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Authority 

We developed this recovery plan and 

publish this notice under the authority 

of section 4(f) of the Act, 16 U.S.C. 

1533(f). 

Martha Maciel, 

Acting Regional Director, Pacific Southwest 

Region. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–HQ–MB–2021–N159; FF09M20200 

FGMB123109CITY0 (212); OMB Control 

Number 1018–NEW] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Urban Bird Treaty Program 

Requirements 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of information collection; 

request for comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, we, 

the United States Fish and Wildlife 

Service (Service), are proposing a new 

information collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before August 

10, 2021. 

ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the 

information collection request (ICR) by 

mail to the Service Information 

Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service, MS: PRB (JAO/ 

3W), 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, 

VA 22041–3803 (mail); or by email to 

Info_Coll@fws.gov. Please reference 

OMB Control Number ‘‘1018–UBT’’ in 

the subject line of your comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information about 

this ICR, contact Madonna L. Baucum, 

Service Information Collection 

Clearance Officer, by email at Info_

Coll@fws.gov, or by telephone at (703) 

358–2503. Individuals who are hearing 

or speech impaired may call the Federal 

Relay Service at 1–800–877–8339 for 

TTY assistance. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act (PRA, 44 U.S.C. 3501 et 

seq.) and its implementing regulations 

at 5 CFR 1320, all information 

collections require approval under the 

PRA. We may not conduct or sponsor 

and you are not required to respond to 

a collection of information unless it 

displays a currently valid OMB control 

number. 

As part of our continuing effort to 

reduce paperwork and respondent 

burdens, we invite the public and other 

Federal agencies to comment on new, 

proposed, revised, and continuing 

collections of information. This helps us 

assess the impact of our information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. It also 

helps the public understand our 

information collection requirements and 

provide the requested data in the 

desired format. 

We are especially interested in public 

comment addressing the following: 

(1) Whether or not the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether or not the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) The accuracy of our estimate of the 

burden for this collection of 

information, including the validity of 

the methodology and assumptions used; 

(3) Ways to enhance the quality, 

utility, and clarity of the information to 

be collected; and 

(4) How might the agency minimize 

the burden of the collection of 

information on those who are to 

respond, including through the use of 

appropriate automated, electronic, 

mechanical, or other technological 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology, e.g., permitting 

electronic submission of response. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. We will include or 

summarize each comment in our request 

to OMB to approve this ICR. Before 

including your address, phone number, 

email address, or other personal 

identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Abstract: The Urban Bird Treaty 

Program (UBT Program) is administered 

through the Service’s Migratory Bird 

Program, under the authority of the Fish 

and Wildlife Coordination Act (16 

U.S.C. 661–667e). The UBT Program 

aims to support partnerships of public 

and private organizations and 

individuals working to conserve 

migratory birds and their habitats in 

urban areas for the benefit of these 

species and the people that live in urban 

areas. The UBT partners’ habitat 

conservation activities help to ensure 

that more natural areas, including 

forests, grasslands, wetlands, and 

meadows, are available in urban areas, 

so that underserved communities can 

have improved access to green space 

and opportunities to engage in habitat 

restoration and community science as 

well as bird-related recreation and 

educational programs. These habitat 

restoration activities, especially urban 

forest conservation, also contribute to 

climate resiliency by reducing the 

amount of carbon dioxide in the 

atmosphere. Lights-out programs in 

UBT cities help reduce energy costs and 

greenhouse gas emissions by reducing 

the use of electricity when people and 

businesses turn off their lights between 

dusk and dawn during the fall and 

spring periods of bird migration in order 

to reduce bird collisions with building 

glass. 

The Service designates Urban Bird 

Treaty cities or municipalities through a 

process in which applicants submit a 

nomination package, including a letter 

of intention and an implementation 

plan, for approval by the Service’s 

Migratory Bird Program. Within 3 

months, the Service reviews the 

package, makes any necessary 

recommendations for changes, and then 

decides to either approve or reject the 

package. If rejected, the city can reapply 

the following year. In most cases, when 

the Service designates a new city 

partner, the Service and the new city 

partner hold a signing ceremony, during 

which a representative from both the 

Service and the city sign a nonbinding 

document that states the importance of 

conserving birds and their habitats to 

the health and well-being of people that 

live in and visit the city. To maintain 

this city partner designation, the city 

must submit information on the 

activities it has carried out to meet the 

goals of the UBT program, including 

those related to bird habitat 

conservation, bird hazard reduction, 

and bird-related community education 

and engagement. By helping make cities 

healthier places for birds and people, 

the UBT Program contributes to the 

Administration’s priorities of justice 

and racial equity, climate resiliency, 

and the President’s Executive Order 

14008 to protect 30 percent of the 

Nation’s land and 30 percent of its 

ocean areas by 2030. 

The UBT program benefits city 

partners in many ways, including: 

• Helps city partners achieve their 

goals for making cities healthier places 

for birds and people. 

• Provides opportunities to share and 

learn from other city partners’ tools, 

tactics, successes, and challenges, to 

advance city partners’ urban bird 

conservation efforts. 


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• Strengthens the cohesion and 

effectiveness of the partnerships by 

coming together and working under the 

banner of the UBT program. 

• Gives city partners improved access 

to funding through the National Fish 

and Wildlife Foundation’s Five Star and 

Urban Waters Restoration grant 

program, as UBT cities receive priority 

in this program. 

• Helps partners garner additional 

funds through other urban conservation 

grant programs that have shared goals 

and objectives. 

• Achieve green building credits, 

reduced energy costs, green space 

requirements, environmental equity, 

and other sustainability goals. 

• Promotes the livability and 

sustainability of partner cities by 

spreading the word about the city’s UBT 

Federal designation and all the benefits 

of a green and bird-friendly city. 

We collect the following information 

from prospective and successful 

applicants in conjunction with the UBT 

Program: 

• Nomination Letter—Prospective 

applicants must submit a letter of 

intention from the city’s partnership 

that details its commitment to urban 

bird conservation and community 

engagement in bird-related education, 

recreation, conservation, science, and 

monitoring. Support and involvement 

by the city government is required. 

• Implementation Plan—The required 

implementation plan should contain the 

following (see the UBT Program 

Guidebook—https://www.fws.gov/ 

migratorybirds/pdf/grants/ 

UrbanBirdTreatyV3.pdf—for full 

descriptions of requirements): 

—Detailed description of the 

importance of the city to migrating, 

nesting, and overwintering birds; bird 

habitats; human population size of the 

city; and socioeconomic profile of the 

human communities present and 

those targeted for education and 

engagement programs. 

—Map of the geographic area that is 

being nominated for designation. 

—List of individuals and organizations, 

and their contact information, that are 

active in the partnership. 

—The mission, goals, and objectives of 

the partnership applying for 

designation, organized by the three 

UBT goal categories. 

—Description of accomplishments (e.g., 

activities, products, outcomes) that 

have been completed over the last 3 

years, the audiences and communities 

reached/engaged through those 

activities, and the partner 

organizations that have achieved 

them, organized by UBT goal 

categories. 

—Description of strategies, actions, 

tools/products that are being planned 

for the next 5 years under the UBT 

designation, the objectives to be 

accomplished, the audiences and 

communities targeted for engagement, 

and the partners who will complete 

the work, organized by UBT goal 

categories. 

• Ad Hoc Reports—The Service will 

also request information updates on 

UBT city points of contact, activities 

and events, and other information on an 

ongoing basis for urban bird 

conservation in the city, as needed by 

the Service for storytelling, promotion, 

and internal programmatic 

communications, education, and 

outreach. 

• Biennial Reporting—The Service 

requires city partners to provide 

biennial metrics as well as written and 

photographic descriptions of activities 

for each goal category. City partners are 

required to submit this information to 

maintain their city’s designation by 

ensuring that they are actively working 

to achieve the goals of the UBT Program. 

We will use the information collected 

for storytelling purposes to promote the 

urban bird conservation work of city 

partners, and to enable the Migratory 

Bird Program to develop UBT Program 

accomplishment reports and other 

communications tools to share with the 

public and the conservation community 

at large. The reporting requirement 

ensures that the UBT city designation is 

meaningful and that city partners are 

accountable for the efforts that they 

agreed to undertake to earn their 

designation. Additionally, we will use 

the information to promote the UBT 

program to other interested city partners 

and the benefits of urban bird 

conservation generally. For more 

information, please see the UBT 

Program Guidebook at the following 

link: https://www.fws.gov/ 

migratorybirds/pdf/grants/ 

UrbanBirdTreatyV3.pdf. 

Title of Collection: Urban Bird Treaty 

Designation, Updates, and Reporting 

Requirements. 

OMB Control Number: 1018–NEW. 

Form Number: None. 

Type of Review: New. 

Respondents/Affected Public: 

Nonprofits; colleges, universities, and 

schools; museums, zoos, and aquaria; 

local community groups; private 

businesses; and municipal, State, and 

Tribal governments involved in urban 

bird conservation in UBT cities. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain a benefit. 

Frequency of Collection: One-time 

submission of nomination letter; onetime submission of implementation 

plan; on occasion for information 

updates; and biennial reporting. 

Total Estimated Annual Nonhour 

Burden Cost: None. 

Requirement 

Average 

number of 

annual 

respondents 

Average 

number of 

responses 

each 

Average 

number of 

annual 

responses 

Average 

completion 

time per 

response 

(hours) 

Estimated 

annual 

burden hours 

Nomination Letter: 

Private Sector ............................................................... 6 3 3 4 12 

Government .................................................................. 3 3 3 4 12 

Implementation Plan (Initial Submission): 

Private Sector ............................................................... 24 3 3 40 960 

Government .................................................................. 12 3 3 20 240 

Ad Hoc Reports: 

Private Sector ............................................................... 25 4 4 3 75 

Government .................................................................. 5 4 4 3 15 

Biennial Reporting: 

Private Sector ............................................................... 12 1 12 80 960 

Government .................................................................. 3 1 3 80 240 

Totals: .................................................................... 90 ........................ 35 ........................ 2,514 


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An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor and a person is not required to 

respond to a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. 

The authority for this action is the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 

U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). 

Dated: June 8, 2021. 

Madonna Baucum, 

Information Collection Clearance Officer, U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service. 

[FR Doc. 2021–12289 Filed 6–10–21; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLCAD06000.51010000.ER0000. 

LVRWB19B6340.19X5017AP.CACA56753] 

Notice of Availability of the Whitewater 

River Groundwater Replenishment 

Facility Project Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement, Riverside County, 

CA 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) of 1969, as amended, and the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act of 1976, as amended, the Bureau of 

Land Management (BLM) has prepared 

a Draft Environmental Impact Statement 

(EIS) for the Whitewater River 

Groundwater Replenishment Facility 

Project (Project), and by this notice is 

announcing the opening of a 45-day 

public comment period. 

DATES: To ensure that all comments will 

be considered, the BLM must receive 

written comments on the Draft EIS 

within 45 days following the date that 

the EPA publishes its Notice of 

Availability (NOA) in the Federal 

Register. The EPA usually publishes its 

NOAs every Friday. The BLM will 

announce future meetings and any other 

public involvement activities at least 15 

days in advance through public notices, 

news releases, the project website, and/ 

or mailings. 

ADDRESSES: The public may submit 

comments related to the project during 

the public comment period by using any 

of the following methods: 

• Project Website: https://go.usa.gov/ 

x6xUc. 

• Email: BLM_CA_

WhitewaterRecharge@blm.gov. 

• Mail: Whitewater River 

Groundwater Replenishment Facility 

Project, Bureau of Land Management 

Palm Springs—South Coast Field Office, 

1201 Bird Center Drive, Palm Springs, 

CA 92262. 

Copies of the Draft EIS are available 

for viewing electronically on the project 

website. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Miriam Liberatore, BLM project 

manager, telephone: (541) 618–2412; 

email: mliberat@blm.gov; address 

Bureau of Land Management, 3040 

Biddle Road, Medford, OR 97504. 

Persons who use telecommunication 

devices for the deaf may call the Federal 

Relay Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339 

to contact Ms. Liberatore during normal 

business hours. The FRS is available 24 

hours a day, 7 days a week, to leave a 

message or question. You will receive a 

reply during normal business hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Coachella Valley Water District (CVWD) 

seeks a right-of-way (ROW) grant from 

the BLM for its existing groundwater 

replenishment facility in North Palm 

Springs that is partially located on 

public lands managed by the BLM. The 

existing facility consists of water control 

berms, intake structures, conveyance 

structures, and 19 infiltration ponds 

over approximately 690 acres of BLMmanaged public lands. The facility also 

includes 1,480 acres of lands held by 

CVWD. No new construction and no 

change in operations are proposed. The 

change in volume represents CVWD’s 

request that the BLM analyze 

environmental impacts for the full 

annual capacity of the facility, instead 

of the anticipated water allotments, as 

was done for the previous grant. The 

change in acreage represents CVWD’s 

request to authorize the use of public 

lands for water control berms upstream 

of its intake structure. 

The BLM is the lead agency under 

NEPA and will make Federal decisions 

regarding the proposed plan amendment 

and the ROW for the Project. The U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service is a 

Cooperating Agency and will issue a 

Biological Opinion for the project. The 

United States Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians, 

Desert Water Agency, and Metropolitan 

Water District of Southern California are 

Cooperating Agencies in this 

environmental review, but do not have 

direct permitting roles in the project. 

The Proposed Action (Alternative 1) 

would authorize the facility in its 

existing configuration and would review 

the environmental impacts of 

infiltrating up to 511,000 acre-feet per 

year, representing the maximum 

physical capacity of the facility. In 

addition to the Proposed Action, the 

Draft EIS considers a no action 

alternative and three action alternatives. 

Alternative 2 (Partial Implementation) 

would authorize only the area of public 

lands on which the water control 

structures upstream of the intake are 

located. Alternative 3 (Reduced 

Volume) would authorize the same 

facility as described under Alternative 1 

but the environmental review would be 

based on an annual infiltration volume 

of 220,000 acre-feet per year. Alternative 

4 (Land Disposal) would authorize the 

sale or exchange of the public lands 

within the project footprint and would 

authorize the facility operation on 

public lands for a period of 10 years, 

sufficient to implement the disposal. 

Alternative 5 (No Action) would not 

authorize those portions of the facility 

that are located on public lands. Those 

portions would be removed, and the 

public lands rehabilitated. Alternative 1 

is the BLM preferred alternative. 

Public input on these alternatives or 

other issues is important and will be 

considered in the development of the 

Final EIS. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

(Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 1506.10, 

43 CFR 1610.2) 

Karen E. Mouritsen, 

California State Director. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

National Park Service 

[NPS–WASO–NRNHL–DTS#–32072; 

PPWOCRADI0, PCU00RP14.R50000] 

National Register of Historic Places; 

Notification of Pending Nominations 

and Related Actions 

AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The National Park Service is 

soliciting electronic comments on the 

significance of properties nominated 

before May 29, 2021, for listing or 

related actions in the National Register 

of Historic Places. 

DATES: Comments should be submitted 

electronically by June 28, 2021. 


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