[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 47 (Monday, March 13, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 13487-13488]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-04845]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

[FWS-R2-ES-2017-N005; FXES11140200000-178-FF02ENEH00]


Incidental Take Permit Application Received To Participate in 
American Burying Beetle Amended 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 the federally listed American 
burying beetle. The applicant anticipates the take of American burying 
beetle as a result of impacts to habitat the species uses for breeding, 
feeding, and sheltering in Oklahoma. The take would be incidental to 
the applicant's activities associated with oil and gas well field and 
pipeline infrastructure (gathering, transmission, and distribution), 
including geophysical exploration (seismic), construction, maintenance, 
operation, repair, decommissioning, and reclamation. If approved, the 
permit would be issued under the approved American Burying Beetle 
Amended Oil and Gas Industry Conservation Plan (ICP) Endangered Species 
Act Section 10(a)(1)(B) Permit Issuance in Oklahoma.

DATES: To ensure consideration, written comments must be received on or 
before April 12, 2017.

ADDRESSES: You may obtain copies of all documents and submit comments 
on the applicant's Incidental Take Permit (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].

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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 ITP application to take the federally listed American 
burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) beetle during 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 
American Burying Beetle Amended Oil and Gas Industry Conservation Plan 
(ICP) Endangered Species Act Section 10(a)(1)(B) Permit Issuance in 
Oklahoma. The original ICP was approved on May 21, 2014, and the ``no 
significant impact'' finding notice was published in the Federal 
Register 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 
incidentally taking the federally listed American burying beetle. 
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 TE38404B

    Applicant: Canyon Creek Energy Operating, LLC, Tulsa, 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 oil and gas 
gathering, transmission, and distribution pipeline infrastructure 
construction, maintenance, operation, repair, decommissioning, and 
reclamation in Oklahoma.

Comments' Public Availability

    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, Section 10(c) (16 U.S.C. 1531 
et seq.) 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).

Benjamin N. Tuggle,
Regional Director, Southwest Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
[FR Doc. 2017-04845 Filed 3-10-17; 8:45 am]
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