[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 107 (Friday, June 4, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 31812-31815]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-13404]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

[FWS-R4-ES-2010-N109; 40120-1112-0000-F5]


Receipt of Applications for Endangered Species Permits

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite the public to 
comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities 
with

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endangered species. With some exceptions, the Endangered Species Act 
(ESA) prohibits activities with listed species unless a Federal permit 
is issued that allows such activities. The ESA requires that we invite 
public comment before issuing these permits.

DATES: We must receive written data or comments on the applications at 
the address given below, by July 6, 2010.

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: Cameron Shaw, Permit Coordinator).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cameron Shaw, telephone 904/731-3191; 
facsimile 904/731-3045.

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 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: William Waddell, Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium, Tacoma, 
Washington, TE834070

    The applicant requests renewed authorization to receive, retain, 
transfer, and harass the red wolf (Canis rufus) as required to conduct 
captive breeding and recovery programs for the species.

Applicant: Appalachian Technical Services, Wise, Kentucky, TE009638

    The applicant requests authorization to capture, handle, radio-tag, 
and release Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis), gray bats (Myotis 
grisescens), and Virginia big-eared bats (Corynorhinus townsendii 
virginianus), for presence/absence surveys and scientific research.

Applicant: Benjamin Laester, Whittier, North Carolina, TE121142

    The applicant requests renewed authorization to capture and handle 
the Indiana bat throughout its range in western North Carolina.

Applicant: Neil Turner, Turner Technology, Inc., Prestonsburg, 
Kentucky, TE210424

    The applicant requests authorization to capture, handle, release, 
and use acoustical monitoring procedures to determine the presence of 
the Indiana bat in Kentucky.

Applicant: Susan Loeb, U.S. Forest Service, Clemson, South Carolina, 
TE119937

    The applicant requests renewed authorization to capture, handle, 
release, and radio-tag Indiana bat in the following locations: Cherokee 
National Forest and Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Tennessee; 
Nantahala and Pisgah National Forests and Gold Mountain Gamelands, 
North Carolina.

Applicant: Roy S. DeLotelle, DeLotelle and Guthrie, Inc., Gainesville, 
Florida, TE825431

    The applicant requests renewed authorization to capture, band, 
translocate, and monitor red-cockaded woodpeckers (Picoides borealis) 
throughout the range of the species in Florida, Georgia, South 
Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Arkansas, 
Texas, Oklahoma, Virginia, and Louisiana.

Applicant: North Louisiana National Wildlife Refuge Complex, 
Farmerville, Louisiana, TE9297A

    The applicant requests authorization to trap, band, relocate and 
create artificial nesting cavities for red-cockaded woodpeckers 
throughout Louisiana and Arkansas.

Applicant: Audubon Nature Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana, TE077865

    The permittee requests renewed authorization to harass and release 
to the wild Mississippi sandhill crane (Grus canadensis pulla) and 
whooping crane (Grus americana).

Applicant: Barbara Allen, Gulf Shores, Alabama, TE125557

    The applicant requests renewed authorization to take, for 
scientific purposes and to enhance recovery efforts, Alabama beach 
mouse (Peromyscus polionotus ammobates), and three species of sea 
turtles: Kemp's ridley (Lepidochelys kempii), green (Chelonia mydas), 
and loggerhead (Caretta caretta).

Applicant: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, National 
Marine Fisheries Service, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Miami, 
Florida TE676379

    The applicant requests renewed authorization to take (harass, 
capture, tag, track, salvage, collect biological samples, and 
euthanize) Kemp's ridley, hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbracata), 
leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea), green, loggerhead, and olive ridley 
(Lepidochelys olivacea) sea turtles for scientific purposes, 
enhancement of propagation or survival, recovery activities, and 
veterinary treatment in Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, 
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, Puerto Rico, 
U.S. Virgin Islands, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Northwestern Atlantic 
Ocean.

Applicant: Carol Johnston, Auburn, Alabama, TE178666

    The applicant requests authorization to survey Coldwater Spring, 
Calhoun County, Alabama, to determine presence, habitat use, and diet 
of banded sculpin (Cottus carolinae) and pygmy sculpin (Cottus paulus) 
via snorkeling and stomach content analysis.

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Applicant: Register-Nelson, Inc., Stockbridge, Georgia, TE114088

    The applicant requests renewed authorization to capture, identify, 
and release blue shiner (Cyprinella caerulea), Etowah darter 
(Etheostoma etowahae), Cherokee darter (Etheostoma scotti), amber 
darter (Percina antesella), goldline darter (Percina aurolineata), 
snail darter (Percina tanasi), and Conasauga logperch (Percina 
jenkinsi) in Georgia. The applicant requests to amend the permit to 
include the capture, identification, and release of eastern indigo 
snake (Drymarchon corais couperi), reticulated flatwoods salamander 
(Ambystoma bishopi), and frosted flatwoods salamander (Ambystoma 
cingulatum) in Georgia.

Applicant: Jess Jones, Blacksburg Virginia, TE108813

    The applicant requests authorization to conduct restoration 
activities and translocate the oyster mussel (Epioblasma capsaeformis) 
from the Clinch River in Tennessee upstream into Virginia.

Applicant: Campbellsville University, Campbellsville, Kentucky, TE12106

    The applicant requests authorization to survey for the following 
freshwater mussels: ringpink (Obovaria retusa), fanshell (Cyprogenia 
stegaria), pocketbook (Lampsilis ovata), clubshell (Pleurobema clava), 
rough pigtoe (Pleurobema plenum), snuffbox (Epioblasma triquetra), and 
rabbitsfoot (Quadrula cylindrica).

Applicant: Ecological Resource Consultants, Inc., Panama City Beach, 
Florida, TE08988A

    The applicant requests authorization to capture and release the 
following freshwater mussels while conducting presence/absence surveys 
in the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee, Flint, Chipola, Econfina, and 
Ochlockonee River Watersheds in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida: oval 
pigtoe (Pleurobema pyriforme), Gulf moccasinshell (Medionidus 
penicillatus), Chipola slabshell (Elliptio chipolaensis), purple 
bankclimber (Elliptoideus solatianus), shiny-rayed pocketbook (Hamiota 
[=Lampsilis] subangulata), fat threeridge (Amblema neislerii), and the 
Ochlockonee moccasinshell (Medionidus simpsonianus).

Applicant: Mark Hughes, Biological Integrity, LLC., Bainbridge, 
Georgia, TE12315A

    The applicant requests authorization to capture and release the 
following freshwater mussels while conducting presence/absence surveys 
in the Apalachicola, Chattahoochee, Flint, Chipola, Econfina, and 
Ochlockonee River Watersheds in Alabama, Georgia, and Florida: oval 
pigtoe (Pleurobema pyriforme), Gulf moccasinshell (Medionidus 
penicillatus), Chipola slabshell (Elliptio chipolaensis), purple 
bankclimber (Elliptoideus solatianus), shiny-rayed pocketbook (Hamiota 
[=Lampsilis] subangulata), fat threeridge (Amblema neislerii), the 
Ochlockonee moccasinshell (Medionidus simpsonianus), and the Alabama 
moccasinshell (Medionidus acutissimus).

Applicant: U.S. Geological Survey, Georgia Cooperative Fish and 
Wildlife Research Unit, Athens, Georgia, TE10239A

    The applicant requests authorization to capture freshwater mussels 
from the lower Flint River basin, Georgia, and temporarily hold them to 
collect hemolymph and tissue samples, evaluate fish hosts and develop 
propagation techniques for the oval pigtoe, Gulf moccasinshell, purple 
bankclimber, shiny-rayed pocketbook, and fat threeridge.

Applicant: Monte McGregor, Center for Mollusk Conservation, Kentucky 
Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, Frankfort, Kentucky, 
TE178815

    The applicant requests authorization to capture, propagate, and 
release multiple species of freshwater mussels (Family Unionidae) 
throughout their respective ranges (as collected opportunistically and 
based upon recovery needs).

Applicant: Dr. Kevin J. Roe, Iowa State University, TE040423

    The applicant requests renewed authorization to collect tissue 
samples from Kentucky cave shrimp (Palaemonias ganteri) within Mammoth 
Cave National Park, Kentucky, for genetic evaluation.

Applicant: Stanley Rudzinski, Law Engineering and Environmental 
Services, Mt. Juliet, Tennessee, TE021030

    The applicant requests authorization to capture and release 
Nashville crayfish, (Orconectes shoupi) during presence/absence surveys 
in the Mill Creek drainage, Davidson and Williamson counties, 
Tennessee.

Applicant: Norman Wagoner, Ouachita National Forest, Hot Springs, 
Arkansas, TE125605

    The applicant requests renewed authorization to capture and release 
the American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) while conducting 
inventory and monitoring surveys within the boundaries of Ouachita 
National Forest and Ozark-St. Francis National Forest, Arkansas and 
Oklahoma.

Applicant: Burns and McDonnell Engineering Company, Kansas City, 
Missouri, TE125620

    The applicant requests renewed authorization to take the American 
burying beetle while conducting presence/absence surveys in Crawford, 
Sebastian, Franklin, Logan, and Scott counties, Arkansas.

Applicant: Archbold Expeditions, Venus, Florida, TE088035

    The applicant requests renewed authorization to take or harass the 
following species during prescribed burn activities in Highlands 
County, Florida: Scrub mint (Dicerandra frutescens), snakeroot 
(Eryngium cuneifolium), Highland's scrub hypernicum (Hypericum 
cumulicola), scrub blazing star (Liatria ohlingerae), Britton's 
beargrass (Nolina brittoniana), wireweed (Polygonella basiramia), 
sandlace (Polygonella myriophylla), scrub plum (Prunus geniculata), 
Carter's mustard (Warea carteri) and Florida panther (Puma concolor 
coryi).

Applicant: Fort Jackson Military Reservation, Fort Jackson, South 
Carolina, TE183402

    The applicant requests authorization to collect and sow seeds of 
smooth coneflower, (Echinacea laevigata) on Fort Jackson Military 
Reservation.

Applicant: Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden, Miami, Florida, TE114069

    The applicant requests renewed authorization to conduct presence/
absence and mapping surveys, collect seeds and/or cuttings, and test 
the impact of canopy reduction on growth and reproduction of the 
endangered Key tree cactus (Pilosocereus robinii) in Monroe County, 
Florida.

Applicant: Florida Gas Transmission Company, LLC, Houston, Texas, 
TE139464

    The applicant requests authorization to: Capture and release 
eastern indigo snake, frosted flatwood salamander, reticulated 
flatwoods salamander, gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus), bluetail 
mole skink (Eumeces egregius lividus), and sand skink (Neoseps 
reynoldsi) and collect plants or plant parts of Highlands scrub 
Hypericum, Britton's beargrass, papery whitlow-wort (Paronychia 
chartacea), wireweed,

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and Carter's mustard. Activities may occur within the following 
counties: Alabama--Mobile, Baldwin, and Escambia; and Florida--
Escambia, Santa Rosa, Okaloosa, Walton, Washington, Jackson, Bay, 
Calhoun, Gadsden, Leon, Jefferson, Taylor, Lafayette, Madison, 
Suwannee, Gilchrist, Levy, Citrus, Hernando, Pasco, Hillsborough, 
Manatee, De Soto, Highlands, Okeechobee, Martin, and Miami-Dade 
counties.

    Dated: May 14, 2010.
Jacquelyn B. Parrish,
Acting Regional Director.
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