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Properties listed as unsuitable will 

not be made available for any other 

purpose for 20 days from the date of this 

Notice. Homeless assistance providers 

interested in a review by HUD of the 

determination of unsuitability should 

call the toll free information line at 1– 

800–927–7588 for detailed instructions 

or write a letter to Ann Marie Oliva at 

the address listed at the beginning of 

this Notice. Included in the request for 

review should be the property address 

(including zip code), the date of 

publication in the Federal Register, the 

landholding agency, and the property 

number. 

For more information regarding 

particular properties identified in this 

Notice (i.e., acreage, floor plan, existing 

sanitary facilities, exact street address), 

providers should contact the 

appropriate landholding agencies at the 

following addresses: AIR FORCE: Mr. 

Robert E. Moriarty, P.E., AFCE/CI, 2261 

Hughes Avenue, Ste. 155, JBSA 

Lackland, TX, 78236–9853, (210) 395– 

9503; COAST GUARD: Commandant, 

United States Coast Guard, Attn: 

Jennifer Stomber, 2100 Second St. SW., 

Stop 7901, Washington, DC 20593– 

0001; (202) 475–5609; COE: Ms. Brenda 

John-Turner, Army Corps of Engineers, 

Real Estate, HQUSACE/CEMP–CR, 441 

G Street NW., Washington, DC 20314; 

(202) 761–5222; INTERIOR: Mr. Michael 

Wright, Acquisition & Property 

Management, Department of the 

Interior, 3960 N. 56th Ave. #104, 

Hollywood, FL 33021; (443) 223–4639; 

NASA: Mr. Frank T. Bellinger, Facilities 

Engineering Division, National 

Aeronautics & Space Administration, 

Code JX, Washington, DC 20546, (202) 

358–1124; NAVY: Mr. Steve Matteo, 

Department of the Navy, Asset 

Management Division, Naval Facilities 

Engineering Command, Washington 

Navy Yard, 1330 Patterson Ave. SW., 

Suite 1000, Washington, DC 20374, 

(202) 685–9426; (These are not toll-free 

numbers). 

Dated: November 6, 2014. 

Brian P. Fitzmaurice, 

Director, Division of Community Assistance, 

Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs. 

TITLE V, FEDERAL SURPLUS PROPERTY 

PROGRAM FEDERAL REGISTER REPORT 

FOR 11/14/2014 

Suitable/Available Properties 

Building 

Idaho 

Building R0456032000B 

3933 SV Hwy 26 

Irwin ID 83428 

Landholding Agency: Interior 

Property Number: 61201440013 

Status: Underutilized 

Comments: off-site removal only; no future 

agency need; relocation may be difficult 

due to size/type; 385 sq. ft.; comfort 

station;57+ yrs.-old; fair conditions; leaky 

roof; mold; contact Interior for more info. 

Massachusetts 

3 Buildings 

USCG Base Cape Cod 

Bourne MA 02542 

Landholding Agency: Coast Guard 

Property Number: 88201440001 

Status: Excess 

Directions: 5206; 5412; 5386 

Comments: off-site removal only; relocation 

may be difficult due to size/type; sq. ft. 

varies; housing; poor conditions; contact 

Coast Guard for more information. 

Missouri 

2 Restrooms 

Mark Twain Lake Project Office 

Monroe City MO 63456 

Landholding Agency: COE 

Property Number: 31201440007 

Status: Underutilized 

Comments: 62 & 72 sq. ft.; seasonal use; poor 

conditions; contact COE for more 

information. 

Unsuitable Properties 

Buildings 

California 

Buildings 2537, 2538, & 2540 

6425 & 4790 B St./17430 Dolittle 

Beale CA 95903 

Landholding Agency: Air Force 

Property Number: 18201440005 

Status: Excess 

Comments: public access denied and no 

alternative method to gain access w/out 

compromising national security. 

Reasons: Secured Area 

Building 1226 

8464 Arnold 

Beale CA 95903 

Landholding Agency: Air Force 

Property Number: 18201440006 

Status: Unutilized 

Comments: public access denied and no 

alternative method to gain access w/out 

compromising national security. 

Reasons: Secured Area 

Building 1152 

Beale AFB 

Beale CA 95903 

Landholding Agency: Air Force 

Property Number: 18201440007 

Status: Unutilized 

Comments: public access denied and no 

alternative method to gain access w/out 

compromising national security. 

Reasons: Secured Area 

6 Buildings 

Wren & Tern Courts 

Beale CA 95903 

Landholding Agency: Air Force 

Property Number: 18201440008 

Status: Unutilized 

Directions: 5109; 5110; 5111; 5112; 5113; 

5116 

Comments: public access denied and no 

alternative method to gain access w/out 

compromising national security. 

Reasons: Secured Area 

Security Station (#N253A) 

700 R.T. Jones Rd. 

Moffet Field CA 94035 

Landholding Agency: NASA 

Property Number: 71201440015 

Status: Unutilized 

Comments: public access denied and no 

alternative method to gain access w/out 

compromising national security. 

Reasons: Secured Area 

Missouri 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 

St. Louis District 

Wappapello Lake Project Office 

Wappapello MO 63966 

Landholding Agency: COE 

Property Number: 31201440008 

Status: Unutilized 

Comments: entire property located in 

floodway where is has not been contained 

or corrected. 

Reasons: Floodway 

Virginia 

Building 395 

17320 Dahlgren Rd. 

Dahlgren VA 

Landholding Agency: Navy 

Property Number: 77201440018 

Status: Unutilized 

Comments: public access denied and no 

alternative method to gain access w/out 

compromising national security. 

Reasons: Secured Area 

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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Office of the Secretary 

[AAK6006201 1562100DD AOR3030.999900] 

National Environmental Policy Act: 

Implementing Procedures; Additions 

to Categorical Exclusions for Bureau 

of Indian Affairs (516 DM 10) 

AGENCY: Department of the Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces 

proposed additions to the categorical 

exclusions (CE) included in the 

Departmental Manual 516 DM 10. The 

three proposed CEs pertain to limited 

timber harvesting on Indian lands. 

DATES: Comments are due by December 

15, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Send comments to Marvin 

Keller, NEPA Coordinator—Bureau of 

Indian Affairs, 12220 Sunrise Valley 

Drive, Reston, VA 20191, email: 

Marv.Keller@bia.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Marvin Keller, NEPA Coordinator— 

Indian Affairs, (406) 247–7963 or (703) 

390–6470. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

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Background 

The National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA) requires Federal agencies to 

consider the potential environmental 

consequences of their decisions before 

deciding whether and how to proceed. 

The Council on Environmental Quality 

(CEQ) encourages Federal agencies to 

use categorical exclusions (CE) to 

protect the environment more efficiently 

by reducing the resources spent 

analyzing proposals which generally do 

not have potentially significant 

environmental impacts, thereby 

allowing those resources to be focused 

on proposals that may have significant 

environmental impacts. The appropriate 

use of categorical exclusions allow the 

NEPA review, in the absence of 

extraordinary circumstances that merit 

further consideration, to be concluded 

without preparing either an 

environmental assessment (EA) or an 

environmental impact statement (EIS) 

(40 CFR 1500.4(p) and 40 CFR 1508.4). 

Harvesting timber on Indian lands, as 

defined in 25 CFR 163.1 allows 

landowners to realize value from lands 

held in trust for them by the Federal 

Government or subject to restrictions 

against alienation. The National Indian 

Forest Resources Management Act, and 

its implementing regulations, require 

the Secretary, with the participation of 

the landowners, to undertake forest land 

management activities on Indian forest 

lands, including the approval of timber 

harvests. As a result of the need for 

federal permits and contracts, such 

projects are federal actions that require 

compliance with the NEPA. The Bureau 

of Indian Affairs (BIA) has typically 

conducted NEPA reviews of actions 

associated with timber harvesting by 

preparing EAs. The addition of CEs to 

cover these three categories of small 

actions will allow for a more efficient 

NEPA review because those EAs 

resulted in findings of no significant 

impacts which were substantiated over 

time. The three proposed CEs were 

developed based on CEs currently used 

by the United States Forest Service (FS), 

as described in FS regulations 36 CFR 

220, and adopted by the Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM), as described the 

Departmental Manual, 516 DM 11. The 

BIA relied on the experience of the FS 

and BLM and applied its expertise to 

benchmark these CEs and determined 

these are appropriate to establish as BIA 

CEs. 

Proposed Categorical Exclusions 

The Department of the Interior (DOI) 

proposes to add three CEs to the BIA 

chapter of the Departmental Manual 516 

DM 10.5. The CEs are for limited timber 

harvest and cover the following actions: 

(1) Harvesting live trees not to exceed 70 

acres, requiring no more than 0.5 mile 

of temporary road construction; (2) 

Salvaging dead or dying trees not to 

exceed 250 acres, requiring no more 

than 0.5 mile of temporary road 

construction; and (3) Commercial and 

non-commercial sanitation harvest to 

control insects or disease not to exceed 

250 acres, requiring no more than 0.5 

miles of temporary road construction. 

The intent of these CEs is to improve the 

efficiency of routine environmental 

review process for small scale timber 

projects on Indian land. Each proposed 

action must be reviewed for 

extraordinary circumstances that would 

preclude use of this categorical 

exclusion. The DOI list of extraordinary 

circumstances under which a normally 

excluded action would require further 

analysis and documentation in an EA or 

EIS is found at 43 CFR 46.215. If a 

proposed forest management project is 

within the activity described in one of 

these proposed CEs, then these 12 DOI 

listed ‘‘extraordinary circumstances’’ 

will be considered in the context of the 

proposed project to determine if they 

indicate the potential for effects that 

merit additional consideration in an EA 

or an EIS. If any of the DOI 12 

extraordinary circumstances indicate 

such potential, the CE would not be 

used. 

Analysis 

The BIA forestry and environmental 

staff reviewed the NEPA procedures of 

both the BLM and the FS, who have 

similar forest management practices, 

which have similar environmental 

effects. The BIA, BLM, and FS often 

manage lands within the same 

landscape or watershed. Similar soils 

and climates on forest lands result in 

the agencies managing the same forest 

species. Each agency employs similar 

management policies with respect to 

meeting requirements for NEPA and 

other environmental statutes. 

While the agencies have separate 

enabling legislation and missions, each 

requires that forest lands be managed 

according to sustainedyield and 

multiple use principles. The BIA has the 

additional responsibility of assisting 

their tribal partners in reaching their 

objectives of self-determination on 

Indian lands. As part of their land 

management responsibilities, the 

agencies are further required to meet the 

requirements of environmental laws 

including NEPA, Clean Water Act, 

Clean Air Act, Endangered Species Act, 

and the National Historic Preservation 

Act when making decisions. 

Additionally, regulations for each 

agency require preparation of forest or 

land management plans designed to 

achieve the goals and objectives of 

environmental laws and regulations 

prior to initiating actions such as those 

contained in these proposed CEs. The 

similarities of the forest management 

practices of the BIA, BLM, and FS, make 

the adoption of the CEs a logical step to 

ensure consistency in NEPA compliance 

across the three agencies. The review for 

extraordinary circumstances, which BIA 

normally conducts for all CEs, ensures 

that measures would continue to be 

taken to identify and reduce any 

significant impacts. 

The BIA review team examined 

previous analyses conducted by FS and 

BLM when they developed their CEs. 

The FS revised its NEPA procedures to 

include these three CEs on July 29, 

2003. The FS codified its NEPA 

procedures on July 24, 2008, and the 

CEs are now included in 36 CFR Section 

220.6. The BLM reviewed the FS 

administrative record that was relied 

upon when the FS changed its NEPA 

procedures and adopted the same three 

CEs on August 4, 2007. 

The BLM and FS found that the three 

categories of actions covered by the CEs 

do not individually or cumulatively 

have significant effects on the human 

environment. The BLM and FS findings 

were predicated on data representing 

the expert judgment of the responsible 

officials who made the original findings 

and determinations for the 154 FS 

projects reviewed, the resource 

specialists who validated the predicted 

effects of the 154 reviewed activities 

after the projects were completed, and a 

belief that the profile of past timber 

harvest activities drawn from their 

database represented the agency’s past 

practices and was indicative of their 

future activities. Following the CEQ 

guidance published in the Federal 

Register on December 6, 2010, the BIA 

analyzed the FS information, as well as 

the review conducted by BLM, and 

determined that based on the 

comparability of the actions the 

expected effects of BIA forestry 

activities should be comparable to those 

of the FS and BLM. 

Public Comments 

To be considered, any comments on 

this proposed addition to the list of 

categorical exclusions in the 

Departmental Manual must be received 

by the date listed in the DATES section 

of this notice at the location listed in the 

ADDRESSES section. Comments received 

after that date will be considered only 

to the extent practicable. Comments, 

including names and addresses of 

respondents, will be part of the public 

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record and available for public review at 

the BIA address shown in the 

ADDRESSES section, during business 

hours, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except holidays. Before 

including your address, telephone 

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. 

Text of Proposed Addition to 516 DM 

10 

10.5 Categorical Exclusions 

H. Forestry. 

(11) Harvesting live trees not to 

exceed 70 acres, requiring no more than 

0.5 mile of temporary road construction. 

Such activities: 

(a) Shall not include even-aged 

regeneration harvests or vegetation type 

conversions. 

(b) May include incidental removal of 

trees for landings, skid trails, and road 

clearing. 

(c) May include temporary roads 

which are defined as roads authorized 

by contract, permit, lease, other written 

authorization, or emergency operation 

not intended to be part of the BIA or 

Tribal transportation systems and not 

necessary for long-term resource 

management. Temporary roads shall be 

designed to standards appropriate for 

the intended uses, considering safety, 

cost of transportation, and impacts on 

land and resources and 

(d) Shall require the treatment of 

temporary roads constructed or used so 

as to permit the reestablishment by 

artificial or natural means, of vegetative 

cover on the roadway and areas where 

the vegetative cover was disturbed by 

the construction or use of the road, as 

necessary to minimize erosion from the 

disturbed area. Such treatment shall be 

designed to reestablish vegetative cover 

as soon as practicable, but at least 

within 10 years after the termination of 

the contract. 

Examples include, but are not limited 

to: 

(a) Removing individual trees for 

sawlogs, specialty products, or 

fuelwood. 

(b) Commercial thinning of 

overstocked stands to achieve the 

desired stocking level to increase health 

and vigor. 

(12) Salvaging dead or dying trees not 

to exceed 250 acres, requiring no more 

than 0.5 mile of temporary road 

construction. Such activities: 

(a) May include incidental removal of 

live or dead trees for landings, skid 

trails, and road clearing. 

(b) May include temporary roads 

which are defined as roads authorized 

by contract, permit, lease, other written 

authorization, or emergency operation 

not intended to be part of the BIA or 

Tribal transportation systems and not 

necessary for long-term resource 

management. Temporary roads shall be 

designed to standards appropriate for 

the intended uses, considering safety, 

cost of transportation, and impacts on 

land and resources and 

(c) Shall require the treatment of 

temporary roads constructed or used so 

as to permit the reestablishment, by 

artificial or natural means, of vegetative 

cover on the roadway and areas where 

the vegetative cover was disturbed by 

the construction or use of the road, as 

necessary to minimize erosion from the 

disturbed area. Such treatment shall be 

designed to reestablish vegetative cover 

as soon as practicable, but at least 

within 10 years after the termination of 

the contract. 

(d) For this CE, a dying tree is defined 

as a standing tree that has been severely 

damaged by forces such as fire, wind, 

ice, insects, or disease, such that in the 

judgment of an experienced forest 

professional or someone technically 

trained for the work, the tree is likely to 

die within a few years. 

Examples include, but are not limited 

to: 

(a) Harvesting a portion of a stand 

damaged by a wind or ice event. 

(b) Harvesting fire damaged trees. 

(13) Commercial and non-commercial 

sanitation harvest of trees to control 

insects or disease not to exceed 250 

acres, requiring no more than 0.5 miles 

of temporary road construction. Such 

activities: 

(a) May include removal of infested/ 

infected trees and adjacent live 

uninfested/uninfected trees as 

determined necessary to control the 

spread of insects or disease and 

(b) May include incidental removal of 

live or dead trees for landings, skid 

trails, and road clearing. 

(c) May include temporary roads 

which are defined as roads authorized 

by contract, permit, lease, other written 

authorization, or emergency operation 

not intended to be part of the BIA or 

tribal transportation systems and not 

necessary for long-term resource 

management. Temporary roads shall be 

designed to standards appropriate for 

the intended uses, considering safety, 

cost of transportation, and impacts on 

land and resources and 

(d) Shall require the treatment of 

temporary roads constructed or used so 

as to permit the reestablishment, by 

artificial or natural means, of vegetative 

cover on the roadway and areas where 

the vegetative cover was disturbed by 

the construction or use of the road, as 

necessary to minimize erosion from the 

disturbed area. Such treatment shall be 

designed to reestablish vegetative cover 

as soon as practicable, but at least 

within 10 years after the termination of 

the contract. 

Examples include, but are not limited 

to: 

(a) Felling and harvesting trees 

infested with mountain pine beetles and 

immediately adjacent uninfested trees to 

control expanding spot infestations (a 

buffer) and 

(b) Removing or destroying trees 

infested or infected with a new exotic 

insect or disease, such as emerald ash 

borer, Asian longhorned beetle, or 

sudden oak death pathogen. 

Dated: October 29, 2014. 

Willie R. Taylor, 

Director, Office of Environmental Policy and 

Compliance. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–W7–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R1–ES–2014–N131; 

FXES11120100000–145–FF01E00000] 

Draft Multi-Species General 

Conservation Plan and Draft 

Environmental Assessment; Douglas 

County, Washington 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability; request 

for comments. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (Service), announce the 

availability of a draft multi-species 

general conservation plan (MSGCP) for 

Douglas County, Washington. The 

Service and the Foster Creek 

Conservation District (FCCD) developed 

the draft MSGCP as a programmatic 

approach to streamline the development 

of individual farm plans by non-Federal 

agricultural landowners and operators 

to facilitate their applying for incidental 

take permits (ITPs) under the 

Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 

amended (Act). The ITPs would 

authorize take of the federally 

endangered Columbia Basin pygmy 

rabbit and three other nonlisted species, 

should they become listed, resulting 

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