Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Draft Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-Owl Recovery Plan

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) announce the reopening of the comment period for the Draft Recovery Plan for the Cactus Ferruginous Pygmy-owl (Glaucidium brasilianum cactorum) (Draft Plan). The species is currently known to occur on Federal, state, tribal, and private lands in Pima and Pinal Counties in southern Arizona. We solicit review and comment from the public on this Draft Plan. Since the prior comment period, additional information from the administrative record concerning the locations of pygmy-owls has become available to the public, in part as a result of a court ruling in National Association of Home Builders v. Norton, 309 F.3d 26 (D.C. Cir. 2002). Thus, we are reopening the comment period on the Draft Plan to allow all interested parties additional time to provide comments. Comments previously submitted need not be resubmitted, because they will be incorporated into the public record as part of this reopening of the comment period, and will be fully considered in the Final Plan.