Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 209 / Friday, October 29, 2004 / Notices 63171

Property Number: 21200440065

Status: Unutilized 

Reason: Secured area 

Land (by State) 

Maryland 

15 acres 

Ft. Meade 

Ft. Meade Co: MD 20755–5115

Landholding Agency: Army 

Property Number: 21200440031

Status: Unutilized 

Reason: Secured area

[FR Doc. 04–24048 Filed 10–28–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–29–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Office of the Secretary 

Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage 

Corridor Commission Meeting

AGENCY: Department of the Interior, 

Office of the Secretary.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: This notice announces an 

upcoming meeting of the Delaware & 

Lehigh National Heritage Corridor 

Commission. Notice of this meeting is 

required under the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463).

MEETING DATE AND TIME: Friday, 

November 12, 2004, 1:30 p.m. to 4 p.m.

ADDRESSES: Bucks County Audubon 

Society, Honey Hollow Environmental 

Education Center, 6324 Upper York 

Road, New Hope, PA 18938. 

The agenda for the meeting will focus 

on implementation of the Management 

Action Plan for the Delaware Lehigh 

National Heritage Corridor and State 

Heritage Park. The Commission was 

established to assist the Commonwealth 

of Pennsylvania and its political 

subdivisions in planning and 

implementing an integrated strategy for 

protecting and promoting cultural, 

historic and natural resources. The 

Commission reports to the Secretary of 

the Interior and to Congress.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage 

Corridor Commission was established 

by Public Law 100–692, November 18, 

1988, and extended through Public Law 

105–355, November 13, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: C. 

Allen Sachse, Executive Director, 

Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage 

Corridor Commission, 1 South Third 

Street, 8th Floor, Easton, PA 18042. 

(610) 923–3548.

Dated: October 22, 2004. 

C. Allen Sachse, 

Executive Director, Delaware & Lehigh 

National Heritage Corridor Commission.

[FR Doc. 04–24214 Filed 10–28–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6820–PE–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Office of the Secretary 

National Wild and Scenic Rivers 

System; Westfield River, 

Massachusetts

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, DOI.

ACTION: Approval of application.

SUMMARY: The Secretary of Interior 

hereby announces approval of an 

application by the Governor of 

Massachusetts to expand the 

designation of the Westfield River, 

Massachusetts and tributaries as a Stateand local-administered component of 

the National Wild and Scenic Rivers 

System. The effect of this action will be 

that 34.8 miles of river will be added to 

the previously designated 43.3 miles. 

The river and affected lands will 

continue to be administered by State 

and local authorities without expense to 

the United States.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jamie Fosburgh, National Park Service, 

Northeast Region, 15 State Street, 

Boston, MA 02109, (617) 223–5191 

(Jamie_Fosburgh@nps.gov).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the authority granted the Secretary of 

the Interior by section 2(a)(ii) of the 

Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (16 U.S.C. 

1273(a)(ii)), and upon proper 

application of the Governor of the 

Commonwealth of Massachusetts, 34.8 

miles of the Westfield River, its three 

branches, and headwater tributaries are 

hereby added to the 43.3 miles of the 

Westfield River previously designated 

as State-administered components of the 

National Wild and Scenic Rivers System 

on November 16, 1993. 

On April 26, 2002, the Governor of 

the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 

petitioned the Secretary of the Interior 

to add 34.8 miles of the Westfield River 

and tributaries to the National System. 

These river segments had been 

designated a Local Scenic River on 

December 5, 2001, pursuant to the 

Massachusetts Scenic and Recreational 

Rivers Act. In response to the 

Governor’s request, the National Park 

Service conducted a complete review of 

the State application and documents 

associated with the designation 

decision. As a result of that review, the 

Secretary has determined that 34.8 

miles of the Westfield and its tributaries 

should be designated as a Stateadministered component of the National 

Wild and Scenic Rivers System, as 

provided for in section 2(a)(ii) of the 

Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (WSRA). 

The State of Massachusetts has 

fulfilled the requirement of the WSRA 

by designating these segments as ‘‘Local 

Scenic River’’ and by adopting a 

program of action that will adequately 

protect the river from adverse State 

actions. The National Park Service 

evaluation of the river concluded that 

these segments of the Westfield River 

meet the criteria for wild, scenic, and 

recreational classification under the 

WSRA. Accordingly, the following river 

segments are classified as wild, scenic, 

or recreational pursuant to section 2(b) 

of the WSRA to be administered by 

State and local government: Wild:

Shaker Mill Brook, 2.6 miles from 

Brooker Hill Road in Becket to its 

headwaters. Scenic: Upper East Branch, 

6.6 miles from the Windsor/

Cummington town line to its 

confluence; Upper East Branch 

Tributaries—Drowned Land Brook, 1.5 

miles; Center Brook, 2.5 miles; and 

Windsor Jambs Brook, 1.3 miles; and 

Headwater Tributaries of the West 

Branch—Shaker Mill Brook, 1.2 miles 

from Brooker Hill Road in Becket to its 

confluence; Depot Brook, 4.5 miles; 

Savery Brook, 2.9 miles; Watson Brook, 

1.9 miles; and Center Pond Brook, 1.6 

miles from Center Pond to its 

confluence. 

Recreational: Lower Middle Branch, 

East Branch, and Main Stem, 3.2 miles 

in the Town of Huntington and the 

Upper East Branch, 5.0 miles from its 

confluence with Sykes Brook to its 

confluence with the West Branch. 

This action is taken following public 

involvement and consultation with the 

Departments of Agriculture, Army, 

Energy, and Transportation, the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission, and the 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

as required by section 4(c) of the WSRA. 

A 45-day period for public comment on 

the State’s application and river 

management plan of the proposed 

national designation was provided from 

April 10, 2003, to May 27, 2003. All 

comments received have been carefully 

considered. A 30-day period of public 

comment on the environmental 

assessment was provided from May 4, 

2004, to June 4, 2004. No comments 

were received on the Environmental 

Assessment. 

Notice is hereby given that, effective 

upon this date, the above-described 

river segments are approved for 

inclusion in the National Wild and 

Scenic Rivers System to be administered 

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by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts 

and local jurisdictions.

Dated: September 28, 2004. 

Gale A. Norton, 

Secretary of the Interior.

[FR Doc. 04–24174 Filed 10–28–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–52–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service 

Information Collection Renewal 

Submitted to the Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) for Approval Under 

the Paperwork Reduction Act; OMB 

Control Number 1018–0095; 

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife, 

50 CFR 17.84, Experimental 

Populations

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior.

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, the 

Fish and Wildlife Service (We/Service) 

is requesting OMB to extend an existing 

approval to collect information on some 

experimental populations of threatened 

and endangered wildlife, as described 

below. We will use the information that 

we collect to monitor the success of 

reintroduction efforts and recovery 

efforts in general.

DATES: You must submit comments on 

or before November 29, 2004.

ADDRESSES: Send your comments on 

this information collection renewal to 

the Desk Officer for the Department of 

the Interior at OMB–OIRA at (202) 395–

6566 (fax) or at 

OIRA_Docket@OMB.eop.gov (e-mail). 

Please provide a copy of your comments 

to Hope Grey, Information Collection 

Clearance Officer, Fish and Wildlife 

Service, 4401 North Fairfax Drive, MS 

222–ARLSQ, Arlington, Virginia 22203 

(mail); (703) 358–2269 (fax); or 

hope_grey@fws.gov (e-mail).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request a copy of the information 

collection requirement or explanatory 

information, contact Hope Grey, 

Information Collection Clearance 

Officer, at the address or fax number 

listed above or by telephone at (703) 

358–2482.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We have 

sent a request to OMB to renew 

approval of the information collection 

requirements for Endangered and 

Threatened Wildlife, Experimental 

Populations. Currently we have 

approval from OMB to collect 

information under OMB Control 

Number 1018–0095, which expires on 

October 31, 2004. We are requesting a 3-

year term of approval for this 

information collection activity. Federal 

agencies may not conduct or sponsor 

and a person is not required to respond 

to a collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. OMB regulations at 5 CFR 

1320, which implement provisions of 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), require that 

interested members of the public and 

affected agencies have an opportunity to 

comment on information collection and 

recordkeeping activities (see 5 CFR 

1320.8(d)). Following our submittal, 

OMB has up to 60 days to approve or 

disapprove our information collection 

renewal; however, they may respond as 

early as 30 days after our submittal. 

Therefore, to ensure consideration, send 

your comments and suggestions to OMB 

by the date listed in the DATES section 

near the beginning of this notice. 

On July 29, 2004, we published a 60-

day notice on this information 

collection requirement in the Federal 

Register (69 FR 45341) and invited 

public comment. The comment period 

ended on September 27, 2004. We 

received one comment from an 

individual who opposed collecting 

depredation information from certain 

groups of individuals, such as hunting 

or trapping clubs. We cannot exclude 

any group or individual from reporting 

information that they believe may be 

related to this information collection. 

The commenter did not address the 

appropriateness of the information or 

the burden hours. Therefore, we have 

not made any changes to our 

information collection requirements. 

Section 9 of the Endangered Species 

Act of 1973 (ESA) describes prohibited 

acts involving threatened or endangered 

species (16 U.S.C. 1538(a)(1)(B)). 

Information collection and reporting to 

the Service is required for some 

experimental populations established 

under section 10(j) of the Endangered 

Species Act of 1973 (ESA), as amended. 

We collect three major categories of 

information under the experimental 

population regulations (50 CFR 17.84): 

(1) General take or removal. General 

take or removal information refers to 

human-related mortality including 

unintentional taking incidental to 

otherwise lawful activities (e.g., 

highway mortalities), take in defense of 

human life, take related to defense of 

property (if authorized), or take in the 

form of authorized harassment. Most 

contacts related to this type of 

information collection are sightings of 

experimental animals or the inadvertent 

discovery of an injured or dead 

individual.

(2) Depredation-related take. 

Depredation-related take refers to take 

for management purposes where 

livestock depredation has been 

documented and may include 

authorized harassment or lethal take of 

experimental animals in the act of 

attacking livestock. The information 

collected for this type of take is 

necessary for follow-up reports after the 

Service has authorized harassment or 

lethal take of experimental animals in 

relation to confirmed instances of 

livestock depredation or in defense of 

human life. 

(3) Collection of specimens or the 

recovery of dead animals that are part of 

an experimental population. Specimen 

collection is for the purpose of 

documenting incidental or authorized 

scientific collection. Most of the 

information collection requirements for 

this take pertain primarily to the 

reporting of sightings of experimental 

population animals or the inadvertent 

discovery of an injured or dead 

individual. The information collected is 

necessary for follow-up reports when 

we have authorized take of experimental 

animals for specimen collection. 

Because individuals of designated 

experimental populations for species 

listed as threatened or endangered 

under the ESA are categorically 

protected, documentation of humanrelated mortalities, recovery of dead 

specimens, and other types of take 

related to the status of experimental 

populations are important for 

monitoring the success of reintroduction 

efforts and recovery efforts in general. 

To minimize potential conflict with 

humans, which could undermine 

recovery efforts, livestock depredations 

connected with some experimental 

populations of listed species require 

prompt attention to (1) determine the 

location, timing, and nature of the 

predatory behavior involved, (2) 

accurately determine the species 

responsible for a livestock kill, and (3) 

apply necessary control measures. 

In cooperation with the United States 

Department of Agriculture, Animal 

Plant and Health Inspection Service, 

Division of Wildlife Services, or other 

cooperating Federal agencies, we rely on 

prompt public reporting of depredation 

in order to resolve livestock related 

problems. Therefore, a time sensitive 

requirement for reporting problems 

(generally within 24 hours) to the 

appropriate Service office is necessary. 

Cooperating Federal agencies provide 

the vast majority of the information 

collected by the Service as a result of 

experimental population regulations.