Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removing Textual Descriptions of Critical Habitat Boundaries for Plants on the Hawaiian Islands, 49751-49763 [2017-23399]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
50 CFR Part 17
[Docket No. FWS–HQ–ES–2015–0009;
4500090023]
RIN 1018–BA80
Endangered and Threatened Wildlife
and Plants; Removing Textual
Descriptions of Critical Habitat
Boundaries for Plants on the Hawaiian
Islands
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Final rule.
AGENCY:
We, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service (Service), are removing
the textual descriptions of critical
habitat boundaries from those
designations for plants on the Hawaiian
Islands of Kauai, Niihau, and Hawaii for
which the maps have been determined
to be sufficient to stand as the official
delineation of critical habitat. For these
entries, the boundaries of critical habitat
as mapped or otherwise described will
be the official delineation of the
designation. The coordinates and/or
plot points that we are removing from
the Code of Federal Regulations will be
available to the public at the lead field
office of the Service responsible for the
designation and online at the Federal
eRulemaking Portal. This action does
not increase, decrease, or otherwise
change the boundaries of any critical
habitat designation. We are taking this
action in accordance with our May 1,
2012, revision of the regulations related
to publishing textual descriptions of
critical habitat boundaries in the Code
of Federal Regulations and as part of our
response to Executive Order 13563
(January 18, 2011) directing Federal
agencies to review their existing
regulations and then to modify or
streamline them in accordance with
what they learned.
DATES: This rule is effective November
27, 2017.
ADDRESSES: This final rule is available
online at the Federal eRulemaking
Portal at https://www.regulations.gov.
Supporting documentation used in the
preparation of this rule will be available
for public inspection, by appointment,
during normal business hours at: U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, Branch of
Listing Policy and Support, MS: ES,
5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA
22041–3803; telephone 703–358–2171;
facsimile 703–358–1735.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Carey Galst, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
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Background
On May 1, 2012, we published a final
rule (77 FR 25611) revising our
regulations related to publishing textual
descriptions of proposed and final
critical habitat boundaries in the
Federal Register for codification in the
Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). In
the interest of making the process of
designating critical habitat more userfriendly for affected parties and the
public as a whole, as well as more
efficient and cost effective, we
maintained the publication of maps of
proposed and final critical habitat
designations, but made optional the
inclusion of any textual description of
the boundaries of the designation in the
Federal Register for codification in the
CFR. The boundaries of critical habitat
as mapped or otherwise described in the
Regulation Promulgation section of a
rulemaking that is published in the
Federal Register is the official
delineation of the critical habitat
designation. This approach began with
rules published after the effective date
of the final rule (May 31, 2012).
Specifically, for critical habitat rules
published after May 31, 2012, the
map(s), as clarified or refined by any
textual language within the rule,
constitutes the definition of the
boundaries of a critical habitat. Each
critical habitat area is shown on a map,
with more-detailed information
discussed in the preamble of the
rulemaking documents published in the
Federal Register. The map published in
the CFR is generated from the
coordinates and/or plot points
corresponding to the location of the
boundaries. These coordinates and/or
plot points are included in the
administrative record for the
designation, and are available to the
public either online or at the Service
field office responsible for the
designation or both. In addition, if the
Service concludes that additional tools
or supporting information are
appropriate and would help the public
understand the official boundary map,
we make the additional tools and
supporting information available on our
Internet site and at the Service field
office responsible for the critical habitat
designation.
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This Rule
The preamble to the May 1, 2012,
final rule (77 FR 25611) also explained
how the Service would handle
boundaries for critical habitat that had
already been designated before May 31,
2012; the rule states that ‘‘for existing
critical habitat designations, we also
intend to remove the textual
descriptions of final critical habitat
boundaries set forth in the CFR in order
to save the annual reprinting cost, but
we must do so in separate rulemakings
to ensure that removing the textual
descriptions does not change the
existing boundaries of those
designations’’ (77 FR 25618). We have
now begun applying this approach to
critical habitat designations
promulgated prior to May 31, 2012. This
rule is the first in a series of rules based
on our evaluation of the map(s) in each
critical habitat designation at 50 CFR
17.95, 17.96, and 17.99 to determine
whether or not the map(s) will be
sufficient to inform the public of the
boundaries of the designations and can
therefore stand as the official
delineation of the designation.
In this rule, we are removing the
textual descriptions of critical habitat
boundaries from those entries at 50 CFR
17.99 (plants on the Hawaiian Islands)
where we have determined that the
maps are sufficient to stand as the
official delineation of the designation.
Unlike 50 CFR 17.95, which is
organized by wildlife group (e.g.,
mammals) and then by species, and 50
CFR 17.96, which is organized by plant
family (e.g., Asteraceae) and then by
species, 50 CFR 17.99 is organized
geographically: By Hawaiian island and
then, for the most part, by ecosystem on
that island (e.g., montane wet
ecosystem). As such, the criteria we use
for evaluating the sufficiency of the
maps set forth at 50 CFR 17.99 differ
slightly from the criteria we use for
evaluating the maps set forth at 50 CFR
17.95 and 17.96.
For the maps at 50 CFR 17.99, we look
for a combination of certain map
elements, including, but not limited to,
the unit name, a clear map key, and an
appropriate map scale, to determine
whether or not a map is sufficient to
serve as the official delineation of the
designation. We do not require that
there be a State or County name on the
map because each Hawaiian island has
its own paragraph within 50 CFR 17.99:
Critical habitat designations for Kauai
are set forth at § 17.99(a)(1); for Niihau,
at § 17.99(a)(2); for Molokai, at
§ 17.99(c); for Maui, at § 17.99(e)(1); for
Kahoolawe, at § 17.99(e)(2); for the
northwestern Hawaiian islands (Nihoa,
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Necker, and Laysan), at § 17.99(g); for
Oahu, at § 17.99(i); and for Hawaii (the
big island), at § 17.99(k). In addition,
given that the designations at 50 CFR
17.99 are ecosystem-based, we do not
require that there be a full listing of the
species names on each map, because an
ecosystem may have many species
designated within it. In most entries, the
text preceding the map gives a full
listing of species within the designated
critical habitat unit, and each island (or
island group) also has a Table of
Protected Species that lists the species
occupied and unoccupied in each unit.
Other entries, such as those for the
islands of Kauai and Niihau, include the
species name as part of the unit name.
Our evaluation of the maps at 50 CFR
17.99 found that nearly every map
meets our sufficiency criteria; the only
maps that do not meet our criteria are
those that we need to correct.
Specifically, at 50 CFR 17.99(k), Maps
97, 100, 101, and 102 are either a
duplicate of another unit map or labeled
with the incorrect species name. We
plan to make these map corrections in
a future rulemaking, and in this rule we
retain the textual descriptions of those
units with maps that need correction.
The only textual descriptions we are
removing in this rule are those set forth
for the islands of Kauai, Niihau, and
Hawaii at 50 CFR 17.99(a)(1), (a)(2), and
(k), respectively. All of the critical
habitat designations for plants on the
other Hawaiian Islands have been
recently updated and/or do not include
detailed textual descriptions.
This rule does not increase, decrease,
or in any other way change the critical
habitat designations from which we are
removing the textual descriptions of
boundaries. This administrative action
will save taxpayer resources. The
Service spent $75,225 to reprint the
critical habitat designations at 50 CFR
17.99 for the most-recent print edition
of the CFR. Based on a review of the
print edition of the CFR, we estimate
that this rule will remove approximately
132 pages of the relevant CFR volumes,
amounting to a savings of approximately
$11,220 per year in printing costs for the
Service. Over many years, eliminating
the need to reprint Universal Transverse
Mercator (UTM) coordinate pairs at 50
CFR 17.99 will result in a considerable
cumulative cost savings for the Service
and the public as a whole.
We will publish a series of rules, of
which this is the first, to remove the
textual descriptions from all of the
critical habitat designations at 50 CFR
17.95, 17.96, and 17.99 that have map(s)
sufficient to stand as the official
delineation of the designation.
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The detailed UTM coordinates or
other textual descriptions we are
removing in this rule will continue to be
available online at the Federal
eRulemaking Portal (see ADDRESSES) and
at the lead field office responsible for
the designation to assist the public in
understanding the official boundary.
We note that the Service never
maintained that requiring detailed
textual descriptions was legally
necessary. Instead, the first critical
habitat regulations required only that
critical habitat designations be
‘‘accompanied by maps and/or
geographical descriptions’’ (43 FR 870,
876; January 4, 1978). Although the
Service subsequently added the
requirement that critical habitat
designations include textual
descriptions describing the specific
boundary limits of the critical habitat,
there is nothing in the preamble to that
rule indicating that the Service did so
because the Act required it. Rather, it
was in response to several commenters,
who had opined that the proposed rule
was not sufficiently clear in setting out
the method by which critical habitat
boundaries would be described (45 FR
13009, 13015; February 27, 1980).
Removing these unnecessary textual
descriptions will significantly reduce
the length of some critical habitat
designations, making each designation
easier to locate in the CFR; will not
weaken the effectiveness of the Act; and
will not undermine the public’s ability
to identify the boundaries of critical
habitat designations.
The information printed in the CFR is
the legally binding delineation of
critical habitat. If there is ambiguity due
to the scale of the map such that
additional regulatory text is needed to
ensure that the public has adequate
notice of the boundaries, we provide
additional regulation text. The only
change to the CFR that we are making
with this action is removing the detailed
coordinate data of the boundaries of the
specific areas designated as critical
habitat (i.e., latitude-longitude and UTM
coordinates). We still generate those
data, and make them available at https://
www.regulations.gov and at the lead
field office of the Service responsible for
the critical habitat designation. Neither
the critical habitat designation nor the
underlying data on which it is based can
be changed without undergoing a
further rulemaking.
As stated earlier, the actions we are
taking in this rule do not increase,
decrease, or otherwise change the
critical habitat boundaries or areas. For
50 CFR 17.99(a)(1), (a)(2), and (k), we
are merely removing the reference
points (i.e., UTM coordinates) of the
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textual descriptions from existing final
critical habitat designations, and we are
doing so only where we have
determined that the existing maps are
sufficient to inform the public of the
boundaries of the designations and can
therefore stand as the official
delineation of critical habitat. However,
we will continue to provide the
reference points of the textual
descriptions at https://
www.regulations.gov and at the lead
field office of the Service responsible for
the critical habitat designation.
The actions we are taking in this rule
require that we also revise 50 CFR
17.94(b) to make clear which critical
habitat designations have maps that
stand as the official delineation of
critical habitat and which do not. Our
revisions to 50 CFR 17.94 also correct
the inadvertent omission of a reference
to critical habitat areas designated at
‘‘§ 17.99 (plants on the Hawaiian
Islands)’’ from paragraph (a) and remove
paragraphs (c) and (d). We are removing
paragraph (c) because not all of our
critical habitat designations include
information in the CFR on the biological
or physical constituent elements that are
known to require special management
considerations or protection in a
designated area. Such information can
still be found in the Federal Register
publications proposing and finalizing
individual critical habitat designations,
as well as in the record for each critical
habitat designation. This is also
consistent with our regulations, which
we recently updated to clarify the
procedures for designating and revising
critical habitat (81 FR 7414, February
11, 2016). We are removing paragraph
(d) because not all of our critical habitat
designations follow the sequence of
species in the List of Endangered and
Threatened Wildlife at 50 CFR 17.11 or
the List of Endangered and Threatened
Plants at 50 CFR 17.12 (e.g., one
designation for several species, such as
the designation for five Tennessee and
Cumberland River Basin mussel species
at 50 CFR 17.95(f), and the designations
at 50 CFR 17.99 that are organized by
Hawaiian island and ecosystem).
We are publishing this final rule
without a prior proposal because we
find that there is good cause for doing
so pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553(b)(3)(B). The
‘‘good cause’’ exception applies when
an agency finds ‘‘that notice and public
procedure thereon are impracticable,
unnecessary, or contrary to the public
interest.’’ Publication of a proposed rule
for this action is unnecessary because
this is an administrative action that does
not increase, decrease, or otherwise
change critical habitat boundaries or
areas. Therefore, this action will not
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affect any legal rights. Rather, it will
merely reduce the publication length of
some rules designating critical habitat,
which will save taxpayer resources and
make each designation easier to locate
in the CFR. We find that it is in the best
interest of the public to promulgate
these administrative and technical
changes to 50 CFR 17.99 and without
undergoing procedures that are
unnecessary.
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Regulatory Planning and Review—
Executive Orders 12866 and 13563
Executive Order (E.O.) 12866 provides
that the Office of Information and
Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) will review
all significant rules. OIRA has
determined that this rule is not
significant.
Executive Order 13563 reaffirms the
principles of E.O. 12866 while calling
for improvements in the nation’s
regulatory system to promote
predictability, to reduce uncertainty,
and to use the best, most innovative,
and least burdensome tools for
achieving regulatory ends. The
executive order directs agencies to
consider regulatory approaches that
reduce burdens and maintain flexibility
and freedom of choice for the public
where these approaches are relevant,
feasible, and consistent with regulatory
objectives. E.O. 13563 emphasizes
further that regulations must be based
on the best available science and that
the rulemaking process must allow for
public participation and an open
exchange of ideas. We have developed
this rule in a manner consistent with
these requirements.
Executive Order 13771
This rule is not an E.O. 13771
(‘‘Reducing Regulation and Controlling
Regulatory Costs’’) (82 FR 9339,
February 3, 2017) regulatory action
because this rule is not significant under
E.O. 12866.
Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601
et seq.)
Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act
(RFA), as amended by the Small
Business Regulatory Enforcement
Fairness Act of 1996 (SBREFA), 5 U.S.C.
601 et seq., whenever an agency is
required to publish a notice of
rulemaking for any proposed or final
rule, it must prepare and make available
for public comment a regulatory
flexibility analysis that describes the
effects of the rule on small entities (i.e.,
small businesses, small organizations,
and small government jurisdictions).
However, no regulatory flexibility
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analysis is required if the head of the
agency certifies the rule will not have a
significant economic impact on a
substantial number of small entities.
The SBREFA amended the RFA to
require Federal agencies to provide a
statement of the factual basis for
certifying that the rule will not have a
significant economic impact on a
substantial number of small entities.
According to the Small Business
Administration, small entities include
small organizations such as
independent nonprofit organizations;
small governmental jurisdictions,
including school boards and city and
town governments that serve fewer than
50,000 residents; and small businesses
(13 CFR 121.201). Small businesses
include such businesses as
manufacturing and mining concerns
with fewer than 500 employees,
wholesale trade entities with fewer than
100 employees, and retail and service
businesses with less than $5 million in
annual sales. In general, the term
‘‘significant economic impact’’ is meant
to apply to a typical small business
firm’s business operations.
This rule will not have a significant
economic effect on a substantial number
of small entities as defined under the
RFA. This rule is an administrative
action to remove the textual
descriptions from critical habitat
designations that have a map(s)
sufficient to stand as the official
delineation of critical habitat at 50 CFR
17.99(a)(1), (a)(2), and (k). This action
does not increase, decrease, or in any
other way alter the areas or boundaries
of the critical habitat designations from
which we are removing the textual
descriptions of boundaries.
This administrative action will save
taxpayer resources. The Service spent
$75,225 to reprint the critical habitat
designations at 50 CFR 17.99 for the
most-recent print edition of the CFR.
Based on a review of the print edition
of the CFR, we estimate that this rule
will remove approximately 132 pages of
the relevant CFR volumes, amounting to
a savings of approximately $11,220 per
year in printing costs paid by the
Service. While over many years,
eliminating the need to reprint
Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)
coordinate pairs at 50 CFR 17.99 will
result in a considerable cumulative cost
savings to the Service and the public as
a whole, this rule will result in only a
small annual savings to the Service and
the public.
Therefore, for the reasons above, we
certify that this rule will not have a
significant economic impact on a
substantial number of small entities.
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Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (2
U.S.C. 1501 et seq.)
In accordance with the Unfunded
Mandates Reform Act (2 U.S.C. 1501 et
seq.), the Services make the following
findings:
a. This rule will not produce a Federal
mandate. In general, a Federal mandate
is a provision in legislation, statute, or
regulation that would impose an
enforceable duty upon State, local, or
tribal governments, or the private sector,
and includes both ‘‘Federal
intergovernmental mandates’’ and
‘‘Federal private sector mandates.’’
These terms are defined in 2 U.S.C.
658(5)–(7). ‘‘Federal intergovernmental
mandate’’ includes a regulation that
‘‘would impose an enforceable duty
upon State, local, or tribal governments’’
with two exceptions: (1) ‘‘a condition of
Federal assistance’’ or (2) ‘‘a duty
arising from participation in a voluntary
Federal program,’’ unless the regulation
‘‘relates to a then-existing Federal
program under which $500,000,000 or
more is provided annually to State,
local, and tribal governments under
entitlement authority’’; the provision
would either ‘‘increase the stringency of
conditions of assistance’’ or ‘‘place caps
upon, or otherwise decrease, the Federal
Government’s responsibility to provide
funding’’; and the State, local, or tribal
governments ‘‘lack authority . . . to
amend their financial or programmatic
responsibilities to continue providing
required services.’’ At the time of
enactment, these entitlement programs
were: Medicaid; AFDC work programs;
Child Nutrition; Food Stamps; Social
Services Block Grants; Vocational
Rehabilitation State Grants; Foster Care,
Adoption Assistance, and Independent
Living; Family Support Welfare
Services; and Child Support
Enforcement. ‘‘Federal private sector
mandate’’ includes a regulation that
‘‘would impose an enforceable duty
upon the private sector, except (i) a
condition of Federal assistance or (ii) a
duty arising from participation in a
voluntary Federal program.’’ This rule
does not produce a Federal mandate
under either of these definitions.
b. This rule will not significantly or
uniquely affect small governments
because the revisions to the regulations
in this rule should make our critical
habitat designations more readerfriendly and will make the process more
cost-effective for the Service and the
public as a whole. As such, we do not
believe that a Small Government
Agency Plan is required.
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Takings—Executive Order 12630
In accordance with Executive Order
12630 (‘‘Government Actions and
Interference with Constitutionally
Protected Private Property Rights’’), we
have evaluated this rule, and we have
determined that this rule does not pose
significant takings implications. The
revisions to the regulations set forth in
this rule do not involve individual
property rights.
Federalism—Executive Order 13132
In accordance with Executive Order
13132 (Federalism), the rule does not
have significant Federalism effects. A
federalism summary impact statement is
not required. The revisions to the
regulations addressed in this rule are
intended to promote the usability of the
regulations and make the process of
designating critical habitat more costeffective, and thus should not
significantly affect or burden the
authority of the States to govern
themselves.
Civil Justice Reform—Executive Order
12988
In accordance with Executive Order
12988 (Civil Justice Reform), this rule
follows the Civil Justice Reform
principles for regulations that do not
unduly burden the Federal judicial
system, by meeting the requirements of
sections 3(a) and 3(b) of the Executive
Order. The revisions to the regulations
addressed in this rule should not
significantly affect or burden the
judicial system.
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
This rule does not contain any new
collections of information that require
approval by OMB under the Paperwork
Reduction Act (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.).
This rule will not impose recordkeeping
or reporting requirements on State or
local governments, individuals,
businesses, or organizations. An agency
may not conduct or sponsor, and a
person is not required to respond to, a
collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control
number.
National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA)
We analyzed this rule in accordance
with the criteria of the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969
(NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), 43 CFR
part 46, and 516 Departmental Manual
(DM) 2 and 8.
A categorical exclusion from NEPA
documentation applies to policies,
directives, regulations, and guidelines
that are ‘‘of an administrative, financial,
legal, technical, or procedural nature’’
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(43 CFR 46.210(i)). However, even if an
individual Federal action falls within a
categorical exclusion, the Service must
still prepare environmental documents
pursuant to NEPA if one of the 12
exceptions listed in 43 CFR 46.215
applies.
We have reviewed each of the 12
exceptions and have found that because
this rule is administrative in nature,
none of the exceptions apply. Therefore,
this action meets the requirements for a
categorical exclusion from the NEPA
process.
Government-to-Government
Relationship With Tribes
In accordance with the President’s
memorandum of April 29, 1994,
‘‘Government-to-Government Relations
with Native American Tribal
Governments’’ (59 FR 22951), Executive
Order 13175 ‘‘Consultation and
Coordination with Indian Tribal
Governments,’’ and the Department of
the Interior Manual at 512 DM 2, we
readily acknowledge our responsibility
to communicate meaningfully with
recognized Native American Tribes on a
government-to-government basis. We
have evaluated the potential effects on
federally recognized Tribes from these
revisions to our regulations. We have
determined that there are no potential
effects to federally recognized Tribes,
because the revisions to the regulations
are intended to promote the usability of
critical habitat designations and save
taxpayer monies. However, we will
continue to coordinate with Tribes as
we promulgate critical habitat
designations.
Energy Supply, Distribution, or Use
Executive Order 13211 (Actions
Concerning Regulations That
Significantly Affect Energy Supply,
Distribution, or Use) requires agencies
to prepare Statements of Energy Effects
when undertaking certain actions.
‘‘Significant energy action’’ means any
action by an agency (normally
published in the Federal Register) that
promulgates or is expected to lead to the
promulgation of a final rule or
regulation, including notices of inquiry,
advance notices of proposed
rulemaking, and notices of proposed
rulemaking that is a significant
regulatory action under Executive Order
12866 or any successor order, and is
likely to have a significant adverse effect
on the supply, distribution, or use of
energy; or that is designated by the
Administrator of the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs as a
significant energy action. This rule does
not qualify as a significant regulatory
action under Executive Order 12866;
will not have a significant adverse effect
on the supply, distribution, or use of
energy; and has not been designated by
the Administrator of the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs as a
significant energy action. Therefore, this
action is not a significant energy action
and no Statement of Energy Effects is
required.
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Endangered and threatened species,
Exports, Imports, Reporting and
recordkeeping requirements,
Transportation.
Regulation Promulgation
Accordingly, we amend part 17,
subchapter B of chapter I, title 50 of the
Code of Federal Regulations, as follows:
PART 17—ENDANGERED AND
THREATENED WILDLIFE AND PLANTS
1. The authority citation for part 17
continues to read as follows:
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1544; 4201–4245, unless otherwise noted.
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§ 17.94
Critical habitats.
(a) The areas listed in § 17.95 (fish
and wildlife), § 17.96 (plants), and
§ 17.99 (plants on the Hawaiian Islands)
and referred to in the lists at §§ 17.11
and 17.12 have been determined by the
Director to be critical habitat. All
Federal agencies must insure that any
action authorized, funded, or carried out
by them is not likely to result in the
destruction or adverse modification of
the constituent elements essential to the
conservation of the listed species within
these defined critical habitats. (See part
402 for rules concerning this
prohibition; see also part 424 for rules
concerning the determination of critical
habitat).
(b) Maps.
If the critical habitat map
appears in . . .
Then . . .
(1) A critical habitat designation in § 17.99, or
(2) A critical habitat designation published and effective after May 31, 2012,
The map provided by the Secretary of the Interior, as clarified or refined by any textual language within the rule,
constitutes the definition of the boundaries of a critical habitat. Each critical habitat area will be shown on a
map, with more-detailed information discussed in the preamble of the rulemaking documents published in the
Federal Register and made available from the lead field office of the Service responsible for such designation.
Each area will be referenced to the State(s), county(ies), or other local government units within which all or part
of the critical habitat is located. General descriptions of the location and boundaries of each area may be provided to clarify or refine what is included within the boundaries depicted on the map, or to explain the exclusion
of sites (e.g., paved roads, buildings) within the mapped area. Unless otherwise indicated within the critical
habitat descriptions, the names of the State(s) and county(ies) are provided for informational purposes only and
do not constitute the boundaries of the area.
The map provided by the Secretary of the Interior is for reference purposes to guide Federal agencies and other
interested parties in locating the general boundaries of the critical habitat. The map does not, unless otherwise
indicated, constitute the definition of the boundaries of a critical habitat. Critical habitats are described by reference to surveyable landmarks found on standard topographic maps of the area and to the States and county(ies) within which all or part of the critical habitat is located. Unless otherwise indicated within the critical habitat description, the State and county(ies) names are provided for informational purposes only.
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(3) A critical habitat designation that specifically states
that the map(s) is for informational purposes only, or
(4) A critical habitat designation published and effective on or prior to May 31,
2012, that is set forth at
§ 17.95 or § 17.96,
§ 17.99
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
50 CFR Part 17
[Docket No. FWS-HQ-ES-2015-0009; 4500090023]
RIN 1018-BA80
Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Removing Textual
Descriptions of Critical Habitat Boundaries for Plants on the Hawaiian
Islands
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Final rule.
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SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), are removing
the textual descriptions of critical habitat boundaries from those
designations for plants on the Hawaiian Islands of Kauai, Niihau, and
Hawaii for which the maps have been determined to be sufficient to
stand as the official delineation of critical habitat. For these
entries, the boundaries of critical habitat as mapped or otherwise
described will be the official delineation of the designation. The
coordinates and/or plot points that we are removing from the Code of
Federal Regulations will be available to the public at the lead field
office of the Service responsible for the designation and online at the
Federal eRulemaking Portal. This action does not increase, decrease, or
otherwise change the boundaries of any critical habitat designation. We
are taking this action in accordance with our May 1, 2012, revision of
the regulations related to publishing textual descriptions of critical
habitat boundaries in the Code of Federal Regulations and as part of
our response to Executive Order 13563 (January 18, 2011) directing
Federal agencies to review their existing regulations and then to
modify or streamline them in accordance with what they learned.
DATES: This rule is effective November 27, 2017.
ADDRESSES: This final rule is available online at the Federal
eRulemaking Portal at https://www.regulations.gov. Supporting
documentation used in the preparation of this rule will be available
for public inspection, by appointment, during normal business hours at:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Branch of Listing Policy and Support,
MS: ES, 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041-3803; telephone 703-
358-2171; facsimile 703-358-1735.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Carey Galst, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
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Service, MS: ES, 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041-3803;
telephone 703-358-1954; facsimile 703-358-1735. If you use a
telecommunications device for the deaf (TDD), call the Federal Relay
Service at 800-877-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
On May 1, 2012, we published a final rule (77 FR 25611) revising
our regulations related to publishing textual descriptions of proposed
and final critical habitat boundaries in the Federal Register for
codification in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR). In the interest
of making the process of designating critical habitat more user-
friendly for affected parties and the public as a whole, as well as
more efficient and cost effective, we maintained the publication of
maps of proposed and final critical habitat designations, but made
optional the inclusion of any textual description of the boundaries of
the designation in the Federal Register for codification in the CFR.
The boundaries of critical habitat as mapped or otherwise described in
the Regulation Promulgation section of a rulemaking that is published
in the Federal Register is the official delineation of the critical
habitat designation. This approach began with rules published after the
effective date of the final rule (May 31, 2012).
Specifically, for critical habitat rules published after May 31,
2012, the map(s), as clarified or refined by any textual language
within the rule, constitutes the definition of the boundaries of a
critical habitat. Each critical habitat area is shown on a map, with
more-detailed information discussed in the preamble of the rulemaking
documents published in the Federal Register. The map published in the
CFR is generated from the coordinates and/or plot points corresponding
to the location of the boundaries. These coordinates and/or plot points
are included in the administrative record for the designation, and are
available to the public either online or at the Service field office
responsible for the designation or both. In addition, if the Service
concludes that additional tools or supporting information are
appropriate and would help the public understand the official boundary
map, we make the additional tools and supporting information available
on our Internet site and at the Service field office responsible for
the critical habitat designation.
This Rule
The preamble to the May 1, 2012, final rule (77 FR 25611) also
explained how the Service would handle boundaries for critical habitat
that had already been designated before May 31, 2012; the rule states
that ``for existing critical habitat designations, we also intend to
remove the textual descriptions of final critical habitat boundaries
set forth in the CFR in order to save the annual reprinting cost, but
we must do so in separate rulemakings to ensure that removing the
textual descriptions does not change the existing boundaries of those
designations'' (77 FR 25618). We have now begun applying this approach
to critical habitat designations promulgated prior to May 31, 2012.
This rule is the first in a series of rules based on our evaluation of
the map(s) in each critical habitat designation at 50 CFR 17.95, 17.96,
and 17.99 to determine whether or not the map(s) will be sufficient to
inform the public of the boundaries of the designations and can
therefore stand as the official delineation of the designation.
In this rule, we are removing the textual descriptions of critical
habitat boundaries from those entries at 50 CFR 17.99 (plants on the
Hawaiian Islands) where we have determined that the maps are sufficient
to stand as the official delineation of the designation. Unlike 50 CFR
17.95, which is organized by wildlife group (e.g., mammals) and then by
species, and 50 CFR 17.96, which is organized by plant family (e.g.,
Asteraceae) and then by species, 50 CFR 17.99 is organized
geographically: By Hawaiian island and then, for the most part, by
ecosystem on that island (e.g., montane wet ecosystem). As such, the
criteria we use for evaluating the sufficiency of the maps set forth at
50 CFR 17.99 differ slightly from the criteria we use for evaluating
the maps set forth at 50 CFR 17.95 and 17.96.
For the maps at 50 CFR 17.99, we look for a combination of certain
map elements, including, but not limited to, the unit name, a clear map
key, and an appropriate map scale, to determine whether or not a map is
sufficient to serve as the official delineation of the designation. We
do not require that there be a State or County name on the map because
each Hawaiian island has its own paragraph within 50 CFR 17.99:
Critical habitat designations for Kauai are set forth at Sec.
17.99(a)(1); for Niihau, at Sec. 17.99(a)(2); for Molokai, at Sec.
17.99(c); for Maui, at Sec. 17.99(e)(1); for Kahoolawe, at Sec.
17.99(e)(2); for the northwestern Hawaiian islands (Nihoa, Necker, and
Laysan), at Sec. 17.99(g); for Oahu, at Sec. 17.99(i); and for Hawaii
(the big island), at Sec. 17.99(k). In addition, given that the
designations at 50 CFR 17.99 are ecosystem-based, we do not require
that there be a full listing of the species names on each map, because
an ecosystem may have many species designated within it. In most
entries, the text preceding the map gives a full listing of species
within the designated critical habitat unit, and each island (or island
group) also has a Table of Protected Species that lists the species
occupied and unoccupied in each unit. Other entries, such as those for
the islands of Kauai and Niihau, include the species name as part of
the unit name. Our evaluation of the maps at 50 CFR 17.99 found that
nearly every map meets our sufficiency criteria; the only maps that do
not meet our criteria are those that we need to correct. Specifically,
at 50 CFR 17.99(k), Maps 97, 100, 101, and 102 are either a duplicate
of another unit map or labeled with the incorrect species name. We plan
to make these map corrections in a future rulemaking, and in this rule
we retain the textual descriptions of those units with maps that need
correction. The only textual descriptions we are removing in this rule
are those set forth for the islands of Kauai, Niihau, and Hawaii at 50
CFR 17.99(a)(1), (a)(2), and (k), respectively. All of the critical
habitat designations for plants on the other Hawaiian Islands have been
recently updated and/or do not include detailed textual descriptions.
This rule does not increase, decrease, or in any other way change
the critical habitat designations from which we are removing the
textual descriptions of boundaries. This administrative action will
save taxpayer resources. The Service spent $75,225 to reprint the
critical habitat designations at 50 CFR 17.99 for the most-recent print
edition of the CFR. Based on a review of the print edition of the CFR,
we estimate that this rule will remove approximately 132 pages of the
relevant CFR volumes, amounting to a savings of approximately $11,220
per year in printing costs for the Service. Over many years,
eliminating the need to reprint Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM)
coordinate pairs at 50 CFR 17.99 will result in a considerable
cumulative cost savings for the Service and the public as a whole.
We will publish a series of rules, of which this is the first, to
remove the textual descriptions from all of the critical habitat
designations at 50 CFR 17.95, 17.96, and 17.99 that have map(s)
sufficient to stand as the official delineation of the designation.
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The detailed UTM coordinates or other textual descriptions we are
removing in this rule will continue to be available online at the
Federal eRulemaking Portal (see ADDRESSES) and at the lead field office
responsible for the designation to assist the public in understanding
the official boundary.
We note that the Service never maintained that requiring detailed
textual descriptions was legally necessary. Instead, the first critical
habitat regulations required only that critical habitat designations be
``accompanied by maps and/or geographical descriptions'' (43 FR 870,
876; January 4, 1978). Although the Service subsequently added the
requirement that critical habitat designations include textual
descriptions describing the specific boundary limits of the critical
habitat, there is nothing in the preamble to that rule indicating that
the Service did so because the Act required it. Rather, it was in
response to several commenters, who had opined that the proposed rule
was not sufficiently clear in setting out the method by which critical
habitat boundaries would be described (45 FR 13009, 13015; February 27,
1980).
Removing these unnecessary textual descriptions will significantly
reduce the length of some critical habitat designations, making each
designation easier to locate in the CFR; will not weaken the
effectiveness of the Act; and will not undermine the public's ability
to identify the boundaries of critical habitat designations.
The information printed in the CFR is the legally binding
delineation of critical habitat. If there is ambiguity due to the scale
of the map such that additional regulatory text is needed to ensure
that the public has adequate notice of the boundaries, we provide
additional regulation text. The only change to the CFR that we are
making with this action is removing the detailed coordinate data of the
boundaries of the specific areas designated as critical habitat (i.e.,
latitude-longitude and UTM coordinates). We still generate those data,
and make them available at https://www.regulations.gov and at the lead
field office of the Service responsible for the critical habitat
designation. Neither the critical habitat designation nor the
underlying data on which it is based can be changed without undergoing
a further rulemaking.
As stated earlier, the actions we are taking in this rule do not
increase, decrease, or otherwise change the critical habitat boundaries
or areas. For 50 CFR 17.99(a)(1), (a)(2), and (k), we are merely
removing the reference points (i.e., UTM coordinates) of the textual
descriptions from existing final critical habitat designations, and we
are doing so only where we have determined that the existing maps are
sufficient to inform the public of the boundaries of the designations
and can therefore stand as the official delineation of critical
habitat. However, we will continue to provide the reference points of
the textual descriptions at https://www.regulations.gov and at the lead
field office of the Service responsible for the critical habitat
designation.
The actions we are taking in this rule require that we also revise
50 CFR 17.94(b) to make clear which critical habitat designations have
maps that stand as the official delineation of critical habitat and
which do not. Our revisions to 50 CFR 17.94 also correct the
inadvertent omission of a reference to critical habitat areas
designated at ``Sec. 17.99 (plants on the Hawaiian Islands)'' from
paragraph (a) and remove paragraphs (c) and (d). We are removing
paragraph (c) because not all of our critical habitat designations
include information in the CFR on the biological or physical
constituent elements that are known to require special management
considerations or protection in a designated area. Such information can
still be found in the Federal Register publications proposing and
finalizing individual critical habitat designations, as well as in the
record for each critical habitat designation. This is also consistent
with our regulations, which we recently updated to clarify the
procedures for designating and revising critical habitat (81 FR 7414,
February 11, 2016). We are removing paragraph (d) because not all of
our critical habitat designations follow the sequence of species in the
List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife at 50 CFR 17.11 or the List
of Endangered and Threatened Plants at 50 CFR 17.12 (e.g., one
designation for several species, such as the designation for five
Tennessee and Cumberland River Basin mussel species at 50 CFR 17.95(f),
and the designations at 50 CFR 17.99 that are organized by Hawaiian
island and ecosystem).
We are publishing this final rule without a prior proposal because
we find that there is good cause for doing so pursuant to 5 U.S.C.
553(b)(3)(B). The ``good cause'' exception applies when an agency finds
``that notice and public procedure thereon are impracticable,
unnecessary, or contrary to the public interest.'' Publication of a
proposed rule for this action is unnecessary because this is an
administrative action that does not increase, decrease, or otherwise
change critical habitat boundaries or areas. Therefore, this action
will not affect any legal rights. Rather, it will merely reduce the
publication length of some rules designating critical habitat, which
will save taxpayer resources and make each designation easier to locate
in the CFR. We find that it is in the best interest of the public to
promulgate these administrative and technical changes to 50 CFR 17.99
and without undergoing procedures that are unnecessary.
Required Determinations
Regulatory Planning and Review--Executive Orders 12866 and 13563
Executive Order (E.O.) 12866 provides that the Office of
Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) will review all significant
rules. OIRA has determined that this rule is not significant.
Executive Order 13563 reaffirms the principles of E.O. 12866 while
calling for improvements in the nation's regulatory system to promote
predictability, to reduce uncertainty, and to use the best, most
innovative, and least burdensome tools for achieving regulatory ends.
The executive order directs agencies to consider regulatory approaches
that reduce burdens and maintain flexibility and freedom of choice for
the public where these approaches are relevant, feasible, and
consistent with regulatory objectives. E.O. 13563 emphasizes further
that regulations must be based on the best available science and that
the rulemaking process must allow for public participation and an open
exchange of ideas. We have developed this rule in a manner consistent
with these requirements.
Executive Order 13771
This rule is not an E.O. 13771 (``Reducing Regulation and
Controlling Regulatory Costs'') (82 FR 9339, February 3, 2017)
regulatory action because this rule is not significant under E.O.
12866.
Regulatory Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.)
Under the Regulatory Flexibility Act (RFA), as amended by the Small
Business Regulatory Enforcement Fairness Act of 1996 (SBREFA), 5 U.S.C.
601 et seq., whenever an agency is required to publish a notice of
rulemaking for any proposed or final rule, it must prepare and make
available for public comment a regulatory flexibility analysis that
describes the effects of the rule on small entities (i.e., small
businesses, small organizations, and small government jurisdictions).
However, no regulatory flexibility
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analysis is required if the head of the agency certifies the rule will
not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small
entities. The SBREFA amended the RFA to require Federal agencies to
provide a statement of the factual basis for certifying that the rule
will not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of
small entities.
According to the Small Business Administration, small entities
include small organizations such as independent nonprofit
organizations; small governmental jurisdictions, including school
boards and city and town governments that serve fewer than 50,000
residents; and small businesses (13 CFR 121.201). Small businesses
include such businesses as manufacturing and mining concerns with fewer
than 500 employees, wholesale trade entities with fewer than 100
employees, and retail and service businesses with less than $5 million
in annual sales. In general, the term ``significant economic impact''
is meant to apply to a typical small business firm's business
operations.
This rule will not have a significant economic effect on a
substantial number of small entities as defined under the RFA. This
rule is an administrative action to remove the textual descriptions
from critical habitat designations that have a map(s) sufficient to
stand as the official delineation of critical habitat at 50 CFR
17.99(a)(1), (a)(2), and (k). This action does not increase, decrease,
or in any other way alter the areas or boundaries of the critical
habitat designations from which we are removing the textual
descriptions of boundaries.
This administrative action will save taxpayer resources. The
Service spent $75,225 to reprint the critical habitat designations at
50 CFR 17.99 for the most-recent print edition of the CFR. Based on a
review of the print edition of the CFR, we estimate that this rule will
remove approximately 132 pages of the relevant CFR volumes, amounting
to a savings of approximately $11,220 per year in printing costs paid
by the Service. While over many years, eliminating the need to reprint
Universal Transverse Mercator (UTM) coordinate pairs at 50 CFR 17.99
will result in a considerable cumulative cost savings to the Service
and the public as a whole, this rule will result in only a small annual
savings to the Service and the public.
Therefore, for the reasons above, we certify that this rule will
not have a significant economic impact on a substantial number of small
entities.
Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (2 U.S.C. 1501 et seq.)
In accordance with the Unfunded Mandates Reform Act (2 U.S.C. 1501
et seq.), the Services make the following findings:
a. This rule will not produce a Federal mandate. In general, a
Federal mandate is a provision in legislation, statute, or regulation
that would impose an enforceable duty upon State, local, or tribal
governments, or the private sector, and includes both ``Federal
intergovernmental mandates'' and ``Federal private sector mandates.''
These terms are defined in 2 U.S.C. 658(5)-(7). ``Federal
intergovernmental mandate'' includes a regulation that ``would impose
an enforceable duty upon State, local, or tribal governments'' with two
exceptions: (1) ``a condition of Federal assistance'' or (2) ``a duty
arising from participation in a voluntary Federal program,'' unless the
regulation ``relates to a then-existing Federal program under which
$500,000,000 or more is provided annually to State, local, and tribal
governments under entitlement authority''; the provision would either
``increase the stringency of conditions of assistance'' or ``place caps
upon, or otherwise decrease, the Federal Government's responsibility to
provide funding''; and the State, local, or tribal governments ``lack
authority . . . to amend their financial or programmatic
responsibilities to continue providing required services.'' At the time
of enactment, these entitlement programs were: Medicaid; AFDC work
programs; Child Nutrition; Food Stamps; Social Services Block Grants;
Vocational Rehabilitation State Grants; Foster Care, Adoption
Assistance, and Independent Living; Family Support Welfare Services;
and Child Support Enforcement. ``Federal private sector mandate''
includes a regulation that ``would impose an enforceable duty upon the
private sector, except (i) a condition of Federal assistance or (ii) a
duty arising from participation in a voluntary Federal program.'' This
rule does not produce a Federal mandate under either of these
definitions.
b. This rule will not significantly or uniquely affect small
governments because the revisions to the regulations in this rule
should make our critical habitat designations more reader-friendly and
will make the process more cost-effective for the Service and the
public as a whole. As such, we do not believe that a Small Government
Agency Plan is required.
Takings--Executive Order 12630
In accordance with Executive Order 12630 (``Government Actions and
Interference with Constitutionally Protected Private Property
Rights''), we have evaluated this rule, and we have determined that
this rule does not pose significant takings implications. The revisions
to the regulations set forth in this rule do not involve individual
property rights.
Federalism--Executive Order 13132
In accordance with Executive Order 13132 (Federalism), the rule
does not have significant Federalism effects. A federalism summary
impact statement is not required. The revisions to the regulations
addressed in this rule are intended to promote the usability of the
regulations and make the process of designating critical habitat more
cost-effective, and thus should not significantly affect or burden the
authority of the States to govern themselves.
Civil Justice Reform--Executive Order 12988
In accordance with Executive Order 12988 (Civil Justice Reform),
this rule follows the Civil Justice Reform principles for regulations
that do not unduly burden the Federal judicial system, by meeting the
requirements of sections 3(a) and 3(b) of the Executive Order. The
revisions to the regulations addressed in this rule should not
significantly affect or burden the judicial system.
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
This rule does not contain any new collections of information that
require approval by OMB under the Paperwork Reduction Act (44 U.S.C.
3501 et seq.). This rule will not impose recordkeeping or reporting
requirements on State or local governments, individuals, businesses, or
organizations. An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is
not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it
displays a currently valid OMB control number.
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
We analyzed this rule in accordance with the criteria of the
National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 4321 et
seq.), 43 CFR part 46, and 516 Departmental Manual (DM) 2 and 8.
A categorical exclusion from NEPA documentation applies to
policies, directives, regulations, and guidelines that are ``of an
administrative, financial, legal, technical, or procedural nature''
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(43 CFR 46.210(i)). However, even if an individual Federal action falls
within a categorical exclusion, the Service must still prepare
environmental documents pursuant to NEPA if one of the 12 exceptions
listed in 43 CFR 46.215 applies.
We have reviewed each of the 12 exceptions and have found that
because this rule is administrative in nature, none of the exceptions
apply. Therefore, this action meets the requirements for a categorical
exclusion from the NEPA process.
Government-to-Government Relationship With Tribes
In accordance with the President's memorandum of April 29, 1994,
``Government-to-Government Relations with Native American Tribal
Governments'' (59 FR 22951), Executive Order 13175 ``Consultation and
Coordination with Indian Tribal Governments,'' and the Department of
the Interior Manual at 512 DM 2, we readily acknowledge our
responsibility to communicate meaningfully with recognized Native
American Tribes on a government-to-government basis. We have evaluated
the potential effects on federally recognized Tribes from these
revisions to our regulations. We have determined that there are no
potential effects to federally recognized Tribes, because the revisions
to the regulations are intended to promote the usability of critical
habitat designations and save taxpayer monies. However, we will
continue to coordinate with Tribes as we promulgate critical habitat
designations.
Energy Supply, Distribution, or Use
Executive Order 13211 (Actions Concerning Regulations That
Significantly Affect Energy Supply, Distribution, or Use) requires
agencies to prepare Statements of Energy Effects when undertaking
certain actions. ``Significant energy action'' means any action by an
agency (normally published in the Federal Register) that promulgates or
is expected to lead to the promulgation of a final rule or regulation,
including notices of inquiry, advance notices of proposed rulemaking,
and notices of proposed rulemaking that is a significant regulatory
action under Executive Order 12866 or any successor order, and is
likely to have a significant adverse effect on the supply,
distribution, or use of energy; or that is designated by the
Administrator of the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs as a
significant energy action. This rule does not qualify as a significant
regulatory action under Executive Order 12866; will not have a
significant adverse effect on the supply, distribution, or use of
energy; and has not been designated by the Administrator of the Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs as a significant energy action.
Therefore, this action is not a significant energy action and no
Statement of Energy Effects is required.
List of Subjects in 50 CFR Part 17
Endangered and threatened species, Exports, Imports, Reporting and
recordkeeping requirements, Transportation.
Regulation Promulgation
Accordingly, we amend part 17, subchapter B of chapter I, title 50
of the Code of Federal Regulations, as follows:
PART 17--ENDANGERED AND THREATENED WILDLIFE AND PLANTS
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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. Revise Sec. 17.94 to read as follows:
Sec. 17.94 Critical habitats.
(a) The areas listed in Sec. 17.95 (fish and wildlife), Sec.
17.96 (plants), and Sec. 17.99 (plants on the Hawaiian Islands) and
referred to in the lists at Sec. Sec. 17.11 and 17.12 have been
determined by the Director to be critical habitat. All Federal agencies
must insure that any action authorized, funded, or carried out by them
is not likely to result in the destruction or adverse modification of
the constituent elements essential to the conservation of the listed
species within these defined critical habitats. (See part 402 for rules
concerning this prohibition; see also part 424 for rules concerning the
determination of critical habitat).
(b) Maps.
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If the critical habitat map
appears in . . . Then . . .
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(1) A critical habitat The map provided by the Secretary of the
designation in Sec. 17.99, Interior, as clarified or refined by any
or textual language within the rule,
(2) A critical habitat constitutes the definition of the
designation published and boundaries of a critical habitat. Each
effective after May 31, critical habitat area will be shown on a
2012, map, with more-detailed information
discussed in the preamble of the
rulemaking documents published in the
Federal Register and made available from
the lead field office of the Service
responsible for such designation. Each
area will be referenced to the State(s),
county(ies), or other local government
units within which all or part of the
critical habitat is located. General
descriptions of the location and
boundaries of each area may be provided
to clarify or refine what is included
within the boundaries depicted on the
map, or to explain the exclusion of
sites (e.g., paved roads, buildings)
within the mapped area. Unless otherwise
indicated within the critical habitat
descriptions, the names of the State(s)
and county(ies) are provided for
informational purposes only and do not
constitute the boundaries of the area.
(3) A critical habitat The map provided by the Secretary of the
designation that Interior is for reference purposes to
specifically states that the guide Federal agencies and other
map(s) is for informational interested parties in locating the
purposes only, or general boundaries of the critical
(4) A critical habitat habitat. The map does not, unless
designation published and otherwise indicated, constitute the
effective on or prior to May definition of the boundaries of a
31, 2012, that is set forth critical habitat. Critical habitats are
at Sec. 17.95 or Sec. described by reference to surveyable
17.96, landmarks found on standard topographic
maps of the area and to the States and
county(ies) within which all or part of
the critical habitat is located. Unless
otherwise indicated within the critical
habitat description, the State and
county(ies) names are provided for
informational purposes only.
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Sec. 17.99 [Amended]
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3. Amend Sec. 17.99 in paragraphs (a) and (k) as demonstrated in the
following tables:
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By removing and reserving By removing the second By removing the word
Amend paragraph(s): By removing paragraph(s): sentence of paragraph: ``NOTE:'' from paragraph:
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(a)(1)(ii).............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(iii)............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(iv).............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(v)............................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(vi).............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(vii)............................. (A)
(a)(1)(viii)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ix).............................. (A)
(a)(1)(x)............................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xi).............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xii)............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xiii)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xiv)............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xv).............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xvi)............................. (A)
(a)(1)(xvii)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(xviii)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(xix)............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xx).............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xxi)............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xxii)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xxiii)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xxiv)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xxv)............................. (A)
(a)(1)(xxvi)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(xxvii)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(xxviii).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xxix)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(xxx)............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xxxi)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xxxii)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xxxiii).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xxxiv)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xxxv)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(xxxvi)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(xxxvii).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(xxxviii)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xxxix)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(xl).............................. (A)
(a)(1)(xli)............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xlii)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(xliii)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xliv)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xlv)............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xlvi)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xlvii)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xlviii).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(xlix)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(l)............................... (A)
(a)(1)(li).............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(lii)............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(liii)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(liv)............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(lv).............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(lvi)............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(lvii)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(lviii)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(lix)............................. (A)(1) and (2) (B)
(a)(1)(lx).............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(lxi)............................. (A)
(a)(1)(lxii)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(lxiii)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(lxiv)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(lxv)............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(lxvi)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(lxvii)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(lxviii).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(lxix)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(lxx)............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(lxxi)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(lxxii)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(lxxiii).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(lxxiv)........................... (A)
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(a)(1)(lxxv)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(lxxvi)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(lxxvii).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(lxxviii)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(lxxix)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(lxxx)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(lxxxi)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(lxxxii).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(lxxxiii)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(lxxxiv).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(lxxxv)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(lxxxvi).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(lxxxvii)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(lxxxviii)........................ (A)
(a)(1)(lxxxix).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(xc).............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xci)............................. (A)
(a)(1)(xcii)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xciii)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(xciv)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(xcv)............................. (A)
(a)(1)(xcvi)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(xcvii)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(xcviii).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(xcix)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(c)............................... (A)
(a)(1)(ci).............................. (A)
(a)(1)(cii)............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ciii)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(civ)............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cv).............................. (A)
(a)(1)(cvi)............................. (A)
(a)(1)(cvii)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cviii)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(cix)............................. (A)
(a)(1)(cx).............................. (A)
(a)(1)(cxi)............................. (A)
(a)(1)(cxii)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxiii)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(cxiv)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(cxv)............................. (A)
(a)(1)(cxvi)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(cxvii)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxviii).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxix)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxx)............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxxi)............................ (A) (C)
(a)(1)(cxxii)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxxiii).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxxiv)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxxv)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxxvi)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxxvii).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxxviii)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxxix)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxxx)............................ (A)(1) through (5) (B)
(a)(1)(cxxxi)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxxxii).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxxxiii)......................... (A)(1) through (4) (B)
(a)(1)(cxxxiv).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxxxv)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(cxxxvi).......................... (A)(1) and (2) (B)
(a)(1)(cxxxvii)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxxxviii)........................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxxxix).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxl)............................. (A)(1) through (4) (B)
(a)(1)(cxli)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxlii)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(cxliii).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cxliv)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(cxlv)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(cxlvi)........................... (A)(1) and (2) (B)
(a)(1)(cxlvii).......................... (A)
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(a)(1)(cxlviii)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cxlix)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cl).............................. (A)
(a)(1)(cli)............................. (A)
(a)(1)(clii)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(cliii)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(cliv)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(clv)............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(clvi)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(clvii)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(clviii).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(clix)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(clx)............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(clxi)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(clxii)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(clxiii).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(clxiv)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(clxv)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(clxvi)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(clxvii).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(clxviii)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(clxix)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(clxx)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(clxxi)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(clxxii).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(clxxiii)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(clxxiv).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(clxxv)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(clxxvi).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(clxxvii)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(clxxviii)........................ (A)
(a)(1)(clxxix).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(clxxx)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(clxxxi).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(clxxxii)......................... (A) (C)
(a)(1)(clxxxiii)........................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(clxxxiv)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(clxxxv).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(clxxxvi)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(clxxxvii)........................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(clxxxviii)....................... (A) (C)
(a)(1)(clxxxix)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxc)............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxci)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxcii)........................... (A) (C)
(a)(1)(cxciii).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxciv)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxcv)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxcvi)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxcvii).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxcviii)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cxcix)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(cc).............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cci)............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccii)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cciii)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cciv)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccv)............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccvi)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccvii)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccviii).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccix)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccx)............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxi)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxii)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxiii).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxiv)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxv)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxvi)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccxvii).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccxviii)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxix)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxx)............................ (A) (B)
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(a)(1)(ccxxi)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxxii).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccxxiii)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccxxiv).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccxxv)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccxxvi).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxxvii)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxxviii)........................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxxix).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccxxx)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxxxi).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxxxii)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxxxiii)........................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxxxiv)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxxxv).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccxxxvi)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccxxxvii)........................ (A)
(a)(1)(ccxxxviii)....................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccxxxix)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccxl)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxli)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccxlii).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxliii)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxliv).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxlv)........................... (A) (C)
(a)(1)(ccxlvi).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxlvii)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxlviii)........................ (A)
(a)(1)(ccxlix).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccl)............................. (A)
(a)(1)(ccli)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cclii)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccliii).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccliv)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cclv)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cclvi)........................... (A) (C)
(a)(1)(cclvii).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cclviii)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cclix)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(cclx)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cclxi)........................... (A) (C)
(a)(1)(cclxii).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cclxiii)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cclxiv).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cclxv)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cclxvi).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cclxvii)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cclxviii)........................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cclxix).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cclxx)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cclxxi).......................... (A) (C)
(a)(1)(cclxxii)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cclxxiii)........................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cclxxiv)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cclxxv).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cclxxvi)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cclxxvii)........................ (A)
(a)(1)(cclxxviii)....................... (A)
(a)(1)(cclxxix)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cclxxx).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cclxxxi)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cclxxxii)........................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cclxxxiii)....................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cclxxxiv)........................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cclxxxv)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cclxxxvi)........................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cclxxxvii)....................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cclxxxviii)...................... (A) (C)
(a)(1)(cclxxxix)........................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxc)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(ccxci)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccxcii).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccxciii)......................... (A) (B)
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(a)(1)(ccxciv).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxcv)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxcvi).......................... (A) (C)
(a)(1)(ccxcvii)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxcviii)........................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccxcix).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccc)............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccci)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccii)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccciii).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccciv)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccv)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccvi)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccvii).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccviii)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccix)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(cccx)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxi)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxii).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxiii)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxiv).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxv)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxvi).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxvii)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxviii)........................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxix).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxx)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxxi).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxxii)......................... (A) (C)
(a)(1)(cccxxiii)........................ (A) (C)
(a)(1)(cccxxiv)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxxv).......................... (A) (C)
(a)(1)(cccxxvi)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxxvii)........................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxxviii)....................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxxix)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cccxxx).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cccxxxi)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cccxxxii)........................ (A)
(a)(1)(cccxxxiii)....................... (A)
(a)(1)(cccxxxiv)........................ (A)
(a)(1)(cccxxxv)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cccxxxvi)........................ (A)
(a)(1)(cccxxxvii)....................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxxxviii)...................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxxxix)........................ (A) (C)
(a)(1)(cccxl)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxli).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxlii)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxliii)........................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxliv)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxlv).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxlvi)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxlvii)........................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxlviii)....................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxlix)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccl)............................ (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccli)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccclii).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cccliii)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cccliv).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccclv)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccclvi).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccclvii)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccclviii)........................ (A)
(a)(1)(ccclix).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccclx)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccclxi).......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccclxii)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccclxiii)........................ (A)
(a)(1)(ccclxiv)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccclxv).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccclxvi)......................... (A)
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(a)(1)(ccclxvii)........................ (A)
(a)(1)(ccclxviii)....................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccclxix)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccclxx).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccclxxi)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccclxxii)........................ (A)
(a)(1)(ccclxxiii)....................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccclxxiv)........................ (A)
(a)(1)(ccclxxv)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccclxxvi)........................ (A)
(a)(1)(ccclxxvii)....................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccclxxviii)...................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccclxxix)........................ (A)
(a)(1)(ccclxxx)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccclxxxi)........................ (A)
(a)(1)(ccclxxxii)....................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccclxxxiii)...................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccclxxxiv)....................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccclxxxv)........................ (A)
(a)(1)(ccclxxxvi)....................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccclxxxvii)...................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(ccclxxxviii)..................... (A)
(a)(1)(ccclxxxix)....................... (A)
(a)(1)(cccxc)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(cccxci).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cccxcii)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cccxciii)........................ (A)
(a)(1)(cccxciv)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cccxcv).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cccxcvi)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cccxcvii)........................ (A)
(a)(1)(cccxcviii)....................... (A)
(a)(1)(cccxcix)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cd).............................. (A)
(a)(1)(cdi)............................. (A)
(a)(1)(cdii)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(cdiii)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdiv)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(cdv)............................. (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cdvi)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(cdvii)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdviii).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdix)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(cdx)............................. (A)
(a)(1)(cdxi)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(cdxii)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxiii).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxiv)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxv)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(cdxvi)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxvii).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxviii)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxix)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxx)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(cdxxi)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxxii).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxxiii)......................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cdxxiv).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxxv)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxxvi).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxxvii)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxxviii)........................ (A)
(a)(1)(cdxxix).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxxx)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxxxi).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxxxii)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxxxiii)........................ (A)
(a)(1)(cdxxxiv)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxxxv).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxxxvi)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxxxvii)........................ (A)
(a)(1)(cdxxxviii)....................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxxxix)......................... (A)
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(a)(1)(cdxl)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(cdxli)........................... (A) (B)
(a)(1)(cdxlii).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxliii)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxliv).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxlv)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxlvi).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxlvii)......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdxlviii)........................ (A)
(a)(1)(cdxlix).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdl)............................. (A)
(a)(1)(cdli)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(cdlii)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdliii).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdliv)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdlv)............................ (A)
(a)(1)(cdlvi)........................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdlvii).......................... (A)
(a)(1)(cdlviii)......................... (A)
(a)(2)(i)............................... (A) (B)
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(k)(5).................................................. (i) (ii)
(k)(6).................................................. (i) (ii)
(k)(7).................................................. (i) (ii)
(k)(8).................................................. (i) (ii)
(k)(9).................................................. (i) (ii)
(k)(10)................................................. (i) (ii)
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(k)(27)................................................. (i) (ii)
(k)(28)................................................. (i) (ii)
(k)(29)................................................. (i) (iii)
(k)(30)................................................. (i) (iii)
(k)(31)................................................. (i) (ii)
(k)(32)................................................. (i) (ii)
(k)(33)................................................. (i) (iii)
(k)(34)................................................. (i) (ii)
(k)(35)................................................. (i) (ii)
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Dated: August 30, 2017.
James W. Kurth,
Acting Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
[FR Doc. 2017-23399 Filed 10-26-17; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4333-15-P
