[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 32 (Wednesday, February 18, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8682-8684]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-03314]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

[FWS-R4-ES-2014-N028; 40120-1112-0000-F2]


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 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 March 20, 2015.

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: U.S. 
Fish and Wildlife Service, 1875 Century Boulevard, Suite 200, Atlanta, 
GA 30345 (Attn: David Dell, Permit Coordinator).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Karen Marlowe, 10(a)(1)(A) Permit 
Coordinator, telephone 205-726-2667; facsimile 205-726-2479.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The public is invited to comment on the 
following applications for permits to conduct certain activities with 
endangered and threatened species under section 10(a)(1)(A) of the 
Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), 
and our regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) at 50 CFR 
17. 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 send them via 
electronic mail (email) to [email protected]. Please include your 
name and return address in your email message. If you do not receive a 
confirmation from the Fish and Wildlife Service that we have received 
your email message, contact us directly at the telephone number listed 
above (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT). Finally, you may hand-
deliver comments to the Fish and Wildlife Service office listed above 
(see ADDRESSES).
    Before including your address, telephone number, email 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.

Permit Applications

Permit Application Number: TE 237537-1

    Applicant: Peter Raven, Missouri Botanical Gardens, St. Louis, 
Missouri
    The applicant requests renewal and amendment of their current 
permit to add authorization to remove and reduce to possession (through 
seed and leaf material collection) 17 species of endangered and 
threatened plant species from lands under Federal jurisdiction in 
Alabama, Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Illinois, Missouri, 
Virginia, and Mississippi for ex situ conservation, research, 
propagation, and educational display.

Permit Application Number: TE 146761-3

    Applicant: Pedro Ramos, Big Cypress National Preserve, National 
Park Service, Ochopee, Florida
    The applicant requests renewal of their current permit to take 
(capture, harass, chemically immobilize, hold temporarily, transport, 
radio collar, take tissue and blood samples, provide medical treatment 
for injury or illness including appropriate vaccinations, subsequently 
release, and euthanize) the Florida panther (Felis concolor coryi) for 
the purpose of maintaining a healthy panther population, to assess the 
habitat potential to support panthers, to monitor the effects of the 
genetic restoration project, and to evaluate the accuracy of the global 
positioning system radio-collars and aerial telemetry throughout the 
species' range.

Permit Application Number: TE 092945-3

    Applicant: James Lindsay, Florida Power and Light Company, Juno 
Beach, Florida
    The applicant requests renewal and amendment of their permit to 
authorize the capture of non-breeding American crocodiles (Crocodylus 
acutus) less than

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2 meters in total length during the nesting season for assessment of 
survival and growth rates and to authorize all permitted activities 
(capture, examine, weigh, sex, collect tissue samples, mark, radio-tag, 
radio track, relocate, and release) for American crocodiles in the 
Florida Power and Light Everglades Mitigation Bank, in addition to the 
previously permitted location of the Florida Power and Light Turkey 
Point Power Plant Cooling Canals, for purposes of conducting monitoring 
surveys and documenting nesting activity and utilization of the cooling 
canal system in Dade County, Florida.

Permit Application Number: TE 54578B-0

    Applicant: Mary Frazer, Raleigh, North Carolina
    The applicant requests authorization to take (enter hibernacula or 
maternity roost caves, salvage dead bats, capture with mist nets or 
harp traps, handle, identify, collect hair and tissue samples, band, 
radio-tag, pit-tag, light-tag, wing-punch, and selectively euthanize 
for white-nose syndrome testing) Virginia big-eared bats (Corynorhinus 
(=plecotus) townsendii virginianus), Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis), 
gray bats (Myotis grisescens), and northern long-eared bats (Myotis 
septentrionalis) for the purposes of conducting presence/absence 
surveys, studies to document habitat use, determining presence of white 
nose syndrome, and population monitoring in North Carolina, South 
Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia.

Permit Application Number: TE 002412-6

    Applicant: Cecil Comalander, Milliken Forestry Company Inc., 
Columbia, South Carolina
    The applicant requests renewal of his current permit to take 
(capture, band, install artificial cavities and restrictors, and 
translocate) red-cockaded woodpeckers (Picoides borealis) for the 
purposes of monitoring and managing populations in South Carolina.

Permit Application Number: TE 54891B-0

    Applicant: Luke Dodd, Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, 
Kentucky
    The applicant requests authorization to take (capture with mist 
nets or harp traps, handle, band, radio-tag) Indiana bats (Myotis 
sodalis), gray bats (Myotis grisescens), and northern long-eared bats 
(Myotis septentrionalis) for the purposes of conducting presence/
absence surveys, studies to document habitat use, and population 
monitoring in Kentucky.

Permit Application Number: TE 834056-5

    Applicant: Kellie Keys, North Florida Wildlife LLC, Crawfordville, 
Florida
    The applicant requests renewal of the current permit to take 
(capture, band, release, construct and monitor nest cavities and 
restrictors) red-cockaded woodpeckers (Picoides borealis) for the 
purposes of monitoring and managing populations in Arkansas, Florida, 
Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Alabama, Louisiana, 
Mississippi, Virginia, Oklahoma, and Texas.

Permit Application Number: TE 079972-3

    Applicant: Eric Baka, Louisiana Department of Wildlife and 
Fisheries, Pineville, Louisiana
    The applicant requests renewal of his current permit to take 
(capture, band, release, install drilled and insert cavities, install 
cavity restrictors, and translocate) red-cockaded woodpeckers (Picoides 
borealis) for the purposes of banding juveniles and adults, and 
monitoring populations and nest cavities in Louisiana.

Permit Application Number: TE 096554-3

    Applicant: James Robinson, Biological Systems Consultants Inc., 
Lexington, Kentucky
    The applicant requests renewal of his current permit to take 
(capture, identify, and release) blackside dace (Phoxinus 
cumberlandensis) and take (capture, sex, weigh, measure, band, and 
radio-tag) Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis), gray bat (Myotis grisescens), 
and Virginia big-eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus) for 
the purpose of conducting presence/absence surveys in Tennessee and 
Kentucky.

Permit Application Number: TE 55292B-0

    Applicant: Robert Fletcher, University of Florida, Gainesville, 
Florida
    The applicant requests authorization to take (capture, band, mark, 
radio-tag, measure, collect feather samples, release, and monitor) 
everglade snail kites (Rostrhamus sociabilis plumbeus) for demographic 
and movement studies in the State of Florida to enhance the survival of 
the species.

Permit Application Number: TE 55286B-0

    Applicant: Hayden Mattingly, Tennessee Technical University, 
Cookeville, Tennessee
    The applicant requests authorization to take (capture via seining, 
kick-seining, electrofishing, trapping, and/or hand-netting, and 
marking and fin-clipping) pygmy madtoms (Noturus stanauli) in the 
Clinch and Duck River drainages in the state of Tennessee for the 
purposes of conducting presence/absence surveys and developing DNA 
detection techniques.

Permit Application Number: TE 48833A-1

    Applicant: Brian Carver, Tennessee Technical University, 
Cookeville, Tennessee
    The applicant requests an amendment to the current permit to take 
(enter hibernacula or maternity roost caves, salvage dead bats, capture 
with mist nets or harp traps, handle, identify, collect hair and tissue 
samples, band, radio-tag, pit-tag, light-tag, and wing-punch) northern 
long eared bats (Myotis septentrionalis) throughout the range of the 
species.

Permit Application Number: TE 100626-9

    Applicant: Jeff Selby, AST Environmental, Decatur, Alabama
    The applicant requests an amendment to the current permit to take 
(capture, identify, release) the following species: Diamond tryonia 
(Pseudotryonia adamantina), Gonzalez springsnail (Tryonia 
circumstriata), Pecos assiminea snail (Assiminea pecos), phantom 
springsnail (Tryonia cheatumi), San Bernadino springsnail (Pyrgulopsis 
bernardina), three forks springsnail (Pyrgulopsis trivialis), Neosho 
mucket (Lampsilis rafinesqueana), rabbitsfoot (Quadrula cylindrica 
cylindrica), scaleshell mussel (Leptodea leptodon), and winged 
mapleleaf (Quadrula fragosa) for the purpose of conducting presence/
absence surveys throughout the species' ranges.

Permit Application Number: TE 94704A-1

    Applicant: Dorothy C. Brown, Woodstock, Georgia
    The applicant requests an amendment to her current permit to take 
(enter hibernacula or maternity roost caves, salvage dead bats, capture 
with mist nets or harp traps, handle, identify, collect hair samples, 
band, radio-tag, light-tag, wing punch, and selectively euthanize for 
white nose syndrome testing) the Virginia big-eared bat (Corynorhinus 
(=plecotus) townsendii virginianus) in West Virginia, Virginia, North 
Carolina, Kentucky, and Tennessee, and to add States throughout the 
range of the Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis), gray bat (Myotis 
grisescens), and northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) for 
the purposes of

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conducting presence/absence surveys and white-nose syndrome 
surveillance and research-related activities.

Permit Application Number: TE 38906B-0

    Applicant: Ian Lundgren, National Park Service, Christiansted, 
Virgin Islands
    The applicant requests authorization to take (relocate nests; 
excavate hatched nests; collect tissue, blood, and carapace samples; 
and attach satellite, acoustic, flipper, and PIT tags) hawksbill sea 
turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata), green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas), 
leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea), and loggerhead sea 
turtles (Caretta caretta) within Buck Island Reef National Monument 
boundaries, for inventory, monitoring, and research activities.

Permit Application Number: TE 14102A-1

    Applicant: Carl Dick, Western Kentucky University, Bowling Green, 
Kentucky
    The applicant requests an amendment to the current permit to take 
(capture with mist nets or harp traps, handle, identify, and collect 
ectoparasites) northern long-eared bats (Myotis septentrionalis) 
throughout the range of the species.

Permit Application Number: TE 56028B-0

    Applicant: Terry Hopkins, Eagleville, Tennessee
    The applicant requests authorization to take (enter hibernacula or 
maternity roost caves, capture with mist nets or harp traps, handle, 
and identify) Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis), gray bat (Myotis 
grisescens), and northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis) for 
purposes of conducting presence/absence surveys, documenting habitat 
use, and evaluating potential impacts of industrial, commercial, and 
military activities throughout the species' respective ranges.

Permit Application Number: TE 56430B-0

    Applicant: Jonathan Hootman, Whitesburg, Kentucky
    The applicant requests authorization to take (enter hibernacula, 
salvage dead bats, capture with mist nests or harp traps, handle, take 
measurements, collect hair samples and fecal material, fungal lift 
tape, swab, wing-punch, band, light-tag, radio-tag, pit-tag, and 
release) Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) and northern long-eared bat 
(Myotis septentrionalis) for purposes of conducting presence/absence 
surveys, documenting habitat use, white nose detection and 
surveillance, and evaluating the effectiveness of acoustic 
identification methods throughout the species' respective ranges.

    Dated: February 10, 2015.
Leopoldo Miranda,
Assistant Regional Director--Ecological Services, Southeast Region.
[FR Doc. 2015-03314 Filed 2-17-15; 8:45 am]
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