Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Receipt of Application for Incidental Take Permit; Availability of Proposed Low-Effect Habitat Conservation Plan and Associated Documents; Lee County, FL, 46105-46106 [2012-18991]
Download as PDF
<![CDATA[
Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 149 / Thursday, August 2, 2012 / Notices
Luis
Rodriguez, Chief, Engineering
Management Branch, Federal Insurance
and Mitigation Administration, FEMA,
500 C Street SW., Washington, DC
20472, (202) 646–4064, or (email)
Luis.Rodriguez3@fema.dhs.gov; or visit
the FEMA Map Information eXchange
(FMIX) online at www.floodmaps.fema.
gov/fhm/fmx_main.html.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FEMA
proposes to make flood hazard
determinations for each community
listed below, in accordance with section
110 of the Flood Disaster Protection Act
of 1973, 42 U.S.C. 4104, and 44 CFR
67.4(a).
These proposed flood hazard
determinations, together with the
floodplain management criteria required
by 44 CFR 60.3, are the minimum that
are required. They should not be
construed to mean that the community
must change any existing ordinances
that are more stringent in their
floodplain management requirements.
The community may at any time enact
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
stricter requirements of its own or
pursuant to policies established by other
Federal, State, or regional entities.
These flood hazard determinations are
used to meet the floodplain
management requirements of the NFIP
and also are used to calculate the
appropriate flood insurance premium
rates for new buildings built after the
FIRM and FIS report become effective.
The communities affected by the
flood hazard determinations are
provided in the tables below. Any
request for reconsideration of the
revised flood hazard information shown
on the Preliminary FIRM and FIS report
that satisfies the data requirements
outlined in 44 CFR 67.6(b) is considered
an appeal. Comments unrelated to the
flood hazard determinations also will be
considered before the FIRM and FIS
report become effective.
Use of a Scientific Resolution Panel
(SRP) is available to communities in
support of the appeal resolution
process. SRPs are independent panels of
experts in hydrology, hydraulics, and
Community
46105
other pertinent sciences established to
review conflicting scientific and
technical data and provide
recommendations for resolution. Use of
the SRP only may be exercised after
FEMA and local communities have been
engaged in a collaborative consultation
process for at least 60 days without a
mutually acceptable resolution of an
appeal. Additional information
regarding the SRP process can be found
online at www.fema.gov/pdf/media/
factsheets/2010/srp_fs.pdf.
The watersheds and/or communities
affected are listed in the tables below.
The Preliminary FIRM, and where
applicable, FIS report for each
community are available for inspection
at both the online location and the
respective Community Map Repository
address listed in the tables.
Additionally, the current effective FIRM
and FIS report for each community are
accessible online through the FEMA
Map Service Center at
www.msc.fema.gov for comparison.
Community Map Repository Address
City of Homer, Alaska
Maps Available for Inspection Online at: https://www.starr-team.com/
starr/RegionalWorkspaces/RegionX/HomerSpit/Preliminary%20Maps/
Forms/AllItems.aspx
City of Homer ...........................................................................................
City Hall, 491 East Pioneer Avenue, Homer, AK 99603.
Collin County, Texas, and Incorporated Areas
Maps Available for Inspection Online at: https://riskmap6.com/Community.aspx?cid=292&sid=5
City of Allen ..............................................................................................
City of Frisco ............................................................................................
City of McKinney ......................................................................................
City of Plano .............................................................................................
City of Richardson ....................................................................................
Unincorporated Areas of Collin County ....................................................
City Hall, 305 Century Parkway, Allen, TX 75013.
City Hall, 6101 Frisco Square Boulevard, 3rd Floor, Frisco, TX 75034.
Engineering Department, 221 North Tennessee Street, McKinney, TX
75069.
City Hall, Engineering Department, 1520 Avenue K, Plano, TX 75074.
Civic Center/City Hall, 411 West Arapaho Road, Room 204, Richardson, TX 75080.
Collin County Engineering, 825 North McDonald Street, McKinney, TX
75069.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Dated: July 12, 2012.
Sandra K. Knight,
Deputy Associate Administrator for
Mitigation, Department of Homeland
Security, Federal Emergency Management
Agency.
mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No.
97.022, ‘‘Flood Insurance.’’)
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FR Doc. 2012–18866 Filed 8–1–12; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 9110–12–P
Endangered and Threatened Wildlife
and Plants; Receipt of Application for
Incidental Take Permit; Availability of
Proposed Low-Effect Habitat
Conservation Plan and Associated
Documents; Lee County, FL
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
VerDate Mar<15>2010
18:15 Aug 01, 2012
Jkt 226001
PO 00000
Frm 00090
Fmt 4703
Sfmt 4703
We, the Fish and Wildlife
Service (Service), announce the
availability of an incidental take permit
(ITP) application and Habitat
Conservation Plan (HCP). The City of
Cape Coral (applicant) requests an ITP
under the Endangered Species Act of
1973, as amended (Act). The applicant
anticipates taking about 75 acres of
Florida scrub-jay habitat in Lee County,
Florida, for the construction of a 215acre multi-use recreational park, several
nearby single-family residences, and
associated infrastructure. The
SUMMARY:
[FWS–R4–ES–2012–N065; 40120–1112–
0000–F2]
AGENCY:
Notice of availability; request
for comment/information.
ACTION:
E:\FR\FM\02AUN1.SGM
02AUN1
46106
Federal Register / Vol. 77, No. 149 / Thursday, August 2, 2012 / Notices
mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
applicant’s HCP describes the
minimization and mitigation measures
proposed to address the effects of the
project on the scrub-jay.
DATES: Written comments on the ITP
application and HCP should be sent to
the South Florida Ecological Services
Office (see ADDRESSES) and should be
received on or before September 4,
2012.
ADDRESSES: You may request documents
by email, U.S. mail, or fax (see below).
These documents are also available for
public inspection by appointment
during normal business hours at the
office below. Send your comments or
requests by any one of the following
methods.
Email: Trish_Adams@fws.gov. Use
‘‘Attn: Permit number TE75891A–0’’ as
your message subject line.
Fax: Trish Adams, 772–562–4288,
Attn.: Permit number TE75891A–0.
U.S. mail: Trish Adams, HCP
Coordinator, South Florida Ecological
Services Field Office, Attn: Permit
number TE75891A–0, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, 1339 20th Street, Vero
Beach, FL 32960–3559.
In-person drop-off: You may drop off
information during regular business
hours at the above office address.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Trish Adams, HCP Coordinator, South
Florida Ecological Services Office, Vero
Beach, Florida (see ADDRESSES),
telephone: 772–469–4232.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The City
of Cape Coral (applicant) anticipates
taking 75 acres of habitat used for
breeding, feeding, and sheltering by the
Florida scrub-jay (Aphelocoma
coerulescens) in Lee County, Florida.
The Service listed the scrub-jay as
threatened on June 3, 1987 (52 FR
20715). The listing became effective July
6, 1987.
Applicant’s Proposed Project
We received an application for an
incidental take permit (ITP), along with
a proposed habitat conservation plan
(HCP). The applicant requests a 25-year
permit under section 10(a)(1)(B) of the
Act (87 Stat. 884; 16 U.S.C. 1531 et
seq.). If we approve the permit, the
applicant anticipates taking 75 acres of
Florida scrub-jay habitat for
construction of Festival Park (a 215-acre
multi-use recreational park), singlefamily residences, and associated
infrastructure. The project is located in
the north-central part of the City of Cape
Coral at latitude 26.701016, longitude—
81.999287, Lee County, Florida.
The applicant proposes to mitigate for
the loss of 75 acres of occupied scrubjay habitat by restoring 125 acres of off-
VerDate Mar<15>2010
18:15 Aug 01, 2012
Jkt 226001
site scrub habitat to be managed by Lee
County, and to establish a fund that will
provide for the long-term management
of the mitigation area.
Our Preliminary Determination
The Service has made a preliminary
determination that the applicant’s
project, including the proposed
mitigation and minimization measures,
will individually and cumulatively have
a minor or negligible effect on the
species covered in the HCP. Therefore,
issuance of the ITP is a ‘‘low-effect’’
action and qualifies as a categorical
exclusion under the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) (40
CFR 1506.6), as provided by the
Department of the Interior Manual (516
DM 2 Appendix 1 and 516 DM 6
Appendix 1), and as defined in our
Habitat Conservation Planning
Handbook (November 1996).
We base our determination that
issuance of the ITP qualifies as a loweffect action on the following three
criteria: (1) Implementation of the
project would result in minor or
negligible effects on federally listed,
proposed, and candidate species and
their habitats; (2) implementation of the
project would result in minor or
negligible effects on other
environmental values or resources; and
(3) impacts of the plan, considered
together with the impacts of other past,
present, and reasonably foreseeable
similarly situated projects, would not
result, over time, in cumulative effects
to environmental values or resources
that would be considered significant. As
more fully explained in our
environmental action statement and
associated Low-Effect Screening Form,
the applicant’s proposed project
qualifies as a ‘‘low-effect’’ project. This
preliminary determination may be
revised based on our review of public
comments that we receive in response to
this notice.
Next Steps
The Service will evaluate the HCP
and comments submitted thereon to
determine whether the application
meets the requirements of section 10(a)
of the Act. The Service will also
evaluate whether issuance of the section
10(a)(1)(B) ITP would comply with
section 7 of the Act by conducting an
intra-Service section 7 consultation. The
results of this consultation, in
combination with the above findings,
will be used in the final analysis to
determine whether or not to issue the
ITP. If it is determined that the
requirements of the Act are met, the ITP
will be issued for the incidental take of
the scrub-jay.
PO 00000
Frm 00091
Fmt 4703
Sfmt 4703
Submitting Comments
If you wish to submit comments or
information, you may do so by any one
of several methods. Please reference
permit number TE75891A–0 in such
comments. You may mail comments to
the Service’s South Florida Ecological
Services Office (see ADDRESSES). You
may also comment via email to
trish_adams@fws.gov. Please also
include your name and return address
in your email message. If you do not
receive a confirmation from us that we
have received your email message,
contact us directly at the telephone
number listed under FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT. Finally, you may
hand deliver comments to the Service
office listed under ADDRESSES.
Availability of Public 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
This notice is provided pursuant to
Section 10 of the Act and NEPA
regulations (40 CFR 1506.6).
Dated: July 26, 2012.
Larry Williams,
Field Supervisor, South Florida Ecological
Services Office.
[FR Doc. 2012–18991 Filed 8–1–12; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4310–55–P
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Tribal Listening Sessions on Sacred
Sites on Federal Lands
Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
Indian Affairs will conduct
listening sessions with Indian tribes to
obtain oral and written comments
concerning sacred sites located on
Federal lands. See the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section of this notice for
details.
SUMMARY:
DATES: See the SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION section of this notice
for
the dates of the tribal listening sessions.
We will consider all comments received
E:\FR\FM\02AUN1.SGM
02AUN1
]]>Agencies
[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 149 (Thursday, August 2, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 46105-46106]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-18991]
=======================================================================
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-R4-ES-2012-N065; 40120-1112-0000-F2]
Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Receipt of
Application for Incidental Take Permit; Availability of Proposed Low-
Effect Habitat Conservation Plan and Associated Documents; Lee County,
FL
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability; request for comment/information.
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
SUMMARY: We, the Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce the
availability of an incidental take permit (ITP) application and Habitat
Conservation Plan (HCP). The City of Cape Coral (applicant) requests an
ITP under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). The
applicant anticipates taking about 75 acres of Florida scrub-jay
habitat in Lee County, Florida, for the construction of a 215-acre
multi-use recreational park, several nearby single-family residences,
and associated infrastructure. The
[[Page 46106]]
applicant's HCP describes the minimization and mitigation measures
proposed to address the effects of the project on the scrub-jay.
DATES: Written comments on the ITP application and HCP should be sent
to the South Florida Ecological Services Office (see ADDRESSES) and
should be received on or before September 4, 2012.
ADDRESSES: You may request documents by email, U.S. mail, or fax (see
below). These documents are also available for public inspection by
appointment during normal business hours at the office below. Send your
comments or requests by any one of the following methods.
Email: Trish_Adams@fws.gov. Use ``Attn: Permit number TE75891A-0''
as your message subject line.
Fax: Trish Adams, 772-562-4288, Attn.: Permit number TE75891A-0.
U.S. mail: Trish Adams, HCP Coordinator, South Florida Ecological
Services Field Office, Attn: Permit number TE75891A-0, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, 1339 20th Street, Vero Beach, FL 32960-3559.
In-person drop-off: You may drop off information during regular
business hours at the above office address.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Trish Adams, HCP Coordinator,
South Florida Ecological Services Office, Vero Beach, Florida (see
ADDRESSES), telephone: 772-469-4232.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The City of Cape Coral (applicant)
anticipates taking 75 acres of habitat used for breeding, feeding, and
sheltering by the Florida scrub-jay (Aphelocoma coerulescens) in Lee
County, Florida. The Service listed the scrub-jay as threatened on June
3, 1987 (52 FR 20715). The listing became effective July 6, 1987.
Applicant's Proposed Project
We received an application for an incidental take permit (ITP),
along with a proposed habitat conservation plan (HCP). The applicant
requests a 25-year permit under section 10(a)(1)(B) of the Act (87
Stat. 884; 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). If we approve the permit, the
applicant anticipates taking 75 acres of Florida scrub-jay habitat for
construction of Festival Park (a 215-acre multi-use recreational park),
single-family residences, and associated infrastructure. The project is
located in the north-central part of the City of Cape Coral at latitude
26.701016, longitude--81.999287, Lee County, Florida.
The applicant proposes to mitigate for the loss of 75 acres of
occupied scrub-jay habitat by restoring 125 acres of off-site scrub
habitat to be managed by Lee County, and to establish a fund that will
provide for the long-term management of the mitigation area.
Our Preliminary Determination
The Service has made a preliminary determination that the
applicant's project, including the proposed mitigation and minimization
measures, will individually and cumulatively have a minor or negligible
effect on the species covered in the HCP. Therefore, issuance of the
ITP is a ``low-effect'' action and qualifies as a categorical exclusion
under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) (40 CFR 1506.6), as
provided by the Department of the Interior Manual (516 DM 2 Appendix 1
and 516 DM 6 Appendix 1), and as defined in our Habitat Conservation
Planning Handbook (November 1996).
We base our determination that issuance of the ITP qualifies as a
low-effect action on the following three criteria: (1) Implementation
of the project would result in minor or negligible effects on federally
listed, proposed, and candidate species and their habitats; (2)
implementation of the project would result in minor or negligible
effects on other environmental values or resources; and (3) impacts of
the plan, considered together with the impacts of other past, present,
and reasonably foreseeable similarly situated projects, would not
result, over time, in cumulative effects to environmental values or
resources that would be considered significant. As more fully explained
in our environmental action statement and associated Low-Effect
Screening Form, the applicant's proposed project qualifies as a ``low-
effect'' project. This preliminary determination may be revised based
on our review of public comments that we receive in response to this
notice.
Next Steps
The Service will evaluate the HCP and comments submitted thereon to
determine whether the application meets the requirements of section
10(a) of the Act. The Service will also evaluate whether issuance of
the section 10(a)(1)(B) ITP would comply with section 7 of the Act by
conducting an intra-Service section 7 consultation. The results of this
consultation, in combination with the above findings, will be used in
the final analysis to determine whether or not to issue the ITP. If it
is determined that the requirements of the Act are met, the ITP will be
issued for the incidental take of the scrub-jay.
Submitting Comments
If you wish to submit comments or information, you may do so by any
one of several methods. Please reference permit number TE75891A-0 in
such comments. You may mail comments to the Service's South Florida
Ecological Services Office (see ADDRESSES). You may also comment via
email to trish_adams@fws.gov. Please also include your name and return
address in your email message. If you do not receive a confirmation
from us that we have received your email message, contact us directly
at the telephone number listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.
Finally, you may hand deliver comments to the Service office listed
under ADDRESSES.
Availability of Public 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
This notice is provided pursuant to Section 10 of the Act and NEPA
regulations (40 CFR 1506.6).
Dated: July 26, 2012.
Larry Williams,
Field Supervisor, South Florida Ecological Services Office.
[FR Doc. 2012-18991 Filed 8-1-12; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4310-55-P
