[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 48 (Friday, March 11, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 14029-14030]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2022-05161]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

[FWS-R2-ES-2022-N223; FXES11140200000-212-FF02ENEH00]


Conservation Efforts To Protect Lesser Prairie-Chicken, Dunes 
Sagebrush Lizard, and Texas Kangaroo Rat; Comment Period Extensions

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notices of availability; public comment period extensions.

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SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) is extending the 
public comment periods for three notices, due to temporary website 
outages that affected the public's access to the documents that the 
notices are making available for comment. The notices pertained to a 
combined candidate conservation agreement (CCA)\ candidate conservation 
agreements with

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assurances (CCAA) amendment, an oil and gas habitat conservation plan 
(HCP), and a new CCAA. The affected species include the lesser prairie-
chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus), the dunes sagebrush lizard 
(Sceloporus arenicolus), and the Texas kangaroo rat (Dipodomys elator).

DATES: The comment periods for the following notices of availability of 
documents are extended. See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION, below, for the 
document titles:
     FWS-R2-ES-2021-N196 (87 FR 7492, February 9, 2022): Please 
submit comments by March 18, 2022.
     FWS-R2-ES-2021-N195 (87 FR 8031, February 11, 2022): 
Please submit comments by March 21, 2022.
     FWS-R2-ES-2021-N028 (87 FR 9637, February 22, 2022): 
Please submit comments by March 31, 2022.

ADDRESSES: 
    Obtaining documents and submitting comments: See SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION, below, for the document titles. If you have previously 
submitted comments, you need not resubmit them. For more information, 
see Public Availability of Comments.
     FWS-R2-ES-2021-N196 (87 FR 7492, February 9, 2022): Obtain 
documents at https://www.fws.gov/media/new-mexico-cca-ccaa-lpc-dsl-amendment and https://www.fws.gov/media/new-mexico-cca-ccaa-lpc-dsl-ea-amendment. Submit written comments by email to [email protected]. Please 
note that your comment is in reference to the ``CCA/CCAA for Lesser 
Prairie-Chicken and Dunes Sagebrush Lizard.''
     FWS-R2-ES-2021-N195 (87 FR 8031, February 11, 2022): 
Obtain documents at https://www.fws.gov/media/oil-and-gas-hcp-and-draft-ea-lesser-prairie-chicken. Submit written comments by email to 
[email protected]. Please note that your comment is in reference to the 
``LPC Oil and Gas HCP''.
     FWS-R2-ES-2021-N028 (87 FR 9637, February 22, 2022): 
Obtain documents by any of the following means. In your request for 
documents, please reference the ``Texas Kangaroo Rat CCAA.''
    [rtarr8] Internet: https://www.fws.gov/media/texas-kangaroo-rat-draft-ccaa-and-nepa-documents.
    [rtarr8] U.S. mail: You may obtain a CD-ROM (limited supply) or 
printed copies by contacting Ms. Debra T. Bills, 2005 Northeast Green 
Oaks Boulevard, Suite 140, Arlington, TX 76006.
    [rtarr8] Email: [email protected].
    Submit written comments by one of the following methods. In your 
comments, please reference ``Texas Kangaroo Rat CCAA.''
    [rtarr8] Email: [email protected].
    [rtarr8] U.S. mail: Debra T. Bills (street address above).
    [rtarr8] Fax: 817-277-1129.
    We request that you send comments by only one of the above methods.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 
     FWS-R2-ES-2021-N196: Shawn Sartorius, 505-761-4781.
     FWS-R2-ES-2021-N195 and FWS-R2-ES-2021-N028: Debra T. 
Bills, 817-277-1100.
    Individuals in the United States who are deaf, deafblind, hard of 
hearing, or have a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or 
TeleBraille) to access telecommunications relay services. Individuals 
outside the United States should use the relay services offered within 
their country to make international calls to the point-of-contact in 
the United States.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 
(Service), are extending the public comment periods for three recent 
Federal Register notices. For each of the notices, please submit any 
comments by the appropriate date set forth above in DATES. If you 
already submitted comments or information on the originally published 
notices, please do not resubmit them. Any such comments are 
incorporated as part of the public record of the action, and we will 
fully consider them in the preparation of any final determinations. For 
more information, please see the published notices:

 FWS-R2-ES-2021-N196: Draft Environmental Assessment for 
Amendments to the Candidate Conservation Agreement/Candidate 
Conservation Agreement With Assurances for the Lesser Prairie-Chicken 
(Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) and Dunes Sagebrush Lizard (Sceloporus 
arenicolus) in New Mexico (87 FR 7492, February 9, 2022)
 FWS-R2-ES-2021-N195: Application for an Incidental Take 
Permit; Oil and Gas Habitat Conservation Plan for the Lesser Prairie-
Chicken; Colorado, Kansas, New Mexico, Oklahoma, and Texas (87 FR 8031, 
February 11, 2022)
 FWS-R2-ES-2021-N028: Draft Low Effect Screening Form for a 
Categorical Exclusion and Candidate Conservation Plan; Texas Kangaroo 
Rat Candidate Conservation Agreement With Assurances, Montague, Clay, 
Wichita, Archer, Wilbarger, Baylor, Hardeman, Foard, Childress, Cottle, 
and Motley Counties, Texas (87 FR 9637, February 22, 2022)

Public Availability of Comments

    All comments we receive become part of the public record associated 
with the action. Requests for copies of comments will be handled in 
accordance with the Freedom of Information Act, the National 
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and Service and Department of the 
Interior policies and procedures. 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 to withhold your personal identifying 
information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be 
able to do so. 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 issue this notice pursuant to section 10(c) of the Endangered 
Species Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) and its implementing regulations 
(50 CFR 17.22 and 17.32) and NEPA (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and its 
implementing regulations (40 CFR 1506.6 and 43 CFR 46.305).

Amy L. Lueders,
Regional Director, Southwest Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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