Receipt of an Application for Extension of an Incidental Take Permit for the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker by the Woodlands Group, LLC, in Livingston Parish, LA, 56082-56083 [E7-19402]
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Permit No. TE–098994
Applicant: Kelly Goocher, Big Bear
Lake, California
The applicant requests an amendment
to take (harass by survey) the
Southwestern willow flycatcher
(Empidonax traillii extimus) in
conjunction with surveys throughout
the range of the species in California, for
the purpose of enhancing its survival.
We solicit public review and
comment on each of these recovery
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record, which we will honor to the
extent allowable by law. There also may
be circumstances in which we would
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Freedom of Information Act. However,
we will not consider anonymous
comments. We will make all
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businesses, and from individuals
identifying themselves as
representatives or officials of
organizations or businesses, available
for public inspection in their entirety.
Comments and materials received will
be available for public inspection, by
appointment, during normal business
hours at the above address.
Dated: September 26, 2007.
Michael Fris,
Acting Manager, California/Nevada
Operations Office, Sacramento, California.
[FR Doc. E7–19400 Filed 10–1–07; 8:45 am]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
Receipt of an Application for Extension
of an Incidental Take Permit for the
Red-Cockaded Woodpecker by the
Woodlands Group, LLC, in Livingston
Parish, LA
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: On July 21, 2003, the Fish and
Wildlife Service (Service) issued an
incidental take permit (ITP) associated
with a habitat conservation plan (HCP)
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under section 10(a)(1)(B) of the
Endangered Species Act of 1973 (Act)
(16 U.S.C. 1539), as amended, for the
incidental take of the federally
endangered red-cockaded woodpecker
(Picoides borealis) (RCW) to the
Woodlands Group, LLC (Permittee). The
permit (TE037661–0) was for a period of
four years and expired on July 31, 2007.
The requested permit extension by the
Permittee will extend the permit
expiration date nine years.
DATES: Written comments should be
sent to the Fish and Wildlife Service’s
Regional Office (see ADDRESSES) and
should be received on or before
November 1, 2007.
ADDRESSES: Persons interested in
reviewing the permit extension
application or other related documents
may obtain a copy by submitting a
written request to James Boggs, Acting
Field Office Supervisor, Fish and
Wildlife Service, 646 Cajundome
Boulevard, Suite 400, Lafayette,
Louisiana 70506. Documents will be
available for public inspection by
appointment during normal business
hours at the Fish and Wildlife Service’s
Regional Office, 1875 Century
Boulevard, Suite 200, Atlanta, Georgia
30345 (Attn: Aaron Valenta).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Aaron Valenta, Regional HCP
Coordinator (see ADDRESSES), telephone:
404/679–4144, or James Boggs (see
ADDRESSES), telephone 337/291–3115.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We
specifically request information, views,
and opinions from the public via this
notice on the Federal action, including
the identification of any other aspects of
the human environment not already
identified in the Environmental
Assessment (EA). Further, we
specifically solicit information
regarding the adequacy of the HCP as
measured against our ITP issuance
criteria found in 50 CFR parts 13 and
17.
The permit authorizes take of RCWs
on approximately 99 of 971 acres owned
by the Permittee in Livingston Parish,
Louisiana. The proposed take would be
incidental to otherwise lawful activities,
including timber harvest and typical
forest management activities on the
Permittee’s property. The extension
request covers the same activities
covered by the HCP and existing permit.
There will be no increase in take beyond
that anticipated in the original permit.
The previously prepared HCP
specifies the impacts that are likely to
result from the taking and the measures
the Permittee has taken to minimize and
mitigate such impacts. The ITP
authorized take of three RCW groups on
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the Permittee’s property incidental to
timber management activities. The
mitigation and minimization measures
in the HCP include: No take of RCWs
during the breeding season;
establishment of three replacement
groups on Big Branch Marsh National
Wildlife Refuge by provisioning
recruitment territories; translocating
juveniles fledged on the Permittee’s
property; monitoring the formation of
breeding pairs; funding an endowment
for habitat management (prescribed
burning); and, translocating adult RCWs
from the Permittee’s property to Fort
Polk Military Reservation in Louisiana
prior to harvesting timber. The
Permittee successfully completed the
required minimization and mitigation
measures outlined in the HCP by July
2004.
RCW nesting and foraging habitat
were removed in one cluster incidental
to the timber harvest that was
completed in that cluster. Due to poor
market conditions, the Permittee had
not harvested timber in the remaining
two RCW clusters by the time the ITP
expired and thus requests extension of
the ITP. If renewed, annual reporting
will no longer be required because the
Permittee has completed the specified
minimization and mitigation
requirements. However, all other permit
terms and conditions will remain the
same, and no additional take will be
authorized. The existing HCP satisfies
all statutory issuance criteria and is
therefore applicable to the extension of
this ITP.
If you wish to comment, you may
submit comments by any one of several
methods. Please reference permit
number TE037661–0, The Woodlands
Group, LLC, in such comments. You
may mail comments to the Fish and
Wildlife Service’s Regional Office (see
ADDRESSES). You may also comment via
the internet to aaron_valenta@fws.gov.
Please include your name and return
address in your internet message. If you
do not receive a confirmation from us
that we have received your internet
message, contact us directly at either
telephone number listed previously (see
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT).
Finally, you may hand-deliver
comments to either Fish and Wildlife
Service office listed (see ADDRESSES).
Our practice is to make comments,
including names and home addresses of
respondents, available for public review
during regular business hours.
Individual respondents may request that
we withhold their home address from
the administrative record. We will
honor such requests to the extent
allowable by law. There may also be
other circumstances in which we would
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withhold from the administrative record
a respondent’s identity, as allowable by
law. If you wish us to withhold your
name and address, you must state this
prominently at the beginning of your
comments. We will not, however,
consider anonymous comments. We
will make all submissions from
organizations or businesses, and from
individuals identifying themselves as
representatives or officials of
organizations or businesses, available
for public inspection in their entirety.
We will evaluate whether the
extension of the section 10(a)(1)(B) ITP
complies with section 7 of the Act by
reviewing our previously prepared
intra-Service section 7 consultation. The
results of the biological opinion, in
combination with the above findings,
will be used in the final analysis to
determine whether or not to issue an
extension of this ITP.
Dated: August 30, 2007.
Cynthia K. Dohner,
Acting Regional Director, Southeast Region.
[FR Doc. E7–19402 Filed 10–1–07; 8:45 am]
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[MT–040–5101–ER–EO42]
Notice of Intent To Prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement for
the GCC Dacotah Cement Dewey
Conveyor Project
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Intent (NOI) to Prepare
an Environmental Impact Statement
(EIS) and Initiate Public Scoping for the
GCC Dacotah Cement Dewey Conveyor
Project.
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AGENCY:
SUMMARY: Pursuant to 42 U.S.C. 4332,
the National Environmental Policy Act
of 1969, as amended (NEPA), the Bureau
of Land Management (BLM) will direct
the preparation of an EIS on a project
proposed by GCC Dacotah, Inc., and
conduct public scoping meetings to
analyze (1) The application for right-ofway (ROW) on lands administered in
part by the South Dakota Field Office of
the BLM, and (2) an application for a
special use permit within the Black
Hills National Forest of the U.S. Forest
Service. The proposed action is to
construct, operate, maintain, and
terminate approximately 7 miles of an
enclosed above-ground conveyor belt to
transfer crushed limestone from a
quarry site to a rail loading facility near
the town of Dewey in Custer County,
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South Dakota. The proposed conveyor
belt would cross about 1.5 miles of
National Forest and about 1 mile of
BLM-administered public lands. The
BLM is the lead agency for this project,
and the Forest Service is a cooperating
agency with jurisdiction by law.
DATES: This notice initiates the public
scoping process for the EIS. The public
is invited to submit comments, resource
information, and identify issues and
concerns to be considered in the NEPA
process. The BLM will accept written
comments on the scope of the EIS
within 60 days of the publication of this
notice. Public scoping meetings to
obtain comments on issues related to
the EIS and the proposed action will be
held in Custer and Edgemont, South
Dakota, and Newcastle, Wyoming.
Times and locations of the scoping
meetings will be announced a minimum
of 15 days prior to the meetings in the
local news media.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments,
identified as ‘‘GCC Dacotah Cement
Dewey Conveyor Project’’ by any of the
following methods:
• E-mail: MT South Dakota
FO@blm.gov—Include GCC Dacotah
Cement Transportation Facility in the
subject line of the message.
• Fax: 605–892–7015.
• Mail: South Dakota Field Office,
310 Roundup Street, Belle Fourche, SD
57717.
• Hand Delivery/Courier: South
Dakota Field Office, 310 Roundup
Street, Belle Fourche, SD 57717.
Documents pertinent to this proposal
may be examined at the South Dakota
Field Office in Belle Fourche during
regular business hours from 7:45 a.m. to
4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday,
except holidays. Respondents’
comments, including their names and
street addresses, will also be available
for public review, and may be published
as part of the EIS.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information, including
information on how to comment, you
may contact Marian Atkins, BLM, at
605–892–7001, or
marian_atkins@blm.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The EIS
will assess the effects of the proposed
action to permit a transportation facility
on federal lands consisting of
construction, operation, maintenance,
and abandonment of a covered, above
ground conveyor belt up to
approximately 7 miles in length for the
purpose of transporting crushed
limestone from a quarry to a proposed
rail load-out facility at Dewey, South
Dakota. The analysis area includes
BLM-administered public lands,
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National Forest System lands
administered by the Black Hills
National Forest, and private lands along
the proposed conveyor route in Custer
County, South Dakota.
The EIS Process
NEPA requires the BLM to take into
account the environmental impacts of
its actions.
The EIS will be prepared in
accordance with applicable Council on
Environmental Quality regulations at 40
CFR parts 1500–1508, and applicable
BLM and Forest Service regulations.
The analysis will determine whether the
proposed action is consistent with land
use guidelines as set forth in the BLM
RMP and the Forest Service’s Revised
Forest Plan for the Black Hills National
Forest, as Amended, along with other
state and federal laws and regulations.
The analysis in the EIS will serve the
following two purposes: (1) Analyze the
direct, indirect, and cumulative impacts
of construction, operation, maintenance,
and abandonment of the proposed
covered conveyor belt transportation
facility; and (2) Disclose the information
used by the Responsible Officials in
making their decisions on whether to
approve or deny the application for a
ROW grant.
Preliminary Issues and Alternatives
The following preliminary issues have
been identified:
• Native American Concerns.
• Cultural Resources.
• Noise.
• Visual Quality.
• Public Safety.
• Land Use.
• Fish and Wildlife.
• Air Quality.
• Geology, Soils, and Minerals.
• Water Quality and Quantity.
• Vegetation.
• Social and Economic Values.
Alternatives will initially include the
No Action Alternatives and the
Proposed Action Alternative; however,
other alternatives may be identified
during the public scoping process.
Public Participation
Comments are being solicited so as to
identify and define: (1) The scope of this
analysis, (2) significant issues or
concerns related to the proposed action,
(3) reasonable alternatives to the
proposed action, and (4) information
having a bearing on the proposed action.
Your response is important and will be
considered in the EIS process.
The BLM and Forest Service will
provide further information at the
public scoping meetings regarding the
locations of, and the areas that may be
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
Receipt of an Application for Extension of an Incidental Take
Permit for the Red-Cockaded Woodpecker by the Woodlands Group, LLC, in
Livingston Parish, LA
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: On July 21, 2003, the Fish and Wildlife Service (Service)
issued an incidental take permit (ITP) associated with a habitat
conservation plan (HCP) under section 10(a)(1)(B) of the Endangered
Species Act of 1973 (Act) (16 U.S.C. 1539), as amended, for the
incidental take of the federally endangered red-cockaded woodpecker
(Picoides borealis) (RCW) to the Woodlands Group, LLC (Permittee). The
permit (TE037661-0) was for a period of four years and expired on July
31, 2007. The requested permit extension by the Permittee will extend
the permit expiration date nine years.
DATES: Written comments should be sent to the Fish and Wildlife
Service's Regional Office (see ADDRESSES) and should be received on or
before November 1, 2007.
ADDRESSES: Persons interested in reviewing the permit extension
application or other related documents may obtain a copy by submitting
a written request to James Boggs, Acting Field Office Supervisor, Fish
and Wildlife Service, 646 Cajundome Boulevard, Suite 400, Lafayette,
Louisiana 70506. Documents will be available for public inspection by
appointment during normal business hours at the Fish and Wildlife
Service's Regional Office, 1875 Century Boulevard, Suite 200, Atlanta,
Georgia 30345 (Attn: Aaron Valenta).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Aaron Valenta, Regional HCP
Coordinator (see ADDRESSES), telephone: 404/679-4144, or James Boggs
(see ADDRESSES), telephone 337/291-3115.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We specifically request information, views,
and opinions from the public via this notice on the Federal action,
including the identification of any other aspects of the human
environment not already identified in the Environmental Assessment
(EA). Further, we specifically solicit information regarding the
adequacy of the HCP as measured against our ITP issuance criteria found
in 50 CFR parts 13 and 17.
The permit authorizes take of RCWs on approximately 99 of 971 acres
owned by the Permittee in Livingston Parish, Louisiana. The proposed
take would be incidental to otherwise lawful activities, including
timber harvest and typical forest management activities on the
Permittee's property. The extension request covers the same activities
covered by the HCP and existing permit. There will be no increase in
take beyond that anticipated in the original permit.
The previously prepared HCP specifies the impacts that are likely
to result from the taking and the measures the Permittee has taken to
minimize and mitigate such impacts. The ITP authorized take of three
RCW groups on the Permittee's property incidental to timber management
activities. The mitigation and minimization measures in the HCP
include: No take of RCWs during the breeding season; establishment of
three replacement groups on Big Branch Marsh National Wildlife Refuge
by provisioning recruitment territories; translocating juveniles
fledged on the Permittee's property; monitoring the formation of
breeding pairs; funding an endowment for habitat management (prescribed
burning); and, translocating adult RCWs from the Permittee's property
to Fort Polk Military Reservation in Louisiana prior to harvesting
timber. The Permittee successfully completed the required minimization
and mitigation measures outlined in the HCP by July 2004.
RCW nesting and foraging habitat were removed in one cluster
incidental to the timber harvest that was completed in that cluster.
Due to poor market conditions, the Permittee had not harvested timber
in the remaining two RCW clusters by the time the ITP expired and thus
requests extension of the ITP. If renewed, annual reporting will no
longer be required because the Permittee has completed the specified
minimization and mitigation requirements. However, all other permit
terms and conditions will remain the same, and no additional take will
be authorized. The existing HCP satisfies all statutory issuance
criteria and is therefore applicable to the extension of this ITP.
If you wish to comment, you may submit comments by any one of
several methods. Please reference permit number TE037661-0, The
Woodlands Group, LLC, in such comments. You may mail comments to the
Fish and Wildlife Service's Regional Office (see ADDRESSES). You may
also comment via the internet to aaron_valenta@fws.gov. Please include
your name and return address in your internet message. If you do not
receive a confirmation from us that we have received your internet
message, contact us directly at either telephone number listed
previously (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT).
Finally, you may hand-deliver comments to either Fish and Wildlife
Service office listed (see ADDRESSES). Our practice is to make
comments, including names and home addresses of respondents, available
for public review during regular business hours. Individual respondents
may request that we withhold their home address from the administrative
record. We will honor such requests to the extent allowable by law.
There may also be other circumstances in which we would
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withhold from the administrative record a respondent's identity, as
allowable by law. If you wish us to withhold your name and address, you
must state this prominently at the beginning of your comments. We will
not, however, consider anonymous comments. We will make all submissions
from organizations or businesses, and from individuals identifying
themselves as representatives or officials of organizations or
businesses, available for public inspection in their entirety.
We will evaluate whether the extension of the section 10(a)(1)(B)
ITP complies with section 7 of the Act by reviewing our previously
prepared intra-Service section 7 consultation. The results of the
biological opinion, in combination with the above findings, will be
used in the final analysis to determine whether or not to issue an
extension of this ITP.
Dated: August 30, 2007.
Cynthia K. Dohner,
Acting Regional Director, Southeast Region.
[FR Doc. E7-19402 Filed 10-1-07; 8:45 am]
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