[Federal Register Volume 84, Number 31 (Thursday, February 14, 2019)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4100-4101]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2019-02331]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-R2-ES-2018-N133; FXES11140200000-189-FF02ENEH00]
Incidental Take Permit Applications 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, we, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, invite the public to comment on federally listed
American Burying Beetle incidental take permit (ITP) applications. The
applicants anticipate American Burying Beetle take as a result of
impacts to Oklahoma habitat the species uses for breeding, feeding, and
sheltering. 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 permits 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, we must receive written comments on or
before March 18, 2019.
ADDRESSES: You may obtain copies of all documents and submit comments
on the applicants' ITP applications by one of the following methods.
Please refer to the proposed permit number when requesting documents or
submitting comments.
Email: fw2_hcp_permits@fws.gov.
U.S. Mail: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Endangered
Species--HCP Permits, P.O. Box 1306, Room 6093, Albuquerque, NM 87103.
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 6078, Albuquerque, NM 87103; by telephone at 505-
248-6651; or via the Federal Relay Service at 800-877-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Introduction
Under the Endangered Species Act, as amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531
et seq.),
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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 our website 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 proposed permit number (TE05384D or TE08500D) when
requesting application documents and when submitting comments.
Documents and other information the applicants submitted 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 No. TE05384D
Applicant: Foundation Energy Management, LLC, Addison, TX.
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 No. TE08500D
Applicant: Sanguine Gas Exploration, 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.
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 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. 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 ESA, 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).
Dated: October 22, 2018.
Amy Lueders,
Regional Director, Southwest Region.
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