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the Red River between Colfax, DATES: Comments on the draft recovery only 1 population of roughly 600 Louisiana, and the Arkansas state line, plan must be received on or before May individuals in Chelan County, a distance of approximately 120 miles. 12, 2006. . It occurs primarily on the refuge growth will be strategically ADDRESSES: Copies of the draft recovery Federal lands, but a very small portion planned within the following five focus plan are available for inspection, by of the population is on private lands. units: appointment, during normal business Within its limited range, • Lower Cane River (Natchitoches hours at the following location: U.S. venusta is found in open areas of Parish). Fish and Wildlife Service, Central • steeply sloping, highly unstable granitic Spanish Lake Lowlands Washington Field Office, 215 Melody sand and granite cliffs. The common (Natchitoches Parish). Lane, Wenatchee, Washington 98801 feature to its habitat appears to be the • Bayou Pierre Floodplain (Desoto (telephone: 509–665–3508). Requests for relatively sparse cover of other vascular and Red River Parishes). copies of the draft recovery plan and • Headquarters Site (Bossier Parish). and low canopy cover. • written comments and materials Wardview (Caddo Parish). regarding this plan should be addressed Hackelia venusta was listed as an Currently, the refuge consists of 7,721 to the Field Supervisor, Ecological endangered species on February 6, 2002 acres of fee title lands comprised of Services, at the above Wenatchee (67 FR 5515). The major threats to restored bottomland hardwood forest, address. An electronic copy of the draft Hackelia venusta include collection and moist soils, shrub/scrub, and fallow recovery plan is also available online at physical disturbance to the plants and agricultural lands within four of the http://endangered.fws.gov/recovery/ habitat by humans, mass wasting separate units. A headquarters/visitor index.html#plans. (landslides), nonnative noxious weeds, center site is included near Shreveport/ competition and shading from native Bossier City. Another 1,100 acres of FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tim McCracken, Fish and Wildlife Biologist, trees and shrubs due to fire suppression, lands are under a management some highway maintenance activities, agreement at the Spanish Lake at the above Wenatchee address. and low seedling establishment. The Lowlands Unit. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: small population size and limited The Service will conduct a Background comprehensive conservation planning geographic extent of the species process that will provide opportunity Restoring endangered or threatened exacerbates all of these threats, and for state and local government agencies, animals and plants to the point where renders Hackelia venusta highly organizations, and the public to they are again secure, self-sustaining vulnerable to extirpation or extinction participate in issue scoping and public members of their ecosystems is a from either human-caused or random comment. Comments received by the primary goal of the Endangered Species natural events. planning team will be used as part ot Act (ESA) and our endangered species Objectives of a recovery plan would the planning process. All comments program. The ESA (16 U.S.C. 1533 (f)) be to reduce the threats to Hackelia requires the development of recovery received from individuals become part venusta and increase population size plans for listed species unless such a of the official public record. Requests and geographic distribution. The first for such comments will be handled in plan would not promote the conservation of a particular species. step in the recovery strategy for the accordance with the Freedom of species would be to protect and stabilize Information Act and the Council on Recovery plans help guide the recovery effort by describing actions considered the existing population. This would Environmental Quality’s NEPA include management to maintain an regulations [40 CFR 1506.6(f)]. necessary for the conservation of the species, establishing criteria for open habitat, noxious weed control, Authority: This notice is published under downlisting or delisting listed species, minimizing the damage of collection the authority of the National Wildlife Refuge and estimating time and cost for and trampling within the population, System Improvement Act of 1997, Public seed collection and long-term seed Law 105–57. implementing the measures needed for recovery (16 U.S.C. 1533 (f)). banking to protect the genetic resources Dated: February 21, 2006. Section 4(f) of the ESA also requires of the species, and the development and Cynthia K. Dohner, that public notice, and an opportunity implementation of management plans. Acting Regional Director. for public review and comment, be In addition, to reduce the potential for [FR Doc. 06–2360 Filed 3–10–06; 8:45 am] provided during recovery plan extinction due to loss of the single BILLING CODE 4310–55–M development. We will consider all population, recovery actions will likely information presented during the public require establishing additional comment period in the development of populations within the estimated DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR each new or revised recovery plan. historical range of the species. Comments received may result in Fish and Wildlife Service changes to the draft recovery plan. Public Comments Solicited Comments regarding recovery plan Draft Recovery Plan for Hackelia implementation may be forwarded to We solicit written comments on the venusta (Showy Stickseed) appropriate Federal or other entities so draft recovery plan described in this AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, that they can take these comments into notice. All comments received by the Interior. account during the course of date specified above will be considered in the development of this plan. ACTION: Notice of document availability implementing recovery actions. for review and comment. Individual responses to comments will Authority not be provided. SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Showy stickseed (Hackelia venusta) is The authority for this action is section Service (‘‘we’’), announce the a perennial with showy white or 4(f) of the Endangered Species Act, 16 availability of the Draft Recovery Plan blue-tinged flowers in the forget-me-not U.S.C. 1533(f). for Hackelia venusta (Showy Stickseed), plant family (). The species for public review and comment. is a narrow endemic, being known from

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Dated: December 6, 2005. but they must provide their own DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR David J. Wesley, transportation and lunch. Individuals Acting Regional Director, Region 1, U.S. Fish who plan to attend and need special Bureau of Land Management and Wildlife Service. assistance, such as sign language [UTU 42838] [FR Doc. E6–3505 Filed 3–10–06; 8:45 am] interpretation and other reasonable BILLING CODE 4310–55–P accommodations, should contact the Public Land Order No. 7657; Partial BLM as provided above. Revocation of Secretarial Order Dated Dated: March 3, 2006. December 15, 1906, and Revocation of DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Joseph J. Fontana, Secretarial Order Dated July 27, 1907; Utah Bureau of Land Management Public Affairs Officer. [FR Doc. E6–3477 Filed 3–10–06; 8:45 am] AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, [CA–310–0777–XX] BILLING CODE 4310–40–P Interior. Notice of Public Meeting: Northeast ACTION: Public land order. California Resource Advisory Council DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR SUMMARY: This order revokes two AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Secretarial Orders insofar as they affect Interior. Bureau of Land Management approximately 560 acres of National ACTION: Notice of public meeting. Forest System lands withdrawn for the [NMNM 0554560] protection of two Forest Service ranger SUMMARY: In accordance with the stations. Federal Land Policy and Management Public Land Order No. 7656; DATES: Effective Date: March 13, 2006. Revocation of Public Land Order No. Act of 1976 (FLPMA), and the Federal FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Advisory Committee Act of 1972 3620; New Mexico Marsha Fryer, Forest Service, (FACA), the U.S. Department of the Intermountain Region, 324–25th Street, AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, Interior, Bureau of Land Management Ogden, Utah 84401–2310, 801–625– Interior. (BLM) Northeast California Resource 5802. Advisory Council will meet as indicated ACTION: Public Land Order. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Forest below. Service has determined that these lands SUMMARY: DATES: The meeting will be held This order revokes, in its no longer need to be withdrawn and has Thursday and Friday, April 20 and 21, entirety, a public land order which requested the revocation. The lands will 2006, in the Conference Room of the withdrew 120 acres of public land and not be opened to surface entry or mining Bureau of Land Management Eagle Lake reserved it for use by the Forest Service until completion of an analysis to Field Office, 2950 Riverside Dr., as an administrative site. The land was determine if any of the lands need Susanville, Calif. The meeting runs from never used for the intended purpose and special designation or protection. 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. April 20, and then the withdrawal is no longer needed. Order reconvenes at 8 a.m. on April 21. Time DATES: Effective Date: March 13, 2006. for public comment is reserved for 11 By virtue of the authority vested in a.m. on April 21. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: the Secretary of the Interior by Section FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tim Gilda Fitzpatrick, BLM New Mexico 204 of the Federal Land Policy and Burke, BLM Alturas Field Office State Office, 1474 Rodeo Road, Santa Fe, Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. Manager, (530) 233–4666; or BLM New Mexico 87502, 505–438–7597. 1714 (2000), it is ordered as follows: Public Affairs Officer Joseph J. Fontana, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Forest 1. The Secretarial Order dated (530) 252–5332. Service has determined that the December 15, 1906, which withdrew SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 15- withdrawal is no longer needed and has National Forest System lands for member council advises the Secretary of requested the revocation. The land will protection of Ranger Station Nos. 4 and the Interior, through the BLM, on a not be opened to surface entry or mining 6, is hereby revoked insofar as it affects variety of planning and management until completion of an analysis to the following described lands: issues associated with public land determine if any of the land needs special designation. Dixie National Forest (Formally Sevier management in Northeast California and National Forest) the northwest corner of Nevada. At this Order meeting, agenda topics will include a Ranger Station No. 4 (Blue Spring review of draft Resource Management By virtue of the authority vested in Administrative Site) Plans for the Alturas, Eagle Lake and the Secretary of the Interior by Section Salt Lake Meridian Surprise field offices, a discussion on 204 of the Federal Land Policy and T. 36 S., R. 7 W., Stewardship Contracting and a Management Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. sec. 7, NE1⁄4SE1⁄4 and NE1⁄4SE1⁄4SE1⁄4. discussion of the possibilities of land 1714 (2000), it is ordered as follows: exchanges at Eagle Lake in Lassen Ranger Station No. 6 (Duck Creek Public Land Order No. 3620 (30 FR Administrative Site) County, Calif. All meetings are open to 5379, April 15, 1965), which withdrew the public. Members of the public may T. 38 S., R. 8 W., public land to protect a National Forest 1 1 present written comments to the sec. 12, lots 3 and 4 and W ⁄2SE ⁄4. administrative site, is hereby revoked in The areas described aggregate council. Each formal council meeting its entirety. will have time allocated for public approximately 200 acres in Garfield and Kane Counties. comments. Depending on the number of Dated: February 27, 2006. Mark Limbaugh, 2. The Secretarial Order dated July 27, persons wishing to speak, and the time 1907, which withdrew the following Assistant Secretary of the Interior. available, the time for individual described National Forest System lands for comments may be limited. Members of [FR Doc. E6–3525 Filed 3–10–06; 8:45 am] the protection of Ranger Station No. 4, is the public are welcome on field tours, BILLING CODE 4310–11–P hereby revoked in its entirety:

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