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RIN: 1018-AX72

Publication ID: Fall 2011

Title: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Listing and Critical Habitat Designation for the Umtanum Desert Buckwheat and White Bluffs Bladderpod
Abstract: We will propose to list as endangered or threatened and designate critical habitat for the Umtanum Desert buckwheat (Eriogonum codium) and White Bluffs bladderpod (Physaria douglasii ssp. tuplashensis) under the Endangered Species Act. The Umtanum Desert buckwheat is endemic to a very narrow range in Benton County in south central Washington. The only known population of this species occurs along one ridgeline, on flat to gently sloping microsites, near the top of the steep, north-facing basalt cliffs overlooking the Columbia River. The White Bluffs bladderpod is a narrow endemic species found only in a very small area in Franklin County, Washington, adjacent to the Columbia River. The species is restricted to dry, barren, nearly vertical exposures of calcium carbonate paleosol (caliche soil).
Agency: Department of the Interior(DOI)	Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda	Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Proposed Rule Stage
Major: No	Unfunded Mandates: No
CFR Citation: 50 CFR 17
Legal Authority: 16 USC 1531 et seq

Legal Deadline:

Action	Source	Description	Date
Final	Judicial	Per settlement agreement, final rule must go to Federal Register	02/28/2013

Timetable:

Action	Date	FR Cite
NPRM	02/00/2012
Final Action	02/00/2013

Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: Undetermined	Government Levels Affected: Undetermined
Federalism: No
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No
Agency Contact: Sarah Quamme Chief, Branch of Domestic Listing, Ecological Services Program Department of the Interior United States Fish and Wildlife Service 5275 Leesburg Pike, MS: ES, Falls Church, VA 22041-3803 Phone:703 358-1796 Fax:703 358-1800 Email: sarah_quamme@fws.gov