51120 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 189 / Tuesday, September 30, 1997 / Notices adding a new footnote under the table Dated: September 25, 1997. Fish and Wildlife Service, Ecological to read as follows: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Services Operations, 1 Federal Drive, Fort Snelling, Minnesota 55111–4056, [FR Doc. 97–25823 Filed 9–29–97; 8:45 am] Assistant Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing Commissioner. and must be received on or before BILLING CODE 4160±20±U [FR Doc. 97–25985 Filed 9–29–97; 8:45 am] October 30, 1997. BILLING CODE 4210±27±P Documents and other information submitted with these applications are DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND available for review by any party who URBAN DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR submits a written request for a copy of [Docket No. FR±4285±N±01] such documents to the following office Fish and Wildlife Service within 30 days of the date of publication Debenture Recall of this notice: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Endangered and Threatened Service, Ecological Services Operations, AGENCY: Office of the Assistant Permit Applications 1 Federal Drive, Fort Snelling, Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing Minnesota 55111–4056. Telephone: Commissioner, HUD. AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, (612/725–3536 x224); FAX: (612/725– ACTION: Notice. Interior. 3526). ACTION: Notice of receipt of applications. SUMMARY: This notice announces a Dated: September 26, 1997. debenture recall of certain Federal The following applicants have John A. Blankenship, Housing Administration debentures, in applied for permits to conduct certain Assistant Regional Director, IL, IN, MO accordance with authority provided in activities with . This (Ecological Services), Region 3, Fort Snelling, the National Housing Act. notice is provided pursuant to section Minnesota. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 10(c) of the Endangered Species Act of [FR Doc. 97–25908 Filed 9–29–97; 8:45 am] Richard Keyser, Room B133, 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531, et BILLING CODE 4310±55±P Department of Housing and Urban seq.). Development, 451 Seventh Street, S.W., Washington, D.C. 20410, telephone PRT–834589 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (202) 755–7510. This is not a toll-free Applicant: R.D. Zande & Associates, Fish and Wildlife Service number. Inc., Columbus, Ohio; Robert F. Madej, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant principal investigator. Availability of Draft Recovery Plan for to Section 207(j) of the National The applicant requests a permit to Oahu Housing Act, 12 U.S.C. 1713(j), and in take (capture and release; survey accordance with HUD regulations at 24 hibernacula) gray bat (Myotis grisescens) AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, CFR 207.259(e)(3), the Federal Housing and Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis); take Interior. Commissioner, with approval of the (capture and release; collect one ACTION: Notice of document availability. Secretary of the Treasury, announces voucher specimen per site) American SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife the call of all Federal Housing burying (=giant carrion) beetle Service (Service) announces the Administration debentures, with a (Nicrophorus americanus); take (capture availability for public review of a draft coupon rate of 6.75% or above, except and release) Hine’s (=Ohio) emerald Recovery Plan for Oahu Plants. There for those debentures subject to dragonfly (Somatochlora hineana); and are 66 taxa included in this plan, ‘‘debenture lock agreements,’’ that have take (survey habitat) Mitchell’s satyr all listed as endangered. All 66 taxa are been registered on the books of the butterfly (Neonympha mitchellii endemic to . Sixty are restricted Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, mitchellii) throughout their ranges. to the island of Oahu and six occur on and are, therefore, ‘‘outstanding’’ as of Activities are proposed to document Oahu and other main Hawaiian Islands. September 30, 1997. The date of the call presence or absence of the species for is January 1, 1998. the purpose of survival and DATES: Comments on the draft recovery The debenture will be redeemed at enhancement of the species in the wild. plan received by December 29, 1997 par plus accrued interest. Interest will will be considered by the Service. PRT–834596 cease to accrue on the debentures as of ADDRESSES: Copies of the draft recovery the call date. Final interest on any Applicant: 3D/International, Inc. plan are available for inspection, by called debentures will be paid with the Environmental Group, Cincinnati, Ohio. appointment, during normal business principal at redemption. During the The applicant requests a permit to hours at the following locations: U.S. period from the date of this notice to the take (capture and release; collect empty Fish and Wildlife Service, Pacific call date, debentures that are subject to shells) clubshell mussel (Pleurobema Islands Office, 300 Ala Moana the call may not be used by the clava) and northern riffleshell mussel Boulevard, Room 3108, Box 50088, mortgagee for a special redemption (Epioblasma torulosa rangiana) and to Honolulu, Hawaii 96850 (phone 808/ purchase in payment of a mortgage take (capture and release) American 541–3441); and Hawaii State Library, insurance premium. burying (=giant carrion) beetle 478 S. King Street, Honolulu, Hawaii No transfer of debentures covered by (Nicrophorus americanus) and Hine’s 96813. Requests for copies of the draft the foregoing call will be made on the (=Ohio) emerald dragonfly recovery plan and written comments books maintained by the Treasury (Somatochlora hineana) at Wright and materials regarding this plan should Department on or after October 1, 1997. Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. be addressed to Brooks Harper, Field This does not affect the right of the Activities are proposed to document Supervisor, Ecological Services, at the holder of a debenture to sell or assign presence or absence of the species for above Honolulu address. the debenture on or after this date. the purpose of survival and FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Payment of final principal and interest enhancement of the species in the wild. Scott Johnston, Fish and Wildlife due on January 1, 1998, will be made Written data or comments should be Biologist, at the above Honolulu automatically to the registered holder. submitted to the Regional Director, U.S. address. 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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: covered by the draft recovery plan are: habitat degradation by wild, feral or Background Abutilon sandwicense (no common domestic animals (goats, pigs, and name (NCN)), obovatum cattle); agricultural and recreational Restoring endangered or threatened (NCN), (NCN), activities; habitat loss and damage to animals and plants to the point where Chamaesyce celastroides var. kaenana plants from fires; predation by animals they are again secure, self-sustaining (akoko), Chamaesyce deppeana (akoko), (cattle, pigs, goats, , slugs and snails, members of their ecosystems is a Chamaesyce herbstii (akoko), and insects); and natural disasters such primary goal of the Service’s Chamaesyce kuwaleana (akoko), as hurricanes. In addition, due to the endangered species program. To help Chamaesyce rockii (akoko), small number of existing individuals guide the recovery effort, the Service is acuminata (haha), Cyanea crispa (NCN), and their very narrow distributions, working to prepare recovery plans for Cyanea grimesiana ssp. obatae (haha), these taxa and most of their populations most of the listed species native to the Cyanea humboldtiana (haha), Cyanea are subject to an increased likelihood of United States. Recovery plans describe koolauensis (haha), Cyanea longiflora extinction and/or reduced reproductive actions considered necessary for the (haha), Cyanea pinnatifida (haha), vigor from stochastic events. conservation of the species, establish Cyanea st.-johnii (haha), Cyanea criteria for the recovery levels for The objective of the draft recovery superba (NCN), Cyanea truncata (haha), plan is to provide a framework for the downlisting or delisting them, and Cyrtandra crenata (haiwale), Cyrtandra estimate time and cost for implementing recovery of these 66 taxa so that their dentata (haiwale), Cyrtandra polyantha protection by the Endangered Species the recovery measures needed. (haiwale), Cyrtandra subumbellata The Endangered Species Act, as Act (ESA) is no longer necessary. The (haiwale), Cyrtandra viridiflora amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) (Act), interim objective is to stabilize all (haiwale), Delissea subcordata (oha), requires the development of recovery existing populations of the Oahu plants. plans for listed species unless such a Diellia falcata (NCN), Diellia unisora To be considered stable, each taxon plan would not promote the (NCN), Dubautia herbstobatae (naenae), must be managed to control threats (e.g., conservation of a particular species. Eragrostis fosbergii (NCN), Eugenia fenced) and be represented in an ex situ Section 4(f) of the Act as amended in koolauensis (nioi), Gardenia mannii (such as a nursery or arboretum) 1988 requires that public notice and an (nanu), meyenii (NCN), collection. In addition, a minimum total opportunity for public review and Gouania vitifolia (NCN ), Hedyotis of three populations of each taxon comment be provided during recovery degeneri (NCN), Hedyotis parvula should be documented on islands where plan development. The Service will (NCN), Hesperomannia arborescens they now occur or occurred historically. consider all information presented (NCN), Hesperomannia arbuscula Each of these populations must be during the public comment period prior (NCN), Labordia cyrtandrae naturally reproducing and increasing in to approval of each new or revised (kamakahala), Lepidium arbuscula number, with a minimum of 25 mature Recovery Plan. Substantive technical (anaunau), Lipochaeta lobata var. individuals per population for long- comments will result in changes to the leptophylla (nehe), Lipochaeta lived perennials (Eugenia koolauensis, plans. Substantive comments regarding tenuifolia (NCN), Lobelia gaudichaudii Hesperomannia arborescens, recovery plan implementation may not ssp. koolauensis (NCN), Lobelia Hesperomannia arbuscula, necessarily result in changes to the monostachya (NCN), Lobelia lydgatei, Melicope saint-johnii, recovery plans, but will be forwarded to niihauensis (NCN), Lobelia oahuensis Pritchardia kaalae, Tetraplasandra appropriate Federal or other entities so (NCN), Melicope lydgatei (alani), gymnocarpa, and Urera kaalae) and a that they can take these comments into Melicope saint-johnii (alani), Myrsine minimum of 50 mature individuals per account during the course of juddii (kolea), Neraudia angulata population for short-lived perennials implementing recovery actions. (NCN), Nototrichium humile (kului), (Abutilon sandwicense, Alsinidendron Individualized responses to comments Phlegmariurus nutans (wawaeiole), obovatum, Alsinidendron trinerve, will not be provided. Phyllostegia hirsuta (NCN), Phyllostegia Chamaesyce celastroides var. kaenana, This draft Recovery Plan for Oahu kaalaensis (NCN), Phyllostegia mollis Chamaesyce deppeana, Chamaesyce Plants covers 66 plant taxa (full species, (NCN), Pritchardia kaalae (loulu), herbstii, Chamaesyce kuwaleana, subspecies, and varieties), all of which Sanicula mariversa (NCN), Chamaesyce rockii, Cyanea acuminata, are listed as endangered. Fifty-six of kaalae (NCN), Schiedea kealiae (NCN), Cyanea crispa, Cyanea grimesiana ssp. these taxa are endemic to the island of Silene perlmanii (NCN), Stenogyne obatae, Cyanea humboldtiana, Cyanea Oahu. The following taxa also currently kanehoana (NCN), Tetramolopium koolauensis, Cyanea longiflora, Cyanea have populations outside of the island filiforme (NCN), Tetramolopium pinnatifida, Cyanea st.-johnii, Cyanea of Oahu: Gouania meyenii and Lobelia lepidotum ssp. lepidotum (NCN), superba, Cyanea truncata, Cyrtandra niihauensis on Kauai; Hesperomannia Tetraplasandra gymnocarpa (oheohe), crenata, Cyrtandra dentata, Cyrtandra arborescens on and Maui; Trematolobelia singularis (NCN), Urera polyantha, Cyrtandra subumbellata, Hesperomannia arbuscula on West kaalae (opuhe), Viola chamissoniana Cyrtandra viridiflora, Delissea Maui; Nototrichium humile and ssp. chamissoniana (pamakani), and subcordata, Diellia falcata, Diellia Phyllostegia mollis on East Maui; and Viola oahuensis (NCN). unisora, Dubautia herbstobatae, Tetramolopium lepidotum spp. The 66 taxa included in this draft Eragrostis fosbergii, Gardenia mannii, lepidotum on Hawaii. Historically, two plan grow in a variety of vegetation Gouania meyenii, Gouania vitifolia, of the taxa were known from Molokai communities (shrublands, forests, and Hedyotis degeneri, Hedyotis parvula, (Eugenia koolauensis and Phyllostegia mixed communities), elevational zones Labordia cyrtandrae, Lepidium mollis), two from Lanai (Hesperomannia (coastal to subalpine), and moisture arbuscula, Lipochaeta lobata var. arborescens and Tetramolopium regimes (dry to wet). These taxa and leptophylla, Lipochaeta tenuifolia, lepidotum ssp. lepidotum), and one their habitats have been variously Lobelia gaudichaudii ssp. koolauensis, each from Kauai (Phlegmariurus affected or are currently threatened by Lobelia monostachya, Lobelia nutans), West Maui (Gouania vitifolia), one or more of the following: niihauensis, Lobelia oahuensis, Myrsine Niihau (Lobelia niihauensis), and competition for space, light, water, and juddii, Neraudia angulata, Nototrichium Hawaii (Gouania vitifolia). 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Phyllostegia hirsuta, Phyllostegia comments received by the date specified actions considered necessary for the kaalaensis, Phyllostegia mollis, above will be considered prior to conservation of the species, establish Sanicula mariversa, , approval of this plan. criteria for the recovery levels for Schiedea kealiae, Silene perlmanii, downlisting or delisting them, and Authority Stenogyne kanehoana, Tetramolopium estimate time and cost for implementing filiforme, Tetramolopium lepidotum The authority for this action is section the recovery measures needed. ssp. lepidotum, Trematolobelia 4(f) of the Endangered Species Act, 16 The Endangered Species Act, as singularis, Viola chamissoniana ssp. U.S.C. 1533(f). amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) (Act), chamissoniana, and Viola oahuensis). Dated: September 24, 1997. requires the development of recovery For downlisting, a total of five to Michael J. Spear, plans for listed species unless such a seven populations of each taxon should plan would not promote the be documented on islands where they Regional Director, Region 1, Portland, Oregon. conservation of a particular species. now occur or occurred historically. In [FR Doc. 97–25837 Filed 9–29–97; 8:45 am] Section 4(f) of the Act requires that certain cases, however, a particular BILLING CODE 4310±55±P public notice and an opportunity for taxon may be eligible for downlisting public review and comment be provided even if all five to seven of the during recovery plan development. The populations are on only one island, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Service will consider all information provided all of the other recovery Fish and Wildlife Service presented during the public comment criteria have been met and the period prior to approval of each new or populations in question are widely Availability of Draft Recovery Plan for revised recovery plan. Substantive distributed and secure enough that one Two Insects and Four Plants From the technical comments will result in might reasonably conclude that the Santa Cruz Mountains for Review and changes to the plans. Substantive taxon is not in danger of extinction Comment comments regarding recovery plan throughout all or a significant part of its implementation may not necessarily range. AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, result in changes to the recovery plans, Each of these populations must be Interior. but will be forwarded to appropriate naturally reproducing, stable or ACTION: Notice of document availability. Federal or other entities so that they can increasing in number, and secure from take these comments into account threats, with a minimum of 100 mature SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife during the course of implementing individuals per population for long- Service (Service) announces the recovery actions. Individualized lived perennials, a minimum of 300 availability for public review of a draft responses to comments will not be mature individuals per population for Recovery Plan for Two Insects and Four provided. short-lived perennials and a minimum Plants from the Santa Cruz Mountains. The two insects and three of the four of 500 mature individuals per The two insects and four plants occur plants addressed in this recovery plan population for the annuals. Each on sandy soils in the Santa Cruz are listed as endangered. The fourth population should persist at this level Mountains, Santa Cruz County, plant (Scotts Valley polygonum) is a for a minimum of five consecutive years California. species of concern to the Service. before downlisting is considered. A total DATES: Comments on the draft recovery The Mount Hermon June beetle of eight to ten populations of each taxon plan received by December 29, 1997 (Polyphylla barbata) is known from 28 should be documented on islands where will be considered by the Service. collection sites in the area generally they now occur or occurred historically. ADDRESSES: Copies of the draft recovery bounded by Ben Lomond, Mount As with downlisting, there may be plan are available for inspection, by Hermon, and Scotts Valley. Populations certain cases in which a particular taxon appointment, during normal business receiving some protection occur on may be eligible for delisting even if all hours at the following location: U.S. Quail Hollow Ranch. The remaining eight to ten of the populations are on Fish and Wildlife Service, 2493 Portola populations occur on private land. only one island, provided all of the Road, Suite B, Ventura, California 93003 The Zayante band-winged other recovery criteria have been met (phone: 805/644–1766). Requests for grasshopper (Trimerotropis infantilis) is and the populations in question are copies of the draft recovery plan and known from 10 collection sites in the widely distributed and secure enough written comments and materials area generally bounded by Ben Lomond, that one might reasonably conclude that regarding this plan should be addressed Mount Hermon, and Mission Springs. the taxon is not in danger of extinction to, Ms. Diane K. Noda, Field Supervisor, All populations occur on private land. throughout all or a significant part of its at the above Ventura address. Ben Lomond spineflower range. Each of these populations must (Chorizanthe pungens var. hartwegiana) FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: be naturally reproducing, stable or is known from 21 populations; most Connie Rutherford, Botanist, at the increasing in number, and secure from occur between Ben Lomond, Mount above Ventura address. threats, with a minimum of 100 mature Hermon, and Glenwood. Outlying individuals per population for long- SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: populations are located near Bonny Doon, Boulder Creek, and Big Basin lived perennials, a minimum of 300 Background mature individuals per population for State Park. Populations receiving some short-lived perennials and a minimum Restoring endangered or threatened protection occur on Bonny Doon of 500 mature individuals per animals and plants to the point where Ecologic Preserve, Quail Hollow Ranch, population for the annual taxon. Each they are again secure, self-sustaining and Big Basin State Park. The remaining population should persist at this level members of their ecosystems is a populations are found on private land. for a minimum of five consecutive primary goal of the Service’s Scotts Valley spineflower years. endangered species program. To help (Chorizanthe robusta var. hartwegii) is guide the recovery effort, the Service is known from three sites on private land Public Comments Solicited working to prepare recovery plans for north of Scotts Valley. The Service solicits written comments most of the listed species native to the Ben Lomond wallflower (Erysimum on the recovery plan described. All United States. Recovery plans describe teretifolium) is known from 15