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Federal Register/Vol. 86, No. 144/Friday, July 30, 2021/Proposed 40996 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 144 / Friday, July 30, 2021 / Proposed Rules Critical component/end Percentage of domestic Line item No. product content [List as necessary] the left side of the screen, under the the evaluation of the accuracy of the (End of clause) Document Type heading, check the current taxonomic interpretation. [FR Doc. 2021–15881 Filed 7–29–21; 8:45 am] Proposed Rule box to locate this Please include sufficient information BILLING CODE 6820–EP–P document. You may submit a comment with your submission (such as scientific by clicking on ‘‘Comment.’’ journal articles or other publications) to (2) By hard copy: Submit by U.S. mail allow us to verify any scientific or to: Public Comments Processing, Attn: DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR commercial information you include. FWS–R4–ES–2020–0125, U.S. Fish and Please note that submissions merely Fish and Wildlife Service Wildlife Service, MS: PRB/3W, 5275 stating support for, or opposition to, the Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041– action under consideration without 50 CFR Part 17 3803. providing supporting information, We request that you send comments although noted, will not be considered [Docket No. FWS–R4–ES–2020–0125; only by the methods described above. in making a determination, as section FF09E22000 FXES11130900000 212] We will post all comments on http:// 4(b)(1)(A) of the Act directs that RIN 1018–BE41 www.regulations.gov. This generally determinations as to whether any means that we will post any personal species is an endangered or a threatened Endangered and Threatened Wildlife information you provide us (see species must be made ‘‘solely on the and Plants; Removing Adiantum Information Requested, below, for more basis of the best scientific and vivesii From the Federal List of information). commercial data available.’’ Endangered and Threatened Plants Availability of supporting materials: You may submit your comments and This proposed rule and supporting materials concerning this proposed rule AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, documents, including the 5-year review, by one of the methods listed in Interior. are available at https://www.fws.gov/ ADDRESSES. We request that you send ACTION: Proposed rule. southeast/caribbean/ and http:// comments only by the methods www.regulations.gov under Docket No. ADDRESSES SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and described in . Wildlife Service (Service), propose to FWS–R4–ES–2020–0125. If you submit information via http:// remove the plant Adiantum vivesii (no FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: www.regulations.gov, your entire common name) from the Federal List of Edwin Mun˜ iz, Field Supervisor, submission—including any personal Endangered and Threatened Plants Caribbean Ecological Services Field identifying information—will be posted (List). Our review of the best available Office, P.O. Box 491, Boquero´n, PR on the website. If your submission is scientific and commercial data, 00622; telephone 787–851–7297. made via a hardcopy that includes including peer reviewer comments Persons who use a telecommunications personal identifying information, you received on the 5-year status review device for the deaf (TDD) may call the may request at the top of your document (2008), indicate that A. vivesii is not a Federal Relay Service at 800–877–8339. that we withhold this information from distinct species, but rather a sterile SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: public review. However, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so. hybrid that does not have the capacity Information Requested to establish a lineage that could be lost We will post all hardcopy submissions to extinction. Therefore, A. vivesii is not We intend that any final action on http://www.regulations.gov. Comments and materials we receive, a listable entity under the Endangered resulting from this proposed rule will be as well as supporting documentation we Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). based on the best scientific and commercial data available and be as used in preparing this proposed rule, DATES: We will accept comments accurate and as effective as possible. will be available for public inspection received or postmarked on or before Therefore, we request comments or on http://www.regulations.gov. September 28, 2021. Comments information from other concerned Because we will consider all submitted electronically using the governmental agencies, the scientific substantial comments and information Federal eRulemaking Portal (see community, industry, or any other received during the comment period, ADDRESSES, below) must be received by interested parties concerning this our final determinations may differ from 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the closing proposed rule. this proposal. Based on the new date. We must receive requests for a We particularly seek comments information we receive (and any public hearing, in writing, at the address concerning: comments on that new information), we shown in FOR FURTHER INFORMATION (1) Reasons we should or should not may conclude that the species is a valid CONTACT by September 13, 2021. remove A. vivesii from the List of listable entity and should remained ADDRESSES: You may submit comments Endangered and Threatened Plants. listed as endangered, or be reclassified by one of the following methods: (2) The location and characteristics of from endangered to threatened. (1) Electronically: Go to the Federal any additional populations not eRulemaking Portal: http:// considered in previous work that might Public Hearing www.regulations.gov. In the Search box, have bearing on the current taxonomic Section 4(b)(5) of the Act provides for enter FWS–R4–ES–2020–0125, which is interpretation. a public hearing on this proposal, if the docket number for this rulemaking. (3) Additional information concerning requested. Requests must be received by Then, click on the Search button. On the range, distribution, and population the date specified in DATES. Such resulting page, in the Search panel on sizes, particularly if it would assist in requests must be sent to the address VerDate Sep<11>2014 21:28 Jul 29, 2021 Jkt 253001 PO 00000 Frm 00035 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\30JYP1.SGM 30JYP1 lotter on DSK11XQN23PROD with PROPOSALS1 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 144 / Friday, July 30, 2021 / Proposed Rules 40997 shown in FOR FURTHER INFORMATION review at 82 FR 29916, June 30, 2017). degrees Centigrade (64.4 and 75.2 CONTACT. We will schedule a public Both 5-year reviews recommended degrees Fahrenheit) (Ewel and hearing on this proposal, if requested, delisting due to the entity not meeting Whitmore 1973, p. 20). A. vivesii occurs and announce the date, time, and place the Act’s definition of a species. in a deeply shaded hollow at the base of the hearing, as well as how to obtain of a limestone hill in Quebradillas Background reasonable accommodations, in the (USFWS 1995, p. 7). Federal Register and local newspapers Entity Description When the species was listed in 1993, it was known from only one population at least 15 days before the hearing. For A. vivesii is found growing in colonies on a privately owned limestone hill in the immediate future, we will provide (clusters) where the rhizome (rootstock Quebradillas. That population was these public hearings using webinars or underground stem) spreads estimated at 1,000 plants or growing that will be announced on the Service’s horizontally. The fronds (leaves) are website, in addition to the Federal apices by Proctor (1991, p. 5). The distichous (arranged in one plane) and Register. The use of these virtual public population was later documented at the erect-spreading with broad and irregular hearings is consistent with our same location occurring in an area of 21 lance-oblong blades. The blades have regulations 50 CFR 424.16(c)(3). meters (m) by 10 m (68.9 feet (ft) by 32.8 two or three alternate or occasionally ft) by Sepu´ lveda-Orengo (2000, p. 21). In Peer Review subopposite pinnae (segment of leaf), the vicinity of this area, eight other In accordance with our policy, with a larger terminal pinna. The species of the genus Adiantum were ‘‘Notice of Interagency Cooperative terminal pinnae are stalked often found (A. cristatum, A. fragile, A. Policy for Peer Review in Endangered somewhat inequilateral with latifolium, A. melanoleucum, A. Species Act Activities,’’ which was approximately 10 to 13 pairs of pulverulentum, A. tenerum, A. published on July 1, 1994 (59 FR alternate, narrowly oblong-falcate tetraphyllum, and A. wilsonii). The fern 34270), and our August 22, 2016, pinnules (smaller segments of a leaf), A. tetraphyllum was growing intermixed Director’s Memorandum ‘‘Peer Review shaped unequally cuneate at the base. within the area occupied by A. vivesii Process,’’ we will seek the expert The irregularly-branched stalks are (Sepu´ lveda-Orengo 2000, p. 22). opinion of at least three appropriate and lustrous purple-black with hairlike Surveys conducted in 2017 at the type independent specialists regarding scales. The rachis (axis of a fern leaf) locality (the location where the scientific data and interpretations and costae (central vein of a leaf) are specimen was first identified) were contained in this proposed rule. We will more densely covered with hairlike unable to identify material that send copies of this proposed rule to the scales than the stipe. The outer sterile morphologically matched the original peer reviewers immediately following margins of the pinna are irregularly type specimen (despite similarities), nor publication in the Federal Register. We serrulate (serrated teeth), and the tissue any clonal stand of Adiantum material will ensure that the opinions of peer is dull green on both sides. Five elliptic as it had been described there in 1991 reviewers are objective and unbiased by to linear sori (sacks of spores) are borne and 2000 (Possley et al. 2020, p. 6). following the guidelines set forth in the along the basal half of the acroscopic These results suggest that A.
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