[Federal Register Volume 66, Number 54 (Tuesday, March 20, 2001)]
[Notices]
[Pages 15735-15736]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 01-6806]


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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.

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 
``victoria_davis@fws. 
gov''. 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 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT). 
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. However, we will not 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 April 19, 2001.

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: Victoria Davis, Permit Biologist). Telephone: 404/
679-4176; Facsimile: 404/679-7081.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Victoria Davis, Telephone: 404/679-
4176; Facsimile: 404/679-7081.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
    Applicant: Jack Greenlee, De Soto Ranger District, U.S. Forest 
Service, Wiggins, Mississippi TE033485-0.
    The applicant requests authorization to remove and reduce to whole 
possession specimens of the Louisiana quillwort, Isoetes louisianensis, 
and the American chaffseed, Schwalbea americana. The purposes of 
removal to whole possession for the Louisiana quillwort are to conduct 
genetic tests to differentiate species within the genus Isoetes, to 
collect voucher specimens, and to conduct population surveys. The 
purposes of removal to whole possession for the American chaffseed are 
to collect voucher specimens and to conduct population surveys. The 
proposed activities will take place in the

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following Mississippi counties: Harrison, Hancock, Jackson, Pearl 
River, Stone, George, Lamar, Forrest, Perry, Greene, Jones, and Wayne. 
The specimens will be deposited into an actively curated herbarium.
    Applicant: Steve M. Lohr, Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina 
TE039592-0.
    The applicant requests authorization to take (harass during 
capturing, banding, releasing, monitoring, and habitat management) the 
Red-cockaded woodpecker, Picoides borealis, for the purposes of 
managing the populations on Poinsett Electronic Combat Range. The 
proposed activities will take place in Sumter County, South Carolina.
    Applicant: Carlos E. Diez, Puerto Rico Department of Natural and 
Environmental Resources, San Juan, Puerto Rico TE039589-0.
    The applicant requests authorization to take (capture, collect, 
relocate, and euthanize) Hawksbill sea turtle, Eretmochelys imbricata, 
for the purposes of conducting genetic studies on 200 eggs and 420 
hatchlings to determine the sex ratios of the hatchlings that are being 
produced on Mona Island. The proposed study consists of three phases: 
(1) Determination of the pivotal temperature (the incubation 
temperature at which both sexes are produced in equal proportion); (2) 
a methodological validation; and (3) the estimation of the sex ratio in 
hatchlings incubated on Mona Island's beaches. The proposed activities 
will take place on Mona Island, Puerto Rico.

    Dated: March 7, 2001.
Judy Jones,
Acting Regional Director.
[FR Doc. 01-6806 Filed 3-19-01; 8:45 am]
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