Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 99 / Thursday, May 22, 1997 / Rules and Regulations 27973 Dated: March 26, 1997. amount, regardless of dollar amount, population each in Dickson, Marion, David J. Barram, does not relieve the agency of paying in and Williamson counties, two (and a Acting Administrator of General Services. full the actual costs. portion of a third) in Maury County, (g) A Reimbursable Work three in Lewis County, four in Lawrence PART 101±21Ð[AMENDED] Authorization request (Form 2957 or County, and six in Coffee County. It is threatened throughout its range by Therefore 41, CFR part 101±21 is other acceptable request) must be habitat alteration; residential, amended as set forth below: completed and approved by GSA and an commercial, or industrial development; 1. The authority citation for 41 CFR agency official certifying that he/she has plant succession; and conversion of its part 101±21 continues to read as the authority to order the services and limited habitat to pasture or croplands. follows: commit the agency to payment. (h) Bills for recurring above-standard Herbicide use, particularly along Authority: Sec. 205(c), 63 Stat. 390, 40 level services are rendered in advance at roadsides, also poses a threat. This U.S.C. 486(c). an established cost equal to the action extends Federal protection under the Act to Eggert's sunflower. Subpart 101±21.6ÐBillings, Payments, estimated amount. This type of work and Related Budgeting Information for authorization, with the right to cancel EFFECTIVE DATE: June 23, 1997. Space and Services Furnished by the (subject to incurred costs and ADDRESSES: The complete file for this General Services Administration obligations) upon 60 days notice by rule is available for public inspection, either party must be completed and by appointment, during normal business 2. Section 101±21.604 is amended by forwarded to GSA prior to the hours at the Asheville Field Office, U.S. revising paragraphs (d) through (h) and commencement of the period for which Fish and Wildlife Service, 160 Zillicoa by adding paragraph (i) to read as services are required. With the Street, Asheville, North Carolina 28801. follows: exception of recurring work FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. authorizations for utilities, which GSA § 101±21.604 Billing procedures for J. Allen Ratzlaff at the above address reimbursable charges. may limit to 3-month periods, each (704/258±3939, Ext. 229). recurring type work authorization must * * * * * authorize charges for the full period SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: (d) The following basic types of during the fiscal year that the services Background reimbursable work are performed by will be required. These work GSA on a fixed price basis. The fixed Helianthus eggertii (Small) (Eggert's authorizations must always begin and sunflower) is a perennial member of the price is the amount of the Reimbursable end within the same fiscal year. Work Authorization (RWA) which is the aster family (Asteraceae) known only (i) Agencies shall be responsible for from Kentucky, Tennessee, and authorized amount: timely payment and resolving any (1) Non-recurring services performed Alabama. It is a tall (to 2.5 meters [8 billing problems regarding orders they above standard levels of service, such as feet]) plant arising from a short, thick place under GSA contracts. out-of-cycle painting; base, perennating by shallow elongate, (2) Recurring services not included in [FR Doc. 97±13489 Filed 5±21±97; 8:45 am] fleshy rhizomes that can form an the standard level for which a price can BILLING CODE 6820±BR±P extensive network. The plant is smooth, be established; except for some slight roughening on (3) Repairs and alterations in the upper leaf surfaces, and it has a buildings not controlled by GSA; DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR blue-waxy coloration. The lower leaves (4) Special space alterations and are conspicuously whitened. The plant's adjustments performed by GSA in GSA- Fish and Wildlife Service opposite (rarely whorled) leaves are operated buildings, which are requested mostly lanceolate to narrowly ovate, the and financed by other agencies in 50 CFR Part 17 largest being 10 to 20 centimeters (3.9 to accordance with § 101±20.106, 5.7 inches) in length. Leaf edges are RIN 1018±AC74 Reimbursable services, of this chapter; smooth or minutely toothed, and the tip and Endangered and Threatened Wildlife is usually pointed. Large yellow flowers (5) Alteration projects up to the and Plants; Determination of (8 centimeters [3 inches]) are borne on prospectus threshold. Threatened Status for Helianthus the upper third of the stem. Cypsalas (e) Where the amount of the RWA is eggertii (Eggert's Sunflower) (seeds) are blackish or grayish and less than $25,000, billing will occur at mottled, 5 to 6 millimeters (0.25 inches) termination date. Other bills will be AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, long, faintly striated, and with a few rendered at the customer's option, based Interior. scattered trichomes (hairs). Flowering on delivered orders either monthly or ACTION: Final rule. begins in early August and continues quarterly. through mid-September, and achenes (f) RWAs above the prospectus SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife mature from early September to early threshold shall be performed on an Service (Service) determines threatened October (Jones 1991). Jones (1991) actual cost basis. In special status for Helianthus eggertii (Eggert's observed fruit set at between 5 and 25 circumstances, when GSA and the sunflower) under the authority of the seeds per flower head. Seed germination ordering agency agree, non-prospectus Endangered Species Act of 1973, as rates are generally low (rarely exceeding alterations work may be performed on amended (Act). This rare plant is 25 percent) and most require exposure an actual cost basis. GSA will make presently known from an estimated 34 to cold to break dormancy (Heiser et al. every effort to obtain approval and populations in 14 countiesÐin 1969). certification of additional funds before Alabama, one population in Blount Eggert's sunflower develops an incurring any obligations in excess of 10 County; in Kentucky, one population extensive rhizome system, and these percent of the authorized amount or from Grayson and Hardin counties, two rhizomes can live for many years. Thus, $500, whichever is greater. However, populations from Edmonson and Barren the plant does not have to produce failure of GSA to notify the agency that counties, and seven populations from seeds every year to ensure its survival. obligations will exceed the authorized Hart County; in Tennessee, one If environmental conditions change 27974 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 99 / Thursday, May 22, 1997 / Rules and Regulations (e.g., increased competition, shading, Tennessee new populations were discovered etc.); it can survive for several years by The following information on Eggert's during the status survey, and additional vegetative means, as Jones (1991) noted sunflower in Tennessee is primarily sites were later discovered by R. was the case in several populations. from Jones (1991) and the Tennessee Seymour in the Mammoth Cave area (D. Small (1903) designated the type Natural Heritage Program database. White, KSNPC, 1996, in litt.). The 13 locality of Eggert's sunflower as near Prior to the status survey conducted known sites in Kentucky are distributed White Bluff in Dickson County, by Jones (1991), there were 12 counties as followsÐone population from Tennessee, from specimens collected by in Tennessee with records (a total of 13) Grayson and Hardin counties, two H. Eggert. Beatley (1963) considered this of H. eggertii. Four sites were found to populations from Edmonson and Barren plant a distinct species and that it was have been extirpated (one each in counties, and seven populations from ``conspicuous because of the colonial Coffee, Davidson, Lawrence, and Hart County. Most of these populations have fewer than 15 individual plants, habit and glaucescense.'' In a Williamson counties) and four were with four having only five or fewer comprehensive essay on Helianthus, found to be erroneous records (one each plants. Only two populations occur on Heiser et al. (1969) retained H. eggertii in Dekalb, Grundy, Clay, and Morgan barrens, and half of these are threatened as a distinct species and placed it in the counties). Additional occurrences were by weedy competitors and/or road series Divaricati, being distinguished by discovered during the status survey and maintenance. Five of the thirteen its nearly sessile, glaucous, and glabrous later by the Tennessee Department of Kentucky populations are found entirely leaves. This work pointed out that H. Environment and Conservation (TDEC) or partially on Federal lands (Mammoth eggertii is a hexaploid (n=51) and could (1993, in litt.) and the U.S. Air Force, Cave National Park), two on The Nature have arisen from a cross between H. Arnold Engineering Development Conservancy's (TNC) land and the laevigatus (n=34), a shale barren species Center (AEDC). Several sites in Coffee, remainder are found along roadside of the Allegheny Mountains, and H. Franklin, Lawrence, and Lewis counties rights-of-way or on private lands. decapetalus (n=17), a widespread are probably single populations and are species of the eastern United States. treated as such in this document, Previous Federal Action Spring and Schilling (1991) found H. including the occurrences on AEDC in Federal government actions on this eggertii to have a unique chemical Coffee and Franklin counties. The 20 species began with section 12 of the Act profile. Of the related sunflowers, it is known populations in Tennessee are (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). It directed the most similar to H. laevigatus, which distributed as follows: Coffee CountyÐ Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution shares 9 of 12 chemical compounds. six populations; Lawrence CountyÐfour (Smithsonian) to prepare a report on Smith (1957) considered H. eggertii to populations; Franklin CountyÐtwo those plants considered to be be a local minor variant of H.