[Federal Register: February 1, 2002 (Volume 67, Number 22)]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Office of the Secretary

Bureau of Land Management

Fish and Wildlife Service

 
Resubmission of Comments; Interruption of Mail Service

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land Management.

ACTION: Resubmission of comments on specific notices.

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SUMMARY: The Office of the Secretary, along with the Fish and Wildlife 
Service and the Bureau of Land Management give notice to the public of 
the opportunity to resubmit comments on specific notices. This action 
is necessitated by the possibility that some comments that were 
submitted by the public in response to notices may not have been timely 
received by the identified bureaus due to the shutdown of the Brentwood 
Postal Facility in Washington, DC, on October 21, 2001. The postal 
facility was closed because of the threat of anthrax contamination. 
This action is also necessitated because the Department's internet 
access, including receipt of outside e-mail, has been shut down under 
court order until further notice. Comments which may have been sent to 
the Department by email since December 4, 2001, have not been received 
by the Department and should be resubmitted by mail to the addresses 
specified herein.

DATES: Resubmittal of comments on identified notices must be postmarked 
no later than February 15, 2002.

ADDRESSES: The addresses for the resubmittal of comments are as 
follows:
     Fish and Wildlife Service, 4401 North Fairfax Drive, 
Office of Policy, Directives and Management, Arlington, VA 22203, 
unless otherwise noted.
     Bureau of Land Management, Eastern States Office, 7450 
Boston Blvd., Springfield, VA 22135, unless otherwise noted.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Duncan L. Brown, Office of the 
Secretary, Washington, DC, 202/208-4582.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of this document is to allow 
interested parties the opportunity to resubmit comments they may have 
sent to the Washington, DC, offices of the Fish and Wildlife Service 
and the Bureau of Land Management on certain identified notices. This 
action is taken due to the closure of the Brentwood Postal Facility, 
Washington, DC, has caused a delay in the delivery of mail to the 
Department's Washington, DC, agency addresses. In addition, the 
Department's internet access, including receipt of outside email, has 
been shut down under court order until further notice and comments 
which were sent by email to the Department by email since December 4, 
2001, have not been received by the Department. To guarantee the 
collection of all responsive comments, the Department has decided that 
it will extend to all interested parties the opportunity to resubmit 
their written comments on the identified notices to the agency 
addresses identified in the ADDRESSES section of this document. The 
affected notices are identified as follows:

Notices

FWS  Light Goose Management--Availability of DEIS
FWS  ESA Permit Applications
FWS  ESA/MMPA Permit Applications
FWS  Availability of EA/Application for ITP--Deltona, Florida, 
Florida Scrub-Jay, Eastern Indigo Snake
FWS  Availability of EA/HCP/Application for ITP--Interagency Task 
Force--Six Points Road, Indiana
FWS  ITP--Houston Toad--Lower Colorado River Authority
FWS  Availability of Draft EA/CCP for Salinas River NWR
FWS  Wild Bird Conservation Act Permit Application
FWS  Preparation of EIS for South Subregion NCCP/HCP--Orange County, 
CA
FWS  Incidental Take Permit Request, Houston Toad
FWS  Receipt of Application for ITP--Palmas del Mar, PR
FWS  Availability of CCP/EA for Antioch Dunes NWR
FWS  Availability of Draft EA, June Sucker Recovery Plan
FWS  Availability of CCP/EA for Seedskadee NWR
FWS  Availability of of EA/HCP; ITP Application--Golf Highlands/Fort 
Morgan--Turtles and Beach mouse
FWS  Availability of CCAA--Georgia Power--Robust Redhorse
FWS  Availability of Draft EA/RP for Charles George Landfill 
Superfund Site
FWS  Availability of Draft EA/Application for Incidental Take--
Pinery Glen, CO
FWS  Availability of EA/Receipt of Application for Incidental Take--
Riverside Fairy Shrimp--Redhawk
FWS  Application to Amend West Fork Timber Incidental Take Permit--
Canada Lynx/Bull Trout
FWS  Availability of EA/HCP--Bald Eagles--The Woodlands, Texas
FWS  Draft EIS--Light Goose Management
FWS  Draft Southwestern Willow Flycatcher Recovery Plan--Reopening 
of Comment Period
FWS  PRA--Employee Exit Survey (Former Employees)
FWS  Intent to Prepare Comp. Conservation

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Plan/NEPA Document--Sacramento River NWR
FWS  Intent to Prepare EIS/Scoping Meeting--Roosevelt HCP
FWS  Availability of Draft Recovery Plan--Pacific Coast Population 
of Western Snowy Plover
FWS  PRA--Marine Mammals--Incidental Take
FWS  Intent to Prepare Comp. Conservation Plans--Arrowwood and Sand 
Lake NWRs
FWS  Availability of Draft EA/Incidental Take Permit Applications, 
Flaglere County, Florida
FWS  Intent to Prepare EIS/EIR--South Subregion Natural Community 
Conservation Plan/HCP, Orange County, CA
FWS  Preparation of EIS/EIS--W. Riverside County HCP
FWS  Submission--Refuge Special Use Permits
FWS  Environmental Assessment--Major Amendment to San Diego Subarea 
Plan for Multiple Species Conservation Program Plan
FWS  Status Review--Wasatch Front Population of the spotted frog
FWS  PRA--State Certification of Expenditures
FWS  Sonoran Pronghorn Recovery Plan--Criteria and Time Estimate for 
Recovery
FWS  Availability of Proposed Peregrine Falcon Monitoring Plan
FWS  Availability of EIS/Safe Harbor Application--San Joaquin Kit 
Fox
FWS  Availability of EIS on Light Goose Management
FWS  Availability of Draft CCP/EA--Necedah NWR, WI
FWS  Availability of Draft Implementation Plan for Falconry Take of 
Nestling Peregrine Falcons
FWS  Reopening of Comment Period--4 Colorado Basin Endangered Fish 
Species
FWS  Availability of Draft EA for Mandalay Bank Protection Project, 
LA
FWS  Intent to Prepare Comp. Conservation Plan/NEPA Document--
Sacramento River NWR
FWS  Intent to Prepare EIS/Scoping Meeting--Roosevelt HCP
FWS  Availability of Draft Recovery Plan--Pacific Coast Population 
of Western Snowy Plover
FWS  PRA--Marine Mammals--Incidental Take
FWS  Availability of Draft EA/Incidental Take Permit Application, 
Flagler County, Florida
FWS  Intent to Prepare EIS/EIR--South Subregion Natural Community 
Conservation Plan/HCP, Orange County, CA
FWS  Preparation of EIS/EIR--W. Riverside County HCP
FWS  PRA Submission--Refuge Special Use Permits
FWS  Environmental Assessment--Major Amendments to San Diego Subarea 
Plan for Multiple Species Conservation Program Plan
FWS  Status Review--Wasatch Front Population of the spotted frog
FWS  PRA--State Certification of Expenditures
BLM  Availability and Protest Period for Planning Analysis/EA for 
Lands in Arkansas and Louisiana
BLM  Availability of FEIS for Pueblo of San Felipe Land Exchange
BLM  Availability and Protest Period for Proposed Planning Analysis 
to Acquire Land in Fairfax County, Virginia by BLM
BLM  Availability of Proposed Southeastern Oregon RMP and FEIS and 
Proposed Area of Critical Environmental Concern Designations
BLM  Cadiz Groundwater Storage and Dry-Year Supply Program FEIS (EPA 
Notice published October 5, 2001)

    Dated: January 15, 2002.
P. Lynn Scarlett,
Assistant Secretary--Policy Management and Budget.
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