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funded projects involving the 

acquisition of real property or the 

displacement of persons as a direct 

result of acquisition, rehabilitation or 

demolition are subject to the Uniform 

Relocation Assistance and Real Property 

Acquisition Policies Act of 1970 (URA). 

Agencies receiving HUD funding for 

such projects are required to document 

their compliance with applicable 

requirements of the URA and its 

implementing government-wide 

regulations at 49 CFR Part 24. 

Respondents: State, local or tribal 

government. 

Estimated Number of Respondents: 

2,000. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 

80,000. 

Frequency of Response: 40. 

Average Hours per Response: 3.5. 

Total Estimated Burdens: 280,000. 

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: October 21, 2014. 

Colette Pollard, 

Department Reports Management Officer, 

Office of the Chief Information Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R8–ES–2014–N187; FXES11120000– 

145–FF08ECAR00] 

Final Supplemental Environmental 

Impact Report/Environmental Impact 

Statement for a Proposed Amendment 

to the Coachella Valley Multiple 

Species Habitat Conservation Plan/ 

Natural Communities Conservation 

Plan, Riverside County, CA 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (Service), announce the 

availability of our final Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Report/ 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/ 

EIS) to the approved and certified 

September 2007 Final Recirculated EIR/ 

EIS for the Coachella Valley Multiple 

Species Habitat Conservation Plan/ 

Natural Communities Conservation Plan 

(CVMSHCP, or Plan), in accordance 

with the National Environmental Policy 

Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA), and its 

implementing regulations, as well as in 

compliance with the Endangered 

Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). 

The final Supplemental EIR/EIS 

considers the environmental effects 

associated with adding Desert Hot 

Springs and Mission Springs Water 

District (MSWD) as Permittees to the 

CVMSHCP, and amending the existing 

incidental take permit. 

DATES: A Record of Decision will be 

signed no sooner than 30 days after the 

publication date of the Environmental 

Protection Agency (EPA) notice 

announcing this final Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Report/ 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/ 

EIS). We will accept comments received 

or postmarked on or before November 

26, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: 

Obtaining Documents: You may 

download copies of the final 

Supplemental EIR/EIS to the approved 

and certified September 2007 Final 

Recirculated EIR/EIS for the CVMSHCP 

and amended Plan on the Internet at 

http://www.cvmshcp.org. Alternatively, 

you may use one of the methods below 

to request hard copies or a CD–ROM of 

the documents. Please send your 

requests or comments by any one of the 

following methods, and specify 

‘‘CVMSHCP’’ in your request or 

comment. 

Submitting Comments: You may 

submit comments or requests for copies 

or more information by one of the 

following methods. 

• Email: fw8cfwocomments@fws.gov. 

Include CVMSHCP in the subject line of 

the message. 

• U.S. Mail: U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, Palm Springs Fish and Wildlife 

Office, Attn: Mr. Kennon A. Corey, 

Assistant Field Supervisor, 777 East 

Tahquitz Canyon Way, Suite 208, Palm 

Springs, CA 92262. 

• In-Person Drop-off, Viewing, or 

Pickup: Telephone 760–322–2070, to 

make an appointment during regular 

business hours to drop off comments or 

view received comments at address 

identified above. 

• Fax to: Mr. Kennon A. Corey, 

Assistant Field Supervisor, 760–322– 

4648, Attn: CVMSHCP. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Jenness McBride, Division Chief, 

Coachella and Imperial Valleys, 777 

East Tahquitz Canyon Way, Suite 208, 

Palm Springs, CA 92262, telephone 

760–322–2070. Persons who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 800–877–8339 to 

contact the above individual during 

normal business hours. The FIRS is 

available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 

to leave a message or question with the 

above individual. You will receive a 

reply during normal business hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice announces the availability of the 

final Supplemental Environmental 

Impact Report/Environmental Impact 

Statement (Supplemental EIR/EIS) 

under NEPA (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) for 

the proposed amendment to the 

Coachella Valley Multiple Species 

Habitat Conservation Plan/Natural 

Communities Conservation Plan 

(CVMSHCP, or Plan). The amendment 

would add Desert Hot Springs and 

Mission Springs Water District (MSWD) 

as permittees to the Plan. This notice 

advises the public that we, the U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service (Service), have 

received applications for incidental take 

permits pursuant to the Act (16 U.S.C. 

1531 et seq.) from the City of Desert Hot 

Springs and Mission Springs Water 

District (MSWD), Riverside County, 

California. The Service, in cooperation 

and coordination with the Coachella 

Valley Conservation Commission 

(CVCC), has prepared a final 

Supplemental EIR/EIS, which includes 

responses to public comments received 

on the September 2013 draft 

Supplemental EIR/EIS, and the 

proposed amendment to the CVMSHCP 

to include Desert Hot Springs and 

MSWD as permittees to the Plan. The 

final Supplemental EIR/EIS 


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supplements the approved and certified 

September 2007 Final Recirculated EIR/ 

EIS for the CVMSHCP (72 FR 63922; 

November 13, 2007), and analyzes the 

environmental effects associated with 

the approval of an amendment to add 

Desert Hot Springs and MSWD as 

permittees to the existing incidental 

take permit under section 10(a)(1)(B) of 

the Act. 

Background 

Section 9 of the Act and Federal 

regulations at 50 CFR part 17 prohibit 

the ‘‘take’’ of fish and wildlife species 

listed as endangered or threatened. Take 

of listed fish and wildlife is defined 

under the Act as to ‘‘harass, harm, 

pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, 

capture, or collect, or to attempt to 

engage in any such conduct’’ (16 U.S.C. 

1538). Harm includes significant habitat 

modification or degradation that results 

in death or injury to listed wildlife 

species by significantly impairing 

essential behavioral patterns, including 

breeding, feeding, or sheltering (50 CFR 

17.3). Under limited circumstances, we 

may issue permits to authorize 

incidental take of listed wildlife species, 

which the Act defines as take that is 

incidental to, and not the purpose of, 

the carrying out of otherwise lawful 

activities. 

Regulations governing incidental take 

permits for threatened and endangered 

species are at 50 CFR 17.32 and 17.22, 

respectively. In addition to meeting 

other criteria, activities covered by an 

incidental take permit must not 

jeopardize the continued existence in 

the wild of federally listed wildlife or 

plants. 

Previous Actions 

In February 2006, the Final 

CVMSHCP and associated Final EIR/EIS 

were released for review and approval 

by the participating jurisdictions and 

agencies as part of the application 

process to support the issuance of take 

authorizations by the Service. However, 

Desert Hot Springs voted to not approve 

the Plan in June 2006. Subsequently, the 

Coachella Valley Association of 

Governments (CVAG) Executive 

Committee rescinded its approval of the 

Plan and directed that Desert Hot 

Springs be removed as a Permittee. A 

revised Plan and associated EIR/EIS 

were prepared and recirculated that 

removed Desert Hot Springs and made 

other modifications consistent with 

direction from the CVAG Executive 

Committee. 

The revised and recirculated 

CVMSHCP was approved and the 

associated Final Recirculated EIR/EIS 

was certified by CVAG and the CVCC in 

September 2007 and subsequently by all 

local Permittees by the end of October 

2007. The State Permittees (Caltrans, 

Coachella Valley Mountains 

Conservancy, and California State Parks) 

approved the Plan and signed the 

Implementing Agreement in March 

2008. The Final Recirculated 

CVMSHCP, which did not include 

Desert Hot Springs, received final State 

and Federal permits on September 9 and 

October 1, 2008, respectively. 

In a reversal of their June 2006 

decision, Desert Hot Springs City 

Council reconsidered their decision and 

unanimously approved a Memorandum 

of Understanding (MOU) in October 

2007, to enter into negotiations for 

Desert Hot Springs to join the 

CVMSHCP as a Permittee. The MOU 

was subsequently approved by the 

CVCC, CVAG, and the County of 

Riverside in February 2008. Subsequent 

to Desert Hot Springs’ decision, the 

MSWD has also made the decision to 

join the CVMSHCP as a Permittee. The 

addition of both entities as Permittees 

has been evaluated in the Supplemental 

EIR/EIS. 

Proposed Amendments 

The amendment to reinstate Desert 

Hot Springs proposes that the Plan 

provisions and boundaries be revised 

according to the February 2006 

CVMSHCP, with modifications as 

described in the September 2007 Final 

Recirculated CVMSHCP to provide for 

the Riverside County Flood Control and 

Water Conservation District’s future 

flood control facility. Therefore, the 

current Conservation Area boundaries 

would be amended to include private 

lands within Desert Hot Springs’ city 

limits and restore the original 

boundaries of the Upper Mission Creek/ 

Big Morongo Canyon and Whitewater 

Canyon Conservation Areas within 

Desert Hot Springs’ city limits. Adding 

Desert Hot Springs as a Permittee 

requires a Major Amendment to the 

CVMSHCP in accordance with the 

requirements outlined in Section 6.12.4 

of the Plan. The procedures outlined in 

Section 6.12.4 state that major 

amendments require the same process to 

be followed as the original CVMSHCP 

approval, including California 

Environmental Quality Act and NEPA 

compliance. 

In addition, MSWD, not previously a 

participating agency, has also applied to 

join the CVMSHCP as a Permittee. 

MSWD and Desert Hot Springs have 

proposed that a number of infrastructure 

projects be included as Covered 

Activities under the Plan. Covered 

Activities include certain activities 

carried out or conducted by Permittees, 

Participating Special Entities, Third 

Parties Granted Take Authorization, and 

others within the CVMSHCP Plan Area, 

as described in Section 7 of the 

CVMSHCP, that will receive Take 

Authorization under the Service’s 

section 10(a)(1)(B) permit and the State 

NCCP Permit, provided these activities 

are otherwise lawful. Examples of 

Desert Hot Springs proposed Covered 

Activities include roadway 

improvement projects. Examples of 

MSWD proposed Covered Activities 

include construction of wells, water 

storage facilities, water transmission 

lines, recycled water lines, and sewer 

lines. Refer to Table 2–1 and 2–2 in the 

Supplemental EIR/EIS for Desert Hot 

Springs and MSWD Covered Activities 

list, respectively. 

Covered activities will increase the 

existing permitted take by 34 acres, but 

inclusion of Desert Hot Springs and 

MSWD will expand conservation area 

boundaries in Desert Hot Springs to 

include 770 acres of land to be managed 

consistent with the CVMSHCP’s 

conservation goals and objectives. 

Fifteen of the 27 Covered Species and 5 

of the 27 Natural Communities will be 

affected by the Major Amendment. 

Additional amounts of take, in acres, for 

Covered Species and Natural 

Communities are listed in Table 4.1–1 

and 4.1–2 in the Supplemental EIR/EIS, 

respectively. 

National Environmental Policy Act 

Compliance 

The Service issued a notice of intent 

(NOI) to prepare a draft Supplemental 

EIR/EIS in the Federal Register on 

Wednesday, March 30, 2011 (76 FR 

17666) and a notice of availability of the 

Draft Supplemental Environmental 

Impact Report/Environmental Impact 

Statement for the Proposed Amendment 

to the CVMSHCP on September 6, 2013 

(78 FR 54906), which included a 45-day 

review public review period. The Draft 

Supplemental EIR/EIS analyzed the 

potential environmental impacts that 

may result from the Federal action of 

authorizing 34 additional acres of 

incidental take anticipated to occur with 

the addition of Desert Hot Springs and 

MSWD as permittees to the CVMSHCP, 

and identified various alternatives. We 

received seven comment letters on the 

draft Supplemental EIR/EIS. A response 

to each comment received in these 

letters has been included in the final 

Supplemental EIR/EIS and revisions to 

the CVMSHCP have been made based 

on those comments. The analysis 

provided in the Final Supplemental 

EIR/EIS is intended to accomplish the 

following: Inform the public of the 

Service’s proposed action and 


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alternatives, and address public 

comments received on the draft 

Supplemental EIR/EIS. 

Public Review 

The Service invites the public to 

comment on the permit applications, 

revised CVMSHCP, and final 

Supplemental EIR/EIS during the public 

comment period (see DATES). If you wish 

to comment, you may submit your 

comments to the address listed in 

ADDRESSES. 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 may 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. 

Next Steps 

We will evaluate the applications, 

associated documents, and comments 

submitted to determine whether the 

application meets the requirements of 

section 10(a) of the Act. The Service 

will then prepare a Record of Decision. 

A permit decision will be made no 

sooner than 30 days after the 

publication of the Environmental 

Protection Agency’s Final EIS notice in 

the Federal Register and completion of 

the Record of Decision. 

Dated: October 20, 2014. 

Alexandra Pitts, 

Deputy Regional Director, Pacific Southwest 

Region, Sacramento, California. 

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BILLING CODE 4510–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

U.S. Geological Survey 

[GX14BA030AD0100] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Request for Comments 

AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of revision of a currently 

approved information collection, (1028– 

0078). 

SUMMARY: We (the U.S. Geological 

Survey) will ask Office of Management 

and Budget (OMB) to approve the 

information collection request (ICR) 

described below. To comply with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) 

and as part of our continuing efforts to 

reduce paperwork and respondent 

burden, we invite the general public and 

other Federal agencies to take this 

opportunity to comment on this ICR. 

This collection is scheduled to expire 

on October 31, 2014. 

DATES: To ensure that your comments 

on this ICR are considered, OMB must 

receive them on or before November 26, 

2014. 

ADDRESSES: Please submit written 

comments on this information 

collection directly to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB), Office 

of Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Desk Officer for the 

Department of the Interior, via email: 

(OIRA_SUBMISSION@omb.eop.gov); or 

by fax (202) 395–5806; and identify your 

submission with ‘OMB Control Number 

1028–0078 North American Amphibian 

Monitoring Program’. Please also 

forward a copy of your comments and 

suggestions on this information 

collection to the Information Collection 

Clearance Officer, U.S. Geological 

Survey, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive MS 

807, Reston, VA 20192 (mail); (703) 

648–7195 (fax); or gsinfo_collections@usgs.gov (email). 

Please reference ‘OMB Information 

Collection 1028–0078 North American 

Amphibian Monitoring Program’ in all 

correspondence. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael J. Adams, Forest and Rangeland 

Ecosystem Science Center, U.S. 

Geological Survey, 3200 SW Jefferson 

Way, Corvallis, OR 97331 (mail); (541) 

750–1069 (fax); or mjadams@usgs.gov 

(email). You may also find information 

about this ICR at www.reginfo.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

This information collection pertains 

to volunteers who contribute their time 

to conduct frog call surveys at assigned 

survey routes for the North American 

Amphibian Monitoring Program. 

Volunteers use an on-line data entry 

system to submit data. This information 

is used by Agencies and organizations at 

the state, federal, and local levels. The 

information constitutes monitoring of 

amphibian populations, providing 

systematically collected information to 

enable managers in natural resource 

decision making. Responses are 

voluntary. 

II. Data 

OMB Control Number: 1028–0078. 

Form Number: None. 

Title: North American Amphibian 

Monitoring Program. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved information 

collection. 

Respondent Obligation: None 

(participation is voluntary). 

Frequency of Collection: 3 times per 

year. 

Description of Respondents: General 

public; individual households. 

Estimated Total Number of Annual 

Responses: 1600. 

Estimated Time per Response: We 

estimate that it will take 3 hours per 

response. 

Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 

4800. 

Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’ 

Burden: The ‘‘non-hour cost’’ burden 

associated with this IC is primarily 

vehicle mileage, calculated at the 

federal standard rate of 56 cents per 

mile times the approximate distance of 

a survey route (15 miles). The total 

estimate is $8.40 per survey. Any new 

participants will also need to purchase 

a thermometer to record air temperature 

at $15 each. 

Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA 

(44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) provides that an 

agency 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. Until the OMB approves a 

collection of information, you are not 

obliged to respond. 

Comments: On August 20, 2014, we 

published a Federal Register notice (79 

FR 49335) announcing that we would 

submit this ICR to OMB for approval 

and soliciting comments. The comment 

period closed on October 20, 2014. We 

received two comments, both supported 

the renewal of this collection as helpful 

information for their state natural 

resources program. 

III. Request for Comments 

We again invite comments concerning 

this ICR as to: (a) Whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the agency to perform its duties, 

including whether the information is 

useful; (b) the accuracy of the agency’s 

estimate of the burden of the proposed 

collection of information; (c) how to 

enhance the quality, usefulness, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (d) how to minimize the 

burden on the respondents, including 

the use of automated collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology. 

Please note that comments submitted 

in response to this notice are a matter 

of public record. Before including your 

personal mailing address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personally identifiable information in 

your comment, you should be aware 

that your entire comment, including 


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