26738 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 96 / Thursday, May 18, 1995 / Notices

The FWS in conjunction with NMFS

announce the availability of an

Environmental Assessment (EA) for the

proposed issuance of the incidental take

permit and signing of the agreement.

The FWS is taking administrative

responsibility for announcing the

availability of the aforementioned

documents. This notice is provided

pursuant to section 10(c) of the Act and

National Environmental Policy Act

regulations (40 CFR 1506.6).

DATES: Written comments on the permit

application and EA should be received

on or before June 19, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Comments regarding the

application or EA should be addressed

to Mr. Curt Smitch, Assistant Regional

Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,

3773 Martin Way East, Building C—

Suite 101, Olympia, Washington 98501.

Please refer to permit No. PRT–777837

when submitting comments. Individuals

wishing copies of the application or EA

for review should immediately contact

the above office (360–534–9330).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Craig Hansen, U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Service, 3773 Martin Way East, Building

C- Suite 101, Olympia, WA., 98501;

(360) 412–5465. Steve Landino,

National Marine Fisheries Service, 3773

Martin Way East, Building C- Suite 101,

Olympia, WA., 98501; (360) 412–5469.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

Under section 9 of the Act and its

implementing regulations, ‘‘taking’’ of a

threatened or endangered species, is

prohibited. However, the FWS and

NMFS, under limited circumstances,

may issue permits to take threatened

and endangered wildlife species if such

taking is incidental to, and not the

purpose of, otherwise lawful activities.

Regulations governing permits for

threatened species are in 50 CFR 17.32

and in 50 CFR 17.22 for endangered

species.

The Applicant proposes to implement

an amendment to their HCP for the

northern spotted owl that will allow

timber harvest on portions of

approximately 55,000 acres of their Tree

Farm. The Applicant’s proposed timber

harvest may result in the take, as

defined in the Act and its implementing

regulations, of listed species. The HCP

and permit would be in effect through

the year 2094. The application includes

an amended HCP and Implementation

Agreement.

The Applicant proposes to mitigate

for the incidental take of all listed

species by maintaining at least 10

percent of the Tree Farm in nonharvestable reserves for the term of the

permit. Reserves would be established

during a Watershed Analysis process

which the Applicant would complete by

2004. The expected result of Watershed

Analysis would place a majority of the

reserves in riparian zones. In addition,

the Applicant would be committed to a

variety of special measures intended to

mitigate and minimize impacts to the

habitat types which occur on the Tree

Farm, and specific State and Federal

species of concern including the grizzly

bear, gray wolf, bald and golden eagles,

goshawk, Larch Mountain salamander,

Townsend’s big-eared bat, long-legged

myotis (bat), and others. The Applicant

also proposes to mitigate for impacts to

anadromous salmonids through habitat

conservation measures for these species.

The EA considers the environmental

consequences of 5 alternatives,

including the proposed action and noaction alternatives. The proposed action

alternative is the issuance of a permit

under section 10(a) of the Act that

would authorize incidental take of all

listed species, and signing of the

agreement for currently unlisted

species, that may occur in the habitats

on the Applicant’s Tree Farm. The

proposed action would require the

Applicant to implement their amended

Habitat Conservation Plan. Under the

no-action alternative, the Applicant

would continue to implement their

existing northern spotted owl HCP, and

additional incidental take permits

would not be issued. The third

alternative is to maintain approximately

29 percent of the Tree Farm in reserves

generated according to Watershed

Analysis prescriptions. The fourth

alternative is to maintain reserves on

about 17 percent of the Tree Farm, and

would allow the Applicant to harvest

timber on a limited basis in the outer

half of riparian reserves. The fifth

alternative would place about 5 percent

of the Tree Farm in riparian reserves

with additional protection on steep

slopes with wet talus habitat, the

Applicant would commit to and

complete further Watershed Analysis by

the year 2004, and the Applicant would

retain all live conifer and conifer snags

greater than 40 inches in diameter at

breast height.

Dated: May 12, 1995.

Thomas Dwyer,

Deputy Regional Director, Region 1, Fish and

Wildlife Service, Portland, Oregon.

[FR Doc. 95–12204 Filed 5–17–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P

National Park Service

National Capital Memorial

Commission; Public Meeting

Notice is hereby given in accordance

with the Federal Advisory Committee

Act that a meeting of the National

Capital Memorial Commission will be

held on Tuesday, June 20, 1995, at 1

p.m., at the National Building Museum,

Room 312, 5th and F Streets, NW.

The Commission was established by

Public Law 99–652, the Commemorative

Works Act, for the purpose of preparing

and recommending to the Secretary of

the Interior, Administrator, General

Services Administration, and Members

of Congress broad criteria, guidelines,

and policies for memorializing persons

and events on Federal lands in the

National Capital Region (as defined in

the National Capital Planning Act of

1952, as amended), through the media

of monuments, memorials and statues. It

is to examine each memorial proposal

for adequacy and appropriateness, make

recommendations to the Secretary and

Administrator, and to serve as

information focal point for those

persons seeking to erect memorials on

Federal land in the National Capital

Region.

The members of the Commission are

as follows:

Director, National Park Service

Chairman, National Capital Planning

Commission

The Architect of the Capitol

Chairman, American Battle Monuments

Commission

Chairman, Commission of Fine Arts

Mayor of the District of Columbia

Administrator, General Services

Administration

Secretary of Defense

The purpose of the meeting will be to

consider sites for the World War II

Memorial. The meeting will be open to

the public. Any person may file with the

Commission a written statement

concerning the matters to be discussed.

Persons who wish to file a written

statement or testify at the meeting or

who want further information

concerning the meeting may contact the

Commission at 202–619–7097. Minutes

of the meeting will be available for

public inspection 4 weeks after the

meeting at the Office of Land Use

Coordination, National Capital Region,

1100 Ohio Drive, SW., Room 201,

Washington, D.C., 20242.

Dated: May 11, 1995.

Robert Stanton,

Regional Director, National Capital Region.

[FR Doc. 95–12260 Filed 5–17–95; 8:45 am]

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Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 96 / Thursday, May 18, 1995 / Notices 26739

1 DART acquired this line of railroad from the

Missouri Pacific Railroad Company (MP) in 1990,

with MP retaining trackage rights. MP discontinued

its trackage rights through a 1992 relocation of its

operations, and later abandoned three miles of

trackage (as to which MP had retained ownership)

south from the current end of track at milepost

763.0 into Dallas. This right-of-way south of the line

is now used as a recreational trail.

2A stay will be issued routinely by the

Commission in those proceedings where an

informed decision on environmental issues

(whether raised by a party or by the Commission’s

Section of Environmental Analysis in its

independent investigation) cannot be made prior to

the effective date of the notice of exemption. See

Exemption of Out-of-Service Rail Lines, 5 I.C.C.2d

377 (1989). Any entity seeking a stay on

environmental concerns is encouraged to file its

request as soon as possible in order to permit the

Commission to review and act on the request before

the effective date of this exemption.

3See Exempt. of Rail Abandonment—Offers of

Finan. Assist., 4 I.C.C.2d 164 (1987).

4The Commission will accept a late-filed trail use

request as long as it retains jurisdiction to do so.

INTERSTATE COMMERCE

COMMISSION

[Docket No. AB–439X]

Dallas Area Rapid Transit—

Abandonment Exemption—in Dallas

County, TX

Dallas Area Rapid Transit (DART), a

political subdivision of the State of

Texas, has filed a notice of exemption

under 49 CFR 1152 Subpart F—Exempt

Abandonments to abandon a portion of

its line of railroad, known as the

Garland Line, between milepost 762.26

and milepost 763.0, in the City of

Dallas, Dallas County, TX, a distance of

.74 miles.1

DART has certified that: (1) No loca1

traffic has moved over the line for at

least 2 years; (2) any overhead traffic

can be rerouted over other lines; (3) no

formal complaint filed by a user of rail

service on the line (or by a State or local

government entity acting on behalf of

such user) regarding cessation of service

over the line either is pending with the

Commission or with any U.S. District

Court or has been decided in favor of

the complainant within the 2-year

period; and (4) the requirements at 49

CFR 1105.7 (environmental reports), 49

CFR 1105.8 (historic reports), 49 CFR

1105.11 (transmittal letter), 49 CFR

1105.12 (newspaper publication), and

49 CFR 1152.50(d)(1) (notice to

governmental agencies) have been met.

As a condition to use of this

exemption, any employee adversely

affected by the abandonment shall be

protected under Oregon Short Line R.

Co.—Abandonment—Goshen, 360 I.C.C.

91 (1979). To address whether this

condition adequately protects affected

employees, a petition for partial

revocation under 49 U.S.C. 10505(d)

must be filed.

Provided no formal expression of

intent to file an offer of financial

assistance (OFA) has been received, this

exemption will be effective on June 17,

1995, unless stayed pending

reconsideration. Petitions to stay that do

not involve environmental issues,2

formal expressions of intent to file an

OFA under 49 CFR 1152.27(c)(2),3 and

trail use/rail banking requests under 49

CFR 1152.29 4 must be filed by May 30,

1995. Petitions to reopen or requests for

public use conditions under 49 CFR

1152.28 must be filed by June 7, 1995,

with: Office of the Secretary, Case

Control Branch, Interstate Commerce

Commission, Washington, DC 20423.

A copy of any pleading filed with the

Commission should be sent to

applicant’s representative: Kevin M.

Sheys, 1020 19th St., N.W., Suite 400,

Washington, DC 20036.

If the notice of exemption contains

false or misleading information, the

exemption is void ab initio.

DART has filed an environmental

report which addresses the

abandonment’s effects, if any, on the

environmental and historic resources.

The Section of Environmental Analysis

(SEA) will issue an environmental

assessment (EA) by May 23, 1995.

Interested persons may obtain a copy of

the EA by writing to SEA (Room 3219,

Interstate Commerce Commission,

Washington, DC 20423) or by calling

Elaine Kaiser, Chief of SEA, at (202)

927–6248. Comments on environmental

and historic preservation matters must

be filed within 15 days after the EA is

available to the public.

Environmental, historic preservation,

public use, or trail use/rail banking

conditions will be imposed, where

appropriate, in a subsequent decision.

Decided: May 11, 1995.

By the Commission, David M. Konschnik,

Director, Office of Proceedings.

Vernon A. Williams,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 95–12252 Filed 5–17–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7035–01–P

JOINT BOARD FOR THE

ENROLLMENT OF ACTUARIES

Advisory Committee on Actuarial

Examinations; Meeting

Notice is hereby given that the

Advisory Committee on Actuarial

Examinations will meet in the

Conference Room of the Office of

Director of Practice, Suite 600, 801

Pennsylvania Avenue NW., Washington,

DC, on Thursday and Friday, June 22

and 23, 1995, from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00

p.m. each day.

The purpose of the meeting is to

discuss topics and questions which may

be recommended for inclusion of future

Joint Board examinations in actuarial

mathematics and methodology referred

to in Title 29 U.S. Code, section

1242(a)(1)(B) and to review the May

1995 Joint Board examinations in order

to make recommendations relative

thereto, including the minimum

acceptable pass score. Topics for

inclusion on the syllabus for the Joint

Board’s examination program for the

November 1995 pension actuarial

examination and the May 1996 basic

actuarial examinations will be

discussed. In addition, the possibility of

having single true/false questions with a

lower weighting than other questions on

the Pension Examination will be

discussed.

A determination as required by

section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory

Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463) that the

portions of the meeting dealing with the

discussion of questions which may

appear on future Joint Board

examinations and review of the May

1995 Joint Board examination fall

within the exceptions to the open

meeting requirement set forth in Title 5

U.S. Code, section 552(c)(9)(B), and that

the public interest requires that such

portions be closed to public

participation.

The portion of the meeting dealing

with the discussion of the other topics

will commence at 1:30 p.m. on June 22

and will continue for as long as

necessary to complete the discussion,

but not beyond 3:00 p.m. This portion

of the meeting will be open to the public

as space is available. Time permitting,

after the close of this discussion by

Committee members, interested persons

may make statements germane to this

subject. Persons wishing to make oral

statements are requested to notify the

Acting Committee Management Officer

in writing prior to the meeting in order

to aid in scheduling the time available,

and should submit the written text, or,

at a minimum, an outline of comments

they propose to make orally. Such

comments will be limited to ten minutes

in length. Any interested person also

may file a written statement for

consideration by the Joint Board and

Committee by sending it to the Acting

Committee Management Officer.

Notifications and statements should be

mailed no later than June 6, 1995 to Mr.

Robert I. Brauer, Joint Board for the

Enrollment of Actuaries, c/o U.S.

Department of the Treasury,

Washington, DC 20220.