[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 69 (Friday, April 10, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 19342-19343]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-08263]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

[FWS-R4-ES-2014-N066; 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 May 11, 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.), 
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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 59645B-0

Applicant: Stephen Brock, Brandon, Mississippi

    The applicant requests authorization to take (install artificial 
cavities and restrictors) red-cockaded woodpeckers (Picoides borealis) 
for population management to enhance the propagation and survival of 
the species in Mississippi.

Permit Application Number: TE 59798B-0

Applicant: Braven Beaty, Daguna Consulting LLC, Bristol, Virginia

    This applicant requests authorization to take (capture, identify, 
mark with plastic shell tags, PIT-tag, and release) 31 species of 
mussels for purposes of conducting presence/absence surveys and 
population monitoring studies in the Tennessee and Cumberland River 
Basins in Tennessee.

Permit Application Number: TE 206777-2

Applicant: Ralph Costa, Mountain Rest, South Carolina

    This applicant requests renewal of his current permit to take 
(capture, band, release, install artificial cavities and restrictors, 
monitor nest cavities, and translocate) red-cockaded woodpeckers 
(Picoides borealis) for population management to enhance the 
propagation and survival of the species throughout the species' range 
and as directed by the red-cockaded woodpecker recovery coordinator.

Permit Application Number: TE 60238B-0

Applicant: Byron Freeman, Georgia Museum of Natural History, Athens, 
Georgia

    This 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), 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 species' respective ranges.

Permit Application Number: TE 237544-1

Applicant: Stephen Golladay, Newton, Georgia

    This applicant requests renewal of his current permit to take 
(capture, identify, and release) fat threeridge (Amblema neislerii), 
purple bankclimber (Elliptoideus sloatianus), shiny-rayed pocketbook 
(Lampsilis subangulata), gulf moccasinshell (Medionidus penicillatus), 
and oval pigtoe (Pleurobema pyriforme) while conducting presence/
absence surveys in Georgia.

Permit Application Number: TE 61981B-0

Applicant: Jacques Jenny, the Peregrine Fund Inc., Boise, Idaho

    The applicant requests authorization to take (capture; band; radio-
tag; collect blood samples, feathers, egg shells, and infertile eggs; 
and salvage carcasses) Puerto Rican sharp-shinned hawk (Accipiter 
striatus venator) for scientific research to promote conservation of 
the species in Puerto Rico.

    Dated: April 3, 2015.
Leopoldo Miranda,
Assistant Regional Director--Ecological Services, Southeast Region.
[FR Doc. 2015-08263 Filed 4-9-15; 8:45 am]
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