[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 243 (Thursday, December 18, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 70522-70523]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-31185]


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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 the 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

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address given below, by January 20, 2004.

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 the following methods. You may mail comments to the 
Service's Regional Office (see ADDRESSES section) or via electronic 
mail (e-mail) to ``[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: Claudia Frosch, Gulf Shores, Alabama, TE080231-0.
    The applicant requests authorization to take (trap, handle, 
relocate, radio-tag, PIT-tag, and release) the Alabama beach mouse 
(Peromyscus polionotus ammobates) and Perdido Key beach mouse 
(Peromyscus polionotus trissyllepsis) while conducting presence and 
absence studies and population monitoring. The proposed activities 
would occur on Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, Baldwin County, 
Alabama; Johnson Beach of Gulf Island National Seashore, Escambia 
County, Florida; Perdido Key State Recreation Area, Escambia County, 
Florida; and Alabama Point, Baldwin County, Alabama.
    Applicant: Jereme N. Phillips, Gulf Shores, Alabama, TE080229-0.
    The applicant requests authorization to take (trap, mark, 
recapture, and release) the Alabama beach mouse (Peromyscus polionotus 
ammobates) while conducting presence and absence studies. The proposed 
activities would occur on Bon Secour National Wildlife Refuge, Baldwin 
County, Alabama.

    Dated: December 3, 2003.
Jackie Parrish,
Acting Regional Director.
[FR Doc. 03-31185 Filed 12-17-03; 8:45 am]
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