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• In-Person: Copies of the draft EA 

and draft HCP are also available for 

public inspection and review at the 

following locations, by appointment and 

written request only, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.: 

Æ U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 500 

Gold Avenue SW., Room 6034, 

Albuquerque, NM 87102. 

Æ U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 

10711 Burnet Road, Suite 200, Austin, 

TX 78758. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Adam Zerrenner, Field Supervisor, by 

U.S. mail at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, 10711 Burnet Road, Suite 200, 

Austin, TX 78758; or via telephone at 

(512) 490–0057. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the requirements of the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), 

we advise the public that: 

We have gathered the information 

necessary to determine impacts and 

formulate alternatives for the draft 

Environmental Assessment (dEA) 

related to potential issuance of an 

incidental take permit (ITP) to the 

Applicant. The Applicant has 

developed a draft Habitat Conservation 

Plan (dHCP) as part of the application 

for an ITP, which describes the 

measures the Applicant has agreed to 

take to minimize and mitigate the effects 

of incidental take of the golden-cheeked 

warbler (Setophaga [=Dendroica] 

chrysoparia; GCWA) to the maximum 

extent practicable pursuant to section 

10(a)(1)(B) of the Endangered Species 

Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 

et seq.; Act). 

Anaqua Springs Ranch, Inc. 

(Applicant), has applied to the U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service (Service) for an ITP 

(TE–29216B) under section 10(a)(1)(B) 

of the Act. The proposed take would 

occur on the 60.7-acre Anderson Tract 

(Permit Area) in Bexar County, Texas, as 

a result of activities associated with the 

Applicant’s proposed clearing and 

construction of a residential 

development (Covered Activities). Such 

actions will require clearing of GCWA 

habitat. 

The dEA considers the direct, 

indirect, and cumulative effects of 

implementation of the dHCP, including 

the measures that will be implemented 

to minimize and mitigate, to the 

maximum extent practicable, the 

impacts of the incidental take of the 

covered species. 

Background 

In May 2013, the Applicant submitted 

an ITP application, dHCP, and dEA for 

proposed incidental take on 60.7 acres 

in Bexar County, Texas. The Service 

reviewed and edited the dEA and 

provided comments on the dHCP. 

Proposed Action 

The proposed action involves the 

issuance of an ITP by the Service for the 

Covered Activities in the Permit Area, 

pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(B) of the 

Act. The ITP would cover ‘‘take’’ of the 

Covered Species associated with the 

clearing and construction of a 

residential development within the 

Permit Area. 

To meet the requirements of a section 

10(a)(1)(B) ITP, the Applicant has 

developed and proposes to implement 

its dHCP, which describes the 

conservation measures the Applicant 

has agreed to undertake to minimize 

and mitigate for the impacts of the 

proposed incidental take of the Covered 

Species to the maximum extent 

practicable, and ensures that incidental 

take will not appreciably reduce the 

likelihood of the survival and recovery 

of these species in the wild. 

The Applicant proposes to mitigate 

with the purchase of 60.7 acres of high 

quality habitat, likely from a Serviceapproved conservation bank with the 

Anderson Tract in its service area. 

Alternatives 

Two alternatives to the proposed 

action we are considering as part of this 

process are: 

1. No Action: No ITP would be issued. 

Under a No Action alternative, the 

applicant would not request, and the 

Service would not issue, an ITP for 

development of the Anderson Tract, and 

therefore the Applicant would not 

implement the conservation measures 

described in the dHCP. 

2. Lower Mitigation: The Lower 

Mitigation alternative is similar to the 

Proposed Action in that the Service 

would issue an ITP for the proposed 

project. However, the HCP under this 

alternative would be modified to 

include the purchase of a lesser number 

of conservation credits for the GCWA. 

All other aspects of the proposed project 

and the HCP would remain the same. 

Public Availability of Comments 

Written comments we receive become 

part of the public record associated with 

this action. 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 request in your comment that 

we withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. We will not consider anonymous 

comments. All submissions from 

organizations or businesses, and from 

individuals identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses, will be 

made available for public disclosure in 

their entirety. 

Authority 

We provide this notice under section 

10(c) of the Act and its implementing 

regulations (50 CFR 17.22 and 17.32) 

and NEPA and its implementing 

regulations (40 CFR 1506.6). 

Joy E. Nicholopoulos, 

Acting Regional Director, Southwest Region, 

Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Geological Survey 

[GX15EG50DW73200] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Request for Comments on 

The National Map Corps 

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

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of a new information 

collection, The National Map Corps. 

SUMMARY: We (the U.S. Geological 

Survey) are notifying the public that we 

have submitted to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) 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. 

DATES: To ensure that your comments 

on this ICR are considered, we must 

receive them on or before January 20, 

2015. 

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—NEW The National Map Corps’. 

Please also forward a copy of your 

comments and suggestions on this 

information collection to the 

Information Collection Clearance 

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Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201 

Sunrise Valley Drive MS 807, Reston, 

VA 20192 (mail); (703) 648–7195 (fax); 

or gs-info_collections@usgs.gov (email). 

Please reference ‘OMB Information 

Collection 1028—NEW: The National 

Map Corps’ in all correspondence. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Elizabeth McCartney at (573) 308–3696 

or emccartney@usgs.gov. You may also 

find information about this ICR at 

www.reginfo.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Abstract 

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) 

has historically sponsored volunteer 

data collection projects to enhance its 

topographic paper and digital map 

products, but these activities were 

suspended in 2006 due to budget 

concerns. Since then, new internet 

technologies have made it easy for 

citizens to georeference and share many 

different types of data via online 

mapping platforms and social 

networking sites. These data have been 

referred to as volunteered geographic 

information (VGI). As a result of these 

developments, the USGS has reinstated 

the volunteer data-collection program 

for The National Map (http://

nationalmap.gov). 

Using crowd-sourcing techniques, the 

USGS VGI project known as ‘‘The 

National Map Corps’’ encourages citizen 

volunteers to collect data about 

manmade structures in an effort to 

provide accurate and authoritative 

spatial map data for the USGS National 

Geospatial Program’s web-based The 

National Map. Citizens collect and/or 

improve structures data by adding new 

features, removing obsolete points, and 

correcting existing data using a webbased mapping platform. Points edited 

become part of the National Structures 

Database, and include schools, 

hospitals, post offices, police stations 

and other important public buildings. 

Through their participation, volunteers 

are able to make significant 

contributions to the USGS’s ability to 

provide the Nation with accurate 

mapping information. 

We estimate that some users will 

require a longer session to become 

acquainted with the interface on their 

first session. This may be as long as one 

hour to create an account and review 

the guidance document. Thereafter, 

users should be able to make edits to the 

database in about ten minutes per item 

being updated. 

II. Data 

OMB Control Number: 1028—NEW. 

Title: The National Map Corps. 

Type of Request: Approval of new 

information collection. 

Respondent Obligation: None 

(participation is voluntary). 

Frequency of Collection: Occasional. 

Description of Respondents: The 

general public. 

Estimated Total Number of Annual 

Responses: We estimate that 1,000 

people will participate in this volunteer 

initiative. If they make 75 updates to the 

Web site that would be 75,000 

responses. Counting the updates and the 

initial sign up, that would be 76,000 

responses. 

Estimated Time per Response: We 

estimate that it will take no more than 

60 minutes to create an account and join 

the community. Thereafter it should 

take no more than 10 minutes to edit a 

structure point on the Web page. 

Estimated Annual Burden Hours: 

13,500 hours. 

Estimated Reporting and 

Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’ 

Burden: There are no ‘‘non-hour cost’’ 

burdens associated with this collection 

of information. 

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 May 16, 2014 we 

published a Federal Register notice (79 

FR 28536) announcing that we would 

submit this ICR to OMB for approval 

and soliciting comments. The comment 

period closed on July 17, 2014. We 

received no comments. 

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 

your personally identifiable 

information, may be made publicly 

available at any time. While you can ask 

the OMB in your comment to withhold 

your personal identifying information 

from public review, we cannot 

guarantee that it will be done. 

Kari J. Craun, 

Director, National Geospatial Technical 

Operations Center. 

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BILLING CODE 4311–AM–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLNML00000 L54400000.EU0000 

LVCLG13G5160 13XL5017AR] 

Application for Conveyance of 

Federally Owned Mineral Interests in 

Don ̃ a Ana County, NM 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of realty action. 

SUMMARY: On August 1, 2014, the City 

of Las Cruces (the City) submitted an 

application to the Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) for the conveyance 

of the federally owned mineral interests 

in the 125-acre parcel of land described 

in this notice. 

DATES: Interested parties may submit 

written comments to the BLM at the 

address listed below on or before 

February 2, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: Bureau of Land 

Management, Las Cruces District Office, 

1800 Marquess Street, Las Cruces, NM 

88005. Detailed information concerning 

this action is available for review at this 

address. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Anthony Hom, Realty Specialist, at the 

address above, or by telephone at 575– 

525–4331, or email to 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 

is processing the City’s application 

under section 209 of the Federal Land 

Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), 

43 U.S.C. 1719(b), to convey the 

federally owned mineral interests for 

125 acres of public land located in Don ̃ a 

Ana County, New Mexico, to the 

prospective surface owner, the City. In 

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