5-Year Review of Lesser Long-Nosed Bat, Black-Capped
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5460 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 21 / Wednesday, February 2, 2005 / Notices The following language is proposed to DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Information regarding gypsum wild- be negotiated as part of the 2006 Title buckwheat, Mesa verde cactus, and I and Title IV funding agreements Fish and Wildlife Service Zuni fleabane should be sent to the regarding fiduciary trust records Field Supervisor, Attention 5-year management: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife Review, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Plants; 5-Year Review of Lesser The Tribe/Consortium and Secretary agree New Mexico Ecological Services Field Long-nosed Bat, Black-capped Vireo, Office, 2105 Osuna Road NE, to implement the Policy on Fiduciary Trust Yuma Clapper Rail, Pima Pineapple Records Management for Title I and Title IV Albuquerque, NM 87113. Cactus, Gypsum Wild-Buckwheat, Tribes/Consortia by working cooperatively in FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For records creation, maintenance and Mesa Verde Cactus, and Zuni Fleabane the lesser long-nosed bat, contact Scott disposition and training activities. AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Richardson at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife The Tribe/Consortium agrees to: Interior. Service Arizona Ecological Services Tucson Sub-Office, 201 North Bonita, (a) Preserve, protect and manage all ACTION: Notice of review. fiduciary trust records, as defined in the Suite 141, Tucson, AZ 84745, 520–670– _ Secretary of Interior’s Policy on SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife 6150 x 242, scott [email protected]. Fiduciary Trust Records Management Service (Service) announces a 5-year For the Pima pineapple cactus, contact for Title I and Title IV Tribes/Consortia review of the lesser long-nosed bat Mima Falk at Tucson Sub-Office address created and maintained by Tribes/ above, 520–670–6150 x 225, (Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuenae), _ Consortia during their management of the black-capped vireo (Vireo mima [email protected]. For the black- trust programs in their Title I/Title IV atricapilla), the Yuma clapper rail capped vireo, contact Omar Bocanegra agreements; (Rallus longirostris yumanensis), Pima at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, (b) Make available to the Secretary all pineapple cactus (Coryphantha sheeri Ecological Services Field Office, 711 fiduciary trust records maintained by var. robustispina), gypsum wild- Stadium Drive, Arlington, TX 76011, the Tribe/Consortium, provided that the 817–277–1100, buckwheat (Erigonum gypsophilum), _ Secretary gives reasonable oral or Mesa Verde cactus (Sclerocactus mesae- omar [email protected]. For the Yuma written advance request to the Tribe/ verde), and Zuni fleabane (Erigeron clapper rail, contact Lesley Fitzpatrick Consortium. Access shall include visual rhizomatus) under the Endangered at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service inspection and the production of copies Species Act of 1973 (Act). The purpose Arizona Ecological Services Field as necessary and shall not include the of reviews conducted under this section Office, 2321 West Royal Palm Road, involuntary removal of the records; and of the Act is to ensure that the Suite 103, Phoenix, AZ, 85021, 602– (c) Store and permanently retain all 242–0210 x 236, classification of species as threatened or _ inactive fiduciary trust records at the endangered on the List of Endangered lesley [email protected]. For the Tribe/Consortium or allow such records and Threatened Wildlife and Plants (50 gypsum wild-buckwheat, Mesa Verde to be removed and stored at the CFR 17.12) is accurate. The 5-year cactus, and Zuni fleabane, contact American Indian Records Repository review is an assessment of the best Nancy Baczek at the New Mexico (AIRR) in Lenexa, Kansas at no cost to scientific and commercial data available Ecological Services Field Office, 2105 the Tribe/Consortium. at the time of the review. Osuna Road, NE, Albuquerque, NM The Secretary agrees to: 87113, 505–761–4711, DATES: To allow adequate time to [email protected]. (a) Allow the Tribe/Consortium to conduct this review, information determine what records it maintains to submitted for our consideration must be SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: implement the trust program assumed received on or before May 3, 2005. Why Is a 5-Year Review Conducted? under a Title I or Title IV agreement However, we will continue to accept except it must maintain the information Section 4(c)(2)(A) of the Act (16 new information about any listed U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) requires that we required by statute and regulation; species at any time. (b) Store all inactive fiduciary trust conduct a review of listed species at ADDRESSES: Information submitted on records at AIRR at no cost to the Tribe/ least once every 5 years. We are then, these species should be sent to the U.S. Consortium when the Tribe/Consortium under section 4(c)(2)(B) and the Fish and Wildlife Service at the no longer wishes to keep the records. provisions of subsections (a) and (b), to following addresses. Information Further, the Tribe/Consortium will determine, on the basis of such a received in response to this notice of retain legal custody and determine review, whether or not any species review will be available for public access to these records; should be removed from the List of inspection by appointment, during (c) Work with the Tribe/Consortium Endangered and Threatened Wildlife normal business hours, at the same on a tribal storage and retrieval system and Plants (delisted), or reclassified addresses. for fiduciary trust records stored at from endangered to threatened AIRR; and Information regarding the lesser long- (downlisted) , or from threatened to nosed bat, Yuma clapper rail, and Pima (d) Provide technical and financial endangered (uplisted). The 5-year pineapple cactus should be sent to the assistance for Tribes/Consortia in review is an assessment of the best Field Supervisor, Attention 5-year preserving, protecting and managing scientific and commercial data available Review, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, their fiduciary trust records from at the time of the review. Therefore, we Arizona Ecological Services Field available funds appropriated for this are requesting submission of any new Office, 2321 West Royal Palm Road, purpose. information (best scientific and Suite 103, Phoenix, AZ 85021. commercial data) on the following Dated: January 26, 2005. Information regarding the black- species since their original listings as Abraham E. Haspel, capped vireo should be sent to the Field either endangered (lesser long-nosed Assistant Deputy Secretary—Office of the Supervisor, Attention 5-year Review, bat, black-capped vireo, Yuma clapper Secretary. U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, rail, and Pima pineapple cactus) or [FR Doc. 05–1869 Filed 2–1–05; 8:45 am] Ecological Services, 711 Stadium Drive, threatened (gypsum wild-buckwheat, BILLING CODE 4310–W8–P Suite 252, Arlington, TX 76011. Mesa Verde cactus, and Zuni fleabane). VerDate jul<14>2003 14:19 Feb 01, 2005 Jkt 205001 PO 00000 Frm 00049 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\02FEN1.SGM 02FEN1 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 21 / Wednesday, February 2, 2005 / Notices 5461 If the present classification of any of Specific Information Requested for the between the populations of C. these species is not consistent with the Black-Capped Vireo robustispina. The term ‘‘clinal’’ comes from best scientific and commercial We are especially interested in the ‘‘cline,’’ which is a gradation in information available, the Service will following information: (1) Distribution measurable characters (Huxley 1938). recommend whether or not a change is of populations and suitable habitat The existence of clinal patterns in warranted in the Federal classification across the breeding range and the degree characters within a species can be of that species. Any change in Federal of protection afforded these populations compatible with recognition of taxa classification would require a separate and habitat; (2) evaluation of the final rule-making process. (named units) below the level of species viability of breeding populations; (3) the (infra-specific taxa). Julian Huxley Our regulations at 50 CFR 424.21 distribution of wintering populations (1938) first proposed the term ‘‘cline’’ as require that we publish a notice in the and evaluation of the extent and ‘‘an auxiliary taxonomic principle,’’ and Federal Register announcing those security of wintering habitat in Mexico; observed that clines could be species currently under active review. and (4) short- and long-term effects of intragroup, or within a population, or This notice announces our active review various management activities on vireo intergroup, as in ‘‘connecting the mean of the lesser long-nosed bat, black- populations and breeding habitat, values of the subspecies of a polytypic capped vireo, Yuma clapper rail, Pima including brown-headed cowbird species.’’ The plant varieties recognized pineapple cactus, gypsum wild- control, brush management, prescribed as valid for listing under the ESA are buckwheat, Mesa Verde cactus, and fire, and livestock grazing. biologically equivalent to subspecies Zuni fleabane. Specific Information Requested for the (USFWS 1978). We seek comment and What Information Is Considered in the Yuma Clapper Rail additional information regarding the Review? conclusions of Schmalzel et al. (2004) We specifically request information with regard to clinal variation in C. A 5-year review considers all new regarding the distribution of listed robustispina. information available at the time of the populations and evaluation of the Regarding overlap in characters, review. These reviews will consider the degree of habitat protection for each Schmalzel et al. interpret their principle best scientific and commercial data that population, and information regarding components analysis as demonstrating has become available since the current management plans and techniques for overlap in geographic groups of C. listing determination or most recent maintaining clapper rail habitat. We robustispina, and suggest this overlap is status review of each species, such as: also are particularly interested in recent further evidence that the varieties are information regarding the effects of A.