[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 79 (Monday, April 25, 2022)] [Notices] [Pages 24327-24337] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 2022-08689] [[Page 24327]] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Fish and Wildlife Service [FWS-R4-ES-2022-N017; FXES11140400000-223-FF04E00000] Endangered Species; Recovery Permit Applications AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice of receipt of permit applications; request for comments. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, have received applications for permits, permit renewals, and/or permit amendments to conduct activities intended to enhance the propagation or survival of endangered species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended. We invite the public and local, State, Tribal, and Federal agencies to comment on these applications. Before issuing any of the requested permits, we will take into consideration any information that we receive during the public comment period. DATES: We must receive written data or comments on the applications by May 25, 2022. ADDRESSES: Reviewing Documents: 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. Submit a request for a copy of such documents to Karen Marlowe (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT). Submitting Comments: If you wish to comment, you may submit comments by one of the following methods:U.S. Mail: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Regional Office, Ecological Services, 1875 Century Boulevard, Atlanta, GA 30345 (Attn: Karen Marlowe, Permit Coordinator). Email: permitsR4ES@fws.gov. Please include your name and return address in your email message. If you do not receive a confirmation from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that we have received your email message, contact us directly at the telephone number listed in FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Marlowe, Permit Coordinator, 404-679-7097 (telephone), karen_marlowe@fws.gov (email), or 404-679- 7081 (fax). Individuals in the United States who are deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access telecommunications relay services. Individuals outside the United States should use the relay services offered within their country to make international calls to the point-of-contact in the United States. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We invite review and comment from the public and local, State, Tribal, and Federal agencies on applications we have received for permits to conduct certain activities with endangered and threatened species under section 10(a)(1)(A) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), and our regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) at 50 CFR part 17. With some exceptions, the ESA prohibits take of listed species unless a Federal permit is issued that authorizes such take. The ESA's definition of ``take'' includes hunting, shooting, harming, wounding, or killing, and also such activities as pursuing, harassing, trapping, capturing, or collecting. A recovery permit issued by us under section 10(a)(1)(A) of the ESA authorizes the permittee to take endangered or threatened species while engaging in activities that are conducted for scientific purposes that promote recovery of species or for enhancement of propagation or survival of species. These activities often include the capture and collection of species, which would result in prohibited take if a permit were not issued. Our regulations implementing section 10(a)(1)(A) for these permits are found at 50 CFR 17.22 for endangered wildlife species, 50 CFR 17.32 for threatened wildlife species, 50 CFR 17.62 for endangered plant species, and 50 CFR 17.72 for threatened plant species. Permit Applications Available for Review and Comment Proposed activities in the following permit requests are for the recovery and enhancement of propagation or survival of the species in the wild. The ESA requires that we invite public comment before issuing these permits. Accordingly, we invite local, State, Tribal, and Federal agencies and the public to submit written data, views, or arguments with respect to these applications. The comments and recommendations that will be most useful and likely to influence agency decisions are those supported by quantitative information or studies. 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 ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so. [[Page 24328]] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Permit application No. Applicant Species Location Activity Type of take Permit action -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TE 054973-6.......... Nicholas Haddad, Mitchell's satyr butterfly (Neonympha Alabama, Population Capture, mark, Renewal/ Michigan State mitchellii mitchellii) and Saint Michigan, monitoring, transport, Amendment. University, Francis' satyr butterfly (Neonympha Mississippi, scientific release, East Lansing, mitchellii francisci). and North research, recapture, and MI. Carolina. captive salvage. propagation, and release into suitable habitat. TE 822525-7.......... Joseph McGlincy, Red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides Alabama, Population Capture, band, Renewal. Wiregrass borealis). Arkansas, management and monitor nest Ecological Florida, monitoring. cavities, Services, Georgia, construct and Bainbridge, GA. Kentucky, monitor Louisiana, artificial Mississippi, nest cavities North Carolina, and South Carolina, restrictors, and Tennessee. recapture, and translocate. PER 0020528.......... Kyle Edmonds, Gray bat (Myotis grisescens), Indiana bat Kentucky........ Presence/ Enter New. USDA Forest (Myotis sodalis), northern long-eared probable hibernacula or Service, Daniel bat (Myotis septentrionalis), Ozark big- absence maternity Boone National eared bat. (Corynorhinus (=Plecotus) surveys, roost caves, Forest, London, townsendii ingens), and Virginia big- studies to capture with KY. eared bat (Corynorhinus (=Plecotus document mist nets or townsendii virginianus). habitat use, harp traps, and population handle, monitoring. identify, band, and radio tag. TE 206777-4.......... Ralph Costa, Red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides Alabama, Population Capture, band, Renewal/ Ralph Costa's borealis). Arkansas, management and monitor nest Amendment. Woodpecker Florida, monitoring. cavities, Outfit, LLC, Georgia, construct and Mountain Rest, Louisiana, monitor SC. Mississippi, artificial North Carolina, nest cavities Oklahoma, South and Carolina, restrictors, Texas, and recapture, Virginia. collect buccal swabs, and translocate. [[Page 24329]] TE 130300-6.......... Paul Johnson, Fish: Alabama sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus Alabama, Scientific Collect, Renewal/ Alabama Aquatic suttkusi), boulder darter (Etheostoma Georgia, research, transport, Amendment. Biodiversity wapiti), Cahaba shiner (Notropis Mississippi, captive hold in Center, Marion, cahabae), chucky madtom (Noturus and Tennessee. propagation, captivity for AL. crypticus), palezone shiner (Notropis relocation, and longer than 45 albizonatus), rush darter (Etheostoma reintroduction. days, release, phytophilum), vermilion darter translocate, (Etheostoma chermocki), watercress and euthanize. darter (Etheostoma nuchale); Mussels: Alabama lampmussel (Lampsilis virescens), Alabama pearlshell (Margaritifera marrianae), Appalachian monkeyface (pearlymussel) (Quadrula sparsa), birdwing pearlymussel (Lemiox rimosus), black clubshell (Pleurobema curtum), Canoe Creek clubshell (Pleurobema athearni), Choctaw bean (Villosa choctawensis), clubshell (Pleurobema clava), Coosa moccasinshell (Medionidus parvulus), cracking pearlymussel (Hemistena lata), Cumberland bean (pearlymussel) (Villosa trabalis), Cumberland elktoe (Alasmidonta atropurpurea), Cumberland monkeyface (pearlymussel) (Quadrula intermedia), Cumberlandian combshell (Epioblasma brevidens), dark pigtoe (Pleurobema furvum), dromedary pearlymussel (Dromus dromas), fanshell (Cyprogenia stegaria), fat threeridge (mussel) (Amblema neislerii), finerayed pigtoe (Fusconaia cuneolus), flat pigtoe (Pleurobema marshalli), Georgia pigtoe (Pleurobema hanleyianum), Gulf moccasinshell (Medionidus penicillatus), heavy pigtoe (Pleurobema taitianum), littlewing pearlymussel (Pegias fabula), Ochlockonee moccasinshell (Medionidus simpsonianus), orangefoot pimpleback (pearlymussel) (Plethobasus cooperianus), Ouachita rock pocketbook (Arkansia wheeleri), oval pigtoe (Pleurobema pyriforme), ovate clubshell (Pleurobema perovatum), oyster mussel (Epioblasma capsaeformis), pale lilliput (pearlymussel) (Toxolasma cylindrellus), pink mucket (pearlymussel) (Lampsilis abrupta), purple bean (Villosa perpurpurea), purple cat's paw (=purple cat's paw pearlymussel) (Epioblasma obliquata obliquata), ring pink (mussel) (Obovaria retusa), rough pigtoe (Pleurobema plenum), round ebonyshell (Fusconaia rotulata), scaleshell mussel (Leptodea leptodon), sheepnose mussel (Plethobasus cyphyus), shiny pigtoe (Fusconaia cor), shinyrayed pocketbook (Lampsilis subangulata), slabside pearlymussel (Pleuronaia dolabelloides), snuffbox mussel (Epioblasma triquetra), southern acornshell (Epioblasma othcaloogensis), southern clubshell (Pleurobema decisum), southern kidneyshell (Ptychobranchus jonesi), southern pigtoe (Pleurobema georgianum), southern sandshell (Hamiota australis), spectaclecase (mussel) (Cumberlandia monodonta), stirrupshell (Quadrula stapes), tan riffleshell (Epioblasma florentina walkeri (=E. walkeri)), triangular kidneyshell (Ptychobranchus greenii), tubercled blossom (pearlymussel) (Epioblasma torulosa torulosa), upland combshell (Epioblasma metastriata), white wartyback (pearlymussel) (Plethobasus cicatricosus), winged mapleleaf (Quadrula fragosa); Snails: Anthony's riversnail (Athearnia anthonyi), armored snail (Pyrgulopsis (=Marstonia) pachyta), cylindrical lioplax (snail) (Lioplax cyclostomaformis), flat pebblesnail (Lepyrium showalteri), interrupted (=Georgia) rocksnail (Leptoxis foremani), plicate rocksnail (Leptoxis plicata), rough hornsnail (Pleurocera foremani), royal marstonia (snail) (Pyrgulopsis ogmorhaphe), and slender campeloma (Campeloma decampi). TE 084054-4.......... James Orr, Anthony's riversnail (Athearnia anthonyi) Alabama and Presence/ Capture, Renewal. AECOM, and Nashville crayfish (Orconectes Tennessee. probable identify, Franklin, TN. shoupi). absence measure, and surveys, release. population monitoring, and distribution studies. TE 38642A-3.......... Kenneth Meyer, Audubon's crested caracara (Polyborus Florida......... Examine core Capture, weigh, Amendment. Avian Research plancus audubonii) and Everglade snail foraging areas, measure, band, and kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis plumbeus). roosts, nest collect body Conservation sites, timing coverts, Institute, of destinations blood, and egg Gainesville, FL. of long- albumen, distance attach solar- movements powered throughout the transmitters, year, habitat and release. loss and degradation effects, methyl mercury levels, and genetic sex determination. TE 62026D-2.......... Catherine Haase, Gray bat (Myotis grisescens), Indiana bat Kentucky and Assess bat Capture with Amendment. Austin Peay (Myotis sodalis), and northern long- Tennessee. community mist nets, State eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis). structure and handle, University, habitat use. identify, Clarksville, TN. band, and radio tag. [[Page 24330]] TE 084047-5.......... St. John's River Florida scrub-jay (Aphelocoma Florida......... Population Florida scrub- Renewal/ Water coerulescens) and red-cockaded management and jay: Capture, Amendment. Management woodpecker (Picoides borealis). monitoring. band, and District, Mount release; red- Dora, FL. cockaded woodpecker: capture, band, monitor nest cavities, construct and monitor artificial nest cavities and restrictors, recapture, and translocate. TE 810274-14......... ICF Jones and Bats: Gray bat (Myotis grisescens), Bats: Alabama, Bats: Presence/ Bats: Enter Renewal. Stokes, Inc., Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis), northern Arkansas, probable hibernacula or Fisherville, KY. long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis), Connecticut, absence maternity Ozark big-eared bat (Corynorhinus Delaware, surveys, roost caves, (=Plecotus) townsendii ingens), and District of studies to capture with Virginia big-eared bat (Corynorhinus Columbia, document mist nets or (=Plecotus) townsendii virginianus); Florida, habitat use, harp traps, Fish: Blackside dace (Phoxinus Georgia, and population handle, cumberlandensis), Cumberland darter Illinois, monitoring; identify, (Etheostoma susanae), diamond darter Indiana, Iowa, Fish, Mussels, band, and (Crystallaria cincotta), duskytail Kansas, and radio tag; darter (Etheostoma percnurum), Kentucky Kentucky, Crustaceans: Fish: Capture, arrow darter (Etheostoma spilotum), Louisiana, Presence/ identify, and palezone shiner (Notropis albizonatus), Maine, probable release; relict darter (Etheostoma chienense), Maryland, absence surveys. Mussels: and snail darter (Percina tanasi); Massachusetts, Capture, Mussels: Alabama lampmussel (Lampsilis Michigan, identify, virescens), Appalachian elktoe Minnesota, mark, release, (Alasmidonta raveneliana), Appalachian Mississippi, collect relict monkeyface (pearlymussel) (Quadrula Missouri, shells; sparsa), birdwing pearlymussel (Lemiox Montana, Crustaceans: rimosus), black clubshell (Pleurobema Nebraska, New Capture via curtum), clubshell (Pleurobema clava), Hampshire, New seining, cracking pearlymussel (Hemistena lata), Jersey, New handle, Cumberland bean (pearlymussel) (Villosa York, North identify, and trabalis), Cumberland elktoe Carolina, North release. (Alasmidonta atropurpurea), Cumberland Dakota, Ohio, monkeyface (pearlymussel) (Quadrula Oklahoma, intermedia), Cumberland pigtoe Pennsylvania, (Pleurobema gibberum), Cumberlandian Rhode Island, combshell (Epioblasma brevidens), dark South Carolina, pigtoe (Pleurobema furvum), dromedary South Dakota, pearlymussel (Dromus dromas), fanshell Tennessee, (Cyprogenia stegaria), fat pocketbook Vermont, (Potamilus capax), finelined pocketbook Virginia, West (Lampsilis altilis), finerayed pigtoe Virginia, (Fusconaia cuneolus), flat pigtoe Wisconsin, and (Pleurobema marshalli), fluted Wyoming; Fish: kidneyshell (Ptychobranchus subtentus), Georgia, green blossom (pearlymussel) (Epioblasma Kentucky, North torulosa gubernaculum), heavy pigtoe Carolina, (Pleurobema taitianum), Higgins eye Tennessee, and (pearlymussel) (Lampsilis higginsii), Virginia; inflated heelsplitter (Potamilus Mussels: inflatus), littlewing pearlymussel Arkansas, (Pegias fabula), northern riffleshell Kentucky, (Epioblasma torulosa rangiana), Illinois, orangefoot pimpleback (pearlymussel) Indiana, Iowa, (Plethobasus cooperianus), orangenacre Louisiana, mucket (Lampsilis perovalis), oyster Michigan, mussel (Epioblasma capsaeformis), pale Minnesota, lilliput (pearlymussel) (Toxolasma Mississippi, cylindrellus), pink mucket Missouri, Ohio, (pearlymussel) (Lampsilis abrupta), Pennsylvania, purple bean (Villosa perpurpurea), Tennessee purple cat's paw (=purple cat's paw (except Upper pearlymussel) (Epioblasma obliquata Coosa River obliquata), rabbitsfoot (Quadrula Basin and cylindrica cylindrica), rayed bean Tributaries), (Villosa fabalis), ring pink (mussel) Virginia, West (Obovaria retusa), rough pigtoe Virginia, and (Pleurobema plenum), rough rabbitsfoot Wisconsin; (Quadrula cylindrica strigillata), Crustaceans: scaleshell mussel (Leptodea leptodon), Kentucky, sheepnose mussel (Plethobasus cyphyus), Virginia, and shiny pigtoe (Fusconaia cor), slabside West Virginia. pearlymussel (Pleuronaia dolabelloides), snuffbox mussel (Epioblasma triquetra), southern combshell (Epioblasma penita), spectaclecase (mussel) (Cumberlandia monodonta), stirrupshell (Quadrula stapes), tan riffleshell (Epioblasma florentina walkeri (=E. walkeri)), tubercled blossom (pearlymussel) (Epioblasma torulosa torulosa), turgid blossom (pearlymussel) (Epioblasma turgidula), white catspaw (pearlymussel) (Epioblasma obliquata perobliqua), white wartyback (pearlymussel) (Plethobasus cicatricosus), winged mapleleaf (Quadrula fragosa), and yellow blossom (pearlymussel) (Epioblasma florentina florentina); and Crustaceans: Big Sandy crayfish (Cambarus callainus). TE 43264B-1.......... Nicole Riddle, Carolina heelsplitter (Lasmigona South Carolina.. Presence/ Remove from Renewal/ Columbia, SC. decorata). probable substrate, Amendment. absence surveys. handle, identify, release, and salvage shells. [[Page 24331]] TE 089075-5.......... Donna Oddy, Alabama beach mouse (Peromyscus Alabama and Long-term Capture, tag, Renewal/ Rockledge, FL. polionotus ammobates), Anastasia Island Florida. monitoring, ear snip, Amendment. beach mouse (Peromyscus polionotus presence/ collect hair, phasma), Choctawhatchee beach mouse probable radio collar, (Peromyscus polionotus allophrys), absence release, and Perdido Key beach mouse (Peromyscus surveys, mark/ translocate. polionotus trissyllepsis), St. Andrew recapture beach mouse (Peromyscus polionotus studies, and peninsularis), and southeastern beach genetic mouse (Peromyscus polionotus analyses. niveiventris). TE 009638-12......... Appalachian Bats: Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis), gray Alabama, Presence/ Bats: Enter Renewal. Technical bat (Myotis grisescens), northern long- Georgia, probable hibernacula, Services, Inc., eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis), Indiana, absence surveys capture with Wise, VA. Virginia big-eared bat (Corynorhinus Kentucky, and scientific mist nets or (=Plecotus) townsendii virginianus); Mississippi, research aimed harp traps, Fish: Blackside dace (Phoxinus North Carolina, at recovery of handle, band, cumberlandensis), Cumberland darter Ohio, the species. radio tag, and (Etheostoma susanae), duskytail darter Pennsylvania, release; Fish: (Etheostoma percnurum), Kentucky arrow Tennessee, Capture via darter (Etheostoma spilotum); Mussels: Virginia, and seining, Appalachian monkeyface (pearlymussel) West Virginia. netting, (Quadrula sparsa), birdwing pearlymussel trapping, or (Lemiox rimosus), clubshell (Pleurobema electroshockin clava), cracking pearlymussel (Hemistena g, handle, lata), Cumberland bean (pearlymussel) identify, and (Villosa trabilis), Cumberland elktoe release; (Alasmidonta atropurpurea), Cumberland Mussels: monkeyface (pearlymussel) (Quadrula Remove from intermedia), Cumberlandian combshell substrate, (Epioblasma brevidens), dromedary handle, pearlymussel (Dromus dromas), fanshell identify, data (Cyprogenia stegaria), fat pocketbook collection, (Potamilus capax), finerayed pigtoe tagging, and (Fusconaia cuneolus), fluted kidneyshell release; (Ptychobranchus subtentus), littlewing Crustaceans: pearlymussel (Pegias fabula), northern Capture via riffleshell (Epioblasma torulosa seining, rangiana), orangefoot pimpleback handle, (pearlymussel) (Plethobasus identify, and cooperianus), oyster mussel (Epioblasma release. capsaeformis), pink mucket (pearlymussel) (Lampsilis abrupta), purple bean (Villosa perpurpurea), purple cat's paw (=purple cat's paw pearlymussel) (Epioblasma obliquata obliquata), rabbitsfoot (Quadrula cylindrica cylindrica), ring pink (mussel) (Obovaria retusa), rough pigtoe (Pleurobema plenum), rough rabbitsfoot (Quadrula cylindrica strigillata), sheepnose mussel (Plethobasus cyphyus), shiny pigtoe (Fusconia cor), slabside pearlymussel (Pleuronaia dolabelloides), snuffbox mussel (Epioblasma triquetra); Crustaceans: Guyandotte River crayfish (Cambarus veteranus) and Big Sandy crayfish (Cambarus callainus). TE 81492B-1.......... Dylan Brooks, Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) and northern Alabama, Presence/ Capture with Renewal/ Sylva, NC. long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis). Arkansas, probable mist nets, Amendment. Connecticut, absence handle, Delaware, surveys, identify, Georgia, habitat use and band, and Illinois, assessment radio tag. Indiana, Iowa, research, Kansas, population Kentucky, monitoring, and Maryland, studies to Massachusetts, evaluate Michigan, potential Minnesota, impacts of Mississippi, White-nose Missouri, Syndrome or Nebraska, New other potential Hampshire, New threats. Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. TE 03305C-1.......... U.S. Army Corps Curtis pearlymussel (Epioblasma Alabama, Presence/ Capture, Renewal/ of Engineers, florentina curtisii), fanshell Arkansas, probable identify, and Amendment. Memphis (Cyprogenia stegaria), fat pocketbook Florida, absence surveys. release. District, (Potamilus capax), fat threeridge Illinois, Iowa, Memphis, TN. (mussel) (Amblema neislerii), Higgins Kentucky, eye (pearlymussel) (Lampsilis Louisiana, higginsii), inflated heelsplitter Mississippi, (Potamilus inflatus), orangefoot Missouri, and pimpleback (pearlymussel) (Plethobasus Tennessee, cooperianus), Ouachita rock pocketbook Wisconsin. (Arkansia wheeleri), pink mucket (pearlymussel) (Lampsilis abrupta), rabbitsfoot (Quadrula cylindrica cylindrica), rayed bean (Villosa fabalis), ring pink (mussel) (Obovaria retusa), scaleshell mussel (Leptodea leptodon), sheepnose mussel (Plethobasus cyphyus), snuffbox mussel (Epioblasma triquetra), southern clubshell (Pleurobema decisum), spectaclecase (mussel) (Cumberlandia monodonta), turgid blossom (pearlymussel) (Epioblasma turgidula), and winged mapleleaf (Quadrula fragosa). TE 81430B-1.......... Heather Wallace, Gray bat (Myotis grisescens), Indiana bat Alabama, Presence/ Enter Renewal/ Raleigh, NC. (Myotis sodalis), northern long-eared Arkansas, probable hibernacula, Amendment. bat (Myotis septentrionalis), and Florida, absence capture with Virginia big-eared bat (Corynorhinus Georgia, surveys, mist nets or (=Plecotus) townsendii virginianus). Kentucky, population harp traps, Louisiana, monitoring, handle, Mississippi, genetic identify, North Carolina, analyses, and band, radio South Carolina, White-nose tag, collect and Tennessee. Syndrome hair samples, sampling. wing punch, and swab. [[Page 24332]] TE 81500B-1.......... Sara Samoray, Gray bat (Myotis grisescens), Indiana bat Alabama, Presence/ Capture with Renewal. Nashville, TN. (Myotis sodalis), northern long-eared Arkansas, probable mist nets or bat (Myotis septentrionalis), and Connecticut, absence harp traps, Virginia big-eared bat (Corynorhinus Delaware, surveys, handle, (=Plecotus) townsendii virginianus). Florida, studies to identify, Georgia, document band, and Illinois, habitat use, radio tag. Indiana, Iowa, population Kansas, monitoring, and Kentucky, to evaluate Louisiana, potential Maine, impacts of Maryland, White-nose Massachusetts, Syndrome or Michigan, other threats. Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. TE 178643-3.......... Jeffrey West, Carolina heelsplitter (Lasmigona North Carolina Presence/ Capture, Renewal. Columbia, SC. decorata). and South probable handle, Carolina. absence surveys. identify, and release. TE 81353B-1.......... Stephanie Penk, Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) and northern Alabama, Presence/ Capture with Renewal. Sylva, NC. long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis). Arkansas, probable mist nets, Connecticut, absence handle, Delaware, surveys, identify, Georgia, habitat use and band, and Illinois, assessment radio tag. Indiana, Iowa, research, Kansas, population Kentucky, dynamics Maryland, evaluation, and Massachusetts, migration Michigan, research. Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. TE 88796C-2.......... Geological Fish: Blue shiner (Cyprinella caerulea), Alabama......... Population Capture, Amendment. Survey of Cahaba shiner (Notropis cahabae), surveys. handle, Alabama, goldline darter (Percina aurolineata), identify, and Tuscaloosa, AL. rush darter (Etheostoma phytophilum), release. vermilion darter (Etheostoma chermocki); Mussels: Alabama moccasinshell (Medionidus acutissimus), Coosa moccasinshell (Medionidus parvulus), dark pigtoe (Pleurobema furvum), finelined pocketbook (Lampsilis altilis), Georgia pigtoe (Pleurobema hanleyianum), heavy pigtoe (Pleurobema taitianum), inflated heelsplitter (Potamilus inflatus), orangenacre mucket (Lampsilis perovalis), ovate clubshell (Pleurobema perovatum), southern acornshell (Epioblasma othcaloogensis), southern clubshell (Pleurobema decisum), southern combshell (Epioblasma penita), southern pigtoe (Pleurobema georgianum), triangular kidneyshell (Ptychobranchus greenii), upland combshell (Epioblasma metastriata). [[Page 24333]] PER 0036267.......... Shane Kelley, Gray bat (Myotis grisescens), Indiana bat Alabama, Presence/ Capture with New. Louisville, KY. (Myotis sodalis), northern long-eared Arkansas, probable mist nets or bat (Myotis septentrionalis), and Connecticut, absence surveys. harp traps, Virginia big-eared bat (Corynorhinus Delaware, handle, (Plecotus) townsendii virginianus). Georgia, identify, Illinois, band, and Indiana, Iowa, radio tag. Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. PER 0036268.......... KFS LLC, Alabama beach mouse (Peromyscus Alabama......... Population Capture, tag, New. Huntsville, AL. polionotus ammobates). monitoring, and release. mark/recapture studies. TE 42183A-2.......... Eglin Air Force Red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides Alabama, Population Capture, band, Renewal/ Base, borealis). Arkansas, management and monitor nest Amendment. Niceville, FL. Florida, monitoring. cavities, Georgia, construct and Louisiana, monitor Mississippi, artificial North Carolina, nest cavities Oklahoma, South and Carolina, restrictors, Texas, and recapture, and Virginia. translocate. TE 087194-5.......... Florida Forest Red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides Goethe State Population Capture, band, Renewal/ Service, Goethe borealis). Forest, Levy management and construct and Amendment. State Forest, County, Florida. monitoring. install Dunnellon, FL. artificial nest cavities and restrictors, monitor nest cavities, recapture, and translocate. PER 0037085.......... Mississippi Green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas), Mississippi..... Population Insert PIT tag, New. Aquarium, hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys monitoring attach flipper Gulfport, MS. imbricata), Kemp's ridley sea turtle should they be tag, and (Lepidochelys kempii), leatherback sea re-encountered collect blood turtle (Dermochelys coriacea), and and samples. loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta). physiological research during rehabilitation. PER 0037218.......... Alabama Alabama sturgeon (Scaphirhynchus Alabama......... Presence/ Capture, New. Department of suttkusi), blue shiner (Cyprinella probable handle, Environmental caerulea), boulder darter (Etheostoma absence surveys identify, and Management, wapiti), Cahaba shiner (Notropis and population release. Decatur, AL. cahabae), goldline darter (Percina monitoring. aurolineata), palezone shiner (Notropis albizonatus), rush darter (Etheostoma phytophilum), spring pygmy sunfish (Elassoma alabamae), trispot darter (Etheostoma trisella), vermilion darter (Etheostoma chermocki), watercress darter (Etheostoma nuchale). [[Page 24334]] PER 0037593.......... Donald Hubbs, Alabama lampmussel (Lampsilis virescens), Alabama, Presence/ Remove from New. Camden, TN. Alabama moccasinshell (Medionidus Florida, probable substrate, acutissimus), Appalachian elktoe Georgia, absence handle, (Alasmidonta raveneliana), Appalachian Kentucky, surveys, identify, monkeyface (pearlymussel) (Quadrula Louisiana, scientific collect sparsa), birdwing pearlymussel (Lemiox Mississippi, research, and tissue, mark, rimosus), clubshell (Pleurobema clava), North Carolina, collect for release, Coosa moccasinshell (Medionidus South Carolina, captive collect for parvulus), cracking pearlymussel and Tennessee. propagation and propagation at (Hemistena lata), Cumberland bean reintroduction. permitted (pearlymussel) (Villosa trabalis), Tennessee Cumberland elktoe (Alasmidonta facility, atropurpurea), Cumberland monkeyface transport, and (pearlymussel) (Quadrula intermedia), release. Cumberland pigtoe (Pleurobema gibberum), Cumberlandian combshell (Epioblasma brevidens), dromedary pearlymussel (Dromus dromas), fanshell (Cyprogenia stegaria), fat pocketbook (Potamilus capax), finelined pocketbook (Lampsilis altilis), finerayed pigtoe (Fusconaia cuneolus), fluted kidneyshell (Ptychobranchus subtentus), Georgia pigtoe (Pleurobema hanleyianum), green blossom (pearlymussel) (Epioblasma torulosa gubernaculum), inflated heelsplitter (Potamilus inflatus), littlewing pearlymussel (Pegias fabula), orangefoot pimpleback (pearlymussel) (Plethobasus cooperianus), oyster mussel (Epioblasma capsaeformis), pale lilliput (pearlymussel) (Toxolasma cylindrellus), pink mucket (pearlymussel) (Lampsilis abrupta), purple bean (Villosa perpurpurea), purple cat's paw (purple cat's paw pearlymussel) (Epioblasma obliquata obliquata), rabbitsfoot (Quadrula cylindrica cylindrica), rayed bean (Villosa fabalis), ring pink (mussel) (Obovaria retusa), rough pigtoe (Pleurobema plenum), rough rabbitsfoot (Quadrula cylindrica strigillata), scaleshell mussel (Leptodea leptodon), sheepnose mussel (Plethobasus cyphyus), shiny pigtoe (Fusconaia cor), slabside pearlymussel (Pleuronaia dolabelloides), snuffbox mussel (Epioblasma triquetra), southern acornshell (Epioblasma othcaloogensis), southern clubshell (Pleurobema decisum), southern pigtoe (Pleurobema georgianum), spectaclecase (mussel) (Cumberlandia monodonta), tan riffleshell (Epioblasma florentina walkeri (E. walkeri)), triangular kidneyshell (Ptychobranchus greenii), tubercled blossom (pearlymussel) (Epioblasma torulosa torulosa), turgid blossom (pearlymussel) (Epioblasma turgidula), upland combshell (Epioblasma metastriata), white wartyback (pearlymussel) (Plethobasus cicatricosus), winged mapleleaf (Quadrula fragosa), and yellow blossom (pearlymussel) (Epioblasma florentina florentina). TE 88797B-2.......... Amber Nolder, Gray bat (Myotis grisescens), Indiana bat Alabama, Presence/ Capture with Renewal. Harrisburg, PA. (Myotis sodalis), and northern long- Arkansas, probable mist nets and eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis). Connecticut, absence harp traps, Delaware, surveys, handle, District of habitat identify, Columbia, assessments, band, mark Florida, and habitat-use with non-toxic Georgia, studies. paint, and Illinois, radio tag. Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. TE 142806-3.......... James Cox, Red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides Florida and Cross-fostering Monitor, Amendment. Tallahassee, FL. borealis). Georgia. nestlings. capture, weigh, band, release, translocate, and collect cloacal swabs. PER 0037739.......... Arkansas State Lindera melissifolia (pondberry)......... Arkansas........ Scientific Collect root/ New. University, research and rhizome State propagation. tissue, and University, AR. stem pieces. [[Page 24335]] PER 0037719.......... Kissimmee Florida grasshopper sparrow (Ammodramus Florida......... Presence/ Nest searching, New. Prairie savannarum floridanus). probable deploy nest Preserve State absence cameras, Park, surveys, install Okeechobee, FL. population predator management and fences, nest monitoring, and lifting, fire collection and ant treatment, transport of capture with eggs, mist nets and nestlings, and audio lures, adults for handle, band, captive monitor nest breeding. cavities, install predator barriers, collect blood, feces, and buccal swabs, collect and transport eggs, nestlings, and adults for captive breeding at permitted White Oak Conservation Foundation facility. PER 0037812.......... Royal Ontario Gray bat (Myotis grisescens), Indiana bat Tennessee....... Presence/ Capture via New. Museum, (Myotis sodalis), and northern long- probable mist nets and Toronto, ON. eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis). absence surveys. harp traps, handle, identify, and release. PER 0037836.......... Christopher Amphibians: Neuse River waterdog North Carolina Presence/ Amphibians: New. Sheats, New (Necturus lewisi); Fish: Cape Fear and South probable Capture via Hill, NC. shiner (Notropis mekistocholas), Carolina. absence surveys. trap and Carolina madtom (Noturus furiosus), baiting, Roanoke logperch (Percina rex), Waccamaw handle, silverside (Menidia extensa); Mussels: identify, and Appalachian elktoe (Alasmidonta release; Fish: raveneliana), Atlantic pigtoe (Fusconaia Capture via masoni), Carolina heelsplitter seining, or (Lasmigona decorata), dwarf wedgemussel netting, (Alasmidonta heterodon), James handle, spinymussel (Pleurobema collina), identify, and littlewing pearlymussel (Pegias fabula), release; Tar River spinymussel (Elliptio Mussels: steinstansana), and yellow lance Remove from (Elliptio lanceolata). substrate, handle, identify, mark, and release. PER 0037837.......... Justin Bagley, Blue shiner (Cyprinella caerulea) and Alabama......... Presence/ Capture via New. Jacksonville Cahaba shiner (Notropis cahabae). Probable seining or State absence netting, University, surveys, handle, Jacksonville, genomic identify, AL. analyses, and photograph, increase museum collect non- collection. lethal fin clips, release, collect voucher specimens. [[Page 24336]] TE 079863-4.......... Michael Mussels: Alabama lampmussel (Lampsilis Alabama, Presence/ Capture, Renewal. Gangloff, virescens), Alabama moccasinshell Florida, probable identify, tag, Boone, NC. (Medionidus acutissimus), Alabama Georgia, absence surveys. collect buccal pearlshell (Margaritifera marrianae), Kentucky, swabs, Altamaha spinymussel (Elliptio spinosa), Mississippi, release, and Appalachian elktoe (Alasmidonta Mississippi, salvage shells. raveneliana), Appalachian monkeyface North Carolina, (pearlymussel) (Quadrula sparsa), South Carolina, birdwing pearlymussel (Lemiox rimosus), Tennessee, and black clubshell (Pleurobema curtum), Virginia. Carolina heelsplitter (Lasmigona decorata), Chipola slabshell (Elliptio chipolaensis), Choctaw bean (Villosa choctawensis), clubshell (Pleurobema clava), Coosa moccasinshell (Medionidus parvulus), cracking pearlymussel (Hemistena lata), Cumberland bean (pearlymussel) (Villosa trabalis), Cumberland elktoe (Alasmidonta atropurpurea), Cumberland monkeyface (pearlymussel) (Quadrula intermedia), Cumberland pigtoe (Pleurobema gibberum), Cumberlandian combshell (Epioblasma brevidens), dark pigtoe (Pleurobema furvum), dromedary pearlymussel (Dromus dromas), dwarf wedgemussel (Alasmidonta heterodon), fanshell (Cyprogenia stegaria), fat pocketbook (Potamilus capax), fat threeridge (mussel) (Amblema neislerii), finelined pocketbook (Lampsilis altilis), finerayed pigtoe (Fusconaia cuneolus), flat pigtoe (Pleurobema marshalli), fuzzy pigtoe (Pleurobema strodeanum), green blossom (pearlymussel) (Epioblasma torulosa gubernaculum), Gulf moccasinshell (Medionidus penicillatus), heavy pigtoe (Pleurobema taitianum), inflated heelsplitter (Potamilus inflatus), interrupted (=Georgia) rocksnail (Leptoxis foremani), James spinymussel (Pleurobema collina), littlewing pearlymussel (Pegias fabula), narrow pigtoe (Fusconaia escambia), Ochlockonee moccasinshell (Medionidus simpsonianus), orangefoot pimpleback (pearlymussel) (Plethobasus cooperianus), oval pigtoe (Pleurobema pyriforme), ovate clubshell (Pleurobema perovatum), oyster mussel (Epioblasma capsaeformis), pale lilliput (pearlymussel) (Toxolasma cylindrellus), pink mucket (pearlymussel) (Lampsilis abrupta), purple bankclimber (mussel) (Elliptoideus sloatianus), purple bean (Villosa perpurpurea), purple cat's paw (=purple cat's paw pearlymussel) (Epioblasma obliquata obliquata), ring pink (mussel) (Obovaria retusa), rough pigtoe (Pleurobema plenum), rough rabbitsfoot (Quadrula cylindrica strigillata), round ebonyshell (Fusconaia rotulata), scaleshell mussel (Leptodea leptodon), sheepnose mussel (Plethobasus cyphyus), shiny pigtoe (Fusconaia cor), shinyrayed pocketbook (Lampsilis subangulata), slabside pearlymussel (Pleuronaia dolabelloides), southern acornshell (Epioblasma othcaloogensis), southern clubshell (Pleurobema decisum), southern combshell (Epioblasma penita), southern kidneyshell (Ptychobranchus jonesi), southern pigtoe (Pleurobema georgianum), southern sandshell (Hamiota australis), stirrupshell (Quadrula stapes), tan riffleshell (Epioblasma florentina walkeri (=E. walkeri)), tapered pigtoe (Fusconaia burkei), Tar River spinymussel (Elliptio steinstansana), triangular kidneyshell (Ptychobranchus greenii), tubercled blossom (pearlymussel) (Epioblasma torulosa torulosa), turgid blossom (pearlymussel) (Epioblasma turgidula), upland combshell (Epioblasma metastriata), white wartyback (pearlymussel) (Plethobasus cicatricosus), winged mapleleaf (Quadrula fragosa), and yellow blossom (pearlymussel) (Epioblasma florentina florentina); Snails: Anthony's riversnail (Athearnia anthonyi), armored snail (Pyrgulopsis (=Marstonia) pachyta), cylindrical lioplax (snail) (Lioplax cyclostomaformis), flat pebblesnail (Lepyrium showalteri), Lacy elimia (snail) (Elimia crenatella), painted rocksnail (Leptoxis taeniata), plicate rocksnail (Leptoxis plicata), rough hornsnail (Pleurocera foreman), round rocksnail (Leptoxis ampla), slender campeloma (Campeloma decampi), and tulotoma snail (Tulotoma magnifica). TE 50300D-1.......... Edward Wilson, Gray bat (Myotis grisescens), Indiana bat Kentucky, North Presence/ Capture via Amendment. Lexington, KY. (Myotis sodalis), and northern long- Carolina, Ohio, probable mist nets and eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis). South Carolina, absence surveys. harp traps, Tennessee, handle, Virginia, and identify, and West Virginia. release. TE 087191-6.......... Sandhills Red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides North Carolina Population Capture, Renewal/ Ecological borealis). and South management and recapture, Amendment. Institute, Carolina. monitoring and band, Southern Pines, research on construct and NC. Avian Keratin monitor Disorder. artificial nest cavities and restrictors, monitor nest cavities, translocate, collect buccal and cloacal swabs, and capture and recapture birds that exhibit Avian Keratin Disorder to monitor their fate in the population. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[Page 24337]] Authority We publish this notice under section 10(c) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). John Tirpak, Deputy Assistant Regional Director, Ecological Services. [FR Doc. 2022-08689 Filed 4-22-22; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4333-15-P