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ADDRESSES: Requests for copies of the DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
patent and/or patent applications, HUMAN SERVICES
inquiries, comments and other materials Fish and Wildlife Service
relating to the contemplated exclusive National Institutes of Health
Draft Revised Recovery Plan for the
license should be directed to: Mojdeh
Notice of Public Meeting Sihek or Guam Micronesian Kingfisher
Bahar, J.D., Technology Licensing (Halcyon cinnamomina cinnamomina)
Specialist, Office of Technology
AGENCY: National Institutes of Health, AGENCY: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
Transfer, National Institutes of Health,
DHHS. Interior.
6011 Executive Boulevard, Suite 325,
Rockville, MD 20852–3804; Telephone: ACTION: Notice of public meeting. ACTION: Notice of document availability
(301) 435–2950; Facsimile: (301) 402– for review and comment.
0220; E-mail: baharm@od.nih.gov. SUMMARY: The National Institutes of
SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Health (NIH) is announcing a public Service (‘‘we’’), announces the
technology claimed in the meeting to enable invited individuals, availability of the Draft Revised
aforementioned patents is a method for organizations, and other stakeholders to Recovery Plan for the Sihek or Guam
the treatment or prevention of comment on the use of the government Micronesian Kingfisher (Halcyon
autoimmune diseases, allergic or atopic march-in authorities under 35 U.S.C. cinnamomina cinnamomina) for public
disorders, and graft rejections. The 203 for Norvir (ritonavir) review and comment.
instant method comprises inducing the manufactured by Abbott Laboratories DATES: Comments on the draft revised
death by apoptosis of a subpopulation of using inventive technologies developed recovery plan must be received on or
T lymphocytes that is capable of causing with NIH funds. before June 28, 2004.
such diseases, while leaving the Time and Date: The public meeting ADDRESSES: Copies of the draft revised
majority of other T lymphocytes will be held on May 25, 2004 from 9 recovery plan are available for
unaffected. Cell death is achieved by a.m. to 12 p.m. inspection, by appointment, during
cycles comprising challenging via normal business hours at the following
Place: The public meeting will be location: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
immunization these T cells with held in the first-floor conference room, Pacific Islands Fish and Wildlife Office,
antigenic substance at short time Building 50 (at the corner of Center and 300 Ala Moana Boulevard, Room 3–122,
intervals, or by immunization followed South Drives), National Institutes of Honolulu, Hawaii 96850 (phone: (808)
by administering interleukin-2 (IL–2) Health, 9000 Rockville Pike, Bethesda, 792–9400). Requests for copies of the
when these T cells are expressing high MD 20892. Parking will be limited and draft revised recovery plan and written
levels of IL–2 receptor so as to cause there may be delays entering the NIH comments and materials regarding this
these T cells to undergo apoptosis upon campus due to increased security. We plan should be addressed to the Field
re-immunization with the antigenic recommend arriving by Metro, if Supervisor, Ecological Services, at the
peptide or protein. possible. NIH is accessible from the above Honolulu address. An electronic
The prospective exclusive license will Metro’s red line at the Medical Center/ copy of the draft revised recovery plan
be royalty-bearing and will comply with NIH stop. is also available at: http://
the terms and conditions of 35 U.S.C. endangered.fws.gov/recovery/
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
209 and 37 CFR 404.7. The prospective index.html#plans.
Mary Martinez, Office of Technology
exclusive license may be granted unless Transfer, Office of the Director, National FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Fred
within sixty (60) days from the date of Institutes of Health, 6011 Executive Amidon, Fish and Wildlife Biologist, at
this published notice, the NIH receives Blvd, Suite 325, Rockville, MD 20852, e- the above Honolulu address.
written evidence and argument that mail: martinm1@mail.nih.gov SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
establish that the grant of the license
Registration and Participation: No Background
would not be consistent with the
requirements of 35 U.S.C. 209 and 37 registration is required to attend the Recovery of endangered or threatened
CFR 404.7. public meeting. Seating will be on a animals and plants is a primary goal of
first-come, first-serve basis. our endangered species program and the
Applications for a license in the field Endangered Species Act (Act) 16 U.S.C.
of use filed in response to this notice Participation as a presenter is by
invitation only. The agency will notify 1531 et seq.). Recovery means
will be treated as objections to the grant improvement of the status of listed
of the contemplated exclusive license. each invited speaker of the time allotted
to the participant and the approximate species to the point at which listing is
Comments and objections submitted to no longer appropriate under the criteria
this notice will not be made available time the participant’s comments are
scheduled to begin. set out in section 4(a)(1) of the Act.
for public inspection and, to the extent Recovery plans describe actions
permitted by law, will not be released If you need special accommodations considered necessary for the
under the Freedom of Information Act, due to disability, please inform Mary conservation of the species, establish
5 U.S.C. 552. Martinez, the contact person listed in criteria for downlisting or delisting
this document. listed species, and estimate time and
Dated: April 21, 2004.
Dated: April 22, 2004. cost for implementing the measures
Steven M. Ferguson,
Mark L. Rohrbaugh,
needed for recovery.
Director, Division of Technology Development The Act requires the development of
and Transfer, Office of Technology Transfer, Director, Office of Technology Transfer, recovery plans for listed species unless
National Institutes of Health. National Institutes of Health. such a plan would not promote the
[FR Doc. 04–9568 Filed 4–27–04; 8:45 am] [FR Doc. 04–9569 Filed 4–27–04; 8:45 am] conservation of a particular species.
BILLING CODE 4140–01–P BILLING CODE 4140–01–P Section 4(f) of the Act requires that
public notice and an opportunity for
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public review and comment be provided on Guam. Increasing the captive Statewide Issues; Presentations on Land
during recovery plan development. We population will be accomplished by Use Planning Process, Land Tenure
will consider all information presented establishing a captive propagation Adjustment—Focusing on Land
during the public comment period prior program for sihek on Guam, increasing Exchanges and Land Dispositions, and
to approval of each new or revised reproductive success, and decreasing Arizona’s Fire Land Use Plan
recovery plan. Substantive technical juvenile and adult mortality. Amendment for Fire, Fuels and Air
comments may result in changes to the Reintroduction to Guam requires a Quality Management; Update on the
recovery plan. Substantive comments thorough reintroduction program and Borderland Task Force and Border
regarding recovery plan implementation extensive predator control efforts, Issues, and Review of the statewide
may not necessarily result in changes to especially brown treesnake control. Citizen Wilderness Proposals and how
the recovery plan, but will be forwarded Once sihek have been reestablished in they are being addressed in the land use
to appropriate Federal or other entities the wild, expanding predator control planning efforts underway; RAC
so that they can take these comments efforts to additional areas, habitat Questions on Written Reports from BLM
into account during the course of protection and restoration, and
Field Managers; Field Office Rangeland
implementing recovery actions. monitoring for additional threats to the
Individual responses to comments will Resource Team Proposals; Reports by
subspecies would receive increased
not be provided. the Standards and Guidelines,
focus.
The sihek is federally listed as The goal of this plan is to reestablish Recreation, Off-Highway Vehicle Use,
endangered (49 FR 33881) and is also sihek in at least 2 stable or increasing Public Relations, Land Use Planning
listed as endangered by the Territory of subpopulations of 1,000 adults each, 1 and Tenure, and Wild Horse and Burro
Guam. Sihek are forest kingfishers in northern Guam and 1 in southern Working Groups; Reports from RAC
endemic to the island of Guam in the Guam, in conjunction with habitat members; and Discussion of future
Mariana Archipelago. Sihek were last protection and predator control meetings. A public comment period will
observed on Guam in 1988 and are now measures, as well as long-term be provided at 11 a.m. on May 26, 2004,
believed to be extirpated from the wild. monitoring to ensure the effectiveness of for any interested publics who wish to
Currently, sihek are represented by a management actions. address the Council.
captive population of 60 individuals in On May 27, 2004, the RAC will tour
11 zoological institutions. Prior to their Public Comments Solicited
the Muleshoe Ranch Cooperative
extirpation from the island, sihek We solicit written comments on the
Management Area, a 55,000-acre ranch
utilized a wide variety of forest habitats. draft revised recovery plan described.
jointly owned and managed by The
Mature, closed canopy forests with All comments received by the date
Nature Conservancy, the U.S. Forest
large, standing dead trees that provide specified above will be considered in
appropriate nest sites for the cavity- Service, and the Bureau of Land
developing a final revised recovery
nesting sihek are important for plan. Management, from 8 a.m. until 12 p.m.
reproductive activities. Diverse Authority: The authority for this action is FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
vegetative structure that provides a section 4(f) of the Endangered Species Act, Deborah Stevens, Bureau of Land
variety of invertebrate and vertebrate 16 U.S.C. 1533(f). Management, Arizona State Office, 222
prey as well as an open understory or Dated: March 5, 2004. North Central Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona
edge with exposed perches for foraging 85004–2203, (602) 417–9215.
David J. Wesley,
is also an important component of sihek
Regional Director, Region 1, U.S. Fish and Elaine Y. Zielinski,
habitat.
Wildlife Service.
Habitat degradation and loss, human Arizona State Director.
persecution, contaminants, and [FR Doc. 04–9585 Filed 4–27–04; 8:45 am]
[FR Doc. 04–9586 Filed 4–27–04; 8:45 am]
introduced species such as disease BILLING CODE 4310–55–P
BILLING CODE 4310–32–M
organisms, cats (Felis cattus), rats
(Rattus spp.), black drongos (Dicrurus
macrocercus), monitor lizards (Varanus DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
indicus), and brown treesnakes (Boiga Bureau of Land Management
irregularis) have all been suggested as Minerals Management Service (MMS)
factors in the population decline of this [AZ–910–077–XP–241A]
subspecies. However, predation by the Availability of Revised Outer
brown treesnake is believed to have State of Arizona Resource Advisory
Council Meeting Continental Shelf Leasing Map
been the overriding factor in the
extirpation of sihek. Factors that AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, AGENCY: Minerals Management Service,
continue to prevent the recovery of the Interior. Interior.
sihek include poor reproductive ACTION: Arizona Resource Advisory SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that
success, high mortality in the captive Council Meeting notice.
population, and the continued presence effective with this publication, the
of brown treesnakes on Guam. Recovery SUMMARY: This notice announces a following NAD 27-based Outer
actions in this draft revised plan are meeting and tour of the Arizona Continental Shelf Leasing Map last
designed to address threats to the sihek Resource Advisory Council (RAC). revised on the date indicated, is on file
in order to achieve the recovery The business meeting will be held on and available for information only, in
objectives of downlisting to threatened May 26, 2004, at the Best Western Plaza the Gulf of Mexico OCS Regional Office,
status and eventual delisting. Inn located at 110 W. Rex Allen Drive New Orleans, Louisiana. In accordance
To prevent the extinction of the sihek, in Wilcox, Arizona. It will begin at 9 with Title 43, Code of Federal
the highest priority recovery tasks are to a.m. and conclude at 4 p.m. The agenda Regulations, this map is the basic record
increase the size of the captive items to be covered include: Review of for the description of mineral and oil
population, control brown treesnakes on the February 18, 2004 meeting minutes; and gas lease sales in the geographic
Guam, and reestablish sihek in the wild BLM State Director’s Update on area it represents.
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