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• A minimum of $50 annual provides authority for the Secretaries of 2017, and from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on recreational special use permit for the Department of the Interior and September 7, 2017 (times are Eastern commercial recreational activities. Agriculture to establish, modify, charge, Daylight Time). These permits will not only allow the and collect recreation fees for use of ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at Refuge to better track visitor numbers some Federal recreation lands and the National Conservation Training and usage of the Refuge and harvest waters, and contains specific provisions Center (NCTC), 698 Conservation Way, data, but will also provide the Refuge addressing public involvement in the Shepherdstown, WV 25443. Send your with fees to be used to offset expenses establishment of recreation fees. The comments to Group Federal Officer by for road and parking lot maintenance, REA also directs the Secretaries of the email to [email protected]. boundary maintenance, brochures, Departments of the Interior and FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. public education programs, law Agriculture to publish advance notice in John Mahoney, Senior Advisor to the enforcement salaries, and expansion/ the Federal Register whenever bureaus Executive Director, FGDC, U.S. improvements of visitor amenities. It is establish new recreation fee areas under Geological Survey (USGS); phone (206) our policy to allow only activities that their respective jurisdictions. 220–4621; email [email protected]. are appropriate and compatible with the Next Steps SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Refuge’s purposes. Should public comment provide NGAC provides advice and Background substantive reasons why we should not recommendations related to In accordance with regulations implement the proposed fee program at management of Federal and national governing the National Wildlife Refuge the Refuge, we may reevaluate our plan geospatial programs, the development of System (50 CFR part 25, subpart E) a and publish a subsequent notice in the the NSDI, and the implementation of Refuge may implement fees and other Federal Register withdrawing this Office of Management and Budget reasonable charges for public action. Otherwise, we will implement Circular A–16 and Executive Order recreational use of lands administered the proposed fee program at the Clarks 12906. The NGAC will review and by that Refuge. When considering fees, River National Wildlife Refuge on the comment upon geospatial policy and management issues and will provide a a Refuge is required by our regulations date specified in the DATES section of to evaluate the following: this document, and the Refuge will post forum to convey views representative of • The direct and indirect cost to the fee amounts and expenditures onsite. non-federal stakeholders in the geospatial community. NGAC is one of Government; Authority: 16 U.S.C. 6801–6814. • The benefits to a permit holder; the primary ways that the FGDC • The public interest served; Dated: May 3, 2017. collaborates with its broad network of • Comparable fees charged by non- Mike Oetker, partners. Federal public agencies; and Acting Regional Director, Southeast Region. Agenda • The economic and administrative feasibility of fee collection. Editor’s Note: This document was —FGDC Update received at the Office of the Federal Register —NSDI Strategic Plan Framework The National Wildlife Refuge on August 16, 2017. Administration Act of 1966 (16 U.S.C. —2017 NGAC Guidance [FR Doc. 2017–17623 Filed 8–18–17; 8:45 am] —Landsat Advisory Group 668dd–668ee) (Refuge Administration BILLING CODE 4333–15–P —Key Geospatial Data Initiatives, Act), as amended by the National including the 3D Elevation Program, Wildlife Refuge Improvement Act of the National Address Database, and 1997, allows National Wildlife Refuges DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Imagery to provide wildlife-dependent recreation to visitors, but these laws Geological Survey Meetings of the NGAC are open to the require Refuges to manage for the public. Additional information about [GX17EE000101100] conservation of fish, wildlife, and the meeting is available at https:// habitat for present as well as future Federal Advisory Committee: National www.fgdc.gov/ngac. Members of the public who wish to generations of Americans. To fulfill the Geospatial Advisory Committee obligations, the Refuge plans to use attend the meeting must register in collected fees to defray costs associated AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey, advance. Registrations are due by with visitor amenities. Interior. September 1, 2017. While the meeting ACTION: Notice of meeting. will be open to the public, registration Public Availability of Comments is required for entrance to the NCTC Before including your address, phone SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of a facility, and seating may be limited due number, email address, or other meeting of the National Geospatial to room capacity. The meeting will personal identifying information in your Advisory Committee (NGAC). The include an opportunity for public comment, you should be aware that NGAC, which is composed of comment on September 7, 2017. your entire comment—including your representatives from governmental, Attendees wishing to provide public personal identifying information—may private sector, non-profit, and academic comment should register by September be made publicly available at any time. organizations, has been established to 1, 2017. Please register by contacting While you can ask us in your comment advise the Chair of the Federal Lucia Foulkes at the FGDC, USGS; to withhold your personal identifying Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) on phone (703) 648–4142; email lfoulkes@ information from public review, we management of Federal geospatial usgs.gov. Comments may also be cannot guarantee that we will be able to programs, the development of the submitted to the NGAC in writing. do so. National Spatial Data Infrastructure Please send written comments to USGS, (NSDI), and the implementation of FGDC, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, Federal Lands Recreation Enhancement Office of Management and Budget Room 2A323A, Reston, VA 20192. Act Authorities and Requirements (OMB) Circular A–16. Public Disclosure of Comments: In December 2004, the REA became DATES: The meeting will be held from Before including your address, phone law (16 U.S.C. 6801–6814). The REA 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on September 6, number, email address, or other

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personal identifying information in your Registration No. BF4179203, and the 2017). Respondent explained that he comment, please be aware that your denial of his application for a was seeking the continuance because ‘‘I entire comment—including your registration, on the ground that he have court cases pending in multiple personal identifying information—may ‘‘do[es] not have authority to handle jurisdictions including a Mar 16 be made publicly available at any time. controlled substances in the State of hearing, a Mar 20 hearing in While you may ask us in your comment Louisiana, the [S]tate in which [he is] and appeals in Louisiana and to withhold your personal identifying registered . . . and [is] applying’’ for Mississippi and .’’ Id. information from public review, we registration. Show Cause Order, at 1. Respondent subsequently sought ‘‘ ‘a cannot guarantee that we will be able to As to the jurisdictional basis for the continuance of at least 120 days’ due to do so. proceeding, the Show Cause Order constant court appearances in alleged that Respondent is ‘‘registered Louisiana, Mississippi, and California.’’ John Mahoney, . . . as a data-waived/100 practitioner Order Denying The Respondent’s Senior Policy Advisor, Federal Geographic in [s]chedules II–V pursuant to Request For Continuance, at 1 (Feb. 27, Data Committee. [Registration No.] BF4179203 with a 2017). Noting that his Briefing Schedule [FR Doc. 2017–17561 Filed 8–18–17; 8:45 am] registered address at 505 East Airport order ‘‘provided the Respondent [with] BILLING CODE 4338–11–P [Blvd.], Baton Rouge, Louisiana,’’ and a date to respond, if the government files that this registration does not expire such a motion,’’ the ALJ reasoned that until ‘‘September 30, 2018.’’ Id. The ‘‘[b]ecause the government ha[d] not DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Order also alleged that ‘‘[o]n July 31, filed a motion for summary disposition 2013, [Respondent] applied for a . . . Respondent’s request . . . is Drug Enforcement Administration separate . . . [r]egistration as a premature.’’ Id. [Docket No. 13–39] practitioner in [s]chedules II–V with a On March 2, 2017, the Government registered address of 505 East Airport filed its Motion for Summary Masters Pharmaceutical, Inc.; Order [Blvd.], Baton Rouge, Louisiana.’’ Id. Disposition. As support for its motion, As to the substantive ground for the the Government provided: (1) A copy of On August 14, 2017, the proceeding, the Show Cause Order Respondent’s registration; (2) his July Court of Appeals for the District of alleged that Respondent’s ‘‘[a]uthority to 30, 2013 application for registration as Columbia Circuit granted the Agency’s prescribe and administer controlled a hospital/clinic; (3) the Decision and motion to dissolve the stay of my Order substances in the State of Louisiana was Order of the Louisiana State Board of of September 8, 2015, revoking DEA suspended effective October 19, 2016.’’ Medical Examiners (Aug. 15, 2016) Certificate of Registration No. Id. at 2. The Order then asserted that as which ordered the suspension of his RD0277409 issued to Masters a consequence of Respondent’s ‘‘lack of medical license for a period of two years Pharmaceutical, Inc. See Masters authority to handle controlled to begin 30 days from the date of the Pharmaceutical, Inc., v. Drug substances in the State of Louisiana,’’ Order, and a subsequent Order of the Enforcement Administration, No. 15– Respondent’s registration is subject to Board (Sept. 13, 2016), which extended 1335 (D.C. Cir. Aug. 14, 2017) (Order). revocation and his application must be the commencement of the suspension Accordingly, I order that DEA denied. Id. until October 14, 2016; (4) a copy of a Certificate of Registration No. The Show Cause Order notified judgment issued by the Civil District RD0277409 issued to Masters Respondent of his right to request a Court for the Parish of Orleans which Pharmaceutical, Inc., be, and it hereby hearing on the allegation or to submit a stayed the Board’s Order from October is, revoked. I further order that any written statement while waiving his 14, 2016 through October 19, 2016 and application of Masters Pharmaceutical, right to a hearing and the procedure for further ordered the Board to ‘‘show Inc., to renew or modify this electing either option. Id. (citing 21 CFR cause’’ as to ‘‘why the stay should not registration, be, and it hereby is, denied. 1301.43). In addition, the Order notified continue’’; and (5) a Declaration of a This Order is effective at 12:01 a.m. on Respondent of his right to submit a Diversion Investigator as to various August 16, 2017. corrective action plan pursuant to 21 matters, including that the Board’s Dated: August 15, 2017. U.S.C. 824(c)(2)(C). Id. at 2–3. Order had gone into effect on October Chuck Rosenberg, On February 23, 2017, Respondent 19, 2016. Mot. for Summ. Disp., at Acting Administrator. requested a hearing on the allegation. Appendix A–E. Letter from Respondent to Hearing On March 10, 2017, counsel for [FR Doc. 2017–17638 Filed 8–18–17; 8:45 am] Clerk, Office of Administrative Law Respondent entered a notice of BILLING CODE 4410–09–P Judges (Feb. 23, 2017). The same day, appearance. On March 23, 2017, the matter was assigned to Respondent filed his Reply to the DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE Administrative Law Judge Charles Wm. Government’s Motion. Dorman (hereinafter, ALJ), who issued Therein, ‘‘Respondent Drug Enforcement Administration an order (also on Feb. 23) directing the acknowledge[d] that his license to Government to file evidence supporting practice medicine in . . . Louisiana has [Docket No. 17–17] the allegation by March 10, 2017 at 2 been suspended in accordance with the Arnold E. Feldman, M.D.; Decision and p.m., as well any motion for summary . . . Board of Medical Examiners’ Order disposition. Briefing Schedule For Lack Order.’’ Resp. Reply, at 1. Respondent Of State Authority Allegations, at 1. The contended, however, ‘‘that there are On January 24, 2017, the Assistant ALJ’s order also provided that if the material questions of fact and law that Administrator, Diversion Control Government moved for summary require resolution in a plenary, Division, issued an Order to Show disposition, Respondent’s opposition evidentiary proceeding.’’ Cause to Arnold E. Feldman, M.D. was due by March 24, 2017 at 2 p.m. Id. According to Respondent, these issues (Respondent), of Baton Rouge, The next day, Respondent emailed the were that he possesses ‘‘an active and Louisiana. The Show Cause Order ALJ’s law clerk seeking a continuance in unrestricted’’ license to practice proposed the revocation of order to engage counsel. Email from medicine in and ‘‘a full and Respondent’s DEA Certificate of Respondent to ALJ’s law clerk (Feb. 24, unrestricted Alabama Controlled

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