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call the toll-free Title V information line http://www.hud.gov/offices/hsg/sfh/ Dated: July 31, 2006. at 1–800–927–7588. mhs/mhshome.cfm. Frank L. Davis, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In Alternately, interested parties may General Deputy Assistant Secretary for accordance with the December 12, 1998 contact Elsie Draughn of the Office of Housing. court order in National Coalition for the Manufactured Housing Programs at [FR Doc. E6–12665 Filed 8–3–06; 8:45 am] Homeless v. Veterans Administration, (202) 708–6423 (this is not a toll-free BILLING CODE 4210–67–P No. 88–2503–OG (D.D.C.), HUD number) for conference call information. publishes a Notice, on a weekly basis, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: identifying unutilized, underutilized, William W. Matchneer III, Associate DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR excess and surplus Federal buildings Deputy Assistant Secretary, Office of and real property that HUD has Regulatory Affairs and Manufactured Fish and Wildlife Service reviewed for suitability for use to assist Housing, Department of Housing and the homeless. Today’s Notice is for the Notice of Availability of an Urban Development, 451 7th Street, purpose of announcing that no Environmental Assessment and SW., Washington, DC 20410, telephone additional properties have been Receipt of an Application for an (202) 708–6409 (this is not a toll-free determined suitable or unsuitable this Incidental Take Permit for the number). Persons who have difficulty week. Woodville Solid Waste Disposal Site hearing or speaking may access this Expansion Project in Tulare County, Dated: July 27, 2006. number via TTY by calling the toll-free CA Mark R. Johnston, Federal Information Relay Service at Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special (800) 877–8339. AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Needs. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of Interior. [FR Doc. 06–6617 Filed 8–3–06; 8:45 am] this meeting is provided in accordance ACTION: Notice of availability and BILLING CODE 4210–67–M with Sections 10(a) and (b) of the receipt of application. Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 2) and 41 CFR 102–3.150. SUMMARY: The County of Tulare DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND The Manufactured Housing Consensus Resource Management Agency, Solid URBAN DEVELOPMENT Committee was established under Waste Division (Applicant) has applied to the Fish and Wildlife Service [Docket No. FR–4665–N–32] Section 604(a)(3) of the National Manufactured Housing Construction (Service) for an incidental take permit Conference Call Meeting of the and Safety Standards Act of 1974, as pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(B) of the Manufactured Housing Consensus amended, 42 U.S.C. 5403(a)(3). The Endangered Species Act of 1973, as Committee Committee is charged with providing amended (Act). The Service is recommendations to the Secretary to considering the issuance of a 41-year AGENCY: Office of the Assistant adopt, revise, and interpret permit to the Applicant that would Secretary for Housing—Federal Housing manufactured home construction and authorize take of nine species incidental Commissioner, HUD. safety standards and procedural and to the Applicant’s proposed landfill ACTION: Notice of upcoming meeting via enforcement regulations, and with expansion and operation, groundwater conference call. developing and recommending monitoring activities, and conservation proposed model installation standards management activities at the Woodville SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the to the Secretary. Solid Waste Disposal Site in Tulare schedule and proposed agenda of the County, CA. These activities on the 414- upcoming meetings of the Manufactured The purpose of the conference call acre project area would result in the loss Housing Consensus Committee (the meeting is to permit the Committee, at of up to 131 acres of covered species Committee) to be held via telephone its request, to discuss and take action on habitat. conference. The meetings are open to the submission of its comments to the We request comments from the public the general public, which may Office of General Counsel, Department on the permit application and an participate by following the instructions of Housing and Urban Development, in Environmental Assessment, both of below. response to the June 14, 2006, Federal which are available for review. The Register notice on (Title 24, Code of DATES: The conference call meetings permit application includes the Federal Regulation, Part 3286— proposed Habitat Conservation Plan will be held on Monday, August 14, Manufactured Home Installation 2006, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. eastern (Plan) and an accompanying Program; Proposed Rule). It is necessary Implementing Agreement. The Plan daylight time, and Friday, August 18, to have these meetings on these dates, 2006, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. eastern describes the proposed project and the to permit the Committee to take action measures that the Applicant would daylight time. on this matter in a timely manner. ADDRESSES: Information concerning the undertake to minimize and mitigate take conference call can be obtained from the Tentative Agenda of the covered species. DATES: Written comments should be Department’s Consensus Committee A. Roll Call. Administering Organization, the received on or before October 3, 2006. B. Welcome and opening remarks. National Fire Protection Association ADDRESSES: Please address written (NFPA). Interested parties can link onto C. Full Committee meeting to discuss comments to Lori Rinek, Chief, the NFPA’s Web site for instructions and take actions to provide Conservation Planning and Recovery concerning how to participate, and for comments in response to the Division, Fish and Wildlife Service, contact information for the conference Federal Register Notice on 24 CFR Sacramento Fish and Wildlife Office, call from a HUD Web site, in the section Part 3286–Manufactured Home 2800 Cottage Way, W–2605, marked ‘‘Business’’ ‘‘Manufactured Installation Program; Proposed Sacramento, California 95825. Housing Consensus Committee Rule. Comments may also be sent by facsimile Information’’. The link can be found at: D. Adjournment. to 916–414–6713.

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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: the conservation benefits provided for management activities, and ongoing Jesse Wild, Fish and Wildlife Biologist, them under the Plan. These species farming activities on the agricultural or Lori Rinek, Chief, Conservation would also receive ‘‘No Surprises’’ area. Additionally, a research program Planning and Recovery Division, assurances under the Service’s ‘‘No will be implemented to study the Sacramento Fish and Wildlife Office, at Surprises’’ regulation (50 CFR structure, dynamics, and ecology of 916–414–6600. 17.22(b)(5) and 17.32(b)(5)). alkali scalds. This research program has SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Collectively, the 13 listed and unlisted been accepted by the Service as an species are referred to as the ‘‘covered appropriate action for the adaptive Availability of Documents species’’ in the Plan. management of vernal pool fairy shrimp Copies of these documents can be The Applicant proposes to expand its and mid-valley fairy shrimp due to the obtained for review by contacting the existing landfill, the Woodville Solid uncertainty regarding the species’ individuals named above [see FOR Waste Disposal Site, which has nearly presence and life history in the alkali FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT]. reached capacity. Project activities that pool type found in the project area. This Documents also will be available for are proposed for coverage under the research is designed to determine public inspection, by appointment, Plan consist of the following occurrence of fairy shrimp species in during normal business hours at the components: (1) The development of this habitat type and study the physical Sacramento Fish and Wildlife Office additional waste management units nature of alkali scalds to identify the [see ADDRESSES]. (landfill); (2) implementation of a specific parameters that promote or groundwater testing and monitoring restrict species occurrence. Background program; (3) construction of operations The Service’s Environmental Section 9 of the Act and Federal facilities and creation of a borrow area, Assessment considers the regulations prohibit the ‘‘take’’ of fish a retention basin, and a potential ground environmental consequences of three and wildlife species listed as water remediation area; (4) alternatives. The Proposed Project endangered or threatened. Take of establishment of conservation areas to Alternative consists of the issuance of federally listed fish or wildlife is compensate for impacts on covered the incidental take permit and defined under the Act to include the species habitat; and (5) management implementation of the Plan and following activities: harass, harm, activities on the conservation areas, Implementing Agreement for the pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, including continued agricultural Applicant’s proposed project which capture, or collect, or to attempt to operations in one area and includes the activities described above. engage in any such conduct. The implementation of possible fire This preferred alternative would take Service may, under limited management activities. The facility is 53.32 acres of grassland habitat and circumstances, issue permits to projected to reach capacity 77.58 acres of agricultural habitat. authorize incidental take (i.e., take that approximately 41 years after expansion Mitigation for this alternative includes is incidental to, and not the purpose of, begins. on-site preservation of 158.26 acres of the carrying out of an otherwise lawful Project activities would result in the grassland habitat and 124.95 acres of activity). Regulations governing loss of 53.32 acres of suitable grassland agricultural habitat. Under this incidental take permits for endangered habitat for the covered species alternative, the Applicant also proposes species are found in 50 CFR 17.22. (including 1.77 acres of vernal pool to implement a research program The Applicant is seeking a permit for wetlands) and an additional loss of informing the adaptive management of take of two federally listed species: the 77.58 acres of agricultural habitat which vernal pool shrimp in alkali pool types. endangered San Joaquin kit fox (Vulpes is not likely to function as kit fox Under Alternative 2, a Section 10 macrotis mutica) and the threatened denning habitat, but which can be used permit would be issued and the multi- vernal pool fairy shrimp (Branchinecta by kit foxes for foraging or movement. species Plan and Implementing lynchi). The proposed permit would Western burrowing owls and the Agreement would be implemented for also authorize future incidental take of covered plant species were observed in an alternative proposed project which seven currently unlisted animal species: the project area. No other covered comprises the same components as western burrowing owl (Athene animal species was known to occur at described in the Proposed Project cunicularia hypugea), midvalley fairy the time of reconnaissance surveys, Alternative except for the shrimp (Branchinecta mesovallensis), although suitable habitat exists and the implementation of an alkali scalds San Joaquin tiger beetle (Cicindela site may be used for foraging and/or research program. Because the research tranquebarica), Hopping’s blister beetle reproduction. The construction and program itself would not affect any of (Lytta hoppingi), moestan blister beetle operation of the facilities is unlikely to the resources analyzed in the EA, the (Lytta moesta), molestan blister beetle result in direct mortality or injury of impacts associated with implementation (Lytta molesta), and Morrison’s blister San Joaquin kit foxes, but may result in of Alternative 2 are identical to those beetle (Lytta morrisoni). The following take in the form of harassment. described for the Proposed Project four unlisted plant species are also The Applicant proposes to implement Alternative. proposed to be included on the permit: specific on-site measures to avoid and Under the No Action alternative, no erect-stemmed heartscale (Atriplex minimize take and associated adverse Section 10 permit would be issued and erecticaulis), lesser saltscale (Atriplex project impacts to covered species. The the multi-species HCP would not be miniscula), San Joaquin brittlescale Applicant also proposes to mitigate for implemented. This alternative would (Atriplex subtilis), and recurved take by establishing two permanent result in the closure of the Woodville larkspur (Delphinium recurvatum), conservation areas; deed restrictions landfill facility and implementation of a should any of these species become will be established on 158.26 acres of final landfill closure plan in accordance listed under the Act during the life of grassland (which include 5.35 acres of with applicable regulations. The the permit. Take of listed plant species vernal pools) and on 124.95 acres of Woodville landfill would permanently is not prohibited under the Act and agricultural habitat suitable for kit fox close and no conservation areas would cannot be authorized under a section 10 foraging. Activities associated with be established. The closure plan would permit. However, plant species may be management of the conservation areas require the establishment of a borrow included on the permit in recognition of include survey activities, possible fire area for the dirt necessary to properly

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build and close the existing landfill, permit, pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(B) Road, Carlsbad, California 92011. You which would result in the loss of of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 may also send comments by facsimile to special-status plant species and suitable as amended (ESA), including telephone 760–431–5902. habitat for covered animal species. consideration of conservation measures FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Groundwater monitoring activities for State-listed species to address the Carol Roberts, Division Chief/Salton Sea could also adversely affect vegetation effects of the conservation and transfer Coordinator, at the above address, or by and wildlife. No conservation areas of water from Imperial Irrigation District phone at 760–431–9440. would be protected. (IID) to the San Diego County Water SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: IID is a A number of other project alternatives Authority (SDCWA) and Coachella customer-owned utility that provides that would meet the County’s need to Valley Water District (CVWD). The irrigation water and power to the lower provide increased refuse disposal were Habitat Conservation Plan will cover a southeastern portion of the California also considered and eliminated for broad array of activities including: water desert. IID was established in 1911 to reasons described in the Environmental conservation, water conveyance and deliver Colorado River water to lands Assessment. drainage, operation and maintenance of within the Imperial Valley, California, This notice is provided pursuant to the water conveyance system, system for agricultural, domestic, industrial, section 10(a) of the Act and the improvements, miscellaneous activities, and other beneficial uses. IID maintains regulations of the National and third party activities required to a complex system of delivery canals, Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of achieve the conservation and transfer of laterals, and drains that serve over 1969 (40 CFR 1506.6). All comments up to 200,000 acre-feet of water per year 450,000 acres of intensive agriculture. that we receive, including names and to the SDCWA and 100,000 acre-feet per Agricultural drainage flows into the addresses, will become part of the year to the CVWD, and to meet the New and Alamo Rivers and into the official administrative record and may voluntary cap on IID’s water use of 3.1 Salton Sea, a designated repository for be made available to the public. We will million acre-feet per year from the agricultural drainage. evaluate the application, associated Colorado River. The IID (Applicant) On April 29, 1998, IID and SDCWA documents, and comments submitted intends to request an incidental take executed an agreement for the thereon to determine whether the permit for up to 96 listed and unlisted conservation and transfer of up to application meets the requirements of species of concern under specific 300,000 acre-feet of Colorado River NEPA regulations and section 10(a) of provisions of the permit. In the case of water per year from IID to SDCWA. the Act. If we determine that those unlisted species, the permit would Subsequent negotiations with other requirements are met, we will issue a provide coverage should these species Colorado River water rights holders in permit to the Applicant for the be listed in the future. California resulted in the transfer The Service provides this notice incidental take of the covered species. amount to SDCWA being reduced to a pursuant to the Council on We will make our final permit decision maximum of 200,000 acre-feet per year Environmental Quality Regulations for no sooner than 60 days from the date of with the other 100,000 acre-feet per year Implementing the Procedural Provisions this notice. going to the CVWD under the of the NEPA. The purpose of the Dated: July 31, 2006. Quantification Settlement Agreement. Supplemental EIS/EIR is to provide any Ken McDermond, As part of this agreement, IID is additional environmental assessment implementing a conservation program Deputy Manager, California/Nevada required to evaluate additions and Operations Office, Sacramento, California. that includes the participation of changes to the Water Conservation and Imperial Valley landowners and tenants [FR Doc. E6–12592 Filed 8–3–06; 8:45 am] Transfer Project (Project) that have so that on-farm as well as system-based BILLING CODE 4310–55–P occurred since the approval of the Final conservation can be implemented to EIS/EIR by the Bureau of Reclamation achieve the required level of (Federal lead agency for the Project) and DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR conservation. This transfer is a key part to support the application for an of the California 4.4 Plan that will result incidental take permit pursuant to Fish and Wildlife Service in California water agencies using only section 10(a)(1)(B) of the ESA by the their 4.4 million acre-foot Service. The Service is seeking Preparation of a Supplemental apportionment of the Colorado River. suggestions and information from other Environmental Impact Statement/ California has been diverting up to 5.2 agencies, affected tribes, and the public Environmental Impact Report in million acre-feet of Colorado River on the scope of issues to be considered Support of an Application for the water per year. Issuance of an Incidental Take Permit in preparation of the Supplemental EIS/ IID, as the CEQA lead agency, and the to the Imperial Irrigation District, EIR. To satisfy both Federal and State Bureau of Reclamation, as the NEPA Imperial County, California environmental policy requirements, the lead agency, jointly issued a Draft EIR/ Service as Federal lead agency and the AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, EIS for the Project dated January 2002. IID as State lead agency under the The Bureau of Reclamation prepared Interior. California Environmental Quality Act ACTION: Notice of intent. and filed with the Environmental (CEQA) are conducting this joint Protection Agency an integrated Final scoping process for the preparation of SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National EIR/EIS dated October 2002. Prior to the Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the the supplemental environmental Secretary of the Interior’s issuance of a Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) document. Record of Decision on October 10, 2003, advises the public that we intend to DATES: The Service requests all scoping relating to the Federal actions associated gather information necessary to prepare comments on this notice be received on with the Project, the Bureau of a Supplemental Environmental Impact or before September 5, 2006. Reclamation approved an Statement/Environmental Impact Report ADDRESSES: Written comments should Environmental Evaluation dated (EIS/EIR) for the consideration of a be addressed to Ms. Therese O’Rourke, October 2003 that evaluated certain Habitat Conservation Plan and Assistant Field Supervisor, Fish and changes to the Project subsequent to application for an incidental take Wildlife Service, 6010 Hidden Valley their Final EIR/EIS.

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