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landowner will receive relief from any 

additional section 9 liability under the 

Act beyond that which exists at the time 

the agreement is signed (‘‘regulatory 

baseline’’). The property is currently 

maintained as fallow land, native 

rangeland, and irrigated pastureland 

and is bordered by other private lands 

and Federal lands owned by the Bureau 

of Land Management. At the present 

time, the property supports several 

active prairie dog burrows that comprise 

a small colony. Several unoccupied 

burrows also occur on the property. 

Foraging habitat and habitat that offers 

visual surveillance for the prairie dogs 

will be further enhanced by 

implementing a prescribed grazing plan, 

seeding to improve the forage quality for 

UPD, and installing irrigation 

improvements. Additionally, 

reintroduction of UPDs will occur on 

the property once the vegetation 

conditions have improved. 

Habitat improvements will be 

occurring throughout the term of the 

agreement through managed grazing. 

The Cooperator will receive an ESP that 

authorizes implementation of the 

conservation actions and other 

provisions of this Agreement and 

authorizes incidental take of the covered 

species above the Cooperator’s baseline 

responsibilities, as defined in SHA. The 

proposed SHA would become effective 

upon signature of the SHA and issuance 

of the permit, and would remain in 

effect for 15 years. The requested permit 

would remain in effect for 35 years. We 

have made the determination that the 

proposed activities described in the 

application and SHA will increase 

available prairie dog habitat and will 

potentially expand an existing active 

colony and allow successful 

establishment of a reintroduced colony 

of Utah prairie dogs on the Bagley 

property. The action is categorically 

excluded under the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). This 

notice is provided pursuant to section 

10 of the Act, and the Service’s Safe 

Harbor Policy (64 FR 32717). 

The Service has evaluated the impacts 

of this action under the NEPA and 

determined that it warrants categorical 

exclusion as described in 516 DM 8, 8.5 

C. (1). The Service will evaluate 

whether the issuance of the ESP 

complies with section 7 of the Act by 

conducting an intra-Service section 7 

consultation on the issuance of the 

permit. The result of the biological 

opinion, in combination with the above 

finding and any public comments, will 

be used in the final analysis to 

determine whether or not to issue the 

requested ESP, pursuant to the 

regulation that guide issuance of the 

type of permit. 

Authority: The authority for this action is 

the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 

amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). 

Dated: January 11, 2007. 

James J. Slack, 

Deputy Regional Director, Denver, Colorado. 

[FR Doc. E7–3360 Filed 2–26–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

Safe Harbor Agreement and Receipt of 

Application for an Enhancement of 

Survival Permit Associated With the 

Restoration of Habitat for Utah Prairie 

Dogs on Private Land in Piute County, 

UT 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: Mr. Val Norman (Applicant/ 

Cooperator) has applied to the Fish and 

Wildlife Service (Service) for an 

Enhancement of Survival Permit (ESP) 

for the Utah prairie dog (UPD) pursuant 

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

Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). 

This permit application includes a Safe 

Harbor Agreement (SHA) between the 

Applicant and the Service. The Service 

requests information, views, and 

opinions from the public via this notice. 

Further, the Service is soliciting 

information regarding the adequacy of 

the SHA as measured against the 

Service’s Safe Harbor Policy and the 

regulations that implement it. 

DATES: Written comments on the permit 

application must be received on or 

before March 29, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Persons wishing to review 

the SHA and the ESP application may 

obtain a copy by writing the Service’s 

Mountain-Prairie Regional Office, 

Denver, Colorado. Documents also will 

be available for public inspection during 

normal business hours at the Regional 

Office, 134 Union Boulevard, Denver, 

Colorado 80228–1807, or the Utah Field 

Office, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 

2369 West Orton Circle, Suite 50, West 

Valley City, Utah 84119. Written data or 

comments concerning the SHA or ESP 

application should be submitted to the 

Regional office and must be in writing 

to be processed. Comments must be 

submitted in writing to be adequately 

considered in the Service’s decisionmaking process. Please reference permit 

number TE131545–0 in your comments, 

or in the request for the documents 

discussed herein. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Pat 

Mehlhop, Regional Safe Harbor 

Coordinator (see Denver address above), 

telephone 303–236–4215, or Larry Crist, 

Utah Field Office Supervisor (see West 

Valley City address above), telephone 

801–975–3330. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The UPD 

is the westernmost member of the genus 

Cynomys. The species’ range, which is 

limited to the southwestern quarter of 

Utah, is the most restricted of all prairie 

dog species in the United States. 

Distribution of the UPD has been greatly 

reduced due to disease (plague), 

poisoning, drought, and human-related 

habitat alteration. Protection of this 

species and enhancement of its habitat 

on private land will benefit recovery 

efforts. 

The primary objective of a SHA is to 

encourage voluntary conservation 

measures to benefit the species and the 

landowner. Through this agreement, the 

landowner will receive relief from any 

additional section 9 liability under the 

Act beyond that which exists at the time 

the agreement is signed (‘‘regulatory 

baseline’’). There are no buildings or 

residences on the property; however it 

is currently used to house hunting dogs 

in an enclosed area less than 0.4 hectare 

(1 acre) in size. The rest of the property 

is unused and is not currently suitable 

for livestock grazing due to the high 

density of invasive weeds. The property 

is bordered on four sides by private 

lands. At the present time, the property 

supports an active prairie dog colony 

with many unoccupied burrows. In 

addition, active UPD colonies are 

known to exist on private property east 

and south of the Norman property. 

Foraging habitat and habitat that offers 

visual surveillance for the prairie dogs 

will be further enhanced by 

implementing a prescribed grazing plan, 

seeding to improve the forage quality for 

UPD, and installing irrigation 

improvements. 

Habitat improvements will occur 

throughout the term of the agreement 

through managed grazing. The 

Cooperator will receive an ESP that 

authorizes implementation of the 

conservation actions and other 

provisions of this Agreement and 

authorizes incidental take of the covered 

species above the Cooperator’s baseline 

responsibilities, as defined in the SHA. 

The proposed SHA would become 

effective upon signature of the SHA and 

issuance of the permit, and would 

remain in effect for 15 years. The 

requested permit would remain in effect 

for 35 years. We have made the 

determination that the proposed 

activities described in the application 


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and SHA will increase available prairie 

dog habitat and will potentially expand 

an existing active colony of UPDs on the 

Norman property. The action is 

categorically excluded under the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA). This notice is provided 

pursuant to section 10 of the Act, and 

the Service’s Safe Harbor Policy (64 FR 

32717). 

The Service has evaluated the impacts 

of this action under the NEPA and 

determined that it warrants categorical 

exclusion as described in 516 DM 8, 8.5 

C. (1). The Service will evaluate 

whether the issuance of the ESP 

complies with section 7 of the Act by 

conducting an intra-Service section 7 

consultation on the issuance of the 

permit. The result of the biological 

opinion, in combination with the above 

finding and any public comments, will 

be used in the final analysis to 

determine whether or not to issue the 

requested ESP, pursuant to the 

regulation that guide issuance of the 

type of permit. 

(Authority: The authority for this action is 

the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 

amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.).) 

Dated: January 11, 2007. 

James J. Slack, 

Deputy Regional Director, Denver, Colorado. 

[FR Doc. E7–3378 Filed 2–26–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Indian Affairs 

Privacy Act of 1974, as Amended; 

Establishment of a New System of 

Records 

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of addition of a new 

system of records. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the 

Interior (DOI), Bureau of Indian Affairs 

(BIA) is issuing public notice of its 

intent to add a new Privacy Act system 

of records to its inventory of records 

systems subject to the Privacy Act of 

1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a). This action is 

necessary to meet the requirements of 

the Privacy Act to publish in the 

Federal Register notice of the existence 

and character of records systems 

maintained by the agency (5 U.S.C. 

552a(e)(4)). The new Privacy Act system 

of records is entitled ‘‘Interior BIA–27: 

BIA Probate Files.’’

DATES: The proposed new system of 

records will become effective without 

further notice on April 9, 2007, unless 

comments received result in a contrary 

determination. Under 5 U.S.C. 

552a(e)(11), the public is provided a 30- 

day period in which to comment on the 

agency’s intended use of the 

information in the system of records. 

The Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB), in its Circular A–130, requires 

an additional 10-day period in which 

OMB may comment (for a total of 40 

days in which to make these comments). 

BIA will publish a subsequent notice if 

changes are made based on review of 

comments received. 

ADDRESSES: Interested individuals may 

submit comments on this publication to 

Director, Special Projects Office, 

Western Regional Office, Bureau of 

Indian Affairs, 400 N. 5th Street, 10th 

Floor, Phoenix, AZ 85004, or fax to 

(602) 379–4005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

information regarding BIA–27 Probate, 

contact Bill Titchywy, Director, Special 

Projects Office, Western Regional Office, 

Bureau of Indian Affairs, 400 N. 5th 

Street, 10th Floor, Phoenix, AZ 85004, 

(602) 379–4002. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is published pursuant to the 

Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a(e)(4)) 

and is in exercise of authority delegated 

by the Secretary of the Interior to the 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary—

Indian Affairs in 209 DM 8.1. This 

notice establishes the Privacy Act 

system of records entitled ‘‘Interior 

BIA–27: BIA Probate Files.’’ The 

purpose of this system is to provide 

information on the types of records 

assembled in BIA for the purpose of 

processing a probate file and the 

categories of records associated with the 

probate program. BIA assembles and 

maintains these files with regard to any 

given probate of an estate of a decedent 

who owned trust or restricted Indian 

land, then provides the file to the Office 

of Hearings and Appeals for use in the 

adjudication process. The records 

include both hard copy and electronic 

copy, stored in software called ProTrac. 

The ProTrac software stores information 

related to individual Indian estates and 

allows BIA probate personnel to track 

information related to each estate and 

search the information during the 

probate process. ProTrac allows BIA 

probate personnel to obtain listings of 

deaths, obtain the status on any estate, 

and measure progress, correctness, and 

timeliness of work done on probate 

cases. 

ProTrac is proposed to interface with 

both the Trust Asset and Accounting 

Management System (TAAMS) and the 

Trust Fund Accounting System (TFAS) 

to ensure that the information in 

ProTrac necessary for probate functions 

is as up-to-date as possible and that 

information affected by probate in 

TAAMS and TFAS is updated. 

Dated: February 7, 2007. 

Michael D. Olsen, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary—Indian 

Affairs. 

INTERIOR/BIA–27 

SYSTEM NAME: 

Bureau of Indian Affairs Probate Files. 

SECURITY CLASSIFICATION: 

None. 

SYSTEM LOCATION: 

(1) Bureau of Indian Affairs Central 

Office, 1849 C Street, NW., MS 4641, 

MIB, Washington, DC 20240, and (2) 

Bureau of Indian Affairs Regional 

Offices at: Alaska, Eastern, Eastern 

Oklahoma, Great Plains, Midwest, 

Navajo, Northwest, Pacific, Rocky 

Mountain, Southern Plains, Southwest, 

and Western. (For a listing of specific 

locations, contact the System Manager.) 

These locations have access to the 

ProTrac software. 

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE

SYSTEM: 

Individuals who are potential heirs, 

legatees, devisees, creditors, or parties 

interested in the estate of a decedent 

owning Indian land in trust or restricted 

status or who provide information to the 

BIA on the decedent. 

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

Records in the system fall into the 

following categories: 

• Originals or copies of all wills, 

codicils, and revocations, or other 

evidence that a will may exist; 

• Social Security Numbers of the 

decedent, legatees, and probable heirs or 

devisees; 

• The place(s) of enrollment and the 

tribal enrollment or census numbers of 

the decedent and potential heirs, 

legatees, or devisees; 

• Current names and addresses of the 

decedent’s potential heirs, legatees, and 

devisees; 

• Any sworn statements regarding the 

decedent’s family, including any 

statements of paternity or maternity; 

• Any statements renouncing an 

interest in the estate including 

identification of the person or entity in 

whose favor the interest is renounced, if 

any; 

• A list of known claims by creditors 

of the decedent against the estate and 

their addresses, including copies of any 

court judgments; 

• Documents, certified if possible, 

from the appropriate authorities 

concerning the public record of the 


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