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awarded this year is $800,000 for a 

three-year (36 months) grant 

performance period. 

The Department reviewed, evaluated, 

and scored the applications received 

based on the criteria in the NOFA. As 

a result, HUD has funded the 

applications below, in accordance with 

section 102(a)(4)(C) of the Department of 

Housing and Urban Development 

Reform Act of 1989 (103 Stat. 1987, 42 

U.S.C. 3545). More information about 

the winners can be found at http:// 

www.oup.org. 

List of Awardees for Grant Assistance 

Under The FY 2009 Historically Black 

Colleges and Universities Program 

Funding Competition, by Institution, 

Address, and Grant Amount 

Region III 

1. Howard University, Dr. Rodney D. 

Green, Howard University, 2400 

Sixth Street, NW. Washington, DC 

20059. Grant: $463,960. 

Region IV 

2. Winston-Salem State University, Ms. 

Valerie Howard, Winston-Salem 

State University, 601 South Martin 

Luther King, Jr. Drive, WinstonSalem, NC 27110. Grant: $724,687. 

3. Elizabeth City State University, 

Morris Autry, Elizabeth City State 

University, 1704 Weeksville Road, 

Elizabeth City, NC 27909. Grant: 

$800,000. 

4. Hinds Community College-Utica 

Campus, Bobby Pamplin, Hinds 

Community College-Utica Campus, 

34175 Hwy 18 West, Utica MS 

39175. Grant: $713,529. 

5. Benedict College, Larry Salley, 

Benedict College, 1600 Harden 

Street, Columbia, SC, 29204–1086. 

Grant: $800,000. 

6. South Carolina State University, 

Merylin Jackson, South Carolina 

State University, 300 College Street, 

Orangeburg, SC 29117. Grant: 

$800,000. 

7. LeMoyne-Owen College, Jeffery 

Higgs, LeMoyne-Owen College, 802 

Walker Avenue, Suite 5, Memphis, 

TN 38126. Grant: $800,000. 

8. Tennessee State University, Ginger 

Hausser-Pepper, Tennessee State 

University, 3500 John A Merritt 

Blvd., Campus Box 9503, Nashville, 

TN 37209. Grant: $800,000. 

9. University of the Virgin Islands, 

Kathleen Davison, University of the 

Virgin Islands, # 2 John Brewer’s 

Bay, St Thomas, VI, 00802. Grant: 

$794,220. 

Region VI 

10. Southern University at New Orleans, 

Cynthia Beaulieu, Southern 

University at New Orleans, 6400 

Press Drive, New Orleans, LA, 

70126. Grant: $703,604. 

11. Southern University at Shreveport, 

Janice Sneed, Southern University 

at Shreveport, 3050 Martin Luther 

King Drive, Shreveport, LA, 71107. 

Grant: $800,000. 

Region VI 

12. Langston University, Linda Tillman, 

Langston University, 4205 North 

Lincoln Blvd., Oklahoma City, OK, 

73105. Grant: $800,000. 

Dated: September 4, 2009. 

Raphael W. Bostic, 

Assistant Secretary for Policy Development 

and Research. 

[FR Doc. E9–23845 Filed 10–1–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R8–ES–2009–N158; 1112–0000– 

81420–F2] 

Amendment to the Incidental Take 

Permit for the San Bruno Mountain 

Habitat Conservation Plan in San 

Mateo County, CA 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of finding of no 

significant impact (FONSI) and issuance 

of amended incidental take permit. 

SUMMARY: On May 20, 2009, we, the U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service, made a 

FONSI determination for the action 

described in the final Environmental 

Assessment (EA) for the San Bruno 

Mountain Habitat Conservation Plan 

(HCP) Amendment. As authorized by 

the Endangered Species Act, as 

amended (Act), we issued an amended 

Incidental Take Permit to the Cities of 

Brisbane, South San Francisco, and Daly 

City, and the County of San Mateo, 

subject to certain conditions set forth in 

the permit. 

ADDRESSES: Eric Tattersall, Deputy 

Assistant Field Supervisor, 

Conservation Planning and Recovery 

Division, or Mike Thomas, Conservation 

Planning Branch, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, Sacramento Fish and Wildlife 

Office, 2800 Cottage Way, W–2605, 

Sacramento, CA 95825. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Additional information on this permit 

may be requested by contacting Eric 

Tattersall, Deputy Assistant Field 

Supervisor, Conservation Planning and 

Recovery Division, at the address shown 

above or at (916) 414–6600 (telephone). 

The final EA, Response to Comments, 

and FONSI are on the Service’s Web site 

at http://www.fws.gov/sacramento/es/ 

hcp.htm. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 

15, 2008, we published a notice in the 

Federal Register (73 FR 20324) 

announcing the availability of an EA 

and amended HCP, and our receipt of an 

incidental take permit application from 

the City of Brisbane for an amendment 

to the San Bruno Mountain Habitat 

Conservation Plan, in San Mateo 

County, California. Pursuant to section 

10(a)(1)(A) of the Act, the amended 

permit authorizes the incidental take of 

the federally endangered callippe 

silverspot butterfly (Speyeria callippe 

callippe) and federally threatened Bay 

checkerspot butterfly (Euphydryas 

editha bayensis) within the HCP’s 

228.3-acre Northeast Ridge 

(Administrative Parcel 1–07) and 

protected habitat (Conserved Habitat) 

area under the terms of the amended 

HCP. Incidental take of the two 

butterflies would be in connection with 

development activities on the Northeast 

Ridge and management and monitoring 

of Conserved Habitat currently held or 

that will be held in fee title by San 

Mateo County or the State of California 

and carried out under the San Bruno 

Mountain HCP. Incidental take of the 

Bay checkerspot butterfly is not 

expected to occur since the species has 

not been observed on San Bruno 

Mountain since the mid 1980s. 

However, if the Bay checkerspot 

butterfly is reintroduced to San Bruno 

Mountain or naturally recolonizes the 

area, incidental take resulting from 

monitoring and management of 

Conserved Habitat will be covered 

under the amended incidental take 

permit. 

The amended HCP reduces the size of 

the Northeast Ridge development area 

and increases the size of Conserved 

Habitat. The amended HCP increases 

undisturbed Conserved Habitat by 20.36 

acres, and increases total Conserved 

Habitat to 144.7 acres in the Northeast 

Ridge parcel. The reconfigured 

Conserved Habitat area preserves high 

quality butterfly habitat including 

hilltops (used as mating sites), 

topographic diversity, and a high 

density of callippe silverspot butterfly 

larval host plants. The amendment 

eliminates the Unit II–Neighborhood I 

subdivision (UII–NI) and increases the 

size of the Unit II–Neighborhood II 

subdivision (UII–NII). The reconfigured 

UII–NII is within an area that has 

generally lower value habitat (i.e., lower 

density of larval host plants, fewer 

hilltops, and a 7.85-acre grove of 


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eucalyptus trees) than would have been 

disturbed by UII–NI. The increased 

development acreage in UII–NII would 

occur in the eucalyptus grove and areas 

previously proposed as revegetated 

areas. 

Notice is hereby given that on May 20, 

2009, the Proposed Action (Alternative 

1) was selected and a FONSI 

determination was made for the action 

as described in the final EA for the San 

Bruno Mountain HCP Amendment. As 

authorized by the provisions of the Act 

(16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), we issued an 

amended permit (TE–215574–5) to the 

Cities of Brisbane, South San Francisco, 

and Daly City, and the County of San 

Mateo, subject to certain conditions set 

forth in the permit. The permit 

amendment was granted only after we 

determined it was applied for in good 

faith, that granting the permit 

amendment would not be to the 

disadvantage of the listed species, and 

that granting the permit amendment was 

consistent with the purposes and policy 

set forth in the Act. 

John Enbring, 

Acting Deputy Regional Director, Pacific 

Southwest Region, Sacramento, California. 

[FR Doc. E9–23763 Filed 10–1–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLOR932000–L16100000–DF0000– 

LXSS062H0000; HAG 9–0209] 

Notice of Availability of Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

Vegetation Treatments Using 

Herbicides on Bureau of Land 

Management Lands, Oregon 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA), the Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) has prepared a Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) 

for Vegetation Treatments Using 

Herbicides on BLM Lands in Oregon 

(Vegetation Treatments DEIS) and by 

this Notice is announcing the opening of 

the comment period. 

DATES: To ensure comments will be 

considered, the BLM must receive 

written comments on the Vegetation 

Treatments DEIS within 60 days 

following the date the Environmental 

Protection Agency publishes its Notice 

of Availability in the Federal Register. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

• Web site: http://www.blm.gov/or/ 

plans/vegtreatmentseis/ 

• E-mail: orvegtreatments@blm.gov. 

• Mail: Vegetation Treatments EIS 

Team, P.O. Box 2965, Portland, OR 

97208–2965. 

Copies of the Vegetation Treatments 

DEIS are available on the Internet at: 

http://www.blm.gov/or/plans/ 

vegtreatmentseis/. Requests to receive 

printed or CD copies of the DEIS should 

be sent to one of the addresses listed 

above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Todd Thompson, EIS Project Manager, 

by mail at Bureau of Land 

Management—OR932, P.O. Box 2965, 

Portland, OR 97208; by telephone at 

(503) 808–6326; or by email to the EIS 

Team at the address listed above. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 1984, 

the BLM was prohibited from using 

herbicides in Oregon by a U.S. District 

Court injunction issued in Northwest 

Coalition for Alternatives to Pesticides, 

et al. v. Block, et al. (Civ. No. 82–6273– 

E). Following completion of an EIS 

examining the use of four herbicides 

just on noxious weeds, the injunction 

was modified by the court in November 

1987 (Civ. No. 82–6272–BU). For the 

subsequent 22 years, the BLM in Oregon 

has limited its herbicide use to the four 

herbicides analyzed and limited use of 

those four herbicides to the control and 

eradication of Federal-, state-, or countylisted noxious weeds. In that time, new 

herbicides have become available that 

can be used in smaller doses, are more 

target-specific, and are less likely to 

adversely affect people and other nontarget organisms. These new herbicides 

are being used by adjacent cooperating 

agencies and landowners to achieve 

better invasive weed control. Further, 

there are limited additional native 

vegetation treatment needs that would 

be more feasibly met, and more 

efficiently accomplished with selected 

herbicides. 

In 2007, the BLM Washington Office 

(WO220) completed the Vegetation 

Treatments Using Herbicides on Bureau 

of Land Management Lands in 17 

Western States Programmatic 

Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) 

and related Record of Decision making 

18 herbicides available for a full range 

of non-commodity vegetation treatments 

in 17 western states including Oregon. 

Oregon cannot implement that decision, 

however, until and unless the District 

Court injunction is lifted. The DEIS 

being released today, Vegetation 

Treatments Using Herbicides on BLM 

Lands in Oregon, tiers to the PEIS, 

incorporates additional detailed 

analysis regarding the potential for 

human and environmental risks specific 

to Oregon and addresses the issues in 

the 1984 District Court decision and 

other information specific to Oregon. 

The additional analysis is similar to that 

presented in a similar EIS completed by 

the Forest Service in Oregon in 2005. 

The DEIS is programmatic, addressing 

all 15.7 million acres in Oregon and 

addressing all 18 herbicides approved 

for use by the 2007 Record of Decision 

for the PEIS and being used in the other 

16 western states. The DEIS analyzes 

one ‘‘no action’’ alternative, one ‘‘no 

herbicide’’ alternative, and 3 action 

alternatives which were shaped in part 

by the comments received during 12 

public scoping meetings held 

throughout Oregon in July 2008. No 

projects will be authorized; site-specific 

projects will be subject to additional 

National Environmental Policy Act 

analysis. 

The analysis indicates that by using 

BLM manual section and policy 

standard operating procedures, along 

with PEIS-adopted mitigation measures, 

human and environmental risk from the 

use of herbicides is both minimized and 

reduced from current levels. The 

proposed action would also slow the 

spread of noxious weeds on BLM lands 

by about 50 percent and result in 2.2 

million fewer infested acres in 15 years 

than under current program capabilities. 

Following the public comment 

period, the BLM will prepare a Final 

Environmental Impact Statement and 

Record of Decision. These are planned 

for release in mid-summer 2010. 

The responsible official for the EIS is 

the BLM Oregon and Washington State 

Director. No public hearings or meetings 

are planned during the public comment 

period for the DEIS. Please note that 

public comments and information 

submitted; including the names, street 

addresses, and email addresses of 

respondents; will be available for public 

review and disclosure during regular 

business hours (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.), 

Monday through Friday, except 

holidays, at the following address: 333 

SW. 1st Avenue, Portland, OR 97204. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, e-mail address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 


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