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Department of Commerce Vol. 79 Wednesday, No. 175 September 10, 2014 Part II Department of Commerce National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 50 CFR Part 223 Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants: Final Listing Determinations on Proposal To List 66 Reef-Building Coral Species and To Reclassify Elkhorn and Staghorn Corals; Final Rule VerDate Mar<15>2010 19:10 Sep 09, 2014 Jkt 232001 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4717 Sfmt 4717 E:\FR\FM\10SER2.SGM 10SER2 mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with RULES2 53852 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 175 / Wednesday, September 10, 2014 / Rules and Regulations DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE ADDRESSES: Submit responses to the Mycetophyllia ferox, Oculina varicosa, request for information regarding a Pachyseris rugosa, Pavona bipartita, National Oceanic and Atmospheric subsequent ESA section 4(d) Rule and Pavona cactus, Pavona decussata, Administration critical habitat designation to National Pavona diffluens, Pavona venosa, Marine Fisheries Service, Pacific Islands Pectinia alcicornis, Physogyra 50 CFR Part 223 Regional Office, NOAA Inouye Regional lichtensteini, Pocillopora danae, Center, 1845 Wasp Blvd., Building 176, Pocillopora elegans, Porites [Docket No. 0911231415–4826–04] Honolulu, HI 96818; or National Marine horizontalata, Porites napopora, Porites Fisheries Service, Southeast Regional nigrescens, Porites pukoensis, RIN 0648–XT12 Office, 263 13th Avenue South, Saint Psammocora stellata, Seriatopora Petersburg, FL 33701. aculeata, Turbinaria mesenterina, Endangered and Threatened Wildlife Turbinaria peltata, Turbinaria and Plants: Final Listing FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Lance Smith, NMFS, Pacific Island reniformis, and Turbinaria stellulata. Determinations on Proposal To List 66 Eight of the petitioned species occur in Reef-Building Coral Species and To Regional Office, 808–725–5131; Jennifer Moore, NMFS, Southeast Regional the Caribbean, and 75 of the petitioned Reclassify Elkhorn and Staghorn species occur in the Indo-Pacific region. Corals Office, 727–824–5312; or Marta Nammack, NMFS, Office of Protected Most of the 83 species can be found in AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Resources, 301–427–8469. A list of the the United States, its territories (Puerto Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and literature cited in this rule is available Rico, U.S. Virgin Islands, Navassa, Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), at http://coral.sero.nmfs.noaa.gov and Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, Commerce. http://www.fpir.noaa.gov/PRD/prd_ American Samoa, Pacific Remote Island Areas), or its freely associated states ACTION: Final rule. coral.html. (Republic of the Marshall Islands, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: SUMMARY: We, the National Marine Federated States of Micronesia, and Fisheries Service (NMFS), are Background Republic of Palau), though many occur more frequently in other countries. publishing this final rule to implement On October 20, 2009, the Center for On February 10, 2010, we published our final determination to list the Biological Diversity (CBD) petitioned us following 20 species as threatened: five a 90-day finding (75 FR 6616) that CBD to list 83 reef-building corals as had presented substantial information in the Caribbean (Dendrogyra cylindrus, threatened or endangered under the Orbicella annularis, Orbicella faveolata, indicating the petitioned actions may be Endangered Species Act (ESA) and warranted for all of the petitioned Orbicella franksi, and Mycetophyllia designate critical habitat. The 83 species ferox); and 15 in the Indo-Pacific species except for the Caribbean species included in the petition were: Oculina varicosa. We also announced (Acropora globiceps, Acropora Acanthastrea brevis, Acanthastrea jacquelineae, Acropora lokani, the initiation of a formal status review hemprichii, Acanthastrea ishigakiensis, of the remaining 82 petitioned species, Acropora pharaonis, Acropora retusa, Acanthastrea regularis, Acropora Acropora rudis, Acropora speciosa, and we solicited input from the public aculeus, Acropora acuminata, Acropora on six categories of information: (1) Acropora tenella, Anacropora spinosa, aspera, Acropora dendrum, Acropora Euphyllia paradivisa, Isopora Historical and current distribution and donei, Acropora globiceps, Acropora abundance of these species throughout crateriformis, Montipora australiensis, horrida, Acropora jacquelineae, their ranges (U.S. and foreign waters); Pavona diffluens, Porites napopora, and Acropora listeri, Acropora lokani, (2) historical and current condition of Seriatopora aculeata) under the Acropora microclados, Acropora these species and their habitat; (3) Endangered Species Act (ESA) of 1973, palmerae, Acropora paniculata, population density and trends; (4) the as amended. The two species currently Acropora pharaonis, Acropora effects of climate change on the listed as threatened (Acropora polystoma, Acropora retusa, Acropora distribution and condition of these coral cervicornis and Acropora palmata) in rudis, Acropora speciosa, Acropora species and other organisms in coral the Caribbean still warrant listing as striata, Acropora tenella, Acropora reef ecosystems over the short and long threatened. We also determined that a vaughani, Acropora verweyi, Agaricia term; (5) the effects of all other threats total of 43 proposed species do not lamarcki, Alveopora allingi, Alveopora including dredging, coastal warrant listing as endangered or fenestrata, Alveopora verrilliana, development, coastal point source threatened species, and three proposed Anacropora puertogalerae, Anacropora pollution, agricultural and land use species are not determinable under the spinosa, Astreopora cucullata, practices, disease, predation, reef ESA. We have reviewed the status of the Barabattoia laddi, Caulastrea fishing, aquarium trade, physical species and efforts being made to echinulata, Cyphastrea agassizi, damage from boats and anchors, marine protect the species, and public Cyphastrea ocellina, Dendrogyra debris, and aquatic invasive species on comments received on the proposed cylindrus, Dichocoenia stokesii, the distribution and abundance of these rule, and we have made our Euphyllia cristata, Euphyllia coral species over the short- and long- determinations based on the best paraancora, Euphyllia paradivisa, term; and (6) management programs for scientific and commercial data Galaxea astreata, Heliopora coerulea, conservation of these species, including available. We also solicit information Isopora crateriformis, Isopora cuneata, mitigation measures related to any of that may be relevant to the designation Leptoseris incrustans, Leptoseris yabei, the threats listed under No. 5 above. of critical habitat for the 20 species Millepora foveolata, Millepora tuberosa, The ESA requires us to make newly listed under this final rule. Montastraea annularis, Montastraea determinations on whether species are DATES: The effective date of this final faveolata, Montastraea franksi, threatened or endangered ‘‘solely on the rule is October 10, 2014. Responses to Montipora angulata, Montipora basis of the best scientific and the request for information regarding a australiensis, Montipora calcarea, commercial data available * * * after subsequent ESA section 4(d) Rule and Montipora caliculata, Montipora conducting a review of the status of the critical habitat designation must be dilatata, Montipora flabellata, species * * * ’’ (16 U.S.C. 1533). received by November 10, 2014. Montipora lobulata, Montipora patula, Further, our implementing regulations VerDate Mar<15>2010 19:10 Sep 09, 2014 Jkt 232001 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4701 Sfmt 4700 E:\FR\FM\10SER2.SGM 10SER2 mstockstill on DSK4VPTVN1PROD with RULES2 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 175 / Wednesday, September 10, 2014 / Rules and Regulations 53853 specifically direct us not to take related to the SRR and the Draft Caribbean corals (Acropora cervicornis possible economic or other impacts of Management Report prior to issuing our and Acropora palmata) warranted listing species into consideration (50 12-month finding. Thus on April 17, reclassification from threatened to CFR 424.11(b)). We convened a Coral 2012, we published a Federal Register endangered. The findings in the Biological Review Team (BRT) notice announcing the availability of the proposed rule were based on the composed of seven Federal scientists SRR and the Draft Management Report, information contained within the from NMFS’ Pacific Islands, Northwest, and specifically requested information reports described above (SRR, SIR, and and Southeast Fisheries Science on the following: (1) Relevant scientific Final Management Report). During a 90- Centers, as well as the U.S. Geological information collected or produced since day comment period, we solicited Survey and National Park Service. The the completion of the SRR or any comments from the public, other members of the BRT are a diverse group relevant scientific information not concerned governmental agencies, the of scientists with expertise in coral included in the SRR; and (2) relevant scientific community, industry, foreign biology, coral ecology, coral taxonomy, management information not included nations in which the species occur, and physical oceanography, global climate in the Draft Management Report, such as any other interested parties on our change, coral population dynamics and descriptions of regulatory mechanisms proposal. We later extended the public endangered species extinction risk for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions comment period by 30 days, making the evaluations. The BRT’s comprehensive, globally,
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