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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 160 / Monday, August 23, 2021 / Notices
License Agreement and regulations governing the NWR system at Title 50, Code of Federal Regulations.
In 2002, the License Agreement was revised and renewed for an additional 50 years. On February 26, 2018, the Service and SFWMD entered into a renegotiated 20-year license agreement.
Currently, the size of the licensed lands, referred to as the Refuge Interior, is approximately 141,374 acres. In addition to the Refuge Interior, the USFWS owns 3,814.50 acres in fee title to the east. This acreage is sub-divided into three management impoundments A, B, and C, a 400-acre cypress swamp, and the recently added 2,586-acre Strazzulla Marsh see below. In total, the Refuge currently includes 145,188
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Introduction In 2015, the Service developed an environmental assessment under which the Service would exchange a Serviceowned property, Compartment D, with a State of Florida-owned property, Strazzulla Marsh. Both parcels are adjacent to WCA1, the northern limit of the greater Everglades ecosystem. The purpose of the exchange was to bring Strazzulla Marsh, which is the last remaining sawgrass habitat in the eastern Everglades and one of the few remaining sawgrass marshes adjacent to the coastal ridge, into permanent protection as part of the Refuge. At the same time, the SFWMD obtained Compartment D for use as part of the Everglades Restoration Strategies Initiative, to improve overall water quality in the Everglades Protection Area.
When the Congressional Appropriations Committee approved the proposed land exchange, it requested that the Refuge acquisition boundary be formally adjusted to reflect the changes in land ownership. This Notice satisfies this request and ensures that the current Refuge boundary is properly recorded.
The Service today announces that it has adjusted the Refuge boundary lines to reflect this approved action See Appendices, which removes the 1,327acre Compartment D parcel, which is now owned by the State of Florida, from the Refuge acquisition boundary. This action also brings a portion of Strazzulla Marsh, which was acquired by the United States in exchange for Compartment D, within the approved Refuge acquisition boundary.

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Authority This notice is published under the authority of the Improvement Act, Public Law 10557.
Leopoldo Miranda-Castro, Regional Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Atlanta, GA.
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Proposed Programmatic Safe Harbor Agreement for the California RedLegged Frog; Orange, Riverside, and San Diego Counties, California;
National Environmental Policy Act Documentation/Categorical Exclusion Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability; request for comments.
AGENCY:

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Service, announce the receipt of an enhancement of survival EOS permit application from the Services Carlsbad Fish and Wildlife Office that includes a proposed safe harbor agreement SHA in southern California for the federally threatened California red-legged frog. If granted, the SHA would provide for California redlegged frog recovery by providing a framework to reestablish frogs within their historical range. The EOS permit would be in effect for a 30-year period and would authorize take of the California red-legged frog incidental to the implementation of the Programmatic Safe Harbor Agreement in Orange, Riverside, and San Diego Counties, California. The documents available for review and comment are the SHA and National Environmental Policy Act documentation that supports a categorical exclusion. We invite comments from the public and Federal, Tribal, State, and local governments.
DATES: Written comments should be received on or before September 22, 2021.
ADDRESSES: To request further information or submit written comments, please use one of the following methods, and note that your information request or comments are in reference to the California red-legged frog SHA for Orange, Riverside, and San Diego Counties.
Obtaining Documents: You may obtain the applicants safe harbor SUMMARY:

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agreements and the National Environmental Policy Act documentation from the internet at https www.fws.gov/Carlsbad.
Submitting Comments: You may submit written comments by the following method:
Email: fw8cfwocomments@fws.gov.
For additional information about submitting comments, see the Public Comments Solicited section below.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Scott Sobiech, 7604319440. If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf, please call the Federal Relay Service at 8008778339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Service, have received an application from the Services Carlsbad Fish and Wildlife Office for an enhancement of survival EOS permit pursuant to section 10a1A of the Endangered Species Act ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.. The requested 30-year permit would authorize the incidental take of the California red-legged frog Rana draytonii, which is federally listed as threatened, in exchange for conservation measures that are expected to provide a net conservation benefit for the species.
The application includes a proposed SHA that describes allowable land uses and the conservation measures that are intended to produce a net conservation benefit for the California red-legged frog on non-Federal lands in Orange, Riverside, and San Diego Counties. NonFederal property owners may enroll in this SHA, so long as the SHA remains in effect.
Background Section 9 of the ESA and the implementing Federal regulations in effect at the time the California redlegged frog was listed prohibit the take of animal species listed as endangered or threatened. For the California redlegged frog, the take prohibitions as outlined in 50 CFR 17.31 apply, except that incidental take of California redlegged frog is not prohibited if resulting from routine ranching activities as described in 50 CFR 17.43d3ixi on private and tribal lands. Take is defined under the ESA as to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect listed animal species, or to attempt to engage in such conduct 16 U.S.C. 153219. Harm includes significant habitat modification or degradation that actually kills or injures listed wildlife by significantly impairing essential behavioral patterns, such as breeding, feeding, or sheltering 50 CFR 17.3. Under specified circumstances, however, we may issue
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