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denote identity and citizenship for
purposes of entering the United States at
land and sea ports of entry from
contiguous territory or adjacent islands.
CBP’s continued acceptance of the tribal
card as a WHTI-compliant document is
conditional on compliance with the
MOA and all related agreements.
Acceptance and use of the WHTIcompliant tribal card is voluntary for
tribe members. If an individual is
denied a WHTI-compliant tribal card, he
or she may still apply for a passport or
other WHTI-compliant document.
Designation
This notice announces that the
Commissioner of CBP designates the
tribal card issued by the Kootenai Tribe
in accordance with the MOA and all
related agreements between the tribe
and CBP as an acceptable WHTIcompliant document pursuant to section
7209 of the IRTPA and 8 CFR 235.1(e).
In accordance with these provisions, the
approved card, if valid and lawfully
obtained, may be used to denote
identity and U.S. or Canadian
citizenship of Kootenai Tribe members
who are entering the United States from
contiguous territory or adjacent islands
at land and sea ports of entry.
Dated: January 25, 2012.
David V. Aguilar,
Acting Commissioner, U.S. Customs and
Border Protection.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND
URBAN DEVELPOMENT
[Docket No. 5604–N–01]
Notice of Revised Information
Collection for Public Comment;
Consolidated Plan & Annual
Performance Report
Office of the Assistant
Secretary for Community Planning and
Development, HUD.
ACTION: Notice of revised information
collection for public comment.
AGENCY:
The revised information
collection requirements for
Consolidated Planning for Community
Planning and Development (CPD)
programs described below will be
submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review, as
required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act. The Department is soliciting public
comments on the subject proposal.
DATES: Comments Due Date: April 2,
2012.
SUMMARY:
Interested persons are
invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Comments should refer to
the proposal by name and/or OMB
Control Number and should be sent to
William Kelleher, Paperwork Reduction
Act Officer, Office of Chief Information
Officer, Department of Housing and
Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW.,
Room 7233, Washington, DC 20410.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Meg
Barclay, Office of Community Planning
and Development, telephone (202) 402–
3669 (this is not a toll-free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Department will submit the revised
information collection to OMB for
review, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C
Chapter 35 as amended). As required
under 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), HUD and
OMB are seeking comments from
members of the public and affected
agencies concerning the proposed
collection of information to: (1) Evaluate
whether the revised collection of
information is necessary for the proper
performance of the functions of the
agency, including whether the
information will have practical utility;
(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the revised
collection of information; (3) Enhance
the quality, utility, and clarity of the
information to be collected; and (4)
Minimize the burden of collection of
information on those who are to
respond, including through the use of
appropriate automated collection
techniques (e.g. electronic submission of
the Consolidated Plan and annual
ADDRESSES:
Number of
respondents
Task
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performance reports) or other forms of
information submission of responses.
Title of Proposal: Consolidated Plan &
Annual Performance Report.
OMB Control Number: 2506–011.
Agency Form Numbers: None.
Description of the Need for the
Information and Proposed Uses: The
Department’s collection of this
information is in compliance with
statutory provisions of the Cranston
Gonzalez National Affordable Housing
Act of 1990 that requires participating
jurisdictions to submit a Comprehensive
Housing Affordability Strategy (Section
105(b)); the 1974 Housing and
Community Development Act, as
amended, that requires states and
localities to submit a Community
Development Plan (Section 104(b)(4)
and Section 104(m)); and statutory
provisions of these Acts that requires
states and localities to submit
applications and reports for these
formula grant programs. The
information is needed to provide HUD
with preliminary assessment as to the
statutory and regulatory eligibility of
proposed grantee projects and for
informing citizens of intended uses of
program funds.
Members of the Affected Public: State
and local governments participating in
the Community Development Block
Grant Program (CDBG), the HOME
Investments Partnership (HOME)
Program, the Emergency Shelter Grants
(ESG) program, or the Housing
Opportunities for Persons with AIDS/
HIV (HOPWA) program.
Estimation of the total number of
hours to prepare the information
collection including number of
respondents, frequency of response and
hours of response: The burden of
meeting the regulatory requirements of
Title I of the National Affordable
Housing Act (NAHA) and the Housing
and Community Development Act
(HCDA) were assessed based on
revisions to the previously approved
information collection [OMB Control
Number 2506–0117]. The paperwork
estimates are as follows:
Consolidated Plan.
Localities.
• Strategic Plan Development ......................................................................................
• Action Plan Development ..........................................................................................
States.
• Strategic Plan Development ......................................................................................
• Action Plan Development ..........................................................................................
Performance Report.
Localities ...............................................................................................................................
States ....................................................................................................................................
* Abbreviated Strategy .................................................................................................................
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response
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burden hrs
1,000
1,000
1
1
154,000
56,000
50
50
1
1
21,150
9,350
1,000
50
100
1
1
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81,000
6,300
8,200
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Number of
respondents
Task
Total .......................................................................................................................
Status of the proposed information
collection: Revision of previously
approved collection.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act
of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, as amended.
Dated: January 25, 2012.
´
Mercedes Marquez,
Assistant Secretary for Community Planning
and Development.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–R1–MB–2012–N0010;
FXMB12320100000P2–123–FF01M01000]
Golden Eagles; Programmatic Take
Permit Application; Draft
Environmental Assessment; West
Butte Wind Project, Crook and
Deschutes Counties, OR
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability; extension
of public comment period.
AGENCY:
We, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service (Service), are extending
the public comment period on a draft
environmental assessment (DEA) for an
application for the programmatic take of
golden eagles. The DEA evaluates
alternatives for the application we have
received from West Butte Wind Power,
LLC, for programmatic permit for the
take of golden eagles. If issued, the
permit would be the first programmatic
permit issued under our new permitting
regulations under the Bald and Golden
Eagle Protection Act (BGEPA). We
announced receipt of the application
and the availability of the DEA in our
January 3, 2012, Federal Register notice,
which also opened the 30-day public
comment period. If you have previously
submitted comments, please do not
resubmit them, because we have already
incorporated them in the public records
and will fully consider them in our final
decision.
DATES: To ensure consideration, please
send your written comments by
February 17, 2012.
ADDRESSES: You may download a copy
of the DEA on the Internet at https://
www.fws.gov/pacific/migratorybirds/
nepa.html. Alternatively, you may use
one of the methods below to request
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hard copies or a CD–ROM of the
documents. Please specify the ‘‘DEA for
the West Butte Wind Project’’ on all
correspondence.
Submitting Comments: You may
submit comments or requests for copies
or more information by one of the
following methods.
• Email: pacific_birds@fws.gov.
Include ‘‘DEA for the West Butte Wind
Project’’ in the subject line of the
message.
• U.S. Mail: Please address written
comments to Michael Green, Acting
Chief, Division of Migratory Birds and
Habitat Programs, Pacific Region, U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, 911 NE 11th
Ave, Portland, OR 97232.
• Fax: Michael Green, Acting Chief,
Division of Migratory Birds and Habitat
Programs, (503) 231–2019, Attn.: DEA
for the West Butte Wind Project.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Michael Green, Acting Chief, Division of
Migratory Birds and Habitat Programs,
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, (503)
231–2019 (phone);
pacific_birds@fws.gov (email, include
‘‘DEA for the West Butte Wind Project’’
in the subject line of the message). If
you use a telecommunications device
for the deaf (TDD), please call the
Federal Information Relay Service
(FIRS) at (800) 877–8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Introduction
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is
considering an application under the
Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act
(16 U.S.C. 668a-d; BGEPA) for a
programmatic golden eagle (Aquila
chrysaetos) take permit from West Butte
Wind Power, LLC. The company plans
to develop the West Butte wind-power
project in central Oregon, and there is
a risk of eagle fatalities as a result of the
operation of this facility. The
application includes an avian and bat
protection plan combined with an eagle
conservation plan that describes actions
taken and proposed future actions to
avoid, minimize, and mitigate adverse
effects on eagles. The eagle conservation
plan was developed in collaboration
with the Service.
The Draft Environmental Assessment
(DEA) analyzes the alternatives
associated with this permit application
in light of our BGEPA permitting
regulations in the Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) at 50 CFR 22.26. If
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the results of this analysis lead us to
issue this permit, it will be the first
programmatic permit issued under these
new regulations, as well as the first
eagle take permit issued to a windenergy company.
Background
BGEPA allows us to authorize bald
eagle and golden eagle programmatic
take (take that is recurring, is not caused
solely by indirect effects, and that
occurs over the long term or in a
location or locations that cannot be
specifically identified). Such take must
be incidental to actions that are
otherwise lawful. BGEPA’s
implementing regulations define ‘‘take’’
as ‘‘to pursue, shoot, shoot at, poison,
wound, kill, capture, trap, collect,
destroy, molest, or disturb individuals,
their nests and eggs’’ (50 CFR 22.3); and
‘‘disturb’’ is further defined as ‘‘to
agitate or bother a bald or golden eagle
to a degree that causes … injury to an
eagle, … a decrease in its productivity,
… or nest abandonment’’ (50 CFR 22.3).
The West Butte Wind Project potentially
will result in one or more recurring
eagle mortalities over the life of the
project, so the appropriate type of take
permit is the programmatic permit
under 50 CFR 22.26.
To obtain a programmatic permit
under BGEPA and 50 CFR 22.26, the
applicant must (1) avoid and minimize
take to the maximum extent achievable;
(2) conduct adequate monitoring to
determine effects; (3) offset through
compensatory mitigation any remaining
take, such that the net effect on the eagle
population is, at a minimum, no change
for eagle management populations that
cannot sustain additional mortality; and
(4) ensure that the direct and indirect
effects of the take and required
mitigation, together with the cumulative
effects of other permitted take and
additional factors affecting eagle
populations, are compatible with the
preservation of bald eagles and golden
eagles.
Applicant’s Proposal
The 104-megawatt (MW) project is to
be built in Crook and Deschutes
Counties, Oregon. As a result of
monitoring studies conducted on the
proposed project site, the applicant
considers the use of the site by eagles to
be low, and has requested in their
application a permit for the legal take of
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[FR Doc No: 2012-2048]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND URBAN DEVELPOMENT
[Docket No. 5604-N-01]
Notice of Revised Information Collection for Public Comment;
Consolidated Plan & Annual Performance Report
AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and
Development, HUD.
ACTION: Notice of revised information collection for public comment.
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SUMMARY: The revised information collection requirements for
Consolidated Planning for Community Planning and Development (CPD)
programs described below will be submitted to the Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) for review, as required by the Paperwork Reduction
Act. The Department is soliciting public comments on the subject
proposal.
DATES: Comments Due Date: April 2, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments regarding
this proposal. Comments should refer to the proposal by name and/or OMB
Control Number and should be sent to William Kelleher, Paperwork
Reduction Act Officer, Office of Chief Information Officer, Department
of Housing and Urban Development, 451 7th Street SW., Room 7233,
Washington, DC 20410.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Meg Barclay, Office of Community
Planning and Development, telephone (202) 402-3669 (this is not a toll-
free number).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department will submit the revised
information collection to OMB for review, as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C Chapter 35 as amended). As required
under 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), HUD and OMB are seeking comments from members
of the public and affected agencies concerning the proposed collection
of information to: (1) Evaluate whether the revised collection of
information is necessary for the proper performance of the functions of
the agency, including whether the information will have practical
utility; (2) Evaluate the accuracy of the agency's estimate of the
burden of the revised collection of information; (3) Enhance the
quality, utility, and clarity of the information to be collected; and
(4) Minimize the burden of collection of information on those who are
to respond, including through the use of appropriate automated
collection techniques (e.g. electronic submission of the Consolidated
Plan and annual performance reports) or other forms of information
submission of responses.
Title of Proposal: Consolidated Plan & Annual Performance Report.
OMB Control Number: 2506-011.
Agency Form Numbers: None.
Description of the Need for the Information and Proposed Uses: The
Department's collection of this information is in compliance with
statutory provisions of the Cranston Gonzalez National Affordable
Housing Act of 1990 that requires participating jurisdictions to submit
a Comprehensive Housing Affordability Strategy (Section 105(b)); the
1974 Housing and Community Development Act, as amended, that requires
states and localities to submit a Community Development Plan (Section
104(b)(4) and Section 104(m)); and statutory provisions of these Acts
that requires states and localities to submit applications and reports
for these formula grant programs. The information is needed to provide
HUD with preliminary assessment as to the statutory and regulatory
eligibility of proposed grantee projects and for informing citizens of
intended uses of program funds.
Members of the Affected Public: State and local governments
participating in the Community Development Block Grant Program (CDBG),
the HOME Investments Partnership (HOME) Program, the Emergency Shelter
Grants (ESG) program, or the Housing Opportunities for Persons with
AIDS/HIV (HOPWA) program.
Estimation of the total number of hours to prepare the information
collection including number of respondents, frequency of response and
hours of response: The burden of meeting the regulatory requirements of
Title I of the National Affordable Housing Act (NAHA) and the Housing
and Community Development Act (HCDA) were assessed based on revisions
to the previously approved information collection [OMB Control Number
2506-0117]. The paperwork estimates are as follows:
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Number of Frequency of Total U.S.
Task respondents response burden hrs
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Consolidated Plan...............................................
Localities..................................................
Strategic Plan Development..................... 1,000 1 154,000
Action Plan Development........................ 1,000 1 56,000
States......................................................
Strategic Plan Development..................... 50 1 21,150
Action Plan Development........................ 50 1 9,350
Performance Report..............................................
Localities.................................................. 1,000 1 81,000
States...................................................... 50 1 6,300
* Abbreviated Strategy.......................................... 100 .............. 8,200
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Total............................................... 1,150 .............. 336,000
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Status of the proposed information collection: Revision of
previously approved collection.
Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C.
Chapter 35, as amended.
Dated: January 25, 2012.
Mercedes M[aacute]rquez,
Assistant Secretary for Community Planning and Development.
[FR Doc. 2012-2048 Filed 1-30-12; 8:45 am]
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