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DOI/FWS RIN: 1018-BE30 Publication ID: Spring 2025 
Title: Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Threatened Species Status With Section 4(d) Rule for Monarch Butterfly and Designation of Critical Habitat  
Abstract:

FWS will make a final determination on our proposal to add the monarch butterfly (Danaus plexippus plexippus) to the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife as a threatened species with regulations issued under section 4(d) of the Endangered Species Act and designate critical habitat. This butterfly is found throughout the contiguous United States.

 
Agency: Department of the Interior(DOI)  Priority: Substantive, Nonsignificant 
RIN Status: Previously published in the Unified Agenda Agenda Stage of Rulemaking: Long-Term Actions 
Major: No  Unfunded Mandates: No 
EO 14192 Designation: Not subject to, not significant 
CFR Citation: 50 CFR 17   
Legal Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.   
Legal Deadline:
Action Source Description Date
NPRM  Judicial  Settlement agreement  12/04/2024 
Timetable:
Action Date FR Cite
NPRM  12/12/2024  89 FR 100662   
NPRM Comment Period End  03/12/2025 
NPRM; Reopening Comment Period   03/19/2025  90 FR 12694   
NPRM; Reopening Comment Period End   05/19/2025 
Next Action To Be Determined  To Be Determined 
Regulatory Flexibility Analysis Required: No  Government Levels Affected: Federal, Local, State, Tribal 
Federalism: No 
Included in the Regulatory Plan: No 
RIN Data Printed in the FR: No 
Agency Contact:
Caitlin Snyder
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:703 358-2673
Fax:703 358-1800
Email: caitlin_snyder@fws.gov