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2005 Federal Register, 70 FR 2879; Centralized Library Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 11 / Tuesday, January 18, 2005 / Notices 2879 (212) 680–363, e-mail: (Northern California and Nevada), 1111 technical agency draft recovery plan for [email protected]. Broadway, Suite 1200, Oakland, CA six Mobile Basin aquatic snails. The six • Region III (Delaware, District of 94607, telephone: (510) 627–7183, e- snails included in the recovery plan are: Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, mail: [email protected]. the endangered cylindrical lioplax Virginia, West Virginia): Nikki Roberts, Ray Lenaburg (Southern California, (Lioplax cyclostomaformis), flat One Independence Mall, 615 Chestnut Arizona, Hawaii, American Samoa, pebblesnail (Lepyriam showalteri), and Street, 6th Floor, Philadelphia, PA Guam, Marshall Islands and Northern plicate rocksnail (Leptoxis ampla); and 19106–4404, telephone: (215) 931–5575 Mariana Islands) 1111 Broadway, Suite the threatened painted rocksnail for Nikki Roberts, e-mail: 1200, Oakland, CA 94607, telephone: (Leptoxis taeniata), round rocksnail [email protected]. (510) 627–7181, e-mail: (Leptoxis ampla), and lacy elimia • Region IV (Alabama, Florida, [email protected]. (Elimia crenatella). All are endemic to Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North • Region X (Alaska, Idaho, Oregon, the Mobile River Basin (Basin) where Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee): Washington): Dave Carlton, Federal they inhabit shoals, rapids and riffles of Laura Algeo, 3003 Chamblee Tucker Regional Center, 130 228th Street SW., large streams and rivers above the Fall Road, Atlanta, GA 30341, telephone: Bothell, WA 98021–9796, telephone: Line. All six species have disappeared (770) 220–5515, e-mail: (425) 487–4703, e-mail: from more than 90 percent of their [email protected]. [email protected]. historic ranges as a result of • Region V (Illinois, Indiana, impoundment, channelization, mining, Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio, and Dated: January 10, 2005. David I. Maurstad, dredging, and pollution from point and Wisconsin): Ken Hinterlong, Team Lead, non-point sources. The technical agency 536 South Clark Street, 6th Floor, Acting Mitigation Division Director, Emergency Preparedness and Response draft recovery plan includes specific Chicago, IL 60605, telephone: (312) recovery objectives and criteria to be 408–5529, e-mail: Directorate. [FR Doc. 05–869 Filed 1–14–05; 8:45 am] met in order to reclassify (downlist) the [email protected]. cylindrical lioplax, flat pebblesnail, and BILLING CODE 6718–04–P Mary Jo Mullen (Indiana, Michigan, plicate rocksnail to threatened species and Ohio), 536 South Clark Street, 6th and for the eventual delisting of all six Floor, Chicago, IL 60605, telephone: species under the Endangered Species INTER-AMERICAN FOUNDATION (312) 408–5541, e-mail: Act of 1973, as amended (Act). We [email protected]. Sunshine Act Meeting; Draft Agenda solicit review and comment on this Lee Traeger (Illinois, Minnesota, and technical agency draft recovery plan Wisconsin) 536 South Clark Street, 6th for Board of Directors Meeting, January 21, 2005, 9 a.m.–12:30 p.m. from local, State, and Federal agencies, Floor, Chicago, IL 60605, telephone: and the public. (312) 408-5538 e-mail: The meeting will be held at the Office DATES: In order to be considered, we [email protected] • of Entergy Corporation, 101 Constitution must receive comments on the technical Region VI (Arkansas, Louisiana, Avenue, NW., Suite 200 East, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas): Gary agency draft recovery plan on or before Washington, DC 20001. March 21, 2005. Zimmerer (Arkansas and Louisiana), The meeting will be closed as Federal Regional Center, 800 North ADDRESSES: If you wish to review this provided in 22 CFR 1004.4(f) to discuss technical agency draft recovery plan, Loop 288, Room 206, Denton, TX matters related to the search for 76210–3698, telephone: (940) 898–5161, you may obtain a copy by contacting the candidates for the position of President Jackson, Mississippi Field Office, U.S. e-mail: [email protected]. of the Inter-American Foundation. Jim Orwat (New Mexico and Fish and Wildlife Service, 6578 Oklahoma), Federal Regional Center, 9 a.m. Call to order. Begin executive Dogwood View Parkway, Jackson, MS 800 North Loop 288, Room 206, Denton, session. 39213 (telephone (601) 965–4900), or by TX 76210–3698, telephone: (940) 898– 12 p.m. Break for lunch. visiting our recovery plan Web site at 5302, e-mail: [email protected]. 1:30 p.m. Continue executive session. http://endangered.fws.gov/recovery/ Jack Quarles (Texas), Federal Regional 4 p.m. Close. index.html#plans. If you wish to comment, you may submit your Center, 800 North Loop 288, Room 206, Jocelyn Nieva, comments by any one of several Denton, TX 76210–3698, telephone: Acting General Counsel. (940) 898–5156, e-mail: methods: [FR Doc. 05–1023 Filed 1–13–05; 12:10 pm] [email protected]. 1. You may submit written comments • Region VII (Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, BILLING CODE 7025–01–M and materials to the Field Supervisor, at Nebraska), Bob Franke, 2323 Grand the above address. Avenue, Suite 900, Kansas City, MO 2. You may hand-deliver written 64108–2670, telephone: (816) 283–7073, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR comments to our Jackson, Mississippi e-mail: [email protected]. Field Office, at the above address, or fax • Region VIII (Colorado, Montana, Fish and Wildlife Service your comments to (601) 965–4900. North Dakota, South Dakota, Utah, 3. You may send comments by e-mail Notice of Availability of a Technical to [email protected]. For Wyoming): John Liou or Marijo Camrud, Agency Draft Recovery Plan for Six Denver Federal Center, Bldg. 710, Box directions on how to submit electronic Mobile Basin Aquatic Snails for Review filing of comments, see the ‘‘Public 25267, Denver, CO 80225–0267, and Comment telephone: (303) 235–4836, telephone: Comments Solicited’’ section. (303) 235–4835, e-mail: AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Comments and materials received are [email protected], e-mail: Interior. available for public inspection on request, by appointment, during normal [email protected]. ACTION: Notice of document availability • business hours at the above address. Region IX (Arizona, California, and public comment period. Hawaii, Nevada, American Samoa, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul Guam, Marshall Islands and Northern SUMMARY: We, the Fish and Wildlife Hartfield (Telephone 601–321–1125). Mariana Islands): Les Sakumoto Service, announce the availability of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: VerDate jul<14>2003 11:51 Jan 14, 2005 Jkt 205001 PO 00000 Frm 00043 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\18JAN1.SGM 18JAN1 2880 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 11 / Tuesday, January 18, 2005 / Notices Background Endangered and Threatened Wildlife acquire approximately 12.72 acres of and Plants (50 CFR part 17). land into trust for the Suquamish Tribe On October 28, 1998 (63 FR 57610), of Washington on April 21, 2004. This Public Comments Solicited we listed six aquatic snails, in the notice is published in the exercise of Mobile River Basin, as threatened We solicit written comments on the authority delegated by the Secretary of (painted rocksnail, round rocksnail, lacy recovery plan described. We will the Interior to the Principal Deputy elimina) or endangered (cylindrical consider all comments received by the Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs by lioplax, flat pebblesnail, plicate date specified above prior to final 209 Departmental Manual 8.1. rocksnail) under the Act. These six approval of the draft recovery plan. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: snails are endemic to portions of the Please submit electronic comments as George Skibine, Office of Indian Gaming Mobile River Basin in central Alabama. an ASCII file format and avoid the use Management, Office of Policy— The cylindrical lioplax, flat pebblesnail, of special characters and encryption. Economic Development, MS–4606 MIB, and round rocksnail are found in the Please also include your name and 1849 C Street, NW., Washington, DC Cahaba River drainage; the lacy elimina return address in your e-mail message. 20240; Telephone (202) 219–4066. and painted rocksnail are in the Coosa If you do not receive a confirmation SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This River drainage; and the plicate rocksnail from the system that we have received is in the Black Warrior River drainage. notice is published to comply with the your e-mail message, contact us directly requirement of 25 CFR 151.12(b) that These snails require rock, boulder, or by calling our Mississippi Field Office cobble substrates and clean, unpolluted notice be given to the public of the (see ADDRESSES section). Secretary’s decision to acquire land in water and are found on shoals and Our practice is to make all comments, trust at least 30 days prior to signatory riffles of large streams and rivers. including names and home addresses of acceptance of the land into trust. The Impoundment and water quality respondents, available for public review purpose of the 30-day waiting period in degradation have eliminated the six during regular business hours. 25 CFR 151.12(b) is to afford interested snails from 90 percent or more of their Individual respondents may request that parties the opportunity to seek judicial historic habitat. Known populations are we withhold their home addresses from review of final administrative decisions restricted to small portions of stream the record, which we will honor to the to take land in trust for Indian tribes and drainages. These surviving populations extent allowable by law. In some individual Indians before transfer of are currently threatened by pollutants circumstances, we would withhold also title to the property occurs. On April 21, such as sediments and nutrients that from the rulemaking record a 2004, the Principal Deputy Assistant wash into streams from the land surface. respondent’s identity, as allowable by Secretary—Indian Affairs decided to law. If you wish for us to withhold your Restoring an endangered or accept approximately 12.72 acres of name and/or address, you must state threatened animal or plant to the point land into trust for the Suquamish Tribe this prominently at the beginning of where it is again a secure, self- of Washington under the authority of your comments.
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