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(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if this 

computer software is copyrighted computer 

software, it is licensed to the Government 

with the minimum rights set forth in 

paragraph (b) of this notice. 

(d) Any other rights or limitations 

regarding the use, duplication, or disclosure 

of this computer software are to be expressly 

stated in, or incorporated in, the contract. 

(e) This notice shall be marked on any 

reproduction of this computer software, in 

whole or in part. 

(End of notice) 

(ii) Where it is impractical to include the 

Restricted Rights Notice on restricted 

computer software, the following short-form 

notice may be used instead: 

Restricted Rights Notice Short Form 

(abbreviated month and year of Final Rule 

publication) 

Use, reproduction, or disclosure is subject 

to restrictions set forth in Contract No. 

lllll (and subcontract, if appropriate) 

with lllll (name of Contractor and 

subcontractor). 

(End of notice) 

(iii) If restricted computer software is 

delivered with the copyright notice of 17 

U.S.C. 401, it will be presumed to be licensed 

to the Government without disclosure 

prohibitions, with the minimum rights set 

forth in paragraph (b) of this clause. 

Alternate IV (abbreviated month and 

year of Final Rule publication). As 

prescribed in 327.409, substitute the 

following paragraph (c)(1) for paragraph 

(c)(1) of the basic clause: 

(c) Copyright—(1) Data first produced in 

the performance of the contract. Except as 

otherwise specifically provided in this 

contract, the Contractor may assert copyright 

in any data first produced in the performance 

of this contract. When asserting copyright, 

the Contractor shall affix the applicable 

copyright notice of 17 U.S.C. 401 or 402, and 

an acknowledgment of Government 

sponsorship (including contract number), to 

the data when such data are delivered to the 

Government, as well as when the data are 

published or deposited for registration as a 

published work in the U.S. Copyright Office. 

For data other than computer software, the 

Contractor grants to the Government, and 

others acting on its behalf, a paid-up, 

nonexclusive, irrevocable, worldwide license 

for all such data to reproduce, prepare 

derivative works, distribute copies to the 

public, and perform publicly and display 

publicly, by or on behalf of the Government. 

For computer software, the Contractor grants 

to the Government and others acting on its 

behalf, a paid-up, nonexclusive, irrevocable, 

worldwide license for all such computer 

software to reproduce, prepare derivative 

works, and perform publicly and display 

publicly (but not to distribute copies to the 

public), by or on behalf of the Government. 

Alternate V (abbreviated month and 

year of Final Rule publication). As 

prescribed in 327.409, add the following 

paragraph (j) to the basic clause: 

(j) The Contractor agrees, except as may be 

otherwise specified in this contract for 

specific data deliverables listed as not subject 

to this paragraph, that the Contracting Officer 

may, up to three years after acceptance of all 

deliverables under this contract, inspect at 

the Contractor’s facility any data withheld 

pursuant to paragraph (g)(1) of this clause, for 

purposes of verifying the Contractor’s 

assertion of limited rights or restricted rights 

status of the data or for evaluating work 

performance. When the Contractor whose 

data are to be inspected demonstrates to the 

Contracting Officer that there would be a 

possible conflict of interest if a particular 

representative made the inspection, the 

Contracting Officer shall designate an 

alternate inspector. 

Dated: September 18, 2012. 

Angela Billups, 

Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for 

Acquisition. 

[FR Doc. 2012–31490 Filed 1–9–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4150–24–P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

National Highway Traffic Safety 

Administration 

49 CFR Part 571 

[Docket No. NHTSA–2010–0132] 

RIN 2127–AK17 

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety 

Standards; New Pneumatic Tires for 

Motor Vehicles With a GVWR of More 

Than 4,536 Kilograms (10,000 Pounds) 

and Motorcycles 

AGENCY: National Highway Traffic 

Safety Administration (NHTSA), 

Department of Transportation. 

ACTION: Supplemental notice of 

proposed rulemaking (SNPRM). 

SUMMARY: This document proposes 

several minor amendments to Federal 

Motor Vehicle Safety Standard (FMVSS) 

No. 119 to revise the formatting and 

replace a missing footnote in Table II. 

FMVSS No. 119 was amended in a final 

rule published on June 26, 2003 as part 

of a comprehensive upgrade of several 

FMVSSs to improve tire safety, as 

required by the Transportation Recall 

Enhancement, Accountability, and 

Documentation (TREAD) Act of 2000. 

The agency believes that this proposed 

revision is appropriate to correct minor 

oversights made in the June 2003 final 

rule for FMVSS No. 119. 

DATES: Submit comments on or before 

March 11, 2013. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

electronically to the docket identified in 

the heading of this document by visiting 

the following Web site: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

Alternatively, you can file comments 

using the following methods: 

• Mail: Docket Management Facility: 

U.S. Department of Transportation, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue SE., West Building 

Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

Washington, DC 20590–0001. 

• Hand Delivery or Courier: West 

Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., between 

9 a.m. and 5 p.m. ET, Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. 

• Fax: (202) 493–2251. 

Regardless of how you submit your 

comments, you should mention the 

docket number identified in the heading 

of this document. 

Instructions: For detailed instructions 

on submitting comments and additional 

information on the rulemaking process, 

see the Public Participation heading of 

the Supplementary Information section 

of this document. Note that all 

comments received will be posted 

without change to http:// 

www.regulations.gov, including any 

personal information provided. Please 

see the Privacy Act heading below. 

Privacy Act: Anyone is able to search 

the electronic form of all comments 

received into any of our dockets by the 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the comment, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement in the Federal Register 

published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 

19477–78). 

Docket: For access to the docket to 

read background documents or 

comments received, go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for accessing the dockets. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

technical issues, you may contact 

Abigail Morgan, Office of Crash 

Avoidance Standards (Telephone: 202– 

366–6005; Fax: 202–493–2990). For 

legal issues, you may contact David 

Jasinski, Office of the Chief Counsel 

(Telephone: 202–366–2992; Fax: 202– 

366–3820). You may send mail to both 

of these officials at the National 

Highway Traffic Safety Administration, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC 20590. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Background 

Federal Motor Vehicle Safety 

Standard (FMVSS) No. 119, New 

pneumatic tires for motor vehicles with 

a gross vehicle weight rating (GVWR) of 

more than 4,536 kilograms (10,000 

pounds) and motorcycles, specifies tire 


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1See FMVSS No. 119 Proposed Motor Vehicle 

Safety Standard, 37 FR 13481 (Jul. 8, 1972). 

2See FMVSS No. 109 Advance Notice of 

Proposed Rulemaking, 32 FR 2417 (Feb. 3, 1967). 

3SAE is an organization that develops voluntary 

standards for aerospace, automotive, and other 

industries. Many of SAE’s recommended practices 

are developed using technical information supplied 

by vehicle manufacturers and automotive test 

laboratories. 

4See SAE Recommended Practice J918b— 

Passenger Car Tire Performance Requirements and 

Test Procedures (January 1967) Section 3.1. 

5FMVSS No. 119 Final Rule, 38 FR 31302 (Nov. 

13, 1973). 

6See 68 FR 28912 (May 27, 1998). 

7See 68 FR 38166 (Jun. 26, 2003). 

8See 72 FR 49207 (Aug. 28, 2007). When Table 

II, as revised in 2007, was reprinted in the Code of 

Federal Regulations, the values in the table were 

printed incorrectly. The table was recently 

corrected in a Federal Register notice published on 

September 6, 2012. See 77 FR 54836. 

9 75 FR 60036 (Sept. 29, 2010). 10 63 FR 28912. 

performance requirements, including a 

strength test. When FMVSS No. 119 was 

established in 1973, it adopted the 

strength test from FMVSS No. 109.1 The 

strength test in FMVSS No. 109, 

originally issued in 1967, was adopted 

from the Society of Automotive 

Engineers (SAE) Recommended Practice 

J918b—Passenger Car Tire Performance 

Requirements and Test Procedures 

(January 1967).2, 3 As part of the strength 

test, a plunger is driven into a tire. The 

tire must not be punctured before a 

minimum energy value is reached. 

The tire strength test was designed to 

evaluate the strength of the reinforcing 

materials in bias ply tires, typically 

rayon, nylon, or polyester, and it 

continues to serve a purpose for these 

tires. Today, bias tires have been almost 

completely replaced by radial tires in 

the U.S.; however, a small market for 

bias tires still remains. 

The breaking energy requirements 

established in the SAE J918b tire 

strength test were higher for nylon and 

polyester cord tires than for rayon cord 

tires in order to ensure that the strength 

test stringency was comparable for 

different tire cord materials.4 As a 

result, when the FMVSS No. 119 

strength test was established, Table II 

was accompanied by the note: ‘‘For 

rayon cord tires, applicable energy 

values are 60 percent of those in the 

table.’’ 5

In 1998, NHTSA revised FMVSS No. 

119 by providing equivalent metric 

conversions to the standard’s English 

measurements.6 The following sentence 

was added as a footnote to the table to 

explain the metric conversions stating: 

‘‘J measurements are rounded down to 

the nearest whole number.’’ 

In the 1998 notice, some errors were 

made in the Table II headings. The 

agency attempted to correct the 

headings in 2003; however, there were 

several issues with the reprinted Table 

II.7 Many of the minimum static 

breaking energy values were 

inadvertently omitted from the table. 

Additionally, the two footnotes were not 

printed with the table. 

In 2007, the headings and content of 

Table II were corrected in a Federal 

Register notice, but again the footnotes 

were not printed with the table.8

In 2010, NHTSA issued a Notice of 

Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) that 

proposed an upgrade to FMVSS No. 

119.9 Although the agency proposed 

several technical corrections to FMVSS 

No. 119 in the 2010 NPRM, the NPRM 

did not include any changes to Table II. 

II. Proposed Correction to Table II and 

Formatting Change 

In May 2012, Continental Tire of the 

Americas (Continental) contacted 

NHTSA to inquire about the tire 

strength test requirements for rayon 

cord tires, because they noted the 

omission of the above-mentioned 

footnote in Table II, which specified a 

lower breaking energy requirement for 

rayon cord tires. After looking into 

Continental’s question, NHTSA has 

determined that two footnotes for Table 

II of FMVSS No. 119 were inadvertently 

removed from the standard. Due to the 

length of time that has passed since the 

footnotes were removed in 2003, the 

agency decided to issue this 

Supplemental Notice of Proposed 

Rulemaking (SNPRM) to reinstate one of 

the footnotes. The other footnote does 

not need to be reinstated. 

This SNPRM proposes to reinstate the 

missing footnote for Table II related to 

the breaking energy requirements for 

rayon cord tires, which reads as follows: 

‘‘For rayon cord tires, applicable energy 

values are 60 percent of those in table.’’ 

This footnote was present in FMVSS 

No. 119 from when the standard was 

first issued in 1973 until it was 

inadvertently omitted in 2003. 

The breaking energy requirement for 

rayon cord tires is less than other 

materials to make the severity of the test 

comparable to tires made of other cord 

materials. The breaking energy 

requirement for rayon cord tires for light 

vehicles in FMVSS No. 109 remain less 

than the requirement for nylon or 

polyester cord tires. The agency can 

determine whether a tire is composed of 

rayon cord from information that is 

required by S6.5(f) of FMVSS No. 119 to 

be molded on the tire’s sidewall. 

The agency is not proposing the 

replacement of the footnote for Table II 

related to rounding. When NHTSA 

added metric conversions to FMVSS No. 

119 in 1998, the agency’s principle for 

converting English system 

measurements to the metric system 

favored equivalent conversions, not 

exact ones.10 The footnote to Table II 

stating that measurements in joules 

were rounded down to the nearest 

whole number merely reflected this 

principle. The agency no longer believes 

that a footnote explaining the rounding 

procedure is necessary in the regulatory 

text. 

The agency is also proposing three 

non-substantive formatting changes to 

Table II in this SNPRM. First, some of 

the headings have been revised to more 

clearly explain the tire characteristics. 

Second, the heading row alignment has 

been modified. Third, the order of the 

columns in the right portion of the table 

for tires other than light truck, 

motorcycle, and 12 rim diameter code or 

smaller has been modified to group tube 

type and tubeless tires together. The 

agency believes that these formatting 

changes will make Table II easier to 

read. 

III. Technical Corrections 

We have discovered an error in the 

descriptions of the formula for 

computing the breaking energy of a tire 

in metric located in S7.3(f) of FMVSS 

No. 119. In S7.3(f)(1), the breaking 

energy (W) is reported in joules (J); 

however, the explanation incorrectly 

states the unit abbreviation for joules as 

kJ, which is the abbreviation for 

kilojoules. In S7.3(f)(2), unit 

abbreviations are not included in the 

explanation and the breaking energy 

equation formatting is inconsistent with 

S7.3(f)(1). We are proposing to correct 

these errors. 

IV. Public Participation 

How do I prepare and submit 

comments? 

Your comments must be written and 

in English. To ensure that your 

comments are correctly filed in the 

Docket, please include the docket 

number of this document in your 

comments. 

Your comments must not be more 

than 15 pages long (49 CFR 553.21). We 

established this limit to encourage you 

to write your primary comments in a 

concise fashion. However, you may 

attach necessary additional documents 

to your comments. There is no limit on 

the length of the attachments. 

Please submit your comments 

electronically to the docket following 

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11 75 FR 60036. 

12See Docket No. NHTSA–2010–0132–0002. 13 75 FR 60036. 

You may also submit two copies of your 

comments, including the attachments, 

by mail to Docket Management at the 

beginning of this document, under 

ADDRESSES. 

How can I be sure that my comments 

were received? 

If you wish Docket Management to 

notify you upon its receipt of your 

comments, enclose a self-addressed, 

stamped postcard in the envelope 

containing your comments. Upon 

receiving your comments, Docket 

Management will return the postcard by 

mail. 

How do I submit confidential business 

information? 

If you wish to submit any information 

under a claim of confidentiality, you 

should submit the following to the 

NHTSA Office of Chief Counsel (NCC– 

110), 1200 New Jersey Avenue SE., 

Washington, DC 20590: (1) A complete 

copy of the submission; (2) a redacted 

copy of the submission with the 

confidential information removed; and 

(3) either a second complete copy or 

those portions of the submission 

containing the material for which 

confidential treatment is claimed and 

any additional information that you 

deem important to the Chief Counsel’s 

consideration of your confidentiality 

claim. A request for confidential 

treatment that complies with 49 CFR 

part 512 must accompany the complete 

submission provided to the Chief 

Counsel. For further information, 

submitters who plan to request 

confidential treatment for any portion of 

their submissions are advised to review 

49 CFR part 512, particularly those 

sections relating to document 

submission requirements. Failure to 

adhere to the requirements of Part 512 

may result in the release of confidential 

information to the public docket. In 

addition, you should submit two copies 

from which you have deleted the 

claimed confidential business 

information, to Docket Management at 

the address given at the beginning of 

this document under ADDRESSES. 

Will the agency consider late 

comments? 

We will consider all comments that 

submitted to the docket before the close 

of business on the comment closing date 

indicated at the beginning of this notice 

under DATES. In accordance with our 

policies, to the extent possible, we will 

also consider comments received after 

the specified comment closing date. If 

we receive a comment too late for us to 

consider in developing the proposed 

rule, we will consider that comment as 

an informal suggestion for future 

rulemaking action. 

How can I read the comments submitted 

by other people? 

You may read the comments received 

on the Internet. To read the comments 

on the Internet, go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov and follow the online instructions provided. 

You may download the comments. 

The comments are imaged documents, 

in either TIFF or PDF format. Please 

note that even after the comment closing 

date, we will continue to file relevant 

information in the Docket as it becomes 

available. Further, some people may 

submit late comments. Accordingly, we 

recommend that you periodically search 

the Docket for new material. 

You may also read the comments at 

the address and times given near the 

beginning of this document under 

ADDRESSES. 

V. Rulemaking Analyses and Notices 

A. Executive Order 12866, Executive 

Order 13563, and DOT Regulatory 

Policies and Procedures 

NHTSA has considered the impact of 

this rulemaking action under Executive 

Order 12866, Executive Order 13563, 

and the Department of Transportation’s 

regulatory policies and procedures. This 

rulemaking is not considered significant 

and was not reviewed by the Office of 

Management and Budget under E.O. 

12866, ‘‘Regulatory Planning and 

Review.’’ The rulemaking action has 

also been determined not to be 

significant under the Department’s 

regulatory policies and procedures. 

This SNPRM would impose no costs 

upon tire manufacturers. If adopted, the 

changes proposed in this SNPRM would 

correct minor errors to Table II of 

FMVSS No. 119. These changes would 

impose no costs on manufacturers, nor 

do we expect that these changes would 

result in quantifiable benefits. For 

information on the costs and benefits of 

the proposed upgrade to FMVSS No. 

119, please see the September 29, 2010 

NPRM 11 and the accompanying 

Preliminary Regulatory Evaluation.12

B. Other Rulemaking Analyses and 

Notices 

For information on the Regulatory 

Flexibility Act, Executive Order 13132 

(Federalism), the National Technology 

Transfer and Advancement Act, the 

Unfunded Mandates Reform Act, the 

National Environmental Policy Act, 

Executive Order 12988 (Civil Justice 

Reform), and the Paperwork Reduction 

Act, related to the agency’s proposed 

upgrade to FMVSS No. 119, please see 

the September 29, 2010 NPRM.13 As this 

SNPRM proposes only to unintentional 

errors to Table II and make technical 

corrections, it will not have any effect 

on the agency’s analysis in those areas. 

C. Regulatory Identifier Number (RIN) 

The Department of Transportation 

assigns a regulation identifier number 

(RIN) to each regulatory action listed in 

the Unified Agenda of Federal 

Regulations. The Regulatory Information 

Service Center publishes the Unified 

Agenda in April and October of each 

year. You may use the RIN contained in 

the heading at the beginning of this 

document to find this action in the 

Unified Agenda. 

D. Privacy Act 

Anyone is able to search the 

electronic form of all comments 

received into any of our dockets by the 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the comment, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review DOT’s complete Privacy Act 

Statement in the Federal Register 

published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 

19477–78). 

List of Subjects in 49 CFR Part 571 

Imports, Motor vehicle safety, 

Reporting and recordkeeping 

requirements, Tires. 

In consideration of the foregoing, 

NHTSA proposes to amend 49 CFR part 

571 as follows: 

PART 571—FEDERAL MOTOR 

VEHICLE SAFETY STANDARDS 

■ 1. The authority citation for part 571 

of Title 49 continues to read as follows: 

Authority: 49 U.S.C. 322, 30111, 30115, 

30117, and 30166; delegation of authority at 

49 CFR 1.95. 

■ 2. Amend section 571.119 by revising 

paragraphs S7.3(f)(1), S7.3(f)(2) and 

Table II to read as follows: 

§ 571.119 Standard No. 119; New 

pneumatic tires for motor vehicles with a 

GVWR of more than 4,536 kilograms (10,000 

pounds) and motorcycles. 

* * * * * 

S7.3 * * * 

(f) * * * 

(1) W = [(F × P)/2] × 10¥3

Where: 

W = Breaking energy in joules (J), 

F = Force in newtons (N), and 

P = Penetration in millimeters (mm), or; 

(2) W = (F × P)/2 


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Where: 

W = Breaking energy in inch-pounds (in-lb), 

F = Force in pounds (lb), and 

P = Penetration in inches (in). 

* * * * * 

TABLE II—MINIMUM STATIC BREAKING ENERGY

[Joules (J) and Inch-Pounds (in-lb)] 

Tire characteristic Motorcycle All 12 rim 

diameter 

code or 

smaller 

except 

motorcycle 

Tubeless 17.5 

rim diameter 

code or 

smaller and 

light 

truck 

Tires other than light truck, motorcycle, 12 rim diameter 

code or smaller 

Plunger diameter 

(mm and inches) 

7.94 

mm 5⁄16′′ 

19.05 

mm 3⁄4′′ 19.05 mm 3⁄4′′ 

Tube type greater 

than 12 rim 

diameter code 

Tubeless greater 

than 17.5 rim 

diameter code 

31.75 

mm 11⁄4′′ 38.10 

mm 11⁄2′′ 31.75 mm 11⁄4′′ 38.10 mm 11⁄2′′ 

Breaking energy J in-lb J in-lb J in-lb J in-lb J in-lb J in-lb J in-lb 

Load Range: 

A ..................................................... 16 150 67 600 225 2,000 .......... ............ .......... ............ .......... ............ .......... ............

B ..................................................... 33 300 135 1,200 293 2,600 .......... ............ .......... ............ .......... ............ .......... ............

C ..................................................... 45 400 203 1,800 361 3,200 768 6,800 .......... ............ 576 5,100 .......... ............

D ..................................................... .......... .......... 271 2,400 514 4,550 892 7,900 .......... ............ 734 6,500 .......... ............

E ..................................................... .......... .......... 338 3,000 576 5,100 1,412 12,500 .......... ............ 971 8,600 .......... ............

F ..................................................... .......... .......... 406 3,600 644 5,700 1,785 15,800 .......... ............ 1,412 12,500 .......... ............

G .................................................... .......... .......... .......... .......... 711 6,300 .......... ............ 2,282 20,200 .......... ............ 1,694 15,000 

H ..................................................... .......... .......... .......... .......... 768 6,800 .......... ............ 2,598 23,000 .......... ............ 2,090 18,500 

J ..................................................... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ............ 2,824 25,000 .......... ............ 2,203 19,500 

L ..................................................... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ............ 3,050 27,000 .......... ............ .......... ............

M .................................................... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ............ 3,220 28,500 .......... ............ .......... ............

N ..................................................... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... ............ 3,389 30,000 .......... ............ .......... ............

Note: For rayon cord tires, applicable energy values are 60 percent of those in table. 

* * * * * 

Issued on: January 2, 2013. 

Christopher J. Bonanti, 

Associate Administrator for Rulemaking. 

[FR Doc. 2013–00315 Filed 1–9–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–59–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

50 CFR Part 17 

[Docket No. FWS–R9–ES–2012–0034; 450 

003 0115] 

RIN 1018–AY68 

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife 

and Plants; Listing the Blue-Throated 

Macaw 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Proposed rule. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (Service), propose to 

list the blue-throated macaw (Ara 

glaucogularis) as endangered under the 

Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 

amended (Act). This species is endemic 

to a small area in Bolivia, and there are 

estimated to be fewer than 150 

individuals remaining in the wild. Its 

population continues to decrease 

despite intense conservation efforts. The 

primary threat to the species is lack of 

reproductive success (loss of nestlings) 

due to nest failure, which primarily is 

caused by competition for nest sites and 

predation by larger avian species, in 

addition to diminished availability of 

suitable habitat. We seek information 

from the public on the proposed listing 

for this species. 

DATES: We will consider comments and 

information received or postmarked on 

or before March 11, 2013. We must 

receive requests for a public hearing by 

February 25, 2013. See Public Hearing 

section under SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION for more information. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit 

information by one of the following 

methods: 

• Electronically: Go to the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. In the Search 

field, enter FWS–R9–ES–2012–0034, 

which is the docket number for this 

action. Then click on the Search button. 

You may submit a comment by clicking 

on ‘‘Comment Now.’’ If your comments 

will fit in the provided comment box, 

please use this feature of http:// 

www.regulations.gov, as it is most 

compatible with our comment review 

procedures. If you attach your 

comments as a separate document, our 

preferred file format is Microsoft Word. 

If you attach multiple comments (such 

as form letters), our preferred format is 

a spreadsheet in Microsoft Excel. 

• By hard copy: U.S. mail or handdelivery: Public Comments Processing, 

Attn: FWS–R9–ES–2012–0034, Division 

of Policy and Directives Management; 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; 4401 N. 

Fairfax Drive, MS 2042–PDM; 

Arlington, VA 22203. 

We will not accept comments by email 

or fax. We will post all comments on 

http://www.regulations.gov. This 

generally means that we will post any 

personal information you provide us 

(see the Information Requested section, 

below, for more information). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Janine Van Norman, Chief, Branch of 

Foreign Species, Endangered Species 

Program, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 

4401 North Fairfax Drive, Room 420, 

Arlington, VA 22203; telephone 703– 

358–2171. If you use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD), call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 800–877–8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Information Requested 

We intend that any final actions 

resulting from this proposed rule be 

based on the best scientific and 

commercial data available. Therefore, 

we request comments or information 

from the Government of Bolivia, the 

scientific community, or any other 

interested parties concerning this 

proposed rule. We particularly seek 

clarifying information concerning: 

(1) Information on taxonomy, 

distribution, habitat selection and 

trends (especially breeding and foraging 

habitats), diet, and population 

abundance and trends (especially 

current recruitment data) of this species. 

(2) Information on the effects of 

habitat loss and changing land uses on 


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