Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 231 / Friday, December 2, 2005 / Notices 72307

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND cylindrical (Lioplax Restoring an endangered or URBAN DEVELOPMENT cyclostomaformis), flat pebblesnail threatened or plant to the point (Lepyriam showalteri), and plicate where it is again a secure, self- [Docket No. FR–4980–N–48] rocksnail ( ampla); and the sustaining member of its ecosystem is a Federal Property Suitable as Facilities threatened (Leptoxis primary goal of the endangered To Assist the Homeless taeniata), round rocksnail (Leptoxis program. To help guide the recovery ampla), and lacy (Elimia effort, we are preparing recovery plans AGENCY: Office of the Assistant crenatella). All are endemic to the for most listed species. Recovery plans Secretary for Community Planning and Basin (Basin) where they describe actions considered necessary Development, HUD. inhabit shoals, rapids and riffles of large for conservation of the species, establish ACTION: Notice. streams and rivers above the Fall Line. criteria for downlisting or delisting, and All six species have disappeared from estimate time and cost for implementing SUMMARY: This Notice identifies more than 90 percent of their historic recovery measures. unutilized, underutilized, excess, and ranges as a result of impoundment, The Act requires the development of surplus Federal property reviewed by channelization, mining, dredging, and recovery plans for listed species, unless HUD for suitability for possible use to pollution from point and non-point such a plan would not promote the assist the homeless. sources. The final recovery plan conservation of a particular species. EFFECTIVE DATE: December 2, 2005. includes specific recovery objectives Section 4(f) of the Act requires us to FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: and criteria to be met in order to provide public notice and an Kathy Ezzell, Department of Housing reclassify (downlist) the cylindrical opportunity for public review and and Urban Development, Room 7262, lioplax, flat pebblesnail, and plicate comment during recovery plan 451 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, rocksnail to threatened species and for development. A notice of availability of DC 20410; telephone (202) 708–1234; the eventual delisting of all six species the technical agency draft recovery plan TTY number for the hearing- and under the Endangered Species Act of for six Mobile Basin aquatic snails was speech-impaired (202) 708–2565, (these 1973, as amended (Act). published in the Federal Register on telephone numbers are not toll-free), or ADDRESSES: You may obtain a copy of January 18, 2005 (70 FR 2879). A 60-day call the toll-free Title V information line this recovery plan by contacting the comment period was opened with the at 1–800–927–7588. Jackson Field Office, U.S. Fish and notice, closing on March 21, 2005. We SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In Wildlife Service, 6578 Dogwood View received comments from two interested accordance with the December 12, 1988 Parkway, Jackson, MS 39213 (telephone parties. Comments and information court order in National Coalition for the 601/965–4900), or by visiting our submitted were considered in the Homeless v. Veterans Administration, recovery plan Web site at http:// preparation of this final plan and, where No. 88–2503–OG (D.D.C.), HUD endangered.fws.gov/recovery/ appropriate, incorporated. publishes a Notice, on a weekly basis, index.html#plans. The cylindrical lioplax, flat identifying unutilized, underutilized, pebblesnail, and , will FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul excess, and surplus Federal buildings be considered for reclassification to Hartfield (telephone 601/321–1125). and real property that HUD has threatened status when the following reviewed for suitability for use to assist SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: criteria are met: 1. The existing population has been the homeless. Today’s Notice is for the Background purpose of announcing that no shown to be stable or increasing over a additional properties have been On October 28, 1998, (63 FR 57610), period of 10 years (2 to 5 generations). determined suitable or unsuitable this we listed six aquatic snails, in the This may be measured by numbers/area, week. Mobile River Basin, as threatened catch per unit/effort, or other methods (painted rocksnail, round rocksnail, lacy developed through population Dated: November 23, 2005. elimia) or endangered (cylindrical monitoring, and must be demonstrated Mark R. Johnston, lioplax, flat pebblesnail, plicate through annual monitoring. Director, Office of Special Needs Assistance rocksnail) under the Act. These six 2. There are no apparent or immediate Programs. snails are endemic to portions of the threats to the listed population (see [FR Doc. 05–23466 Filed 12–1–05; 8:45 am] Mobile River Basin in central . Listing/Recovery Criteria, below). BILLING CODE 4210–29–M The cylindrical lioplax, flat pebblesnail, 3. A captive population has been and round rocksnail are found in the established at an appropriate facility, drainage; the lacy elimia and the species has been successfully DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR and painted rocksnail are in the Coosa propagated. River drainage; and the plicate rocksnail 4. A minimum of two additional Fish and Wildlife Service is in the Black Warrior River drainage. populations have been established (or These snails require rock, boulder, or discovered) within historic range. Notice of Availability of a Final cobble substrates and clean, unpolluted The lacy elimia, round rocksnail, Recovery Plan for Six Mobile Basin water and are found on shoals and painted rocksnail, cylindrical lioplax, Aquatic Snails riffles of large streams and rivers. flat pebblesnail, and plicate rocksnail AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Impoundment and water quality will be considered for delisting when: Interior. degradation have eliminated the six 1. A minimum of three natural or re- ACTION: Notice of document availability. snails from 90 percent or more of their established populations have been historic habitat. Known populations are shown to be persistent (i.e., stable or SUMMARY: We, the Fish and Wildlife restricted to small portions of stream increasing) for a period of 10 years (2 to Service, announce the availability of the drainages. These surviving populations 5 generations). final recovery plan for six Mobile Basin are currently threatened by pollutants 2. There are no apparent or immediate aquatic snails. The six snails included such as sediments and nutrients that threats to the populations (see Listing/ in the recovery plan are: the endangered wash into streams from the land surface. Recovery Factor Criteria, below).

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