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Number of Burden hours/ Information collection Number of responses per Total annual minutes per Total burden respondents respondents responses response hours

HUD–52755—Sample Contract Admin. Partnership Agree- ment (OMB No. 2577–0229) ...... 40 1 40 0 0 HUD–52651—FSS Application ...... 800 1 800 1.50 1,200

Subtotal (Application) ...... 800 1 800 1.50 1,200 Action Plan ...... 20 1 20 10 200 HUD–52650—Contract of Participation ...... 900 10 9,000 .25 2,250 HUD–52652—Escrow Account Credit Worksheet ...... 740 100 74,000 .85 62,900 HUD–1044—Grant Agreement * ...... 700 1 700 0 0 Annual Report (Narrative) ...... 700 1 700 1 700 HUD–50058—Family Report (OMB No. 2577–0083) ...... 740 100 74,000 0 0

Subtotal (Program Reporting/Recordkeeping) ...... 740 213 ...... 12.1 66,050

Total ...... 740 Varies Varies Varies 67,257 * HUD–1044, Award/Amendment is completed by HUD staff, signed by the recipient of the grant, and returned to HUD. This form is a certifi- cation and HUD ascribes no burden to its use.

Burden hours for forms showing zero C. Authority districts, and the City of Prineville burden hours in this collection are Section 3507 of the Paperwork (applicants). The applicants are seeking reflected in the OMB approval number Reduction Act of 1995, 44 U.S.C. incidental take permits (ITPs) covering cited or do not have a reportable Chapter 35. the incidental take of four covered burden. species over a 30-year period. The HCP Colette Pollard, describes the steps the applicants will B. Solicitation of Public Comment Department Reports Management Officer, take to minimize, mitigate, and monitor Office of the Chief Information Officer. the impacts of incidental take of the This notice is soliciting comments [FR Doc. 2020–24640 Filed 11–5–20; 8:45 am] covered species. The FEIS has been from members of the pubic and affected BILLING CODE 4210–67–P prepared, pursuant to NEPA, in parties concerning the collection of response to these applications. information described in Section A on DATES: The Services’ ITP decisions will the following: DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR occur no sooner than 30 days after (1) Whether the proposed collection publication of the U.S. Environmental of information is necessary for the Fish and Wildlife Service Protection Agency’s notice of the FEIS proper performance of the functions of in the Federal Register, and will be the agency, including whether the DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE documented in each agency’s record of information will have practical utility; decision. National Oceanic and Atmospheric ADDRESSES: You may obtain copies of (2) The accuracy of the agency’s Administration estimate of burden of the proposed the documents by any of the following collection of information; [Docket No. FWS–R1–ES–2019–0091; methods: FXES11140100000–212–FF01E00000] • Internet: http://www.regulations.gov (3) Ways to enhance the quality, under Docket No. FWS–R1–ES–2019– utility and clarity of the information to Final Environmental Impact Statement 0091, or at https://www.fws.gov/ be collected; and and Final Deschutes Basin Habitat Oregonfwo/articles.cfm?id=149489716. (4) Ways to minimize the burden of Conservation Plan; Klamath, • Upon Request: You may request the collection of information on those Deschutes, Jefferson, Crook, Wasco, alternative formats of the documents who are to respond; including through and Sherman Counties, Oregon directly from the Services (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT). the use of appropriate automated AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, collection techniques or other forms of Interior, National Marine Fisheries FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: information technology, e.g., permitting Bridget Moran, by telephone at 541– Service, National Oceanic and _ electronic submission of responses. Atmospheric Administration, 383–7146, or by email at bridget Commerce. [email protected]; or Scott Carlon, by (5) Ways to minimize the burden of telephone at 971–322–7436, or by email ACTION: Notice of availability. the collection of information on those at [email protected]. Hearing or who are to respond, including the use SUMMARY: In accordance with the speech impaired individuals may call of automated collection techniques or Endangered Species Act (ESA) and the the Federal Relay Service at 800–877– other forms of information technology National Environmental Policy Act 8339 for TTY assistance. HUD encourages interested parties to (NEPA), we, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. submit comment in response to these Service and National Marine Fisheries Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the questions. Service (together, the Services), National Marine Fisheries Service announce the availability of a final (NMFS) (jointly, the Services) announce environmental impact statement (FEIS) the availability of a final environmental and habitat conservation plan (HCP) impact statement (FEIS) and final addressing covered activities by the habitat conservation plan (HCP) Deschutes Basin Board of Control addressing covered activities by the (DBBC)’s eight-member irrigation Deschutes Basin Board of Control

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(DBBC) member districts (Arnold, The applicants have proposed a species listed as threatened, as well (16 Central Oregon, Lone Pine, North Unit, conservation program to avoid, U.S.C. 1533(d)). The take prohibition Ochoco, Swalley, Three Sisters, and minimize, and mitigate the impacts of has been extended, in whole or in part, Tumalo Irrigation Districts) and the City taking of the covered species. The HCP to the three covered species that are of Prineville (applicants) in Klamath, addresses the adverse effects of the listed as threatened. However, steelhead Deschutes, Jefferson, Crook, Wasco, and covered activities on the covered that occur above Round Butte Dam on Sherman Counties, Oregon. The species by reducing or eliminating those the Deschutes River are designated as a applicants are requesting an incidental effects to the maximum extent nonessential experimental population take permit (ITP) covering the take of practicable, and by mitigating effects under section 10(j) of the ESA. the federally threatened Oregon spotted that cannot be eliminated altogether. In Incidental take is allowed for legally frog (Rana pretiosa) and the threatened general, adverse effects on listed species authorized activities that may affect this bull trout (Salvelinus confluentus) from can result from direct harm or injury of species. This designation will expire on FWS; and a separate ITP covering take individuals of the species, and through January 15, 2025, at which time take of the federally threatened Middle changes in habitat that interfere with the prohibitions shall be in place. Under Columbia River steelhead trout essential life activities of the species. section 3 of the ESA, the term ‘‘take’’ (Oncorhynchus mykiss) and the non- Both types of effects are addressed in means to ‘‘harass, harm, pursue, hunt, listed sockeye salmon (O. nerka) from the HCP conservation measures. The shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or NMFS. Hereafter, these four species are covered activities affect the covered collect, or attempt to engage in any such collectively referred to as the ‘‘covered species primarily through changes in conduct’’ (16 U.S.C. 1538). Under species.’’ the hydrology (flow) of occupied waters section 10(a) of the ESA, the Services The ITPs, if issued, would authorize associated with the storage, release, may issue permits to authorize take of the covered species that may diversion, and return of irrigation water. incidental take of listed fish and occur over the 30-year permit term In the course of storing, releasing, wildlife species. ‘‘Incidental take’’ is incidental to the storage, release, diverting, and returning irrigation water, defined by the ESA as take that is diversion, and return of irrigation water the applicants alter the hydrology of the incidental to, and not the purpose of, by the DBBC member districts, and Deschutes River and a number of its carrying out an otherwise lawful groundwater withdrawals, effluent tributaries. In a similar fashion, the activity. Section 10(a)(1)(B) of the ESA discharges, and surface water diversions pumping of groundwater for municipal contains provisions for issuing ITPs to by the City of Prineville (collectively, water supply by the City of Prineville non-Federal entities for the take of the ‘‘covered activities’’). affects the hydrology in one of those endangered and threatened species, The HCP describes the impacts that tributaries, the Crooked River. In most provided the following criteria are met: will likely result from the take of the cases, the hydrologic changes resulting 1. The taking will be incidental; covered species and describes the steps from activities covered by the HCP have 2. The applicant will, to the the applicants will take to minimize and adverse impacts on aquatic habitats for maximum extent practicable, minimize mitigate such impacts. The HCP also the covered species. When flows are and mitigate the impacts of such taking; describes the covered species’ life reduced, the total area of usable habitat 3. The applicant will ensure that history and ecology, as well as the for aquatic species generally decreases adequate funding for the HCP will be biological goals and objectives of the and water temperatures typically provided; HCP, adaptive management, monitoring, increase to the extent that habitat 4. The taking will not appreciably and funding assurances. quality is negatively impacted. The reduce the likelihood of the survival The FEIS was prepared by FWS in HCP’s conservation measures will and recovery of the species in the wild; response to the ITP applications from modify irrigation activities that reduce and the applicants, with input from NMFS in-stream flow (storage and diversion of 5. The applicant will carry out any as a cooperating agency. The Services water) to address the adverse effects. As other measures that the Services may also jointly considered comments a result, with implementation of the require as being necessary or received on the draft HCP and draft HCP, flows in the affected reaches will appropriate for purposes of the HCP. environmental impact statement (DEIS), be higher than they were historically National Environmental Policy Act in accordance with the requirements of (over the last 50+ years) in the winter, the National Environmental Policy Act and water temperatures (particularly In compliance with NEPA (42 U.S.C. (NEPA; 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.). peak summer temperatures) will be 4321 et seq.), FWS prepared a FEIS analyzing the proposed action Background lower. The actions considered in the FEIS (identified as the Services’ preferred All eight water districts are quasi- are approval of the HCP and issuance of alternative), a no-action alternative, and municipal corporations formed and ITPs (one from each of the Services) two additional alternatives to the operated according to Oregon State law with a term of 30 years to the proposed action. The environmental to distribute water to irrigators (patrons) applicants, if permit issuance criteria consequences of each alternative were within designated geographic are met. The Services will each make an analyzed to determine if significant boundaries and in accordance with the independent decision regarding impacts to the human environment individual water rights held by those coverage for incidental take of the would occur. patrons. The City of Prineville operates species under its respective jurisdiction. Alternative 1—No-action Alternative: City-owned infrastructure and provides No ITPs would be issued, and the essential services—including public Endangered Species Act applicants’ HCP would not be safety, municipal water supply, and Section 9 of the ESA and its implemented. Under Alternative 1, sewage treatment—for more than 9,000 implementing regulations prohibit ongoing applicant activities would residents. The applicants have ‘‘take’’ of fish and wildlife species listed remain subject to the take prohibition determined that continued operation of as endangered (16 U.S.C. 1538(a)(1)). for listed species under section 9 of the irrigation and essential services requires Section 4 of the ESA allows FWS and ESA. This alternative assumes ITPs to address unavoidable take of NMFS to issue regulations which continuation of actions covered in an covered species, which is ongoing. prohibit the take of any fish and wildlife ESA section 7 biological opinion issued

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to the Bureau of Reclamation addressing EPA’s Role in the EIS Process of the ESA (16 U.S.C. 1539 et seq.). The the effects of water management The Environmental Protection Agency Services will also each evaluate whether activities in the Upper Deschutes River (EPA) is charged with reviewing all the proposed permit action would Basin to the Oregon spotted frog, and Federal agency EISs and commenting on comply with section 7 of the ESA. If the continuation of actions covered in other the adequacy and acceptability of the requirements are met, the Services will ESA section 7 consultation documents environmental impacts of proposed issue the ITPs to the applicants. Each addressing the effects of Deschutes actions addressed in these EISs. agency (FWS and NMFS) will issue a River Basin projects to the Middle Therefore, EPA is publishing a notice in record of decision, and approve or deny Columbia River steelhead trout and the the Federal Register announcing this the request for an ITP no sooner than 30 bull trout. EIS, as required under section 309 of the days after publication of EPA’s NOA of the FEIS in the Federal Register. Alternative 2—Proposed Action, Clean Air Act. EPA serves as the Deschutes Basin HCP: Under this repository (EIS database) for EISs Public Review prepared by Federal agencies. You may alternative, identified as the preferred We are not requesting public search for EPA comments on EISs, along alternative in the FEIS, the Services comments on the FEIS and HCP, but any with EISs themselves, at https:// would issue 30-year ITPs to the written comments we receive will cdxnodengn.epa.gov/cdx-enepa-public/ applicants for incidental take of the four become part of the public record action/eis/search. covered species caused by covered associated with this action. Before activities in the plan area, and the Public Involvement including your address, phone number, applicants would implement the HCP. The notice of intent (NOI) to prepare email address, or other personal Over the 30-year period of HCP identifying information in a comment, implementation, in-stream flows would a DEIS was published in the Federal Register on July 24, 2017 (82 FR 34326). you should be aware that your entire be modified to mimic more natural flow comment—including your personal patterns to support the various life The NOI also announced a public scoping period (July 24, 2017, through identifying information—may be made stages of the covered species. September 22, 2017), during which publicly available at any time. While Alternative 3—Enhanced Variable interested parties were invited to you can request in your comment that Streamflows: Under this alternative, the provide written comments related to the we withhold your personal identifying Services would issue ITPs to the proposal. Four public scoping meetings information from public review, we applicants for the same plan area, were held: Two in Madras, Oregon, on cannot guarantee that we will be able to covered lands and waters, covered August 14, 2017; and two in Bend, do so. All submissions from species, covered activities, and permit Oregon, on August 15, 2017. The organizations or businesses, and from term as described for the proposed meetings were convened in accordance individuals identifying themselves as action, but with modifications to the with NEPA procedures (40 CFR 1501.7). representatives or officials of HCP conservation strategy, including Using public scoping comments, FWS organizations or businesses, will be increased fall and winter flows in the prepared a DEIS to analyze the effects of made available for public disclosure in Deschutes River below Wickiup Dam, the above alternatives on the human their entirety. in-stream protection of uncontracted environment, with input from NMFS as Authority water releases on the Crooked River for a cooperating agency. A notice of We provide this notice in accordance fish and wildlife, and the inclusion of availability (NOA) of the DEIS and draft with the requirements of section 10 of a habitat improvement fund for projects HCP was published by FWS in the the ESA (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) and in the Upper Deschutes River Basin. Federal Register on October 4, 2019 (84 NEPA and its implementing regulations FR 53164), opening a 45-day public Alternative 4—Accelerated Schedule (40 CFR 1503.1 and 1506.6). for Enhanced Variable Streamflows: comment period. Also on that day, Under this alternative, the Services NMFS published a NOA for the draft Robyn Thorson, would issue ITPs to the applicants for HCP in the Federal Register (84 FR Regional Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife the same plan area, covered lands and 53114), also announcing a 45-public Service. waters, covered species, and covered comment period. The Services also Angela Somma, activities as described for the proposed published a 15-day extension of the Chief, Endangered Species Conservation, action, but with a 20-year permit term comment period on October 29, 2019 Office of Protected Resources, National and modifications to the HCP (84 FR 58169; 85 FR 61026), bringing Marine Fisheries Service. conservation strategy for an accelerated the total comment period to 60 days for [FR Doc. 2020–24636 Filed 11–5–20; 8:45 am] schedule for increases in fall and winter both the DEIS and draft HCP. Two BILLING CODE 4333–15–P public open-house meetings were held, flows in the Deschutes River below on October 15, 2019, in Bend, Oregon, Wickiup Dam, in-stream protection of and on October 16, 2019, in Prineville, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR additional uncontracted water releases Oregon, to solicit additional input from on the Crooked River for fish and the public on the DEIS and draft HCP. Fish and Wildlife Service wildlife, and the habitat improvement A total of 1,611 comment letters and fund for projects in the Upper Deschutes electronic submissions were received [FWS–HQ–R–2020–N136; River Basin. from the public. The official comment FXGO1664091HCC0–FF09D00000–190] As the DEIS was developed prior to period ended on December 4, 2019. the Council on Environmental Quality’s Hunting and Shooting Sports issuance of updated regulations Next Steps Conservation Council; Public Meeting implementing NEPA which went into The Services will evaluate the permit by Videoconference effect on September 14, 2020 (40 CFR applications, associated documents, and AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 1506.13), the FEIS was completed under public comments in reaching a final Interior. the previous regulations in the interest decision on whether the applications ACTION: Notice of meeting. of time and efficiency. meet the requirements of section 10(a)

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