[Federal Register: March 9, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 44)]
[Notices]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-R4-ES-2009-N0044; 40120-1112-0000-F5]
Receipt of Applications for Endangered Species Permits
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The public is invited to comment on the following applications
to conduct certain activities with threatened and endangered species.
DATES: We must receive written data or comments on the applications at
the address given below, by April 8, 2009.
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: David Dell, HCP Coordinator).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Dell, telephone 404/679-7313;
facsimile 404/679-7081.
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
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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
david_dell@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: Kentucky Division of Abandoned Mine Lands, Frankfort,
Kentucky, TE206886
The applicant requests authorization to capture, identify, and
release Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis), gray bats (Myotis grisescen),
Virginia big-eared bats (Plecotus townsendii virginianus), Ozark big-
eared bats (Plecotus townsendii ingens), blackside dace (Phoxinus
cumberlandensis), palezone shiner (Notropis albizonatus), and relict
darter (Etheostoma chiense) for presence surveys throughout Kentucky.
Applicant: Joy O'Keefe, Aiken, South Carolina, TE206872
The applicant requests authorization to capture, identify, and
release Indiana bats, for presence surveys throughout Alabama, Georgia,
Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West
Virginia.
Applicant: Ronald Spears, Denver, Colorado, TE207139
The applicant requests authorization to capture, identify, and
release Indiana and gray bats, for presence surveys throughout the
species ranges in the midwestern and southeastern United States.
Applicant: T.H.E. Engineers, Lexington, Kentucky, TE206874
The applicant requests authorization to capture, identify, and
release Indiana bats, gray bats, Virginia big-eared bats, blackside
dace, and American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) for presence
surveys throughout Kentucky and Tennessee.
Applicant: Apogee Environmental Consultants, Inc., Whitesburg,
Kentucky, TE070796
The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to
capture, identify, radio-tag, and release Indiana, gray, Virginia big-
eared, and Ozark big-eared bats for presence surveys throughout the
species ranges in the eastern United States.
Applicant: Copperhead Environmental Consulting, Inc., Paint Lick,
Kentucky, TE070584
The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to
capture, identify, radio-tag, and release Indiana, gray, Virginia big-
eared, and Ozark big-eared bats for presence surveys throughout the
species ranges in the eastern United States.
Applicant: Biological Systems Consultants, Inc., Lexington, Kentucky,
TE096554
The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to
capture, identify, and release blackside dace for presence surveys
throughout Tennessee and to amend their authorization to include
Kentucky.
Applicant: HMB Professional Engineers, Frankfort, Kentucky, TE129703
The applicant requests amendment of existing authorization to add
authority to harass, collect, or capture, identify, and release
Virginia big-eared bats, American burying beetle, clubshell (Pleurobema
clava), Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis), relict darter, scaleshell
mussel (Leptodea leptodon), northern riffleshell (Epioblasma torulosa
rangiana), palezone shiner, Kentucky cave shrimp (Palaemonias ganteri),
Braun's rock-cress (Arabis perstellata), and Cumberland sandwort
(Arenaria cumberlandensis) for presence surveys throughout Kentucky and
Tennessee.
Applicant: Appalachian Technical Services, Inc., Wise, Virginia,
TE009638
The applicant requests amendment of existing authorization to add
authority to capture, handle, and release slender chub (Erimystax
cahni), fanshell (Cyprogenia stegaria), dromedary pearlymussel (Dromus
dromas), Cumberlandian combshell (Epioblasma brevidens), Appalachian
monkeyface (Quadrula sparsa), Cumberland monkeyface (Quadrula
intermedia), pink mucket (Lampsilis abrupta), and rough pigtoe
(Pleurobema plenum) for presence surveys and scientific research aimed
at recovery of the species throughout Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama,
Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania,
Virginia, and West Virginia.
Applicant: U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Chattahoochee-Oconee National
Forests, Gainesville, Georgia, TE100242
The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to
capture, identify, and release spotfin chub (Cyprinella monacha), amber
darter (Percina antesella), goldline darter (Percina aurolineata),
Conasauga logperch (Percina jenkinsi), blue shiner (Cyprinella
caerulea), Etowah darter (Etheostoma etowahae), and Cherokee darter
(Etheostoma scotti) for presence surveys throughout Georgia.
Applicant: Fish and Wildlife Associates, Whittier, North Carolina,
TE083941
The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to
capture, handle, and release snail darter (Percina tanasi), Conasauga
logperch, blue shiner, amber darter (Percina antesella), goldline
darter, Etowah darter, Cherokee darter, and painted snake coiled forest
snail (Anguispira picta) for presence surveys throughout Georgia,
Alabama, and Tennessee.
Applicant: Georgia Department of Transportation, Atlanta, Georgia,
TE207108
The applicant requests authorization to capture, handle, and
release Cherokee darter, shiny-rayed pocketbook (Hamiota subangulata),
oval pigtoe (Pleurobema pyriforme), Gulf moccasinshell (Medionidus
penicillatus), purple bankclimber (Elliptoideus sloatianus), and fat
threeridge (Amblema neislerii) for presence surveys throughout Georgia.
Applicant: Tim Nehus, Lebanon, Tennesse, TE108584
The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to
capture, handle, and release the Nashville crayfish (Orconectes shoupi)
and 53 species of fish and freshwater mussel for presence surveys
throughout Tennessee.
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Applicant: Copperhead Environmental Consulting, Inc., Paint Lick,
Kentucky, TE171516
The applicant requests amendment of existing authorization to add
authority to capture, handle, and release 31 species of freshwater
mussel for presence surveys throughout the species ranges in the
eastern United States.
Applicant: South Carolina Parks, Recreation and Tourism, Columbia,
South Carolina TE207117
The applicant requests authorization to harass, inspect nest
cavities, and conduct other management activities with the red-cockaded
woodpecker (Picoides borealis) throughout South Carolina.
Applicant: Fort Benning Conservation Branch, Fort Benning, Georgia
TE016270
The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to harass,
inspect nest cavities, capture, translocate, and conduct other
management activities with the red-cockaded woodpecker throughout
Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi.
Applicant: Danny Gustafson, The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina,
TE117645
The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to collect
leaves of pondberry (Lindera melissifolia) from throughout South
Carolina.
Applicant: North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, North
Carolina, TE091705
The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to collect
seeds, spores, cuttings, and vegetative material of little amphianthus
(Amphianthus pusillus), Alabama leather flower (Clematis socialis),
harperella (Ptilimnium nodosum), Kral's water-plantain (Sagittaria
secundifolia), green pitcher-plant (Sarracenia oreophila), seabeach
amaranth (Amaranthus pumilus), shale-barren rockcress (Arabis
serotina), golden sedge (Carex lutea), Alabama leather-flower (Clematis
socialis), smooth-purple coneflower (Echinacea laevigata), Applachian
avens (Geum radiatum), rock gnome lichen (Gymnoderma lineare),
Schweinitz's sunflower (Helianthus schweinitzii), dwarf-flowered
heartleaf (Hexastylis naniflora), mountain golden-heartleaf (Hudsonia
montana), black-spore quillwort (Isoetes melanospora), Merlin's-grass
(Isoetes tegetiformans), Heller's gayfeather (Liatris helleri), rough-
leaved loosestrife (Lysimachia asperulaefolia), Canby's dropwort
(Oxypolis canbyi), Ruth's golden aster (Pityopsis ruthii), Michaux's
sumac (Rhus michauxii), bunched arrowhead (Sagittaria fasciculata),
mountain sweet pitcher-plant (Sarracenia jonesii), largeflower skullcap
(Scutellaria montana), blue ridge goldenrod (Solidago spithamaea),
Virginia spirea (Spiraea virginiana), Cooley's meadowrue (Thalictrum
cooleyi), and running buffalo clover (Trifolium stoloniferum) to
develop and maintain germ plasm and propagated specimens of plants
collected from throughout North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama,
Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia, and Maryland.
Applicant: International Carnivorous Plant Society, Pinole, California,
TE061005
The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to sell in
interstate commerce cultivated seeds of green pitcher-plant (Sarracenia
oreophila), Alabama canebreak pitcher-plant (Sarracenia rubra spp.
alabamensis), mountain sweet pitcher-plant (Sarracenia rubra spp.
jonesii), and godfrey's butterwort (Pinguicula ionantha). To be sold
throughout the United States from specimens cultivated at University of
California, Davis, California.
Applicant: Meadowview Biological Research Station, Woodford, Virginia,
TE022690
The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to sell in
interstate commerce cultivated specimens of green pitcher-plant,
Alabama canebreak pitcher-plant, and mountain sweet pitcher-plant. To
be sold throughout the United States from specimens cultivated at
Woodford, Virginia.
Dated: February 13, 2009.
Jacquelyn B. Parrish,
Acting Regional Director.
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