[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 9 (Tuesday, January 14, 2014)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 2380-2382]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-00504]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

50 CFR Part 17

[Docket Nos. FWS-R4-ES-2011-0043; FWS-R2-ES-2013-0001; FWS-R4-ES-2013-
0026; 4500030113]
RINs 1018-AX83; 1018-AZ24; 1018-AZ48


Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Corrections to 
Rules Adding Species to the List of Endangered Wildlife

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Final rules; corrections.

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SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, published final rules 
in the Federal Register on April 6, 2012, August 20, 2013, and 
September 26, 2013, revising our List of Endangered and Threatened 
Wildlife. Inadvertently, we made some errors in our amendatory 
instructions. With this technical correction, we correct those errors.

DATES: Effective January 14, 2014.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Susan Wilkinson, (703) 358-2506.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Office of the Federal Register (OFR) has 
made us aware that one rule that published in 2012 and two rules that 
published in 2013 to revise the List of Endangered and Threatened 
Wildlife (List) in title 50 of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) at 
50 CFR part 17 contained amendatory instructions that could not be 
followed. This document corrects these administrative errors, which in 
turn corrects errors in the List in Sec.  17.11(h).

Final Rule of April 6, 2012 (77 FR 20948)

    In a rule that published April 6, 2012, ``Listing of the Miami Blue 
Butterfly as Endangered Throughout Its Range; Listing of the Cassius 
Blue, Ceraunus Blue, and Nickerbean Blue Butterflies as Threatened Due 
to Similarity of Appearance to the Miami Blue Butterfly in Coastal 
South and Central Florida'' (77 FR 20948), the second amendatory 
instruction at 77 FR 20986 directed OFR to amend Sec.  17.11(h) by 
adding entries for four species to the List. For three of the species, 
the instruction was to include these words in the Status column of the 
List: ``T(S/A) (coastal south and central FL).'' However, the 
configuration of the table as presented in the CFR does not provide 
sufficient space in that column to accommodate an addition of that 
length (i.e., most entries in the Status column consist of just a 
single letter, with the longest

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entries containing only three letters and punctuation). Therefore, we 
are correcting this instruction as set forth in the rule portion of 
this document and the rule text so that the Status column will contain 
only ``T(S/A)'' and the words ``Coastal south and central FL'' will be 
added to the preceding column in the List (``Vertebrate population 
where endangered or threatened'') for the three species. Although these 
three species are invertebrates, the only place in the table to 
identify where they are listed is in the column ``Vertebrate population 
where endangered or threatened.'' This change does not affect the 
status of these species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 
amended (16 U.S.C 1531 et seq.).

Final Rule of August 20, 2013 (78 FR 51328)

    In a rule of August 20, 2013, ``Designation of Critical Habitat for 
the Austin Blind and Jollyville Plateau Salamanders'' (78 FR 51328), 
the second amendatory instruction at 78 FR 51362 directed OFR to amend 
Sec.  17.11(h) by adding entries for ``Salamander, Georgetown'' and 
``Salamander, Salado''. However, the entries set forth following this 
instruction were for the Austin blind and Jollyville Plateau 
salamanders. The instruction was erroneous; the table entries were 
correct. These same two species, the Austin blind salamander and the 
Jollyville Plateau salamander, were added to the List in Sec.  17.11(h) 
as the result of a final rule that also published August 20, 2013, 
``Determination of Endangered Species Status for the Austin Blind 
Salamander and Threatened Species Status for the Jollyville Plateau 
Salamander Throughout Their Ranges'' (78 FR 51278). Accordingly, we are 
removing the second amendatory instruction for this final rule and the 
accompanying rule text as the instruction was erroneous and is 
unnecessary.

Final Rule of September 26, 2013 (78 FR 59556)

    In a rule of September 26, 2013, ``Designation of Critical Habitat 
for the Fluted Kidneyshell and Slabside Pearlymussel'' (78 FR 59556), 
the second amendatory instruction at 78 FR 59584 directed OFR to amend 
Sec.  17.11(h) by adding entries for ``Kidneyshell, fluted'' and 
``Pearlymussel, slabside''. However, the species were added to the List 
in another final rule that published the same day, ``Endangered Species 
Status for the Fluted Kidneyshell and Slabside Pearlymussel'' (78 FR 
59269; September 26, 2013). Because the species were added to the List 
by the rule that published at 78 FR 59269, they could not be added to 
the List again by another rule. Therefore, we are removing amendatory 
instruction number 2 from the rule at 78 FR 59556 and the accompanying 
rule text as the instruction is unnecessary and cannot be performed.

Corrections

    Accordingly, the following corrections are made to FR Doc. 2013-
19713, 2013-23357, and 2012-8088 as follows:

PART 17--[AMENDED]

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1. In FR Doc. 2013-19713 appearing in the Federal Register of Tuesday, 
August 20, 2013, on page 51362, in the third column, the second 
amendatory instruction and the accompanying table are removed.
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2. In FR Doc. 2013-23357 appearing in the Federal Register of Thursday, 
September 26, 2013, on page 59584 in the third column, the second 
amendatory instruction and the accompanying table are removed.
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3. In FR Doc. 2012-8088 appearing in the Federal Register of Friday, 
April 6, 2012, on page 20986 in the third column, the second amendatory 
instruction and the table that follows it are revised to read as 
follows:
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2. Amend Sec.  17.11(h) by adding new entries for the following, in 
alphabetical order under Insects, to the List of Endangered and 
Threatened Wildlife:


Sec. 17.11  Endangered and threatened wildlife.

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                        Species                                                    Vertebrate
--------------------------------------------------------                        population where                                  Critical     Special
                                                            Historic range       endangered or         Status      When listed    habitat       rules
           Common name                Scientific name                              threatened
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             Insects
 
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Butterfly, cassius blue..........  Leptotes cassius      U.S.A. (FL),         Coastal south and    T (S/A)                 801           NA     17.47(a)
                                    theonus.              Bahamas, Greater     central FL.
                                                          Antilles, Cayman
                                                          Islands.
Butterfly, ceraunus blue.........  Hemiargus ceraunus    U.S.A. (FL),         Coastal south and    T (S/A)                 801           NA    17.47 (a)
                                    antibubastus.         Bahamas.             central FL.
 
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Butterfly, nickerbean blue.......  Cyclargus ammon.....  U.S.A. (FL),         Coastal south and    T(S/A)                  801           NA    17.47 (a)
                                                          Bahamas, Cuba.       central FL.
 
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    Dated: January 9, 2014.
Tina A. Campbell,
Chief, Division of Policy and Directives Management, U.S. Fish and 
Wildlife Service.
[FR Doc. 2014-00504 Filed 1-13-14; 8:45 am]
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