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in a way that obscures the postal code; instructions and online registration critical habitat for the Appalachian and forms for registering your domain name. elktoe. (2) Inclusion of the word ‘‘city’’ or To register your domain name you will ‘‘town’’ within the domain name is need to provide information such as SUMMARY: We, the Fish and Wildlife optional and may be used at the your desired domain name, sponsoring Service, announce that we will hold two discretion of the local government. organization, points of contact, and at public hearings on the proposed (b) The preferred format for city least two name server addresses. determination of critical habitat for the governments is to denote the State Appalachian elktoe (Alasmidonta postal code after the city name, § 102–173.75 How long does the process raveneliana) and that the comment optionally separated by a dash. take? period on this proposal is reopened. We Examples of preferred domain names The process can be completed within also announce the availability of the include: 48 hours if all information received is draft economic analysis of this proposed (1) chicago-il.gov; complete and accurate. Most requests designation of critical habitat. We are (2) cityofcharleston-sc.gov; take up to thirty (30) days because the reopening the comment period for the (3) charleston-wv.gov; and registrar is waiting for CIO approval. proposal to designate critical habitat for (4) townofdumfries-va.gov. this species to hold the public hearings (c) If third-level domain naming is § 102–173.80 How will I know if my request and to allow all interested parties to is approved? available from the State government, comment simultaneously on the cities and towns are encouraged to A registration confirmation notice is proposed rule and the associated draft register for a domain name under a sent within one business day after you economic analysis. Comments State’s registered second-level (e.g., register your domain name, informing previously submitted need not be chicago.il.gov) in accordance with the you that your registration information resubmitted and will be fully policies established by the State was received. If all of your information considered in the final determination of government. is accurate and complete, a second the proposal. notice will be sent to you within one DATES: Comments: The comment period § 102–173.60 What is the naming business day, informing you that all of is hereby reopened until July 1, 2002. convention for Counties or Parishes? your information is in order. If you are We must receive comments on the (a) To register any second-level ineligible, or if the information provided proposal and draft economic analysis domain within dot-gov, County or is incorrect or incomplete, your from all interested parties by the closing Parish governments must register the registration will be rejected and a notice date. Any comments that we receive County’s or Parish’s name or will be sent to you stating the reason for after the closing date will not be abbreviation, the word ‘‘county’’ or rejection. Registration requests will be considered in the final decision on this ‘‘parish’’ (because many counties have activated within two business days after proposal. the same name as cities within the same receiving valid authorization from the Public Hearings: The first public State), and a reference to the State in appropriate CIO. Once your domain hearing on the proposal will be held which the county or parish is located. name has been activated, a notice will June 4, 2002, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in However, the use of the State postal be sent to you. Erwin, TN, and the second, on June 6, code should not be embedded within a 2002, from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. in Bryson single word in a way that obscures the § 102–173.85 How long will my application be held, waiting for my CIO approval? City, NC. postal code. ADDRESSES: The first public hearing will (b) The preferred format for county or Registrations will be held in reserve status for sixty (60) days pending CIO be held in the auditorium of the Unicoi parish governments is to denote the County High School, 700 Mohawk State postal code after the county or authorization from your sponsoring organization. Drive, Erwin, TN. The second public parish, optionally separated by a dash. hearing will be held in the Swain Examples of preferred domain names Dated: May 9, 2002. County Administration Building, include: G. Martin Wagner, Superior Court Room, 101 Mitchell (1) richmondcounty-ga.gov; Associate Administrator, Office of (2) pwc-county-va.gov; and Street, Bryson City, NC. Governmentwide Policy. Copies of the draft economic analysis (3) countyofdorchestor-sc.gov. [FR Doc. 02–12127 Filed 5–15–02; 8:45 am] (c) If third-level domain naming is are available on the Internet at http:// available from the State government, BILLING CODE 6820–34–P southeast.fws.gov/hotissues or by counties or parishes are encouraged to writing to or calling the State register for a domain name under a Supervisor, Asheville Field Office, U.S. State’s registered second-level (e.g., DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Fish and Wildlife Service, 160 Zillicoa richmondcounty.ga.gov). Street, Asheville, NC 28801; telephone Fish and Wildlife Service 828/258–3939. § 102–173.65 What is the naming If you wish to comment, you may convention for Native Sovereign Nations? 50 CFR Part 17 submit your comments by any one of To register any second-level domain RIN 1018–AH33 several methods: in dot-gov, Native Sovereign Nations 1. You may submit written comments may register any second-level domain Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and information to the State Supervisor, name provided that it contains the and Plants; Designating Critical Asheville Field Office, U.S. Fish and registering NSN name followed by a Habitat for the Appalachian Elktoe Wildlife Service, 160 Zillicoa Street, suffix of ‘‘-NSN.gov’’ (case insensitive). Asheville, NC 28801. AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 2. You may hand-deliver written § 102–173.70 Where do I register my dot- Interior. comments to our Asheville Field Office, gov domain name? ACTION: Proposed rule; notice of public at the above address or fax your Registration is an online process at hearings, availability of draft economic comments to 828/258–5330. http://nic.gov. At the Network analysis, and reopening of comment 3. You may send comments by Information Site (NIC), you will find the period for the proposed designation of electronic mail (e-mail) to
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[email protected]. For directions on Tuckasegee River in Jackson and Swain attendance, the time allotted for oral how to submit electronic filing of Counties, NC; 14.6 km (9.1 rm) of the statements may have to be limited. Oral comments, see the ‘‘Public Comments Cheoah River in Graham County, NC; and written statements receive equal Solicited’’ section. 7.5 km (4.7 rm) of the Little River in consideration. There are no limits to the 4. You may provide oral and/or Transylvania County, NC; 17.8 km (11.1 length of written comments presented at written comments at either of the public rm) of the West Fork Pigeon River and the hearings or mailed to us. Our final hearings. the Pigeon River in Haywood County, determination on the proposed critical Comments and materials received, as NC; 22.6 km (14.1 rm) of the South Toe habitat will take into consideration well as supporting documentation used River and 26.4 km (16.5 rm) of the Cane comments and any additional in preparation of this proposed rule, River in Yancey County, NC; 5.9 km (3.7 information received by the date will be available for public inspection, rm) of the North Toe River and 34.6 km specified above. All previous comments by appointment, during normal business (21.6 rm) of the Toe River in Yancey and and information submitted during the hours at the above address. Mitchell Counties, NC; and 21.6 km comment period need not be FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. (13.5 rm) of the Nolichucky River in resubmitted. Written comments may be John A. Fridell, Fish and Wildlife Yancey and Mitchell Counties, NC, and submitted to the State Supervisor (see Biologist, Asheville Field Office (see Unicoi County, TN. The initial comment ADDRESSES section). ADDRESSES section) (telephone 828/258– period on the proposal closed on April Please submit electronic comments as 3939, extension 225). 9, 2001. an ASCII file format and avoid the use Section 4(b)(5)(E) of the Act requires of special characters and encryption. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: that a public hearing be held if Please also include ‘‘Attn: RIN 1018– requested within 45 days of the Background AH33’’ and your name and return proposal’s publication in the Federal address in your e-mail message. If you The Appalachian elktoe is endemic to Register. Two groups requested public do not receive a confirmation from the the upper Tennessee River drainage in hearings within the specified timeframe system that we have received your e- western North Carolina and eastern of the initial comment period. One mail message, please contact us directly Tennessee. Historic and recent records group requested hearings in every indicate that the species was once fairly county where critical habitat is by calling our Asheville Field Office widely distributed throughout the upper proposed; the other group requested (see ADDRESSES section). Tennessee River system in western hearings in every watershed where Our practice is to make all comments, North Carolina, with the possible critical habitat is proposed. We will including names and home addresses of exceptions of the Hiwassee and Watauga hold one public hearing in each State respondents, available for public review River systems. In Tennessee, the species where we have proposed critical habitat during regular business hours. is known only from a short reach of the to accommodate both requests (see Individual respondents may request that Nolichucky River above the town of DATES and ADDRESSES sections). we withhold their home address from Erwin in Unicoi County, TN. Presently, Section 4(b)(2) of the Act requires that the rulemaking record, which we will the Appalachian elktoe survives only in we designate or revise critical habitat honor to the extent allowable by law. In scattered pockets of suitable habitat in based upon the best scientific data some circumstances, we would portions of the Little Tennessee River available and after taking into withhold from the rulemaking record a system, Little River, and Pigeon River consideration the economic impact, and respondent’s identity, as allowable by system in North Carolina; and, in any other relevant impact, of specifying law. If you wish for us to withhold your portions of the Nolichucky River system any particular area as critical habitat. name and/or address, you must state in North Carolina and Tennessee. We may exclude an area from critical this prominently at the beginning of Numerous factors have been implicated habitat if we determine that the benefits your comments. However, we will not as having contributed to decline and of excluding the area outweigh the consider anonymous comments. We loss of populations of the Appalachian benefits of including the area as critical will make all submissions from elktoe including pollutants in habitat, provided such exclusion will organizations or businesses, and from wastewater discharges; the runoff of not result in the extinction of the individuals identifying themselves as sediment and other pollutants in poorly species. Consequently, we have representatives or officials of controlled runoff from land disturbance prepared a draft economic analysis organizations or businesses, available activities, and habitat destruction or concerning the proposed critical habitat for public inspection in their entirety. alteration from impoundments, designation, which is available for Author channelization, and in-stream dredging review and comment (see ADDRESSES activities. section). The primary author of this document We listed the Appalachian elktoe as Public Comments Solicited is John A. Fridell (see ADDRESSES an endangered species under the section). Endangered Species Act of 1973, as We solicit comments on the draft amended (Act), on November 23, 1994 economic analysis described in this Authority: The authority for this action is the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 (59 FR 60324). On February 8, 2001, we notice, as well as any other aspect of the U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). published in the Federal Register a proposed designation of critical habitat proposal to designate critical habitat for for the Appalachian elktoe. Anyone Dated: April 26, 2002. this species (66 FR 9540). The proposed wishing to make an oral statement for Craig Manson, designation includes 38.5 kilometers the record at the public hearings is Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and (km) (24.0 river miles (rm)) of the Little encouraged to provide a written copy of Parks. Tennessee River in Swain and Macon their statement to us at the start of the [FR Doc. 02–12175 Filed 5–15–02; 8:45 am] Counties, NC; 41.6 km (26.0 rm) of the hearing. In the event there is a large BILLING CODE 4310–55–P
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