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hudportal/HUD?src=/program_offices/ 

administration/hudclips/handbooks/ 

admh/1325.1. 

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Helen Goff Foster, 

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Secretary, Senior Agency Official for Privacy. 

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BILLING CODE 4210–67–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[Docket No. FWS–R6–ES–2017–0044; 

FF06E11000–167–FXES11120600000] 

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife 

and Plants; Permits; Draft Supplement 

to Environmental Impact Statement, 

Amendment to Habitat Conservation 

Plan for Forest Management in 

Montana, and Application for Amended 

Incidental Take Permit 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability; request 

for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Montana Department of 

Natural Resources and Conservation 

(DNRC) is amending its Forested Trust 

Lands Habitat Conservation Plan (2010 

HCP) to incorporate the terms of a 

settlement agreement and add lands that 

it acquired since the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (Service) issued an 

incidental take permit (permit) to DNRC 

in December 2011. The Service is 

proposing to amend the associated 

permit under the Endangered Species 

Act (ESA) to authorize additional take of 

all but one of the species covered in the 

2010 HCP resulting from addition of the 

acquired lands. We announce the 

availability of the following documents 

for review and comment by the public 

and Federal, Tribal, State, and local 

governments: Draft Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement (Draft 

SEIS) for amending the 2010 HCP and 

permit; Proposed Amended HCP 

Commitments for Additional Lands and 

Terms of the Settlement Agreement 

(Attachment A of the Draft SEIS); and 

Draft DNRC Assessment of Incidental 

Take for the Proposed Amended HCP 

(Attachment C of the Draft SEIS). 

DATES: Submitting Comments: Written 

comments must be submitted by 

October 13, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: Document Availability: The 

Draft SEIS, Proposed Amended HCP 

Commitments for Additional Lands and 

Terms of the Settlement Agreement 

(Attachment A of the Draft SEIS), and 

Draft DNRC Assessment of Incidental 

Take for the Proposed Amended HCP 

(Attachment C of the Draft SEIS) are 

available at: 

• Internet: The Federal eRulemaking 

Portal (www.regulations.gov) in Docket 

No. FWS–R6–ES–2017–0044. 

Information regarding the Draft SEIS 

and accompanying documents is 

available in alternative formats upon 

request (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT). 

• In-Person Review or Pick-Up: 

Documents will also be available for 

public inspection by appointment 

during normal business hours at the 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 780 

Creston Hatchery Road, Kalispell, MT 

59901 (telephone, 406–758–6882); U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service, 585 Shepard 

Way, Suite 1, Helena, MT 59601 

(telephone, 406–449–5225); Montana 

DNRC Forest Management Bureau, 2705 

Spurgin Rd, Missoula, MT 59804 

(telephone, 406–542–4328). 

Submitting Comments: To request 

further information or send written 

comments, please use one of the 

following methods, and note that your 

information requests or comments are in 

reference to the proposed amended 

DNRC HCP. Please specify which 

documents your comment addresses: 

Draft SEIS, proposed amended HCP 

commitments, or proposed amendments 

to authorized take. 

• Internet: Submit comments at 

http://www.regulations.gov in Docket 

No. FWS–R6–ES–2017–0044, or via the 

Montana DNRC Web site at http://

dnrc.mt.gov/divisions/trust/forestmanagement/hcp/hcp-announcements. 

• U.S. Mail: Public Comments 

Processing, Attn: Docket No. FWS–R6– 

ES–2017–0044; U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service Headquarters, MS: BPHC; 5275 

Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041– 

3803. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ben 

Conard, Assistant Field Supervisor, 

Kalispell Field Office, via email at Ben_

Conard@fws.gov or via telephone at 

406–758–6882; or Gary Frank, Deputy 

Chief, Forest Management Bureau, 

Montana DNRC, via email at gfrank@

mt.gov, or via telephone at 406–542– 

4328. Information on this proposed 

action is also available at the DNRC’s 

Web site at http://dnrc.mt.gov/divisions/ 

trust/forest-management/hcp. If you use 

a telecommunications device for the 

deaf, hard-of-hearing, or speech 

disabled, please call the Federal Relay 

Service at 800–877–8337. 


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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We 

received an application from Montana 

DNRC for an amended incidental take 

permit to authorize additional 

incidental take of the grizzly bear, 

Canada lynx, bull trout, and westslope 

cutthroat trout. No changes in 

authorized take of the Columbia 

redband trout, covered by the original 

permit, is necessary because it does not 

occur on the lands proposed to be added 

to the HCP. The additional take would 

result from implementing the DNRC 

forest management program on the 

81,416 acres proposed to be added to 

the HCP. The DNRC is also proposing to 

amend the HCP to incorporate the terms 

of a settlement agreement to add 

conservation measures and remove 

others. As part of its application, the 

DNRC prepared a draft amendment to 

the HCP detailing specific changes to 

the 2010 HCP commitments to 

incorporate the terms of the settlement 

agreement. 

In the Draft SEIS, we analyze 

potential effects to the covered species 

and other factors of the human 

environment from implementing the 

proposed amended HCP with issuance 

of an amended permit and from 

implementing the no-action alternative. 

Background 

Section 9 of the ESA prohibits take of 

fish and wildlife species listed as 

endangered (16 U.S.C. 1538). Under 

section 3 of the ESA, the term ‘‘take’’ 

means to ‘‘harass, harm, pursue, hunt, 

shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or 

collect, or attempt to engage in any such 

conduct’’ (16 U.S.C. 1532(19)). The term 

‘‘harm’’ is defined in title 50 of the Code 

of Federal Regulations as ‘‘an act which 

actually kills or injures wildlife. Such 

acts 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). 

The term ‘‘harass’’ is defined in the 

regulations as ‘‘an intentional or 

negligent act or omission which creates 

the likelihood of injury to wildlife by 

annoying it to such an extent as to 

significantly disrupt normal behavioral 

patterns which include, but are not 

limited to, breeding, feeding, or 

sheltering’’ (50 CFR 17.3). 

Under section 4(d) of the ESA, the 

Service may issue regulations pertaining 

to threatened species that are necessary 

for their conservation, and under 

section 10(a) of the ESA, the Service 

may issue permits to authorize 

incidental take of listed fish and 

wildlife species. ‘‘Incidental take’’ is 

defined by the ESA as take that is 

incidental to, and not the purpose of, 

carrying out an otherwise lawful 

activity. Section 10(a)(1)(B) of the ESA 

contains provisions for issuing 

incidental take permits to non-Federal 

entities for the incidental take of 

endangered and threatened species, 

provided the following criteria are met: 

• The taking will be incidental. 

• The applicant will minimize and 

mitigate, to the maximum extent 

practicable, the impact of such taking. 

• The applicant will develop an HCP 

and ensure that adequate funding for the 

plan will be provided. 

• The taking will not appreciably 

reduce the likelihood of the survival 

and recovery of the species in the wild. 

• The applicant will carry out any 

other measures that the Secretary of the 

Interior may require as being necessary 

or appropriate for the purposes of the 

HCP. 

Regulations governing activities 

involving endangered species are at 50 

CFR part 17, subpart C, and regulations 

governing activities involving 

threatened species are at 50 CFR part 17, 

subpart D. 

The National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA; 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) 

requires that Federal agencies conduct 

an environmental analysis of their 

proposed actions to determine whether 

the actions may significantly affect the 

human environment. Under NEPA and 

its implementing regulations (40 CFR 

1500 et seq.), Federal agencies must also 

compare effects of a reasonable range of 

alternatives to the proposed action. In 

these analyses, the Federal agency will 

identify potentially significant direct, 

indirect, and cumulative effects, as well 

as possible mitigation for any significant 

effects, on biological resources, land 

use, air quality, water resources, 

socioeconomics, environmental justice, 

cultural resources, and other 

environmental resources that could 

occur with the implementation of the 

proposed action and alternatives. 

In April 2009, the DNRC applied for 

a permit for take of the grizzly bear, 

Canada lynx, bull trout, westslope 

cutthroat trout, and Columbia redband 

trout incidental to forest management 

activities. The grizzly bear, lynx, and 

bull trout are federally listed as 

threatened, while the westslope and 

Columbia redband trout are not listed 

under the ESA. Before deciding whether 

to issue the permit, we analyzed the 

potential effects of implementing the 

HCP and alternatives in a draft 

environmental impact statement (EIS). 

In 2009, we provided comment periods 

totaling 105 days for the public to 

review DNRC’s permit application 

package, which included the draft HCP 

and draft EIS (74 FR 30617). After 

considering the public comments and 

determining that all requirements under 

section 10(a)(1)(B) of the ESA were met, 

the Service issued the permit to DNRC 

on December 14, 2011. 

The original permit covers 

approximately 548,500 acres of forested 

State trust lands in western Montana. 

However, the HCP addressed the 

process and contingencies for DNRC to 

transfer, exchange, or add lands for their 

forest management activities in the 

future. Thus, the Service previously 

considered in the EIS the potential 

effects of amending the HCP and permit 

to cover such actions. 

In April, 2013, Friends of the Wild 

Swan, Montana Environmental 

Information Center, and Natural 

Resources Defense Council challenged 

the issuance of the permit in a Federal 

District Court in Montana. The Court 

ruled in the Service’s favor on all but 

one count. DNRC and the plaintiffs 

subsequently entered a settlement 

agreement for the remaining count in 

September, 2015. The future addition of 

lands to the HCP and permit were not 

part of the complaint or the settlement 

agreement. 

Proposed Action 

The Service proposes to issue an 

amended permit that authorizes 

additional incidental take of the covered 

species resulting from adding 81,416 

acres to the area covered in the HCP. 

DNRC is amending its HCP so that its 

relevant conservation commitments to 

avoid, minimize, and mitigate the 

impacts of incidental take will be 

implemented on the new lands. The 

DNRC is also amending the HCP to 

incorporate the terms of the settlement 

agreement, which would not result in 

any changes to the permit. 

The lands proposed to be added to the 

HCP are in the Swan, Chamberlain, 

Potomac, Lolo Land Exchange, Upper 

Blackfoot, and Southern Bitterroot 

acquisition areas. The draft amendment 

to the HCP adds (1) the Swan 

acquisition lands to the Swan 

Transportation Plan, (2) the Swan 

acquisition area to the Swan Lynx 

Management Area, and (3) portions of 

the Chamberlain and Potomac 

acquisition areas to the Garnet Lynx 

Management Area. It also revises the 

acres of lynx critical habitat addressed 

in the HCP. 

The terms of the settlement agreement 

focus primarily on adjusting 

management of DNRC’s Class A lands 

under the Stillwater Block 

Transportation Plan in the HCP, which 

entailed a strategy of a cycle of 4 years 

of active forest management, followed 


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by 8 years of rest. The settlement 

agreement identifies 7 distinct grizzly 

bear security zones almost entirely on 

the original 19,400 acres of Class A 

lands in the Stillwater Block in the HCP, 

but also adds 2,300 acres in a new area 

in Coal Creek State Forest. The amended 

HCP would replace the 4-year active/8- 

year rest rotation with specific measures 

for restricting forest management 

activities to the denning season in these 

grizzly bear security zones. All 

motorized activities below 6,300 feet in 

elevation within the grizzly security 

zones would be allowed during the 

grizzly denning season and prohibited 

all year round above that elevation. The 

current HCP prohibits new permanent 

road construction on the original 19,400 

acres of Class A lands. This measure 

would remain essentially the same 

under an amendment, but to incorporate 

the terms of the settlement agreement, it 

would be specifically applied to the 

seven grizzly security zones, including 

the additional 2,300 acres in the Coal 

Creek State Forest. Several other 

measures in the HCP for Class A lands 

would remain the same but be extended 

to the grizzly security zones. Other 

amendments specifically spell out 

measures that DNRC had committed to 

implement in the original HCP but were 

previously incorporated by reference 

from DNRC’s Forest Management 

Administrative Rules of Montana. 

The original HCP requires the DNRC 

to complete corrective actions at sites 

identified with high risk of sediment 

delivery in bull trout watersheds in the 

HCP plan area by 2027. As directed by 

the settlement agreement, the HCP 

would be amended to prioritize and 

complete such corrective actions in 

federally designated bull trout critical 

habitat in the Stillwater Block by 2024. 

Lastly, over the past 5 years of HCP 

implementation, the Service and DNRC 

identified some commitment and 

procedural clarifications that would be 

incorporated into the HCP. These 

amendments would serve to help DNRC 

understand how to implement certain 

measures and would not entail any 

changes to the nature of the measures or 

how they affect the covered species. 

Alternatives Analyzed in the Draft SEIS 

The Draft SEIS considers the direct, 

indirect, and cumulative effects of the 

proposed action, including the proposed 

amended HCP’s measures intended to 

avoid, minimize, and mitigate such 

impacts, and no-action alternatives. The 

proposed action entails issuing DNRC 

an amended permit authorizing 

additional take based on amendments to 

the HCP to add covered lands and 

incorporate terms of the settlement 

agreement. The no-action alternative 

would include amending the HCP to 

incorporate the terms of the settlement 

agreement, which is legally required, 

but would not include adding lands or 

issuing an amended permit authorizing 

additional take. 

The Service invites comments and 

suggestions from interested parties on 

the content of the Draft SEIS. In 

particular, information and comments 

regarding the following topics are 

requested: 

1. The direct, indirect, or cumulative 

effects that implementation of either 

action alternative could have on the 

natural and human environment. 

2. Whether or not the impact on 

various aspects of the natural and 

human environment have been 

adequately analyzed. 

3. Any other information pertinent to 

evaluating the effects of the proposed 

action on the natural and human 

environment. 

Role of the Environmental Protection 

Agency in the EIS Process 

The U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) is charged under section 

309 of the Clean Air Act to review all 

Federal agencies’ environmental impact 

statements (EISs) and to comment on 

the adequacy and acceptability of the 

environmental impacts of proposed 

actions in the EISs. 

EPA also administers the database for 

EISs prepared by Federal agencies and 

provides notice of their availability in 

the Federal Register. The EIS database 

provides information about EISs 

prepared by Federal agencies, as well as 

EPA’s comments concerning the EISs. 

All EISs are filed with EPA, which 

publishes a notice of availability each 

Friday in the Federal Register. 

For more information, see http://

www.epa.gov/compliance/nepa/ 

eisdata.html. You may search for EPA 

comments on EISs, along with EISs 

themselves, at https://

cdxnodengn.epa.gov/cdx-enepa-public/ 

action/eis/search. 

Public Comments 

Written comments received 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 may 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 ESA (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) 

and its implementing regulations for 

incidental take permits (50 CFR 17.22) 

and NEPA (42 U.S.C. 4371 et seq.) and 

its implementing regulations (40 CFR 

1506.6; 43 CFR part 46). 

Michael G. Thabault, 

Assistant Regional Director–Ecological 

Services, Mountain-Prairie Region, U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service, Lakewood, Colorado. 

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BILLING CODE 4333–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Reclamation 

[RR02800000, 17XR0680A3, 

RX178689471000000] 

Draft Environmental Impact Statement 

for the Shasta Dam Fish Passage 

Evaluation, California; Reopening of 

Comment Period 

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice to reopen comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Reclamation 

(Reclamation) is reopening the public 

comment period on the scope of the 

draft environmental impact statement 

(EIS) for the Shasta Dam Fish Passage 

Evaluation. 

DATES: The comment period for the 

scope of the draft EIS published June 15, 

2017 (82 FR 27522), is reopened. 

Comments should be received on or 

before September 28, 2017. 

ADDRESSES: You may send comments to 

Ms. Carolyn Bragg, Natural Resources 

Specialist, Bureau of Reclamation, BayDelta Office, 801 I Street, Suite 140, 

Sacramento, CA 95814–2536; or by 

email to cbragg@usbr.gov; or via 

facsimile to (916) 414–2439. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Carolyn Bragg, (916) 414–2433, or email 

at cbragg@usbr.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 

15, 2017, Reclamation published a 

notice in the Federal Register 

announcing its intent to prepare a draft 

EIS. Since then, Reclamation has 

received a formal request from the 


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