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amended to include the following areas 

among those areas determined to have 

been adversely affected by the event 

declared a major disaster by the 

President in his declaration of May 15, 

2009. 

Calhoun, Gilmer, Lewis, Roane, Upshur, 

and Wirt Counties for Public Assistance. 

The following Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance Numbers (CFDA) are to be used 

for reporting and drawing funds: 97.030, 

Community Disaster Loans; 97.031, Cora 

Brown Fund; 97.032, Crisis Counseling; 

97.033, Disaster Legal Services; 97.034, 

Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA); 

97.046, Fire Management Assistance Grant; 

97.048, Disaster Housing Assistance to 

Individuals and Households in Presidentially 

Declared Disaster Areas; 97.049, 

Presidentially Declared Disaster Assistance— 

Disaster Housing Operations for Individuals 

and Households; 97.050, Presidentially 

Declared Disaster Assistance to Individuals 

and Households—Other Needs; 97.036, 

Disaster Grants—Public Assistance 

(Presidentially Declared Disasters); 97.039, 

Hazard Mitigation Grant. 

W. Craig Fugate, 

Administrator, Federal Emergency 

Management Agency. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS-R9-WSR-2009-N125] [[91400-5110- 

POLI-7B and 91400-9410-POLI-7B] 

Information Collection Sent to the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for Approval; OMB Control 

Number 1018-0109; Wildlife and Sport 

Fish Grants and Cooperative 

Agreements 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: We (Fish and Wildlife 

Service) have sent an Information 

Collection Request (ICR) to OMB for 

review and approval. The ICR, which is 

summarized below, describes the nature 

of the collection and the estimated 

burden and cost. OMB approval for this 

information collection is scheduled to 

expire on June 30, 2009. We may not 

conduct or sponsor and a person is not 

required to respond to a collection of 

information unless it displays a 

currently valid OMB control number. 

However, under OMB regulations, we 

may continue to conduct or sponsor this 

information collection while it is 

pending at OMB. 

DATES: You must send comments on or 

before July 15, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: Send your comments and 

suggestions on this information 

collection to the Desk Officer for the 

Department of the Interior at OMB-OIRA 

at (202) 395-5806 (fax) or 

OIRA_DOCKET@OMB.eop.gov (e-mail). 

Please provide a copy of your comments 

to Hope Grey, Information Collection 

Clearance Officer, Fish and Wildlife 

Service, MS 222-ARLSQ, 4401 North 

Fairfax Drive, Arlington, VA 22203 

(mail) or hope_grey@fws.gov (e-mail). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request additional information about 

this ICR, contact Hope Grey by mail or 

e-mail (see ADDRESSES) or by 

telephone at (703) 358–2482. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

OMB Control Number: 1018-0109. 

Title: Wildlife and Sport Fish Grants 

and Cooperative Agreements. 

Service Form Number(s): None. 

Type of Request: Revision of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: States; the 

Commonwealths of Puerto Rico and the 

Northern Mariana Islands; the District of 

Columbia; the territories of Guam, U.S. 

Virgin Islands, and American Samoa; 

federally-recognized tribal governments; 

institutions of higher education; and 

nongovernmental organizations. 

Respondent’s Obligation: Required to 

obtain or retain a benefit. 

Frequency of Collection: We require 

applications annually for new grants. 

We require amendments on occasion 

when key elements of a project change. 

We require quarterly and final 

performance reports in the National 

Outreach and Communication Program 

and annual and final performance 

reports in the other 17 programs. We 

may require more frequent reports 

under the conditions stated at 43 CFR 

12.52 and 43 CFR 12.914. 

Activity Number of annual 

respondents 

Number of annual 

responses 

Completion time 

per response 

Annual burden 

hours 

Initial Application (project narrative) ........................................ 200 2,500 40 hours .......... 100,000 

Amendment .............................................................................. 150 1,500 2 hours ............ 3,000 

Performance Reports ............................................................... 200 3,500 6 hours ............ 21,000 

Totals ................................................................................ 550 7,500 ..................... 124,000 

Abstract: We administer 18 wildlife 

and sport fish financial assistance 

programs. For a list of the programs 

included in this information collection, 

see our previous notice published on 

March 18, 2009 (74 FR 11596). We 

provide most of this financial assistance 

as grants, but cooperative agreements 

are possible if the Federal Government 

is substantially involved in carrying out 

the project. 

To compete for financial assistance 

funds, you must submit an application 

that describes in substantial detail 

project locations, benefits, funding, and 

other characteristics. Materials to assist 

applicants in formulating project 

proposals are available on Grants.gov. 

We use the application to determine: 

(1) Eligibility for the grant. 

(2) The scale of resource values or 

relative worth of the project. 

(3) The effect of the project on 

environmental and cultural resources. 

(4) How well the proposed project 

will meet the purposes of the program’s 

establishing legislation. 

Persons or entities receiving grants 

must submit periodic performance 

reports that contain information 

necessary for us to track costs and 

accomplishments. 

Comments: On March 18, 2009, we 

published in the Federal Register (74 

FR 11596) a notice of our intent to 

request that OMB renew this 

information collection. In that notice, 

we solicited comments for 60 days, 

ending on May 18, 2009. We received 

one comment in response to the notice. 

The commenter stated that many of the 

grant programs ‘‘need cutting’’ and 

opposed any expenditure of public 

funds for hunter education and safety 

training. The commenter did not 

address the information collection 

requirements, and we did not did not 

make any changes based on this 

comment. 

We again invite comments concerning 

this information collection on: 


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(1) Whether or not the collection of 

information is necessary, including 

whether or not the information will 

have practical utility; 

(2) The accuracy of our estimate of the 

burden for this 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 

respondents. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. Before including your 

address, phone number, e-mail 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 OMB in your comment to 

withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that it will be done. 

Dated: June 9, 2009 

Hope Grey, 

Information Collection Clearance Officer, 

Fish and Wildlife Service. 

FR Doc. E9–14036 Filed 6–12–09; 8:45 am 

BILLING CODE 4310–55–S 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R1–R–2009–N0093]; [1265–0000– 

10137–S3] 

Oregon Islands, Three Arch Rocks, 

and Cape Meares National Wildlife 

Refuges, Lincoln County, OR 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability: draft 

comprehensive conservation plan, draft 

wilderness stewardship plan, and 

environmental assessment; request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (Service), announce the 

availability of our draft comprehensive 

conservation plan and environmental 

assessment (Draft CCP/EA) for the Cape 

Meares, Oregon Islands, and Three Arch 

Rocks National Wildlife Refuges 

(Refuges), and a draft wilderness 

stewardship plan (Draft WSP) for the 

Oregon Islands and Three Arch Rocks 

Refuges (collectively Draft CCP/WSP/ 

EA). The Draft CCP/WSP/EA is available 

for public review and comment. It 

describes our proposal for managing the 

Refuges for the next 15 years. The 

Oregon Coast National Wildlife Refuge 

Complex office, located in Newport, 

Oregon, manages the Refuges, which are 

scattered along the Oregon coast in 

Clatsop, Tillamook, Lincoln, Lane, Coos, 

and Curry Counties. 

DATES: To ensure consideration, we 

need to receive your written comments 

by July 15, 2009. See ADDRESSES for 

delivery options. 

ADDRESSES: Address comments on the 

Draft CCP/WSP/EA to: Roy Lowe, 

Project Leader, Oregon Coast National 

Wildlife Refuge Complex, 2127 SE 

Marine Science Drive, Newport, OR 

97365–5258; fax (541) 867–4551; or email FW1PlanningComments@fws.gov. 

Please use ‘‘Oregon Islands CCP’’ in the 

subject. Additional information 

concerning the Refuges can be found on 

the Internet at http://www.fws.gov/ 

oregoncoast/. For more information on 

reviewing documents, see ‘‘Public 

Availability of Documents’’ and ‘‘Public 

Comments’’ under SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Roy 

Lowe, Project Leader, (541) 867–4550. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The CCP Process 

The Draft CCP/WSP/EA was prepared 

pursuant to the National Wildlife Refuge 

System Administration Act of 1966 (16 

U.S.C. 668dd–668ee) (Administration 

Act), as amended by the National 

Wildlife Refuge System Improvement 

Act of 1997; the National Environmental 

Policy Act of 1969, (42 U.S.C. 4321 et 

seq.) (NEPA); and the Service’s 

Wilderness Stewardship Policy (610 FW 

3). The Administration Act requires us 

to develop a CCP for each national 

wildlife refuge. The purpose of 

developing a CCP is to provide refuge 

managers 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 Service policies. In 

addition to outlining broad management 

direction for conserving wildlife and 

habitats, CCPs identify wildlifedependent recreational opportunities 

available to the public, including 

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. 

Public Involvement 

We began the public scoping phase of 

the planning process for the Draft CCP/ 

WSP/EA by publishing a Notice of 

Intent in the Federal Register on 

October 26, 2006 (71 FR 62605), 

announcing our intention to complete a 

CCP/WSP/EA for the Refuges and 

inviting public comments. A list of 

public involvement efforts we have 

completed to date follow. 

• In October 2006, we distributed 

Planning Update 1 to our project 

mailing list and public outlets located 

near one or more Refuges. In it, we 

announced the initiation of the planning 

process, invited the public to a series of 

public open house meetings, provided 

background information on the Refuges, 

and requested public comments on 

Refuge management issues. 

• Between November 1 and 15, 2006, 

we held five public open house 

meetings in communities along the 

Oregon coast, to meet the public and 

obtain comments on refuge management 

issues. The public meetings were 

announced through local media via 

press releases, on the Refuge Complex 

Web site, and in Planning Update 1. 

• In March 2007, we distributed 

Planning Update 2, which included a 

summary of the public open house 

meetings and the public comments we 

obtained at the meetings and through 

other means, a planning schedule, and 

draft vision statements for the Refuges. 

Overview of the Refuges 

Cape Meares Refuge is located on 

Oregon’s Pacific Coast between 

Tillamook Bay and Netarts Bay. It is 

comprised of two separate units 

consisting of vertical coastal cliffs, rock 

outcroppings, and rolling headlands 

with old-growth forest dominated by 

Sitka spruce and western hemlock. This 

small Refuge protects one of the last 

stands of old-growth coastal forest in 

Oregon. The vertical sea cliffs around 

the headland support nesting seabird 

populations including tufted puffins, 

common murres, pigeon guillemots, 

pelagic cormorants, and others. 

Peregrine falcons nest on the cliffs, and 

bald eagles forage on the headland. 

The Oregon Islands Refuge includes 

1,854 rocks, reefs and islands, and two 

headland units, and spans 320 miles of 

the Oregon Coast. With the exception of 

the two headlands and Tillamook Rock, 

all of the Refuge’s rocks, reefs, and 

islands are included in the Oregon 

Islands Wilderness. Most of Oregon’s 

estimated 1.2 million nesting seabirds 

are found on this Refuge. A large 

percentage of Oregon’s seal and sea lion 

(pinnipeds) populations use the Refuge 

for haulout and/or pupping, including 

more than 5,000 harbor seals, 4,000 

California sea lions, 4,000 threatened 


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