Commerce Department Final Rule

2025-15609: Endangered and Threatened Species; Designation of Critical Habitat for Five Species of Threatened Indo-Pacific Corals; Correction

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Summary

NMFS is correcting a final rule that appeared in the Federal Register of July 15, 2025. The document designated critical habitat for five species of Indo-Pacific corals that are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). As part of the final rule, NMFS added a section describing the critical habitat areas being designated and amended a table to cross-reference the newly added section for each of the five species. In amending the table, NMFS inadvertently used the incorrect section number as the cross-reference. This document corrects those errors.

The agency’s own summary, as published.

The rule, in full

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Federal Register, Volume 90 Issue 156 (Friday, August 15, 2025) [Federal Register Volume 90, Number 156 (Friday, August 15, 2025)] [Rules and Regulations] [Page 39339] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2025-15609] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 50 CFR Part 223 [Docket No. 250709-0123] RIN 0648-BJ52 Endangered and Threatened Species; Designation of Critical Habitat for Five Species of Threatened Indo-Pacific Corals; Correction

Agency

National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

Action

Final rule; correction. -----------------------------------------------------------------------

Summary

NMFS is correcting a final rule that appeared in the Federal Register of July 15, 2025. The document designated critical habitat for five species of Indo-Pacific corals that are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA). As part of the final rule, NMFS added a section describing the critical habitat areas being designated and amended a table to cross-reference the newly added section for each of the five species. In amending the table, NMFS inadvertently used the incorrect section number as the cross-reference. This document corrects those errors.

Dates

The rule is effective August 14, 2025.

For Further Information Contact

Lance Smith, NMFS, Pacific Islands Regional Office, 808-725-5131, [email protected]; John Rippe, NMFS, Office of Protected Resources, 301-427-8467, [email protected].

Supplementary Information

In FR Doc. 2025-13238 appearing on page 31800 in the Federal Register of Tuesday, July 15, 2025, the following corrections are made: Sec. 223.102 [Corrected] 0

1. On page 31823, in Sec. 223.102(e), in the table, in the fifth

column under the heading ``Critical habitat,'' in each of the entries for ``Acropora globiceps,'' ``Acropora retusa,'' ``Acropora speciosa,'' ``Fimbriaphyllia paradivisa,'' and ``Isopora crateriformis,'' the cross-reference to ``226.230'' is corrected to read ``226.232.'' Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq. Dated: August 11, 2025. Samuel D. Rauch III, Deputy Assistant Administrator for Regulatory Programs, National Marine Fisheries Service. [FR Doc. 2025-15609 Filed 8-14-25; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-22-P

What this changes

Amends 1 part of the Code of Federal Regulations — the standing rules this notice rewrites.

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