Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 141 / Friday, July 22, 2016 / Notices 47763 NOAA’s National Weather Service Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 90-day finding. On February 26, 2013, would like to add a TsunamiReady Commerce. WildEarth Guardians filed a Complaint Supporter Application Form to its ACTION: Notice of 12-month finding and for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief in currently approved collection, which availability of status review document. the United States District Court for the includes StormReady, TsunamiReady, Middle District of Florida, Tampa StormReady/TsunamiReady, and SUMMARY: We, NMFS, announce a 12- Division, on the negative 90-day StormReady Supporter application month finding and listing determination finding. On October 1, 2013, the Court forms. The title would then change to on a petition to list the Caribbean approved a settlement agreement under ‘‘StormReady, TsunamiReady, electric ray (Narcine bancroftii) as which we agreed to accept a supplement StormReady/TsunamiReady, threatened or endangered under the to the 2010 petition, if any was StormReady Supporter and Endangered Species Act (ESA). We have provided, and to make a new 90-day TsunamiReady Supporter Application completed a comprehensive status finding based on the 2010 petition, the Forms’’. This new application would be review of the species in response to a supplement, and any additional used by entities such as businesses and petition submitted by WildEarth information readily available in our not-for-profit institutions that may not Guardians and Defenders of Wildlife files. have the resources necessary to fulfill and considered the best scientific and On October 31, 2013, we received a all the eligibility requirements to commercial data available. Based on the supplemental petition from WildEarth achieve the full TsunamiReady best scientific and commercial data Guardians and Defenders of Wildlife. recognition. The form will be used to available, including the status review On January 30, 2014, we published a 90- apply for initial TsunamiReady report (Carlson et al. 2015), we have day finding with our determination that Supporter recognition and renewal of determined that the species is not the petition presented substantial that recognition every five years. The currently in danger of extinction scientific and commercial information federal government will use the throughout all or a significant portion of indicating that the petitioned action information collected to determine its range and is not likely to become so may be warranted (79 FR 4877). In our whether an entity has met all of the within the foreseeable future. Therefore, 90-day finding, we requested scientific criteria to receive TsunamiReady we conclude that the Caribbean electric and commercial information from the Supporter recognition. ray does not warrant listing at this time. public to inform the status review on Affected Public: Business or other for- DATES: This finding was made on July the species. Specifically, we requested profit organizations; state, local or tribal 22, 2016. information on the status of the government. ADDRESSES: The Caribbean electric ray Caribbean electric ray throughout its Frequency: Every six years or one status review document associated with range including: (1) Historical and time only. this determination and its references are current distribution and abundance of Respondent’s Obligation: Voluntary. available by submitting a request to the this species throughout its range; (2) This information collection request Species Conservation Branch Chief, historical and current population may be viewed at reginfo.gov. Follow Protected Resources Division, NMFS trends; (3) life history and habitat the instructions to view Department of Southeast Regional Office, 263 13th requirements; (4) population structure Commerce collections currently under Avenue South, St. Petersburg, FL information, such as genetics data; (5) review by OMB. 33701–5505, Attn: Caribbean Electric past, current and future threats specific Written comments and Ray 12-month Finding. The report and to the Caribbean electric ray, including recommendations for the proposed references are also available any current or planned activities that information collection should be sent electronically at: http:// may adversely impact the species, within 30 days of publication of this sero.nmfs.noaa.gov/protected_ especially information on destruction, notice to OIRA_Submission@ resources/listing_petitions/index.html. modification, or curtailment of habitat omb.eop.gov or fax to (202) 395–5806. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: and on bycatch in commercial and Dated: July 18, 2016. Jennifer Lee, NMFS, Southeast Regional artisanal fisheries worldwide; (6) Sarah Brabson, Office (727) 551–5778; or Marta ongoing or planned efforts to protect NOAA PRA Clearance Officer. Nammack, NMFS, Office of Protected and restore the species and its habitat; and (7) management, regulatory, and [FR Doc. 2016–17305 Filed 7–21–16; 8:45 am] Resources (301) 427–8469. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: enforcement information on the species BILLING CODE 3510–KE–P and its habitats. We received Background information from the public in response DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE On September 7, 2010, we received a to the 90-day finding and incorporated petition from WildEarth Guardians to relevant information in the species National Oceanic and Atmospheric list the Caribbean electric ray as status review. Administration threatened or endangered throughout its Listing Determinations Under the ESA historical and current range and to [Docket No. 131105931–6595–02] designate critical habitat within the We are responsible for determining territory of the United States whether the Caribbean electric ray is RIN 0648–XC970 concurrently with listing the species threatened or endangered under the Endangered and Threatened Wildlife under the ESA. On March 22, 2011 (76 ESA (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). Section and Plants: Notice of 12-Month Finding FR 15947), we made a 90-day finding 4(b)(1)(A) of the ESA requires us to on a Petition To List the Caribbean that the petition did not present make listing determinations based Electric Ray as Threatened or substantial scientific or commercial solely on the best scientific and Endangered Under the Endangered information indicating that the commercial data available after Species Act (ESA) petitioned action may be warranted. conducting a review of the status of the On March 22, 2012, we received a 60- species and after taking into account AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries day notice of intent to sue from efforts being made by any state or Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and WildEarth Guardians on the negative foreign nation to protect the species. VerDate Sep<11>2014 15:19 Jul 21, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00018 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\22JYN1.SGM 22JYN1 ehiers on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES 47764 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 141 / Friday, July 22, 2016 / Notices To be considered for listing under the habitat or range; (B) overutilization for finding that ESA listing is appropriate. ESA, a group of organisms must commercial, recreational, scientific, or In considering those factors that might constitute a ‘‘species,’’ which is defined educational purposes; (C) disease or constitute threats, we look beyond mere in section 3 of the ESA to include predation; (D) the inadequacy of exposure of the species to the factor to taxonomic species and ‘‘any subspecies existing regulatory mechanisms; or (E) determine whether the species of fish, or wildlife, or plants, and any other natural or manmade factors responds, either to a single or multiple distinct population segment of any affecting its continued existence threats, in a way that causes actual species of vertebrate fish or wildlife (sections 4(a)(1)(A) through (E)). impacts to the species’ status. In making which interbreeds when mature.’’ In our The SRT completed a status review this finding, we have considered and 90-day finding we found that the report, which summarized the best evaluated the best available scientific petitioned species constitutes a valid available information on the taxonomy, and commercial information, including species eligible for listing under the distribution, abundance, life history and information received in response to our ESA based on the information presented biology of the species, analyzed the 90-day finding. in the petition, along with information threats identified as potentially The following sections provide key readily available in our files. To impacting the status of the species, and information presented in the status determine whether the Caribbean conducted an extinction risk analysis review report (Carlson et al. 2015). (ERA) to determine the status of the electric ray warrants listing under the Summary of the Status Review ESA, we convened a Status Review species. The results of the ERA are Team (SRT). The SRT was comprised of discussed below under ‘‘Extinction Risk Life History, Biology and Ecology NMFS Southeast Fisheries Science Analysis.’’ The status review report Taxonomy and Morphology Center and NMFS Southeast Regional incorporates relevant information Office biologists. The SRT reviewed an received from the public in response to Narcine bancroftii is a species in the unpublished dissertation that separated our request for information (79 FR 4877; phylum Chondrata, class the genus Narcine of the western January 30, 2014). The draft status Chondrichthyes, order Torpediniforms Atlantic Ocean into