[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 178 (Friday, September 17, 2021)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 51822-51823]
[FR Doc No: 2021-20097]

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY

Coast Guard

33 CFR Part 100

[Docket No. USCG-2021-0648]

Special Local Regulation; Marine Events Within the Eleventh Coast
Guard District--San Diego Bayfair

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS.

ACTION: Notification of enforcement of regulation.

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SUMMARY: The Coast Guard will enforce the San Diego Bayfair special
local regulation on the waters of Mission Bay, California from
September 17, 2021, through September 19, 2021. This special local
regulation is necessary to provide for the safety of the participants,
crew, spectators, sponsor vessels, and general users of the waterway.
During the enforcement period, persons and vessels are prohibited from
anchoring, blocking, loitering, or impeding within this regulated area
unless authorized by the Captain of the Port, or his designated
representative.

DATES: The regulation in 33 CFR 100.1101, Table 1 to Sec.  100.1101,
Item No. 9, will be enforced from 6 a.m. until 6 p.m., each day from
September 17, 2021, through September 19, 2021.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If you have questions about this

notification of enforcement, call or email Lieutenant Commander John
Santorum, Waterways Management, U.S. Coast Guard Sector San Diego, CA;
telephone<PHONE_NUMBER>, email<EMAIL_ADDRESS>
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Coast Guard will enforce the special
local regulation in 33 CFR 100.1101, Table 1 to Sec.  100.1101, Item
No. 9, for the San Diego Bayfair race regulated area daily from 6 a.m.
to 6 p.m., on September 17, 2021 through September 19, 2021. This
action is being taken to provide for the safety of life on navigable
waterways during this 3-day event. Our regulation for marine events
within the Eleventh Coast Guard District, Sec.  100.1101, Table 1 to
Sec.  100.1101, Item No. 9, specifies the location of the regulated
area for the San Diego Bayfair which encompasses the waters of Mission
Bay to include Fiesta Bay, the east side of Vacation Isle, and Crown
Point shores. Under the provisions of Sec.  100.1101, persons and
vessels are prohibited from anchoring, blocking, loitering, or impeding
within this regulated area unless authorized by the Captain of the
Port, or his designated representative. The Coast Guard may be assisted
by other Federal, State, or local law enforcement agencies in enforcing
this regulation.
    In addition to this notice of enforcement in the Federal Register,
the Coast Guard plans to provide notification of this enforcement
period via the Local Notice to Mariners and Marine Safety Information
Broadcasting.
    If the Captain of the Port Sector San Diego or his designated
representative determines that the regulated area need not be enforced
for the full duration stated on this document, he or she may use a
Safety Marine Information Broadcast or other communications coordinated
with the event sponsor to grant general permission to enter the
regulated area.

    Dated: September 13, 2021.
T.J. Barelli,
Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the Port San Diego.
[FR Doc. 2021-20097 Filed 9-16-21; 8:45 am]
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[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 139 (Tuesday, July 21, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43086-43088]
[FR Doc No: 2015-17854]

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ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

[EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0424; FRL-9929-50]

FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel; Notice of Public Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: There will be a 4-day meeting of the Federal Insecticide,
Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act Scientific Advisory Panel (FIFRA SAP) to
consider and review Development of a Spatial Aquatic Model (SAM) for
Pesticide Risk Assessment.

DATES: The meeting will be held on September 15-18, 2015, from
approximately 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
    Comments. The Agency encourages written comments be submitted on or
before September 1, 2015, and requests for oral comments be submitted
on or before September 8, 2015. However, written comments and requests
to make oral comments may be submitted until the date of the meeting,
but anyone submitting written comments after September 1, 2015, should
contact the Designated Federal Official (DFO) listed under FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT. For additional instructions, see Unit I.C. of the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
    Nominations. Nominations of candidates to serve as ad hoc members
of FIFRA SAP for this meeting should be provided on or before August 5,
2015.
    Webcast. This meeting may be webcast. Please refer to the FIFRA SAP
Web site at http://www.epa.gov/scipoly/sap for information on how to
access the webcast. Please note that the webcast is a supplementary
public process provided only for convenience. If difficulties arise
resulting in webcasting outages, the meeting will continue as planned.
    Special accommodations. For information on access or services for
individuals with disabilities, and to request accommodation of a
disability, please contact the DFO listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT at least 10 days prior to the meeting to give EPA as much time
as possible to process your request.

ADDRESSES: Meeting: The meeting will be held at the Environmental
Protection Agency, Conference Center, Lobby Level, One Potomac Yard
(South Bldg.), 2777 S. Crystal Dr., Arlington, VA 22202.
    Comments. Submit your comments, identified by docket identification
(ID) number EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0424, by one of the following methods:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov.
Follow the online instructions for submitting comments. Do not submit
electronically any information you consider to be Confidential Business
Information (CBI) or other information whose disclosure is restricted
by statute.
     Mail: OPP Docket, Environmental Protection Agency Docket
Center (EPA/DC), (28221T), 1200 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC
20460-0001.
     Hand Delivery: To make special arrangements for hand
delivery or delivery of boxed information, please follow the
instructions at http://www.epa.gov/dockets/contacts.html.
    Additional instructions on commenting or visiting the docket, along
with more information about dockets generally, is available at http://www.epa.gov/dockets.
    Nominations, requests to present oral comments, and requests for
special accommodations: Submit nominations to serve as ad hoc members
of FIFRA SAP, requests for special accommodations, or requests to
present oral comments to the DFO listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
CONTACT.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred Jenkins, DFO, Office of Science
Coordination and Policy (7201M), Environmental Protection Agency, 1200
Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC 20460-0001; telephone number:

(202) 564-3327; email address<EMAIL_ADDRESS>
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. General Information

A. Does this action apply to me?

    This action is directed to the public in general. This action may,
however, be of interest to persons who are or may be required to
conduct testing of chemical substances under the Federal Food, Drug,
and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA) and FIFRA. Since other entities may also be
interested, the Agency has not attempted to describe all the specific
entities that may be affected by this action.

B. What should I consider as I prepare my comments for EPA?

    1. Submitting CBI. Do not submit CBI information to EPA through
regulations.gov or email. If your comments contain any information that
you consider to be CBI or otherwise protected, please contact the DFO
listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT to obtain special
instructions before submitting your comments.
    2. Tips for preparing your comments. When preparing and submitting
your comments, see the commenting tips at http://www.epa.gov/dockets/comments.html.

C. How may I participate in this meeting?

    You may participate in this meeting by following the instructions
in this unit. To ensure proper receipt by EPA, it is imperative that
you identify docket ID number EPA-HQ-OPP-2015-0424 in the subject line
on the first page of your request.
    1. Written comments. The Agency encourages written comments be
submitted, using the instructions in ADDRESSES and Unit I.B., on or
before September 1, 2015, to provide FIFRA SAP the time necessary to
consider and review the written comments. Written comments are accepted
until the date of the meeting; however, anyone submitting written
comments after September 1, 2015, should contact the DFO listed under
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Anyone submitting written comments at
the meeting should bring 20 copies for distribution to FIFRA SAP.
    2. Oral comments. The Agency encourages each individual or group
wishing to make brief oral comments to FIFRA SAP submit their request
to the DFO listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT on or before
September 8, 2015, to be included on the meeting agenda. Requests to
present oral comments will be accepted until the date of the meeting
and, to the extent that time permits, the Chair of FIFRA SAP may permit
the presentation of oral comments at the meeting by interested persons
who have not previously requested time. The request should identify the
name of the individual making the presentation, the organization (if
any) the individual will represent, and any requirements for
audiovisual equipment. Oral comments before FIFRA SAP are limited to
approximately 5 minutes unless prior arrangements have been made. In
addition, each speaker should bring 20 copies of his or her comments
and presentation for distribution to FIFRA SAP at the meeting.
    3. Seating at the meeting. Seating at the meeting will be open and
on a first-come basis.
    4. Request for nominations to serve as ad hoc members of FIFRA SAP
for this meeting. As part of a broader process for developing a pool of
candidates for each meeting, FIFRA SAP staff routinely solicits the
stakeholder community for nominations of prospective candidates for
service as ad hoc members of FIFRA SAP. Any interested person or
organization may nominate qualified individuals to be considered as
prospective candidates for a specific meeting. Individuals nominated
for this meeting should have expertise in one or more of the following
areas: Aquatic Exposure Modeling, Pesticide Fate and Transport
Modeling, Surface Water Hydrology, Watershed Modeling, Water Quality
Modeling, Stream Transport Modeling, Geographic Information Systems
(GIS), Agronomic Practices, Crop Growth Modeling, Climate Modeling.
Nominees should be scientists who have sufficient professional
qualifications, including training and experience, to be capable of
providing expert comments on the scientific issues for this meeting.
Nominees should be identified by name, occupation, position, address,
email address, and telephone number. Nominations should be provided to
the DFO listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT on or before
August 5, 2015. The Agency will consider all nominations of prospective
candidates for this meeting that are received on or before that date.
However, final selection of ad hoc members for this meeting is a
discretionary function of the Agency.
    The selection of scientists to serve on the FIFRA SAP is based on
the function of the Panel and the expertise needed to address the
Agency's charge to the Panel. No interested scientists shall be
ineligible to serve by reason of their membership on any other advisory
committee to a Federal department or agency or their employment by a
Federal department or agency, except EPA. Other factors considered
during the selection process include availability of the potential
Panel member to fully participate in the Panel's reviews, absence of
any conflicts of interest or appearance of lack of impartiality,
independence with respect to the matters under review, and lack of
bias. Although financial conflicts of interest, the appearance of lack
of impartiality, lack of independence, and bias may result in
disqualification, the absence of such concerns does not assure that a
candidate will be selected to serve on the FIFRA SAP. Numerous
qualified candidates are identified for each Panel. Therefore,
selection decisions involve carefully weighing a number of factors
including the candidates' areas of expertise and professional
qualifications and achieving an overall balance of different scientific
perspectives on the Panel. The Agency anticipates selecting
approximately eight ad hoc scientists to have the collective breadth of
experience needed to address the Agency's charge for this meeting,
    FIFRA SAP members are subject to the provisions of 5 CFR part
2634--Executive Branch Financial Disclosure, Qualified Trusts, and
Certificates of Divestiture, as supplemented by EPA in 5 CFR part 6401.
In anticipation of this requirement, prospective candidates for service
on FIFRA SAP will be asked to submit confidential financial information
which shall fully disclose, among other financial interests, the
candidate's employment, stocks, and bonds, and where applicable,
sources of research support. EPA will evaluate the candidates financial
disclosure form to assess whether there are financial conflicts of
interest, appearance of a lack of impartiality, or any prior
involvement with the development of the documents under consideration
(including previous scientific peer review) before the candidate is
considered further for service on FIFRA SAP. Those who are selected
from the pool of prospective candidates will be asked to attend the
public meetings and to participate in the discussion of key issues and
assumptions at these meetings. In addition, they will be asked to
review and to help finalize the meeting minutes. The list of FIFRA SAP
members participating at this meeting will be posted on the FIFRA SAP
Web site at http://www.epa.gov/scipoly/sap or may be obtained from the
OPP Docket at http://www.regulations.gov.

II. Background

A. Purpose of FIFRA SAP

    FIFRA SAP serves as the primary scientific peer review mechanism of
EPA's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP) and is
structured to provide scientific advice, information and
recommendations to the EPA Administrator on pesticides and pesticide-
related issues as to the impact of regulatory actions on health and the
environment. FIFRA SAP is a Federal advisory committee established in
1975 under FIFRA that operates in accordance with requirements of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. Appendix). FIFRA SAP is
composed of a permanent panel consisting of seven members who are
appointed by the EPA Administrator from nominees provided by the
National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation.
FIFRA established a Science Review Board (SRB) consisting of at least
60 scientists who are available to FIFRA SAP on an ad hoc basis to
assist in reviews conducted by FIFRA SAP. As a scientific peer review
mechanism, FIFRA SAP provides comments, evaluations, and
recommendations to improve the effectiveness and quality of analyses
made by Agency scientists. Members of FIFRA SAP are scientists who have
sufficient professional qualifications, including training and
experience, to provide expert advice and recommendation to the Agency.

B. Public Meeting

    The USEPA Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) conducts aquatic
exposure assessments to determine whether pesticides that are applied
according to label directions can result in water concentrations that
may adversely impact human health or aquatic organisms. If estimated
aquatic exposures indicate a potential for adverse effects, the
assessment needs to characterize the likelihood of occurrence,
including the range in magnitude of exposure, the frequency of
exceeding toxicity thresholds, the location of likely exposures, and
the potential for exposure to populations at risk.
    The goal of SAM is to improve on OPP's existing aquatic exposure
assessments by providing more systematic spatial- and temporal contexts
for aquatic exposure assessments for both human health (drinking water)
and aquatic organisms. Such context is needed to address common risk
management questions regarding the likelihood of the exposure that may
exceed toxicity thresholds of concern and, should such exposures occur,
how often, how long, and where adverse impacts from pesticides in water
overlap with populations at risk. Though much of SAM is based upon
OPP's traditional water models (i.e., Surface Water Concentration
Calculator [SWCC] comprised of the Pesticide Root Zone Model version 5
[PRZM5] and Variable Volume Water Model [VVWM]), the model is new in
its spatial approach to modeling the fate and transport of pesticides
and has been optimized for speed and efficiency.

C. FIFRA SAP Documents and Meeting Minutes

    EPA's background paper, related supporting materials, charge/
questions to FIFRA SAP, FIFRA SAP composition (i.e., members and ad hoc
members for this meeting), and the meeting agenda will be available by
approximately mid-August. In addition, the Agency may provide
additional background documents as the materials become available. You
may obtain electronic copies of these documents, and certain other
related documents that might be available at http://www.regulations.gov
and the FIFRA SAP Web site at http://www.epa.gov/scipoly/sap.
    FIFRA SAP will prepare meeting minutes summarizing its
recommendations to the Agency approximately 90 days after the meeting.
The meeting minutes will be posted on the FIFRA SAP Web site or may be
obtained from the OPP Docket at http://www.regulations.gov.

    Authority: 7 U.S.C. 136 et. seq.; 21 U.S.C. 301 et seq.

    Dated: July 7, 2015.
David J. Dix,
Director, Office of Science Coordination and Policy.
[FR Doc. 2015-17854 Filed 7-20-15; 8:45 am]
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When deciding if a one criterion standard is protective enough, it is important to keep spatial variability in mind. While a water body might have a low probability of protecting spawning/ incubation at the lowest downstream point, it would have a higher probability of protecting spawning/ incubation further upstream. Evaluating Standards for Protecting Aquatic Life in Page 183 Washington's Surface Water quality Standards Proposal for Protecting the Spawning and Early Tributary Rearing of Char Introduction The existing water quality standards do not have temperature criteria that fully protect char. This document describes the proposal to designate certain waters as char habitat for the purpose of applying a fully protective temperature criterion.

The goal is to fully protect the spawning and early juvenile rearing of char. Ecology investigated three methods of identifying waters used by char:

1. Known spawning and early juvenile rearing streams. Unfortunately, there is no comprehensive survey of known spawning and early juvenile rearing areas and finding spawning and rearing areas used by these reclusive fish has proved to be very difficult. There are entire populations of char where the spawning areas are completely unknown. Even in areas of extensive study, not all the spawning and early juvenile rearing areas have been identified. Using this method to identify streams for protecting spawning and early juvenile rearing of char would likely result in many streams with char populations not being protected in the water quality standards until they were identified. 2. Entire watersheds where char are present. Every water body in the entire watershed that is accessible to char would be protected, regardless of its likelihood of being a spawning or early tributary rearing water body. Even lower main stem rivers with their very warm temperatures and low likelihood of providing suitable habitat would have to meet very stringent temperature requirements. 3. All stream segments in watersheds used by char that have the basic physical characteristics of known char spawning and early tributary rearing streams. This option avoids applying the temperature criteria to streams that would not likely be used by char, but also does not depend on actually proving in advance that char are using each of the qualifying streams. The physical characteristics that were found to best define char spawning and early tributary rearing waters are addressed below.

Data The Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife ( WDFW) has compiled information on bull trout habitat. They recently released a database that identifies known spawning areas. This data set combines the knowledge from biologists working for WDFW, USFWS, Tribes, and others. The data are current as of November, 2001. There are no databases of known early tributary rearing areas. However, based on what is known of the biology of char, they would most typically be in the same general locations as the known spawning areas. It is important to note that where site knowledge demonstrates that this early tributary rearing Page 184 Evaluating Standards for Protecting Aquatic Life in Washington's Surface Water quality Standards occurs at locations away from the spawning grounds, then the proposed methodology will allow these areas to be protected in future rulemakings.

This database ( often referred to as the " bullchar" database) forms the foundation of Ecology's proposal for protecting char.

Development of a Filter Ecology studied the locations of known spawning areas documented in the " bullchar" database and found that their occurrence is largely restricted to a relatively narrow range of elevation and stream order. Ecology used this pattern of elevation and stream order to deduce which streams would reasonably be expected to be potential char habitat.

Stream Order The stream order concept ( Strahler, 1952) is a method of classifying streams. Headwater streams are assigned a stream order of 1. When two 1st order streams join, they form a 2nd order stream. When two 2nd order streams join, they form a 3rd order stream, and so on. When a lower order stream joins and higher order stream ( for example, a 1st order stream joins a 3rd order stream), the stream order does not change. 1 Ecology found that most known spawning areas were in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd order streams. Limited spawning occurred in 4th order streams. The following table shows the stream orders of the known spawning streams:

Known Spawning Streams:

Stream Order East Side West Side Combined 1 18% 24% 21% 2 36% 36% 36% 3 35% 35% 35% 4 10% 5% 8% 5 1% 0% 0%

As the table shows, there is little difference between east side streams and west side streams. Approximately 92% of all known spawning occurs in 1st, 2nd, and 3rd order streams, so 1 The original stream order system assigns the upper most perennial streams to a stream order of 1. However, the WDFW bull trout data, and other commonly used data, are at a scale where not all perennial streams are identified. These data are from the Washington Hydrography Framework Layer, and are at the 1: 100,000 scale. Given this limitation, the upper most streams identified in the data is assigned a stream order of 1. Evaluating Standards for Protecting Aquatic Life in Page 185 Washington's Surface Water quality Standards Ecology focused its efforts on those streams when developing the system for identifying char waters.

Elevation An analysis of all the spawning data quickly shows that known spawning areas are concentrated in higher elevation streams. For each known spawning stream, the lowest elevation was calculated. 2 The following table provides summary information of known spawning streams and their elevations:

Elevations ( in feet) of Known Spawning Streams East Side West Side Number of Streams 77 67 Average Elevation 3136 1395 Maximum Elevation 4650 3320 Minimum Elevation 1419 420 Lower 95th Percentile 1889 676 This analysis found that 94% of the known spawning areas were above 2000 feet on the east side and above 700 feet on the west side. Thus this elevation filter captures most of the known spawning streams.

System for Identifying Char Waters Using the information about the stream order and elevation of known spawning streams, Ecology developed the following proposed system for determining which water bodies should be protected for char. This system is used in all of the watersheds with known spawning areas or with suspected spawning populations identified by the USFW 1999 " Washington Distinct Population Segment   Bull Trout Subpopulation" map.

1. All known char spawning streams will be protected The " known char spawning streams" are those streams identified by WDFW in either the " bullchar" database or in WDFW's 1998 Salmonid Stock Inventory ( SaSI). If other streams are identified as known spawning streams during this rule making process, they will also be included.

2. All streams upstream of known char spawning streams will be protected These are the streams upstream of those locations identified in ( 1) above.

2 Throughout this analysis, the lowest elevation of the stream or stream segment was used. Both the known spawning streams and the application of the elevation filter used the lowest elevation to maintain consistency and reduce any bias. Page 186 Evaluating Standards for Protecting Aquatic Life in Washington's Surface Water quality Standards 3. All 3rd order streams and their tributaries will be protected if they join a 4th order stream As discussed earlier, bull trout spawning areas are concentrated in 1st 3rd order streams. This part of the system includes certain 3rd order streams and their tributaries ( i. e. the 1st and 2nd order streams). It does not include the lower elevation 3rd order streams that join a 5th or higher order river. The known spawning areas generally did not include these lower elevation 3rd order streams, so they were not included in the filter.

Some 1st and 2nd order streams are not protected by this filter. These include 1st and 2nd order streams that directly flow into a 4th or higher order streams, except at outlined below in ( 4). The known spawning areas generally did not include these 1st and 2nd order streams that flow into 4th or higher order streams, so they were not included in the filter.

4. All 2nd order streams and their tributaries will be protected if they join a 4th order stream and they are above a stream protected by sections ( 1), ( 2), or ( 3). This part of the filter captures the higher elevation 2nd and 1st order streams that are used for char spawning.

Elevation Exception: The default system described in ( 3) and ( 4) above is not applied to streams below 2000 feet on the east side of the Cascades or below 700 feet on the west side of the Cascades.

Known spawning locations and all streams upstream of known spawning locations will be protected regardless of their elevation. ( In other words, elevation can prevent a stream from being covered under ( 3) and ( 4), but not under ( 1) or ( 2)). This part of the system reflects the fact that about 94% of known spawning streams are above 2000 feet on the east side and 700 feet on the west side.

Protected Streams Ecology's proposal to apply the proposed system to designate char waters results in the protection of the dark green streams in the following map. Evaluating Standards for Protecting Aquatic Life in Page 187 Washington's Surface Water quality Standards For more detailed maps, please visit Ecology's website at www. ecy. wa. gov/ programs/ wq/ swqs/ bull_ trout. Copies of the GIS map files that are viewable for users with ArcView are available upon request from Ecology.

Alternative Proposal for Protecting Char An alternative proposal for protecting char is also being considered. Using the same information about the stream order and elevation of known spawning streams, the alternative proposal would protect char according to the following system:

1. All known char spawning streams will be protected 2. All streams upstream of known char spawning streams will be protected 3. All 3rd order streams and their tributaries will be protected IF the 3rd order stream is above 700 feet elevation ( west side of the Cascades) or 2000 feet elevation ( east side of the cascades). If only part of the 3rd order stream is above the specified elevation, only that part of the stream ( and all its tributaries) will be protected.

This system, while similar to Ecology's proposal detailed above, results in more streams being protected for char. Page 188 Evaluating Standards for Protecting Aquatic Life in Washington's Surface Water quality Standards The following map shows the streams that would be protected by this alternative. The protected streams are in dark green.

The following map compares the water bodies protected by Ecology's primary proposal and the water bodies protected by the alternative proposal. The streams that would be protected by both proposals are in dark green, the streams protect only by Ecology's primary proposal are in pink, and the streams protected only by the alternative proposal are in gold. Evaluating Standards for Protecting Aquatic Life in Page 189 Washington's Surface Water quality Standards For more detailed maps, please visit Ecology's website at www. ecy. wa. gov/ programs/ wq/ swqs/ bull_ trout. Copies of the GIS map files that are viewable for users with ArcView are available upon request from Ecology.