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3 (PAR) Bldgs. 

Coast Guard Base Support Unit 

Honolulu HI 

Landholding Agency: Coast Guard 

Property Number: 88201040001 

Status: Unutilized 

Reasons: Secured Area, Extensive 

deterioration 

Illinois 

5 Bldgs. 

Naval Station 

Great Lakes IL 60088 

Landholding Agency: Navy 

Property Number: 77201040007 

Status: Unutilized 

Directions: 323, 430, 431, 432, 837 

Reasons: Secured Area 

New Mexico 

Bldg. 15–0562 

Los Alamos National Lab 

Los Alamos NM 87545 

Landholding Agency: Energy 

Property Number: 41201040002 

Status: Unutilized 

Reasons: Extensive deterioration, Secured 

Area 

Tennessee 

37 Elkmont Bldgs. 

Great Smoky Mountains 

National Park 

Sevier TN 37886 

Landholding Agency: Interior 

Property Number: 61201040003 

Status: Unutilized 

Reasons: Extensive deterioration 

Land 

Hawaii 

Land/395 sq. ft. 

Marine Corps Base 

Bellows HI 96795 

Landholding Agency: Navy 

Property Number: 77201040006 

Status: Underutilized 

Reasons: Secured Area 

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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5441–N–01] 

Additional Waivers Granted to and 

Alternative Requirements for the State 

of Illinois’ CDBG Disaster Recovery 

Grant Under Public Law 110–329 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice of additional waivers and 

alternative requirements. 

SUMMARY: This notice describes 

additional waivers and alternative 

requirements applicable to the 

Community Development Block Grant 

(CDBG) disaster recovery grant provided 

to the State of Illinois for the purpose of 

assisting in the recovery related to the 

consequences of the State’s 2008 

disasters. HUD previously published 

allocation and application notices 

applicable to this grant on February 13, 

2009 (74 FR 7244), and August 14, 2009 

(74 FR 41146). 

DATES: Effective Date: October 27, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Scott Davis, Director, Disaster Recovery 

and Special Issues Division, Office of 

Block Grant Assistance, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, 451 

7th Street, SW., Room 7286, 

Washington, DC 20410, telephone 

number 202–708–3587. Persons with 

hearing or speech impairments may 

access this number via TTY by calling 

the Federal Information Relay Service at 

telephone number 800–877–8339. 

Facsimile inquiries may be sent to Mr. 

Davis at facsimile number 202–401– 

2044. (Except for the ‘‘800’’ number, 

these telephone numbers are not toll 

free.) 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Authority To Grant Waivers 

The Consolidated Security, Disaster 

Assistance, and Continuing 

Appropriations Act, 2009 (Pub. L. 110– 

329, approved September 30, 2008) 

(hereinafter, ‘‘Second 2008 Act’’ to 

differentiate it from the earlier 2008 

Supplemental Appropriations Act, 

Public Law 110–252, approved June 30, 

2008) appropriated $6.5 billion, to 

remain available until expended, in 

CDBG funds for necessary expenses 

related to disaster relief, long-term 

recovery, and restoration of 

infrastructure, housing and economic 

revitalization in areas affected by 

hurricanes, flooding, and other natural 

disasters occurring during 2008 for 

which the President declared a major 

disaster under title IV of the Robert T. 

Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency 

Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 5121 et seq.). 

The Second 2008 Act authorizes the 

Secretary to waive, or specify alternative 

requirements for, any provision of any 

statute or regulation that the Secretary 

administers in connection with the 

obligation by the Secretary or use by the 

recipient of these funds and guarantees, 

except for requirements related to fair 

housing, nondiscrimination, labor 

standards, and the environment 

(including requirements concerning 

lead based paint), upon a request by a 

state grantee explaining why such 

waiver is required to facilitate the use of 

such funds or guarantees and a finding 

by the Secretary that such a waiver 

would not be inconsistent with the 

overall purpose of Title I of the Housing 

and Community Development Act of 

1974 (HCD Act). Additionally, 

regulatory waiver authority is provided 

by 24 CFR 5.110, 91.600, and 570.5. The 

following application and reporting 

waivers and alternative requirements 

are in response to a request received 

from the State of Illinois regarding its 

use of funds under the Second 2008 Act. 

The Secretary finds that the following 

waivers and alternative requirements, as 

described below, are necessary to 

facilitate use of the funds for the 

statutory purposes and are not 

inconsistent with the overall purpose of 

Title I of the HCD Act or the CranstonGonzalez National Affordable Housing 

Act, as amended. 

Under the requirements of the Second 

2008 Act and the Department of 

Housing and Urban Development 

Reform Act of 1989 (the HUD Reform 

Act), regulatory waivers must be 

justified and published in the Federal 

Register. Except as described in this 

Notice, statutory and regulatory 

provisions governing the CDBG program 

for states, including those at 24 CFR part 

570, shall apply to the use of these 

funds. In accordance with the Second 

2008 Act, HUD will reconsider every 

waiver in this Notice on the two-year 

anniversary of the day this Notice is 

published. 

Waiver Justification 

Except as described below, the 

waivers, alternative requirements, and 

statutory changes published in notices 

on February 13, 2009 (74 FR 7244) and 

August 14, 2009 (74 FR 41146) will 

continue to apply to the State’s CDBG 

disaster recovery funds appropriated 

under the Second 2008 Act (Pub. L. 

110–329). The actions below provide 

additional flexibility in program design 

and implementation and implement 

statutory requirements unique to this 

appropriation. The provisions of this 

Notice do not apply to funds provided 

under the annual CDBG program. 

National Objective Documentation for 

Economic Development Activities. For 

the national objective documentation for 

business assistance activities, Illinois 

has asked to apply individual salaries or 

wages per job and the income limits for 

a household of one, rather than the 

usual CDBG standard of total household 

income and the limits-by-total 

household size. Illinois has asserted that 

this proposed documentation would be 

simpler and quicker for participating 

lenders to administer, easier to verify, 

and would not misrepresent the amount 

of low- and moderate-income benefit 

provided. Upon consideration, HUD is 

granting this waiver, which has also 

been granted to a number of other state 

grantees under the Second 2008 Act. It 

will play a key role in streamlining the 

State’s documentation process because 

it allows collection of wage data for 


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each position created or retained from 

the assisted businesses, rather than from 

each individual household. 

Eligibility—buildings for the general 

conduct of government. Illinois has 

requested a limited waiver of the 

prohibition on funding buildings for the 

general conduct of government as many 

of these buildings were damaged by the 

2008 disasters. HUD has considered this 

request and agrees that it is consistent 

with the overall purposes of the 1974 

Act. Therefore, Illinois may use funds 

provided under the Second 2008 Act to 

repair or reconstruct buildings used for 

the general conduct of government so 

long as (1) the buildings are selected in 

accordance with a method described in 

the State’s Action Plan for Disaster 

Recovery, and (2) the State determines 

that the selected buildings have 

substantial value in promoting disaster 

recovery. However, as stipulated by the 

Second 2008 Act, funds may not be 

used for activities reimbursable by, or 

for which funds are made available by, 

the Federal Emergency Management 

Agency or the Army Corps of Engineers. 

Public benefit for certain economic 

development activities. Illinois has 

requested a waiver of the public benefit 

standards for certain economic 

development activities. The public 

benefit provisions set standards for 

individual economic development 

activities (such as a single loan to a 

business) and for economic 

development activities in the annual 

aggregate. Currently, public benefit 

standards limit the amount of CDBG 

assistance per job retained or created, or 

the amount of CDBG assistance per low 

and moderate-income person to which 

goods or services are provided by the 

activity. Essentially, the public benefit 

standards are a proxy for all the other 

possible public benefits provided by an 

assisted activity. These dollar 

thresholds were set more than a decade 

ago and under disaster recovery 

conditions (which often require a larger 

investment to achieve a given result), 

can be too low and thus impede 

recovery by limiting the amount of 

assistance the grantee may provide to a 

critical activity. 

After consideration, this Notice 

waives the public benefit standards for 

the cited activities, except that the State 

shall report and maintain 

documentation on the creation and 

retention of (a) Total jobs, (b) number of 

jobs within certain salary ranges, (c) the 

average amount of assistance per job 

and activity or program, and (d) the 

types of jobs. As a conforming change 

for the same activities or programs, HUD 

is also waiving paragraph (g) of 24 CFR 

570.482 to the extent its provisions are 

related to public benefit. Illinois has 

made public in its Action Plan the 

disaster recovery needs each activity is 

addressing. 

Housing incentives to resettle in 

disaster-affected communities. The 

State believes that incentives are vital to 

encourage its citizens to move out of 

harms’ way to safer areas outside the 

100 year floodplain. Upon 

consideration, the Department is 

waiving 42 U.S.C 5305(a) of the 1974 

Act and associated regulations to permit 

the State to offer disaster recovery or 

mitigation housing incentives to 

promote housing development or 

resettlement in particular geographic 

areas. 

Limitation on emergency grant 

payments. HUD is waiving 42 U.S.C. 

5305(a) to allow the State to extend 

interim mortgage assistance to qualified 

individuals for up to 20 months. The 

State plans to create an Interim 

Mortgage Assistance Program to assist 

homeowners (likely to be applicants in 

the State’s future buyout program) with 

mortgage payments and other eligible 

property carrying costs while they may 

be living in temporary housing. As it 

takes more than three months for buyout 

decisions to be made and implemented, 

this will provide key assistance to 

qualified homeowners during this 

interim period. 

Applicable Rules, Statutes, Waivers, 

and Alternative Requirements 

1. Except as described in this Notice, 

statutory and regulatory provisions 

governing the Community Development 

Block Grant program for states, 

including those at 42 U.S.C. 5301 et seq. 

and 24 CFR part 570, and those 

described in Federal Register notices 74 

FR 7244 and 74 FR 41146, shall apply 

to the use of these funds. Also, please 

note that any program changes 

implemented as a result of the waivers 

published in today’s Notice must be in 

accordance with the State’s approved 

Action Plan for Disaster Recovery. 

2. National Objective Documentation 

for Economic Development Activities. 

24 CFR 570.483(b)(4)(i) is waived to 

allow the State to establish low- and 

moderate-income jobs benefit by 

documenting for each person employed 

the name of the business, type of job, 

and the annual wages or salary of the 

job. HUD will consider the person 

income-qualified if the annual wages or 

salary of the job is at or under the HUDestablished income limit for a oneperson family. 

3. Buildings for the general conduct of 

government. 42 U.S.C. 5305(a) and 

associated regulations are waived to the 

extent necessary to allow Illinois to 

fund the rehabilitation or reconstruction 

of public buildings that are otherwise 

ineligible and that the State selects in 

accordance with its approved Action 

Plan for Disaster Recovery and that the 

State has determined have substantial 

value in promoting disaster recovery. 

4. Public benefit for certain economic 

development activities. For economic 

development activities designed to 

create or retain jobs or businesses 

(including but not limited to long-term, 

short-term, and infrastructure projects), 

the public benefit standards at 42 U.S.C. 

5305(e)(3) and 24 CFR 570.482(f)(1), (2), 

(3), (4)(i), (5), and (6) are waived, except 

that the State shall report and maintain 

documentation on the creation and 

retention of total jobs, the number of 

jobs within certain salary ranges, the 

average amount of assistance provided 

per job by activity or program, and the 

types of jobs. Paragraph (g) of 24 CFR 

570.482 is also waived to the extent its 

provisions are related to public benefit. 

5. Housing incentives to resettle in 

disaster-affected communities. 42 U.S.C 

5305(a) of the 1974 Act and associated 

regulations are waived to permit the 

State to offer disaster recovery or 

mitigation housing incentives to 

promote housing development or 

resettlement in particular geographic 

areas. The incentives must be in 

accordance with State’s approved 

Action Plan and published program 

design(s), and the State must maintain 

documentation that the costs are 

necessary and reasonable. 

6. Limitation on emergency grant 

payments. 42 U.S.C. 5305(a) is waived 

so that Illinois can use funds under the 

Second 2008 Act to extend interim 

mortgage assistance to qualified 

individuals for up to 20 months. 

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

The Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance numbers for the disaster 

recovery grant under this Notice are as 

follows: 14.218 and 14.228. 

Finding of No Significant Impact 

A Finding of No Significant Impact 

(FONSI) with respect to the 

environment has been made in 

accordance with HUD regulations at 24 

CFR part 50, which implement section 

102(2)(C) of the National Environmental 

Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332). The 

FONSI is available for public inspection 

between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. weekdays in 

the Regulations Division, Office of 

General Counsel, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, Room 

10276, 451 7th Street, SW., Washington, 

DC 20410–0500. Due to security 

measures at the HUD Headquarters 

building, an advance appointment to 


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review the docket file must be 

scheduled by calling the Regulations 

Division at 202–708–3055 (this is not a 

toll-free number). Hearing or speechimpaired individuals may access this 

number through TTY by calling the tollfree Federal Information Relay Service 

at 800–877–8339. 

Dated: October 4, 2010. 

Mercedes M. Ma ́ rquez, 

Assistant Secretary for Community Planning 

and Development. 

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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R6–R–2010–N152; 60138–1265– 

6CCP–S3] 

National Elk Refuge, Jackson, WY; 

Comprehensive Conservation Plan and 

Environmental Assessment 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of intent; request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (Service), intend to 

prepare a comprehensive conservation 

plan (CCP) and environmental 

assessment (EA) for the National Elk 

Refuge in Jackson, Wyoming. We 

provide this notice in compliance with 

our CCP policy to advise other Federal 

and State agencies, Tribes, and the 

public of our intentions, and to obtain 

suggestions and information on the 

scope of issues to consider in the 

planning process. 

DATES: To ensure consideration, please 

send your written comments by 

November 22, 2010. Submit comments 

by one of the methods under 

ADDRESSES. We will announce 

opportunities for public input in local 

news media throughout the CCP 

process. 

ADDRESSES: Send your comments or 

requests for more information by any of 

the following methods. 

E-mail: nationalelkrefuge@fws.gov. 

Include ‘‘National Elk Refuge CCP’’ in 

the subject line of the message. 

Fax: Attn: Toni Griffin, Planning 

Team Leader, 303–236–4792. 

U.S. Mail: Toni Griffin, Planning 

Team Leader, Division of Refuge 

Planning, 134 Union Blvd., Suite 300, 

Lakewood, CO 80228. 

In-Person Drop-off: You may drop off 

comments during regular business hours 

at the above address, or at the National 

Elk Refuge office located at 675 E. 

Broadway, Jackson, WY 83001. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Toni 

Griffin, 303–236–4378 (phone); or David 

C. Lucas, Chief, Division of Planning, 

P.O. Box 25486, Denver Federal Center, 

Denver, CO 80228. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Introduction 

With this notice, we initiate our 

process for developing a CCP for the 

National Elk Refuge in Jackson, WY. 

This notice complies with our CCP 

policy to (1) advise other Federal and 

State agencies, Tribes, and the public of 

our intention to conduct detailed 

planning on this refuge and (2) to obtain 

suggestions and information on the 

scope of issues to consider in the 

environmental document and during 

development of the CCP. 

Background 

The CCP Process 

The National Wildlife Refuge System 

Administration Act of 1966 as amended 

(16 U.S.C. 668dd–668ee) 

(Administration Act) by the National 

Wildlife Refuge System Improvement 

Act of 1997, requires us to develop a 

CCP for each national wildlife refuge. 

The purpose for developing a CCP is to 

provide refuge managers with a 15-year 

plan for achieving refuge purposes and 

contributing toward the mission of the 

National Wildlife Refuge System, 

consistent with sound principles of fish 

and wildlife management, conservation, 

legal mandates, and our policies. In 

addition to outlining broad management 

direction on conserving wildlife and 

their habitats, CCPs identify wildlifedependent recreational opportunities 

available to the public including, where 

appropriate, opportunities for hunting, 

fishing, wildlife observation and 

photography, and environmental 

education and interpretation. We will 

review and update the CCP at least 

every 15 years in accordance with the 

Administration Act. 

Each unit of the National Wildlife 

Refuge System was established for 

specific purposes. We use these 

purposes as the foundation for 

developing and prioritizing the 

management goals and objectives for 

each refuge within the National Wildlife 

Refuge System, and to determine how 

the public can use each refuge. The 

planning process is a way for us and the 

public to evaluate management goals 

and objectives that will ensure the best 

possible approach to wildlife, plant, and 

habitat conservation, while providing 

for wildlife-dependent recreation 

opportunities that are compatible with 

each refuge’s establishing purposes and 

the mission of the National Wildlife 

Refuge System. 

Our CCP process provides 

participation opportunities for Tribal, 

State, and local governments; agencies; 

organizations; and the public. At this 

time we encourage input in the form of 

issues, concerns, ideas, and suggestions 

for the future management of the 

National Elk Refuge. 

We will conduct the environmental 

review of this project and develop an 

EA in accordance with the requirements 

of the National Environmental Policy 

Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA) (42 

U.S.C. 4321 et seq.); NEPA regulations 

(40 CFR parts 1500–1508); other 

appropriate Federal laws and 

regulations; and our policies and 

procedures for compliance with those 

laws and regulations. 

National Elk Refuge 

The National Elk Refuge was 

established in 1912 as a ‘‘winter game 

(elk) reserve’’ (37 Stat. 293, 16 USC 673), 

and the following year Congress 

designated the area as ‘‘a winter elk 

refuge’’ (37 Stat. 847). In 1921 all lands 

included in the refuge, or that might be 

added in the future, were reserved and 

set apart as ‘‘refuges and breeding 

grounds for birds’’ [Executive Order (EO) 

3596], which was affirmed in 1922 (EO 

3741). In 1927 the refuge was expanded 

to provide ‘‘for the grazing of, and as a 

refuge for, American elk and other big 

game animals’’ (44 Stat. 1246, 16 USC 

673a). These purposes apply to all or 

most of the lands now within the refuge. 

Several parcels have been added to the 

refuge specifically for the conservation 

of fish and wildlife (Fish and Wildlife 

Act of 1956), the development of 

wildlife-oriented recreational 

opportunities (Refuge Recreation Act of 

1962, 16 U.S.C. 460k–l), the protection 

of natural resources, and the 

conservation of threatened and 

endangered species (Endangered 

Species Act of 1973). 

The refuge is located in Teton County, 

Wyoming. A wide variety of habitats are 

found on the National Elk Refuge, 

including grassy meadows, marshes, 

timbered areas, sagebrush, and rocky 

outcroppings. Between November and 

May, the wildlife concentrations and 

diversity provide spectacular wildlife 

viewing opportunities. 

The refuge’s nearly 25,000 acres 

provide a winter home for one of the 

largest wintering concentrations of elk. 

In addition to the large elk herds, a freeroaming bison herd winters at the 

refuge. 

A variety of waterfowl, including 

trumpeter swans, can be seen on nearly 


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