[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 44 (Monday, March 9, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10062-10064]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-4827]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

[FWS-R4-ES-2009-N0044; 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 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

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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: Kentucky Division of Abandoned Mine Lands, Frankfort, 
Kentucky, TE206886

    The applicant requests authorization to capture, identify, and 
release Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis), gray bats (Myotis grisescen), 
Virginia big-eared bats (Plecotus townsendii virginianus), Ozark big-
eared bats (Plecotus townsendii ingens), blackside dace (Phoxinus 
cumberlandensis), palezone shiner (Notropis albizonatus), and relict 
darter (Etheostoma chiense) for presence surveys throughout Kentucky.

Applicant: Joy O'Keefe, Aiken, South Carolina, TE206872

    The applicant requests authorization to capture, identify, and 
release Indiana bats, for presence surveys throughout Alabama, Georgia, 
Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West 
Virginia.

Applicant: Ronald Spears, Denver, Colorado, TE207139

    The applicant requests authorization to capture, identify, and 
release Indiana and gray bats, for presence surveys throughout the 
species ranges in the midwestern and southeastern United States.

Applicant: T.H.E. Engineers, Lexington, Kentucky, TE206874

    The applicant requests authorization to capture, identify, and 
release Indiana bats, gray bats, Virginia big-eared bats, blackside 
dace, and American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) for presence 
surveys throughout Kentucky and Tennessee.

Applicant: Apogee Environmental Consultants, Inc., Whitesburg, 
Kentucky, TE070796

    The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to 
capture, identify, radio-tag, and release Indiana, gray, Virginia big-
eared, and Ozark big-eared bats for presence surveys throughout the 
species ranges in the eastern United States.

Applicant: Copperhead Environmental Consulting, Inc., Paint Lick, 
Kentucky, TE070584

    The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to 
capture, identify, radio-tag, and release Indiana, gray, Virginia big-
eared, and Ozark big-eared bats for presence surveys throughout the 
species ranges in the eastern United States.

Applicant: Biological Systems Consultants, Inc., Lexington, Kentucky, 
TE096554

    The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to 
capture, identify, and release blackside dace for presence surveys 
throughout Tennessee and to amend their authorization to include 
Kentucky.

Applicant: HMB Professional Engineers, Frankfort, Kentucky, TE129703

    The applicant requests amendment of existing authorization to add 
authority to harass, collect, or capture, identify, and release 
Virginia big-eared bats, American burying beetle, clubshell (Pleurobema 
clava), Eskimo curlew (Numenius borealis), relict darter, scaleshell 
mussel (Leptodea leptodon), northern riffleshell (Epioblasma torulosa 
rangiana), palezone shiner, Kentucky cave shrimp (Palaemonias ganteri), 
Braun's rock-cress (Arabis perstellata), and Cumberland sandwort 
(Arenaria cumberlandensis) for presence surveys throughout Kentucky and 
Tennessee.

Applicant: Appalachian Technical Services, Inc., Wise, Virginia, 
TE009638

    The applicant requests amendment of existing authorization to add 
authority to capture, handle, and release slender chub (Erimystax 
cahni), fanshell (Cyprogenia stegaria), dromedary pearlymussel (Dromus 
dromas), Cumberlandian combshell (Epioblasma brevidens), Appalachian 
monkeyface (Quadrula sparsa), Cumberland monkeyface (Quadrula 
intermedia), pink mucket (Lampsilis abrupta), and rough pigtoe 
(Pleurobema plenum) for presence surveys and scientific research aimed 
at recovery of the species throughout Georgia, North Carolina, Alabama, 
Mississippi, Kentucky, Tennessee, Ohio, Indiana, Pennsylvania, 
Virginia, and West Virginia.

Applicant: U.S.D.A. Forest Service, Chattahoochee-Oconee National 
Forests, Gainesville, Georgia, TE100242

    The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to 
capture, identify, and release spotfin chub (Cyprinella monacha), amber 
darter (Percina antesella), goldline darter (Percina aurolineata), 
Conasauga logperch (Percina jenkinsi), blue shiner (Cyprinella 
caerulea), Etowah darter (Etheostoma etowahae), and Cherokee darter 
(Etheostoma scotti) for presence surveys throughout Georgia.

Applicant: Fish and Wildlife Associates, Whittier, North Carolina, 
TE083941

    The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to 
capture, handle, and release snail darter (Percina tanasi), Conasauga 
logperch, blue shiner, amber darter (Percina antesella), goldline 
darter, Etowah darter, Cherokee darter, and painted snake coiled forest 
snail (Anguispira picta) for presence surveys throughout Georgia, 
Alabama, and Tennessee.

Applicant: Georgia Department of Transportation, Atlanta, Georgia, 
TE207108

    The applicant requests authorization to capture, handle, and 
release Cherokee darter, shiny-rayed pocketbook (Hamiota subangulata), 
oval pigtoe (Pleurobema pyriforme), Gulf moccasinshell (Medionidus 
penicillatus), purple bankclimber (Elliptoideus sloatianus), and fat 
threeridge (Amblema neislerii) for presence surveys throughout Georgia.

Applicant: Tim Nehus, Lebanon, Tennesse, TE108584

    The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to 
capture, handle, and release the Nashville crayfish (Orconectes shoupi) 
and 53 species of fish and freshwater mussel for presence surveys 
throughout Tennessee.


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Applicant: Copperhead Environmental Consulting, Inc., Paint Lick, 
Kentucky, TE171516

    The applicant requests amendment of existing authorization to add 
authority to capture, handle, and release 31 species of freshwater 
mussel for presence surveys throughout the species ranges in the 
eastern United States.

Applicant: South Carolina Parks, Recreation and Tourism, Columbia, 
South Carolina TE207117

    The applicant requests authorization to harass, inspect nest 
cavities, and conduct other management activities with the red-cockaded 
woodpecker (Picoides borealis) throughout South Carolina.

Applicant: Fort Benning Conservation Branch, Fort Benning, Georgia 
TE016270

    The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to harass, 
inspect nest cavities, capture, translocate, and conduct other 
management activities with the red-cockaded woodpecker throughout 
Georgia, Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi.

Applicant: Danny Gustafson, The Citadel, Charleston, South Carolina, 
TE117645

    The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to collect 
leaves of pondberry (Lindera melissifolia) from throughout South 
Carolina.

Applicant: North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill, North 
Carolina, TE091705

    The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to collect 
seeds, spores, cuttings, and vegetative material of little amphianthus 
(Amphianthus pusillus), Alabama leather flower (Clematis socialis), 
harperella (Ptilimnium nodosum), Kral's water-plantain (Sagittaria 
secundifolia), green pitcher-plant (Sarracenia oreophila), seabeach 
amaranth (Amaranthus pumilus), shale-barren rockcress (Arabis 
serotina), golden sedge (Carex lutea), Alabama leather-flower (Clematis 
socialis), smooth-purple coneflower (Echinacea laevigata), Applachian 
avens (Geum radiatum), rock gnome lichen (Gymnoderma lineare), 
Schweinitz's sunflower (Helianthus schweinitzii), dwarf-flowered 
heartleaf (Hexastylis naniflora), mountain golden-heartleaf (Hudsonia 
montana), black-spore quillwort (Isoetes melanospora), Merlin's-grass 
(Isoetes tegetiformans), Heller's gayfeather (Liatris helleri), rough-
leaved loosestrife (Lysimachia asperulaefolia), Canby's dropwort 
(Oxypolis canbyi), Ruth's golden aster (Pityopsis ruthii), Michaux's 
sumac (Rhus michauxii), bunched arrowhead (Sagittaria fasciculata), 
mountain sweet pitcher-plant (Sarracenia jonesii), largeflower skullcap 
(Scutellaria montana), blue ridge goldenrod (Solidago spithamaea), 
Virginia spirea (Spiraea virginiana), Cooley's meadowrue (Thalictrum 
cooleyi), and running buffalo clover (Trifolium stoloniferum) to 
develop and maintain germ plasm and propagated specimens of plants 
collected from throughout North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, 
Georgia, Florida, Tennessee, West Virginia, Virginia, and Maryland.

Applicant: International Carnivorous Plant Society, Pinole, California, 
TE061005

    The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to sell in 
interstate commerce cultivated seeds of green pitcher-plant (Sarracenia 
oreophila), Alabama canebreak pitcher-plant (Sarracenia rubra spp. 
alabamensis), mountain sweet pitcher-plant (Sarracenia rubra spp. 
jonesii), and godfrey's butterwort (Pinguicula ionantha). To be sold 
throughout the United States from specimens cultivated at University of 
California, Davis, California.

Applicant: Meadowview Biological Research Station, Woodford, Virginia, 
TE022690

    The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to sell in 
interstate commerce cultivated specimens of green pitcher-plant, 
Alabama canebreak pitcher-plant, and mountain sweet pitcher-plant. To 
be sold throughout the United States from specimens cultivated at 
Woodford, Virginia.

    Dated: February 13, 2009.
Jacquelyn B. Parrish,
Acting Regional Director.
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