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(ITP) transfer and renewal application 

and a Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP). 

Solterra Resort Community 

Development District (CDD) and AK 

Oakmont LLC (co-applicants) request 

transfer and renewal of ITP TE098035– 

1 under the Endangered Species Act of 

1973, as amended (Act). The coapplicants anticipate taking about 18.59 

acres of feeding, breeding, and 

sheltering habitat used by the sand 

skink (Neoseps reynoldsi) and bluetailed mole skink (Eumeces egregius 

lividus) (skinks) incidental to land 

preparation and construction in Polk 

County, Florida. The applicants’ HCP 

describes proposed minimization 

measures and mitigation measures to 

address the effects of development on 

the covered species. 

DATES: We must receive your written 

comments on the ITP application and 

HCP on or before April 24, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: See the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section for information on 

how to submit your comments on the 

ITP application and HCP. You may 

obtain a copy of the ITP application and 

HCP by writing the South Florida 

Ecological Services Office, Attn: Permit 

number TE098035–1, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, 1339 20th Street, Vero 

Beach, FL 32960–3559. In addition, we 

will make the ITP application and HCP 

available for public inspection by 

appointment during normal business 

hours at the above address. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Al Begazo, South Florida Ecological 

Services Office (see ADDRESSES); 

telephone: 772–469–4234. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Submitting Comments 

If you wish to comment on the ITP 

application or HCP, you may submit 

comments by any one of the following 

methods: 

Email: alfredo_begazo@fws.gov. Use 

‘‘Attn: Permit number TE098035–1’’ as 

your message subject line. 

Fax: Al Begazo, 772–469–4234, Attn.: 

Permit number ‘‘TE098035–1.’’ 

U.S. mail: Al Begazo, South Florida 

Ecological Services Field Office, Attn: 

Permit number ‘‘TE098035–1,’’ U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service, 1339 20th 

Street, Vero Beach, FL 32960–3559. 

In-person drop-off: You may drop off 

comments or request information during 

regular business hours at the above 

office address. 

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 request in your 

comments that your personal 

identifying information be withheld 

from public review, we cannot 

guarantee that we will be able to do so. 

Applicants’ Proposed Project 

We received an application from the 

co-applicants for an incidental take 

permit, along with a proposed habitat 

conservation plan. The co-applicants 

request a transfer and 15-year renewal of 

an ITP under section 10(a)(1)(B) of the 

Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). If we 

approve the application, the coapplicants anticipate taking a total of 

approximately 18.59 acres of skink 

breeding, feeding, and sheltering 

habitat, incidental to land preparation 

and construction in Sections 9, 10, and 

15, Township 26 South, Range 23 East, 

Polk County, Florida. The co-applicants 

currently have a specific site plan that 

includes the construction of one or more 

residences, buildings, roads, green 

areas, structures, and parking areas, and 

installation of associated utilities. The 

co-applicants propose to transfer and 

renew this project without changes, and 

have complied with all the mitigation 

requirements set forth in the initial 

review and permitting of the project. 

The co-applicants propose to 

minimize impacts to skinks by 

preserving a total of 71.14 acres of 

suitable skink habitat on site. The 

preservation parcel has been put under 

a conservation easement granted to Polk 

County and will be managed in 

perpetuity. The Service listed the sand 

skink and the blue-tailed mole skink as 

threatened in 1987 (November 6, 1987; 

52 FR 42658, effective December 7, 

1987). 

Our Preliminary Determination 

The Service has made a preliminary 

determination that the co-applicants’ 

project, including the mitigation 

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) (40 

CFR 1506.6), as provided by the 

Department of the Interior Manual (516 

DM 2 Appendix 1 and 516 DM 6 

Appendix 1). We base our preliminary 

determination that issuance of the ITP 

qualifies as a low-effect action on the 

following three criteria: (1) 

Implementation of the project would 

result in minor or negligible effects on 

federally listed, proposed, and 

candidate species and their habitats; (2) 

Implementation of the project would 

result in minor or negligible effects on 

other environmental values or 

resources; and (3) Impacts of the project, 

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. This preliminary 

determination may be revised based on 

our review of public comments that we 

receive in response to this notice. 

Next Steps 

The Service will evaluate the HCP 

and comments submitted thereon to 

determine whether the application 

meets the requirements of section 10(a) 

of the Act. The Service will also 

evaluate whether issuance of the section 

10(a)(1)(B) ITP complies with section 7 

of the Act by conducting an intraService section 7 consultation. The 

results of this consultation, in 

combination with the above findings, 

will be used in the final analysis to 

determine whether or not to transfer and 

renew the ITP. If it is determined that 

the requirements of the Act are met, the 

ITP will be transferred and renewed. 

Authority: We provide this notice under 

Section 10 of the Endangered Species Act (16 

U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) and NEPA regulations 

(40 CFR 1506.6). 

Robert (Bob) Progulske, 

Everglades Program Supervisor, South Florida 

Ecological Services Office. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

U.S. Geological Survey 

[GX15GC009PLSG00] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activity; National Cooperative 

Geologic Mapping Program (EDMAP 

and STATEMAP) 

AGENCY: United States Geological 

Survey (USGS), Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of a revision of a 

currently approved collection (1028– 

0088). 

SUMMARY: We (the U.S. Geological 

Survey) will ask the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) to 

approve the information collection (IC) 

described below. As required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995, and as part of our continuing 

efforts to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, we invite the 


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general public and other Federal 

agencies to take this opportunity to 

comment on this IC. This collection is 

scheduled to expire on October 31, 

2015. 

DATES: To ensure that your comments 

are considered, we must receive them 

on or before May 26, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

on this information collection to the 

Information Collection Clearance 

Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 

Sunrise Valley Drive MS 807, Reston, 

VA 20192 (mail); (703) 648–7197 (fax); 

or gs-info_collections@usgs.gov (email). 

Please reference ‘Information Collection 

1028–0088, National Cooperative 

Geologic Mapping Program (NCGMP— 

EDMAP and STATEMAP)’ in all 

correspondence. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Douglas A. Howard, Associate Program 

Coordinator NCGMP (STATEMAP and 

EDMAP), USGS Geological Survey, 

12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, MS 908, 

20192 (mail); at 703–648–6978 

(telephone); or dahoward@usgs.gov 

(email). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

EDMAP is the educational component 

of the NCGMP that is intended to train 

the next generation of geologic mappers. 

The primary objective of the 

STATEMAP component of the NCGMP 

is to establish the geologic framework of 

areas that are vital to the welfare of 

individual States. 

The NCGMP EDMAP program 

allocates funds to colleges and 

universities in the United States and 

Puerto Rico through an annual 

competitive cooperative agreement 

process. Every federal dollar that is 

awarded is matched with university 

funds. Geology professors, who are 

skilled in geologic mapping, request 

EDMAP funding to support 

undergraduate and graduate students at 

their college or university in a one-year 

mentored geologic mapping project that 

focuses on a specific geographic area. 

Only State Geological Surveys are 

eligible to apply to the STATEMAP 

component of the National Cooperative 

Geologic Mapping Program pursuant to 

the National Geologic Mapping Act 

(Pub. L. 106–148). Since many State 

Geological Surveys are organized under 

a State university system, such 

universities may submit a proposal on 

behalf of the State Geological Survey. 

Each fall, the program announcements 

are posted to the Grants.gov Web site 

and respondents are required to submit 

applications (comprising of Standard 

Form 424, 424A, 424B, Proposal 

Summary Sheet, the Proposal, and 

Budget Sheets. Additionally, EDMAP 

proposal must include a Negotiated Rate 

Agreement, and a Support letter from a 

State Geologist or USGS Project Chief). 

Since 1996, more than $5 million 

from the NCGMP has supported 

geologic mapping efforts of more than 

1,000 students working with more than 

244 professors at 148 universities in 44 

states, the District of Columbia, and 

Puerto Rico. Funds for graduate projects 

are limited to $17,500 and 

undergraduate project funds limited to 

$10,000. These funds are used to cover 

field expenses and student salaries, but 

not faculty salaries or tuition. The 

authority for both programs is listed in 

the National Geologic Mapping Act 

(Pub. L. 106–148). 

We will protect information from 

respondents considered proprietary 

under the Freedom of Information Act 

(5 U.S.C. 552) and its implementing 

regulations (43 CFR part 2), and under 

regulations at 30 CFR 250.197, ‘‘Data 

and information to be made available to 

the public or for limited inspection.’’ 

Responses are voluntary. No questions 

of a ‘‘sensitive’’ nature are asked. 

II. Data 

OMB Control Number: 1028–0088. 

Form Number: NA. 

Title: National Cooperative Geologic 

Mapping Program (NCGMP–EDMAP 

and STATEMAP). 

Type of Request: Renewal without 

change. 

Affected Public: University or College 

faculty and State Geological Surveys. 

Respondent’s Obligation: None. 

Participation is voluntary, though 

necessary to receive funding. 

Frequency of Collections: Annually. 

Estimated Total Number of Annual 

Responses: Approximately 50 

University or College faculty and 

approximately 45 State Geological 

Survey responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: 36 

hours. 

Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 

5,220 hours total. We expect to receive 

approximately 50 applications for 

EDMAP and 45 applications for 

STATEMAP each year which takes each 

applicant approximately 36 hours to 

complete, totaling 3,420 hours. This 

includes the time for project conception 

and development, proposal writing and 

reviewing, and submitting a project 

narrative through Grants.gov. We expect 

to issue 45 EDMAP and 45 STATEMAP 

grants per year. The grant recipients are 

also required to submit a final technical 

report which takes each grant recipient 

approximately 20 hours to complete, 

totaling 1,800 hours. 

Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’ 

Burden: There are no ‘‘non-hour cost’’ 

burdens associated with this IC. 

Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA 

(44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) provides that an 

agency may not conduct or sponsor and 

you are not required to respond to a 

collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number and current expiration date. 

III. Request for Comments 

We are soliciting comments as to: (a) 

Whether the proposed collection of 

information is necessary for the agency 

to perform its duties, including whether 

the information is useful; (b) the 

accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the 

burden of the proposed collection of 

information; (c) ways to enhance the 

quality, usefulness, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (d) how 

to minimize the burden on the 

respondents, including the use of 

automated collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology. 

Please note that the comments 

submitted in response to this notice are 

a matter of public record. Before 

including your personal mailing 

address, phone number, email address, 

or other personal identifiable 

information in your comment, you 

should be aware that your entire 

comment including your personal 

identifiable information, may be made 

publically available at any time. While 

you can ask us in your comment to 

withhold your personally identifiable 

information from public view, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Douglas A. Howard, 

Associate Program Coordinator, National 

Cooperative Geologic Mapping Program. 

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Native American Graves Protection 

and Repatriation Review Committee: 

Meeting 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Meeting Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given in 

accordance with the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, (5 U.S.C. Appendix 1– 

16), of a meeting of the Native American 


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