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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 33 / Monday, February 22, 2021 / Proposed Rule bag and possession limits, and areas within which States may select seasons for hunting migratory game birds between the dates of September 1, 2021, and March 10, 2022. These frameworks are summarized below.

transferrable or assignable to another individual, and may not be sold, bartered, traded, or otherwise provided to another person. If the permit is altered or defaced in any way, the permit becomes invalid.

General Dates: All outside dates specified below are inclusive.
Season Lengths: All season lengths specified below are the maximum number of days allowed.
Season Segments: All season segments specified below are the maximum number of segments allowed.
Zones: Unless otherwise specified, States may select hunting seasons by zone. Zones for duck seasons and associated youth and veterans-active military waterfowl hunting days, gallinule seasons, and snipe seasons and dove seasons may be selected only in years we declare such changes can be made i.e., open seasons for zones and splits and according to federally established guidelines for duck and dove zones and split seasons. Areas open to hunting must be described, delineated, and designated as such in each States hunting regulations and published in the Federal Register as a Federal migratory bird hunting frameworks final rule.
Shooting and Hawking taking by falconry Hours: Unless otherwise specified, from one-half hour before sunrise to sunset daily.
Possession Limits: Unless otherwise specified, possession limits are three times the daily bag limit.
Permits: For some species of migratory birds, the Service authorizes the use of permits to regulate harvest or monitor their take by hunters, or both.
In such cases, the Service determines the amount of harvest that may be taken during hunting seasons during its formal regulations-setting process, and the States then issue permits to hunters at levels predicted to result in the amount of take authorized by the Service. Thus, although issued by States, the permits would not be valid unless the Service approved such take in its regulations.
These federally authorized, Stateissued permits are issued to individuals, and only the individual whose name and address appears on the permit at the time of issuance is authorized to take migratory birds at levels specified in the permit, in accordance with provisions of both Federal and State regulations governing the hunting season. The permit must be carried by the permittee when exercising its provisions and must be presented to any law enforcement officer upon request. The permit is not
Flyways and Management Units We set migratory bird hunting frameworks for the conterminous U.S.
States by Flyway or Management Unit/
Region. Frameworks for Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands are contained in separate sections near the end of the frameworks portion of this document. The States included in the Flyways and Management Units/
Regions are described below.

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Waterfowl Flyways Atlantic Flyway: Includes Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Mississippi Flyway: Includes Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.
Central Flyway: Includes Colorado east of the Continental Divide, Kansas, Montana Counties of Blaine, Carbon, Fergus, Judith Basin, Stillwater, Sweetgrass, Wheatland, and all counties east thereof, Nebraska, New Mexico east of the Continental Divide except the Jicarilla Apache Indian Reservation, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming east of the Continental Divide.
Pacific Flyway: Includes Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington, and those portions of Colorado, Montana, New Mexico, and Wyoming not included in the Central Flyway.
Mallard Management Units High Plains Management Unit:
Roughly defined as that portion of the Central Flyway that lies west of the 100th meridian. See Area, Unit, and Zone Descriptions, Ducks Including Mergansers and Coots, below, for specific boundaries in each State.
Columbia Basin Management Unit: In Washington, all areas east of the Pacific Crest Trail and east of the Big White Salmon River in Klickitat County; and in Oregon, the counties of Gilliam, Morrow, and Umatilla.
Mourning Dove Management Units Eastern Management Unit: All States east of the Mississippi River, and Louisiana.

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Central Management Unit: Arkansas, Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, and Wyoming.
Western Management Unit: Arizona, California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington.
Woodcock Management Regions Eastern Management Region:
Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Georgia, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Central Management Region:
Alabama, Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and Wisconsin.
Definitions For the purpose of the hunting regulations listed below, the collective terms dark and light geese include the following species:
Dark geese: Canada geese, cackling geese, white-fronted geese, brant except in Alaska, California, Oregon, Washington, and the Atlantic Flyway, and all other goose species except light geese.
Light geese: Snow including blue geese and Rosss geese.
Area, Zone, and Unit Descriptions:
Geographic descriptions related to regulations are contained in a later portion of this document.
Migratory Game Bird Seasons in the Atlantic Flyway In the Atlantic Flyway States of Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, North Carolina, and Pennsylvania, where Sunday hunting of migratory birds is prohibited statewide by State law or regulation, all Sundays are closed to the take of all migratory game birds.
Season Frameworks Special Youth and Veterans-Active Military Personnel Waterfowl Hunting Days Outside Dates: States may select 2
days per duck-hunting zone, designated as Youth Waterfowl Hunting Days, and 2 days per duck-hunting zone, designated as Veterans and Active Military Personnel Waterfowl Hunting Days, in addition to their regular duck seasons. The days may be held concurrently. The Youth Waterfowl Hunting Days must be held outside any regular duck season on weekends,
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