Notice of Intent To Prepare a Draft Environmental Impact Statement for the Desert Tortoise General Conservation Plan, CA

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), provide this notice to open a public scoping period and announce public scoping meetings in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act. We intend to prepare an environmental impact statement (EIS) to evaluate the impacts on the human environment related to our proposal to implement a general conservation plan for the federally threatened desert tortoise (Gopherus agassizii) in California, pursuant to the Endangered Species Act.