[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 225 (Tuesday, November 22, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 83862-83863]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-28057]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

[FWS-R2-ES-2016-N189; FXES11140200000-178-FF02ENEH00]


Receipt of an Incidental Take Permit Application To Participate 
in the Amended American Burying Beetle Oil and Gas Industry 
Conservation Plan in Oklahoma

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability; request for public comments.

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SUMMARY: Under the Endangered Species Act, as amended (Act), we, the 
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite the public to comment on an 
incidental take permit application for federally listed American 
burying beetle (ABB) take resulting from activities associated with oil 
and gas well field infrastructure geophysical exploration (seismic) and 
construction, maintenance, operation, repair, and decommissioning in 
Oklahoma. If approved, the permit would be issued under the approved 
Amended Oil and Gas Industry Conservation Plan (ICP)Associated with 
Issuing Endangered Species Act Section 10(a)(1)(B) American Burying 
Beetle Permits Oklahoma.

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DATES: To ensure consideration, written comments must be received on or 
before December 22, 2016.

ADDRESSES: You may obtain copies of all documents and submit comments 
on the applicant's ITP application by one of the following methods. 
Please refer to the proposed permit number when requesting documents or 
submitting comments.
    [cir] U.S. Mail: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of 
Endangered Species--HCP Permits, P.O. Box 1306, Room 6034, Albuquerque, 
NM 87103.
    [cir] Electronically: [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marty Tuegel, Branch Chief, by U.S. 
mail at: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Environmental Review Division, 
P.O. Box 1306, Room 6034, Albuquerque, NM 87103; or by telephone at 
505-248-6651.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Introduction

    Under the Endangered Species Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et 
seq.; Act), we, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite the public 
to comment on an incidental take permit (ITP) application for federally 
listed ABB (Nicrophorus americanus) take resulting from oil and gas 
well field infrastructure geophysical exploration (seismic) and 
construction, maintenance, operation, repair, and decommissioning, as 
well as oil and gas gathering, transmission and distribution pipeline 
infrastructure construction, maintenance, operation, repair, 
decommissioning, and reclamation in Oklahoma. If approved, the permit 
would be issued to the applicant under the Amended Oil and Gas Industry 
Conservation Plan (ICP) Associated with Issuing Endangered Species Act 
Section 10(a)(1)(B) American Burying Beetle Permits Oklahoma. The 
original ICP was approved on May 21, 2014 (FONSI notice publication was 
on July 25, 2014; 79 FR 43504). The draft amended ICP was made 
available for comment on March 8, 2016 (81 FR 12113), and approved on 
April 13, 2016. The ICP and the associated environmental assessment/
finding of no significant impact are available on the Web site at 
http://www.fws.gov/southwest/es/oklahoma/ABBICP. However, we are no 
longer taking comments on these finalized, approved documents.

Applications Available for Review and Comment

    We invite local, State, Tribal, and Federal agencies, and the 
public to comment on the following application under the ICP, for 
incidental federally listed ABB take. Please refer to the appropriate 
permit number (e.g., TE-123456) when requesting application documents 
and when submitting comments. Documents and other information the 
applicants have submitted with this application are available for 
review, subject to Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a) and Freedom of 
Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) requirements.

Permit TE11102C

Applicant: Performance Petroleum Company, Barnsdall, OK

    Applicant requests an amended permit for oil and gas upstream and 
midstream production, including oil and gas well field infrastructure 
geophysical exploration (seismic) and construction, maintenance, 
operation, repair, and decommissioning, as well as of oil and gas 
gathering, transmission and distribution pipeline infrastructure 
construction, maintenance, operation, repair, decommissioning, and 
reclamation in Oklahoma.

Comments Publically Available

    Written comments we receive become part of the public record 
associated with this action. Before including your address, phone 
number, email address, or other personal identifying information in 
your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment--including 
your personal identifying information--may be made publicly available 
at any time. While you can request in your comment that we withhold 
your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot 
guarantee that we will be able to do so. We will not consider anonymous 
comments. All submissions from organizations or businesses, and from 
individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of 
organizations or businesses, will be made available for public 
disclosure in their entirety.

Authority

    We provide this notice under the Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) 
section 10(c) and its implementing regulations (50 CFR 17.22) and the 
National Environmental Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and its 
implementing regulations (40 CFR 1506.6).

Joy E. Nicholopoulos,
Acting, Regional Director, Southwest Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 
Service.
[FR Doc. 2016-28057 Filed 11-21-16; 8:45 am]
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