Back through Aug. 27, 2001
Monday, Dec. 31 (Dec. 31 TOC)
Friday, Dec. 28 (Dec. 28 TOC)
- FWS: Gulf Highlands LLC and Fort Morgan Paradise Joint Venture
are seeking ITPs for a residential development in Alabama that would take Alabama beach mouse (12/28, p. 67290-2)
- FWS: Air Products, L.P., of Houston, Texas, has submitted an
application to install a 10-inch nominal pipeline for transportation of industrial gas from Bayport, Texas, to Freeport, Texas, containing approximately 52.7 miles in length and crossing portions of Harris, Galveston, and Brazoria counties, Texas. The pipeline will be within an
existing 300-foot wide pipeline right-of-way corridor that crosses the Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge, in Brazoria County, Texas. (12/28, p. )
- FWS begins candidate status review for the Rio Grande cutthroat trout to determine if candidate status is warranted (12/28, p. 67289-90)
- FWS reopens public comment period until Jan. 28 on proposal to designate CH for Northern Plains piping plover (12/28, p. 67165-6)
- FWS: In anticipation of receiving an application for an incidental
take permit for the Multiple HCP, FWS requests public comment on all four volumes of
the draft MHCP Plan and a draft EIS/EIR prepared jointly by the service and San Diego Association of Governments. (12/28, p. 67292-4)
- NMFS issues an emergency rule to establish the commercial
quotas for large and small coastal sharks at 1,285 metric tons (mt)
dressed weight (dw) and 1,760 mt dw, respectively (12/28, p. 67118-21)
- NMFS announces that the State of Maine, the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, the State of Connecticut, the State of Florida, and the
State of Maryland have transferred a total of 434,000 lb (196,859 kg)
of commercial bluefish quota to the State of North Carolina from their
respective 2001 quotas (12/28, p. 67122)
Thursday, Dec. 27 (Dec. 27 TOC)
- FWS emergency lists the Tumbling Creek cavesnail (12/27, p. 66803-11)
- FWS proposes listing for the Tumbling Creek cavesnail (12/27, p. 66868-9)
- FWS issues Letters of Authorization to Phillips Alaska and Anadarko Inc. to take marine mammals incidental to oil and gas industry activities (12/27, p. 66915-6)
- NMFS announces annual harvest guideline for Pacific
sardine in the exclusive economic zone off the Pacific coast for calendar year 2002. (12/27, p. 66811-2)
- Daniel J. Cox, Natural Exposures, Bozeman, Mont., has applied for a permit to take Northern elephant seals for purposes of commercial/educational photography (12/27, p. 66888)
- NMFS' Southeast Fisheries Science Center in Miami has been
issued a permit to take marine mammals for purposes of scientific research (12/27, p. 66888)
Wednesday, Dec. 26 (Dec. 26 TOC)
- FWS reinstates 1993 proposed listing of the flat-tailed horned
lizard as a threatened species, reopens public comment period. Action was taken to comply with Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision (12/26, p. 66384-5)
- NMFS issues final specifications for the 2002 summer flounder,
scup, and black sea bass fisheries and makes preliminary adjustments to
the 2002 commercial quotas for these fisheries. (12/26, p. 66348-58)
- On Nov. 27, NMFS announced its intent to revise the Alaska Groundfish Fisheries draft Programmatic SEIS. After reviewing more than 21,000 comment letters received on the draft Programmatic SEIS, NMFS determined that revisions to the draft Programmatic SEIS are appropriate and necessary. NMFS also determined that these revisions
will require the release of a revised draft Programmatic SEIS. Based on these decisions, NMFS announced a new series of dates for preparing the revised draft, preparing the final programmatic SEIS, and issuing the Record of Decision (12/26, p. 66390-1)
- NMFS proposes rule to amend regulations governing Atlantic billfish and North Atlantic swordfish recreational fisheries to implement recommendations adopted at the 2000 meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) and to enhance management programs for these species (12/26, p. 66386-90)
Friday, Dec. 21 (Dec. 21 TOC)
Thursday, Dec. 20 (Dec. 20 TOC)
Wednesday, December 19 (Dec. 19 TOC)
- FWS grants emergency exemption to Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife to capture individuals from the Columbia Basin DPS of the pygmy rabbit, recently listed as endangered (12/19, p. 65508-9)
- FWS Region 3 requests amendment to permit for scientific
research activities, to add species to authorization list (12/19, p. 65509)
- Third Rock Consultants, LLC., Lexington, Ky., requests scientific research permit to conduct activities with a variety of species (12/19, p. 65509-10)
- FWS announces public meetings on draft EIS on double-
crested cormorant management (12/19, p. 65510-1)
- NMFS issues interim final rule to establish a voluntary fishing capacity reduction program for the Northeast multispecies fishery that permanently removes multispecies limited access fishing permits (12/19, p. 65454-9)
- NMFS will prepare EA for issuing a Bowhead Whale subsistence quota to the Alaska Eskimo Whaling Commission for the years 2003 through 2007 (12/19, p. 65472-3)
Tuesday, Dec. 18 (Dec. 18 TOC)
Monday, Dec. 17 (Dec. 17 TOC)
- FWS receives permit request to import sport-hunted male bontebok from South Africa (12/17, p. 64986)
- Various endangered species permit applications filed with FWS (12/17, p. 64986-7)
- FWS receives permit request: 12,000 eyed Atlantic salmon eggs (12/17, p. 64987)
- FWS grants permit to import polar bear (12/17, p. 64987)
- NMFS publishes IFQ standard prices and notification of adjustment of the IFQ fee percentage for the IFQ Cost Recovery Program in the halibut and sablefish fisheries of the North Pacific. (12/17, p. 64915-7)
- NMFS proposes regulations to implement Amendment 61 to the
Fishery Management Plan for the Groundfish Fishery of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands Area, Amendment 61 to the Fishery Management Plan for Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska, Amendment 13 to the Fishery Management Plan for Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands King and Tanner Crab, and Amendment 8 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Scallop Fishery off Alaska (FMPs). These amendments incorporate the provisions of the American Fisheries Act (AFA) into the FMPs and their implementing regulations (12/17, p. 65027-69)
Friday, Dec. 14 (Dec. 14 TOC)
Thursday, Dec. 13 (Dec. 13 TOC)
- FWS releases draft Addendum to the Recovery Plan for the Multi-Island Plants (10 endangered plants endemic to the Maui Nui group of islands in the Hawaiian Islands) (12/13, p. 64451-2)
- NMFS is closing directed fishing for Pacific cod by vessels using hook-and-line gear in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (12/13, p. 64380)
- NMFS extends expiration date until July 8, 2002, of the emergency rule that closed the Northeast Distant Statistical Reporting (NED) Area to pelagic longline fishing, required modifications in deploying pelagic longline fishing gear, and required sea turtle handling and release guidelines for bottom and pelagic longline fisheries to be posted in
the wheelhouse (12/13, p. 64378-9)
- NMFS announces a 2001-2002 aboriginal subsistence whaling
quota for gray whales of five gray whales landed. This quota and other
management provisions govern the harvest of gray whales by members of
the Makah Indian Tribe (Tribe) (12/13, p. 64378)
- NMFS proposes a regulatory amendment that would establish cut-
off dates for using landings data from the commercial summer flounder,
scup, and black sea bass fisheries to calculate quota overages (12/13, p. 64392-6)
- NMFS announces the availability of harbor porpoise bycatch
estimates for January through December, 2000 (12/13, p. 64403)
Wednesday, Dec. 12 (Dec. 12 TOC)
- No FWS or NMFS notices today
Tuesday, Dec. 11 (Dec. 11 TOC)
Monday, Dec. 10 (Dec. 10 TOC)
- FWS designates five units totalling 65,879 acres in the Koolau and Waianae mountains on the island of Oahu as critical habitat for the Oahu elepaio (12/10, p. 63751-82)
- FWS proposes to list the San Miguel Island Fox, Santa Rosa Island Fox, Santa Cruz Island Fox, and Santa Catalina Island Fox as endangered (12/10, p. 63654-65)
- FWS extends comment period until Jan. 25 on proposed rule to authorize new methods of take for light goose hunting (12/10, p. 63665-6)
- DEIS available on light goose management (12/10, p. 63723-4)
- NMFS extends emergency interim rule prohibiting the targeting
of swordfish north of the equator by Hawaii longline vessels, among other things (12/10, p. 63630-2)
- The New England and Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Councils
plan to prepare Amendment 2 to the Monkfish Fishery Management Plan and to prepare an SEIS in accordance with NEPA to analyze the impacts of any proposed management measures on the human environment (12/10, p. 63666-7)
- NMFS issues Incidental Harassment Authorization to take small numbers of Pacific harbor seals (Phoca vitulina richardsi) by harassment incidental to repairs at the Carpinteria Oil and Gas Processing Facility in Carpinteria, Calif. to Venoco Inc. (12/10, p. 63680-3)
Today's links: Friday, Dec. 7 (Dec. 7 Table of Contents)
Thursday, Dec. 6 (Dec. 6 TOC)
Wednesday, Dec. 5 (Dec. 5 TOC)
- FWS releases technical/agency draft recovery plan for Karner blue butterfly (12/5, p. 63248-9)
- FWS receives endangered species permit applications (12/5, p. 63247-8)
- FWS receives endangered species permit applications (12/5, p. 63248)
- NMFS announces a 1,000 lb (454 kg)/trip limit of Dover sole in
the limited entry trawl fishery coastwide for the month of December. (12/5, p. 63199-202)
- OPA enforcement: Proposed consent decree--U.S. v. Equilon Pipeline Company, LLC, Civ. No. H-01 3171, S.D. Tex.). For discharges of oil and gasoline into the navigable waters of the U.S. and the State of Texas in the vicinity of the San Jacinto River on or about Oct. 20, 1994. Defendants will buy about 100 acres of replacement property and pay another $250,000 "to construct estuarine and freshwater habitat." (12/5, p. 63256-7)
- Wetlands enforcement: Proposed consent decree--U.S. v. Gallo Glass Company (Civ. No. C 01 3350 JL, N.D. Cal.). CD "imposes civil penalties against the defendants for the excavation and deep ripping of 260 acres of wetlands and depositing fill material into approximately 12.5 acres of drainage, swales, and creeks in wetlands adjacent to Washoe Creek, a tributary to the Laguna de Santa Rosa Creek and Russian River, located on Stoney Point." (12/5, p. 63257)
Tuesday, Dec. 4 (Dec. 4 TOC)
- FWS lists Mississippi gopher frog as endangered (12/4, p. 62993-63002)
- FWS to prepare EIS on on Coyote Springs Investments MSHCP and
issuance of an ITP (12/4, p. 63065-6)
- The Hawk Creek Wildlife Center has been authorized, via permit number PRT-TE050080-0, by FWS's Region 5 to transfer and possess one specific female ocelot, Felis pardalis. (12/4, p. 63065)
- FWS, NPS "will discontinue all activities associated with developing an [EIS] for a proposed exchange of lands on South Fox Island, Leelanau
County, MI. "FWS and NPS have received a written request from the Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) to permanently discontinue efforts on development of the EIS to analyze the proposed exchange of land ..." (12/4, p. 63066)
- NMFS says that since the 2001 fishing year Atlantic bluefin tuna (BFT) General category quota will be attained by Nov. 30, 2001, "the General category fishery will be closed effective 11:30 p.m. on Nov. 30, 2001. This action is being taken to prevent overharvest of the total adjusted General category quota of 919.7 mt (12/4, p. 63002)
- NMFS says that the Atlantic bluefish commercial quota available to the State of New York has been harvested. (12/4, p. 63002-3)
- New England Fishery Management Council will hold a special 2-day council meeting on Dec. 19-20, 2001, to consider actions affecting New England fisheries in the exclusive economic zone (12/4, p. 63012-3)
Monday, Dec. 3 (Dec. 3 TOC)
- FWS releases draft EIS on double-crested cormorant management (12/3, p. 60218-9)
- FWS releases EA/HCP, application for an ITP for the Temecula Ridge Apartments and Temecula Village Development Projects in Riverside County, Calif. (12/3, p. 60219-20)
- FWS releases draft recovery plan for coastal plants of the
Northern San Francisco Peninsula for review and comment (12/3, p. 60217-8)
- FWS receives endangered species permit applications (12/3, p. 60215-6)
- FWS receives endangered species permit applications (12/3, p. 60216-7)
- FWS receives endangered species permit applications (12/3, p. 60217)
- FWS issues permit to import polar bear from Canada (12/3, p. 60220)
- NMFS announces that the closed commercial fishery for red
snapper in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the Gulf of Mexico will
reopen. Reopening of the fishery is necessary because the 2001 annual
quota for red snapper has not been reached (12/3, p. 60161)
Friday, Nov. 30 (Nov. 30 TOC)
- FWS emergency lists the Columbia Basin distinct population segment of the pygmy rabbit (11/30, p. 59734-9)
- FWS proposes to list pygmy rabbit as endangered (11/30, p. 59769-71)
- FWS releases final revised Recovery Plan for the Oregon
Silverspot Butterfly (11/30, p. 59807)
- FWS publishes the priority list for the Multistate Conservation Grant Program submitted by the International Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies (11/30, p. 59807-9)
- Endangered species permit applications received by FWS (11/30, p. 59806-7)
- FWS receives marine mammal permit applications (11/30, p. 59809)
- NMFS Alaska Regional Administrator is authorizing an
exemption to the 3-nm, no-entry zone around Chirikof Island for the sole purpose of livestock removal by FWS (11/30, p. 59749-50)
- NMFS reopens the scoping and comment period for the EIS on the Fishery Management Plan for Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands King and Tanner Crabs (11/30, p. 59771-2)
- NMFS receives end. species research permit application (11/30, p. 59780)
- NMFS denies an amendment to scientific research Permit No. 376-1520-01, submitted by James H.W. Hain, Associated Scientists at Woods Hole, Box 721, Woods Hole, MA 02543 (11/30, p. )
- Doyle A. Hanan, Ph.D., P.O. Box 8914, Rancho Santa Fe, California 92067, has applied for a permit to take California sea lions for purposes of scientific research. (11/30, p. 59781)
- Funtime, Inc. d/b/a Six Flags Worlds of Adventure, 1060 North Aurora Road, Aurora, OH 44202, has applied for a permit to import two killer whales for the purposes of public display. (11/30, p. 59781-2)
Thursday, Nov. 29 (Nov. 29 TOC)
Wednesday, Nov. 28 (Nov. 28 TOC)
Tuesday, Nov. 27 (Nov. 27 TOC)
Monday, Nov. 26 (Nov. 26 TOC)
Friday, Nov. 23 (Nov. 23 TOC)
Wednesday, Nov. 21 (Nov. 21 TOC)
- FWS receives endangered species permit application to conduct research on fanshell in Indiana (11/21, p. 58513)
- FWS: More research applications submitted (11/21, p. 58513-4)
- FWS receives endangered species permit applications (tigers, leopards, sport-hunted bontebok) (11/21, p. 58514)
- FWS allows import of "one polar bear (Ursus maritimus) taken from the Lancaster Sound population, Canada, for personal use (11/21, p. 58514)
- NMFS closes commercial fishery for king mackerel in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the western zone of the Gulf of Mexico (11/21, p. 58410-1)
- NOAA amends regulations governing the anchoring and mooring of vessels in the Flower Garden Banks National Marine Sanctuary (11/21, p. 58370-1)
- NOAA releases draft restoration plan and EA for the M/V Kuroshima Oil Spill, Summer Bay,
Unalaska, Alaska (11/21, p. 58439-40)
- NMFS' Southwest Fisheries Science Center receives permit
to take Antarctic pinnipeds for purposes of scientific research. (11/21, p. 58445)
Tuesday, Nov. 20 (Nov. 20 TOC)
- FWS releases EA/HCP, receives application for an ITP from the Interagency Task Force proposing the Six Points Road Interchange and related development in Marion and Hendricks Counties, IN (11/20, p. 58159-60)
- FWS releases EA, receives ITP application for a city government facility, Deltona, Volusia County, Florida (11/20, p. 58157-9)
- NMFS announces that the scup commercial quota available in the
Winter II period to the coastal states from Maine to North Carolina has been harvested (11/20, p. 58073-4)
- NMFS announces that the period 2 spiny dogfish commercial
quota available to the coastal states from Maine through Florida has been harvested. Federally permitted commercial vessels may no longer land spiny dogfish for the duration of period 2 (through April 30, 2002) (11/20, p. 58074)
- NMFS announces that the 67-metric ton shrimp quota available
for harvest by the United States in Division 3L of the NAFO Regulatory
Area has been allocated (11/20, p. 58073)
- NMFS proposes specifications for the 2002 summer flounder,
scup, and black sea bass fisheries (11/20, p. 58097-105)
Monday, Nov. 19 (Nov. 19 TOC)
- FWS: Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force Northeast Regional Panel to meet Nov. 26 and 27 (11/19, p. 57981-2)
- North American Wetlands Conservation Council to meet Dec. 2 in Wichita, Kansas (11/19, p. 57982)
- NMFS issues final rule updating regulations governing the
operation of Regional Fishery Management Councils under the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson-Stevens Act) (11/19, p. 57885-8)
- NMFS extends public comment period to Dec. 31 for the purpose of receiving comments on the proposed rule (Oct. 2) to amend sea turtle regulations (11/19, p. 57930-1)
- NMFS issues marine mammal permit to LGL Limited, Environmental Research Associates, King City, Ontario, Canada (ringed seals, bearded seals, and spotted seals for purposes of scientific research) (11/19, p. 57939-40)
- NMFS issues marine mammal permit to Dr. Robert B. Griffin, Mote Marine Laboratory, Sarasota, FL (Atlantic spotted dolphins and bottlenose dolphins) (11/19, p. 57940)
Friday, Nov. 16 (Nov. 16 TOC)
Thursday, Nov. 15 (Nov. 15 TOC)
- FWS proposes designation of critical habitat for La Graciosa thistle,
Eriodictyon capitatum (Lompoc yerba santa), and Deinandra increscens
ssp. villosa [= Hemizonia increscens ssp. villosa] (Gaviota tarplant) (11/15, p. 57559-60)
- FWS proposes to designate CH for Santa Cruz tarplant (11/15, p. 57525-58)
- FWS receives endangered species permit applications (11/15, p. 57474)
- NMFS closes the commercial fishery for king mackerel in the
exclusive economic zone (EEZ) in the northern Florida west coast
subzone. This closure is necessary to protect the Gulf king mackerel
resource. (11/15, p. 57396-7)
- NMFS adjusts the October-December subquota for the General
category Atlantic bluefin tuna (11/15, p. 57397-8)
- NMFS announces that the Commonwealth of Virginia has
transferred a total of 100,000 lb (45,372 kg) of commercial bluefish
quota to the State of New York for 2001 (11/15, p. 57398-9)
- NMFS proposes to amend regulations governing the Atlantic
highly migratory species fisheries to implement recommendations adopted at the 2000 meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (11/15, p. 57409-
13)
Wednesday, Nov. 14 (Nov. 14 TOC)
- FWS releases draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan and EA for Salinas River National Wildlife Refuge, Monterey County, California (11/14, p. 57108-9)
- DOI extends deadline until Nov. 27 for nominations to Invasive Species Advisory Committee (11/14, p. 57107-8)
- NOAA releases EA/FONSI on approval of state plans from Alabama, Alaska, California, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas under
the Coastal Impact Assistance Program (11/14, p. 57038)
- Dr. Patricia E. Mascarelli, Carribean Center for Marine Studies, Puerto Rico, has applied for a permit to take humpback whales for purposes of scientific research (11/14, p. 57040-1)
- NMFS receives applications for research on harbor seals (predation on Atlantic salmon) and bottlenose dolphins (11/14, p. 57041)
Tuesday, Nov. 13 (Nov. 13 TOC)
- FWS "corrects errors in the season dates and other pertinent information for the States of Illinois, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Vermont" in Sept. 28 notice "prescribing the hunting seasons, hours, areas, and daily bag and possession limits for general waterfowl seasons and those early seasons for which states previously deferred selection." (11/13, p. 56780-1)
- FWS releases draft EA for federal agency participation in the June sucker recovery implementation program (11/13, p. 56840-1)
- NMFS extends emergency interim rule (published May 8, 2001, amended July 23) on fishing in the Atlantic deep-sea red crab from Nov. 14 for an additional 180 days to continue protection of red crab while permanent measures are being developed by the New England Fishery Management Council (11/13, p. 56781-2)
Friday, Nov. 9 (Nov. 9 TOC)
- FWS, FS: Federal Subsistence Board temporarily closes, makes changes to harvest limits to protect moose populations in Unit 22(B), (D), and (E), and to help the recovery of deer populations in Unit 8 (11/9, p. 56610-3)
- FWS releases Comprehensive Conservation Plan for North Platte
National Wildlife Refuge, Scottsbluff, NE (11/9, p. 56705-6)
- NMFS has modified permits given to the National Park Service and California Department of Fish and Game in order to authorize takes of ESA-listed fish for the
purpose of rescue, subject to certain conditions set forth therein (11/9, p. 56657-8)
- NMFS has evaluated the Tribal Resource Management Plan submitted by the Nez Perce Tribe pursuant to the protective regulations promulgated for Snake River spring/summer chinook salmon under the ESA (11/9, p. 56656-7)
- NOAA releases final damage assessment and restoration
plan/EA for ecological injuries and service losses--Alcoa Point Comfort/Lavaca Bay NPL Site, Point Comfort, Texas (11/9, p. 56649-50)
- NOAA releases final damage assessment and restoration plan/EA for recreational fishing service losses--Alcoa Point Comfort/Lavaca Bay NPL Site, Point Comfort, Texas (11/9, p. 56650-1) (see same link, above)
- NOAA releases draft restoration plan/EA for the Applied Environmental Services (Shore Realty) Superfund Site for public review (11/9, p. 56651-4
- NMFS is amending the notice for applications for ESA scientific research permits from EPA in Corvallis, Ore., and U.S. Forest Service in Corvallis, Ore. (11/9, p. 56658)
Thursday, Nov. 8 (Nov. 8 TOC)
- FWS proposes to designate critical habitat for Chlorogalum purpureum, a plant from the South Coast Ranges of California (11/8, p. 56508-31)
- FWS receives application for an ITP for the operation and management of a tourist and residential project, Palmas del Mar, Humacao, P.R. (hawksbill turtle, leatherback turtle) (11/8, p. 56564-6)
- FWS, Orange County will prepare a joint programmatic
EIR/EIS on the South Subregion Natural Community Conservation Plan/Habitat Conservation Plan proposed by the county (11/8, p. 56566-7)
- NOAA begins joint review of management plans/regulations for the Cordell Bank, Gulf of the Farallones, and Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuaries. Draft EIS and management plans will be prepared; scoping meetings scheduled (11/8, p. 56540-1)
Wednesday, Nov. 7 (Nov. 7 TOC)
- FWS reopens until Dec. 7 the comment period on proposal to list showy stickseed as endangered (11/7, p. 56265-6)
- FWS adds New Jersey to proposal (published Oct. 12) to increase harvest of overabundant light goose populations (11/7, p. 56266)
- FWS reissues marine mammal permit (walrus) (11/7, p. 56334-5)
- FWS receives Wild Bird Conservation Act permit application. "The applicant wishes to establish a cooperative breeding program for black sparrowhawk, European sparrowhawk, African hawk-eagle, lanner falcon, saker falcon, and red headed falcon." (11/7, p. 56335)
- NOAA's Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management
announces intent to evaluate the performance of the Mississippi Coastal Management Program, and the Ashepoo-Combahee-Edisto Basin National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina (11/7, p. 56277-8)
Tuesday, Nov. 6 (Nov. 6 TOC)
- NMFS announces that 95 percent of the Atlantic herring total
allowable catch (TAC) allocated to Management Area 1A (Area 1A) for the fishing year 2001 has been harvested. Therefore, federally permitted vessels may not fish for, catch, possess, transfer or land more than 2,000 lb (907.2 kg) of Atlantic herring harvested from Area 1A per trip or calendar day for the remainder of the 2001 fishery (through Dec. 31) (11/6, p. 56041-2)
- NMFS adjusts 2001 specifications for the Atlantic herring
fishery by transferring 10,000 mt of U.S. at-sea processing to joint venture processing (11/6, p. 56039-40)
- NMFS says that less than 75 percent of the 6,252 mt haddock target total allowable catch will be harvested for the 2001 fishing year under the present landing limit, so the daily landing limit is being suspended until March 1, 2002 (11/6, p. 56040-1)
- NMFS announces that the 2001 yellowfin tuna quota has been
reached and a 15-percent incidental catch limit is now in effect for yellowfin tuna taken in the U.S. purse seine fishery in the Commission's Yellowfin Regulatory Area of the Inter-American
Tropical Tuna Commission through the remainder of 2001 (11/6, p. )
- NMFS corrects information provided in the proposed specifications for the 2002 Atlantic herring fishery published in the Federal Register Oct. 29 (11/6, p. 56052)
Monday, Nov. 5 (Nov. 5 TOC)
Friday, Nov. 2 (Nov. 2 TOC)
Thursday, Nov. 1 (Nov. 1 TOC)
Wednesday, Oct. 31 (Oct. 31 TOC)
Tuesday, Oct. 30 (Oct. 30 TOC)
- FWS issues updated list of candidate species (10/30, p. 54807-32)
- FWS, on behalf of the Department of the Interior, as a Natural Resource Trustee, releases draft Restoration Plan and Environmental Assessment (RP/EA) for the Charles George Landfill Superfund Site in Tyngsborough, Mass. (10/30, p. 54775-6)
- Georgia Power Company applies for an enhancement of survival permit to reintroduce the robust redhorse into a portion of the upper Ocmulgee River in central Georgia and conduct related research and monitoring activities (10/30, p. 54776-8)
- NMFS closes the commercial fishery for red snapper in the
exclusive economic zone (EEZ) of the Gulf of Mexico (10/30, p. 54723)
- NMFS suspends the minimum size limit of 4.75 inches (12.07 cm)
for Atlantic surf clams for the 2002 fishing year (10/30, p. 54723-4)
- NMFS announces closure of the recreational fishery for
rockfish and lingcod in Federal waters (3-200 nautical miles offshore)
south of 40 deg.10' N lat. and seaward of the 20-fathom (36.9-m) depth
contour off the coast of California from October 29 through December
31, 2001. (10/30, p. 54721-3)
- NMFS issues modification 2 to permit 1067 to the California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG) that authorizes takes of ESA-listed anadromous fish species for the purpose of scientific research and enhancement, subject to certain conditions
set forth therein (10/30, p. 54751)
Today's links: Thursday, October 25 (Oct. 25 Table of Contents)
Wednesday, October 24 (Oct. 24 TOC)
- FWS proposes to designate 74 acres in Humboldt County, Calif., as critical habitat for Thlaspi californicum (Kneeland Prairie penny-cress) (10/24, p. 53756-68)
- FWS receives scientific research permit applications (10/24, p. 53803-4)
- FWS receives endangered species permit applications (10/24, p. 53804)
- FWS issues permit to import polar bear from Canada (10/24, p. 53805)
- NMFS is closing directed fishing for groundfish by vessels
using trawl gear in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA), except for directed
fishing for pollock by vessels using pelagic trawl gear in those
portions of the GOA open to directed fishing for pollock (10/24, p. 53736-7)
- NMFS announces the 2001 quotas and associated purse seine
fishery conservation measures for the eastern tropical Pacific Ocean
(ETP), consistent with recommendations by the Inter-American Tropical
Tuna Commission (IATTC) that have been approved by the Department of
State (DOS) under the terms of the Tuna Conventions Act (10/24, p. 53735-6)
- NMFS proposes quotas for the Atlantic surfclam, ocean quahog,
and Maine mahogany ocean quahog fisheries for 2002 (10/24, p. 53770-2)
- NMFS releases final evaluation findings for the Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts and Texas Coastal Management Programs (10/24, p. 53782)
Tuesday, Oct. 23 (Oct. 23 TOC)
- FWS says revision of critical habitat for the Cape Sable Seaside sparrow is warranted. However, "[c]urrently, most of our listing budget must be directed to complying with numerous court orders, settlement agreements, litigation related activities, and due and overdue final listing determinations. We will proceed with a proposal to revise
critical habitat for the Cape Sable seaside sparrow as soon as feasible, considering our workload priorities and available funding." (10/23, p. 53573-5)
- NMFS denies petition for emergency rulemaking for the red snapper fishery in the Gulf of Mexico that was filed with the Department of Commerce by the Texas Shrimp Association. TSA's petition asked for a reduction in the 2001 total allowable catch in the fishery and for a shortening of the associated recreational fishing season (10/23, p. 53579-83)
- NMFS announces initial specifications for the 2002 fishing
year for Atlantic mackerel, squid, and butterfish (MSB) (10/23, p. 53575-9)
- NMFS issues permit to John Wise, Ph.D., Yale University School of Medicine, 520-8034 to take marine mammal species of the orders Cetacea and Pinnipedia for purposes of scientific research (10/23, p. 53587)
Monday, Oct. 22 (Oct. 22 TOC)
Friday, Oct. 19 (Oct. 19 TOC)
Thursday, Oct. 18 (Oct. 18 TOC)
Wednesday, Oct. 17 (Oct. 17 TOC)
- FWS releases draft EA, annonces receipt of an application for an ITP for Pinery Glen, Douglas County, Colorado (Preble's meadow jumping mouse) (10/17, p. 527771)
- FWS releases revised draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan and EA for the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge, Juneau and Wood counties, Wisc. (10/17, p. 52776)
- NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for pollock in Statistical Area 610 of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the seasonal allowance of the pollock total allowable catch for Statistical Area 610 of the GOA (10/17, p. 52713-4)
- NMFS announces the aboriginal subsistence whaling quota for
bowhead whales, and other limitations deriving from regulations adopted at the 1997 Annual Meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) (10/17, p. 52712-3)
Tuesday, Oct. 16 (Oct. 16 TOC)
- FWS receives application to amend West Fork Timber Company's
incidental take permit for Western Washington to include Canada Lynx and bull trout (10/16, p. 52638-40)
- NMFS issues draft EA/FONSI on an application for an ITP from the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife (WDFW) for the take of ESA-listed adult and juvenile salmonids associated with otherwise lawful artificial propagation programs for non-listed species in the upper Columbia River and its tributaries in the state of Washington (10/16, p. 52567-9)
- NMFS has received a request to modify permit (1174) from Mr.
Harold Brundage III, of Environmental Research and Consulting (shortnose sturgeon) (10/16, p. 52593-4)
- Dan Tapster, BBC Natural History Unit, has been issued a permit to harass bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) for purposes of commercial/educational photography (10/16, p. 52594)
- Scott D. Kraus, Ph.D., Edgerton Research Laboratory, New England Aquarium, has applied for a permit to take North Atlantic right whales (Eubalaena glacialis) for purposes of scientific research (10/16, p. 52594-5)
Monday, Oct. 15 (Oct. 15 TOC)
- FWS submits ICR to OMB for approval (permit allowing economic privileges such as farming, commercial filming on wildlife refuges) (10/15, p. 52444-5)
- FWS releases EA/HCP for issuance of an ESA Sec. 10 permit for incidental take of the bald eagle during continued development of the East Lake Area,
The Woodlands, Montgomery County, TX (10/15, p. 52445-6)
- FWS will not prepare an EIS for the proposed Oregon State
project, ``Restoration of the Diamond Lake Recreational Fishery.'' (10/15, p. 52446)
- FWS releases EA, receives application for an ITP for the Redhawk Communities, Inc. Development in Riverside County, CA (10/15, p. 52446-7)
- NMFS corrects sea turtle conservation rule of March 23, 1999 (10/15, p. 52362)
- The South Atlantic Fishery Management Council will
hold a meeting of its Snapper Grouper Committee, a joint meeting of its Executive and Finance Committees, and a public scoping meeting in Charleston, SC (10/15, p. 52370)
Friday, Oct. 12 (Oct. 12 TOC)
- FWS rule would authorize new methods of take for light goose
hunting. (10/12, p. 52077-90)
- FWS proposes to revise list of migratory birds (10/12, p. 52281-300)
- FWS schedules meetings on draft EIS on light goose management (10/12, p. 52147-8)
- NMFS makes inseason adjustments to the 2001 annual management measures for the ocean salmon fishery; request for comments. (10/12, p. 52062-4)
- NMFS proposes regulations to implement Amendment 54 to the
Fishery Management Plan (FMP) for the Groundfish Fishery of the Bering
Sea and Aleutian Islands Area and Amendment 54 to the FMP for
Groundfish of the Gulf of Alaska (10/12, p. 52090-3)
- National Ocean Service (NOS), in cooperation with California State Parks, has completed a joint draft EIS/EIR addressing the potential effects on the human and natural environment that may result from construction of sedimentation, flood control and other facilities within and adjacent to Goat Canyon, and the elevation and/or realignment of
Monument Road through Border Field State Park lands. (10/12, p. 52112-3)
Thursday, Oct. 11 (Oct. 11 TOC)
- FWS proposes to change the regulatory alternatives for the 2001-02
duck hunting seasons for States in the Lower Region (Arkansas, Louisiana, Kentucky, Alabama, Mississippi and Tennessee) of the Mississippi Flyway to allow for a season length of 60 days beginning no earlier than Sept. 29 and ending no later than Jan. 31 (10/11, p. 51919-21)
- FWS releases Comprehensive Conservation Plan and FONSI for Lower Suwannee and Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuges in Florida (10/11, p. 51966)
- Klamath River Basin Fisheries Task Force "to meet" Oct. 10 and 11 in Yreka, Calif. If you hurry, you might make today's meeting. (10/11, p. 51967-8)
- FWS receives endangered species permit applications (10/11, p. 51966-7)
- FWS issues permit to Gilbert E. Orr to import a polar bear (Ursus maritimus) taken from the Lancaster Sound population, Canada for personal use (10/11, p. 51967)
- FWS: Klamath Fishery Management Council to meet Oct. 17-18, Weaverville, Calif. (10/11, p. 51967)
- NMFS informs surf clam and ocean quahog allocation owners that
they will be required to purchase their fishing year 2002 cage tags from a vendor (10/11, p. 51929)
- NMFS: Peter L. Tyack, Ph.D., Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, has requested an amendment to scientific research Permit No. 981-1578-01 (whales) (10/11, p. 51930)
Wednesday, Oct. 10 (Oct. 10 TOC)
Tuesday, Oct. 9 (Oct. 9 TOC)
- FWS lists scaleshell mussel as endangered (10/9, p. 51322-39)
- FWS issues "not warranted" finding for Bonneville cutthroat trout (10/9, p. 51362-6)
- FWS will ask OMB "to renew approval of the collection of information for the Conservation Order for the Reduction of Mid Continent Light Goose populations." (10/9, p. 51443-4)
- FWS to prepare CCP, comply w/ NEPA re: Great Dismal Swamp National Wildlife Refuge (NWR) located in Suffolk and Chesapeake, Virginia and Gates and Camden Counties, North Carolina and the Nanesmond Refuge Unit located in Suffolk, Va. (10/9, p. 51444)
- FWS determines that designation of critical habitat is not prudent for the Rock Gnome Lichen (10/9, p. 51445-52)
- FWS releases draft implementation plan for falconry take of
nestling American Peregrine Falcons in the contiguous United States and Alaska (10/9, p. 51444-5)
- FWS is extending the period to prepare a draft EIS for the Swanson River Satellites Natural Gas project beyond the nine months prescribed in Title XI of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA) (10/9, p. 51452)
- FWS: The Hanford Reach National Monument Federal Advisory Committee will conduct a meeting on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2001, from 9 a.m. to 4:45 pm in the Board Room in the Administration Building of the Columbia Basin College, 2600 N. 20th Ave., Pasco, Washington (10/9, p. 51452-3)
- National trustee agencies, led by NOAA, have formed the Montrose Settlements Restoration Program (MSRP) to plan and oversee the restoration of natural resources that have been injured by the release of hazardous substances, DDTs and PCBs, in the Southern
California Bight marine environment (10/9, p. 51391-4)
- NOAA releases final guidance for the Coastal Impact Assistance Program (CIAP) (10/9, p. 51396-400)
- Dr. Daniel P. Costa, Professor of Biology, Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, Center for Ocean Health, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, has requested an amendment to scientific research Permit No. 87-1593 (California sea lions, four species of seals) (10/9, p. 51395-6)
Friday, Oct. 5 (Oct. 5 TOC)
- FWS says that polar bears "sport hunted in [the M'Clintock Channel population] after the 1999/2000 Canadian hunting season will no longer be eligible for import under the 1997 finding which approved this population for multiple harvest seasons." (10/5, p. 50843-51)
- FWS releases EA on "overabundant light goose population; management alternatives" (10/5, p. 51273-4)
- NMFS is reallocating the projected unused amount of Pacific
cod from vessels using trawl and jig gear to vessels using hook-and-line or pot gear in the BSAI (10/5, p. 50858-9)
- NMFS announces changes to the following limited entry and
open access trip limits in the Pacific Coast groundfish fishery (10/5, p. 50851-8)
- The North Pacific Fishery Management Council has submitted for Secretarial review Amendment 6 to the Fishery Management Plan for the Salmon Fisheries in the Exclusive Economic Zone off the Coast of Alaska. The amendment is necessary to revise the
overfishing definitions for the salmon fishery authorized under the Salmon FMP (10/5, p. 51001-3)
- The New England Fishery Management Council announces
its intention to prepare an SEIS in accordance with Framework Adjustment 36 to the Northeast
Multispecies Fishery Management Plan (10/5, p. 51000-1)
- NOAA proposes amendments to regulations on assessment of natural resource damages pursuant to the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (10/5, p. 50919)
- NMFS issues endangered species permits to Preston Pate, of the State of North Carolina-Department of Environment and Natural Resources (1348) and permit 1325 to Mr. Rich Carpenter, of the North Carolina Division of Marine Fisheries (1325). (10/5, p. 51023)
Thursday, Oct. 4 (Oct. 4 TOC)
Wednesday, Oct. 3 (Oct. 3 TOC)
- FWS lists Ohlone tiger beetle as endangered (10/3, p. 50340-50)
- FWS proposes to list Rota bridled white-eye (a bird) as endangered (10/3, p. 50383-90)
- Paramount Farming Company applies for enhancement of survival permit. Permit application includes a proposed Safe Harbor agreement between the applicant and FWS. "The agreement allows for management and conservation of the endangered San Joaquin kit fox on 1,668 acres of private land, owned by [Paramount], between the Lost Hills oil field and the California Aqueduct, in western Kern County." The permit would be for three years. (10/3, p. 50444-5)
- NMFS is closing the waters of Pamlico Sound, North Carolina,
to fishing with gillnets with a mesh size larger than 4\1/4\ inch (10.8
cm) stretched mesh (``large-mesh gillnet''), from September 28, 2001
through December 15, 2001, to protect migrating sea turtles (10/3, p. 50350-4)
- NMFS Advance notice of proposed rulemaking. The service is preparing regulations to implement a Seasonal Area Management program to seasonally limit fishing operations in certain areas, which was identified as a measure under the RPA contained in the Biological Opinions (BOs) prepared for the federal Northeast multispecies, monkfish, spiny dogfish, and American lobster fisheries (10/3, p. 50390-4)
- NMFS issues Navy Incidental Harassment Authorization (IHA) to take small numbers of pinnipeds by harassment incidental to the demolition and removal of buildings located at the entrance of Mugu Lagoon in Point Mugu, California (10/3, p. 50416-9)
Tuesday, Oct. 2 (Oct. 2 TOC)
Monday, Oct. 1 (Oct. 1 TOC)
Friday, Sept. 28 (Sept. 28 TOC)
- FWS issues positive 90-day finding on Kootenai River burbot (9/28, p. 49608-11)
- FWS lists two perennial herbs as endangered--Astragalus holmgreniorum (Holmgren milk-vetch) and Astragalus ampullarioides (Shivwits milk-vetch) (9/28, p. 49560-7)
- FWS final rule prescribes special late-season migratory bird
hunting regulations for certain tribes on Federal Indian reservations, off-reservation trust lands and ceded lands (9/28, p. 49773-81)
- FWS final rule prescribes the hunting seasons, hours, areas, and
daily bag and possession limits for general waterfowl seasons and those early seasons for which states previously deferred selection. (9/28, p. 49747-92)
- NOAA is extending by 15 days the comment period on the draft report ``Fair Market Value for a Submarine Cable Permit in National Marine Sanctuaries,'' published on August 17, 2001, 66 FR 43135. (9/28, p. 49576)
- NOAA, EPA release EA/FONSIs on approval of coastal nonpoint pollution control programs for Georgia, Texas and Ohio (9/28, p. 49643)
- National Park Service is implementing the Glacier Bay National Park Commercial Fisheries Compensation Plan.
Today's links: Friday, Sept. 21 (Sept. 21 Table of Contents)
Thursday, Sept. 20 (Sept. 20 TOC)
- FWS receives endangered species scientific research permit applications (9/20, p. 48477)
- FWS issues leters of authorization to take marine mammals incidental to oil and gas industry activities (9/20, p. 48477-8)
- Forest Service proposes to issue an interim directive to guide its employees in complying with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations for issuance of a special use authorization involving administrative changes where no changes are proposed in authorized activities or
facilities (9/20, p. 48412-6)
- NMFS corrects July 17, 2001, emergency interim rule and its Aug. 22 correction by correcting Steller sea lion protection areas for the Pacific cod directed fishery, to clarify closure areas to Tables 22, 23, and 24 to part 679 and by correcting the corresponding regulatory text to be consistent with the changes to the tables (9/20, p. 48371-80)
- NMFS has determined that the Indian tribal fishery will be
unable to harvest 10,000 metric tons (mt) of their 2001 Pacific whiting
(whiting) allocation. Therefore, NMFS announces the reapportionment of surplus whiting from the tribal allocation to the catcher/processor, mothership, and shore-based sectors (9/20, p. 48370-1)
- NMFS to prepare EIS for the Fishery Management Plan for Bering Sea/Aleutian Islands (BSAI) King and Tanner Crabs (FMP) (9/20, p. 48410-1)
- NOAA Office of Ocean and Coastal Resource Management
will evaluate the performance of the Hawaii Coastal Management Program, the Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Hampshire, the Jobos Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, Puerto Rico, and the Ashepoo-Combahee-Edisto (ACE) Basin
National Estuarine Research Reserve, South Carolina (9/20, p. 48425-6)
- NOAA has prepared a draft EIS to assess the impacts associated with the approval of the Indian Lake Michigan Coastal Program (LMCP); public hearing scheduled (9/20, p. 48426)
Wednesday, Sept. 19 (Sept. 19 TOC)
Tuesday, Sept. 18 (Sept. 18 TOC)
Monday, Sept. 17 (Sept. 17 TOC)
- NMFS Northeast Regional Administrator closes specific areas within Northeast multispecies fishery in order to protect Gulf of Maine cod resources (9/17, p. 48011-2)
- NMFS proposes to amend the regulations that implement
Amendment 12 to the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan
(FMP) to change the date of the Year-4 default management measures for
small-mesh multispecies (silver hake (whiting), red hake and offshore
hake), from May 1, 2002, to May 1, 2003 (9/17, p. 48020-4)
- NMFS receives application for a scientific research permit from
Dr. Frank A. Chapman, of the Department of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences, University of Florida (shortnose sturgeon) (9/17, p. 48031-2)
Friday, Sept. 14 (Sept. 14 TOC)
Thursday, Sept. 13 (Sept. 13 TOC)
Wednesday, Sept. 12 (Sept. 12 TOC)
- Wetlands: Corps extends comment period until Oct. 29 on draft programmatic EIS for the Nationwide Permit Program (9/12, p. 47457-8)
- FWS receives endangered species permit applications (9/12, p. 47499)
- FWS, NMFS: Application submitted by Geo-Marine Inc. of Plano, TX, for a permit to take all marine mammal species (Cetacea, Pinnipedia, and Sirenia) and sea turtle species occurring in waters of Puerto Rico for purposes of scientific research has been returned to Venoco because the conpany "failed to respond within 60 days to reviewer comments..." (9/12, p. 47455-6)
- NMFS prohibits trawling in Steller sea lion protection areas in the Central Aleutian District of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI). "This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the B season critical habitat limit of the 2001 total
allowable catch (TAC) of Atka mackerel allocated to the Central Aleutian District." (9/12, p. 47418)
- NMFS final rule clarifies definition of length overall (LOA) of a vessel for the purposes of the regulations governing the groundfish fisheries in the exclusive economic zone off Alaska (9/12, p. 47416-7)
- NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for pollock in
Statistical Area 610 of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA). This action is
necessary to prevent exceeding the C season allowance of the pollock
total allowable catch (TAC) for Statistical Area 610 of the GOA (9/12, p. 47417-8)
- NMFS publishes corrected adjustments to the 2001 commercial
quotas for summer flounder, scup, and black sea bass. (9/12, p. 47413-6)
- Oregon DFW submits Fisheries Management and Evaluation Plan (FMEP) pursuant to the protective regulations promulgated for Lower Columbia River (LCR) chum salmon under the ESA (9/12, p. 47452)
- NMFS asks for information on Gulf of Maine Atlantic salmon DPS as part of development of recovery plan (9/12, p. 47452-3)
- (9/12, p. )
- NMFS requests comments on its proposal "to authorize Venoco
Inc. to incidentally take, by harassment, small numbers of Pacific harbor seals (Phoca vitulina richardsi) from Nov. 1, 2001, through Nov. 1, 2002 (9/12, p. 47453-5)
Tuesday, Sept. 11 (Sept. 11 TOC)
- No FWS or NMFS notices today
Today's links: Monday, Sept. 10 (Sept. 10 Table of Contents)
- FWS will prepare a status review and a revised 12-month finding for
the Wasatch Front population of the spotted frog (9/10, p. 47034-5)
- FWS announces draft recovery goals for Colorado River fishes: humpback chub, bonytail, Colorado pikeminnow (formerly named Colorado squawfish), and razorback sucker (9/10, p. 47033-4)
- FWS releases draft EA for the Mandalay Bank Protection Project (Demo) Terrebonne Parish, LA (9/10, p. 47035)
- NMFS prohibits directed fishing for species that comprise the shallow-water species fishery by vessels using trawl gear in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA), except for vessels fishing for pollock using pelagic trawl gear in those portions of the GOA open to directed fishing for pollock (9/10, p. 46967)
- NMFS modifies the limited retention regulation for the commercial fishery from Humbug Mt., OR, to the OR-CA border, suspending the possession and landing limit of 30 fish per day until further notice (9/10, p. 46966-7)
- NOAA prohibits operation of motorized personal watercraft within the boundaries of the Gulf of the Farallones National Marine Sanctuary (9/10, p. 46942-51)
- NMFS will prepare supplemental EIS's in accordance with NEPA for the Essential Fish Habitat components of the monkfish, Atlantic herring, and Atlantic Salmon FMPs (9/10, p. 46979)
- National Marine Mammal Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science Center, Seattle, has been issued a permit to take harbor porpoise for purposes of scientific research. (9/10, p. 47015-6)
Friday, Sept. 7 (Sept. 7 TOC)
- FWS releases EA for a major amendment to San Diego County's subarea plan of the Multiple Species Conservation Program Plan, California (9/7, p. 46808-9)
- FWS to prepare EIR/S for the Western Riverside County, Calif., Multiple Species HCP (9/7, p. 46809-11)
- Wetlands enforcement: Proposed consent decree in U.S. v. Robert Desmond, Civ. No. 01-CV-11425-RGS (D. Mass.), requires payment of a civil penalty of $10,000, for filling waters of the U.S. in Taunton, Mass. "The Defendant is required to pay an additional penalty of $48,478.47, reflecting payments owed to the United States under [a previous Consent Agreement and Final Order], unless the Defendant proves to the satisfaction of the United States, within 90 days of entry of the Consent Decree, that he paid $12,500 to the United States on or before July 31, 1998." (9/7, p. 46811-2)
- Wetlands enforcement: Proposed Consent Decree includes fine of $100,000, requires "completion of site restoration activities, including the filling of ditches" (U.S. v. Mallory Creek Developers Inc., No. 7:01-CV-163-F1 (E.D.N.C.). Complaint concerns "unauthorized discharge of pollutants into waters of the United States at the Mallory Creek Developers Site located on the west side of State Highway 133, in Brunswick County, North Carolina." (9/7, p. 46812)
Thursday, Sept. 6 (Sept. 6 TOC)
- FWS designates 6,135 acres of land in Chelan County, Wash., as critical habitat for the plant Sidalcea oregana var. calva (Wenatchee Mountains checker-mallow) (9/6, p. 46536-48)
- FWS designates 11.2 river miles of the Kootenai River in Idaho as critical habitat for Kootenai River sturgeon (9/6, p. 46548-61)
- FWS proposes Sacramento Mountains Checkerspot Butterfly as endangered, proposes critical habitat (9/6, p. 46575-95)
- FWS submits ICR to OMB for approval on Native Alaskans' taking of polar bears, sea otters, and Pacific walruses for subsistence or handcraft purposes (9/6, p. 46649-50)
- FWS receives petition to designate Alaska stock of sea otters as depleted (9/6, p. 46651)
- FWS receives endangered species permit applications (9/6, p. 46650-1)
- FWS releases final supplemental EIS for a sea lamprey control proposal in Lake Champlain (9/6, p. 46651-2)
- FWS issues permit to import polar bear for personal use (9/6, p. 46652)
Wednesday, Sept. 5 (Sept. 5 TOC)
- FWS corrects Figure 2 in June 6 proposed rule to designate CH for O`ahu `elepaio (9/5, p. 46428-30)
- NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for Atka mackerel with
gears other than jig in the Eastern Aleutian District and the Bering
Sea subarea of the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area
(BSAI). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the 2001 total
allowable catch (TAC) of Atka mackerel in these areas (9/5, p. 46404-5)
- NMFS is prohibiting directed fishing for groundfish by vessels
using hook-and-line gear in the Gulf of Alaska (GOA), except for
sablefish or demersal shelf rockfish in the Southeast Outside District (9/5, p. 46404)
- NMFS has determined that the Atlantic bluefin tuna (BFT)
General category daily retention limit should be adjusted to two large medium or giant BFT per vessel (9/5, p. 46400-1)
- NMFS notifies eligible participants of the commercial fishery
for large coastal sharks (LCS) in the Western North Atlantic Ocean,
including the Gulf of Mexico and the Caribbean Sea, which was scheduled
to be closed on August 31, 2001, at 11:30 p.m. local time, has been
extended to September 4, 2001, at 11:30 p.m. local time. (9/5, p. )
- NMFS adjusts the 2001 fishing year directed fishery and
incidental catch quotas for North Atlantic swordfish to account for
underharvest from the 1999 fishing year (9/5, p. 46401-2)
- NMFS announces a modification of the open periods and limited
retention regulation for the commercial fishery from the Queets River,
WA, to Cape Falcon, OR (9/5, p. 46403-4)
Tuesday, Sept. 4 (Sept. 4 TOC)
- FWS adds seven national wildlife refuges to the list of areas open for
hunting and/or sport fishing, along with pertinent refuge-specific regulations (9/4, p. 46345-63)
- FWS releases draft economic analysis, reopens public comment period on proposed CH designation for San Bernardino kangaroo rat (9/4, p. 46251-3)
- Company to pay $580,000 in fines, including $500,000 for natural
resources restoration projects compensating for injuries to wildlife and habitat, for 1998 oil spill off Oahu (U.S. v. Tesoro Hawaii Corp., 01-560 SOM LEK, D. Haw.) (9/4, p. 46287)
Friday, Aug. 31 (Aug. 31 TOC)
Thursday, Aug. 30 (Aug. 30 TOC)
Wednesday, Aug. 29 (Aug. 29 TOC)
- FWS prescribes the hunting seasons, hours, areas, and daily bag and possession limits of mourning, white-winged, and white-tipped doves; band-tailed pigeons; rails; moorhens and gallinules; woodcock; common snipe; sandhill cranes; sea ducks; early (September) waterfowl seasons; migratory game birds in Alaska, Hawaii, Puerto Rico,
and the Virgin Islands; and some extended falconry seasons (8/29, p. 45729-47)
- Five public hearings set on establishing 16 additional manatee protection areas in Florida (8/29, p. 45662-3)
- FWS: Endangered species permit applications received (8/29, p. 45689-90)
- FWS to prepare an EIS on possible issuance of an ITP to the Salt River Project for the Roosevelt HCP (8/29, p. 45690-1)
- Polar bears can be imported under FWS marine mammal permits (8/29, p. 45691-2)
- NMFS is closing directed fishing for species in the rock sole/
flathead sole/"other flatfish'' fishery category by vessels using trawl gear in the Bering Sea and Aleutian Islands management area (BSAI). This action is necessary to prevent exceeding the 2001 Pacific halibut bycatch allowance specified for the trawl rock sole/flathead sole/"other flatfish" fishery category (8/29, p. 45635-6)
- NMFS announces specific inseason actions for the West Coast ocean salmon fisheries (8/29, p. 45634-5)
Tuesday, Aug. 28 (Aug. 28 TOC)
- FWS proposes to establish the 2001-02 late-season hunting regulations for certain migratory game birds (8/28, p. 45517)
- FWS to resume review of all aspects of regulations pertaining to the release and harvest of captive-reared mallards (8/28, p. 45274-5)
- FWS has submitted a request to OMB to renew its approval of the collection of information for the Migratory Bird Harvest Surveys (8/28, p. 45320-2)
- FWS receives scientific research permit applications (8/28, p. 45322)
- Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force Ballast Water and Shipping
Committee to meet Sept. 11 (8/28, p. 45323)
- Aquatic Nuisance Species Task Force Western Regional Panel to meet (8/28, p. 45322-3)
- NMFS: "The final rule to implement Framework Adjustment 1 for the summer flounder, scup, black sea bass, Loligo squid, Illex squid, Atlantic mackerel, butterfish, and bluefish fisheries published on Friday, August 10, 2001, contained errors in the preamble, amendatory instructions, and designation of a revised paragraph. This document
corrects the errors." (8/28, p. 45187)
Monday, Aug. 27 (Aug. 27 TOC)