The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is seeking public comment on its proposal to list the Santa Ana speckled dace as threatened under the Endangered Species Act. … With the proposed listing of the species, the Service is also proposing a 4(d) rule that provides exceptions to the prohibition of take for activities that can have beneficial or only negligible impacts to the dace. Excepted activities include forest management activities that reduce the risk of high-severity wildfire, public safety work, habitat restoration and enhancement, removal of nonnative species, and translocation efforts or fish salvage operations to benefit the dace. The Santa Ana speckled dace is genetically distinguishable from other populations of speckled dace and was recently designated as its own species. It is a freshwater fish in the cyprinid family, native to the Santa Ana, San Jacinto, San Gabriel, and Los Angeles watersheds in Southern California. Its relatively small and isolated populations occur mostly on federal lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service.