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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 233 / Wednesday, December 8, 2021 / Notices The new document available for review and comment is the applicants requested amendment to the habitat conservation plan HCP, which is part of their ITP amendment application.
The previously finalized HCP and the Services 2018 final supplemental DATES: We will accept comments environmental impact statement SEIS
received or postmarked on or before and record of decision ROD included January 7, 2022. Comments submitted analysis of potential permit online at Regulations.gov see amendments to add lands to the HCP
ADDRESSES must be received by 11:59
under the National Environmental p.m. Eastern Time on the closing date.
Policy Act NEPA, are also available ADDRESSES:
online for reference see ADDRESSES, Obtaining Documents: The documents above. We have reviewed the prior this notice announces, as well as NEPA analysis and determined that the associated background documents and 2018 final SEIS and associated ROD
any comments and other materials that include the appropriate analysis we receive, will be available for public necessary for this ITP amendment, and inspection online in Docket No. FWS
that no further NEPA documentation is R6ES20210096 at http
needed.
www.regulations.gov.
Applicants Proposed Amendment Submitting Comments: You may The additional lands include 14,642
submit comments by one of the acres of acquired forested land now part following methods:
Online: http www.regulations.gov. of the Stillwater State Forest near Olney, Montana, and in the Wolf Creek Follow the instructions for submitting watershed on DNRC Libby Unit. A 2018
comments on Docket No. FWSR6ES
final SEIS considered the environmental 20210096.
effects of amending the HCP and permit U.S. Mail: Public Comments as a result of adding acquired lands Processing, Attn: Docket No. FWSR6
within the HCP planning area, and ES20210096; U.S. Fish and Wildlife addressed public comments received on Service Headquarters, MS: PERMA;
the 2017 draft SEIS. The DNRC proposes 5275 Leesburg Pike; Falls Church, VA
to add 14,642 acres into the HCP
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planning area for ESA incidental take We request that you send comments coverage for DNRCs forest management by only the methods described above.
activities on these lands. Prior to DNRC
We will post all comments on http
acquisition, private entities conducted www.regulations.gov. This generally forest management activities on the means that we will post any personal 14,642 acres of forested lands.
information you provide us see the In general, all conservation Public Comments section below for commitments would be applied more information.
specifically as stated in the HCP as FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ben amended in 2018, and all lands that Conard, by phone at 4067586882, by would be added to the HCP fall within email at Ben_Conard@fws.gov, or via the the bounds of the original HCP planning Federal Relay Service at 8008778339. area. Some modifications are necessary SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We, the to accommodate the Lazy-Swift U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Service, acquisition lands and existing have received an application from the conservation constraints associated with Montana Department of Natural established conservation easements on Resources and Conservation DNRC to the properties e.g., create a new Lynx amend their incidental take permit ITP Management Area, incorporate under the Endangered Species Act of associated road systems into the existing 1973, as amended ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531
transportation plan, and accommodate et seq.. The amendment would add some areas permanently deferred from lands for coverage under the existing commercial logging. However, these forest management habitat conservation modifications do not result in a plan HCP and extend the permit take substantial change from conservation coverage to these lands for species commitments made in the HCP and covered by the HCP: Three federally analyzed in the 2018 FEIS.
listed species, the grizzly bear, Canada Background lynx, and bull trout, and two unlisted In 2012, we issued an ITP to DNRC for species, the westslope cutthroat trout take of the grizzly bear, Canada lynx, and Columbia redband trout. Take bull trout, westslope cutthroat trout, and authorization of an unlisted species Columbia redband trout incidental to only becomes effective upon a final forest management activities covered in listing determination.

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their HCP 75 FR 57059. The grizzly bear, Canada lynx, and bull trout are listed as threatened under the ESA, while the westslope and Columbia redband trout are not federally listed species. The original permit covered approximately 548,500 acres of forested State trust lands in western Montana.
The HCP addressed the process and contingencies for DNRC to transfer, exchange, or add lands for their forest management activities in the future.
Thus, the Service had considered in the 2011 final EIS the potential effects of amending the HCP and permit to cover such actions, but was not able to analyze effects from adding specific lands that had not yet been identified.
The 2018 final SEIS 83 FR 24335
analyzed potential effects to the human and natural environment from the preferred alternative to amend the permit to cover take from DNRCs forest management activities on an additional 81,416 acres and the potential future addition of lands within the HCP
planning area, including the current amendment request for the addition of 14,642 acres.
Public Comments If you submit information via http
www.regulations.gov, your entire submissionincluding any personal identifying informationwill be posted on the website. If your submission is made via a hardcopy that includes personal identifying information, you may request at the top of your document that we withhold this information from public review. However, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.
We will post all hardcopy submissions on http www.regulations.gov.
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 10c of the ESA 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.
and its implementing regulations for incidental take permits 50 CFR 17.32
and NEPA 42 U.S.C. 4371 et seq. and its implementing regulations 40 CFR
1506.6; 43 CFR part 46.
Stephen Small, Assistant Regional Director, Ecological Services, Mountain-Prairie Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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