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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions or requests for additional 

information may be directed to any of 

the following: (1) Mr. Andrew King, 

Endangered Species Biologist, at the 

Bloomington, Indiana, Field Office 

address or phone above; (2) Ms. Robyn 

Niver, Endangered Species Biologist, by 

U.S. mail at U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, Ecological Services Field 

Office, 3817 Luker Road, Cortland, NY 

13045; or by phone at 607–753–9334; or 

(3) Mr. Mike Armstrong, Endangered 

Species Biologist, by U.S. mail at U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service, Ecological 

Services Field Office, J. C. Watts Federal 

Building, Room 265, 330 West 

Broadway, Frankfort, KY 40601–8670; 

or by phone at 502–229–4632. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Indiana bat was originally listed 

as in danger of extinction under the 

Endangered Species Preservation Act of 

1966. Summer survey guidelines (mistnetting protocols) were first developed 

for the species in the early 1990s and 

the USFWS provided revised mistnetting guidelines in our 2007 Draft 

Revised Recovery Plan. The USFWS 

recently convened a group of State and 

Federal agency representatives to revise 

existing survey guidelines. We solicited 

peer review through the bat working 

groups across the range of the Indiana 

bat between February and March 2012 

and received comments from 57 

individuals. Based upon comments 

received and the results of pilot testing 

of the survey guidelines at known 

Indiana bat maternity colonies in the 

summer of 2012, we offer the revised 

guidelines for public review and 

comment. 

In addition to soliciting comments on 

draft survey guidelines for determining 

presence or probable absence of Indiana 

bats in the summer, we request 

comment on our proposed approach and 

criteria for testing the accuracy and 

suitability of available acoustic 

identification software programs. Only 

programs that pass our suitability test 

would be approved by the USFWS for 

official survey use. Our goal is to 

incorporate comments and finalize the 

draft survey guidelines and testing 

criteria in time for implementation in 

the 2013 field season. However, should 

no USFWS-approved software programs 

be concurrently available, we propose to 

follow an intermediary contingency 

plan. The draft survey guidelines, draft 

acoustic identification software testing 

criteria, and 2013 contingency plan, 

with instructions for commenting, are 

available on the Internet (see 

ADDRESSES). 

Request for Public Comments 

We invite written comments on (1) 

The draft survey guidelines, (2) the 

acoustic identification software testing 

criteria, and (3) the 2013 contingency 

plan. Substantive comments may or may 

not result in changes to the USFWS 

guidance document. Please include 

sufficient information with your 

comments to allow us to verify any 

scientific or commercial information 

you include. 

While all comments we receive will 

be considered in developing final 

documents, we encourage commenters 

to focus on those portions of the 

guidelines that have been revised, 

particularly those topics noted above 

that address peer-review comments. 

All comments received by the date 

specified in DATES will be considered in 

preparing final documents. Methods of 

submitting comments are in ADDRESSES. 

Public Availability of Comments 

Responses to individual commenters 

will not be provided; however, we will 

provide the comments we receive and a 

summary of how we addressed 

substantive comments in a frequently 

asked questions document on the Web 

site listed above. If you submit 

comments or information by email to 

indiana_bat@fws.gov, your entire 

submission—including any personal 

identifying information—will be posted 

on the Web site. If your submission is 

made by hard copy that includes 

personal identifying information, you 

may request at the top of your document 

that we withhold this information from 

public review. However, we cannot 

guarantee that we will be able to do so. 

We will post all hard copy and email 

submissions on the Web site listed 

above in ADDRESSES. 

Comments and materials we receive 

will be available on our Web site; 

however, individuals without internet 

access may request an appointment to 

inspect the comments during normal 

business hours at our office in 

Bloomington, Indiana (see ADDRESSES). 

Authority 

The authority for this action is the 

Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 

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

Dated: January 2, 2013. 

Lynn M. Lewis, 

Assistant Regional Director, Ecological 

Services, Midwest Region. 

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BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLNM–922000–L51100000–GA0000– 

LVEMG12CG300; NMNM–126813] 

Notice of Availability of the 

Environmental Assessment and Notice 

of Public Hearing for the Peabody 

Natural Resources Company Federal 

Coal Lease Application, NM 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal coal management regulations, 

the Peabody Natural Resources 

Company, Federal Coal Lease-byApplication Environmental Assessment 

(EA) is available for public review and 

comment. The Department of the 

Interior, Bureau of Land Management 

(BLM) New Mexico State Office, will 

hold a public hearing to receive 

comments on the EA, Fair Market Value 

(FMV), and Maximum Economic 

Recovery (MER) of the coal resources for 

Peabody Natural Resources Company, 

NMNM–126813. 

DATES: The public hearing will be held 

at 3 p.m. on February 8, 2013. Written 

comments should be received no later 

than March 11, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: The public hearing will be 

held at the Cibola County Convention 

Room, 515 West High St., Grants, New 

Mexico. Written comments should be 

sent to Gary Torres at the BLM 

Farmington Field Office, 6251 College 

Blvd., Suite A, Farmington, NM 87402 

or by fax at 505–564–7608. Copies of the 

Draft EA, the unsigned Finding of No 

Significant Impact (FONSI) and the 

MER report are available at the 

Farmington Field Office address above. 

The documents are also available 

electronically at the following Web site: 

http://www.blm.gov/nm/st/en/fo/ 

Farmington_Field_Office/ffo_nepa/ 

ffo_mineral_eas_open.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Shannon Hoefeler at 505–564–7732, 

shoefele@blm.gov, or Gary Torres at 

505–564–7612, gtorres@blm.gov. 

Persons who use a telecommunications 

device for the deaf (TDD) may call the 

Federal Information Relay Service 

(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 to contact the 

above individual during normal 

business hours. The FIRS is available 24 

hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a 

message or question with the above 

individuals. You will receive a reply 

during normal business hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A leaseby-application was filed by Peabody 


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Natural Resources Company. The coal 

resource to be offered is limited to coal 

recoverable by surface mining methods. 

The Federal coal is located in lands 

outside established coal production 

regions and may supplement the 

reserves at the El Segundo Mine. The 

Federal coal resources are located in 

McKinley County, New Mexico. 

New Mexico Principal Meridian 

T. 17 N., R. 9 W., 

Sec. 34, ALL. 

These lands contain 640 acres, more or 

less. 

The EA addresses the cultural, 

socioeconomic, environmental, and 

cumulative impacts that would likely 

result from leasing these coal lands. 

Two alternatives are addressed in the 

EA: 

Alternative 1: (Proposed Action)—The 

tracts would be leased as requested in 

the application; and 

Alternative 2: (No Action)—The 

application would be rejected or denied. 

The Federal coal reserves would be 

bypassed. 

Proprietary data marked as 

confidential may be submitted to the 

BLM in response to this solicitation of 

public comments. Data so marked shall 

be treated in accordance with the laws 

and regulations governing the 

confidentiality of such information. A 

copy of the comments submitted by the 

public on the EA, FONSI, FMV, and 

MER, except those portions identified as 

proprietary by the author and meeting 

exemptions stated in the Freedom of 

Information Act, will be available for 

public inspection at the BLM 

Farmington Field Office, 6251 College 

Blvd., Suite A, Farmington, NM 87402, 

during regular business hours from 9 

a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, 

excluding Federal holidays. 

Comments on the EA, FMV, and MER 

should address, but not necessarily be 

limited to, the following: 

1. The quality and quantity of the coal 

resources; 

2. The method of mining to be 

employed to obtain MER of the coal, 

including: Specifications of the seams to 

be mined; timing and rate of production; 

restrictions to mining; and the inclusion 

of the tracts in an existing mining 

operation; 

3. The FMV appraisal including, but 

not limited to: the evaluation of the tract 

as an incremental unit of an existing 

mine; quality and quantity of the coal 

resource; potential sales value of the 

severed coal; mining and reclamation 

costs; net present value discount factors; 

depreciation and other tax accounting 

factors; the mining method or methods; 

and any comparable sales data on 

similar coal lands. The values given 

above may or may not change as a result 

of comments received from the public 

and changes in market conditions 

between now and when final economic 

evaluations are completed. 

Written comments on the EA, MER, 

and FMV should be sent to Gary Torres 

at the above address or sent via email to 

gtorres@blm.gov prior to close of 

business March 11, 2013. Please note 

‘‘Coal Lease by Application’’ in the 

subject line for all emails. Substantive 

comments, whether written or oral, will 

receive equal consideration prior to any 

lease offering. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email 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. 

Authority: 43 CFR parts 3422 and 3425. 

Jesse J. Juen, 

State Director. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–FB–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLWY910000 L16100000 XX0000] 

Notice of Public Meeting; Wyoming 

Resource Advisory Council 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act of 1976 and the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act of 1972, the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM) Wyoming 

Resource Advisory Council (RAC) will 

meet as indicated below. 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

February 6, 2013, (1:30 p.m. to 5:00 

p.m.), February 7, (8:00 a.m. to 5:00 

p.m.) and February 8, (8:00 a.m. to 

noon) 2012. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be at the 

High Desert District, Rock Springs Field 

Office, 280 Highway 191 North, Rock 

Springs, Wyoming in the Pilot Butte 

Conference Room. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Cindy Wertz, Wyoming Resource 

Advisory Council Coordinator, 

Wyoming State Office, 5353 

Yellowstone, Cheyenne, WY 82009; 

telephone 307–775–6014; email 

wertz@blm.gov. Persons who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 

to contact the above individual during 

normal business hours. The FIRS is 

available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 

to leave a message or question with the 

above individual. You will receive a 

reply during normal business hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 10- 

member RAC advises the Secretary of 

the Interior on a variety of management 

issues associated with public land 

management in Wyoming. 

Planned agenda topics include a tour 

of the Rock Springs Wild Horse Holding 

Facility, a discussion of checkerboard 

land ownership, landscape scale 

partnerships, invasive weeds, trails and 

follow up from previous meetings. 

On Wednesday, February 6, the 

meeting will begin at 1:30 p.m. with a 

tour of the Wild Horse Holding Facility 

on Lionkol Road. Following the tour, 

the group will meet at the High Desert 

District Office Pilot Butte Conference 

Room. 

All RAC meetings are open to the 

public with time allocated for hearing 

public comments. On Friday, February 

8, there will be public comment period 

beginning at 8:00 a.m. The public may 

also submit written comments to the 

RAC. Depending on the number of 

persons wishing to comment and time 

available, the time for individual oral 

comments may be limited. If there are 

no members of the public interested in 

speaking, the meeting will move 

promptly to the next agenda item. 

Dated: January 2, 2013. 

Donald A. Simpson, 

State Director, Wyoming. 

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INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation No. 337–TA–838] 

Certain Food Waste Disposers and 

Components and Packaging Thereof; 

Notice of the Commission’s 

Determination Not To Review Initial 

Determinations Granting 

Complainant’s Motions To Partially 

Terminate the Investigation and To 

Withdraw the Complaint; Termination 

of the Investigation 

AGENCY: U.S. International Trade 

Commission. 


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