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or follow-ups may be required for some 

respondents on a case-by-case basis not 

exceeding two responses per year. 

Comments: Interested persons are 

invited to submit written comments on 

the proposed information collection to 

the Office of Information and Regulatory 

Affairs at OMB, Attention: Desk Officer 

for the Department of Homeland 

Security/FEMA, Docket Library, Room 

10102, 725 17th Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20503, or facsimile 

number (202) 395–7285. Comments 

must be submitted on or before January 

18, 2005.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the information collection 

should be made to Muriel B. Anderson, 

Section Chief, Records Management, 

FEMA at 500 C Street, SW., Room 316, 

Washington, DC 20472, facsimile 

number (202) 646–3347, or e-mail 

address FEMA-InformationCollections@dhs.gov.

Dated: December 10, 2004. 

George S. Trotter, 

Acting Branch Chief, Information Resources 

Management Branch, Information 

Technology Services Division.

[FR Doc. 04–27625 Filed 12–16–04; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

[FEMA–1571–DR] 

Alaska; Amendment No. 2 to Notice of 

a Major Disaster Declaration

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, Emergency 

Preparedness and Response Directorate, 

Department of Homeland Security.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice amends the notice 

of a major disaster for the State of 

Alaska (FEMA–1571–DR), dated 

November 15, 2004, and related 

determinations.

DATES: Effective Date: December 9, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Magda Ruiz, Recovery Division, Federal 

Emergency Management Agency, 

Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646–2705.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is 

hereby given that the incident period for 

this declared disaster is now October 18, 

2004, through and including October 24, 

2004.

(The following Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance Numbers (CFDA) are to be used 

for reporting and drawing funds: 97.030, 

Community Disaster Loans; 97.031, Cora 

Brown Fund Program; 97.032, Crisis 

Counseling; 97.033, Disaster Legal Services 

Program; 97.034, Disaster Unemployment 

Assistance (DUA); 97.046, Fire Management 

Assistance; 97.048, Individuals and 

Households Housing; 97.049, Individuals and 

Households Disaster Housing Operations; 

97.050, Individuals and Households 

Program—Other Needs, 97.036, Public 

Assistance Grants; 97.039, Hazard Mitigation 

Grant Program)

Michael D. Brown, 

Under Secretary, Emergency Preparedness 

and Response, Department of Homeland 

Security.

[FR Doc. 04–27624 Filed 12–16–04; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

[FEMA–1551–DR] 

Florida; Amendment No. 6 to Notice of 

a Major Disaster Declaration

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, Emergency 

Preparedness and Response Directorate, 

Department of Homeland Security.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice amends the notice 

of a major disaster declaration for the 

State of Florida (FEMA–1551–DR), 

dated September 16, 2004, and related 

determinations.

DATES: Effective Dates: December 9, 

2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Magda Ruiz, Recovery Division, Federal 

Emergency Management Agency, 

Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646–2705.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The notice 

of a major disaster declaration for the 

State of Florida is hereby amended to 

include the following areas among those 

areas determined to have been adversely 

affected by the catastrophe declared a 

major disaster by the President in his 

declaration of September 16, 2004:

The counties of Brevard, Clay, Duval, 

Flagler, Highlands, Indian River, Lake, 

Manatee, Marion, Martin, Okeechobee, 

Osceola, Orange, Palm Beach, Pasco, Polk, 

Seminole, St. Johns, St. Lucie, and Volusia 

for Individual Assistance. 

The counties of Citrus and Lee for 

Individual Assistance (already designated for 

emergency protective measures [Category B] 

under the Public Assistance Program.)

(The following Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance Numbers (CFDA) are to be used 

for reporting and drawing funds: 97.030, 

Community Disaster Loans; 97.031, Cora 

Brown Fund Program; 97.032, Crisis 

Counseling; 97.033, Disaster Legal Services 

Program; 97.034, Disaster Unemployment 

Assistance (DUA); 97.046, Fire Management 

Assistance; 97.048, Individuals and 

Households Housing; 97.049, Individuals and 

Households Disaster Housing Operations; 

97.050, Individuals and Households 

Program—Other Needs, 97.036, Public 

Assistance Grants; 97.039, Hazard Mitigation 

Grant Program.)

Michael D. Brown, 

Under Secretary, Emergency Preparedness 

and Response, Department of Homeland 

Security.

[FR Doc. 04–27623 Filed 12–16–04; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–4901–N–51] 

Federal Property Suitable as Facilities 

To Assist the Homeless

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Community Planning and 

Development, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This Notice identifies 

unutilized, underutilized, excess, and 

surplus Federal property reviewed by 

HUD for suitability for possible use to 

assist the homeless.

DATES: Effective Date: December 17, 

2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kathy Ezzell, Department of Housing 

and Urban Development, Room 7262, 

451 Seventh Street SW., Washington, 

DC 20410; telephone (202) 708–1234; 

TTY number for the hearing- and 

speech-impaired (202) 708–2565, (these 

telephone numbers are not toll-free), or 

call the toll-free Title V information line 

at 1–800–927–7588.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the December 12, 1988 

court order in National Coalition for the 

Homeless v. Veterans Administration, 

No. 88–2503–OG (D.D.C.), HUD 

publishes a Notice, on a weekly basis, 

identifying unutilized, underutilized, 

excess and surplus Federal buildings 

and real property that HUD has 

reviewed for suitability for use to assist 

the homeless. Today’s Notice is for the 

purpose of announcing that no 

additional properties have been 

determined suitable or unsuitable this 

week.

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Dated: December 9, 2004. 

Mark R. Johnston, 

Director, Office of Special Needs Assistance 

Programs.

[FR Doc. 04–27401 Filed 12–16–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–29–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service 

Bureau of Reclamation 

[INT–FES–04–47] 

Final Environmental Impact Statement/

Environmental Impact Report for 

Proposed Adoption of the Lower 

Colorado River Multi-Species 

Conservation Program, Final Lower 

Colorado River Multi-Species Habitat 

Conservation Plan, Final Biological 

Assessment, Incidental Take Permit 

Application, Draft Implementing 

Agreement, and Draft Funding and 

Management Agreement

AGENCIES: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Bureau of Reclamation, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the 

Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) and 

the Bureau of Reclamation 

(Reclamation) published a Federal 

Register notice on June 18, 2004 (69 FR 

34185) that informed the public of the 

availability of the Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement/Draft Environmental 

Impact Report (DEIS/DEIR) for the 

Lower Colorado River Multi-Species 

Conservation Program (LCR MSCP), 

Application for Section 10 Incidental 

Take Permit (ITP), Draft Lower Colorado 

River Multi-Species Habitat 

Conservation Plan (HCP), Draft 

Biological Assessment (BA), and Draft 

Implementing Agreement (IA). 

The notice provided for a 60-day 

comment period; comments were 

accepted pursuant to the notice through 

August 18, 2004. The notice also 

advised the public that the Service 

received an ITP application for the LCR 

MSCP pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(B) of 

the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 

amended (Act). The ITP would 

authorize the LCR MSCP permittees’

incidental take of the following 

federally listed and candidate species: 

southwestern willow flycatcher 

(Empidonax traillii extimus) 

(flycatcher), Yuma clapper rail (Rallus 

longirostris yumanensis) (clapper rail), 

desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) 

(tortoise), bonytail (Gila elegans) 

(bonytail), humpback chub (Gila cypha) 

(humpback), razorback sucker 

(Xyrauchen texanus) (razorback), 

yellow-billed cuckoo (Coccyzus 

americanus) (cuckoo), and relict leopard 

frog (Rana onca) (frog). The ITP would 

also address incidental take for 19 other 

species of animals and plants that are 

not federally listed or candidate species 

at this time. The proposed take would 

occur in Mohave, La Paz, and Yuma 

counties, Arizona; San Bernardino, 

Riverside, and Imperial counties, 

California; and Clark County, Nevada, as 

a result of water storage and delivery, 

power generation, and other associated 

federal and non-federal water 

management actions and activities on 

the lower Colorado River from the full 

pool elevation of Lake Mead to the 

Southerly International Boundary with 

Mexico. 

A Final HCP, which makes revisions 

to the Draft HCP submitted as part of the 

application package (Application), has 

been submitted to the Service as 

required by the Act for consideration of 

issuance of an ITP, pursuant to section 

10(a)(1)(B). The HCP provides measures 

to minimize and mitigate the effects of 

the proposed incidental take of listed, 

candidate, and other species. 

Reclamation, the Service, Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM), Bureau of 

Indian Affairs (BIA), National Park 

Service (NPS), and Western Area Power 

Administration (Western), have 

completed a Final BA, which includes 

an evaluation of the effects of specific 

ongoing and potential future federal 

actions, including Reclamation’s 

discretionary LCR operations and 

maintenance activities. In addition, the 

BA addresses Reclamation’s proposed 

implementation of the conservation 

plan and conservation measures 

described in the BA and in the HCP for 

the listed, candidate, and other covered 

species. 

The Service, Reclamation, and The 

Metropolitan Water District of Southern 

California, as joint lead agencies, have 

issued a Final Environmental Impact 

Statement/Final Environmental Impact 

Report (FEIS/FEIR) to evaluate the 

impacts of, and alternatives for, the 

possible issuance of an ITP and the 

implementation by Reclamation of 

conservation measures described in the 

BA and the HCP. 

As of the June 18, 2004, Federal 

Register Notice, a Draft IA that 

represented the positions of the federal 

and non-federal entities that are 

anticipated to participate in the LCR 

MSCP had not yet been completed. 

Subsequent to the publication of the 

June 18, 2004, Federal Register notice, 

letters of financial commitment from 

representatives of the States of Arizona, 

California and Nevada were received by 

the Secretary of the Interior on August 

17, 2004, during the public comment 

period on the Draft LCR MSCP program 

documents. These letters provide a 

commitment to ‘‘share in the agreed 

upon LCR MSCP costs equally with the 

United States on a 50/50 federal/nonfederal basis.’’

A number of other public comments 

received pursuant to the June 18, 2004, 

Federal Register notice sought 

information regarding the financial 

assurances necessary to implement the 

LCR MSCP. The commitments 

contained in the August 17, 2004, letters 

from Arizona, California, and Nevada 

have now been incorporated into a Draft 

Funding and Management Agreement 

(FMA), which was developed during 

negotiations between the federal and 

non-federal parties to the LCR MSCP 

and is published as Exhibit A to the 

Final HCP. In addition, the parties have 

also developed a Draft IA, which is 

published as Exhibit B to the Final HCP. 

Subsequent to publication of this 

Federal Register Notice and the FEIS/

FEIR and other program documents, the 

Draft IA and Draft FMA will be 

presented to the relevant approving 

officials and respective boards. No final 

decisions have been made by the federal 

or non-federal parties with respect to 

the financial commitments or other 

provisions set forth in the August 17th 

letters and the Draft FMA, or with 

respect to the provisions in the Draft IA. 

Appropriate revisions, if any, will be 

included in any Final FMA and Final 

IA. Appropriate information regarding 

the issues addressed in the Draft FMA 

and the Draft IA will also be included 

in any Record of Decision (ROD) issued 

by the Secretary with respect to the LCR 

MSCP.

DATES: No decision will be made on the 

proposed action until at least 30 days 

after the United States Environmental 

Protection Agency’s (EPA) Notice of 

Availability for the LCR MSCP FEIS/

FEIR has been published in the Federal 

Register. At this time, it is anticipated 

the Secretary of the Interior will 

complete a ROD in January 2005.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the LCR MSCP 

FEIS/FEIR, Final HCP, Final BA, Draft 

IA, and Draft FMA are available for 

public inspection and review at the 

locations listed in the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section. An internet 

version of the documents is available on 

the LCR MSCP Web site, http://

www.lcrmscp.org. In addition, copies 

are available upon request from Mr. 

Steve Spangle, Field Supervisor, U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service, 2321 West 

Royal Palm Road, Suite 103, Phoenix, 

AZ, 85021; or Mr. Glen Gould, Bureau