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Services Field Office, Attn: Permit
number TE81294A–0 for Reed Motors,
Inc. and/or Attn: Permit number
TE81293A–0 for Clermont Land
Development, LLC, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, 7915 Baymeadows
Way, Suite 200, Jacksonville, FL 32256.
In-person drop-off: You may drop off
information during regular business
hours at the above office address.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erin
M. Gawera, telephone: (904) 731–3121;
email: [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Section 9 of the Act (16 U.S.C. 1531
et seq.) and our implementing Federal
regulations in the Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) at 50 CFR 17 prohibit
the ‘‘take’’ of fish or wildlife species
listed as endangered or threatened. Take
of listed fish or wildlife is defined under
the Act as ‘‘to harass, harm, pursue,
hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture,
or collect, or to attempt to engage in any
such conduct’’ (16 U.S.C. 1532).
However, under limited circumstances,
we issue permits to authorize incidental
take—i.e., take that is incidental to, and
not the purpose of, the carrying out of
an otherwise lawful activity.
Regulations governing incidental take
permits for threatened and endangered
species are at 50 CFR 17.32 and 17.22,
respectively. The Act’s take prohibitions
do not apply to federally listed plants
on private lands unless such take would
violate State law. In addition to meeting
other criteria, an incidental take
permit’s proposed actions must not
jeopardize the existence of federally
listed fish, wildlife, or plants.

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Applicants’ Proposals
The applicants are requesting
combined take of approximately 2.65 ac
of occupied sand skink foraging and
sheltering habitat incidental to
construction of commercial
developments, and they each seek a 5year permit. The 10-ac Reed Motors, Inc.
project is located on parcel # 09–22–26–
110000700001 within Section 26,
Township 22 South, Range 26 East, Lake
County, Florida. The 2.49-ac Clermont
Land Development, LLC project is
located on parcel # 09–22–26–
160000000100 within Section 29,
Township 22 South, Range 26 East, Lake
County, Florida. The projects include
construction of two commercial
developments and the associated
infrastructure, and landscaping. Reed
Motors, Inc. proposes to mitigate for the
take of the sand skink by the purchase
of 1.0 mitigation credits within the
Hatchineha Ranch Conservation Bank.

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Clermont Land Development, LLC
proposes to mitigate for the take of the
sand skink by the purchase of 4.34
mitigation credits within the Morgan
Lake Wales Preserve Conservation Bank.
Our Preliminary Determination
We have determined that the
applicant’s proposals, including the
proposed mitigation and minimization
measures, would have minor or
negligible effects on the species covered
in the HCPs. Therefore, we determined
that the ITPs are ‘‘low-effect’’ projects
and qualify for categorical exclusion
under the National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA), as provided by the
Department of the Interior Manual (516
DM 2 Appendix 1 and 516 DM 6
Appendix 1). A low-effect HCP is one
involving (1) Minor or negligible effects
on federally listed or candidate species
and their habitats, and (2) minor or
negligible effects on other
environmental values or resources.
Next Steps

Public Comments
If you wish to comment on the permit
applications, HCPs, and associated
documents, you may submit comments
by any one of the methods in
ADDRESSES.
Public Availability of Comments
Before including your address, phone
number, email address, or other
personal identifying information in your
comments, you should be aware that
your entire comment—including your
personal identifying information—may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you can ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.

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Authority
We provide this notice under Section
10 of the Act and NEPA regulations (40
CFR 1506.6).
Dated: August 6, 2012.
David L. Hankla,
Field Supervisor, Jacksonville Field Office,
Southeast Region.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
U.S. Geological Survey
[GX12BA02EEW0200]

Agency Information Collection
Activities: Comment Request
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of an extension of
currently approved information
collection.
AGENCY:

We (the U.S. Geological
Survey) will ask the Office of
Management and Budget (OMB) to
approve the information collection (IC)
1028–0103 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 IC. This collection is
scheduled to expire on January 31,
2013.

SUMMARY:

We will evaluate the HCPs and
comments we receive to determine
whether the ITP applications meet the
requirements of section 10(a) of the Act
(16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). If we determine
that the applications meet these
requirements, we will issue ITP #
TE81294A–0 and ITP # TE81293A–0.
We will also evaluate whether issuance
of the section 10(a)(1)(B) ITPs comply
with section 7 of the Act by conducting
an intra-Service section 7 consultation.
We will use the results of this
consultation, in combination with the
above findings, in our final analysis to
determine whether or not to issue the
ITPs. If the requirements are met, we
will issue the permits to the applicants.

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Submit written comments by
October 9, 2012.
ADDRESSES: You may submit comments
on this information collection to the
Information Collection Clearance
Officer, U.S. Geological Survey, 12201
Sunrise Valley Drive MS 807, Reston,
VA 20192 (mail); (703) 648–7199 (fax);
or [email protected] (email). Please
Reference Information 1028–0103 in the
subject line.
DATES:

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION PLEASE
CONTACT: Jake F. Weltzin, Ecologist,

U.S.
Geological Survey, [email protected],
(520) 626–3821.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: USA National Phenology
Network—The Nature’s Notebook Plant
and Animal Observing Program.
OMB Control Number: 1028–0103.
Type of Request: Notice of an
extension of a currently approved
information collection.
Respondent Obligation: Voluntary.
Abstract: The USA–NPN is a program
sponsored by the USGS that uses
standardized forms for tracking plant

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and animal activity as part of a project
called Nature’s Notebook. The Nature’s
Notebook forms are used to record
phenology (e.g., timing of leafing or
flowering of plants and reproduction or
migration of animals) as part of a
nationwide effort to understand and
predict how plants and animals respond
to environmental variation and changes
in weather and climate. Contemporary
data collected through Nature’s
Notebook are quality-checked, described
and made publicly available; data are
used to inform decision-making in a
variety of contexts, including
agriculture, drought monitoring, and
wildfire risk assessment. Phenological
information is also critical for the
management of wildlife, invasive
species, and agricultural pests, and for
understanding and managing risks to
human health and welfare, including
allergies, asthma, and vector-borne
diseases. Participants may contribute
phenology information to Nature’s
Notebook through a browser-based web
application or via mobile applications
for iPhone and Android operating
systems, meeting GPEA requirements.
The web application interface consists
several components: User registration, a
searchable list of 877 plant and animal
species which can be observed; a
‘‘profile’’ for each species that contains
information about the species including
its description and the appropriate
monitoring protocols; a series of
interfaces for registering as an observer,
registering a site, registering plants and
animals at a site, generating datasheets
to take to the field, and a data entry page
that mimics the datasheets.
Frequency of Collection: On occasion.
During the Spring and Fall seasons
when phenology is changing quickly,
we recommend respondents make
observations twice per week.
Estimated Number and Description of
Respondents: In addition to those users
already registered, we expect an
additional 1,027 users will register each
year. These respondents are members of
the public, registered with Nature’s
Notebook.
Estimated Annual Responses:
501,130.
Estimated Annual burden hours:
17,032.
Estimated Reporting and
Recordkeeping ‘‘Non-Hour Cost’’
Burden: We estimate the non-hour cost
burden to be $3.34. This cost applies to
new observers and includes material
used to mark sites or plants during the
first observation. Marking helps to
ensure reporting consistency for future
observations.
Public Disclosure Statement: The PRA
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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.
Comments: We are soliciting
comments 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 the comments
submitted in response to this notice are
a matter of public record. 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 ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee we will be able to do
so.
Dated: August 3, 2012.
William Lellis,
Deputy Associate Director, Ecosystems
Mission Area .
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Indian Entities Recognized and Eligible
To Receive Services From the Bureau
of Indian Affairs
Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

This notice publishes the
current list of 566 tribal entities
recognized and eligible for funding and
services from the Bureau of Indian
Affairs by virtue of their status as Indian
tribes. The list is updated from the
notice published on October 1, 2010 (75
FR 60810) and the October 27, 2010 (75
FR 66124—Supplemental).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gail
Veney, Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Division of Tribal Government Services,
Mail Stop 4513–MIB, 1849 C Street
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NW., Washington, DC 20240. Telephone
number: (202) 513–7641.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
notice is published pursuant to Section
104 of the Act of November 2, 1994
(Pub. L. 103–454; 108 Stat. 4791, 4792),
and in exercise of authority delegated to
the Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs
under 25 U.S.C. 2 and 9 and 209 DM 8.
Published below is a list of federally
acknowledged tribes in the contiguous
48 states and in Alaska. This list
updates the list published on October 1,
2010, to reflect an addition published in
an October 27, 2010 Notice, and one
other addition and various name
changes and corrections. To aid in
identifying tribal name changes, the
tribe’s former name is included with the
new tribal name. To aid in identifying
corrections, the tribe’s previously listed
name is included with the tribal name.
We will continue to list the tribe’s
former or previously listed name for
several years before dropping the former
or previously listed name from the list.
The listed entities are acknowledged
to have the immunities and privileges
available to other federally
acknowledged Indian tribes by virtue of
their government-to-government
relationship with the United States as
well as the responsibilities, powers,
limitations and obligations of such
tribes. We have continued the practice
of listing the Alaska Native entities
separately solely for the purpose of
facilitating identification of them and
reference to them given the large
number of complex Native names.
Dated: August 6, 2012.
Michael S. Black,
Acting Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs.

Indian Tribal Entities Within the
Contiguous 48 States Recognized and
Eligible To Receive Services From the
United States Bureau of Indian Affairs
Absentee-Shawnee Tribe of Indians of
Oklahoma
Agua Caliente Band of Cahuilla Indians
of the Agua Caliente Indian
Reservation, California
Ak Chin Indian Community of the
Maricopa (Ak Chin) Indian
Reservation, Arizona
Alabama-Coushatta Tribe of Texas
(previously listed as the AlabamaCoushatta Tribes of Texas)
Alabama-Quassarte Tribal Town
Alturas Indian Rancheria, California
Apache Tribe of Oklahoma
Arapaho Tribe of the Wind River
Reservation, Wyoming
Aroostook Band of Micmacs (previously
listed as the Aroostook Band of
Micmac Indians)
Assiniboine and Sioux Tribes of the Fort
Peck Indian Reservation, Montana

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