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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 119 / Thursday, June 24, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
Tribal land. We have determined that while no Tribes will be directly affected by this action, the delisting may result in changes to the flow regime for the Colorado River in and adjacent to the Grand Canyon. Several Tribes have an historic affiliation with the Grand Canyon and could be affected by flow changes, should they occur. The potentially impacted Tribes are the Chemehuevi, the Colorado River Indian Tribes, the Hualapai, the Hopi, the Kaibab Band of Paiute, the San Carlos Apache, the San Juan Southern Paiute, the Navajo, and the Zuni. These Tribes were notified in advance of the publication of the proposed rule and have been informed of the finalization of the delisting.

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References Cited
50 CFR Part 660

A complete list of all references cited in this rule is available on the internet at http www.regulations.gov under Docket No. FWSR6ES20190055 or upon request from the Utah Ecological Services Field Office see FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT.

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Authors The primary authors of this rule are staff members of the Services Utah Ecological Services Field Office.
The Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, approved this document and authorized the undersigned to sign and submit the document to the Office of the Federal Register for publication electronically as an official document of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Martha Williams, Principal Deputy Director Exercising the Delegated Authority of the Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, approved this document on June 14, 2021, for publication.
List of Subjects in 50 CFR Part 17
Endangered and threatened species, Exports, Imports, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Transportation.
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Accordingly, we hereby amend part 17, subchapter B of chapter I, title 50 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as set forth below:
PART 17ENDANGERED AND
THREATENED WILDLIFE AND PLANTS
1. The authority citation for part 17
continues to read as follows:

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 13611407; 1531
1544; and 42014245, unless otherwise noted.

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Anissa Craghead, Acting Regulations and Policy Chief, Division of Policy, Economics, Risk Management, and Analytics, Joint Administrative Operations, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Fisheries Off West Coast States;
Coastal Pelagic Species Fisheries;
Amendment 18 to the Coastal Pelagic Species Fishery Management Plan National Marine Fisheries Service NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA, Commerce.
ACTION: Notification of agency decision.
AGENCY:

On June 14, 2021, the Regional Administrator of the West Coast Region, NMFS, with the concurrence of the Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, approved Amendment 18 to the Coastal Pelagic Species Fishery Management Plan.
Amendment 18 implements a rebuilding plan for the northern subpopulation of Pacific sardine, which NMFS declared overfished in June 2019.
DATES: The amendment was approved on June 14, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the Coastal Pelagic Species CPS Fishery Management Plan FMP as amended through Amendment 18, are available at the Pacific Fishery Management Council, 7700 NE Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland, OR 972201384, or at this URL; https www.pcouncil.org/
coastal-pelagic-species/fisherymanagement-plan-and-amendments/.
The final Environmental Assessment EA prepared pursuant to the National Environmental Policy Act NEPA for Amendment 18 is available on NMFS
website at https
www.fisheries.noaa.gov/west-coast/
laws-and-policies/west-coast-regionnational-environmental-policy-actdocuments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Lynn Massey, Sustainable Fisheries Division, NMFS, at lynn.massey@
noaa.gov or 5624362462; or Kerry SUMMARY:

Signing Authority

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2. Amend 17.11h by removing the entry for Ambersnail, Kanab under SNAILS from the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife.

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Griffin, Pacific Fishery Management Council, at kerry.griffin@noaa.gov or 5038202409.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Amendment 18 expands Section 4.5 of the CPS FMP to include the rebuilding plan for Pacific sardine. There are no implementing regulations associated with Amendment 18, therefore NMFS
did not promulgate proposed and final rules to implement this amendment.
NMFS published a Notice of Availability for Amendment 18 on March 16, 2021 86 FR 14401, and solicited public comments through May 17, 2021. NMFS received five public comments in support of Amendment 18, one from a student and four from prominent fishing industry groups. The industry groups included the California Wetfish Producers Association, the West Coast Pelagic Conservation Group, the Sportfishing Association of California, and the West Coast Seafood Processors Association. NMFS received three public comments opposing Amendment 18, one from a private citizen and two from the environmental nongovernmental organization Oceana.
Oceana submitted two letters, one containing its public comment and the other containing a list of names that signed a petition campaigning against Amendment 18. NMFS summarizes and responds to the public comments below.
NMFS responded to comments related to NEPA compliance in the final EA
prepared for Amendment 18 see ADDRESSES.
Comment 1: Oceana argues that by adopting the recommended management strategy for the rebuilding plan Alternative 1 Status Quo Management considered in the supporting EA for Amendment 18 see ADDRESSES, NMFS is continuing failed policies that led to the overfished determination.
Response: This comment misunderstands the biology of Pacific sardine, the structure of the CPS FMP, and the extraordinary and precautionary measures that the Council has built into the framework for managing CPS.
Pacific sardines are well known to experience dramatic swings in abundance in response to environmental conditions, even in the absence of fishing pressure. The recent population decline of Pacific sardine appears to be due to poor recruitment.
Specifically, the Southwest Fisheries Science Centers SWFSC 2020 stock assessment states that recruitment has declined since 20052006 except for a brief period of modest recruitment success in 20092010, with the 2011

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