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Federal Coordinating Officer for this 

declared disaster. 

I do hereby determine the following 

areas of the State of Vermont to have 

been affected adversely by this declared 

major disaster: 

Bennington, Caledonia, Essex, Orange, 

Rutland, Windham, and Windsor 

Counties for Public Assistance. 

All counties within the State of Vermont 

are eligible to apply for assistance under the 

Hazard Mitigation Grant Program. 

(The following Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance Numbers (CFDA) are to be used 

for reporting and drawing funds: 97.030, 

Community Disaster Loans; 97.031, Cora 

Brown Fund Program; 97.032, Crisis 

Counseling; 97.033, Disaster Legal Services 

Program; 97.034, Disaster Unemployment 

Assistance (DUA); 97.046, Fire Management 

Assistance; 97.048, Individuals and 

Households Housing; 97.049, Individuals and 

Households Disaster Housing Operations; 

97.050 Individuals and Households 

Program—Other Needs, 97.036, Public 

Assistance Grants; 97.039, Hazard Mitigation 

Grant Program.) 

R. David Paulison, 

Administrator, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency. 

[FR Doc. E7–9512 Filed 5–16–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–10–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

[FEMA–1696–DR] 

West Virginia; Amendment No. 1 to 

Notice of a Major Disaster Declaration 

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice amends the notice 

of a major disaster declaration for the 

State of West Virginia (FEMA–1696–

DR), dated May 1, 2007, and related 

determinations. 

EFFECTIVE DATE: May 10, 2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Peggy Miller, Disaster Assistance 

Directorate, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, Washington, DC 

20472, (202) 646–2705. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The notice 

of a major disaster declaration for the 

State of West Virginia is hereby 

amended to include the following areas 

among those areas determined to have 

been adversely affected by the 

catastrophe declared a major disaster by 

the President in his declaration of May 

1, 2007: 

Barbour, Gilmer, Grant, Hardy, Lewis, 

McDowell, Pendleton, Pocahontas, Putnam, 

Upshur, and Webster Counties for Public 

Assistance. 

(The following Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance Numbers (CFDA) are to be used 

for reporting and drawing funds: 97.030, 

Community Disaster Loans; 97.031, Cora 

Brown Fund Program; 97.032, Crisis 

Counseling; 97.033, Disaster Legal Services 

Program; 97.034, Disaster Unemployment 

Assistance (DUA); 97.046, Fire Management 

Assistance; 97.048, Individuals and 

Households Housing; 97.049, Individuals and 

Households Disaster Housing Operations; 

97.050 Individuals and Households ProgramOther Needs, 97.036, Public Assistance 

Grants; 97.039, Hazard Mitigation Grant 

Program.) 

R. David Paulison, 

Administrator, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency. 

[FR Doc. E7–9508 Filed 5–16–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 9110–10–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge in 

Pope and Yell Counties, AR 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare a 

comprehensive conservation plan and 

environmental assessment; request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: We, the Fish and Wildlife 

Service, intend to gather information 

necessary to prepare a comprehensive 

conservation plan and associated 

environmental documents for Holla 

Bend National Wildlife Refuge. We 

furnish this notice in compliance with 

our comprehensive conservation 

planning policy to advise other agencies 

and the public of our intentions, and to 

obtain suggestions and information on 

the scope of issues to be considered 

during the planning process. 

DATES: To ensure consideration, we 

must receive your written comments by 

June 18, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Send your comments or 

requests for more information to: Ben 

Mense, Refuge Manager, Holla Bend 

National Wildlife Refuge, 10448 Holla 

Bend Road, Dardanelle, AR 72834; 

Telephone: 479/229–4300; or 

electronically to: ben_mense@fws.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: With this 

notice, we initiate the process for 

developing a comprehensive 

conservation plan for Holla Bend 

National Wildlife Refuge in Dardanelle, 

AR. 

The National Wildlife Refuge System 

Administration Act of 1966, as amended 

by the National Wildlife Refuge System 

Improvement Act of 1997 (16 U.S.C. 

§ 668dd–668ee), requires the Service to 

develop a comprehensive conservation 

plan for each national wildlife refuge. 

The purpose in developing a 

comprehensive conservation plan is to 

provide refuge managers with a 15-year 

strategy for achieving refuge purposes 

and contributing to the mission of the 

National Wildlife Refuge System, 

consistent with sound principles of fish 

and wildlife management, conservation, 

legal mandates, and Service policies. In 

addition to outlining broad management 

direction on conserving wildlife and 

their habitats, plans identify wildlifedependent recreational opportunities 

available to the public, including 

opportunities for hunting, fishing, 

wildlife observation, wildlife 

photography, and environmental 

education and interpretation. 

We establish each unit of the National 

Wildlife Refuge System with specific 

purposes. We use these purposes to 

develop and prioritize management 

goals and objectives within the National 

Wildlife Refuge System mission, and to 

guide which public uses will occur on 

these refuges. The planning process is a 

way for us and the public to evaluate 

management goals and objectives for the 

best possible conservation efforts of 

these important wildlife habitats, while 

providing for wildlife-dependent 

recreation opportunities that are 

compatible with the refuge’s 

establishing purpose and the mission of 

the National Wildlife Refuge System. 

We will conduct a comprehensive 

conservation planning process that will 

provide opportunity for Tribal, State, 

and local governments; agencies; 

organizations; and the public to 

participate in issue scoping and public 

comment. We request input for issues, 

concerns, ideas, and suggestions for 

management of the Holla Bend National 

Wildlife Refuge. We invite anyone 

interested to respond to the following 

two questions: 

1. What problems or issues do you 

want to see addressed in the 

comprehensive conservation plan? 

2. What improvements would you 

recommend for the Holla Bend National 

Wildlife Refuge? 

We have provided the above 

questions for your optional use; you are 

not required to provide information to 

us. Our Planning Team developed these 

questions to gather information about 

individual issues and ideas concerning 

this refuge. Our Planning Team will use 

comments it receives as part of the 

planning process; however, we will not 

reference individual comments in our 

reports or directly respond to them. 

We will conduct the environmental 

review of this project in accordance 


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with the requirements of the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as 

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

Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500–1508); 

other appropriate Federal laws and 

regulations; and our policies and 

procedures for compliance with those 

regulations. All comments we receive 

on our environmental assessment 

become part of the official public 

record. We will handle requests for such 

comments in accordance with the 

Freedom of Information Act, NEPA [40 

CFR 1506.6(f)], and other Departmental 

and Service policies and procedures. 

When we receive a request, we generally 

will provide comment letters with the 

names and addresses of the individuals 

who wrote the comments. 

Holla Bend National Wildlife Refuge 

was established in 1957, under the 

Transfer of Real Property Act, as a result 

of a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers 

navigation and flood control project. 

This 6,616-acre refuge is six miles south 

of Dardanelle, Arkansas, just off of State 

Highway 155. The refuge lies along the 

Arkansas River and is bounded by an 

old oxbow that was created when the 

Corps of Engineers cut a channel 

through the bend in the river to promote 

navigation and flood control. The 

primary objectives of the refuge are to: 

(1) Provide habitat for migratory 

waterfowl; (2) provide habitat for 

endangered species; (3) provide habitat 

for resident wildlife; and (4) provide 

interpretation and recreation to the 

public. 

Authority: This notice is published under 

the authority of the National Wildlife Refuge 

System Improvement Act of 1997, Public 

Law 105–57. 

Dated: March 29, 2007. 

Cynthia K. Dohner, 

Acting Regional Director. 

[FR Doc. E7–9483 Filed 5–16–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

Final Comprehensive Conservation 

Plan for Long Lake National Wildlife 

Refuge Complex, Moffit, ND 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service (Service) announces that a final 

Comprehensive Conservation Plan 

(CCP) for the Long Lake National 

Wildlife Refuge Complex (Complex) is 

available. This CCP, prepared pursuant 

to the National Wildlife Refuge System 

Improvement Act of 1997 and the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969, describes how the Service intends 

to manage the Complex, which includes 

Long Lake National Wildlife Refuge 

(NWR), Slade NWR, Florence Lake 

NWR, and Long Lake Wetland 

Management District (WMD), for the 

next 15 years. 

ADDRESSES: A copy of the final CCP or 

Summary is available by writing to 

Bernardo Garza, Planning Team Leader, 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, P.O. Box 

25486, Denver Federal Center, Denver, 

Colorado 80225; or download from 

http://mountain-prairie.fws.gov/ 

planning. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Bernardo Garza, (303) 236–4377, or John 

Esperance, (303) 236–4369. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Complex is located within 

Burleigh, Emmons and Kidder Counties 

in south-central North Dakota. The final 

CCP for this Complex includes three 

NWRs and one WMD: 

• Long Lake NWR (22,310 acres in 

size) was established on February 25, 

1932, ‘‘as a refuge and breeding ground 

for migratory birds and wild animals’’; 

and ‘‘for use as an inviolate sanctuary, 

or for any other management purpose, 

for migratory birds.’’ This refuge 

encompasses 15,000 acres of brackish to 

saline marsh and lake; 1,000 acres of 

other wetlands; and approximately 

6,000 acres of tame and native 

grassland, woodland, and cropland. The 

refuge serves as an important staging 

area for migrating sandhill cranes, 

Canada geese and other waterfowl, 

shorebirds, and other migratory birds. 

Endangered whooping cranes often 

utilize refuge marshes during Spring 

and Fall migrations. 

• Slade NWR (3,000 acres in size) was 

established on October 10, 1944, ‘‘for 

use as an inviolate sanctuary, or for any 

other management purpose, for 

migratory birds.’’

• Florence Lake NWR was established 

on May 10, 1939, ‘‘as a refuge and 

breeding ground for migratory birds and 

other wildlife’’; and ‘‘for use as an 

inviolate sanctuary, or for any other 

management purpose, for migratory 

birds.’’ The fee portion of this refuge 

consists of 1,468 acres. 

• Long Lake WMD manages 1,036 

perpetual wetland easements, 93 

perpetual grassland easements, 16 

Farmers Home Administration 

perpetual easements, 2,759 upland 

acres, one Garrison Diversion Unit 

mitigation tract managed as a Wildlife 

Development Area, and 78 Waterfowl 

Production Areas. The WMD was 

established with the purposes of 

assuring the long-term viability of the 

breeding waterfowl population and 

production through the acquisition and 

management of Waterfowl Production 

Areas, while considering the needs of 

other migratory birds, threatened and 

endangered species and other wildlife; 

‘‘as Waterfowl Production Areas subject 

to all provisions of the Migratory Bird 

Conservation Act except the inviolate 

sanctuary provisions’’; and ‘‘for any 

other management purposes, for 

migratory birds, and for conservation 

purposes.’’

This final CCP identifies goals, 

objectives and strategies for the 

management of the Complex that 

emphasize restoration and maintenance 

of Long Lake and other native habitats 

in vigorous condition to promote 

biological diversity. The CCP places 

high importance on the control of 

invasive plant species with partners and 

integrated pest management. It seeks to 

provide habitats in order to contribute 

to conservation, enhancement and 

production of migratory bird species, 

while protecting federally listed species. 

The availability of the draft CCP and 

Environmental Assessment (EA) for a 

30-day public review and comment 

period was announced in the Federal 

Register on July 10, 2006 (71 FR 38892–

38893). The draft CCP/EA evaluated 

four alternatives for managing the 

Complex for the next 15 years. 

The preferred alternative will expand 

the scope and level of efforts of the 

current management of habitats by 

incorporating adaptive resource 

management. This alternative will seek 

to improve and develop public use 

facilities to maximize existing and 

potential wildlife-dependent priority 

public use opportunities when they are 

compatible with other management 

objectives. Under this alternative, the 

Complex will strive to develop 

partnerships; encourage research that 

provides the necessary knowledge and 

data to guide habitat management 

decisions and activities; and to protect 

and/or restore additional wildlife 

habitats. 

This alternative was selected based on 

the EA, comments received, and 

because it best meets the purposes and 

goals of the Complex, as well as the 

goals of the National Wildlife Refuge 

System. The management direction of 

the Complex is expected to also benefit 

federally listed species, large ungulates, 

shore birds, migrating and nesting 

waterfowl, and neotropical migrants. It 

identifies increased environmental 

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