Listing the Sacramento splittail as threatened, comment reopening

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), announce the reopening of the comment period for the final rule on the Sacramento splittail (Pogonichthys macrolepidotus). Comments previously submitted need not be resubmitted as they will be incorporated into the public record as part of this reopened comment period, and will be fully considered in the final rule. We are reopening the comment period to solicit comments on the revised statistical analysis we have done to examine the available splittail abundance data, as described in our March 21, 2002 document, which also reopened the comment period to seek comments on this analysis. The statistical analyses published on January 12, 2001, May 8, 2001, and August 17, 2001 have been superseded by the March 21, 2002 analysis, on which we are now seeking additional comments. In addition, we invite any additional comments on the status of the species and the factors affecting the species, as described in our prior documents of January 12, 2001, May 8, 2001, August 17, 2001, and March 21, 2002. Lastly, we point out that our March 21, 2002, document stated a comment period extending to October 15, 2002; this was revised to May 20, 2002, in a correction document published April 1, 2002.