# Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Species Status for Rusty Patched Bumble Bee
> **US Fish and Wildlife Service** · Final rule. · Published 2017-01-11 · Effective 2017-02-10 · 82 FR 3186
## Document
- **Document number:** 2017-00195
- **Category:** endangered-species
- **Sub-agency:** US Fish and Wildlife Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 82 FR 3186
- **CFR reference:** 50 CFR 17
- **Publication date:** 2017-01-11
- **Effective date:** 2017-02-10
- **Interior docket:** Docket No. FWS-R3-ES-2015-0112
## Abstract

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), determine endangered species status under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (Act), as amended, for the rusty patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis), a species that occurs in the eastern and Midwestern United States and Ontario, Canada. The effect of this regulation will be to add this species to the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/01/11/2017-00195/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-endangered-species-status-for-rusty-patched-bumble-bee)
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