FWS and NMFS proposed to amend portions of their regulations that implement ESA §7 to further clarify and improve the interagency consultation processes, while continuing to provide for the conservation of listed species.

FWS and NMFS proposed to revise portions of their regulations implementing ESA §4 to clarify, interpret, and implement the procedures and criteria used for listing, reclassifying, and delisting species on the Lists of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants and designating critical habitat.

FWS proposed to list the southern elktoe as endangered under the ESA and to designate approximately 578 river miles in Alabama, Florida, and Georgia as critical habitat for the species.

FWS proposed to list Navasota false foxglove as endangered under the ESA and to designate approximately 1.9 acres in Grimes and Tyler Counties, Texas, as critical habitat for the species.

FWS amended regulations for the Captive Wildlife Safety Act (CWSA) by incorporating the requirements of the Big Cat Public Safety Act in the CWSA regulations.

FWS proposed to list the swale paintbrush as endangered under the ESA.

FWS proposed to list the Sira curassow and southern helmeted curassow as endangered under the ESA.

NMFS announced its 90-day finding on a petition to list the smalltail shark as threatened or endangered under the ESA, finding that listing may be warranted and commencing a status review of the species.

FWS designated approximately 1,869 acres in Miami-Dade County, Florida, as critical habitat for the Miami tiger beetle under the ESA.

FWS revised the Mitigation Policy and the ESA Compensatory Mitigation Policy; the former establishes fundamental mitigation principles and provides a framework for applying a landscape-scale approach to achieve, through application of the mitigation hierarchy, no net loss of resources and their values, services, and functions resulting from proposed actions; the latter adopts the mitigation principles established in the Mitigation Policy, establishes compensatory mitigation standards, and provides guidance for the application of compensatory mitigation through implementation of the ESA.