Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Listing the Southern White Rhino (Ceratotherium simum simum) as Threatened, 28847-28849 [2014-11537]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 97 / Tuesday, May 20, 2014 / Rules and Regulations office switching minutes, and then multiply by the Price Cap Carrier Traffic Demand Factor; * * * * * (vii) * * * (B) The reduction in interstate switched access revenues equal to the 2011 Baseline Composite Terminating End Office Access Rate using Fiscal Year 2011 terminating interstate end office switching minutes, and then multiply by the Price Cap Carrier Traffic Demand Factor; * * * * * (2) If a Price Cap Carrier recovers any costs or revenues that are already being recovered through Access Recovery Charges or the Connect America Fund from another source, that carrier’s ability to recover reduced switched access revenue from Access Recovery Charges or the Connect America Fund shall be reduced to the extent it receives duplicative recovery. Any duplicative recovery shall be reflected as a reduction to a carrier’s Eligible Recovery calculated pursuant to § 51.915(d). * * * * * (4) If a Price Cap Carrier receives payment for Access Recovery Charges after the period used to measure the adjustment to reflect the differences between estimated and actual revenues, it shall treat such payments as actual revenues in the year the payment is received and shall reflect this as an additional adjustment for that year. * * * * * ■ 5. Amend § 51.917 by revising (d)(1)(iii)(D) and (d)(1)(vii) to read as follows: § 51.917 Revenue recovery for rate-ofreturn carriers. rmajette on DSK2TPTVN1PROD with RULES * * * * * (d) * * * (1) * * * (iii) * * * (D) An amount equal to True-up Revenues for Access Recovery Charges for the year beginning July 1, 2012 multiplied by negative one. * * * * * (vii) If a Rate-of-Return Carrier recovers any costs or revenues that are already being recovered as Eligible Recovery through Access Recovery Charges or the Connect America Fund from another source, that carrier’s ability to recover reduced switched access revenue from Access Recovery Charges or the Connect America Fund shall be reduced to the extent it receives duplicative recovery. Any duplicative recovery shall be reflected as a reduction to a carrier’s Eligible Recovery calculated pursuant to § 51.917(d). A Rate-of-Return Carrier seeking revenue VerDate Mar<15>2010 15:05 May 19, 2014 Jkt 232001 recovery must annually certify as part of its tariff filings to the Commission and to the relevant state commission that the carrier is not seeking duplicative recovery in the state jurisdiction for any Eligible Recovery subject to the recovery mechanism. * * * * * [FR Doc. 2014–11479 Filed 5–19–14; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 6712–01–P DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Fish and Wildlife Service 50 CFR Part 17 [Docket Number FWS–HQ–ES–2013–0055; FXES111809F2070B6] RIN 1018–AY76 Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Listing the Southern White Rhino (Ceratotherium simum simum) as Threatened AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior. Affirmation of interim rule as final rule. ACTION: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), are adopting as a final rule an interim rule to list the southern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum simum) as threatened under the authority of section 4(e) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act), due to the similarity in appearance with the endangered Javan (Rhinoceros sondaicus), Sumatran (Dicerorhinos sumatrensis), Indian (Rhinoceros unicornis), black (Diceros bicornis) and northern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni). The interim rule was necessary, as differentiating between the horns and other products made from the southern white rhino and the endangered Javan, Sumatran, Indian, black, and northern white rhino is difficult for law enforcement to determine without genetic testing, decreasing their ability to enforce and further the provisions and policies of the Act. This similarity of appearance has resulted in the documented trade of listed rhinoceros species, often under the guise of being the unprotected southern white rhinoceros, and this difficulty in distinguishing between the rhino species protected under the Act and the southern white rhino constitutes an additional threat to all endangered rhinoceros species. The determination that the southern white rhino should be treated as threatened due to similarity of appearance will substantially facilitate SUMMARY: PO 00000 Frm 00039 Fmt 4700 Sfmt 4700 28847 law enforcement actions to protect and conserve all endangered rhino species. Therefore, for the reasons given in the interim rule and in this document, we are adopting the interim rule as a final rule without substantive change. DATES: Effective May 20, 2014, we are adopting as a final rule the interim rule published at 78 FR 55649 on September 11, 2013. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Janine Van Norman, Chief, Branch of Foreign Species, Endangered Species Program, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 4401 North Fairfax Drive, Room 420, Arlington, VA 22203; telephone 703– 358–2171; facsimile 703–358–1735. If you use a telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), call the Federal Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 800–877–8339. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background In an interim rule we published in the Federal Register on September 11, 2013 (78 FR 55649–55656, https:// www.regulations.gov Docket No. FWS– HQ–ES–2013–0055), we listed the southern white rhino (Ceratotherium simum simum) (SWR) as threatened under the ‘‘similarity of appearance’’ provisions of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act), 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq. The effective date of the listing was September 11, 2013. We amended subpart B of chapter I, title 50 of the Code of Federal Regulations at § 17.11(h), by adding the southern white rhinoceros to the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife due to a similarity of appearance. Public comments on the interim rule were received on or before October 11, 2013. Comments We received 32,139 comments from both the public and nongovernmental institutions; all but two commenters supported the interim rule. One comment conditionally supported the interim rule; the other did not support the interim rule. A brief description of the two comments and our responses are provided below. Comment: Both commenters expressed concern regarding the permitting requirements related to the legal take and importation of trophy specimens. One of the commenters also requested a special rule (under section 4(d) of the Act) that would waive the ‘‘enhancement’’ requirement associated with the ESA importation permit for SWR that are listed as Appendix I under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES), E:\FR\FM\20MYR1.SGM 20MYR1 rmajette on DSK2TPTVN1PROD with RULES 28848 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 97 / Tuesday, May 20, 2014 / Rules and Regulations including sport-hunted trophies imported from Namibia and Zimbabwe. Response: The Service’s regulatory criteria for issuance of permits for any activity otherwise prohibited with a species designated as endangered or threatened due to its similarity of appearance are found at 50 CFR 17.52(b). Under these criteria, the Director shall consider, in addition to the general permitting criteria found at 50 CFR 13.21(b), whether the information submitted by the applicant identifying the species and the origin of the wildlife or plant in question appears reliable and whether it adequately identifies the wildlife or plant so as to distinguish it from any Endangered or Threatened wildlife or plant. Therefore, ESA permits for importation of SWRs from populations listed under CITES Appendix I may be issued according to the regulatory criteria mentioned above, and there is no requirement for the Service to find that the otherwise prohibited activity involving these specimen of SWRs enhances the survival or propagation of the species. Current requirements to import legally obtained SWRs listed as CITES Appendix I already require a CITES permit from the country of origin, as well as CITES import permit issued by the U.S. For SWRs exported from South Africa or Swaziland, which are currently the only populations listed in Appendix II of CITES, no ESA regulatory permit for importation is required, provided that the specimen was legally exported from one of those two countries, the importation was not made in the course of a commercial activity, and other applicable requirements under section 9(c)(2) of the Act are met; a CITES Appendix II permit from the country of export would still be required for these specimens. More information regarding permitting requirements can be found at https:// www.fws.gov/ permits/ ImportExport/ ImportExport.html. Comment: One of the commenters questioned why the Service lists foreign species. Response: The Act requires the Service to list ‘‘species’’ as endangered if they are in danger of extinction, or threatened if they are likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future, regardless of the country in which the species lives. By regulating import; export; take within the U.S., the territorial sea of the U.S, or upon the high seas; certain activities for species taken in violation of the ESA’s prohibitions on take and import/export; VerDate Mar<15>2010 15:05 May 19, 2014 Jkt 232001 delivery, receipt, carrying, transport, or shipment in interstate or foreign commerce in the course of a commercial activity; or sell or offer for sale in interstate or foreign commerce, the United States ensures that people under the jurisdiction of the United States do not contribute to the further decline of species that meet the definition of threatened or endangered under the Act. Therefore, for the reasons given in the interim rule and in this document, we are adopting the interim rule as a final rule without substantive change. However, we are taking this opportunity to correct a nonsubstantive omission in the regulatory text. We are adding a number to the ‘‘When Listed’’ column of the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife to provide the public with the Federal Register citation and date of publication of the interim rule. Required Determinations Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.) This rule does not contain any new collections of information that require approval by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the Paperwork Reduction Act. This rule will not impose new recordkeeping or reporting requirements on State or local governments, individuals, businesses, or organizations. We may not conduct or sponsor, and you are not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. National Environmental Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) The Service has analyzed this rule in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). The Council on Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) regulations implementing NEPA, at 40 CFR 1508.4, define a ‘‘categorical exclusion’’ as a category of actions which do not individually or cumulatively have a significant effect on the human environment and which have been found to have no such effect on the human environment. CEQ’s regulations further require Federal agencies to adopt NEPA procedures, including the adoption of categorical exclusions for which neither an environmental assessment nor an environmental impact statement is required (40 CFR 1507.3). The Service has determined that this rule is categorically excluded from further environmental analysis under NEPA in accordance with the Department’s NEPA regulations at 43 PO 00000 Frm 00040 Fmt 4700 Sfmt 4700 CFR 46.210(i), which categorically excludes ‘‘[p]olicies, directives, regulations, and guidelines: that are of an administrative, financial, legal, technical, or procedural nature.’’ In addition, the Service has determined that none of the extraordinary circumstances listed under the Department’s regulations at 43 CFR 46.215, in which a normally excluded action may have a significant environmental effect, applies to this final rule. References Cited A complete list of all references cited in the interim rule is available on the Internet at https://www.regulations.gov or by contacting the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. Author The primary author of this rule is the staff of the Branch of Foreign Species, Endangered Species Program, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 4401 North Fairfax Drive, Room 420, Arlington, VA 22203 (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.). List of Subjects in 50 CFR Part 17 Endangered and threatened species, Exports, Imports, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Transportation. Regulation Promulgation Accordingly, we are adopting as a final rule the interim rule that amended part 17, subchapter B of chapter I, title 50 of the Code of Federal Regulations and that was published at 78 FR 55649 on September 11, 2013, with the following changes: PART 17—[AMENDED] 1. The authority citation for part 17 continues to read as follows: ■ Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1361–1407; 1531– 1544; 4201–4245; unless otherwise noted. 2. Amend § 17.11(h) by revising the entry for ‘‘Rhinoceros, southern white’’ under Mammals in the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife to read as follows: ■ § 17.11 Endangered and threatened wildlife. * * * (h) * * * E:\FR\FM\20MYR1.SGM 20MYR1 * * 28849 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 97 / Tuesday, May 20, 2014 / Rules and Regulations Species Vertebrate population where endangered or threatened Historic range Common name Scientific name Status When listed Critical habitat Special rules MAMMALS * Rhinoceros, southern white. * * Ceratotherium simum simum. * Botswana, South Africa, Swaziland, Zambia, Zimbabwe. * * Dated: April 4, 2014. Daniel M. Ashe, Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. [FR Doc. 2014–11537 Filed 5–19–14; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310–55–P DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 50 CFR Part 635 [Docket No. 130402317–3966–02] RIN 0648–XD281 Atlantic Highly Migratory Species; Commercial Gulf of Mexico Aggregated Large Coastal Shark and Gulf of Mexico Hammerhead Shark Management Groups National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce. ACTION: Temporary rule; closure. AGENCY: NMFS is closing the commercial aggregated large coastal sharks (LCS) and hammerhead sharks management groups in the Gulf of Mexico region. This action is necessary because the commercial landings of Gulf of Mexico aggregated LCS for the 2014 fishing season have exceeded 80 percent of the available commercial quota as of May 13, 2014. DATES: The commercial Gulf of Mexico aggregated LCS and Gulf of Mexico hammerhead shark management groups are closed effective 11:30 p.m. local time May 20, 2014, until the end of the 2014 fishing season on December 31, 2014, or until and if NMFS announces via a notice in the Federal Register that additional quota is available and the season is reopened. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karyl Brewster-Geisz or Alexis Jackson 301–427–8503; fax 301–713–1917. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Atlantic shark fisheries are managed rmajette on DSK2TPTVN1PROD with RULES SUMMARY: VerDate Mar<15>2010 15:05 May 19, 2014 Jkt 232001 * Entire ...................... * * T(S/A) * under the 2006 Consolidated Highly Migratory Species (HMS) Fishery Management Plan (FMP), its amendments, and its implementing regulations (50 CFR part 635) issued under authority of the MagnusonStevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq.). Under 50 CFR 635.5(b)(1), dealers must electronically submit reports on sharks that are first received from a vessel on a weekly basis through a NMFS-approved electronic reporting system, received by NMFS no later than midnight, local time, of the first Tuesday following the end of the reporting week unless the dealer is otherwise notified by NMFS. Under § 635.28(b)(2), when NMFS calculates that the landings for any species and/or management group of a linked group have reached or are projected to reach 80 percent of the available quota, NMFS will file for publication with the Office of the Federal Register a notice of closure for all of the species and/or management groups in a linked group that will be effective no fewer than 5 days from date of filing. From the effective date and time of the closure until and if NMFS announces, via a notice in the Federal Register, that additional quota is available and the season is reopened, the fishery for all linked species and/or management groups is closed, even across fishing years. On July 3, 2013 (78 FR 40318), NMFS announced the final rule for Amendment 5a to the 2006 Consolidated HMS FMP, which, among other things, established new quotas for aggregated LCS and hammerhead sharks in the Gulf of Mexico region and linked the Gulf of Mexico aggregated LCS and Gulf of Mexico hammerhead shark management groups. As a result of the quota linkage, when the quota for one management group is reached and is closed, the other management group closes at the same time. On November 26, 2013 (78 FR 70500), NMFS announced that the commercial Gulf of PO 00000 Frm 00041 Fmt 4700 * 832 Sfmt 4700 * N/A * N/A * Mexico aggregated LCS quota for 2014 was 151.2 metric tons (mt) dressed weight (dw) (333,828 lb dw), and the Gulf of Mexico hammerhead shark quota was 25.3 mt dw (55,722 lb dw). Dealer reports recently received through May 13, 2014, indicate that 124.0 mt dw or 82 percent of the available Gulf of Mexico aggregated LCS quota has been landed, and that 10.7 mt dw or 42 percent of the available Gulf of Mexico hammerhead shark quota has been landed. Based on these dealer reports, NMFS estimates that the 80-percent limit specified for a closure notice in the regulations has been exceeded as of May 13, 2014. Accordingly, NMFS is closing both the commercial aggregated LCS and hammerhead management groups in the Gulf of Mexico region as of 11:30 p.m. local time May 20, 2014. All other shark species or management groups that are currently open will remain open, including the commercial Gulf of Mexico blacktip sharks. At § 635.27(b)(1), the boundary between the Gulf of Mexico region and the Atlantic region is defined as a line beginning on the East Coast of Florida at the mainland at 25°20.4′ N. lat, proceeding due east. Any water and land to the south and west of that boundary is considered for the purposes of monitoring and setting quotas, to be within the Gulf of Mexico region. During the closure, retention of aggregated LCS and hammerhead sharks in the Gulf of Mexico region is prohibited for persons fishing aboard vessels issued a commercial shark limited access permit under § 635.4. However, persons aboard a commercially permitted vessel that is also properly permitted to operate as a charter vessel or headboat for HMS and is engaged in a for-hire trip could fish under the recreational retention limits for sharks and ‘‘no sale’’ provisions (§ 635.22(a) and (c)). Similarly, persons aboard a commercially permitted vessel that possesses a valid shark research permit under § 635.32 and has a NMFSapproved observer onboard may continue to harvest and sell aggregated E:\FR\FM\20MYR1.SGM 20MYR1

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[FR Doc No: 2014-11537]

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

50 CFR Part 17

[Docket Number FWS-HQ-ES-2013-0055; FXES111809F2070B6]
RIN 1018-AY76

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Listing the
Southern White Rhino (Ceratotherium simum simum) as Threatened

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Affirmation of interim rule as final rule.

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SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), are adopting
as a final rule an interim rule to list the southern white rhino
(Ceratotherium simum simum) as threatened under the authority of
section 4(e) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act),
due to the similarity in appearance with the endangered Javan
(Rhinoceros sondaicus), Sumatran (Dicerorhinos sumatrensis), Indian
(Rhinoceros unicornis), black (Diceros bicornis) and northern white
rhino (Ceratotherium simum cottoni). The interim rule was necessary, as
differentiating between the horns and other products made from the
southern white rhino and the endangered Javan, Sumatran, Indian, black,
and northern white rhino is difficult for law enforcement to determine
without genetic testing, decreasing their ability to enforce and
further the provisions and policies of the Act. This similarity of
appearance has resulted in the documented trade of listed rhinoceros
species, often under the guise of being the unprotected southern white
rhinoceros, and this difficulty in distinguishing between the rhino
species protected under the Act and the southern white rhino
constitutes an additional threat to all endangered rhinoceros species.
The determination that the southern white rhino should be treated as
threatened due to similarity of appearance will substantially
facilitate law enforcement actions to protect and conserve all
endangered rhino species. Therefore, for the reasons given in the
interim rule and in this document, we are adopting the interim rule as
a final rule without substantive change.

DATES: Effective May 20, 2014, we are adopting as a final rule the
interim rule published at 78 FR 55649 on September 11, 2013.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Janine Van Norman, Chief, Branch of
Foreign Species, Endangered Species Program, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, 4401 North Fairfax Drive, Room 420, Arlington, VA 22203;
telephone 703-358-2171; facsimile 703-358-1735. If you use a
telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), call the Federal
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 800-877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

In an interim rule we published in the Federal Register on
September 11, 2013 (78 FR 55649-55656, https://www.regulations.gov
Docket No. FWS-HQ-ES-2013-0055), we listed the southern white rhino
(Ceratotherium simum simum) (SWR) as threatened under the ``similarity
of appearance'' provisions of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as
amended (Act), 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq. The effective date of the listing
was September 11, 2013. We amended subpart B of chapter I, title 50 of
the Code of Federal Regulations at Sec. 17.11(h), by adding the
southern white rhinoceros to the List of Endangered and Threatened
Wildlife due to a similarity of appearance. Public comments on the
interim rule were received on or before October 11, 2013.

Comments

We received 32,139 comments from both the public and
nongovernmental institutions; all but two commenters supported the
interim rule. One comment conditionally supported the interim rule; the
other did not support the interim rule. A brief description of the two
comments and our responses are provided below.
Comment: Both commenters expressed concern regarding the permitting
requirements related to the legal take and importation of trophy
specimens. One of the commenters also requested a special rule (under
section 4(d) of the Act) that would waive the ``enhancement''
requirement associated with the ESA importation permit for SWR that are
listed as Appendix I under the Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species (CITES),

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including sport-hunted trophies imported from Namibia and Zimbabwe.
Response: The Service's regulatory criteria for issuance of permits
for any activity otherwise prohibited with a species designated as
endangered or threatened due to its similarity of appearance are found
at 50 CFR 17.52(b). Under these criteria, the Director shall consider,
in addition to the general permitting criteria found at 50 CFR
13.21(b), whether the information submitted by the applicant
identifying the species and the origin of the wildlife or plant in
question appears reliable and whether it adequately identifies the
wildlife or plant so as to distinguish it from any Endangered or
Threatened wildlife or plant. Therefore, ESA permits for importation of
SWRs from populations listed under CITES Appendix I may be issued
according to the regulatory criteria mentioned above, and there is no
requirement for the Service to find that the otherwise prohibited
activity involving these specimen of SWRs enhances the survival or
propagation of the species. Current requirements to import legally
obtained SWRs listed as CITES Appendix I already require a CITES permit
from the country of origin, as well as CITES import permit issued by
the U.S. For SWRs exported from South Africa or Swaziland, which are
currently the only populations listed in Appendix II of CITES, no ESA
regulatory permit for importation is required, provided that the
specimen was legally exported from one of those two countries, the
importation was not made in the course of a commercial activity, and
other applicable requirements under section 9(c)(2) of the Act are met;
a CITES Appendix II permit from the country of export would still be
required for these specimens. More information regarding permitting
requirements can be found at https://www.fws.gov/ permits/ ImportExport/
ImportExport.html.
Comment: One of the commenters questioned why the Service lists
foreign species.
Response: The Act requires the Service to list ``species'' as
endangered if they are in danger of extinction, or threatened if they
are likely to become endangered in the foreseeable future, regardless
of the country in which the species lives. By regulating import;
export; take within the U.S., the territorial sea of the U.S, or upon
the high seas; certain activities for species taken in violation of the
ESA's prohibitions on take and import/export; delivery, receipt,
carrying, transport, or shipment in interstate or foreign commerce in
the course of a commercial activity; or sell or offer for sale in
interstate or foreign commerce, the United States ensures that people
under the jurisdiction of the United States do not contribute to the
further decline of species that meet the definition of threatened or
endangered under the Act.
Therefore, for the reasons given in the interim rule and in this
document, we are adopting the interim rule as a final rule without
substantive change. However, we are taking this opportunity to correct
a nonsubstantive omission in the regulatory text. We are adding a
number to the ``When Listed'' column of the List of Endangered and
Threatened Wildlife to provide the public with the Federal Register
citation and date of publication of the interim rule.

Required Determinations

Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501, et seq.)

This rule does not contain any new collections of information that
require approval by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) under the
Paperwork Reduction Act. This rule will not impose new recordkeeping or
reporting requirements on State or local governments, individuals,
businesses, or organizations. We may not conduct or sponsor, and you
are not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control number.

National Environmental Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.)

The Service has analyzed this rule in accordance with the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA). The Council on Environmental
Quality's (CEQ) regulations implementing NEPA, at 40 CFR 1508.4, define
a ``categorical exclusion'' as a category of actions which do not
individually or cumulatively have a significant effect on the human
environment and which have been found to have no such effect on the
human environment. CEQ's regulations further require Federal agencies
to adopt NEPA procedures, including the adoption of categorical
exclusions for which neither an environmental assessment nor an
environmental impact statement is required (40 CFR 1507.3). The Service
has determined that this rule is categorically excluded from further
environmental analysis under NEPA in accordance with the Department's
NEPA regulations at 43 CFR 46.210(i), which categorically excludes
``[p]olicies, directives, regulations, and guidelines: that are of an
administrative, financial, legal, technical, or procedural nature.'' In
addition, the Service has determined that none of the extraordinary
circumstances listed under the Department's regulations at 43 CFR
46.215, in which a normally excluded action may have a significant
environmental effect, applies to this final rule.

References Cited

A complete list of all references cited in the interim rule is
available on the Internet at https://www.regulations.gov or by
contacting the person listed under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.

Author

The primary author of this rule is the staff of the Branch of
Foreign Species, Endangered Species Program, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, 4401 North Fairfax Drive, Room 420, Arlington, VA 22203 (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.).

List of Subjects in 50 CFR Part 17

Endangered and threatened species, Exports, Imports, Reporting and
recordkeeping requirements, Transportation.

Regulation Promulgation

Accordingly, we are adopting as a final rule the interim rule that
amended part 17, subchapter B of chapter I, title 50 of the Code of
Federal Regulations and that was published at 78 FR 55649 on September
11, 2013, with the following changes:

PART 17--[AMENDED]

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1. The authority citation for part 17 continues to read as follows:

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1361-1407; 1531-1544; 4201-4245; unless
otherwise noted.

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2. Amend Sec. 17.11(h) by revising the entry for ``Rhinoceros,
southern white'' under Mammals in the List of Endangered and Threatened
Wildlife to read as follows:

Sec. 17.11 Endangered and threatened wildlife.

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(h) * * *

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Species Vertebrate
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Historic range endangered or Status When listed habitat rules
Common name Scientific name threatened
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Mammals

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Rhinoceros, southern white...... Ceratotherium simum Botswana, South Entire............. T(S/A) 832 N/A N/A
simum. Africa, Swaziland,
Zambia, Zimbabwe.

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Dated: April 4, 2014.
Daniel M. Ashe,
Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
[FR Doc. 2014-11537 Filed 5-19-14; 8:45 am]
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