[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 47 (Monday, March 13, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13487-13488]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-04845]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-R2-ES-2017-N005; FXES11140200000-178-FF02ENEH00]
Incidental Take Permit Application Received To Participate in
American Burying Beetle Amended 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 the federally listed American
burying beetle. The applicant anticipates the take of American burying
beetle as a result of impacts to habitat the species uses for breeding,
feeding, and sheltering in Oklahoma. The take would be incidental to
the applicant's activities associated with oil and gas well field and
pipeline infrastructure (gathering, transmission, and distribution),
including geophysical exploration (seismic), construction, maintenance,
operation, repair, decommissioning, and reclamation. If approved, the
permit would be issued under the approved American Burying Beetle
Amended Oil and Gas Industry Conservation Plan (ICP) Endangered Species
Act Section 10(a)(1)(B) Permit Issuance in Oklahoma.
DATES: To ensure consideration, written comments must be received on or
before April 12, 2017.
ADDRESSES: You may obtain copies of all documents and submit comments
on the applicant's Incidental Take Permit (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.
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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 ITP application to take the federally listed American
burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) beetle during 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
American Burying Beetle Amended Oil and Gas Industry Conservation Plan
(ICP) Endangered Species Act Section 10(a)(1)(B) Permit Issuance in
Oklahoma. The original ICP was approved on May 21, 2014, and the ``no
significant impact'' finding notice was published in the Federal
Register 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
incidentally taking the federally listed American burying beetle.
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 TE38404B
Applicant: Canyon Creek Energy Operating, LLC, Tulsa, 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 oil and gas
gathering, transmission, and distribution pipeline infrastructure
construction, maintenance, operation, repair, decommissioning, and
reclamation in Oklahoma.
Comments' Public Availability
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, Section 10(c) (16 U.S.C. 1531
et seq.) 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).
Benjamin N. Tuggle,
Regional Director, Southwest Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
[FR Doc. 2017-04845 Filed 3-10-17; 8:45 am]
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