Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 243 / Friday, December 18, 1998 / Rules and Regulations 70053 2. Paperwork Reduction Act 6. Civil Justice Reform Appendix BÐIssuers of Motor Vehicle Insurance Policies Subject to the The information collection This final rule does not have any retroactive effect, and it does not Reporting Requirements Only in requirements in this final rule have been Designated States submitted to and approved by the Office preempt any State law, 49 U.S.C. 33117 of Management and Budget (OMB) provides that judicial review of this rule Alfa Insurance Group (Alabama) 1 pursuant to the requirements of the may be obtained pursuant to 49 U.S.C. Allmerica P & C Companies (Michigan) Arbella Mutual Insurance (Massachusetts) Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 32909, section 32909 does not require submission of a petition for Auto Club of Michigan Group (Michigan) 3501 et seq.). This collection of Commerce Group, Inc. (Massachusetts) information was assigned OMB Control reconsideration or other administrative Commercial Union Insurance Companies Number 2127±0547 (``Insurer Reporting proceedings before parties may file suit (Maine) Requirements'') and was approved for in court. Concord Group Insurance Companies use through July 31, 2000. (Vermont) List of Subjects in 49 CFR Part 544 Island Insurance Group (Hawaii) 1 3. Regulatory Flexibility Act Crime insurance, Insurance, Insurance Kentucky Farm Bureau Group (Kentucky) companies, Motor vehicles, Reporting Nodak Mutual Insurance Company (North The agency has also considered the and recordkeeping requirements. Dakota) effects of this rulemaking under the Southern Farm Bureau Group (Arkansas, Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA) (5 In consideration of the foregoing, 49 Mississippi) U.S.C. 601 et seq.). I certify that this CFR part 544 is amended as follows: Tennessee Farmers Companies (Tennessee) final rule would not have a significant PART 544Ð[AMENDED] 5. Appendix C to Part 544 is revised economic impact on a substantial to read as follows: number of small entities. The rationale 1. The authority citation for part 544 Appendix CÐMotor Vehicle Rental and for the certification is that none of the continues to read as follows: Leasing Companies (Including companies proposed to be included on Authority: 49 U.S.C. 33112; delegation of Licensees and Franchisees) Subject to Appendices A, B, or C would be authority at 49 CFR 1.50. the Reporting Requirements of Part 544 construed to be a small entity within the definition of the RFA. ``Small insurer'' 2. Paragraph (a) of § 544.5 is revised Alamo Rent-A-Car, Inc. is defined in part under 49 U.S.C. 33112 to read as follows: ARI (Automotive Rentals, Inc.) Associates Leasing Inc.1 as any insurer whose premiums for all § 544.5 General requirements for reports. forms of motor vehicle insurance A T & T Automotive Services, Inc. (a) Each insurer to which this part Avis, Inc. account for less than one percent of the Budget Rent-A-Car Corporation total premiums for all forms of motor applies shall submit a report annually not later than October 25, beginning on Citicorp Bankers Leasing Corporation vehicle insurance issued by insurers Dollar Rent-A-Car Systems, Inc. within the United States, or any insurer October 25, 1986. This report shall Donlen Corporation whose premiums within any State, contain the information required by Enterprise Rent-A-Car 1 account for less than 10 percent of the § 544.6 of this part for the calendar year GE Capital Fleet Services 1 total premiums for all forms of motor three years previous to the year in Hertz Rent-A-Car Division (subsidiary of which the report is filed. Hertz Corporation) vehicle insurance issued by insurers Lease Plan USA, Inc. within the State. This notice would 3. Appendix A to Part 544 is revised to read as follows: National Car Rental System, Inc. exempt all insurers meeting those Penske Truck Leasing Company criteria. Any insurer too large to meet Appendix AÐInsurers of Motor Vehicle PHH Vehicle Management Services 1 those criteria is not a small entity. In Insurance Policies Subject to the Ryder System, Inc. (Both rental and leasing addition, in this rulemaking, the agency Reporting Requirements in Each State operations) proposes to exempt all ``self insured in Which They Do Business U-Haul International, Inc. (Subsidiary of rental and leasing companies'' that have AMERCO) Aetna Life & Casualty Group USL Capital Fleet Services fleets of fewer than 50,000 vehicles. Any Allstate Insurance Group Wheels Inc.1 self insured rental and leasing company American Family Group Issued on: December 7, 1998. too large to meet that criterion is not a American Financial Group 1 small entity. American International Group L. Robert Shelton, California State Auto Association Associate Administrator for Safety 4. Federalism CNA Insurance Group Performance Standards. 1 This action has been analyzed in Erie Insurance Group [FR Doc. 98±33545 Filed 12±17±98; 8:45 am] accordance with the principles and Farmers Insurance Group BILLING CODE 4910±59±P GEICO Corporation Group criteria contained in Executive Order ITT Hartford Insurance Group 12612, and it has been determined that Liberty Mutual Group the proposed rule does not have Nationwide Group DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR sufficient federalism implications to Progressive Group warrant the preparation of a Federalism Prudential of America Group Fish and Wildlife Service Assessment. Safeco Insurance Companies State Farm Group 50 CFR Part 17 5. Environmental Impacts Travelers Insurance Group RIN 1018±AE41 USAA Group In accordance with the National Zurich Insurance Group-U.S.1 Endangered and Threatened Wildlife Environmental Policy Act, NHTSA has 4. Appendix B to Part 544 is revised and Plants; Determination of considered the environmental impacts to read as follows: Endangered Status for the St. Andrew of this proposed rule and determined Beach Mouse that it would not have a significant 1 Indicates a newly listed company which must impact on the quality of the human file a report no later than 30 days from the AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, environment. publication of this notice in the Federal Register. Interior. 70054 Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 243 / Friday, December 18, 1998 / Rules and Regulations ACTION: Final rule. two distinct rump color pigmentations, Typical beach mouse habitat generally one a tapered and the other a squared consists of several rows of sand dunes SUMMARY: The Fish and Wildlife Service pattern, which extended to the thighs. paralleling the shoreline. Prevailing (Service) determines the St. Andrew Head and body lengths average 75 wind, beach sand, and vegetation beach mouse (Peromyscus polionotus millimeters (mm) (2.95 inches (in)), tail combine to form and shape coastal peninsularis) to be an endangered mean length 52 mm (2.05 in), and hind dunes. A common complex of animal species pursuant to the Endangered foot mean length 18.5 mm (0.73 in) species, vegetation, and habitat types Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). (James 1992). characterize the coastal sand dune This subspecies is restricted to coastal Beach mice subspecies historically ecosystem. The types and amount of sand dunes and had a historic occurred on both the Atlantic Coast of animals, vegetation, and habitat may distribution that included the northeast Florida from St. Johns through Broward differ, however, among specific sites. Florida panhandle from Gulf County counties and the eastern Gulf of Mexico The common types of sand dune habitat into portions of Bay County. Its current coast from Gulf County, Florida, to include frontal dunes, primary dunes, range is limited to a portion of the St. Baldwin County, Alabama (Ivey 1949, secondary dunes, inter and intradunal Joseph Peninsula in Gulf County. Bowen 1968, James 1992, Stout 1992, swales, and scrub dunes. Frontal dunes Habitat impacts causing loss of mice Gore and Schaefer 1993). The St. and primary dunes are those closest to and the species' capability to recover Andrew beach mouse is the easternmost the shoreline, most recently formed, and from such impacts within local of the five Gulf Coast subspecies. highly dynamic. The foreslope of populations are primarily responsible Howell (1939) collected the type primary dunes grades into the for the range curtailment. Threats to specimen at St. Andrew Point on developing frontal dunes on the open beach mouse habitat include severe Crooked Island, Tyndall Air Force Base, beach. Frontal dunes on the Gulf Coast storms, coastal land development and Bay County, Florida (type locality). are sparsely vegetated, usually by sea its associated activities, and non-storm Other historic collection records for the oats (Uniola paniculata), bluestem related, natural shoreline erosion. subspecies include nine additional (Schizachyrium maritimum), beach Additional threats include predation by specimens from the type locality, seven grass (Panicum amarum), and sea rocket free-ranging domestic cats and mice from St. Joseph Point and four (Cakile constricta). Primary dunes also displacement by house mice. This mice from Cape San Blas on the St. support stands of these species and action implements the protection of the Joseph Peninsula in Gulf County, 48 include other broad-leaved plants such Act for this species. individuals at or near the town of Port as seaside pennywort (Hydrocotyle DATES: This rule is effective January 19, St. Joe located on the central Gulf bonariensis), seashore elder (Iva 1999. County coastal mainland, and four imbricata), and beach morning glory ADDRESSES: The complete file for this specimens near Money Bayou in eastern (Ipomea stolonifera) (Clewell 1985). rule is available for inspection, by Gulf County (Bowen 1968). Based on Secondary dunes consist of one or more appointment, during normal business these records, Bowen (1968) and James dune lines landward of the primary hours at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife (1992) described the former range of the dune with a similar, though denser, Service, 6620 Southpoint Drive South, St. Andrew beach mouse as likely vegetative cover.