1018-AY01 201410 The Regulatory Plan and the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 1018 United States Fish and Wildlife Service FWS 1000 Department of the Interior DOI Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Listing Determination for the Dakota Skipper and Poweshiek Skipperling

FWS published a final rule to list the Dakota skipper as endangered and the Poweshiek skipperling as threatened under the Act. The Dakota skipper is a small-to-mid-sized butterfly that inhabits high-quality tallgrass and mixed-grass prairies in Minnesota, North Dakota, and South Dakota in the United States, and the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan in Canada. The species is presumed to be extirpated from Iowa and Illinois and from many sites within occupied States. The Poweshiek skipperling is a small butterfly that inhabits high-quality tallgrass prairies in Iowa, Minnesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, and Wisconsin, and prairie fens in Michigan; it also occurs in the province of Manitoba, Canada. The species is presumed to be extirpated from Illinois and Indiana, as well as from many sites within occupied States. FWS is addressing critical habitat under RIN 1018-AZ58.

]]> Substantive, Nonsignificant Previously Published in The Unified Agenda Completed Actions No No 50 CFR 17 16 USC 1531 et seq Judicial NPRM 09/30/2013 No NPRM 10/24/2013 78 FR 63573 NPRM Comment Period End 12/23/2013 NPRM Comment Period Reopened 09/23/2014 79 FR 56704 NPRM Comment Period Reopened End 10/07/2014 Final Action 10/24/2014 79 FR 63672 Final Action Effective 11/24/2014 No None No No No No 1018-AZ58 Related to Sarah Quamme Chief, Branch of Domestic Listing, Ecological Services Program 1018 United States Fish and Wildlife Service FWS 703 358-1796 703 358-1800 sarah_quamme@fws.gov 5275 Leesburg Pike, MS: ES, Falls Church VA 22041-3803