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OSM approved an amendment to North Dakota's regulatory program under SMCRA reducing the revegetation responsibility period to five years for lands eligible for remining.
OSM approved an amendment to North Dakota's regulatory program under SMCRA reducing the revegetation responsibility period to five years for lands eligible for remining.
OSM approved an amendment to Montana's regulatory program under SMCRA regarding normal husbandry practices.
EPA and the U.S. Coast Guard announced alternative arrangements under NEPA for the joint emergency temporary interim rule on the relocation of response resources for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill that will expire on December 31, 2010.
FWS announced a 12-month finding on a petition to list Hamilton milkvetch, Flowers penstemon, Frisco buckwheat, Ostler's peppergrass, and Frisco clover as threatened or endangered under the ESA; the agency found that listing Hamilton milkvetch and Flowers penstemon is not warranted and that listing Frisco buckwheat, Ostler's peppergrass, and Frisco clover is warranted but precluded by higher priority actions.
FWS determined threatened status for the New Zealand/Australia distinct population segment of the southern rockhopper penguin under the ESA.
FWS designated approximately 98,366 acres in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, and Ventura counties in California as critical habitat for the arroyo toad under the ESA.
FWS designated approximately 2,947 acres in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, and San Diego counties in California as critical habitat for thread-leaved brodiaea under the ESA.
FWS will reintroduce whooping cranes as a nonessential experimental population into historic habitat in southwestern Louisiana to establish a nonmigratory flock.
OSM approved an amendment to Alabama's regulatory program under SMCRA concerning licensing.
United States v. Mahard Egg Farm, Inc., No. 3:11-cv-01031-N (N.D. Tex. May 18, 2011). Settling CWA defendants responsible for violations of a concentrated animal feeding operation general permit and related laws and regulations at seven of its facilities in Texas must pay a civil penalty, must take steps to bring each of its facilities into compliance, and must restore the lands to prevent future discharges to area waterways.