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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Channel 261C2 at Incline Village, its For information regarding proper Kathleen Scheuerle, Mass Media reallotment to Dayton, as the filing procedures for comments, see 47 Bureau, (202) 418–2180. community’s first local aural service, CFR 1.415 and 1.420. and the modification of Station KTHX– SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 73 summary of the Commission’s Notice of FM’s license to specify both the higher Proposed Rule Making, MM Docket No. class channel and Dayton as its Radio broadcasting. 99–218, adopted June 9, 1999, and community of license; and (2) the Federal Communications Commission. released June 24, 1999. The full text of reallotment of Channel 295C from Reno John A. Karousos, to Incline Village and the modification this Commission decision is available Chief, Allocations Branch, Policy and Rules for inspection and copying during of Station KRNO–FM’s license to Division, Mass Media Bureau. specify Incline Village as its community normal business hours in the [FR Doc. 99–16432 Filed 6–28–99; 8:45 am] of license. Channel 261C1 can be Commission’s Reference Center, 445 BILLING CODE 6712±01±P Twelfth Street, SW, Washington, DC. allotted to Dayton with a site restriction The complete text of this decision may of 36.8 kilometers (22.9 miles) northeast, at coordinates 39–29–27 NL; also be purchased from the DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Commission’s copy contractors, 119–19–03 WL, to accommodate petitioner’s desired transmitter site. International Transcription Services, Fish and Wildlife Service Inc., 1231 20th Street, NW., Channel 295C can be allotted to Incline Washington, DC. 20036, (202) 857–3800, Village with a site restriction of 10.1 50 CFR Part 17 facsimile (202) 857–3805. kilometers (6.3 miles) northeast, at Provisions of the Regulatory coordinates 39–18–38 NL; 119–53–01 Endangered and Threatened Wildlife Flexibility Act of 1980 do not apply to WL, which represents Station KRNO– and Plants; 90-day Finding for a this proceeding. FM’s presently licensed transmitter site. Petition To List the Plant ``Esenbeckia Members of the public should note DATES: Comments must be filed on or runyonii'' (Limoncillo) as Endangered before August 9, 1999, and reply that from the time a Notice of Proposed AGENCY: comments on or before August 24, 1999. Fish and Wildlife Service, Rule Making is issued until the matter Interior. is no longer subject to Commission ADDRESSES: Federal Communications ACTION: consideration or court review, all ex Commission, 445 12th Street, S.W., Notice of petition finding. parte contacts are prohibited in Room TW–A325, Washington, DC SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Commission proceedings, such as this 20554. In addition to filing comments Wildlife Service, announce a 90-day one, which involve channel allotments. with the FCC, interested parties should finding for a petition to list Esenbeckia See 47 CFR 1.1204(b) for rules serve the petitioner, or its counsel or runyonii (limoncillo) as endangered governing permissible ex parte contact. consultant, as follows: Dennis P. under the Endangered Species Act of For information regarding proper Corbett, Ross G. Greenberg, Leventhal, 1973, as amended. This small tree is filing procedures for comments, see 47 Senter & Lerman, P.L.L.C., 2000 K known from Cameron County, Texas, CFR 1.415 and 1.420. Street, NW, Suite 600, Washington, D.C. and from the states of Tamaulipas, 20006–1809 (Counsel to petitioners). List of Subjects in 47 CFR Part 73 Nuevo Leon, San Luis Potosi, Queretaro, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: and Hidalgo in Mexico. We find that the Radio broadcasting. Leslie K. Shapiro, Mass Media Bureau, petition failed to present substantial Federal Communications Commission. (202) 418–2180. information indicating that listing this John A. Karousos, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This is a species may be warranted. Chief, Allocations Branch, Policy and Rules synopsis of the Commission’s Notice of DATES: The finding announced in this Division, Mass Media Bureau. Proposed Rule Making, MM Docket No. document was made on June 3, 1999. 99–229, adopted June 9, 1999, and [FR Doc. 99–16430 Filed 6–28–99; 8:45 am] ADDRESSES: Data, information, released June 18, 1999. The full text of BILLING CODE 6712±01±P comments, or questions concerning this this Commission decision is available petition finding should be submitted to for inspection and copying during the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, normal business hours in the FCC FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS Ecological Services Field Office, c/o Reference Center, 445 12th Street, NW., COMMISSION Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, Washington, DC. The complete text of Campus Box 338, 6300 Ocean Drive, 47 CFR Part 73 this decision may also be purchased Corpus Christi, Texas 78412. The from the Commission’s copy contractor, [MM Docket No. 99±229, RM±9479] petition finding, supporting data, and International Transcription Services, comments are available for public Inc., (202) 857–3800, 1231 20th Street, Radio Broadcasting Services; Dayton, inspection, by appointment, during Incline Village, and Reno, NV NW, Washington, DC 20036. Provisions of the Regulatory normal business hours at the above AGENCY: Federal Communications Flexibility Act of 1980 do not apply to address. Commission. this proceeding. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: ACTION: Proposed rule. Members of the public should note Robyn Cobb, c/o Texas A&M University- that from the time a Notice of Proposed Corpus Christi Field Office (see SUMMARY: The Commission requests Rule Making is issued until the matter ADDRESSES section) (telephone 512/994– comments on a petition jointly filed by is no longer subject to Commission 9005; facsimile 512/994–8262). Salt Broadcasting, L.L.C., licensee of consideration or court review, all ex SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Station KTHX–FM, Incline Village, NV, parte contacts are prohibited in and Americom Las Vegas Limited Commission proceedings, such as this Background Partnership, licensee of Station KRNO– one, which involve channel allotments. Section 4(b)(3)(A) of the Endangered FM, Reno, NV. Petitioners request: (1) See 47 CFR 1.1204(b) for rules Species Act (Act) of 1973, as amended the substitution of Channel 261C1 for governing permissible ex parte contacts. (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), requires that we

VerDate 18-JUN-99 15:51 Jun 28, 1999 Jkt 183247 PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\29JNP1.XXX pfrm01 PsN: 29JNP1 34756 Federal Register / Vol. 64, No. 124 / Tuesday, June 29, 1999 / Proposed Rules make a finding on whether a petition to Crescentia alata, a trifoliate-leaved indicates that while the U.S. list, delist, or reclassify a species species in the bignonia family. The populations have been reduced from presents substantial scientific or petitioner notes that other E. runyonii four to one, the populations in Mexico commercial information to demonstrate populations occur in Mexico, but appear to be relatively abundant and that the petitioned action may be provides no information on these under no immediate threat that would warranted. This finding is to be based populations. justify listing the species as endangered on all information available to us at the Cameron County, Texas, on the U.S./ or threatened. time the finding is made. To the Mexico border, is the northern range References Cited maximum extent practicable, we make limit of E. runyonii. Populations in this finding within 90 days of the date Mexico are known from the states of Chiang, F. 1989. Casimiroa greggii, the petition was received, and notice of Tamaulipas, Nuevo Leon, San Luis formerly in Sargentia (Rutaceae) Taxon Potosi, Queretaro, and Hidalgo (F. 38:116–119. the finding must be published promptly Kaastra, R.C. 1982. Flora Neotropica, in the Federal Register. If the finding is Gonzalez-Medrano, Instituto de Monograph Number 33, Pilocarpinae that substantial information was Biologia, Mexico City, Mexico, in litt. (Rutaceae). New York Botanical Garden, presented, we are also required to 1994; Kaastra 1982; A.M. Olivo, Bronx, New York. promptly commence a review of the Instituto de Ecologia y Alimentos, Author: The primary author of this status of the species involved if one has Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas, Mexico, in document is Angela Brooks, formerly of not already been initiated under our litt. 1994; J.M. Poole, Texas Parks and the Corpus Christi Ecological Services internal candidate assessment process. Wildlife Department, Austin, Texas, in Field Office (See ADDRESSES). We have made a 90-day finding on a litt. 1994). Information from herbarium petition to list the plant Esenbeckia specimens at the Missouri Botanical Authority runyonii (limoncillo). The petition, Garden (J.M. Poole, in litt. 1994), The authority for this action is the dated June 28, 1994, was submitted by Universidad Autonoma de Tamaulipas Endangered Species Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 Joe Ideker, Secretary of the Native Plant (A.M. Olivo, in litt. 1994), Universidad et seq.). Project, and was received by the Service Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico, Dated: June 3, 1999. on July 5, 1994. The petitioner D.F. (F. Gonzalez-Medrano, in litt. requested that we list E. runyonii as 1994), and Kaastra (1982) indicate at Jamie Rappaport Clark, endangered. Action on this petition was least 45 collection sites in Mexico. Director, Fish and Wildlife Service. delayed by a listing moratorium (Public Chiang (1989) notes a collection by [FR Doc. 99–16418 Filed 6–28–99; 8:45 am] Law 104–6, April 10, 1995) and Pringle in Nuevo Leon that may BILLING CODE 4310±55±P rescission of listing program funding in represent an additional site. The species Fiscal Year 1996. This moratorium was is also known from the canyons of the subsequently lifted and listing program Sierra de Picachos (Nuevo Leon) and the funding restored on April 26, 1996. On El Cielo (Tamaulipas) bioreserve (C. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE May 16, 1996 (61 FR 24722) the Service Best, LRGV-NWR, Alamo, Texas, pers. National Oceanic and Atmospheric issued guidance for priorities in comm. 1994). Administration restarting the listing program. This 90- Esenbeckia runyonii populations in day finding was precluded by the Mexico occur primarily in moist 50 CFR Part 622 Service’s listing priority guidance for canyons on rocky talus slopes (C. Best, Fiscal Year 1997, finalized December 5, pers. comm. 1994; F. Gonzalez- [Docket No. 990506119±9119±01; I.D. 1996 (61 FR 64475). With the Medrano, in litt. 1994). This habitat is 040799B] publication of listing priority guidance vastly different from the floodplain for Fiscal Years 1998 and 1999 on May delta of the Rio Grande where the RIN 0648±AM66 8, 1998 (63 FR 25502) the Service species occurs in the United States. returned to a more balanced listing The petition indicates a willingness to Fisheries of the Caribbean, Gulf of program. The processing of petition list only the Texas population of this Mexico, and South Atlantic; Reef Fish findings to add species to the list of plant until further studies are done on Fishery of the Gulf of Mexico; Red threatened and endangered species have the populations in Mexico. The Act Snapper Management Measures significant conservation benefit and allows the listing of distinct population these actions are now placed in Tier 2. segments of vertebrate fish or wildlife AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries The petitioner states that all but one species, but does not extend the same Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and of the four (perhaps five) historically option to plants or invertebrate animals. Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), known U.S. populations of this small The listing of any plant or invertebrate Commerce. tree have been lost due to habitat animal must include all populations ACTION: Proposed rule; request for destruction and that the remaining U.S. within the species’ historical range. comments. population consists of 15 plants We have reviewed the petition and occurring on less than 0.4 hectare (ha) appended data, and other literature and SUMMARY: NMFS issues proposed (1 acre (ac)) of a Lower Rio Grande information available in our files. On regulations to implement certain Valley National Wildlife Refuge (LRGV– the basis of the best scientific and provisions of a regulatory amendment NWR) tract. The petitioner states that commercial information available, we prepared by the Gulf of Mexico Fishery this population is vulnerable to find that the petition does not present Management Council (Council) in destruction from catastrophic events substantial information that listing this accordance with framework procedures such as hurricanes, freezes, or fires. The species may be warranted. The petition for adjusting management measures of petitioner mentions two unverified includes no information regarding the Fishery Management Plan for the groups of E. runyonii plants in a distribution, population sizes, or threats Reef Fish Resources of the Gulf of Brownsville, Texas, park that are to E. runyonii in Mexico, which Mexico (FMP). These proposed threatened by construction of a road to constitutes most of the species’ regulations would set the opening date the Los Tomates Bridge. We investigated documented range (Kaastra, 1982). of the recreational red snapper fishing these plants and found them to be Information readily available to us season at March 1, beginning with the

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