Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 90-Day Findings for Nine Species

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR <SUBAGY>Fish and Wildlife Service</SUBAGY> <CFR>50 CFR Part 17</CFR> <DEPDOC>[FXES1111090FEDR-256-FF09E21000]</DEPDOC> <SUBJECT>Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; 90-Day Findings for Nine Species</SUBJECT> <HD SOURCE="HED">AGENCY:</HD> Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior. <HD SOURCE="HED">ACTION:</HD> Notification of petition findings and initiation of status reviews. <SUM> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUMMARY:</HD> We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce 90-day findings on eight petitions to add species to the Lists of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants and one petition to revise critical habitat for a listed species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). Based on our review, we find that the petitions to list the cinnamon juga ( <E T="03">Juga canella</E> ), Great Basin ramshorn ( <E T="03">Helisoma newberryi</E> ), montane peaclam ( <E T="03">Pisidium ultramontanum</E> ), painted woolly bat ( <E T="03">Kerivoula picta</E> ), Southern Cascades population of the Sierra Nevada red fox ( <E T="03">Vulpes vulpes necator</E> ), and Sulawesi forest turtle ( <E T="03">Leucocephalon yuwonoi</E> ) present substantial scientific or commercial information indicating that the petitioned actions may be warranted. Therefore, with the publication of this document, we announce that we are initiating status reviews of these species to determine whether the petitioned actions are warranted. To ensure that the status reviews are comprehensive, we request scientific and commercial data and other information regarding the species and factors that may affect their status. Based on the status reviews, we will issue 12-month petition findings, which will address whether or not the petitioned actions are warranted, in accordance with the Act. We also find that the petition to revise critical habitat for the leatherback sea turtle ( <E T="03">Dermochelys coriacea</E> ) presents substantial scientific information indicating that the petitioned action may be warranted. Therefore, we announce that we plan to determine how we will proceed with the request to revise a critical habitat designation for the species. We further find that the petitions to list the Alaskan glacier buttercup ( <E T="03">Ranunculus glacialis</E> subsp. <E T="03"> alaskensis</E> ) and eastern population of the golden eagle ( <E T="03">Aquila chrysaetos</E> ) do not present substantial scientific or commercial information indicating the petitioned actions may be warranted. Therefore, we are not initiating a status review of the Alaskan glacier buttercup or the eastern population of golden eagle. </SUM> <EFFDATE> <HD SOURCE="HED">DATES:</HD> These findings were made on August 25, 2025. </EFFDATE> <HD SOURCE="HED">ADDRESSES:</HD> <E T="03">Supporting documents:</E> Summaries of the basis for the petition findings contained in this document are available on <E T="03">https://www.regulations.gov</E> under the appropriate docket number (see tables under <E T="02">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION</E> ). In addition, this supporting information is available by contacting the appropriate person, as specified in <E T="02">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT</E> . <E T="03">Status reviews and critical habitat review:</E> If you have new scientific or commercial data or other information concerning the status of, or threats to, the cinnamon juga, Great Basin ramshorn, montane peaclam, painted woolly bat, Southern Cascades population of the Sierra Nevada red fox, or Sulawesi forest turtle, or their habitats, or if you have information concerning the critical habitat of the leatherback sea turtle, please provide those data or information by one of the following methods listed below. (1) <E T="03">Electronically:</E> Go to the Federal eRulemaking Portal: <E T="03">https://www.regulations.gov.</E> In the Search box, enter the appropriate docket number (see table 1 under <E T="02">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION</E> ). Then, click on the “Search” button. After finding the correct document, you may submit information by clicking on “Comment.” (2) <E T="03">By hard copy:</E> Submit by U.S. mail to: Public Comments Processing, Attn: [Insert appropriate docket number; see table 1 under <E T="02">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION</E> ], U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, MS: PRB/3W, 5275 Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041-3803. We request that you send information only by the methods described above. We will post all information we receive on <E T="03">https://www.regulations.gov.</E> This generally means that we will post any personal information you provide us (see Information Submitted for a Status Review and a Critical Habitat Review, below). <FURINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:</HD> <GPOTABLE COLS="2" OPTS="L2,nj,tp0,i1" CDEF="s75,r150"> <TTITLE> </TTITLE> <CHED H="1">Species common name</CHED> <CHED H="1">Contact person</CHED> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Alaskan glacier buttercup</ENT> <ENT> Neesha Stellrecht, Field Supervisor, Northern Alaska Fish and Wildlife Field Office, 907-347-8906, <E T="03">Neesha_Stellrecht@fws.gov.</E> </ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">cinnamon juga</ENT> <ENT> Ryan Fogerty, Project Leader, Yreka Fish and Wildlife Office, 530-340-7900, <E T="03">ryan_fogerty@fws.gov.</E> </ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">eastern population of golden eagle</ENT> <ENT> Matthew Hinderliter, Regional Listing Coordinator, Northeast Region Headquarters, 601-720-6531, <E T="03">matthew_hinderliter@fws.gov.</E> </ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Great Basin ramshorn and montane peaclam</ENT> <ENT> Jennie Land, Project Leader, Klamath Falls Fish and Wildlife Office, 541-885-8481, <E T="03">jennie_land@fws.gov.</E> </ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">leatherback sea turtle</ENT> <ENT> Lourdes Mena, Field Supervisor, Caribbean Ecological Services Field Office, 352-749-2462, <E T="03">lourdes_mena@fws.gov.</E> </ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">painted woolly bat and Sulawesi forest turtle</ENT> <ENT> Rachel London, Manager, Branch of Delisting and Foreign Species, Ecological Services Headquarters, 703-358-2491, <E T="03">rachel_london@fws.gov.</E> </ENT> </ROW> <ROW> <ENT I="01">Southern Cascades population of Sierra Nevada red fox</ENT> <ENT> Jennifer Siani, Classification Coordinator, Oregon Fish and Wildlife Office, 503-231-6179, <E T="03">jennifer_siani@fws.gov.</E> </ENT> </ROW> </GPOTABLE> Individuals in the United States who are deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access telecommunications relay services. Individuals outside the United States should use the relay services offered within their country to make international calls to the point-of-contact in the United States. </FURINF> <SUPLINF> <HD SOURCE="HED">SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:</HD> <HD SOURCE="HD1">Information Submitted for Status Reviews and a Critical Habitat Review</HD> If we find that a petition presents substantial scientific or commercial information indicating that the petitioned action may be warranted, the Act requires that we promptly commence a review of the status of the species, and we will subsequently complete a status review in accordance with our prioritization methodology for 12-month findings (81 FR 49248; July 27, 2016). We identify the Service's schedule for conducting status reviews on the National Listing Workplan (domestic species), the National Workplan to Address Downlisting and Delisting Recommendations (domestic species), or the Foreign Species Workplan (foreign species), which are available at <E T="03">https://www.fws.gov/project/national-listing-workplan, https://www.fws.gov/media/national-workplan-address-downlisting-and-delisting-recommendations,</E> and <E T="03">https://www.fws.gov/project/foreign-species-listing-workplan,</E> respectively. The cinnamon juga, Great Basin ramshorn, montane peaclam, painted woolly bat, Southern Cascades population of the Sierra Nevada red fox, and Sulawesi forest turtle will be assigned a bin number (in coordination with States and others with relevant information) according to our prioritization methodology and will be added to a future version of the applicable workplan. The workplans provide transparency and predictability to the public about when the Service anticipates completing specific findings and actions while allowing for flexibility to update the workplans when new information changes the priorities. You may submit information concerning the status of, or threats to, the cinnamon juga, Great Basin ramshorn, montane peaclam, painted woolly bat, Southern Cascades population of the Sierra Nevada red fox, or Sulawesi forest turtle, or their habitats, to be considered during our status review of the species. Additionally, you may also submit any new information concerning the critical habitat of the leatherback sea turtle to be considered as we determine how we will proceed with the request to revise the critical habitat designation. We request that you send this information only by the methods described in <E T="02">ADDRESSES</E> . Please include any supplemental data with your submission (such as scientific journal articles or other publications) to allow us to verify any scientific or commercial information you include. If you submit information via <E T="03">https://www.regulations.gov,</E> your entire submission—including any personal identifying information—will be posted on the website. <HD SOURCE="HD1">Background </HD> Section 4 of the Act (16 U.S.C. 1533) and its implementing regulations in title 50 of the Code of Federal Regulations (50 CFR part 424) set forth the procedures for adding species to, removing species from, or reclassifying species on the Federal Lists of Endangered and Threatened Wi ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Preview showing 10k of 43k characters. Full document text is stored and available for version comparison. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━