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[FR Doc. 00–549 Filed 1–10–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

40 CFR Part 52

[085–1085a; FRL–6517–8]

Approval and Promulgation of

Implementation Plans; State of Kansas

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Proposed rule.

SUMMARY: EPA proposes to approve

State Implementation Plan (SIP)

revisions submitted by the state of

Kansas. These revisions include revising

and renumbering regulatory definitions,

streamlining opacity requirements,

expanding testing of gasoline delivery

vehicles, and methods for calculating

actual emissions.

In the final rules section of the

Federal Register, EPA is approving the

state’s SIP revision as a direct final rule

without prior proposal because the

Agency views this as a noncontroversial

revision amendment and anticipates no

relevant adverse comments. A detailed

rationale for the approval is set forth in

the direct final rule. If no relevant

adverse comments are received in

response to this rule, no further activity

is contemplated in relation to this rule.

If EPA receives relevant adverse

comments, the direct final rule will be

withdrawn and all public comments

received will be addressed in a

subsequent final rule based on this

proposed rule. EPA will not institute a

second comment period on this action.

Any parties interested in commenting

on this action should do so at this time.

DATES: Comments must be received in

writing by February 10, 2000.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed to

Christopher D. Hess, Environmental

Protection Agency, Air Planning and

Development Branch, 901 North 5th

Street, Kansas City, Kansas 66101.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Hess at (913) 551–7213 or

hess.christopher@epamail.epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: See the

information provided in the direct final

rule which is located in the rules

section of the Federal Register.

Dated: November 29, 1999.

Dennis Grams, P.E.,

Regional Administrator, Region VII.

[FR Doc. 00–269 Filed 1–10–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

50 CFR Part 17

RIN 1018–AF56

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife

and Plants; Notice of Reopening of

Comment Period on the Proposed Rule

To List the Alabama Sturgeon as

Endangered

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,

Interior.

ACTION: Proposed rule; notice of

reopening of comment period.

SUMMARY: We, the Fish and Wildlife

Service, give notice that we are

reopening the comment period on the

proposed rule to list the Alabama

sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus suttkusi) as

endangered. We are reopening the

comment period to enter into the record

Dr. Stephen Fain’s 1999 study, The

Development of a DNA Procedure for

the Forensic Identification of Caviar,

and any comments we receive related

specifically to the relationship of this

study, as it pertains to the proposed

listing of the Alabama sturgeon as

endangered. We invite all interested

parties to submit comments on this

study as it relates to the proposed

determination.

DATES: We will accept comments until

February 10, 2000. We will consider any

comments received by the closing date

in the final decision on this proposal.

ADDRESSES: If you wish to comment,

you may submit your comments by any

one of several methods. You may mail

or hand-deliver comments to the Field

Supervisor, U.S. Fish and Wildlife

Service, Mississippi Field Office, 6578

Dogwood View Parkway, Jackson,

Mississippi 39213. You may also

comment via the Internet to paul—

hartfield@fws.gov. See SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION for comment procedures.

To obtain a copy of the

aforementioned study, you can

download or print one from http://

endangered.fws.gov/listing/index.htm

(under Announcements) or contact

Kelly Bibb at 404/679–7132 (phone) or

404/679–7081 (facsimile) to receive a

faxed or mailed copy.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul

Hartfield (see ADDRESSES section), 601/

321–1125; facsimile 601/965–4340.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

The Alabama sturgeon is a small

freshwater sturgeon that was historically

found only in the Mobile River Basin of

Alabama and Mississippi. The Alabama

sturgeon’s historic range once included

about 1,600 kilometers (km) (1,000

miles (mi)) of the Mobile River system

in Alabama (Black Warrior, Tombigbee,

Alabama, Coosa, Tallapoosa, Mobile,

Tensaw, and Cahaba rivers) and

Mississippi (Tombigbee River). Since

1985, all confirmed captures of this fish

have been from a short, free-flowing

reach of the Alabama River below

Miller’s Ferry and Claiborne Locks and

Dams in Clarke, Monroe, and Wilcox

counties, Alabama. The decline of the

Alabama sturgeon is attributed to overfishing, loss and fragmentation of

habitat as a result of historical

navigation-related development, and

water quality degradation. Current

threats primarily result from its small

population numbers and its inability to

offset mortality rates with reproduction

and recruitment.

On March 26, 1999, we published a

rule proposing endangered status for the