[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 65 (Wednesday, April 4, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 20408-20409]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-7998]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-R9-MB-2011-N215; 91400-5110-0000-7B; 91400-9410-0000-7B]
Multistate Conservation Grant Program; Priority List and Approval
for Conservation Projects
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of receipt of priority list and approval of the
projects.
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SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), announce the
fiscal year 2012, priority list of wildlife and sport fish conservation
projects from the Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (AFWA). As
required by the Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Programs
Improvement Act of 2000, AFWA submits a list of projects to us each
year to consider for funding under the Multistate Conservation Grant
program. We have reviewed the list and have awarded the grants from the
list.
ADDRESSES: John C. Stremple, Multistate Conservation Grants Program
Coordinator, Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration Program, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, 4401 North Fairfax Drive, Mail Stop MBSP-4020,
Arlington, VA 22203.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John C. Stremple, at the above
address, or at (703) 358-2156 (phone) or John_Stremple@fws.gov
(email).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Wildlife and Sport Fish Restoration
Programs Improvement Act of 2000 (Improvement Act, Pub. L. 106-408)
amended the Pittman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration Act (16 U.S.C. 669
et seq.) and the Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration Act (16 U.S.C.
777 et seq.) and established the Multistate Conservation Grant Program.
The Improvement Act authorizes us to award grants of up to $3 million
annually from funds available under each of the Restoration Acts, for a
total of up to $6 million annually. Projects can be funded from both
funds depending on the project activities. We may award grants to
projects from a list of priority projects recommended to us by the
Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies. The FWS Director, exercising
the authority of the Secretary of the Interior, need not fund all
projects on the list, but all projects funded must be on the list.
Grantees under this program may use funds for sport fisheries and
wildlife management and research projects, boating access development,
hunter safety and education, aquatic education, fish and wildlife
habitat improvements, and other purposes consistent with the enabling
legislation.
To be eligible for funding, a project must benefit fish and/or
wildlife conservation in at least 26 States, or in a majority of the
States in any one FWS Region, or it must benefit a regional association
of State fish and wildlife agencies. We may award grants to a State, a
group of States, or one or more nongovernmental organizations. For the
purpose of carrying out the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and
Wildlife-Associated Recreation, we may award grants to the FWS, if
requested by AFWA, or to a State or a group of States. Also, AFWA
requires all project proposals to address its National
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Conservation Needs, which are announced annually by AFWA at the same
time as its request for proposals. Further, applicants must provide
certification that no activities conducted under a Multistate
Conservation grant will promote or encourage opposition to regulated
hunting or trapping of wildlife or to regulated angling or taking of
fish.
Eligible project proposals are reviewed and ranked by AFWA
Committees and interested nongovernmental organizations that represent
conservation organizations, sportsmen's and women's organizations, and
industries that support or promote fishing, hunting, trapping,
recreational shooting, bowhunting, or archery. AFWA's Committee on
National Grants recommends a final list of priority projects to the
directors of State fish and wildlife agencies for their approval by
majority vote. By statute, AFWA then must transmit the final approved
list to the FWS for funding under the Multistate Conservation Grant
program by October 1 of the fiscal year.
This year, we received a list of 12 recommended projects from AFWA.
We recommend all of them for funding in fiscal year 2012. The list
follows:
Multistate Conservation Grant Program--FY 2012 Cycle Recommended Projects
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Total 2012
ID Title Submitter PR funding \1\ DJ funding \2\ grant request
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12-034........ Multistate Conservation AFWA................ $145,260.00 $145,260.00 $290,520.00
Grant Program
Coordination.
12-001........ Coordination of Farm Bill AFWA................ 156,600.00 52,200.00 208,800.00
Program Implementation to
Optimize Fish and
Wildlife Benefits to the
States.
12-008........ Coordination of the AFWA................ 152,775.00 50,925.00 203,700.00
Industry, Federal and
State Agency Coalition.
12-028........ State Fish and Wildlife AFWA................ 299,359.80 299,359.80 598,719.60
Agency Coordination and
Administration.
12-029........ State Fish and Wildlife AFWA................ 64,075.00 64,075.00 128,150.00
Agency Director Travel
Coordination and
Administration.
12-010........ 2011 Economic Impacts of American 0.0 82,503.00 82,503.00
Sportfishing. Sportfishing
Association.
12-022........ The Wildlife and Sport Wildlife Management 50,000.00 50,000.00 100,000.00
Fish Restoration Program Institute.
75th Anniversary.
12-011........ Investigating Factors American 92,886.15 92,886.15 185,772.30
Related to Hunting and Sportfishing
Fishing License Sales Association.
Increases.
12-017........ Longitudinal Evaluation of National Wild Turkey 173,172.38 173,172.38 346,344.76
Hunting, Fishing, and Federation.
Shooting Recruitment/
Retention Programs.
12-033........ Organizational Development National Fish 0 100,000.00 100,000.00
Training for Fish Habitat Habitat Action Plan
Partnerships to Increase Board.
Capacity.
12-021........ Trailblazer Adventure U.S. Sportsman 40,000.00 40,000.00 80,000.00
Program. Alliance Foundation.
12-030........ Conserving Fish Habitat Atlantic States 0 261,440.38 261,440.38
from Whitewater to Marine Fisheries
Bluewater. Commission.
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1,174,128.33 1,411,821.71 2,585,950.04
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\1\ PR Funding: Pitman-Robertson Wildlife Restoration funds.
\2\ DJ Funding: Dingell-Johnson Sport Fish Restoration funds.
Dated: December 28, 2011.
Rowan W. Gould,
Acting Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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