[Federal Register Volume 71, Number 248 (Wednesday, December 27, 2006)]
[Notices]
[Page 77784]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E6-22135]


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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.

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SUMMARY: The public is invited to comment on the following applications 
to conduct certain activities with endangered species.

DATES: We must receive written data or comments on these applications 
at the address given below, by January 26, 2007.

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: 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 and threatened species. This notice is provided under 
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 the following methods. You may mail comments to the Fish 
and Wildlife Service's Regional Office (see ADDRESSES section) or via 
electronic mail (e-mail) to [email protected]. Please include 
your name and return address in your e-mail message. If you do not 
receive a confirmation from the Fish and Wildlife 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 Fish and Wildlife 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: Joanne M. Potts, University of Saint Andrews, Saint 
Andrews, Fife, Scotland, TE139405-0.
    The applicant requests authorization to take (capture, radio tag/
collar, examine, measure, release, recapture) the Key Largo woodrat 
(Neotoma floridana smalli) and Key Largo cotton mouse (Peromyscus 
gossypinus allapaticola) while developing efficient and reliable 
methods for long-term monitoring of the Key Largo woodrat's population 
size. Although the Key Largo cotton mouse is not the target species, it 
may be incidentally captured. The proposed activities would occur on 
the Crocodile Lakes National Wildlife Refuge (Monroe County, Florida) 
and the Key Largo Hammocks Botanical Reserve (Dade County, Florida).
    Applicant: FTN Associates, Ltd., Dennis E. Ford, Little Rock, 
Arkansas, TE139474-0.
    The applicant requests authorization to take (capture, identify, 
release) the American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) while 
conducting long-term monitoring of the population at the Fort Chaffee 
Maneuver Training Center in Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, 
Arkansas.
    Applicant: Steven Bradford Cook, Cookeville, Tennessee, TE140151-0.
    The applicant requests authorization to take (capture, temporarily 
hold, release) the Nashville crayfish (Orconectes shoupi) while 
developing a macro and micro habitat model. The proposed activities 
would occur in the Mill Creek Watershed, Davidson and Williamson 
Counties, Tennessee.

    Dated: December 1, 2006.
Cynthia Dohner,
Acting Regional Director.
[FR Doc. E6-22135 Filed 12-26-06; 8:45 am]
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