54346 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 203 / Friday, October 18, 1996 / Rules and Regulations [FR Doc. 96±26901 Filed 10±17±96; 8:45 am] List of Subjects in 48 CFR Part 219 status for Senecio layneae (Layne's BILLING CODE 6712±01±P Government procurement. butterweed). These species all occur on gabbroic or serpentine-derived soils in Michele P. Peterson, the central Sierran foothills of California Executive Editor, Defense Acquisition DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE within chaparral or oak woodland Regulations Council. communities. Urbanization and the 48 CFR Part 219 and Appendix I to Therefore, 48 CFR Part 219 and ensuing habitat fragmentation, road Chapter 2 Appendix I to Chapter 2 are amended as construction and maintenance, follows: herbicide spraying, change in fire [DFARS Case 96±D317] frequency, off-road vehicle use, PART 219Ð[AMENDED] Defense Federal Acquisition unauthorized dumping, horse Regulation Supplement; Pilot Mentor- 1. The authority citation for 48 CFR overgrazing, competition from invasive ProteÂge Program Part 219 continues to read as follows: alien vegetation, and mining imperil these five species. This rule implements AGENCY: Department of Defense (DoD). Authority: 41 U.S.C. 421 and 48 CFR Federal protection and recovery Chapter 1. ACTION: Final rule. provisions afforded by the Act for these 219.7104 [Amended] five plants. SUMMARY: The Director of Defense 2. Section 219.7104 is amended in the EFFECTIVE DATE: November 18, 1996. Procurement is amending the Defense last sentence of paragraph (b) by ADDRESSES: The complete file for this Federal Acquisition Regulation revising the date ``October 1, 1996'' to rule is available for public inspection, Supplement (DFARS) to extend the read ``October 1, 1999''. by appointment, during normal business dates for application into, and hours at the Sacramento Field Office, reimbursement of costs under, the DoD Appendix I to Chapter 2 [Amended] U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 3310 El Pilot Mentor-ProteÂge Program. 3. Appendix I to Chapter 2 is Camino Avenue, Sacramento, California EFFECTIVE DATE: October 18, 1996. amended in section I±102, paragraphs 95825. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: (a) and (b), and in section I±103, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Defense Acquisition Regulations paragraph (a), by revising the date Kirsten Tarp, Sacramento Field Office Council, Attn: Ms. Susan Schneider, ``September 30, 1996'' to read (see ADDRESSES section) (telephone 916/ PDUSD (A&T) DP (DAR), 3062 Defense ``September 30, 1998''. 979±2122; facsimile 916/979±2128). Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301±3062. 4. Appendix I to Chapter 2 is SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Telephone (703) 602±0131; telefax (703) amended in section I±103, paragraph (b) 602±0350. Please cite DFARS Case 96± introductory text, by revising the date Background D317 in all correspondence related to ``September 30, 1996'' to read Calystegia stebbinsii (Stebbins' this issue. ``September 30, 1999''. morning-glory), Ceanothus roderickii SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: [FR Doc. 96±26533 Filed 10±17±96; 8:45 am] (Pine Hill ceanothus), Fremontodendron BILLING CODE 5000±04±M californicum ssp. decumbens (Pine Hill A. Background flannelbush), Galium californicum ssp. This final rule implements Section sierrae (El Dorado bedstraw), and 802 of the National Defense DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Senecio layneae (Layne's butterweed) Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 occur primarily on the Pine Hill (Public Law 104±201). Section 802: (1) Fish and Wildlife Service intrusion, an area of approximately extends, to September 30, 1998, the date 10,400 hectares (ha) (25,700 acres (ac)), by which an interested company must 50 CFR Part 17 in western El Dorado County, California, apply for participation as a mentor firm ranging in elevation from 138 to 628 RIN 1018±AC47 under the DoD Pilot Mentor-ProteÂge meters (m) (453 to 2,060 feet (ft)). In Program; and (2) extends to September Endangered and Threatened Wildlife addition, C. stebbinsii and S. layneae 30, 1999, the date by which mentor and Plants; Determination of have a few known isolated occurrences firms must incur costs in order to be Endangered Status for Four Plants and in El Dorado, Nevada, and/or Tuolumne eligible for reimbursement under the Threatened Status for One Plant From counties, California. All of the species Program. the Central Sierran Foothills of included in this final rule exhibit California substrate preferences. Ceanothus B. Regulatory Flexibility Act roderickii, F. californicum ssp. This final rule does not constitute a AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, decumbens, and G. californicum ssp. significant revision within the meaning Interior. sierrae are endemic to gabbro-derived of FAR 1.501 and Public Law 98±577, ACTION: Final rule. soils on the Pine Hill intrusion, and C. and publication for public comment is stebbinsii and S. layneae occur on not required. However, comments from SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife gabbro and serpentine-derived soils. small entities concerning the affected Service (Service) determines One known occurrence of S. layneae DFARS subparts will be considered in endangered status pursuant to the was found on metamorphic-derived accordance with 5 U.S.C. 610. Endangered Species Act of 1973, as soils. amended (Act) for four plantsÐ Gabbro-derived soils originate from C. Paperwork Reduction Act Calystegia stebbinsii (Stebbins' mafic rocks (gabbrodiorite) that are The Paperwork Reduction Act does morning-glory), Ceanothus roderickii mildly acidic, are rich in iron and not apply because the final rule does not (Pine Hill ceanothus), Fremontodendron magnesium, and often contain other contain any information collection californicum ssp. decumbens (Pine Hill heavy metals such as chromium (Wilson requirements that require Office of flannelbush), and Galium californicum 1986). Gabbro, a dark large-crystalled Management and Budget approval ssp. sierrae (El Dorado bedstraw). The rock, is formed when liquid magma under 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq. Service also determines threatened cools slowly underground. A red soil is Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 203 / Friday, October 18, 1996 / Rules and Regulations 54347 formed when the rock is exposed and within several plant communities in dumping, road maintenance, change in weathers at the earth's surface (EIP California. Historically, fire occurred in fire frequency, and competition with Associates 1991). These soils are well- chaparral on the average of 3 to 5 times invasive alien vegetation (CNDDB 1994). drained and are underlain by every 100 years (Boyd 1985). Fire is Beecher Crampton first collected gabbrodiorite rocks at a depth of more important for seed germination and Ceanothus roderickii in 1956 from Pine than 1 meter (3.28 feet) (U.S. seedling reestablishment by eliminating Hill in El Dorado County, California. Department of Agriculture, Soil competition and shading, as well as Walter Knight described C. roderickii in Conservation Service 1974). replenishing nutrients to the soil. 1968, naming it after Wayne Roderick, Serpentine-derived soils are formed Without periodic fires, the previously who first suspected the horticultural through a process similar to formation mentioned plants either do not value of this endemic shrub (Knight of gabbro-derived soils. Serpentine soils reproduce by seed or may become 1968). Knight (1968) considered C. are derived from ultramafic rocks (e.g., shaded by other plants. roderickii to be most closely related to serpentinite, dunite, and peridotite). C. cuneatus, which also grows They tend to have high concentrations Discussion of the Five Species throughout the area. Ceanothus of magnesium, chromium, and nickel, G. Ledyard Stebbins collected the roderickii can be differentiated from its and low concentrations of calcium, type specimen of Calystegia stebbinsii congeners by its blue-tinged flowers, nitrogen, potassium, and phosphorus in 1970, 17 kilometers (km) (10 miles prostrate habit, and inconspicuously (Kruckeberg 1984). ``Gabbro soils are (mi)) west of Placerville in El Dorado horned fruit. considered to be edaphically similar to County, California. Richard K. Brummitt Ceanothus roderickii is a prostrate serpentine because of their mineral (1974) described the species using evergreen shrub of the buckthorn family composition and because they appear to specimens collected by Stebbins as the (Rhamnaceae) that generally grows to 3 influence plant distributions in much type. m (9.84 ft) in diameter. The smooth the same way'' (Wilson 1986). Calystegia stebbinsii is a leafy gray-brown branches radiate from a The three plant communities perennial herb in the morning-glory central axis and root when they come occurring on the Pine Hill intrusion are family (Convolvulaceae). Its stems range into contact with the ground. The leaves chaparral, oak woodland, and savanna. up to 1 m (3.28 ft) in length and of the species are semi-erect with entire The vegetation type of this area is generally lie flat on the ground. The margins. Small whitish flowers tinged distinctive enough that Robert Holland leaves are palmately lobed with the two with blue appear from May through (1986), based upon Wilson (1986), outermost lobes being divided again. June. Its fruit is an inconspicuously designated a community known as The leaf lobes are narrow and lance- horned globe-shaped capsule. gabbro-derived northern mixed shaped. White flowers, which appear in Ceanothus roderickii is restricted to chaparral. This community is May through June, are on stalks 3 to 13 gabbro-derived soil in openings in characterized