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1. Your name, mailing address, and 

telephone number. 

2. A statement of the issue(s) of 

concern. 

3. Specific identification of the part(s) 

of the proposed plan that are of concern. 

To the extent possible, this should be 

done by reference to specific pages, 

paragraphs, sections, tables, or maps 

included in the document. 

4. A copy of any documents 

addressing the issue(s) that you may 

have submitted during the planning 

process or a reference to the date the 

issue(s) were discussed for the record. 

5. A concise statement explaining 

why you believe the proposed plan is in 

error. All relevant facts need to be 

included in this statement of reasons. 

The facts, reasons, and documentation 

are important to help us understand 

your specific concerns, rather than an 

expression of general disagreement with 

the proposed decision. 

Letters to the Superintendent should 

be addressed as follows: 

Superintendent, National Park Service, 

Grand Canyon-Parashant National 

Monument, 345 East Riverside Drive, St. 

George, UT 84790. 

A limited number of individual 

copies of the FEIS may be obtained from 

the Arizona Strip BLM or National Park 

Service, at 345 East Riverside Drive, St. 

George, UT 84790. 

Willie R. Taylor, 

Director, Office of Environmental, Policy and 

Compliance. 

[FR Doc. 07–940 Filed 3–1–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–84–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

Endangered Species Recovery Permit 

Applications 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of receipt of permit 

applications; request for comment. 

SUMMARY: We invite the public to 

comment on the following applications 

to conduct certain activities with 

endangered species. 

DATES: Comments on these permit 

applications must be received on or 

before April 2, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Written data or comments 

should be submitted to the U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service, Chief, Endangered 

Species, Ecological Services, 911 NE. 

11th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97232–

4181 (telephone: 503–231–2063; fax: 

503–231–6243). Please refer to the 

respective permit number for each 

application when submitting comments. 

All comments received, including 

names and addresses, will become part 

of the official administrative record and 

may be made available to the public. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Linda Belluomini, Fish and Wildlife 

Biologist, at the above Portland address 

(telephone: 503–231–2063; fax: 503–

231–6243). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

following applicants have applied for 

scientific research permits to conduct 

certain activities with endangered 

species pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(A) 

of the Endangered Species Act (16 

U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). The U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (we) solicits review and 

comment from local, State, and Federal 

agencies, and the public on the 

following permit requests. 

Permit No. TE–140683 

Applicant: Susan I. Jarvi, Hilo, Hawaii. 

The applicant requests a permit to 

take (inoculate and collect biological 

samples) captive nene (Branta 

sandvicensis) in conjunction with 

vaccination research in Kona, Hilo, and 

Waikaloa, Hawaii for the purpose of 

enhancing its survival. 

Permit No. TE–145562 

Applicant: U.S. Geological Survey, 

Biological Resources, Moss Landing, 

California. 

The applicant requests a permit to 

take (capture, locate and monitor nests, 

band, tag, transmitter, collect biological 

samples) the Hawaiian petrel 

(Pterodroma sandwichensis) in 

conjunction with scientific research 

throughout the species range in the 

State of Hawaii for the purpose of 

enhancing its survival. 

Permit No. 145851 

Applicant: Andrew Engilis, Davis, 

California. 

The applicant requests a permit to 

take (capture, hold, weigh, measure, 

band, and collect biological samples) 

the Hawaiian duck (Anas wyvilliana, 

and take (capture and release) the 

Hawaiian moorhen (Gallinula chloropus 

sandvicensis, and the Hawaiian coot 

(Fulica alai) in conjunction with 

scientific research on the islands of 

Oahu, Kauai, and Hawaii in the State of 

Hawaii for the purpose of enhancing 

their survival. 

We solicit public review and 

comment on each of these recovery 

permit applications. Our practice is to 

make 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. There also may 

be circumstances in which we would 

withhold from the record a respondent’s 

identity, as allowable by law. If you 

wish us to withhold your name and/or 

address, you must state this 

prominently at the beginning of your 

comment, but you should be aware that 

we may be required to disclose your 

name and address pursuant to the 

Freedom of Information Act. 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. 

Comments and materials received will 

be available for public inspection, by 

appointment, during normal business 

hours at the above address. 

Dated: February 7, 2007. 

David J. Wesley, 

Acting Regional Director, Region 1, U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service. 

[FR Doc. E7–3663 Filed 3–1–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[AZ–420–06–1610–DP–085A] 

Notice of Availability of the Ironwood 

Forest National Monument Draft 

Resource Management Plan and Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement 

(DRMP/DEIS), Arizona 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and 

the Federal Land Policy and 

Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA, 43 

U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), the Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) has prepared a Draft 

Resource Management Plan and Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement 

(DRMP/DEIS) for the Ironwood Forest 

National Monument and by this notice 

is announcing the opening of the 

comment period. 

DATES: To assure that they will be 

considered, BLM must receive written 

comments on the DRMP/DEIS within 90 

days following the date the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

publishes its Notice of Availability in 


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the Federal Register. Public meetings 

and other public-involvement activities 

will be announced at least 15 days in 

advance through local media and via the 

Internet at http://www.blm.gov/az/ 

news.htm. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be 

mailed to Mark Lambert, Planning and 

Environmental Coordinator, Ironwood 

Forest National Monument, Tucson 

Field Office, 12661 East Broadway 

Boulevard, Tucson, Arizona 85748–

7208. You may also hand-deliver 

comments to the above listed address. 

Electronic comments will be accepted 

and should be sent to: 

AZ_IFNM_RMP@blm.gov. Oral 

comments will also be accepted and 

recorded at public meetings held during 

the 90-day public review and comment 

period. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mark Lambert, Planning and 

Environmental Coordinator, Bureau of 

Land Management, Tucson Field Office, 

12661 East Broadway Boulevard, 

Tucson, Arizona 85748–7208, 

Telephone 520–258–7200. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Ironwood Forest National Monument, 

established by Presidential 

Proclamation on June 9, 2000, 

encompasses approximately 128,686 

acres of Federal land administered by 

the BLM. The DRMP/DEIS affects only 

Federal lands and Federal interests 

located within the established boundary 

of the monument. The BLM’s Tucson 

Field Office has the responsibility of 

planning for and management of Federal 

lands within the monument. Issues 

identified as part of the planning 

process and addressed in the DRMP/ 

DEIS include air resources, biological 

resources, cultural resources, fire 

management, grazing management, 

hazardous materials, lands and realty, 

mineral and energy resources, Native 

American issues, recreation, social and 

economic conditions, soils, wilderness 

characteristics, transportation and 

access, visual resources, and water 

resources. The DRMP/DEIS includes 

strategies for protecting and preserving 

the biological, cultural, recreational, 

geological, educational, scientific, and 

scenic values for which the monument 

was established. Four alternatives have 

been developed in response to the 

issues. The ‘‘no action’’ alternative 

represents current management of the 

Ironwood Forest National Monument. 

Three additional ‘‘action’’ alternatives 

present reasonable, yet varying, 

management scenarios. The alternatives 

range from emphasizing maintenance of 

the naturalness of Ironwood Forest 

National Monument (by restricting some 

human uses) to emphasizing continued 

human uses, while still protecting the 

objects and resources for which the 

monument was established. The noaction alternative proposes the 

continued designation of the Waterman 

Mountains Area of Critical 

Environmental Concern (ACEC). This 

ACEC is approximately 3,342 acres and 

was designated to protect the 

endangered Nichol Turk’s head cactus, 

provide optimum habitat for naturally 

occurring populations of Nichol Turk’s 

head cactus, and assist in its recovery. 

The following resource-use limitation 

applies to this ACEC: Prohibit land use 

authorizations except along existing 

roads and trails. The action alternatives 

do not propose designation of this 

ACEC. For detailed information, refer to 

Chapter 2 of the DRMP/DEIS, Special 

Area Designations section. 

The range of alternatives in the 

DRMP/DEIS evaluates planning 

decisions brought forward from current 

BLM planning documents, including the 

Phoenix Resource Management Plan 

(1989), Arizona Standards for Rangeland 

Health and Guidelines for Grazing 

Administration (1987), and the Arizona 

Statewide Land Use Plan Amendment 

for Fire, Fuels, and Air Quality 

Management (2003). A Proposed 

Resource Management Plan and Final 

Environmental Impact Statement, as 

well as a Record of Decision will be 

prepared by the BLM for the Ironwood 

Forest National Monument Resource 

Management Plan in accordance with 

planning regulations at 43 CFR part 

1610 and NEPA at 40 CFR part 1502. 

Public comments, including names 

and street addresses of respondents, will 

be available for public review at: Bureau 

of Land Management, Tucson Field 

Office, 12661 East Broadway Boulevard 

Tucson, Arizona 85748–7208, during 

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

Monday through Friday, except 

holidays. Individual respondents may 

request confidentiality. If you wish to 

withhold your name and/or street 

address from public review or from 

disclosure under the Freedom of 

Information Act (FOIA), 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 

identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses, will be 

made available for public inspection in 

their entirety. 

Copies of the Ironwood Forest 

National Monument DRMP/DEIS are 

available for review via the Internet at 

http://www.blm.gov/az/env_docs/ 

library/rmps/rmps.htm. Electronic (CD–

ROM) and paper copies are available for 

review at the BLM, Tucson Field Office. 

Electronic (on CD–ROM) and paper 

copies also may be obtained by 

contacting the BLM at the address and 

phone number provided above. 

Dated: October 25, 2006. 

Michael A. Taylor, 

Acting State Director. 

Editorial Note: This document was 

received at the Office of the Federal Register 

on February 26, 2007. 

[FR Doc. E7–3626 Filed 3–1–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–32–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

Notice of Availability of Eastern San 

Diego County Draft Resource 

Management Plan and Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 and the Federal Land Policy and 

Management Act of 1976, the Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM) has prepared 

a Draft Resource Management Plan/ 

Environmental Impact Statement (RMP/ 

EIS) for the El Centro Field Office. The 

Draft RMP/EIS addresses public lands 

managed by the El Centro Field Office 

in the eastern portion of San Diego 

County, California, and by this notice is 

announcing the opening of the comment 

period. 

DATES: To assure that they will be 

considered, BLM must receive written 

comments on the Draft RMP/EIS within 

90 days following the date the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

publishes the Notice of Availability in 

the Federal Register. Future meetings or 

hearings and any other public 

involvement activities will be 

announced at least 15 days in advance 

through public notices, media news 

releases, and/or mailings. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

at the public meetings or by any of the 

following methods: 

• Web Site: http://www.ca.blm.gov/ 

elcentro. 

• Fax: (760) 337–4490. 

• Mail: 1661 So. 4th St., El Centro, 

California 92243. 

• E-mail: caesdrmp@.ca.blm.gov. 

CD and paper copies of the Eastern San 

Diego County Draft RMP/EIS are 

available at the El Centro Field Office at 


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