54732 Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 197 / Thursday, October 10, 2019 / Proposed Rules DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR INFORMATION or at the Branch of information to monitor changes in the Domestic Listing, Falls Church, VA (see status or LPN of candidate species and Fish and Wildlife Service address under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION to manage candidates as we prepare CONTACT), or on our website (http:// listing documents and future revisions 50 CFR Part 17 ecos.fws.gov/tess_public/reports/ to the notice of review. We also request [Docket No. FWS–HQ–ES–2019–0009; candidate-species-report). Please submit information on additional species to FF09E21000 FXES11190900000 167] any new information, materials, consider including as candidates as we comments, or questions of a general prepare future updates of this notice. Endangered and Threatened Wildlife nature on this notice to the appropriate Candidate Notice of Review and Plants; Review of Domestic and address listed under FOR FURTHER Foreign Species That Are Candidates INFORMATION CONTACT. Please submit any Background for Listing as Endangered or new information, materials, comments, The Endangered Species Act of 1973, Threatened; Annual Notification of or questions pertaining to a particular as amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 et Findings on Resubmitted Petitions; species to the address of the Endangered seq.), requires that we identify species Annual Description of Progress on Species Coordinator in the appropriate of wildlife and plants that are Listing Actions Regional Office listed in SUPPLEMENTARY endangered or threatened based solely INFORMATION. Species-specific AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, on the best scientific and commercial Interior. information and materials we receive data available. As defined in section 3 will be available for public inspection ACTION: Notice of review. of the ESA, an endangered species is by appointment, during normal business any species that is in danger of SUMMARY: In this candidate notice of hours, at the appropriate Regional Office extinction throughout all or a significant review (CNOR), we, the U.S. Fish and listed below under Request for portion of its range, and a threatened Wildlife Service (Service), present an Information in SUPPLEMENTARY species is any species that is likely to updated list of plant and animal species INFORMATION. General information we become an endangered species within that we regard as candidates for or have receive will be available at the Branch the foreseeable future throughout all or proposed for addition to the Lists of of Domestic Listing, Falls Church, VA a significant portion of its range. Endangered and Threatened Wildlife (see address under FOR FURTHER Through the Federal rulemaking and Plants under the Endangered INFORMATION CONTACT). process, we add species that meet these Species Act of 1973, as amended. For species foreign to the United definitions to the List of Endangered Identification of candidate species can States: Please submit any new and Threatened Wildlife at 50 CFR assist environmental planning efforts by information, materials, comments, or 17.11 or the List of Endangered and providing advance notice of potential questions of a general nature on this Threatened Plants at 50 CFR 17.12. As listings, and by allowing landowners notice or pertaining to a specific species part of this program, we maintain a list and resource managers to alleviate to the appropriate address listed under of species that we regard as candidates threats and thereby possibly remove the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. for listing. A candidate species is one need to list species as endangered or Species-specific information and for which we have on file sufficient threatened. Even if we subsequently list materials we receive will be available information on biological vulnerability a candidate species, the early notice for public inspection by appointment, and threats to support a proposal for provided here could result in more during normal business hours, at the listing as endangered or threatened, but options for species management and appropriate address listed under FOR for which preparation and publication recovery by prompting earlier candidate FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. General of a proposal is precluded by higher- conservation measures to alleviate information we receive will be available priority listing actions. We may identify threats to the species. This document at the Branch of Delisting and Foreign a species as a candidate for listing after also includes our findings on Species, Falls Church, VA (see address we have conducted an evaluation of its resubmitted petitions and describes our under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION status—either on our own initiative, or progress in revising the Lists of CONTACT). in response to a petition we have Endangered and Threatened Wildlife FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: received. If we have made a finding on and Plants (Lists) during the period For domestic species: Chief, Branch of a petition to list a species, and have October 1, 2016, through September 30, Domestic Listing, U.S. Fish and Wildlife found that listing is warranted, but 2018. Moreover, we request any Service, MS: ES, 5275 Leesburg Pike, precluded by other higher priority additional status information that may Falls Church, VA 22041–3803 listing actions, we will add the species be available for the candidate species (telephone 703–358–1796). to our list of candidates. identified in this CNOR. For species foreign to the United We maintain this list of candidates for DATES: We will accept information on States: Chief, Branch of Delisting and a variety of reasons: (1) To notify the any of the species in this notice at any Foreign Species, U.S. Fish and Wildlife public that these species are facing time. Service, MS: ES, 5275 Leesburg Pike, threats to their survival; (2) to provide ADDRESSES: This notice is available on Falls Church, VA 22041–3803 advance knowledge of potential listings the internet at http:// (telephone 703–358–1735). that could affect decisions of www.regulations.gov and http:// Persons who use a environmental planners and developers; www.fws.gov/endangered/what-we-do/ telecommunications device for the deaf (3) to provide information that may cnor.html. may call the Federal Information Relay stimulate and guide conservation efforts For domestic species: Species Service at 800–877–8339. that will remove or reduce threats to assessment forms with information and SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We these species and possibly make listing references on a particular candidate request additional status information unnecessary; (4) to request input from species’ range, status, habitat needs, and that may be available for any of the interested parties to help us identify listing priority assignment are available candidate species identified in this those candidate species that may not for review at the appropriate Regional CNOR (see Request for Information, require protection under the ESA, as Office listed below in SUPPLEMENTARY below). We will consider this well as additional species that may VerDate Sep<11>2014 20:46 Oct 09, 2019 Jkt 250001 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4701 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\10OCP2.SGM 10OCP2 Federal Register / Vol. 84, No. 197 / Thursday, October 10, 2019 / Proposed Rules 54733 require the ESA’s protections; and (5) to threats to their continued existence, so the listable entity is assigned an LPN of request necessary information for setting the magnitude of threats is in relative 1, 2, or 3 based on its taxonomic status priorities for preparing listing proposals. terms. For all candidate species, the (i.e., a species that is the only member We encourage collaborative threats are of sufficiently high of its genus would be assigned to the conservation efforts for candidate magnitude to put them in danger of LPN 1 category, a full species to LPN 2, species and offer technical and financial extinction or make them likely to and a subspecies or DPS would be assistance to facilitate such efforts. For become in danger of extinction in the assigned to LPN 3). In summary, the additional information regarding such foreseeable future. However, for species LPN ranking system provides a basis for assistance, please contact the with higher-magnitude threats, the making decisions about the relative appropriate Office listed under Request threats have a greater likelihood of priority for preparing a proposed rule to for Information, below, or visit our bringing about extinction or are list a given species. No matter which website, http://www.fws.gov/ expected to bring about extinction on a LPN we assign to a species, each species endangered/what-we-do/cca.html. shorter timescale (once the threats are included in this notice as a candidate is Publication of this notice has been imminent) than for species with lower- one for which we have concluded that delayed due to efforts to resolve magnitude threats. Because we do not we have sufficient information to outstanding issues. As a result, many of routinely quantify how likely or how prepare a proposed rule for listing the candidate forms reflect that our soon extinction would be expected to because it is in danger of extinction or formal analysis was conducted in fall of occur absent listing, we must evaluate likely to become endangered within the 2017, as shown by the date as of which factors that contribute to the likelihood foreseeable future throughout all or a the information is current on each form. and time scale for extinction. We significant portion of its range. However, we were able to update a therefore consider information such as: For more information on the process small subset of the candidate forms (1) The number of populations or extent and standards used in assigning LPNs, recently to reflect additional of range of the species affected by the a copy of the 1983 guidance is available information we have obtained on those threat(s), or both; (2) the biological on our website at: http://www.fws.gov/ species.