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Federal Register/Vol. 86, No. 166/Tuesday, August 31, 2021 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 166 / Tuesday, August 31, 2021 / Proposed Rules 48619 PART 517—SPECIAL CONTRACTING DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR www.regulations.gov. In the Search box, METHODS enter the docket number or RIN for this Fish and Wildlife Service rulemaking (presented above in the ■ 2. Amend section 517.207 by revising document headings). For best results, do the introductory text and paragraph (a) 50 CFR Part 17 not copy and paste either number; to read as follows: [Docket No. FWS–HQ–ES–2019–0014; instead, type the docket number or RIN 517.207 Exercise of options. 4500030113] into the Search box using hyphens. Then, click on the Search button. On the In addition to the requirements of RIN 1018–BD03 FAR 17.207, the contracting officer resulting page, in the panel on the left shall: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife side of the screen, under the Document (a) Document the contract file with and Plants; Threatened Status With Type heading, check the Proposed Rule the rationale for exercising the contract Section 4(d) Rule for the Dolphin and box to locate this document. You may option to extend the period of Union Caribou and 12-Month Finding submit a comment by clicking on performance if the contractor’s for the Peary Caribou ‘‘Comment.’’ performance under the contract is less (2) By hard copy: Submit by U.S. mail than satisfactory. AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, to: Public Comments Processing, Attn: Interior. FWS–HQ–ES–2019–0014; U.S. Fish and * * * * * ACTION: Proposed rule; 12-month Wildlife Service; MS: JAO/3W; 5275 PART 538—FEDERAL SUPPLY finding. Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041– SCHEDULE CONTRACTING 3803. SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and We request that you send comments ■ 3. Revise section 538.270 heading to Wildlife Service, announce a 12-month only by the methods described above. read as follows: finding on a petition to list the Peary We will post all comments on http:// caribou (Rangifer tarandus pearyi) (a www.regulations.gov. This generally 538.270 Solicitation, evaluation, and award caribou subspecies) and the Dolphin means that we will post any personal of Federal Supply Schedule (FSS) contracts. and Union caribou (Rangifer tarandus information you provide us (see Public groenlandicus x peary) as endangered or Comments, below, for more ■ 4. Amend section 538.273 by adding threatened subspecies under the information). paragraphs (d)(36) and (e) to read as Endangered Species Act of 1973, as follows: FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: amended (Act). Both Peary caribou and Elizabeth Maclin, Branch of Delisting 538.273 FSS solicitation provisions and Dolphin and Union caribou are native and Foreign Species, Ecological Services contract clauses. only to Canada. After a review of the Program, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, * * * * * best available scientific and commercial 5275 Leesburg Pike, MS: ES, Falls (d) * * * information, we find that it is not Church, VA 22041; telephone 703–358– (36) 552.238–116, Option to Extend warranted at this time to add the Peary 2646. If you use a telecommunications the Term of the FSS Contract. Use in all caribou to the List of Endangered and device for the deaf, call the Federal FSS solicitations and contracts. Threatened Wildlife. We find that Relay Service at 800–877–8339. (e) Insert the following fill-in listing the Dolphin and Union caribou SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: information within the blank of as a Distinct Population Segment (DPS) paragraph (d) of FAR clause 52.216–22, of the barren-ground caribou subspecies Executive Summary Indefinite Quantity: ‘‘the completion of (Rangifer tarandus groenlandicus) is Why we need to publish a rule. Under customer order, including options, 60 warranted. Accordingly, we propose to the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as months following the expiration of the list this DPS with a rule issued under amended (‘‘Act,’’ 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), FSS contract ordering period’’. section 4(d) of the Act (‘‘4(d) rule’’). To if we determine that a species warrants ensure that subsequent rulemaking PART 552—SOLICITATION listing as an endangered or threatened resulting from this proposed rule is as species, we are required to promptly PROVISIONS AND CONTRACT accurate and effective as possible, we CLAUSES publish a proposal in the Federal are soliciting information from the Register and make a determination on ■ 5. Add section 552.238–116 to read as public, other governmental agencies, the our proposal within 1 year. follows: Government of Canada and its What this document does. We find provincial governments, the scientific that listing the Peary caribou subspecies 552.238–116 Option to Extend the Term of community, industry, and any other is not warranted, and we propose to list the FSS Contract. interested parties. the Dolphin and Union caribou DPS as As prescribed in 538.273(d)(36), insert DATES: We will accept comments a threatened species with a rule under the following clause: received or postmarked on or before section 4(d) of the Act. Option To Extend the Term of the FSS November 1, 2021. Comments submitted The basis for our action. Under the Contract (Date) electronically using the Federal Act, we may determine that a species is (a) The Government may require continued eRulemaking Portal (see ADDRESSES, an endangered or threatened species performance of this contract for an additional below) must be received by 11:59 p.m. because of any of five factors, alone or 5 year period. This option may be exercised Eastern Time on the closing date. We in combination: (A) The present or up to three times. must receive requests for public threatened destruction, modification, or (b) The Contracting Officer may exercise hearings, in writing, at the address curtailment of its habitat or range; (B) the option by providing written notice to the shown in FOR FURTHER INFORMATION overutilization for commercial, Contractor 30 days before the contract CONTACT by October 15, 2021 expires. recreational, scientific, or educational ADDRESSES: You may submit comments purposes; (C) disease or predation; (D) (End of clause) by one of the following methods: the inadequacy of existing regulatory [FR Doc. 2021–18517 Filed 8–30–21; 8:45 am] (1) Electronically: Go to the Federal mechanisms; or (E) other natural or BILLING CODE 6820–61–P eRulemaking Portal: http:// manmade factors affecting its continued VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:52 Aug 30, 2021 Jkt 253001 PO 00000 Frm 00010 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\31AUP1.SGM 31AUP1 khammond on DSKJM1Z7X2PROD with PROPOSALS 48620 Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 166 / Tuesday, August 31, 2021 / Proposed Rules existence. We have determined that the advisable to provide for the information from other concerned Peary caribou is not in danger of conservation of the species. governmental agencies, including extinction or likely to become so in the Accordingly, we are proposing a 4(d) Canadian national and provincial foreseeable future throughout all or a rule for the Dolphin and Union caribou governments, local indigenous people of significant portion of its range. We have that would, among other things, prohibit Canada, the scientific community, determined that the Dolphin and Union import, export, interstate or foreign industry, and any other interested caribou DPS is likely to become commerce in the course of commercial parties concerning this proposed rule. endangered in the foreseeable future activity, sale or offer for sale, or to We particularly seek comments throughout all of its range, meeting the attempt to engage in any such conduct. concerning: definition of a threatened species. Exceptions are provided for import of (1) The species’ biology, range, and Both caribou subspecies exist in harsh personal sport-hunted trophies legally population trends, including: environments to which they have hunted in and exported from Canada. (a) Biological or ecological adapted over millennia. These harsh We may issue permits to carry out requirements of the species, including environmental conditions combined otherwise prohibited activities, habitat requirements for feeding, with the fact that they live on islands including those described above, breeding, and sheltering; from which they make seasonal involving threatened wildlife under (b) Genetics and taxonomy of the two migrations across sea ice in order to find certain circumstances, such as for caribou entities; specifically, any adequate nutrition combine to exert scientific purposes, or the enhancement genetic information that would help pressure on both the Peary caribou of propagation or survival of the inform the taxonomic status of the subspecies and Dolphin and Union subspecies in the wild. Dolphin and Union caribou; caribou DPS. The major threats that Peer review. In accordance with our (c) Historical and current range impacted both the Peary caribou and joint policy on peer review published in including distribution patterns, Dolphin and Union caribou are the the Federal Register on July 1, 1994 (59 particularly regarding their seasonal cumulative effects of climate change FR 34270), and our August 22, 2016, migrations; and other changes brought about by memorandum updating and clarifying (d) Historical and current population climate change. While these two the role of peer review of listing actions levels, and current and projected subspecies face similar threats, the under the Act, we solicited the expert population trends; and magnitude of threats they face is opinion of five appropriate and (e) Past and ongoing conservation different between the two subspecies, independent specialists for peer review measures for these species and/or their including with respect to the following of the Species Status Assessment that habitat. threats: provides the biological basis for this (2) Factors that may affect the • Long-term decline in sea ice; proposed listing determination. The continued existence of the species, • Increase in icing events on land; purpose of peer review is to ensure that which may include habitat destruction, • Hunting; our listing determinations are based on modification, or curtailment, • Outbreaks of parasites or disease; scientifically sound data, assumptions, overutilization, disease, predation, the • Disturbance due to development, and analyses.
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