Availability of Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan and Draft Environmental Statement

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

Availability of Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan and Draft

Environmental Statement

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of extension of public comment period.

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SUMMARY: This notice informs the public that the comment period for the

Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan and Draft Environmental Impact

Statement for Little Pend Oreille National Wildlife Refuge is extended.

DATES: Comments must be received by the new deadline of July 31, 1999

at the address below.

ADDRESSES: Address comments and requests for more information to:

Refuge Manager, Little Pend Oreille National

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Wildlife Refuge, 1310 Bear Creek Rd., Colville, WA 99114, telephone

(509) 684-8384; E-mail: FWS1Public__ Comments__ [email protected]; fax number

(509) 684-8381.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lisa Langlier, Refuge Manager, (509)

684-8384.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service published

in the Federal Register of May 5, 1999 (Vol. 64, No. 86, page 24168),

that comments were to be received on or before June 30, 1999. In

response to public interest, the Service decided to provide more time

for public comments. The new deadline for public comment is now

extended to July 31, 1999.

Dated: June 21, 1999.

Thomas J. Dwyer,

Acting Regional Director, Region 1, Portland, Oregon.

[FR Doc. 99-17102 Filed 7-6-99; 8:45 am]

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