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Federal Register Notice of Availability:Draft Post-delisting Monitoring Plan for Public Review and Comment
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Fish and Wildlife Service: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Draft Post-Delisting Monitoring Plan for the Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) and Proposed Information Collection
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability of draft post-delisting monitoring plan; request for comments.
SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce the availability of the draft post-delisting monitoring plan (draft PDM Plan) for the bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus). The Endangered Species Act (ESA) requires that the Service implement a system, in cooperation with the States, to monitor effectively for at least 5 years, the status of all species that have been recovered and no longer need protection of the ESA. The bald eagle in the contiguous 48 states will be removed from the Federal List of Threatened and Endangered Wildlife and Plants (delisted) due to recovery. We are publishing the final rule for the delisting simultaneously with this notice elsewhere in today’s Federal Register. We will also ask the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to approve the information collection (IC) for the draft PDM Plan described below.
DATES: Comments from all interested parties on the draft bald eagle postdelisting monitoring plan must be received on or before October 9, 2007. You must submit comments regarding the information collection aspects of the draft bald eagle post-delisting monitoring plan on or before October 9, 2007.
ADDRESSES: The draft PDM Plan may be downloaded from our Web site at http:// www.fws.gov/midwest/Endangered. To request a copy of the draft PDM Plan, write to our Rock Island Field Office: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1511 47th Avenue, Moline, Illinois 61265; or call 309–757–5800 to receive a copy. You may also send an e-mail request to baldeaglePDM@fws.gov. Specify whether you want to receive a hard copy by U.S. mail or an electronic copy by e-mail. Send your comments by any of the following methods. See ‘‘Viewing Documents’’ and ‘‘Public Comments Solicited’’ under SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for important information.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Section 4(g)(1) of the ESA requires that we implement a system, in cooperation with the States, to effectively monitor for not less than 5 years, the status of all species that have been recovered and delisted. In order to meet the ESA’s monitoring requirement, and to facilitate the efficient collection of data, we have designed a sampling method to be implemented by various States, capable of detecting substantial changes in the bald eagle population in the lower 48 states.
The draft bald eagle post-delisting monitoring plan was developed in cooperation with State resource agencies and interested scientists, and will be carried out by the Service’s Monitoring Team in collaboration with Federal, State, Tribal, and private cooperators. The monitoring plan proposes to start in the winter of 2008 and spring of 2009. We will conduct surveys every 5 years over the next 20 years. Monitoring will consist of the collection of information on numbers of nesting bald eagles in selected locations based on State participation and density of identified bald eagle nest sites. At the end of each 5-year monitoring event we will review all available information to determine the status of the bald eagle.
Information Collection Form
Viewing Documents
Public Comments Solicited
Please submit Internet comments to baldeaglePDM@fws.gov in ASCII file format and avoid the use of special characters or any form of encryption. Please also include ‘‘Bald Eagle Draft PDM Plan Comments’’ in the subject line of the message, and your full name and return address in the body of your message. Please note that the Internet address baldeaglePDM@fws.gov will be closed when the public comment period is closed.
We will take into consideration the relevant comments, suggestions, or objections that we receive by the comment due date indicated above in DATES. These comments, suggestions, or objections, and any additional information received may lead us to adopt a final PDM Plan that differs from this draft PDM Plan. Comments merely stating support or opposition to the draft PDM Plan without providing supporting data are not as helpful.
Public Availability of Comments
We also invite comments concerning this IC on:
Comments that you send about this IC are a matter of public record. We will include and/or summarize each comment in our request to OMB to approve this IC.
Authority: The authority for this action is
the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 Dated: June 26, 2007. H. Dale Hall,
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