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)

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.

[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]


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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.

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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

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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 [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 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]
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