FWS announced a 90-day finding on a petition to list all chimpanzees as endangered under the ESA; the agency found that listing may be warranted and initiated a status review.

FWS removed bald eagles in the Sonoran Desert area of central Arizona from the list of endangered and threatened wildlife under the ESA to comply with Center for Biological Diversity v. Salazar, No. 07-cv-00038-PHX-MHM (D. Ariz. Sept. 30, 2010).

United States v. Schwab Family Partnership, No. 2:10-cv-00412-JD (E.D. Pa. Aug. 30, 2011). Settling CERCLA defendants responsible for violations at the Franklin Smelting and Slag Superfund sites in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, must pay $2,783,750 to the United States and $491,250 to Pennsylvania in past response costs incurred at the sites, must assign their rights to any future recovery on insurance policies related to business operations at the sites, and must contribute the net proceeds from the sale of two properties by one of the settling defendants.

United States v. Jacob Goldberg & Son, Inc., No. 3237 (CS) (S.D.N.Y. Sept. 9, 2011). Settling CERCLA defendants responsible for violations at the Port Refinery Superfund site in Rye Brook, New York, must pay $215,250 in U.S. response costs incurred at the site. 

NOAA-Fisheries closed the western zone of the Gulf of Mexico to commercial king mackerel fishing in the exclusive economic zone to protect the resource. 

FWS revised the regulations governing the Federal Subsistence Management Program in Alaska by adding two public members to its board.

FWS announced a 90-day finding on a petition to list 42 Great Basin and Mojave Desert springsnails as threatened or endangered under the ESA; the agency found that listing may be warranted for 32 of the species and initiated a status review. 

FWS announced a 90-day finding on a petition to list the Franklin's bumble bee as endangered and to designate critical habitat under the ESA; the agency found that listing may be warranted and initiated a status review. 

FWS announced a 12-month finding on five petitions to list seven species of Hawaiian yellow-faced bees as endangered and to designate critical habitat under the ESA; the agency found that listing is warranted but precluded by higher priority actions.

FWS announced a 90-day finding on a petition to list the snowy plover as endangered or threatened and to reclassify the wintering population of piping plover as endangered under the ESA; the agency determined that action is not warranted for either species.