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Federal Register/Vol. 64, No. 205/Monday, October 25, 1999 57534 Federal Register / Vol. 64, No. 205 / Monday, October 25, 1999 / Proposed Rules DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Regional Director of the Region 253±8615). identified as having the lead Region 6: Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Fish and Wildlife Service responsibility for that taxon. You may Nebraska, North Dakota, South submit comments of a more general Dakota, Utah, and Wyoming 50 CFR Part 17 nature to the Chief, Division of Regional Director (TE), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, P.O. Box 25486, Endangered and Threatened Wildlife Endangered Species, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1849 C Street, NW, Denver Federal Center, Denver, and Plants; Review of Plant and Colorado 80225±0486 (303/236± Animal Taxa That Are Candidates or Mail Stop 420 ARLSQ, Washington, DC 7400). Proposed for Listing as Endangered or 20240 (703/358±2171). Written comments and materials received in Region 7: Alaska Threatened; Annual Notice of Findings Regional Director (TE), U.S. Fish and on Recycled Petitions; and Annual response to this notice will be available for public inspection by appointment at Wildlife Service, 1011 East Tudor Description of Progress on Listing Road, Anchorage, Alaska 99503± Actions the appropriate Regional Office listed below. 6199 (907/786±3505). AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Information regarding the range, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The Interior. status, and habitat needs of and listing Endangered Species Coordinator(s) in ACTION: Notice of review. priority assignment for a particular the appropriate Regional Office(s) or taxon is available for review at the Nancy Gloman Chief, Division of SUMMARY: In this document, we present appropriate Regional Office listed below Endangered Species (703/358±2171). an updated list of plant and animal taxa or at the Division of Endangered SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: native to the United States that we Species, 4401 N. Fairfax Drive, Room Candidate Notice of Review regard as candidates or have proposed 420, Arlington, Virginia 22203. for possible addition to the Lists of Background Endangered and Threatened Wildlife Region 1: California, Hawaii, Idaho, and Plants under the Endangered Nevada, Oregon, Washington, The Endangered Species Act of 1973, Species Act of 1973, as amended. American Samoa, Guam, and as amended (Act) (16 U.S.C. 1531 et Identification of candidate taxa can Commonwealth of the Northern seq.), requires that we identify taxa of assist environmental planning efforts by Mariana Islands wildlife and plants that are endangered providing advance notice of potential Regional Director (TE), US Fish and or threatened, based on the best listings, allowing resource managers to Wildlife Service, Eastside Federal available scientific and commercial alleviate threats and thereby possibly Complex, 911 NE 11th Avenue, information. As part of this program, we remove the need to list taxa as Portland, Oregon 97232±4181 (503/ have maintained a list of taxa we regard endangered or threatened. Even if we 231±6158). as candidates for listing. A candidate is subsequently list a candidate taxon, the Region 2: Arizona, New Mexico, one for which we have on file sufficient early notice provided here could result Oklahoma, and Texas information on biological vulnerability in fewer restrictions on activities by Regional Director (TE), U.S. Fish and and threats to support a proposal to list prompting candidate conservation Wildlife Service, 500 Gold Avenue as endangered or threatened. We measures to alleviate threats to the S.W., Room 4012, P.O. Box 1306, maintain this list for a variety of taxon. Albuquerque, New Mexico 87102 reasons, including: to provide advance We request additional status (505/248±6920). knowledge of potential listings that information that may be available for Region 3: Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, could affect decisions of environmental the identified candidate taxa and Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, planners and developers; to solicit input information on taxa that we should Ohio, and Wisconsin from interested parties to identify those include as candidates in future updates Regional Director (TE), U.S. Fish and candidate taxa that may not require of this list. We will consider this Wildlife Service, Bishop Henry protection under the Act or additional information in preparing listing Whipple Federal Building, One taxa that may require the Act's documents and future revisions to the Federal Drive, Fort Snelling, protections; and to solicit information notice of review. This information will Minnesota 55111±4056 (612/725± needed to prioritize the order in which help us in monitoring changes in the 5334). we will propose taxa for listing. Table status of candidate taxa and in Region 4: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, 1 of this notice includes 258 taxa that conserving candidate taxa. Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, we regard as candidates for possible We announce the availability of Mississippi, North Carolina, South addition to the Lists of Endangered and listing priority assignment forms for Carolina, Tennessee, Puerto Rico, Threatened Wildlife and Plants, as well candidate taxa and listing priority and the U.S. Virgin Islands as 56 taxa for which we have published determinations for proposed taxa. These Regional Director (TE), U.S. Fish and proposed rules to list, most of which we documents describe the status and Wildlife Service, 1875 Century identified as candidates in the threats that we evaluated in order to Boulevard, Suite 200, Atlanta, September 19, 1997, Candidate Notice assign a listing priority number to each Georgia 30345 (404/679±4156). of Review (62 FR 49398). We encourage taxon. Region 5: Connecticut, Delaware, consideration of these taxa in We also announce our findings on District of Columbia, Maine, environmental planning, such as in recycled petitions and describe our Maryland, Massachusetts, New environmental impact analysis under progress in revising the Lists of Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, the National Environmental Policy Act Endangered and Threatened Wildlife Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, of 1969 (implemented at 40 CFR parts and Plants during the period September Vermont, Virginia, and West 1500±1508) and in local and Statewide 3, 1997, to October 1, 1999. Virginia land use planning. Table 2 of this notice DATES: We will accept comments on the Regional Director (TE), U.S. Fish and contains 18 taxa identified as candidates candidate notice of review at any time. Wildlife Service, 300 Westgate in the September 19, 1997, Candidate ADDRESSES: Submit your comments Center Drive, Hadley, Notice of Review that we have removed regarding a particular taxon to the Massachusetts 01035±9589 (413/ from candidate status, 93 taxa identified VerDate 12-OCT-99 13:58 Oct 22, 1999 Jkt 190000 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4701 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\A25OC2.042 pfrm04 PsN: 25OCP2 Federal Register / Vol. 64, No. 205 / Monday, October 25, 1999 / Proposed Rules 57535 as proposed species in the 1997 notice supersedes all previous animal, plant, the future. We encourage State agencies, that we have listed as threatened or and combined notices of review. other Federal agencies and other parties endangered, and 15 taxa identified as to give consideration to these taxa in Current Notice of Review proposed species in the 1997 notice for environmental planning. Proposed taxa which we have withdrawn proposed We gather data on plants and animals are those taxa for which we have rules. The Regional Offices identified as native to the United States that appear published a proposed rule to list as having lead responsibility for the to merit consideration for addition to endangered or threatened in the Federal particular taxa will revise and update the Lists of Endangered and Threatened Register (exclusive of taxa for which we the information on candidate taxa Wildlife and Plants. This notice have withdrawn or finalized the continually. We intend to publish an identifies those taxa (including, by proposed rule). updated combined notice of review for definition, biological species, Taxa in Table 1 of this notice are animals and plants annually in the subspecies, and distinct population assigned to several status categories, Federal Register. This will include our segments of vertebrate animals, and noted in the ``Category'' column at the findings on recycled petitions and a biological species, subspecies, and left side of the table. We explain the description of our progress on listing varieties of plants) that we currently codes for the category status column of actions. regard as candidates for addition to the taxa in Table 1 below: Lists of Endangered and Threatened PEÐTaxa proposed for listing as Previous Notices of Review Wildlife and Plants. In issuing this endangered. The Act directed the Secretary of the compilation, we rely on information PTÐTaxa proposed for listing as Smithsonian Institution to prepare a from status surveys conducted for threatened. report on endangered and threatened candidate assessment and on CÐCandidates: Taxa for which we have plant taxa, which was published as information from State Natural Heritage on file sufficient information on House Document No. 94±51. We Programs, other State and Federal biological vulnerability and threats to published a notice in the Federal agencies (such as the Forest Service and support proposals to list them as Register on July 1, 1975 (40 FR 27823), the Bureau of Land Management), endangered or threatened. Issuance of in which we announced that we would knowledgeable scientists, public and proposed rules for these taxa is review more
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