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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, in a letter dated 

December 17, 2004, the President 

amended the cost-sharing arrangements 

concerning Federal funds provided 

under the authority of the Robert T. 

Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 

Assistance Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121–5206 

(Stafford Act), in a letter to Michael D. 

Brown, Under Secretary for Emergency 

Preparedness and Response, Federal 

Emergency Management Agency, 

Department of Homeland Security as 

follows:

I have determined that the damage in 

certain areas of the State of West Virginia, 

resulting from severe storms, flooding, and 

landslides on September 16–27, 2004, is of 

sufficient severity and magnitude that special 

conditions are warranted regarding the cost 

sharing arrangements concerning Federal 

funds provided under the Robert T. Stafford 

Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance 

Act, 42 U.S.C. 5121–5206 (the Stafford Act). 

Therefore, I amend my declaration of 

September 20, 2004, to authorize Federal 

funds for Public Assistance Categories A and 

B (debris removal and emergency protective 

measures) at 100 percent of total eligible 

costs for emergency work performed for a 

selected period of up to 72 hours. Only work 

performed during the selected 72-hour period 

will be reimbursed at 100 percent. Each 

applicant may select its own 72-hour periods 

and the periods may be different for 

Categories A and B. The 72 hours must be 

one continuous period within a window 

starting at 12:01 a.m. of the first day of the 

incident period through 11:59 p.m. of the 

fourteenth full day following the declaration. 

This adjustment to State and local cost 

sharing applies only to debris removal and 

emergency protective measures (Categories A 

and B) under the Public Assistance program 

costs eligible for such adjustments under the 

law. The law specifically prohibits a similar 

adjustment for funds provided to States for 

Other Needs Assistance (Section 408), and 

the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program 

(Section 404). These funds will continue to 

be reimbursed at 75 percent of total eligible 

costs. 

Please notify the Governor of West Virginia 

and the Federal Coordinating Officer of these 

amendments to my major disaster 

declarations.

This cost share is effective as of the 

date of the President’s major disaster 

declaration.

(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.

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BILLING CODE 9110–10–P

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–4955–N–02] 

Emergency Capital Repair Grants for 

Multifamily Housing Projects 

Designated for Occupancy by the 

Elderly; Supplemental Notice

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing 

Commissioner, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: On December 16, 2004, HUD 

published a notice announcing the 

availability of up to $10 million in grant 

funds to make emergency capital repairs 

to eligible multifamily projects that are 

owned by private nonprofit entities and 

designated for occupancy by elderly 

tenants. The December 16, 2004, notice 

provides instructions for owners to 

request the funding and instructions for 

the HUD field offices to process the 

request. This notice supplements the 

December 16, 2004, notice by providing 

additional information regarding the 

information collection requirements 

contained in that notice and republishes 

Appendix 1, the Rental Use Agreement.

DATES: Effective Date: This notice does 

not change the effective date of HUD’s 

December 16, 2004, notice, which was 

effective upon publication.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Aretha Williams, Director, Grant Policy 

and Management Division, Office of 

Housing, Room 6142, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, 451 

Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 

20410; telephone 202–708–3000 (this is 

not a toll-free number). Persons with 

hearing or speech impairments may 

access this number via TTY by calling 

the toll-free Federal Information Relay 

Service at 800–877–8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

December 16, 2004 (69 FR 75418), HUD 

published a notice announcing the 

availability of up to $10 million in grant 

funds to make emergency capital repairs 

to eligible multifamily projects that are 

owned by private nonprofit entities and 

designated for occupancy by elderly 

tenants. The capital repair needs must 

relate to items that present an 

immediate threat to the health, safety, 

and quality of life of the tenants. The 

intent of these grants is to provide onetime assistance for emergency items that 

could not be absorbed within the 

project’s operating budget, and where 

the tenants continued occupancy in the 

immediate near future would be called 

into question by a delay in initiating the 

proposed cure. The notice provides 

instructions for owners to request the 

funding and instructions for the HUD 

field offices to process the request. 

This notice supplements the 

December 16, 2004, notice by providing 

the following additional information 

regarding the information collection 

requirements contained in that notice. 

Specifically, HUD wishes to advise the 

public that the information collection 

requirements contained in the December 

16, 2004, notice have been submitted to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501–3520) and 

OMB approval is pending. In 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act, HUD may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to, a collection of information 

unless the collection displays a 

currently valid OMB control number. 

Accordingly, HUD is republishing 

Appendix 1, the Rental Use Agreement. 

Once provided, HUD will announce the 

OMB control number to the public.

Dated: December 22, 2004. 

Aaron Santa Anna, 

Assistant General Counsel for Regulations.

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[FR Doc. 04–28441 Filed 12–28–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–27–C

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

Notice of Availability, Draft Restoration 

Plan and Environmental Assessment

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. 

Department of the Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service (Service), on behalf of the U.S. 

Department of the Interior (DOI), 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration (NOAA), and New York 

State Department of Environmental 

Conservation (New York), as natural 

resource trustees, announces the release 

for public review of the Draft 

Restoration Plan and Environmental 

Assessment (RP/EA) for the Love Canal, 

102nd Street, and Forest Glen Mobile 

Home Subdivision Superfund sites. The 

Draft RP/EA presents a preferred 

alternative, consisting of a variety of 

restoration projects, that compensates 

for impacts to natural resources caused 

by contaminant releases and remedial 

activities associated with the three 

mentioned sites.

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted on or before February 15, 

2005.

ADDRESSES: Requests for copies of the 

RP/EA may be made to: U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, New York Field Office, 

3817 Luker Road, Cortland, New York 

13045. 

Written comments or materials 

regarding the RP/EA should be sent to 

the same address.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Anne L. Secord, Environmental 

Contaminants Program, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, New York Field Office, 

3817 Luker Road, Cortland, New York 

13045. Interested parties may also call 

607–753–9334 or e-mail 

Anne_Secord@fws.gov for further 

information.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: During the 

period of March 1996 through December 

2000, natural resource damage 

settlements were achieved for the Love 

Canal, 102nd Street, and Forest Glen 

Mobile Home Subdivision Superfund 

sites. NOAA was a settling Trustee with 

DOI on all three settlements; the State 

of New York was a settling Trustee for 

the 102nd Street and Forest Glen 

settlements. These three sites 

discharged a variety of hazardous 

chemicals into wetlands, uplands, 

streams, and rivers in Niagara County, 

including the Niagara River, Cayuga 

Creek, East Gill Creek, Bergholtz Creek, 

and Black Creek. Chemical releases and 

remedial activities at the three sites 

adversely affected natural resources 

such as warmwater fish, migratory 

birds, amphibians, and reptiles. The 

funds available from these settlements 

for restoration activities total 

approximately $1.3 million. 

A combined restoration initiative is 

proposed to allow for a larger, more 

effective and meaningful resource 

restoration. 

The RP/EA is being released in 

accordance with the Compensation, and 

Liability Comprehensive Environmental 

Response Act (CERCLA) of 1980 as 

amended, commonly known as 

Superfund, (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), the 

Natural Resource Damage Assessment 

Regulations found at 43 CFR part 11, 

and the National Environmental Policy 

Act. It is intended to describe the 

Trustees’ proposals to restore natural 

resources injured at the sites and 

evaluate the potential impacts of each. 

The RP/EA describes a number of 

habitat restoration and protection 

alternatives and discusses the 

environmental consequences of each. 

Restoration efforts which have the 

greatest potential to restore natural 

resources and services that were injured 

by contaminants or remedial activities 

are preferred. Based on an evaluation of 

the various restoration alternatives, the 

preferred alternative consists of a suite 

of restoration projects, including 

wetland restoration and protection, 

grassland restoration, stream restoration, 

urban stream/river restoration, common 

tern habitat restoration, walleye 

propagation, oak savannah restoration, 

and further contaminant 

characterization. 

Interested members of the public are 

invited to review and comment on the 

RP/EA. Copies of the RP/EA are 

available for review at the Service’s New 

York Field Office at 3817 Luker Road, 

Cortland, New York. Additionally, the 

RP/EA will be available for review at the 

following Web site (http://nyfo.fws.gov) 

and at the Niagara Falls Library. Written 

comments will be considered and 

addressed in the final RP/EA at the 

conclusion of the restoration planning 

process. 

Comments, including names and 

home addresses of respondents, will be 

available for public review during 

regular business hours. Individual 

respondents may request 

confidentiality. If you wish us to 

withhold your name and or address 

from public review or from disclosure 

under the Freedom of Information Act, 

you must state this prominently at the 

beginning of your written comment. 

Such requests will be honored to the 

extent allowed by law. We will not, 

however, consider anonymous 

comments. All submissions from 

organizations or businesses, and from 

individuals identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses, will be 

made available for public inspection in 

their entirety. 

Author: The primary author of this 

notice is Anne Secord, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, New York Field Office, 

3817 Luker Road, Cortland, New York 

13045.

Authority: The authority for this action is 

the CERCLA of 1980 as amended, commonly 

known as Superfund, (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.), 

and the Natural Resource Damage 

Assessment Regulations found at 43 CFR part 

11.

Dated: November 30, 2004. 

Dawn Comish, 

Acting Regional Director, Region 5, U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service, U.S. Department of the 

Interior, DOI Designated Authorized Official.

[FR Doc. 04–28498 Filed 12–28–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Indian Affairs 

Indian Gaming

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of Amendment to 

Approved Tribal-State Compact. 

SUMMARY: This notice publishes the 

Approval of the Amendment to the 

Tribal-State Compact between the 

Puyallup Tribe of Indians and the State 

of Washington.

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 29, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

George T. Skibine, Director, Office of 

Indian Gaming Management, Office of 

the Deputy Assistant Secretary—Policy 

and Economic Development, 

Washington, DC 20240, (202) 219–4066.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to Section 11 of the Indian Gaming 

Regulatory Act of 1988, Pub. L. 100–

497, 25 U.S.C. 2710, the Secretary of the 

Interior shall publish, in the Federal 

Register, notice of approved Tribal-State 

Compacts for the purpose of engaging in 

Class III 9casion) gambling on Indian 

reservations. The Deputy Principal 

Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs, 

Department of Interior, through his 

delegated authority, has approved the 

Third Amendment to the Tribal-State 

Compact for Class III Gaming between