FWS designated approximately 98,366 acres in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties in California as critical habitat for the arroyo toad under the ESA.

FWS designated approximately 2,947 acres in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties in California as critical habitat for thread-leaved brodiaea under the ESA.

FWS will reintroduce whooping cranes as a nonessential experimental population into historic habitat in southwestern Louisiana to establish a nonmigratory flock.

OSM approved an amendment to Alabama's regulatory program under SMCRA concerning licensing.

EPA approved revisions to North Carolina's hazardous waste management program.

SIP Approval: Pennsylvania (conformity, contingency, and control measures for the Pennsylvania portion of the Philadelphia-Wilmington-Atlantic City moderate 1997 eight-hour ozone nonattainment area)

SIP Approval: Maryland (definition of "fuel-burning equipment")

SIP Approval: Kansas (PSD permit requirements)

SIP Approval: Illinois (waiver of nitrogen oxide reasonably available control technology requirements)