Peer Review of Scientific Information - Ensuring the Quality and Credibility of Information
In order to improve the quality and credibility of the scientific information we use to make regulatory decisions, the Fish and Wildlife Service has implemented a formal "peer review" process for influential scientific documents. See Service's National Peer Review website. See Notice of Policy for Peer Review in Endangered Species Act Activities (59FR3270).
While we have always consulted experts to ensure that our decisions are based on sound science, through the peer review process we follow the guidelines for Federal agencies spelled out in the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Final Information Quality Bulletin for Peer Review, released December 16, 2004.
Part of the peer review process is to provide information on the Web about how each peer review is to be conducted, as described in this checklist.
Peer Review Agenda
We have identified the following documents as meeting the OMB criteria of peer review for influential scientific information. Click on a title to get more information about that documents and peer review process we have set up for it.
- 2011
- Proposed Rule Revising the Special Rule for the Utah Prairie Dog
- Proposed Rule to Designate Critical Habitat for Ipomopsis polyantha (Pagosa skyrocket), Penstemon debilis (Parachute beardtongue) and Phacelia submutica (DeBeque phacelia)
- Proposed Removal of the Gray Wolf in Wyoming from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife
- 2010
- Proposed Listing: Ipomopsis polyantha (Pagosa skyrocket) as Endangered Through Its Range, and Listing Penstemon debilis (Parachute beardtongue) and Phacelia submutica (DeBeque phacelia) as Threatened Through Their Range 11/08/2010
- Revised Critical Habitat for the Preble's meadow jumping mouse 11/09/2010
- 2007
- Revised Proposed Rule to Amend the Listing for the Preble's meadow jumping mouse the Specify Over What Portion of Its Range the Subspecies is Threatened 11/21/2007
- Designating the Northern Rocky Mountain Population of Gray Wolf as a Distinct Population Segment and Removing this Distinct Population Segment from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife 07/10/2007
- Proposed Revision of Special Regulation for the Central Idaho and Yellowstone Area Nonessential Experimental Populations of Gray Wolves in the Northern Rocky Mountains 07/10/2007
- Five Year Review of the Lesquerella congesta (Dudley Bluffs bladderpod) and the Physaria obcordata (Dudley Bluffs twinpod) 05/31/2007
- Designating the Northern Rocky Mountain Population of Gray Wolf as a Distinct Population Segment and Removing this Distinct Population Segment from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife 02/12/2007
- Five Year Review of the Kanab ambersnail 02/08/2007
- Five Year Review of the Woundfin and the Virgin River chub 02/08/2007
- Greenback cutthroat trout 5-Year Review: Summary and Evaluation 01/09/2007
- 2006
- Kendall Warm Springs dace 5-Year Review: Summary and Evaluation 12/12/2006
- Range-wide Status of the Colorado River cutthroat trout 11/02/2006
- Ute ladies'-tresses orchid 12-Month Status Review and 5-Year Review 09/22/2006
- Pallid sturgeon 5-Year Review: Summary and Evaluation 09/09/2006
- Black-footed ferret 5-Year Review: Summary and Evaluation 07/13/2006
- Proposed Rule: Proposed Establishment of a Nonessential Experimental Population Status and Reintroduction of blackk-footed ferrets in Eastern Wyoming 06/22/2006
- Determination Regarding the Listing Status of the Preble's meadow jumping mouse 06/01/2006
- Recovery Plan for Astragalus holmgreniorum (Holmgren milk-vetch) and Astragalus ampullariodes (Shivwits milk-vetch) 04/21/2006
- Proposed rule: Proposed Threatened Status for the Penstemon grahamii (Graham's beardtongue) with Critical Habitat 04/20/2006
- Proposed Designation of Critical Habitat for Astragalus ampullariodes (Holmgren milk-vetch) and Astragalus ampullariodes (Shivwits milk-vetch) 04/19/2006
- Gunnison sage-grouse Listing Determination 03/21/2006
- Proposed Rule: Designating the Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem Population of Grizzly Bears as a Distinct Population Segment; Removing this Distinct Population Segment from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife 03/07/2006
