Determination of Threatened Status for Castilleja Levisecta
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31740 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 112 / Wednesday, June 11, 1997 / Rules and Regulations September 8, 1995, except for condition 3. On page 328, first column, Lacey address (telephone 360/753± Nos. 9 pertaining to non-VOC and non- instruction 13 is corrected to read ``13. 9440). NOX pollutants and expiration date of Section 101±38.401±1 is amended by SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: the plan approval. removing the introductory text, (ii) Additional Material. removing paragraph (b), redesignating Background (A) Remainder of the Commonwealth paragraph (c) as paragraph (b), and Castilleja levisecta (golden of Pennsylvania's December 8, 1995 revising paragraph (a) introductory text paintbrush) was first collected near Mill submittal. to read as follows:'' Plain, Washington, by Thomas Jefferson (B) Additional material submitted by Howell in 1880 and was described by Pennsylvania dated May 23, 1997, Dated: June 5, 1997. Jesse More Greenman in 1898 providing clarifying information related Sharon A. Kiser, (Greenman 1898). A perennial herb of to Pennzoil Products Company plan FAR Secretariat. the figwort family (Scrophulariaceae), C. approval. [FR Doc. 97±15229 Filed 6±10±97; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6820±34±P levisecta typically has 1 to 15 erect to [FR Doc. 97±15102 Filed 6±10±97; 8:45 am] spreading unbranched stems, reaches a BILLING CODE 6560±50±P height of 30 centimeters (cm) (12 inches DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (in)), and is covered with soft, sticky hairs. The lower leaves are entire and GENERAL SERVICES Fish and Wildlife Service narrowly pointed; the upper leaves are ADMINISTRATION broader, usually with one to three pairs 50 CFR Part 17 of short lateral lobes on the distal end. 41 CFR Part 101±38 The flower, mostly hidden by the RIN 1018±AC52 [FPMR Amendment G±111] overlapping bracts, has a calyx 15 to 18 millimeters (mm) (0.6 to 0.7 in) long and RIN 3090±AG26 Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Determination of deeply cleft, and a corolla 20 to 23 mm Motor Vehicles Threatened Status for Castilleja (0.8 to 0.9 in) long, with a slender galea levisecta (Golden Paintbrush) (concave upper lip) three to four times AGENCY: Office of Governmentwide the length of the unpouched lower lip Policy, GSA. AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, (Hitchcock and Cronquist 1973). It is ACTION: Final rule; correction. Interior. distinguished from the other Castilleja ACTION: Final rule. species within its range by brilliant SUMMARY: This document contains golden to yellow floral bracts. The plant SUMMARY: corrections to a final rule published in The U.S. Fish and Wildlife flowers from April to June. When not the Federal Register on Friday, January Service (Service) determines threatened flowering, the plant is less conspicuous. 3, 1997, 62 FR 322. FPMR Amendment status pursuant to the Endangered The species may be semi-parasitic like G±111, which governs the management Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act), other members of the genus Castilleja, of motor vehicles. for the plant Castilleja levisecta (golden possibly requiring a host plant for EFFECTIVE DATE: January 3, 1997. paintbrush). This species once occurred seedling development in its native from Oregon to Vancouver Island in FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: habitat (Heckard 1962, Sheehan and Sharon A. Kiser, Federal Acquisition British Columbia, Canada. Ten Sprague 1984). However, greenhouse Policy Division (202±501±216). populations of this plant now exist in experiments indicate it does not require open grasslands ranging from south of SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In rule a host to survive and flower (Wentworth Olympia in Thurston County, document 97±52 appearing at 62 FR 1994). Washington, north through the Puget 322, GSA revised Part 101±38. This The plant tends to grow in clumps. Trough to southwest British Columbia, document corrects three errors. One genetic individual may consist of 1 Canada. Threats to the species include to 15 stems, making the determination Corrections competition with encroaching native of exact numbers of individual plants in and non-native plant species; habitat § 101.38 [Corrected] the field difficult. The number of stems modification through succession in the per plant varies site to site. In addition, 1. On page 324, second column, absence of fire; and grazing by ``PART 101±38ÐMOTOR EQUIPMENT researchers have used a variety of herbivores. Direct human-caused threats census methods over the years. MANAGEMENT'' is corrected to read include conversion of habitat for ``PART 101±38ÐMOTOR VEHICLE Therefore, population estimates can residential and commercial vary and a consistent approach is MANAGEMENT.'' development, conversion to agriculture, 2. On page 325, the table in 101± needed. Experimentally designed and possible damage associated with sampling surveys have been conducted 38.104(b)(3) is corrected by adding the road maintenance. This rule implements following footnotes. where individual plants were tagged the Federal protections afforded by the and counted (Wentworth 1994). Year to ``1 Established by section 502 of the Act for this plant. year variation in population densities Motor Vehicle Information and Cost Savings EFFECTIVE DATE: July 11, 1997. Act (89 Stat. 902, 15 U.S.C. 2002) and the can be high (G. Douglas, Conservation Secretary of Transportation. ADDRESSES: The complete file for this Data Center, British Columbia Ministry 2 Established by the Secretary of rule is available for inspection, by of Environment, Lands and Parks, pers. Transportation and mandated by Executive appointment, during normal business comm. 1996; Wentworth 1994). Order 12003 through fiscal year 1981 and by hours at the Western Washington Office, Castilleja levisecta occurs in open Executive Order 12375 beginning in fiscal North Pacific Coast Ecoregion, U.S. Fish grasslands at elevations below 100 year 1982. and Wildlife Service, 510 Desmond meters (m) (328 feet (ft)) around the 3 Fleet average fuel economy for light Drive S.E., Suite 101, Lacey, trucks is the combined fleet average fuel periphery of the Puget Trough. Most economy for all 4x2 and 4x4 light trucks. Washington 98503±1273. populations occur on glacially derived 4 Requirements not yet established by the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: soils, either gravelly glacial outwash or Secretary of Transportation.'' Dave Frederick, Supervisor, at the above clayey glacio-lacustrine sediments Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 112 / Wednesday, June 11, 1997 / Rules and Regulations 31741 (Sheehan and Sprague 1984, Gamon In British Columbia, Canada, 2 on a 0.04-ha (0.10-acre) site (Gamon 1995). Associated species include populations exist on islands off of the 1995). The population declined from Festuca idahoensis, F. rubra, Camassia southern coast of Vancouver Island between 500 and 1,000 plants in the quamash, Holcus lanatus, Achillea (Ryan and Douglas 1994). A historic early 1980's, to 120 plants in 1993 millefolium, Pteridium aquilinum, Vicia population at Beacon Hill in Victoria on (Gamon 1993; Fayette Krause, The spp., and Bromus spp. (Gamon 1995). Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Nature Conservancy, in litt., 1994), and Frequent, low intensity fires can be Canada, has been surveyed annually currently harbors about 230 individuals important in maintaining habitat for from 1991 through 1996. Three plants (Gamon 1995). This State-owned plant species such as C. levisecta. were observed in 1991 but subsequent historic site is managed as a park for Historically, periodic fires in the Puget surveys have not found any plants and recreational use (Ken Hageman, Fort Trough were instrumental in the site is presumed to be extirpated Casey State Park Manager, Washington maintaining native grassland habitat by (Gamon 1995; G. Douglas, pers. comm. Department of Parks, pers. comm. 1994). limiting successional encroachment of 1996). A third Whidbey Island population of trees and shrubs (Agee 1993, Kruckeberg The southernmost population of Castilleja levisecta occurs on and 1991, Sheehan and Sprague 1984). Castilleja levisecta occurs at the Rocky adjacent to the Bocker property. This Historically, Castilleja levisecta has Prairie site south of Olympia, in population consists of 3 coloniesÐ1 been reported from over 30 sites in the Thurston County, Washington. The site colony is 60×150 m (197×492 ft) on the Puget Trough of Washington and British is owned by the Washington property, a second colony is adjacent to Columbia, and as far south as the Department of Natural Resources and is the property in a 4 m2 (43 ft2) area, and Willamette Valley of Oregon (Sheehan designated as a Natural Area Preserve a third colony is located near the and Sprague 1984, Gamon 1995). In that is managed primarily for protection ``Admiral's'' house and covers an area of 1984, the Service granted funding to the of C. levisecta and Aster curtus (white- 4.5×9 m (15×30 ft). In 1996, 306 Washington Natural Heritage Program topped aster), and conservation of the individual plants existed (Wentworth, (Washington Department of Natural remnant native grasslands of Festuca pers. comm. 1996), down from an Resources) to conduct an assessment of idahoenis (Idaho fescue) (J. Gamon, estimated 1,200 plants in the mid-1980's the status of the species throughout its pers. comm. 1996). In 1983, the time of (Krause, in litt. 1994). The property is range. The plant was found to be the last complete census, 15,000 plants owned by Seattle Pacific University and extirpated from more than 20 historic were sporadically distributed is used for environmental education sites (Sheehan and Sprague 1984, throughout the 15-hectare (ha) (37-acre) courses (Keith Ludemann, Gamon 1995). Many populations were site. A fire in 1985 reduced the Environmental Education Supervisor, found to be extirpated due to conversion southernmost patch of C. levisecta, and Bocker Environmental Preserve, pers. of habitat to agricultural, residential, in 1991 the total population was comm. 1992), but no covenants or other and commercial development. In estimated to be about 7,000 plants (R. restrictions on the property exist that Oregon, C.