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Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 124 / Wednesday, June 27, 2018 / Proposed Rules 30091 jeopardizing the safety or security of between mile marker (MM) 754.0 and deemed necessary for the protection of people, places, or vessels. MM 760.0, Owensboro, KY. life or property. (b) Effective period. This section is (8) The COTP or a designated V. Public Participation and Request for effective from noon through 4 p.m. on representative will terminate Comments September 13, 2018. enforcement of the special local We view public participation as (c) Special local regulations. (1) In regulation at the conclusion of the air essential to effective rulemaking, and accordance with the general regulations show. will consider all comments and material in § 100.801, entry into this area is (d) Information broadcasts. The COTP received during the comment period. prohibited unless authorized by the or a designated representative will Your comment can help shape the Captain of the Port Sector Ohio Valley inform the public of the enforcement outcome of this rulemaking. If you (COTP) or a designated representative. times and date for this regulated area submit a comment, please include the A designated representative is a through Broadcast Notices to Mariners docket number for this rulemaking, commissioned, warrant, or petty officer (BNMs), Local Notices to Mariners indicate the specific section of this of the U.S. Coast Guard assigned to (LNMs), and/or Marine Safety document to which each comment units under the operational control of Information Broadcasts (MSIBs) as applies, and provide a reason for each USCG Sector Ohio Valley. They may be appropriate. suggestion or recommendation. contacted on VHF–FM Channel 16 or by Dated: June 21, 2018. We encourage you to submit telephone at 1–800–253–7465. A M.B. Zamperini, comments through the Federal designated representative may be a eRulemaking Portal at http:// Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Captain of the Patrol Commander (PATCOM). The Port Sector Ohio Valley. www.regulations.gov. If your material PATCOM will be aboard either a Coast [FR Doc. 2018–13734 Filed 6–26–18; 8:45 am] cannot be submitted using http:// Guard or Coast Guard Auxiliary vessel. www.regulations.gov, contact the person The PATCOM may be contacted on BILLING CODE 9110–04–P in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION Channel 16 VHF–FM (156.8 MHz) by CONTACT section of this document for the call sign ‘‘PATCOM’’. FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS alternate instructions. (2) All persons and vessels not COMMISSION We accept anonymous comments. All registered with the sponsor as comments received will be posted participants or official patrol vessels are 47 CFR Parts 54 and 64 without change to http:// considered spectators. The ‘‘official www.regulations.gov and will include patrol vessels’’ consist of any Coast [WC Docket No. 10–90, 14–58, 07–135 and any personal information you have Guard, state, or local law enforcement CC Docket No. 01–92; Report No. 3091] provided. For more about privacy and and sponsor provided vessels assigned Petitions for Reconsideration of Action the docket, visit http:// or approved by the COTP to patrol the in Rulemaking Proceeding www.regulations.gov/privacyNotice. regulated area. Documents mentioned in this NPRM (3) Spectator vessels desiring to as being available in the docket, and all Correction transit the regulated area may do so only public comments, will be in our online In proposed rule document 2018– with prior approval of the PATCOM and docket at http://www.regulations.gov 12786, appearing on pages 27746–27747 when so directed by that officer will be and can be viewed by following that in the Issue of Thursday, June 14, 2018, operated at a minimum safe navigation website’s instructions. Additionally, if make the following correction: speed in a manner which will not you go to the online docket and sign up On page 27746, in the third column, endanger any other vessels. for email alerts, you will be notified under the heading ‘‘DATES:’’ the entry when comments are posted or a final (4) No spectator vessel shall anchor, ‘‘June 25, 2018’’ is corrected to read rule is published. block, loiter, or impede the through ‘‘July 9, 2018’’. transit of official patrol vessels in the [FR Doc. C1–2018–12786 Filed 6–26–18; 8:45 am] List of Subjects in 33 CFR Part 100 regulated area during the effective dates BILLING CODE 1301–00–D Marine safety, Navigation (water), and times, unless cleared for entry by or Reporting and recordkeeping through an official patrol vessel. (5) Any spectator vessel may anchor requirements, Waterways. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR For the reasons discussed in the outside the regulated area, but may not preamble, the Coast Guard proposes to anchor in, block, or loiter in a navigable Fish and Wildlife Service amend 33 CFR part 100 as follows: channel. Spectator vessels may be moored to a waterfront facility within 50 CFR Part 17 PART 100—SAFETY OF LIFE ON the regulated area in such a way that NAVIGABLE WATERWAYS they shall not interfere with the progress [4500030115] of the air show. Endangered and Threatened Wildlife ■ 1. The authority citation for part 100 (6) The COTP or a designated and Plants; 90-day Findings for Three continues to read as follows: representative may forbid and control Species Authority: 33 U.S.C. 1233; 33 CFR the movement of all vessels in the 1.05–1. regulated area. When hailed or signaled AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, ■ 2. Add § 100.35T08–0548 to read as by an official patrol vessel, a vessel shall Interior. follows: come to an immediate stop and comply ACTION: Notice of petition findings and with the directions given. Failure to do initiation of status reviews. § 100.35T08–0548 Special Local so may result in expulsion from the Regulation; Ohio River, Owensboro, KY. regulated area, citation for failure to SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and (a) Location. The following area is a comply, or both. Wildlife Service (Service), announce 90- temporary special local regulation: All (7) The COTP or a designated day findings on three petitions to add or navigable waters of the Ohio River, representative may terminate the remove species from the List of extending the entire width of the river, operation of any vessel at any time it is Endangered and Threatened Wildlife VerDate Sep<11>2014 14:24 Jun 26, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\27JNP1.SGM 27JNP1 nshattuck on DSK9F9SC42PROD with PROPOSALS 30092 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 124 / Wednesday, June 27, 2018 / Proposed Rules under the Endangered Species Act of (2) By hard copy: Submit by U.S. mail conclude that the action proposed in the 1973, as amended (Act). Based on our or hand-delivery to: Public Comments petition may be warranted’’ (50 CFR review, we find that the three petitions Processing, Attn: [Insert appropriate 424.14(h)(1)(i)). present substantial scientific or docket number; see the table under A species may be determined to be an commercial information indicating that SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION], U.S. Fish endangered species or a threatened the petitioned actions may be and Wildlife Service, MS: BPHC, 5275 species because of one or more of the warranted. Therefore, with the Leesburg Pike; Falls Church, VA 22041– five factors described in section 4(a)(1) publication of this document, we 3803. of the Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). The announce that we plan to initiate We request that you send information five factors are: reviews of the status of these species to only by the methods described above. (a) The present or threatened determine if the petitioned actions are We will post all information we receive destruction, modification, or warranted. To ensure that these status on http://www.regulations.gov. This curtailment of its habitat or range reviews are comprehensive, we are generally means that we will post any (Factor A); requesting scientific and commercial personal information you provide us (b) Overutilization for commercial, data and other information regarding (see Request for Information for Status recreational, scientific, or educational these species. Based on the status Reviews, below, for more information). purposes (Factor B); reviews, we will issue 12-month FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: (c) Disease or predation (Factor C); findings, which will address whether or (d) The inadequacy of existing not the petitioned actions are warranted, Species com- regulatory mechanisms (Factor D); or Contact person (e) Other natural or manmade factors in accordance with the Act. mon name affecting its continued existence (Factor DATES: These findings were made on Dixie Valley Carolyn Swed, 775–861– E). June 27, 2018. As we commence work toad. 6337; carolyn_swed@ These factors represent broad on the status reviews, we seek any new fws.gov. categories of natural or human-caused information concerning the status of, or Oregon vesper Jeffrey Dillon, 503–231– actions or conditions that could have an threats to, these species or their habitats. sparrow. 6179; jeffrey_dillon@ fws.gov. effect on a species’ continued existence. Any information received during our In evaluating these actions and work on the status reviews will be Yellow-billed Jennifer Norris, 916–414– cuckoo. 6600; jennifer_norris@ conditions, we look for those that may considered. fws.gov. have a negative effect on individuals of ADDRESSES: Supporting documents: the species, as well as other actions or Summaries of the bases for the petition If you use a telecommunications conditions that may ameliorate any findings contained in this document are device for the deaf, please call the negative effects or may have positive available on http://www.regulations.gov Federal Relay Service at 800–877–8339. effects. under the appropriate docket number SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We use the term ‘‘threat’’ to refer in (see table under SUPPLEMENTARY general to actions or conditions that are Background INFORMATION).
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