56734 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 187 / Wednesday, September 28, 2005 / Notices 

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available. 

Dated: September 23, 2005. 

Richard A. Sloan, 

Director, Regulatory Management Division, 

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. 

[FR Doc. 05–19350 Filed 9–27–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–10–M 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–4912–N–15] 

Notice of Availability of a Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Ashburton Avenue Urban Renewal 

Plan and Master Plan, Yonkers, 

Westchester County, NY 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Community Planning and 

Development, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Housing 

and Urban Development gives notice to 

the public, agencies, and Indian tribes of 

the availability of the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

for review and comment for: (1) The 

Ashburton Avenue Urban Renewal Plan 

and Ashburton Avenue Master Plan and 

(2) the Mulford Gardens HOPE VI 

Revitalization Plan in the City of 

Yonkers, Westchester County, New 

York. The Draft EIS was prepared by the 

City of Yonkers, NY acting under its 

authority as the Responsible Entity for 

compliance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 

(NEPA) in accordance with 24 CFR 58.4. 

The Draft EIS has been prepared to 

satisfy the requirements of both NEPA 

and the New York State Environmental 

Quality Review Act of 1978, as amended 

(6 NYCRR part 617). The EIS and NEPA 

process will also be used to address 

historic preservation and cultural 

resource issues under Section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act, 16 

U.S.C. 470f. This notice is given in 

accordance with the Council on 

Environmental Quality regulations at 40 

CFR parts 1500–1508. 

The Draft EIS analyzes two 

interrelated actions: (1) The Ashburton 

Avenue Master Plan and Urban Renewal 

Plan and (2) the Mulford Gardens HOPE 

VI Revitalization Plan. The analysis of 

the Ashburton Avenue Master Plan and 

Urban Renewal Plan consists of a broad 

or generic discussion of the potential 

impacts resulting from the adoption of 

the two broad planning documents. The 

analysis of the Mulford Gardens HOPE 

VI Revitalization Plan, which is 

geographically contained within the 

Master Plan and Urban Renewal Area, is 

a site-specific analysis. Due to the 

timing of these two actions, both the 

generic Draft EIS for the Master Plan 

and Urban Renewal Plan and the sitespecific EIS for the HOPE VI 

Revitalization Plan are contained in this 

one document. Each of the chapters in 

the document contains discussion and 

analysis for both the generic Master Plan 

and Urban Renewal Plan and the sitespecific HOPE VI Revitalization Plan. 

DATES: Written comments on the Draft 

EIS will be accepted for a period of 45 

days, beginning on Monday, October 3, 

2005 and ending at 5 p.m. on 

Wednesday, November 16, 2005. 

Written comments may be sent by mail 

or facsimile to the address listed below 

under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. Oral comments are welcome at 

a public hearing that will be held on 

October 20, 2005. The location and time 

of the public hearing will be published 

in local Yonkers newspapers on October 

4, 2005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Copies of the Draft EIS and Executive 

Summary are available upon request to 

the Lead Agency, care of Stephen 

Whetstone, Commissioner of Planning 

and Development, City of Yonkers, 87 

Nepperhan Avenue, Suite 312, Yonkers 

NY 10701–3874. Telephone: (914) 377–

6565. Fax: (914) 377–6672. Web site: 

steve.whetstone@cityofyonkers.com. 

Copies are also available for review at 

the Yonkers Riverfront Library, 1 Larkin 

Center, Yonkers, NY 10701. 

Need for the EIS: The City of Yonkers 

has determined that the Proposed 

Action constitutes an action which has 

the potential to affect the quality of the 

human environment in terms of 

socioeconomics, housing and 

improvements to the existing 

transportation system. Therefore the 

City, as Lead Agency, has prepared an 

EIS to examine the potential impacts of 

implementing the components of the 

Master Plan and Urban Renewal Plan. 

Since it is anticipated that 

transportation improvements and new 

residential construction will be at least 

in part funded with federal monies, the 

City has prepared the EIS in accordance 

with NEPA. Additionally, insofar as the 

Proposed Action includes a residential 

component, it is subject to the Yonkers 

Affordable Housing Ordinance, Article 

XV of the Code of the City of Yonkers. 

The Decision of the United States 

District Court in D’Agnillo v. United 

States Department of Housing and 

Urban Development, 1999 WL 350870 

(S.D.N.Y. 1999), requires environmental 

review under NEPA of all housing 

projects which are subject to the 

Affordable Housing Ordinance. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 

18, 2005 (70 FR 20160), the Federal 

Register published the Notice of Intent 

to Prepare an EIS. The Draft EIS 

evaluates the potential impacts of the 

Proposed Action which consists of the 

preparation of an Urban Renewal Plan 

and Master Plan for approximately 44- 

acres in downtown Yonkers, 

Westchester County, NY, and the 

redevelopment of the Mulford Gardens 

public housing complex and eight sites 

on nearby blocks financed, in part, by a 

HOPE VI grant to the Municipal 

Housing Authority for the City of 

Yonkers. Associated actions include 

condemnation and conveyance of real 

property; expansion of the Ashburton 

Avenue right-of-way and street 

demapping actions as applicable; 

amendments to the City Zoning Code 

and zoning map; applications for site 

plan and subdivision approvals; and 

potential applications by the City for 

State and/or Federal funding to 

accomplish any of the foregoing. 

The Urban Renewal Area (URA) is 

located on the west side of Yonkers, 

north of the downtown and west of the 

Saw Mill River Parkway. The area 

encompasses approximately 600 parcels 

along and near Ashburton Avenue, 

between Warburton Avenue and 

Yonkers Avenue. The area was selected 

by the City as a potential URA to tie into 

the redevelopment of Mulford Gardens, 

the City’s oldest public housing 

complex, which is located on 12 acres 

within the boundaries of the proposed 

URA. Due to its age and substandard 

housing condition of its 552 units, 

Mulford Gardens is slated for 

demolition. The City’s Municipal 

Housing Authority was awarded a 

HOPE VI grant to demolish and 

reconstruct housing on and around the 

existing Mulford Gardens site. Proposed 

HOPE VI residential development will 

occur on the existing 12-acre Mulford 

Gardens site, with additional 

residential, community facility and 

retail development to occur on eight 

surrounding sites within the Ashburton 

Avenue URA. 

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The Urban Renewal Plan will be used 

as a revitalization strategy to improve 

the residential character of the area, 

expand business opportunities and 

improve the transportation network. 

The Master Plan for the URA will 

include: the provision of a range of 

housing opportunities; mixed use 

development along Ashburton Avenue; 

and transportation improvements, 

including street widenings along 

Ashburton Avenue to improve east-west 

access between the Saw Mill River 

Parkway and the Downtown Waterfront 

District, allow on-street parking, reduce 

traffic congestion and allow for an 

upgraded sidewalk and streetscape plan. 

The Draft EIS analyzes three 

alternatives to the proposed action for 

revitalizing the Ashburton Avenue area 

and improving the transportation 

network: (1) A no action alternative, i.e., 

the Ashburton Avenue right-of-way is 

not widened and Mulford Gardens is 

not redeveloped under the HOPE VI 

program, (2) the Ashburton Avenue 

right-of-way is not widened along all 

segments of the roadway, and (3) the 

Mulford Gardens/HOPE VI 

revitalization plan is reduced/modified 

in scale. 

Questions may be directed to the 

individual named above under the 

heading FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT. 

Dated: September 19, 2005. 

Pamela H. Patenaude, 

Assistant Secretary for Community Planning 

and Development. 

[FR Doc. 05–19297 Filed 9–27–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–29–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

Endangered and Threatened Species 

Permit Applications 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of receipt of applications. 

SUMMARY: The following applicants have 

applied for scientific research permits to 

conduct certain activities with 

endangered species pursuant to section 

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

Act of 1973, as amended. 

DATES: To ensure consideration, written 

comments must be received on or before 

October 28, 2005. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be submitted to the Chief, Endangered 

Species Division, Ecological Services, 

P.O. Box 1306, Room 4102, 

Albuquerque, New Mexico 87103. 

Documents and other information 

submitted with these applications are 

available for review, subject to the 

requirements of the Privacy Act and 

Freedom of Information Act. Documents 

will be available for public inspection, 

by appointment only, during normal 

business hours at the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, 500 Gold Ave. SW., 

Room 4102, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

Please refer to the respective permit 

number for each application when 

submitting comments. All comments 

received, including names and 

addresses, will become part of the 

official administrative record and may 

be made available to the public. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Chief, Endangered Species Division, 

(505) 248–6920. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Permit No. TE–676811 

Applicant: U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, 

Region 2, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

Applicant requests an amendment to 

the Regional Director’s permit to add the 

following species: Roswell springsnail 

(Pyrgulopsis roswellensis), Koster’s 

springsnail (Juturnia kosteri), Noel’s 

amphipod (Gammarus desperatus), and 

Pecos assiminea (Assiminea pecos) 

within New Mexico and Texas. The 

listed species will be effective 

September 8, 2005. 

Permit No. TE–109028 

Applicant: Susan Courage, San Antonio, 

Texas. 

Applicant requests a new permit for 

research and recovery purposes to 

conduct presence/absence surveys for 

golden-cheeked warbler (Dendroica 

chrysoparia) and black-capped vireo 

(Vireo atricapillus) within Texas. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1531, et seq. 

Dated: September 13, 2005. 

Larry G. Bell, 

Acting Regional Director, Region 2, 

Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

[FR Doc. 05–19336 Filed 9–27–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

Recovery Plan for Blackburn’s Sphinx 

Moth (Manduca blackburni) 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of document availability. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service (we) announces the availability 

of the Recovery Plan for Blackburn’s 

Sphinx Moth (Manduca blackburni) 

(sphinx moth). This insect taxon is 

endemic to the main Hawaiian Islands. 

ADDRESSES: Copies of this recovery plan 

will be available within 4 weeks by 

request form the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, Pacific Islands Fish and 

Wildlife Office, 300 Ala Moana 

Boulevard, Room 3–122, Box 50088, 

Honolulu, Hawaii 96850 (phone: 808–

792–9400) and the Hawaii State Library 

478 S. King Street, Honolulu, Hawaii 

96813. An electronic copy of the 

recovery plan is now available on the 

World Wide Web at: http:// 

endangered.fws.gov/recovery/ 

index.html#plans. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

Field Supervisor at the above Honolulu 

address. 

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 our endangered species 

program. The Endangered Species Act 

(16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) (ESA) requires 

the development of recovery plans for 

listed species unless such a plan would 

not promote the conservation of a 

particular species. Recovery plans help 

guide the recovery effort by describing 

actions considered necessary for the 

conservation of the species, establishing 

criteria for downlisting or delisting 

listed species, and estimating time and 

cost for implementing the measures 

needed for recovery. 

Section 4(f) of the Act requires that 

public notice and an opportunity for 

public review and comment be provided 

during recovery plan development. In 

fulfillment of this requirement, the Draft 

Recovery Plan for the Blackburn’s 

Sphinx Moth (Manduca blackburni) was 

available for public comment from 

December 18, 2003, through February 

17, 2004 (68 FR 70528). Information 

presented during the public comment 

period has been considered in the 

preparation of this final recovery plan, 

and is summarized in the appendix to 

the recovery plan. We will forward 

substantive comments regarding 

recovery plan implementation to 

appropriate Federal or other entities so 

that they can take these comments into 

account during the course of 

implementing recovery actions. 

The sphinx moth was federally listed 

as endangered in 2000 (65 FR 4770) and 

22,440 hectares (55,451 acres) of critical 

habitat was designated in 2003 (68 FR 

34710). This insect taxon is currently 

known to occur on three of the seven