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2017 Federal Register Index

In 2017, the Fish and Wildlife Service published 260 documents.


Document Type Documents Published Subjects Covered
Rule 28 10
Proposed Rule 40 8
Notice 192 27
Uncategorized Document 1
2017 Federal Register Index

This index provides descriptive entries and Federal Register page numbers for documents published by Fish and Wildlife Service in the daily Federal Register. It includes entries, with select metadata for all documents published in the 2017 calendar year.

Rules

2017–2018 Refuge-Specific Hunting and Sport Fishing Regulations 1

Civil Monetary Inflation Adjustments 1

Eagle Permits:

Effectuating Congressional Nullification of Non-subsistence Take of Wildlife, and Public Participation and Closure Procedures, on National Wildlife Refuges in Alaska under Congressional Review Act 1

Endangered and Threatened Species:

Endangered Species Status for Dalea carthagenensis var. floridana (Florida Prairie-clover), and Threatened Species Status for Sideroxylon reclinatum ssp. austrofloridense (Everglades Bully), Digitaria pauciflora (Florida Pineland Crabgrass), and Chamaesyc 1
Establishment of a Nonessential Experimental Population of the Oregon Silverspot Butterfly in Northwestern Oregon 1
Reclassification of the West Indian Manatee from Endangered to Threatened 1
Reinstatement of Removal of Federal Protections for Gray Wolves in Wyoming 1
Removal of the Hualapai Mexican Vole from the Federal List 1
Removal of the Scarlet-Chested Parrot and the Turquoise Parrot from the Federal List 1
Removing Textual Descriptions of Critical Habitat Boundaries for Plants on the Hawaiian Islands 1
Removing the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Population of Grizzly Bears from the Federal List 1
Revisions to the Regulations for Candidate Conservation Agreements with Assurances; Delay of Effective Date 1
Rusty Patched Bumble Bee 1
Rusty Patched Bumble Bee; Delay of Effective Date 1
Status for Guadalupe Fescue; Designation of Critical Habitat for Guadalupe Fescue 1
Status for Iiwi (Drepanis coccinea) 1
Status for Pearl Darter 1
Status for Sonoyta Mud Turtle 1
Tonkin Snub-nosed Monkey; Technical Correction 1

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; CFR Correction 1

Migratory Bird Hunting:

Corrosion-Inhibited Copper Shot as Nontoxic for Waterfowl Hunting; Approval 1
Final Frameworks for Regulations 1
Regulations on Certain Federal Indian Reservations and Ceded Lands for 2017-18 Season 1

Migratory Bird Permits:

Migratory Bird Subsistence Harvest:

Permits for Eagle Incidental Take and Take of Eagle Nests; Correction 1

Proposed Rules

2017-2018 Refuge-Specific Hunting and Sport Fishing Regulations 1

Endangered and Threatened Species:

12 Month Findings on Petitions to List Holiday Darter, Trispot Darter, and Bridled Darter; Threatened Species Status for Trispot Darter 1
12-Month Findings on Petitions to List 25 Species as Endangered or Threatened 1
12-Month Findings on Petitions to List Four Species as Endangered or Threatened Species 1
12-Month Findings on Petitions to List a Species and Remove a Species from the Federal Lists of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants 1
6-Month Extension of Final Determination on Proposed Threatened Status for Chorizanthe parryi var. fernandina (San Fernando Valley Spineflower) 1
90-Day Finding on Petition to Remove Bone Cave Harvestman from List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife 1
90-Day Findings for Five Species 1
90-Day Findings on Two Petitions 1
Candidate Conservation Agreements with Assurances 1
Endangered Species Status for the Texas Hornshell 1
Final Determination on Proposed Endangered Status for Texas Hornshell (Popenaias popeii); 6-Month Extension 1
Listing Kenk's Amphipod; Withdrawal 1
Listing Yangtze Sturgeon as Endangered Species 1
Louisiana Pinesnake; 6-Month Extension of Final Determination on Proposed Threatened Status 1
Nonessential Experimental Population of Red Wolves (Canis rufus) in North Carolina 1
Possible Effects of Court Decision on Grizzly Bear Recovery in Conterminous United States 1
Proposed Threatened Species Status for Candy Darter 1
Reclassifying Echinocereus fendleri var. kuenzleri from Endangered to Threatened 1
Removal of Trichostema austromontanum ssp. compactum (Hidden Lake Bluecurls) from Federal List 1
Removal of the Lesser Long-nosed Bat From the Federal List 1
Removing Astragalus desereticus from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Plants 1
Removing Eriogonum gypsophilum from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Plants 1
Removing Trichostema austromontanum ssp. compactum (Hidden Lake Bluecurls) from Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Plants 1
Reopening Comment Periods for Five Proposed Rules 1
Status for Meltwater Lednian Stonefly and Western Glacier Stonefly 1
Threatened Species Status for Chorizanthe parryi var. fernandina (San Fernando Valley Spineflower) 1
Threatened Species Status for Yellow Lance 1
Threatened Species Status for the Headwater Chub and Roundtail Chub Distinct Population Segment; Withdrawal 1

Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp Contest 1

Financial Assistance:

Migratory Bird Hunting:

Mitigation Policies 1

Refuge-Specific Regulations:

Kenai National Wildlife Refuge 1

Subsistence Management:

Notices

Agency Information Collection Activities; Proposals, Submissions, and Approvals:

Administrative Procedures for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Financial Assistance Programs 1
Alaska Guide Service Evaluation 1
Annual Report - Depredation Order for Blackbirds, Grackles, Cowbirds, Magpies, and Crows 1
Application for Training, National Conservation Training Center 1
Approval Procedures for Nontoxic Shot and Shot Coatings 1
Conservation Order for Light Geese 2
Depredation Orders 1
Endangered and Threatened Wildlife, Experimental Populations 2
Federal Fish and Wildlife Permit Applications and Reports - Management Authority 2
Federal Fish and Wildlife Permit Applications and Reports - Migratory Birds and Eagles 2
Federal Fish and Wildlife Permit Applications and Reports: Native Endangered and Threatened Species 1
Horseshoe Crab and Cooperative Fish Tagging Programs 1
Hunting and Fishing Application Forms and Activity Reports for National Wildlife Refuges 1
Import of Sport-Hunted African Elephant Trophies 1
Incidental Take of Marine Mammals During Specified Activities 1
Incidental Take of Marine Mammals during Specified Oil and Gas Industry Activities 1
Injurious Wildlife; Importation Certification for Live Fish and Fish Eggs 1
International Conservation Grant Programs 2
Land-Based Wind Energy Guidelines 1
Marine Mammal Marking, Tagging, and Reporting Certificates, and Registration of Certain Dead Marine Mammal Hard Parts 2
Migratory Bird Harvest Information Program and Migratory Bird Surveys 1
Migratory Bird Surveys 1
National Wildlife Refuge Special Use Permit Applications and Reports 2
North American Woodcock Singing Ground Survey 1

Amenity Fees at Clarks River National Wildlife Refuge, KY 1

Candidate Conservation Agreements with Assurances Policy 2

Change in Regional Partners for Upper Copper River Region for the Alaska Migratory Bird Co-Management Council 1

Draft National Environmental Policy Act Analysis and Associated Documents:

Endangered Species Permit Applications 1

Endangered Species Permits; Applications 4

Endangered Species Recovery Permit Applications 1

Endangered Species Recovery Permits 1

Endangered Species Recovery Permits; Applications 10

Endangered and Threatened Species:

5-Year Status Reviews of 23 Southeastern Species 1
Applications for Incidental Take Permits; Low-Effect Proposed Habitat Conservation Plans and Associated Documents; Polk County, FL 1
Availability of Proposed Amendment to Low-Effect Habitat Conservation Plan for Florida Scrub-Jay, Manatee and Hardee Counties, FL 1
Availability of Proposed Low-Effect Habitat Conservation Plan; Orange County Utilities, Malcolm Road Water Supply Facility, Orange County, FL 1
Availability of Proposed Low-Effect Habitat Conservation Plans, Lake and Volusia, County, FL 1
Draft Supplement to the Grizzly Bear Recovery Plan: Habitat-Based Recovery Criteria for the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem 1
Draft Texas Coastal Bend Shortgrass Prairie Multi-Species Recovery Plan: Including Slender Rush-Pea (Hoffmannseggia tenella) and South Texas Ambrosia (Ambrosia cheiranthifolia) 1
Endangered Species Recovery Permit; Applications 1
Endangered and Threatened Species Permit Applications 1
Exemption from Threatened Species Permits for a Qualifying Beluga Sturgeon Aquaculture Facility 1
Final Mexican Wolf Recovery Plan, First Revision 1
Incidental Take Permit Application and Environmental Assessment for Commercial Mixed-Use Development, Miami-Dade County, FL 1
Incidental Take Permit Application and Environmental Assessment for Road Construction Activities; Hernando and Citrus Counties, FL 1
Incidental Take Permit Application; Draft Habitat Conservation Plan for R-Project Transmission Line and Draft Environmental Impact Statement 1
Incidental Take Permit Application; Draft Range-wide General Conservation Plan for Utah Prairie Dogs and Environmental Assessment 1
Incidental Take Permit Application; Proposed Low-Effect Habitat Conservation Plan for Coastal California Gnatcatcher and Associated Documents; Brea, CA 1
Initiation of 5-Year Status Reviews for 138 Species in Hawaii, Oregon, Washington, and California 1
Initiation of 5-Year Status Reviews of Eight Endangered Animal Species 1
Initiation of a 5-Year Status Review of the Aleutian Shield Fern 1
Issuance of Recovery Permits and Interstate Commerce Permits 1
Mexican Wolf Draft Recovery Plan, First Revision 1
Permit Applications 10
Permits; Draft Supplement to Environmental Impact Statement, Amendment to Habitat Conservation Plan for Forest Management in Montana, and Application for Amended Incidental Take Permit 1
Pima Pineapple Cactus (Coryphantha scheeri var. robustispina) Draft Recovery Plan 1
Polar Bear Conservation Management Plan 1
Proposed Low-Effect Habitat Conservation Plan for Florida Scrub-Jay, Volusia, County, FL 1
Proposed Low-Effect Habitat Conservation Plan for the Sand Skink, Orange County, FL 1
Proposed Low-Effect Habitat Conservation Plan, Lake County, FL 1
Proposed Low-Effect Habitat Conservation Plan; Lakes at St. Sebastian Preserve, Brevard County, FL 1
Receipt of Applications for Permit 1
Status Review of the Northern Rocky Mountain Distinct Population Segment of the Fisher 1
Technical/Agency Draft Recovery Plan for Yellowcheek Darter 1

Environmental Assessments; Availability, etc.:

Activities within Eddy County, NM, and Culberson County, TX 1
Comprehensive Conservation Plan, Plum Tree Island National Wildlife Refuge, Poquoson, VA 1
Draft Amendment to Add Northern Mexican Gartersnake to Lower Colorado River Multi-Species Conservation Program 1
Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan, Little Sandy National Wildlife Refuge, Wood County, TX 1
Draft Comprehensive Conservation Plan, Massasoit National Wildlife Refuge, Plymouth, MA 1
Draft Habitat Conservation Plan San Antonio Water System Micron and Water Resources Integration Program Water Pipelines, Bexar County, TX 1
Draft Habitat Conservation Plan for Lalamilo Wind Farm Repowering Project, Island of Hawaii, HI 1
Draft Habitat Conservation Plan for the Desert Tortoise and Mohave Ground Squirrel; Hinkley Groundwater Remediation Project; San Bernardino County, CA 1
Enhancement of Survival Permit Application; Draft Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances for the Greater Sage-Grouse and Four Grassland Songbirds in Montana 1
Export Program for Certain Native Species under the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora 1
Habitat Conservation Plan for Pacific Gas and Electric Company's San Francisco Bay Area Operations and Maintenance 1
Heart of Texas Wind Project, McCulloch County, TX 1
Hoopeston Wind Farm Draft Habitat Conservation Plan 1
Issuance of Depredation Permits for Double-crested Cormorants 1
Lost Hills Solar Project, Kern County, CA 1
National Bison Range, Moiese, MT, Comprehensive Conservation Plan 2
Oil and Gas Activities in Santa Barbara County, CA 1
Pablo, Lost Trail, and Ninepipe National Wildlife Refuges, and the Northwest Montana Wetland Management Districts, MT; Comprehensive Conservation Plan 1

Environmental Impact Statements; Availability, etc.:

Draft Barton Springs Edwards Aquifer Conservation District Habitat Conservation Plan 1
Eagle Take Permits for the Chokecherry and Sierra Madre Phase I Wind Energy Project 1
Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Incidental Take Permit Application; Draft R-Project Transmission Line Habitat Conservation Plan for American Burying Beetle 1
Grizzly Bear Restoration Plan, North Cascades Ecosystem, Washington 1
Habitat Conservation Plan for Endangered American Burying Beetle for American Electric Power in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Texas 1
Hycroft Mining Co.; Request for Take Permits Under the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act 1
Joint Draft Habitat Conservation Plan and Natural Community Conservation Plan; Yolo County, CA 1
Marianas Trench Marine National Monument, Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands; Completion of the Northern Islands Submerged Lands Transfer to the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands 1
Orange County Transportation Authority M2 Natural Community Conservation Plan/Habitat Conservation Plan, Orange County, CA 1
Proposed Deschutes River Basin Habitat Conservation Plan in Oregon 1
Proposed Habitat Conservation Plan for Sierra Pacific Industries Forest Practices in the Klamath, Cascade, and Sierra Nevada Mountains, CA 1
Proposed Habitat Conservation Plan for South Sacramento County, CA 1
Proposed Habitat Conservation Plan/Natural Community Conservation Plan, Bakersfield, CA 1
Proposed Low-Effect Habitat Conservation Plan for the Olympia Subspecies of the Mazama Pocket Gopher, Thurston County, WA 1

Import Permits:

Incidental Take Permit Applications:

Incidental Take Permit; Applications:

Incidental Take Permits; Applications:

American Burying Beetle Amended Oil and Gas Industry Conservation Plan in Oklahoma 4
Draft Low-Effect Habitat Conservation Plan for the California Tiger Salamander; Phillips 66 Line 300 Project, Santa Barbara County, CA 1
Low-Effect Habitat Conservation Plan for BAE Hollister Test Facility, San Benito County, California 1
Low-Effect Habitat Conservation Plan for California Flats Solar Project Operations and Maintenance Activities, Monterey and San Luis Obispo Counties, CA 1
Low-Effect Habitat Conservation Plan for the Curletti Farm Employee Housing Project, Santa Barbara County, CA 1
Low-Effect Habitat Conservation Plan for the Laguna County Sanitation District, Santa Barbara County, CA 1
Low-Effect Habitat Conservation Plan for the Phillips 66 Cal Coast Pipeline Replacement Project, Santa Barbara County, CA 1

Incidental Takes of Marine Mammals During Specified Activities:

Low-Effect Habitat Conservation Plans:

Marine Mammal Protection Act:

Stock Assessment Report for Southern Sea Otter in California 1
Stock Assessment Reports 1

Meetings:

Migratory Birds:

Take of Peregrine Falcons for Use in Falconry 1

Permit Applications:

American Burying-Beetle Amended Oil and Gas Industry Conservation Plan in Oklahoma 1
Draft Low-Effect Habitat Conservation Plan for the California Tiger Salamander and the California Red-Legged Frog; Curletti Farming Project, Santa Barbara County, CA 1
Draft Low-Effect Habitat Conservation Plan for the California Tiger Salamander; Campbell Home Ranch, Santa Barbara County, CA 1
Draft Low-Effect Habitat Conservation Plan for the California Tiger Salamander; La Purisima Golf Course Solar Array Project, Santa Barbara County, CA 1
Draft Low-Effect Habitat Conservation Plan for the California Tiger Salamander; Rice Ranch Development Project, Santa Barbara County, CA 1
Endangered Species 4
Endangered Species Recovery 1
Endangered Species Recovery 1
Endangered Species; Marine Mammal 1
Endangered Species; Marine Mammals 3
Foreign Endangered Species 1
Foreign Endangered and Threatened Species 8
Proposed Programmatic Candidate Conservation Agreement with Assurances for the Louisiana Pinesnake in Louisiana 1

Permits:

Foreign Endangered Species 2
Foreign Endangered Species and Marine Mammals 3
Foreign Endangered Species; Issuance 4

Proposed Settlement Agreements:

Environmental Protection Statutes 1

Requests for Nominations:

Hunting and Shooting Sports Conservation Council Establishment 1
International Wildlife Conservation Council Establishment 1

U.S.-Russia Polar Bear Commission:

Uncategorized Documents

Migratory Bird Hunting: