80 FR 15545 - Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Proposed Rule To Amend the Listing of the Southern Selkirk Mountains Population of Woodland Caribou

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 56 (March 24, 2015)

Page Range		15545-15547
FR Document		2015-06640

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce the reopening of the public comment period on our May 8, 2014, proposed rule to amend the listing of the southern Selkirk Mountains population of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) to the Southern Mountain caribou distinct population segment (DPS). The southern Selkirk Mountains population of woodland caribou is currently listed as endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). On May 8, 2014, we proposed to list the Southern Mountain caribou DPS as threatened under the Act. This reopening of comment period will provide all interested parties with an opportunity to review additional scientific information and provide comment on the status of the Southern Mountain caribou DPS. Information previously submitted need not be resubmitted as it has already been incorporated into the public record and will be fully considered in the final listing determination.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

50 CFR Part 17

[Docket No. FWS-R1-ES-2012-0097: FXES11130900000C2-156-FF09E32000]
RIN 1018-AZ74


Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Proposed Rule To 
Amend the Listing of the Southern Selkirk Mountains Population of 
Woodland Caribou

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of comment period.

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SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce the 
reopening of the public comment period on our May 8, 2014, proposed 
rule to amend the listing of the southern Selkirk Mountains population 
of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus caribou) to the Southern 
Mountain caribou distinct population segment (DPS). The southern 
Selkirk Mountains population of woodland caribou is currently listed as 
endangered under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). 
On May 8, 2014, we proposed to list the Southern Mountain caribou DPS 
as threatened under the Act. This reopening of comment period will 
provide all interested parties with an opportunity to review additional 
scientific information and provide comment on the status of the 
Southern Mountain caribou DPS. Information

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previously submitted need not be resubmitted as it has already been 
incorporated into the public record and will be fully considered in the 
final listing determination.

DATES: The comment period for the proposed rule published May 8, 2014, 
at 79 FR 26504, is reopened. We will consider comments received or 
postmarked on or before April 23, 2015. Comments submitted 
electronically using the Federal eRulemaking Portal (see ADDRESSES 
section, below) must be received by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on the 
closing date. Any comments that we receive after the closing date may 
not be considered in the final decision on this action.

ADDRESSES: Document availability: You may obtain a copy of the proposed 
rule and associated documents on the Internet at http://www.regulations.gov at Docket No. FWS-R1-ES-2012-0097, or by contacting 
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Idaho Fish and Wildlife Office (see 
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT).
    Comment submission: You may submit written information by one of 
the following methods:
    (1) Electronically: Go to the Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. In the Search box, enter FWS-R1-ES-2012-0097, 
which is the docket number for this rulemaking. Then, click the Search 
button. In the Search panel on the left side of the screen, under the 
Document Type heading, click on the box next to ``Proposed Rule'' to 
locate this document. You may submit a comment by clicking on ``Comment 
Now!'' Please ensure that you have found the correct rulemaking before 
submitting your comment.
    (2) By hard copy: Submit by U.S. mail or hand-delivery to: Public 
Comments Processing, Attn: FWS-R1-ES-2012-0097; Division of Policy and 
Directives Management; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, MS: BPHC; 5275 
Leesburg Pike; Falls Church, VA 22041-3803.
    We request that you send comments only by the methods described 
above. We will post all comments received on http://www.regulations.gov. This generally means that we will post any 
personal information you provide us (see the Information Requested 
section, below, for more information).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Michael Carrier, State Supervisor, 
Idaho Fish and Wildlife Office, 1387 S. Vinnell Way, Room 368, Boise, 
ID (telephone 208-378-5243; facsimile 208-378-5262). If you use a 
telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), please call the Federal 
Information Relay Service at 800-877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background

    On May 8, 2014, we published in the Federal Register (79 FR 26504) 
a document consisting of: (1) A 12-month finding on a petition to 
delist the southern Selkirk Mountains population of woodland caribou 
(Rangifer tarandus caribou); (2) a proposed rule to amend the current 
listing of this population by defining the Southern Mountain caribou 
DPS, which includes the currently listed southern Selkirk Mountains 
population of woodland caribou, and to list that DPS as threatened 
under the Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.); and (3) a determination that 
the approximately 30,010 acres (12,145 hectares) designated as critical 
habitat on November 28, 2012 (77 FR 71042), for the southern Selkirk 
Mountains population of woodland caribou is applicable to the U.S. 
portion of the proposed Southern Mountain Caribou DPS. The May 8, 2014, 
proposed rule had a 60-day public comment period, ending July 7, 2014. 
On June 10, 2014, we extended the public comment period an additional 
30 days, ending on August 6, 2014, and we announced the scheduling of 
two public informational sessions and hearings, which were held on June 
25, 2014, in Sandpoint, Idaho, and on June 26, 2014, in Bonners Ferry, 
Idaho (79 FR 33169).
    Subsequent to the closing of the public comment period on August 6, 
2014, the Committee on the Status of Endangered Wildlife in Canada 
(COSEWIC) finalized their assessment of the biological status of the 
Southern Mountain caribou population, changing it from threatened to 
endangered. In August 2014, COSEWIC, in accordance with Canada's 
federal Species At Risk Act (SARA), submitted their assessment of 
endangered biological status to the Canadian federal Environment 
Minister for consideration of changing the legal status of the Southern 
Mountain caribou in Canada under SARA to endangered. The recommended 
change in the legal status under SARA is pending review and decision by 
the federal Environment Minister. Although we were aware that COSEWIC's 
assessment was underway and we received some of the preliminary 
information contained in their assessment, we were not able to 
incorporate the information into our proposed rule (79 FR 26504, May 8, 
2014), because the assessment was not yet finalized by COSEWIC. The 
assessment is now available from COSEWIC for public review (http://www.registrelep-sararegistry.gc.ca/document/default_e.cfm?documentID=2575) and is also available for public 
inspection at http://www.regulations.gov at Docket No. FWS-R1-ES-2012-
0097. The 2014 COSEWIC assessment provides an updated synthesis and 
review of existing data and information about the species in Canada 
since the previous assessment by COSEWIC in 2002. The updated 
assessment includes an analysis of population size and trend and 
current threats to the population. Additionally, the assessment 
considered two population viability analyses, which are also available 
for public inspection at http://www.regulations.gov at Docket No. FWS-
R1-ES-2012-0097. This assessment, along with the population viability 
analyses, will be important sources of information for our status 
review and final listing determination for the Southern Mountain 
caribou DPS.
    Additionally, peer review of the proposed amended listing was 
conducted, and the report is available at http://www.regulations.gov at 
Docket No. FWS-R1-ES-2012-0097.

Information Requested

    We intend that any final action resulting from the proposed rule 
will be based on the best scientific and commercial data available, and 
be as accurate and complete as possible. Therefore, we are again 
seeking written comments and information from other concerned Federal 
and State agencies, the scientific community, or any other interested 
party during this reopened comment period on our proposed rule that 
published in the Federal Register on May 8, 2014 (79 FR 26504). We are 
particularly interested in comments and information regarding the 
current status and population trends of the local populations that 
comprise the proposed Southern Mountain caribou DPS. This information 
will be used to determine the status of the DPS as either not warranted 
for listing, threatened, or endangered.
    If you submitted comments or information on the proposed rule (79 
FR 26504) during the initial comment period from May 8, 2014, to July 
6, 2014, or the extended comment period (79 FR 33169) from July 7, 
2014, to August 6, 2014, please do not resubmit them. We have 
incorporated them into the public record as part of the original 
comment period, and we will fully consider them in our final 
determination.
    Please note that submissions merely stating support for or 
opposition to the action under consideration without

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providing supporting information, although noted, will not be 
considered in making a determination, as section 4(b)(1)(A) of the Act 
directs that determinations as to whether any species is an endangered 
or threatened species must be made ``solely on the basis of the best 
scientific and commercial data available.''
    You may submit your comments and materials concerning the proposed 
rule by one of the methods listed in ADDRESSES. We request that you 
send comments only by the methods described in ADDRESSES. If you submit 
information via http://www.regulations.gov, your entire submission--
including any personal identifying information--will be posted on the 
Web site. If your submission is made via a hardcopy that includes 
personal identifying information, you may request at the top of your 
document that we withhold this information from public review. However, 
we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so. We will post all 
hardcopy submissions on http://www.regulations.gov. Please include 
sufficient information with your comments to allow us to verify any 
scientific or commercial information you include.
    If you submit a comment via http://www.regulations.gov, your entire 
comment--including any personal identifying information--will be posted 
on the Web site. We will post all hardcopy comments on http://www.regulations.gov as well. If you submit a hardcopy comment that 
includes personal identifying information, you may request at the top 
of your document that we withhold this information from public review. 
However, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.
    Comments and materials we receive, as well as supporting 
documentation we used in preparing the proposed rule, will be available 
for public inspection on http://www.regulations.gov at Docket No. FWS-
R1-ES-2012-0097, or by appointment, during normal business hours, at 
the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Idaho Fish and Wildlife Office (see 
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT).

Authority

    The authority for this action is the Endangered Species Act of 
1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.).

    Dated: March 11, 2015.
Robert Dreher,
Acting Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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• Bismuth. • Nitroguanidine (also known as (including potential economic,
• Books, trade, text, technical, or picrite). environmental, public health and safety
scientific; newspapers; pamphlets; • Nux vomica, crude. effects, distributive impacts, and
magazines; periodicals; printed briefs • Oiticica oil. equity). E.O. 13563 emphasizes the
and films; not printed in the United • Olive oil. importance of quantifying both costs
States and for which domestic editions • Olives (green), pitted or unpitted, or and benefits, of reducing costs, of
are not available. stuffed, in bulk. harmonizing rules, and of promoting
• Brazil nuts, unroasted. • Opium, crude. flexibility. This is not a significant
• Cadmium, ores and flue dust. • Oranges, mandarin, canned. regulatory action and, therefore, was not
• Calcium cyanamide. • Petroleum, crude oil, unfinished subject to review under Section 6(b) of
• Capers. oils, and finished products. E.O. 12866, Regulatory Planning and
• Cashew nuts. • Pine needle oil. Review, dated September 30, 1993. This
• Castor beans and castor oil. • Pineapple, canned. rule is not a major rule under 5 U.S.C.
• Chalk, English. • Platinum and related group metals, 804.
• Chestnuts. refined, as sponge, powder, ingots, or
• Chicle. cast bars. List of Subject in 48 CFR Part 25
• Chrome ore or chromite. • Pyrethrum flowers. Government procurement.
• Cinchona bark. • Quartz crystals. Dated: March 19, 2015.
• Cobalt, in cathodes, rondelles, or • Quebracho.
William Clark,
other primary ore and metal forms. • Quinidine.
• Cocoa beans. • Quinine. Director, Office of Government-wide
Acquisition Policy, Office of Acquisition
• Coconut and coconut meat, • Rabbit fur felt.
Policy, Office of Government-wide Policy.
unsweetened, in shredded, desiccated, • Radium salts, source and special
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or similarly prepared form. nuclear materials.
• Coffee, raw or green bean. • Rosettes. BILLING CODE 6820–EP–P

• Colchicine alkaloid, raw. • Rubber, crude and latex.
• Copra. • Rutile.
• Cork, wood or bark and waste. • Santonin, crude. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
• Cover glass, microscope slide. • Secretin.
• Crane rail (85-pound per foot). • Shellac. Fish and Wildlife Service
• Cryolite, natural. • Silk, raw and unmanufactured.
• Dammar gum. • Spare and replacement parts for 50 CFR Part 17
• Diamonds, industrial, stones and equipment of foreign manufacture, and [Docket No. FWS–R1–ES–2012–0097:
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• Emetine, bulk. available.
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• Ergot, crude. • Spices and herbs, in bulk.
• Erythrityl tetranitrate. • Sugars, raw. Endangered and Threatened Wildlife
• Fair linen, altar. • Swords and scabbards. and Plants; Proposed Rule To Amend
• Fibers of the following types: abaca, • Talc, block, steatite. the Listing of the Southern Selkirk
abace, agave, coir, flax, jute, jute • Tantalum. Mountains Population of Woodland
burlaps, palmyra, and sisal. • Tapioca flour and cassava. Caribou
• Goat and kidskins. • Tartar, crude; tartaric acid and
• Goat hair canvas. cream of tartar in bulk. AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,
• Grapefruit sections, canned. • Tea in bulk. Interior.
• Graphite, natural, crystalline, • Thread, metallic (gold). ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of
crucible grade. • Thyme oil. comment period.
• Hand file sets (Swiss pattern). • Tin in bars, blocks, and pigs.
• Handsewing needles. • Triprolidine hydrochloride. SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and
• Hemp yarn. • Tungsten. Wildlife Service (Service), announce the
• Hog bristles for brushes. • Vanilla beans. reopening of the public comment period
• Hyoscine, bulk. • Venom, cobra. on our May 8, 2014, proposed rule to
• Ipecac, root. • Water chestnuts. amend the listing of the southern
• Iodine, crude. • Wax, carnauba. Selkirk Mountains population of
• Kaurigum. • Wire glass. woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus
• Lac. • Woods; logs, veneer, and lumber of caribou) to the Southern Mountain
• Leather, sheepskin, hair type. the following species: Alaskan yellow caribou distinct population segment
• Lavender oil. cedar, angelique, balsa, ekki, greenheart, (DPS). The southern Selkirk Mountains
• Manganese. lignum vitae, mahogany, and teak. population of woodland caribou is
• Menthol, natural bulk. • Yarn, 50 Denier rayon. currently listed as endangered under the
• Mica. • Yeast, active dry and instant active Endangered Species Act of 1973, as
• Microprocessor chips (brought onto dry. amended (Act). On May 8, 2014, we
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building systems during construction or Executive Orders (E.O.s) 12866 and Act. This reopening of comment period
repair and alteration of real property). 13563 direct agencies to assess all costs will provide all interested parties with
• Modacrylic fiber. and benefits of available regulatory an opportunity to review additional
• Nickel, primary, in ingots, pigs, alternatives and, if regulation is scientific information and provide
shots, cathodes, or similar forms; nickel necessary, to select regulatory comment on the status of the Southern
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Category		Regulatory Information
Collection		Federal Register
sudoc Class		AE 2.7: GS 4.107: AE 2.106:
Publisher		Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
Section		Proposed Rules
Action		Proposed rule; reopening of comment period.
Dates		The comment period for the proposed rule published May 8, 2014, at 79 FR 26504, is reopened. We will consider comments received or postmarked on or before April 23, 2015. Comments submitted
Contact		Michael Carrier, State Supervisor, Idaho Fish and Wildlife Office, 1387 S. Vinnell Way, Room 368, Boise, ID (telephone 208-378-5243; facsimile 208-378-5262). If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), please call the Federal Information Relay Service at 800-877-8339.
FR Citation		80 FR 15545
RIN Number		1018-AZ74

80 FR 15545 - Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Proposed Rule To Amend the Listing of the Southern Selkirk Mountains Population of Woodland Caribou

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORFish and Wildlife Service

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 56 (March 24, 2015)

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service