REGULATORY: EPA, FWS, FAS, FS, NOAA, USDA
ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY
Notice announcing the availability of EPA’s draft human health and ecological risk assessments for the registration review of 1,3-Propanediamine, N-(3-aminopropyl)-N-dodecyl- (1,3-PAD). Info here.
Final rule establishing an exemption from the requirement of a tolerance for residues of Poly(oxy-1,2-ethanediyl)-α-hydro-ω-hydroxy-, polymer with poly(isocyanatoalkyl) benzene, alkylol-blocked when used as an inert ingredient in a pesticide chemical formulation. Info here.
FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE
Proposed rule announcing the reopening of the comment period on our October 8, 2020, proposed rule to reclassify the red-cockaded woodpecker (Dryobates borealis) as a threatened species with a rule issued under the Endangered Species Act. Info here.
Final rule announcing that the FWS is removing San Benito evening-primrose (Camissonia benitensis), a plant native to California, from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Plants on the basis of recovery. Info here.
Final rule advising that the FWS is reclassifying the Morro shoulderband snail (Helminthoglypta walkeriana) from endangered to threatened under the Endangered Species Act. Info here.
Proposed rule announcing that the FWS proposes to designate critical habitat for the Tiehm’s buckwheat (Eriogonum tiehmii), which the Service has proposed to list as endangered under the Endangered Species. Info here.
FOREIGN AGRICULTURAL SERVICE
Notice that the Foreign Agricultural Service intends to request an extension of a currently approved information collection for the Agriculture Wool Apparel Manufacturers Trust Fund. Info here.
FOREST SERVICE
Notice announcing that the Collaborative Forest Landscape Restoration Advisory Panel was renewed on January 11, 2022, to evaluate and provide recommendations on the selection of collaborative forest landscape restoration proposals to the Secretary of Agriculture for approval as provided in Section 8629 of the Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018. Info here.
NATIONAL OCEANIC AND ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION
Notice announcing that the National Marine Fisheries Service is issuing a permit to authorize the incidental, but not intentional, take of specific Endangered Species Act – listed marine mammal species or stocks under the marine Mammal Protection Act in the Alaskan Bering Sea, Aleutian Islands Pacific cod pot fishery. Info here.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
Notice announcing a meeting of the National Agricultural Research, Extension, Education, and Economics Advisory Board. Info here.