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Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 63 / Monday, April 3, 1995 / Proposed Rules 16836 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 63 / Monday, April 3, 1995 / Proposed Rules Inventory (TRI) Surface Water Releases and recordkeeping requirements, and FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: and Transfers to POTWs, March 13, Toxic chemicals. Kathleen Scheuerle, Mass Media 1995. Dated: March 29,1995. Bureau, (202) 418±2180. (5) Letter of February 2, 1995 to Carol Susan H. Wayland, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a M. Browner, Administrator U.S. EPA summary of the Commission's Report from Dr. Genevieve Matanoski, Chair, Acting Assistant Administrator, Office of Prevention, Pesticides and Toxic Substances. and Order, MM Docket No. 94±67, Executive Committee, Science Advisory adopted March 16, 1995, and released Board. Therefore it is proposed that, 40 CFR March 28, 1995. The full text of this part 372 be amended as follows: IX. Regulatory Assessment Commission decision is available for Requirements PART 372Ð[AMENDED] inspection and copying during normal business hours in the Commission's A. Executive Order 12866 1. The authority citation for part 372 Reference Center (Room 239), 1919 M Under Executive Order 12866 (58 FR would continue to read as follows: Street, NW, Washington, D.C. The 51735, October 4, 1993), the Agency Authority: 42 U.S.C. 11023 and 11048. complete text of this decision may also must determine whether the regulatory be purchased from the Commission's action is ``significant'' and therefore § 372.65 [Amended] copy contractors, International subject to review by the Office of 2. Sections 372.65(a) and (b) are Transcription Services, Inc., 2100 M Management and Budget (OMB) and the amended by removing the entire entry Street, NW, Suite 140, Washington, D.C. requirements of the Executive Order. for ammonium sulfate (solution) and 20037, (202) 857±3800. Under section 3(f), the order defines a ammonium nitrate (solution) and by List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 73 ``significant regulatory action'' as an adding the following language to the action likely to lead to a rule (1) Having ammonia listing ``includes anhydrous Radio broadcasting. an annual effect on the economy of $100 ammonia and aqueous ammonia from Authority: Secs. 303, 48 Stat., as amended, million or more, or adversely and water dissociable ammonium salts and 1082; 47 U.S.C. 154, as amended. materially affecting a sector of the other sources; 10 percent of total Federal Communications Commission. economy, productivity, competition, aqueous ammonia is reportable under John A. Karousos, jobs, the environment, public health or this listing'' under paragraph (a) and Chief, Allocations Branch, Policy and Rules safety, or State, local, or tribal removing the entire CAS No. entry for Division, Mass Media Bureau. governments or communities (also 7783±20±2 and 6484±52±2 under [FR Doc. 95±7947 Filed 3±31±95; 8:45 am] referred to as ``economically paragraph (b). significant''); (2) creating serious BILLING CODE 6712±01±F inconsistency or otherwise interfering [FR Doc. 95±8202 Filed 3±30±95; 1:29 pm] with an action taken or planned by BILLING CODE 6560±50±F another agency; (3) materially altering DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR the budgetary impacts of entitlements, grants, user fees, or loan programs; or (4) FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS Fish and Wildlife Service COMMISSION raising novel legal or policy issues 50 CFR Part 17 arising out of legal mandates, the President's priorities, or the principles 47 CFR Part 73 RIN 1018±AD11 set forth in this Executive Order. [MM Docket No. 94±67; RM±8481] Pursuant to the terms of this Executive Endangered and Threatened Wildlife Order, it has been determined that this Radio Broadcasting Services; and Plants: Proposal To Determine amended proposed rule is not Collegeville, MN Endangered Status for Three Wetland ``significant'' and therefore not subject Species Found in Southern Arizona AGENCY: to OMB review. Federal Communications and Northern Sonora Commission. B. Regulatory Flexibility Act ACTION: Proposed rule; dismissal. AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act Interior. of 1980, the Agency must conduct a SUMMARY: This document dismissed a ACTION: Proposed rule and notice of small business analysis to determine petition for rule making filed by Saint petition findings. whether a substantial number of small John's University requesting the entities would be significantly affected allotment of Channel 260A to SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife by a proposed rule. Because the Collegeville, Minnesota, and reservation Service (Service) proposes endangered amended proposed rule does not create of the channel for noncommercial status pursuant to the Endangered any new requirements and consolidates educational use. See 59 FR 35292, July Species Act (Act) of 1973, as amended, other requirements, it would not 11, 1994. In reviewing this proceeding, for two plants, Spiranthes delitescens significantly affect facilities, including we discovered that we erroneously (Canelo Hills ladies'-tresses) and small entities. proposed reservation of the channel at Lilaeopsis schaffneriana spp. recurva Collegeville. The Notice should only (Huachuca water umbel), and one C. Paperwork Reduction Act have proposed allotment of a channel to amphibian, the Sonora tiger salamander This amended proposed rule does not Collegeville. Saint John's proposal does (Ambystoma tigrinum stebbinsi). These result in any new information collection not meet the established guidelines to species occur in a limited number of requirements subject to the provisions reserve a channel in the commercial wetland habitats in southern Arizona of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980, band. Since no comments were received and northern Sonora, Mexico. They are 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. expressing an intention to use the threatened by one or more of the channel as a commercial station, we followingÐcollecting, disease, List of Subjects in 40 CFR Part 372 have terminated the proceeding without predation, competition with nonnative Environmental protection, Chemicals, making an allotment. With this action, species, catastrophic floods, drought, Community right-to-know, Reporting this proceeding is terminated. and degradation and destruction of Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 63 / Monday, April 3, 1995 / Proposed Rules 16837 habitat resulting from livestock tiger salamander occupy small portions root tissue and fungi) (McClaran and overgrazing, water diversions, dredging, of these rare habitats. Sundt 1992). The time needed for and groundwater pumping. All three Spiranthes delitescens (Canelo Hills subterranean structures to produce taxa are also threatened with stochastic ladies'-tresses). Spiranthes delitescens is aboveground growth is unknown. Plants extirpations or extinction due to small a slender, erect, terrestrial orchid that may remain dormant in a subterranean numbers of populations or individuals. when in bloom reaches approximately state or remain vegetative This proposed rule, if made final, would 50 centimeters (cm) 20 inches (in)) tall. (nonflowering) for more than one extend the Act's protection to these Five to ten, linear-lanceolate, grass-like consecutive year. Plants that flower one three taxa. leaves, 18 cm (7.1 in) long and 1.5 cm year can be dormant, vegetative, or (0.6 in) wide, grow basally on the stem. DATES: Comments from all interested reproductive the next (McClaran and parties must be received by June 2, The fleshy swollen roots are Sundt 1992, Newman 1991). The 1995. Public hearing requests must be approximately 5 millimeters (mm) (0.2 saprophytic/autotrophic state of orchid received by May 18, 1995. in) in diameter. The top of the flower plants may be determined by climatic stalk contains up to 40 small white fluctuations and edaphic factors such as ADDRESSES: Comments and materials flowers arranged in a spiral. The species pH level, temperature and soil moisture should be sent to the Arizona Ecological is presumed to be perennial, but mature (Sheviak 1990). Services State Office, U.S. Fish and plants rarely flower in consecutive years Estimating Spiranthes population size Wildlife Service, 3616 West Thomas and in some years have no visible and stability is difficult because Road, Suite 6, Phoenix, Arizona 85019. aboveground structures (McClaren and nonflowering plants are very hard to Comments and materials received will Sundt 1992, Newman 1991). find in the dense vegetation, and yearly be available for public inspection, by P.S. Martin first collected Spiranthes counts underestimate the population appointment, during normal business delitescens in 1968 at a site in Santa because dormant plants are not counted. hours at the above address. Cruz County, Arizona (Sheviak 1990). McClaran and Sundt (1992) monitored FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: This specimen was first identified as marked individuals in a Spiranthes Jim Rorabaugh at the above address Spiranthes graminea, a related Mexican population during two three-year (telephone 602/640±2720: facsimile species. Sheviak (1990) found that the periods. They concluded that the 602/379±6629). Spiranthes in Arizona, previously subpopulations at both monitored sites thought to be S. graminea, displayed a were stable between 1987 and 1989, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: distinct set of morphological and although Newman (1991) later reported Background cytological characteristics and named that one monitored site was reduced to them S. delitescens. one nonflowering plant in 1991. Due to Cienegas are mid-elevation wetland This species is known from four the propensity of Spiranthes plants to
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