WSR 98-11-030
PREPROPOSAL STATEMENT OF INQUIRY
DEPARTMENT OF
FISH AND WILDLIFE
[Filed May 14, 1998, 1:12 p.m.]
Subject of Possible Rule Making: Classification review to consider listing as endangered, threatened, or sensitive: Margined sculpin, pygmy whitefish, fisher, Olympic mudminnow, common murre, common loon, chinquapin hairstreak butterfly, northern leopard frog, western pocket gopher, mardon skipper butterfly, Puget blue butterfly, valley silverspot butterfly and whulge checkerspot butterfly.
Statutes Authorizing the Agency to Adopt Rules on this Subject: RCW 77.12.020.
Reasons Why Rules on this Subject may be Needed and What They Might Accomplish: Listing and delisting of species affords protection or reduces unnecessary management duties. The department is seeking biological information for status reports which will assist in this process. Information is sought regarding life history, habitat requirements and status, population distribution, status and trends, population demographics and management activities.
Other Federal and State Agencies that Regulate this Subject and the Process Coordinating the Rule with These Agencies: USFWS and NMFS are involved with federal listing and protection. They will be consulted with at rule promulgation.
Process for Developing New Rule: Agency study.
Interested parties can participate in the decision to adopt the new rule and formulation of the proposed rule before publication by contacting Mike Kuttel, Assistant Director, Wildlife Management, 600 Capitol Way North, Olympia, WA 98501-1091, (360) 902-2504. Please provide biological information in writing, and, for the margined sculpin, pygmy whitefish and fisher by August 31, 1998, and for all other species by December 31, 1998.
May 13, 1998
Evan Jacoby
Rules Coordinator