[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 225 (Tuesday, November 22, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 83862-83863]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-28057]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-R2-ES-2016-N189; FXES11140200000-178-FF02ENEH00]
Receipt of an Incidental Take Permit Application To Participate
in the Amended American Burying Beetle Oil and Gas Industry
Conservation Plan in Oklahoma
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability; request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: Under the Endangered Species Act, as amended (Act), we, the
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite the public to comment on an
incidental take permit application for federally listed American
burying beetle (ABB) take resulting from activities associated with oil
and gas well field infrastructure geophysical exploration (seismic) and
construction, maintenance, operation, repair, and decommissioning in
Oklahoma. If approved, the permit would be issued under the approved
Amended Oil and Gas Industry Conservation Plan (ICP)Associated with
Issuing Endangered Species Act Section 10(a)(1)(B) American Burying
Beetle Permits Oklahoma.
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DATES: To ensure consideration, written comments must be received on or
before December 22, 2016.
ADDRESSES: You may obtain copies of all documents and submit comments
on the applicant's ITP application by one of the following methods.
Please refer to the proposed permit number when requesting documents or
submitting comments.
[cir] U.S. Mail: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of
Endangered Species--HCP Permits, P.O. Box 1306, Room 6034, Albuquerque,
NM 87103.
[cir] Electronically: fw2_hcp_permits@fws.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marty Tuegel, Branch Chief, by U.S.
mail at: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Environmental Review Division,
P.O. Box 1306, Room 6034, Albuquerque, NM 87103; or by telephone at
505-248-6651.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Introduction
Under the Endangered Species Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et
seq.; Act), we, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite the public
to comment on an incidental take permit (ITP) application for federally
listed ABB (Nicrophorus americanus) take resulting from oil and gas
well field infrastructure geophysical exploration (seismic) and
construction, maintenance, operation, repair, and decommissioning, as
well as oil and gas gathering, transmission and distribution pipeline
infrastructure construction, maintenance, operation, repair,
decommissioning, and reclamation in Oklahoma. If approved, the permit
would be issued to the applicant under the Amended Oil and Gas Industry
Conservation Plan (ICP) Associated with Issuing Endangered Species Act
Section 10(a)(1)(B) American Burying Beetle Permits Oklahoma. The
original ICP was approved on May 21, 2014 (FONSI notice publication was
on July 25, 2014; 79 FR 43504). The draft amended ICP was made
available for comment on March 8, 2016 (81 FR 12113), and approved on
April 13, 2016. The ICP and the associated environmental assessment/
finding of no significant impact are available on the Web site at
http://www.fws.gov/southwest/es/oklahoma/ABBICP. However, we are no
longer taking comments on these finalized, approved documents.
Applications Available for Review and Comment
We invite local, State, Tribal, and Federal agencies, and the
public to comment on the following application under the ICP, for
incidental federally listed ABB take. Please refer to the appropriate
permit number (e.g., TE-123456) when requesting application documents
and when submitting comments. Documents and other information the
applicants have submitted with this application are available for
review, subject to Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a) and Freedom of
Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) requirements.
Permit TE11102C
Applicant: Performance Petroleum Company, Barnsdall, OK
Applicant requests an amended permit for oil and gas upstream and
midstream production, including oil and gas well field infrastructure
geophysical exploration (seismic) and construction, maintenance,
operation, repair, and decommissioning, as well as of oil and gas
gathering, transmission and distribution pipeline infrastructure
construction, maintenance, operation, repair, decommissioning, and
reclamation in Oklahoma.
Comments Publically Available
Written comments we receive become part of the public record
associated with this action. Before including your address, phone
number, email address, or other personal identifying information in
your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment--including
your personal identifying information--may be made publicly available
at any time. While you can request in your comment that we withhold
your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot
guarantee that we will be able to do so. We will not consider anonymous
comments. All submissions from organizations or businesses, and from
individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of
organizations or businesses, will be made available for public
disclosure in their entirety.
Authority
We provide this notice under the Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.)
section 10(c) and its implementing regulations (50 CFR 17.22) and the
National Environmental Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and its
implementing regulations (40 CFR 1506.6).
Joy E. Nicholopoulos,
Acting, Regional Director, Southwest Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service.
[FR Doc. 2016-28057 Filed 11-21-16; 8:45 am]
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