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<chapter num="08" heading="Threatened and Endangered Species" title_num="08" subtitle_num="03">
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".01" heading="Definitions.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>In this chapter, the following terms have the meanings indicated.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>Terms Defined.</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>“Administration” means the Wildlife and Heritage Service.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>“Director” means the Director of the Wildlife and Heritage Service.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>“Endangered extirpated species” means any species that was once a viable component of the flora or fauna of the State but for which no naturally occurring populations are known to exist in the State. Most of these species have not been recorded in Maryland since 1950.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(4)">
        <text>“Endangered species” means any species whose continued existence as a viable component of the State's flora or fauna is determined to be in jeopardy including any species determined to be an “endangered species” pursuant to the federal Endangered Species Act of 1973, 16 U.S.C. §§1531—1543.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(5)">
        <text>“Harass” means an intentional or negligent act or omission which creates the likelihood of injury to wildlife by annoying wildlife to an extent that significantly disrupts normal behavioral patterns which include, but are not limited to, breeding, feeding, or sheltering.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(6)">
        <text>Harm.</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>“Harm” means an act which kills or injures wildlife.</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Harm includes an act that significantly modifies or degrades a habitat thereby killing or injuring wildlife by significantly impairing essential behavioral patterns, including breeding, feeding, or sheltering.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(7)">
        <text>“Incidental taking” means takings of listed species that are incidental to, and not the purpose of, the carrying out of an otherwise lawful activity conducted by a person on private property.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(8)">
        <text>“Jeopardize the continued existence of” means to engage in an action which reasonably would be expected, directly or indirectly, to reduce appreciably the likelihood of either the survival or recovery of a listed species in the wild by reducing the reproduction, numbers, or distribution of a listed species or otherwise adversely affecting the species.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(9)">
        <text>“Listed species” means a species of flora or fauna deemed endangered, threatened or in need of conservation in this chapter due to any of the following factors:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Present or threatened destruction, modification, or curtailment of the species' habitat or range;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Overutilization for commercial, sporting, scientific, educational, or other purposes;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Disease or predation;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(d)">
          <text>Inadequacy of existing regulatory mechanisms; or</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(e)">
          <text>Other natural or manmade factors affecting the species' continued existence within the State.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(10)">
        <text>“Natural heritage area” means any natural community of species designated in Regulation .10 in this chapter.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(11)">
        <text>“Person” means any county, municipal corporation, or other political subdivision of the State, an individual, corporation, receiver, trustee, guardian, executor, administrator, fiduciary, or representative.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(12)">
        <text>“Site” is property or properties, owned singularly or in combination, that support threatened or endangered species.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(13)">
        <text>“Species” means any species of wildlife or plant and reptiles, amphibians, crustaceans, mollusks, and the following finfish: Acipenser brevirostrum, Acipenser oxyrinchus, Alburnops chalybaeus, Catostomus catostomus, Centrarchus macropterus, Enneacanthus chaetodon, Etheostoma sellare, Etheostoma vitreum, Lethenteron appendix, Luxilus chrysocephalus, Margariscus margarita, Notropis bifrenatus, Noturus flavus, Pararhinichthys bowersi, Percina bimaculata, Percina notogramma, Percopsis omiscomaycus, or any part, egg, offspring, or dead body of any of them.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(14)">
        <text>“Species in need of conservation” means any species determined by the Secretary to be in need of conservation measures for its continued ability to sustain itself successfully.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(15)">
        <text>“Take” means to harass, harm, pursue, hunt, shoot, wound, kill, trap, capture, or collect, or attempt to engage in any such conduct.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(16)">
        <text>“Threatened species” means any species of flora or fauna which appears likely, within the foreseeable future, to become endangered including any species determined to be a “threatened species” pursuant to the federal Endangered Species Act of 1973, 16 U.S.C. §§1531—1543.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".02" heading="Petitioning.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>Except for species determined to be threatened or endangered pursuant to the federal Endangered Species Act of 1973, 16 U.S.C. §§1531—1543, any interested person may petition the Director to add or remove a species or natural heritage area to or from a list in this chapter. The Director shall review the evidence regarding the requested action and make a recommendation to the Secretary whether or not to list or delist the species or natural heritage area.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>In a petition to list or delist a natural heritage area, the following information shall be provided:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>A map of the proposed natural heritage area;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>A description of the physical boundaries of the proposed area, total acreage, landowner name and address;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>A description of the biological community represented by the natural heritage area including, as far as practical, a list of the fauna and flora there, and other geologic, hydrologic, or other features which blend together to make this area unique;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(4)">
        <text>A description of all major threats to the continued existence of the area, or if petitioning to delist an area, a description of how the natural features and species composition of the area have changed so it is no longer suitable to be designated as a natural heritage area;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(5)">
        <text>A statement indicating why the area should or should not be considered as among the best statewide examples of its kind;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(6)">
        <text>Other relevant information which might assist the Director in making a determination.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>All sites used for evidence of current abundance shall be extant and all sitings shall be documented with appropriate vouchers. In a petition to list or delist a species, the following information shall be provided:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>A description of the biological distribution of the species in Maryland.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Its life needs and habitat requirements.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Evidence of its decline or evidence that it is more common than previously believed and documented.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(4)">
        <text>All known threats which jeopardize its continued existence.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(5)">
        <text>Other relevant biological and ecological data or other life history information pertinent to its status.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(6)">
        <text>The species shall be presently recognized as a valid species, or infraspecific taxa of regional or national significance. There shall be adequate documentation that it occurs naturally and is permanently established in Maryland.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".03" heading="Permits.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>Permits to take, transport, possess, sell, offer for sale, export or import any listed species may be obtained from the Director only after written application on a form provided by the Administration, and upon payment of a fee of $10.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>Each permit shall be subject to an expiration date and other limitations as may be prescribed by the Director.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>Each permit application requesting permission to take a listed species from private property shall be accompanied by a signed statement from the landowner granting the applicant permission to enter the property to take the species.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="D.">
      <text>A permit application shall describe the purpose of the request in such detail that the Director can determine whether it is in the best interest of the species and the State to issue it.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="E.">
      <text>The Director shall consider, but not be limited to, the following information:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>The number of other known occurrences of the species in the State;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Which of the occurrences of the species in §E(1) exist on:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Private lands,</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Public lands, and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>What protection there is for the species' continued existence;</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>The number of individuals in the occurrences of the species in §E(1) and the relative state of ecological stability.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="F.">
      <text>Violation of any provision or restriction of the permit shall constitute a violation of this regulation and may result, at the discretion of the Director, in the revocation of the permit and confiscation of the species taken or possessed.</text>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".04" heading="Endangered Species of Wildlife, Reptiles, Amphibians, Mollusks, Crustaceans, and Finfish.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>Listing Criteria. The following factors shall be considered for listing any species other than plants as endangered:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Whether the species is restricted to a minimal geographic area within Maryland;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Whether the species has experienced a rapid, substantial decline in Maryland, and if the decline continues, the species' extirpation from Maryland is imminent;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Whether the species' essential habitat has been rapidly lost and that loss is likely to continue;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(4)">
        <text>Whether the species' biology makes it highly susceptible to changes in its environment; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(5)">
        <text>Whether the species' essential habitat is easily altered by even relatively minor activities.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>Permits. The permit procedures to be followed are set forth in Regulation .03. The following apply:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Permits shall be issued only for:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Scientific research designed to enhance the recovery of the species or population, or</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Appropriate educational purposes designed to further public awareness regarding the species;</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>A person may not take, export, possess, process, sell or offer for sale, deliver, carry, transport, or ship by any means any endangered wildlife, reptile, amphibian, mollusk, crustacean, or finfish species except by special permit from the Director.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>Except for the smaller range which is indicated in §C(7)(d) and (8)(a) of this regulation, the following wildlife, reptile, amphibian, mollusk, crustacean, and finfish species are considered endangered throughout Maryland:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Platyhelminthes:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>A planarian (Procotyla typhlops); and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Hoffmaster’s cave planarian (Sphalloplana hoffmasteri);</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Mollusks:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Dwarf wedgemussel (Alasmidonta heterodon);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Brook floater (Alasmidonta varicosa);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Blue Ridge spring snail (Fontigens orolibas); and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(d)">
          <text>Green floater (Lasmigona subviridis);</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Crustaceans:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Allegheny spring isopod (Caecidotea alleghenyensis);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Franz's cave isopod (Caecidotea franzi);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Pennsylvania cave crangonyctid (Crangonyx dearolfi);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(d)">
          <text>Holsinger’s cave isopod (Pseudobaicalasellus holsingeri);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(e)">
          <text>Maus’ cave isopod (Pseudobaicalasellus mausi);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(f)">
          <text>Vandel’s cave isopod (Pseudobaicalasellus vandeli);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(g)">
          <text>Friendly cave amphipod (Stygobromus amicus);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(h)">
          <text>Biggers' cave amphipod (Stygobromus biggersi);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Cecil groundwater amphipod (Stygobromus cecilius);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(j)">
          <text>Greenbrier cave amphipod (Stygobromus emarginatus);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(k)">
          <text>Feller’s groundwater amphipod (Stygobromus felleri);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(l)">
          <text>Rappahannock spring amphipod (Stygobromus foliatus);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(m)">
          <text>Shenandoah Valley cave amphipod (Stygobromus gracilipes);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(n)">
          <text>Rock Creek groundwater amphipod (Stygobromus kenki);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(o)">
          <text>Prettyboy groundwater amphipod (Stygobromus paxillus); and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(p)">
          <text>Capital Area groundwater amphipod (Stygobromus sextarius);</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(4)">
        <text>Insects:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Rusty-patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Frosted elfin (Callophrys irus);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Hoary elfin (Callophrys polios);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(d)">
          <text>Eastern pinebarrens tiger beetle (Cicindela abdominalis);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(e)">
          <text>Appalachian tiger beetle (Cicindela ancocisconensis);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(f)">
          <text>Northern barrens tiger beetle (Cicindela patruela);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(g)">
          <text>Six-banded longhorn beetle (Dryobius sexnotatus);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(h)">
          <text>Ghost tiger beetle (Ellipsoptera lepida);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Puritan tiger beetle (Ellipsoptera puritana);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(j)">
          <text>Early hairstreak (Erora laeta);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(k)">
          <text>Mottled duskywing (Erynnis martialis);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(l)">
          <text>Two-spotted skipper (Euphyes bimacula);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(m)">
          <text>Northeastern beach tiger beetle (Habroscelimorpha dorsalis);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(n)">
          <text>A tenebrionid beetle (Helops cisteloides);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(o)">
          <text>Seth Forest water scavenger beetle (Hydrochus spangleri);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(p)">
          <text>White corporal (Ladona exusta);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(q)">
          <text>Eastern sedge barrens leafhopper (Limotettix minuendus);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(r)">
          <text>Bog copper (Lycaena epixanthe);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(s)">
          <text>Elfin skimmer (Nannothemis bella);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(t)">
          <text>Appalachian snaketail (Ophiogomphus incurvatus incurvatus);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(u)">
          <text>Chermock's mulberry wing (Poanes massasoit chermocki);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(v)">
          <text>Palamedes swallowtail (Pterourus palamedes);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(w)">
          <text>Southern grizzled skipper (Pyrgus wyandot);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(x)">
          <text>Spatterdock darner (Rhionaeschna mutata);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(y)">
          <text>Hickory hairstreak (Satyrium caryaevorus);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(z)">
          <text>Edwards' hairstreak (Satyrium edwardsii);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(aa)">
          <text>Northern oak hairstreak (Satyrium favonius ontario);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(bb)">
          <text>King's hairstreak (Satyrium kingi);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(cc)">
          <text>A tenebrionid beetle (Schoenicus puberulus); and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(dd)">
          <text>Treetop emerald (Somatochlora provocans);</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(5)">
        <text>Finfish:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Ironcolor shiner (Alburnops chalybaeus);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(d)">
          <text>Blackbanded sunfish (Enneacanthus chaetodon);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(e)">
          <text>Maryland darter (Etheostoma sellare);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(f)">
          <text>Stonecat (Noturus flavus); and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(g)">
          <text>Stripeback darter (Percina notogramma);</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(6)">
        <text>Amphibians:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Eastern tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Green salamander (Aneides aeneus);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Eastern hellbender (Cryptobranchus alleganiensis);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(d)">
          <text>Barking tree frog (Dryophytes gratiosa);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(e)">
          <text>Eastern narrow-mouthed toad (Gastrophryne carolinensis; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(f)">
          <text>Mountain chorus frog (Pseudacris brachyphona);</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(7)">
        <text>Reptiles:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Leatherback sea turtle (Dermochelys coriacea);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Atlantic hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Rainbow snake (Farancia erytrogramma);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(d)">
          <text>Northern map turtle (Graptemys geographica) — Susquehanna River watershed only;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(e)">
          <text>Kemp’s ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys kempii);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(f)">
          <text>Northern coal skink (Plestiodon anthracinus); and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(g)">
          <text>Mountain earthsnake (Virginia valeriae pulchra);</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(8)">
        <text>Birds:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>American goshawk (Accipiter atricapillus)—Garrett and Allegany Counties only;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Wilson’s plover (Anarhynchus wilsonia);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Short-eared owl (Asio flammeus);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(d)">
          <text>Upland sandpiper (Bartramia longicauda);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(e)">
          <text>Piping plover (Charadrius melodus);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(f)">
          <text>Sedge wren (Cistothorus stellaris);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(g)">
          <text>Gull-billed tern (Gelochelidon nilotica);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(h)">
          <text>Mourning warbler (Geothlypis philadelphia);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Loggerhead shrike (Lanius ludovicianus);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(j)">
          <text>Black rail (Laterallus jamaicensis);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(k)">
          <text>Swainson's warbler (Limnothlypis swainsonii);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(l)">
          <text>Black skimmer (Rynchops niger);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(m)">
          <text>Common tern (Sterna hirundo); and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(n)">
          <text>Royal tern (Thalasseus maximus);</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(9)">
        <text>Mammals:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Sei whale (Balaenoptera borealis);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(d)">
          <text>North Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena glacialis);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(e)">
          <text>Humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(f)">
          <text>Southern rock vole (Microtus chrotorrhinus carolinensis);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(g)">
          <text>Eastern small-footed myotis (Myotis leibii);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(h)">
          <text>Northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Indiana myotis (Myotis sodalis);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(j)">
          <text>Allegheny wood rat (Neotoma magister);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(k)">
          <text>Sperm whale (Physeter catodon); and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(l)">
          <text>Southern water shrew (Sorex palustris punctulatus).</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".05" heading="Endangered Species of Plants.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>Listing Criteria. The following factors shall be considered for listing a plant species as endangered:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Whether only a few populations are known in Maryland and they cover only a small portion of land;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Whether the species is restricted to a minimal geographic area;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Whether the species has experienced a substantial decline in Maryland, and if the decline continues, the species’ extirpation from Maryland is imminent;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(4)">
        <text>Whether the species’ essential habitat has been rapidly lost and that loss is likely to continue;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(5)">
        <text>Whether the species’ biology makes it highly susceptible to changes in its environment; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(6)">
        <text>Whether the species’ essential habitat is easily altered by even relatively minor activities.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>Permits. The permit procedures to be followed are set forth in Regulation .03 of this chapter. The following apply:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Permits shall be issued only for scientific research designed to enhance the recovery of the species or population;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>A person may not:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Export, possess, process, sell, offer for sale, deliver, carry, transport, or ship by any means any endangered plant species without a special permit from the Director, the federal government, or another state government;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Take any endangered plant species from State property except by special permit from the Director; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Take any endangered plant species from private property without the written permission of the landowner.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>The following plant species are considered endangered throughout Maryland unless a smaller range is indicated:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Blue monkshood (Aconitum uncinatum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Sensitive joint vetch (Aeschynomene virginica);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Earleaf false foxglove (Agalinis auriculata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(4)">
        <text>Sandplain gerardia (Agalinis decemloba);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(5)">
        <text>Thread-leaved gerardia (Agalinis setacea);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(6)">
        <text>Pale false foxglove (Agalinis skinneriana);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(7)">
        <text>Woodland agrimony (Agrimonia striata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(8)">
        <text>Seabeach amaranth (Amaranthus pumilus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(9)">
        <text>Roundleaf shadbush (Amelanchier sanguinea);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(10)">
        <text>Filmy angelica (Angelica triquinata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(11)">
        <text>Vanilla grass (Anthoxanthum hirtum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(12)">
        <text>Missouri rock cress (Arabis missouriensis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(13)">
        <text>Bristly sarsaparilla (Aralia hispida);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(14)">
        <text>Bearberry (Arctostaphylos uva-ursi);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(15)">
        <text>Woolly three-awn (Aristida lanosa);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(16)">
        <text>Lake-cress (Armoracia lacustris);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(17)">
        <text>Leopard’s-bane (Arnica acaulis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(18)">
        <text>Red milkweed (Asclepias rubra);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(19)">
        <text>Lobed spleenwort (Asplenium pinnatifidum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(20)">
        <text>Canadian milkvetch (Astragalus canadensis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(21)">
        <text>Aster-like boltonia (Boltonia asteroides var. glastifolia);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(22)">
        <text>Broad-glumed brome (Bromus latiglumis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(23)">
        <text>Wild calla (Calla palustris);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(24)">
        <text>Tuberous grass-pink (Calopogon tuberosus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(25)">
        <text>Long’s bitter cress (Cardamine longii);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(26)">
        <text>Summer sedge (Carex aestivalis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(27)">
        <text>Carey’s sedge (Carex careyana);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(28)">
        <text>Field sedge (Carex conoidea);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(29)">
        <text>Davis’ sedge (Carex davisii);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(30)">
        <text>Cypress-knee sedge (Carex decomposita);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(31)">
        <text>Lesser panicled sedge (Carex diandra);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(32)">
        <text>Ebony sedge (Carex eburnea);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(33)">
        <text>Coast sedge (Carex exilis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(34)">
        <text>Fraser’s sedge (Carex fraserianus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(35)">
        <text>Southern waxy sedge (Carex glaucescens);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(36)">
        <text>Cloud sedge (Carex haydenii);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(37)">
        <text>Hitchcock’s sedge (Carex hitchcockiana);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(38)">
        <text>Porcupine sedge (Carex hystericina);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(39)">
        <text>Slender sedge (Carex lasiocarpa);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(40)">
        <text>Mead’s sedge (Carex meadii);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(41)">
        <text>Longstalk sedge (Carex pedunculata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(42)">
        <text>Richardson’s sedge (Carex richardsonii);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(43)">
        <text>Sea-beach sedge (Carex silicea);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(44)">
        <text>Slender sedge (Carex tetanica);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(45)">
        <text>Tuckerman’s sedge (Carex tuckermanii);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(46)">
        <text>Big shellbark hickory (Carya laciniosa);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(47)">
        <text>Scarlet Indian-paintbrush (Castilleja coccinea);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(48)">
        <text>Sleepingplant (Chamaecrista fasciculata var. macrosperma);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(49)">
        <text>Dwarf dogwood (Chamaepericlymenum canadense);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(50)">
        <text>Bulb-bearing water-hemlock (Cicuta bulbifera);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(51)">
        <text>Spreading pogonia (Cleistesiopsis divaricata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(52)">
        <text>Purple clematis (Clematis occidentalis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(53)">
        <text>Long-bract green orchis (Coeloglossum viride);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(54)">
        <text>Goldthread (Coptis trifolia);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(55)">
        <text>Early coralroot (Corallorhiza trifida);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(56)">
        <text>Spring coralroot (Corallorhiza wisteriana);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(57)">
        <text>Rose coreopsis (Coreopsis rosea);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(58)">
        <text>Tall tickseed (Coreopsis tripteris);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(59)">
        <text>Water pygmyweed (Crassula aquatica);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(60)">
        <text>Plains frostweed (Crocanthemum bicknellii);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(61)">
        <text>Smartweed dodder (Cuscuta polygonorum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(62)">
        <text>Beaked dodder (Cuscuta rostrata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(63)">
        <text>Plukenet’s flatsedge (Cyperus plukenetii);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(64)">
        <text>Small white lady’s-slipper (Cypripedium candidum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(65)">
        <text>Tall larkspur (Delphinium exaltatum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(66)">
        <text>Tufted hair grass (Deschampsia caespitosa);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(67)">
        <text>Stiff tick-trefoil (Desmodium obtusum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(68)">
        <text>Cream tick-trefoil (Desmodium ochroleucum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(69)">
        <text>Pineland tick-trefoil (Desmodium strictum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(70)">
        <text>Wright’s witchgrass (Dicanthelium wrightianum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(71)">
        <text>Pink sundew (Drosera capillaris);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(72)">
        <text>Mountain woodfern (Dryopteris campyloptera);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(73)">
        <text>Clinton’s woodfern (Dryopteris clintoniana);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(74)">
        <text>Upright burhead (Echinodorus cordifolius);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(75)">
        <text>Flat-stem spikerush (Eleocharis compressa var. compressa);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(76)">
        <text>Horsetail spikerush (Eleocharis equisetoides);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(77)">
        <text>Saltmarsh spikerush (Eleocharis halophila);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(78)">
        <text>Matted spikerush (Eleocharis intermedia);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(79)">
        <text>Black-fruit spikerush (Eleocharis melanocarpa);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(80)">
        <text>Robbins’ spikerush (Eleocharis robbinsii);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(81)">
        <text>Three-angle spikerush (Eleocharis tricostata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(82)">
        <text>Downy willowherb (Epilobium strictum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(83)">
        <text>Water horsetail (Equisetum fluviatile);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(84)">
        <text>Woodland horsetail (Equisetum sylvaticum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(85)">
        <text>Seven-angle pipewort (Eriocaulon aquaticum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(86)">
        <text>Slender cotton-grass (Eriophorum gracile);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(87)">
        <text>Glade spurge (Euphorbia purpurea);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(88)">
        <text>Bluntleaf spurge (Euphorbia spathulata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(89)">
        <text>Rough wood-aster (Eurybia radula);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(90)">
        <text>Showy aster (Eurybia spectabilis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(91)">
        <text>Queen of the prairie (Filipendula rubra);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(92)">
        <text>Harper’s fimbristylis (Fimbristylis perpusilla);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(93)">
        <text>Northern bedstraw (Galium boreale);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(94)">
        <text>Coast bedstraw (Galium hispidulum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(95)">
        <text>Creeping snowberry (Gaultheria hispidula);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(96)">
        <text>Box huckleberry (Gaylussacia brachycera);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(97)">
        <text>Dwarf huckleberry (Gaylussacia dumosa);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(98)">
        <text>Striped gentian (Gentiana villosa);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(99)">
        <text>Stiff gentian (Gentianella quinquefolia);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(100)">
        <text>Fringed gentian (Gentianopsis crinita);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(101)">
        <text>Appalachian sandwort (Geocarpon glabrum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(102)">
        <text>Yellow avens (Geum aleppicum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(103)">
        <text>Sharp-scaled manna grass (Glyceria acutiflora);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(104)">
        <text>American manna grass (Glyceria grandis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(105)">
        <text>Short’s hedge hyssop (Gratiola viscidula);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(106)">
        <text>Northern oak fern (Gymnocarpium dryopteris);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(107)">
        <text>Broad-leaved beard grass (Gymnopogon brevifolius);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(108)">
        <text>Smooth sunflower (Helianthus laevigatus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(109)">
        <text>Swamp-pink (Helonias bullata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(110)">
        <text>Crested coralroot (Hexalectris spicata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(111)">
        <text>Virginia heartleaf (Hexastylis virginica);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(112)">
        <text>Seabeach sandwort (Honckenya peploides);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(113)">
        <text>Golden-heather (Hudsonia ericoides);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(114)">
        <text>Few-flower tick-trefoil (Hylodesmum pauciflorum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(115)">
        <text>Creeping St. John’s-wort (Hypericum adpressum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(116)">
        <text>Eastern bloodleaf (Iresine rhizomatosa);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(117)">
        <text>Crested dwarf iris (Iris cristata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(118)">
        <text>Slender blue flag (Iris prismatica);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(119)">
        <text>Dwarf iris (Iris verna);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(120)">
        <text>New Jersey rush (Juncus caesariensis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(121)">
        <text>Long’s rush (Juncus longii);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(122)">
        <text>Brown-fruit rush (Juncus pelocarpus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(123)">
        <text>Carolina redroot (Lachnanthes caroliana);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(124)">
        <text>Larch (Larix laricina);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(125)">
        <text>Vetchling peavine (Lathyrus palustris);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(126)">
        <text>Club-head cutgrass (Leersia hexandra);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(127)">
        <text>Catchfly-grass (Leersia lenticularis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(128)">
        <text>Star duckweed (Lemna trisulca);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(129)">
        <text>Scaly gayfeather (Liatris squarrosa);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(130)">
        <text>American frog’s-bit (Limnobium spongia);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(131)">
        <text>Mudwort (Limosella australis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(132)">
        <text>Grooved yellow flax (Linum sulcatum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(133)">
        <text>Dwarf bulrush (Lipocarpha micrantha);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(134)">
        <text>Kidneyleaf twayblade (Listera smallii);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(135)">
        <text>American gromwell (Lithospermum latifolium);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(136)">
        <text>Soft-hairy false gromwell (Lithospermum molle);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(137)">
        <text>Virginia false gromwell (Lithospermum virginianum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(138)">
        <text>Pond spice (Litsea aestivalis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(139)">
        <text>Canby’s lobelia (Lobelia canbyi);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(140)">
        <text>American fly-honeysuckle (Lonicera canadensis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(141)">
        <text>Hairy ludwigia (Ludwigia hirtella);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(142)">
        <text>Sessile-leaved bugleweed (Lycopus amplectens);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(143)">
        <text>Water loosestrife (Lysimachia thyrsiflora);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(144)">
        <text>Winged-loosestrife (Lythrum alatum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(145)">
        <text>Starflower Solomon’s-plume (Maianthemum stellatum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(146)">
        <text>Climbing milkweed (Matelea obliqua);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(147)">
        <text>Purple mecardonia (Mecardonia acuminata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(148)">
        <text>Bog buckbean (Menyanthes trifoliata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(149)">
        <text>Wrinkled joint grass (Mnesithea rugosa);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(150)">
        <text>Grove sandwort (Moehringia lateriflora);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(151)">
        <text>Sweet pinesap (Monotropsis odorata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(152)">
        <text>Long-awn hairgrass (Muhlenbergia capillaris);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(153)">
        <text>Torrey’s dropseed (Muhlenbergia torreyana);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(154)">
        <text>Slender rattlesnake root (Nabalus autumnalis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(155)">
        <text>Glade mallow (Napaea dioica);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(156)">
        <text>Big floatingheart (Nymphoides aquatica);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(157)">
        <text>Little floatingheart (Nymphoides cordata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(158)">
        <text>Highland rush (Oreojuncus trifidus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(159)">
        <text>Sourwood (Oxydendrum arboreum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(160)">
        <text>Wiry witch grass (Panicum flexile);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(161)">
        <text>Kidneyleaf grass-of-Parnassus (Parnassia asarifolia);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(162)">
        <text>Yellow nailwort (Paronychia virginica);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(163)">
        <text>American feverfew (Parthenium integrifolium);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(164)">
        <text>Canby’s mountain-lover (Paxistima canbyi);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(165)">
        <text>Swamp lousewort (Pedicularis lanceolata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(166)">
        <text>Smooth cliffbrake (Pellaea glabella);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(167)">
        <text>Red bay (Persea palustris);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(168)">
        <text>Smooth phlox (Phlox glaberrima);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(169)">
        <text>Downy phlox (Phlox pilosa);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(170)">
        <text>Drooping bluegrass (Poa saltuensis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(171)">
        <text>Common clammyweed (Polanisia dodecandra);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(172)">
        <text>Seabeach knotweed (Polygonum glaucum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(173)">
        <text>Flatstem pondweed (Potamogeton zosteriformis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(174)">
        <text>Beach plum (Prunus maritima);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(175)">
        <text>Carolina clubmoss (Pseudolycopodiella caroliniana);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(176)">
        <text>Harperella (Ptilimnium nodosum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(177)">
        <text>Torrey’s mountainmint (Pycnanthemum torreyi);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(178)">
        <text>Early buttercup (Ranunculus fascicularis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(179)">
        <text>Yellow water crowfoot (Ranunculus flabellaris);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(180)">
        <text>Long-stalked crowfoot (Ranunculus hederaceus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(181)">
        <text>Mississippi buttercup (Ranunculus laxicaulis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(182)">
        <text>Northeastern white water crowfoot (Ranunculus trichophyllus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(183)">
        <text>Capitate beakrush (Rhynchospora cephalantha);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(184)">
        <text>Globe beaksedge (Rhynchospora globularis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(185)">
        <text>Drowned hornedrush (Rhynchospora inundata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(186)">
        <text>Mid-Atlantic beaksedge (Rhynchospora mesoatlantica);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(187)">
        <text>Short-beaked baldrush (Rhynchospora nitens);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(188)">
        <text>Virginia mallow (Ripariosida hermaphrodita);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(189)">
        <text>Smooth rose (Rosa blanda);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(190)">
        <text>Hairy wild petunia (Ruellia humilis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(191)">
        <text>Pursh’s wild petunia (Ruellia purshiana);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(192)">
        <text>Tall dock (Rumex altissimus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(193)">
        <text>Slender marsh pink (Sabatia campanulata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(194)">
        <text>Two-formed pink (Sabatia difformis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(195)">
        <text>Pinebarren sandwort (Sabulina caroliniana);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(196)">
        <text>Slender plumegrass (Saccharum baldwinii);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(197)">
        <text>Gibbous panic-grass (Sacciolepis striata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(198)">
        <text>Sessile-fruit arrowhead (Sagittaria rigida);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(199)">
        <text>Narrowleaf willow (Salix interior);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(200)">
        <text>Blunt-lobe grapefern (Sceptridium oneidense);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(201)">
        <text>Purple oat (Schizachne purpurascens);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(202)">
        <text>Water bulrush (Schoenoplectus subterminalis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(203)">
        <text>Northeastern bulrush (Scirpus ancistrochaetus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(204)">
        <text>Slender nutrush (Scleria minor);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(205)">
        <text>Low nutrush (Scleria verticillata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(206)">
        <text>Rock skullcap (Scutellaria saxatilis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(207)">
        <text>Sweet-scented Indian-plantain (Senecio suaveolens);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(208)">
        <text>Puerto Rico sea-purslane (Sesuvium maritimum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(209)">
        <text>Snowy campion (Silene nivea);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(210)">
        <text>Sandyland blue-eyed grass (Sisyrinchium arenicola);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(211)">
        <text>Prairie goldenrod (Solidago rigida);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(212)">
        <text>Long-bristle Indiangrass (Sorghastrum elliottii);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(213)">
        <text>Smooth false buttonweed (Spermacoce glabra);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(214)">
        <text>Shining ladies’-tresses (Spiranthes lucida);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(215)">
        <text>Yellow nodding ladies’-tresses (Spiranthes ochroleuca);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(216)">
        <text>Northern dropseed (Sporobolus heterolepis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(217)">
        <text>Gritty hedge-nettle (Stachys aspera);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(218)">
        <text>Trailing stitchwort (Stellaria alsine);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(219)">
        <text>Death-camus (Stenanthium leimanthoides);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(220)">
        <text>Roundleaf dogwood (Swida rugosa);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(221)">
        <text>Eastern silvery aster (Symphyotrichum concolor);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(222)">
        <text>Serpentine aster (Symphyotrichum depauperatum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(223)">
        <text>Purple meadow parsnip (Thaspium trifoliatum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(224)">
        <text>Climbing dogbane (Thrysanthella difformis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(225)">
        <text>Canby’s dropwort (Tiedmannia canbyi);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(226)">
        <text>Three-ribbed arrow grass (Triglochin striata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(227)">
        <text>Nodding trillium (Trillium flexipes);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(228)">
        <text>Snow trillium (Trillium nivale);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(229)">
        <text>Yellowleaf tinker’s-weed (Triosteum angustifolium);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(230)">
        <text>Nodding pogonia (Triphora trianthophora);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(231)">
        <text>Northeastern bladderwort (Utricularia resupinata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(232)">
        <text>Fibrous bladderwort (Utricularia striata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(233)">
        <text>Valerian (Valeriana pauciflora);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(234)">
        <text>Goose-foot corn-salad (Valerianella chenopodiifolia);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(235)">
        <text>Broadleaf bunchflower (Veratrum hybridum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(236)">
        <text>Marsh-speedwell (Veronica scutellata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(237)">
        <text>Fringed yellow-eyed-grass (Xyris fimbriata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(238)">
        <text>Small’s yellow-eyed-grass (Xyris smalliana);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(239)">
        <text>Northern prickly ash (Zanthoxylum americanum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(240)">
        <text>Atamasco lily (Zephyranthes atamasca); and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(241)">
        <text>Southern wild rice (Zizaniopsis miliacea).</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".06" heading="Endangered Extirpated Species.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>Listing Criteria. The following factors shall be considered for listing a species as endangered extirpated:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>The species was once a viable component of the State’s flora and fauna and there are no records of it naturally occurring in Maryland after 1950; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>The species was once a viable component of the State’s flora and fauna and recent scientific investigations have documented the loss of its habitat or disappearance of its population in Maryland.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>Permits. Upon the discovery of a viable, naturally occurring population of any species in §§C—J of this regulation, that species shall be considered an endangered species and shall require the permits and conditions afforded to that status.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>The following plant species are considered endangered extirpated throughout Maryland:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Ten-lobe false foxglove (Agalinis obtusifolia);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Golden colicroot (Aletris aurea);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Canada anemone (Anemonastrum canadensis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(4)">
        <text>Great angelica (Angelica atropurpurea);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(5)">
        <text>Swamp-pink (Arethusa bulbosa);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(6)">
        <text>Great Indian-plantain (Arnoglossum reniforme);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(7)">
        <text>Tropical water-hyssop (Bacopa innominata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(8)">
        <text>Sea oxeye (Borrichia frutescens);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(9)">
        <text>Lanceleaf grapefern (Botrychium lanceolatum var. angustisegmentum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(10)">
        <text>Least grapefern (Botrychium simplex);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(11)">
        <text>Wild chess (Bromus kalmii);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(12)">
        <text>Bluehearts (Buchnera americana);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(13)">
        <text>Southern harebell (Campanula divaricata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(14)">
        <text>Variable sedge (Carex polymorpha);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(15)">
        <text>Slender sedge (Carex tenera);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(16)">
        <text>Chaffweed (Centunculus mimimus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(17)">
        <text>Curlyheads (Clematis ochroleuca);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(18)">
        <text>Toothed sedge (Cyperus dentatus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(19)">
        <text>Showy lady’s-slipper (Cypripedium reginae);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(20)">
        <text>Trailing tick-trefoil (Desmodium humifusum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(21)">
        <text>Lined tick-trefoil (Desmodium lineatum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(22)">
        <text>Sessileleaf tick-trefoil (Desmodium sessilifolium);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(23)">
        <text>Rattlesnake-master (Eryngium yuccifolium);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(24)">
        <text>Spotted joe-pyeweed (Eutrochium maculatum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(25)">
        <text>Downy gentian (Gentiana puberulenta);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(26)">
        <text>Dwarf rattlesnake-plantain (Goodyera repens);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(27)">
        <text>Checkered rattlesnake-plantain (Goodyera tesselata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(28)">
        <text>Branched hedge-hyssop (Gratiola ramosa);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(29)">
        <text>Nuttall’s micranthemum (Hemianthus micranthemoides);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(30)">
        <text>Drummond’s St. John’s-wort (Hypericum drummondii);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(31)">
        <text>Small whorled pogonia (Isotria medeoloides);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(32)">
        <text>Baltic rush (Juncus balticus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(33)">
        <text>Bayonet rush (Juncus militaris);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(34)">
        <text>Ground juniper (Juniperus communis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(35)">
        <text>Slender pinweed (Lechea tenuifolia);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(36)">
        <text>Turgid gayfeather (Liatris helleri);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(37)">
        <text>Nondo lovage (Ligusticum canadense);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(38)">
        <text>Wood lily (Lilium philadelphicum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(39)">
        <text>Heartleaf twayblade (Listera cordata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(40)">
        <text>Sea milkwort (Lysimachia maritima);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(41)">
        <text>Slender water milfoil (Myriophyllum tenellum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(42)">
        <text>One-sided wintergreen (Orthilia secunda);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(43)">
        <text>Mountain phlox (Phlox ovata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(44)">
        <text>Heartleaf plantain (Plantago cordata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(45)">
        <text>Small purple-fringe orchis (Platanthera psycodes);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(46)">
        <text>Bushy knotweed (Polygonum ramosissimum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(47)">
        <text>Southern mountainmint (Pycnanthemum pycnanthemoides);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(48)">
        <text>Green-flower wintergreen (Pyrola chlorantha);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(49)">
        <text>Bristly crowfoot (Ranunculus pensylvanicus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(50)">
        <text>Few-flowered beakrush (Rhynchospora oligantha);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(51)">
        <text>Pale beakrush (Rhynchospora pallida);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(52)">
        <text>Few-flowered beakrush (Rhynchospora rariflora);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(53)">
        <text>Wild black currant (Ribes americanum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(54)">
        <text>Bebb’s willow (Salix bebbiana);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(55)">
        <text>Shining willow (Salix lucida);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(56)">
        <text>Nettleleaf sage (Salvia urticifolia);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(57)">
        <text>Leathery grapefern (Sceptridium multifidum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(58)">
        <text>Canby’s bulrush (Schoenoplectus etuberculatus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(59)">
        <text>Chaffseed (Schwalbea americana);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(60)">
        <text>Coastal false asphodel (Triantha racemosa);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(61)">
        <text>Buffalo clover (Trifolium reflexum); and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(62)">
        <text>American purple vetch (Vicia americana).</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="D.">
      <text>The following mollusk species is considered endangered extirpated throughout Maryland: Maryland glyph (Glyphyalinia raderi).</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="E.">
      <text>The following crustacean species is considered endangered extirpated throughout Maryland: Norden’s groundwater isopod (Caecidotea nordeni).</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="F.">
      <text>The following insect species are considered endangered extirpated throughout Maryland:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Hessel’s hairstreak (Callophrys hesseli);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Dusky azure (Celestrina nigra);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Skillet clubtail (Gomphurus ventricosus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(4)">
        <text>Piedmont clubtail (Hylogomphus parvidens);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(5)">
        <text>American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(6)">
        <text>Tawny crescent (Phyciodes batesii);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(7)">
        <text>Regal fritillary (Speyeria idalia);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(8)">
        <text>Riverine clubtail (Stylurus amnicola); and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(9)">
        <text>Golden banded-skipper (Telegonus cellus).</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="G.">
      <text>The following finfish species are considered endangered extirpated throughout Maryland:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Longnose sucker (Catostomus catostomus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Bridle shiner (Notropis bifrenatus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Cheat minnow (Pararhinichthys bowersi); and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(4)">
        <text>Trout-perch (Percopsis omiscomaycus).</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="H.">
      <text>The following amphibian species is considered endangered extirpated throughout Maryland: Common mudpuppy (Necturus maculosus).</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="I.">
      <text>The following bird species are considered endangered extirpated throughout Maryland:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Ivory-billed woodpecker (Campephilus principalis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Swainson’s thrush (Catharus ustulatus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Lark sparrow (Chondestes grammacus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(4)">
        <text>Olive-sided flycatcher (Contopus cooperi);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(5)">
        <text>Red-cockaded woodpecker (Dryobates borealis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(6)">
        <text>Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(7)">
        <text>Bachman’s sparrow (Peucaea aestivalis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(8)">
        <text>Roseate tern (Sterna dougallii);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(9)">
        <text>Appalachian Bewick’s wren (Thryomanes bewickii bewickii); and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(10)">
        <text>Greater prairie chicken (Tympanuchus cupido).</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="J.">
      <text>The following mammal species are considered endangered extirpated throughout Maryland:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Gray wolf (Canis lupus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Elk (Cervus elaphus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Eastern cougar (Puma concolor couguar);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(4)">
        <text>Snowshoe hare (Lepus americanus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(5)">
        <text>American marten (Martes americana); and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(6)">
        <text>Eastern harvest mouse (Reithrodontomys humulis).</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".07" heading="Threatened Species of Wildlife, Reptiles, Amphibians, Mollusks, Crustaceans, and Finfish.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>Listing Criteria. The following factors shall be considered for listing species other than plant species as threatened:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Whether the species has experienced a steady, substantial decline in Maryland, and if the decline continues, the species is likely to become endangered;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Whether there has been steady, widespread loss of the species' essential habitat; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Whether protection measures already taken have significantly reduced the chances of the species becoming extirpated from Maryland.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>Permits. The permit procedures to be followed are set forth in Regulation .03 of this chapter. The following apply:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Except by special permit from the Director, a person may not take, export, possess, process, sell, offer for sale, deliver, carry, transport or ship by any means any threatened wildlife, reptile, amphibian, mollusk, crustacean, or finfish species.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Permits to take threatened species shall be issued only for:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Scientific research designed to enhance the recovery of the species or population;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Other valid scientific research; or</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Educational purposes designed to further public awareness regarding the species.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Incidental taking of a threatened wildlife, reptile, amphibian, mollusk, crustacean, or finfish species shall be allowed only after the Director has been notified 30 days in advance of the change in land use or other action by a private landowner which shall result in the incidental taking. The Administration, upon receipt of the application for an incidental taking permit from the landowner, shall within 30 days either:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Take action to salvage the threatened species; or</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Issue to the landowner an incidental taking permit authorizing the landowner to proceed with the action which will result in the incidental taking of the species.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>The following species are considered to be threatened throughout Maryland unless a smaller range is indicated:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Mollusks:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Triangle floater (Alasmidonta undulata); and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Yellow lance (Elliptio lanceolata);</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Insects:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Northern metalmark (Calephelis borealis);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Superb jewelwing (Calopteryx amata);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Harris' checkerspot (Chlosyne harrisii);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(d)">
          <text>Selys’ sundragon (Helocordulia selysii);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(e)">
          <text>Rare skipper (Problema bulenta); and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(f)">
          <text>Atlantis fritillary (Speyeria atlantis);</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Finfish:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Glassy darter (Etheostoma vitreum);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>American brook lamprey (Lethenteron appendix); and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Chesapeake logperch (Percina bimaculata);</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(4)">
        <text>Reptiles:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas); and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Bog turtle (Glyptemys muhlenbergii); and</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(5)">
        <text>Birds:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>American bittern (Botaurus lentiginosus);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Red knot (Calidris canutus rufa);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Nashville warbler (Leiothlypis ruficapilla); and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(d)">
          <text>Least tern (Sternula antillarum).</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".08" heading="Threatened Species of Plants.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>Listing Criteria. The following factors shall be considered for listing a plant species as threatened:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Whether the species has experienced a substantial decline in Maryland, and if the decline continues, the species is likely to become endangered;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Whether there has been a steady widespread loss of the species’ essential habitat; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Whether the species has been listed as endangered but it has been shown that protection measures taken have significantly reduced the chances of the species becoming extirpated from Maryland.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>Permits. The permit procedures to be followed are set forth in Regulation .03 of this chapter. The following apply:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Permits shall be issued only for scientific research designed to enhance the recovery of the species or population;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>A person may not:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Export, possess, process, sell, offer for sale, deliver, carry, transport, or ship by any means any threatened plant species except by a special permit from the Director;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Take any threatened plant species from State property except by special permit from the Director; or</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Take any threatened plant species from private property without the written permission of the landowner.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>The following plant species are considered threatened throughout Maryland unless a smaller range is indicated:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Climbing fumitory (Adlumia fungosa);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Purple giant-hyssop (Agastache scrophulariifolia);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Running serviceberry (Amelanchier humilis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(4)">
        <text>Nantucket shadbush (Amelanchier nantucketensis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(5)">
        <text>Single-head pussytoes (Antennaria solitaria);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(6)">
        <text>Wand-like three-awn grass (Aristida virgata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(7)">
        <text>Bradley’s spleenwort (Asplenium bradleyi);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(8)">
        <text>Ozark milkvetch (Astragalus distortus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(9)">
        <text>Wild false indigo (Baptisia australis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(10)">
        <text>Buxbaum’s sedge (Carex buxbaumii);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(11)">
        <text>Inflated sedge (Carex vesicaria);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(12)">
        <text>Velvety sedge (Carex vestita);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(13)">
        <text>Leatherleaf (Chamaedaphne calyculata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(14)">
        <text>Red turtlehead (Chelone obliqua);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(15)">
        <text>Giant-seed goosefoot (Chenopodiastrum simplex);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(16)">
        <text>Clinton lily (Clintonia borealis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(17)">
        <text>Bogfern (Coryphopteris simulata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(18)">
        <text>Wild bleedinghearts (Dicentra eximia);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(19)">
        <text>Tall swamp witchgrass (Dichanthelium scabriusculum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(20)">
        <text>Eastern leatherwood (Dirca palustris);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(21)">
        <text>Tobaccoweed (Elephantopus tomentosus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(22)">
        <text>Parker’s pipewort (Eriocaulon parkeri);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(23)">
        <text>White trout-lily (Erythronium albidum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(24)">
        <text>White-bract thoroughwort (Eupatorium leucolepis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(25)">
        <text>Fringe-top bottle gentian (Gentiana andrewsii);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(26)">
        <text>McDowell’s sunflower (Helianthus occidentalis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(27)">
        <text>Glade fern (Homalosorus pycnocarpus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(28)">
        <text>Featherfoil (Hottonia inflata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(29)">
        <text>Goldenseal (Hydrastis canadensis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(30)">
        <text>Largeleaf waterleaf (Hydrophyllum macrophyllum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(31)">
        <text>Coppery St. John’s-wort (Hypericum denticulatum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(32)">
        <text>Pipe vine (Isotrema macrophyllum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(33)">
        <text>Sandplain flax (Linum intercursum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(34)">
        <text>Sundial lupine (Lupinus perennis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(35)">
        <text>Climbing fern (Lygodium palmatum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(36)">
        <text>Carolina anglepod (Matelea carolinensis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(37)">
        <text>Three-flower melicgrass (Melica nitens);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(38)">
        <text>Evergreen bayberry (Morella carolinensis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(39)">
        <text>White-grained mountain-ricegrass (Oryzopsis asperifolia);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(40)">
        <text>Walter’s paspalum (Paspalum dissectum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(41)">
        <text>Horse-tail paspalum (Paspalum fluitans);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(42)">
        <text>Coville’s phacelia (Phacelia covillei);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(43)">
        <text>Roundleaf fameflower (Phemeranthus teretifolius);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(44)">
        <text>White-fringe orchis (Platanthera blephariglottis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(45)">
        <text>Yellow-fringe orchid (Platanthera ciliaris);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(46)">
        <text>Large purple-fringe orchis (Platanthera grandiflora);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(47)">
        <text>Purple fringeless orchid (Platanthera peramoena);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(48)">
        <text>Marsh fleabane (Pluchea camphorata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(49)">
        <text>Bog Jacob’s-ladder (Polemonium vanbruntiae);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(50)">
        <text>Crossleaf milkwort (Polygala cruciata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(51)">
        <text>Racemed milkwort (Polygala polygama);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(52)">
        <text>Seneca snakeroot (Polygala senega);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(53)">
        <text>Allegheny plum (Prunus alleghaniensis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(54)">
        <text>Whorled mountainmint (Pycnanthemum verticillatum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(55)">
        <text>Shumard oak (Quercus shumardii);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(56)">
        <text>Hairy snoutbean (Rhynchosia tomentosa);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(57)">
        <text>Long-beaked bald rush (Rhynchospora scirpoides);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(58)">
        <text>Torrey’s beakrush (Rhynchospora torreyana);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(59)">
        <text>Michaux’s stitchwort (Sabulina michauxii);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(60)">
        <text>Engelmann’s arrowhead (Sagittaria engelmanniana);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(61)">
        <text>Canada burnet (Sanguisorba canadensis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(62)">
        <text>Northern pitcherplant (Sarracenia purpurea);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(63)">
        <text>One-flower sclerolepis (Sclerolepis uniflora);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(64)">
        <text>Shale barren skullcap (Scutellaria leonardii);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(65)">
        <text>Veined skullcap (Scutellaria nervosa);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(66)">
        <text>Cliff stonecrop (Sedum glaucophyllum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(67)">
        <text>Long-stalk greenbrier (Smilax pseudochina);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(68)">
        <text>Lake Ontario goldenrod (Solidago racemosa);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(69)">
        <text>Showy goldenrod (Solidago speciosa);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(70)">
        <text>Swamp wedgescale (Sphenopholis pensylvanica);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(71)">
        <text>Lance-leaf loosestrife (Steironema hybridum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(72)">
        <text>Eastern featherbells (Stenanthium gramineum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(73)">
        <text>Rosy twisted-stalk (Streptopus lanceolatus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(74)">
        <text>Snowberry (Symphoricarpos albus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(75)">
        <text>Mountain parsley (Taenidia montana);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(76)">
        <text>Canadian yew (Taxus canadensis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(77)">
        <text>Spiked hoary-pea (Tephrosia spicata);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(78)">
        <text>Northern white cedar (Thuja occidentalis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(79)">
        <text>Kate’s Mountain clover (Trifolium virginicum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(80)">
        <text>Virginia least trillium (Trillium pusillum var.virginianum);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(81)">
        <text>Purple bladderwort (Utricularia purpurea);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(82)">
        <text>Small cranberry (Vaccinium oxycoccos); and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(83)">
        <text>Rusty woodsia (Woodsia ilvensis).</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".09" heading="Species in Need of Conservation.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>Listing Criteria. The following factors shall be considered for listing a species as in need of conservation:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Whether the population is limited or declining within Maryland; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Whether the species may become threatened in the foreseeable future, if current trends or conditions persist.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>Permits. The permit procedures to be followed are set forth in Regulation .03 of this chapter. The following apply:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Except by special permit, a person may not take, export, possess, process, sell, offer for sale, deliver, carry, transport, or ship by any means any species in need of conservation;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Permits to take species in need of conservation shall be issued only for:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Scientific research designed to enhance the recovery of the species or population;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Other valid scientific research; or</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Educational purposes designed to further public awareness regarding the species.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Incidental taking permits are not required for species in need of conservation.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>The following species are considered to be in need of conservation throughout Maryland unless a smaller range is indicated:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Mollusks:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Atlantic spike (Elliptio producta);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Appalachian springsnail (Fontigens bottimeri);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Cherrystone drop (Hendersonia occulta); and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(d)">
          <text>Creeper (Strophitus undulatus);</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Crustaceans:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Acuminate crayfish (Cambarus acuminatus);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Allegheny amphipod (Stygobromus allegheniensis); and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Franz's amphipod (Stygobromus franzi);</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Insects:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Pepper-and-salt skipper (Amblyscirtes hegon);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Olympia marble (Euchloe olympia);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Silvery blue (Glaucopsyche lygdamus);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(d)">
          <text>Giant swallowtail (Papilio cresphontes);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(e)">
          <text>Rapids clubtail (Phanogomphus quadricolor); and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(f)">
          <text>Sable clubtail (Stenogomphurus rogersi);</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(4)">
        <text>Finfish:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Flier (Centrarchus macropterus);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Pearl dace (Margariscus margarita); and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Striped shiner (Luxilus chrysocephalus);</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(5)">
        <text>Amphibians — Wehrle's salamander (Plethodon wehrlei);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(6)">
        <text>Reptiles — Eastern spiny softshell (Apalone spinifera);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(7)">
        <text>Birds:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Saltmarsh sparrow (Ammospiza caudacuta);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Least bittern (Botaurus exilis);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Henslow’s sparrow (Centronyx henslowii);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(d)">
          <text>Northern harrier (Circus hudsonius);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(e)">
          <text>Alder flycatcher (Empidonax alnorum);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(f)">
          <text>American peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus anatum);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(g)">
          <text>Common gallinule (Gallinula galeata);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(h)">
          <text>Coastal Plain swamp sparrow (Melospiza georgiana nigrescens);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(i)">
          <text>Northern waterthrush (Parkesia noveboracensis);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(j)">
          <text>Forster’s tern (Sterna forsteri);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(k)">
          <text>American barn owl (Tyto furcata); and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(l)">
          <text>Golden-winged warbler (Vermivora chrysoptera);</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(8)">
        <text>Mammals:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Bobcat (Lynx rufus);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Least weasel (Mustela nivalis);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Delmarva fox squirrel (Sciurus niger cinereus);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(d)">
          <text>Long-tailed shrew (Sorex dispar);</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(e)">
          <text>Smoky shrew (Sorex fumeus); and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(f)">
          <text>Appalachian cottontail (Sylvilagus obscurus).</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".10" heading="Natural Heritage Areas.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>Listing Criteria. In order to qualify as a natural heritage area a natural community shall:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Contain one or more threatened or endangered species or wildlife species in need of conservation;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Be a unique blend of geological, hydrological, climatalogical or biological features; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Be considered to be among the best Statewide examples of its kind.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>The Administration shall prepare maps describing the location of all natural heritage areas. The maps shall be filed in the office of the Director of the Wildlife and Heritage Service, Department of Natural Resources, Tawes State Office Building, Annapolis, MD 21401.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>The following areas are designated natural heritage areas:</text>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".11" heading="Restricted Areas.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>Without written permission from the Secretary, a person may not trespass, enter, or release an animal on lands owned or controlled by the State which are located between the mean high and mean low water lines of waters of the State and which are posted in a conspicuous manner as a restricted area for the purpose of protecting:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>An endangered or threatened species of wildlife or plant listed in this chapter; or</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>A species of wildlife in need of conservation listed in this chapter.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>The Department shall prepare maps describing the location of each restricted area under this regulation. The maps shall be filed with the Secretary of Natural Resources, Tawes State Office Building, Annapolis, Maryland 21401.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>A restricted area may be established only after:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Notice of the proposed restriction has been placed in a newspaper in the county where the restriction is proposed;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Notice of the proposed restriction has been placed in the Maryland Register;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Completion of a 30-day period for comment which begins on the date that the list of restricted areas is published in the Maryland Register;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(4)">
        <text>All adjacent landowners have been notified by mail of the proposal; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(5)">
        <text>Appropriate areas have been signed and posted.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="D.">
      <text>The delineation of restricted areas may change to accommodate changes in the distribution of listed species after the notice provisions of §C of this regulation have been satisfied.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="E.">
      <text>Restricted Areas.</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>In Calvert County, the restricted areas encompass that portion of the lands owned or controlled by the State which are located between the mean high and mean low water lines of the waters of the State adjacent to Flag Ponds Nature Park.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>In Worcester County, the restricted areas encompass that portion of the lands owned or controlled by the State which are located between the mean high and mean low water lines of the waters of the State adjacent to:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Assateague Island National Seashore; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>The shoreline of Skimmer Island in Isle of Wight Bay.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".12" heading="Additional Lists.">
    <text>The Fisheries Service also maintains a list of fish species that are designated as endangered, threatened, or in need of conservation under COMAR 08.02.12. Regulations implementing protective measures for these species appear elsewhere under COMAR 08.02.</text>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".13" heading="Violation of Regulations.">
    <text>Violation of these regulations is a misdemeanor punishable under Natural Resources Article, §§10-2A-07, 10-1101, 10-1105—10-1108, 4-2A-07, 4-1201, 4-1205—4-1207, and 4-1209, Annotated Code of Maryland.</text>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".14" heading="Puritan Tiger Beetle Incidental Taking.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>Permit Required. A person shall obtain a permit from the Department before the person may conduct any activity that will result in the incidental taking of Puritan tiger beetles.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>Application. To apply for a permit for the incidental taking of Puritan tiger beetles, an applicant shall submit the following information to the Department:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>A completed application form including the applicant's:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Full name;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Address of residence or business;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Birth date; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(d)">
          <text>Telephone number; and</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>A conservation plan for the site that shall include the following:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Site location information, including tax map and parcel numbers;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>A map of the site, including property boundaries, location of the cliff, and location of the proposed development;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>A description of proposed habitat alteration, including physical alteration of beach or cliff habitat;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(d)">
          <text>A description of alternatives considered and reasons that these alternatives were not used;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(e)">
          <text>A description of minimization and mitigation measures to be employed; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(f)">
          <text>A copy of the submitted federal application or approved federal authorization from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to incidentally take Puritan tiger beetles.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>Permit applications may be obtained from the Wildlife and Heritage Service, Tawes State Office Building, 580 Taylor Ave., E-1, Annapolis, Maryland 21401, or by calling 410-260-8540, or online at www.dnr.state.md.us.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="D.">
      <text>Completed applications shall be mailed or delivered to: Permits Coordinator, Wildlife and Heritage Service, Tawes State Office Building, 580 Taylor Ave., E-1, Annapolis, Maryland 21401.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="E.">
      <text>Duration. Permits for the incidental taking of Puritan tiger beetles are valid for the term specified by the Department on the permit.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="F.">
      <text>Minimization measures as described in §B(2)(e) of this regulation shall include:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Limiting construction activities during the adult breeding season of June through August in order to minimize adult tiger beetle mortality;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Limiting construction activities to the beach area and no alteration of the cliff face;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Limiting habitat alteration to a portion of the tiger beetle habitat; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(4)">
        <text>Limiting other actions that harm adult Puritan tiger beetles, larvae, or habitat.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="G.">
      <text>Mitigation.</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Mitigation shall be employed whenever the habitat alteration will render a significant portion of the site unsuitable for Puritan tiger beetles in either their adult or larval life forms.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Mitigation shall occur at not less than a 1:1 ratio of linear feet of shoreline impacted.</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Mitigation measures may include:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Protection of other property suitable for Puritan tiger beetle habitat by acquisition of a conservation easement that permanently prohibits shoreline stabilization of or alteration of the cliff face on the property;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Payment of any mitigation fee that may be required through the federal permitting process;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Restoration or creation of Puritan tiger beetle habitat by participating financially in the Department's Puritan tiger beetle habitat conservation program; and</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(d)">
          <text>Implementation of other measures that compensate for the loss of Puritan tiger beetles as a result of the incidental taking.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="H.">
      <text>A conservation easement under §G(3)(a) of this regulation shall be executed and recorded before the issuance of an incidental taking permit.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="I.">
      <text>The Department shall issue an incidental taking permit to the applicant if all of the following have been satisfied:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>The applicant has submitted the completed application form, fee, and conservation plan;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Alternatives have been considered and determined not to be feasible;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Adequate minimization or mitigation measures have been incorporated into the habitat conservation plan;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(4)">
        <text>The actions do not appreciably reduce the likelihood of the survival or recovery of the Puritan tiger beetle;</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(5)">
        <text>Adequate funding for the conservation plan is available to implement the plan; and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(6)">
        <text>Federal authorization to incidentally take Puritan tiger beetles has been secured by the applicant from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <regulation prefix="Regulation" num=".15" heading="Protected Nongame Mammals.">
    <paragraph num="A.">
      <text>A person may not take, export, possess, process, sell, offer for sale, deliver, carry, transport, or ship by any means, except by special permit issued by the Department, nongame mammals listed in §C of this regulation.</text>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="B.">
      <text>Permits.</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Permits to take protected nongame mammals may only be issued for:</text>
        <paragraph num="(a)">
          <text>Scientific research;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(b)">
          <text>Educational purposes designed to further public awareness regarding the species;</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(c)">
          <text>Protection of human health and safety; or</text>
        </paragraph>
        <paragraph num="(d)">
          <text>To address damage to property.</text>
        </paragraph>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Incidental taking permits are not required for protected nongame mammals.</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
    <paragraph num="C.">
      <text>The following species are considered to be protected nongame mammals:</text>
      <paragraph num="(1)">
        <text>Little brown myotis (Myotis lucifugus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(2)">
        <text>Silver-haired bat (Lasionycteris noctivagans);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(3)">
        <text>Tricolored bat (Perimyotis subflavus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(4)">
        <text>Big brown bat (Eptesicus fuscus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(5)">
        <text>Eastern red bat (Lasiurus borealis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(6)">
        <text>Hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(7)">
        <text>Evening bat (Nycticeius humeralis);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(8)">
        <text>Seminole bat (Lasiurus seminolus);</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(9)">
        <text>North American porcupine (Erethizon dorsata); and</text>
      </paragraph>
      <paragraph num="(10)">
        <text>Eastern spotted skunk (Spilogale putorius).</text>
      </paragraph>
    </paragraph>
  </regulation>
  <annotations>
    <annotation type="Authority">Natural Resources Article, §§4-2A-01—4-2A-09 and 10-2A-01—10-2A-09, Annotated Code of Maryland</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Effective date:</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulations .01 and .02 were previously codified as Regulations .43 and .65, respectively, under COMAR 08.03.01 Wildlife Conservation. This recodification was effective June 3, 1985 (12:11 Md. R. 1047)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">For the history of these regulations before June 3, 1985, see the Administrative History which follows COMAR 08.03.01.</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .01 amended effective June 3, 1985 (12:11 Md. R. 1047)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulations .01 and .02 repealed effective June 29, 1987 (14:13 Md. R. 1471)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulations .01—.11 adopted effective June 29, 1987 (14:13 Md. R. 1471)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .01 amended effective June 26, 1989 (16:12 Md. R. 1334); December 24, 1990 (17:25 Md. R. 2906)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulations .04B and C, .05C, .06, .07C, .08C, .09C, and .10C amended and Regulation .11 recodified to Regulation .12 and new Regulation .11 adopted effective December 24, 1990 (17:25 Md. R. 2906)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .11-1 adopted as an emergency provision effective April 13, 1992 (19:8 Md. R. 799)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .11-1 adopted effective August 3, 1992 (19:15 Md. R. 1388)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Chapter revised effective October 24, 1994 (21:21 Md. R. 1813)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .01B amended effective September 4, 2000 (27:17 Md. R. 1618); November 10, 2003 (30:22 Md. R. 1578); December 31, 2007 (34:26 Md. R. 2261)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .04C amended effective September 4, 2000 (27:17 Md. R. 1618); November 10, 2003 (30:22 Md. R. 1578); October 22, 2007 (34:21 Md. R. 1914); April 5, 2010 (37:7 Md. R. 570)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .05C amended effective January 22, 2001 (28:1 Md. R. 25); November 10, 2003 (30:22 Md. R. 1578); October 22, 2007 (34:21 Md. R. 1914); April 5, 2010 (37:7 Md. R. 570)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .06 amended effective October 22, 2007 (34:21 Md. R. 1914); April 5, 2010 (37:7 Md. R. 570)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .06C amended effective January 22, 2001 (28:1 Md. R. 25); November 10, 2003 (30:22 Md. R. 1578)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .07C amended effective September 4, 2000 (27:17 Md. R. 1618); November 10, 2003 (30:22 Md. R. 1578); October 22, 2007 (34:21 Md. R. 1914); April 5, 2010 (37:7 Md. R. 570)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .08C amended effective January 22, 2001 (28:1 Md. R. 25); November 10, 2003 (30:22 Md. R. 1578); October 22, 2007 (34:21 Md. R. 1914); April 5, 2010 (37:7 Md. R. 570)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .09C amended effective November 10, 2003 (30:22 Md. R. 1578); October 22, 2007 (34:21 Md. R. 1914); April 5, 2010 (37:7 Md. R. 570)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .10B amended effective September 4, 2000 (27:17 Md. R. 1618); November 10, 2003 (30:22 Md. R. 1578)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .12 amended effective November 10, 2003 (30:22 Md. R. 1578)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .14 adopted effective December 31, 2007 (34:26 Md. R. 2261)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Chapter revised effective August 29, 2016 (43:17 Md. R. 953)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .01B amended effective February 8, 2021 (48:3 Md. R. 93); August 4, 2025 (52:15 Md. R. 811)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .03A amended effective September 26, 2016 (43:19 Md. R. 1071)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .04C amended effective February 8, 2021 (48:3 Md. R. 93); August 4, 2025 (52:15 Md. R. 811)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .05C amended effective February 8, 2021 (48:3 Md. R. 93); August 4, 2025 (52:15 Md. R. 811)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .06 amended effective February 8, 2021 (48:3 Md. R. 93)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .06C, F, I amended effective August 4, 2025 (52:15 Md. R. 811)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .07C amended effective February 8, 2021 (48:3 Md. R. 93); August 4, 2025 (52:15 Md. R. 811)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .08C amended effective February 8, 2021 (48:3 Md. R. 93); August 4, 2025 (52:15 Md. R. 811)</annotation>
    <annotation type="History" subtype="Administrative History">Regulation .09C amended effective February 8, 2021 (48:3 Md. R. 93); August 4, 2025 (52:15 Md. R. 811)</annotation>
  </annotations>
</chapter>