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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–R6–ES–2012–N305; FF06E13000–
123–FXES11130600000D2]
Endangered and Threatened Wildlife
and Plants; Enhancement of Survival
Permit Application; Draft Greater SageGrouse Umbrella Candidate
Conservation Agreement With
Assurances for Wyoming Ranch
Management, and Environmental
Assessment
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability; request
for comments.
AGENCY:
We, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service (Service), are
announcing the availability of the
following documents for review and
comment by the public and Federal,
Tribal, State, and local governments:
• Draft Greater Sage-grouse Umbrella
Candidate Conservation Agreement with
Assurances for Wyoming Ranch
Management (Umbrella CCAA), and
• Draft Environment Assessment of
the Greater Sage-grouse Umbrella
Candidate Conservation Agreement with
Assurances for Wyoming Ranch
Management (EA).
The Service and several State,
Federal, and local partners prepared the
draft Umbrella CCAA to provide
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Wyoming ranchers with the opportunity
to voluntarily conserve greater sagegrouse and its habitat while carrying out
their ranching activities. Ranchers may
apply for an enhancement of survival
permit under the Endangered Species
Act of 1973, as amended (ESA), by
agreeing to implement certain
conservation measures in the Umbrella
CCAA that apply to their properties.
Pursuant to the National Environmental
Policy Act, we also prepared a draft
environmental assessment (EA) that
analyzes the potential impacts to the
human environment from the proposed
Umbrella CCAA and alternatives to the
action.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted by March 11, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments by
U.S. mail to Tyler Abbott, Deputy Field
Supervisor, Wyoming Ecological
Services Field Office, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, 5353 Yellowstone
Road, Suite 308A, Cheyenne, WY
82009, or via email to
WYSagegrouseCCAA@fws.gov. You also
may send comments by facsimile to
307–772–2358. The draft CCAA and EA
are available on our Mountain-Prairie
Region Ecological Services Web site at
www.fws.gov/wyominges/. You also may
review copies of these documents
during regular business hours at the
Wyoming Ecological Services Field
Office (see address above). If you do not
have access to the Web site or cannot
visit our office, you may request copies
by telephone at 307–772–2374 ext. 231
or by letter to the Wyoming Field Office.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Tyler Abbott, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, 307–772–2374 ext. 231;
tyler_abbott@fws.gov.
Under a
Candidate Conservation Agreement with
Assurances (CCAA), participating
landowners voluntarily undertake
management activities on their property
to enhance, restore, or maintain habitat
benefiting species that are proposed for
listing or candidates for listing under
the ESA, or those species that may
become candidates. A CCAA, and the
subsequent permits that are issued
pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(A) of the
ESA (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), encourage
private and non-Federal property
owners to implement conservation
efforts for 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 if that species
becomes listed under the ESA in the
future. CCAA permit application
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requirements and issuance criteria are
found in 50 CFR 17.22(d) and 17.32(d).
On March 23, 2010, the Service
determined that listing the greater sagegrouse (Centrocercus urophasianus)
under the ESA (16 U.S.C. 1538) was
warranted, but precluded by the need to
address higher priority species first. As
result, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, in coordination with the
Wyoming Governor’s Office, the Bureau
of Land Management, the Natural
Resources Conservation Service, the
Wyoming Department of Agriculture,
Wyoming Game and Fish Department,
and the Wyoming Association of
Conservation Districts, developed a
draft statewide umbrella CCAA for
ranch management. The intent of the
umbrella CCAA is to use voluntary,
proactive conservation measures to
reduce or remove threats to the greater
sage-grouse, thereby potentially
reducing the need to list the species.
The draft umbrella CCAA covers an area
of approximately 17 million acres of
privately owned lands within the range
of the greater sage-grouse in Wyoming.
The draft umbrella CCAA contains a
comprehensive menu of conservation
measures designed to reduce or remove
each identified potential threat to the
greater sage-grouse that may occur on a
ranching operation in Wyoming. This
approach allows each interested rancher
to select conservation measures specific
to their operation, rather than require
each participant to conform to one
prescriptive action. A private landowner
who wishes to enroll in the umbrella
CCAA would develop a streamlined
individual CCAA for the enrolled
property. Partner agencies would assist
the landowner in selecting the
conservation measures from the
umbrella CCAA that would address
threats occurring on the property to be
enrolled. Each landowner would submit
their individual CCAA to the Service to
apply for a section 10(a)(1)(A) permit for
take of the sage-grouse incidental to
conservation and ranching activities,
should the species become listed.
The Service and other participating
agencies have also prepared a draft EA
that considers the potential impacts of
implementing the umbrella CCAA and
issuing assurances and individual
permits to private landowners
participating in the umbrella CCAA.
Public Availability of Comments
Before including your address, phone
number, email 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.
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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.
Dated: January 23, 2013.
Michael Thabault,
Acting Regional Director, Mountain-Prairie
Region, Denver, Colorado.
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Receipt of Applications for
Endangered Species Permits
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
We, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, invite the public to
comment on the following applications
to conduct certain activities with
endangered species. With some
exceptions, the Endangered Species Act
(ESA) prohibits activities with listed
species unless a Federal permit is issued
that allows such activities. The ESA
requires that we invite public comment
before issuing these permits.
DATES: We must receive written data or
comments on the applications at the
address given below, by March 11, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Documents and other
information submitted with the
applications are available for review,
subject to the requirements of the
Privacy Act and Freedom of Information
Act, by any party who submits a written
request for a copy of such documents to
the following office within 30 days of
the date of publication of this notice:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1875
Century Boulevard, Suite 200, Atlanta,
GA 30345 (Attn: Cameron Shaw, Permit
Coordinator).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Cameron Shaw, telephone 904/731–
3191; facsimile 904/731–3045.
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public is invited to comment on the
following applications for permits to
conduct certain activities with
endangered and threatened species
pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(A) of the
Endangered Species Act of 1973, as
amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) and
our regulations in the Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) at 50 CFR part 17.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-R6-ES-2012-N305; FF06E13000-123-FXES11130600000D2]
Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Enhancement of
Survival Permit Application; Draft Greater Sage-Grouse Umbrella
Candidate Conservation Agreement With Assurances for Wyoming Ranch
Management, and Environmental Assessment
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability; request for comments.
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SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), are
announcing the availability of the following documents for review and
comment by the public and Federal, Tribal, State, and local
governments:
Draft Greater Sage-grouse Umbrella Candidate Conservation
Agreement with Assurances for Wyoming Ranch Management (Umbrella CCAA),
and
Draft Environment Assessment of the Greater Sage-grouse
Umbrella Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances for Wyoming
Ranch Management (EA).
The Service and several State, Federal, and local partners prepared
the draft Umbrella CCAA to provide
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Wyoming ranchers with the opportunity to voluntarily conserve greater
sage-grouse and its habitat while carrying out their ranching
activities. Ranchers may apply for an enhancement of survival permit
under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA), by agreeing
to implement certain conservation measures in the Umbrella CCAA that
apply to their properties. Pursuant to the National Environmental
Policy Act, we also prepared a draft environmental assessment (EA) that
analyzes the potential impacts to the human environment from the
proposed Umbrella CCAA and alternatives to the action.
DATES: Written comments must be submitted by March 11, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments by U.S. mail to Tyler Abbott, Deputy
Field Supervisor, Wyoming Ecological Services Field Office, U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, 5353 Yellowstone Road, Suite 308A, Cheyenne, WY
82009, or via email to WYSagegrouseCCAA@fws.gov. You also may send
comments by facsimile to 307-772-2358. The draft CCAA and EA are
available on our Mountain-Prairie Region Ecological Services Web site
at www.fws.gov/wyominges/. You also may review copies of these
documents during regular business hours at the Wyoming Ecological
Services Field Office (see address above). If you do not have access to
the Web site or cannot visit our office, you may request copies by
telephone at 307-772-2374 ext. 231 or by letter to the Wyoming Field
Office.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tyler Abbott, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, 307-772-2374 ext. 231; tyler_abbott@fws.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under a Candidate Conservation Agreement
with Assurances (CCAA), participating landowners voluntarily undertake
management activities on their property to enhance, restore, or
maintain habitat benefiting species that are proposed for listing or
candidates for listing under the ESA, or those species that may become
candidates. A CCAA, and the subsequent permits that are issued pursuant
to section 10(a)(1)(A) of the ESA (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), encourage
private and non-Federal property owners to implement conservation
efforts for 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 if that species becomes listed under the ESA in the
future. CCAA permit application requirements and issuance criteria are
found in 50 CFR 17.22(d) and 17.32(d).
On March 23, 2010, the Service determined that listing the greater
sage-grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus) under the ESA (16 U.S.C. 1538)
was warranted, but precluded by the need to address higher priority
species first. As result, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in
coordination with the Wyoming Governor's Office, the Bureau of Land
Management, the Natural Resources Conservation Service, the Wyoming
Department of Agriculture, Wyoming Game and Fish Department, and the
Wyoming Association of Conservation Districts, developed a draft
statewide umbrella CCAA for ranch management. The intent of the
umbrella CCAA is to use voluntary, proactive conservation measures to
reduce or remove threats to the greater sage-grouse, thereby
potentially reducing the need to list the species. The draft umbrella
CCAA covers an area of approximately 17 million acres of privately
owned lands within the range of the greater sage-grouse in Wyoming.
The draft umbrella CCAA contains a comprehensive menu of
conservation measures designed to reduce or remove each identified
potential threat to the greater sage-grouse that may occur on a
ranching operation in Wyoming. This approach allows each interested
rancher to select conservation measures specific to their operation,
rather than require each participant to conform to one prescriptive
action. A private landowner who wishes to enroll in the umbrella CCAA
would develop a streamlined individual CCAA for the enrolled property.
Partner agencies would assist the landowner in selecting the
conservation measures from the umbrella CCAA that would address threats
occurring on the property to be enrolled. Each landowner would submit
their individual CCAA to the Service to apply for a section 10(a)(1)(A)
permit for take of the sage-grouse incidental to conservation and
ranching activities, should the species become listed.
The Service and other participating agencies have also prepared a
draft EA that considers the potential impacts of implementing the
umbrella CCAA and issuing assurances and individual permits to private
landowners participating in the umbrella CCAA.
Public Availability of Comments
Before including your address, phone number, email 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.
Dated: January 23, 2013.
Michael Thabault,
Acting Regional Director, Mountain-Prairie Region, Denver, Colorado.
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