[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 22 (Wednesday, February 2, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4987-4988]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-2215]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service


Receipt of Application for Endangered Species Permit

AGENCY:  Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

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ACTION:  Notice of Receipt of Application for Endangered Species 
Permit.

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SUMMARY:  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.).
    If you wish to comment, you may submit comments by any one of 
several methods. You may mail comments to the Service's Regional Office 
(see ADDRESSES). You may also comment via the internet to 
``[email protected]''. Please submit comments over the internet 
as an ASCII file avoiding the use of special characters and any form of 
encryption. Please also include your name and return address in your 
internet message. If you do not receive a confirmation from the Service 
that we have received your internet message, contact us directly at 
either telephone number listed below (see FURTHER INFORMATION). 
Finally, you may hand deliver comments to either Service office listed 
below (see ADDRESSES). Our practice is to make comments, including 
names and home addresses of respondents, available for public review 
during regular business hours. Individual respondents may request that 
we withhold their home address from the administrative record. We will 
honor such requests to the extent allowable by law. There may also be 
other circumstances in which we would withhold from the administrative 
record a respondent's identity, as allowable by law. If you wish us to 
withhold your name and address, you must state this prominently at the 
beginning of your comments. We will not, however, consider anonymous 
comments. We will make all submissions from organizations or 
businesses, and from individuals identifying themselves as 
representatives or officials of organizations or businesses, available 
for public inspection in their entirety.

DATES:  Written data or comments on these applications must be 
received, at the address given below, by March 3, 2000.

ADDRESSES:  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: Ken Graham, Permit Biologist). Telephone: 404/679-
7358; Facsimile: 404/679-7081.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Ken Graham, Telephone: 404/679-7358; 
Facsimile: 404/679-7081.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Applicant: Frances C. James, Florida State University, Tallahassee, 
Florida, TE020826-0.
    The applicant requests authorization to take (harass during nest 
monitoring, temporary nest occlusion research, and stomach flush/
dietary analysis research) the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker, 
Picoides borealis, on the Apalachicola National Forest, in Leon, 
Liberty, and Wakulla Counties, Florida for the purpose of enhancement 
of survival of the species.

    Applicant: Forest Supervisor, National Forests in North Carolina, 
Asheville, North Carolina, TE020891-0.
    The applicant requests authorization to take (capture, band, and 
harass during nest monitoring and construction of artificial cavities) 
the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker, Picoides borealis, throughout 
the species range in North Carolina, for the purpose of enhancement of 
survival of the species.

    Applicant: Forest Supervisor, National Forests in Mississippi, 
Jackson, Mississippi, TE020890-0.
    The applicant requests authorization to take (capture, band, 
translocate, and harass during nest monitoring, construction of 
artificial cavities, placement of restrictor plates, and augmentation) 
the endangered red-cockaded woodpecker, Picoides borealis, throughout 
the species range in Mississippi, for the purpose of enhancement of 
survival of the species.

    Applicant: Stanley B. Rudzinski, Jr., Law Engineering and 
Environmental Consultants, Nashville, Tennessee, TE021030-0.
    The applicant requests authorization to take (capture, identify, 
and relocate) the endangered Nashville Crayfish, Orconectes shoupi, 
throughout the species range in Tennessee, for the purpose of 
enhancement of survival of the species.

    Applicant: Nancy E. Jordan, South Carolina Cooperative Fish and 
Wildlife Research Unit, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina, 
TE022019-0.
    The applicant requests authorization to take (capture, band, 
monitor and collect unhatched eggs for hatching success research) the 
endangered red-cockaded woodpecker, Picoides borealis, in the Norfolk 
Southern Railroad Brosnan Forest, South Carolina, for the purpose of 
enhancement of survival of the species.

    Applicant: Kimberly Morgan Hicks, Oxford, North Carolina, TE022046-
0.
    The applicant requests authorization to take (capture, identify, 
and release) five species of endangered freshwater molluscs throughout 
the species' ranges in North Carolina and South Carolina, for the 
purpose of enhancement of survival of the species.

    Applicant: Peter G. David, South Florida Water Management District, 
Canal Point, Florida, TE020654-0.
    The applicant requests authorization to take (capture, band, 
translocate, and harass during nest monitoring and augmentation) the 
endangered red-cockaded woodpecker, Picoides borealis, throughout the 
species range in Florida for the purpose of enhancement of survival of 
the species.

    Dated: January 26, 2000.
H. Dale Hall,
Acting Regional Director.
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