[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 72 (Tuesday, April 15, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18356-18357]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-9601]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service


Notice of Receipt of Application for Endangered Species Permit

    The following applicant has 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-827365

Applicant: Kathleen A. McKeown, Department of Plant and Soil 
Sciences, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

    The applicant requests a permit to take (collect mature achenes for 
deposition into the National Plant Germplasm System and for research) 
the endangered Tennessee purple coneflower, Echinacea tennesseensis, 
and smooth cone flower, Echinacea laevigata, from Federal properties 
throughout these species' ranges in North Carolina, South Carolina, 
Georgia, Tennessee, and Virginia 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 May 15, 1997.
    Documents and other information submitted with this application 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

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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: April 4, 1997.
Noreen K. Clough,
Regional Director.
[FR Doc. 97-9601 Filed 4-14-97; 8:45 am]
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