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b ~~~;~Y: 5-20-92 739 USER' GOLDEN-303 2362896 7762896: 7/ 7 "+~..~ ~S~M . Fed 1 R gist r J Vol SS No 35 /Wednesday Februa 2] 1990 J Pro need Rules 8186 1~ i r ere e e ~ ry p Pf-Taxa already propoud to ha Ilsied asthreatened. S-Synonyms. 1 Taxa for which the Service has on file enou~}t aubstantlel information an biological vulnarablhty and Ihnu(aJ to support proposals to list them as eadengerod or tbraatenad apocies. Development end publlwtlon of proDoeed nilee on These lexa an anticipated: however, borauao of the large number of urvgory t tsar, It will talcs several yeero to clear the backlog. Also Included In category 1 aro laxa of known vulnerable atetue in the rocent past that may already havebemma sxllncL These plane retetn a high priority far eddition In Iha LtaL 1f extant populetlans era confirmed. Such pouibly exUnet faze are 1nJicateJ by en asterisk ('1• Double asterisks (") Indicate faze believed to be extinct in the wild but known to be extant In eultlvetion. 7r-Taxa for which there le wme evidence o[ vulnesbllity. but for which them are aol enough date to support Wtlog proposals at this lima. Again. faze that ors pouibly extinct ere Indlceled by an asterisk (')end those that aro known to exist only m culUvstlon are marked by double asterisks ("). Further blologlul roeearch and field study usually will ba necessary to asrxrtsin the status of the uxe In r:atagory L and some of the tsxe ere of uncerteln laxonomle validity. It to Ilkely that some category 2 wndWales wig not warrant liutng. while udten wiU be found to be In greeter dstyer of extlnctlon than some faze to category i. The Barvlca hops that thO notlu will entotuage neceuary rosaerch o0 tndnerebillly, taxmtomy. andlor threats for Naw faze, In snbmllting ouch Information. conWbuton ere mcoureged to use the atetue sport gutdellnee of NeNfla et aL. pages 21i1- 20i 1n LE. Morse and M.9. HeoUm, edlton, Rom P1anr Conrervotioa 1681. The New Yotit BotaNtal C,etdea Bronx. Naw York: Coplee of these gutdefioes also era ^vallabla from the Service. Taxa that once wets mnatdasd for Itatiug w throataned urendsannggeredbul as no longer under such ronaldestloo as Included to category 3. Taxa In category 3 era not undldstu for llsling. Such faze ere further divided into throe subealegodes, to indicate the saaon(s) (Qr theft smovel Gom conaldantlon: to-Taxa for which the Servlca has ~•ueive evidence of extlacUon. If voted, such faze might stxprlre ty for Ilsting. At this dine. a bast avallabla iNomraUon the faze In W a the habitats from which ..owy have hoes loot, yti-Nnmee That. on Iha baste of currcnl taxonomic undentendingg (usually e, represented !n published roviaiona and ntunugreplu). do not represent distinct lexa meeting the Act's definillon of "sparJee." $uch auppoeed toxa could be reevaluated In the Future on the basis of now Information. 3C-Taxa that have proven to b more abundant orwlde,proad then previously beliovsd andPor those that are not sub)ect to any idenultable threat. If further rouarch or ehengee in hnbltet Indlcete a atgnlfleent decline in any of these faze. they may be reevaluated for possible inrlcreion in categories 1 or L The faze In cntegorias ]and 2 of this notica an considered by lha Servtr~ as cendldetee for poulbla addltlon to the IJst of Endangered and Ttueetened Plante. The Service encourages their coneiderotten In anviroamenlel planntog. ouch ss In eevironmeotel Impact eoalyaia under the Netlonal Environmental Policy Act of I9ep (tmplsmenred •t a0 CPA pins ]SOIF ibo0). Informotion ngardinngg lba snga. status. end habint needs otsuch species fe available kom the Snrvlee's Regional Offices (see "naatritsn" shove). Summary of Status Catagaias For ease of roferenu. numerical total, for candidate In the rerioua status wtegoriee are provided below: Proposed for Lltting-20 (Including PE- 1T and l'f-9) Category 1-57r (Including ]'-60 and 1"-~) Category 2-1.572 (tneluding 2•-28 and 2"-1) Category 3-g99 (Including 3A-91.31 Ma. and 3C-271) Thb and provtotn plant notlus have Identified a total of 1,t19a category J faze (Including 3A-91.3$-7]S. and ~C- ],1811. Rdatloesblp to 1'etilioo Roqu4anents Almost all category 1 and 2 plants aro subject to patttlona Fm Bating under rho Act. The Servlci ^ Mt plant notice on July 1.787s (e0 FR :rTpt1), Indicated that the os{glnal Smllhsonian plan) roporl bad boon accepted oa • Bating petltlon under the terms of the AcL A revision of the Smlthsootsri s sport wee publhhed In 1876 ^a q book: E. S. Ayansu and R. A. DePlllppa. 6ndaggsrvd and Thrrbtened Plante of fhe United Stoles. SmllhsoNao Inslftutlon and World Wildlife Fund. Washington. D.G Because this revision suggested some addlt{onel laze as endangered or Ihroetened. and rowtnmendad that the Secrotery of Interior otflctally so debrmina Udr atetue. It woe oleo scupted ea a IUting petltlon: The tGe2 amaodmenle to the Act n utred epeclflc end timely reeponaes to lirtina petitfom. In paniculer. uctlon +(b)(J)(B) of the Act was amended to require a finding within ono year of rerxiving ^ listing petltlon as to whether the listing le (]) wertnnted (if so. the finding la eccompeoted by publlcatlanof a proposed IleUng rule). (21 warranted but precluded by other pending proposals of higher priority, or (7) not waranted. In the case of a "waranted but precluded" finding, another finding is required one year later, again falling Into ono of the three allowable cleeaee. The cycle then repeats each year until petllloned faze ore either prapoaed far lietlng or a Mel "sot warranted" finding fa made. After the 1802 amendments, for the purpose of making annually recycled findings, the Service made an sdmlNslsllvs decision to Inat all tandldata ape©ea of plants as if their listings had been petltlooed prior to SOa2 TRts acUOn was taken In order to ^vold the aeceasity of keeping separate track of, end annueUy making individual findings on. the several thousand apecla of pplains sub)eet to Tiding petltlons. Consequently. each year alnce 1t1p3. annual petltlon findings squired by section 1(b)(3)(B) of the A~1 haul been made by category; Categories 1 •nd 2 of each notice of nviaw eorteepond to a Bndlog of "warranted but pncludad." and Category 3 cortaapoedr to a finding of "not warranted." Ralatlrrrtship to itlgt F.odangared Spedu Ad Amanrfmw4 !n SCa& Sactioa e(b)(3)(C) of the Act also was amended. The amendment requlrn the Service to Implement a system for moNloring the atetue of all apecles for which a petition finding of 'warcantad but precluded" hoe been made. it also direele the Service to make prompt case of the emergenry Ilslhtg pprovldons o[ aectlon a(b)(T) if the wall- bsing of any ouch spedaa U at dgNfiunl rbk. Aa noted above, the groat ma)arfty of plant undldetee, Including well over 7A00 faze in category Z es weB ^s moro Iben S001e category 1, have been delermined to be 'tivertentad but ptecludad" for Ilaling et thta time. The Servlea has implemented new procedures l0 esteure Ihst the statue of these cendldate plsnu wfU bs moNtorcd In accordance with this amendment Tbia notice will serve sa a baste for that monitoring el[orL The actual dlatributfon of category 1 ttxa and Iha neturo of throeu to them a» better known. for the mo.rprrt. then