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hours of response: 350 PHAs will be and Universities Program grants information to: (1) Evaluate whether the surveyed. Average time to complete the application and grants management. proposed collection of information is survey is 60 minutes. Respondents will Grants assist Tribal Colleges and necessary for the proper performance of only be contacted once. Total burden Universities to build, expand, renovate, the functions of the agency, including hours are 350. and equip their own facilities. whether the information will have Status of the proposed information DATES: Comments Due Date: January 27, practical utility; (2) evaluate the collection: Pending OMB approval. 2005. accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the Authority: Section 3506 of the Paperwork ADDRESSES: Interested persons are burden of the proposed collection of Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. Chapter 35, invited to submit comments regarding information; (3) enhance the quality, as amended. this proposal. Comments should refer to utility, and clarity of the information to Dated: December 20, 2004 the proposal by name and/or OMB be collected; and (4) minimize the Dennis C. Shea, approval Number (2528–0215) and burden of the collection of information on those who are to respond; including Assistant Secretary for Policy Development should be sent to: HUD Desk Officer, and Research. Office of Management and Budget, New through the use of appropriate automated collection techniques or [FR Doc. 04–28281 Filed 12–27–04; 8:45 am] Executive Office Building, Washington, DC 20503; fax: 202–395–6974. other forms of information technology, BILLING CODE 4210–62–M e.g., permitting electronic submission of FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: responses. Wayne Eddins, Reports Management DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND Officer, AYO, Department of Housing This notice also lists the following URBAN DEVELOPMENT and Urban Development, 451 Seventh information: Title of Proposal: Tribal Colleges and [Docket No. FR–4903-N–104] Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410; e- mail [email protected]; or Universities Program. Notice of Submission of Proposed Lillian Deitzer at OMB Approval Number: 2528–0215. Information Collection to OMB; Tribal [email protected] or Form Numbers: SF–424, SF–424 Colleges and Universities Program telephone (202) 708–2374. This is not a Supplement, HUD–424CB, SFLLL, toll-free number. Copies of available HUD–27300, HUD–2880, HUD–2994, AGENCY: Office of the Chief Information documents submitted to OMB may be HUD–32004 and HUD–96010, HUD– Officer, HUD. obtained from Mr. Eddins or Ms Deitzer 96010–1. ACTION: Notice. and at HUD’s Web site at http:// Description of the Need for the www5.hud.gov:63001/po/i/icbts/ SUMMARY: The proposed information Information and Its Proposed Use: HUD collectionsearch.cfm. collection requirement described below is request approval to continue to has been submitted to the Office of SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This collect this information facilitate the Management and Budget (OMB) for notice informs the public that the Tribal Colleges and Universities review, as required by the Paperwork Department of Housing and Urban Program grants application and grants Reduction Act. The Department is Development has submitted to OMB a management. Grants assist Tribal soliciting public comments on the request for approval of the information Colleges and Universities to build, subject proposal. collection described below. This notice expand, renovate, and equip their own HUD is requesting approval to is soliciting comments from members of facilities. continue to collect this information the public and affecting agencies Frequency of Submission: On which to facilitates the Tribal Colleges concerning the proposed collection of occasion, Quarterly.

Number of re- Annual re- × Hours per re- spondents sponses sponse = Burden hours

Reporting burden: ...... 24 4.33 × 21.92 = 2,280.

Total Estimated Burden Hours: 2,280. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR ADDRESSES: Two Rivers Chamber Office, Status: Extension of a currently 1 South Third Street, 9th Floor, Easton, approved collection. Office of the Secretary PA 18042. The agenda for the meeting will focus Authority: Section 3507 of the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage on implementation of the Management Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 Corridor Commission Meeting Action Plan for the Delaware and U.S.C. 35, as amended. Lehigh National Heritage Corridor and Dated: December 17, 2004. AGENCY: Department of Interior, Office State Heritage Park. The Commission of the Secretary. Wayne Eddins, was established to assist the Departmental Reports Management Officer, ACTION: Notice of meeting. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and its Office of the Chief Information Officer. political subdivisions in planning and [FR Doc. E4–3828 Filed 12–27–04; 8:45 am] SUMMARY: This notice announces an implementing an integrated strategy for protecting and promoting cultural, BILLING CODE 4210–72–P upcoming meeting of the Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor historic and natural resources. The Commission. Notice of this meeting is Commission reports to the Secretary of the Interior and to Congress. required under the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Public Law 92–463). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage DATES: Friday, January 14, 2005, time Corridor Commission was established 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m. by Public Law 100–692, November 18,

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1988, and extended through Public Law DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR We listed conjugens as a 105–355, November 13, 1998. federally threatened species on October Fish and Wildlife Service 13, 1998 (63 FR 54938); we designated FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: C. critical habitat on December 10, 2002 Allen Sachse, Executive Director, Recovery Plan for Deinandra (67 FR 76030). Deinandra conjugens is Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage conjugens (Otay tarplant) Corridor Commission, 1 South Third annual typically found on clay Street, 8th Floor, Easton, PA 18042, AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, soils in , open coastal sage (610) 923–3548. Interior. scrub, and maritime succulent scrub. It ACTION: Notice of document availability. is restricted to southwestern Dated: December 21, 2004. County, California, and northwestern C. Allen Sachse, SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Baja California, Mexico; its status in Executive Director, Delaware & Lehigh Service (we) announces the availability Mexico is unclear. National Heritage Corridor Commission. of the Recovery Plan for Deinandra [= Urban development and agricultural ] conjugens (Otay tarplant). [FR Doc. 04–28379 Filed 12–27–04; 8:45 am] activities, invasion of nonnative species, This plant species is found in BILLING CODE 6820–PE–M and habitat fragmentation and southwestern San Diego County, degradation have resulted in the loss of California, and northwestern Baja suitable habitat across the Deinandra DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR California, Mexico. conjugens’ range. The species annual ADDRESSES: Printed copies of this habit and self-incompatible breeding Office of the Secretary recovery plan are available by request system potentially create additional from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, threats from population fluctuations, Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Trustee Council; Carlsbad Fish and Wildlife Office, 6010 reduced populations of pollinators, and Notice of Meeting Hidden Valley Road, Carlsbad, California 92009 (telephone: 760–431– a decline in genetic variation. AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, 9440). An electronic copy of the Maintenance of the genetic variability Department of the Interior. recovery plan is available on the World within the species, through cross- , may be critical to long-term ACTION: Notice of meeting. Wide Web at: http:// endangered.fws.gov/recovery/ survival. The extensive fragmentation of remaining populations may exacerbate SUMMARY: The Department of the index.html#plans. these threats by reducing connectivity Interior, Office of the Secretary is FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: between populations and potentially announcing a public meeting of the Field Supervisor, at the above Carlsbad limiting suitable pollinators, and hence Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Public Advisory address. Committee. gene flow between populations. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Deinandra conjugens is a species that DATES: January 27, 2005, at 9 a.m. Background receives benefit from multi-species preservation and management under the ADDRESSES: Hilton Anchorage, 500 West Recovery of endangered or threatened Multiple Species Conservation Program, 3rd Avenue, Anchorage, Alaska. animals and is a primary goal of a regional program FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: the Endangered Species Act (ESA) (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) and our endangered in southwestern San Diego County, Douglas Mutter, Department of the California. Interior, Office of Environmental Policy species program. Recovery means The objective of this plan is to and Compliance, 1689 ‘‘C’’ Street, Suite improvement of the status of listed 119, Anchorage, Alaska, 99501, (907) species to the point at which listing is provide a framework for the recovery of 271–5011. no longer required under the criteria set Deinandra conjugens so that protection out in section 4(a)(1) of the Act. by the ESA is no longer necessary. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Recovery plans describe actions Actions necessary to accomplish this Public Advisory Committee was created considered necessary for the objective include: (1) Stabilize and by Paragraph V.A.4 of the Memorandum conservation of the species, establish protect habitat supporting known of Agreement and Consent Decree criteria for downlisting or delisting populations; (2) assess the status of all entered into by the United States of listed species, and estimate time and known populations; (3) conduct surveys America and the State of Alaska on cost for implementing the measures to search for new populations and August 27, 1991, and approved by the needed for recovery. implement actions to protect United States District Court for the The ESA requires the development of populations outside of established District of Alaska in settlement of a recovery plan for endangered or reserves when necessary; (4) adaptively United States of America v. State of threatened species unless such a plan manage and monitor conserved areas; Alaska, Civil Action No. A91–081 CV. would not promote the conservation of (5) identify research needs and conduct The meeting agenda will feature an the species. Section 4(f) of the ESA studies on the biology and ecology of orientation for new Committee members requires that public notice, and an Deinandra conjugens; and (6) develop and discussions about the Trustee opportunity for public review and and implement a community outreach Council’s proposed invitation to bid on comment, be provided during recovery projects for fiscal year 2006. plan development. The Draft Recovery program. Plan for Deinandra conjugens was Dated: December 21, 2004. Authority available for public comment from Willie R. Taylor, December 18, 2003, to March 2, 2004 The authority for this action is section Director, Office of Environmental Policy and (68 FR 70526). Information presented 4(f) of the Endangered Species Act, 16 Compliance. during the public comment period has U.S.C. 1533(f). [FR Doc. 04–28279 Filed 12–27–04; 8:45 am] been considered in the preparation of BILLING CODE 4310–RG–P this final recovery plan.

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