None. OMB Control Number 1018–0171 in the reports are used to determine whether As part of our continuing effort to subject line of your comments. the experimental season is achieving its reduce paperwork and respondent intended goals and objectives, without burdens, and in accordance with 5 CFR List of Subjects in 50 CFR Part 20 causing unintended harm to other 1320.8(d)(1), we invite the public and species and ultimately whether the other Federal agencies to comment on Exports, Hunting, Imports, Reporting experimental season should proceed to any aspect of this proposed information and recordkeeping requirements, operational status. Most experimental collection, including: Transportation, Wildlife. (1) Whether or not the collection of seasons are 3-year trials with yearly Authority reports and a final report. Most of the information is necessary for the proper other reports and monitoring are performance of the functions of the The rules that eventually will be conducted either annually or at 3-year agency, including whether or not the promulgated for the 2020–21 hunting intervals. information will have practical utility; season are authorized under 16 U.S.C. Title: Establishment of Annual (2) The accuracy of our estimate of the 703–712 and 16 U.S.C. 742 a–j. Migratory Bird Hunting Seasons, 50 CFR burden for this collection of part 20. information, including the validity of George Wallace, OMB Control Number: 1018–0171. the methodology and assumptions used; Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and Service Form Number: None. (3) Ways to enhance the quality, Parks. Type of Request: Extension of a utility, and clarity of the information to [FR Doc. 2020–06797 Filed 4–1–20; 8:45 am] currently approved collection. be collected; and BILLING CODE 4333–15–P

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