83 FR 9865 - U.S. Endangered Species; Recovery Permit Applications

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 46 (March 8, 2018)

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FR Document		2018-04655

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite the public to comment on the following applications for a permit to conduct activities intended to recover and enhance endangered species survival. With some exceptions, the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA), prohibits certain activities that may impact endangered species unless a Federal permit allows such activity. The ESA also requires that we invite public comment before issuing these permits.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

[FWS-R2-ES-2017-N163; FXES11130200000-178-FF02ENEH00]

U.S. Endangered Species; Recovery Permit Applications

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

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

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SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite the public to
comment on the following applications for a permit to conduct
activities intended to recover and enhance endangered species survival.
With some exceptions, the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended
(ESA), prohibits certain activities that may impact endangered species
unless a Federal permit allows such activity. The ESA also requires
that we invite public comment before issuing these permits.

DATES: To ensure consideration, please send your written comments by
April 9, 2018.

ADDRESSES: Request documents or submit comments to Susan Jacobsen,
Chief, Classification and Restoration Division, by U.S. mail at
Classification and Recovery Division, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
P.O. Box 1306, Albuquerque, NM 87103. Please specify the permit you are
interested in by number (e.g., Permit No. TE-123456).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Susan Jacobsen, Chief, Classification
and Restoration Division, by U.S. mail at P.O. Box 1306, Albuquerque,
NM 87103; or by telephone at 505-248-6641.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
invite the public to comment on the following applications for a permit
to conduct activities intended to recover and enhance endangered
species survival. With some exceptions, the Endangered Species Act of
1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.; ESA), prohibits certain
activities that may impact endangered species, unless a Federal permit
allows such activity. The ESA also requires that we invite public
comment before issuing these permits.

Background

The ESA prohibits certain activities with endangered and threatened
species unless a Federal permit authorizes them. The ESA and our
implementing regulations in Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) title 50,
part 17, provide for issuing such permits and require that we invite
public comment before issuing permits for activities involving
endangered species.
A recovery permit we issue under the ESA, section 10(a)(1)(A),
authorizes the permittee to conduct activities with endangered or
threatened species for scientific purposes that promote recovery or
enhance the species' propagation or survival. Our regulations
implementing section 10(a)(1)(A) for these permits are found at 50 CFR
17.22 for endangered wildlife species, 50 CFR 17.32 for threatened
wildlife species, 50 CFR 17.62 for endangered plant species, and 50 CFR
17.72 for threatened plant species.
In accordance with the ESA, section 10(c), we invite public comment
on these permit applications before we take final action.

Applications Available for Review and Comment

We invite local, State, Tribal, and Federal agencies and the public
to comment on the following applications. Please refer to the permit
number for the application when submitting comments.
Documents and other information submitted with these applications
are available for review by any party who submits a written request to
the Program Manager for Restoration and Endangered Species
Classification at the address in the ADDRESSES section. Requests must
be submitted within 30 days of this notice's publication date.
Releasing documents is subject to Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a) and
Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) requirements.

Permit Applications

Proposed activities in the following permit requests are for the
species' recovery and survival enhancement.

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Application No. Applicant Species Location Activity Type of take Permit action
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TE-58221C................ Jorge A. DaSilva, Manihot walkerae Texas............... Collection of seed Harm............... New.
Weslaco, Texas. (Walker's manioc). and propagation.
TE-55633C................ Jacob D. Owen, Golden-cheeked Texas............... Presence/absence Harm and Harass.... New.
Austin, Texas. warbler (Setophaga surveys; nest
chrysoparia), Black- monitoring; bird
capped vireo (Vireo banding.
atricapilla),
Georgetown
salamander (Eurycea
naufragia),
Jollyville Plateau
salamander (Eurycea
tonkawae), Salado
salamander (Eurycea
chisholmensis), San
Marcos salamander
(Eurycea nana),
Texas blind
salamander
(Typhlomolge
rathbuni), Barton
Springs salamander
(Eurycea sosorum),
and Austin blind
salamander (Eurycea
waterlooensis).
TE-099278................ Fred Phillips Huachuca water umbel Arizona, New Mexico. Presence/absence Harm............... Amend.
Consulting, (Lilaeopsis surveys.
Flagstaff, Arizona. schaffneriana var.
recurva).

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TE-33177C................ Newgord, Gary, Golden-cheeked Texas, Oklahoma..... Presence/absence Harm............... New.
Austin, Texas. warbler (Setophaga surveys.
chrysoparia), Black-
capped vireo (Vireo
atricapilla),
Houston toad (Bufo
houstonensis),
Interior least tern
(Sterna
antillarum),
Northern aplomado
falcon (Falco
femoralis
septentrionalis),
and Red-cockaded
woodpecker
(Picoides borealis).
TE-009926................ Gulf South Research Reticulated Florida............. Presence/absence Capture and harass; Amend.
Corporation, Baton flatwoods surveys. harm.
Rouge, Louisiana. salamander
(Ambystoma bishopi).
TE-799103................ Hicks and Company, Houston toad (Bufo Texas............... Live capture and Capture and harass; Amend.
Austin, Texas. houstonensis). handling. harm.
TE-037155................ Bio-West, Inc., Sharpnose shiner Texas............... Presence/absence Capture and harass; Amend.
Round Rock, Texas. (Notropis surveys. harm.
oxyrhynchus),
smalleye shiner
(Notropis buccula).
TE-59231C................ Laurel L. Moulton, Golden-cheeked Texas............... DNA; blood sampling. Capture, harm, and New.
Austin, Texas. warbler (Setophaga harass.
chrysoparia).
TE-63022C................ Nancy Karraker, Jemez Mountains New Mexico.......... Presence/absence Capture, harm, and New.
Kingston, Rhode salamander surveys. harass.
Island. (Plethodon
neomexicanus).
TE-48900C................ Keith Geluso, Lesser long-nosed Arizona............. Presence/absence Capture, harm, and New.
Kearney, Nebraska. bat (Leptonycteris surveys. harass.
curasoae
yerbabuenae),
Mexican long-nosed
bat (Leptonycteris
nivalis), northern
Mexican gartersnake
(Thamnophis eques
megalops), narrow-
headed gartersnake
(Thamnophis
rufipunctatus).
TE-87818B................ Melanie L. Gregory,. Indiana bat (Myotis Alabama, Arkansas, Presence/absence Capture, harm, and Amend.
Austin, Texas....... sodalis), gray bat Connecticut, surveys. harass.
(Myotis grisescens). Florida, Georgia,
Illinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Kansas,
Kentucky, Maryland,
Massachusetts,
Michigan,
Mississippi,
Missouri, New
Jersey, New York,
North Carolina,
Ohio, Oklahoma,
Pennsylvania,
Tennessee, Vermont,
Virginia, and West
Virginia.
TE-037155................ Bio-West, Inc. Round Smalleye shiner, Texas............... Presence/absence Capture, harm, and Amend.
Rock, Texas. sharpnose shiner. surveys. harass.
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Public Availability of Comments

All comments and materials we receive in response to these requests
will be available for public inspection, by appointment, during normal
business hours at the address listed in ADDRESSES.
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.

Authority: We provide this notice under section 10 of the ESA
(16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.).

Dated: November 30, 2017.
Amy Lueders,
Regional Director, Southwest Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
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1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et Division, by U.S. mail at Classification endangered or threatened species for
seq.,) and Recovery Division, U.S. Fish and scientific purposes that promote
Wildlife Service, P.O. Box 1306, recovery or enhance the species’
Michael Thabault,
Albuquerque, NM 87103. Please specify propagation or survival. Our regulations
Assistant Regional Director, Mountain-Prairie
Region.
the permit you are interested in by implementing section 10(a)(1)(A) for
number (e.g., Permit No. TE–123456). these permits are found at 50 CFR 17.22
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: for endangered wildlife species, 50 CFR
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Susan Jacobsen, Chief, Classification 17.32 for threatened wildlife species, 50
and Restoration Division, by U.S. mail CFR 17.62 for endangered plant species,
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR at P.O. Box 1306, Albuquerque, NM and 50 CFR 17.72 for threatened plant
87103; or by telephone at 505–248– species.
Fish and Wildlife Service 6641. In accordance with the ESA, section
10(c), we invite public comment on
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Permit Applications activities intended to recover and Comment
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, enhance endangered species survival.
With some exceptions, the Endangered We invite local, State, Tribal, and
Interior.
Species Act of 1973, as amended (16 Federal agencies and the public to
ACTION: Notice of receipt of permit
U.S.C. 1531 et seq.; ESA), prohibits comment on the following applications.
applications; request for comments. Please refer to the permit number for the
certain activities that may impact
SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and endangered species, unless a Federal application when submitting comments.
Wildlife Service, invite the public to permit allows such activity. The ESA Documents and other information
comment on the following applications also requires that we invite public submitted with these applications are
for a permit to conduct activities comment before issuing these permits. available for review by any party who
intended to recover and enhance submits a written request to the Program
endangered species survival. With some Background Manager for Restoration and
exceptions, the Endangered Species Act The ESA prohibits certain activities Endangered Species Classification at the
of 1973, as amended (ESA), prohibits with endangered and threatened species address in the ADDRESSES section.
certain activities that may impact unless a Federal permit authorizes Requests must be submitted within 30
endangered species unless a Federal them. The ESA and our implementing days of this notice’s publication date.
permit allows such activity. The ESA regulations in Code of Federal Releasing documents is subject to
also requires that we invite public Regulations (CFR) title 50, part 17, Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a) and
comment before issuing these permits. provide for issuing such permits and Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C.
DATES: To ensure consideration, please require that we invite public comment 552) requirements.
send your written comments by April 9, before issuing permits for activities Permit Applications
2018. involving endangered species.
ADDRESSES: Request documents or A recovery permit we issue under the Proposed activities in the following
submit comments to Susan Jacobsen, ESA, section 10(a)(1)(A), authorizes the permit requests are for the species’
Chief, Classification and Restoration permittee to conduct activities with recovery and survival enhancement.
Application Permit
Applicant Species Location Activity Type of take
No. action

TE–58221C .......... Jorge A. Manihot walkerae (Walker’s man- Texas ............................................ Collection of Harm .................. New.
DaSilva, ioc). seed and
Weslaco, propagation.
Texas.
TE–55633C .......... Jacob D. Owen, Golden-cheeked warbler Texas ............................................ Presence/ab- Harm and Har- New.
Austin, Texas. (Setophaga chrysoparia), Black- sence surveys; ass.
capped vireo (Vireo atricapilla), nest moni-
Georgetown salamander toring; bird
(Eurycea naufragia), Jollyville banding.
Plateau salamander (Eurycea
tonkawae), Salado salamander
(Eurycea chisholmensis), San
Marcos salamander (Eurycea
nana), Texas blind salamander
(Typhlomolge rathbuni), Barton
Springs salamander (Eurycea
sosorum), and Austin blind sala-
mander (Eurycea waterlooensis).
TE–099278 ........... Fred Phillips Huachuca water umbel (Lilaeopsis Arizona, New Mexico .................... Presence/ab- Harm .................. Amend.
Consulting, schaffneriana var. recurva). sence surveys.
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Section		Notices
Action		Notice of receipt of permit applications; request for comments.
Dates		To ensure consideration, please send your written comments by April 9, 2018.
Contact		Susan Jacobsen, Chief, Classification and Restoration Division, by U.S. mail at P.O. Box 1306, Albuquerque, NM 87103; or by telephone at 505-248-6641.
FR Citation		83 FR 9865

83 FR 9865 - U.S. Endangered Species; Recovery Permit Applications

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORFish and Wildlife Service

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 46 (March 8, 2018)

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service