[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 178 (Monday, September 15, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53993-53994]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-23392]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service


Receipt of Applications for Endangered Species Permits

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of receipt of applications for permits.

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SUMMARY: The public is invited to comment on following applications to 
conduct certain activities with endangered species. We provide this 
notice pursuant to section 10(c) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, 
as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.).

DATES: We must receive written data or comments on these applications 
at the address given below, by October 15, 2003.

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).

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The public is invited to comment on the 
following applications for permits to conduct certain activities with 
endangered species. 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 section) or via electronic mail (e-mail) 
to victoria [email protected]. Please submit electronic comments 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 e-
mail message. If you do not receive a confirmation from the Service 
that we have received your e-mail message, contact us directly at the 
telephone number listed above (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT 
section). Finally, you may hand deliver comments to the Service office 
listed above (see ADDRESSES section).
    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.
    Applicant: Anthony Joseph Savereno, Sabine & Water, Inc., 
Summerville, South Carolina, TE070880-0.
    The applicant requests authorization to take (capture, band, 
release, monitor nests, and install and drill artificial cavity 
inserts) red-cockaded woodpeckers (Picoides borealis) for the purposes 
of monitoring and managing populations and nest cavities. The proposed 
activities would take place in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North 
Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee, Kentucky, Arkansas, Texas, 
Virginia, and Mississippi.
    Applicant: Griggs & Maloney, Inc., Steven Davis Maloney, 
Murfreesboro, Tennessee, TE074624-0
    The applicant requests authorization to take (capture, relocate, 
and release) Nashville crayfishes (Orconectes shoupi) while conducting 
presence and absence surveys around an unnamed tributary to Owl Creek 
and to relocate the Nashville crayfish from the area immediately around 
the crossing to areas of suitable habitat within the same tributary. 
The proposed activities would take place in Williamson County, 
Tennessee on an unnamed tributary to Owl Creek (tributary to Mill 
Creek).
    Applicant: U.S. Geological Survey, Wiley M. Kitchens, Gainesville, 
Florida, TE069236-0
    The applicant requests authorization to take (survey, capture, 
band, radio-tag, release, recapture, exam, measure, take feather 
samples, monitor nests) the Everglade snail kite (Rostrhamus sociabilis 
plumbeus) while collecting information on the demography and movement 
of the species. The surveys would be performed throughout several 
wetlands in central and south Florida, including Lake Kissimmee, East 
and West Lake Tohopekaliga, Lake Okeechobee, Blue Cypress Marshes of 
the upper Saint Johns, West Palm Beach Water Catchment area (Grassy 
Water Preserve), ARM Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge, Water 
Conservation Areas 2A, 2B, 3A, and 3B, Big Cypress National Preserve, 
and the Everglades National Park, including Shark Valley and North East 
Shark River Slough, Florida.
    Applicant: United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region 4, 
Science and Ecosystem Support Division, Athens, Georgia, TE075931-0.
    The applicant requests authorization to take (capture, photograph, 
release) all federally listed freshwater fishes, mollusks, crustaceans, 
insects, amphibians, mammals, birds, and

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reptiles, identified in 50 CFR 17.11 in the States of Kentucky, 
Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, 
and Mississippi. Take may occur while sampling for aquatic bio-
assessment for (1)(a) EPA Regional Environmental Monitoring and 
Assessment Program (R-EMAP) projects, (b) Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 
303(d) listing and de-listing of impaired waters, (c) development of 
CWA Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs), and for (2)(a) EPA human risk 
assessments and (b) Superfund human health and ecological risk 
assessments.
    Applicant: United States Air Force, Julie A. Hovis, Shaw Air Force 
Base, South Carolina, TE075925-0
    The applicant requests authorization to take (capture, band, 
release, track, translocate, blood sample, monitor nests and roost 
cavities, and construct, install and maintain artificial nest cavities) 
red-cockaded woodpeckers (Picoides borealis) while conducting presence 
and absence surveys and population monitoring and management. The take 
activities would occur at Poinsett Electronic Combat Range and 
Manchester State Forest in Sumter County, South Carolina.
    Applicant: Timothy W. Savidge, North Carolina Heritage Program, 
Stephen P. Hall, Raleigh, North Carolina, TE075923-0
    The applicant requests authorization to take (survey, capture, 
release, and retain relic shells) James spinymussel (Pleurobema 
collina), dwarf-wedge mussel (Alasmidonta heterodon) tar spinymussel 
(Elliptio steinstansanna), and Carolina heelsplitter (Lasmigona 
decorata). Take may occur while conducting presence/absence surveys. 
The proposed activities would take place in North Carolina, Virginia, 
Georgia, and Florida.
    Applicant: HMB Professional Engineers, Inc., Jim H. Smith, 
Frankfort, Kentucky, TE075918-0
    The applicant requests authorization to take (survey, capture, 
band, radio tag, photograph, release, and track) gray bat (Myotis 
grisescens) and Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis), and take (survey, 
capture, identify, photograph, collect relic shells, and release) the 
Cumberland elktoe (Alasmidonta atropurpurea). Take may occur while 
conducting presence and absence surveys for highway improvement and new 
roadway projects in the state of Tennessee.
    Applicant: Julie L. Lockwood, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, 
New Jersey, TE075916
    The applicant requests authorization to take (survey, capture, 
band, collect blood samples, monitor nest, and release) the Cape Sable 
seaside sparrow (Ammodramus maritimus mirabilis). The take activities 
may take place while studying the effects of fire on the Cape Sable 
seaside sparrow demography. The proposed activities would occur within 
the Everglades National Park, Monroe County, Florida.
    Applicant: Virginia Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit, Richard J. 
Neves, Blacksburg, Virginia, TE075915-0
    The applicant requests authorization to take (survey, capture, 
collect up to 30 tissue samples, tag, and release) the James 
spinymussel (Pleurobema cillina) and the tar spinymussel (Elliptio 
steinstansana). The proposed take may occur while conducting genetic 
analyses and habitat surveys, and while studying the life history and 
the feasibility of culturing it in recirculating aquaculture systems 
with different substrata. The proposed activities would occur in Stokes 
and Rockingham counties, Dan and Mayo rivers, Dan River subbasin of the 
Roanoke River basin, North Carolina for the tar spinymussel. The 
proposed activities for the James spinymussel will occur in Patrick and 
Henry Counties, South Fork Mayo River, Virginia.
    Applicant: Thomas S. Risch, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, 
Arkansas, TE075912-0
    The applicant requests authorization to take (survey, capture, 
mark, band, radio-tag, track, recapture, and release) the Indiana bat 
(Myotis sodalis) while conducting presence and absence surveys of caves 
and abandoned mines. The proposed activities would take place at Rosson 
Hollow, Ozark National Forest, Franklin, Arkansas.
    Applicant: Thomas S. Risch, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, 
Arkansas, TE075913-0
    The applicant requests authorization to take (survey, capture, 
mark, band, radio-tag, track, recapture, and release) the Ozark big-ear 
bat (Corynorhinus townsendii ingens), gray bat (Myotis grisescens), and 
Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) while conducting presence and absence 
surveys of caves and abandoned mines in Marion, Searcy, Baxter, and 
Newton Counties, Buffalo National River, Arkansas.
    Applicant: Steven Ray Shattler, Florida Fish and Wildlife 
Conservation Commission, Venus, Florida, TE076499-0
    The applicant requests authorization to take (capture, band, 
release, monitor nests, install and drill artificial cavity inserts, 
and install snake exclusion devices) red-cockaded woodpeckers (Picoides 
borealis) while conducting presence and absence surveys and management 
activities. The proposed activities would take place in Highlands and 
Glades Counties, on the Platt Branch Mitigation Park and the Lykes 
Brothers Inc. Ranch, Florida.
    Applicant: Roel R. Lopez, Texas A & M University, College Station, 
Texas, TE076447-0
    The applicant requests authorization to take (trap, mark, tag, 
examine, recapture, release) Key Largo woodrats (Neotoma foidana 
smalli) and Key Largo cotton mice (Peromyscus gossypinus allapaticola) 
while conducting mark-recapture surveys for the Key Largo woodrat. The 
population estimates would be used for recovery purposes. The proposed 
activities would take place at the Crocodile Lake National Wildlife 
Refuge, Key Largo, Monroe County, Florida.

    Dated: September 4, 2003.
Sam D. Hamilton,
Regional Director.
[FR Doc. 03-23392 Filed 9-12-03; 8:45 am]
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