Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Reopening of Comment Period and Public Hearing on Proposed Designation of Critical Habitat for the Louisiana Black Bear

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The Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) gives notice that a public hearing will be held on the proposed designation of critical habitat for the Louisiana black bear, Ursus americanus luteolus. The Louisiana black bear occupies the Tensas and Atchafalaya River basins with possible remnant numbers is the lower Mississippi River Delta and the bluffs south of Vicksburg, Mississippi. The proposed critical habitat areas are limited to forest within the Tensas and Atchafalaya River basin and south of U.S. Highway 90, west from the lower Atchafalaya River along the coastline to the Vermillion Parish line, north to Highway 14, thence east to U.S. Highway 90. This hearing will allow additional comments on this proposal to be submitted from all interested parties.