# Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Endangered Species Status for Ocmulgee Skullcap and Designation of Critical Habitat
> **US Fish and Wildlife Service** · Final rule. · Published 2024-10-30 · Effective 2024-11-29 · 89 FR 86670
## Document
- **Document number:** 2024-24897
- **Category:** endangered-species
- **Sub-agency:** US Fish and Wildlife Service
- **Federal Register citation:** 89 FR 86670
- **CFR reference:** 50 CFR 17
- **Publication date:** 2024-10-30
- **Effective date:** 2024-11-29
- **Interior docket:** Docket No. FWS-R4-ES-2021-0059
## Abstract

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), list the Ocmulgee skullcap (Scutellaria ocmulgee), a plant species from Georgia and South Carolina as an endangered species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (Act), as amended. We also designate critical habitat. In total, approximately 6,661 acres (2,696 hectares) in Bibb, Bleckley, Burke, Columbia, Houston, Monroe, Pulaski, Richmond, Screven, and Twiggs Counties, Georgia, and in Aiken and Edgefield Counties, South Carolina, fall within the boundaries of the critical habitat designation. This rule extends the protections of the Act to this species and its designated critical habitat.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/10/30/2024-24897/endangered-and-threatened-wildlife-and-plants-endangered-species-status-for-ocmulgee-skullcap-and)
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