Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 231 / Friday, December 2, 2005 / Notices 72307 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–4980–N–48] 

Federal Property Suitable as Facilities 

To Assist the Homeless 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Community Planning and 

Development, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This Notice identifies 

unutilized, underutilized, excess, and 

surplus Federal property reviewed by 

HUD for suitability for possible use to 

assist the homeless. 

EFFECTIVE DATE: December 2, 2005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kathy Ezzell, Department of Housing 

and Urban Development, Room 7262, 

451 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, 

DC 20410; telephone (202) 708–1234; 

TTY number for the hearing- and 

speech-impaired (202) 708–2565, (these 

telephone numbers are not toll-free), or 

call the toll-free Title V information line 

at 1–800–927–7588. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the December 12, 1988 

court order in National Coalition for the 

Homeless v. Veterans Administration, 

No. 88–2503–OG (D.D.C.), HUD 

publishes a Notice, on a weekly basis, 

identifying unutilized, underutilized, 

excess, and surplus Federal buildings 

and real property that HUD has 

reviewed for suitability for use to assist 

the homeless. Today’s Notice is for the 

purpose of announcing that no 

additional properties have been 

determined suitable or unsuitable this 

week. 

Dated: November 23, 2005. 

Mark R. Johnston, 

Director, Office of Special Needs Assistance 

Programs. 

[FR Doc. 05–23466 Filed 12–1–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4210–29–M 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

Notice of Availability of a Final 

Recovery Plan for Six Mobile Basin 

Aquatic Snails 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of document availability. 

SUMMARY: We, the Fish and Wildlife 

Service, announce the availability of the 

final recovery plan for six Mobile Basin 

aquatic snails. The six snails included 

in the recovery plan are: the endangered 

cylindrical lioplax (Lioplax 

cyclostomaformis), flat pebblesnail 

(Lepyriam showalteri), and plicate 

rocksnail (Leptoxis ampla); and the 

threatened painted rocksnail (Leptoxis 

taeniata), round rocksnail (Leptoxis 

ampla), and lacy elimia (Elimia 

crenatella). All are endemic to the 

Mobile River Basin (Basin) where they 

inhabit shoals, rapids and riffles of large 

streams and rivers above the Fall Line. 

All six species have disappeared from 

more than 90 percent of their historic 

ranges as a result of impoundment, 

channelization, mining, dredging, and 

pollution from point and non-point 

sources. The final recovery plan 

includes specific recovery objectives 

and criteria to be met in order to 

reclassify (downlist) the cylindrical 

lioplax, flat pebblesnail, and plicate 

rocksnail to threatened species and for 

the eventual delisting of all six species 

under the Endangered Species Act of 

1973, as amended (Act). 

ADDRESSES: You may obtain a copy of 

this recovery plan by contacting the 

Jackson Field Office, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, 6578 Dogwood View 

Parkway, Jackson, MS 39213 (telephone 

601/965–4900), or by visiting our 

recovery plan Web site at http:// 

endangered.fws.gov/recovery/ 

index.html#plans. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul 

Hartfield (telephone 601/321–1125). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On October 28, 1998, (63 FR 57610), 

we listed six aquatic snails, in the 

Mobile River Basin, as threatened 

(painted rocksnail, round rocksnail, lacy 

elimia) or endangered (cylindrical 

lioplax, flat pebblesnail, plicate 

rocksnail) under the Act. These six 

snails are endemic to portions of the 

Mobile River Basin in central Alabama. 

The cylindrical lioplax, flat pebblesnail, 

and round rocksnail are found in the 

Cahaba River drainage; the lacy elimia 

and painted rocksnail are in the Coosa 

River drainage; and the plicate rocksnail 

is in the Black Warrior River drainage. 

These snails require rock, boulder, or 

cobble substrates and clean, unpolluted 

water and are found on shoals and 

riffles of large streams and rivers. 

Impoundment and water quality 

degradation have eliminated the six 

snails from 90 percent or more of their 

historic habitat. Known populations are 

restricted to small portions of stream 

drainages. These surviving populations 

are currently threatened by pollutants 

such as sediments and nutrients that 

wash into streams from the land surface. 

Restoring an endangered or 

threatened animal or plant to the point 

where it is again a secure, selfsustaining member of its ecosystem is a 

primary goal of the endangered species 

program. To help guide the recovery 

effort, we are preparing recovery plans 

for most listed species. Recovery plans 

describe actions considered necessary 

for conservation of the species, establish 

criteria for downlisting or delisting, and 

estimate time and cost for implementing 

recovery measures. 

The 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 requires us to 

provide public notice and an 

opportunity for public review and 

comment during recovery plan 

development. A notice of availability of 

the technical agency draft recovery plan 

for six Mobile Basin aquatic snails was 

published in the Federal Register on 

January 18, 2005 (70 FR 2879). A 60-day 

comment period was opened with the 

notice, closing on March 21, 2005. We 

received comments from two interested 

parties. Comments and information 

submitted were considered in the 

preparation of this final plan and, where 

appropriate, incorporated. 

The cylindrical lioplax, flat 

pebblesnail, and plicate rocksnail, will 

be considered for reclassification to 

threatened status when the following 

criteria are met: 

1. The existing population has been 

shown to be stable or increasing over a 

period of 10 years (2 to 5 generations). 

This may be measured by numbers/area, 

catch per unit/effort, or other methods 

developed through population 

monitoring, and must be demonstrated 

through annual monitoring. 

2. There are no apparent or immediate 

threats to the listed population (see 

Listing/Recovery Criteria, below). 

3. A captive population has been 

established at an appropriate facility, 

and the species has been successfully 

propagated. 

4. A minimum of two additional 

populations have been established (or 

discovered) within historic range. 

The lacy elimia, round rocksnail, 

painted rocksnail, cylindrical lioplax, 

flat pebblesnail, and plicate rocksnail 

will be considered for delisting when: 

1. A minimum of three natural or reestablished populations have been 

shown to be persistent (i.e., stable or 

increasing) for a period of 10 years (2 to 

5 generations). 

2. There are no apparent or immediate 

threats to the populations (see Listing/ 

Recovery Factor Criteria, below).