[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 22 (Friday, February 1, 2002)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 4940]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-1917]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Land Management

43 CFR Part 3809

Fish and Wildlife Service

50 CFR Chapter I


Resubmission of Comments; Interruption of Mail Service

AGENCIES: Fish and Wildlife Service and the Bureau of Land Management, 
Interior.

ACTION: Resubmission of comments on specific rulemaking documents.

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SUMMARY: The Office of the Secretary, along with the Fish and Wildlife 
Service and the Bureau of Land Management give notice to the public of 
the opportunity to resubmit comments on specific rulemaking documents. 
This action is necessitated by the possibility that some comments that 
were submitted by the public in response to the rulemaking documents 
may not have been timely received by the identified bureaus due to the 
shutdown of the Brentwood Postal Facility in Washington, DC, on October 
21, 2001. The postal facility was closed because of the threat of 
anthrax contamination. This action is also necessitated because the 
Department's Internet access, including receipt of outside e-mail, has 
been shut down under court order until further notice. Comments which 
may have been sent to the Department by e-mail since December 4, 2001, 
have not been received by the Department and should be resubmitted by 
mail to the addresses specified herein.

DATES: Resubmittal of comments on identified rulemaking documents must 
be postmarked no later than February 15, 2002.

ADDRESSES: The addresses for the resubmittal of comments are as 
follows:
     Fish and Wildlife Service, 4401 North Fairfax Drive, 
Office of Policy, Directives and Management, Arlington, VA 22203, 
unless otherwise noted.
     Bureau of Land Management, Eastern States Office, 7450 
Boston Blvd., Springfield, VA 22153, unless otherwise noted.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Duncan L. Brown, Office of the 
Secretary, Washington, DC 202/208-4582.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The purpose of this document is to allow 
interested parties the opportunity to resubmit comments they may have 
sent to the Washington, DC, office of the Fish and Wildlife Service and 
the Bureau of Land Management on certain identified rulemaking 
documents. This action is taken due to the closure of the Brentwood 
Postal Facility, Washington, DC, has caused a delay in the delivery of 
mail to the Department's Washington, DC, agency addresses. In addition, 
the Department's Internet access, including receipt of outside e-mail, 
has been shut down under court order until further notice and comments 
which were sent by e-mail to the Department by e-mail since December 4, 
2001, have not been received by the Department. To guarantee the 
collection of all responsive comments, the Department has decided that 
it will extend to interested parties the opportunity to resubmit their 
written comments on the identified rulemaking documents to the agency 
addresses identified in the ADDRESSES section of this document. The 
affected rulemaking documents are identified as follows:

Proposed Rulemaking Documents

FWS  Migratory Bird Hunting--Light Goose Populations--Correction, RIN 
1018-AI07
FWS  Proposed Critical Habitat--3 S.Cal. Coastal Plants, RIN 1018-AG88
FWS  Proposed Critical Habitat--Purple Amole, RIN 1018-AG75
FWS  Proposed Critical Habitat--Sant Cruz Tarplant, RIN 1018-AG73
FWS  Listing Showy Stickweed as Endangered--Reopening of Comments, RIN 
1018-AF75
FWS  Revised List of Migratory Birds--Proposed Rule, RIN 1018-AB72
FWS  Rota Bridled White-eye Listing as Endangered, RIN 1018-AI16
FWS  Kneeland Prairie Penny-cress Critical Habitat--Proposed Rule, RIN 
1018-AG92
FWS  Sacramento Mtns. Checkerspot Butterfly--Reopening of Comment 
Period/Public Hearing, RIN 1018-AH40
FWS  Managing Harvest of Light Goose Populations--Proposed Rule, RIN 
1018-AI07
FWS  Reopening of Comment Period and Availability of Draft EIS for 
Monterey Spineflower Critical Habitat Determination, RIN 1018-AH04
FWS  Reopening of Comment Period and Availability of Draft EA for 
Robust Spineflower Critical Habitat Determination, RIN 1018-AH83
FWS  Reopening of Comment Period and Availability of Draft EA for 
Scotts Valley Spineflower Critical Habitat Determination, FIN 1018-AH82
FWS  Endangered Status for the Sacramento Mtns. Checkerspot Butterfly--
Proposed Rule, RIN 1018-AH40
FWS  Migratory Bird Hunting--Proposed Migratory Bird Hunting 
Regulations, RIN 1018-AH79
BLM  Proposed Rule--Mining Claims Under the General Mining Laws; 
Surface Management (43 CFR part 3809), RIN 1004-AD44

    Dated: January 15, 2002.
P. Lynn Scarlett,
Assistant Secretary--Policy Management and Budget.
[FR Doc. 02-1917 Filed 1-31-02; 8:45 am]
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