| Page Range | 7212-7215 | |
| FR Document | 2018-03302 |
[Federal Register Volume 83, Number 34 (Tuesday, February 20, 2018)] [Notices] [Pages 7212-7215] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2018-03302] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Fish and Wildlife Service [FWS-R4-ES-2017-N004; FXES11140400000-189-FF04E00000] Endangered Species Recovery Permit Applications AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior. ACTION: Notice of receipt of permit applications; request for comment. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 in ADDRESSES by March 22, 2018. 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 (see DATES): 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: U.S. 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 U.S. 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.; ESA), and our regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) at 50 CFR part 17. With some exceptions, the 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. 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 No. Applicant Species/numbers Location Activity Type of take Permit action -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TE 63577A-2............ Mammoth Cave Gray bat (Myotis Alabama, Georgia, Presence/absence Enter hibernacula, Renewal and National Park, grisescens), Kentucky, surveys. salvage dead bats, Amendment. Mammoth Cave, KY. Indiana bat (M. Mississippi, North capture with mist sodalis), northern Carolina, South nets or harp long-eared bat (M. Carolina, traps, handle, septentrionalis). Tennessee, and identify, collect Virginia. hair samples, band, radio-tag, PIT-tag, light tag, and wing- punch. TE 57873C-0............ Arkansas Natural Yellowcheek darter Arkansas........... Presence/absence Capture, handle, New. Heritage (Etheostoma moorei). surveys. identify, weigh, Commission, Little measure, and Rock, AR. release. TE 102292-13........... Jeremy L. Jackson, Gray bat (Myotis Alabama, Arkansas, Presence/absence Enter hibernacula Renewal. Richmond, KY. grisescens), Connecticut, surveys, studies or maternity roost Indiana bat (M. Delaware, Florida, to document caves, salvage sodalis), northern Georgia, Illinois, habitat use, and dead bats, capture long-eared bat (M. Indiana, Iowa, population with mist nets or septentrionalis), Kansas, Kentucky, monitoring. harp traps, and Virginia big- Louisiana, Maine, handle, identify, eared bat Massachusetts, collect hair (Corynorhinus Michigan, samples, band, townsendii Minnesota, radio-tag, light- virginianus). Mississippi, tag, and wing- Missouri, Montana, punch. Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. [[Page 7213]] TE 066980-5............ J.W. Jones Red-cockaded Georgia............ Population Capture, band, Renewal. Ecological Research woodpecker management and construct, and Center, Newton, GA. (Picoides borealis). monitoring. monitor artificial nest cavities and restrictors, translocate, and buccal swab. TE 56749B-2............ Patrick R. Moore, Gray bat (Myotis Alabama, Arkansas, Presence/absence Enter hibernacula Renewal. Harrison, AR. grisescens), Delaware, Florida, surveys, studies or maternity roost Indiana bat (M. Georgia, Illinois, to document caves, salvage sodalis), northern Indiana, Iowa, habitat use, dead bats, capture long-eared bat (M. Kansas, Kentucky, population with mist nets or septentrionalis), Louisiana, monitoring, and to harp traps, Ozark big-eared Maryland, evaluate potential handle, identify, bats (Corynorhinus Michigan, impacts of white- collect hair townsendii ingens), Minnesota, nose syndrome or samples, band, and Virginia big- Mississippi, other threats. radio tag, light- eared bats (C. t. Missouri, New tag, swab, and virginianus). Jersey, New York, wing-punch. North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. TE 206872-9............ Joy M. O'Keefe, Gray bat (Myotis Alabama, Arkansas, Presence/absence Enter hibernacula Renewal. Indiana State grisescens), Connecticut, surveys, studies or maternity roost University, Terre Indiana bat (M. Delaware, District to document caves, salvage Haute, IN. sodalis), northern of Columbia, habitat use, dead bats, capture long-eared bat (M. Florida, Georgia, population with mist nets or septentrionalis), Illinois, Indiana, monitoring, and to harp traps, and Virginia big- Iowa, Kansas, evaluate potential handle, identify, eared bat Kentucky, impacts of white- collect hair (Corynorhinus Louisiana, Maine, nose syndrome or samples, band, townsendii Maryland, other threats. radio tag, light- virginianus). Massachusetts, tag, swab, fungal Michigan, lift tape, and Minnesota, wing-punch. Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. TE 61573C-0............ University of Louisiana quillwort DeSoto National Anatomic and Collect leaf New. Southern (Isoetes Forest, genetic studies. fragments, root Mississippi, louisianensis). Mississippi. tips, megaspores, Hattiesburg, MS. and a whole individual voucher specimen. TE 64393C-0............ Vanesse Hangen Florida bonneted bat Alabama, Arkansas, Presence/absence Capture with mist New. Brustlin, Inc., (Eumops Connecticut, surveys. nets, handle, South Burlington, floridanus), gray Delaware, District identify, band, VT. bat (Myotis of Columbia, and radio-tag. grisescens), Florida, Georgia, Indiana bat (M. Illinois, Indiana, sodalis), northern Iowa, Kentucky, long-eared bat (M. Louisiana, Maine, septentrionalis), Maryland, Virginia big-eared Massachusetts, bat (Corynorhinus Michigan, townsendii Minnesota, virginianus). Mississippi, Missouri, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin. [[Page 7214]] TE 94704A-2............ Dorothy C. Brown, Gray bat (Myotis Alabama, Arkansas, Presence/absence Bats: Enter Renewal. Woodstock, GA. grisescens), Connecticut, surveys, white- hibernacula or Indiana bat (M. Delaware, District nose syndrome and maternity roost sodalis), northern of Columbia, genetic research, caves, salvage, long-eared bat (M. Florida, Georgia, studies to capture with mist septentrionalis), Illinois, Indiana, document habitat nets or harp Virginia big-eared Iowa, Kansas, use, and traps, handle, bat (Corynorhinus Kentucky, population identify, collect townsendii Louisiana, Maine, monitoring. hair samples, virginianus), Maryland, band, pit-tag, Carolina northern Massachusetts, radio-tag, light- flying squirrel Michigan, tag, wing-punch, (Glaucomys sabrinus Minnesota, and swab for white- coloratus), and bog Mississippi, nose syndrome turtle (Clemmys Missouri, Montana, testing; Carolina muhlenbergii). Nebraska, New northern flying Hampshire, New squirrel: Capture, Jersey, New York, handle, ear-tag, North Carolina, pit-tag, radio- North Dakota, tag, collect fur Ohio, Oklahoma, and tissue Pennsylvania, samples, and Rhode Island, conduct den South Carolina, surveys; Bog South Dakota, turtle: Capture, Tennessee, mark, pit-tag, and Vermont, Virginia, radio-tag. West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. TE 56746B-3............ Joseph S. Johnson, Gray bat (Myotis Alabama, Ohio, and Presence/absence Capture with mist Renewal and Ohio University, grisescens), Pennsylvania. surveys, studies nets, handle, Amendment. Athens, OH. Indiana bat (M. to examine the identify, band, sodalis), and impact of fire nano tag, radio- northern long-eared management and tag, and wing- bat (M. forest thinning on punch. septentrionalis). these bat species, and fall migration studies. TE 64767C-0............ John H. Collins, Red-cockaded Florida, Georgia, Population Capture, band, New. Columbia, SC. woodpecker North Carolina, management and construct, (Picoides borealis). and South Carolina. monitoring. install, and monitor artificial nest cavities and restrictors, and translocate. TE 37900B-1............ Sarah A. Lauerman, Red-cockaded Osceola National Population Capture, band, Renewal. Gainesville, FL. woodpecker Forest, Florida. management and monitor nest (Picoides borealis). monitoring. cavities, and translocate. TE 94728A-1............ Environmental American burying Arkansas........... Presence/absence Trap and release... Renewal. Consulting beetle (Nicrophorus surveys. Operations, Inc., americanus). Benton, AR. TE 48579B-4............ Ecological Gray bat (Myotis Alabama, Arkansas, Presence/absence Enter hibernacula Renewal. Solutions, Inc., grisescens), Connecticut, surveys, studies or maternity roost Roswell, GA. Indiana bat (M. Delaware, District to document caves, salvage sodalis), and of Columbia, habitat use, dead bats, capture northern long-eared Florida, Georgia, population with mist nets or bat (M. Illinois, Indiana, monitoring, and harp traps, septentrionalis). Iowa, Kansas, white-nose handle, identify, Kentucky, syndrome collect hair Louisiana, Maine, surveillance. samples, band, Maryland, radio-tag, light- Massachusetts, tag, swab, and Michigan, wing-punch. Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming. TE 80381A-1............ Department of Gray bat (Myotis Fort Campbell, Presence/absence Enter hibernacula Renewal. Defense (Army), grisescens), Kentucky. surveys, studies or maternity roost Fort Campbell, KY. Indiana bat (M. to document caves, capture sodalis), and habitat use, and with mist nets, northern long-eared population band, and radio- bat (M. monitoring. tag. septentrionalis). -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [[Page 7215]] Authority We provide this notice under section 10(c) of the Act. Leopoldo Miranda, Assistant Regional Director, Ecological Services, Southeast Region. [FR Doc. 2018-03302 Filed 2-16-18; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 4333-15-P
| Category | Regulatory Information | |
| Collection | Federal Register | |
| sudoc Class | AE 2.7: GS 4.107: AE 2.106: | |
| Publisher | Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration | |
| Section | Notices | |
| Action | Notice of receipt of permit applications; request for comment. | |
| Dates | We must receive written data or comments on the applications at | |
| Contact | Karen Marlowe, Permit Coordinator, 404-679-7097 (telephone) or 404-679-7081 (fax). | |
| FR Citation | 83 FR 7212 |