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and Housing Performance Division,

Office of Public and Assisted Housing

Delivery, Office of Public and Indian

Housing, Department of Housing and

Urban Development, Room 4210, 451

Seventh Street, SW, Washington, DC

20410–8000; telephone number (202)

708–0477 (this is not a toll-free

telephone number). Hearing or speech

impaired individuals may access this

number via TTY by calling the toll-free

Federal Information Relay Service at 1–

800–877–8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This

notice corrects an incorrect date that

appeared in the notice published on

May 22, 2000 (65 FR 32116). The

primary purpose of the May 22, 2000

notice was to transmit changes to the

monthly Administrative Fee Amounts of

certain areas listed in the Federal

Register notice published on February

25, 2000 (65 FR 10316). These changes

were necessary to correct a computer

programming error that caused a small

reduction in the fees for certain areas

listed in the February 25, 2000 notice.

The May 22, 2000 notice, however,

also contained an error. This notice

referred to the ‘‘merger date’’ of the

Housing Choice Voucher Program as

October 1, 1998 (see 65 FR 32116, third

column). The merger date is October 1,

1999. Through publication of this

notice, HUD acknowledges this error

and advises that the correct ‘‘merger

date’’ is October 1, 1999.

Dated: June 23, 2000.

Gloria Cousar,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Public and

Assisted Housing Delivery.

[FR Doc. 00–16529 Filed 6–29–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4210–33–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Geological Survey

Request for Public Comments on

Information Collection To Be

Submitted to the Office of Management

and Budget for Review Under the

Paperwork Reduction Act

A request extending the collection of

information listed below will be

submitted to the Office of Management

and Budget for approval under the

provisions of the Paperwork Reduction

Act (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35). Copies of the

proposed collection of information and

related forms may be obtained by

contacting the USGS Clearance Officer

at the phone number listed below.

Comments and suggestions on the

requirement should be made within 60

days directly to the USGS Clearance

Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 807

National Center, Reston, VA 20192. As

required by OMB regulations at CFR

1320.8(d)(1), the U.S. Geological Survey

solicits specific public comments

regarding the proposed information

collection as to:

1. Whether the collection of

information is necessary for the proper

performance of the functions of the

USGS, including whether the

information will have practical utility;

2. The accuracy of the USGS estimate

of the burden of the collection of

information, including the validity of

the methodology and assumptions used;

3. The utility, quality, and clarity of

the information to be collected; and,

4. How to minimize the burden of the

collection of information on those who

are to respond, including the use of

appropriate automated electronic,

mechanical, or other forms of

information technology.

Title: Industrial Minerals Surveys.

Current OMB approval number: 1028–

0062.

Abstract: Respondents supply the

U.S. Geological Survey with domestic

production and consumption data on

nonfuel mineral commodities. This

information will be published as

Annual Reports, Mineral Industry

Surveys, and in Mineral Commodity

Summaries for use by Government

agencies, industry, and the general

public.

Bureau form number: Various (40

forms).

Frequency: Monthly, Quarterly,

Semiannual, and Annual.

Description of respondents: Producers

and Consumers of Industrial Minerals.

Annual Responses: 19,008.

Annual burden hours: 13,185.

Bureau clearance officer: John E.

Cordyack, Jr., 703–648–7313.

John H. DeYoung, Jr.,

Chief Scientist, Minerals Information Team.

[FR Doc. 00–16601 Filed 6–29–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–Y7–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[WY–040–1610]

Notice of Availability of the Draft

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)

for the Jack Morrow Hills Coordinated

Activity Plan (JMHCAP), Sweetwater,

Fremont, and Sublette Counties, WY

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land

Management (BLM) has prepared a draft

EIS for the JMHCAP. This is an

integrated activity planning effort to

provide more specific management

direction for the BLM-administered

public lands in the Jack Morrow Hills

area, located in Sweetwater, Fremont,

and Sublette Counties, Wyoming. The

draft EIS documents the analysis of four

alternatives, including BLM’s preferred

alterative, for managing the BLMadministered lands in the Jack Morrow

Hills planning area. When completed,

the JMHCAP will provide a framework

for managing the BLM-administered

public lands and resources and

allocating some of these uses in the

planning area. Specifically, this CAP is

focused on resolving three resource

management issues: Minerals Resource

Management and related rights-of-way

and the effects of associated surface

disturbing and disruptive activities on

wildlife, wildlife habitat, and other

sensitive resources; Resource Uses

Affecting Vegetation, Soils, Air, and

Watershed Values, and Recreation; and

Cultural Resource Management. The

CAP will include land and resource

management decisions for fluid mineral

leasing and some for mineral location in

the core area and related affected areas.

These decisions were not ready for

inclusion in the Green River Resource

Management Plan (RMP), prepared in

1997, and were deferred to the CAP. In

addition, this planning effort proposes

to determine the appropriate levels and

timing of leasing and development of

energy resources, while sustaining the

other important land and resource uses

in the area, and is expected to result in

modifying some existing RMP decisions.

These deferred and modified RMP

decisions will result in amending the

Green River RMP. Other actions

resulting from this planning effort

would include some refinement of

management prescriptions for road use

and off-highway-vehicular use

designations, grazing practices,

recreational activities and facilities,

identification of rights-of-way windows

and concentration areas, and

prescriptions for managing wildlife

habitat.

When completed, the CAP will

provide more specific management

direction to address potential conflicts

among potential development of energy

resources, recreational activities and

facilities, livestock grazing, important

wildlife habitat, cultural resources, and

other important resource and land uses

in the planning area. The planning area

encompasses approximately 574,800

acres of public land surface and Federal

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mineral estate administered by the BLM

through the Rock Springs Field Office in

Rock Springs, Wyoming. The objective

of this activity planning effort is to

determine the appropriate level and

methods of all the possible

combinations of land and resource uses

that are mutually compatible and that

provide for the important resource

concerns in the area, such as

sustainability of crucial big game

habitat, air and water quality, scenic

quality, vegetative cover and soil

stability, recreational activities,

livestock grazing and range

improvement activities, mineral

development, and other important

resource concerns. The CAP also

provides more specific management

direction for the planning area toward

preventing or addressing potential

conflicts among or resulting from the

various uses. Other actions that may

result from this planning effort include:

Determining the appropriate level and

timing of leasing and development of

energy resources within the JMHCAP

area, transportation and access

planning, designation of off-highwayvehicular use, livestock grazing

practices, etc.

The JMHCAP planning area

encompasses the Steamboat Mountain,

Greater Sand Dunes, White Mountain

Petroglyphs, and Oregon Buttes Areas of

Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC);

a portion of the South Pass Historic

Landscape ACEC; the Oregon Buttes,

Honeycomb Buttes, Greater Sand Dunes,

Buffalo Hump, Whitehorse Creek, South

Pinnacles, and Alkali Draw Wilderness

Study Areas (WSAs); and three special

recreation management areas: Greater

Sand Dunes, Continental Divide

National Scenic Trail, and the Oregon/

Mormon Pioneer/Pony Express/

California National Historic Trails.

Notice is hereby given that public

meetings will be held to seek public

comment on the draft EIS.

DATES: Written comments will be

accepted for 90 days following the date

the Environmental Protection Agency

publishes the notice of filing of the draft

EIS for the JMHCAP in the Federal

Register. That notice is expected to be

published on July 7, 2000. Two public

open houses to discuss the draft EIS will

be held in Lander, Wyoming, at the Best

Western Inn, on July 18, 2000, from 4–

8 p.m., and in Rock Springs, Wyoming

at the BLM Office on July 20, 2000, from

4–8 p.m. A field tour will be conducted

on July 21, 2000. A public hearing will

be held at 7 p.m. on August 23, 2000,

at the Western Wyoming Community

College, Room 1302, in Rock Springs.

These meetings will be conducted to

obtain public input and comment on the

draft EIS. Future meetings or hearings

and any other public involvement

activities will be scheduled as needed.

Notification will be through the Federal

Register, other public notices, media

news releases, or mailings.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should

be sent to: JMHCAP Team Leader,

Bureau of Land Management, Rock

Springs Field Office, 280 Highway 191

North, Rock Springs, Wyoming 82901,

telephone number 307–352–0256.

Comments submitted by electronic mail

should be sent to:

rock_springs_wymail@blm.gov. If you

wish to withhold your name and/or

street address, and private telephone

number 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.

All submissions from organizations or

businesses, and from individuals

representing, or who are officials of

organizations or businesses, will be

made available for public inspection in

their entirety.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ted

Murphy, Assistant Field Manager or

Andy Tenney, Recreation Specialist,

Rock Springs Field Office, Bureau of

Land Management, office address and

telephone number above.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Based

upon concerns raised by the public

during preparation of the Green River

RMP, the BLM is preparing the

JMHCAP. When completed, the CAP

will provide management direction for

the protection of important resources

(e.g., desert elk and other big game

habitat, unique sand dune-mountain

shrub habitat, unstabilized-stabilized

sand dunes) while allowing for

appropriate levels of leasing and

development of energy resources,

recreational activities, grazing practices,

and other activities. The JMHCAP

planning area has many pristine

locations and encompasses Steamboat

Mountain, the Greater Sand Dunes,

Oregon Buttes and White Mountain

Petroglyphs Areas of Critical

Environmental Concern (ACEC), seven

WSAs, and part of the South Pass

Historic Landscape ACEC.

The entire JMHCAP area contains

about 622,330 acres of Federal, State,

and private lands. The core area, where

fluid leasing and mineral location RMP

decisions have been deferred, contains

approximately 80,410 acres. This

planning effort also addresses other

concerns found within the JMHCAP

area including appropriate level and

timing of leasing and development of

energy resources, while sustaining other

important land uses and resources such

as big game habitat, recreation, and

grazing. Other actions considered in this

planning effort include transportation

planning, off-highway-vehicular use

designations and designation of roads

for use, identifying grazing practices,

and recreational activities and

associated facilities.

Public participation has been sought

through scoping, public meetings, and

field trips to ensure that this planning

effort addresses all issues and concerns

from those interested in the

management of public lands within the

CAP planning area.

The Draft EIS for the Jack Morrow

Hills CAP describes and evaluates four

alternative coordinated activity plans,

including BLM’s preferred alternative,

for providing management direction for

the BLM-administered public lands in

the CAP planning area. Each alternative

analyzed in detail provides a complete

and reasonable plan that could be used

to guide the management of the

planning area.

The preferred alternative consists of

management actions derived from the

other alternatives analyzed in detail,

and a few management actions that are

unique to the Preferred Alternative.

Development of the preferred alternative

was based on the analysis of the other

alternatives and was formulated to

represent the BLM’s preference of the

best mix and balance of multiple-use

land and resource management for the

BLM-administered public lands in the

planning area.

There are five ACECs in the planning

area and the designations on these

ACECs were retained in the Green River

RMP. However, one alternative

considers expanding two of the ACECs,

one of which is not currently within the

planning area. The Special Status Plant

Species ACEC (located outside the

planning area) would be expanded to

include lands within the CAP planning

area that are occupied by populations of

Lesquerella macrocarpa, and the

Steamboat Mountain ACEC would be

considered for expansion to include

overlapping crucial big game habitats

surrounding and adjacent to the

Steamboat Mountain ACEC. The

management actions for the expanded

ACECs include restrictions on surfacedisturbing activities and other land

uses, such as, limitations on oil and gas,

coal and sodium exploration and

development activities, geophysical

exploration, right-of-way construction,

and off-road vehicular travel. Portions of

these ACECs may be closed to future

locatable mineral exploration and

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development, subject to valid existing

rights. The level of these various kinds

of restrictions and types of land uses

affected would be different in each

expanded area.

There are seven WSAs within the

planning area: Oregon Buttes,

Honeycomb Buttes, Greater Sand Dunes,

Buffalo Hump, Whitehorse Creek, South

Pinnacles, and Alkali Draw WSAs.

Management of these WSAs has been

addressed in other Wilderness EIS

documents, therefore, wilderness

management is not addressed in the

JMHCAP EIS. When Congress makes

decisions on the designation of

Wilderness areas in the Jack Morrow

Hills planning area, those decisions will

be incorporated into the CAP and the

Green River RMP and, if necessary, the

RMP would be amended accordingly.

Until Congress acts, the WSAs will be

managed under the Wilderness Interim

Management Policy.

Copies of the draft EIS for the

JMHCAP are available in the Rock

Springs Field Office at the above

address, the Bureau of Land

Management, Lander Field Office, 1335

Main Street, Lander, Wyoming 82520,

and the Bureau of Land Management

Wyoming State Office, 5353

Yellowstone Road, Cheyenne, Wyoming

82009. Anyone wishing to be placed on

the mailing list for the Jack Morrow

Hills Coordinated Activity Plan effort

should contact the Rock Springs Field

Office at the above address.

Dated: June 22, 2000.

Alan L. Kesterke,

Associate State Director.

[FR Doc. 00–16440 Filed 6–29–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4320–22–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[CO–170–00–1060–JJ]

Public Hearing and Intent To Remove

Wild Horses

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice, public hearing and

intent to remove wild horses.

SUMMARY: A public meeting is

scheduled for July 14, 2000, at the

Norwood Log Cabin located at 1120

Lucerne, Norwood, Colorado from 12

noon until 4 p.m. A formal hearing will

be conducted to receive statements from

the public concerning the use of

helicopters and motor vehicles in wild

horse management operations within

the Spring Creek Basin Wild Horse Herd

Management Area (HMA), Colorado for

calendar years 2000 and 2001 starting

promptly at 2 p.m. Prior to the hearing,

general management and planned

removal operations for the HMA will be

discussed. Periodic removals are

necessary in order to maintain the

populations within the appropriate

management levels (AMLs) established

through the planning process as a result

of monitoring and analysis of that data

in accordance with the National

Environmental Policy Act and BLM

Policies. This document serves as a

Notice of Intent to remove excess wild

horses from the Spring Creek Basin

HMA.

DATES: July 14, 2000.

LOCATION: Norwood Log Cabin, 1120

Lucerne, Norwood, Colorado.

TIME: The public meeting will begin at

12 noon and end at 2 p.m. The public

hearing will begin at 2 p.m. and end at

4 p.m.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gary

Thrash, San Juan Field Office, 15

Burnett Court, Durango, Colorado,

81301 (970.385.1371); or Wayne

Werkmeister, San Juan Field Office, P.O.

Box 210, Dolores, Colorado 81323

(970.882.6828).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

meeting will begin at 12 noon and is

open to the public. Interested persons

may make oral statements on the subject

of helicopter use during the formal

hearing. All statements will be recorded.

The meeting agenda will include an

introduction and opening remarks, a

public comment period on the removal

plan, and a formal hearing on the use of

helicopters during the removal.

Dated: June 22, 2000.

Wayne Werkmeister,

Wild Horse & Burro Specialist.

[FR Doc. 00–16282 Filed 6–29–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–JB–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[MT–929–00–1910–HE–4677–UT940]

Montana: Filing of Amended

Protraction Diagram Plats

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Monatana State Office, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The plats of the amended

protraction diagrams accepted June 9,

2000, of the following described lands

are scheduled to be officially filed in the

Montana State Office, Billings, Montana,

thirty (30) days from the date of this

publication.

Tps. 9 and 10 N., Rs. 15, 16, and 17 W.

The plat, representing the Amended

Protraction Diagram 19 Index of unsurveyed

Townships 9 and 10 North, Ranges 15, 16,

and 17 West, Principal Meridian,

Montana, was accepted June 9, 2000.

T. 9 N., R. 15 W.

The plat, representing Amended

Protraction Diagram 19 of unsurveyed

Township 9 North, Range 15 West, Principal

Meridian, Montana, was accepted June 9,

2000.

T. 9 N., R. 16 W.

The plat, representing Amended

Protraction Diagram 19 of unsurveyed

Township 9 North, Range 16 West, Principal

Meridian, Montana, was accepted June 9,

2000.

T. 9 N., R. 17 W.

The plat, representing Amended

Protraction Diagram 19 of unsurveyed

Township 9 North, Range 17 West, Principal

Meridian, Montana, was accepted June 9,

2000.

T. 10 N., R. 15 W.

The plat, representing Amended

Protraction Diagram 19 of unsurveyed

Township 10 North, Range 15 West,

Principal Meridian, Montana, was accepted

June 9, 2000.

T. 10 N., R. 17 W.

The plat, representing Amended

Protraction Diagram 19 of unsurveyed

Township 10 North, Range 17 West,

Principal Meridian, Montana, was accepted

June 9, 2000.

The plat, representing the Amended

Protraction Diagram 22 Index of unsurveyed

Townships 14, 15, and 16 North, Ranges 27,

28, and 29 West, Principal Meridian,

Montana, was accepted June 9, 2000.

T. 14 N., R. 27 W.

The plat, representing Amended

Protraction Diagram 22 of unsurveyed

Township 14 North, Range 27 West,

Principal Meridian, Montana, was accepted

June 9, 2000.

T. 15 N., R. 27 W.

The plat, representing Amended

Protraction Diagram 22 of unsurveyed

Township 15 North, Range 27 West,

Principal Meridian, Montana, was accepted

June 9, 2000.

T. 16 N., R. 27 W.

The plat, representing Amended

Protraction Diagram 22 of unsurveyed

Township 16 North, Range 27 West,

Principal Meridian, Montana, was accepted

June 9, 2000.

T. 15 N., R. 28 W.

The plat, representing Amended

Protraction Diagram 22 of unsurveyed

Township 15 North, Range 28 West,

Principal Meridian, Montana, was accepted

June 9, 2000.

T. 16 N., R. 28 W.

The plat, representing Amended

Protraction Diagram 22 of unsurveyed

Township 16 North, Range 28 West,