Recovery Plan for Hackelia Venusta Technical Comments Resulted in Changes This Permit Application on Or Before (Showy Stickseed) to the Recovery Plan

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR appointment, during normal business listed species, and estimating time and hours at the above address. cost for implementing the measures Fish and Wildlife Service Authority: The authority for this section is needed for recovery. Section 4(f) of the ESA requires that Endangered Species Recovery Permit the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et. seq.) public notice, and an opportunity for Application public review and comment, be Dated: November 8, 2007. provided during recovery plan AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Thomas J. Healy, development. The Draft Recovery Plan Interior Acting Regional Director, Region 5, U.S. Fish for Hackelia venusta (Showy Stickseed) ACTION: Notice of receipt of permit and Wildlife Service. was available for public comment from application, request for comment. [FR Doc. E7–24084 Filed 12–11–07; 8:45 am] March 13 through May 12, 2006 (71 FR BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 12711). All information presented SUMMARY: We, the Fish and Wildlife during the public comment period has Service (Service), invite the public to been considered prior to approval of comment on the following application DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR this final recovery plan, and is to conduct certain activities with an summarized in an appendix to the Fish and Wildlife Service endangered species. recovery plan. Some substantive DATES: We must receive comments on Recovery Plan for Hackelia venusta technical comments resulted in changes this permit application on or before (Showy Stickseed) to the recovery plan. Some substantive January 11, 2008. comments regarding recovery plan ADDRESSES: Submit written data or AGENCY: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, implementation did not result in comments to the Chief, Endangered Interior. changes to the recovery plan, but were Species, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, ACTION: Notice of document availability. forwarded to appropriate Federal or 300 Westgate Center Drive, Hadley, other entities so that they can take these Massachusetts 01035 (telephone: 413– SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and comments into account during the 253–8615; fax: 413–253–8482). Please Wildlife Service, announce the course of implementing recovery refer to the permit number when availability of the Recovery Plan for actions. Individual responses to submitting comments. Hackelia venusta (Showy Stickseed). comments were not provided. Hackelia venusta is an attractive FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: ADDRESSES: Copies of the final recovery perennial plant with showy white or Martin Miller, at the above address. plan are available by request from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Central blue-tinged flowers in the forget-me-not SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Washington Field Office, 215 Melody family (Boraginaceae). The species is a following applicant has applied for a Lane, Wenatchee, Washington 98801. narrow endemic, being known from scientific research permit to conduct Requests for copies of the final recovery only 1 population of roughly 600 specific activities with an endangered plan and materials regarding this plan individuals in Chelan County, species pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(A) should be addressed to the Supervisor, Washington. It occurs primarily on of the Endangered Species Act (16 Central Washington Field Office, at the Federal lands, but a very small portion U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). We solicit review above Wenatchee address. An electronic of the population is on private lands. and comment from local, State, and copy of the final recovery plan will also Within its limited range, Hackelia Federal agencies and the public on the be made available online at http:// venusta is found in open areas of following permit request: www.fws.gov/pacific/ecoservices/ steeply sloping, highly unstable granitic Permit No. 166622 endangered/recovery/plans.html. sand and granite cliffs. The common Printed copies of the recovery plan will feature to its habitat appears to be the Applicant: U.S. Fish and Wildlife be available for distribution in 4 to 6 relatively sparse cover of other vascular Service, Southwest Virginia Field weeks. plants and low canopy cover. Office, Abingdon, Virginia. The Hackelia venusta was listed as an applicant requests a permit to take FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tim endangered species in 2002 (67 FR (capture and kill) the Lee County Cave McCracken, Fish and Wildlife Biologist, 5515). The major threats to Hackelia isopod (Lirceus usdagalun) for the at the above address, by calling 509– venusta include: collection and physical purpose of defining populations 665–3508, extension 17, or by electronic disturbance to the plants and habitat by genetically and determining the degree mail to: [email protected]. humans; mass wasting (landslides); of genetic separation between SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: nonnative noxious weeds; competition populations. and shading from native trees and Background shrubs due to fire suppression; some Public Review of Comments Restoring endangered or threatened highway maintenance activities; and Before including your address, phone animals and plants to the point where low seedling establishment. The small number, e-mail address, or other they are again secure, self-sustaining population size and limited geographic personal identifying information in your members of their ecosystems is a extent of the species exacerbates all of comment, you should be aware that primary goal of our endangered species these threats, and renders Hackelia your entire comment—including your program. The Endangered Species Act venusta highly vulnerable to extirpation personal identifying information—may (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) (ESA) requires or extinction from either human-caused be made publicly available at any time. the development of recovery plans for or random natural events. While you can ask us in your comment listed species unless such a plan would The objective of the recovery plan is to withhold your personal identifying not promote the conservation of a to reduce the threats to Hackelia information from public review, we particular species. Recovery plans help venusta sufficient to accomplish cannot guarantee that we will be able to guide the recovery effort by describing increases in population size and do so. actions considered necessary for the geographic distribution across its Comments and materials received will conservation of the species, establishing estimated historical range so that the be available for public inspection, by criteria for downlisting or delisting species is no longer in danger of

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extinction. The first step in the recovery T. 3 S., R. 48 W., Sec. 33. requirements in the regulations under strategy for the species is to protect and Containing approximately 18 acres. 30 CFR 282, Operations in the Outer stabilize the existing population. This T. 5 S., R. 48 W., Secs. 16 and 17. Continental Shelf for Minerals Other includes management to maintain an Containing 776.00 acres. than Oil, Gas, and Sulphur. This notice T. 5 S., R. 49 W., Secs. 7, 8, 17, and 18. open habitat; noxious weed control; Containing 2,487.92 acres. also provides the public a second minimizing the damage of collection Aggregating approximately 5,826 acres. opportunity to comment on the and trampling within the population; The subsurface estate in these lands will be paperwork burden of these regulatory seed collection and long-term seed conveyed to Bristol Bay Native Corporation requirements. banking to protect the genetic resources when the surface estate is conveyed to DATES: Submit written comments by of the species; and the development and Koliganek Natives Limited. Notice of the January 11, 2008. implementation of management plans. decision will also be published four times in In addition, to reduce the potential for the Bristol Bay Times. ADDRESSES: You may submit comments extinction due to loss of the single either by fax (202) 395–6566 or e-mail DATES: The time limits for filing an ([email protected]) directly population, recovery actions will likely appeal are: require establishing additional to the Office of Information and 1. Any party claiming a property Regulatory Affairs, OMB, Attention: populations within the estimated interest which is adversely affected by historical range of the species. Desk Officer for the Department of the the decision shall have until January 11, Interior (1010–0081). Mail or hand carry The recovery of Hackelia venusta is 2008 to file an appeal. complicated by the very small size and a copy of your comments to the 2. Parties receiving service of the Department of the Interior; Minerals limited distribution of the single decision by certified mail shall have 30 population, as well as by the extreme Management Service; Attention: Cheryl days from the date of receipt to file an Blundon; Mail Stop 4024; 381 Elden instability of the habitat where it occurs. appeal. Monitoring activities have the potential Street; Herndon, Virginia 20170–4817. If Parties who do not file an appeal in you wish to e-mail your comments to to destabilize the habitat and damage or accordance with the requirements of 43 even kill plants, particularly young MMS, the address is: CFR part 4, subpart E, shall be deemed [email protected]. Reference germinants; therefore the need for to have waived their rights. monitoring and data collection must be Information Collection 1010–0081 in ADDRESSES: carefully weighed against the possible A copy of the decision may your subject line and mark your negative impacts of such actions. be obtained from: Bureau of Land message for return receipt. Include your Management, Alaska State Office, 222 name and return address in your Authority West Seventh Avenue, #13, Anchorage, message text. The authority for this action is section Alaska 99513–7504. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 4(f) of the Endangered Species Act, 16 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: The Cheryl Blundon, Regulations and U.S.C. 1533(f). Bureau of Land Management by phone Standards Branch, (703) 787–1607. You at 907–271–5960, or by e-mail at Dated: November 15, 2007. may also contact Cheryl Blundon to [email protected]. Persons obtain a copy, at no cost, of the Ren Lohoefener, who use a telecommunication device Regional Director, Region 1, U.S. Fish and regulations that require the subject (TTD) may call the Federal Information collection of information. Wildlife Service. Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877– SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: [FR Doc. 07–5974 Filed 12–11–07; 8:45 am] 8330, 24 hours a day, seven days a Title: 30 CFR 282, Operations in the BILLING CODE 4310–55–P week, to contact the Bureau of Land Outer Continental Shelf for Minerals Management. Other than Oil, Gas, and Sulphur. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Michael Bilancione, OMB Control Number: 1010–0081. Land Transfer Resolution Specialist, Land Abstract: The Outer Continental Shelf Bureau of Land Management Transfer Adjudication I. (OCS) Lands Act, as amended (43 U.S.C. 1334 and 43 U.S.C. 1337(k)), authorizes [AA–6676–F, AA–6676–J, AA–6676–L, AA– [FR Doc. E7–24048 Filed 12–11–07; 8:45 am] 6676–A2; AK–964–1410–HY–P] BILLING CODE 4310–$$–P the Secretary of the Interior (Secretary) to implement regulations to grant to the Alaska Native Claims Selection qualified persons, offering the highest DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR cash bonus on a basis of competitive AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, bidding, leases of any mineral other Interior. Minerals Management Service than oil, gas, and sulphur. This applies ACTION: Notice of decision approving to any area of the Outer Continental lands for conveyance. MMS Information Collection Activities: Shelf not then under lease for such 1010–0082 (30 CFR 282), Submitted for mineral upon such royalty, rental, and SUMMARY: As required by 43 CFR Office of Management and Budget other terms and conditions as the 2650.7(d), notice is hereby given that an (OMB) Review; Comment Request Secretary may prescribe at the time of appealable decision approving lands for AGENCY: Minerals Management Service offering the area for lease. This conveyance pursuant to the Alaska (MMS), Interior. regulation governs mining operations Native Claims Settlement Act will be within the OCS for minerals other than issued to Koliganek Natives Limited. ACTION: Notice of a reinstatement of an information collection (1010–0081). oil, gas and sulphur and establishes a The lands are in the vicinity of comprehensive leasing and regulatory Koliganek, Alaska, and are located in: SUMMARY: To comply with the program for such minerals. These Seward Meridian, Alaska Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 regulations have been designed to (1) T. 5 S., R. 45 W., Secs. 30, 31, and 34. (PRA), we are notifying the public that recognize the differences between the Containing approximately 1,283 acres. we have submitted to OMB an OCS activities associated with oil, gas, T. 5 S., R. 46 W., Secs. 21 and 25. information collection request (ICR) to and sulphur discovery and Containing 1,260.86 acres. renew approval of the paperwork development, and those associated with

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