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Flora (CITES, or the Convention), may [Docket No. FWS–HQ–IA–2017–0079; Submitting Information and propose amendments to the CITES FF09A30000–189–FXIA16710900000] Comments: You may submit comments Appendices for consideration at pertaining to species proposals for meetings of the Conference of the Conference of the Parties to the consideration and to proposed Parties. The eighteenth regular meeting Convention on International Trade in resolutions, decisions, and agenda items of the Conference of the Parties to CITES Endangered Species of Wild Fauna for discussion at CoP18 by one of the (CoP18) is scheduled to be held in and Flora (CITES); Eighteenth Regular following methods: Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 23 to June 3, Meeting: Taxa Being Considered for • Internet: http:// 2019. With this notice, we describe Amendments to the CITES Appendices www.regulations.gov. 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Fauna and Flora (CITES), may propose We will not consider comments sent Background amendments to the CITES Appendices by email or fax, or to an address not CITES is an international treaty for consideration at meetings of the listed in ADDRESSES. We will post all designed to control and regulate Conference of the Parties. The comments on http:// international trade in certain animal and eighteenth regular meeting of the www.regulations.gov. This generally plant species that are affected by trade Conference of the Parties to CITES means that we will post any personal and are now, or potentially may (CoP18) is scheduled to be held in information you provide us. If you become, threatened with extinction. Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 23 to June 3, submit a comment via http:// These species are included in the 2019. With this notice, we describe www.regulations.gov, your entire Appendices to CITES, which are proposed amendments to the CITES comment—including any personal available on the CITES Secretariat’s Appendices (species proposals) as well identifying information—will be posted website at https://www.cites.org. as proposed resolutions, decisions, and on the website. If you submit a Currently there are 183 Parties to agenda items that the United States hardcopy comment that includes CITES—182 countries, including the might submit for consideration at personal identifying information, you United States, and one regional CoP18; invite your comments and may request at the top of your document economic integration organization, the information on these proposals; and that we withhold this information from European Union. The Convention calls provide information on how U.S. public review. However, we cannot for regular biennial meetings of the nongovernmental organizations can guarantee that we will be able to do so. Conference of the Parties, unless the attend CoP18 as observers. We will post all hardcopy comments on Conference decides otherwise. At these DATES: http://www.regulations.gov. meetings, the Parties review the Meeting: The meeting is scheduled to Requesting Approval to Attend CoP18 implementation of CITES, make be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 23 as an Observer: Send your request via provisions enabling the CITES to June 3, 2019. U.S. mail to the Division of Management Secretariat in Switzerland to carry out VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:50 Sep 28, 2018 Jkt 247001 PO 00000 Frm 00069 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\01OCN1.SGM 01OCN1 amozie on DSK3GDR082PROD with NOTICES 49422 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 190 / Monday, October 1, 2018 / Notices its functions, consider amendments to and Safari Club International additional biological or trade the list of species in Appendices I and Foundation (SCI Foundation). information on these species. II, consider reports presented by the Additionally, the United States may A. What species proposals will the Secretariat, and make recommendations submit one plant species proposal United States likely submit for for the improved effectiveness of CITES. currently under periodic review by the consideration at CoP18? Any country that is a Party to CITES Plants Committee and one animal may propose amendments to species proposal that previously None. Appendices I and II, as well as underwent periodic review by the B. On what species proposals is the resolutions, decisions, and agenda items Animals Committee. United States still undecided, pending We have undertaken initial for consideration by all the Parties. Our additional information and evaluations of the available trade and regulations governing this public consultations? process are found in 50 CFR 23.87. biological information on many of these This is our third notice in a series of taxa. Based on the information The United States is still undecided Federal Register notices that, together available, we made provisional on whether to submit CoP18 proposals with an announced public meeting evaluations of whether to proceed with for the following taxa. In most cases, we (time and place to be announced), the development of proposals for have not completed our consultations provide you with an opportunity to species to be included in, removed with relevant range countries. In other participate in the development of the from, or transferred between the CITES cases, we expect meetings to occur in U.S. submissions and negotiating Appendices. We made these evaluations the immediate future, at which positions for the eighteenth regular by considering the best information participants will generate important meeting of the Conference of the Parties available on the species; the presence, recommendations, trade analyses, or to CITES (CoP18), which is scheduled to absence, and effectiveness of other biological information on the taxon in be held in Colombo, Sri Lanka, May 23 mechanisms that may preclude the need question that may be useful to our final to June 3, 2019. We published our first for species’ inclusion in the CITES decision-making. In addition one of the CoP18-related Federal Register notice Appendices (e.g., range country actions taxa in this section is undergoing review on January 23, 2018 (83 FR 3179); this or other international agreements); and through the periodic review of the notice requested information and availability of resources. We have also CITES Appendices by the Plants recommendations on animal and plant considered the following factors, as per Committee (PC), in accordance with species proposals for the United States the U.S. approach for CoP18 discussed Resolution Conf. 14.8 (Rev. CoP17), and to consider submitting for consideration in our January 23, 2018, Federal one has undergone periodic review by at CoP18.