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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 85 / Wednesday, May 5, 2021 / Proposed Rules
Comments and materials we receive, as well as supporting documentation we used in preparing this proposed rule, will be available for public inspection on http www.regulations.gov.
Public Hearing Section 4b5 of the Act provides for a public hearing on this proposal, if requested. Requests must be received by the date specified in DATES. Such requests must be sent electronically, using the Federal eRulemaking Portal see ADDRESSES, above. We will schedule a public hearing on this proposal, if requested, and announce the date, time, and place of the hearing, as well as how to obtain reasonable accommodations, in the Federal Register and local newspapers at least 15 days before the hearing. For the immediate future, we will provide public hearings using webinars that will be announced on the Services website,
in addition to the Federal Register. The use of virtual public hearings is consistent with our regulations at 50
CFR 424.16c3.
Supporting Documents Species status assessment SSA
reports for the five species were prepared by Texas A&M Natural Resources Institute, in cooperation with the Services San Clemente Island SSA
team and the Navy. The SSA reports represent a compilation of the best scientific and commercial data available concerning the status of these species, including the impacts of past, present, and future factors both negative and beneficial affecting the species.
In accordance with our July 1, 1994, peer review policy 59 FR 34270; July 1, 1994, our August 22, 2016, Directors Memo on the Peer Review Process, and the Office of Management and Budgets December 16, 2004, Final Information
Quality Bulletin for Peer Review revised June 2012, we solicited independent scientific reviews of the information contained in each of the SSA reports. Table 1, below, indicates the number of independent peer reviewers we sent each SSA report to and the number of responses we received. You may view the peer review responses we received at http
www.regulations.gov under Docket No.
FWSR8ES20200074. The SSA
reports were also submitted to our Federal and State partners for scientific review, but we did not receive any comments. The Navy helped with development of the SSAs and, therefore, did not comment on the drafts. We incorporated the results of the peer reviews in the final SSA reports, as appropriate, which are the foundation for this proposed rule.

TABLE 1NUMBER OF PEER REVIEWS REQUESTED AND RESPONSES
Number peer reviews requested
Species
San San San San San
Clemente Clemente Clemente Clemente Clemente
Bells sparrow
Island paintbrush
Island lotus
Island larkspur
Island bush-mallow

Previous Federal Actions All five species were originally listed under the Act on August 11, 1977 42
FR 40682. The four plant species were listed as endangered species, while the sparrow was listed as a threatened species. No critical habitat has been designated for any of the five species.
The taxonomies of the species have undergone revisions since the species were first listed, so that some are now referred to by different scientific and common names. Table 2, below, indicates the scientific and common names under which the species were originally listed as well as their currently accepted scientific names.
These taxonomic and nomenclatural revisions have not altered the definition,
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distribution, or range of any of these species from what it was at the time of listing. In the remainder of this proposed rule, we will refer to the species by their currently accepted common names.
The Recovery Plan for Endangered and Threatened Species of the California Channel Island, which included the five species that are the subject of this proposed rule, was finalized in 1984 USFWS 1984, pp. 1
165. Five-year status reviews were completed for each of these taxa and recommended reclassification from endangered to threatened species for all four of the plant taxa USFWS 2007a, USFWS 2007b, USFWS 2007c, USFWS
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On May 18, 2010, we received a petition from the Pacific Legal Foundation requesting that the Service delist or downlist six species, including San Clemente Island paintbrush, San Clemente Island lotus, and San Clemente Island bush-mallow. The subsequent status reviews resulted in downlisting the San Clemente Island paintbrush and San Clemente Island lotus from endangered to threatened 78
FR 45406; July 26, 2013 as indicated below in Table 2. San Clemente Island bush-mallow was not reclassified at the time because of uncertainty regarding the status of several occurrences that made up a large proportion of its range 77 FR 29078; May 16, 2012.

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