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• In-Person: Copies of the draft EA
and draft HCP are also available for
public inspection and review at the
following locations, by appointment and
written request only, 8 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.:
Æ U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 500
Gold Avenue SW., Room 6034,
Albuquerque, NM 87102.
Æ U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
10711 Burnet Road, Suite 200, Austin,
TX 78758.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Adam Zerrenner, Field Supervisor, by
U.S. mail at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, 10711 Burnet Road, Suite 200,
Austin, TX 78758; or via telephone at
(512) 490–0057.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In
accordance with the requirements of the
National Environmental Policy Act of
1969 (NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.),
we advise the public that:
We have gathered the information
necessary to determine impacts and
formulate alternatives for the draft
Environmental Assessment (dEA)
related to potential issuance of an
incidental take permit (ITP) to the
Applicant. The Applicant has
developed a draft Habitat Conservation
Plan (dHCP) as part of the application
for an ITP, which describes the
measures the Applicant has agreed to
take to minimize and mitigate the effects
of incidental take of the golden-cheeked
warbler (Setophaga [=Dendroica]
chrysoparia; GCWA) to the maximum
extent practicable pursuant to section
10(a)(1)(B) of the Endangered Species
Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531
et seq.; Act).
Anaqua Springs Ranch, Inc.
(Applicant), has applied to the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service (Service) for an ITP
(TE–29216B) under section 10(a)(1)(B)
of the Act. The proposed take would
occur on the 60.7-acre Anderson Tract
(Permit Area) in Bexar County, Texas, as
a result of activities associated with the
Applicant’s proposed clearing and
construction of a residential
development (Covered Activities). Such
actions will require clearing of GCWA
habitat.
The dEA considers the direct,
indirect, and cumulative effects of
implementation of the dHCP, including
the measures that will be implemented
to minimize and mitigate, to the
maximum extent practicable, the
impacts of the incidental take of the
covered species.
Background
In May 2013, the Applicant submitted
an ITP application, dHCP, and dEA for
proposed incidental take on 60.7 acres
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reviewed and edited the dEA and
provided comments on the dHCP.
Proposed Action
The proposed action involves the
issuance of an ITP by the Service for the
Covered Activities in the Permit Area,
pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(B) of the
Act. The ITP would cover ‘‘take’’ of the
Covered Species associated with the
clearing and construction of a
residential development within the
Permit Area.
To meet the requirements of a section
10(a)(1)(B) ITP, the Applicant has
developed and proposes to implement
its dHCP, which describes the
conservation measures the Applicant
has agreed to undertake to minimize
and mitigate for the impacts of the
proposed incidental take of the Covered
Species to the maximum extent
practicable, and ensures that incidental
take will not appreciably reduce the
likelihood of the survival and recovery
of these species in the wild.
The Applicant proposes to mitigate
with the purchase of 60.7 acres of high
quality habitat, likely from a Serviceapproved conservation bank with the
Anderson Tract in its service area.
Alternatives
Two alternatives to the proposed
action we are considering as part of this
process are:
1. No Action: No ITP would be issued.
Under a No Action alternative, the
applicant would not request, and the
Service would not issue, an ITP for
development of the Anderson Tract, and
therefore the Applicant would not
implement the conservation measures
described in the dHCP.
2. Lower Mitigation: The Lower
Mitigation alternative is similar to the
Proposed Action in that the Service
would issue an ITP for the proposed
project. However, the HCP under this
alternative would be modified to
include the purchase of a lesser number
of conservation credits for the GCWA.
All other aspects of the proposed project
and the HCP would remain the same.
Public Availability of Comments
Written comments we receive 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 can request in your comment that
we withhold your personal identifying
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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 Act and its implementing
regulations (50 CFR 17.22 and 17.32)
and NEPA and its implementing
regulations (40 CFR 1506.6).
Joy E. Nicholopoulos,
Acting Regional Director, Southwest Region,
Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Geological Survey
[GX15EG50DW73200]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Request for Comments on
The National Map Corps
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of a new information
collection, The National Map Corps.
AGENCY:

We (the U.S. Geological
Survey) are notifying the public that we
have submitted to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) the
information collection request (ICR)
described below. To comply with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA)
and as part of our continuing efforts to
reduce paperwork and respondent
burden, we invite the general public and
other Federal agencies to take this
opportunity to comment on this ICR.
DATES: To ensure that your comments
on this ICR are considered, we must
receive them on or before January 20,
2015.
ADDRESSES: Please submit written
comments on this information
collection directly to the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB), Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs,
Attention: Desk Officer for the
Department of the Interior, via email:
([email protected]); or
by fax (202) 395–5806; and identify your
submission with ‘OMB Control Number
1028—NEW The National Map Corps’.
Please also forward a copy of your
comments and suggestions on this
information collection to the
Information Collection Clearance
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Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201
Sunrise Valley Drive MS 807, Reston,
VA 20192 (mail); (703) 648–7195 (fax);
or [email protected] (email).
Please reference ‘OMB Information
Collection 1028—NEW: The National
Map Corps’ in all correspondence.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Elizabeth McCartney at (573) 308–3696
or [email protected]. You may also
find information about this ICR at
www.reginfo.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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I. Abstract
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)
has historically sponsored volunteer
data collection projects to enhance its
topographic paper and digital map
products, but these activities were
suspended in 2006 due to budget
concerns. Since then, new internet
technologies have made it easy for
citizens to georeference and share many
different types of data via online
mapping platforms and social
networking sites. These data have been
referred to as volunteered geographic
information (VGI). As a result of these
developments, the USGS has reinstated
the volunteer data-collection program
for The National Map (http://
nationalmap.gov).
Using crowd-sourcing techniques, the
USGS VGI project known as ‘‘The
National Map Corps’’ encourages citizen
volunteers to collect data about
manmade structures in an effort to
provide accurate and authoritative
spatial map data for the USGS National
Geospatial Program’s web-based The
National Map. Citizens collect and/or
improve structures data by adding new
features, removing obsolete points, and
correcting existing data using a webbased mapping platform. Points edited
become part of the National Structures
Database, and include schools,
hospitals, post offices, police stations
and other important public buildings.
Through their participation, volunteers
are able to make significant
contributions to the USGS’s ability to
provide the Nation with accurate
mapping information.
We estimate that some users will
require a longer session to become
acquainted with the interface on their
first session. This may be as long as one
hour to create an account and review
the guidance document. Thereafter,
users should be able to make edits to the
database in about ten minutes per item
being updated.
II. Data
OMB Control Number: 1028—NEW.
Title: The National Map Corps.

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Type of Request: Approval of new
information collection.
Respondent Obligation: None
(participation is voluntary).
Frequency of Collection: Occasional.
Description of Respondents: The
general public.
Estimated Total Number of Annual
Responses: We estimate that 1,000
people will participate in this volunteer
initiative. If they make 75 updates to the
Web site that would be 75,000
responses. Counting the updates and the
initial sign up, that would be 76,000
responses.
Estimated Time per Response: We
estimate that it will take no more than
60 minutes to create an account and join
the community. Thereafter it should
take no more than 10 minutes to edit a
structure point on the Web page.
Estimated Annual Burden Hours:
13,500 hours.
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’
Burden: There are no ‘‘non-hour cost’’
burdens associated with this collection
of information.
Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA
(44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) provides that an
agency may not conduct or sponsor and
you are not required to respond to a
collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number. Until the OMB approves a
collection of information, you are not
obliged to respond.
Comments: On May 16, 2014 we
published a Federal Register notice (79
FR 28536) announcing that we would
submit this ICR to OMB for approval
and soliciting comments. The comment
period closed on July 17, 2014. We
received no comments.
III. Request for Comments
We again invite comments concerning
this ICR as to: (a) Whether the proposed
collection of information is necessary
for the agency to perform its duties,
including whether the information is
useful; (b) the accuracy of the agency’s
estimate of the burden of the proposed
collection of information; (c) how to
enhance the quality, usefulness, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) how to minimize the
burden on the respondents, including
the use of automated collection
techniques or other forms of information
technology.
Please note that comments submitted
in response to this notice are a matter
of public record. Before including your
personal mailing address, phone
number, email address, or other
personally identifiable information in
your comment, you should be aware
that your entire comment, including

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your personally identifiable
information, may be made publicly
available at any time. While you can ask
the OMB in your comment to withhold
your personal identifying information
from public review, we cannot
guarantee that it will be done.
Kari J. Craun,
Director, National Geospatial Technical
Operations Center.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Land Management
[LLNML00000 L54400000.EU0000
LVCLG13G5160 13XL5017AR]

Application for Conveyance of
Federally Owned Mineral Interests in
Don˜a Ana County, NM
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of realty action.
AGENCY:

On August 1, 2014, the City
of Las Cruces (the City) submitted an
application to the Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) for the conveyance
of the federally owned mineral interests
in the 125-acre parcel of land described
in this notice.
DATES: Interested parties may submit
written comments to the BLM at the
address listed below on or before
February 2, 2015.
ADDRESSES: Bureau of Land
Management, Las Cruces District Office,
1800 Marquess Street, Las Cruces, NM
88005. Detailed information concerning
this action is available for review at this
address.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Anthony Hom, Realty Specialist, at the
address above, or by telephone at 575–
525–4331, or email to [email protected].
Persons who use a telecommunications
device for the deaf (TDD) may call the
Federal Information Relay Service
(FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339 to contact the
above individual during business hours.
The FIRS is available 24 hours a day, 7
days a week, to leave a message or
question with the above individual. You
will receive a reply during normal
business hours.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The BLM
is processing the City’s application
under section 209 of the Federal Land
Policy and Management Act (FLPMA),
43 U.S.C. 1719(b), to convey the
federally owned mineral interests for
125 acres of public land located in Don˜a
Ana County, New Mexico, to the
prospective surface owner, the City. In
SUMMARY:

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