Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 38 / Monday, February 27, 1995 / Notices 10609

days from the date of publication in the

Federal Register. The lands will not be

offered for lease/conveyance until after

the classification becomes effective.

Dated: February 13, 1995.

Mike Dwyer,

District Manager, Las Vegas, NV.

[FR Doc. 95–4643 Filed 2–24–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–HC–M

[NV–040–1430–02; N–57067]

Realty Action: Recreation and Public

Purposes Act, White Pine County, NV

ACTION: Amenmdment to Notice of

Realty Action.

SUMMARY: On Monday, August 23, 1993,

the BLM Ely District Office issued a

Notice of Realty Action to classify as

suitable for disposal pursuant to the

provision of the Recreation and Public

Purposes Act, as amended, 43 U. S. C.

860, et seq., certain public lands in

White Pine County, Nevada. The subject

land will be used by White Pine County

for a non-hazardous solid waste

disposal facility.

This segregation was in effect for 18

months. This segregation is hereby

extended an additional two years to

allow for the completion of the transfer.

Except as amended hereby, the notice

published August 31, 1993 stands as

written.

Dated: February 9, 1995.

Hal M. Bybee,

Acting District Manager.

[FR Doc. 95–4644 Filed 2–24–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–HC–P

[AZ–010–95–1610]

Arizona Strip District Resource

Management Plan: Intent to Amend

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of intent to amend the

Arizona Strip District Resource

Management Plan, Arizona.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the BLM Planning

Regulations (43 CFR part 1600) this

notice advises the public that the

Arizona Strip District, Bureau of Land

Management, is proposing to amend the

Arizona Strip District Resource

Management Plan in order to implement

management practices that will help

recover the Northeastern Mojave Desert

population of desert tortoises. The main

issues anticipated in this plan

amendment are: (1) recovery of the

northeastern Mojave Desert population

of desert tortoises, listed by the U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service as threatened;

and (2) impacts on existing and future

uses of resources on public lands in the

Mojave Desert managed by the Arizona

Strip District.

This amendment is limited to the area

categorized as desert tortoise habitat

(Arizona Strip Resource Management

Plan, 1991) or designated by the U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service as critical

habitat for desert tortoises.

A land use plan amendment and

environmental analysis will be prepared

for the subject lands by an

interdisciplinary team including range,

wildlife, recreation, minerals, lands and

realty, and cultural resource specialists.

The existing land use plans and maps

are available for review at the Shivwits

Resource Area Office in St. George,

Utah.

DATES: Interested parties may submit

comments to the District Manager at the

address shown below on or before May

5, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be sent to

the District Manager, Bureau of Land

Management, Arizona Strip District, 390

North 3050 East, St. George, Utah 84770.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

George Cropper, Area Manager,

Shivwits Resource Area, 345 E.

Riverside Drive, Suite 103, St. George,

Utah 84770, (801) 628–4491 to obtain

additional information regarding this

plan amendment.

Roger G. Taylor,

District Manager.

[FR Doc. 95–4750 Filed 2–24–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–32–P

[NV–942–05–1420–00]

Filing of Plats of Survey; Nevada

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is

to inform the public and interested State

and local government officials of the

filing of Plats of Survey in Nevada.

EFFECTIVE DATE: Filing is effective at

10:00 a.m. on the dates indicated below.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John

S. Parrish, Chief, Branch of Cadastral

Survey, Bureau of Land Management

(BLM), Nevada State Office, 850

Harvard Way, P.O. Box 12000, Reno,

Nevada 89520, 702–785–6541.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

1. The supplemental plats of the

following described lands were

officially filed at the Nevada State

Office, Reno, Nevada on January 20,

1995:

The supplemental plat showing new

lottings created by the segregation of

Mineral Survey No. 4777 in section 24,

T. 12 S., R. 46 E., Mount Diablo

Meridian, Nevada, was accepted on

January 13, 1995.

The supplemental plat showing

amended lottings created by the

segregation of Mineral Survey No. 4777

in section 19, T. 12 S., R. 47 E., Mount

Diablo Meridian, Nevada, was accepted

on January 13, 1995.

These plats were prepared at the

request of Mr. Gary Babbitt for R. T.

Vanderbilt Co., Inc.

2. The Plat of Survey of the following

described lands was officially filed at

the Nevada State Office, Reno, Nevada

on January 31, 1995:

The plat representing the dependent

resurvey of a portion of the subdivision

of section 12, the further subdivision of

section 12, and the metes-and-bounds

survey of Lot 1, section 12, T. 14 N., R.

19 E., Mount Diablo Meridian, Group

No. 746, Nevada, was accepted January

24, 1995.

This survey was executed to meet

certain administrative needs of the U. S.

Forest Service.

3. The Plats of Survey of the following

described lands will be officially filed at

the Nevada State Office, Reno, Nevada

on April 12, 1995:

The plat representing the independent

resurvey of the Third Standard Parallel

North, through Range 331⁄2 East, and the

survey of a portion of the subdivisional

lines of T. 16 N., R. 331⁄2 E., Mount

Diablo Meridian, Group No. 695,

Nevada, was accepted January 19, 1995.

The plat, in four sheets, representing

the dependent resurvey of a portion of

Mineral Survey Nos. 2664 and 3206, an

independent resurvey of the Third

Standard Parallel North, through a

portion of Range 34 East; and the survey

of a portion of the subdivisional lines

and a portion of the Lahontan Valley

Bombing Range Boundary, T. 16 N., R.

34 E., Mount Diablo Meridian, Group

No. 695, Nevada, was accepted January

19, 1995.

These surveys were executed to meet

certain administrative needs of the U. S.

Navy.

4. Subject to valid existing rights the

provisions of existing withdrawals and

classifications, the requirements of

applicable laws, emergency closures,

and other segregations of record, those

portions of the lands listed for T. 16 N.,

R. 34 E., under item 3 as ‘‘survey’’ are

open to application, petition, and

disposal, including application under

the mineral leasing laws. All such valid

applications received on or prior to

April 12, 1995, shall be considered as

simultaneously filed at that time. Those

received thereafter shall be considered

in order of filing.
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1A stay will be issued routinely by the

Commission in those proceedings where an

informed decision on environmental issues

(whether raised by a party or by the Commission’s

Section of Environmental Analysis in its

independent investigation) cannot be made before

the effective date of this notice of exemption. See

Exemption of Out-of-Service Rail Lines, 5 I.C.C.2d

377 (1989). Any entity seeking a stay involving

environmental concerns is encouraged to file its

request as soon as possible in order to permit this

Commission to review and act on the request before

the effective date of this exemption.

2See Exempt. of Rail Abandonment—Offers of

Finan. Assist., 4 I.C.C.2d 164 (1987).

3The Commission will accept a late-filed trail use

request as long as it retains jurisdiction to do so.

5. The above-listed surveys are now

the basic record for describing the lands

for all authorized purposes. These

surveys will be placed in the open files

in the BLM Nevada State Office and will

be available to the public as a matter of

information. Copies of the surveys and

related field notes may be furnished to

the public upon payment of the

appropriate fees.

Dated: February 15, 1995

John S. Parrish,

Chief Cadastral Surveyor, Nevada.

[FR Doc. 95–4645 Filed 2–24–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–HC–P

Fish and Wildlife Service

Endangered and Threatened Species

Permit Applications

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of receipt of applications

for permits.

The following applicants have

applied for a permit to conduct certain

activities with endangered species. This

notice is provided pursuant to section

10(c) of the Endangered Species Act of

1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531, et

seq.).

Permit No. 798744

Applicant: Kootenai Tribe of Idaho,

Fisheries Program, Bonners Ferry, Idaho

The applicant requests a permit to

take (capture, collect, radio tag, mark,

and release) the Kootenai River

population of the white sturgeon

(Acipenser transmontanus) in the

Kootenai River, Idaho to conduct

captive propagation and scientific

research to enhance the propagation and

survival of the species.

Permit No. 799001

Applicant: University of Hawaii,

Department of Zoology, Honolulu,

Hawaii

The applicant requests a permit to

take (capture, mark, band, take blood,

measure, and release) Hawaii akepas

(Loxops coccineus coccineus), Hawaii

creepers (Oreomystis mana),

akiapolaaus (Hemignathus munroi), and

Hawaiian hawks (Buteo solitarius) on

the island of Hawaii for scientific

research to enhance the survival of the

species. These studies were previously

authorized under the Regional Director’s

permit no. PRT–702631.

DATES: Written comments on the permit

applications must be received by March

29, 1995.

ADDRESSES: Written data or comments

should be submitted to the Chief,

Division of Consultation and

Conservation Planning, Ecological

Services, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,

911 N.E. 11th Avenue, Portland, Oregon

97232–4181. Please refer to the

respective permit number for each

application when submitting comments.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

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, by any

party who submits a written request for

a copy of such documents, within 30

days of the date of publication of this

notice, to the following office: U.S. Fish

and Wildlife Service, Ecological

Services, Division of Consultation and

Conservation Planning, 911 N.E. 11th

Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97232–4181.

Telephone: 503–231–2063; FAX: 503–

231–6243. Please refer to the respective

permit number for each application

when requesting copies of documents.

Dated: February 16, 1995.

Thomas Dwyer,

Deputy Regional Director, Region 1, Portland,

Oregon.

[FR Doc. 95–4680 Filed 2–24–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P

INTERSTATE COMMERCE

COMMISSION

[Docket Nos. AB–32 (Sub-No. 60X) and AB–

355 (Sub-No. 12X)]

Boston and Maine Corporation—

Abandonment Exemption—in Hillsboro

County, NH; Springfield Terminal

Railway Company—Discontinuance of

Service Exemption—in Hillsboro

County, NH

Boston and Maine Corporation (B&M)

and Springfield Terminal Railway

Company (ST) have filed a notice of

exemption under 49 CFR 1152 Subpart

F—Exempt Abandonments and

Discontinuances for B&M to abandon

and ST to discontinue service over a

segment of B&M’s line of railroad,

known as the Portsmouth Branch (the

Line), between milepost 37.10 and

milepost 39.68, a distance of

approximately 2.58 miles, in

Manchester, Hillsboro County, NH.

B&M and ST certify that: (1) No local

traffic has moved over the Line for at

least 2 years; (2) any overhead traffic on

the Line has been rerouted over other

lines; (3) no formal complaint filed by

a user of rail service on the Line (or by

a State or local government entity acting

on behalf of such user) regarding

cessation of service over the Line either

is pending with the Commission or with

any U.S. District Court or has been

decided in favor of the complainant

within the 2-year period; and (4) the

requirements at 49 CFR 1105.7

(environmental reports), 49 CFR 1105.8

(historic reports), 49 CFR 1105.11

(transmittal letter), 49 CFR 1105.12

(newspaper publication), and 49 CFR

1152.50(d)(1) (notice to governmental

agencies) have been met.

As a condition to use this exemption,

any employee adversely affected by the

abandonment or discontinuance shall be

protected under Oregon Short Line R.

Co.—Abandonment—Goshen, 360 I.C.C.

91 (1979). To address whether this

condition adequately protects affected

employees, a petition for partial

revocation under 49 U.S.C. 10505(d)

must be filed.

Provided no formal expression of

intent to file an offer of financial

assistance (OFA) has been received, this

exemption will be effective on March

29, 1995, unless stayed pending

reconsideration. Petitions to stay that do

not involve environmental issues,1

formal expressions of intent to file an

OFA under 49 CFR 1152.27(c)(2),2 and

trail use/rail banking requests under 49

CFR 1152.29 3 must be filed by March 9,

1995. Petitions to reopen or requests for

public use conditions under 49 CFR

1152.28 must be filed by March 20,

1995, with: Office of the Secretary, Case

Control Branch, Interstate Commerce

Commission, Washington, DC 20423.

A copy of any pleading filed with the

Commission should be sent to

applicants’ representative: John R.

Nadolny, Iron Horse Park, No. Billerica,

MA 01862.

If the notice of exemption contains

false or misleading information, the

exemption is void ab initio.

B&M and ST have filed an

environmental report which addresses

the effects of the abandonment and

discontinuance, if any, on the

environment and historic resources. The

Section of Environmental Analysis

(SEA) will issue an environmental

assessment (EA) by March 3, 1995.

Interested persons may obtain a copy of

the EA by writing to SEA (Room 3219,

Interstate Commerce Commission,