Endangered Status for the Ozark Hellbender Salamander
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61956 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 194 / Thursday, October 6, 2011 / Rules and Regulations Sandra K. Knight, (Braille, large print, electronic files, tariffs electronically over the Internet, Deputy Associate Administrator for audio format), send an e-mail to using the Electronic Tariff Filing System Mitigation, Department of Homeland [email protected] or call the Consumer (ETFS). Additionally, the Commission Security, Federal Emergency Management and Governmental Affairs Bureau at clarifies and makes more consistent Agency. (202) 418–0530 (voice), (202) 418–0432 certain technical rules related to tariff [FR Doc. 2011–25871 Filed 10–5–11; 8:45 am] (TTY). filings. The Commission concludes that BILLING CODE 9110–12–P it is appropriate to apply the same Synopsis electronic filing requirements to all As required by the Paperwork tariff filers and expands the FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3507), applicability of the Commission’s rules COMMISSION the FCC is notifying the public that it to include all tariff filers. The received OMB approval on July 20, Commission also concludes that the 47 CFR Parts 61 and 64 2011, for the information collection Commission’s rules, which require [WC Docket No. 10–141; FCC 11–92] requirements contained in the specific formatting and composition of modifications to the Commission’s rules tariffs, will now apply to all tariff filers. Electronic Tariff Filing System (ETFS) in 47 CFR parts 61 and 64. The Chief of the Wireline Competition Under 5 CFR part 1320, an agency Bureau will be responsible for AGENCY: Federal Communications may not conduct or sponsor a collection administering the adoption of electronic Commission. of information unless it displays a tariff filing requirements for all tariff ACTION: Final rule; announcement of current, valid OMB Control Number. filers. effective date. No person shall be subject to any Federal Communications Commission. penalty for failing to comply with a SUMMARY: In this document, the collection of information subject to the Marlene H. Dortch, Commission announces that the Office Paperwork Reduction Act that does not Secretary. of Management and Budget (OMB) has display a current, valid OMB Control [FR Doc. 2011–25801 Filed 10–5–11; 8:45 am] approved, for a period of three years, the Number. The OMB Control Number is BILLING CODE 6712–01–P information collection associated with 3060–1142. the Commission’s Electronic Tariff The foregoing notice is required by Filing System (ETFS), Report and Order the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (Order). This notice is consistent with Public Law 104–13, October 1, 1995, the Order, which stated that the and 44 U.S.C. 3507. Fish and Wildlife Service Commission would publish a document The total annual reporting burdens in the Federal Register announcing the and costs for the respondents are as 50 CFR Part 17 effective date of those rules. follows: [Docket No. FWS–R3–ES–2009–0009; MO DATES: The rules published at 47 CFR in OMB Control Number: 3060–1142. 92210–0–0008–B2] parts 61 and 64 published at 76 FR OMB Approval Date: July 20, 2011. 43206, July 20, 2011, are effective OMB Expiration Date: September 30, RIN 1018–AV94 November 17, 2011. 2013. Endangered and Threatened Wildlife FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Title: Electronic Tariff Filing System, WC Docket No. 10–141. and Plants; Endangered Status for the Pamela Arluk, Pricing Policy Division, Ozark Hellbender Salamander Wireline Competition Bureau, at (202) Form Number: N/A. 418–1520, or email: Respondents: Business or other for- AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, [email protected]. profit entities. Interior. Number of Respondents and ACTION: Final rule. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This Responses: 1,500 respondents; 1,500 document announces that, on July 20, responses. SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 2011, OMB approved, for a period of Estimated Time per Response: 1 hour. Wildlife Service (Service), determine three years, the information collection Frequency of Response: Annual and endangered status under the requirements contained in the on-occasion reporting requirements. Endangered Species Act of 1973 (Act), Commission’s Order, FCC 11–92, Obligation to Respond: Required to as amended, for the Ozark Hellbender published at 76 FR 43206, July 20, 2011. obtain or retain benefits. The statutory (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis bishopi), The OMB Control Number is 3060– authority for this information collection a subspecies found in northern 1142. The Commission publishes this is found at sections 1, 2, 4(i), 201–205, Arkansas and southern Missouri. This notice as an announcement of the and 226(h)(1)(A) of the Communications final rule implements the Federal effective date of the rules. If you have Act of 1934, as amended (Act), 47 U.S.C. protections provided by the Act for this any comments on the burden estimates 151, 152, 154(i), 201–205, and species. We have also determined that listed below, or how the Commission 226(h)(1)(A). the designation of critical habitat for the can improve the collections and reduce Total Annual Burden: 1,500 hours. Ozark Hellbender is not prudent. The any burdens caused thereby, please Total Annual Cost: $1,222,500. final rule for the CITES Appendix III contact Cathy Williams, Federal Nature and Extent of Confidentiality: listing for the Ozark and Eastern Communications Commission, Room 1– An assurance of confidentiality is not Hellbender is being published C823, 445 12th Street, SW., Washington, offered because this information concurrently in today’s Federal DC 20554. Please include the OMB collection does not require the Register. Control Number, 3060–1142, in your collection of personally identifiable correspondence. The Commission will information (PII) from individuals. DATES: This final rule is effective also accept your comments via e-mail at Needs and Uses: In this document, November 7, 2011. [email protected]. the Federal Communications ADDRESSES: The final rule is available To request materials in accessible Commission (Commission) adopts rule on the Internet at http:// formats for people with disabilities revisions enabling all tariff filers to file www.regulations.gov and at the VerDate Mar<15>2010 15:01 Oct 05, 2011 Jkt 226001 PO 00000 Frm 00024 Fmt 4700 Sfmt 4700 E:\FR\FM\06OCR1.SGM 06OCR1 wreier-aviles on DSK7SPTVN1PROD with RULES Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 194 / Thursday, October 6, 2011 / Rules and Regulations 61957 Columbia Missouri Ecological Services published concurrently in today’s in separate, nonoverlapping geographic Field Office. Comments and materials Federal Register. areas (Dundee 1971, p. 101.1). However, received, as well as supporting despite some phenotypic and genetic Species Description documentation used in the preparation differences between Ozark and Eastern of this rule, will be available for public The Ozark Hellbender is a large, hellbenders (Grobman 1943, pp. 6–9; inspection, by appointment, during strictly aquatic salamander endemic to Dundee and Dundee 1965, p. 370; normal business hours at: U.S. Fish and streams of the Ozark Plateau in southern Dundee 1971, p. 101.1; Routman 1993, Wildlife Service, Columbia Missouri Missouri and northern Arkansas. Its pp. 410–415; Kucuktas et al. 2001, p. Ecological Services Field Office, 101 dorso-ventrally flattened body form 127), the suggestion to elevate Ozark Park De Ville Dr., Suite A, Columbia, enables movements in the fast-flowing and Eastern hellbenders to species MO 65203; telephone: 573–234–2132; streams it inhabits (Nickerson and Mays status was never accepted by other facsimile: 573–234–2181. 1973a, p. 1). Ozark Hellbenders have a taxonomists (Crother et al. 2008, p. 15). large, keeled tail and tiny eyes. An adult FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: We will continue to use the may attain a total length of 11.4 to 22.4 Charles Scott, Field Supervisor, at the nomenclature C. a. bishopi for the Ozark inches (in) (29 to 57 centimeters (cm)) U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Hellbender, which is the taxonomy (Dundee and Dundee 1965, pp. 369– Columbia Missouri Ecological Services currently recognized by the Committee 370; Johnson 2000, p. 41). Numerous Field Office (see ADDRESSES section). If on Standard English and Scientific fleshy folds along the sides of the body Names (Crother et al. 2008, p. 15). you use a telecommunications device provide surface area for respiration for the deaf (TDD), please call the Although discussion continues over the (Nickerson and Mays 1973a, pp. 26–28) taxonomic status of the Ozark Federal Information Relay Service and obscure their poorly developed (FIRS) at 800–877–8339. Hellbender, the designation of the Ozark costal grooves (grooves in the inner Hellbender as a species or subspecies SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: border of the ribs; Dundee 1971, p. does not affect its qualification for Background 101.1). Ozark Hellbenders are listing under the Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et distinguishable from Eastern seq.). The Endangered Species Act of 1973, Hellbenders (Cryptobranchus as amended (Act) (16 U.S.C. 1531 et alleganiensis alleganiensis) by their Habitat and Life History seq.) is a law that was passed to prevent smaller body size, dorsal blotches, Eastern and Ozark hellbenders are extinction of species by providing increased skin mottling, heavily similar in habitat selection, movement, measures to help alleviate the loss of pigmented lower lip, smooth surfaced and reproductive biology (Nickerson species and their habitats. Before a plant lateral line system, and reduced and Mays 1973a, pp. 44–55). Published or animal species can receive the spiracular openings (openings where works on the Eastern Hellbender protection provided by the Act, it must water is expelled out of the body) provide insights into Ozark Hellbender first be added to the Federal Lists of (Grobman 1943, p. 6; Dundee 1971, p. ecology. Adult Ozark Hellbenders are Threatened and Endangered Wildlife 101.3; Peterson et al. 1983, pp. 227–231; frequently found beneath large rocks, and Plants; section 4 of the Act and its LaClaire 1993, pp.