[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 44 (Monday, March 9, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10060-10062]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-4826]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

[FWS-R4-ES-2009-N0037; 40120-1112-0000-F5]


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 threatened and endangered species.

DATES: We must receive written data or comments on the applications at 
the address given below, by April 8, 2009.

ADDRESSES: Documents and other information submitted with the 
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: David Dell, HCP Coordinator).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: David Dell, telephone 404/679-7313; 
facsimile 404/679-7081.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The public is invited to comment on the 
following applications for permits to

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conduct certain activities with endangered and threatened species 
pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(A) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, 
as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). This notice is provided under 
section 10(c) of the Act. 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).
    Before including your address, telephone number, e-mail address, or 
other personal identifying information in your comments, you should be 
aware that your entire comment--including your personal identifying 
information--may be made publicly available at any time. While you can 
ask us in your comments to withhold your personal identifying 
information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be 
able to do so. 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.

Applicant: David Nelson, University of South Alabama, Mobile, Alabama, 
TE091704.

    The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to survey, 
capture, and retain in captivity the Alabama red-bellied turtle 
(Pseudemys alabamensis) throughout Alabama.

Applicant: Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, TE206768.

    The applicant requests authorization to harass wood storks 
(Mycteria americana) for operational safety purposes at Moody Air Force 
Base.

Applicant: Savannah River Ecology Laboratory, Aiken, South Carolina, 
TE801914.

    The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to 
capture, tag, and monitor wood storks for research and management 
purposes throughout Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.

Applicant: Eco-Tech Consultants, Frankfort, Kentucky, TE810274.

    The applicant requests amendment of existing authorization to add 
authority to capture, identify, and release Virginia big-eared bats 
(Plecotus townsendii virginianus), and Ozark big-eared bats (Plecotus 
townsendii ingenss) throughout the species ranges in the southeast and 
midwestern United States.

Applicant: Marine Science Center, Ponce Inlet, Florida, TE050044.

    The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to hold 
for veterinary treatment, to retain unreleasable specimens, or to 
euthanize specimens of Kemp's ridley (Lepidochelys kempii), hawksbill 
(Eretmochelys imbricata), leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea), green 
(Chelonia mydas), loggerhead (Caretta caretta), and olive ridley 
(Lepidochelys olivacea) sea turtles. Treatment facilities are at 
Clearwater Marine Aquarium, but specimens may be accepted from 
authorized sources throughout Florida and other southeastern states.

Applicant: Georgia Sea Turtle Center, Jekyll Island, Georgia, TE206782.

    The applicant requests authorization to hold for veterinary 
treatment, to retain unreleasable specimens, or to euthanize specimens 
of Kemp's ridley, hawksbill, leatherback, green, loggerhead, and olive 
ridley sea turtles. Treatment facilities are at Georgia Sea Turtle 
Center, but specimens may be accepted from authorized sources 
throughout Georgia and other southeastern states.

Applicant: Share the Beach, Gulf Shores, Alabama, TE100012.

    The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to survey, 
harass, capture, and translocate Kemp's ridley, green, and loggerhead 
sea turtles for recovery-related management purposes throughout coastal 
Alabama.

Applicant: Arnold Air Force Base, Tennessee, TE034379.

    The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to 
capture, identify, and release Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis), and gray 
bats (Myotis grisescen) for presence/absence surveys throughout 
Tennessee.

Applicant: Jason Jennings, Shelby, Tennessee, TE206776.

    The applicant requests authorization to capture, identify, and 
release Indiana bats, and gray bats for presence/absence surveys 
throughout Tennessee.

Applicant: Ralph Costa, Mountain Rest, South Carolina, TE206777.

    The applicant requests authorization to harass, capture, band, 
translocate, and conduct other management activities with the red-
cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis) throughout the species range in 
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama, 
Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Arkansas, and Oklahoma.

Applicant: Florida Army National Guard, Starke, Florida, TE102418.

    The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to harass, 
capture, band, translocate, and conduct other management activities 
with the red-cockaded woodpecker on Camp Blanding, Florida.

Applicant: Sandhills Ecological Institute, Southern Pines, North 
Carolina, TE087191.

    The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to harass, 
capture, band, translocate, and conduct other management activities 
with the red-cockaded woodpecker in the sandhills region, Moore, Hoke, 
Cumberland, Richmond, and Scotland counties, North Carolina.

Applicant: Keith Walker, Montgomery, Alabama, TE069280.

    The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to collect 
little amphianthus (Amphianthus pusillus), Price's potato-bean (Apios 
priceana), American hart's-tongue fern (Asplenium scolopendriun var. 
americanum), Morefield's leather flower (Clematis morefieldii), Alabama 
leather flower (Clematis socialis), leafy prairie-clover (Dalea 
foliosa), Eggert's sunflower (Helianthus eggertii), lyrate bladderpod 
(Lesquerella lyrata), Mohr's barbara button (Marshallia mohrii), 
harperella (Ptilimnium nodosum), Kral's water-plantain (Sagittaria 
secundifolia), green pitcher-plant (Sarracenia oreophila), Alabama 
cane-break pitcher-plant (Sarracenia rubra alabamensis), American 
chaffseed (Schwalbea americana), gentian pinkroot (Spigelia 
gentianoides), Alabama streak-sorus fern (Thelypteris pilosa var. 
alabamensis), relict trillium (Trillium reliquum), and Tennessee 
yellow-eyed grass (Xyris tenneseensis), for survey purposes throughout 
Alabama, and requests amendment to expand authorized area of surveys 
throughout Georgia, Florida, Mississippi, and Tennessee.

Applicant: William Bailey, Searcy, Arkansas, TE206784.


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    The applicant requests authorization to capture, tag, translocate, 
and release the American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) for 
population monitoring and management throughout Arkansas.

Applicant: Sean Beckmann, University of Miami, Florida, TE206774.

    The applicant requests authorization to capture, tag, collect 
tissue samples, and release, Key Largo cotton mouse (Peromyscus 
gossypinus allipaticola) while conducting research activities 
throughout Key Largo, Florida.

Applicant: Wendell Neal, Brandon, Mississippi, TE797420.

    The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to 
capture, tag, and release, Perdido Key (Peromyscus polionotus 
trissyllepsis), Choctawhatchee (P.p. polionotus), Alabama (P.p. 
ammobates), Anastasia Island (P.p. phasma), and southeastern (P.p. 
niveiventris) beach mice while conducting presence/absence surveys 
throughout Alabama and Florida.

Applicant: Thomas Gunter, Tallahassee, Florida, TE206744.

    The applicant requests authorization to capture, tag, and release, 
Perdido Key, Choctawhatchee, Alabama, Anastasia Island, southeastern, 
and St. Andrews (P.p. peninsularis) beach mice, Key Largo cotton mouse, 
and Mississippi gopher frog (Rana capito sevosa) while conducting 
presence/absence surveys throughout Georgia, Alabama, Florida, 
Mississippi, and Louisiana.

Applicant: James Moyers, Panama City Beach, Florida, TE087199.

    The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to 
capture, tag, and release, Perdido Key, Choctawhatchee, and St. Andrews 
beach mice while conducting presence/absence surveys throughout 
Florida.

Applicant: Joseph Perchmann, Western Carolina University, Cullowhee, 
North Carolina, TE056510.

    The applicant requests authorization to capture, tag, and release 
adults, and collect and retain egg masses for propagation research, the 
Mississippi gopher frog while conducting recovery-related research 
throughout Mississippi.

Applicant: Monroe County Sheriff's Office, Key West, Florida, TE206785.

    The applicant requests authorization to receive and maintain in 
captivity unreleasable key deer (Odocoileus virginianus clavium) for 
educational purposes in Key West, Florida.

Applicant: Thomas Dickinson, Hillsborough, North Carolina, TE102324.

    The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to 
capture, identify, release, and salvage remains of James spinymussel 
(Pleurobema collina), Tar spinymussel (Elliptio steinstansana), dwarf-
wedge mussel (Alasmidonta heterodon), Carolina heelsplitter (Lasmigona 
decorata), Appalachian elktoe (Alasmidonta raveneliana), littlewing 
pearlymussel (Pegias fabula), oyster mussel (Epioblasma capsaeformis), 
and cumberland bean (Villosa trabalis) for presence/absence surveys 
throughout the species ranges in Georgia, North Carolina, and South 
Carolina.

Applicant: Michael Gangloff, Appalachian State University, Boone, North 
Carolina, TE079863.

    The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to 
capture, identify, release, and salvage remains of 55 species of listed 
freshwater snails and mussels, and to amend the authorization to add 20 
species of listed freshwater snails and mussels for presence/absence 
surveys throughout the species ranges in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, 
Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and 
Virginia.

Applicant: Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality, Pearl, 
Mississippi, TE065948.

    The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to 
capture, identify, and release Cumberland combshell (Epioblasma 
brevidens), southern combshell (Epioblasma penita), orange-nacre mucket 
(Lampsilus perovalis), black clubshell (Pleuroblema curtum), southern 
clubshell (Pleuroblema decisum), flat pigtoe (Pleuroblema marshalli), 
ovate clubshell (Pleuroblema perovatum), heavy pigtoe (Pleuroblema 
taitianum), inflated heelsplitter (Potamlum extensa), stirrupshell 
(Quadrula stapes), bayou darter (Etheostoma rubbrum), and Gulf sturgeon 
(Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi) for presence/absence surveys throughout 
Mississippi.

Applicant: Alan Christian, Arkansas State University, State University, 
Arkansas, TE206740.

The applicant requests authorization to capture, identify, release for 
presence/absence surveys, to collect tissue samples, and to retain in 
captivity for propagation studies Ouachita rock pocketbook (Arkansia 
wheeleri), Curtis' pearlymussel (Epioblasma florentina curtisi), turgid 
blossom (Epioblasma turgidula), pink mucket (Lampsilis abrupta), 
Arkansas fatmucket (Lampsilis powellii), speckled pocketbook (Lampsilis 
streckeri), scaleshell (Leptodea leptodon), fat pocketbook (Potamilus 
capax), and winged mapleleaf (Quadrula fragosa). Specimens to be 
captured from throughout Arkansas and retained at Arkansas State 
University.

Applicant: Metro Water Services, Nashville, Tennessee, TE206741.

    The applicant requests authorization to capture, identify, and 
release the Nashville crayfish (Orconectes shoupi) while conducting 
presence/absence surveys in Mill Creek Watershed, Davidson and 
Williamson Counties, Tennessee.

    Dated: February 9, 2009.
Cynthia K. Dohner,
Acting Regional Director.
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