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14132 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 57 / Monday, March 26, 2007 / Notices Dated: March 16, 2007. Æ International Collect (through long number for recovery tasks; (2) Brian D. Montgomery, distance operator): 1–484–530–5908. recommendations for additions or • Assistant Secretary for Housing—Federal Servicemembers and dependents with deletions to the participants identified questions about the SCRA should contact Housing Commissioner. for each recovery task; and (3) their unit’s Judge Advocate, or their additional information to assist us with Appendix installation’s Legal Assistance Officer. A military legal assistance office locator for determining costs for accomplishing United States Department of Housing and each branch of the armed forces is available recovery tasks. Four parties provided Urban Development Servicemembers Civil at http://legalassistance.law.af.mil/content/ comments on ten species. Among those Relief Act Notice locator.php. were comments on recovery task Legal Rights and Protections Under the SCRA [FR Doc. E7–5412 Filed 3–23–07; 8:45 am] priority number, participants, and cost. Servicemembers on ‘‘active duty’’ or BILLING CODE 4210–67–P Comments were also received on the ‘‘active service,’’ or a dependent of such a recovery tasks themselves. We have servicemember may be entitled to certain considered and addressed comments legal protections and debt relief pursuant to DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR where appropriate in this final the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act (50 implementation schedule. Those U.S.C. App. 501, et seq.) (SCRA). Fish and Wildlife Service comments, as well as updates by Service Who May Be Entitled to Legal Protections staff, led to this final version of the Under the SCRA Notice of Availability of a Final implementation schedule that differs Implementation Schedule for the South • Active duty members of the Army, Navy, from the technical/agency draft. The Air Force, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Florida Multi-Species Recovery Plan recovery tasks listed in the active service National Guard; implementation schedule were taken • AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Active service members of the Interior. directly from the MSRP. Any changes commissioned corps of the National and needed to the tasks themselves will be Atmospheric Administration; ACTION: Notice of document availability. • addressed in a future revision of the Active service members of the MSRP rather than in the commissioned corps of the Public Health SUMMARY: The Fish and Wildlife Service Service; (‘‘we,’’ ‘‘our,’’ or ‘‘Service’’) announces implementation schedule. These • United States citizens serving with the the availability of the Implementation changes, if any, would be subject to armed forces of a nation with which the schedule for the South Florida Multi- public comment only during such future United States is allied in the prosecution of Species Recovery Plan (MSRP). The revision. a war or military action; and MSRP, as approved in 1999, included a • Background Dependents of the above (e.g., spouse or discussion of the need for a coordinated children). effort to develop an implementation Restoring listed animals and plants to What Legal Protections Are Servicemembers schedule. This implementation the point where they are again secure, Entitled to Under the SCRA? schedule was prepared with the self-sustaining components of their • The SCRA states that a debt incurred by assistance of the South Florida Multi- ecosystems is a primary goal of the a service member, or spouse jointly, prior to species/Ecosystem Recovery Service’s threatened and endangered entering military service shall not bear Implementation Team (MERIT). The species program. To help guide the interest at a rate above 6 percent during the implementation schedule prioritizes the recovery effort, we prepare recovery period of military service. recovery tasks as described in the MSRP plans for listed species native to the • The SCRA states that in a legal action to United States, pursuant to section 4(f) of enforce a debt against real estate that is filed on a community level, and identifies the associated participating parties, time the Endangered Species Act of 1973 during, or within 90 days after the (Act), as amended (16 U.S.C. et seq.), servicemember’s military service, a court frames, and costs necessary to may stop the proceedings for a period of accomplish those tasks. which requires the development of recovery plans for listed species unless time, or adjust the debt. In addition, the sale, ADDRESSES: Copies of the final such a plan would not promote the foreclosure, or seizure of real estate shall not implementation schedule can be be valid if it occurs during, or within 90 days conservation of a particular species. after the servicemember’s military service downloaded from http:// Recovery plans describe actions that unless the creditor has obtained a court order verobeach.fws.gov or can be obtained by may be necessary for conservation of approving the sale, foreclosure, or seizure of contacting the Fish and Wildlife these species, establish criteria for the real estate. Service, South Florida Ecological reclassification from endangered to How Does a Servicemember or Dependent Services Office, 1339 20th Street, Vero threatened status or removal from the Request Relief Under the SCRA? Beach, Florida 32960. We encourage list, and estimate the time and cost for • A servicemember or dependent, or both, requests for the CD–ROM version of the implementing the needed recovery may request relief under the SCRA by implementation schedule, as the hard measures. providing the lender a written notice with a (paper) copy encompasses more than Section 4(f) of the Act also requires copy of the servicemember’s military orders. 140 pages. that a public notice and an opportunity (Note: Lender should place its name, address, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: for public review and comment be and contact information here.) Cindy Schulz at the South Florida provided during recovery plan How Does a Servicemember or Dependent Ecological Services Office, (772) 562– development. Accordingly, the MSRP Obtain Information About the SCRA? 3909, ext. 305. was made available for public review • The U.S. Department of Defense’s SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April and comment before its approval in May information resource is ‘‘Military 2, 2004, we published a notice 1999. The MSRP identifies the recovery OneSource.’’ Web site: http:// announcing the availability of this needs of the 68 threatened and www.militaryonesource.com technical/agency draft implementation endangered species and 23 natural The toll-free telephone number for Military schedule in the Federal Register, and communities in the south Florida OneSource are: Æ From the United States: 1–800–342– opened a 60-day public comment ecosystem, which encompasses 67,346 9647. period. We particularly sought square kilometers (26,002 square miles), Æ From outside the United States (with comments concerning: (1) covering the 19 southernmost counties applicable access code): 800–3429–6477. Recommended changes to the priority in Florida. VerDate Aug<31>2005 15:30 Mar 23, 2007 Jkt 211001 PO 00000 Frm 00061 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\26MRN1.SGM 26MRN1 cprice-sewell on PROD1PC66 with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 57 / Monday, March 26, 2007 / Notices 14133 The process to develop this final assisted in assigning priorities to Ecological Services Office has recovery implementation schedule involved the recovery tasks, and estimating the lead. Other Service offices have collaborative effort of a team appointed duration and possible cost to complete recovery responsibility for those species by the Service to focus specifically on each task. They also identified that occur in south Florida but also recovery implementation efforts in organizations or agencies that would occur elsewhere. Implementation South Florida. The team, known as likely be involved in accomplishing schedules for those species can be found MERIT, is comprised of 36 members each task. in the approved individual recovery representing Federal, State, and local The implementation schedule for the plans for those species. Recovery tasks government agencies; Tribal MSRP contains recovery tasks for those are provided in this implementation governments; academia; industry, and species that occur only in south Florida, schedule for the following species: the private sector. MERIT members and for which the South Florida Status/species Scientific name Mammals: E Key deer ...................................................................................... Odocoileus virginianus clavium. E Key Largo cotton mouse ............................................................. Peromyscus gossypinus allapaticola. E Key Largo woodrat ...................................................................... Neotoma floridana smalli. E Rice rat (= silver rice rat) ............................................................ Oryzomys palustris natator (= O. argentatus.) E Lower Keys rabbit ....................................................................... Sylvilagus palustris hefneri. Birds: T Audubon’s crested caracara ........................................................ Polyborus plancus audubonii. E Cape Sable seaside sparrow ...................................................... Ammodramus (= Ammospiza) maritimus mirabilis. E Everglade snail kite ..................................................................... Rostrhamus sociabilis plumbeus. E Florida grasshopper