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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 149 / Friday, August 6, 2021 / Rules and Regulations
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to consult with the Service under section 7 of the Act in the event that activities they authorize, fund, or carry out may affect the running buffalo clover.
Post-Delisting Monitoring Section 4g1 of the Act requires us, in cooperation with the States, to implement a system to monitor effectively, for not less than 5 years, all species that have been recovered and delisted. The purpose of this postdelisting monitoring is to verify that a species remains secure from risk of extinction after it has been removed from the protections of the Act. The monitoring is designed to detect the failure of any delisted species to sustain itself without the protective measures provided by the Act. If, at any time during the monitoring period, data indicate that protective status under the Act should be reinstated, we can initiate listing procedures, including, if appropriate, emergency listing under section 4b7 of the Act. Section 4g of the Act explicitly requires us to cooperate with the States in development and implementation of post-delisting monitoring programs, but we remain responsible for compliance with section 4g of the Act and, therefore, must remain actively engaged in all phases of post-delisting monitoring. We also seek active participation of other entities that are expected to assume responsibilities for the species conservation post-delisting.
We prepared a PDM plan for running buffalo clover in cooperation with the States. The PDM plan is designed to verify that running buffalo clover remains secure from the risk of extinction after delisting by detecting changes in its status and habitat throughout its known range. The final PDM plan discusses the current status of the taxon and describes the methods to be used for monitoring after the taxon is removed from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Plants. The PDM plan: 1 Summarizes the roles of the PDM cooperators; 2 summarizes the status of running buffalo clover at the time of delisting; 3 discusses monitoring methods and sampling regimes; 4 describes frequency and duration of monitoring; 5 defines triggers for potential monitoring outcomes; 6 outlines reporting requirements and procedures; and 7
proposes a schedule for implementing the PDM plan and conclusions of the PDM effort.
The PDM plan guides monitoring of running buffalo clover following similar methods to those used prior to delisting.
Monitoring will consist of: Counting or
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estimating for A-ranked populations the number of rooted crowns and flowering stems, recording recruitment of seedlings, photographing running buffalo clover occurrences, mapping the location of individual patches within the occurrences, and identifying potential threats, as may be appropriate.
PDM will begin in the first growing season following the effective date of this rule see DATES, above and will extend, at a minimum, through the fifth growing season following delisting.
Monitoring through this time period will allow us to address potential negative effects to running buffalo clover, such as nonnative invasive species and canopy closure.
The PDM plan identifies measurable management thresholds and responses for detecting and reacting to significant changes in the running buffalo clovers habitat, distribution, and persistence. If monitoring detects declines equaling or exceeding these thresholds, the Service, in combination with other PDM
participants, will investigate causes of these declines, including considerations of habitat changes, nonnative invasive species, stochastic events, or any other significant evidence. Such investigation will determine if running buffalo clover warrants expanded monitoring, additional habitat management, or relisting as an endangered or a threatened species under the Act. If such monitoring data or an otherwise updated assessment of threats indicate that relisting running buffalo clover is warranted, emergency procedures to relist the species may be followed, if necessary, in accordance with section 4b7 of the Act.
The final PDM plan is available on http www.regulations.gov under Docket No. FWSR3ES20180036 and on the Services Great Lakes Region website at https www.fws.gov/
midwest/endangered/plants/rbcl/
index.html.
Required Determinations National Environmental Policy Act We have determined that environmental assessments and environmental impact statements, as defined under the authority of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq., need not be prepared in connection with regulations pursuant to section 4a of the Act. We published a notice outlining our reasons for this determination in the Federal Register on October 25, 1983
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Government-to-Government Relationship With Tribes In accordance with the Presidents memorandum of April 29, 1994
Government-to-Government Relations with Native American Tribal Governments; 59 FR 22951, Executive Order 13175 Consultation and Coordination With Indian Tribal Governments, and the Department of the Interiors manual at 512 DM 2, we readily acknowledge our responsibility to communicate meaningfully with recognized Federal Tribes on a government-to-government basis. In accordance with Secretarial Order 3206
of June 5, 1997 American Indian Tribal Rights, Federal-Tribal Trust Responsibilities, and the Endangered Species Act, we readily acknowledge our responsibilities to work directly with Tribes in developing programs for healthy ecosystems, to acknowledge that Tribal lands are not subject to the same controls as Federal public lands, to remain sensitive to Indian culture, and to make information available to Tribes.
We are not aware of running buffalo clover occurring on any Tribal lands, and we did not receive any comments from Tribes on the proposed delisting rule.
References Cited A complete list of all references cited in this rule is available at http
www.regulations.gov at Docket No.
FWSR3ES20180036, or upon request from the Ohio Ecological Services Field Office see FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT.
Authors The primary authors of this rule are staff members of the Services Ohio Ecological Services Field Office and Great Lakes Regional Office, Bloomington, Minnesota.
Signing Authority 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 August 3, 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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