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Center at https://msc.fema.gov for (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. comparison. 97.022, ‘‘Flood Insurance.’’) Michael M. , Assistant Administrator for Risk Management, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency.

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Craighead County, Arkansas and Incorporated Areas Project: 18–06–0001S Preliminary Date: June 30, 2020

City of Bay ...... City Hall, 220 Elder Street, Bay, AR 72411. City of Bono ...... City Hall, 241 East College Street, Bono, AR 72416. City of Brookland ...... City Hall, 613 Holman, Brookland, AR 72417. City of Caraway ...... City Hall, 102 East State Street, Caraway, AR 72419. City of Cash ...... City Hall, 4391 Highway 18, Cash, AR 72421. City of Jonesboro ...... City Hall, 300 South Church Street, Jonesboro, AR 72401. City of Lake City ...... City Hall, 406 Court Street, Lake City, AR 72437. City of Monette ...... City Hall, 1 Drew Avenue, Monette, AR 72447. Town of Egypt ...... Town Hall, 11063 Highway 91, Egypt, AR 72427. Unincorporated Areas of Craighead County ...... Craighead County Annex, 511 Union, Room 119, Jonesboro, AR 72401.

Hyde County, North Carolina and Incorporated Areas Project: 11–04–0730S Preliminary Date: November 30, 2018

Unincorporated Areas of Hyde County ...... Hyde County Government Center, 30 Oyster Creek Road, Swan Quar- ter, NC 27885.

[FR Doc. 2020–26481 Filed 11–30–20; 8:45 am] conducted during this permit term will draft EA, or any combination of the BILLING CODE 9110–12–P inform the need for future avoidance or aforementioned documents, or other a new long-term ITP that will comply supporting documents. You may submit with a new NEPA analysis and habitat written comments by one of the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR conservation plan (HCP). The applicant following methods: has prepared a HCP that describes the • Online: http://www.regulations.gov. Fish and Wildlife Service actions and measures that the applicant Search for and submit comments on would implement to avoid, minimize, [FWS–R3–ES–2020–0136; Docket No. FWS–R3–ES–2020–0136. FXES11140300000–201] and mitigate incidental take of the covered species for the first 6 years. We • By hard copy: Submit comments by Draft Environmental Assessment and also announce the availability of a draft U.S. mail to Public Comments Proposed Habitat Conservation Plan; environmental assessment, which has Processing, Attn: Docket No. FWS–R3– Receipt of an Application for an been prepared in response to the permit ES–2020–0136; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Incidental Take Permit, High Prairie application in accordance with the Service; 5275 Leesburg Pike, MS: PRB/ Wind Energy Facility, Schuyler and requirements of the National 3W; Falls Church, VA 22041–3803. Adair Counties, Missouri Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). We request public comment on the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, application, which includes the Karen Herrington, Field Supervisor, Interior. applicant’s proposed HCP, the Service’s Columbia Missouri Ecological Services ACTION: Notice of availability; request draft environmental assessment, Field Office, U.S. Fish and Wildlife for comment and information. prepared pursuant to NEPA and Service, 101 Park DeVille Drive, Suite A, Columbia, MO 65203; telephone: SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and associated documents. We provide this Wildlife Service (Service), have received notice to seek review and comment from 573–234–2132. an application from TG High Prairie, the public and Federal, Tribal, State and Individuals who are hearing impaired LLC (applicant) for an incidental take local governments. or speech impaired may call the Federal permit (ITP) under the DATES: We will accept comments Relay Service at 1–800–877–8339 for Species Act (ESA), for its High Prairie received or postmarked on or before TTY assistance. Wind Energy Facility. If approved, the December 31, 2020. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We, the ITP would be for a 6-year period and ADDRESSES: would authorize the incidental take of Document availability: Electronic U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), covered species, including the copies of the documents this notice have received an application from TG endangered Indiana bat, threatened announces, as well as public comments High Prairie LLC (applicant) for an northern long-eared bat, and the little we receive, will be available online in incidental take permit (ITP) under the brown bat, currently under Docket No. FWS–R3–ES–2020–0136 at Endangered Species Act of 1973, as discretionary review. While the ITP is http://www.regulations.gov. amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), for 6 years, the wind energy project is Comment submission: In your for its High Prairie Wind Energy facility scheduled to be operational for thirty comment, please specify whether your (facility). The facility is located in years and intensive monitoring comment addresses the proposed HCP,

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Schuyler and Adair Counties, Missouri, certain to occur incidental to operation on the proposed HCP, draft EA and and consists of 163 2.2-megawatt (MW) of 175 previously constructed wind supporting documents during a 30-day turbines and 12 3.45–MW turbines. If turbines in Schuyler and Adair public comment period (see DATES). In approved, the ITP would be for a 6-year Counties, Missouri, consisting of particular, information and comments period and would authorize the approximately 113,873 acres of private regarding the following topics are incidental take of covered species, land. The proposed conservation requested: including the federally endangered strategy in the applicant’s proposed 1. Whether adaptive management, Indiana bat, federally threatened HCP is designed to avoid, minimize, monitoring and mitigation provisions in northern long-eared bat, and the little and mitigate the impacts of the covered the Proposed Action alternative are brown bat (LBB), currently under activity on the covered species. The sufficient; discretionary review. The little brown biological goals and objectives are to 2. Any threats to the Indiana bat, the bat is not federally protected, but is minimize potential take of covered northern long-eared bat and the little currently being evaluated for protection species through onsite minimization brown bat that may influence their under the ESA. The applicant has measures and to provide habitat populations over the life of the ITP that chosen to include the LBB as a covered conservation measures to offset any are not addressed in the proposed HCP species, and as such, it will be treated impacts from operations of the project. or draft EA; as if it were currently listed under the The High Prairie Wind site includes 3. Any new information on white- ESA. The ITP, if issued, would multiple confirmed summer maternity nose syndrome effects on the Indiana authorize incidental take of the covered roosts or colonies for the covered bat, the northern long-eared bat and the species that may occur as a result of the species and is more than 65 miles from little brown bat; operation of 175 wind turbines over a the Sodalis Nature Preserve (largest 4. Any information that could help six-year period. The applicant has known Indiana bat hibernaculum). The inform future operating parameters to prepared a habitat conservation plan HCP provides onsite avoidance and avoid impacts to listed bats (beyond (HCP) that describes the actions and minimization measures, which include ceasing operations at night). A specific measures that the applicant would turbine operational adjustments. The data set that would be useful would be implement to avoid, minimize, and estimated level of take from the project one correlating all bat activity to mitigate incidental take of the covered is 72 Indiana bats, 96 little brown bats, temperature and weather parameters; species. We also announce the and 18 northern long-eared bats over the 5. Any new information about colony availability of a draft environmental 6-year permit term. To offset the grouping and the timing in which bats assessment (DEA), which has been impacts of the taking of covered species, leave their summer areas (to further prepared in response to the permit the applicant proposes to protect 211.1 refine maternity colony adaptive application in accordance with the acres of known maternity colony management strategy dates); requirements of the National habitat, in perpetuity, through the 6. Any specific parameters or Environmental Policy Act (NEPA; 42 Service-approved Chariton Hills suggestions to further refine population U.S.C. 4321 et seq.). We request public Conservation Bank located in Adair and models (in the EA); comment on the application and Schuyler Counties. 7. Whether or not the significance of associated documents. the impact on various aspects of the National Environmental Policy Act human environment has been Background The issuance of an ITP is a Federal adequately analyzed; and Section 9 of the ESA and its action that triggers the need for 8. Any other information pertinent to implementing regulations prohibit the compliance with NEPA. We prepared a evaluating the effects of the proposed ‘‘take’’ of animal species listed as draft EA that analyzes the action on the human environment, endangered or threatened. Take is environmental impacts on the human including those on the Indiana bat, the defined under the ESA as to ‘‘harass, environment resulting from three northern long-eared bat and the little harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, alternatives: A no-action alternative, the brown bat. trap, capture, or collect [listed animal applicant’s proposed action, and a more Because this permit application was species,] or to attempt to engage in any restrictive alternative consisting of sufficiently complete prior to the such conduct’’ (16 U.S.C. 1532). feathering turbines at a rate of wind effective date of the new NEPA However, under section 10(a) of the speed that results in less impacts to regulations, we are exercising our ESA, we may issue permits to authorize bats. discretion to conduct our NEPA analysis incidental take of listed species. under the regulations in effect prior to ‘‘Incidental take’’ is defined by the ESA Next Steps September 14, 2020. as take that is incidental to, and not the The Service will evaluate the permit Availability of Public Comments purpose of, carrying out an otherwise application and the comments received lawful activity (16 U.S.C. 1539). to determine whether the application You may submit comments by one of Regulations governing incidental take meets the requirements of section 10(a) the methods shown under ADDRESSES. permits for endangered and threatened of the ESA. We will also conduct an We will post on http://regulations.gov species, respectively, are found in the intra-Service consultation pursuant to all public comments and information Code of Federal Regulations at 50 CFR section 7 of the ESA to evaluate the received electronically or via hardcopy. 17.22 and 50 CFR 17.32. effects of the proposed take. After All comments received, including considering the above findings, we will names and addresses, will become part Applicant’s Proposed Project determine whether the permit issuance of the administrative record associated The applicant requests a 6-year ITP criteria of section 10(a)(l)(B) of the ESA with this action. Before including your for turbine operations that will result in have been met. If met, the Service will address, phone number, email address, take of the federally endangered Indiana issue the requested ITP to the applicant. or other personal identifying bat, federally threatened northern long- information in your comment, you eared bat, and the little brown bat Request for Public Comments should be aware that your entire (covered species). The applicant The Service invites comments and comment—including your personal determined that take is reasonably suggestions from all interested parties identifying information—may be made

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publicly available at any time. While Electronic Document Information (v) explain how the requested you can request in your comment that System (EDIS) at https://edis.usitc.gov. remedial orders would impact United we withhold your personal identifying Hearing-impaired persons are advised States consumers. information from public review, we that information on this matter can be Written submissions on the public cannot guarantee that we will be able to obtained by contacting the interest must be filed no later than by do so. All submissions from Commission’s TDD terminal on (202) close of business, eight calendar days organizations or businesses, and from 205–1810. after the date of publication of this individuals identifying themselves as SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The notice in the Federal Register. There representatives or officials of Commission has received a complaint will be further opportunities for organizations or businesses, will be and a submission pursuant to § 210.8(b) comment on the public interest after the made available for public disclosure in of the Commission’s Rules of Practice issuance of any final initial their entirety. and Procedure filed on behalf of Traeger determination in this investigation. Any written submissions on other issues Authority Pellet Grills LLC on November 25, 2020. The complaint alleges violations of must also be filed by no later than the We provide this notice under section section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930 (19 close of business, eight calendar days 10(c) of the ESA (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) U.S.C. 1337) in the importation into the after publication of this notice in the and its implementing regulations (50 United States, the sale for importation, Federal Register. Complainant may file CFR 17.22) and the NEPA (42 U.S.C. and the sale within the United States replies to any written submissions no 4321 et seq.) and its implementing after importation of certain cloud- later than three calendar days after the regulations (40 CFR 1506.6 (2019); 43 connected wood-pellet grills and date on which any initial submissions CFR part 46). components thereof. The complaint were due. Any submissions and replies names as respondent: GMG Products filed in response to this Notice are Lori Nordstrom, limited to five (5) pages in length, Assistant Regional Director, Ecological LLC of Lakeside, OR. The complainant requests that the Commission issue a inclusive of attachments. Services. Persons filing written submissions limited exclusion order and cease and [FR Doc. 2020–26520 Filed 11–30–20; 8:45 am] must file the original document desist order, and impose a bond upon BILLING CODE 4333–15–P electronically on or before the deadlines respondent alleged infringing articles stated above. Submissions should refer during the 60-day Presidential review to the docket number (‘‘Docket No. period pursuant to 19 U.S.C. 1337(j). INTERNATIONAL TRADE 3510’’) in a prominent place on the Proposed respondents, other COMMISSION cover page and/or the first page. (See interested parties, and members of the Handbook for Electronic Filing public are invited to file comments on Notice of Receipt of Complaint; Procedures, Electronic Filing any public interest issues raised by the Solicitation of Comments Relating to Procedures 1). Please note the complaint or § 210.8(b) filing. the Public Interest Secretary’s Office will accept only Comments should address whether electronic filings during this time. AGENCY: U.S. International Trade issuance of the relief specifically Filings must be made through the Commission. requested by the complainant in this Commission’s Electronic Document ACTION: Notice. investigation would affect the public Information System (EDIS, https:// health and welfare in the United States, edis.usitc.gov). No in-person paper- SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that competitive conditions in the United based filings or paper copies of any the U.S. International Trade States economy, the production of like electronic filings will be accepted until Commission has received a complaint or directly competitive articles in the further notice. Persons with questions entitled Certain Cloud-Connected United States, or United States regarding filing should contact the Wood-Pellet Grills and Components consumers. Secretary at [email protected]. Thereof, DN 3510; the Commission is In particular, the Commission is Any person desiring to submit a soliciting comments on any public interested in comments that: document to the Commission in interest issues raised by the complaint (i) Explain how the articles confidence must request confidential or complainant’s filing pursuant to the potentially subject to the requested treatment. All such requests should be Commission’s Rules of Practice and remedial orders are used in the United directed to the Secretary to the Procedure. States; Commission and must include a full FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: (ii) identify any public health, safety, Lisa statement of the reasons why the or welfare concerns in the United States R. Barton, Secretary to the Commission, Commission should grant such relating to the requested remedial U.S. International Trade Commission, treatment. See 19 CFR 201.6. Documents orders; 500 E Street SW, Washington, DC for which confidential treatment by the (iii) identify like or directly 20436, telephone (202) 205–2000. The Commission is properly sought will be competitive articles that complainant, public version of the complaint can be treated accordingly. All information, its licensees, or third parties make in the accessed on the Commission’s including confidential business United States which could replace the Electronic Document Information information and documents for which subject articles if they were to be System (EDIS) at https://edis.usitc.gov. confidential treatment is properly excluded; For help accessing EDIS, please email sought, submitted to the Commission for (iv) indicate whether complainant, [email protected]. purposes of this Investigation may be complainant’s licensees, and/or third General information concerning the disclosed to and used: (i) By the party suppliers have the capacity to Commission may also be obtained by Commission, its employees and Offices, replace the volume of articles accessing its internet server at United and contract personnel (a) for States International Trade Commission potentially subject to the requested (USITC) at https://www.usitc.gov. The exclusion order and/or a cease and 1 Handbook for Electronic Filing Procedures: public record for this investigation may desist order within a commercially https://www.usitc.gov/documents/handbook_on_ be viewed on the Commission’s reasonable time; and filing_procedures.pdf.

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