67288 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 249 / Friday, December 28, 2001 / Notices

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR–4655–N–25]

Notice of Proposed Information

Collection: Comment Request;

Application and Re-certification

Procedures for FHA Inspectors

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Housing-Federal Housing

Commissioner, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The proposed information

collection requirement described below

will be submitted to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) for

review, as required by the Paperwork

Reduction Act. The Department is

soliciting public comments on the

subject proposal.

DATES: Comments Due Date: February

26, 2002.

ADDRESSES: Interested persons are

invited to submit comments regarding

this proposal. Comments should refer to

the proposal by name and/or OMB

Control Number and should be sent to:

Wayne Eddins, Reports Management

Officer, Department of Housing and

Urban Development, 451 7th Street, SW,

L’Enfant Building, Room 8202,

Washington, DC 20410.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Vance T. Morris, Director, Office of

Single Family Program Development,

Department of Housing and Urban

Development, 451—7th Street SW,

Washington, DC 20410, telephone (202)

708–5221, (this is not a toll-free

number), for copies of the proposed

forms and other information.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Department is submitting the proposed

information collection to OMB for

review, as required by the paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.

Chapter 35, as amended).

This Notice is soliciting comments

from members of the public and affected

agencies concerning the proposed

collection of information to: (1) Evaluate

whether the proposed collection is

necessary for the proper performance of

the functions of the agency, including

whether the information will have

practical utility, (2) Evaluate the

accuracy of the agency’s estimate of the

burden of the proposed collection of

information; (3) Enhance the quality,

utility, and clarity of the information to

be collected; and (4) Minimize the

burden of the collection of information

on those who are to respond; including

the use of appropriate automated

collection techniques or other forms of

information technology, e.g., permitting

electronic submission of responses.

This Notice also lists the following

information:

Title of Proposal: Application and Recertification Procedures for FHA

Inspectors.

OMB Control Number, if applicable:

None.

Description of the need for the

information and proposed use: This is a

new information collection, which

includes the use of a previously

approved form, Form HUD–92563. The

information collection is essential to the

Department’s efforts to ensure that

compliance inspectors who determine if

the quality of construction of property

accepted as security for FHA insured

loans possess the prerequisite

knowledge and skills to make these

determinations. The Department also

wishes to standardize this procedure

throughout the country. Inspectors

seeking to be placed on FHA’s

Inspection roster must submit an

application to be considered acceptable

as an inspector in HUD’s single family

housing programs. The uses of qualified

compliance inspectors are viewed as

critical to minimizing the placement of

FHA mortgage insurance on poorly

constructed dwellings.

Agency form numbers, if applicable:

Form HUD–92563.

Estimation of the total number of

hours needed to prepare the information

collection including number of

respondents, frequency of response, and

hours of response: The estimated

number of respondents are estimated to

be 3,000, an average of 5,250 annual

burden hours are estimated, and the

frequency of responses is estimated to

be once.

Status of the proposed information

collection: This is a new information

collection for which OMB approval is

requested.

Authority: The Paperwork Reduction act of

1995, 44 U.S.C. 35, as amended.

Dated: December 12, 2001.

John C. Weicher,

Assistant Secretary for Housing-Federal

Housing Commissioner.

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR–4652–N–18]

Announcement of OMB Approval

Number for the Procedure for

Obtaining Certificates of Insurance for

Capital Program Projects

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Public and Indian

Housing, HUD.

ACTION: Announcement of OMB

approval number.

SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is

to announce the OMB approval number

for the collection of information

pertaining to the requirement for the

consolidated public housing certificate

of completion.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Arthur Methvin, Department of Housing

and Urban Development, 451 7th Street,

Southwest, Washington, DC 20410,

telephone (202) 708–0614, extension

4037. This is not a toll-free number.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In

accordance with the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C.

Chapter 35, as amended), this notice

advises that OMB has responded to the

Department’s request for approval of the

information collection pertaining to the

requirement for the consolidated public

housing certificate of completion. The

approval number for this information

collection is 2577–0046, which expires

10/31/2004.

An agency 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.

Dated: December 18, 2001.

Michael Liu,

Assistant Secretary for Public and Indian

Housing.

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND

URBAN DEVELOPMENT

[Docket No. FR–4644–N–52]

Federal Property Suitable as Facilities

To Assist the Homeless

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant

Secretary for Community Planning and

Development, HUD.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This Notice identifies

unutilized, underutilized, excess, and

surplus Federal property reviewed by

HUD for suitability for possible use to

assist the homeless.

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EFFECTIVE DATE: December 28, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mark Johnston, Department of Housing

and Urban Development, Room 7262,

451 Seventh Street SW., Washington,

DC 20410; telephone (202) 708–1234;

TTY number for the hearing- and

speech-impaired (202) 708–2565, (these

telephone numbers are not toll-free), or

call the toll-free Title V information line

at 1–800–927–7588.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In

accordance with the December 12, 1988

court order in National Coalition for the

Homeless v. Veterans Administration,

No. 88–2503–OG (D.D.C.), HUD

publishes a Notice, on a weekly basis,

identifying unutilized, underutilized,

excess and surplus Federal buildings

and real property that HUD has

reviewed for suitability for use to assist

the homeless.

Today’s Notice is for the purpose of

announcing that no additional

properties have been determined

suitable or unsuitable this week.

Dated: December 20, 2001.

John D. Garrity,

Director, Office of Special Needs Assistance

Programs.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife

and Plants; Status of the Rio Grande

Cutthroat Trout

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,

Interior.

ACTION: Notice of intent to initiate a

status review.

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and

Wildlife Service (Service) announce our

intent to initiate a candidate status

review for the Rio Grande cutthroat

trout (Oncorhynchus clarki virginalis) to

determine if candidate status is

warranted. The Endangered Species Act

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

seq.) (Act), requires that we identify

species of wildlife and plants that are

endangered or threatened, based on the

best available scientific and commercial

information. Through the Federal

rulemaking process, we add these

species to the List of Endangered and

Threatened Wildlife at 50 CFR 17.11 or

the List of Endangered or Threatened

Plants at 50 CFR 17.12. As part of this

program, we maintain a list of species

that we regard as candidates for listing.

A candidate is one for which we have

on file sufficient information on

biological vulnerability and threats to

support a proposal to list as endangered

or threatened but for which preparation

and publication of a proposal is

precluded by higher-priority listing

actions. On or before June 4, 2002, we

will make a determination concerning

the results of this review for the Rio

Grande cutthroat trout and, shortly

thereafter, we will publish this

determination in the Federal Register.

DATES: Comments and information from

all interested parties for our use in the

status review and preparing a revised

finding will be accepted until February

26, 2002.

ADDRESSES: Questions and comments

concerning this status review should be

sent to Joy Nicholopoulos, Field

Supervisor, U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Service, 2105 Osuna Rd. NE,

Albuquerque, NM 87113. Comments can

be provided via e-mail to

R2FWE_AL@fws.gov. Comments and

materials received will be available on

request for public inspection, by

appointment, during normal business

hours at the above address.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Anna Maria Mun ̃ oz, Fish and Wildlife

Biologist (see ADDRESSES section),

telephone (505) 346–2525.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On February 25, 1998, we received a

petition from Kieran Suckling, of the

Southwest Center for Biological

Diversity requesting that the Service add

the Rio Grande cutthroat trout

(Onchorynchus clarki virginalis) to the

list of threatened and endangered

species. The petition addressed the

range-wide distribution of the Rio

Grande cutthroat trout that included

populations in Colorado and New

Mexico.

The Rio Grande cutthroat trout is the

southernmost of 14 subspecies of

cutthroat trout (Behnke 1967, 1972,

1992; Sublette et al. 1990). There are

two phenotypic forms of the subspecies,

one in the Rio Grande and one in the

Pecos River (Behnke 1992). The species

derives its name from the distinctive red

or orange slashes beneath the lower jaw.

The general body coloration is

yellowish green to grayish brown; the

abdomen is creamy white. Variablysized black spots cover the upper body

and are more numerous posteriorly;

dorsal, adipose, and caudal fins carry

black spots (Koster 1957, Behnke 1992,

Sublette et al. 1990). Although the

historical distribution of the Rio Grande

cutthroat trout is not known with

certainty, it is likely that the subspecies

occurred not only in all waters in the

upper Rio Grande, Pecos, and Canadian

River Basins that are currently capable

of supporting trout, but also in other

stream reaches within these watersheds

that formerly provided the habitat

requisites of coldwater species.

Section 4(b)(3)(B) of the Act requires

that we make a finding on whether a

petition to list, delist or reclassify a

species presents substantial scientific or

commercial information indicating that

the petitioned action is—(a) not

warranted; (b) warranted; or (c)

warranted but precluded from

immediate proposal by other pending

listing proposals of higher priority. We

subsequently published a notice of a 90-

day finding in the Federal Register (63

FR 49062) on September 14, 1998. In the

90-day finding we concluded that the

petition did not present substantial

information indicating that listing of the

Rio Grande cutthroat trout may be

warranted.

Our finding recognized that livestock

grazing, road construction, and logging

were primary factors in the constriction

of the Rio Grande cutthroat trout’s

historical range, and continue to impact

streams and riparian habitats where

measures to limit those impacts are

lacking. The Service concluded that the

management objectives of both States,

set forth in respective management

plans formulated for the Rio Grande

cutthroat, would provide for the

continued management, conservation,

and stability of this subspecies and its

habitats.

On June 9, 1999, a complaint was

filed by the Southwest Center for

Biological Diversity challenging the

September 14, 1998, 90-day petition

finding as violating the Act and the

Administrative Procedures Act.

Recently, while the litigation was

pending, we received some information

(particularly related to the presence of

whirling disease in hatchery fish in the

wild) that led us to believe that further

review of the status of the species was

warranted.

On November 8, 2001, a settlement

agreement executed by both parties (the

Service and the Center for Biological

Diversity) was filed with the court. The

settlement stipulates that we will

initiate a candidate status review for the

Rio Grande cutthroat trout. The

settlement also stipulates that on or

before June 4, 2002, we will make a

determination concerning the results of

this review and, shortly thereafter, we

will publish our determination in the

Federal Register. The agreement also

states that we will not vacate our

previous determination in the interim.