[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 50 (Monday, March 16, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13609-13610]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-05896]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

[FWS-R4-ES-2014-N047; 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 April 15, 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: Karen Marlowe, 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 041314-5

Applicant: Kenneth Moore, U.S. Army, Fort Polk, Louisiana
    The applicant requests renewal of his current permit to take 
(capture, band, release, install artificial cavities and restrictors 
for, monitor nest cavities for, and translocate) red-cockaded 
woodpeckers (Picoides borealis) on Fort Polk military base, with 
translocations allowed to Arkansas, Oklahoma, Texas, and Louisiana, for 
the enhancement of propagation and survival of the species.

Permit Application Number: TE 087191-3

Applicant: Kerry Brust, Sandhills Ecological Institute, Southern Pines, 
North Carolina
    The applicant requests renewal of her current permit to take 
(capture, band, release, install artificial cavities and restrictors 
for, and monitor nest cavities for) red-cockaded woodpeckers (Picoides 
borealis) in the North Carolina Sandhills--Moore, Hoke, Cumberland, 
Richmond, and Scotland Counties, North Carolina, and Dorchester County, 
South Carolina--for the enhancement of propagation and survival of the 
species.

Permit Application Number: TE 56746B-0

Applicant: Joseph Johnson, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania
    The applicant requests authorization to take (capture with mist 
nets, handle,

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weigh, measure, radio-tag, band, and release) Indiana bats (Myotis 
sodalis), gray bats (Myotis grisescens), and northern long-eared bats 
(Myotis septentrionalis) in the Shoal Creek Ranger District of the 
Talladega National Forest in Cleburne and Calhoun Counties, Alabama, to 
determine presence/absence and examine the impacts of fire management 
and forest thinning on the species.

Permit Application Number: TE 56749B-0

Applicant: Patrick Moore, Little Rock, Arkansas
    The applicant requests authorization to take (enter hibernacula, 
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) Indiana bats (Myotis 
sodalis), gray bats (Myotis grisescens), Ozark big-eared bats 
(Corynorhinus townsendii ingens), and northern long-eared bats (Myotis 
septentrionalis) for the purposes of conducting presence/absence 
surveys, studies to document habitat use, and population monitoring 
throughout the following States: Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, 
Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, 
New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, 
Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Permit Application Number: TE 822525-6

Applicant: Joe McGlincy. Southern Forestry Consultants, Bainbridge, 
Georgia
    The applicant requests renewal of his current permit to take 
(capture, monitor, band, release, install artificial cavities for, and 
translocate) red-cockaded woodpeckers (Picoides borealis) throughout 
the species' range for the enhancement of propagation and survival of 
the species.

Permit Application Number: TE 22311A-1

Applicant: Anna George, Tennessee Aquarium, Chattanooga, Tennessee
    The applicant requests renewal of her current permit to take 
(capture, identify, take fin clips from, and release) up to 30 
individuals of each of the fish species amber darter (Percina 
antesella), goldline darter (Percina aurolineata), snail darter 
(Percina tanasi), Conasauga logperch (Percina jenkinsi), blue shiner 
(Cyprinella caerulea), and Laurel dace (Chrosomus saylori), in Alabama, 
Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia, for the 
purposes of conducting presence/absence surveys and genetic analyses.

Permit Application Number: TE 38522A-1

Applicant: Michael Lacki, University of Kentucky, Georgetown, Kentucky
    The applicant requests renewal and amendment of his current permit 
to take (enter hibernacula or maternity roost caves of, 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) 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 207117-1

Applicant: Samuel Gaines, The South Carolina Department of Parks, 
Recreation & Tourism, Columbia, South Carolina
    The applicant requests renewal of his current permit to take 
(inspect nest cavities of) red-cockaded woodpeckers (Picoides borealis) 
for the purpose of monitoring populations in Cheraw State Park and 
Hampton Plantation State Historic Site in Chesterfield and Charleston 
Counties, South Carolina.

Permit Application Number: TE 075913-5

Applicant: Thomas Risch, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, Arkansas
    The applicant requests an amendment of his current permit to add 
take (salvage of dead bats, capture with mist nets or harp traps, 
handling, identification, collection of hair samples, banding, radio-
tagging, light-tagging wing-punching, and selectively euthanizing for 
white-nose syndrome) of northern long-eared bats (Myotis 
septentrionalis) and to add the following States for purposes of 
conducting presence/absence surveys, studies to document habitat use, 
and population monitoring: Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Iowa, 
Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, North Carolina, 
Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, 
Virginia, and West Virginia.

Permit Application Number: TE 58576B-0

Applicant: Randall Davis, Texas A&M University, Galveston, Texas
    The applicant requests authorization to take (capture, attach video 
and data recorder to, release, and recapture) 15 to 20 adult female 
leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys coriacea) for the purpose of 
revealing new information on foraging ecology in Sandy Point National 
Wildlife Refuge, Frederiksted, St. Croix, US Virgin Islands.

Permit Application Number: TE 35313B-2

Applicant: Emma Willcox, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee
    The applicant requests an amendment to include additional States on 
her current permit to take (capture, handle, band, radio-tag, pit tag, 
collect hair and fecal samples of, wing punch, swab, undertake longwave 
ultraviolet fluorescence screening, and release) 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, population 
monitoring, and white-nose syndrome surveillance. The applicant 
requests the addition of the following States: Alabama, Arkansas, 
Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, 
Oklahoma, South Carolina, Virginia, and West Virginia.

    Dated: March 9, 2015.
Leopoldo Miranda,
Assistant Regional Director- Ecological Services, Southeast Region.
[FR Doc. 2015-05896 Filed 3-13-15; 8:45 am]
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