Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 183 / Thursday, September 19, 1996 / Notices 49337 above will be considered prior to recovery plans for most of the listed Notice of Availability of a Technical/ approval of the plan. species native to the United States. Agency Draft Recovery Plan for Authority: The authority for this action is Recovery plans describe actions Aurodendron Pauciflorum and Myrcia Section 4(f) of the Endangered Species Act, considered necessary for conservation of Paganii for Review and Comment 16 U.S.C. 1533(f). the species, establish them, and estimate AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Dated: September 13, 1996. time and cost for implementing the Interior. Susan Silander, recovery measures needed. ACTION: Notice of document availability. Acting Field Supervisor. The Endangered Species Act of 1973 [FR Doc. 96–24036 Filed 9–18–96; 8:45 am] (Act), as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife BILLING CODE 4310±55±M seq.) requires the development of Service announces availability for recovery plans for listed species unless public review of a technical/agency such a plan would not promote the draft recovery plan for Aurodendron Notice of Availability of a Technical/ conservation of a particular species. pauciflorum and Myrcia paganii (no Agency Draft Recovery Plan for Section 4(f) of the Act, as amended in common names). Aurodendron Calyptranthes Thomasiana for Review 1988, requires that public notice and an pauciflorum is an evergreen shrub or and Comment opportunity for public review and small tree known from the semi- comment be provided during recovery evergreen forests of the limestone hills AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, plan development. The Service and Interior. of Isabela in northwestern Puerto Rico. other Federal agencies will also take Only 10 individual plants are known ACTION: Notice of document availability. these comments into account in the from the edges of these cliffs. Myrcia course of implementing approved SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife paganii is an evergreen tree which may recovery plans. Service announces availability for reach 9 meters in height, known from public review of a technical/agency This Technical/Agency Draft is for only 8 individuals at three locations in draft recovery plan for Calyptranthes Calyptranthes thomasiana, an evergreen the limestone hills of northwestern thomasiana. (no common name). shrub or small tree that may reach 9 Puerto Rico. Both species are threatened Calyptranthes thomasiana is an meters in height and 13 centimeters in by rural, urban and tourist development. evergreen shrub or small tree that may diameter. Leaves are opposite obovate to The Service solicits review and reach 9 meters in height. The species is oblong, 2 to 4 centimeters long, comments from the public on this draft currently known from three locations: coriaceous and with gland dots. Flowers plan. The Island of Vieques in Puerto Rico, and fruit have not been described. This DATES: Comments on the draft recovery the island of St. John, U.S. Virgin tree was described in 1855 from plan must be received on or before Islands, and Virgin Gorda, British Virgin specimens collected in St. Thomas, U.S. November 18, 1996 to receive Islands. The species is extremely rare Virgin Islands. Although collected from consideration by the Service. and may be affected by management this island, it has not been reported ADDRESSES: Persons wishing to review practices within the known areas as from there in recent years. It is currently the draft recovery plan may obtain a well as by the expansion of facilities in known from 10 to 12 individuals on the copy by contacting Ms. Susan Silander, Vieques. The Service solicits review and island of Vieques in Puerto Rico, about Boquero´n Field Office, P.O. Box 491, comments from the public on this draft 100 mature individuals within the Boquero´n, Puerto Rico 00622. plan. Virgin Islands National Park on St. John, Comments and materials received are DATES: Comments on the draft recovery U.S. Virgin Islands, and from the island available upon request for public plan must be received on or before of Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands. inspection, by appointment, during November 18, 1996 to receive While found within a conservation zone normal business hours at the above consideration by the Service. on U.S. Navy property in Vieques, the address. species would be effected if facilities ADDRESSES: Persons wishing to review FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: were to be expanded. Within the Virgin the draft recovery plan may obtain a Ms. Susan Silander, Boquero´n Field Islands National Park on St. John, the copy by contacting Ms. Susan Silander, Office, P.O. Box 491, Boquero´n, Puerto species may be affected by park Boquero´n, Puerto Rico 00622. Rico 00622, Telephone: 809/851–7297. management practices and the presence Comments and materials received are of feral pigs and donkeys. This plan will SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: available upon request for public describe measures necessary to recover inspection, by appointment, during Background the species, including studies of its normal business hours at the above reproductive biology and propagation. Restoring an endangered or address. threatened species or plant to the point FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Public Comments Solicited where it is again a secure, self- Ms. Susan Silander, Boquero´n Field The Service solicits written comments sustaining member of its ecosystem is a Office, P.O. Box 491, Boquero´n, Puerto primary goal of the U.S. Fish and Rico 00622, Telephone: 809/851–7297. on the recovery plan described. All comments received by the date specified Wildlife Service’s endangered species SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: above will be considered prior to program. To help guide the recovery approval of the plan. effort, the Service is working to prepare Background recovery plans for most of the listed Restoring an endangered or Authority: The authority for this action is species native to the United States. threatened species or plant to the point Section 4(f) of the Endangered Species Act, Recovery plans describe actions 16 U.S.C. 1531. where it is again a secure, self- considered necessary for conservation of sustaining member of its ecosystem is a Dated: September 12, 1996. the species, establish them, and estimate primary goal of the U.S. Fish and Susan R. Silander, time and cost for implementing the Wildlife Service’s endangered species Acting Field Supervisor. recovery measures needed. program. To help guide the recovery [FR Doc. 96–24037 Filed 9–18–96; 8:45 am] The Endangered Species Act of 1973 effort, the Service is working to prepare BILLING CODE 4310±55±M (Act), as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et 49338 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 183 / Thursday, September 19, 1996 / Notices seq.) requires the development of Notice of Receipt of an Application, available for public inspection by recovery plans for listed species unless and Availability of an Environmental appointment during normal business such a plan would not promote the Assessment and Finding of No hours at the Regional Office, 1875 conservation of a particular species. Significant Impact for an Incidental Century Boulevard, Suite 200, Atlanta, Section 4(f) of the Act, as amended in Take Permit by Collins-Miller Georgia 30345 (Attn: Endangered 1988, requires that public notice and an Development, Inc., for Construction of Species Permits), or at the Daphne, opportunity for public review and a Residential Project on the Fort Alabama, Field Office, 2001 Highway comment be provided during recovery Morgan Peninsula, AL 98, Daphne East Office Plaza, Suite A, Daphne, Alabama 36526. Written data plan development. The Service and AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, or comments concerning the other Federal agencies will also take Interior. application, EA, or HCP should be these comments into account in the ACTION: Notice. course of implementing approved submitted to the Regional Office. recovery plans. SUMMARY: Collins-Miller Development, Comments must be submitted in writing Inc., (Applicant), seeks an incidental to be processed. Please reference This Technical/Agency Draft is for take permit (ITP) from the Fish and permit(s) under PRT–81819363 in such Aurodendron pauciflorum and Myrcia Wildlife Service (Service), pursuant to comments, or in requests for the paganii. Aurodendron pauciflorum is an Section 10(a)(1)(B) of the Endangered documents discussed herein. Requests evergreen shrub or small tree which Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et for the documents must be in writing to may reach up to 5 meters in height. seq.), (Act) as amended. The ITP would be adequately processed. Leaves are opposite or subopposite, authorize for a period of 30 years the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. ovate-elliptic, 6 to 15 centimeters long incidental take of an endangered Rick G. Gooch, Regional Permit and 3.5 to 6 centimeters wide, with species, the Alabama beach mouse Coordinator, Atlanta, Georgia (see minute black glandular dots. The fruit is (Peromyscus polionotus ammobates), ADDRESSES above), telephone: 404/679– unknown at the present time. The known to occupy a 11.2-acre tract of 7110; or Ms. Celeste South at the species known from the semi-evergreen land owned by the Applicant on the Daphne, Alabama, Field Office (see forests of the limestone hills of Isabela Fort Morgan Peninsula, Baldwin ADDRESSES above), telephone: 334/441– County, Alabama. The project would be in northwestern Puerto Rico. Only 10 5181. individual plants are known from the called Bay-to-Breakers, which will edges of these cliffs. Myrcia paganii is include a 28-dwelling-unit residential SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The an evergreen tree which may reach 9 development, their associated Alabama beach mouse (ABM), meters in height and 13 centimeters in landscaped grounds and parking areas, Peromyscus polionotus ammobates, is a diameter. The bark is mottled and flaky recreational amenities, and a dune subspecies of the common oldfield and the inner bark is orange-brown. walkover structure. mouse Peromyscus polionotus and is The Service also announces the Leaves are opposite, simple, coriaceous, restricted to the dune systems of the availability of an Environmental Gulf Coast of Alabama. The known aromatic and glandular punctate below. Assessment (EA) and Habitat M. paganii is known from only 8 current range of ABM extends from Fort Conservation Plan (HCP) for this Morgan eastward to the western individuals at three locations in the incidental take application. Copies of terminus of Alabama Highway 182, limestone hills of northwestern Puerto the EA and/or HCP may be obtained by including the Perdue Unit on the Bon Rico. Both species are threatened by making a request in writing to the Secour National Wildlife Refuge. The rural, urban and tourist development in Regional Office (see ADDRESSES). This sand dune systems inhabited by this this limestone hill region of Puerto Rico. notice also advises the public that the species are not uniform; several habitat This plan will describe measures Service has made a preliminary types are distinguishable. The species necessary to recover the species, determination that issuing an ITP to the inhabits primary dunes, interdune areas, including studies of its reproductive Applicant is not a major Federal action secondary dunes, and scrub dunes. The biology and propagation. significantly affecting the quality of the depth and area of these habitats from human environment within the meaning Public Comments Solicited the beach inland varies. Population of Section 102(2)(C) of the National surveys indicate that this subspecies is The Service solicits written comments Environmental Policy Act of 1969, usually more abundant in primary on the recovery plan described. All (NEPA) as amended. The Findings of No dunes than in secondary dunes, and comments received by the date specified Significant Impact (FONSI) is based on usually more abundant in secondary information contained in the EA and above will be considered prior to dunes than in scrub dunes. Optimal HCP. The final determination will be approval of the plan. ABM habitat is currently considered made no sooner than 30 days from the dune systems with all dune types. Authority: The authority for this action is date of this notice. This notice is Though fewer ABM inhabit scrub Section 4(f) of the Endangered Species Act, provided pursuant to Section 10 of the dunes, these high dunes can serve as 16 U.S.C. 1531. Act and National Environmental Policy refugia during devastating hurricanes Dated: September 12, 1996. Act Regulations (40 CFR 1506.6). that overwash, flood, and destroy or Susan R. Silander, DATES: Written comments on the alter secondary and frontal dunes. ABM Acting Field Supervisor. application, EA and HCP should be sent surveys on the Applicants’ properties [FR Doc. 96–24038 Filed 9–18–96; 8:45 am] to the Service’s Regional Office (see reveal habitat occupied by ABM. The ADDRESSES) and should be received on Applicants’ properties contain BILLING CODE 4310±55±M or before October 21, 1996. designated critical habitat for the ABM. ADDRESSES: Persons wishing to review Construction of the project may result in the application, HCP, and EA may the death of, or injury to, ABM. Habitat obtain a copy by writing the Service’s alterations due to condominium Southeast Regional Office, Atlanta, placement and subsequent human Georgia. Documents will also be habitation of the project may reduce