We the Fish and Wildlife Service intend to prepare an environmental impact statement EIS for a proposed project to eradicate nonnative rats from four uninhabited islands Amchitka Attu Great Sitkin and Kiska Islands located in the Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service is a cooperating agency on the EIS. We invite comments for consideration in establishing the scope and content of the EIS from the public and local State Tribal and Federal agencies.