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DOI/FWS RIN: 1018-BA31 Publication ID: Spring 2014 
Title: ●Alaska National Wildlife Refuges; Amendment to Statewide Regulations for Hunting and Trapping 
Abstract: Recent changes in State of Alaska regulations authorize historically illegal hunting practices for predators in order to increase game species. FWS laws and policies require maintaining biological integrity on refuges, which includes maintaining natural ecological processes such as predator/prey dynamics. This precludes reducing native predators solely for the purpose of providing for increased harvests of a prey species. Federal law gives FWS authority to implement hunting and trapping closures and restrictions within refuges for reasons of public health and safety, resource protection, protection of cultural or scientific values, subsistence uses, endangered or threatened species conservation, and other management considerations necessary to ensure that the activity or area is being managed in a manner compatible with the purposes for which each particular national wildlife refuge in Alaska was established. This rule would retain traditional restrictions on hunting in national wildlife refuges consistent with FWS policy. A rulemaking is preferable to temporary closures and restrictions that react to changes in state law but do not ensure long-term protection of wildlife consistent with FWS policy. 
Agency: Department of the Interior(DOI)  Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 
RIN Status: First time published in the Unified Agenda Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Proposed Rule Stage 
Major: No  Unfunded Mandates: No 
CFR Citation: 50 CFR 36   
Legal Authority: 16 USC 460(k) et seq    16 USC 668dd to 668ee, as amended    16 USC 742(a) et seq    16 USC 3101 et seq, as amended    44 USC 3501 et seq   
Legal Deadline:  None
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM  08/00/2014 
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No  Government Levels Affected: State 
Small Entities Affected: No  Federalism: No 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No 
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No 
Agency Contact:
Stephanie Brady
Fish and Wildlife Biologist
Department of the Interior
United States Fish and Wildlife Service
1011 Tudor Road, MS 211,
Anchorage, AK 99503
Phone:907 306-7448
Email: stephanie_brady@fws.gov