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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–7070–N–55] 

30-Day Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection: CDBG–PRICE Competition 

Application Collection, OMB Control 

No.: 2506–New 

AGENCY: Office of Policy Development 

and Research, Chief Data Officer, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: HUD is seeking approval from 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for the information collection 

described below. In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act, HUD is 

requesting comment from all interested 

parties on the proposed collection of 

information. The purpose of this notice 

is to allow for an additional 30 days of 

public comment. 

DATES: Comments Due Date: October 16, 

2023. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are 

invited to submit comments regarding 

this proposal. Written comments and 

recommendations for the proposed 

information collection should be sent 

within 30 days of publication of this 

notice to www.reginfo.gov/public/do/ 

PRAMain. Find this particular 

information collection by selecting 

‘‘Currently under 30-day Review—Open 

for Public Comments’’ or by using the 

search function. Interested persons are 

also invited to submit comments 

regarding this proposal and comments 

should refer to the proposal by name 

and/or OMB Control Number and 

should be sent to: Colette Pollard, 

Clearance Officer, REE, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, 451 

7th Street SW, Room 8210, Washington, 

DC 20410–5000; email 

PaperworkReductionActOffice@

hud.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Colette Pollard, Reports Management 

Officer, REE, Department of Housing 

and Urban Development, 7th Street SW, 

Room 8210, Washington, DC 20410; 

email; Colette.Pollard@hud.gov or 

telephone 202–402–3400. This is not a 

toll-free number. HUD welcomes and is 

prepared to receive calls from 

individuals who are deaf or hard of 

hearing, as well as individuals with 

speech or communication disabilities. 

To learn more about how to make an 

accessible telephone call, please visit 

https://www.fcc.gov/consumers/guides/ 

telecommunications-relay-service-trs. 

Copies of available documents 

submitted to OMB may be obtained 

from Ms. Pollard. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice informs the public that HUD is 

seeking approval from OMB for the 

information collection described in 

Section A. The Federal Register notice 

that solicited public comment on the 

information collection for a period of 60 

days was published on July 13, 2023 at 

88 FR 44815. 

A. Overview of Information Collection 

Title of Information Collection: 

CDBG–PRICE Competition Grant 

Program (Manufactured Housing 

Community Improvement Grant 

Program) Application Collection. 

OMB Approval Number: 2506– 

PENDING. 

Type of Request: New Collection. 

Form Number: N/A. 

Description of the need for the 

information and proposed use: HUD is 

issuing this NOFO under the authority 

of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 

2023 (Pub. L. 117–328, enacted 

December 29, 2022) to collect 

applications for the preservation and 

revitalization of manufactured housing 

and eligible manufactured housing 

communities (including pre-1976 

mobile homes). 

Respondents: State, tribal and local 

governments; manufactured housing 

communities, cooperatives, non-profit 

entities, and Community Development 

Finance Institutions. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

100+. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 100. 

Frequency of Response: 1. 

Average Hours per Response: 20. 

Total Estimated Burdens: 2,000. 

Information collection Number of 

respondents 

Frequency of 

response 

Responses 

per annum 

Burden hour 

per response 

Annual burden 

hours 

Hourly cost 

per response Annual cost 

See above .................... 100 1 100 20 2,000 $46.58 $93,700 

B. Solicitation of Public Comment 

This notice is soliciting comments 

from members of the public and affected 

parties concerning the collection of 

information described in Section A on 

the following: 

(1) Whether the proposed collection 

of information is necessary for the 

proper performance of the functions of 

the agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) The accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information; 

(3) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(4) Ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are to respond; including through 

the use of appropriate automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

(5) ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are to respond, including the use 

of automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

HUD encourages interested parties to 

submit comments in response to these 

questions. 

C. Authority 

Section 3507 of the Paperwork 

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

Chapter 35. 

Colette Pollard, 

Department Reports Management Officer, 

Office of Policy Development and Research, 

Chief Data Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R2–ES–2023–0160; 

FXES11130200000–234–FF02ENEH00] 

East Foundation Programmatic Safe 

Harbor Agreement for Ocelot 

Reintroduction and Enhancement of 

Survival Permit Application; South 

Texas 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability; request 

for comments. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, announce the 

availability of an application for an 

enhancement of survival permit 

pursuant to the Endangered Species Act 

for the proposed East Foundation 

Programmatic Safe Harbor Agreement 

for Ocelot Reintroduction in South 


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Texas. The application package includes 

the safe harbor agreement and a draft 

screening form pursuant to the National 

Environmental Policy Act. We invite the 

public and local, State, Tribal, and 

Federal agencies to comment on these 

documents. Before issuing the requested 

permit, we will take into consideration 

any information that we receive during 

the public comment period. 

DATES: Submission of comments: We 

will accept comments received on or 

before October 16, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Obtaining documents: You 

may obtain copies of the enhancement 

of survival permit application, safe 

harbor agreement, and draft National 

Environmental Policy Act screening 

form online in Docket No. FWS–R2–ES– 

2023–0160 at https://www.regulations. 

gov. Other related information may be 

obtained online at https://www.east

foundation.net/. 

Submitting comments: You may 

submit written comments by one of the 

following methods: 

• Internet: https://

www.regulations.gov. Search for and 

submit comments on Docket No. FWS– 

R2–ES–2023–0160; or 

• U.S. mail: Public Comments 

Processing, Attn: Docket No. FWS–R2– 

ES–2023–0160; U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, MS: PRB/3W, 5275 Leesburg 

Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041–3803. 

Please note which document(s) your 

comment references. For more 

information, see Public Availability of 

Comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Chuck Ardizzone, Field Supervisor, 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Houston, 

Texas, Coastal Ecological Services Field 

Office; telephone (281) 286–8282. 

Individuals in the United States who are 

deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have 

a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY, 

TDD, or TeleBraille) to access 

telecommunications relay services. 

Individuals outside the United States 

should use the relay services offered 

within their country to make 

international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We, the 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), 

announce the availability of an 

application for an enhancement of 

survival permit pursuant to section 

10(a)(1)(A) of the Endangered Species 

Act of 1973, as amended (ESA; 16 

U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) for the proposed 

East Foundation Programmatic Safe 

Harbor Agreement for Ocelot 

Reintroduction in South Texas. The 

application package includes the safe 

harbor agreement (SHA) and a draft 

screening form pursuant to the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 

(NEPA; 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.). 

If the requested enhancement of 

survival permit is approved, it would 

authorize East Foundation (applicant) 

for incidental take of the ocelot 

(Leopardus (=Felis) pardalis) resulting 

from conservation and management 

activities covered by the SHA. With this 

notice, we also announce the 

availability of a draft screening form 

supporting a proposed categorical 

exclusion that has been prepared to 

evaluate the enhancement of survival 

permit application in accordance with 

NEPA requirements. 

Background 

Section 9 of the ESA and our 

implementing regulations at 50 CFR part 

17 prohibit the ‘‘take’’ of fish or wildlife 

species listed as endangered or 

threatened. Take is defined under the 

ESA as to ‘‘harass, harm, pursue, hunt, 

shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or 

collect listed animal species, or to 

attempt to engage in such conduct’’ (16 

U.S.C. 1538(19)). However, under 

section 10(a) of the ESA, we may issue 

permits to authorize take of listed 

species. ‘‘Incidental take’’ is defined by 

the ESA as take that is incidental to, and 

not the purpose of, carrying out an 

otherwise lawful activity. Regulations 

governing such take of endangered and 

threatened species are found at 50 CFR 

17.21–22 and 50 CFR 17.31–32, 

respectively. 

Under an SHA, participating 

landowners voluntarily undertake 

conservation and management activities 

on their properties to benefit species 

listed under the ESA. Enhancement of 

survival permits are issued to applicants 

in association with approved SHAs to 

authorize take of the covered species 

from covered activities on the enrolled 

lands that are identified in the SHA. 

Covered activities are those otherwise 

lawful actions that cause take of a 

covered species and for which take is 

authorized by a permit under 50 CFR 

17.22(b)–(c) 50 CFR 17.32(b)–(c), as 

applicable. Under an SHA, the Service 

may authorize incidental taking of a 

covered species at a level that enables 

the participating landowner ultimately 

to return the enrolled property back to 

agreed-upon baseline conditions. 

Through the SHA and the associated 

enhancement of survival permit, the 

Service also provides assurances to 

enrolled property owners that 

additional land, water, and/or natural 

resource use restrictions will not be 

imposed as a result of their voluntary 

conservation actions. 

Application requirements and 

issuance criteria for enhancement of 

survival permits for SHAs are found at 

50 CFR 17.22(d)(2)(ii) and 

17.32(d)(2)(ii). See also the joint policy 

on SHAs, which was published in the 

Federal Register with the Department of 

Commerce’s National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration, National 

Marine Fisheries Service (June 17, 1999, 

64 FR 32717). 

Proposed Action 

The proposed action involves the 

issuance of an enhancement of survival 

permit to the East Foundation 

(applicant) in association with the East 

Foundation Programmatic Safe Harbor 

Agreement for Ocelot Reintroduction in 

South Texas. The ocelot is listed as an 

endangered species throughout its range 

in South and Central America, Mexico, 

and southern Texas and southern 

Arizona (37 FR 6476, 47 FR 31670). In 

Texas, ocelots are currently known to 

occur in coastal South Texas in two 

small, isolated breeding populations 

that total less than 100 known 

individuals (Service 2016). 

The purpose of the proposed SHA is 

to expand the ocelot’s occupied range in 

South Texas by reintroducing the 

species on the East Foundation’s San 

Antonio Viejo Ranch in Jim Hogg and 

Starr Counties and to provide additional 

habitat for reintroduced ocelot dispersal 

onto private lands proximate to the San 

Antonio Viejo Ranch in Brooks, 

Hidalgo, Jim Hogg, Starr, and Zapata 

Counties. It is estimated that 362.6 

square kilometers (km2) (89,600 acres 

(ac)) of suitable ocelot habitat exist 

within this area, with 124.3 km2 (30,715 

ac) located on the San Antonio Viejo 

Ranch. Pursuant to the SHA, the East 

Foundation will enroll participating 

landowners through issuance of 

certificates of inclusion. The 

enhancement of survival permit would 

authorize incidental take that may result 

from the implementation of the 

proposed conservation and management 

activities on the enrolled properties 

during a 30-year permit term, with an 

option to return the properties to the 

baseline condition at the conclusion of 

the permit. 

Proposed conservation measures 

include ocelot reintroduction activities, 

monitoring, habitat management, and 

research. Reintroduction activities 

include the construction of release 

enclosures, maintenance and 

monitoring of ocelots in these 

enclosures, and the actual release of 

behaviorally and genetically suitable 

ocelots from the enclosures. Such 

activities will be implemented in 

accordance with the most up-to-date 

version of the Ocelot Breeding and 

Reintroduction Manual (Ocelot 


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Reintroduction Study Captive 

Propagation Team 2023) cooperatively 

developed by the East Foundation, 

Service, and other partners. Monitoring 

of reintroduced ocelots and their 

descendants will occur via geolocation 

devices and cameras and will allow the 

East Foundation to evaluate the survival 

and behavior of individual ocelots on 

the San Antonio Viejo Ranch and 

enrolled properties. Habitat 

management activities are additional, 

optional measures to further benefit 

ocelot survival in the reintroduction 

area. These activities may include 

wildfire mitigation practices, 

minimization of brush clearing, habitat 

restoration, construction of 

supplemental drinking sources, and 

potential predator or competitor control. 

The East Foundation, with the 

cooperation of partners as appropriate, 

may also pursue opportunities for 

additional research in support of ocelot 

reintroduction. 

Proposed management practices 

include otherwise lawful activities such 

as cattle grazing, building and 

maintaining ranch infrastructure, 

agriculture operations, agritourism, 

vegetation and wildlife management, 

and energy development interests. Any 

negative impacts to ocelots or their 

habitat due to management practices are 

anticipated to be minimal and 

temporary. The ocelot reintroduction 

program is expected to have a net 

conservation benefit and contribute to 

recovery by supporting multiple 

recovery actions identified in the 

species’ current recovery plan (Service 

2016), exceeding any possible negative 

impacts that may occur on the San 

Antonio Viejo Ranch or other 

participating properties due to the 

covered and otherwise legal activities. 

Next Steps 

We will evaluate the permit 

application, SHA, draft screening form, 

and comments we receive to determine 

whether the SHA application meets the 

requirements of the ESA, NEPA, and 

implementing regulations. If we 

determine that all requirements are met, 

we will approve the SHA and issue the 

enhancement of survival permit under 

section 10(a)(1)(A) of the ESA to the 

applicant in accordance with the terms 

of the SHA and specific terms and 

conditions of the authorizing permit. 

We will not make our final decision 

until after the 30-day comment period 

ends and we have fully considered all 

comments received during the public 

comment period. 

Public Availability of Comments 

All comments we receive become part 

of the public record associated with this 

action. Requests for copies of comments 

will be handled in accordance with the 

Freedom of Information Act, NEPA, and 

Service and Department of the Interior 

policies and procedures. Before 

including your address, phone number, 

email 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 to withhold your 

personal identifying information from 

public review, we cannot guarantee that 

we will be able to do so. 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 disclosure in 

their entirety. 

Authority 

We provide this notice under the 

authority of section 10(c) of the ESA and 

its implementing regulations (50 CFR 

17.22 and 17.32) and NEPA (42 U.S.C. 

4371 et seq.) and its implementing 

regulations (40 CFR 1506.6). 

Amy L. Lueders, 

Regional Director, Southwest Region, U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Geological Survey 

[GX23WC000JU4200; OMB Control Number 

1028–NEW] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Next Generation Volcano 

Hazards Assessment (NGVHA) 

AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey, 

Department of the Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), the U.S. Geological Survey 

(USGS) is proposing a new information 

collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 

November 14, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Send your comments on 

this information collection request (ICR) 

by mail to Jessica Ball, P.O. Box 158, 

Moffett Field, CA 94035; or by email to 

jlball@usgs.gov. Please reference OMB 

Control Number 1028–NEW Next 

Generation Volcano Hazards 

Assessments in the subject line of your 

comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information about 

this ICR, contact Jessica Ball by email at 

jlball@usgs.gov, or by telephone at 650– 

439–2597. Individuals in the United 

States who are deaf, deafblind, hard of 

hearing, or have a speech disability may 

dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to 

access telecommunications relay 

services. Individuals outside the United 

States should use the relay services 

offered within their country to make 

international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the PRA (44 U.S.C. 

3501 et seq.) and 5 CFR 1320.8(d)(1), all 

information collections require 

approval. We may not conduct or 

sponsor, nor are you required to 

respond to a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. 

As part of our continuing effort to 

reduce paperwork and respondent 

burdens, we invite the public and other 

Federal agencies to comment on new, 

proposed, revised, and continuing 

collections of information. This helps us 

assess the impact of our information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. It also 

helps the public understand our 

information collection requirements and 

provide the requested data in the 

desired format. 

We are especially interested in public 

comment addressing the following: 

(1) Whether or not the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether or not the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) The accuracy of our estimate of the 

burden for this collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(3) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(4) How the agency might minimize 

the burden of the collection of 

information on those who are to 

respond, including through the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of response. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. Before including your 

address, phone number, email address, 


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