80 FR 13609 - Receipt of Applications for Endangered Species Permits

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 50 (March 16, 2015)

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FR Document		2015-05896

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite the public to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species. With some exceptions, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) prohibits activities with listed species unless a Federal permit is issued that allows such activities. The ESA requires that we invite public comment before issuing these permits.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

[FWS-R4-ES-2014-N047; 40120-1112-0000-F2]


Receipt of Applications for Endangered Species Permits

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite the public to 
comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities 
with endangered species. With some exceptions, the Endangered Species 
Act (ESA) prohibits activities with listed species unless a Federal 
permit is issued that allows such activities. The ESA requires that we 
invite public comment before issuing these permits.

DATES: We must receive written data or comments on the applications at 
the address given below by April 15, 2015.

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: U.S. 
Fish and Wildlife Service, 1875 Century Boulevard, Suite 200, Atlanta, 
GA 30345 (Attn: Karen Marlowe, Permit Coordinator).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Marlowe, 10(a)(1)(A) Permit 
Coordinator, telephone 205-726-2667; facsimile 205-726-2479.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The public is invited to comment on the 
following applications 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 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), 
and our regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) at 50 CFR 
17. This 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 send them via 
electronic mail (email) to [email protected]. Please include your 
name and return address in your email message. If you do not receive a 
confirmation from the Fish and Wildlife Service that we have received 
your email message, contact us directly at the telephone number listed 
above (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT). Finally, you may hand-
deliver comments to the Fish and Wildlife Service office listed above 
(see ADDRESSES).
    Before including your address, telephone number, email 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.

Permit Applications

Permit Application Number: TE 041314-5

Applicant: Kenneth Moore, U.S. Army, Fort Polk, Louisiana
    The applicant requests renewal of his current permit to take 
(capture, band, release, install artificial cavities and restrictors 
for, monitor nest cavities for, and translocate) red-cockaded 
woodpeckers (Picoides borealis) on Fort Polk military base, with 
translocations allowed to Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana, for 
the enhancement of propagation and survival of the species.

Permit Application Number: TE 087191-3

Applicant: Kerry Brust, Sandhills Ecological Institute, Southern Pines, 
North Carolina
    The applicant requests renewal of her current permit to take 
(capture, band, release, install artificial cavities and restrictors 
for, and monitor nest cavities for) red-cockaded woodpeckers (Picoides 
borealis) in the North Carolina Sandhills--Moore, Hoke, Cumberland, 
Richmond, and Scotland Counties, North Carolina, and Dorchester County, 
South Carolina--for the enhancement of propagation and survival of the 
species.

Permit Application Number: TE 56746B-0

Applicant: Joseph Johnson, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
    The applicant requests authorization to take (capture with mist 
nets, handle,

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weigh, measure, radio-tag, band, and release) Indiana bats (Myotis 
sodalis), gray bats (Myotis grisescens), and northern long-eared bats 
(Myotis septentrionalis) in the Shoal Creek Ranger District of the 
Talladega National Forest in Cleburne and Calhoun Counties, Alabama, to 
determine presence/absence and examine the impacts of fire management 
and forest thinning on the species.

Permit Application Number: TE 56749B-0

Applicant: Patrick Moore, Little Rock, Arkansas
    The applicant requests authorization to take (enter hibernacula, 
salvage dead bats, capture with mist nets or harp traps, handle, 
identify, collect hair samples, band, radio-tag, light-tag, wing-punch, 
and selectively euthanize for white-nose syndrome) Indiana bats (Myotis 
sodalis), gray bats (Myotis grisescens), Ozark big-eared bats 
(Corynorhinus townsendii ingens), and northern long-eared bats (Myotis 
septentrionalis) for the purposes of conducting presence/absence 
surveys, studies to document habitat use, and population monitoring 
throughout the following States: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, 
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, 
New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, 
Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Permit Application Number: TE 822525-6

Applicant: Joe McGlincy. Southern Forestry Consultants, Bainbridge, 
Georgia
    The applicant requests renewal of his current permit to take 
(capture, monitor, band, release, install artificial cavities for, and 
translocate) red-cockaded woodpeckers (Picoides borealis) throughout 
the species' range for the enhancement of propagation and survival of 
the species.

Permit Application Number: TE 22311A-1

Applicant: Anna George, Tennessee Aquarium, Chattanooga, Tennessee
    The applicant requests renewal of her current permit to take 
(capture, identify, take fin clips from, and release) up to 30 
individuals of each of the fish species amber darter (Percina 
antesella), goldline darter (Percina aurolineata), snail darter 
(Percina tanasi), Conasauga logperch (Percina jenkinsi), blue shiner 
(Cyprinella caerulea), and Laurel dace (Chrosomus saylori), in Alabama, 
Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, for the 
purposes of conducting presence/absence surveys and genetic analyses.

Permit Application Number: TE 38522A-1

Applicant: Michael Lacki, University of Kentucky, Georgetown, Kentucky
    The applicant requests renewal and amendment of his current permit 
to take (enter hibernacula or maternity roost caves of, salvage dead 
bats, capture with mist nets or harp traps, handle, identify, collect 
hair samples, band, radio-tag, light-tag, wing-punch, and selectively 
euthanize for white-nose syndrome) Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis), gray 
bats (Myotis grisescens), and northern long-eared bats (Myotis 
septentrionalis) for the purposes of conducting presence/absence 
surveys, studies to document habitat use, and population monitoring in 
Kentucky.

Permit Application Number: TE 207117-1

Applicant: Samuel Gaines, The South Carolina Department of Parks, 
Recreation & Tourism, Columbia, South Carolina
    The applicant requests renewal of his current permit to take 
(inspect nest cavities of) red-cockaded woodpeckers (Picoides borealis) 
for the purpose of monitoring populations in Cheraw State Park and 
Hampton Plantation State Historic Site in Chesterfield and Charleston 
Counties, South Carolina.

Permit Application Number: TE 075913-5

Applicant: Thomas Risch, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas
    The applicant requests an amendment of his current permit to add 
take (salvage of dead bats, capture with mist nets or harp traps, 
handling, identification, collection of hair samples, banding, radio-
tagging, light-tagging wing-punching, and selectively euthanizing for 
white-nose syndrome) of northern long-eared bats (Myotis 
septentrionalis) and to add the following States for purposes of 
conducting presence/absence surveys, studies to document habitat use, 
and population monitoring: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, 
Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, 
Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, 
Virginia, and West Virginia.

Permit Application Number: TE 58576B-0

Applicant: Randall Davis, Texas A&M University, Galveston, Texas
    The applicant requests authorization to take (capture, attach video 
and data recorder to, release, and recapture) 15 to 20 adult female 
leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) for the purpose of 
revealing new information on foraging ecology in Sandy Point National 
Wildlife Refuge, Frederiksted, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands.

Permit Application Number: TE 35313B-2

Applicant: Emma Willcox, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
    The applicant requests an amendment to include additional States on 
her current permit to take (capture, handle, band, radio-tag, pit tag, 
collect hair and fecal samples of, wing punch, swab, undertake longwave 
ultraviolet fluorescence screening, and release) Indiana bats (Myotis 
sodalis), gray bats (Myotis grisescens) and northern long-eared bats 
(Myotis septentrionalis) for the purposes of conducting presence/
absence surveys, studies to document habitat use, population 
monitoring, and white-nose syndrome surveillance. The applicant 
requests the addition of the following States: Alabama, Arkansas, 
Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, 
Oklahoma, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia.

    Dated: March 9, 2015.
Leopoldo Miranda,
Assistant Regional Director- Ecological Services, Southeast Region.
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along the Potomac River and to update electronically distributed to all Council comments to the Fish and Wildlife
the Council on implementation projects. members. Service’s Regional Office (see
Designated through an amendment to Dated: March 10, 2015. ADDRESSES section) or send them via
the National Trails System Act (16 Alma Ripps,
electronic mail (email) to permitsR4ES@
U.S.C. 1241 to 1251, as amended), the fws.gov. Please include your name and
Chief, Office of Policy.
Captain John Smith Chesapeake return address in your email message. If
[FR Doc. 2015–05931 Filed 3–13–15; 8:45 am]
National Historic trail consists of ‘‘a you do not receive a confirmation from
series of water routes extending BILLING CODE 4310–EE–P the Fish and Wildlife Service that we
approximately 3,000 miles along the have received your email message,
Chesapeake Bay and the tributaries of contact us directly at the telephone
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR number listed above (see FOR FURTHER
the Chesapeake Bay in the States of
Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, and in Fish and Wildlife Service INFORMATION CONTACT). Finally, you may
the District of Columbia,’’ tracing the hand-deliver comments to the Fish and
1607–1609 voyages of Captain John [FWS–R4–ES–2014–N047; 40120–1112– Wildlife Service office listed above (see
Smith to chart the land and waterways 0000–F2] ADDRESSES).
of the Chesapeake Bay. Before including your address,
Receipt of Applications for telephone number, email address, or
DATES: The Captain John Smith Endangered Species Permits
Chesapeake National Historic Trail other personal identifying information
Advisory Council will meet from 10:00 AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, in your comments, you should be aware
a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, April Interior. that your entire comment—including
29, 2015 (EASTERN). ACTION: Notice. your personal identifying information—
may be made publicly available at any
ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and time. While you can ask us in your
Murphy Hall at Westmoreland State Wildlife Service, invite the public to comments to withhold your personal
Park, 145 Cliff Road, Montross, VA comment on the following applications identifying information from public
22520. For more information, please to conduct certain activities with review, we cannot guarantee that we
contact the NPS Chesapeake Bay Office, endangered species. With some will be able to do so.
410 Severn Avenue, Suite 314, exceptions, the Endangered Species Act
Annapolis, MD 21403, telephone (410) (ESA) prohibits activities with listed Permit Applications
260–2477. species unless a Federal permit is issued Permit Application Number: TE
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: that allows such activities. The ESA 041314–5
Christine Lucero, Partnership requires that we invite public comment
before issuing these permits. Applicant: Kenneth Moore, U.S. Army,
Coordinator, telephone (757) 258–8914
Fort Polk, Louisiana
or email Christine_Lucero@nps.gov. DATES: We must receive written data or
comments on the applications at the The applicant requests renewal of his
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
address given below by April 15, 2015. current permit to take (capture, band,
meeting is open to the public.
ADDRESSES: Documents and other
release, install artificial cavities and
Preregistration is required for both
information submitted with the restrictors for, monitor nest cavities for,
public attendance and comment. Any
applications are available for review, and translocate) red-cockaded
individual who wishes to attend the
subject to the requirements of the woodpeckers (Picoides borealis) on Fort
meeting and/or participate in the public
Privacy Act and Freedom of Information Polk military base, with translocations
comment session should register via
Act, by any party who submits a written allowed to Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas,
email at Christine_Lucero@nps.gov or
request for a copy of such documents to and Louisiana, for the enhancement of
telephone (757) 258–8914. For those
the following office within 30 days of propagation and survival of the species.
wishing to make comments, please
provide a written summary of your the date of publication of this notice: Permit Application Number: TE
comments prior to the meeting. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1875 087191–3
Designated Federal Official for the Century Boulevard, Suite 200, Atlanta,
GA 30345 (Attn: Karen Marlowe, Permit Applicant: Kerry Brust, Sandhills
Captain John Smith Chesapeake
Coordinator). Ecological Institute, Southern Pines,
National Historic Trail Advisory
North Carolina
Council is Jonathan Doherty, Assistant FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Superintendent, telephone (410) 260– Karen Marlowe, 10(a)(1)(A) Permit The applicant requests renewal of her
2477. Coordinator, telephone 205–726–2667; current permit to take (capture, band,
Comments will be taken for 30 facsimile 205–726–2479. release, install artificial cavities and
minutes at the end of the meeting (from SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The restrictors for, and monitor nest cavities
2:30 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.). Before including public is invited to comment on the for) red-cockaded woodpeckers
your address, telephone number, email following applications for permits to (Picoides borealis) in the North Carolina
address, or other personal indentifying conduct certain activities with Sandhills—Moore, Hoke, Cumberland,
information in your comment, you endangered and threatened species Richmond, and Scotland Counties,
should be aware that your entire under section 10(a)(1)(A) of the North Carolina, and Dorchester County,
comment—including your personal Endangered Species Act of 1973, as South Carolina—for the enhancement of
identifying information—may be made amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), and propagation and survival of the species.
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publicly available at any time. While our regulations in the Code of Federal Permit Application Number: TE
you may ask us in your comment to Regulations (CFR) at 50 CFR 17. This 56746B–0
withhold your personal identifying notice is provided under section 10(c) of
information from public review, we the Act. Applicant: Joseph Johnson, Bucknell
cannot guarantee that we will be able to If you wish to comment, you may University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
do so. All comments will be made part submit comments by any one of the The applicant requests authorization
of the public record and will be following methods. You may mail to take (capture with mist nets, handle,

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weigh, measure, radio-tag, band, and Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Permit Application Number: TE
release) Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis), Tennessee, and Virginia, for the 58576B–0
gray bats (Myotis grisescens), and purposes of conducting presence/ Applicant: Randall Davis, Texas A&M
northern long-eared bats (Myotis absence surveys and genetic analyses. University, Galveston, Texas
septentrionalis) in the Shoal Creek
Ranger District of the Talladega National Permit Application Number: TE The applicant requests authorization
Forest in Cleburne and Calhoun 38522A–1 to take (capture, attach video and data
Counties, Alabama, to determine Applicant: Michael Lacki, University of recorder to, release, and recapture) 15 to
presence/absence and examine the 20 adult female leatherback sea turtles
Kentucky, Georgetown, Kentucky
impacts of fire management and forest (Dermochelys coriacea) for the purpose
thinning on the species. The applicant requests renewal and of revealing new information on
amendment of his current permit to take foraging ecology in Sandy Point
Permit Application Number: TE National Wildlife Refuge, Frederiksted,
56749B–0 (enter hibernacula or maternity roost
caves of, salvage dead bats, capture with St. Croix, US Virgin Islands.
Applicant: Patrick Moore, Little Rock, mist nets or harp traps, handle, identify, Permit Application Number: TE
Arkansas collect hair samples, band, radio-tag, 35313B–2
The applicant requests authorization light-tag, wing-punch, and selectively
euthanize for white-nose syndrome) Applicant: Emma Willcox, University of
to take (enter hibernacula, salvage dead
Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis), gray bats Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
bats, capture with mist nets or harp
traps, handle, identify, collect hair (Myotis grisescens), and northern long- The applicant requests an amendment
samples, band, radio-tag, light-tag, wing- eared bats (Myotis septentrionalis) for to include additional States on her
punch, and selectively euthanize for the purposes of conducting presence/ current permit to take (capture, handle,
white-nose syndrome) Indiana bats absence surveys, studies to document band, radio-tag, pit tag, collect hair and
(Myotis sodalis), gray bats (Myotis habitat use, and population monitoring fecal samples of, wing punch, swab,
grisescens), Ozark big-eared bats in Kentucky. undertake longwave ultraviolet
(Corynorhinus townsendii ingens), and fluorescence screening, and release)
northern long-eared bats (Myotis Permit Application Number: TE Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis), gray bats
septentrionalis) for the purposes of 207117–1 (Myotis grisescens) and northern long-
conducting presence/absence surveys, Applicant: Samuel Gaines, The South eared bats (Myotis septentrionalis) for
studies to document habitat use, and Carolina Department of Parks, the purposes of conducting presence/
population monitoring throughout the Recreation & Tourism, Columbia, South absence surveys, studies to document
following States: Alabama, Arkansas, habitat use, population monitoring, and
Carolina
Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, white-nose syndrome surveillance. The
Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, The applicant requests renewal of his applicant requests the addition of the
Missouri, New York, North Carolina, current permit to take (inspect nest following States: Alabama, Arkansas,
Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South cavities of) red-cockaded woodpeckers Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas,
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, (Picoides borealis) for the purpose of Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri,
and West Virginia. monitoring populations in Cheraw State Oklahoma, South Carolina, Virginia,
Park and Hampton Plantation State and West Virginia.
Permit Application Number: TE
822525–6 Historic Site in Chesterfield and Dated: March 9, 2015.
Charleston Counties, South Carolina. Leopoldo Miranda,
Applicant: Joe McGlincy. Southern Assistant Regional Director- Ecological
Forestry Consultants, Bainbridge, Permit Application Number: TE Services, Southeast Region.
Georgia 075913–5
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The applicant requests renewal of his Applicant: Thomas Risch, Arkansas BILLING CODE 4310–55–P
current permit to take (capture, monitor, State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas
band, release, install artificial cavities
for, and translocate) red-cockaded The applicant requests an amendment DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
woodpeckers (Picoides borealis) of his current permit to add take
throughout the species’ range for the (salvage of dead bats, capture with mist National Park Service
enhancement of propagation and nets or harp traps, handling, [NPS–WASO–NAGPRA–17617;
survival of the species. identification, collection of hair PPWOCRADN0–PCU00RP14.R50000]
samples, banding, radio-tagging, light-
Permit Application Number: TE Notice of Inventory Completion: U.S.
tagging wing-punching, and selectively
22311A–1 Department of Agriculture, Forest
euthanizing for white-nose syndrome) of
Applicant: Anna George, Tennessee northern long-eared bats (Myotis Service, Kaibab National Forest,
Aquarium, Chattanooga, Tennessee septentrionalis) and to add the Williams, AZ
The applicant requests renewal of her following States for purposes of AGENCY: National Park Service, Interior.
current permit to take (capture, identify, conducting presence/absence surveys,
ACTION: Notice.
take fin clips from, and release) up to 30 studies to document habitat use, and
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individuals of each of the fish species population monitoring: Alabama, SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of
amber darter (Percina antesella), Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, Agriculture (USDA), Forest Service,
goldline darter (Percina aurolineata), Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Kaibab National Forest has completed
snail darter (Percina tanasi), Conasauga Missouri, New York, North Carolina, an inventory of human remains and
logperch (Percina jenkinsi), blue shiner Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South associated funerary objects, in
(Cyprinella caerulea), and Laurel dace Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, consultation with the appropriate
(Chrosomus saylori), in Alabama, and West Virginia. Indian tribes or Native Hawaiian

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Dates		We must receive written data or comments on the applications at
Contact		Karen Marlowe, 10(a)(1)(A) Permit Coordinator, telephone 205-726-2667; facsimile 205-726-2479.
FR Citation		80 FR 13609

80 FR 13609 - Receipt of Applications for Endangered Species Permits

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORFish and Wildlife Service

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