Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Final Rule To Designate the Whooping Cranes of the Rocky Mountains as Experimental Nonessential and To Remove Whooping Crane Critical Habitat Designations From Four Locations; Correction

On July 21, 1997, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) published a final rule designating the Rocky Mountain population of whooping cranes (Grus americana) as experimental nonessential and removing whooping crane critical habitat designations from four National Wildlife Refuges; Bosque del Apache in New Mexico, Monte Vista and Alamosa in Colorado, and Grays Lake in Idaho. The rule inadvertently omitted language amending 50 CFR 17.95 to remove the designated critical habitat from the four National Wildlife Refuges. This proposed removal of critical habitat was included in the Service's proposed rule (61 FR 4394), which provided opportunity for public comment. Comments received on the proposed removal of designated critical habitat were summarized and discussed in the Service's final rule designating the Rocky Mountain population of whooping cranes as nonessential experimental. The Service herein amends 50 CFR 17.95 Typographical errors which occurred in the final rule in the entry under part 17.11(h) are also corrected here.