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2. Available test data. If you wish to submit certain Room 3–122, Box 50088, Honolulu, HI a. IRS Injury Risk information under a claim of 96850 (telephone: 808/541–2749; b. IRS Effectiveness confidentiality, you should submit three facsimile: 808/541–2756). 3. Child and adult injury criteria for the copies of the complete submission, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: skull/brain, neck, torso, upper and including purportedly confidential Karen Rosa, Assistant Field Supervisor, lower extremities, and auditory business information, to the Chief Ecological Services (see ADDRESSES system. Counsel, NHTSA, at the street address section) (telephone: 808/541–3441; 4. New technologies applicable to side given above. In addition, you should facsimile: 808/541–3470). submit two copies from which the IRS design and performance (e.g., SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: sensing and suppression). purportedly confidential information 5. Proposals for test conditions and has been deleted to Docket Background procedures. Management. Your request for On January 29, 1997, the Sierra Club The discussion of each issue will be confidentiality should be accompanied Legal Defense Fund (now Earthjustice by a cover letter setting forth the structured as follows: (1) A short Legal Defense Fund) filed a lawsuit on information specified in the agency’s presentation by NHTSA, (2) behalf of the Conservation Council for confidential business information Presentations by persons and Hawaii, the Sierra Club, and the regulation. 49 CFR Part 512. organizations who have indicated the Hawaiian Botanical Society in U.S. desire to present data or share other Authority: 49 U.S.C. 322, 30111, 30115, District Court in Honolulu, Hawaii, for information, (3) Presentations of any 30117, and 30166; delegation of authority at the Service’s failure to designate critical new or unconsidered data by interested 49 CFR 1.50. habitat for 278 endangered or threatened persons, (4) An open discussion by Issued on: March 17, 1999. Hawaiian plant taxa. Because the statute meeting participants of the technical L. Robert Shelton, of limitations had elapsed for many of merits of the presentations and of Associate Administrator for Safety the plants, this list of plants was later potential test procedures, and (5) A Performance Standards. reduced to 245 taxa. summary statement. Raymond P. Owings, The 245 plant species that are the Associate Administrator for Research and subject of our November 30, 1998, 3. Meeting Participation Development. notice were listed by the Service over a This is a public meeting and [FR Doc. 99–7172 Filed 3–23–99; 8:45 am] period of several years, between 1990 attendance is open to all members of the BILLING CODE 4910±59±P and 1996, at which time the Service public. You may attend as a participant determined that designation of critical (a presenter or a discussant) or an habitat was not prudent for one or more observer. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR of the following three reasons: designation of critical habitat would C. Written Comments Fish and Wildlife Service increase the likelihood of illegal taking To ensure that the agency is fully or vandalism; designation of critical cognizant of the issues and positions 50 CFR Part 17 habitat would not be beneficial for plant taken at this meeting, you are Endangered and Threatened Wildlife species located on private property; and, encouraged to submit written comments and Plants; Notice of Reopening of designation of critical habitat for plant on the issues related to or discussed at Comment Period on Our Re-evaluation species located on Federal lands this meeting. Two copies should be of Whether Designation of Critical provides little or no additional benefit submitted to DOT’s Docket Management Habitat Is Prudent for 245 Hawaiian beyond the existing precautions the Office at the address given at the Plants Federal government must take under beginning of this document. section 7 of the Act. In addition, if your comments are four AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, The 245 plant taxa are: Abutilon or more pages in length, we request, but Interior. eremitopetalum, Abutilon sandwicense, do not require, that you send 10 ACTION: Notice of reopening of comment Acaena exigua, Achyranthes mutica, additional copies, as well as one copy period. Adenophorus periens, Alectryon on computer disc, to: Randa Radwan macrococcus, Alsinidendron Samaha, Office of Vehicle Safety SUMMARY: We, the Fish and Wildlife lychnoides, Alsinidendron obovatum, Research, NRD–11, National Highway Service, provide notice of reopening the Alsinidendron trinerve, Alsinidendron Traffic Safety Administration, 400 public comment period on our re- viscosum, Amaranthus brownii, Seventh Street, S.W., Washington, DC evaluation of whether designation of Argyroxiphium kauense, Argyroxiphium 20590. Providing these additional critical habitat is prudent for 245 sandwicense ssp. macrocephalum, copies would aid the agency in Hawaiian plants. Our original notice Adenophorus periens, Asplenium expediting its review of your comments. was published in the Federal Register fragile var. insulare, Bidens micrantha The copy on computer disc may be in on November 30, 1998 (63 FR 65805) ssp. kalealaha, Bidens wiebkei, any format, although the agency would and the original public comment period Bonamia menziesii, Brighamia insignis, prefer that it be in WordPerfect 8. was opened from November 30, 1998, to Brighamia rockii, Canavalia Your comments must not exceed 15 March 1, 1999. This notice reopens the molokaiensis, Cenchrus agrimonioides, pages in length (49 CFR 553.21). You comment period to May 24, 1999. Centaurium sebaeoides, Chamaesyce may append necessary supplemental DATES: Comments from all interested celastroides var. kaenana, Chamasyce material to your comments without parties must be received by May 24, deppeana, Chamaesyce halemanui, regard to the 15-page limit. This 1999. Chamaesyce herbstii, Chamaesyce limitation is intended to encourage you ADDRESSES: Comments and materials kuwaleana, Chamaesyce rockii, to detail your primary arguments in a concerning the notice should be sent to Clermontia drepanomorpha, Clermontia concise fashion. This will aid the Robert P. Smith, Pacific Islands lindseyana, Clermontia oblongifolia ssp. agency in understanding your Manager, U.S. Fish and Wildlife brevipes, Clermontia oblongifolia ssp. comments. Service, 300 Ala Moana Boulevard, mauiensis, Clermontia peleana,

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Clermontia pyrularia, Colubrina balloui, Melicope haupuensis, Melicope No. 97–00098ACK Conservation oppositifolia, Ctenitis squamigera, knudsenii, Melicope lydgatei, Melicope Council for Hawaii, et al. vs. Bruce Cyanea asarifolia, Cyanea acuminata, mucronulata, Melicope ovalis, Melicope Babbitt, et al.), the Service is Cyanea copelandii ssp. copelandii, pallida, Melicope quadrangularis, reconsidering the not prudent Cyanea dunbarii, Cyanea grimesiana Melicope reflexa, Melicope saint-johnii, determinations that were made for these ssp. grimesiana, Cyanea grimesiana ssp. Melicope zahlbruckneri, 245 plant species. We published a obatae, Cyanea hamatiflora ssp. Munroidendron racemosum, Myrsine notice seeking any new information that carlsonii, Cyanea humboldtiana, juddii, Myrsine linearifolia, Neraudia may affect whether we proceed with a Cyanea koolauensis, Cyanea lobata, angulata, Neraudia ovata, Neraudia proposal to designate critical habitat for Cyanea longiflora, Cyanea macrostegia sericea, Nothocestrum breviflorum, these species (63 FR 65805) on ssp. gibsonii, Cyanea mannii, Cyanea Nothocestrum peltatum, Nototrichium November 30, 1998. The original public mceldowneyi, Cyanea pinnatifida, humile, Ocrosia kilauaensis, Panicum comment period closed on March 1, Cyanea platyphylla, Cyanea procera, niihauense, Peucedanum sandwicense, 1999. Four respondents requested that Cyanea recta, Cyanea remyi, Cyanea st.- Phyllostegia glabra var. lanaiensis, the public comment period be extended johnii, Cyanea shipmanii, Cyanea Phyllostegia hirsuta, Phyllostegia to allow all interested parties ample stictophylla, Cyanea superba, Cyanea kaalaensis, Phyllostegia knudsenii, opportunity to respond to our request truncata, Cyanea undulata, Cyperus Phyllostegia mannii, Phyllostegia mollis, for comments. Therefore, we are trachysanthos, Cyrtandra crenata, Phyllostegia parviflora, Phyllostegia reopening the public comment period Cyrtandra cyaneoides, Cyrtandra racemosa, Phyllostegia velutina, and continue to request comments, dentata, Cyrtandra giffardii, Cyrtandra Phyllostegia warshaueri, Phyllostegia suggestions, or information on our re- limahuliensis, Cyrtandra munroi, waimeae, Phyllostegia wawrana, evaluation of whether designation of Cyrtandra polyantha, Cyrtandra Plantago hawaiensis, Plantago princeps, critical habitat is prudent for these 245 subumbellata, Cyrtandra tintinnabula, Platanthera holochila, Pleomele plant species. Cyrtandra viridiflora, Delissea hawaiiensis, Poa mannii, Poa We are soliciting information rhytidosperma, Delissea rivularis, sandvicensis, Poa siphonoglossa, concerning: Delissea subcordata, Delissea undulata, Portulaca sclerocarpa, Pritchardia (1) Biological, commercial trade, Diellia erecta, Diellia falcata, Diellia affinis, Pritchardia aylmer-robinsonii, vandalism, or other relevant data pallida, Diellia unisora, Diplazium Pritchardia kaalae, Pritchardia munroi, concerning any threat to these species; molokaiense, Dubautia herbstobatae, Pritchardia napaliensis, Pritchardia (2) The location of any additional Dubautia latifolia, Dubautia remota, Pritchardia schattaueri, populations of these species and the pauciflorula, Eragrostis fosbergii, Pritchardia viscosa, Pteralyxia reasons why any habitat should or Eugenia koolauensis, Euphorbia kauaiensis, Pteris lidgatei, Remya should not be determined to be critical haeleeleana, Exocarpos luteolus, kauaiensis, Remya mauiensis, Remya habitat as provided by section 4 of the Flueggea neowawraea, Gahnia montgomeryi, Rollandia crispa, Act; lanaiensis, Gardenia mannii, Geranium Sanicula mariversa, Sanicula purpurea, (3) Additional information concerning arboreum, Geranium multiflorum, Schiedea apokremnos, Schiedea the range, distribution, and population Gouania meyenii, Gouania vitifolia, haleakalensis, Schiedea helleri, size of these species; Hedyotis cookiana, Hedyotis coriacea, Schiedea hookeri, Schiedea kaalae, (4) Current or planned activities in the Hedyotis degeneri, Hedyotis mannii, Stenogyne campanulata, Schiedea subject area and their possible impacts Hedyotis parvula, Hedyotis st.-johnii, kauaiensis, Stenogyne kanehoana, on these species; Hesperomannia arborescens, Schiedea kealiae, Schiedea (5) Additional information on the Hesperomannia arbuscula, lydgatei,Schiedea membranacea, principal biological or physical Hesperomannia lydgatei, Schiedea nuttallii, Schiedea constituent elements that are essential Hibiscadelphus giffardianus, sarmentosa, Schiedea spergulina var. to the conservation of these species. Hibiscadelphus hualalaiensis, leiopoda,Schiedea spergulina var. These primary constituent elements Hibiscadelphus woodii, Hibiscus spergulina, Schiedea stellarioides, may include, but are not limited to, the arnottianus ssp. immaculatus, Hibiscus Schiedea verticillata, Sesbania following: seasonal wetland or dryland, brackenridgei, Hibiscus clayi, Hibiscus tomentosa, Sicyos alba, Silene water quality or quantity, plant waimeae ssp. hannerae, Huperzia alexandri, Silene hawaiiensis, Silene pollinator, geological formation, mannii, Ischaemum byrone, lanceolata, Silene perlmanii, Solanum vegetation type, and specific soil types; incompletum, Solanum sandwicense, Isodendrion hosakae, Isodendrion (6) Information on existing Spermolepis hawaiiensis, Stenogyne laurifolium, Isodendrion longifolium, management for any of these species bifida, Tetramolopium arenarium, Isodendrion pyrifolium, Kokia and benefits to these species. Tetramolopium capillare, kauaiensis, Labordia cyrtandrae, This information should be submitted Tetramolopium filiforme, Labordia lydgatei, Labordia tinifolia var. by May 24, 1999, to the Fish and Tetramolopium lepidotum ssp. wahiawaensis, Lepidium arbuscula, Wildlife office in the ADDRESSES section. lepidotum, Tetramolopium remyi, Lipochaeta fauriei, Lipochaeta Author: The primary author of this kamolensis, Lipochaeta lobata var. Tetramolopium rockii, Tetraplasandra gymnocarpa, Trematolobelia singularis, document is Christa Russell (see leptophylla, Lipochaeta micrantha, ADDRESSES section). Lipochaeta tenuifolia, Lipochaeta Urera kaalae, Viola chamissoniana ssp. waimeaensis, Lobelia gaudichaudii ssp. chamissoniana, Viola helenae, Viola Authority: The authority for this action is koolauensis, Lobelia monostachya, kauaensis var. wahiawaensis, Viola the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). Lobelia niihauensis, Lobelia oahuensis, lanaiensis, Viola oahuensis, Wilkesia Lycopodium nutans, Lysimachia hobdyi, Xylosma crenatum, Dated: March 17, 1999. filifolia, Lysimachia lydgatei, Zanthoxylum dipetalum var. Thomas J. Dwyer, Lysimachia maxima, Mariscus fauriei, tomentosum, Zanthoxylum hawaiiense. Acting Regional Director. Mariscus pennatiformis, Marsilea In accordance with the U.S. District [FR Doc. 99–7153 Filed 3–23–99; 8:45 am] villosa, Melicope adscendens, Melicope Court’s August 10, 1998, order (Civil BILLING CODE 4310±55±P

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