80 FR 48908 - Receipt of Applications for Endangered Species Permits
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 157 (August 14, 2015)
Fish and Wildlife Service
Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 157 (August 14, 2015)
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| FR Document | 2015-20061 |
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 157 (Friday, August 14, 2015)] [Notices] [Pages 48908-48909] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2015-20061] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Fish and Wildlife Service [FWS-R4-ES-2015-N086; 40120-1112-0000-F2] Receipt of Applications for Endangered Species Permits AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 [[Page 48909]] 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 September 14, 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: James Gruhala, Permit Coordinator). FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Gruhala, 10(a)(1)(A) Permit Coordinator, telephone 404-679-7097; facsimile 404-679-7081. 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 permitsR4ES@fws.gov. 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 125557-2 Applicant: Barbara Allen, Mobile, Alabama The applicant requests renewal of her current permit to take (monitor, excavate, temporarily retain nestlings, release nestlings) green (Chelonia mydas), Kemp's ridley (Lepidochelys kempi), and loggerhead (Caretta caretta) sea turtles for the purpose of monitoring and protecting nests in Mobile and Baldwin Counties, Alabama. Permit Application Number: TE 68773B Applicant: Olivia Munzer, Cardno, Inc., Raleigh, North Carolina The applicant requests a permit to take (mist-net, harp trap, handle, band, and outfit with radio transmitters) Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis), northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis), gray bat (Myotis grisescens), Ozark big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii ingens), Virginia big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus) and the Florida bonneted bat (Eumops floridanus) for the purpose of conducting presence/absence surveys throughout the species respective range. Permit Application Number: TE 079863-3 Applicant: Michael Gangloff, Boone, North Carolina The applicant requests renewal of his current permit to take (hand collecting via wading and snorkeling, handle, non-lethal tissue clipping, releasing and translocating) 93 federally listed mollusks for the purpose of presence and absence surveys in the states of Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Caroline, Tennessee, and Virginia. Permit Application Number: TE 088035-1 Applicant: Hilary Swain, Archibald Expeditions, Venus, Florida The applicant requests renewal of her current permit to take (destroy, remove, harass, restore, and research) the endangered Florida perforate cladonia (Cladonia perforata), scrub mint (Dicerandra frutescens), snakeroot (Eryngium cunefolium), Highland's scrub hypericum (Hypericum cumulicola), scrub blazingstar (Liatris ohlingerae), Britton's beargrass (Nolina brittoniana), wireweed (Polygonella basiramia), sandlace (Polygonella myriophylla), scrub plum (Prunus geniculata), Carter's mustard (Warea carteri), pigeon wings (Clitoria fragrans), scrub buckwheat (Eriogonum longifolium gnaphalifolium), and papery whitlow-wort (Paronychia chartacea) for the purpose of conducting prescribed burns for habitiat management, in the state of Florida. Permit Application Number: TE 69912B-0 Applicant: John Mikos, Biotech Consulting Inc., Orlando, Florida The applicant requests a permit to take (capture with live traps, handle, identify, and release) the federally listed Southeastern beach mouse (Peromyscus polionolus niveiventris), Perdido Key Beach Mouse (Peromyscus polionotus trissyllepsis), Choctawhatchee beach mouse (Peromyscus polionotus allophrys), and Anastasia Island beach mouse (Peromyscus polioinotus phasma) for the purpose of conducting presence/ absence surveys in the state of Florida. Permit Application Number: TE 040792-4 Applicant: Thomas Mims, United States Forest Service, New Ellenton, South Carolina The applicant requests a permit to take (translocate, capture, mark, band, and monitor populations and nest cavities) the federally endangered red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis) for the purpose of attaining a viable population of the species in the states of Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina. Dated: August 7, 2015. Leopoldo Miranda, Assistant Regional Director--Ecological Services, Southeast Region. [FR Doc. 2015-20061 Filed 8-13-15; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4310-55-P
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Submitting Written Information or SUMMARY: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife species under the Endangered Species
Questions Service gives notice that the comment Act of 1973, as amended (ESA) (16
Interested members of the public may period on the draft Polar Bear U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). In the July 6, 2015,
submit relevant information or Conservation Management Plan will be Federal Register (80 FR 38458), we
questions for the Council to consider extended an additional 30 days. Since announced the availability of a draft
during the public meeting. Written we announced the availability of the Polar Bear Conservation Management
statements must be received by the date draft plan, we have seen significant Plan, which is designed to meet the
above, so that the information may be public interest and have received a recovery requirements of the ESA as
made available to the Council for their request from the State of Alaska for an well as the conservation management
consideration prior to this meeting. extension of time to allow for public goals of the Marine Mammal Protection
Written statements must be supplied to input. Act (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.). We are
the Council Coordinator in both of the DATES: To ensure consideration of your currently soliciting public comment on
following formats: One hard copy with comments in our preparation of the final this draft plan.
plan, we must receive your comments Since we announced the availability
original signature, and one electronic
and information by September 19, 2015. of the draft plan, we have seen
copy via email (acceptable file formats
significant public interest and have
are Adobe Acrobat PDF, MS Word, MS ADDRESSES: Document availability: The
received a request from the State of
PowerPoint, or rich text file). draft Polar Bear Plan is available for
Alaska for an extension of time to allow
Giving an Oral Presentation viewing at http://www.fws.gov/alaska/
for public input. Providing additional
pbrt/ or at www.regulations.gov at
Individuals or groups requesting to time for full consideration of the
Docket No. FWS–R7–ES–2014–0060.
make an oral presentation at the meeting objectives for conserving the polar bear
Comment submission: You may
will be limited to 2 minutes per speaker, is important to our overall management
submit comments on the draft Polar
with no more than a total of 30 minutes effort. Therefore, we extend the current
Bear Plan by one of the following
for all speakers. Interested parties 45-day comment period by an
methods:
should contact the Council Coordinator, • U.S. mail or hand-delivery: Public additional 30 days. All comments
in writing (preferably via email; see FOR Comments Processing, ATTN: FWS–R7– received by the date specified in DATES
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT), to be ES–2014–0060, U.S. Fish and Wildlife will be considered prior to approval of
placed on the public speaker list for this Service Headquarters, MS: BPHC, 5275 this plan.
For a description of the polar bear,
meeting. Nonregistered public speakers Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041–
taxonomy, distribution, status, breeding
will not be considered during the 3803; or
• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// biology and habitat, and a summary of
meeting. Registered speakers who wish
www.regulations.gov. Follow the factors affecting the species, please see
to expand upon their oral statements, or
instructions for submitting comments to the final listing rule (73 FR 28212, May
those who had wished to speak but
Docket No. FWS–R7–ES–2014–0060. 15, 2008). For information regarding the
could not be accommodated on the
draft plan, please see the July 6, 2015,
agenda, may submit written statements Public Availability of Comments notice of availability (80 FR 38458).
to the Council Coordinator up to 30
days subsequent to the meeting. Before including your address, phone Authority
number, email address, or other
Meeting Minutes personal identifying information in your We publish this notice under ESA
comment, you should be aware that section 4(f) (16 U.S.C. 1533(f).
Summary minutes of the conference
will be maintained by the Council your entire comment—including your Dated: July 31, 2015.
Coordinator (see FOR FURTHER personal identifying information—may Karen P. Clark,
INFORMATION CONTACT). They will be be made publicly available at any time. Acting Regional Director, Alaska Region, U.S.
available for public inspection within While you can ask us in your comment Fish and Wildlife Service.
90 days of the meeting, and will be to withhold your personal identifying [FR Doc. 2015–20059 Filed 8–13–15; 8:45 am]
posted on the Council’s Web site at information from public review, we BILLING CODE 4310–55–P
http://www.fws.gov/whhcc. cannot guarantee that we will be able to
Dated: July 20, 2015.
do so.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Stephen Guertin,
Mary Colligan, Chief, Marine Mammals
Deputy Director. Fish and Wildlife Service
Management, by telephone at 907–786–
[FR Doc. 2015–20028 Filed 8–13–15; 8:45 am]
3800; by U.S. mail at Marine Mammals [FWS–R4–ES–2015–N086; 40120–1112–
BILLING CODE 4310–55–P
Management, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 0000–F2]
Service, 1011 East Tudor Road,
Anchorage, AK 99503; or by email at Receipt of Applications for
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Endangered Species Permits
mary_colligan@fws.gov. Persons who
Fish and Wildlife Service use a telecommunications device for the AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service,
deaf (TDD) may call the Federal Interior.
[Docket No. FWS–R7–ES–2014–0060; Information Relay Service (FIRS) at ACTION: Notice.
FF07CAMM00 FXES11130700000] 800–877–8339.
asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and
Draft Polar Bear Conservation Wildlife Service, invite the public to
Management Plan Background comment on the following applications
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, In a final rule published in the to conduct certain activities with
Interior. Federal Register on May 15, 2008 (73 endangered species. With some
FR 28212), we, the U.S. Fish and exceptions, the Endangered Species Act
ACTION: Notice of extension of public
Wildlife Service, listed the polar bear (ESA) prohibits activities with listed
comment period.
(Ursus maritimus) as a threatened species unless a Federal permit is issued
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that allows such activities. The ESA Permit Applications fragrans), scrub buckwheat (Eriogonum
requires that we invite public comment longifolium gnaphalifolium), and
Permit Application Number: TE
before issuing these permits. papery whitlow-wort (Paronychia
125557–2
DATES: We must receive written data or chartacea) for the purpose of
comments on the applications at the Applicant: Barbara Allen, Mobile, conducting prescribed burns for habitiat
address given below by September 14, Alabama management, in the state of Florida.
2015. The applicant requests renewal of her Permit Application Number: TE
current permit to take (monitor, 69912B–0
ADDRESSES: Documents and other excavate, temporarily retain nestlings,
information submitted with the release nestlings) green (Chelonia Applicant: John Mikos, Biotech
applications are available for review, mydas), Kemp’s ridley (Lepidochelys Consulting Inc., Orlando, Florida
subject to the requirements of the kempi), and loggerhead (Caretta caretta) The applicant requests a permit to
Privacy Act and Freedom of Information sea turtles for the purpose of monitoring take (capture with live traps, handle,
Act, by any party who submits a written and protecting nests in Mobile and identify, and release) the federally listed
request for a copy of such documents to Baldwin Counties, Alabama. Southeastern beach mouse (Peromyscus
the following office within 30 days of polionolus niveiventris), Perdido Key
the date of publication of this notice: Permit Application Number: TE 68773B
Beach Mouse (Peromyscus polionotus
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1875 Applicant: Olivia Munzer, Cardno, Inc., trissyllepsis), Choctawhatchee beach
Century Boulevard, Suite 200, Atlanta, Raleigh, North Carolina mouse (Peromyscus polionotus
GA 30345 (Attn: James Gruhala, Permit allophrys), and Anastasia Island beach
Coordinator). The applicant requests a permit to
take (mist-net, harp trap, handle, band, mouse (Peromyscus polioinotus
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: and outfit with radio transmitters) phasma) for the purpose of conducting
James Gruhala, 10(a)(1)(A) Permit Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis), northern presence/absence surveys in the state of
Coordinator, telephone 404–679–7097; long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis), Florida.
facsimile 404–679–7081. gray bat (Myotis grisescens), Ozark big- Permit Application Number: TE
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii 040792–4
public is invited to comment on the ingens), Virginia big-eared bat
(Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus) Applicant: Thomas Mims, United States
following applications for permits to Forest Service, New Ellenton, South
conduct certain activities with and the Florida bonneted bat (Eumops
floridanus) for the purpose of Carolina
endangered and threatened species
under section 10(a)(1)(A) of the conducting presence/absence surveys The applicant requests a permit to
Endangered Species Act of 1973, as throughout the species respective range. take (translocate, capture, mark, band,
amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), and and monitor populations and nest
Permit Application Number: TE
our regulations in the Code of Federal cavities) the federally endangered red-
079863–3
Regulations (CFR) at 50 CFR 17. This cockaded woodpecker (Picoides
notice is provided under section 10(c) of Applicant: Michael Gangloff, Boone, borealis) for the purpose of attaining a
the Act. North Carolina viable population of the species in the
If you wish to comment, you may The applicant requests renewal of his states of Arkansas, Florida, Georgia,
submit comments by any one of the current permit to take (hand collecting Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina,
following methods. You may mail via wading and snorkeling, handle, non- and South Carolina.
comments to the Fish and Wildlife lethal tissue clipping, releasing and Dated: August 7, 2015.
Service’s Regional Office (see translocating) 93 federally listed Leopoldo Miranda,
ADDRESSES section) or send them via mollusks for the purpose of presence Assistant Regional Director—Ecological
electronic mail (email) to permitsR4ES@ and absence surveys in the states of Services, Southeast Region.
fws.gov. Please include your name and Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, [FR Doc. 2015–20061 Filed 8–13–15; 8:45 am]
return address in your email message. If Kentucky, North Carolina, South BILLING CODE 4310–55–P
you do not receive a confirmation from Caroline, Tennessee, and Virginia.
the Fish and Wildlife Service that we Permit Application Number: TE
have received your email message, DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
088035–1
contact us directly at the telephone
number listed above (see FOR FURTHER Applicant: Hilary Swain, Archibald U.S. Geological Survey
INFORMATION CONTACT). Finally, you may Expeditions, Venus, Florida [GX15.WB12.C25A1.00]
hand-deliver comments to the Fish and The applicant requests renewal of her
Wildlife Service office listed above (see current permit to take (destroy, remove, Agency Information Collection
ADDRESSES). harass, restore, and research) the Activities: Request for Comments
Before including your address, endangered Florida perforate cladonia AGENCY: U.S. Geological Survey (USGS),
telephone number, email address, or (Cladonia perforata), scrub mint Interior.
other personal identifying information (Dicerandra frutescens), snakeroot ACTION: Notice of a new information
in your comments, you should be aware (Eryngium cunefolium), Highland’s
asabaliauskas on DSK5VPTVN1PROD with NOTICES
collection, Alaska Beak Deformity
that your entire comment—including scrub hypericum (Hypericum Observations.
your personal identifying information— cumulicola), scrub blazingstar (Liatris
may be made publicly available at any ohlingerae), Britton’s beargrass (Nolina SUMMARY: We (the U.S. Geological
time. While you can ask us in your brittoniana), wireweed (Polygonella Survey) will ask the Office of
comments to withhold your personal basiramia), sandlace (Polygonella Management and Budget (OMB) to
identifying information from public myriophylla), scrub plum (Prunus approve the information collection (IC)
review, we cannot guarantee that we geniculata), Carter’s mustard (Warea described below. As required by the
will be able to do so. carteri), pigeon wings (Clitoria Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of
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