Wednesday, November 10, 2010 Part III Department of the Interior Fish and Wildlife Service 50 CFR Part 17 Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Review of Native Species That Are Candidates for Listing as Endangered or Threatened; Annual Notice of Findings on Resubmitted Petitions; Annual Description of Progress on Listing Actions; Proposed Rule VerDate Mar<15>2010 17:02 Nov 09, 2010 Jkt 223001 PO 00000 Frm 00001 Fmt 4717 Sfmt 4717 E:\FR\FM\10NOP3.SGM 10NOP3 jlentini on DSKJ8SOYB1PROD with PROPOSALS3 69222 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 217 / Wednesday, November 10, 2010 / Proposed Rules DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Wildlife and Plants during the period Species-specific information and October 1, 2009, through September 30, materials we receive will be available Fish and Wildlife Service 2010. for public inspection by appointment, We request additional status during normal business hours, at the 50 CFR Part 17 information that may be available for appropriate Regional Office listed below [Docket No. FWS–R9–ES–2010–0065; MO– the 251 candidate species identified in under Request for Information in 9221050083–B2] this CNOR. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. General DATES: We will accept information on information we receive will be available Endangered and Threatened Wildlife any of the species in this Candidate at the Branch of Candidate and Plants; Review of Native Species Notice of Review at any time. Conservation, Arlington, VA (see That Are Candidates for Listing as address above). Endangered or Threatened; Annual ADDRESSES: This notice is available on Candidate Notice of Review Notice of Findings on Resubmitted the Internet at http:// Petitions; Annual Description of www.regulations.gov and http:// Background Progress on Listing Actions www.fws.gov/endangered/what-we-do/ cnor.html. Species assessment forms The Endangered Species Act of 1973, AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, with information and references on a as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) Interior. particular candidate species’ range, (Act), requires that we identify species of wildlife and plants that are ACTION: Notice of review. status, habitat needs, and listing priority assignment are available for review at endangered or threatened, based on the SUMMARY: In this Candidate Notice of the appropriate Regional Office listed best available scientific and commercial Review (CNOR), we, the U.S. Fish and below in SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION or information. As defined in section 3 of Wildlife Service (Service), present an at the Branch of Candidate the Act, an endangered species is any updated list of plant and animal species Conservation, Arlington, VA (see species which is in danger of extinction native to the United States that we address below), or on our Web site throughout all or a significant portion of regard as candidates for or have (http://ecos.fws.gov/tess_public/pub/ its range, and a threatened species is proposed for addition to the Lists of SpeciesReport.do? any species which is likely to become Endangered and Threatened Wildlife listingType=C&mapstatus=1). Please an endangered species within the and Plants under the Endangered submit any new information, materials, foreseeable future throughout all or a Species Act of 1973, as amended. comments, or questions of a general significant portion of its range. Through Identification of candidate species can nature on this notice to the Arlington, the Federal rulemaking process, we add assist environmental planning efforts by VA, address listed below. Please submit species that meet these definitions to providing advance notice of potential any new information, materials, the List of Endangered and Threatened listings, allowing landowners and comments, or questions pertaining to a Wildlife at 50 CFR 17.11 or the List of resource managers to alleviate threats particular species to the address of the Endangered and Threatened Plants at 50 and thereby possibly remove the need to Endangered Species Coordinator in the CFR 17.12. As part of this program, we list species as endangered or threatened. appropriate Regional Office listed in maintain a list of species that we regard Even if we subsequently list a candidate SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION. as candidates for listing. A candidate species, the early notice provided here species is one for which we have on file FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The could result in more options for species sufficient information on biological Endangered Species Coordinator(s) in management and recovery by prompting vulnerability and threats to support a the appropriate Regional Office(s), or candidate conservation measures to proposal to list as endangered or Chief, Branch of Candidate alleviate threats to the species. threatened, but for which preparation The CNOR summarizes the status and Conservation, U.S. Fish and Wildlife and publication of a proposal is threats that we evaluated in order to Service, 4401 N. Fairfax Drive, Room precluded by higher priority listing determine that species qualify as 420, Arlington, VA 22203 (telephone actions. We may identify a species as a candidates and to assign a listing 703–358–2171; facsimile 703–358– candidate for listing after we have priority number (LPN) to each species or 1735). Persons who use a conducted an evaluation of its status on to determine that species should be telecommunications device for the deaf our own initiative, or after we have removed from candidate status. (TDD) may call the Federal Information made a positive finding on a petition to Additional material that we relied on is Relay Service (FIRS) at 800–877–8339. list a species, in particular we have available in the Species Assessment and SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We found that listing is warranted but Listing Priority Assignment Forms request additional status information precluded by other higher priority (species assessment forms, previously that may be available for any of the listing action (see the Petition Findings called candidate forms) for each candidate species identified in this section, below). candidate species. CNOR. We will consider this We maintain this list of candidates for Overall, this CNOR recognizes five information to monitor changes in the a variety of reasons: To notify the public new candidates, changes the LPN for status or LPN of candidate species and that these species are facing threats to four candidates, and removes one to manage candidates as we prepare their survival; to provide advance species from candidate status. listing documents and future revisions knowledge of potential listings that Combined with other decisions for to the notice of review. We also request could affect decisions of environmental individual species that were published information on additional species to planners and developers; to provide separately from this CNOR in the past consider including as candidates as we information that may stimulate and year, the current number of species that prepare future updates of this notice. guide conservation efforts that will are candidates for listing is 251. You may submit your information remove or reduce threats to these This document also includes our concerning this notice in general or for species and possibly make listing findings on resubmitted petitions and any of the species included in this unnecessary; to request input from describes our progress in revising the notice by one of the methods listed in interested parties to help us identify Lists of Endangered and Threatened the ADDRESSES section. those candidate species that may not VerDate Mar<15>2010 17:02 Nov 09, 2010 Jkt 223001 PO 00000 Frm 00002 Fmt 4701 Sfmt 4702 E:\FR\FM\10NOP3.SGM 10NOP3 jlentini on DSKJ8SOYB1PROD with PROPOSALS3 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 217 / Wednesday, November 10, 2010 / Proposed Rules 69223 require protection under the Act or magnitude threats. Since we do not assigned to LPN 3). In summary, the additional species that may require the routinely quantify how likely or how LPN ranking system provides a basis for Act’s protections; and to request soon extinction would be expected to making decisions about the relative necessary information for setting occur absent listing, we must evaluate priority for preparing a proposed rule to priorities for preparing listing proposals. factors that contribute to the likelihood list a given species. No matter which We strongly encourage collaborative and time scale for extinction. We LPN we assign to a species, each species conservation efforts for candidate therefore consider information such as: included in this notice as a candidate is species, and offer technical and The number of populations and/or one for which we have sufficient financial assistance to facilitate such extent of range of the species affected by information to prepare a proposed rule efforts. For additional information the threat(s); the biological significance to list it because it is in danger of regarding such assistance, please of the affected population(s), taking into extinction or likely to become contact the appropriate Regional Office consideration the life-history endangered within the foreseeable listed under Request for Information or characteristics of the species and its future throughout all or a significant visit our Web site, http://www.fws.gov/ current abundance and distribution; portion of its range. endangered/what-we-do/cca.html. whether the threats affect the species in For more information on the process only a portion of its range, and if so the and standards used in assigning LPNs, Previous Notices of Review likelihood of persistence of the species a copy of the 1983 guidance is available We have been publishing candidate in the unaffected portions; the severity on our Web site at: http://www.fws.gov/ notices of review (CNOR) since 1975. of the effects and the rapidity with endangered/esa-library/pdf/48fr43098- The most recent CNOR (prior to this which they have caused or are likely to 43105.pdf. For more information on the CNOR) was published on November 9, cause mortality to individuals and LPN assigned to a particular species, the 2009 (74 FR 57804).