[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 141 (Monday, July 22, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 37921]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-18470]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service


Notice of Receipt of Applications for Permit

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of receipt of application for permit.

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    The following applicants have applied for a permit to conduct 
certain activities with endangered species. This notice is provided 
pursuant to Section 10(c) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 
amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.):

PRT-816989

Applicant: Dr. Michael S. Gaines, University of Miami, Coral Gables, 
Florida

    The applicant requests a permit to take (capture, collect tissue 
samples, and release) Key Largo woodrats, Neotoma floridana smalli, and 
to take (capture and release) Key Largo cotton mice, Peromyscus 
gossypinus allapaticola, on Key Largo State Botanical Site and 
Crocodile Lakes National Wildlife Refuge for the purpose of enhancement 
of survival of the species.

PRT-817011

Applicant: Douglas N. Shelton, Barry A. Vittor & Associates, Mobile, 
Alabama

    The applicant requests a permit to take (capture and sacrifice for 
genetic analyses) up to three individuals of each of the following 
freshwater mussel species, fine-lined pocketbook, Lampsilis altilis, 
orange-nacre mucket, Lampsilis perovalis, Alabama moccasinshell, 
Medionidus acutissimus, Coosa moccasinshell, Medionidus parvulus, and 
triangular kidneyshell, Ptychobranchus greeni, throughout the species' 
ranges in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and 
Tennessee for the purpose of enhancement of survival of the species.

PRT-791799

Applicant: Douglas N. Shelton, Barry A. Vittor & Associates, Mobile, 
Alabama

PRT-791801

Applicant: Barry A. Vittor, Barry A. Vittor & Associates, Mobile, 
Alabama

    The applicants request to amend their existing authorizations to 
take (capture, identify, and release) threatened and endangered 
freshwater mussels in order to work throughout the States of Missouri, 
Indiana, and Pennsylvania, and to have authority to take (translocate) 
threatened and endangered freshwater mussels under the direction of 
Fish and Wildlife Service for the purpose of enhancement of survival of 
the species.

PRT-801592

Applicant: Kevin Markham and Annette Taylor, CZR Incorporated, 
Wilmington, North Carolina

    The applicant seeks to amend their existing authorization in order 
to take (capture, identify, and release) Tar spinymussels, Elliptio 
steinstansana, in addition to previously authorized take of dwarf wedge 
mussels, Alasmidonta heterodon, throughout the species' range in North 
Carolina for the purpose of enhancement of survival of the species.
    Written data or comments on these applications should be submitted 
to: Regional Permit Coordinator, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1875 
Century Boulevard, Suite 200, Atlanta, Georgia 30345. All data and 
comments must be received within 30 days of the date of this 
publication.
    Documents and other information submitted with these 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, Georgia 30345 
(Attn: David Dell, Permit Biologist). Telephone: 404/679-7313; fax: 
404/679-7081.

    Dated: July 15, 1996.

Noreen K. Clough,
Regional Director

[FR Doc. 96-18470 Filed 7-19-96;8:45am]

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