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• Bismuth. 

• Books, trade, text, technical, or 

scientific; newspapers; pamphlets; 

magazines; periodicals; printed briefs 

and films; not printed in the United 

States and for which domestic editions 

are not available. 

• Brazil nuts, unroasted. 

• Cadmium, ores and flue dust. 

• Calcium cyanamide. 

• Capers. 

• Cashew nuts. 

• Castor beans and castor oil. 

• Chalk, English. 

• Chestnuts. 

• Chicle. 

• Chrome ore or chromite. 

• Cinchona bark. 

• Cobalt, in cathodes, rondelles, or 

other primary ore and metal forms. 

• Cocoa beans. 

• Coconut and coconut meat, 

unsweetened, in shredded, desiccated, 

or similarly prepared form. 

• Coffee, raw or green bean. 

• Colchicine alkaloid, raw. 

• Copra. 

• Cork, wood or bark and waste. 

• Cover glass, microscope slide. 

• Crane rail (85-pound per foot). 

• Cryolite, natural. 

• Dammar gum. 

• Diamonds, industrial, stones and 

abrasives. 

• Emetine, bulk. 

• Ergot, crude. 

• Erythrityl tetranitrate. 

• Fair linen, altar. 

• Fibers of the following types: abaca, 

abace, agave, coir, flax, jute, jute 

burlaps, palmyra, and sisal. 

• Goat and kidskins. 

• Goat hair canvas. 

• Grapefruit sections, canned. 

• Graphite, natural, crystalline, 

crucible grade. 

• Hand file sets (Swiss pattern). 

• Handsewing needles. 

• Hemp yarn. 

• Hog bristles for brushes. 

• Hyoscine, bulk. 

• Ipecac, root. 

• Iodine, crude. 

• Kaurigum. 

• Lac. 

• Leather, sheepskin, hair type. 

• Lavender oil. 

• Manganese. 

• Menthol, natural bulk. 

• Mica. 

• Microprocessor chips (brought onto 

a Government construction site as 

separate units for incorporation into 

building systems during construction or 

repair and alteration of real property). 

• Modacrylic fiber. 

• Nickel, primary, in ingots, pigs, 

shots, cathodes, or similar forms; nickel 

oxide and nickel salts. 

• Nitroguanidine (also known as 

picrite). 

• Nux vomica, crude. 

• Oiticica oil. 

• Olive oil. 

• Olives (green), pitted or unpitted, or 

stuffed, in bulk. 

• Opium, crude. 

• Oranges, mandarin, canned. 

• Petroleum, crude oil, unfinished 

oils, and finished products. 

• Pine needle oil. 

• Pineapple, canned. 

• Platinum and related group metals, 

refined, as sponge, powder, ingots, or 

cast bars. 

• Pyrethrum flowers. 

• Quartz crystals. 

• Quebracho. 

• Quinidine. 

• Quinine. 

• Rabbit fur felt. 

• Radium salts, source and special 

nuclear materials. 

• Rosettes. 

• Rubber, crude and latex. 

• Rutile. 

• Santonin, crude. 

• Secretin. 

• Shellac. 

• Silk, raw and unmanufactured. 

• Spare and replacement parts for 

equipment of foreign manufacture, and 

for which domestic parts are not 

available. 

• Spices and herbs, in bulk. 

• Sugars, raw. 

• Swords and scabbards. 

• Talc, block, steatite. 

• Tantalum. 

• Tapioca flour and cassava. 

• Tartar, crude; tartaric acid and 

cream of tartar in bulk. 

• Tea in bulk. 

• Thread, metallic (gold). 

• Thyme oil. 

• Tin in bars, blocks, and pigs. 

• Triprolidine hydrochloride. 

• Tungsten. 

• Vanilla beans. 

• Venom, cobra. 

• Water chestnuts. 

• Wax, carnauba. 

• Wire glass. 

• Woods; logs, veneer, and lumber of 

the following species: Alaskan yellow 

cedar, angelique, balsa, ekki, greenheart, 

lignum vitae, mahogany, and teak. 

• Yarn, 50 Denier rayon. 

• Yeast, active dry and instant active 

dry. 

B. Executive Order 12866 and 13563 

Executive Orders (E.O.s) 12866 and 

13563 direct agencies to assess all costs 

and benefits of available regulatory 

alternatives and, if regulation is 

necessary, to select regulatory 

approaches that maximize net benefits 

(including potential economic, 

environmental, public health and safety 

effects, distributive impacts, and 

equity). E.O. 13563 emphasizes the 

importance of quantifying both costs 

and benefits, of reducing costs, of 

harmonizing rules, and of promoting 

flexibility. This is not a significant 

regulatory action and, therefore, was not 

subject to review under Section 6(b) of 

E.O. 12866, Regulatory Planning and 

Review, dated September 30, 1993. This 

rule is not a major rule under 5 U.S.C. 

804. 

List of Subject in 48 CFR Part 25 

Government procurement. 

Dated: March 19, 2015. 

William Clark, 

Director, Office of Government-wide 

Acquisition Policy, Office of Acquisition 

Policy, Office of Government-wide Policy. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

50 CFR Part 17 

[Docket No. FWS–R1–ES–2012–0097: 

FXES11130900000C2–156–FF09E32000] 

RIN 1018–AZ74 

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife 

and Plants; Proposed Rule To Amend 

the Listing of the Southern Selkirk 

Mountains Population of Woodland 

Caribou 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Proposed rule; reopening of 

comment period. 

SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service (Service), announce the 

reopening of the public comment period 

on our May 8, 2014, proposed rule to 

amend the listing of the southern 

Selkirk Mountains population of 

woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus 

caribou) to the Southern Mountain 

caribou distinct population segment 

(DPS). The southern Selkirk Mountains 

population of woodland caribou is 

currently listed as endangered under the 

Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 

amended (Act). On May 8, 2014, we 

proposed to list the Southern Mountain 

caribou DPS as threatened under the 

Act. This reopening of comment period 

will provide all interested parties with 

an opportunity to review additional 

scientific information and provide 

comment on the status of the Southern 

Mountain caribou DPS. Information 


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previously submitted need not be 

resubmitted as it has already been 

incorporated into the public record and 

will be fully considered in the final 

listing determination. 

DATES: The comment period for the 

proposed rule published May 8, 2014, at 

79 FR 26504, is reopened. We will 

consider comments received or 

postmarked on or before April 23, 2015. 

Comments submitted electronically 

using the Federal eRulemaking Portal 

(see ADDRESSES section, below) must be 

received by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on 

the closing date. Any comments that we 

receive after the closing date may not be 

considered in the final decision on this 

action. 

ADDRESSES: Document availability: You 

may obtain a copy of the proposed rule 

and associated documents on the 

Internet at http://www.regulations.gov at 

Docket No. FWS–R1–ES–2012–0097, or 

by contacting the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, Idaho Fish and Wildlife Office 

(see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT). 

Comment submission: You may 

submit written information by one of 

the following methods: 

(1) Electronically: Go to the Federal 

eRulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov. In the Search box, 

enter FWS–R1–ES–2012–0097, which is 

the docket number for this rulemaking. 

Then, click the Search button. In the 

Search panel on the left side of the 

screen, under the Document Type 

heading, click on the box next to 

‘‘Proposed Rule’’ to locate this 

document. You may submit a comment 

by clicking on ‘‘Comment Now!’’ Please 

ensure that you have found the correct 

rulemaking before submitting your 

comment. 

(2) By hard copy: Submit by U.S. mail 

or hand-delivery to: Public Comments 

Processing, Attn: FWS–R1–ES–2012– 

0097; Division of Policy and Directives 

Management; U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, MS: BPHC; 5275 Leesburg Pike; 

Falls Church, VA 22041–3803. 

We request that you send comments 

only by the methods described above. 

We will post all comments received 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: 

Michael Carrier, State Supervisor, Idaho 

Fish and Wildlife Office, 1387 S. 

Vinnell Way, Room 368, Boise, ID 

(telephone 208–378–5243; facsimile 

208–378–5262). If you use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD), please call the Federal 

Information Relay Service at 800–877– 

8339. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

On May 8, 2014, we published in the 

Federal Register (79 FR 26504) a 

document consisting of: (1) A 12-month 

finding on a petition to delist the 

southern Selkirk Mountains population 

of woodland caribou (Rangifer tarandus 

caribou); (2) a proposed rule to amend 

the current listing of this population by 

defining the Southern Mountain caribou 

DPS, which includes the currently listed 

southern Selkirk Mountains population 

of woodland caribou, and to list that 

DPS as threatened under the Act (16 

U.S.C. 1531 et seq.); and (3) a 

determination that the approximately 

30,010 acres (12,145 hectares) 

designated as critical habitat on 

November 28, 2012 (77 FR 71042), for 

the southern Selkirk Mountains 

population of woodland caribou is 

applicable to the U.S. portion of the 

proposed Southern Mountain Caribou 

DPS. The May 8, 2014, proposed rule 

had a 60-day public comment period, 

ending July 7, 2014. On June 10, 2014, 

we extended the public comment period 

an additional 30 days, ending on August 

6, 2014, and we announced the 

scheduling of two public informational 

sessions and hearings, which were held 

on June 25, 2014, in Sandpoint, Idaho, 

and on June 26, 2014, in Bonners Ferry, 

Idaho (79 FR 33169). 

Subsequent to the closing of the 

public comment period on August 6, 

2014, the Committee on the Status of 

Endangered Wildlife in Canada 

(COSEWIC) finalized their assessment of 

the biological status of the Southern 

Mountain caribou population, changing 

it from threatened to endangered. In 

August 2014, COSEWIC, in accordance 

with Canada’s federal Species At Risk 

Act (SARA), submitted their assessment 

of endangered biological status to the 

Canadian federal Environment Minister 

for consideration of changing the legal 

status of the Southern Mountain caribou 

in Canada under SARA to endangered. 

The recommended change in the legal 

status under SARA is pending review 

and decision by the federal 

Environment Minister. Although we 

were aware that COSEWIC’s assessment 

was underway and we received some of 

the preliminary information contained 

in their assessment, we were not able to 

incorporate the information into our 

proposed rule (79 FR 26504, May 8, 

2014), because the assessment was not 

yet finalized by COSEWIC. The 

assessment is now available from 

COSEWIC for public review (http://

www.registrelep-sararegistry.gc.ca/

document/default_

e.cfm?documentID=2575) and is also 

available for public inspection at 

http://www.regulations.gov at Docket 

No. FWS–R1–ES–2012–0097. The 2014 

COSEWIC assessment provides an 

updated synthesis and review of 

existing data and information about the 

species in Canada since the previous 

assessment by COSEWIC in 2002. The 

updated assessment includes an 

analysis of population size and trend 

and current threats to the population. 

Additionally, the assessment considered 

two population viability analyses, 

which are also available for public 

inspection at http://

www.regulations.gov at Docket No. 

FWS–R1–ES–2012–0097. This 

assessment, along with the population 

viability analyses, will be important 

sources of information for our status 

review and final listing determination 

for the Southern Mountain caribou DPS. 

Additionally, peer review of the 

proposed amended listing was 

conducted, and the report is available at 

http://www.regulations.gov at Docket 

No. FWS–R1–ES–2012–0097. 

Information Requested 

We intend that any final action 

resulting from the proposed rule will be 

based on the best scientific and 

commercial data available, and be as 

accurate and complete as possible. 

Therefore, we are again seeking written 

comments and information from other 

concerned Federal and State agencies, 

the scientific community, or any other 

interested party during this reopened 

comment period on our proposed rule 

that published in the Federal Register 

on May 8, 2014 (79 FR 26504). We are 

particularly interested in comments and 

information regarding the current status 

and population trends of the local 

populations that comprise the proposed 

Southern Mountain caribou DPS. This 

information will be used to determine 

the status of the DPS as either not 

warranted for listing, threatened, or 

endangered. 

If you submitted comments or 

information on the proposed rule (79 FR 

26504) during the initial comment 

period from May 8, 2014, to July 6, 

2014, or the extended comment period 

(79 FR 33169) from July 7, 2014, to 

August 6, 2014, please do not resubmit 

them. We have incorporated them into 

the public record as part of the original 

comment period, and we will fully 

consider them in our final 

determination. 

Please note that submissions merely 

stating support for or opposition to the 

action under consideration without 


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providing supporting information, 

although noted, will not be considered 

in making a determination, as section 

4(b)(1)(A) of the Act directs that 

determinations as to whether any 

species is an endangered or threatened 

species must be made ‘‘solely on the 

basis of the best scientific and 

commercial data available.’’ 

You may submit your comments and 

materials concerning the proposed rule 

by one of the methods listed in 

ADDRESSES. We request that you send 

comments only by the methods 

described in ADDRESSES. If you submit 

information via http://

www.regulations.gov, your entire 

submission—including any personal 

identifying information—will be posted 

on the Web site. If your submission is 

made via a hardcopy that includes 

personal identifying information, you 

may request at the top of your document 

that we withhold this information from 

public review. However, we cannot 

guarantee that we will be able to do so. 

We will post all hardcopy submissions 

on http://www.regulations.gov. Please 

include sufficient information with your 

comments to allow us to verify any 

scientific or commercial information 

you include. 

If you submit a comment via http://

www.regulations.gov, your entire 

comment—including any personal 

identifying information—will be posted 

on the Web site. We will post all 

hardcopy comments on http://

www.regulations.gov as well. If you 

submit a hardcopy comment that 

includes personal identifying 

information, you may request at the top 

of your document that we withhold this 

information from public review. 

However, we cannot guarantee that we 

will be able to do so. 

Comments and materials we receive, 

as well as supporting documentation we 

used in preparing the proposed rule, 

will be available for public inspection 

on http://www.regulations.gov at Docket 

No. FWS–R1–ES–2012–0097, or by 

appointment, during normal business 

hours, at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, Idaho Fish and Wildlife Office 

(see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT). 

Authority 

The authority for this action is the 

Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 

amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). 

Dated: March 11, 2015. 

Robert Dreher, 

Acting Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service. 

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