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90-Day Finding on a Petition to Remove the Bone 30990 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 104 / Monday, June 1, 2015 / Proposed Rules first-round 2015 NUSA allowance review in response to this petition. requesting that we remove the allocations that will be made to new However, we ask the public to submit to endangered Bone Cave harvestman from units in that state, assuming there are no us any new information that becomes the Federal lists of endangered and corrections to the data, and (3) the available concerning the status of, or threatened species. The petition clearly quantity of allowances that would threats to, the Bone Cave harvestman or identified itself as a petition and remain in the 2015 NUSA for use in its habitat at any time. included the requisite identification second-round allocations to new units DATES: The finding announced in this information for the petitioners, as (or ultimately for allocation to existing document was made on June 1, 2015. required in 50 CFR 424.14(a). This units), again assuming there are no ADDRESSES: Copies of the petition are finding addresses the petition. corrections to the data. available in the docket associated with Objections should be strictly limited this notice at http:// Previous Federal Actions to the data and calculations upon which www.regulations.gov and at http:// The Bone Cave harvestman was the NUSA allowance allocations are fws.gov/southwest/es/austintexas/ or based and should be emailed to the originally listed as endangered on upon request from the Field Supervisor September 16, 1988 (53 FR 36029). In an address identified in ADDRESSES. of the Austin Ecological Services Field August 18, 1993, Federal Register Objections must include: (1) Precise Office, 10711 Burnet Road, Suite 200, document (58 FR 43818), the Service identification of the specific data and/or Austin, TX 78758. calculations the commenter believes are gave the Bone Cave harvestman FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: inaccurate, (2) new proposed data and/ protection under the Act as a separate Adam Zerrenner, Field Supervisor, or calculations upon which the species. It had previously been listed as Austin Ecological Services Field Office, commenter believes EPA should rely endangered as a part of the Bee Creek 10711 Burnet Road, Suite 200, Austin, instead to determine allowance TX 78758; by telephone at 512–490– Cave harvestman (Texella reddelli), allocations, and (3) the reasons why 0057; or by facsimile at 512–490–0974. which was subsequently re-classified EPA should rely on the commenter’s If you use a telecommunications device into two species, and this final rule set proposed data and/or calculations and for the deaf (TDD), please call the forth technical corrections to ensure that not the data referenced in this notice. Federal Information Relay Service the species continued to receive Authority: 40 CFR 97.411(b), 97.511(b), (FIRS) at 800–877–8339. protection under the Act. On March 14, 97.611(b), and 97.711(b). SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 1994, we published a 90-day finding (59 Dated: May 22, 2015. FR 11755) on a petition to delist the Background Reid P. Harvey, Bone Cave harvestman in which we Director, Clean Air Markets Division. Section 4(b)(3)(A) of the Act requires found that the petition did not present [FR Doc. 2015–13031 Filed 5–29–15; 8:45 am] that we make a finding on whether a substantial scientific or commercial petition to list, delist, or reclassify a BILLING CODE 6560–50–P information indicating that the species presents substantial scientific or petitioned action may have been commercial information indicating that warranted. A draft recovery plan was the petitioned action may be warranted. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR available for public review and We are to base this finding on comment on June 7, 1993, and a final Fish and Wildlife Service information provided in the petition, recovery plan was published on August supporting information submitted with 25, 1994 (Service 1994). On December 4, 50 CFR Part 17 the petition, and information otherwise 2009, we completed a 5-year review of available in our files. To the maximum the Bone Cave harvestman, which [Docket No. FWS–R2–ES–2015–0030; extent practicable, we are to make this FF09E42000 156 FXES11130900000] recommended that the species remain finding within 90 days of our receipt of listed as endangered (Service 2009). Endangered and Threatened Wildlife the petition and publish our notice of and Plants; 90-Day Finding on a the finding promptly in the Federal Species Information Petition To Remove the Bone Cave Register. Our standard for substantial scientific For information on the biology and Harvestman (Texella reyesi) From the or commercial information within the life history of the Bone Cave List of Endangered and Threatened Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) with harvestman, see the final rule listing Wildlife regard to a 90-day petition finding is this species (53 FR 36029), the AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, ‘‘that amount of information that would Endangered Karst Invertebrates Interior. lead a reasonable person to believe that Recovery Plan for Travis and ACTION: Notice of 90-day petition the measure proposed in the petition Williamson Counties (Service 1994), finding. may be warranted’’ (50 CFR and the 5-year Status Review for the 424.14(b)(1)). If we find that substantial Bone Cave Harvestman (Service 2009), SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and scientific or commercial information all posted at http://ecos.fws.gov/ Wildlife Service (Service), announce a was presented, we are required to speciesProfile/profile/ 90-day finding on a petition to remove promptly conduct a species status speciesProfile.action?spcode=J009. For the Bone Cave harvestman (Texella review, which we subsequently information on preserve design and reyesi) from the List of Endangered and summarize in a 12-month finding. management for karst invertebrate Threatened Wildlife under the species conservation, see the Karst Endangered Species Act of 1973, as Petition History Preserve Design Recommendations amended (Act). Based on our review, we On June 2, 2014, we received a find that the petition does not present petition from John Yearwood, Kathryn (Service 2012) and the Karst Preserve substantial scientific or commercial Heidemann, Charles and Cheryl Shell, Management and Monitoring information indicating that the the Walter Sidney Shell Management Recommendations (Service 2014) posted petitioned action may be warranted. Trust, the American Stewards of at http://www.fws.gov/southwest/es/ _ _ Therefore, we are not initiating a status Liberty, and Steven W. Carothers AustinTexas/ESA Sp KarstInverts.html. VerDate Sep<11>2014 12:29 May 29, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00036 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\01JNP1.SGM 01JNP1 rljohnson on DSK3VPTVN1PROD with PROPOSALS Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 104 / Monday, June 1, 2015 / Proposed Rules 30991 Evaluation of Information for This In 2009, we conducted a 5-year status safety for a species to withstand Finding review of the Bone Cave harvestman catastrophic events (Service and NOAA Under section 3(16) of the Act, we (Service 2009). The purpose of a 5-year 2011, p. 76994) by decreasing the may consider for listing any species, status review is to evaluate whether or chance of any one event affecting the including subspecies, of fish, or not the species’ status has changed since entire species. Redundancy is about wildlife, or plants, and any distinct it was listed (or since the most recent 5- spreading risk and can be measured population segment (DPS) of any year review). Based on a 5-year review, through the duplication and distribution we recommend whether the species of resilient populations across the range species of vertebrate fish or wildlife that should be removed from the lists of of the species. interbreeds when mature (16 U.S.C. endangered and threatened species, be Representation is defined as 1532(16)). Such entities are listed under changed in status from endangered to conserving ‘‘some of everything’’ with the Act if we determine that they meet threatened, or be changed in status from regard to genetic and ecological the definition of an endangered or threatened to endangered. As part of the diversity to allow for future adaptation threatened species. 2009 Bone Cave harvestman review, we and maintenance of evolutionary Section 4 of the Act (16 U.S.C. 1533) evaluated whether the species had met potential. Representation and the and its implementing regulations at 50 the recovery criteria laid out in the adaptive capabilities (Service and CFR 424 set forth the procedures for species’ recovery plan (Service 1994, NOAA 2011, p. 76994) of the Bone Cave adding a species to, or removing a pp. 86–89). harvestman are also important for long- species from, the lists of endangered Our recovery handbook (Service 2010) term viability. Because a species’ and threatened species. A species may points out that recovery criteria should genetic makeup is shaped through be determined to be an endangered or address the biodiversity principles of natural selection by the environments it threatened species due to one or more resiliency, redundancy, and has experienced (Shaffer and Stein of the five factors described in section representation (Schaffer and Stein 2000, p. 308), populations should be 4(a)(1) of the Act: 2000). protected in the array of different (A) The present or threatened Resiliency is defined as the ability of environments in which the invertebrate destruction, modification, or a species to persist through severe species occur as a strategy to ensure curtailment of its habitat or range; hardships or stochastic events (Tear et genetic representation, adaptive (B) Overutilization for commercial, al. 2005, p. 841). A variety of factors capability, and conservation of the recreational, scientific, or educational contribute to a species’ resiliency. These species. Generally, the more purposes; can include how sensitive the species is representation, or diversity, the species (C) Disease or predation; to disturbances or stressors in its has, the more it is capable of adapting (D) The inadequacy of existing environment, how often they reproduce to changes (natural or human caused) in regulatory mechanisms; or and how many young they have, and its environment.
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