Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 168 / Wednesday, August 28, 1996 / Notices Not Scheduled

44324 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 168 / Wednesday, August 28, 1996 / Notices not scheduled. Members of the public Authority, 4401 North Fairfax Drive, DATES: The Service will consider all may submit written comments to the Room 430, Arlington, Virginia 22203 comments received by October 11, 1996, address listed below. and must be received by the Director on species proposals described in this DATES: Teleconference meeting will be within 30 days of the date of this notice. A public meeting on these Thursday, September 12, 1996, from publication. proposals, and on proposed resolutions 3:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m. Eastern Daylight Documents and other information and agenda items for COP10, will be Time. submitted with these applications are held from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m. on October available for review, subject to the ADDRESSES: Written statements may be 3, 1996, Room 200, Arlington Square requirements of the Privacy Act and provided to the following address: Building, 4401 North Fairfax Drive, Freedom of Information Act, by any Western Water Policy Review Office, D± Arlington, Virginia (see separate Federal party who submits a written request for 5001; P.O. Box 25007; Denver, CO Register notice). a copy of such documents to the 80225±0007. ADDRESSES: Please send correspondence following office within 30 days of the concerning this notice to Chief, Office of FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: date of publication of this notice: U.S. Scientific Authority; 4401 North Fairfax Members of the public wishing to listen Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of to this teleconference should contact the Drive, Room 750; Arlington, Virginia Management Authority, 4401 North 22203. Fax number 703±358±2276. Commission Office by telephone, 303± Fairfax Drive, Room 430, Arlington, Comments and other information 236±6211, or fax, 303±236±4286, by no Virginia 22203. Phone: (703/358±2104); received will be available for public later than September 10, 1996. FAX: (703/358±2281). inspection by appointment, from 8 a.m. Participants will be asked to provide a to 4 p.m. Monday through Friday, at the telephone number where they will be Dated: August 23, 1996. above address. contacted by the conference call Mary Ellen Amtower, operator prior to the beginning of the Acting Chief Branch of Permits, Office of FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. meeting. Management Authority. Marshall A. Howe, Office of Scientific [FR Doc. 96±21974 Filed 8±27±96; 8:45 am] Authority, at the above address, Dated: August 21, 1996. BILLING CODE 4310±55±U telephone 703±358±1708. Larry Schulz, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: CITES Administrative Officer. regulates import, export, re-export, and [FR Doc. 96±21876 Filed 8±27±96; 8:45 am] Species Being Considered for introduction from the sea of certain BILLING CODE 4310±94±M Amendments to the Appendices to the animal and plant species. Species for Convention on International Trade in which trade is controlled are included Endangered Species of Wild Fauna in one of three appendices. Appendix I Fish and Wildlife Service and Flora; Request for Information includes species threatened with extinction that are or may be affected by AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Notice of Receipt of Applications for international trade. Appendix II Interior. Permit includes species that, although not ACTION: Notice. The following applicants have necessarily now threatened with applied for a permit to conduct certain SUMMARY: The Convention on extinction, may become so unless the activities with endangered species. This International Trade in Endangered trade is strictly controlled. It also lists notice is provided pursuant to Section Species of Wild Fauna and Flora species that must be subject to 10(c) of the Endangered Species Act of (CITES) regulates international trade in regulation in order that trade in other 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531, et certain animal and plant species, which currently or potentially threatened seq.): are listed in the appendices of this species may be brought under effective Applicant: Dennis G. Bailey, Pelham, treaty. The United States, as a Party to control (e.g., because of difficulty in NH, PRT±818420. CITES, may propose amendments to the distinguishing specimens of currently or The applicant requests a permit to appendices for consideration by the potentially threatened species from import the sport-hunted trophy of one other Parties. those of other species). Appendix III male bontebok (Damaliscus pygarcus This notice invites comments and includes species that any Party country dorcas) culled from a captive herd information from the public on species identifies as being subject to regulation maintained under the management that have been suggested as candidates within its jurisdiction for purposes of program of the Republic of South Africa, for U.S. proposals to amend Appendix preventing or restricting exploitation, for the purpose of enhancement of the I or II at the tenth regular meeting of the and for which it needs the cooperation survival of the species. Conference of the Parties (COP10, June of other Parties to control trade. Applicant: Jimmie Rosenbruch, Santa 9±20, 1997, Harare, Zimbabwe) and In a March 1, 1996, Federal Register Clara, UT, PRT±818660. which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife notice (61 FR 8019), the Service The applicant requests a permit to Service (Service) believes deserve requested public recommendations or import a sport-hunted cheetah further review. For reasons explained draft proposals to amend Appendix I or (Acinonyx jubatus) from Namibia for the below, the Service has opted against II that the Service might consider purpose of enhancement of the survival consideration of other recommendations proposing on behalf of the United States of the species. by the public for species listings and at COP10. That notice described the Applicant: Jerome Bofferding, Maple will reconsider these only under provisions of CITES for listing species Grove, MN, PRT±818684. circumstances presented by new in the appendices and set forth The applicant requests a permit to scientific data or studies. information requirements for proposals, import a sport-hunted cheetah A separate, concurrent Federal based on new listing criteria adopted by (Acinonyx jubatus) from Namibia for the Register notice presents COP10 the Parties at COP9. The present notice purpose of enhancement of the survival provisional agenda topics, and announces the recommendations and of the species. announces draft resolutions or other proposals on taxa received, explains Written data or comments should be documents that the United States is why the Service does not intend to submitted to the Director, U.S. Fish and considering for submission for consider certain recommendations or Wildlife Service, Office of Management consideration by the Parties at COP10. proposals, and describes those that will Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 168 / Wednesday, August 28, 1996 / Notices 44325 receive further consideration, prior to a biological and trade criteria for listing COP10 (see item XIV.7 in the Service's decision as to whether to submit any of and delisting, and for transferring listed concurrent Federal Register notice). these proposals to the CITES Secretariat species between appendices. Emphasis In the unlikely event that a by the January 10, 1997, deadline. A is placed on the principle that scientific conservation problem arises as a separate but concurrent Federal uncertainty should not be used as a consequence of the downlisting, the Register notice addresses the COP10 reason for failing to act in the best Service believes that any substantive provisional agenda, and proposed interest of the conservation of species concerns can be addressed by South resolutions and agenda items being affected or potentially affected by Africa and/or collectively by other considered by the United States for international trade. The following Parties, or if appropriate, through the COP10; that notice also announces the sections present the Service's decisions postal-vote process of CITES. Therefore public meeting on all these topics to be on which proposals it does not plan to the Service does not intend to pursue held in early October 1996 (see DATES submit, and which ones remain under this recommendation further. above). consideration and for which additional The NTA recommended that the The Service received information and comment is sought. Service propose removal of the bobcat recommendations or proposals on taxa (Lynx rufus), Canadian lynx (L. from the following: Defenders of Proposals That the Service Does Not canadensis), and river otter (Lontra Wildlife (DOW), Environmental Plan to Submit canadensis) from Appendix II. Each of Investigation Agency (EIA), Humane DOW and IWC raised concerns about these species (except the Mexican race Society of the United States (HSUS), whether a mechanism was in place to of the bobcat Lynx rufus escuinapae, International Wildlife Coalition (IWC), transfer the South African population of which was listed in 1975) was included North American Falconers Association the southern white rhinoceros in Appendix II in 1977 with the listing (NAFA), National Trappers Association (Ceratotherium simum simum) to of the entire cat family, Felidae, and the (NTA), New York Turtle and Tortoise Appendix I, if there existed any otter subfamily, Lutrinae. In 1983, the Society (NYTTS), Ocean Wildlife significant conservation problems United States and Canada stated their Campaign (OWC), a consortium of the resulting from its annotated downlisting position (recorded in the plenary National Audubon Society, National at COP9. Absent such a mechanism, minutes of COP4) that these three Coalition for Marine Conservation, they recommended that the United species (excepting the Mexican bobcat) National Resources Defense Council, States prepare a proposal to transfer the were listed under provisions of CITES New England Aquarium, Wildlife population back to Appendix I, if no Article II(2)(b), i.e., only because of the Conservation Society, and World other Party were preparing such a need to control trade in similar- Wildlife Fund-US), Oregon Natural proposal.

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