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Public Availability of Comments 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comments, 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. 

Applicant’s Proposed Project 

We received an application for an ITP, 

along with a proposed HCP. The 

applicant requests a 2-year permit under 

section 10(a)(1)(B) of the ESA (16 U.S.C. 

1531 et seq.). If we issue the permit, the 

applicant anticipates taking 1.41 acres 

of scrub-jay breeding, feeding, and 

sheltering habitat for construction of six 

single-family residences and associated 

infrastructure in North Port, Sarasota 

County, Florida. 

The applicant proposes to mitigate for 

the loss of 1.41 acres of occupied scrubjay habitat through the purchase of 2.82 

credits from a Service-approved 

conservation bank within 30 days of 

permit issuance. 

Our Preliminary Determination 

The Service has made a preliminary 

determination that the applicant’s 

project, including the proposed 

mitigation and minimization measures, 

will individually and cumulatively have 

a minor or negligible effect on the 

species covered in the HCP. Therefore, 

issuance of the ITP is a ‘‘low-effect’’ 

action and qualifies as a categorical 

exclusion under the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), as 

provided by 43 CFR 46.205 and 46.210. 

A low-effect HCP is one involving; (1) 

minor or negligible effects on federally 

listed, proposed, and candidate species 

and their habitats; (2) minor or 

negligible effects on other 

environmental values or resources; and 

(3) impacts when, considered together 

with the impacts of other past, present, 

and reasonably foreseeable similarly 

situated projects, would not result over 

time in cumulative effects to 

environmental values or resources that 

would be considered significant. 

Next Steps 

We will evaluate the HCP and 

comments we receive to determine 

whether the ITP application meets the 

requirements of section 10(a)(1)(B) of 

the ESA. We will also conduct an intraService consultation to evaluate take of 

the scrub-jay in accordance with section 

7 of the ESA. We will use the results of 

the consultation, in combination with 

the above findings, in our analysis of 

whether or not to issue the ITP. If the 

requirements are met we will issue ITP 

number TE84046C–0 to the applicant. 

Authority 

We provide this notice under Section 

10 of the ESA (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) 

and NEPA regulations (40 CFR 1506.6). 

Roxanna Hinzman, 

Field Supervisor, South Florida Ecological 

Services Office. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Geological Survey 

[GX18DK00GUF0200] 

Notice of Renewal of the Advisory 

Committee on Water Information 

AGENCY: United States Geological 

Survey. 

ACTION: Notice of renewal of the 

Advisory Committee on Water 

Information Charter. 

Following consultation with the 

General Services Administration, notice 

is hereby given that the Secretary of the 

Interior is renewing the Advisory 

Committee on Water Information 

(ACWI). 

The ACWI has been established under 

the authority of the Office of 

Management and Budget and Budget 

Memorandum No. M–92–01 and the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act. The 

purpose of this Presidential Committee 

is to represent the interests of waterinformation users and professionals in 

advising the Federal Government on 

Federal water-information programs and 

their effectiveness in meeting the 

Nation’s water-information needs. 

Member organizations help to foster 

communications between the Federal 

and non-Federal sectors on sharing 

water information. 

Membership represents a wide range 

of water resources interests and 

functions. Representation on the ACWI 

includes all levels of government, 

academia, private industry, and 

professional and technical societies. 

Member organizations designate their 

representatives and alternates. 

Membership is limited to a maximum of 

35 organizations. 

The Committee will function solely as 

an advisory body, and in compliance 

with the provisions of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act. The Charter 

will be filed under the Act, 15 days from 

the date of publication of this notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Adrienne Bartlewitz, Acting ACWI 

Executive Secretary, U.S. Geological 

Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS 

436, Reston, VA 20192. Telephone: 703– 

648–4304; Fax: 703–648–5002. 

Dated: June 29, 2018. 

Ryan Zinke, 

Secretary of the Interior. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of the Secretary 

[Docket No. ONRR–2012–0003, DS63600000 

DR2000000.PMN000 189D0102R2] 

Royalty Policy Committee; Public 

Meeting 

AGENCY: Office of Natural Resources 

Revenue, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

fourth meeting of the Royalty Policy 

Committee (Committee). This meeting is 

open to the public. 

DATES: The Committee meeting will be 

held on Thursday, September 13, 2018, 

in Lakewood, CO, from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 

p.m. Mountain Time. 

ADDRESSES: The Committee meeting 

will be held at the Denver Federal 

Center Building 85, located at Sixth 

Avenue and Kipling Street, Denver, CO 

80225. Members of the public may 

attend in person (Photo ID required at 

visitors’ gate) or view documents and 

presentations under discussion via 

WebEx at https://onrr.webex.com/onrr/ 

j.php?MTID=m8b07b197593ce80917

ef1715ae9f262a and listen to the 

proceedings at telephone number 1– 

888–469–0854 or International Toll 

number 517–319–9462 (passcode: 

9724702). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Chris Mentasti, Office of Natural 

Resources Revenue at (202) 513–0614 or 

email to rpc@ios.doi.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. 

Department of the Interior established 

the Committee on April 21, 2017, under 

the authority of the Secretary of the 

Interior and regulated by the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act. The purpose 

of the Committee is to ensure that the 

public receives the full value of 

resources produced from Federal lands. 

The duties of the Committee are solely 

advisory in nature. More information 

about the Committee, including its 

charter, is available at www.doi.gov/rpc. 

Meeting Agenda: At the September 

meeting, the Committee will receive 


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