Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Reopening of Comment Period and Announcement of Public Meetings and Public Hearings on Proposed Endangered Status for Five Freshwater Mussels and Proposed Threatened Status for Two Freshwater Mussels From Eastern Gulf Slope Drainages of Alabama, Florida, and Georgia

Résumé

The Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) provides notice that five public meetings and five public hearings will be held on the proposed determination of endangered status for the fat three-ridge (Amblema neislerii), shiny-rayed pocketbook (Lampsilis subangulata), Gulf moccasinshell (Medionidus penicillatus), Ochlockonee moccasinshell (Medionidus simpsonianus), and oval pigtoe (Pleurobema pyriforme), and proposed determination of threatened status for the Chipola slabshell (Elliptio chipolaensis) and purple bankclimber (Elliptoideus sloatianus). These mussels are generally limited to short reaches of various streams in southeast Alabama, north Florida and southwest Georgia. All interested parties are invited to submit comments on this proposal.