[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 120 (Thursday, June 22, 1995)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Pages 32483-32484]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-15284]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
50 CFR Part 17
RIN 1018-AD11
Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Reopening of
Comment Period and Notice of Public Hearing on Proposed Endangered
Status for Three Wetland Species in Southern Arizona and Northern
Sonora
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of comment period and notice of public
hearing.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) gives notice that
a public hearing will be held and the comment period reopened on the
proposed rule to list two plants, Canelo Hills ladies'-tresses
(Spiranthes delitescens) and Huachuca water umbel (Lilaeopsis
schaffneriana spp. recurva), and one amphibian, the Sonora tiger
salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum stebbinsi) as endangered. The hearing
and the reopening of the comment period will allow all interested
parties to submit oral or written comments on the proposal.
DATES: The public hearing will be held from 7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on July
13, 1995, in Patagonia, Arizona. The comment period for this proposal
will be reopened on June 24, 1995 and will close on July 24, 1995.
Comments must be received by the closing date. Any comments that are
received after the closing date may not be considered in the final
decision on the proposal.
ADDRESSES: The public hearing will be held in the Multi-Purpose Room at
Patagonia Union High School, on the west-side of State Highway 82 in
Patagonia, Arizona. Written comments should be sent to the State
Supervisor, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2321 W. Royal Palm Road,
Suite 103, Phoenix, Arizona 85021-4951. Comments and materials received
will be available for public inspection, by appointment, during normal
business hours at the above Service address.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jeffrey A. Humphrey, at the above
address, or phone at (602) 640-2720.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
Canelo Hills ladies'-tresses, Huachuca water umbel, and the Sonora
tiger salamander occur in a limited number of wetland habitats in
southern Arizona and northern Sonora, Mexico. They are threatened by
one or more of the following--collecting, disease, predation,
competition with nonnative species, catastrophic floods, drought, and
degradation and destruction of habitat resulting from livestock
overgrazing, water diversions, dredging, and groundwater pumping. All
three taxa are also threatened with stochastic extirpations or
extinction due to small numbers of populations or individuals. A
proposed rule to list these species as endangered was published in the
Federal Register (60 FR 16836) on April 3, 1995.
Pursuant to 50 CFR 424.16(c)(2), the Service may extend or reopen a
comment period upon finding that there is good cause to do so. Full
participation of the affected public in the species listing process,
allowing the Service to consider the best scientific and commercial
data available in making a final determination on the proposed action,
is deemed as sufficient cause.
Section 4(b)(5)(E) of the Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.),
requires that a public hearing be held if it is requested within 45
days of the publication of a proposed rule. In response to two such
requests, the Service will hold a public hearing on the date and at the
address described above.
Anyone wishing to make an oral statement for the record is
encouraged to provide a written copy of their statement and present it
to the Service at the start of the hearing. In the event there is a
large attendance, the time allotted for oral statements may have to be
limited. Oral and written statements receive equal consideration. There
are no limits to the length of written comments presented at the
hearings or mailed to the Service. Legal notices announcing the dates,
times, and locations of the hearings will be published in newspapers
concurrently with the Federal Register notice.
The comment period on the proposal originally closed on June 2,
1995. In order to accommodate the hearing, the Service reopens the
public comment period. Written comments may now be submitted until July
24, 1995, to the Service office in the ADDRESSES section.
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Author
The primary author of this notice is Jeffrey A. Humphrey (see
ADDRESSES).
Authority
The authority for this action is the Endangered Species Act of 1973
(16 U.S.C. 1531-1544).
Notice: Proposed rule for three wetland species in Southern
Arizona and Northern Sonora; reopening of comment period and notice
of public hearings.
Dated: June 16, 1995.
Nancy M. Kaufman,
Regional Director, Region 2, Fish and Wildlife Service.
[FR Doc. 95-15284 Filed 6-21-95; 8:45 am]
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