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improvement of the status of listed
species to the point at which listing is
no longer needed under any criteria
specified in section 4(a)(1) of the Act.
To help guide the recovery effort, we
prepare recovery plans for most listed
species. Recovery plans describe actions
considered necessary for conservation of
the species, establish criteria for
downlisting or delisting, and estimate
time and cost for implementing recovery
measures. The Act requires the
development of recovery plans for listed
species, unless such a plan would not
promote the conservation of a particular
species.
The Service listed the Mississippi
gopher frog (Rana capito sevosa) under
the Act, as an endangered distinct
vertebrate population segment (DPS) of
the gopher frog (Rana capito) on
December 4, 2001 (66 FR 62993). On
June 12, 2012, we published a final rule
(77 FR 35118) designating critical
habitat for this listed entity, changing its
status to ‘‘species,’’ and changing its
name to dusky gopher frog (Rana
sevosa) based on taxonomic changes
and the acceptance of these changes by
the herpetological scientific community.
The frog’s current distribution is
restricted to the State of Mississippi. At
the time of listing, only one population
of the species was known.
Subsequently, two other naturally
occurring populations were discovered.
One additional dusky gopher frog
population has been established in
Mississippi as a result of translocation
experiments. Presently, we estimate that
a minimum of 135 individual adult
frogs survive in the wild, the vast
majority of which occur in the original
population known at the time of listing.
Principal threats to the dusky gopher
frog include degradation and
destruction of breeding and
nonbreeding habitat, habitat
fragmentation, and alteration of
hydrological patterns due to
urbanization and climate change.
Additional threats include the restricted
range of the dusky gopher frog, its small
number of populations, and disease. All
these factors act to increase the
vulnerability of the species to a single
catastrophic event and to the deleterious
effects of genetic inbreeding.

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Recovery Plan
Section 4(f) of the Act requires us to
provide public notice and an
opportunity for public review and
comment prior to final approval of
recovery plans. We and other Federal
agencies will take these comments into
account in the course of implementing
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The Technical/Agency Draft Recovery
Plan for the Dusky Gopher Frog was
developed by the Dusky Gopher Frog
Recovery Team and our Mississippi
Field Office. This draft plan was
published on September 10, 2014, and
made available for public comment
through November 10, 2014 (79 FR
53728).
We received public comments on our
draft recovery plan and incorporated
them into the final plan, as appropriate.
We also considered the information we
received from peer reviewers in our
preparation and approval of this final
recovery plan.
Recovery Plan Components
The Service’s recovery objectives are
to work to reduce threats so that the
dusky gopher frog may be downlisted to
threatened status. Defining reasonable
delisting criteria is not possible at this
time, given the current low number of
populations and individuals, lack of
information about the species’ biology,
and magnitude of threats. Therefore,
this recovery plan only establishes
downlisting criteria for the dusky
gopher frog.
Downlisting of the dusky gopher frog
will be considered when:
1. Six viable metapopulations* are
documented within blocks of recovery
focus areas (described in Section II of
the recovery plan) and are widely
distributed across the range of the
species. The six metapopulations would
include a minimum of 12 breeding
ponds and would be distributed as
follows:
a. One metapopulation in Block #1
(Louisiana: Portions of St. Tammany,
Tangipahoa, and Washington Parishes,
west to the Tangipahoa River);
b. Two metapopulations each in Block
#2 (South-Central Mississippi: North of
State Hwy. 26, between the Pearl and
Pascagoula Rivers; Forrest County and
portions of Lamar, Pearl River, Perry,
and Stone Counties) and Block #3
(South Mississippi: South of Hwy. 26,
between the Pearl and Pascagoula
Rivers; Hancock and Harrison Counties,
and portions of Jackson, George, Pearl
River, and Stone Counties); and
c. One metapopulation in either Block
#4 (Eastern Mississippi: East of
Pascagoula/Leaf Rivers; portions of
George, Greene, Jackson, and Wayne
Counties) or Block #5 (Alabama: West of
the Mobile River Delta; Mobile and
Washington Counties, small portion of
Choctaw County).
2. Long-term monitoring (at least 10
years) of each metapopulation is able to
document population viability (viability
standard to be defined through a
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will allow monitoring of recruitment
events and other population attributes
in a species that has been characterized
by highly variable reproductive and
survival rates. In each of at least two
annual breeding events within a 3-year
period, a total of 30 egg masses per
metapopulation must be documented
and recruitment must be verified.
3. Breeding and adjacent upland
habitats within the six metapopulations
are protected long term through
management agreements, public
ownership, or other means, in sufficient
quantity and quality (to be determined
by recovery task) to support growing
populations.
4. Studies of the dusky gopher frog’s
biological and ecological requirements
are completed, and any required
recovery measures discovered during
these studies are developed and
implemented.
* Information defining what
constitutes a viable metapopulation can
be found in the Service’s final recovery
plan.
Authority
The authority for this action is section
4(f) of the Endangered Species Act, 16
U.S.C. 1533 (f).
Dated: July 24, 2015.
Cynthia K. Dohner,
Regional Director, Southeast Region.
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Agency Information Collection
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U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
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ACTION: Notice of a new information
collection, Doug D. Nebert NSDI
Champion of the Year Award.
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We (the U.S. Geological
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You may submit comments
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colleague, technical visionary, and
recognized national leader in the
establishment of spatial data
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National nominations are accepted
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Title: Doug D. Nebert NSDI Champion
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Affected Public: Personnel from
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do so.
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Executive Director, Federal Geographic Data
Committee, Core Science Systems.
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Pueblo of Santa Ana Title 10—
Licensing & Regulation, Chapter 1—
Liquor Code (Chapter)
Bureau of Indian Affairs,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:

This notice publishes the
amendment to the Pueblo of Santa Ana’s
Title 10—Licensing & Regulation,
Chapter 1—Liquor Code (Chapter). This
Chapter amends the existing Chapter
1—Liquor Code, Section 126, enacted by
the Pueblo of Santa Ana Tribal Council,
which was published in the Federal
Register on April 7, 2006 (71 FR 17903).
DATES: Effective Date: This code shall
become effective on October 9, 2015.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Patricia Mattingly, Tribal Government
Services Officer, Southwest Regional
Office, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 1001
Indian School Road NW., Albuquerque,
NM 87104–2303, Phone: (505) 536–
3100; Fax: (505) 563–3101: or Ms.
Laurel Iron Cloud, Chief, Division of
Tribal Government Services, Office of
Indian Services, Bureau of Indian
Affairs, 1849 C Street NW., MS–4513–
MIB, Washington, DC 20240; Telephone
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1161, as interpreted by the Supreme
Court in Rice v. Rehner, 463 U.S. 713
(1983), the Secretary of the Interior shall
certify and publish in the Federal
Register notice of adopted liquor
ordinances for the purpose of regulating
liquor transactions in Indian country.
The Pueblo of Santa Ana Tribal Council
of the Pueblo of Santa Ana adopted the
amendments to the Pueblo’s Title 10—
Licensing & Regulation, Chapter 1—
Liquor Code (Chapter), Section 126, by
Resolution No. 2015–R–09 on June 11,
2015. This Federal Register notice
amends and supersedes the Pueblo of
Santa Ana Liquor Ordinance, enacted by
the Pueblo of Santa Ana Tribal Council,
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