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the time to read the instructions, look Federal Communications Commission. as threatened in the Commonwealth of through existing records, gather and Marlene H. Dortch, the Northern (CNMI) maintain the required data, enter the Secretary. (63 FR 14641). data in a Form 477 spreadsheet, prepare [FR Doc. 04–11322 Filed 5–26–04; 8:45 am] This subspecies of the Mariana fruit is found throughout the Mariana a floppy diskette or compact disc (if the BILLING CODE 6712–01–P filer decides to submit completed Form Archipelago, which includes both the 477(s) by a method other than e-mail) United States Territory of and the CNMI. In the CNMI, the Mariana fruit and certification, and actually file the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR report. If you have any comments on bat occurs primarily on private and this estimate, or how we can improve Fish and Wildlife Service Commonwealth lands, including inhabited and uninhabited islands. On the collection and reduce the burden it Guam, it is known to roost primarily on causes you, please write the Federal 50 CFR Part 17 Federal lands and to forage widely Communications Commission, AMD– RIN 1018–AH55 throughout the island. Currently, fewer PERM, Washington, DC 20554, than 100 individual Mariana fruit Paperwork Reduction Project (3060– Endangered and Threatened Wildlife remain on Guam and several thousand 0816). We also will accept your and Plants; Proposed Reclassification individuals are distributed among the comments via the Internet if you send From Endangered to Threatened islands of the CNMI. The Mariana fruit them to [email protected]. Do Status for the Mariana Fruit Bat from bat and its habitats have been impacted not send completed FCC form 477 to Guam, and Proposed Threatened or are now threatened by one or more this address. Remember—You are not Status for the Mariana Fruit Bat from of the following: illegal hunting, required to respond to a collection of the Commonwealth of the Northern predation by introduced predators such information sponsored by the Federal Mariana Islands as brown treesnakes (Boiga irregularis), government, and the government may rats, and feral cats; habitat loss to AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, not conduct or sponsor this collection, agriculture and development; habitat Interior. unless it displays a currently valid degradation or destruction by feral Office of Management and Budget ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of ungulates; disturbance from human (OMB) control number. This collection comment period. activities; natural disasters or random environmental events such as has been assigned an OMB control SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and hurricanes; fire; vandalism; and number of 3060–0816. Wildlife Service (Service), pursuant to inconsistent enforcement of territorial The Commission is authorized under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as and Federal laws and international amended (Act), provide notice of the the Communications Act of 1934, as conventions to protect this species. The reopening of the comment period on the amended, to collect the personal best available scientific and commercial proposed threatened status for the information we request in this form. If information indicates that the Mariana Mariana fruit bat ( mariannus we believe there may be a violation or fruit bats in the CNMI and Guam mariannus) throughout its range, to potential violation of a statute or a represent one population, but also allow peer reviewers and all interested Commission regulation, rule, or order, recognizes that the survival of these bats parties to submit comments on the your filing may be referred to the on Guam continues to be threatened by Federal, State, or local agency proposal. Comments already submitted a variety of factors. However, when responsible for investigating, on the March 26, 1998, proposed rule viewed in the context of representing a prosecuting, enforcing, or implementing need not be resubmitted as they will be portion of the entire Mariana fruit bat the statute, rule, regulation, or order. In fully considered in the final population in the Mariana Islands, certain cases, the information in your determination. rather than as a distinct population as worksheet may be disclosed to the DATES: Comments from all interested previously thought, reclassification from Department of Justice, court, or other parties must be received by June 28, endangered to threatened is appropriate adjudicative body when (a) the 2004. and biologically justified. Therefore, Commission; or (b) any employee of the proposing to list the entire population of ADDRESSES: Comments and materials Pteropus mariannus mariannus as Commission; or (c) the United States concerning the proposal should be sent threatened throughout its range, government, is a party to a proceeding to the Assistant Field Supervisor, including bats in both the CNMI and before the body or has an interest in the Pacific Islands Fish and Wildlife Office, Guam, retains an appropriate level of proceeding. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 300 Ala protection for this bat on Guam while Reporting entities failing to file the Moana Boulevard, Room 3–122, P.O. increasing the overall protection to the worksheet in a timely fashion may be Box 50088, Honolulu, HI 96850. For Mariana fruit bat throughout the subject to penalties under the further instructions on commenting, Mariana Islands. Communications Act, including refer to the Public Comments Solicited In our March 26, 1998, proposed rule sections 502 and 503(b). section of this notice. and associated notifications, we FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: List of Subjects Gina requested that all interested parties Shultz, Assistant Field Supervisor, at submit comments, data, or other 47 CFR Parts 1 and 43 the above address (telephone 808/792– information that might contribute to the 9400; facsimile 808/792–9580). development of a final rule. A 60-day Communications common carriers, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: comment period closed on May 26, Reporting and recordkeeping 1998. On May 29, 1998, we reopened requirements, Telecommunications, Background the public comment period until July Telephone. On March 26, 1998, we published a 10, 1998. A legal notice containing this 47 CFR Part 20 proposed rule to reclassify the Mariana information also was published in the fruit bat from endangered to threatened Marianas Variety on June 8, 1998. We Communications common carriers. on Guam and list the Mariana fruit bat held public hearings on June 24, 1998,

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at the Pacific Garden Hotel on Saipan, threat (or lack thereof) to the Mariana threatened in the CNMI, will be and on June 25, 1998, at the Rota Resort fruit bat; available for inspection, by on Rota. Pursuant to a settlement (2) The location of any additional appointment, during normal business agreement approved by the United populations of the Mariana fruit bat; hours at our Pacific Islands Fish and States District Court for the District of (3) Additional information on the Wildlife Office at the Honolulu address Hawaii on August 21, 2002, the Service range, distribution, and population size given above. must make a final decision on this of this species; and proposal by December 31, 2004 (Center (4) Current or planned activities in the Author areas inhabited by the Mariana fruit bat for Biological Diversity v. Norton, Civil The primary author of this notice is and the possible impacts of these No. 99–00603 (D. Haw.)). Holly Freifeld (see ADDRESSES section activities on this species. Public Comments Solicited You may hand deliver, send by mail, above). We are reopening the comment period or transmit by facsimile written Authority until the date specified in DATES section comments and information to the above. The reopening of the comment Assistant Field Supervisor (see The authority for this action is the period gives additional time for all ADDRESSES section above), facsimile Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 interested parties to consider the 808/792–9580. U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). proposed rule’s information and submit Comments and materials received, as Dated: May 19, 2004. comments on the proposal. Comments well as supporting documentation used Marshall Jones, from the public regarding the proposed in preparation of the March 26, 1998, rule are sought, especially concerning: proposal to reclassify the Mariana fruit Acting Director, Fish and Wildlife Service. (1) Biological, commercial trade, or bat from endangered to threatened on [FR Doc. 04–12043 Filed 5–26–04; 8:45 am] other relevant data concerning any Guam and to list this species as BILLING CODE 4310–55–P

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