18532 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 64 / Thursday, April 2, 2020 / Proposed Rules 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 VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:28 Apr 01, 2020 Jkt 250001 PO 00000 Frm 00062 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\02APP1.SGM 02APP1 jbell on DSKJLSW7X2PROD with PROPOSALS Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 64 / Thursday, April 2, 2020 / Proposed Rules 18533 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-