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information collection described in 

section A. 

A. Overview of Information Collection 

Title of Information Collection: Home 

Equity Conversion Mortgage Counseling 

Client Session Evaluation. 

OMB Approval Number: 2505–0585. 

Type of Request: Extension. 

Form Number: HUD 92911. 

Description of the need for the 

information and proposed use: Tool to 

determine quality of client counseling 

sessions as part of periodic agency 

performance reviews. 

Respondents: Individuals or 

Household. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

300. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 250. 

Frequency of Response: 1. 

Average Hours per Response: .06. 

Total Estimated Burdens: 50. 

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. 

Dated: January 15, 2016. 

Janet M. Golrick, 

Associate General Deputy Assistant Secretary 

for Housing Associate Deputy Federal 

Housing Commissioner. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R4–R–2015–N236]; 

[FXRS12610400000S3–167–FF04R02000] 

Theodore Roosevelt and Holt Collier 

National Wildlife Refuges, Mississippi 

Final Comprehensive Conservation 

Plan and Finding of No Significant 

Impact for the Environmental 

Assessment 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: We, the Fish and Wildlife 

Service (Service), announce the 

availability of the final Comprehensive 

Conservation plan (CCP) and finding of 

no significant impact for the 

environmental assessment for Theodore 

Roosevelt and Holt Collier National 

Wildlife Refuges (NWRs), Washington 

and Sharkey Counties, Mississippi. In 

the final CCP, we describe how we will 

manage the two refuges for the next 15 

years. 

ADDRESSES: You may obtain a copy of 

the CCP by downloading the document 

from our Internet Site at http://

southeast.fws.gov/planning under 

‘‘Final Documents.’’ 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mike Rich, Project Leader, at (662) 836– 

3004 (phone) or mike_rich@fws.gov 

(email). 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Introduction 

With this notice, we complete the 

CCP process for Theodore Roosevelt and 

Holt Collier NWRs. We started the 

process through a notice in the Federal 

Register (78 FR 45953) on July 30, 2013. 

For more about the process, see that 

notice. 

The Theodore Roosevelt NWR 

Complex (Complex) is comprised of 

seven refuges: Hillside (est. 1975), Holt 

Collier (est. 2004), Mathews Brake (est. 

1980), Morgan Brake (est. 1977), Panther 

Swamp (est. 1978), Theodore Roosevelt 

(est. 2004), and Yazoo National Wildlife 

Refuge (est. 1936). 

The Complex was originally known as 

the Yazoo National Wildlife Refuge 

Complex and then briefly named the 

Central Mississippi National Wildlife 

Refuge Complex. On January 23, 2004, 

section 145 of Public Law 108–199, the 

Consolidated Appropriations Act of 

2004, was signed into law by then 

President George W. Bush. The Act 

renamed the Complex as the Theodore 

Roosevelt National Wildlife Refuge 

Complex. It designated the 

geographically separate Bogue Phalia 

Unit of Yazoo NWR as Holt Collier 

NWR. The refuge consists of 2,233 acres 

with an approved acquisition boundary 

of 18,000 acres. The Service lists its 

purpose as being designated under the 

Fish and Wildlife Coordination Act (16 

U.S.C. 664): It ‘‘shall be administered 

. . . for the conservation, maintenance, 

and management of wildlife, resources 

thereof, and its habitat thereon.’’ 

The Act also directed the Secretary of 

the Interior to establish the 6,600-acre 

Theodore Roosevelt NWR. No 

additional land was purchased for the 

two new refuges, but rather they were 

assembled from disjunct Farm Service 

Agency (FSA, formerly known as 

Farmers Home Administration) lands 

already in Service possession. To date 

1,674 acres have been acquired in the 

Theodore Roosevelt NWR. The Service 

lists both new refuges as being 

established ‘‘for conservation 

purposes.’’ 

The habitat consists mainly of 

converted agricultural lands now 

reforested to trees more indicative of the 

native bottomland hardwood forest. 

Farmlands and open water also occur. 

The refuge is not open to the public. 

There are no public facilities located on 

either refuge. 

Background 

The CCP Process 

The National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) 

System Improvement Act of 1997 

(Improvement Act) requires us to 

develop a CCP for each national wildlife 

refuge. CCPs are developed to provide 

refuge managers with a 15-year plan for 

achieving refuges’ purposes and 

contributing toward the mission of the 

NWR System, consistent with sound 

principles of fish and wildlife 

management, conservation, legal 

mandates, and our policies. CCPs 

describe a broad management direction 

for conserving wildlife and their 

habitats. They propose wildlifedependent recreational opportunities to 

be made available to the public. These 

include opportunities for hunting, 

fishing, wildlife observation, wildlife 

photography, and environmental 

education and interpretation. We will 

review the CCP annually and revise it as 

needed in accordance with the 

Improvement Act. 

Comments 

We made the Draft CCP and 

Environmental Assessment available 

online for a 30-day public review and 

comment period via a Federal Register 

notice (80 FR 13420) on March 13, 2015. 

A total of seven comments were 


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received by mail, email or verbally at 

the April 2, 2015, public meeting in 

Rolling Fork, Mississippi. Comments 

supporting the plan and preferred 

alternative were received from the 

Mississippi Department of Wildlife, 

Fisheries and Parks, Safari Club 

International, and Mississippi Wildlife. 

CCP Alternatives, Including Our 

Preferred Alternative 

We developed three alternatives for 

managing the refuge (Alternatives A, B, 

and C), with Alternative B, Minimally 

Developed Refuges, selected for 

implementation. As these are newer 

refuges authorized by Congress in 2004, 

the focus of this plan is to develop 

them. Therefore, our efforts over the 

next 15 years will be focused on land 

acquisition to build-out the refuges to 

their approved acquisition boundaries. 

Passive habitat protection and the 

addition of new resource lands 

beneficial to wildlife will help preserve 

habitat in perpetuity and to lessen 

fragmentation. This plan has the 

objective of providing sanctuary to 

migratory species as a group, not just 

priority waterfowl species. White-tailed 

deer management would continue 

through the Holt Collier NWR hunt 

program and eventually at Theodore 

Roosevelt NWR. Integrated damage 

control of invasive and nuisance species 

would lessen the negative effects on the 

refuges’ habitats. 

Another primary focus of the plan is 

to create a visitor services program to 

enhance environmental education and 

outreach efforts substantially and to 

reach larger numbers of residents, 

students, educators, and visitors. It 

places priority on wildlife-dependent 

uses, such as hunting, fishing and 

wildlife observation. Priority public 

uses, such as hunting, are allowed at 

Holt Collier NWR. At a time when 

sufficient land is amassed and resources 

are available to allow for ample public 

use opportunities, Theodore Roosevelt 

NWR would be opened to hunting. 

Public use would be phased into both 

refuges. Compatibility determinations 

are updated for the priority public uses 

and for research and monitoring. For 

both refuges, some commercial uses 

would be allowed under a Commercial 

Special Use Permit, including 

commercial photography, firewood 

gathering, timber harvest for forest 

management, and trapping. 

The Consolidated Appropriations Act 

of 2004 authorized construction of a 

Visitor Center to provide visitor services 

and to promote the Delta area’s natural 

resources and cultural heritage. Funding 

was appropriated in 2009, in the 

amount of $2.6 million for the building 

of the Theodore Roosevelt NWR Visitor 

Center. On February 11, 2015, a total of 

6.58 acres (originally proposed as 

approximately 5 acres) located off of 

Highway 61 in Sharkey County, 

Mississippi) was donated to the Service 

to construct a Visitor Center. A major 

focus of this plan and Service efforts 

will be to build and staff the Visitor 

Center. Since the location is secured for 

the Visitor Center, regular Service 

procedures will be followed for building 

design and construction. Staffing is 

proposed to run the Visitor Center, to 

provide environmental and interpretive 

programs, and to coordinate volunteers. 

Positions include a Park Ranger, 

Wildlife Refuge Manager and a 

Maintenance Worker. 

This CCP assumes a modest growth of 

refuge resources over its 15-year 

implementation period, with three new 

positions as new funding is available. 

Current partnerships would be 

maintained and new ones would be 

sought. Daily operation of the refuges 

will be guided by this CCP and through 

the implementation of nine projects and 

six step-down management plans as 

detailed in the CCP. 

Authority 

This notice is published under the 

authority of the National Wildlife 

Refuge System Improvement Act of 

1997 (16 U.S.C. 668dd et seq.). 

Dated: November 10, 2015. 

Brett E. Hunter, 

Deputy Chief, National Wildlife Refuge 

System, Southeast Region. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R4–R–2015–N235]; 

[FXRS12650400000S3–123–FF04R02000] 

Cat Island National Wildlife Refuge, 

LA; Final Comprehensive 

Conservation Plan and Finding of No 

Significant Impact for Environmental 

Assessment 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: We, the Fish and Wildlife 

Service (Service), announce the 

availability of the final comprehensive 

conservation plan (CCP) and finding of 

no significant impact for the 

environmental assessment for Cat Island 

National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) in West 

Feliciana Parish, Louisiana. In the final 

CCP, we describe how we will manage 

this refuge for the next 15 years. 

ADDRESSES: You may obtain a copy of 

the CCP by writing to: Lower 

Mississippi River NWR Complex, P.O. 

Box 217, Sibley, MS 39165. 

Alternatively, you may download the 

document from our Internet Site at 

http://southeast.fws.gov/planning under 

‘‘Final Documents.’’ 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jimmy Laurent, Project Leader, Lower 

Mississippi River NWR Complex, by 

telephone at (601) 442–6696 or by email 

at jimmy_laurent@fws.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Introduction 

With this notice, we finalize the CCP 

process for Cat Island NWR. We started 

the process through a notice in the 

Federal Register on November 25, 2013 

(78 FR 70318). For more about the 

process, see that notice. 

Cat Island NWR was established in 

October 2000, as the 526th refuge in the 

National Wildlife Refuge System. It is 

located in West Feliciana Parish, 

Louisiana, near the town of St. 

Francisville, 25 miles north of Baton 

Rouge. Acquisition has occurred in 

stages, beginning in 2000 when The 

Nature Conservancy (TNC) of Louisiana 

made the first purchase of about 9,500 

acres of forested wetlands. That and 

subsequent acquisitions by TNC were 

purchased by the Service using both the 

Land and Water Conservation Fund and 

Migratory Bird Conservation Fund. 

Today, the refuge encompasses 10,473 

acres. The congressionally approved 

acquisition boundary encloses 36,500 

acres. 

Cat Island NWR was created by 

Congress through Public Law 106–369, 

which states: ‘‘The purposes for which 

the Refuge is established and shall be 

managed are: (1) To conserve, restore, 

and manage habitats as necessary to 

contribute to the migratory bird 

population goals and habitat objective 

[sic] as established through the Lower 

Mississippi Valley Joint Venture; (2) to 

conserve, restore, and manage the 

significant aquatic resource values 

associated with the area’s forested 

wetlands and to achieve the habitat 

objectives of the Mississippi River 

Aquatic Resources Management Plan; 

(3) to conserve, enhance, and restore the 

historic native bottomland community 

characteristics of the lower Mississippi 

alluvial valley and its associated fish, 

wildlife, and plant species; (4) to 

conserve, enhance, and restore habitat 

to maintain and assist in the recovery of 

endangered and threatened plants and 

animals; and (5) to encourage the use of 


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