25764 Federal Register / Vol. 73, No. 89 / Wednesday, May 7, 2008 / Notices 

DATES: Meetings will be held on 

Tuesday, June 17, 2008, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., 

Wednesday, June 18, 2008, 8 a.m. to 5 

p.m., and Thursday, June 19, 2008, 8 

a.m. to 11 a.m. eastern standard time. 

ADDRESSES: These meetings will be held 

at the Holiday Inn Arlington at Ballston, 

4610 North Fairfax Drive, Arlington, 

Virginia 22203, telephone (703) 243–

9800. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

William W. Matchneer III, Associate 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Regulatory Affairs and Manufactured 

Housing, Office of Manufactured 

Housing Programs, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, 451 

7th Street, SW., Washington, DC 20410, 

telephone (202) 708–6409 (this is not a 

toll-free number). Persons who have 

difficulty hearing or speaking may 

access this number via TTY by calling 

the toll-free Federal Information Relay 

Service at (800) 877–8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice of 

this meeting is provided in accordance 

with section 10(a)(2) of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. 

App.2) and 41 CFR 102–3.150. The 

Manufactured Housing Consensus 

Committee was established under 

section 604(a)(3) of the National 

Manufactured Housing Construction 

and Safety Standards Act of 1974, as 

amended by the Manufactured Housing 

Improvement Act of 2000, 42 U.S.C. 

5403(a)(3). The Consensus Committee is 

charged with providing 

recommendations to the Secretary to 

adopt, revise, and interpret 

manufactured housing construction and 

safety standards, procedural and 

enforcement regulations, installation 

standards, installation regulations, and 

dispute resolution regulations. 

Tentative Agenda 

A. Welcome and Introductions; 

B. Full Committee Meeting; 

C. Quality Control; 

D. Installation Program Final Rule; 

E. Public Proposals for MHCSS 

Changes; 

F. On-Site Rule; 

G. Public Testimony; 

H. Reports and Actions on Committee 

Work; 

I. Adjourn. 

Dated: April 29, 2008. 

Brian D. Montgomery, 

Assistant Secretary for Housing-Federal 

Housing Commissioner. 

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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

Proposed Low-Effect Safe Harbor 

Agreement for the Southwestern 

Willow Flycatcher for Landowners 

Restoring, Enhancing, or Managing 

Riparian Habitats in Washington, Iron, 

Garfield, Kane, Emery, Grand, Wayne, 

and San Juan Counties, Utah 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability; receipt of 

application. 

SUMMARY: This notice advises the public 

that the Color Country Resource 

Conservation and Development Council, 

Inc. (Applicant) has applied to the U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) for 

an enhancement of survival permit 

(permit) for the Southwestern willow 

flycatcher (flycatcher) pursuant to 

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

Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). 

This permit application includes a 

Programmatic Safe Harbor Agreement 

(Agreement) 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 

Programmatic Agreement 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 June 6, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

addressed to Laura Romin, U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service, 2369 West Orton 

Circle, Suite 50, West Valley City, Utah 

84119. Written comments may be sent 

by facsimile to (801) 975–3331. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Laura Romin, Utah Field Office 

Assistant Field Supervisor (see 

ADDRESSES), telephone (801) 975–3330. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Availability of Documents 

You may obtain copies of the 

documents for review by contacting the 

individual named above. You also may 

make an appointment to view the 

documents at the above address during 

normal business hours. 

Public Availability of Comments 

Before including your address, phone 

number, e-mail 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 in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Background 

Under a Safe Harbor Agreement, 

participating landowners voluntarily 

undertake management activities on 

their property to enhance, restore, or 

maintain habitat benefiting species 

listed under the Act. Safe Harbor 

Agreements, and the subsequent permits 

that are issued pursuant to section 

10(a)(1)(A) of the Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et 

seq.), encourage private and other nonFederal property owners to implement 

conservation efforts for listed species by 

assuring property owners that they will 

not be subjected to increased land use 

restrictions as a result of efforts to 

attract or increase the numbers or 

distribution of a listed species on their 

property. Application requirements and 

issuance criteria for permits through 

Safe Harbor Agreements are found in 50 

CFR 17.22(c). 

We have worked with the Applicant 

to develop this proposed Programmatic 

Agreement for the conservation of the 

flycatcher in Washington, Iron, Garfield, 

Kane, Emery, Garfield, Wayne, and San 

Juan Counties, Utah. Within the 

25,661,861 hectares (63,411,840 acres) 

of land within the above-named 

counties, landowners will be able to 

enroll non-Federal properties on which 

habitat for flycatcher will be restored, 

enhanced, and managed pursuant to a 

written agreement between the 

Applicant and a property owner. We 

have made a preliminary determination 

that the Agreement qualifies as a loweffect plan. 

This Agreement provides for the 

creation of a Program in which private 

landowners (Program Participants) enter 

into written cooperative agreements 

with the Applicant pursuant to the 

terms of the Agreement, to restore, 

enhance, and maintain riparian habitat 

in ways beneficial to the flycatcher. 

Such cooperative agreements will be for 

a term of at least 15 years. The proposed 

duration of the Agreement and permit is 

50 years. The Agreement fully describes 

the proposed management activities to 

be undertaken by Program Participants 

and the conservation benefits expected 

to be gained for the flycatcher. 

Upon approval of this Agreement, and 

consistent with the Service’s Safe 

Harbor Policy published in the Federal 

Register on June 17, 1999 (64 FR 32717), 

the Service would issue a permit to the 

applicant authorizing take of flycatcher 

by Program Participants incidental to 

the implementation of the management 


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activities specified in the cooperative 

agreements, incidental to other lawful 

uses of the properties, including normal 

routine land management activities, 

and/or to return to pre-Agreement 

conditions. To benefit the flycatcher, 

Program Participants will agree to 

undertake site-specific management 

activities, which will be specified in 

their written cooperative agreements. 

Management activities that could be 

included in the Cooperative Agreements 

will provide for the restoration, 

enhancement and management of native 

riparian habitats in the range of the 

flycatcher in Utah. The object of such 

activities is to enhance populations of 

flycatchers by increasing the amount 

and quality of suitable habitat on the 

enrolled properties. Take of flycatchers 

incidental to the aforementioned 

activities is unlikely; however, it is 

possible that in the course of such 

activities or other lawful activities on 

the enrolled property, a Program 

Participant could incidentally take 

flycatcher thereby necessitating take 

authority under the permit. 

Pre-Agreement conditions (baseline), 

consisting of survey for flycatchers and 

documentation on the extent of habitat 

shall be determined for each enrolled 

property as provided in the Agreement. 

In order to receive the above assurances 

regarding incidental take of flycatchers, 

a Program Participant must maintain 

baseline on the enrolled property. The 

Agreement and requested permit would 

allow each Program Participant to return 

to baseline conditions after the end of 

the term of the cooperative agreement 

(minimum of 15 years) and prior to the 

expiration of the 50-year permit, if so 

desired by the Applicants. 

Public Review and Comments 

The Service has made a preliminary 

determination that the proposed 

Agreement and permit application are 

eligible for categorical exclusion under 

the National Environmental Policy Act 

of 1969 (NEPA). We explain the basis 

for this determination in an 

Environmental Action Statement, which 

also is available for public review. 

Individuals wishing copies of the 

permit application, copies of our draft 

Environmental Action Statement, and/ 

or copies of the Agreement, including a 

map of the proposed permit area and 

references, should contact the office and 

personnel listed in the ADDRESSES

section above. 

If you wish to comment on the permit 

application or the Agreement, you may 

submit your comments to the address 

listed in the ADDRESSES section of this 

document. Comments and materials 

received, including names and 

addresses of respondents, will be 

available for public review, by 

appointment, during normal business 

hours at the address in the ADDRESSES

section above and will become part of 

the public record, pursuant to section 

10(c) of the Act. Individual respondents 

may request that we withhold their 

home address 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. 

Anonymous comments will not be 

considered. All submissions from 

organizations or businesses, and from 

individuals identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses, are 

available for public inspection in their 

entirety. 

We will evaluate this permit 

application, associated documents, and 

comments submitted thereon to 

determine whether the permit 

application meets the requirements of 

section 10(a) of the Act and NEPA 

regulations at 40 CFR 1506.6. If we 

determine that the requirements are 

met, we will sign the proposed 

Agreement and issue a permit under 

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

Applicants for take of the flycatcher 

incidental to otherwise lawful activities 

in accordance with the terms of the 

Agreement. We will not make our final 

decision until after the end of the 30- 

day comment period and will fully 

consider all comments received during 

the comment period. 

The Service provides this notice 

pursuant to section 10(c) of the Act and 

pursuant to implementing regulations 

for NEPA (40 CFR 1506.6). 

Dated: March 6, 2008. 

Larry Crist, 

Field Supervisor, Utah Field Office, West 

Valley City, Utah. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

Receipt of 41 Applications for 

Incidental Take Permits for Single 

Family and Duplex Residential 

Developments on the Fort Morgan 

Peninsula, Baldwin County, AL 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The applicants (Ms. Shirley 

Baird, Mr. Edward Boykin, Mr. Richard 

Dorsey, Mr. Richard Eastman, Mr. Terry 

Elkins, Mr. Medford Foster, Mr. Ted 

Giles, Mr. John Griffin, Harrison 

Building, Mr. Kenneth Howald, Mr. 

Gary Hudson, Mr. Jerry Hutcherson, Mr. 

Dean Jones, Mr. Bobby Junkins, KDevelopers LLC, Mr. James Keeling, Mr. 

James Klimback, Mr. Marshall Newport, 

Ms. Mary Powers, Mr. Bradley Redwine, 

Mr. Edwin Spence, Mr. Jackie Stokley, 

Mr. Olin Tumlin, and Mr. James Walker) 

have applied to the Fish and Wildlife 

Service (Service) for incidental take 

permits (ITP) under section 10(a)(1)(B) 

of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 

(16 U.S. C. 1531 et seq.) (Act), as 

amended for the take of Alabama beach 

mouse (Peromyscus polionotus 

ammobates) (ABM). The proposed take 

would be incidental to the otherwise 

lawful activity of constructing 37 singlefamily and 5 duplex residences on the 

Fort Morgan Peninsula in Baldwin 

County, Alabama. 

The applicants have prepared Habitat 

Conservation Plans (HCPs) in 

accordance with section 10(a)(2)(A) of 

the Act, specifying, among other things, 

the impacts that are likely to result from 

the taking and the measures each 

applicant would undertake to minimize 

and mitigate such impacts. A detailed 

description of the proposed 

minimization and mitigation measures 

is provided in the applicants’ HCPs and 

in our Environmental Assessment (EA). 

The proposed action would involve 

approval of the HCPs if the statutory 

issuance criteria are satisfied. The EA 

considers the environmental impacts of 

the proposed projects on the 

environment. 

DATES: Written comments on the ITP 

applications, HCPs, and EA should be 

sent to the Service’s Regional Office (see 

ADDRESSES) and should be received on 

or before June 6, 2008. 

ADDRESSES: Persons wishing to review 

the applications, HCPs, and EA may 

obtain an electronic copy on compact 

disk by writing the Service’s Southeast 

Regional Office, Atlanta, Georgia, at the 

address below. Documents will also be 

available for public inspection by 

appointment during normal business 

hours at the Service’s Regional Office, 

1875 Century Boulevard, Suite 200, 

Atlanta, Georgia 30345 (Attn: 

Endangered Species Permits), or the 

Daphne Ecological Services Field Office, 

1208–B Main Street, Daphne, Alabama 

36526. Written data or comments 

concerning the applications or HCPs 

should be submitted to the Regional 


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