[MPWG] Reopening comment period on Part 23 - how CITES gets implemented in the U.S.

[Patricia_DeAngelis at fws.gov]

Following is a link to the FEDERAL REGISTER notice announcing that the US 
FWS has reopened the comment period for public input on the way that the 
Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and 
Flora (CITES) is implemented in the United States. 

For your information:  The U.S. currently has 28 native plant taxa listed 
on Appendix-I (including several pitcher plant species) and 626 taxa 
listed on Appendix-II (including ginseng and goldenseal).  For more 
information, see: <http://www.cites.org/eng/resources/species.html>, under 

Search by Country, scroll down to the United States and hit "Go."

Comments are requested by July 28, 2006.

-Patricia

----- Forwarded by Patricia De Angelis/ARL/R9/FWS/DOI on 06/28/2006 04:10 
PM -----


Dear Colleagues,

For your information, today we published a notice in the Federal Register 
reopening the public comment period on our proposed revision of the U.S. 
CITES regulations.  The notice reopens the public comment period through 
July 28, 2006.  You can access the notice and our proposed rule at the FWS 
International Affairs website at http://www.fws.gov/international/

Please share this information as appropriate.

Regards,

Anne St. John, Biologist
Division of Management Authority
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
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