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review, as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 

Chapter 35, as amended). 

This Notice is soliciting comments 

from members of the public and affected 

agencies concerning the proposed 

collection of information to: (1) Evaluate 

whether the proposed collection is 

necessary for the proper performance of 

the functions of the agency, including 

whether the information will have 

practical utility; (2) Evaluate the 

accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information; (3) Enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and (4) Minimize the 

burden of the collection of information 

on those who are to respond; including 

the use of appropriate automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

This Notice also lists the following 

information: 

Title of Proposal: Personal Financial 

and Credit Statement. 

OMB Control Number, if applicable: 

2502–0001. 

Description of the need for the 

information and proposed use: Form 

HUD–92417, Personal Financial and 

Credit Statement, is used by HUD 

personnel and FHA approved lenders to 

determine if the sponsor, mortgagor, or 

the principals of the mortgagor have the 

financial capability to develop, build, 

and complete a multifamily project. 

Form HUD–92417 is a part of the credit 

investigation during the Site Appraisal 

and Marketing Analysis (SAMA)/ 

feasibility and commitment stages of the 

mortgage insurance application. The 

financial capability, reputation, 

experience, and the ability of the project 

sponsor is analyzed to determine 

whether the sponsor will be able to 

develop a successful project and have 

the financial resources to complete and 

maintain the property. 

Agency form numbers, if applicable: 

HUD–92417. 

Estimation of the total numbers of 

hours needed to prepare the information 

collection including number of 

respondents, frequency of response, and 

hours of response: The estimated total 

annual hours required to prepare the 

information collection is 16,000; the 

number of respondents is 2,000 

generating 2,000 annual responses; the 

frequency of response is on occasion; 

and the estimated time needed to 

prepare the response is 8 hours. This 

form is submitted during the SAMA/ 

feasibility or commitment stages of the 

mortgage insurance application. 

Status of the proposed information 

collection: This is an extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction Act 

of 1995, 44 U.S.C., Chapter 35, as amended. 

Dated: January 26, 2006. 

Frank L. Davis, 

General Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Housing-Deputy Federal Housing 

Commissioner. 

[FR Doc. E6–1216 Filed 1–30–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–27–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

Notice of Availability Technical/Agency 

Draft of the Third Revision of the 

Florida Panther Recovery Plan for 

Review and Comment 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of document availability 

and public comment period. 

SUMMARY: The Fish and Wildlife Service 

announces the availability of the 

Technical/Agency Draft of the Third 

Revision of the Florida Panther 

Recovery Plan. The Florida panther 

(Puma concolor coryi) has disappeared 

from more than 95 percent of its historic 

range as a result of human persecution 

and habitat loss. This draft of the 

recovery plan includes specific recovery 

objectives and criteria to be met in order 

to reclassify (downlist) and eventually 

delist the Florida panther under the 

Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 

amended (Act). The Service solicits 

review and comment on this draft 

recovery plan. 

DATES: In order to be considered, we 

must receive comments on the draft 

recovery plan on or before April 3, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of the Technical/ 

Agency Draft of the Third Revision of 

the Florida Panther Recovery Plan can 

be obtained by contacting the U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service, South Florida 

Ecological Services Office, 1339 20th 

Street, Vero Beach, Florida 32960 (772–

562–3909) or by visiting our Web sites 

at http://endangered.fws.gov or http:// 

verobeach.fws.gov. If you wish to 

comment, you may submit your 

comments by either of two methods: 

1. You may submit written comments 

and materials to the Field Supervisor, at 

the above address. 

2. You may hand-deliver written 

comments to our South Florida 

Ecological Services Office, 1339 20th 

Street, Vero Beach, Florida 32960, or fax 

your comments to (772) 562–4288. 

Comments and materials received are 

available for public inspection on 

request, by appointment, during normal 

business hours at the above address. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Chris Belden at the South Florida 

Ecological Services Office, (772) 562–

3909, ext. 237. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Restoring listed animals and plants to 

the point where they are again secure, 

self-sustaining components of their 

ecosystems is a primary goal of our 

threatened and endangered species 

program. To help guide the recovery 

effort, we prepare recovery plans for 

listed species native to the United 

States, pursuant to section 4(f) of the 

Act, unless such a plan would not 

promote the conservation of a particular 

species. Recovery plans describe actions 

that may be necessary for conservation 

of the species, establish criteria for 

reclassification from endangered to 

threatened status or removal from the 

list of threatened and endangered 

species, and estimate the time and cost 

for implementing the needed recovery 

measures. 

The Florida panther is the last 

subspecies of Puma still surviving in the 

eastern United States. Historically 

occurring throughout the southeastern 

United States, today the panther is 

restricted to less than 5 percent of its 

historic range in one breeding 

population of fewer than 100 animals, 

located in south Florida. 

The panther is threatened with 

extinction, and human development in 

panther habitat negatively impacts 

recovery. Panthers are wide ranging, 

secretive, and occur at low densities. 

They require large contiguous areas to 

meet their social, reproductive, and 

energetic needs. Panther habitat 

selection is related to prey availability 

(i.e., habitats that make prey vulnerable 

to stalking and capturing are selected). 

Limiting factors for the panther are 

habitat availability, prey availability, 

and lack of human tolerance. 

Habitat loss, degradation, and 

fragmentation are among the greatest 

threats to panther survival, while 

human intolerance of panthers is one of 

the greatest threats to their recovery. 

Vehicle strikes and problems associated 

with being a single, small, isolated 

population have continued to keep the 

panther population at its current low 

numbers. Potential panther habitat 

throughout the Southeast continues to 

be affected by urbanization, residential 

development, conversion to agriculture 

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exploration, and lack of land use 

planning that recognizes panther needs. 

Public opinion is critical to attainment 

of recovery goals and reintroduction 

efforts. Addressing social opposition to 

panthers will be the most difficult 

aspect of panther recovery and must be 

resolved before reintroduction efforts 

are initiated. 

The Service issued the first Florida 

Panther Recovery Plan in 1981. The 

plan was revised in 1987 and 1995. In 

2001, the Service initiated the current 

process to revise the plan a third time. 

Section 4(f) of the Act requires that a 

public notice and an opportunity for 

public review and comment be provided 

during recovery plan development. 

Accordingly, the Technical/Agency 

Draft of the Third Revision of the 

Florida Panther Recovery Plan is being 

made available for public review and 

comment before a decision is made on 

its approval. 

The strategy for Florida panther 

recovery sets an intermediate goal of 

downlisting from endangered to 

threatened with the ultimate goal of 

delisting. To achieve both the 

intermediate and ultimate goals, the 

recovery plan identifies three objectives 

which, collectively, describe the 

conditions necessary to achieve 

recovery. These objectives are: 

1. Maintain, restore, and expand the 

Florida panther population and its 

habitat in south Florida and, if feasible, 

expand the known occurrence of Florida 

panthers north of the Caloosahatchee 

River to maximize the probability of the 

long-term persistence of this 

metapopulation. 

2. Identify, secure, maintain, and 

restore habitat in potential 

reintroduction areas within the 

panther’s historic range, and establish 

viable populations of the panther 

outside south and south-central Florida. 

3. Facilitate panther conservation and 

recovery through public awareness and 

education. 

To realize these objectives for 

downlisting and delisting, this plan 

presents objective, measurable criteria 

that when met would result in a 

determination that delisting is 

warranted. These criteria are based on 

the number of individuals and number 

of populations that provide for 

demographically and genetically viable 

populations as determined by several 

population viability analyses to ensure 

resilience to catastrophic events. The 

threats to the Florida panther will need 

to be addressed to attain these criteria. 

Downlisting of the Florida panther 

should be considered when: 

1. Two viable populations of at least 

240 individuals (adults and subadults) 

each have been established and 

subsequently maintained for a 

minimum of 14 years (or two 

generations). 

2. Sufficient habitat quality, quantity, 

and spatial configuration to support 

these populations is retained/protected 

or secured in the long term. 

Delisting of the Florida panther 

should be considered when: 

1. Three viable, self-sustaining 

populations of at least 240 individuals 

(adults and subadults) each have been 

established and subsequently 

maintained for a minimum of fourteen 

years. 

2. Sufficient habitat quality, quantity, 

and spatial configuration to support 

these populations is retained/protected 

or secured in the long-term. 

A viable population, for purposes of 

Florida panther recovery, has been 

defined as one in which there is a 95 

percent probability of persistence for 

100 years. This population may be 

distributed in a metapopulation 

structure composed of subpopulations 

that total the appropriate number of 

individuals. There must be exchange of 

individuals and gene flow among 

subpopulations. For downlisting, 

exchange of individuals and gene flow 

can be either natural or through 

management. If managed, a commitment 

to such management must be formally 

documented and funded. For delisting, 

exchange of individuals and gene flow 

among subpopulations must be natural 

(i.e., not manipulated or managed). 

Habitat should be in relatively 

unfragmented blocks that provide for 

food, shelter, and characteristic 

movements (e.g., hunting, breeding, 

dispersal, and territorial behavior) and 

support each metapopulation at a 

density of 2 to 3 animals per 100 square 

miles (259 square kilometers), resulting 

in a minimum of 8,000 to 12,000 square 

miles (20,720 to 31,080 square 

kilometers) per metapopulation of 240 

panthers. 

Public Comments Solicited 

We solicit written comments on the 

recovery plan described. We will 

consider all comments received by the 

date specified above prior to a decision 

on final approval of the revised recovery 

plan. 

Our practice is to make all comments, 

including names and home addresses of 

respondents, available for public review 

during regular business hours. 

Individual respondents may request that 

we withhold their home addresses from 

the record, which we will honor to the 

extent allowable by law. In some 

circumstances, we would withhold also 

from the record a respondent’s identity, 

as allowable by law. If you wish for us 

to withhold your name and/or address, 

you must state this prominently at the 

beginning of your comments. However, 

we will not consider anonymous 

comments. We will make all 

submissions from organizations or 

businesses, and from individuals 

identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses, available 

for public inspection in their entirety. 

Authority 

The authority for this action is section 

4(f) of the Endangered Species Act, 16 

U.S.C. 1533(f). 

Dated: January 11, 2006. 

Cynthia K. Dohner, 

Acting Regional Director, Southeast Region. 

[FR Doc. 06–825 Filed 1–30–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Indian Affairs 

Land Acquisitions; Snoqualmie Tribe 

of Washington 

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of final agency 

determination to take land into trust 

under 25 CFR Part 151. 

SUMMARY: The Associate Deputy 

Secretary made a final agency 

determination to acquire approximately 

55.84 acres of land into trust for the 

Snoqualmie Tribe of Washington on 

January 13, 2006. This notice is 

published in the exercise of authority 

delegated by the Secretary of the Interior 

to the Associate Deputy Secretary. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

George Skibine, Office of Indian Gaming 

Management, Acting Deputy Assistant 

Secretary—Policy and Economic 

Development, MS–4600 MIB, 1849 C 

Street, NW., Washington, DC 20240; 

Telephone (202) 219–4066. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published to comply with the 

requirement of 25 CFR Part 151.12(b) 

that notice be given to the public of the 

Secretary’s decision to acquire land in 

trust at least 30 days prior to signatory 

acceptance of the land into trust. The 

purpose of the 30-day waiting period in 

25 CFR Part 151.12(b) is to afford 

interested parties the opportunity to 

seek judicial review of final 

administrative decisions to take land in 

trust for Indian tribes and individual 

Indians before transfer of title to the 

property occurs. On January 13, 2006, 

the Associate Deputy Secretary decided 


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