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Valley and foothills region, and

probably in excess of a 95 percent

reduction along the Valley’s major river

systems. The relatively small amount of

remaining riparian woodland provides a

strikingly disproportionate amount of

habitat value for wildlife.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

National Wildlife Refuge System

Administration Act of 1966, as

amended, mandates that all lands

within the National Wildlife Refuge

System are to be managed in accordance

with an approved CCP. The CCP will

guide management decisions and

identify refuge goals, long-range

objectives and management strategies

for achieving refuge purposes. The

planning process will consider many

elements, including habitat and wildlife

management, habitat protection,

cultural resources, and environmental

effects. Public input into this planning

process is very important. The CCP will

provide other agencies and the public

with a clear understanding of the

desired conditions for the refuges and

how the Service will implement

management strategies.

The Service is soliciting information

from the public via written comments.

The Service will send out special

mailings, newspaper articles, and

announcements to people who are

interested in the refuge. These mailings

will provide information on how to

participate in public involvement for

the CCP. Comments received will be

used to develop goals, key issues, and

habitat management strategies.

Additional opportunities for public

participation will occur throughout the

process, which is expected to be

completed in mid-2002. Data collection

has been initiated to create

computerized mapping, including

vegetation, topography, habitat types

and existing land uses.

The outcome of this planning process

will be a CCP to guide refuge

management for the next 15 years and

accompanying NEPA document.

We have estimated that a draft CCP

and NEPA document will be made

available for public review in early

2002.

Dated: May 17, 2001.

John Engbring,

Acting California/Nevada Operations

Manager,U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Service,Sacramento, California.

[FR Doc. 01–14577 Filed 6–8–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Indian Affairs

Education Facilities Replacement

Construction

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs,

Interior.

ACTION: Call for applications and notice

of revised instructions and ranking

criteria.

SUMMARY: This Notice is the official call

for applications for Bureau-funded

education facilities replacement

construction. It also explains how to

obtain copies of the publication,

‘‘Instructions and Application for

Replacement School Construction

2001,’’ which describes the process the

Bureau is using in 2001 to rate and rank

applications submitted for education

facilities replacement construction

projects. Applications for construction

of Bureau-funded replacement

education facilities may be submitted in

accordance with the 2001 instructions.

DATES: New applications and requests to

reevaluate applications from the

previous application process, conducted

in 1999, must be received on or before

August 21, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Copies of the instructions

and ranking criteria are available upon

request from the BIA Office of Indian

Education Programs at 1849 C Street

NW., MS–3512 MIB, Washington, DC

20240 or from 201 Third St. NW., Suite

510, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87102.

The instructions are also available from

BIA Area and Education line offices and

from the BIA Office of Facilities

Management and Construction, 201

Third St. N.W., Suite 500, Albuquerque,

New Mexico, 87102.

All applications must be submitted to

the BIA Office of Indian Education

Programs at 201 Third St., NW., Suite

510, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87102.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Questions regarding applications may

be submitted to the attention of Dr.

Kenneth G. Ross, Special Assistant to

the Director, Office of Indian Education

Programs, 201 Third St. N.W., Suite 510,

Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87102, (505)

346–6544, Fax (505) 346–6553 or to

applicable Education Line Officers

whose addresses and phone numbers

are available in Appendix A of the

application document.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This

Notice is the official call for

applications for construction of Bureaufunded replacement education facilities.

The 2001 application evaluation and

ranking process was developed in

consultation with Tribal organizations

and incorporates revisions to the 1999

application instructions.

In August 1999, we used a process

described in ‘‘Instructions and

Application for Replacement School

Construction 1999 Revision 6—2/26/99’’

to evaluate, rate, and rank applications

for education facilities replacement

construction projects. As a result of that

process, we published a notice in the

Federal Register on January 31, 2000

(65 FR 4623), establishing the Education

Facilities Replacement Construction

Priority List as of FY 2000 (List). On

January 9, 2001, we published a notice

in the Federal Register (66 FR 1689),

expanding the FY 2000 List by adding

seven more schools. These seven

schools received the next highest

rankings after the 10 educational

facilities that were identified in the

1999 application process that

established the FY 2000 Priority List.

We sent copies of the Draft 2001

Instructions and Application for

Replacement School Construction 2001,

in March 2001 to all BIA schools and to

schools that receive BIA funds under

contract or grant (Catalog of Federal

Domestic Assistance Program Number:

15.062 ‘‘Replacement and Repair of

Indian Schools.’’) and conducted tribal

consultation on the draft document in

May 2001. We have considered all

verbal comments and have reviewed all

written comments received, and we

have incorporated some of the

comments in the revised instructions

referred to in this notice. The revised

instructions entitled, ‘‘Instructions and

Application for Replacement School

Construction 2001, May 2001’’ is

available at the address provided in the

ADDRESSES section. We will send copies

of the revised instructions to all BIA

schools and schools that receive BIA

funds under contract or grant.

Applications for construction of

Bureau-funded replacement education

facilities may be submitted in

accordance with the 2001 revised

instructions. In lieu of submitting a new

application for an education facility

replacement school construction

project, a tribe may revise and update

the application it submitted in the 1999

process.

The process will not provide for new

school starts, grade level expansions,

charter schools, nor satellite extensions.

The procedures will continue to provide

continuity, objectivity and

accountability in the priority rankings

for construction of replacement

education facilities; address the

handling of emergency needs; and

accommodate Federal/Tribal financial

partnerships for education construction

projects. As in the 1999 application

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evaluation process, a Tribal organization

may indicate to what extent it will share

in the construction costs of its

educational facilities replacement

construction project through the use of

non-Federal resources. To participate in

the FY 2001 cost sharing program, a

Tribe is required to contribute a tribal

share equal to 50% of the total

replacement school construction costs

[(Pub. L. 106–291, Sec. 153(b)(3)(B)].

Congress identified Conehatta

Elementary School of the Mississippi

Band of Choctaw Indians as the first

education facility to cost share in a

Tribal school construction

demonstration program [Senate Report

106–312, pg. 53; House Report 106–914,

pg.147; Public Law 106–291, Sec. 153].

The BIA will evaluate and rank

applications for education facilities

replacement construction projects

through the use of narrative submitted

by applicants, from data in the BIA’s

national Facilities Management

Information System (FMIS), and from

other BIA information sources.

BIA’s Office of Indian Education

Programs’ Line Officers will receive

training on the 2001 instructions and

ranking criteria for all schools under

their administrative jurisdictions and

will provide technical assistance to the

schools under their administrative

jurisdictions. In addition to technical

assistance available from the Bureau,

applicants may use commercial service

providers to prepare their applications.

The Bureau can provide referrals, upon

request, which the applicants may

choose to contact independently.

The BIA will provide Bureau-funded

schools with instructions and

application forms. We will send all

potential applicants the application

forms and instructions by certified mail.

Tribes and BIA-funded school boards

will receive advance, written notice

from Education Line Officers of

replacement school construction

application training session dates,

times, and locations for Tribes and

schools under their respective

jurisdictions. The Education Line

Officers will conduct training for

applicants on how to complete their

applications. Applications will be

accepted beginning August 1, 2001,

until August 21, 2001. We will use the

criteria in the 2001 instructions to

review and evaluate all applications that

we receive on or before the deadline.

This Notice is published under

authority delegated by the Secretary of

the Interior to the Assistant Secretary for

Indian Affairs in the Departmental

Manual at 209 DM 8. 25 U.S.C. 2005(c)

directed BIA to publish, in the Federal

Register, the system used to determine

priorities for school construction

projects and to submit a current priority

ranking for school construction projects

at the time any budget request is

presented to Congress. The Conference

Report for the FY 1992 Interior and

Related Agencies Appropriation Act,

House Report No. 256, 102d Cong., 1st

Sess. 46 (1991), indicated that Congress

wanted the Department to revise the

priority ranking process for new school

construction. The Conference Report

said that BIA should emphasize tribal

consultation and improve the objectivity

of the ranking process, provide

continuity to the priority ranking list,

and provide procedures for handling

emergency needs.

Dated: May 25, 2001.

James H. McDivitt,

Deputy Assistant Secretary, Indian Affairs

(Management).

[FR Doc. 01–14605 Filed 6–8–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–02–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[AK–933–1430–ET; AA–12854]

Public Land Order No. 7486; Partial

Revocation of Executive Order No.

7032; Alaska

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

ACTION: Public land order.

SUMMARY: This order partially revokes

an Executive Order insofar as it affects

approximately 98 acres of public land

located on the westerly shore of Sanak

Harbor, near Sanak Island, Alaska. The

land was withdrawn for lighthouse

purposes and is no longer needed for

the purpose for which it was

withdrawn. The land will continue to be

withdrawn as part of the Alaska

Maritime National Wildlife Refuge and

the Aleutian Islands Wilderness, as

established and designated by the

Alaska National Interest Lands

Conservation Act.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 11, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Susan Lavin, Bureau of Land

Management, Alaska State Office, 222

W. 7th Avenue, No. 13, Anchorage,

Alaska 99513–7599, 907–271–3826.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: By virtue

of the authority vested in the Secretary

of the Interior by Section 204 of the

Federal Land Policy and Management

Act of 1976, 43 U.S.C. 1714 (1994), it is

ordered as follows:

1. Executive Order No. 7032, dated

May 1, 1935, which withdrew public

land near Sanak Island for lighthouse

purposes, is hereby revoked insofar as it

affects the following described land:

Land located within secs. 3 and 10 of T.

66 S., R. 91 W., Seward Meridian, more

particularly described as:

The southern of two unnamed, unsurveyed

islands located at approximate latitude

54°30′ N., longitude 162°50′ W., as shown on

the United States Coast and Geodetic Survey

Chart No. 8841, Sanak Harbor, Sanak Island,

Alaska.

The area described contains approximately

98 acres.

2. The land described above will

remain withdrawn as part of the Alaska

Maritime National Wildlife Refuge,

pursuant to Sections 303(1)(iii) and

304(c) of the Alaska National Interest

Lands Conservation Act, 16 U.S.C.

668(dd) (1994), and the Aleutian Islands

Wilderness, pursuant to Section 702(1)

of the Alaska National Interest Lands

Conservation Act, 16 U.S.C. 1132

(1994), and will be subject to the terms

and conditions of any other withdrawal

or segregation of record.

Dated: May 21, 2001.

Gale A. Norton,

Secretary of the Interior.

[FR Doc. 01–14543 Filed 6–8–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–JA–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

[OR–958–1430–ET; HAG–01–0206; OR–

13498]

Expiration of Public Land Order; OR

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: Public Land Order (PLO) No.

5820, which withdrew forest system

lands from the mining laws to protect

the Cow Creek Recreation and

Administrative Site, was allowed to

expire on January 21, 2001, in Douglas

County, Oregon.

EFFECTIVE DATE: June 11, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Charles R. Roy, BLM Oregon/

Washington State Office, 503–952–6189.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public

Land Order (PLO) No. 5820, published

in the Federal Register, 46 FR 6947,

January 22, 1981 as FR Doc. 81–2262,

for the Forest Service, withdrew 120

acres of forest system lands from the

mining laws to protect the Cow Creek

Recreation and Administrative Site has

been allowed to expire.

At 8:30 a.m. on June 11, 2001, the

segregative effect for the Federal