Critical Habitat of the Round Pigtoe (Pleurobema sintoxia) Order: SOR/2019-328

Canada Gazette, Part II, Volume 153, Number 20

Registration
SOR/2019-328 September 11, 2019

SPECIES AT RISK ACT

Whereas the Round Pigtoe (Pleurobema sintoxia) is a wildlife species that is listed as an endangered species in Part 2 of Schedule 1 to the Species at Risk Act footnote a;

Whereas the recovery strategy that identified the critical habitat of that species has been included in the Species at Risk Public Registry;

Whereas no portion of the critical habitat of that species that is specified in the annexed Order is in a place referred to in subsection 58(2) footnote b of that Act;

And whereas the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans is of the opinion that the annexed Order would affect a reserve or other lands that are set apart for the use and benefit of a band and, pursuant to subsection 58(7) of that Act, has consulted with the Minister of Indigenous Services and the band in question with respect to the Order;

Therefore, the Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, pursuant to subsections 58(4) and (5) of the Species at Risk Act footnote a, makes the annexed Critical Habitat of the Round Pigtoe (Pleurobema sintoxia) Order.

Ottawa, September 6, 2019

Jonathan Wilkinson
Minister of Fisheries and Oceans

Critical Habitat of the Round Pigtoe (Pleurobema sintoxia) Order

Application

1 Subsection 58(1) of the Species at Risk Act applies to the critical habitat of the Round Pigtoe (Pleurobema sintoxia), which is identified in the recovery strategy for that species that is included in the Species at Risk Public Registry.

Coming into force

2 This Order comes into force on the day on which it is registered.

N.B. The Regulatory Impact Analysis Statement for this Order appears following SOR/2019-327, Critical Habitat of the Northern Riffleshell (Epioblasma torulosa rangiana) Order.