[Federal Register: June 4, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 107)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-R4-ES-2010-N109; 40120-1112-0000-F5]
Receipt of Applications for Endangered Species Permits
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite the public to
comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities
with
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endangered species. With some exceptions, the Endangered Species Act
(ESA) prohibits activities with listed species unless a Federal permit
is issued that allows such activities. The ESA requires that we invite
public comment before issuing these permits.
DATES: We must receive written data or comments on the applications at
the address given below, by July 6, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Documents and other information submitted with the
applications are available for review, subject to the requirements of
the Privacy Act and Freedom of Information Act, by any party who
submits a written request for a copy of such documents to the following
office within 30 days of the date of publication of this notice: Fish
and Wildlife Service, 1875 Century Boulevard, Suite 200, Atlanta,
Georgia 30345 (Attn: Cameron Shaw, Permit Coordinator).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cameron Shaw, telephone 904/731-3191;
facsimile 904/731-3045.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The public is invited to comment on the
following applications for permits to conduct certain activities with
endangered and threatened species pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(A) of
the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et
seq.). This notice is provided under section 10(c) of the Act. If you
wish to comment, you may submit comments by any one of the following
methods. You may mail comments to the Fish and Wildlife Service's
Regional Office (see ADDRESSES section) or via electronic mail (e-mail)
to: permitsR4ES@fws.gov. Please include your name and return address in
your e-mail message. If you do not receive a confirmation from the Fish
and Wildlife Service that we have received your e-mail message, contact
us directly at the telephone number listed above (see FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT section). Finally, you may hand deliver comments to
the Fish and Wildlife Service office listed above (see ADDRESSES
section).
Before including your address, telephone number, e-mail address, or
other personal identifying information in your comments, you should be
aware that your entire comment--including your personal identifying
information--may be made publicly available at any time. While you can
ask us in your comments to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be
able to do so. There may also be other circumstances in which we would
withhold from the administrative record a respondent's identity, as
allowable by law. If you wish us to withhold your name and address, you
must state this prominently at the beginning of your comments. We will
not, however, consider anonymous comments. We will make all submissions
from organizations or businesses, and from individuals identifying
themselves as representatives or officials of organizations or
businesses, available for public inspection in their entirety.
Applicant: William Waddell, Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium, Tacoma,
Washington, TE834070
The applicant requests renewed authorization to receive, retain,
transfer, and harass the red wolf (Canis rufus) as required to conduct
captive breeding and recovery programs for the species.
Applicant: Appalachian Technical Services, Wise, Kentucky, TE009638
The applicant requests authorization to capture, handle, radio-tag,
and release Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis), gray bats (Myotis
grisescens), and Virginia big-eared bats (Corynorhinus townsendii
virginianus), for presence/absence surveys and scientific research.
Applicant: Benjamin Laester, Whittier, North Carolina, TE121142
The applicant requests renewed authorization to capture and handle
the Indiana bat throughout its range in western North Carolina.
Applicant: Neil Turner, Turner Technology, Inc., Prestonsburg,
Kentucky, TE210424
The applicant requests authorization to capture, handle, release,
and use acoustical monitoring procedures to determine the presence of
the Indiana bat in Kentucky.
Applicant: Susan Loeb, U.S. Forest Service, Clemson, South Carolina,
TE119937
The applicant requests renewed authorization to capture, handle,
release, and radio-tag Indiana bat in the following locations: Cherokee
National Forest and Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee;
Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests and Gold Mountain Gamelands,
North Carolina.
Applicant: Roy S. DeLotelle, DeLotelle and Guthrie, Inc., Gainesville,
Florida, TE825431
The applicant requests renewed authorization to capture, band,
translocate, and monitor red-cockaded woodpeckers (Picoides borealis)
throughout the range of the species in Florida, Georgia, South
Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas,
Texas, Oklahoma, Virginia, and Louisiana.
Applicant: North Louisiana National Wildlife Refuge Complex,
Farmerville, Louisiana, TE9297A
The applicant requests authorization to trap, band, relocate and
create artificial nesting cavities for red-cockaded woodpeckers
throughout Louisiana and Arkansas.
Applicant: Audubon Nature Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana, TE077865
The permittee requests renewed authorization to harass and release
to the wild Mississippi sandhill crane (Grus canadensis pulla) and
whooping crane (Grus americana).
Applicant: Barbara Allen, Gulf Shores, Alabama, TE125557
The applicant requests renewed authorization to take, for
scientific purposes and to enhance recovery efforts, Alabama beach
mouse (Peromyscus polionotus ammobates), and three species of sea
turtles: Kemp's ridley (Lepidochelys kempii), green (Chelonia mydas),
and loggerhead (Caretta caretta).
Applicant: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National
Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Miami,
Florida TE676379
The applicant requests renewed authorization to take (harass,
capture, tag, track, salvage, collect biological samples, and
euthanize) Kemp's ridley, hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbracata),
leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea), green, loggerhead, and olive ridley
(Lepidochelys olivacea) sea turtles for scientific purposes,
enhancement of propagation or survival, recovery activities, and
veterinary treatment in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Puerto Rico,
U.S. Virgin Islands, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Northwestern Atlantic
Ocean.
Applicant: Carol Johnston, Auburn, Alabama, TE178666
The applicant requests authorization to survey Coldwater Spring,
Calhoun County, Alabama, to determine presence, habitat use, and diet
of banded sculpin (Cottus carolinae) and pygmy sculpin (Cottus paulus)
via snorkeling and stomach content analysis.
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Applicant: Register-Nelson, Inc., Stockbridge, Georgia, TE114088
The applicant requests renewed authorization to capture, identify,
and release blue shiner (Cyprinella caerulea), Etowah darter
(Etheostoma etowahae), Cherokee darter (Etheostoma scotti), amber
darter (Percina antesella), goldline darter (Percina aurolineata),
snail darter (Percina tanasi), and Conasauga logperch (Percina
jenkinsi) in Georgia. The applicant requests to amend the permit to
include the capture, identification, and release of eastern indigo
snake (Drymarchon corais couperi), reticulated flatwoods salamander
(Ambystoma bishopi), and frosted flatwoods salamander (Ambystoma
cingulatum) in Georgia.
Applicant: Jess Jones, Blacksburg Virginia, TE108813
The applicant requests authorization to conduct restoration
activities and translocate the oyster mussel (Epioblasma capsaeformis)
from the Clinch River in Tennessee upstream into Virginia.
Applicant: Campbellsville University, Campbellsville, Kentucky, TE12106
The applicant requests authorization to survey for the following
freshwater mussels: ringpink (Obovaria retusa), fanshell (Cyprogenia
stegaria), pocketbook (Lampsilis ovata), clubshell (Pleurobema clava),
rough pigtoe (Pleurobema plenum), snuffbox (Epioblasma triquetra), and
rabbitsfoot (Quadrula cylindrica).
Applicant: Ecological Resource Consultants, Inc., Panama City Beach,
Florida, TE08988A
The applicant requests authorization to capture and release the
following freshwater mussels while conducting presence/absence surveys
in the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee, Flint, Chipola, Econfina, and
Ochlockonee River Watersheds in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida: oval
pigtoe (Pleurobema pyriforme), Gulf moccasinshell (Medionidus
penicillatus), Chipola slabshell (Elliptio chipolaensis), purple
bankclimber (Elliptoideus solatianus), shiny-rayed pocketbook (Hamiota
[=Lampsilis] subangulata), fat threeridge (Amblema neislerii), and the
Ochlockonee moccasinshell (Medionidus simpsonianus).
Applicant: Mark Hughes, Biological Integrity, LLC., Bainbridge,
Georgia, TE12315A
The applicant requests authorization to capture and release the
following freshwater mussels while conducting presence/absence surveys
in the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee, Flint, Chipola, Econfina, and
Ochlockonee River Watersheds in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida: oval
pigtoe (Pleurobema pyriforme), Gulf moccasinshell (Medionidus
penicillatus), Chipola slabshell (Elliptio chipolaensis), purple
bankclimber (Elliptoideus solatianus), shiny-rayed pocketbook (Hamiota
[=Lampsilis] subangulata), fat threeridge (Amblema neislerii), the
Ochlockonee moccasinshell (Medionidus simpsonianus), and the Alabama
moccasinshell (Medionidus acutissimus).
Applicant: U.S. Geological Survey, Georgia Cooperative Fish and
Wildlife Research Unit, Athens, Georgia, TE10239A
The applicant requests authorization to capture freshwater mussels
from the lower Flint River basin, Georgia, and temporarily hold them to
collect hemolymph and tissue samples, evaluate fish hosts and develop
propagation techniques for the oval pigtoe, Gulf moccasinshell, purple
bankclimber, shiny-rayed pocketbook, and fat threeridge.
Applicant: Monte McGregor, Center for Mollusk Conservation, Kentucky
Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, Frankfort, Kentucky,
TE178815
The applicant requests authorization to capture, propagate, and
release multiple species of freshwater mussels (Family Unionidae)
throughout their respective ranges (as collected opportunistically and
based upon recovery needs).
Applicant: Dr. Kevin J. Roe, Iowa State University, TE040423
The applicant requests renewed authorization to collect tissue
samples from Kentucky cave shrimp (Palaemonias ganteri) within Mammoth
Cave National Park, Kentucky, for genetic evaluation.
Applicant: Stanley Rudzinski, Law Engineering and Environmental
Services, Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, TE021030
The applicant requests authorization to capture and release
Nashville crayfish, (Orconectes shoupi) during presence/absence surveys
in the Mill Creek drainage, Davidson and Williamson counties,
Tennessee.
Applicant: Norman Wagoner, Ouachita National Forest, Hot Springs,
Arkansas, TE125605
The applicant requests renewed authorization to capture and release
the American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) while conducting
inventory and monitoring surveys within the boundaries of Ouachita
National Forest and Ozark-St. Francis National Forest, Arkansas and
Oklahoma.
Applicant: Burns and McDonnell Engineering Company, Kansas City,
Missouri, TE125620
The applicant requests renewed authorization to take the American
burying beetle while conducting presence/absence surveys in Crawford,
Sebastian, Franklin, Logan, and Scott counties, Arkansas.
Applicant: Archbold Expeditions, Venus, Florida, TE088035
The applicant requests renewed authorization to take or harass the
following species during prescribed burn activities in Highlands
County, Florida: Scrub mint (Dicerandra frutescens), snakeroot
(Eryngium cuneifolium), Highland's scrub hypernicum (Hypericum
cumulicola), scrub blazing star (Liatria ohlingerae), Britton's
beargrass (Nolina brittoniana), wireweed (Polygonella basiramia),
sandlace (Polygonella myriophylla), scrub plum (Prunus geniculata),
Carter's mustard (Warea carteri) and Florida panther (Puma concolor
coryi).
Applicant: Fort Jackson Military Reservation, Fort Jackson, South
Carolina, TE183402
The applicant requests authorization to collect and sow seeds of
smooth coneflower, (Echinacea laevigata) on Fort Jackson Military
Reservation.
Applicant: Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami, Florida, TE114069
The applicant requests renewed authorization to conduct presence/
absence and mapping surveys, collect seeds and/or cuttings, and test
the impact of canopy reduction on growth and reproduction of the
endangered Key tree cactus (Pilosocereus robinii) in Monroe County,
Florida.
Applicant: Florida Gas Transmission Company, LLC, Houston, Texas,
TE139464
The applicant requests authorization to: Capture and release
eastern indigo snake, frosted flatwood salamander, reticulated
flatwoods salamander, gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus), bluetail
mole skink (Eumeces egregius lividus), and sand skink (Neoseps
reynoldsi) and collect plants or plant parts of Highlands scrub
Hypericum, Britton's beargrass, papery whitlow-wort (Paronychia
chartacea), wireweed,
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and Carter's mustard. Activities may occur within the following
counties: Alabama--Mobile, Baldwin, and Escambia; and Florida--
Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, Washington, Jackson, Bay,
Calhoun, Gadsden, Leon, Jefferson, Taylor, Lafayette, Madison,
Suwannee, Gilchrist, Levy, Citrus, Hernando, Pasco, Hillsborough,
Manatee, De Soto, Highlands, Okeechobee, Martin, and Miami-Dade
counties.
Dated: May 14, 2010.
Jacquelyn B. Parrish,
Acting Regional Director.
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