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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR–4369–N–05]

Announcement of OMB Approval

Number for Environmental Review

Procedures for Entities Assuming HUD

Environmental Responsibilities

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Community Planning and

Development, HUD.

ACTION: Announcement of OMB

approval number.

SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is

to announce the OMB approval number

for the collection of information

pertaining to Environmental Review

Procedures for Entities Assuming HUD

Environmental Responsibilities—24

CFR part 58 (Final Rule).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Richard Broun, Director, Office of

Community Planning and Development,

Department of Housing and Urban

Development, 451 7th Street,

Southwest, Washington, DC 20410,

telephone (202) 708–1201, ext. 4465.

This is not a toll-free number.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In

accordance with the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.

Chapter 35, as amended), this notice

advises that OMB has responded to the

Department’s request for approval of the

information collection pertaining to 24

CFR part 58, Environmental Review

Procedures for Entities Assuming HUD

Environmental Responsibilities.

The OMB approval number for this

information collection is 2506–0087,

which expires on June 30, 2001.

An agency may not conduct or

sponsor, and a person is not required to

respond to, a collection of information,

unless it displays a currently valid OMB

control number.

Dated: June 23, 1998.

Fred Karnas,

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic

Development.

[FR Doc. 98–17275 Filed 6–26–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4210–29–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

Notice of Availability of a Revised Draft

Recovery Plan for the Mobile River

Basin Aquatic Ecosystem for Review

and Comment

AGENCY: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of document availability

and public comment period.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Service (Service) announces the

availability for public review of a

revised draft recovery plan for the

Mobile River Basin aquatic ecosystem, a

drainage basin encompassing much of

south and central Alabama, with

portions extending into east Mississippi,

northwest Georgia, and southeast

Tennessee. The revised draft plan

addresses the recovery objectives,

criteria, and tasks for 15 freshwater

species, including 3 fish, 11 mussels,

and 1 aquatic snail, and complements

recovery plans previously developed for

another 17 freshwater species within the

Mobile River Basin, including 2 turtles,

7 fish, 6 mussels, and 2 plants. The

Service solicits review and comment

from the public on this revised draft

plan.

DATES: Comments on the draft recovery

plan must be received on or before

September 1, 1998 to receive

consideration by the Service.

ADDRESSES: Persons wishing to review

the draft recovery plan may obtain a

copy by contacting the Jackson Field

Office, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,

6578 Dogwood View Parkway, Suite A,

Jackson, Mississippi 39213. Written

comments and materials regarding the

plan should be addressed to the Field

Supervisor at the above address.

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: Paul

Hartfield at the above address (601/965–

4900, ext. 25).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

Restoring endangered or threatened

animals and plants to the point where

they are again secure, self-sustaining

members of their ecosystems is a

primary goal of the Service’s

endangered species program. To help

guide the recovery effort, the Service is

working to prepare 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 the recovery levels for

downlisting or delisting listed species,

and estimate time and cost for

implementing the recovery measures

needed.

The Endangered Species Act of 1973,

as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 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. The Service will

consider all information presented

during a public comment period prior to

approval of each new or revised

recovery plan. Substantive technical

comments will result in changes to the

plan. Substantive comments regarding

recovery plan implementation may not

necessarily result in changes to the

recovery plan, but will be forwarded to

appropriate Federal or other entities so

that they can take these comments into

account during the course of

implementing recovery actions.

Individualized responses to comments

will not be provided.

The draft Mobile River Basin Aquatic

Ecosystem Recovery Plan was initially

released for public review and comment

on September 28, 1994. The current

revised draft plan evolved from four

years of information sharing, discussion,

and review of aquatic resources and

conflicts by a group of Mobile River

Basin stakeholders that included private

landowners, industry representatives,

environmental organizations, and State

and Federal agencies.

The revised draft recovery plan

provides recovery objectives and criteria

for the goldline darter (Percina

aurolineata), Cherokee darter

(Etheostoma scotti), Etowah darter

(Etheostoma etowahae), Alabama

moccasinshell (Medionidus

acutissimus), orange-nacre mucket

(Lampsilis perovalis), fine-lined

pocketbook (Lampsilis altilis), southern

acornshell (Epioblasma othcaloogensis),

upland combshell (Epioblasma

metastriata), Coosa moccasinshell

(Medionidus parvulus), ovate clubshell

(Pleurobema perovatum), southern

clubshell (Pleurobema decisum), dark

pigtoe (Pleurobema furvum), southern

pigtoe (Pleurobema georgianum),

triangular kidneyshell (Ptychobranchus

greeni), and the tulotoma snail

(Tulotoma magnifica). The goldline

darter was listed as threatened in 1992

due to a suspected decline in historic

range, population fragmentation and

isolation, and existing threats to extant

populations due to water quality

degradation. The threatened Cherokee

darter and endangered Etowah darter

were listed in 1994 because of nonpoint

source pollution threats to limited

stream populations. In 1993, eight of the

11 mussels were listed as endangered,

and three as threatened due to habitat

loss and fragmentation resulting from
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impoundment and their vulnerability to

nonpoint source pollution and other

threats. The tulotoma snail was listed as

endangered in 1991 due to the loss of

more than 90 percent of its historic

habitat, and the isolation and

vulnerability of surviving populations.

The recovery objectives of the revised

draft plan are to protect the Basin’s

native aquatic fauna and flora by

achieving higher levels of innovative

land and water stewardship; reclassify

and delist the tulotoma snail; delist the

goldline, Etowah, and Cherokee darters;

and prevent the extinction of the eight

endangered mussels and the continued

decline of the three threatened mussels.

Actions needed to achieve these

objectives include protection of fluvial

habitats and water quality, development

of mitigation strategies for in stream

habitats, community based watershed

stewardship planning and action,

concerted public education efforts, and

basic research on freshwater species

endemic to the basin.

This revised plan is being submitted

for technical/agency review. After

consideration of comments received

during the review period, it will be

submitted for final approval.

Public Comments Solicited

The Service solicits written comments

on the recovery plan described. All

comments received by the date specified

above will be considered prior to

approval of the plan.

Authority

The authority for this action is section

4(f) of the Endangered Species Act, 16

U.S.C. 1533(f).

Dated: June 22, 1998.

Robert Bowker,

Field Supervisor.

[FR Doc. 98–17180 Filed 6–26–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[AZ–020–5410–A159; AZA 30673]

Application for Conveyance of

Federally-Owned Mineral Interests,

Arizona

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: An application for the

conveyance of federally-owned minerals

has been filed under the provisions of

43 U.S.C. 1720 for the following

described lands:

Gila and Salt River Meridian, Arizona

T. 6 N., R. 4 E.,

Sec. 11, NW1⁄4.

containing 160 acres.

Upon publication in the Federal

Register, the mineral interests owned by

the United States in the land described

above will be segregated from

appropriation under the public land

laws, including the mining laws. The

segregation will terminate upon

issuance of a patent for the mineral

interests, rejection of the application, or

2 years from the date of publication,

whichever occurs first.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Neel

McBride, (602) 417–9353, Arizona State

Office, 222 N. Central Ave., Phoenix,

Arizona 85004–2203.

Dated: June 16, 1998.

Mary Jo Yoas,

Supervisor, Lands and Minerals Operations.

[FR Doc. 98–17155 Filed 6–26–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–32–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[NV–010–1430–01; N–56882]

Termination of Segregative Effect,

Portion of Airport Lease N–56882

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This action partially

terminates a segregative effect on airport

lease N–56882 held by the Eureka

County Board of Commissioners. The

land will be opened to the operation of

the public land laws, including location

and entry under the mining laws.

EFFECTIVE DATE: July 29, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kenneth Nelson, Elko Field Office, 3900

E. Idaho St., Elko, Nevada 89801, 702–

753–0200

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

segregative effect for the affected lands

was made on July 21, 1966, pursuant to

the Act of May 24, 1928, as amended.

Partial termination of the segregative

effect will allow conveyance by direct

sale of the affected land to the Eureka

County Board of Commissioners in

order to alleviate a situation of

inadvertent encroachment by adjacent

property owners.

The segregative effect is hereby

terminated for the following described

land:

Mount Diablo Meridian, Nevada

T. 29 N., R. 48 E.,

Sec. 4,. Lots 14, 15, 18.

The area described contains 5.13 acres in

Eureka County.

1. At 9 a.m. on July 29, 1998, the land

described above will be opened to the

operation of the public land laws

generally, subject to valid existing

rights, the provision of existing

withdrawals, other segregations of

record, and the requirements of

applicable law.

2. At 9 a.m. on July 29, 1998, the land

described above will be opened to

location and entry under the United

States mining laws, subject to valid

existing rights, the provisions of existing

withdrawals, other segregations of

record, and the requirements of

applicable law. Appropriation of any of

the land described in this order under

the general mining laws prior to the date

and time of restoration is unauthorized.

Any such attempted appropriation,

including attempted adverse possession

under 30 U.S.C. 38 (1988), shall vest no

rights against the United States. Acts

required to establish a location and to

initiate a right of possession are

governed by State law where not in

conflict with Federal law. The Bureau of

Land Management will not intervene in

disputes between rival locators over

possessory rights since Congress has

provided for such determinations in

local courts.

Dated: June 16, 1998.

David J. Vandenberg,

Acting Field Manager.

[FR Doc. 98–17156 Filed 6–26–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–HC–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

National Park Service

National Register of Historic Places;

Notification of Pending Nominations

Nominations for the following

properties being considered for listing

in the National Register were received

by the National Park Service before June

20, 1998. Pursuant to § 60.13 of 36 CFR

Part 60 written comments concerning

the significance of these properties

under the National Register criteria for

evaluation may be forwarded to the

National Register, National Park Service,

1849 C St. NW, NC400, Washington, DC

20240. Written comments should be

submitted by July 14, 1998.

Carol D. Shull,

Keeper of the National Register.

ARKANSAS

Benton County

Edwards Grocery, 20 S. Second St., Rogers,

98000852