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Applicant: Copperhead Environmental (Rhus michauxii), bunched arrowhead March 24–26, 2009. The meeting is open Consulting, Inc., Paint Lick, ( fasciculata), mountain sweet to the public. The meeting agenda will Kentucky, TE171516 pitcher- ( jonesii), include reports from the Subcommittees The applicant requests amendment of largeflower skullcap (Scutellaria on Incentives, Legal, Science Tools & existing authorization to add authority montana), blue ridge goldenrod Procedures, and Synthesis, and to capture, handle, and release 31 (Solidago spithamaea), Virginia spirea discussion of the draft species of freshwater mussel for (Spiraea virginiana), Cooley’s Recommendations to the Secretary. presence surveys throughout the species meadowrue (Thalictrum cooleyi), and DATES: The meeting is scheduled for ranges in the eastern United States. running buffalo clover (Trifolium March 24–26, 2009, from 11 a.m. to stoloniferum) to develop and maintain Applicant: South Carolina Parks, 5:30 p.m. on March 24, 8 a.m. to 5:30 germ plasm and propagated specimens Recreation and Tourism, Columbia, p.m. on March 25, and 8 a.m. to 3:30 of collected from throughout South Carolina TE207117 p.m. on March 26. , South Carolina, The applicant requests authorization ADDRESSES: U.S. Fish and Wildlife , Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, Service, 4401 N. Fairfax Drive, Rooms to harass, inspect nest cavities, and , Virginia, and . conduct other management activities 200 A & B, Arlington, VA 22203. For Applicant: International Carnivorous with the red-cockaded woodpecker more information, see ‘‘Meeting Plant Society, Pinole, California, (Picoides borealis) throughout South Location Information.’’ TE061005 Carolina. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Applicant: Fort Benning Conservation The applicant requests renewal of Rachel London, Division of Habitat and Branch, Fort Benning, Georgia existing authorization to sell in Resource Conservation, U.S. Fish and TE016270 interstate commerce cultivated seeds of Wildlife Service, Department of the green pitcher-plant (Sarracenia Interior, (703) 358–2161. The applicant requests renewal of oreophila), Alabama canebreak pitcher- SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: existing authorization to harass, inspect plant (Sarracenia rubra spp. nest cavities, capture, translocate, and alabamensis), mountain sweet pitcher- Background conduct other management activities plant (Sarracenia rubra spp. jonesii), On March 13, 2007, the Department of with the red-cockaded woodpecker and godfrey’s butterwort (Pinguicula the Interior published a notice of throughout Georgia, Alabama, Florida, ionantha). To be sold throughout the establishment of the Committee and call and Mississippi. United States from specimens cultivated for nominations in the Federal Register Applicant: Danny Gustafson, The at University of California, Davis, (72 FR 11373). The Committee’s Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina, California. purpose is to provide advice and TE117645 Applicant: Meadowview Biological recommendations to the Secretary of the The applicant requests renewal of Research Station, Woodford, Virginia, Interior (Secretary) on developing existing authorization to collect leaves TE022690 effective measures to avoid or minimize of pondberry (Lindera melissifolia) from The applicant requests renewal of impacts to wildlife and their habitats throughout South Carolina. existing authorization to sell in related to land-based wind energy facilities. The Committee is expected to Applicant: North Carolina Botanical interstate commerce cultivated specimens of green pitcher-plant, exist for 2 years and meet approximately Garden, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, four times per year, and its continuation TE091705 Alabama canebreak pitcher-plant, and mountain sweet pitcher-plant. To be is subject to biennial renewal. All The applicant requests renewal of sold throughout the United States from Committee members serve without existing authorization to collect seeds, specimens cultivated at Woodford, compensation. In accordance with the spores, cuttings, and vegetative material Virginia. Federal Advisory Committee Act (5 of little amphianthus (Amphianthus U.S.C. App.), a copy of the Committee’s pusillus), Alabama leather Dated: February 13, 2009. charter has been filed with the (Clematis socialis), harperella Jacquelyn B. Parrish, Committee Management Secretariat, ( nodosum), Kral’s water- Acting Regional Director. General Services Administration; plantain (), green [FR Doc. E9–4827 Filed 3–6–09; 8:45 am] Committee on Environment and Public pitcher-plant (), BILLING CODE 4310–55–P Works, U.S. Senate; Committee on seabeach amaranth (Amaranthus Natural Resources, U.S. House of pumilus), shale-barren rockcress (Arabis Representatives; and the Library of serotina), golden sedge (Carex lutea), DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Congress. The Secretary appointed 22 Alabama leather-flower (Clematis Fish and Wildlife Service individuals to the Committee on socialis), smooth-purple coneflower October 24, 2007, representing the (Echinacea laevigata), Applachian avens [FWS–R9–FHC–2008–N0058; 94300–1122– varied interests associated with wind (Geum radiatum), rock gnome lichen 0000–Z2] energy development and its potential (Gymnoderma lineare), Schweinitz’s impacts to wildlife species and their Wind Turbine Guidelines Advisory sunflower (Helianthus schweinitzii), habitats. The Service held five Committee; Announcement of Public dwarf-flowered heartleaf (Hexastylis Committee meetings in 2008, and has Meeting naniflora), mountain golden-heartleaf held one meeting in January of 2009. All (Hudsonia montana), black-spore AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Committee meetings are open to the quillwort (Isoetes melanospora), Interior. public. The public has an opportunity to Merlin’s-grass (Isoetes tegetiformans), ACTION: Notice of public meeting. comment at all Committee meetings. Heller’s gayfeather (Liatris helleri), rough-leaved loosestrife (Lysimachia SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Meeting Location Information asperulaefolia), Canby’s dropwort Wildlife Service (Service), will host a Please note that the meeting location (Oxypolis canbyi), Ruth’s golden aster Wind Turbine Guidelines Advisory is accessible to wheelchair users. If you (Pityopsis ruthii), Michaux’s sumac Committee (Committee) meeting on require additional accommodations,

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please notify us at least two weeks in Availability of Documents California red-legged frog, and the advance of the meeting you plan to You may obtain copies of the California tiger salamander for the attend. documents for review by contacting the duration of this Agreement, the All persons planning to attend the individual named above. You may also applicant proposes to create, restore, meeting will be required to present make an appointment to view the manage, and maintain suitable breeding photo identification when entering the documents at the above address during and dispersal habitat for the three building. We require that persons normal business hours. Federally listed species on the Enrolled planning to attend the workshop and/or Property. We expect that the proposed meeting register at http://www.fws.gov/ Background activities will result in an increase in habitatconservation/windpower/ Under a Safe Harbor Agreement, dispersal opportunities throughout the _ _ _ wind turbine advisory committee.html, participating landowners voluntarily Enrolled Property, thus resulting in a by March 17, 2009. Seating is limited undertake management activities on net conservation benefit for the three due to room capacity. We will give their property to enhance, restore, or Federally listed species. The Enrolled preference to registrants based on date maintain habitat benefiting species Property has known occurrences of the and time of registration. Limited listed under the Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et valley elderberry longhorn beetle and standing room will be available if all seq.). Safe Harbor Agreements, and the the California tiger salamander. seats are filled. subsequent enhancement of survival Although California red-legged frogs Dated: March 3, 2009. permit that is issued pursuant to Section have not been detected within the Enrolled Property, there is suitable Rachel London, 10(a)(1)(A) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act), breeding habitat throughout the Alternate Designated Federal Officer, Wind Enrolled Property, and there is a known Turbine Guidelines Advisory Committee. encourage private and other non-Federal property owners to implement occurrence of this species on privately [FR Doc. E9–4858 Filed 3–6–09; 8:45 am] owned property adjacent to the enrolled conservation efforts for listed species by BILLING CODE 4310–55–P property. The Agreement includes a assuring property owners that they will monitoring component that will aid the not be subjected to increased property applicant in developing management use restrictions as a result of their efforts DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR strategies that will ensure the successful to attract listed species to their property, creation, restoration, enhancement, and Fish and Wildlife Service or to increase the numbers or management of breeding and dispersal distribution of listed species already on [FWS–R8–ES–2009–N0017; 81420–1113– habitat for the three Federally listed their property. Application 0000–F3] species. requirements and issuance criteria for The proposed duration of the Safe Harbor Agreement for East Bay enhancement of survival permits Agreement and the enhancement of Municipal Utility District Lands in San through Safe Harbor Agreements are survival permit is 30 years. When fully Joaquin, Amador, and Calaveras found in the Code of Federal implemented, the Agreement and Counties, California Regulations (CFR) at 50 CFR 17.22(c). requested enhancement of survival We have worked with the applicant to permit will allow the applicant to return AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, develop the proposed Agreement for the Interior. to baseline after the end of the 30-year conservation of the valley elderberry term of the Agreement and prior to the ACTION: Notice of availability; receipt of longhorn beetle, the California red- expiration of the 30-year permit, if so application and proposed safe harbor legged frog, and the California tiger agreement. desired by the applicant. The salamander on lands owned and Agreement fully describes the managed by the applicant (Enrolled SUMMARY: This notice advises the public management activities to be undertaken that East Bay Municipal Utility District Property) in San Joaquin, Amador, and by the applicant, and the net (applicant) has applied to the U.S. Fish Calaveras Counties, California. The conservation benefits expected to the and Wildlife Service (Service) for a Safe 28,000-acre Enrolled Property subject to three Federally listed species. Harbor Agreement (Agreement) for three this Agreement consists of about 19,115 Upon approval of this Agreement, and Federally threatened species: Valley acres of land and 9,034 acres of water consistent with the our Safe Harbor elderberry longhorn beetle (Desmocerus surface. The Enrolled Property borders Policy published in the Federal Register californicus dimorphus), California red- and includes Camanche and Pardee on June 17, 1999 (64 FR 32717), we legged frog (Rana aurora draytonii), and dams and reservoirs. It also includes the would issue a permit to the applicant lands adjacent to the lower Mokelumne authorizing take of the valley elderberry California tiger salamander (Ambystoma 1 californiense). The Agreement is River for approximately ⁄2 mile below longhorn beetle, the California red- available for public comment. Camanche Dam. Current and recent land legged frog, and the California tiger use practices on the enrolled property DATES: salamander incidental to the Written comments should be include management for water supply, received on or before April 8, 2009. implementation of the management flood control, grazing, aquaculture, activities specified in the Agreement, ADDRESSES: Comments should be hydroelectric power, wastewater incidental to other lawful uses of the addressed to Mr. Rick Kuyper, U.S. Fish treatment, facility maintenance, Enrolled Property including normal, and Wildlife Service, Sacramento Fish residential use, and recreation. The routine land management activities, and and Wildlife Office, 2800 Cottage Way, applicant has proposed that the to return to pre-Agreement conditions W–2605, Sacramento, CA 95825. Agreement provide authorized (baseline). Written comments may also be sent by incidental take of the three Federally facsimile to (916) 414–6713. listed species for the activities specified Public Review and Comments FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. above, as well as for any future activities We have made a preliminary Rick Kuyper, Sacramento Fish and associated with raising the heights of determination that the proposed Wildlife Office (see ADDRESSES); any existing dams. Agreement and permit application are telephone: (916) 414–6600. In order to benefit the valley eligible for categorical exclusion under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: elderberry longhorn beetle, the the National Environmental Policy Act

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