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(Telephone Conference Call).

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Scientific Review Administrator, Center for

Scientific Review, National Institutes of

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 4142,

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1715, nga@csr.nih.gov.

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Date: December 12, 2000.

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Contact Person: Samuel Rawlings, PhD,

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Scientific Review, National Institutes of

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 5160,

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1243.

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Name of Committee: Center for Scientific

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Contact Person: Lee Rosen, PhD, Scientific

Review Administrator, Center for Scientific

Review, National Institutes of Health, 6701

Rockledge Drive, Room 5116, MSC 7854,

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Name of Committee: Center for Scientific

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Date: December 12, 2000.

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Contact Person: Marcia Litwack, PhD,

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Scientific Review, National Institutes of

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Place: NIH, Rockledge 2, Bethesda, MD

20892 (Telephone Conference Call).

Contact Person: Martin L. Padarathsingh,

PhD, Scientific Review Administrator, Center

for Scientific Review, National Institutes of

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 4146,

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1717.

Name of Committee: Center for Scientific

Review Special Emphasis Panel.

Date: December 13, 2000.

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Contact Person: Priscilla B. Chen, PhD,

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Scientific Review, National Institutes of

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 4104,

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1787.

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Review Special Emphasis Panel, ZRG1 VISB

(01).

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applications.

Place: NIH, Rockledge 2, Bethesda, MD

20892 (Telephone Conference Call).

Contact Person: Leonard Jakubczak, PhD,

Scientific Review Administrator, Center for

Scientific Review, National Institutes of

Health, 6701 Rockledge Drive, Room 5172,

MSC 7844, Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 435–

1247.

Name of Committee: Center for Scientific

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Date: December 13–15, 2000.

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Place: Excelsior Hotel, 45 West 81st Street,

New York, NY 10024.

Contact Person: Nancy Lamontagne, PhD,

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LaVerne Y. Stringfield,

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

Notice of Availability of the Technical/

Agency Draft Florida Manatee

Recovery Plan, Third Revision for

Review and Comment

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of document availability

and public comment period.

SUMMARY: We, the Fish and Wildlife

Service, announce the availability for

public review of the Technical/Agency

Draft of the Florida Manatee Recovery

Plan, Third Revision. We solicit review

and written comments from the public

on this draft plan.

DATES: We must receive comments on

the draft recovery plan on or before

January 30, 2001 to receive

consideration by us.

ADDRESSES: You may obtain a copy of

the draft recovery plan by contacting

Bill Brooks by electronic mail (e-mail) at

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billy_brooks@fws.gov or by calling

(904)232–2580, extension 104 or at

Jacksonville Field Office, U.S. Fish and

Wildlife Service, 6620 Southpoint

Drive, South, Suite 310, Jacksonville,

Florida, 32216. If you wish to comment,

you may submit your comments by any

one of several methods:

1. You may submit written comments

and information to the Field Supervisor,

at the above address.

2. You may hand-deliver written

comments to our Jacksonville Field

Office, at the above address, or fax your

comments to (904)232–2404.

3. You may send comments by e-mail

to billylbrooks@fws.gov. For directions

on how to submit electronic filing of

comments, see the ‘‘Public Comments

Solicited’’ section.

Comments and materials received are

available on request for public

inspection, by appointment, during

normal business hours at the above

address.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bill

Brooks (see ADDRESSES section).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

The West Indian manatee, Trichechus

manatus, is currently listed as

endangered throughout its range for

both the Florida and Antillean

subspecies (U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Service 1967). The Florida manatee

lives in freshwater, brackish, and

marine habitats. Submerged, emergent,

and floating vegetation are their

preferred food. During the winter, cold

temperatures keep the population

concentrated in peninsular Florida and

many manatees rely on the warm water

from natural springs and power plant

outfalls. During the late spring and

summer, they expand their range and

are seen on infrequent occasions as far

north as Rhode Island on the Atlantic

Coast and as far west as Texas on the

Gulf Coast.

The most significant problem

presently faced by manatees in Florida

is death and serious injury from boat

strikes. The availability of warm-water

refuges for manatees is uncertain as

deregulation of the power industry in

Florida occurs, and if minimum flows

and levels are not established and

maintained for the natural springs on

which many manatees depend.

Consequences of a burgeoning human

population and intensive coastal

development are long-term threats to the

Florida manatee. Their survival will

depend on maintaining the integrity of

ecosystems and habitat sufficient to

support a viable manatee population.

Restoring an endangered or

threatened animal or plant to the point

where it is again a secure, selfsustaining member of its ecosystem is a

primary goal of the endangered species

program. To help guide the recovery

effort, we are preparing recovery plans

for most of the listed species native to

the United States. Recovery plans

describe actions considered necessary

for conservation of the species, establish

criteria for downlisting or delisting

them, and estimate time and cost for

implementing the recovery measures

needed.

The Endangered Species Act of 1973,

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

requires the development of recovery

plans for listed species unless such a

plan would not promote the

conservation of a particular species.

Section 4(f) of the Act, as amended in

1988, requires that public notice and an

opportunity for public review and

comment be provided during recovery

plan development. We will consider all

information presented during a public

comment period prior to approval of

each new or revised recovery plan. We

and other Federal agencies will take

these comments into account in the

course of implementing approved

recovery plans.

We developed the initial recovery

plan for West Indian manatee in 1980.

This plan focused primarily on

manatees in Florida, but included

Antillean manatees in Puerto Rico and

the U.S. Virgin Islands. In 1986, we

adopted a separate recovery plan for

manatees in Puerto Rico. To reflect new

information and planning needs for

manatees in Florida, we revised the

original plan in 1989 and focused

exclusively on the Florida manatee.

This first revision covered a 5-year

planning period ending in 1994. We

revised and updated the plan again in

1996, which again covered a 5-year

planning period ending in 2000. In

1999, we initiated the process to revise

the plan for a third time. We established

an 18-member recovery team made up

of the public, agencies, and groups that

have an interest in manatee recovery

and/or could be affected by proposed

recovery actions, to draft this revision.

In the 20 years since approval of the

original recovery plan, a tremendous

amount of knowledge of manatee

biology and ecology has been achieved

and significant protection programs

have been implemented, through the

guidance provided by the recovery

planning process. This Technical/

Agency Draft of the Florida Manatee

Recovery Plan, Third Revision reflects

many of those accomplishments,

addresses new threats and needs, and

specifically addresses the planning

requirements of the Act through 2006.

This draft plan is based on discussions

and information provided by the Florida

Manatee Recovery Team.

Public Comments Solicited

We solicit written comments on the

recovery plan described. We will

consider all comments received by the

date specified above prior to approval of

the plan.

Please submit electronic comments as

an ASCII file format and avoid the use

of special characters and encryption.

Please also include ‘‘Attn: [RIN

number]’’ and your name and return

address in your e-mail message. If you

do not receive a confirmation from the

system that we have received your email message, contact us directly by

calling our Jacksonville Field Office (see

ADDRESSES section).

Our practice is to make all 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 address from

the rulemaking record, which we will

honor to the extent allowable by law. In

some circumstances, we would

withhold also from the rulemaking

record a respondent’s identity, as

allowable by law. If you wish for us to

withhold your name and/or address,

you must state this prominently at the

beginning of your comments. 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.

Authority: The authority for this action is

section 4(f) of the Endangered Species Act,

16 U.S.C. 1533(f).

Dated: November 22, 2000.

David L. Hankla,

Field Supervisor.

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