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42654 Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 138 / Tuesday, July 19, 2011 / Proposed Rules ACTIONS FUNDED IN FY 2010 AND FY 2011 BUT NOT YET COMPLETED—Continued Species Action 2 TN River mussels (fluted kidneyshell (LPN = 2), slabside pearlymussel (LPN = 2) 5 .......................................... Proposed listing. Jemez Mountain salamander (LPN = 2) 5 ................................................................................................................. Proposed listing. 1 Funds for listing actions for these species were provided in previous FYs. 2 Although funds for these high-priority listing actions were provided in FY 2008 or 2009, due to the complexity of these actions and competing priorities, these actions are still being developed. 3 Partially funded with FY 2010 funds and FY 2011 funds. 4 Funded with FY 2010 funds. 5 Funded with FY 2011 funds. We have endeavored to make our DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: listing actions as efficient and timely as Steve Spangle, Field Supervisor, U.S. possible, given the requirements of the Fish and Wildlife Service Fish and Wildlife Service, Arizona relevant law and regulations, and Ecological Services Field Office, 2321 constraints relating to workload and 50 CFR Part 17 W. Royal Palm Road, Suite 103, personnel. We are continually [Docket No. FWS–R2–ES–2011–0044; MO Phoenix, AZ 85021; telephone (602) considering ways to streamline 92210–0–0008–B2] 242–0210; facsimile (602) 242–2513. If processes or achieve economies of scale, you use a telecommunications device such as by batching related actions Endangered and Threatened Wildlife for the deaf (TDD), please call the together. Given our limited budget for and Plants; Petition To List Grand Federal Information Relay Service implementing section 4 of the Act, these Canyon Cave Pseudoscorpion (FIRS) at (800) 877–8339. actions described above collectively AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: constitute expeditious progress. Interior. Pinus albicaulis will be added to the Background ACTION: list of candidate species upon Notice of 12-month petition finding. Section 4(b)(3)(B) of the Endangered publication of this 12-month finding. Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act) We will continue to evaluate this SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), requires that, species as new information becomes Wildlife Service (Service), announce a for any petition containing substantial available. Continuing review will 12-month finding on a petition to list scientific or commercial information determine if a change in status is the Grand Canyon cave pseudoscorpion indicating that listing the species may warranted, including the need to make (Archeolarca cavicola) as threatened or be warranted, we make a finding within prompt use of emergency listing endangered with critical habitat under 12 months of the date of receipt of the procedures. the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as petition. In this finding we determine We intend that any proposed listing amended (Act). After review of the best that the petitioned action is: (a) Not determination for Pinus albicaulis will scientific and commercial information warranted, (b) warranted, or (c) be as accurate as possible. Therefore, we available, we find that listing the Grand warranted, but immediate proposal of a will continue to accept additional Canyon cave pseudoscorpion is not regulation implementing the petitioned information and comments from all warranted at this time. However, we ask action is precluded by other pending concerned governmental agencies, the the public to submit to us any new proposals to determine whether species scientific community, industry, or any information that becomes available are threatened or endangered, and other interested party concerning this concerning the threats to the Grand expeditious progress is being made to finding. Canyon cave pseudoscorpion or its add or remove qualified species from References Cited habitat at any time. the Lists of Endangered and Threatened DATES: The finding announced in this Wildlife and Plants. Section 4(b)(3)(C) of A complete list of references cited is document was made on July 19, 2011. the Act requires that we treat a petition available on the Internet at http:// ADDRESSES: This finding is available on for which the requested action is found www.regulations.gov and upon request the Internet at http://www.regulations. to be warranted but precluded as though from the Wyoming Ecological Services gov at Docket Number FWS–R2–ES– resubmitted on the date of such finding, Field Office (see ADDRESSES section). 2011–0044. Supporting documentation that is, requiring a subsequent finding to Author(s) we used in preparing this finding is be made within 12 months. We must The primary authors of this notice are available for public inspection, by publish these 12-month findings in the the staff members of the Wyoming appointment, during normal business Federal Register. hours by contacting the U.S. Fish and Ecological Services Field Office. Previous Federal Actions Wildlife Service, Arizona Ecological Authority Services Field Office, 2321 W. Royal The Grand Canyon cave The authority for this section is Palm Road, Suite 103, Phoenix, AZ pseudoscorpion was formerly a section 4 of the Endangered Species Act 85021; telephone (602) 242–0210; candidate 2 species, a taxon for which of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et facsimile (602) 242–2513. If you use a information in our possession indicated seq.). telecommunications device for the deaf that proposing to list was possibly (TDD), please call the Federal appropriate, but for which persuasive Dated: July 1, 2011. Information Relay Service (FIRS) at data on biological vulnerability and Daniel M. Ashe, (800) 877–8339. Please submit any new threats were not available to support a Director, Fish and Wildlife Service. information, comments, or questions proposed listing rule (54 FR 554; [FR Doc. 2011–17943 Filed 7–18–11; 8:45 am] concerning this finding to the above January 6, 1989). The designation of BILLING CODE 4310–55–P address. candidate 2 species was discontinued in VerDate Mar<15>2010 17:35 Jul 18, 2011 Jkt 223001 PO 00000 Frm 00065 Fmt 4702 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\19JYP1.SGM 19JYP1 srobinson on DSK4SPTVN1PROD with PROPOSALS Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 138 / Tuesday, July 19, 2011 / Proposed Rules 42655 1996; therefore, the species has no unpublished report (1978, p. 40) stated Tuning Fork Cave, and Cave of the candidate status. that the specimen was an undescribed Domes. All caves except Land’s End On June 25, 2007, we received a troglophile. A troglophile is a species Cave and Scorpion Cave were visited formal petition dated June 18, 2007, that can spend its entire life within twice. On each visit, Welbourn (1978, p. from Forest Guardians (now WildEarth caves, does not exhibit adaptations for 36) describes examining the walls, Guardians), requesting that we do the living in caves, but can also be found in ceilings, and floors for animals and following: (1) Consider all full species suitable habitats outside of caves, such invertebrates. He identified 12 in our Southwest Region ranked as G1 as mines or animal burrows. This is in invertebrates from the 8 caves. The or G1G2 by the organization comparison to troglobites, which are Grand Canyon cave pseudoscorpion was NatureServe for listing, except those species that are found exclusively in found only in the Cave of the Domes that are currently listed, proposed for caves and have developed adaptations (Welbourn 1978, pp. 38–41). listing, or candidates; and (2) list each for cave life, such as heightened sense Wynne et al. (2008a, pp. 235–246) species under the Act as either of hearing, touch, and smell. The Grand summarized all published and endangered or threatened with critical Canyon cave pseudoscorpion was unpublished literature on cave-dwelling habitat. The petitioners presented two recognized within the genus invertebrates within Grand Canyon tables that collectively listed 475 Archeolarca and was given the species National Park, as well as cave trip species for consideration and requested name cavicola in recognition of its reports on file at Grand Canyon National that the Service incorporate all analyses, subterranean habitat where it was Park Museum Collections. The literature references, and documentation provided collected by Welbourn (1981, p. 55). review examined 9 studies conducted by NatureServe in its online database The specimen collected in 1978 is the between 1975 and 2001 representing http://www.natureserve.org/ into the only one known to exist. No other surveys of 15 caves in Grand Canyon petition. The petition clearly identified individuals are known to have been National Park. Wynne et al. (2008a, pp. itself as a petition and included the collected since 1978, although very little 237–238) reported 37 cave-dwelling appropriate identification information, effort has been made to collect this or invertebrates with the Grand Canyon as required in 50 CFR 424.14(a). We other species in the genus (Service 1991, cave pseudoscorpion referenced only in acknowledged the receipt of the petition p. 3). the Cave of the Domes. This species may in a letter to WildEarth Guardians dated Pseudoscorpions are tiny arachnids possibly be endemic to Cave of the July 11, 2007. bearing large chelae, or claws, but Domes. In fact, a study of patterns of On December 16, 2009, we made a 90- lacking a telson, or stinger, that true endemism of eastern North American day finding
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