[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 97 (Monday, May 22, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 23288-23289]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-10417]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-R2-ES-2017-N047; 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
federally listed American burying beetle incidental take permit
applications. The applicants anticipate American burying beetle take as
a result of impacts to habitat the species uses for breeding, feeding,
and sheltering in Oklahoma. The take would be incidental to the
applicants' 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 June 21, 2017.
ADDRESSES: You may obtain copies of all documents and submit comments
on the applicants' incidental take permit (ITP) applications 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 incidental take permit (ITP) applications to take the
federally listed American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus)
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 permits would be issued to the applicants 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 applications 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 TE23851C
Applicant: Targa SouthOK NGL Pipeline, LLC, Tulsa, OK.
Applicant requests a 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
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construction, maintenance, operation, repair, decommissioning, and
reclamation in Oklahoma.
Permit TE23848C
Applicant: Targa Pipeline Mid-Continent, LLC, Tulsa, OK.
Applicant requests a 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.
Permit 19776C
Applicant: MV Purchasing, LLC, Wichita, KS.
Applicant requests a 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.
Permit TE22132C
Applicant: TPL Arkoma, Inc, Tulsa, OK.
Applicant requests a 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.
Permit TE22139C
Applicant: TPL Arkoma Midstream, LLC, Tulsa, OK.
Applicant requests a 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.
Permit TE24128C
Applicant: Paragon Geophysical Services, Inc, Wichita, KS.
Applicant requests a 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.
Permit TE25117C
Applicant: Tenaska, Inc, Omaha, NE.
Applicant requests a 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.
Public Availability of Comments
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).
Joy E. Nicholopolous,
Acting Regional Director, Southwest Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service.
[FR Doc. 2017-10417 Filed 5-19-17; 8:45 am]
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