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Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Sacramento,
Sutter, and Yolo Counties. As with
Alternatives A and B, the Service could
acquire up to 3,321 additional acres of
Service-owned lands from willing
landowners in the North Central Valley
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Notice of availability; request
for comment/information.
ACTION:
We, the Fish and Wildlife
Service (Service), have received three
applications for incidental take permits
(ITPs) under the Endangered Species
Act of 1973, as amended (Act). DCS
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Capital Investments I, LLC requests a
15-year ITP; Preferred Materials, Inc.,
The locations, dates, and times of
doing business as Conrad Yelvington
public meetings will be listed in a
Distributers, requests a 3-year ITP; and
planning update distributed to the
Wickham Summerbrook, LLC requests a
project mailing list and posted on the
5-year ITP. We request public comment
refuge planning Web site at https://
on the permit applications and
www.fws.gov/refuge/Sacramento/. For
accompanying proposed habitat
deadlines and instructions on
conservation plans (HCPs), as well as on
requesting reasonable accommodations
at the public meetings, please send your our preliminary determination that the
plans qualify as low-effect under the
request to the email address or fax
National Environmental Policy Act
number in the ADDRESSES section.
(NEPA). To make this determination, we
Review and Comment
used our environmental action
Copies of the Draft CCP/EA may be
statement and low-effect screening form,
obtained by contacting to Sandy Osborn which are also available for review.
(see ADDRESSES). Copies of the Draft
DATES: To ensure consideration, please
CCP/EA may be viewed at the same
send your written comments by July 15,
address and local libraries. The Draft
2015.
CCP/EA will also be available for
ADDRESSES: If you wish to review the
viewing and downloading online at
applications and HCPs, you may request
https://www.fws.gov/refuge/Sacramento/.
documents by email, U.S. mail, or
Comments on the Draft CCP/EA
phone (see below). These documents are
should be addressed to Sandy Osborn
also available for public inspection by
(see ADDRESSES).
At the end of the review and comment appointment during normal business
period for this Draft CCP/EA, comments hours at the office below. Send your
comments or requests by any one of the
will be analyzed by the Service and
following methods.
addressed in the Final CCP/EA. Before
Email: northflorida@fws.gov. Use
including your address, phone number,
‘‘Attn: Permit number TE52650B–0’’ as
email address, or other personal
your message subject line for DCS
identifying information in your
Capital Investments I, LLC; ‘‘Attn:
comment, you should be aware that
Permit number TE66050B–0’’ for
your entire comment—including your
Preferred Materials, Inc.; and ‘‘Attn:
personal identifying information—may
Permit number TE66047B–0’’ for
be made publicly available at any time.
Wickham Summerbrook, LLC.
While you can ask us in your comment
Fax: Field Supervisor, (904) 731–
to withhold your personal identifying
3191, Attn: Permit number [Insert
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to permit number].
U.S. mail: Field Supervisor,
do so.
Jacksonville Ecological Services Field
Alexandra Pitts,
Office, Attn: Permit number [Insert
Acting Regional Director, Pacific Southwest
permit number], U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Region, Sacramento, California.
Service, 7915 Baymeadows Way, Suite
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200, Jacksonville, FL 32256.
In-person drop-off: You may drop off
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hours at the above office address.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erin
M. Gawera, telephone: (904) 731–3121;
Fish and Wildlife Service
email: erin_gawera@fws.gov.
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SUMMARY:
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Endangered and Threatened Wildlife
and Plants; Availability of Proposed
Low-Effect Habitat Conservation Plans,
Lake, Brevard, and Volusia County, FL
AGENCY:
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
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Background
Section 9 of the Act (16 U.S.C. 1531
et seq.) and our implementing Federal
regulations in the Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) at 50 CFR 17 prohibit
the ‘‘take’’ of fish or wildlife species
listed as endangered or threatened. Take
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of listed fish or wildlife is defined under
the Act as ‘‘to harass, harm, pursue,
hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture,
or collect, or to attempt to engage in any
such conduct’’ (16 U.S.C. 1532).
However, under limited circumstances,
we issue permits to authorize incidental
take—i.e., take that is incidental to, and
not the purpose of, the carrying out of
an otherwise lawful activity.
Regulations governing incidental take
permits for threatened and endangered
species are at 50 CFR 17.32 and 17.22,
respectively. The Act’s take prohibitions
do not apply to federally listed plants
on private lands unless such take would
violate State law. In addition to meeting
other criteria, an incidental take
permit’s proposed actions must not
jeopardize the existence of federally
listed fish, wildlife, or plants.
Applicants’ Proposals
DCS Capital Investments I, LLC
DCS Capital Investments I, LLC is
requesting take of approximately .99 ac
of occupied sand skink foraging and
sheltering habitat incidental to
construction of residential
developments, and they seek a 15-year
permit. The 86.99-ac project is located
on parcel #s 05–22–26–000300000600
and 05–22–26–000400001300 within
Section 5, Township 22 South and
Range 26 East, Lake County, Florida.
The project includes construction of a
residential development and the
associated infrastructure, and
landscaping. The applicant proposes to
mitigate for the take of the sand skink
by the purchase of 2.0 mitigation credits
within the Hatchineha Conservation
Bank.
Preferred Materials, Inc. (Conrad
Yelvington Distributers)
Preferred Materials, Inc. (Conrad
Yelvington Distributers) is requesting
take of approximately .68 ac of occupied
Florida scrub-jay foraging and sheltering
habitat incidental to construction of an
industrial park, and they seek a 3-year
permit. The 15-ac project is located on
parcel #04–19–30–16–00–000I within
Section 4, Township 19 South and
Range 30 East, Volusia County, Florida.
The project includes construction of an
industrial park and the associated
infrastructure, and landscaping. The
applicant proposes to mitigate for the
take of the Florida scrub-jay through the
deposit of funds in the amount of
$20,844.72 to the Nature Conservancy’s
Conservation Fund, for the management
and conservation of the Florida scrubjay based on Service Mitigation
Guidelines.
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Wickham Summerbrook, LLC
Wickham Summerbrook, LLC is
requesting take of approximately 4.64 ac
of occupied Florida scrub-jay foraging
and sheltering habitat incidental to
construction of a commercial
development, and they seek a 5-year
permit. The 8.98-ac project is located on
parcel #26–37–31–00–00262.0–0000.00
within Section 31, Township 26 South
and Range 37 East, Brevard County,
Florida. The project includes
construction of a commercial
development and the associated
infrastructure, and landscaping. The
applicant proposes to mitigate for the
take of the Florida scrub-jay through the
preservation of approximately 9.5 acres
of high-quality Florida scrub-jay habitat
within the Valkaria Site of the Brevard
Coastal Scrub Ecosystem. The Applicant
will preserve and donate six currently
unencumbered parcels (Brevard County
tax account numbers 2955405, 2955273,
2955322, 2955313, 2955314, and
2954810) to the Brevard County
Environmentally Endangered Lands
(EEL) Program so that these parcels can
be managed and maintained as suitable
Florida scrub-jay habitat in perpetuity.
The Applicant will also provide the EEL
Program with a $1,200.00/acre (totaling
$11,400.00) management endowment to
ensure the continued success of
monitoring and maintaining these lands
as suitable Florida scrub-jay habitat.
Our Preliminary Determination
We have determined that the
applicants’ proposals, including the
proposed mitigation and minimization
measures, would have minor or
negligible effects on the species covered
in their HCPs. Therefore, we determined
that the ITPs for each of the applicants
are ‘‘low-effect’’ projects and qualify for
categorical exclusion under the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), as
provided by the Department of the
Interior Manual (516 DM 2 Appendix 1
and 516 DM 6 Appendix 1). A low-effect
HCP is one involving (1) Minor or
negligible effects on federally listed or
candidate species and their habitats,
and (2) minor or negligible effects on
other environmental values or
resources.
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Public Comments
If you wish to comment on the permit
applications, HCPs, and associated
documents, you may submit comments
by any one of the methods in
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 and NEPA regulations (40
CFR 1506.6).
Dated: June 5, 2015.
Jay B. Herrington,
Field Supervisor, Jacksonville Field Office,
Southeast Region.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
National Park Service
[NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–18434;
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Native American Graves Protection
and Repatriation Review Committee:
Meeting
National Park Service, Interior.
Meeting notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice is hereby given in
accordance with the Federal Advisory
Committee Act, (5 U.S.C. Appendix 1–
16), of two meetings of the Native
American Graves Protection and
Repatriation Review Committee (Review
Committee). The Review Committee
will meet on November 18–19, 2015, in
Norman, OK, and if necessary, via
teleconference, on December 14, 2015.
All meetings will be open to the public.
SUMMARY:
Next Steps
We will evaluate the HCPs and
comments we receive to determine
whether the ITP applications meet the
requirements of section 10(a) of the Act
(16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). If we determine
that the applications meet these
requirements, we will issue ITP #s
TE52650B–0, TE66050B–0, and
TE66047B–0. We will also evaluate
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whether issuance of the section
10(a)(1)(B) ITP complies with section 7
of the Act by conducting an intraService section 7 consultation. We will
use the results of this consultation, in
combination with the above findings, in
our final analysis to determine whether
or not to issue the ITPs. If the
requirements are met, we will issue the
permits to the applicants.
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The Review Committee will meet
November 18–19, 2015, 8:30 a.m. until
5:00 p.m. (Central), and if necessary, on
December 14, 2015, from 2:00 p.m. until
approximately 4:00 p.m. (Eastern). For
the November meeting, presentation
requests and accompanying materials
must be received by October 14, 2015;
requests for culturally unidentifiable
(CUI) disposition must be received by
September 9, 2015; requests for findings
of fact must be received by August 26,
2015; and requests to convene parties
and facilitate the resolution of a dispute
must be received by July 22, 2015.
ADDRESSES: The Review Committee will
meet on November 18–19, 2015, at the
Riverwind Hotel and Casino, 1544 State
Highway 9, Norman, OK 73072.
Electronic submissions of materials or
requests are to be sent to nagpra_dfo@
nps.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Review Committee was established in
Section 8 of the Native American Graves
Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990
(NAGPRA), 25 U.S.C. 3006.
DATES:
November 18–19, 2015
The Review Committee will meet on
November 18–19, 2015, at the
Riverwind Hotel and Casino, Norman,
OK, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
(Central). This meeting will be open to
the public. The agenda for this meeting
will include a report from the National
NAGPRA Program; the discussion and
possible finalization of the Review
Committee Report to Congress for 2015;
subcommittee reports and discussion;
and other topics related to the Review
Committee’s responsibilities under
Section 8 of NAGPRA. In addition, the
agenda may include requests to the
Review Committee for a
recommendation to the Secretary of the
Interior that an agreed-upon disposition
of Native American human remains
determined to be culturally
unidentifiable proceed; presentations by
Indian tribes, Native Hawaiian
organizations, museums, Federal
agencies, associations, and individuals;
public comment; requests to the Review
Committee, pursuant to 25 U.S.C.
3006(c)(3), for review and findings of
fact related to the identity or cultural
affiliation of human remains or other
cultural items, or the return of such
items; and facilitation of the resolution
of disputes among parties convened by
the Review Committee pursuant to 25
U.S.C. 3006(c)(4). Presentation to the
Review Committee by telephone may be
requested but is not guaranteed. The
agenda and materials for this meeting
will be posted on or before October 28,
2015, at https://www.nps.gov/nagpra.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-R4-ES-2015-N109; FXES11130400000EA-123-FF04EF1000]
Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Availability of
Proposed Low-Effect Habitat Conservation Plans, Lake, Brevard, and
Volusia County, FL
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability; request for comment/information.
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SUMMARY: We, the Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), have received
three applications for incidental take permits (ITPs) under the
Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). DCS Capital
Investments I, LLC requests a 15-year ITP; Preferred Materials, Inc.,
doing business as Conrad Yelvington Distributers, requests a 3-year
ITP; and Wickham Summerbrook, LLC requests a 5-year ITP. We request
public comment on the permit applications and accompanying proposed
habitat conservation plans (HCPs), as well as on our preliminary
determination that the plans qualify as low-effect under the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). To make this determination, we used
our environmental action statement and low-effect screening form, which
are also available for review.
DATES: To ensure consideration, please send your written comments by
July 15, 2015.
ADDRESSES: If you wish to review the applications and HCPs, you may
request documents by email, U.S. mail, or phone (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: northflorida@fws.gov. Use ``Attn: Permit number TE52650B-0''
as your message subject line for DCS Capital Investments I, LLC;
``Attn: Permit number TE66050B-0'' for Preferred Materials, Inc.; and
``Attn: Permit number TE66047B-0'' for Wickham Summerbrook, LLC.
Fax: Field Supervisor, (904) 731-3191, Attn: Permit number [Insert
permit number].
U.S. mail: Field Supervisor, Jacksonville Ecological Services Field
Office, Attn: Permit number [Insert permit number], U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, 7915 Baymeadows Way, Suite 200, Jacksonville, FL
32256.
In-person drop-off: You may drop off information during regular
business hours at the above office address.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erin M. Gawera, telephone: (904) 731-
3121; email: erin_gawera@fws.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Section 9 of the Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) and our implementing
Federal regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) at 50 CFR
17 prohibit the ``take'' of fish or wildlife species listed as
endangered or threatened. Take of listed fish or wildlife is defined
under the Act as ``to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill,
trap, capture, or collect, or to attempt to engage in any such
conduct'' (16 U.S.C. 1532). However, under limited circumstances, we
issue permits to authorize incidental take--i.e., take that is
incidental to, and not the purpose of, the carrying out of an otherwise
lawful activity.
Regulations governing incidental take permits for threatened and
endangered species are at 50 CFR 17.32 and 17.22, respectively. The
Act's take prohibitions do not apply to federally listed plants on
private lands unless such take would violate State law. In addition to
meeting other criteria, an incidental take permit's proposed actions
must not jeopardize the existence of federally listed fish, wildlife,
or plants.
Applicants' Proposals
DCS Capital Investments I, LLC
DCS Capital Investments I, LLC is requesting take of approximately
.99 ac of occupied sand skink foraging and sheltering habitat
incidental to construction of residential developments, and they seek a
15-year permit. The 86.99-ac project is located on parcel #s 05-22-26-
000300000600 and 05-22-26-000400001300 within Section 5, Township 22
South and Range 26 East, Lake County, Florida. The project includes
construction of a residential development and the associated
infrastructure, and landscaping. The applicant proposes to mitigate for
the take of the sand skink by the purchase of 2.0 mitigation credits
within the Hatchineha Conservation Bank.
Preferred Materials, Inc. (Conrad Yelvington Distributers)
Preferred Materials, Inc. (Conrad Yelvington Distributers) is
requesting take of approximately .68 ac of occupied Florida scrub-jay
foraging and sheltering habitat incidental to construction of an
industrial park, and they seek a 3-year permit. The 15-ac project is
located on parcel #04-19-30-16-00-000I within Section 4, Township 19
South and Range 30 East, Volusia County, Florida. The project includes
construction of an industrial park and the associated infrastructure,
and landscaping. The applicant proposes to mitigate for the take of the
Florida scrub-jay through the deposit of funds in the amount of
$20,844.72 to the Nature Conservancy's Conservation Fund, for the
management and conservation of the Florida scrub-jay based on Service
Mitigation Guidelines.
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Wickham Summerbrook, LLC
Wickham Summerbrook, LLC is requesting take of approximately 4.64
ac of occupied Florida scrub-jay foraging and sheltering habitat
incidental to construction of a commercial development, and they seek a
5-year permit. The 8.98-ac project is located on parcel #26-37-31-00-
00262.0-0000.00 within Section 31, Township 26 South and Range 37 East,
Brevard County, Florida. The project includes construction of a
commercial development and the associated infrastructure, and
landscaping. The applicant proposes to mitigate for the take of the
Florida scrub-jay through the preservation of approximately 9.5 acres
of high-quality Florida scrub-jay habitat within the Valkaria Site of
the Brevard Coastal Scrub Ecosystem. The Applicant will preserve and
donate six currently unencumbered parcels (Brevard County tax account
numbers 2955405, 2955273, 2955322, 2955313, 2955314, and 2954810) to
the Brevard County Environmentally Endangered Lands (EEL) Program so
that these parcels can be managed and maintained as suitable Florida
scrub-jay habitat in perpetuity. The Applicant will also provide the
EEL Program with a $1,200.00/acre (totaling $11,400.00) management
endowment to ensure the continued success of monitoring and maintaining
these lands as suitable Florida scrub-jay habitat.
Our Preliminary Determination
We have determined that the applicants' proposals, including the
proposed mitigation and minimization measures, would have minor or
negligible effects on the species covered in their HCPs. Therefore, we
determined that the ITPs for each of the applicants are ``low-effect''
projects and qualify for categorical exclusion under the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), as provided by the Department of the
Interior Manual (516 DM 2 Appendix 1 and 516 DM 6 Appendix 1). A low-
effect HCP is one involving (1) Minor or negligible effects on
federally listed or candidate species and their habitats, and (2) minor
or negligible effects on other environmental values or resources.
Next Steps
We will evaluate the HCPs and comments we receive to determine
whether the ITP applications meet the requirements of section 10(a) of
the Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). If we determine that the applications
meet these requirements, we will issue ITP #s TE52650B-0, TE66050B-0,
and TE66047B-0. We will also evaluate whether issuance of the section
10(a)(1)(B) ITP complies with section 7 of the Act by conducting an
intra-Service section 7 consultation. We will use the results of this
consultation, in combination with the above findings, in our final
analysis to determine whether or not to issue the ITPs. If the
requirements are met, we will issue the permits to the applicants.
Public Comments
If you wish to comment on the permit applications, HCPs, and
associated documents, you may submit comments by any one of the methods
in 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 and NEPA
regulations (40 CFR 1506.6).
Dated: June 5, 2015.
Jay B. Herrington,
Field Supervisor, Jacksonville Field Office, Southeast Region.
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