82_FR_28467 82 FR 28349 - Incidental Take Permit Applications Received To Participate in American Burying Beetle Amended Oil and Gas Industry Conservation Plan in Oklahoma

82 FR 28349 - Incidental Take Permit Applications Received To Participate in American Burying Beetle Amended Oil and Gas Industry Conservation Plan in Oklahoma

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 118 (June 21, 2017)

Page Range28349-28350
FR Document2017-12940

Under the Endangered Species Act, as amended (Act), we, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite the public to comment on federally listed American burying beetle incidental take permit applications. The applicants anticipate American burying beetle take as a result of impacts to habitat the species uses for breeding, feeding, and sheltering in Oklahoma. The take would be incidental to the applicants' activities associated with oil and gas well field and pipeline infrastructure (gathering, transmission, and distribution), including geophysical exploration (seismic), construction, maintenance, operation, repair, decommissioning, and reclamation. If approved, the permits would be issued under the approved American Burying Beetle Amended Oil and Gas Industry Conservation Plan (ICP) Endangered Species Act Section 10(a)(1)(B) Permit Issuance in Oklahoma.

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 118 (Wednesday, June 21, 2017) 
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 118 (Wednesday, June 21, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28349-28350]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-12940]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

[FWS-R2-ES-2017-N063; FXES11140200000-178-FF02ENEH00]


Incidental Take Permit Applications Received To Participate in 
American Burying Beetle Amended Oil and Gas Industry Conservation Plan 
in Oklahoma

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability; request for public comments.

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SUMMARY: Under the Endangered Species Act, as amended (Act), we, the 
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite the public to comment on 
federally listed American burying beetle incidental take permit 
applications. The applicants anticipate American burying beetle take as 
a result of impacts to habitat the species uses for breeding, feeding, 
and sheltering in Oklahoma. The take would be incidental to the 
applicants' activities associated with oil and gas well field and 
pipeline infrastructure (gathering, transmission, and distribution), 
including geophysical exploration (seismic), construction, maintenance, 
operation, repair, decommissioning, and reclamation. If approved, the 
permits would be issued under the approved American Burying Beetle 
Amended Oil and Gas Industry Conservation Plan (ICP) Endangered Species 
Act Section 10(a)(1)(B) Permit Issuance in Oklahoma.

DATES: To ensure consideration, written comments must be received on or 
before July 21, 2017.

ADDRESSES: You may obtain copies of all documents and submit comments 
on the applicants' incidental take permit (ITP) applications by one of 
the following methods. Please refer to the proposed permit number when 
requesting documents or submitting comments.
    [cir] U.S. Mail: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of 
Endangered Species--HCP Permits, P.O. Box 1306, Room 6034, Albuquerque, 
NM 87103.
    [cir] Electronically: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marty Tuegel, Branch Chief, by U.S. 
mail at: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Environmental Review Division, 
P.O. Box 1306, Room 6034, Albuquerque, NM 87103; or by telephone at 
505-248-6651.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Introduction

    Under the Endangered Species Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et 
seq.; Act), we, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite the public 
to comment on incidental take permit (ITP) applications to take the 
federally listed American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) 
during oil and gas well field infrastructure geophysical exploration 
(seismic) and construction, maintenance, operation, repair, and 
decommissioning, as well as oil and gas gathering, transmission, and 
distribution pipeline infrastructure construction, maintenance, 
operation, repair, decommissioning, and reclamation in Oklahoma.
    If approved, the permits would be issued to the applicant under the 
American Burying Beetle Amended Oil and Gas Industry Conservation Plan 
(ICP) Endangered Species Act Section

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10(a)(1)(B) Permit Issuance in Oklahoma. The original ICP was approved 
on May 21, 2014, and the ``no significant impact'' finding notice was 
published in the Federal Register on July 25, 2014 (79 FR 43504). The 
draft amended ICP was made available for comment on March 8, 2016 (81 
FR 12113), and approved on April 13, 2016. The ICP and the associated 
environmental assessment/finding of no significant impact are available 
on the Web site at http://www.fws.gov/southwest/es/oklahoma/ABBICP. 
However, we are no longer taking comments on these finalized, approved 
documents.

Application Available for Review and Comment

    We invite local, State, Tribal, and Federal agencies, and the 
public to comment on the following applications under the ICP, for 
incidentally taking the federally listed American burying beetle. 
Please refer to the appropriate permit number (e.g., TE-123456) when 
requesting application documents and when submitting comments. 
Documents and other information the applicant has submitted with this 
application are available for review, subject to Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 
552a) and Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) requirements.

Permit TE29847C

Applicant: Council Oak Resources, LLC, Tulsa, OK.

    Applicant requests a permit for oil and gas upstream and midstream 
production, including oil and gas well field infrastructure geophysical 
exploration (seismic) and construction, maintenance, operation, repair, 
and decommissioning, as well as oil and gas gathering, transmission, 
and distribution pipeline infrastructure construction, maintenance, 
operation, repair, decommissioning, and reclamation in Oklahoma.

Permit TE33336C

Applicant: Corterra Energy Operating, LLC, Tulsa, OK.

    Applicant requests a permit for oil and gas upstream and midstream 
production, including oil and gas well field infrastructure geophysical 
exploration (seismic) and construction, maintenance, operation, repair, 
and decommissioning, as well as oil and gas gathering, transmission, 
and distribution pipeline infrastructure construction, maintenance, 
operation, repair, decommissioning, and reclamation in Oklahoma.

Public Availability of Comments

    Written comments we receive become part of the public record 
associated with this action. 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 request in your comment that we withhold 
your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot 
guarantee that we will be able to do so. We will not consider anonymous 
comments. All submissions from organizations or businesses, and from 
individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of 
organizations or businesses, will be made available for public 
disclosure in their entirety.

    Authority: We provide this notice under section 10(c) of the Act 
(16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) and its implementing regulations (50 CFR 
17.22) and the National Environmental Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 4321 et 
seq.) and its implementing regulations (40 CFR 1506.6).

Benjamin N. Tuggle,
Regional Director, Southwest Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
[FR Doc. 2017-12940 Filed 6-20-17; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4333-15-P

Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 118 / Wednesday, June 21, 2017 / Notices 28349 The applicant requests a captive-bred Applicant: Julian Sullivan, Madison, incidental take permit applications. The wildlife registration under 50 CFR AL; PRT–24105C applicants anticipate American burying 17.21(g) for the golden parakeet Applicant: Janis Maund, Austin, TX; beetle take as a result of impacts to (Guarouba guarouba) to enhance PRT–23963C habitat the species uses for breeding, propagation or survival of the species. feeding, and sheltering in Oklahoma. IV. Next Steps This notification covers activities to be The take would be incidental to the conducted by the applicant over a 5- If the Service decides to issue permits applicants’ activities associated with oil year period. to any of the applicants listed in this and gas well field and pipeline Applicant: White Oak Conservation notice, we will publish a notice in the infrastructure (gathering, transmission, Holdings, LLC; PRT–03134B Federal Register. You may locate the and distribution), including geophysical Federal Register notice announcing the exploration (seismic), construction, The applicant requests amendment of permit issuance date by searching in a captive-bred wildlife registration maintenance, operation, repair, www.regulations.gov under the permit decommissioning, and reclamation. If under 50 CFR 17.21(g) to add North number listed above in this document. Sulawesi babirusa (Babyrousa approved, the permits would be issued celebensis) and slender-horned gazelle V. Public Comments under the approved American Burying (Gazella leptoceros) to their current Beetle Amended Oil and Gas Industry You may submit your comments and Conservation Plan (ICP) Endangered registration to enhance the propagation materials concerning this notice by one or survival of the species. This Species Act Section 10(a)(1)(B) Permit of the methods listed in ADDRESSES. We Issuance in Oklahoma. notification covers activities until the will not consider comments sent by expiration of the current registration on DATES: To ensure consideration, written email or fax or to an address not listed comments must be received on or before June 6, 2018. in ADDRESSES. July 21, 2017. Applicant: Virginia Stigen, Escondido, If you submit a comment via http:// CA; PRT–06377C ADDRESSES: You may obtain copies of www.regulations.gov, your entire comment, including any personal all documents and submit comments on The applicant requests a captive-bred the applicants’ incidental take permit wildlife registration under 50 CFR identifying information, will be posted on the Web site. If you submit a (ITP) applications by one of the 17.21(g) for radiated tortoise following methods. Please refer to the (Astrochelys radiata) and Galapagos hardcopy comment that includes personal identifying information, you proposed permit number when giant tortoise (Chelonoidis niger) to requesting documents or submitting enhance the propagation or survival of may request at the top of your document that we withhold this information from comments. the species. This notification covers Æ U.S. Mail: U.S. Fish and Wildlife activities to be conducted by the public review. However, we cannot Service, Division of Endangered applicant over a 5-year period. guarantee that we will be able to do so. We will post all hardcopy comments Species—HCP Permits, P.O. Box 1306, Applicant:Feld Entertainment, Inc., Room 6034, Albuquerque, NM 87103. Palmetto, FL; PRT–22685C on http://www.regulations.gov. Æ Electronically: fw2_hcp_permits@ On May 26, 2017, we published a VI. Authorities fws.gov. Federal Register notice inviting the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: public to comment on an application for U.S.C. 1531). Marty Tuegel, Branch Chief, by U.S. a permit to conduct certain activities mail at: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, with endangered species (82 FR 24381). Brenda Tapia, Environmental Review Division, P.O. We are now republishing the notice to Program Analyst/Data Administrator, Branch Box 1306, Room 6034, Albuquerque, allow the public the opportunity to of Permits, Division of Management NM 87103; or by telephone at 505–248– review additional information that was Authority. 6651. mistakenly omitted in the first notice [FR Doc. 2017–12919 Filed 6–20–17; 8:45 am] SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: and changes to the application. This BILLING CODE 4333–15–P application is for the re-export of four Introduction male and four female captive-born tigers Under the Endangered Species Act, as (Panthera tigris) to Alexander Lacey DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.; Act), Einbeck, Germany, for the purpose of we, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Fish and Wildlife Service enhancement of the survival of the invite the public to comment on species. [FWS–R2–ES–2017–N063; incidental take permit (ITP) applications FXES11140200000–178–FF02ENEH00] to take the federally listed American Multiple Applicants burying beetle (Nicrophorus The following applicants each request Incidental Take Permit Applications americanus) during oil and gas well a permit to import the sport-hunted Received To Participate in American field infrastructure geophysical trophy of one male bontebok Burying Beetle Amended Oil and Gas exploration (seismic) and construction, (Damaliscus pygargus pygargus) culled Industry Conservation Plan in maintenance, operation, repair, and from a captive herd maintained under Oklahoma decommissioning, as well as oil and gas the management program of the AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, gathering, transmission, and Republic of South Africa, for the asabaliauskas on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with NOTICES Interior. distribution pipeline infrastructure purpose of enhancement of the survival construction, maintenance, operation, ACTION: Notice of availability; request of the species. repair, decommissioning, and for public comments. Applicant: Kevin Chestnut, Moses Lake, reclamation in Oklahoma. WA; PRT–20534C SUMMARY: Under the Endangered If approved, the permits would be Applicant: James LeGendre, Junction Species Act, as amended (Act), we, the issued to the applicant under the City, OR; PRT–23328C U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite American Burying Beetle Amended Oil Applicant: Will Perry, Conroe, TX; the public to comment on federally and Gas Industry Conservation Plan PRT–21851C listed American burying beetle (ICP) Endangered Species Act Section VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:12 Jun 20, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00056 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\21JNN1.SGM 21JNN1

28350 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 118 / Wednesday, June 21, 2017 / Notices 10(a)(1)(B) Permit Issuance in Public Availability of Comments Law 83–277, 67 Stat. 586, 18 U.S.C. Oklahoma. The original ICP was Written comments we receive become 1161, as interpreted by the Supreme approved on May 21, 2014, and the ‘‘no part of the public record associated with Court in Rice v. Rehner, 463 U.S. 713 significant impact’’ finding notice was this action. Before including your (1983), the Secretary of the Interior shall published in the Federal Register on address, phone number, email address, certify and publish in the Federal July 25, 2014 (79 FR 43504). The draft or other personal identifying Register notice of adopted liquor control amended ICP was made available for information in your comment, you ordinances for the purpose of regulating comment on March 8, 2016 (81 FR should be aware that your entire liquor transactions in Indian country. 12113), and approved on April 13, 2016. comment—including your personal On February 22, 2017, the Salt River The ICP and the associated identifying information—may be made Pima-Maricopa Indian Community environmental assessment/finding of no publicly available at any time. While Council duly adopted the amendment to significant impact are available on the you can request in your comment that the Community’s Chapter 14, Alcoholic Web site at http://www.fws.gov/ we withhold your personal identifying Beverages and Prohibited Substances, southwest/es/oklahoma/ABBICP. information from public review, we by Ordinance SRO–491–2017. However, we are no longer taking cannot guarantee that we will be able to comments on these finalized, approved This notice is published in do so. We will not consider anonymous documents. comments. All submissions from accordance with the authority delegated organizations or businesses, and from by the Secretary of the Interior to the Application Available for Review and individuals identifying themselves as Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs. 209 Comment representatives or officials of DM 81. I certify that the Salt River Pima- We invite local, State, Tribal, and organizations or businesses, will be Maricopa Indian Community of the Salt Federal agencies, and the public to made available for public disclosure in River Reservation, Arizona, duly comment on the following applications their entirety. adopted this amendment to the under the ICP, for incidentally taking Community’s Chapter 14, Alcoholic Authority: We provide this notice under the federally listed American burying section 10(c) of the Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et Beverages and Prohibited Substances, beetle. Please refer to the appropriate seq.) and its implementing regulations (50 on February 22, 2017. permit number (e.g., TE–123456) when CFR 17.22) and the National Environmental Dated: May 16, 2017. requesting application documents and Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and its when submitting comments. Documents implementing regulations (40 CFR 1506.6). Michael S. Black, and other information the applicant has Acting Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs. Benjamin N. Tuggle, submitted with this application are available for review, subject to Privacy Regional Director, Southwest Region, U.S. Section 14–55 of the Salt River Pima- Fish and Wildlife Service. Maricopa Indian Community Code of Act (5 U.S.C. 552a) and Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) [FR Doc. 2017–12940 Filed 6–20–17; 8:45 am] Ordinances shall be amended by adding requirements. BILLING CODE 4333–15–P a new subsection (7). Permit TE29847C Section 14–55(7) DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR (7) Sports Stadium/Entertainment Applicant: Council Oak Resources, LLC, Tulsa, OK. Bureau of Indian Affairs Venue. Applicant requests a permit for oil [178 A2100DD/AAKC001030/ The director may issue a Sport and gas upstream and midstream A0A501010.999900] Stadium/Entertainment Venue license production, including oil and gas well to any professional sports stadium or field infrastructure geophysical Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian arena, or an entertainment venue exploration (seismic) and construction, Community; Amendment to Alcoholic (bowling alley, concert hall, theatre, etc) maintenance, operation, repair, and Beverage Control Ordinance that is otherwise qualified to hold a decommissioning, as well as oil and gas AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, license. gathering, transmission, and Interior. distribution pipeline infrastructure The holder of a Sport Stadium/ ACTION: Notice. Entertainment Venue license is construction, maintenance, operation, repair, decommissioning, and authorized to sell and serve alcoholic SUMMARY: This notice publishes an reclamation in Oklahoma. amendment to the Salt River Pima- beverages solely for consumption on the Maricopa Indian Community’s Chapter licensed premises. For the purposes of Permit TE33336C this section, the term ‘‘licensed 14, Alcoholic Beverages and Prohibited Applicant: Corterra Energy Operating, Substances, which was published in the premises’’ includes all public areas of LLC, Tulsa, OK. Federal Register on January 21, 2016 the venue, food service facilities, (81 FR 3453). outdoor patio enclosures, outdoor pool Applicant requests a permit for oil DATES: This Amendment shall become areas, and private banquet or meeting and gas upstream and midstream effective July 21, 2017. rooms. production, including oil and gas well FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. [FR Doc. 2017–12975 Filed 6–20–17; 8:45 am] asabaliauskas on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with NOTICES field infrastructure geophysical exploration (seismic) and construction, Sharlot Johnson, Tribal Government BILLING CODE 4337–15–P maintenance, operation, repair, and Services Officer, Western Regional decommissioning, as well as oil and gas Office, Bureau of Indian Affairs, 2600 gathering, transmission, and North Central Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona distribution pipeline infrastructure 85004, Telephone: (602) 379–6786, Fax: construction, maintenance, operation, (602) 379–4100. repair, decommissioning, and SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant reclamation in Oklahoma. to the Act of August 15, 1953, Public VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:12 Jun 20, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00057 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 9990 E:\FR\FM\21JNN1.SGM 21JNN1


Document Created: 2018-11-14 10:09:18
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CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of availability; request for public comments.
DatesTo ensure consideration, written comments must be received on or before July 21, 2017.
ContactMarty Tuegel, Branch Chief, by U.S. mail at: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Environmental Review Division, P.O. Box 1306, Room 6034, Albuquerque, NM 87103; or by telephone at 505-248-6651.
FR Citation82 FR 28349 
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