Comment on FR Doc # E8-29671

This letter is submitted in response to the revised proposed designation of critical habitat for the Quino checkerspot butterfly (Euphydryas editha quino) (73 Fed. Reg. 77568 (December 19, 2008), to be codified at 50 C.F.R. pt. 17), that continues to designate approximately 12,405 acres of Federal land found within the Western Riverside County Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan. These comments are submitted in addition to comments previously submitted on February 18, 2008 by the Western Riverside County Regional Conservation Authority on the proposed designation of critical habitat for the Quino checkerspot butterfly published by the Fish and Wildlife Service on January 17, 2008. (73 Fed. Reg. 3328.)