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13488 Federal Register / Vol. 55, No. 69 I Tuesday. April 10, 1990 I Rules and Regulations 13488 Federal Register / Vol. 55, No. 69 I Tuesday. April 10, 1990 I Rules and Regulations DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: defined under the authority of the Responsibility for the Steller sea lion National Environmental Pnlicy Act of Ash and Wildlife Service under the Endangered Species Act (16 1969, need not be prepared in regard to U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) lies with the regulations adopted under section 4(a) 5OCFRPart 1741 ~t O National Marine Fisheries Service of the Act. A notice outlining the (NMFS), National Oceanic and reasons for this determination was RIN 1O18-AB41 Atmospheric Administration, published in the Federal Register on Endangered and Threatened Wildlife Department of Commerce. See October 25, 1985 (48 FR 49244). and Plants; Emergency Usting of the Reorganization Plan No. 4 of 1970. List of Subjects in 50 CFR Part 17 Steller Sea Lion Section 4(a)(2)(A) of the Act provides that NMFS must decide whether a Endangered and threatened species, AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, species under its jurisdiction should be Fish, Marine mammals. Plants Interior. listed as endangered or threatened. The (agriculture). Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) is ACTION: Emergency rule. RegulationPromulgation responsible for the actual addition of a species to the List of Endangered and Accordingly, part 17, subchapter B of SUMMARY: The Service adds the Steiler chapter 1, title 50 of the Code of Federal (northern) sea lion (Eumetopias jubatus) Threatened Wildlife in 50 CFR 17.11(h). In the April 5, 1990, issue of the Regulations, is amended as set forth to theList of Endangered and below: Threatened Wildlife for a period of 240 Federal Register (55 FR 12645). NMFS days. This measure is required by published its emergency determination PART 17—[AMENDEDI section 4(a)(2)(A) of the Endangered of threatened status for the Steller sea Species Act of 1973 in order to lion. Accordingly, the FWS is required 1. The authority citation for part 17 implement an emergency determination by section 4(a)(2)(A) of the Act to add continues to read as follows: of threatened status by the National the Steller sea lion as a threatened Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1361-1407: 16 U.S.C. Marine Fisheries Service, which has species to the List of Endangered and 1531—1543; 16 U.S.C. 4201—4245; Pub. L 99-. jurisdiction for the Steller sea lion. Threatened Wildlife for the 240-day 625, 100 Stat. 350th unless otherwise noted. period of the NMFS emergency rule, DATES: This emergency rule is effective 2. Section 17.11(h) is amended from Because this FWS action is April 10, 1990, through December 3, 1990, on April 10, 1990, and expires on nondiscretionary, and, in view of December 3, 1990. by adding the following, in alphabetical NMFS’s emergency finding under order, to the List of Endangered and FOR FURTHER INFORMATiON CONTACfl section 4(b)(7) of the Act, the FWS finds Threatened Wildlife under Dr. Ralph Morgenweck, Assistant that good cause exists to omit thenotice “MAMMALS:” Director, Fish and Wildlife and public comment procedures of 5 Enhancement, U.S. Fish and Wildlife U.S.C. 553(b). § 17.11 Endangered and threatened Service (A.FWE—3024 MID), Department The FWS also has determined that an wildlife. of the Interior. Washington, DC 20240 Environmental Assessment or (202/343-4648, VFS 343-4646). Environmental Impact Statement, as (h) ** * Species Vertebrate Critical Special habitat rules Common name scientific name Historic range p0~0nendangeredthreatened~ or Status Whenlisted MAMMALS: * Sea-lion, Steller (= north- Eumetopiás jubatus U.S.A. (AK. CA, OR, WA), Entire_.._ ...._.~. T 384E NA 227.12 em). Canada, Soviet Union; North Pacific Ocean. Dated: April 4, 1990. Richard N. Smith, Acting Director, Fish and Wildlife Service. (FR Doc. 90—8241 Filed 4—9—90; 8:45 am) BIWNG CODE 4310-55-N 13488 Federal Register I Vol. 55, No. 69 / Tuesday, April 10, 1990 / Rules and Regulations ACTION: Final ru’e. the Federalprotection and recovery provisions afforded by the Act to SUMMARY: The Service determines Ottoschuizia rhodoxylon. Ottoschulzia rhodoxylon (palo de rosa) EFFECTIVE DATE May 10, 1990. tobe an endangered 8pecies pursuant to the Endangered Species Act (Act) of ADDRESSES: The complete file for this 1973, as amended. Ottoschulzia rule is available for inspection, by DEPARTMENTOF THE INTERIOR rhodoxylon is a plant that is endemic to appointment, during normal business Puerto Rico and Hispaniola. In Puerto hoursat the Caribbean Field Office, U.S. 50 CFR Part 17 Rico it is found in the limestone hills of Fish and Wildlife Service, P.O. Box 491, thenorth coast, on limestone-derived BoquerOn, Puerto Rico 00622, and at the RIN 1018—AB31 soils of the south coast, and on the Service’s Southeast Regional Office, Endangered and ThreatenedWildlife serpentine soils of the western Suite 1282, 75 Spring Street SW., and Plants; Determination of mountains. Only nine individuals are Atlanta, Georgia 30303. EndangeredStatus for Ottoschulzia known to exist in these three areas. The FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: rhodoxylon (Palo de Rosa) species is threatened by deforestation Ms. Susan Silander at the Caribbean due to the expansion of residential and AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, industrial areas and by its extremely Field Office address (809/551—7297) or Interior. low numbers. This final rule will extend Mr. David P. Flemming at the Atlanta Federal Register / Vol. 55, No. 69 / Tuesday, April 10, 1990 / Rules and Regulations 13489 Regional Office address (404/331—3583 These serpentine outcrops and Star on August 13, 1989. Two letters of or FTS 841—3583). serpentinaceous soils contribute to a comment were received and are SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: high floristic diversity and endemism. discussed below. Deforestation for agriculture, grazing, The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Background charcoal production, and urban and Jacksonville District, reported that they Ottoschulzia rhodoxylon (palo de industrial development has had a did not have ongoing studies or projects rosa) was first collected by Leopold significant effect on the native flora of within the known habitat of Krug near Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, in Puerto Rico. Much of the remaining Ottoschulzia rhodoxylon. 1876 and was described in 1908. This forest consists of secondary growth. Dr. José Vivaldi, Chief of the West Indian genus of only three species Individual trees of Ottoschulzia Terrestrial Ecology Section of the Puerto was dedicated to Otto Eugen Schulz, a rhodoxylon are known to have been lost Rico Department of Natural Resources, German botanist (Liogier and Martorell to forest clearing. The extreme rarity of did not have additional information on 1982). Today the species is known from thespecies and theapparent irregularity the status of the species. All herbarium one locality in thelimestone hill area on of flower and fruit production make the specimens examined were collected the north coast near Bayamón, and in species extremely vulnerable to the loss from theknown localities. Due to the several sites in the Guánica of anyone individual. extreme rareness of the species, he Commonwealth Forest, a dry limestone Ottoschulzia rhodoxylon was supported listing as endangered. forest on the south coast. One individual recommended for Federal listing by the Smithsonian Institution (Ayensu and Summary of Factors Affecting the has recently been reported from the Species Maricao Commonwealth Forest (G. DeFilipps 1978). The species was Proctor, Puerto Rico Department of included among the plants being Section 4(a)(1) of the Endangered Natural Resources, personal considered as endangered or threatened Species Act (16 U.S.C. 1535 et seq.) and communication). Urban, residential, and species by the Service, as published in regulations (50 CFR part 242) industrial expansion has greatly reduced the Federal Register (45 FR 82480) dated promulgated to implement the listing forested area in all three of these December 15, 1980; the November 28, provisions of the Act set forth the localities. The information available 1983, update (48FR 53680) of the 1980 procedures for adding species to the indicates that the species is also rare in notice; and the September 27, 1985, Federal lists. A species may be the Dominican Republic (Little et al. revised notice (50 FR 39526). The species determined to be an endangered or was designated category 1 (species for 1974, G. Proctor, personal threatened species due to one or more of communication). which the Service has substantial the five factors described in section information supporting the Ottoschulzia rhodoxylon is a small, 4(a)(1). These factors and their evergreen tree that has been reported to appropriateness of proposing to list application to Ottoschulzia rhodoxy!on them as endangered or threatened) in reach 12 to 15 feet (4 to 5 meters) in (palo de rosa) are as follows: each of the three notices. A. The present or threatened height. The leaves are alternate, In a notice published in the Federal glabrous, and elliptic to ovate. They are Register on February 15, 1983 (48 FR destruction, modification, or curtailment from 2 to 31/2 inches (5 to 9 centimeters) of its habitat or range. Muchof the 6752), the Service reported theearlier long and 1’/4 to 2~/2inches (3 to 6 acceptance of the new taxa in the island of Puerto Rico has been centimeters) wide, rounded or blunt at deforested, and today all of the known Smithsonian’s 1978 book as under the apex and the base, entire, thick, and petition within the context of section sites for Ottoschulzia rhodoxylon are leathery. Flowers have not been 4(b)(3)(A) of the Act, as amended in found in areas of secondary forests. The observed, but fruitshave recently been 1982. The Service subsequently found in north coast site lies just to the west of described as a one-seeded drupe with a each October of 1983 through 1988 that the San Juan metropolitan area, an area thin pericarp (G.
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