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Information collection Number of 

respondents 

Frequency 

of response 

Responses 

per annum 

Burden hour 

per response 

Total 

burden hours 

Hourly per 

response Annual cost 

HUD Form 4737C HCD Utilization Plan ....... 2,500.00 1.00 2,500.00 1.50 3,750.00 34.18 139,425.00 

HUD Form 4737D HUD Funding Tracker ..... 2,500.00 1.00 2,500.00 3.00 7,500.00 42.01 315,075.00 

Total ....................................................... 12,500.00 ........................ ........................ 16.00 40,000.00 ........................ 1,694,612.50 

• Utilization Tracker and Funding 

Tracker hourly response rate has been 

determined by a mean of the PHA and 

HCD hourly response rates. 

• PHA utilization hourly response is 

set at the median hourly rate of a 

General Operation Manager, per OES, 

https://www.bls.gov/oes/. 

• The HCD hourly response rate has 

been determined by the median hourly 

rate of a compliance manager, per OES, 

https://www.bls.gov/oes/. 

B. Solicitation of Public Comment 

This notice is soliciting comments 

from members of the public and affected 

parties concerning the collection of 

information described in Section A on 

the following: 

(1) Whether the proposed collection 

of information is necessary for the 

proper performance of the functions of 

the agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) The accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information; 

(3) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(4) Ways to minimize the burden of 

the collection of information on those 

who are to respond; including through 

the use of appropriate automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of responses. 

HUD encourages interested parties to 

submit comment in response to these 

questions. 

Authority: Section 3507 of the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, 44 

U.S.C. chapter 35. 

Krista Mills, 

Director, Office of Field Policy and 

Management. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R4–NWRS–2019–N160; 

FXRS12610400000–201–FF04RFLX00; 

40136–1265–0000–S3] 

Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee 

National Wildlife Refuge, Palm Beach 

County, FL; Boundary Adjustment 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, have adjusted the 

acquisition boundary line of a section of 

Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee 

National Wildlife Refuge, to reflect an 

approved action from 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Accessing Documents: You 

may review maps depicting the 

boundary revision by either of the 

following methods. 

• Internet: https://http://

www.fws.gov/refuge/ARM_Loxahatchee/ 

map.html. 

• In-Person Inspection: Arthur R. 

Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife 

Refuge Headquarters, 10211 Lee Road, 

Boynton Beach, FL 33473. (Please call 

561–735–6022 to make an 

appointment.) 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Rolf 

Olson, Project Leader, 561–735–6022. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We, the 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), 

have adjusted the approved acquisition 

boundary line surrounding a section of 

Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee 

National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge), to 

reflect an approved action from 2015. 

Specifically, the South Florida Water 

Management District and Service agreed 

to exchange two parcels of land adjacent 

to the Refuge in western Palm Beach 

County. The land-for-land exchange was 

finalized on January 11, 2018. 

Background 

The National Wildlife Refuge System 

Administration Act of 1966, as amended 

by the National Wildlife Refuge System 

Improvement Act of 1997 

(Administration Act; 16 U.S.C. 668dd et 

seq.) provides authority for the Service 

to manage national wildlife refuges 

across the country. In accordance with 

the Administration Act, refuges are 

managed to fulfill the mission of the 

National Wildlife Refuge System; fulfill 

the individual purpose of each refuge; 

and maintain the biological integrity, 

diversity, and environmental health of 

the refuge system. 

According to the Fish and Wildlife 

Coordination Act, national wildlife 

refuges ‘‘. . . shall be administered by 

[the Secretary of the Interior] directly or 

in accordance with cooperative 

agreements . . . and in accordance with 

such rules and regulations for the 

conservation, maintenance, and 

management of wildlife, resources 

thereof, and its habitat thereon . . . .’’ 

(16 U.S.C. 664). Further, the Migratory 

Bird Conservation Act of 1929, 45 Stat. 

1222, states that a refuge is ‘‘. . . . for 

use as an inviolate sanctuary, or for any 

other management purpose, for 

migratory birds.’’ (16 U.S.C. 715d). 

The Refuge is the last remnant of the 

once vast northern Everglades ridge and 

slough landscape. 

The Act of June 30, 1948, 62 Stat. 

1171, 1176, authorizing the construction 

of the Central and Southern Florida 

Flood Control Project, and the Fish and 

Wildlife Coordination Act of March 10, 

1934, 48 Stat. 401, amended by the Act 

of August 14, 1946, 60 Stat. 1080, all 

authorized the establishment of the 

Refuge, which took place on January 1, 

1951. Notice of the Refuge boundary 

was published in the Federal Register 

on October 21, 1955 (20 FR 7950). 

The Refuge was created by two 

agreements entered into by the 

Department of the Interior. The first 

agreement is a General Plan with the 

Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish 

Commission (now the Florida Fish and 

Wildlife Conservation Commission) 

which permitted state Water 

Conservation Area (WCA)–1 to be used 

by the Service for the national migratory 

bird management program. The second 

agreement is a long-term (50-year) 

License Agreement between the Service 

and the Central and Southern Florida 

Flood Control District (now SFWMD) 

which provided for the use of WCA–1 

by the Service ‘‘as a Wildlife 

Management Area, to promote the 

conservation of wildlife, fish, and game, 

and for other purposes embodying the 

principles and objective of planned 

multiple land use.’’ The Service 

manages the area as a national wildlife 

refuge (NWR) under the terms of the 


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License Agreement and regulations 

governing the NWR system at Title 50, 

Code of Federal Regulations. 

In 2002, the License Agreement was 

revised and renewed for an additional 

50 years. On February 26, 2018, the 

Service and SFWMD entered into a 

renegotiated 20-year license agreement. 

Currently, the size of the licensed 

lands, referred to as the Refuge Interior, 

is approximately 141,374 acres. In 

addition to the ‘‘Refuge Interior,’’ the 

USFWS owns 3,814.50 acres in fee title 

to the east. This acreage is sub-divided 

into three management impoundments 

(A, B, and C), a 400-acre cypress swamp, 

and the recently added 2,586-acre 

Strazzulla Marsh (see below). In total, 

the Refuge currently includes 145,188 

acres. 

Introduction 

In 2015, the Service developed an 

environmental assessment under which 

the Service would exchange a Serviceowned property, Compartment D, with 

a State of Florida-owned property, 

Strazzulla Marsh. Both parcels are 

adjacent to WCA–1, the northern limit 

of the greater Everglades ecosystem. The 

purpose of the exchange was to bring 

Strazzulla Marsh, which is the last 

remaining sawgrass habitat in the 

eastern Everglades and one of the few 

remaining sawgrass marshes adjacent to 

the coastal ridge, into permanent 

protection as part of the Refuge. At the 

same time, the SFWMD obtained 

Compartment D for use as part of the 

Everglades Restoration Strategies 

Initiative, to improve overall water 

quality in the Everglades Protection 

Area. 

When the Congressional 

Appropriations Committee approved the 

proposed land exchange, it requested 

that the Refuge acquisition boundary be 

formally adjusted to reflect the changes 

in land ownership. This Notice satisfies 

this request and ensures that the current 

Refuge boundary is properly recorded. 

The Service today announces that it 

has adjusted the Refuge boundary lines 

to reflect this approved action (See 

Appendices), which removes the 1,327- 

acre Compartment D parcel, which is 

now owned by the State of Florida, from 

the Refuge acquisition boundary. This 

action also brings a portion of Strazzulla 

Marsh, which was acquired by the 

United States in exchange for 

Compartment D, within the approved 

Refuge acquisition boundary. 

Authority 

This notice is published under the 

authority of the Improvement Act, 

Public Law 105–57. 

Leopoldo Miranda-Castro, 

Regional Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, Atlanta, GA. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R8–ES–2020–N081; 

FXES11140800000–212–FF08ECAR00] 

Proposed Programmatic Safe Harbor 

Agreement for the California RedLegged Frog; Orange, Riverside, and 

San Diego Counties, California; 

National Environmental Policy Act 

Documentation/Categorical Exclusion 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability; request 

for comments. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (Service), announce the 

receipt of an enhancement of survival 

(EOS) permit application from the 

Service’s Carlsbad Fish and Wildlife 

Office that includes a proposed safe 

harbor agreement (SHA) in southern 

California for the federally threatened 

California red-legged frog. If granted, the 

SHA would provide for California redlegged frog recovery by providing a 

framework to reestablish frogs within 

their historical range. The EOS permit 

would be in effect for a 30-year period 

and would authorize take of the 

California red-legged frog incidental to 

the implementation of the Programmatic 

Safe Harbor Agreement in Orange, 

Riverside, and San Diego Counties, 

California. The documents available for 

review and comment are the SHA and 

National Environmental Policy Act 

documentation that supports a 

categorical exclusion. We invite 

comments from the public and Federal, 

Tribal, State, and local governments. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

received on or before September 22, 

2021. 

ADDRESSES: To request further 

information or submit written 

comments, please use one of the 

following methods, and note that your 

information request or comments are in 

reference to the ‘‘California red-legged 

frog SHA for Orange, Riverside, and San 

Diego Counties.’’ 

Obtaining Documents: You may 

obtain the applicant’s safe harbor 

agreements and the National 

Environmental Policy Act 

documentation from the internet at 

https://www.fws.gov/Carlsbad. 

Submitting Comments: You may 

submit written comments by the 

following method: 

• Email: fw8cfwocomments@fws.gov. 

For additional information about 

submitting comments, see the Public 

Comments Solicited section below. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Scott Sobiech, 760–431–9440. If you use 

a telecommunications device for the 

deaf, please call the Federal Relay 

Service at 800–877–8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We, the 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), 

have received an application from the 

Service’s Carlsbad Fish and Wildlife 

Office for an enhancement of survival 

(EOS) permit pursuant to section 

10(a)(1)(A) of the Endangered Species 

Act (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). The 

requested 30-year permit would 

authorize the incidental take of the 

California red-legged frog (Rana 

draytonii), which is federally listed as 

threatened, in exchange for conservation 

measures that are expected to provide a 

net conservation benefit for the species. 

The application includes a proposed 

SHA that describes allowable land uses 

and the conservation measures that are 

intended to produce a net conservation 

benefit for the California red-legged frog 

on non-Federal lands in Orange, 

Riverside, and San Diego Counties. NonFederal property owners may enroll in 

this SHA, so long as the SHA remains 

in effect. 

Background 

Section 9 of the ESA and the 

implementing Federal regulations in 

effect at the time the California redlegged frog was listed prohibit the take 

of animal species listed as endangered 

or threatened. For the California redlegged frog, the take prohibitions as 

outlined in 50 CFR 17.31 apply, except 

that incidental take of California redlegged frog is not prohibited if resulting 

from routine ranching activities (as 

described in 50 CFR 17.43(d)(3)(i)–(xi) 

on private and tribal lands. ‘‘Take’’ is 

defined under the ESA as ‘‘to harass, 

harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, 

trap, capture, or collect [listed animal 

species], or to attempt to engage in such 

conduct’’ (16 U.S.C. 1532(19)). ‘‘Harm’’ 

includes significant habitat modification 

or degradation that actually kills or 

injures listed wildlife by significantly 

impairing essential behavioral patterns, 

such as breeding, feeding, or sheltering 

(50 CFR 17.3). Under specified 

circumstances, however, we may issue 


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