Proposed Safe Harbor Agreement for the California Red-Legged Frog for Landowners Restoring Aquatic and Riparian Habitat in the Pine Gulch Creek Watershed in Marin County, CA, 65056-65058 [07-5703]
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and OMB are seeking comments from
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Title of Proposal: Consolidated Plan &
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Dated: November 9, 2007.
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Nelson Bregon,
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Community Planning and Development.
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DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
Proposed Safe Harbor Agreement for
the California Red-Legged Frog for
Landowners Restoring Aquatic and
Riparian Habitat in the Pine Gulch
Creek Watershed in Marin County, CA
AGENCY:
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
Notice of availability; receipt of
application.
ACTION:
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SUMMARY: This notice advises the public
that the Marin County Agriculture
Commission (Applicant) has applied to
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
(Service) for an enhancement of survival
permit pursuant to Section 10(a)(1)(A)
of the Endangered Species Act of 1973,
as amended (Act). The permit
application includes a proposed Safe
Harbor Agreement (Agreement) between
the Applicant and the Service for the
threatened California red-legged frog
(Rana aurora draytonii). The Agreement
and permit application are available for
public comment.
DATES: Written comments should be
received on or before December 19,
2007.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be
addressed to Rick Kuyper, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, Sacramento Fish and
Wildlife Office, 2800 Cottage Way,
W–2605, Sacramento, California 95825.
Written comments may be sent by
facsimile to (916) 414–6712.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Rick Kuyper, Sacramento Fish and
Wildlife Office (see ADDRESSES);
telephone: (916) 414–6600.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Availability of Documents
You may obtain copies of the
documents for review by contacting the
individual named above. You may also
make an appointment to view the
documents at the above address during
normal business hours.
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Public Availability of Comments
Before including your address, phone
number, e-mail address, or other
personal identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment—including your
personal identifying information—may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you can ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Background
Under a Safe Harbor Agreement,
participating landowners voluntarily
undertake management activities on
their property to enhance, restore, or
maintain habitat benefiting species
listed under the Act. Safe Harbor
Agreements, and the subsequent
enhancement of survival permits that
are issued pursuant to Section
10(a)(1)(A) of the Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et
seq.), encourage private and other nonFederal property owners to implement
conservation efforts for listed species by
assuring property owners that they will
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not be subjected to increased land use
restrictions as a result of efforts to
attract or increase the numbers or
distribution of a listed species on their
property. Application requirements and
issuance criteria for enhancement of
survival permits through Safe Harbor
Agreements are found in 50 CFR
17.22(c).
We have worked the Applicant to
develop this proposed Programmatic
Agreement for the conservation of the
California red-legged frog in the 7.5
square-mile Pine Gulch Creek
Watershed in Marin County, California.
The properties subject to this Agreement
consist of approximately 4,800 acres of
non-Federal properties within the Pine
Gulch Creek Watershed, on which
habitat for the California red-legged frog
will be created, enhanced, and managed
pursuant to a written agreement
between the Service, Marin County
Agriculture Commission, and property
owners in the Pine Gulch Creek
Watershed.
This Agreement provides for the
creation of a Program in which private
landowners (Cooperators) enter into
written cooperative agreements with the
Applicant pursuant to the terms of the
Agreement, to restore, enhance, and
maintain aquatic and riparian habitat in
ways beneficial to the California redlegged frog. Such cooperative
agreements will be for a term of at least
10 years. The proposed duration of the
Agreement is 30 years, and the proposed
term of the enhancement of survival
permit is 30 years. The Agreement fully
describes the proposed management
activities to be undertaken by
Cooperators and the conservation
benefits expected to be gained for the
California red-legged frog.
Upon approval of this Agreement, and
consistent with the Service’s Safe
Harbor Policy published in the Federal
Register on June 17, 1999 (64 FR 32717),
the Service would issue a permit to the
Marin County Agriculture Commission
authorizing take of the California redlegged frog by Cooperators incidental to
the implementation of the management
activities specified in the cooperative
agreements, incidental to other lawful
uses of the properties, including normal
routine land management activities,
and/or to return to pre-Agreement
conditions (baseline).
To benefit the California red-legged
frog, Cooperators will agree to undertake
site-specific management activities,
which will be specified in their written
cooperative agreements. Management
activities that could be included in the
Cooperative Agreements will provide
for the enhancement, restoration, and/or
maintenance of aquatic and riparian
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habitat. These activities have been
designed to enhance California redlegged frog populations by creating and
improving breeding habitat, managing
vegetation and grazing as appropriate,
controlling non-native predators, and
managing agriculture and recreation as
appropriate to benefit populations of
California red-legged frog. Take of
California red-legged frog incidental to
the aforementioned activities is
unlikely; however, it is possible that in
the course of such activities or other
lawful activities on the enrolled
property, a Cooperator could
incidentally take a California red-legged
frog, thereby necessitating take authority
under the permit.
The California red-legged frog relies
on a variety of habitats for various stages
of its life cycle, including pond and
riparian habitat, upland habitat and
moist refuges. Baseline conditions,
consisting of a description and survey to
determine the quantity and location of
suitable California red-legged frog
habitat, shall be determined for each
enrolled property as provided in the
Agreement. In order to receive the above
assurances regarding incidental take of
the California red-legged frog, a
Cooperator must maintain baseline on
the enrolled property. The Agreement
and requested enhancement of survival
permit will allow each Cooperator to
return to baseline conditions after the
end to the term of the 10-year
cooperative agreement and prior to the
expiration of the 30-year permit, if so
desired by the Applicant and
Cooperator.
Consistent with the Service’s Safe
Harbor Policy (64 FR 32717), the
proposed Agreement and requested
permit also extend certain assurances to
those lands that are immediately
adjacent to lands on which restoration
activities occur. To receive such
assurances, a neighboring landowner
must enter into a written agreement
with the Service that specifics the
baseline conditions on the property.
This written agreement remains in effect
until the expiration of the 30-year
Agreement between the Applicant and
the Service and requires the neighboring
landowner to maintain the baseline
conditions established at the start of the
agreement.
Public Review and Comments
The Service has made a preliminary
determination that the proposed
Agreement and permit application are
eligible for categorical exclusion under
the National Environmental Policy Act
of 1969 (NEPA). We explain the basis
for this determination in the
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Environmental Action Statement, which
is also available for public review.
Individuals wishing copies of the
permit application, copies of our
preliminary Environmental Action
Statement, and/or copies of the full text
of the Agreement, including a map of
the proposed permit area, references,
and legal descriptions of the proposed
permit area, should contact the office
and personnel listed in the ADDRESSES
section above.
If you wish to comment on the permit
application or the Agreement, you may
submit your comment to the address
listed in the ADDRESSES section of this
document. Comments and materials
received, including names and
addressed of respondents, will be
available for public review, by
appointment, during normal business
hours at the address in the ADDRESSES
section above and will become part of
the public record, pursuant to section
10(c) of the Act. Individual respondents
may request that we withhold their
home address from the record, which
we will honor to the extent allowable by
law. There also may be circumstances in
which we would withhold from the
record a respondent’s identity, as
allowable by law. If you wish us to
withhold your name and/or address,
you must state this prominently at the
beginning of your comment.
Anonymous comments will not be
considered. All submissions from
organizations or businesses, and from
individuals identifying themselves as
representatives or officials of
organizations or businesses, are
available for public inspection in their
entirety.
We will evaluate this permit
application, associated documents, and
comments submitted thereon to
determine whether the permit
application meets the requirements of
section 10(a) of the Act and NEPA
regulations at 40 CFR 1506.6. If we
determine that the requirements are
met, we will sign the proposed
Agreement and issue and enhancement
of survival permit under section
10(a)(1)(A) of the Act to the Applicants
for take of the California red-legged frog
incidental to otherwise lawful activities
in accordance with the terms of the
Agreement. We will not make our final
decision until after the end of the 30day comment period and will fully
consider all comments received during
the comment period.
The Service provides this notice
pursuant to section 10(c) of the Act and
pursuant to implementing regulations
for NEPA (40 CFR 1506.6).
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Dated: November 8, 2007.
Susan K. Moore,
Field Supervisor, Sacramento Fish and
Wildlife Office, Sacramento, California.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
Draft Revised Recovery Plan for the
Attwater’s Prairie-Chicken
(Tympanuchus cupido attwateri)
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of document availability.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service (Service), announce the
availability of the draft revised recovery
plan for the Attwater’s prairie-chicken
(Tympanuchus cupido attwateri). This
is the second revision of the recovery
plan for this species; the original was
completed in 1983. We are soliciting
review and comment from the public on
this draft revised recovery plan.
DATES: To ensure consideration, we
must receive comments by January 18,
2008.
ADDRESSES: You may obtain copies of
the recovery plan on CD from the Refuge
Manager, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, Attwater Prairie Chicken
National Wildlife Refuge, P.O. Box 519,
Eagle Lake, Texas 77434, or download it
from the Internet at https://www.fws.gov/
endangered (type ‘‘Attwater’s’’ in the
species search field).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Terry Rossignol, Refuge Manager,
Attwater Prairie Chicken National
Wildlife Refuge, P.O. Box 519, Eagle
Lake, Texas 77434; telephone 979–234–
3021, ext. 13, facsimile 979–234–3278,
e-mail: terry_rossignol@fws.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Endangered Species Act of 1973
(Act), as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et
seq.) requires the development of
recovery plans for listed species unless
such a plan would not promote the
conservation of a particular species.
Section 4(f) of the Act, as amended in
1988, requires that public notice and an
opportunity for public review and
comment be provided during recovery
plan development. The Service
considers all information provided
during a public comment period prior to
approval of each new or revised
recovery plan. The Service and others
take these comments into account in the
course of implementing recovery plans.
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The Attwater’s prairie-chicken was
listed as Endangered with Extinction in
1967. This listing was ‘‘grandfathered’’
into the Endangered Species Act of
1973. Critical habitat has not been
designated for this species. Attwater’s
prairie-chickens occur only in coastal
prairie habitats of Texas in the United
States. Fewer than 50 individuals exist
in the wild at 2 locations, and
approximately 150 Attwater’s are in
captivity at 7 sites. With so few
individuals surviving, the population
remains in imminent danger of
extinction. Habitat destruction and
degradation, and to a lesser extent over
harvesting, are the primary factors
contributing to historic population
declines. Current threats include
extremely small populations, habitat
and population fragmentation resulting
in genetic isolation, diseases and
parasites in both the wild and captive
setting, inability of captive breeding
facilities to produce large numbers of
captively-reared birds that are capable
of survival and reproduction in wild
habitats, and poor brood survival in
wild populations.
The revised recovery plan includes
scientific information about the species
and provides objectives and actions
needed to recover the Attwater’s prairiechicken and ultimately remove it from
the list of threatened and endangered
species. Recovery actions designed to
achieve these objectives include
restoration of a network of large, high
quality grasslands within a large (greater
than 100 linear miles) geographic area to
minimize threats from catastrophic
weather and allow for gene flow among
populations, maintenance of 90 percent
of original gene diversity in a captive
flock of 200 for 20 years, increasing
production of the captive flock to allow
for release at multiple sites,
establishment of multiple greater than
500-bird populations within the
grassland network, and broadening
public support and partner efforts to
conserve the Attwater’s and its coastal
prairie ecosystem.
The current recovery goal is to protect
and ensure the survival of the Attwater’s
prairie-chicken and its habitat, allowing
the population to reach a measurable
level of ecological and genetic stability
so that it can be reclassified to
threatened status (downlisted) and
ultimately removed from the
endangered species list (delist).
Downlisting can be considered when
the population maintains a minimum of
3,000 breeding adults annually over a 5year period. These birds should be
distributed along a linear distance of no
less then 50 miles to mitigate for
environmental stochasticity (e.g.,
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DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
Proposed Safe Harbor Agreement for the California Red-Legged Frog
for Landowners Restoring Aquatic and Riparian Habitat in the Pine Gulch
Creek Watershed in Marin County, CA
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability; receipt of application.
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SUMMARY: This notice advises the public that the Marin County
Agriculture Commission (Applicant) has applied to the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service (Service) for an enhancement of survival permit
pursuant to Section 10(a)(1)(A) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973,
as amended (Act). The permit application includes a proposed Safe
Harbor Agreement (Agreement) between the Applicant and the Service for
the threatened California red-legged frog (Rana aurora draytonii). The
Agreement and permit application are available for public comment.
DATES: Written comments should be received on or before December 19,
2007.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be addressed to Rick Kuyper, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, Sacramento Fish and Wildlife Office, 2800 Cottage
Way, W-2605, Sacramento, California 95825. Written comments may be sent
by facsimile to (916) 414-6712.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. Rick Kuyper, Sacramento Fish and
Wildlife Office (see ADDRESSES); telephone: (916) 414-6600.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Availability of Documents
You may obtain copies of the documents for review by contacting the
individual named above. You may also make an appointment to view the
documents at the above address during normal business hours.
Public Availability of Comments
Before including your address, phone number, e-mail address, or
other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be
aware that your entire comment--including your personal identifying
information--may be made publicly available at any time. While you can
ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be
able to do so.
Background
Under a Safe Harbor Agreement, participating landowners voluntarily
undertake management activities on their property to enhance, restore,
or maintain habitat benefiting species listed under the Act. Safe
Harbor Agreements, and the subsequent enhancement of survival permits
that are issued pursuant to Section 10(a)(1)(A) of the Act (16 U.S.C.
1531 et seq.), encourage private and other non-Federal property owners
to implement conservation efforts for listed species by assuring
property owners that they will not be subjected to increased land use
restrictions as a result of efforts to attract or increase the numbers
or distribution of a listed species on their property. Application
requirements and issuance criteria for enhancement of survival permits
through Safe Harbor Agreements are found in 50 CFR 17.22(c).
We have worked the Applicant to develop this proposed Programmatic
Agreement for the conservation of the California red-legged frog in the
7.5 square-mile Pine Gulch Creek Watershed in Marin County, California.
The properties subject to this Agreement consist of approximately 4,800
acres of non-Federal properties within the Pine Gulch Creek Watershed,
on which habitat for the California red-legged frog will be created,
enhanced, and managed pursuant to a written agreement between the
Service, Marin County Agriculture Commission, and property owners in
the Pine Gulch Creek Watershed.
This Agreement provides for the creation of a Program in which
private landowners (Cooperators) enter into written cooperative
agreements with the Applicant pursuant to the terms of the Agreement,
to restore, enhance, and maintain aquatic and riparian habitat in ways
beneficial to the California red-legged frog. Such cooperative
agreements will be for a term of at least 10 years. The proposed
duration of the Agreement is 30 years, and the proposed term of the
enhancement of survival permit is 30 years. The Agreement fully
describes the proposed management activities to be undertaken by
Cooperators and the conservation benefits expected to be gained for the
California red-legged frog.
Upon approval of this Agreement, and consistent with the Service's
Safe Harbor Policy published in the Federal Register on June 17, 1999
(64 FR 32717), the Service would issue a permit to the Marin County
Agriculture Commission authorizing take of the California red-legged
frog by Cooperators incidental to the implementation of the management
activities specified in the cooperative agreements, incidental to other
lawful uses of the properties, including normal routine land management
activities, and/or to return to pre-Agreement conditions (baseline).
To benefit the California red-legged frog, Cooperators will agree
to undertake site-specific management activities, which will be
specified in their written cooperative agreements. Management
activities that could be included in the Cooperative Agreements will
provide for the enhancement, restoration, and/or maintenance of aquatic
and riparian habitat. These activities have been designed to enhance
California red-legged frog populations by creating and improving
breeding habitat, managing vegetation and grazing as appropriate,
controlling non-native predators, and managing agriculture and
recreation as appropriate to benefit populations of California red-
legged frog. Take of California red-legged frog incidental to the
aforementioned activities is unlikely; however, it is possible that in
the course of such activities or other lawful activities on the
enrolled property, a Cooperator could incidentally take a California
red-legged frog, thereby necessitating take authority under the permit.
The California red-legged frog relies on a variety of habitats for
various stages of its life cycle, including pond and riparian habitat,
upland habitat and moist refuges. Baseline conditions, consisting of a
description and survey to determine the quantity and location of
suitable California red-legged frog habitat, shall be determined for
each enrolled property as provided in the Agreement. In order to
receive the above assurances regarding incidental take of the
California red-legged frog, a Cooperator must maintain baseline on the
enrolled property. The Agreement and requested enhancement of survival
permit will allow each Cooperator to return to baseline conditions
after the end to the term of the 10-year cooperative agreement and
prior to the expiration of the 30-year permit, if so desired by the
Applicant and Cooperator.
Consistent with the Service's Safe Harbor Policy (64 FR 32717), the
proposed Agreement and requested permit also extend certain assurances
to those lands that are immediately adjacent to lands on which
restoration activities occur. To receive such assurances, a neighboring
landowner must enter into a written agreement with the Service that
specifics the baseline conditions on the property. This written
agreement remains in effect until the expiration of the 30-year
Agreement between the Applicant and the Service and requires the
neighboring landowner to maintain the baseline conditions established
at the start of the agreement.
Public Review and Comments
The Service has made a preliminary determination that the proposed
Agreement and permit application are eligible for categorical exclusion
under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). We explain
the basis for this determination in the
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Environmental Action Statement, which is also available for public
review.
Individuals wishing copies of the permit application, copies of our
preliminary Environmental Action Statement, and/or copies of the full
text of the Agreement, including a map of the proposed permit area,
references, and legal descriptions of the proposed permit area, should
contact the office and personnel listed in the ADDRESSES section above.
If you wish to comment on the permit application or the Agreement,
you may submit your comment to the address listed in the ADDRESSES
section of this document. Comments and materials received, including
names and addressed of respondents, will be available for public
review, by appointment, during normal business hours at the address in
the ADDRESSES section above and will become part of the public record,
pursuant to section 10(c) of the Act. Individual respondents may
request that we withhold their home address from the record, which we
will honor to the extent allowable by law. There also may be
circumstances in which we would withhold from the record a respondent's
identity, as allowable by law. If you wish us to withhold your name
and/or address, you must state this prominently at the beginning of
your comment. Anonymous comments will not be considered. All
submissions from organizations or businesses, and from individuals
identifying themselves as representatives or officials of organizations
or businesses, are available for public inspection in their entirety.
We will evaluate this permit application, associated documents, and
comments submitted thereon to determine whether the permit application
meets the requirements of section 10(a) of the Act and NEPA regulations
at 40 CFR 1506.6. If we determine that the requirements are met, we
will sign the proposed Agreement and issue and enhancement of survival
permit under section 10(a)(1)(A) of the Act to the Applicants for take
of the California red-legged frog incidental to otherwise lawful
activities in accordance with the terms of the Agreement. We will not
make our final decision until after the end of the 30-day comment
period and will fully consider all comments received during the comment
period.
The Service provides this notice pursuant to section 10(c) of the
Act and pursuant to implementing regulations for NEPA (40 CFR 1506.6).
Dated: November 8, 2007.
Susan K. Moore,
Field Supervisor, Sacramento Fish and Wildlife Office, Sacramento,
California.
[FR Doc. 07-5703 Filed 11-16-07; 8:45 am]
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