76 FR 4551
NMFS announces that the annual harvest guideline for the commercial lobster fishery in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) for calendar year 2011 is established at zero lobsters.
NMFS announces that the annual harvest guideline for the commercial lobster fishery in the Northwestern Hawaiian Islands (NWHI) for calendar year 2011 is established at zero lobsters.
FWS removed the Maguire daisy from the list of endangered and threatened plants under the ESA.
EPA granted a petition submitted by Owosso Graphic Arts Inc. in Owosso, Michigan, to exclude from the list of hazardous waste up to 244 cubic yards of wastewater treatment sludge per year.
This action approves a modification to Alaska's approved Municipal Solid Waste Landfill (MSWLF) permit program. The approved modification allows the State to issue Research, Development, and Demonstration (RD&D) permits to owners and operators of MSWLFs in accordance with its State law. On March 22, 2004, EPA issued final regulations allowing RD&D permits to be issued to certain MSWLFs by approved States. On September 7, 2010, the State of Alaska submitted an application to EPA Region 10 seeking Federal approval of its RD&D requirements. After thorough review, EPA Region 10 has determined that Alaska's RD&D permit requirements are adequate through this direct final action.
EPA Region 10 approved a modification to Alaska's municipal solid waste landfill program concerning research, development, and demonstration permit requirements.
FWS proposed to revise the designated critical habitat for the Pacific Coast population of the western snowy plover to a total of approximately 28,261 acres in California, Oregon, and Washington.
EPA issued a final rule requiring GHG monitoring and reporting from facilities that conduct geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide.
FWS announced a 12-month finding on a petition to list the Berry Cave salamander as endangered under the ESA; the agency found that listing is warranted but precluded by higher priority actions.
FWS proposed to withdraw its listing of the flat-tailed horned lizard as a threatened species under the ESA because the threat to the species is less significant than earlier believed.
FWS proposed to designate approximately 11,136 acres in Arizona and New Mexico as critical habitat for the Chiricahua leopard frog and proposed to list the species as threatened under the ESA.