Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 107 / Friday, June 4, 2010 / Notices 31811 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R3–ES–2009–N0065; 30120–1113– 

0000 D3] 

Endangered and Threatened Wildlife 

and Plants; Post-Delisting Monitoring 

Plan for Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus 

leucocephalus) 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability of postdelisting monitoring plan. 

SUMMARY: We, the Fish and Wildlife 

Service (Service), announce the 

availability of the final post-delisting 

monitoring plan (PDM Plan) for the bald 

eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus). The 

Endangered Species Act (ESA) requires 

that we implement a system, in 

cooperation with the States, to monitor 

effectively for at least 5 years the status 

of all species that have been recovered 

and no longer need ESA protection. In 

2007, we removed the bald eagle in the 

contiguous 48 States from the Federal 

List of Threatened and Endangered 

Wildlife and Plants (delisted) due to 

recovery. Over a 20-year period, we will 

monitor the status of the bald eagle, at 

5-year intervals. 

ADDRESSES: To request a copy of the 

final PDM Plan, write to Jody Millar at 

our Rock Island Field Office: U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service, 1511 47th Avenue, 

Moline, IL 61265; or call (309) 757– 

5800. You may also request copies by emailing us at baldeaglePDM@fws.gov. 

Specify whether you want to receive a 

hard copy by U.S. mail or an electronic 

copy by e-mail. The final PDM Plan may 

also be downloaded from our regional 

Web site at http://www.fws.gov/ 

midwest/Endangered or our bald eagle 

Web site at http://www.fws.gov/ 

migratorybirds/baldeagle.htm. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jody 

Millar (see ADDRESSES). Individuals who 

are hearing-impaired or speechimpaired may call the Federal Relay 

Service at 1–800–877–8337 for TTY 

assistance, 24 hours a day, 7 days a 

week. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

In the 1970s, bald eagle surveys 

conducted by the Service, other 

cooperating agencies, and conservation 

organizations revealed that the bald 

eagle population was declining 

throughout the contiguous 48 States. On 

December 31, 1972, DDT was banned 

from use in the United States by the 

Environmental Protection Agency. The 

following year, the ESA (16 U.S.C. 

1531–1544) was passed. In 1978, the 

bald eagle was listed throughout the 

contiguous 48 States as endangered 

except in Michigan, Minnesota, 

Wisconsin, Washington, and Oregon, 

where it was listed as threatened (43 FR 

6233, February 14, 1978). 

Listing the eagle under the ESA and 

banning of DDT and other harmful 

organochlorine chemicals resulted in 

significant increases in the breeding 

population of the species throughout the 

contiguous 48 States. On July 6, 1999, 

we published a proposed rule (64 FR 

36454) to delist the bald eagle in the 

contiguous 48 States. This document 

included a draft monitoring plan and 

requested public comments. Slightly 

more than 10 percent of all comments 

we received on that proposal were 

concerned with post-delisting 

monitoring and the draft monitoring 

plan. Since then, we have revised the 

monitoring plan in response to the 

comments we received. 

We published the notice of 

availability for the revised draft 

monitoring plan and the final rule on 

delisting simultaneously in the Federal 

Register (72 FR 37346) on July 9, 2007. 

After the comment period closed on 

October 9, 2007, we reviewed each 

comment we received and addressed 

those comments in the final bald eagle 

post-delisting monitoring plan that we 

make available now through this notice. 

Section 4(g)(1) of the ESA requires 

that we implement a system, in 

cooperation with the States, to 

effectively monitor for not less than 5 

years the status of all species that have 

been recovered and delisted. In order to 

meet the ESA’s monitoring requirement 

and to facilitate efficient data collection, 

we have designed a sampling method 

capable of detecting substantial changes 

in the bald eagle population in the 

contiguous 48 States. 

Monitoring will consist of collecting 

information on the number of nesting 

bald eagles in the contiguous 48 States 

using State collected data and stratified 

sampling based on density of identified 

bald eagle nest sites. Our Bald Eagle 

Monitoring Team will work 

cooperatively with the States, Tribes, 

other agencies, and partners to collect 

this information. We will analyze the 

information after each monitoring effort 

and will propose adjustments to the 

sampling design, if necessary. At the 

end of each 5th-year monitoring event, 

we will review all available information 

to determine the status of the bald eagle. 

If these data indicate that the estimated 

bald eagle population is experiencing 

significant decreases, we will initiate 

more intensive review or studies to 

determine the cause, or take action to relist the bald eagle under Section 4 of the 

ESA, if necessary. 

Monitoring under the post-delisting 

monitoring plan began in spring of 

2009. We will publish a report on the 

results of the 2009 monitoring event 

within 1 year of survey and data 

analysis completion. This will be the 

first of our 5-year reports. The reports 

will be posted on our Web sites, 

http://www.fws.gov/midwest/ 

Endangered and http://www.fws.gov/ 

migratorybirds/baldeagle.htm. 

In accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 

et seq.), the information collection and 

recordkeeping requirements included in 

the PDM Plan have been approved by 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) under OMB control number 

1018–0143, which expires on November 

30, 2012. An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to, a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. 

Author 

The primary author of this document 

is Jody Millar (see ADDRESSES). 

Authority 

The authority for this action is the 

Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 

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

Dated: May 28, 2010. 

Lynn Lewis, 

Assistant Regional Director, Ecological 

Services, Ft. Snelling, MN. 

[FR Doc. 2010–13424 Filed 6–3–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLCO956000.L14200000 BJ0000] 

Notice of filing of plats 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of filing of plats. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management (BLM) is publishing this 

notice to inform the public of the intent 

to file the land survey plats listed 

below, and to afford all affected parties 

a proper period of time to protest this 

action, prior to the plat filing. 

DATES: Unless there are protests of this 

action, the filing of the plats described 

in this notice will happen on July 6, 

2010. 

ADDRESSES: BLM, Colorado State Office, 

Cadastral Survey, 2850 Youngfield 


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