[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 27 (Monday, February 10, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Page 6003]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-3183]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Notice of Receipt of Application for Endangered Species Permit

    The following applicants have applied for permits 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-824723

Applicant: Dr. Reed Bowman, Archbold Biological Station, Lake 
Placid, Florida

    The applicant requests a permit to take (capture, band, conduct 
population surveys, translocate, and augment cavity trees) the 
endangered red-cockaded woodpecker, Picoides borealis, and to take 
(capture, band, and temporarily retain for metabolic research) the 
threatened Florida scrub jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens coerulescens, 
throughout the species' ranges at Avon Park Air Force Range, Polk and 
Highland Counties, Florida, and in Brevard County, Florida for the 
purpose of enhancement of survival of these species.

PRT-824727

Applicant: Dr. Oscar Pung, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, 
Georgia

    The applicant requests a permit to take (harass specimens captured 
by previously authorized permittees in order to sample blood for 
endoparasites, and harass in order to collect ectoparasites from nest 
cavities after the young have fledged) the endangered red-cockaded 
woodpecker, Picoides borealis, throughout the species range at Fort 
Stewart, Chatham, Liberty, Long, Bryan, Tattnall, and Evans Counties, 
Georgia for the purpose of enhancement of survival of the species.

PRT-824729

Applicant: D. Patrick Ferral, Ferral Environmental Services Inc., 
Camden, South Carolina

    The applicant requests a permit to take (capture and harass for 
banding, translocation, and nest cavity augmentation) the endangered 
red-cockaded woodpecker, Picoides borealis, throughout the species 
range in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, 
Texas, and Louisiana for the purpose of enhancement of survival of the 
species.
    Written data or comments on these applications should be submitted 
to: Regional Permit Biologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1875 
Century Boulevard, Suite 200, Atlanta, Georgia 30345. All data and 
comments must be received by March 12, 1997.
    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: January 31, 1997.
C. Monty Halcomb,
Acting Regional Director, Region 4, Atlanta, Georgia.
[FR Doc. 97-3183 Filed 2-7-97; 8:45 am]
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