# Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Lesser Prairie-Chicken Removed From the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife
> **US Fish and Wildlife Service** · Final rule. · Published 2016-07-20 · Effective 2016-07-20 · 81 FR 47047
## Document
- **Document number:** 2016-17149
- **Category:** endangered-species
- **Sub-agency:** US Fish and Wildlife Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 81 FR 47047
- **CFR reference:** 50 CFR 17
- **Publication date:** 2016-07-20
- **Effective date:** 2016-07-20
- **Interior docket:** Docket No. FWS-R2-ES-2016-0028
## Abstract

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, are issuing a final rule to comply with a court order that vacated the final rule listing the lesser prairie-chicken (Tympanuchus pallidicinctus) as a threatened species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). This final rule amends our regulations by removing the lesser prairie- chicken from the Federal List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and by removing the rule issued under section 4(d) of the Act for the lesser prairie-chicken.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2016/07/20/2016-17149/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-lesser-prairie-chicken-removed-from-the-list-of)
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