82 FR 27072 - Endangered Species Recovery Permit Applications

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 112 (June 13, 2017)

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 (Act) prohibits activities with listed species unless a Federal permit is issued that allows such activities. The Act requires that we invite public comment before issuing these permits.

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 112 (Tuesday, June 13, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27072-27073]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-12177]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

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Endangered Species Recovery Permit Applications

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of receipt of permit applications; request for comment.

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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 (Act) prohibits activities with listed species unless a Federal 
permit is issued that allows such activities. The Act 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 in ADDRESSES by July 13, 2017.

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, 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 Regional Office, Ecological 
Services, 1875 Century Boulevard, Atlanta, GA 30345 (Attn: Karen 
Marlowe, Permit Coordinator).
    Submitting Comments: If you wish to comment, you may submit 
comments by any one of the following methods:
     U.S. mail or hand-delivery: Fish and Wildlife Service's 
Regional Office (see above).
     Email: [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 
in FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Marlowe, Permit Coordinator, 
404-679-7097 (telephone) or 404-679-7081 (fax).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We invite review and comment from local, 
State, and Federal agencies and the public 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 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.; Act), and our 
regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) at 50 CFR 17. With 
some exceptions, the Act prohibits activities with listed species 
unless a Federal permit is issued that allows such activities. The Act 
requires that we invite public comment before issuing these permits.

Public Availability of Comments

    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.

Permit Applications

Permit Application Number: TE 079883-4
Applicant: Arkansas Highway and Transportation Department, Little Rock, 
AR

    The applicant requests renewal of their permit to take (capture, 
identify, and release) the yellowcheek darter (Etheostoma moorei), 
Arkansas fatmucket (Lampsilis powellii), Curtis pearlymussel 
(Epioblasma florentina curtisii), fanshell (Cyprogenia stegaria), fat 
pocketbook (Potamilus capax), Neosho mucket (L. rafinesqueana), 
Ouachita Rock pocketbook (Arkansia wheeleri), pink mucket (L. abrupta), 
rabbitsfoot (Quadrula cylindrica ssp. cylindrica), scaleshell (Leptodea 
leptodon), snuffbox (E. triquetra), speckled pocketbook (L. streckeri), 
spectaclecase (Cumberlandia monodonta), turgid blossom (E. turgidula), 
winged mapleleaf (Q. fragosa), and American burying beetle (Nicrophorus 
americanus) while conducting presence/absence surveys in Arkansas.

Permit Application Number: TE 02166C-0
Applicant: Zoe D. Bryant, Tabernacle, NJ

    The applicant requests an amendment to her application to take 
(capture with mist-nets and harp traps, handle, band, and radio-tag) 
Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis) and northern long-eared bats (M. 
septentrionalis) to include authorization to conduct the proposed 
activities in Connecticut, Delaware, Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, 
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode 
Island, Vermont, Virginia, and West Virginia for presence/absence 
surveys. The receipt of her application was originally published in the 
Federal Register on September 9, 2016, at which time she had not 
requested the inclusion of these 14 States.

Permit Application Number: TE 20288C-0
Applicant: Scott Veum, Starkville, MS

    The applicant requests a permit to take (capture with mist-nets and 
harp traps, handle, and radio-tag) gray bats (Myotis grisescens), 
Indiana bats (M. sodalis), and northern long-eared bats (M. 
septentrionalis) for presence/absence surveys in Alabama, Arkansas, 
Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, 
Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Ohio, South 
Carolina, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.

Permit Application Number: TE 20308C-0
Applicant: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC


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    The applicant requests a permit to take (capture with bowl traps or 
sweep nets) the rusty-patched bumble bee (Bombus affinis) while 
conducting research to describe the diversity of pollinators and 
determine if planted pollinator habitat is positively benefiting local 
pollinator communities at the Lake Wheeler Farm Complex, Wake County, 
North Carolina.

Permit Application Number: TE 98424B-2
Applicant: U.S. Geological Survey, Davie, FL

    The applicant requests amendment of their permit to add 
authorization to take (capture on beach, restrain, handle, take 
standard carapace measurements, PIT-tag, flipper tag, collect 10 
milliliters of blood from the cervical sinus, and satellite tag a 
subset of individuals) up to 5 Kemp's ridley sea turtles (Eretmochelys 
imbricata) and up to 5 green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) annually, and 
to allow for morphometric measurements to be done while the turtles are 
laying their eggs, rather than upon completion of egg-laying, in 
Baldwin County, Alabama, to determine remigration intervals and conduct 
research into the genetics and diet (isotopes) of each individual.

Permit Application Number: TE 075916-5
Applicant: Thomas Virzi, Olympia, WA

    The applicant requests renewal of his permit to continue take 
(capture with mist-nets, band, collect blood samples, monitor nests) of 
the Cape Sable seaside sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus mirabilis) and 
amendment of his permit to add authorization to place temperature 
dataloggers in nests, collect breast feathers and cloacal swabs from 
adults and juveniles for genetic analysis and mercury analysis, and 
deploy nest cameras on active nests in the incubation or brooding 
stages for scientific research aimed at conservation of the species.

Permit Application Number: TE 121059-3
Applicant: Peggy Measel, Salyersville, KY

    The applicant requests renewal of her permit to continue take 
(enter hibernacula and roosts, capture with mist nets and harp traps, 
handle, identify, band, attach radio transmitters, and light-tag) 
Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis), gray bats (M. grisescens), and northern 
long-eared bat (M. septentrionalis) while conducting presence/absence 
surveys in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri, 
Ohio, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Permit Application Number: TE 21570C-0
Applicant: Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency Cumberland River Aquatic 
Center, Nashville, TN

    The applicant requests a permit to take (collect from the wild, 
collect tissues, hold in captivity, mark, and release) 48 endangered 
freshwater mussel species for captive propagation, research, and 
reintroduction in Tennessee.

Permit Application Number: TE 129703-6
Applicant: HMB Professional Engineers, Inc., Frankfort, KY

    The applicant requests renewal of their permit to continue 
authorization to take (enter hibernacula or maternity roost caves, 
capture with mist nets or harp traps, handle, identify, band, and 
radio-tag) Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis), gray bats (Myotis 
grisescens), northern long-eared bats (Myotis septentrionalis), and 
Virginia big-eared bats (Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus); take 
(capture, identify, and release) amber darter (Percina antesella), 
blackside dace (Chrosomus cumberlandensis), blue shiner (Cyprinella 
(=Notropis) caerulea), bluemask (=jewel) darter (Etheostoma akatulo), 
boulder (=Elk River) darter (E. wapiti), Conasauga logperch (P. 
jenkinsi), duskytail darter (E. percnurum), pygmy madtom (Noturus 
stanauli), smoky madtom (N. baileyi), and snail darter (P. tanasi); and 
take (capture, identify, release, and collect relict shells) 36 species 
of freshwater mussels, and amend their permit to add authorization to 
conduct those same activities with Big Sandy crayfish (Cambarus 
callainus), Kentucky arrow darter (E. spilotum), Cumberland darter (E. 
susanae), diamond darter (Crystallaria cincotta), relict darter (E. 
chienense), palezone shiner (Notropis albizonatus), clubshell 
(Pleurobema clava), northern riffleshell (Epioblasma torulosa 
rangiana), spectaclecase (Cumberlandia monodonta), snuffbox (E. 
triquetra), scaleshell (Leptodea leptodon), sheepnose (Plethobasus 
cyphyus), slabside pearlymussel (Pleuronaia dolabelloides), fluted 
kidneyshell (Ptychobranchus subtentum), and rabbitsfoot (Quadrula c. 
cylindrica) for presence/absence surveys in Alabama, Georgia, Indiana, 
Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Tennessee, and West Virginia.

Permit Application Number: TE 23537C-0
Applicant: Appalachian Ecological Services, LLC, Etowah, NC

    The applicant requests a permit to take (capture with mist-nets, 
handle, band, and radio-tag) Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis) and northern 
long-eared bats (M. septentrionalis) in Arkansas, Kentucky, North 
Carolina, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia for 
presence/absence surveys.

    Authority: We provide this notice under section 10(c) of the 
Act.

    Dated: March 6, 2017.
Leopoldo Miranda,
Assistant Regional Director, Ecological Services, Southeast Region.
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