[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 229 (Tuesday, November 30, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Page 74073]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-30069]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

[FWS-R1-ES-2010-N250; 10120-1113-0000-C2]


Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Draft Revised 
Recovery Plan for the Northern Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis 
caurina); Reopening of Public Comment Period

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of document availability; reopening of comment period.

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SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, recently announced the 
availability of the Draft Revised Recovery Plan for the Northern 
Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) for public review and comment. 
See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for details. We now reopen the comment 
period. If you have previously submitted comments, please do not 
resubmit them, because we have already incorporated them in the public 
record and will fully consider them in developing our final recovery 
plan.

DATES: To ensure consideration, please send your written comments by 
December 15, 2010.

ADDRESSES: Electronic copies of the draft revised recovery plan are 
available online at: http://ecos.fws.gov/docs/recovery_plan/100915.pdf 
and http://www.fws.gov/oregonfwo/Species/Data/NorthernSpottedOwl/Recovery/. Printed copies of the draft revised recovery plan are 
available by request from the Field Supervisor, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 
Service, Oregon Fish and Wildlife Office, 2600 SE. 98th Avenue, Ste. 
100, Portland, OR 97266 (phone: 503/231-6179). Written comments 
regarding this recovery plan, or requests for copies of the plan, 
should be addressed to the above Portland address or sent by e-mail to: 
[email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brendan White or (for draft copies of 
population response model output) Diana Acosta, Fish and Wildlife 
Biologists, at the above address and phone number.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On September 15, 2010, we published a 
Federal Register notice (75 FR 56131) announcing the availability of 
the Draft Revised Recovery Plan for the Northern Spotted Owl (Strix 
occidentalis caurina) for public review and comment under the 
Endangered Species Act (16 U.S.C 1531 et seq.). We originally opened 
this comment period for 60 days, from September 15, 2010, to November 
15, 2010. We are re-opening the public comment period until December 
15, 2010, in response to several requests for additional time to review 
and comment on the draft revised recovery plan.
    For background information on the draft revised recovery plan, see 
our September 15, 2010, notice. As stated in that notice, we 
particularly seek comments concerning portions of the draft revised 
recovery plan that have been updated from the 2008 recovery plan. 
Appendix C of the draft revised recovery plan described stages 1 and 2 
of our ongoing three-stage spotted owl modeling effort. Since its 
release we have continued this effort, initiating population response 
modeling using the individual-based population program HexSim. Though 
still at preliminary draft stage, population response simulations from 
this portion of the modeling process are available for public review by 
request from our office. These simulations do not estimate what will 
occur in the future, but provide comparative information on potential 
population responses to different conservation scenarios as described 
in the draft revised recovery plan.

Public Availability of Comments

    Before including your address, phone number, e-mail address, or 
other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be 
aware that your entire comment--including personal identifying 
information--may be made publicly available at any time. While you may 
ask us in your comment to withhold personal identifying information 
from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.

Authority

    The authority for this action is section 4(f) of the Endangered 
Species Act, 16 U.S.C. 1533(f).

    Dated: November 15, 2010.
Richard R. Hannan,
Acting Regional Director, Region 1, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
[FR Doc. 2010-30069 Filed 11-29-10; 8:45 am]
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