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77234 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 231 / Tuesday, December 1, 2020 / Notices Center at https://msc.fema.gov for (Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance No. comparison. 97.022, ‘‘Flood Insurance.’’) Michael M. Grimm, Assistant Administrator for Risk Management, Department of Homeland Security, Federal Emergency Management Agency. Community Community map repository address 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 Endangered 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, VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:31 Nov 30, 2020 Jkt 253001 PO 00000 Frm 00096 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\01DEN1.SGM 01DEN1 khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with NOTICES4 Federal Register / Vol. 85, No. 231 / Tuesday, December 1, 2020 / Notices 77235 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,