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2. Any individual or entity, and any 

Related Party (as such term is defined in 

the Qualification Statement) of such 

individual or entity, that is a mortgagor, 

healthcare operator, or a member of a 

hospital Board of Directors with respect 

to any of HUD’s multifamily and/or 

healthcare programs (excluding the 

Mortgage Loan being offered in the Loan 

Sale) and that has failed to file financial 

statements or is otherwise in default 

under such mortgage loan or is in 

violation or noncompliance of any 

regulatory or business agreements with 

HUD and fails to cure such default or 

violation by no later than December 3, 

2014. 

3. Any individual or entity that is 

debarred, suspended, or excluded from 

doing business with HUD pursuant to 

Title 24 of the Code of Federal 

Regulations, Part 24, and Title 2 of the 

Code of Federal Regulations, Part 2424; 

4. Any contractor, subcontractor and/ 

or consultant or advisor (including any 

agent, employee, partner, director, 

principal or affiliate of any of the 

foregoing) who performed services for, 

or on behalf of, HUD in connection with 

HLS 2015–1; 

5. An FHA-approved mortgagee, 

including any principals, affiliates, or 

assigns thereof, that has received FHA 

insurance benefits for the same 

Mortgage Loan being offered in the Loan 

Sale; 

6. An FHA-approved mortgagee and/ 

or loan servicer, including any 

principals, affiliates, or assigns thereof, 

that originated the Mortgage Loan being 

offered in the Loan Sale if the Mortgage 

Loan defaulted within two years of 

origination and resulted in the payment 

of an FHA insurance claim; 

7. Any employee of HUD, a member 

of such employee’s family, or an entity 

owned or controlled by any such 

employee or member of such an 

employee’s family; 

8. Any individual or entity that uses 

the services, directly or indirectly, of 

any person or entity ineligible under 

provisions (1) through (7) above to assist 

in preparing its bid on the Mortgage 

Loan.10. Any affiliate, principal or 

employee of any person or entity that, 

within the two-year period prior to 

December 1, 2014, serviced the 

Mortgage Loan or performed other 

services for or on behalf of HUD; 

9. Any contractor or subcontractor to 

HUD that otherwise had access to 

information concerning the Mortgage 

Loan on behalf of HUD or provided 

services to any person or entity which, 

within the two-year period prior to 

December 1, 2014, had access to 

information with respect to the 

Mortgage Loan on behalf of HUD; 

10. Any employee, officer, director or 

any other person that provides or will 

provide services to the prospective 

bidder with respect to the Mortgage 

Loan during any warranty period 

established for the Loan Sale, that 

serviced the Mortgage Loan or 

performed other services for or on 

behalf of HUD within the two-year 

period prior to December 1, 2014, or 

provided services to any person or 

entity which serviced, performed 

services or otherwise had access to 

information with respect to the 

Mortgage Loan for or on behalf of HUD. 

The Qualification Statement provides 

further details pertaining to eligibility 

requirements. Prospective bidders 

should carefully review the 

Qualification Statement to determine 

whether they are eligible to submit bids 

on the Mortgage Loan in HLS 2015–1. 

Freedom of Information Act Requests 

HUD reserves the right, in its sole and 

absolute discretion, to disclose 

information regarding HLS 2015–1, 

including, but not limited to, the 

identity of any successful bidder and its 

bid price or bid percentage for the 

Mortgage Loan, upon the closing of the 

sale of the Mortgage Loan. Even if HUD 

elects not to publicly disclose any 

information relating to HLS 2015–1, 

HUD will have the right to disclose any 

information that HUD is obligated to 

disclose pursuant to the Freedom of 

Information Act and all regulations 

promulgated thereunder. 

Scope of Notice 

This notice applies to HLS 2015–1 

and does not establish HUD’s policy for 

the sale of other mortgage loans. 

Dated: November 26, 2014. 

Biniam Gebre, 

Acting Assistant Secretary for Housing— 

Federal Housing Commissioner. 

Laura M. Marin, 

Associate General Deputy Assistant Secretary 

for Housing—Associate Deputy Federal 

Housing Commissioner. 

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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R8–ES–2014–N242; 

FXES11120800000–145–FF08E00000] 

Final Environmental Impact Statement 

for the Proposed Maricopa Sun Solar 

Complex Multi-Species Habitat 

Conservation Plan, Kern County, 

California 

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 environmental 

impact statement (EIS) for the Maricopa 

Sun Solar Complex Multi-Species 

Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP), 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 EIS 

was updated to address the comments 

received on the 2014 draft EIS and 

considers the environmental effects of 

issuing an incidental take permit for five 

animal species in response to the 

application from Maricopa Sun, LLC 

(Applicant). The Applicant has 

prepared the final Maricopa Sun Solar 

Complex Habitat Conservation Plan 

(HCP) to describe and implement a 

conservation plan that will minimize 

and mitigate environmental effects 

associated with the incidental take of 

five animal species (‘‘Covered Species’’) 

associated with the construction, 

operation, maintenance, and 

decommissioning of an up to 700 

megawatt photo-voltaic power 

generating facility and implementation 

of conservation actions associated with 

the HCP in Kern County, California. 

DATES: A Record of Decision will be 

signed no sooner than 30 days after the 

publication date announcing this final 

EIS. We will accept comments received 

by January 7, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Obtaining Documents: You 

may download copies of the final EIS 

and final HCP from the Sacramento Fish 

and Wildlife Office Web site at http:// 

www.fws.gov/sacramento. Alternatively 

you may use one of the methods below 

to request a CD–ROM of the documents. 

Please send your requests or comments 

by any one of the following methods. 

Submitting Comments: You may 

submit comments or requests for copies 

or more information by one of the 

following methods. 

• U.S. Mail: U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service; Sacramento Fish and Wildlife 

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Office; Attn: Mr. Mike Thomas, Chief, 

Conservation Planning Division; 2800 

Cottage Way, W–2605, Sacramento, CA 

95825. 

• In-Person Drop-off, Viewing, or 

Pickup: Telephone 916–414–6600 to 

make an appointment during regular 

business hours to drop off comments or 

view received comments at the 

Sacramento Fish and Wildlife Office. 

• Fax: Mr. Mike Thomas, Chief, 

Conservation Planning Division, 916– 

414–6713. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mike Thomas, Chief, Conservation 

Planning Division, or Eric Tattersall, 

Deputy Assistant Field Supervisor, at 

the address in ADDRESSES or at (916) 

414–6600 (telephone). 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 

individuals 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 individuals. 

You will receive a reply during normal 

business hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice announces the availability of the 

final EIS under the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as 

amended (42 U.S.C. 4321–4347 et seq.; 

NEPA), and its implementing 

regulations in the Code of Federal 

Regulations (CFR) at 40 CFR 1500–1508, 

as well as in compliance with section 

10(c) of the Endangered Species Act (16 

U.S.C. 1531–1544 et seq.; Act). 

Background Information 

Section 9 of the Act (16 U.S.C. 1531– 

1544 et seq.) and Federal regulations at 

50 CFR 17 prohibit the taking of fish 

and wildlife species listed as 

endangered or threatened under section 

4 of the Act. Take of federally listed fish 

or wildlife is defined under the Act as 

to ‘‘harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, 

wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or 

attempt to engage in such conduct’’ 16 

U.S.C. 1532(19)). The term ‘‘harm’’ is 

defined in the regulations as ‘‘an act 

which actually kills or injures wildlife 

such act may include significant habitat 

modification or degradation where it 

actually kills or injures wildlife by 

significantly impairing essential 

behavioral patterns, including breeding, 

feeding, or sheltering’’ (50 CFR 17.3). 

However, under specified 

circumstances, the Service may issue 

permits that allow the take of federally 

listed fish or wildlife species, provided 

that the take that occurs is incidental to, 

but not the purpose of, an otherwise 

lawful activity. 

Regulations governing permits for 

endangered and threatened species are 

at 50 CFR 17.22 and 17.32, respectively. 

Section 10(a)(1)(B) of the Act contains 

provisions for issuing such incidental 

take permits to non-Federal entities for 

the take of endangered and threatened 

species, provided the following criteria 

are met: 

(1) The taking will be incidental; 

(2) The applicants will, to the 

maximum extent practicable, minimize 

and mitigate the impact of such taking; 

(3) The applicants will develop a 

proposed HCP and ensure that adequate 

funding for the HCP will be provided; 

(4) The taking will not appreciably 

reduce the likelihood of the survival 

and recovery of the species in the wild; 

and 

(5) The applicants will carry out any 

other measures that the Service may 

require as being necessary or 

appropriate for the purposes of the HCP. 

The final HCP addresses, and the 

Applicant seeks incidental take 

authorization for, five animal species 

(three federally endangered and two 

federally non-listed). The proposed 

permit would provide take 

authorization for all species identified 

in the final HCP as Covered Species. 

Take authorized for listed Covered 

Species would be effective upon permit 

issuance. Take authorization for 

currently non-listed Covered Species 

would become effective concurrent with 

listing, should the species be listed 

under the Act during the proposed 35- 

year Permit Term. 

The following three federally listed 

endangered species are included as 

Covered Species in the HCP: Bluntnosed leopard lizard (Gambelia sila), 

Tipton kangaroo rat (Dipodomys 

nitratoides nitratoides), and San Joaquin 

kit fox (Vulpes macrotis mutica). The 

following two federally non-listed 

species are included as Covered Species 

in the HCP: Western burrowing owl 

(Athene cunicularia) and Nelson’s 

antelope squirrel (Ammospermophilus 

nelsoni). 

Activities proposed for coverage 

under the incidental take permit 

(‘‘Covered Activities’’) include, but are 

not limited to the following general 

categories: Construction and operation 

activities within Solar Sites; 

management and maintenance activities 

within Movement Corridors; 

management activities within the areas 

designated for conservation 

(Conservation Sites), including 

monitoring and reporting actions; 

activities associated with 

implementation of the conservation 

program specified in the final HCP; 

decommissioning; and implementation 

of the conservation program. 

Construction-related activities could 

include grading and compaction, 

trenching, paving of access roads, 

installation of solar arrays, 

meteorological stations, transmission 

lines, septic leech fields, fencing, and 

landscaping. Construction of solar 

facilities on all sites is anticipated to be 

completed over an 8-to-10-year period 

from the commencement of the initial 

development; however, could it extend 

to a 10-to-15-year period. Construction 

of the project will occur in a series of 

approximately 1-megawatt blocks, 

generally consisting of 5 to 8.64 acres 

each. It is anticipated that construction 

of each section (640 acres) within the 

Maricopa Sun Solar Complex will take 

12 to 18 months. Operation-related 

activities could include solar panel 

maintenance, on-site parking, operation 

of solar modules, inspection, and repair 

of equipment, and operation of lighting. 

Typical activities associated with 

decommissioning of the solar energy 

facility include removal of all solar 

electric systems, buildings, cabling, 

electrical components, breaking up of 

concrete pads and foundations, removal 

of access roads, additional grading, and 

replacement of soil disturbed from 

decommissioning. Preservation/

enhancement and conservation plan 

management activities could include 

vegetation control (i.e., grazing and 

mowing), fence installation, special 

status species monitoring (i.e., surveys 

such as trapping, use of remote cameras 

and spotlighting), and habitat 

restoration and creation. 

The proposed Covered Activities 

related to development and operations 

and maintenance of the solar sites 

would result in the permanent or 

temporary disturbance of up to 3,798 

acres of existing land cover within the 

proposed 5,784-acre Permit Area. The 

proposed Covered Activities related to 

management of the Conservation Sites 

would also result in some disturbance of 

land cover, but overall these actions are 

expected to benefit the Covered Species. 

The Solar Site Parcels encompass 3,798 

acres (plus 91 acres of existing public 

easements), and Conservation Sites total 

1,894 acres. The Covered Lands are 

primarily comprised of currently 

undeveloped and vacant agricultural 

land, and are relatively flat. 

Surrounding land uses are both active 

and inactive agricultural land; they also 

include lands designated as flood 

hazard areas, public facilities, lands 

designated for the protection of 

important watershed recharge areas or 

wildlife habitat, lands having important 

value as a buffer between resource areas 

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and urban areas, and lands designated 

for industrial uses. Covered Activity 

impacts to existing land cover types 

were used as a surrogate to identify 

maximum potential impacts to species 

and the potential take of each Covered 

Species. The proposed HCP 

conservation strategy prescribes 

conditions for implementing each 

Covered Activity that avoid or minimize 

potential take of the Covered Species, 

and identifies mitigation for species 

impacts that cannot be avoided. 

National Environmental Policy Act 

Compliance 

Our proposed permit issuance 

decision triggers compliance with 

NEPA, which requires that 

environmental information be available 

to public officials and citizens before 

Federal decisions are made and before 

Federal actions are taken. We formally 

initiated an environmental review of the 

draft EIS through publication of a notice 

of intent (NOI) to prepare a draft EIS in 

the Federal Register on Friday, 

December 23, 2011 (76 FR 80385). That 

notice also announced a public scoping 

period, during which we invited 

interested parties to provide written 

comments expressing their issues or 

concerns related to the proposal. A 

public scoping meeting was held in 

Bakersfield, California, on January 23, 

2012. We prepared a draft EIS and 

published a notice of availability (NOA) 

in the Federal Register on Wednesday, 

May 28, 2014 (79 FR 30638). We 

received one comment letter on the draft 

EIS. A response to the comment 

received has been included in the final 

EIS and revisions to the final EIS. The 

analysis provided in the final EIS is 

intended to accomplish the following: 

Inform the public of the Service’s 

proposed permit action and alternatives 

and the environmental impacts of the 

alternatives, and address public 

comments received on the draft EIS. 

Public Comments 

The Service invites the public to 

review the permit application, final EIS, 

and final HCP during the public 

comment period (see DATES). You may 

submit any comments and materials by 

one of the methods listed in ADDRESSES. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, or other personal identifying 

information in your comment, you 

should be aware that your entire 

comment—including your personal 

identifying information—might 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. 

Next Steps 

We will evaluate the application, 

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 final EIS notice in the 

Federal Register and completion of the 

Record of Decision. 

Dated: December 2, 2014. 

Paul B. McKim 

Deputy Regional Director, Fish and Wildlife 

Service, Pacific Southwest Region, 

Sacramento, California. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLNML00000 L71220000.FR0000 

LVTFG13G4430; NMNM 124261] 

Notice of Realty Action: Proposed 

Non-Competitive Lease of Public Land 

in Sierra County, NM 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM), Las Cruces District 

Office, proposes to lease two parcels of 

public land totaling 4.12 acres in Sierra 

County, New Mexico, for agricultural 

purposes (pecan orchard). The subject 

parcels were inadvertently developed by 

the adjacent landowner into a pecan 

orchard without authorization. The area 

has a long history of agricultural use 

and the proposed lease would provide 

the BLM with a reasonable option to 

resolve the continued unauthorized use 

of the affected public lands. The BLM 

proposes to lease the lands for not less 

than the fair market value to Winder 

Farm. The BLM White Sands Resource 

Management Plan, dated October 1986, 

does not exclude the subject parcel from 

the authorized officer’s discretion to 

consider lease proposals in the subject 

area. 

DATES: Written comments may be 

submitted to the address below. The 

BLM must receive your comments on or 

before January 22, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Send written comments 

concerning the proposed lease to the 

District Manager, BLM, Las Cruces 

District Office, 1800 Marquess Street, 

Las Cruces, NM 88005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Anthony Hom, Realty Specialist, at the 

address above, or by telephone at 575– 

525–4331, or by email at ahom@

blm.gov. Persons who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

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

to contact the above individual during 

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: The BLM 

has determined that the two parcels of 

land described below are suitable for 

consideration as an agricultural lease 

under Section 302 of the Federal Land 

Policy Management Act of 1976 (43 

U.S.C. 1732), (FLPMA) and the 

implementing regulations at 43 CFR 

2920. 

Parcel A: New Mexico Principal 

Meridian, Sierra County, New Mexico 

A portion of land situated in the 

southeast quarter (SE1/4) of the 

northwest quarter (NW1/4) of section 

10, township 18 south, range 7 west, 

New Mexico Principal Meridian, Sierra 

County, New Mexico. Depicted in the 

Survey of Farmed Lands by Underwood 

Engineering Inc., signed September 16, 

2013, and shown as Parcel A and is 

described as follow: 

BEGINNING at the northeast corner of 

PARCEL A. Said point of beginning 

hereinafter referred as ‘‘Corner No. 1 of 

Parcel A’’ for this description. From said 

point of beginning of Parcel A, the 

center north one-sixteenth (1/16) section 

corner bears S. 89°15′41′′ E., a distance 

of 309.39 feet. 

THENCE, S. 16°01′00′′ W., a distance 

of 325.87 feet to corner No. 2 of Parcel 

A; 

THENCE, N. 81°28′42′′ W., a distance 

of 414.02 feet to corner No. 3 of Parcel 

A; 

THENCE, N. 31°47′03′′ W., a distance 

of 290.69 feet to corner No. 4 of Parcel 

A; 

THENCE, N. 13°52′20′′ W., a distance 

of 13.63 feet to corner No. 5 of Parcel 

A; 

THENCE, S. 89°15′41′′ E., a distance 

of 655.80 feet to the POINT OF 

BEGINNING OF PARCEL A containing 

3.50 acres of land. 

Parcel B: New Mexico Principal 

Meridian, Sierra County, New Mexico 

A portion of land situated in the 

northeast quarter (NE1⁄4) of the 

southwest quarter (SW1⁄4) of section 10, 

township 18 south, range 7 west, New 

Mexico Principal Meridian, Sierra 

County, New Mexico. Depicted in the 

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