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authorizes the applicant to take 40
Hawaiian petrels, 40 Newell’s
shearwaters, 60 Hawaiian geese, and 20
Hawaiian hoary bats incidental to
operation of the KWPI wind farm. The
amendment would reduce the permitted
level of take to 30 Hawaiian petrels and
8 Newell’s shearwaters, with no change
to the permitted level of take for the
Hawaiian goose and the Hawaiian hoary
bat. The KWPI wind farm project is
located on the island of Maui, Hawaii.
The requested amendment to
permitted take levels is based on the
results of monitoring the take of listed
species during the first six seasons of
operation of the KWPI wind farm
project. Monitoring has detected two
Hawaiian petrel carcasses, but no
Newell’s shearwater carcasses were
detected at the wind farm site. Under
the approved HCP, KWPI is required to
mitigate for the take of the covered
species by implementing predator
control at nesting areas of the Hawaiian
petrel, Newell’s shearwater, and the
Hawaiian goose on Maui, and by
contributing to Hawaiian hoary bat
research. No changes to the mitigation
program under the KWPI HCP are being
proposed. The HCP’s mitigation for take
of Hawaiian petrels and Newell’s
shearwaters is conducted based on
observed levels of take. The KWPI
project’s mitigation plans are being
implemented pursuant to the KWPI
HCP. Pursuant to the adaptive
management aspects of the KWPII HCP,
the mitigation program for Hawaiian
petrel and Newell’s shearwater has been
refined. Summaries of the KWPI
project’s seabird mitigation plans are
outlined in the October 2011 Draft
Seabird Mitigation Plan for KWPI and
KWPII. The document outlines the
applicant’s plans to attract both seabird
species to protected areas in west Maui,
and to develop, within five years,
additional mitigation measures that
would be implemented, if necessary, to
offset project take. These additional
mitigation measures include in-situ
management of Newell’s shearwater in
west Maui, east Maui, Molokai, and
Lanai, in-situ management of Hawaiian
petrel colonies on the Haleakala Crater
in east Maui, and additional social
attraction projects for Newell’s
shearwater in east Maui, Molokai, and
Lanai.
The application for a permit
amendment includes KWPI’s 2006
Kaheawa Pastures Wind Energy
Generation Facility HCP, Implementing
Agreement, Guarantee Agreement, a
proposed amendment to the HCP, a
proposed amendment to the
Implementing Agreement, and the
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October 2011 Draft Seabird Mitigation
Plan for KWPI and KWPII.
Our Preliminary Determination
The Service has made a preliminary
determination that the Biological
Opinion, Set of Findings,
Environmental Assessment, and Finding
of No Significant Impact, all of which
were previously approved in support of
issuance of the original incidental take
permit, do not require revision, because
there is no new information relating to
the impacts of this action that warrant
such a change, and there are no
additional impacts expected beyond
those originally assessed.
Next Steps
The public process for the proposed
Federal permit action will be completed
after the public comment period, at
which time we will evaluate the permit
amendment application and comments
submitted thereon to determine whether
the application meets the requirements
of section 10(a) of the Act, applicable
regulations, and NEPA requirements. If
we determine that those requirements
are met, we will amend the ITP to
reflect the revised HCP, Implementing
Agreement, Guarantee Agreement, and
the October 2011 Draft Seabird
Mitigation Plan for KWPI and KWPII.
We invite public comment on the
proposed amendments of the ITP, HCP,
Implementing Agreement, and the
October 2011 Draft Seabird Mitigation
Plan for KWPI and KWPII. If you wish
to comment on the proposed
amendment of the ITP, HCP, and
associated documents, you may submit
comments by any one of the methods
discussed above under ADDRESSES.
Public Availability of Comments
Before including your address, phone
number, email address, or other
personal identifying information in your
comments, 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.
Authority: We provide this notice under
section 10 of the Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.)
and NEPA regulations (40 CFR 1506.6).
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Dated: November 8, 2011.
Richard R. Hannan,
Deputy Regional Director, Pacific Region,
Portland, Oregon.
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DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLCO956000.L14200000 BJ0000]
Notice of Filing of Plats
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Filing of Plats;
Colorado
AGENCY:
The Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) Colorado State
Office is publishing this notice to
inform the public of the intent to file the
land survey plats listed below, and to
afford all affected parties a proper
period of time to protest this action,
prior to the plat filing.
DATES: Unless there are protests of this
action, the filing of the plats described
in this notice will happen on December
30, 2011.
ADDRESSES: BLM Colorado State Office,
Cadastral Survey, 2850 Youngfield
Street, Lakewood, Colorado 80215–
7093.
SUMMARY:
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Public Comments
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Randy Bloom, Chief Cadastral Surveyor
for Colorado, (303) 239–3856.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
supplemental plat of the SW1/4 of Tract
38 in Township 41 North, Range 7 West,
New Mexico Principal Meridian,
Colorado, was accepted on July 1, 2011.
The plat and field notes of the
dependent resurvey and survey in
Township 7 South, Range 69 West,
Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado,
were accepted on July 7, 2011.
The plat and field notes of the
dependent resurvey and a metes-andbounds survey in Township 9 North,
Range 78 West, Sixth Principal
Meridian, Colorado, were accepted on
July 15, 2011.
The plat and field notes of the
dependent resurvey and a metes-andbounds survey in Township 9 North,
Range 79 West, Sixth Principal
Meridian, Colorado, were accepted on
July 15, 2011.
The supplemental plat, in 4 sheets, of
Section 19, in Township 1 North, Range
71 West, Sixth Principal Meridian,
Colorado, was accepted on August 3,
2011.
The plat and field notes of the
dependent resurvey and survey in
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Township 11 North, Range 88 West,
Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado,
were accepted on August 4, 2011.
The plat and field notes of the
dependent resurvey and survey in
Fractional Township 12 North, Range 88
West, Sixth Principal Meridian,
Colorado, were accepted on August 4,
2011.
The plat and field notes of the
corrective dependent resurvey,
dependent resurvey and survey in
Township 14 South, Range 68 West,
Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado,
were accepted on August 10, 2011.
The plat and field notes of the
dependent resurvey and survey in
Township 35 North, Range 8 East, New
Mexico Principal Meridian, Colorado,
were accepted on August 10, 2011.
The plat and field notes of the
dependent resurvey in Township 33
North, Range 17 West, New Mexico
Principal Meridian, Colorado, were
accepted on August 19, 2011.
The plat and field notes of the
dependent resurvey and survey in
Township 1 South, Range 76 West,
Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado,
were accepted on September 13, 2011.
The plat and field notes of the
dependent resurvey and survey in
Township 1 South, Range 77 West,
Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado,
were accepted on September 13, 2011.
The plat incorporating the field notes
of the dependent resurvey and survey in
Township 42 North, Range 10 East, New
Mexico Principal Meridian, Colorado,
was accepted on September 22, 2011.
The plat and field notes of the
dependent resurvey and survey in
Fractional Township 2 South, Range 1
East, Ute Meridian, Colorado, were
accepted on October 13, 2011.
The plat and field notes of the
dependent resurvey and survey in
Township 26 South, Range 71 West,
Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado,
were accepted on October 28, 2011.
The plat and field notes of the
dependent resurvey in Township 11
North, Range 89 West, Sixth Principal
Meridian, Colorado, were accepted on
October 28, 2011.
Randy Bloom,
Chief Cadastral Surveyor for Colorado.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Reclamation
Final Environmental Impact Statement
for the Windy Gap Firming Project,
Colorado
Bureau of Reclamation,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:
The Final Environmental
Impact Statement (EIS) for the Windy
Gap Firming Project is available for
public review. The Bureau of
Reclamation (Reclamation) has
evaluated comments and has identified
Alternative 2 as the Preferred
Alternative. The Preferred Alternative
includes construction of Chimney
Hollow Reservoir, pre-positioning of
Colorado-Big Thompson (C–BT) water
in the new reservoir, and a new pipeline
to convey water to the reservoir from
existing C–BT facilities.
DATES: Reclamation will not make a
decision on the Proposed Action until at
least 30 days after release of the Final
EIS.
ADDRESSES: The Final EIS and related
documents are available for review at
https://www.usbr.gov/gp/ecao.
To obtain a compact disk of the Final
EIS, contact Lucy Maldonado at the
Bureau of Reclamation, 11056 West
County Rd. 18E, Loveland, CO 80537–
9711; (970) 962–4369, facsimile (970)
663–3212, lmaldonado@usbr.gov; or
Kara Lamb at (970) 962–4326;
klamb@usbr.gov.
Refer to the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section for locations of
libraries where paper and electronic
copies of the Final EIS are available for
reading.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Lucy Maldonado at (970) 962–4369,
lmaldonado@usbr.gov; or Kara Lamb at
(970) 962–4326, klamb@usbr.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background: The Windy Gap Firming
Project was proposed by the Municipal
Subdistrict, Northern Colorado Water
Conservancy District, acting by and
through the Windy Gap Firming Project
Water Activity Enterprise (Subdistrict).
The Preferred Alternative (Proposed
Action) described in the Final EIS
includes:
• Construction of Chimney Hollow
Reservoir (90,000 acre-feet) by the
Subdistrict;
• Pre-positioning of Colorado-Big
Thompson (C–BT) water in the new
reservoir;
• A new pipeline to convey water to
the new reservoir from existing C–BT
facilities.
SUMMARY:
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The Subdistrict completed the Windy
Gap Project by 1985 following a final
environmental statement and a Record
of Decision prepared by Reclamation in
1981. The Windy Gap Project is neither
federally owned nor operated, although
Windy Gap Project water is conveyed
through Reclamation’s C–BT Project
facilities.
Reclamation allows the storage and
transport of Windy Gap Project water in
the C–BT Project through an excess
capacity contract with the Subdistrict.
The Windy Gap Project was originally
planned to divert an estimated longterm annual average of 56,000 acre feet
(AF) of water from the Colorado River.
During actual operation, the Windy Gap
Project has been unable to provide the
expected yield due to its junior water
right and periodic lack of excess
capacity in the C–BT Project.
The Subdistrict concluded that the
firm yield (the amount it can guarantee
annually) of the Windy Gap Project is
actually zero because it is unable to
deliver Windy Gap water to Colorado’s
Front Range community participants in
all years. The purpose of the Windy Gap
Firming Project is to increase the annual
firm yield to about 30,000 AF. This
would be based upon a long-term
average annual diversion of about
46,000 AF from the Colorado River
basin. From 1985 to 2005, Windy Gap
diverted an average annual 11,080 AF of
water per year. However, demands
among the participants have been
increasing so that diversions for 1999
through 2008 have averaged 21,957 AF
per year.
The Subdistrict developed this
proposal to improve their ability to
deliver water from Windy Gap. The
proposal is to construct Chimney
Hollow Reservoir on the eastern slope
near Carter Lake (C–BT Project), along
with a connecting pipeline from C–BT
Project facilities to deliver Windy Gap
water to Chimney Hollow Reservoir.
Reclamation’s Preferred Alternative in
the Final EIS is implementation of the
Proposed Action. This new reservoir
would be used to store and pre-position
Windy Gap Project water for delivery to
participants along the Front Range.
Under the pre-positioning proposal
included in the Preferred Alternative,
Chimney Hollow Reservoir would also
store C–BT Project water when it is prepositioned in Chimney Hollow
Reservoir to make space in Granby
Reservoir for Windy Gap water. The
Preferred Alternative would continue to
use C–BT Project facilities to deliver
Windy Gap Project water to the Front
Range.
Reclamation is the lead agency in
compliance under the National
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DEPARTMENT OF INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLCO956000.L14200000 BJ0000]
Notice of Filing of Plats
AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of Filing of Plats; Colorado
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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Colorado State Office is
publishing this notice to inform the public of the intent to file the
land survey plats listed below, and to afford all affected parties a
proper period of time to protest this action, prior to the plat filing.
DATES: Unless there are protests of this action, the filing of the
plats described in this notice will happen on December 30, 2011.
ADDRESSES: BLM Colorado State Office, Cadastral Survey, 2850 Youngfield
Street, Lakewood, Colorado 80215-7093.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Randy Bloom, Chief Cadastral Surveyor
for Colorado, (303) 239-3856.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The supplemental plat of the SW1/4 of Tract
38 in Township 41 North, Range 7 West, New Mexico Principal Meridian,
Colorado, was accepted on July 1, 2011.
The plat and field notes of the dependent resurvey and survey in
Township 7 South, Range 69 West, Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado,
were accepted on July 7, 2011.
The plat and field notes of the dependent resurvey and a metes-and-
bounds survey in Township 9 North, Range 78 West, Sixth Principal
Meridian, Colorado, were accepted on July 15, 2011.
The plat and field notes of the dependent resurvey and a metes-and-
bounds survey in Township 9 North, Range 79 West, Sixth Principal
Meridian, Colorado, were accepted on July 15, 2011.
The supplemental plat, in 4 sheets, of Section 19, in Township 1
North, Range 71 West, Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado, was accepted
on August 3, 2011.
The plat and field notes of the dependent resurvey and survey in
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Township 11 North, Range 88 West, Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado,
were accepted on August 4, 2011.
The plat and field notes of the dependent resurvey and survey in
Fractional Township 12 North, Range 88 West, Sixth Principal Meridian,
Colorado, were accepted on August 4, 2011.
The plat and field notes of the corrective dependent resurvey,
dependent resurvey and survey in Township 14 South, Range 68 West,
Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado, were accepted on August 10, 2011.
The plat and field notes of the dependent resurvey and survey in
Township 35 North, Range 8 East, New Mexico Principal Meridian,
Colorado, were accepted on August 10, 2011.
The plat and field notes of the dependent resurvey in Township 33
North, Range 17 West, New Mexico Principal Meridian, Colorado, were
accepted on August 19, 2011.
The plat and field notes of the dependent resurvey and survey in
Township 1 South, Range 76 West, Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado,
were accepted on September 13, 2011.
The plat and field notes of the dependent resurvey and survey in
Township 1 South, Range 77 West, Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado,
were accepted on September 13, 2011.
The plat incorporating the field notes of the dependent resurvey
and survey in Township 42 North, Range 10 East, New Mexico Principal
Meridian, Colorado, was accepted on September 22, 2011.
The plat and field notes of the dependent resurvey and survey in
Fractional Township 2 South, Range 1 East, Ute Meridian, Colorado, were
accepted on October 13, 2011.
The plat and field notes of the dependent resurvey and survey in
Township 26 South, Range 71 West, Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado,
were accepted on October 28, 2011.
The plat and field notes of the dependent resurvey in Township 11
North, Range 89 West, Sixth Principal Meridian, Colorado, were accepted
on October 28, 2011.
Randy Bloom,
Chief Cadastral Surveyor for Colorado.
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