Five-year Status Reviews of Garber’s spurge (Chamaesyce
garberi)
About the Document
Title: Five-year Status Review of theGarber’s
spurge(Chamaesyce garberi)
Purpose: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) is
conducting a 5-year status review of the federally listed threatened
Garber’s spurgeunder section 4 of the Endangered Species Act of
1973, as amended (Act). The purpose of reviews conducted under
this section of the Act is to ensure that the classification of species
as threatened or endangered on the List of Endangered and Threatened
Wildlife and Plants (50 CFR 17.11 and 17.12) is accurate. A 5-year
review is an assessment of the best scientific and commercial data available
at the time of the review. On the basis of such reviews, we determine
whether or not any species should be removed from the List (delisted)
or reclassified from endangered to threatened or from threatened to endangered. Delisting
a species must be supported by the best scientific and commercial data
available and only considered if such data substantiate that the species
is neither endangered nor threatened for one or more of the following
reasons: (1) the species is considered extinct; (2) the species
is considered to be recovered; and/or (3) the original data available
when the species was listed, or the interpretation of such data, were
in error. Any change in Federal classification would require a
separate rulemaking process.
About the Peer Review Process
Type of Review: Influential
Date of Peer Review: Peer review will occur between May
2007 and June 2007.
Estimated Dissemination Date of the Final 5-year
Review Document:August 2007.
Process: The Service will conduct external peer review of
this document through letters sent to three or more independent scientific
reviewers with expertise in expertise in botany, plant ecology, and conservation
biology and / or specific expertise or knowledge of this species.
The Service will make formal requests for peer review from the Florida
Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, Division of Plant Industry
and Miami-Dade County, Department of Environmental Resources Management. Peer
review of the scientific information used in our analysis of the status
of the Garber’s spurgeand the validity of the data will be requested,
but peer reviewers will not be asked to provide recommendations on the
legal status of the species.
The Service will use the information received from the peer review, as
appropriate, in the conclusions and recommendations for the status of the
Garber’s spurge.
About Public Participation
Public comments on the 5-year review for the Garber’s spurgewere
sought with a Federal Register announcement on September
27, 2006, and the distribution by mail and press release of this announcement
to interested parties.
The Service will post a notice on its website of the recommendation
resulting from the 5-year review of the Garber’s spurge, including
a summary of the results of the peer review process. If this 5-year
review results in a recommendation to change the status of the Garber’s
spurge, additional public review and comment will be sought within the
proposed rulemaking process.
This peer review plan is made available on this website to allow the
public to monitor our compliance with the Office of Management and Budget’s
Final Information Quality Bulletin for Peer Review.
Contact: Cindy Schulz, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, South Florida
Ecological Services Office, 772-562-3909.
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