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Endangered and Threatened Species, Platform (For More Information, See Boa from Endangered to Threatened Exports, Imports, Reporting and Public Hearing, Below) 21994 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 78 / Monday, April 26, 2021 / Proposed Rules must be made for the appropriate DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR document. You may submit a comment amount, as prescribed in § 201.3(c) of by clicking on ‘‘Comment Now!’’ this chapter. The fee for small claims Fish and Wildlife Service (2) By hard copy: Submit by U.S. mail expedited registration is intended to to: Public Comments Processing, Attn: accelerate the registration process for a 50 CFR Part 17 FWS–R4–ES–2019–0081, U.S. Fish and qualifying Copyright Claims Board [Docket No. FWS–R4–ES–2019–0081; Wildlife Service, MS: JAO/1N, 5275 claimant or counterclaimant that FF09E22000 FXES11130900000 201] Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041– already has a pending registration 3803. application; it is in addition to, and RIN 1018–BD95 We request that you send comments only by the methods described above. does not offset, the fee for copyright Endangered and Threatened Wildlife We will post all comments on http:// registration. and Plants; Removal of the Dwarf- www.regulations.gov. This generally (2) Method of payment. (i) The fee for Flowered Heartleaf From the Federal means that we will post any personal small claims expedited registration must List of Endangered and Threatened information you provide us (see be submitted electronically to the Plants Copyright Claims Board and not through Information Requested, below, for more the Copyright Office’s electronic AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, information). registration system (eCO). Interior. Document availability: The proposed (ii) A claimant or counterclaimant ACTION: Proposed rule. rule, draft PDM plan, and supporting shall follow instructions on the documents (including the species status Copyright Office website to make SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and assessment (SSA) report, references electronic payments with credit or debit Wildlife Service (Service), propose to cited, and 5-year review) are available at cards, or directly from their bank remove the dwarf-flowered heartleaf http://www.regulations.gov under accounts by means of automated (Hexastylis naniflora), a plant endemic Docket No. FWS–R4–ES–2019–0081. clearing house (ACH) debit transactions. to the upper Piedmont region of western FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Applicants may not use a deposit North Carolina and upstate South Janet Mizzi, Field Supervisor, U.S. Fish account to make payments for small Carolina, from the Federal List of and Wildlife Service, Asheville claims expedited registration. Endangered and Threatened Plants Ecological Services Field Office, 160 (3) No refunds. The small claims (List). This determination is based on a Zillicoa St., Asheville, NC 28801; expedited registration fee is not thorough review of the best available telephone 828–258–3939. Persons who refundable, unless the small claims scientific and commercial data, which use a telecommunications device for the expedited registration request is denied indicate that the threats to the species deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Relay under paragraph (d) of this section. have been eliminated or reduced to the Service at 800–877–8339. point that the species no longer meets (d) Denied requests. If the applicant SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: the definition of a threatened species, failed to pay the required fee or if the and does not meet the definition of an Information Requested Copyright Office determines that endangered species, under the expedited registration under this section We intend that any final action Endangered Species Act of 1973, as would be unduly burdensome, the resulting from this proposed rule will be amended (Act). We also announce the Office will notify the applicant that the based on the best scientific and availability of a draft post-delisting request has been denied and that the commercial data available and be as monitoring (PDM) plan for the dwarf- copyright registration claim will be accurate and as effective as possible. flowered heartleaf. We seek information, examined on a regular basis. Therefore, we request comments and data, and comments from the public (e) Granted requests. If the request for information from other concerned regarding this proposal to delist this governmental agencies (including, but expedited registration under this section species and on the draft PDM plan. is granted, the Office will make every not limited to, State and Federal DATES: attempt to examine the application or We will accept comments agencies and city or county the document within ten business days received or postmarked on or before governments), Native American tribes, after notice of the request is delivered June 25, 2021. Comments submitted the scientific community, industry, or by the Copyright Claims Board to the electronically using the Federal any other interested party concerning Copyright Office’s Office of Registration eRulemaking Portal (see ADDRESSES, this proposed rule. We particularly seek Policy and Practice, although the below) must be received by 11:59 p.m. comments on: Copyright Office cannot guarantee that Eastern Time on the closing date. We (1) Information concerning the all applications or all documents will be must receive requests for a public biology and ecology of dwarf-flowered registered or recorded within that hearing, in writing, at the address heartleaf; FOR FURTHER INFORMATION timeframe. shown in (2) Relevant data concerning any CONTACT by June 10, 2021. (f) Identical registration standards. threats (or lack thereof) to dwarf- The Copyright Office will apply the ADDRESSES: You may submit comments flowered heartleaf, particularly any data same practices and procedures set out in on this proposed rule by one of the on the possible effects of climate change the part when examining a copyright following methods: as it relates to habitat, as well as the registration claim, regardless of whether (1) Electronically: Go to the Federal extent of State protection and the applicant asks for small claims eRulemaking Portal: http:// management that would be provided to expedited registration. www.regulations.gov. In the Search box, this plant as a delisted species; enter FWS–R4–ES–2019–0081, which is (3) Current or planned activities Dated: April 20, 2021. the docket number for this rulemaking. within the geographic range of dwarf- Regan A. Smith, Then, click on the Search button. On the flowered heartleaf that may negatively General Counsel and Associate Register of resulting page, in the Search panel on impact or benefit the species; and Copyrights. the left side of the screen, under the (4) The draft PDM plan and the [FR Doc. 2021–08570 Filed 4–23–21; 8:45 am] Document Type heading, check the methods and approach detailed in it. BILLING CODE 1410–30–P Proposed Rule box to locate this Please include sufficient information VerDate Sep<11>2014 16:46 Apr 23, 2021 Jkt 253001 PO 00000 Frm 00030 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\26APP1.SGM 26APP1 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 78 / Monday, April 26, 2021 / Proposed Rules 21995 with your submission (such as scientific review of classification actions under growing herbaceous plant in the journal articles or other publications) to the Act, we sought the expert opinions birthwort family (Aristolochiaceae). allow us to verify any scientific or of seven appropriate specialists Although dwarf-flowered heartleaf is commercial information you include. regarding the species status assessment restricted in range, it is not as rare as Please note that submissions merely (SSA) report, which informed this once thought (Service 2010, p. 15; North stating support for, or opposition to, the proposed rule. Out of the seven reviews Carolina Natural Heritage Program action under consideration without requested, we received no responses. (NCNHP) 2016, p. 4). When dwarf- providing supporting information, The purpose of peer review is to ensure flowered heartleaf was federally listed although noted, will not be considered our determination is based on in 1989, the listing rule described 24 in making a determination, as section scientifically sound data, assumptions, extant populations (and one extirpated 4(b)(1)(A) of the Act directs that and analyses. population) distributed across eight determinations as to whether any Because we will consider all counties in the upper Piedmont of North species is an endangered or a threatened comments and information received and South Carolina. As of 2018, the species must be made ‘‘solely on the during the comment period, our final distribution of this species consisted of basis of the best scientific and determinations may differ from this 78 populations distributed across 13 commercial data available.’’ proposal. Based on the new information counties in these two States. In North You may submit your comments and we receive (and any comments on that Carolina, it is found in Alexander, materials concerning this proposed rule new information), we may conclude that Burke, Caldwell, Catawba, Cleveland, by one of the methods listed in the species is still in danger of Gaston, Iredell, Lincoln, Polk, and ADDRESSES. We request that you send extinction, either now or in the Rutherford Counties. In South Carolina, comments only by the methods foreseeable future. Such final decisions it is found in Cherokee, Greenville, and described in ADDRESSES. would be a logical outgrowth of this Spartanburg Counties. If you submit information via http:// proposal, as long as we: (a) Base the Dwarf-flowered heartleaf is www.regulations.gov, your entire decisions on the best scientific
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