[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 13 (Wednesday, January 21, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 2963-2966]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-00855]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-R4-ES-2015-N006; 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 February 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
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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 48576B-0
Applicant: Carson Wood, Hampstead, North Carolina
The applicant requests authorization to take (monitor nests,
capture, band, radio-tag, release, install artificial cavities, install
restrictor plates, and salvage dead birds) endangered red-cockaded
woodpeckers (Picoides borealis) for the purpose of consultations with
private and public land owners in North Carolina, South Carolina,
Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas.
Permit Application Number: TE 48582B-0
Applicant: Kim Romano, Ecological Solutions, Woodstock, Georgia
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 samples, band, radio tag,
light-tag, and wing-punch) Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis), gray bats
(Myotis grisescens), and northern long-eared bats (Myotis
septentrionalis) while conducting presence/absence surveys and studies
to document habitat use throughout the species' respective ranges.
Permit Application Number: TE 059008-8
Applicant: Christian Crow, CCR Environmental, Atlanta, Georgia
The applicant requests renewal of existing authorization to
capture, identify, and release 140 species of mussel, fish, snail,
crayfish, reptiles, and amphibians; and to harass 6 bird species for
presence/absence surveys throughout the species' ranges in Georgia,
Tennessee, Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Kentucky, Louisiana,
Florida, North Carolina, and South Carolina
Permit Application Number: TE 02344A-1
Applicant: Donald Fortenbery, Mainstream Commercial Divers, Inc.,
Murray, Kentucky
The applicant requests authorization to take (collect, handle, and
release) 16 mussel species while conducting presence/absence surveys in
Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky,
Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Tennessee, West Virginia, and Wisconsin.
Permit Application Number: TE 237549-1
Applicant: Gina Hancock, the Nature Conservancy TN, Nashville,
Tennessee
The applicant requests renewed authorization 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, and wing-punch) Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis) and
gray bats (Myotis grisescens), and an amendment to include
authorization to take (same activities as above) northern long-eared
bat (Myotis septentrionalis) for purposes of conducting presence/
absence surveys, studies to document habitat use, and population
monitoring in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, North
Carolina, and Virginia.
Permit Application Number: TE 237548-1
Applicant: Tom Counts, Tuscumbia, Alabama
The applicant requests renewal and amendment of his current permit
to add authorization to take (enter hibernacula, salvage dead bats,
capture with mist nets or harp traps, handle, identify, collect hair
samples, band, radio-tag, and wing-punch) northern long-eared bats
(Myotis septentrionalis) and continue such activities with Indiana bats
(Myotis sodalis) and gray bats (Myotis grisescens) for purposes of
conducting presence/absence surveys, studies to document habitat use,
and population monitoring in Alabama.
Permit Application Number: TE 48833A-1
Applicant: Brian Carver, Tennessee Technical University, Cookeville,
Tennessee
The applicant requests authorization to take (capture, handle,
radio-tag, and release) Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis) and gray bats
(Myotis grisescens) for the purpose of conducting presence/absence
surveys, studies to document habitat use, and population monitoring in
Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Missouri,
North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, and West
Virginia.
Permit Application Number: TE 807672-16
Applicant: Joseph Carter, Dr. J.H. Carter III & Associates Inc.,
Southern Pines, North Carolina
The applicant requests renewed authorization to take (harass) red-
cockaded woodpeckers (Picoides borealis) for the purposes of
constructing and monitoring artificial nest cavities and restrictors;
for capturing, banding, and translocation of birds; and for monitoring
populations and nest cavities in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana,
Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, Virginia.
Permit Application Number: TE 117405-3
Applicant: Brenda Brickhouse, Tennessee Valley Authority, Knoxville,
Tennessee
The applicant requests an amendment to their current permit to add
authorization to take the following endangered species of wildlife and
remove and reduce to possession the following endangered species of
plants for purposes of conducting presence/absence surveys, studies to
document habitat use, and population monitoring in Alabama, Georgia,
Kentucky, Tennessee, Mississippi, North Carolina, and Virginia:
Northern long-eared bat (Myotis septentrionalis), Cumberland darter
(Etheostoma susanae), rush darter (Etheostoma phytophilum), marbled
darter (Etheostoma marmorpinnum), tuxedo darter (Etheostoma
lemniscatum), Citico darter (Etheostoma sitikuense), chucky madtom
(Noturus crypticus), Laurel dace (Phoxinus saylori), Georgia pigtoe
(Pleurobema hanleyianum), slabside pearlshell (Pleuronaia
dolabelloides), fluted kidneyshell (Ptychobranchus subtentum), rayed
bean (Villosa fabalis), sheepnose (Plethobasus cyphyus), snuffbox
(Epioblasma triquetra), spectaclecase (Cumberlandia monodonta),
interrupted rocksnail (Leptoxis foremani), rough hornsnail (Pleurocera
foremani), whorled sunflower (Helianthus verticillatus), Short's
bladderpod (Physaria globosa), and gladecress (Leavenworthia crassa).
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Permit Application Number: TE 48049B-0
Applicant: Kathryn Cunningham, Richmond, Kentucky
The applicant requests authorization to take (enter hibernacula or
maternity roost caves, salvage dead bats, capture with mist nets or
harp traps, handle, identify, band, and radio tag) Indiana bats (Myotis
sodalis), gray bats (Myotis grisescens) northern long-eared bats
(Myotis septentrionalis), and Virginia big-eared bats (Corynorhinus
townsendii virginianus) for the purpose of conducting presence/absence
surveys, throughout the species' respective ranges.
Permit Application Number: TE 142806-1
Applicant: James Cox, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee,
Florida
The applicant requests renewed authorization to take (capture,
band, translocate) red-cockaded woodpeckers (Picoides borealis) for the
purposes of monitoring populations and nest cavities in Florida and
Georgia.
Permit Application Number: TE 008077-2
Applicant: John Palis, Jonesboro, Illinois
The applicant requests renewed authorization to take (capture,
mark, release, recapture, photograph) frosted flatwoods salamanders
(Ambystoma cingulatum) and reticulated flatwoods salamanders (Ambystoma
bishopi) while improving amphibian breeding habitat and conducting
presence/absence surveys in Georgia, Florida, and South Carolina.
Permit Application Number: TE 020890-4
Applicant: Shaun Williamson, U.S. Forest Service, Jackson, Mississippi
The applicant requests renewed authorization to take (capture,
handle, band, translocate, installation of artificial nest cavities and
restriction plates) red-cockaded woodpeckers (Picoides borealis) for
the purposes of monitoring populations and nest cavities in
Mississippi.
Permit Application Number: TE 22570A-1
Applicant: Rick Schwartz, Nashville Zoo, Nashville, Tennessee
The applicant requests renewed authorization to take (capture,
identify, translocate, release) the Nashville crayfish (Orconectes
shoupi) while conducting presence/absence studies, population estimates
and monitoring, captive propagation, age class determination, and
relocation/reintroduction activities in Tennessee.
Permit Application Number: TE 34882A-1
Applicant: Mark Bailey, Andalusia, Alabama
The applicant requests renewed authorization to take (harass) the
endangered red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis) during the
construction and monitoring of artificial roost cavities and
restrictors; take (capture, identify, release) flatwoods salamander
(Ambystoma cingulatum), flattened musk turtle (Sternotherus depressus),
eastern indigo snake (Drymarchon corais couperi), Mississippi gopher
frog (Rana sevosa), and red hills salamander (Phaeognathus hubrichti)
while conducting presence and absence surveys; and take (capture,
relocate, radio-tag, release) the gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus)
while conducting translocation activities throughout the species'
respective ranges.
Permit Application Number: TE 065948-2
Applicant: Douglas Upton, Mississippi Dept. of Environmental Quality,
Jackson, Mississippi
The applicant requests renewed authorization to take (harass)
Cumberland combshell (Epioblasma brevidens), southern combshell
(Epioblasma penita), orange-nacre mucket (Lampsilis perovalis), black
clubshell (Pleurobema curtum), southern clubshell (Pleurobema decisum),
flat pigtoe (Pleurobema marshalli), ovate clubshell (Pleurobema
perovatum), heavy pigtoe (Pleurobema taitianum), inflated heelsplitter
(Potamilus inflatus), stirrupshell (Quadrula stapes), bayou darter
(Etheostoma rubrum) and gulf sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrinchus desotoi),
while conducting biological surveys to determine the condition of
various water bodies throughout the State of Mississippi.
Permit Application Number: TE 53149B-0
Applicant: Hans Otto, Omaha, Nebraska
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, and wing-punch) Indiana bats (Myotis
sodalis), northern long-eared bats (Myotis septentrionalis),Virginia
big-eared bats (Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus), and Ozark big-
eared bats (Corynorhinus townsendii ingens) for the purpose of
conducting presence/absence surveys, studies to document habitat use,
and population monitoring throughout the species' respective ranges.
Permit Application Number: TE 206872-6
Applicant: Joy O'Keefe, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Indiana
The applicant requests an amendment to her current permit to add
authorization to take (enter hibernacula, conduct exits counts at
roosts, 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 surveillance) northern long-eared bats (Myotis
septentrionalis), in addition to the already authorized Indiana bats
(Myotis sodalis), Virginia big-eared bats (Corynorhinus townsendii
virginianus), and gray bats (Myotis grisescens) 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 81756A-1
Applicant: Jason Robinson, Lexington, Kentucky
The applicant requests an amendment to his current permit to expand
the location of authorized activities for the Indiana bat (Myotis
sodalis) to include all States throughout the species' range and to
authorize take (enter hibernacula, salvage dead bats, capture with mist
nets or harp traps, handle, identify, band, and radio tag) of northern
long-eared bats (Myotis septentrionalis) for recovery-related research
throughout the species' range.
Permit Application Number: TE 53906B-0
Applicant: James Austin, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
The applicant requests authorization to take (capture, mark,
release, recapture, and ear clip) Perdido Key beach mouse (Peromyscus
polionotus trissyllepsis), Alabama beach mouse (Peromyscus polionotus
ammobates), Santa Rosa beach mouse (Peromyscus polionotus
leucocephalus), Choctawhatchee beach mouse (Peromyscus polionotus
allophrys), St. Andrew beach mouse (Peromyscus polionotus
peninsularis), Southeastern
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beach mouse (Peromyscus polionotus niveiventris), and Anastasia beach
mouse (Peromyscus polionotus phasma) for the purposes of estimating
abundance, studying habitat selection and movement behavior, and
conducting studies on genetic diversity and connectivity in Alabama and
Florida.
Permit Application Number: TE 53910B-0
Applicant: Teresa Porter, Salem College, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
The applicant requests authorization to take (capture with mist
nets and wing-punch) Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis), northern long-eared
bats (Myotis septentrionalis), and gray bats (Myotis grisescens) in the
Piedmont region of North Carolina for the purposes of conducting
presence/absence surveys and analysis of anti-microbial skin proteins
for white-nose syndrome surveillance.
Permit Application Number: TE 37492B-0
Applicant: Anthony Grow, Millington, Tennessee
The applicant requests authorization to take (capture with mist
nets, band, and radio-tag) Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis), northern
long-eared bats (Myotis septentrionalis), and gray bats (Myotis
grisescens) throughout these species' ranges for the purpose of
conducting presence/absence surveys.
Permit Application Number: TE 102292-10
Applicant: Jeremy Jackson, Jackson Environmental Consulting Service,
Richmond, Kentucky
The applicant requests renewal and an amendment to his current
permit to expand the location of authorized activities for the Indiana
bat (Myotis sodalis), gray bat (Myotis grisescens), and Virginia big-
eared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus) to include the states
of Mississippi and Georgia, and to authorize take (enter hibernacula,
salvage dead bats, capture with mist nets or harp traps, handle,
identify, band, radio tag, light-tag, collect hair samples, wing-punch,
and selectively euthanize for white-nose syndrome testing) of northern
long-eared bats (Myotis septentrionalis) for recovery-related research
throughout the species' range.
Permit Application Number: TE 009638-10
Applicant: Timothy Compton, Appalachian Technical Services, Wise,
Virginia
The applicant requests an amendment to his current permit to
authorize take (capture with mist nets or harp traps, handle, identify,
band, and radio tag) of northern long-eared bats (Myotis
septentrionalis) and to authorize take (hand-seining, netting, and
electroshocking) of the duskytail darter (Etheostoma percnurum) and
Cumberland darter (Etheostoma susanae) for presence/absence surveys
throughout the species' ranges.
Permit Application Number: TE 697819-4
Applicant: Leopoldo Miranda, Assistant Regional Director-Ecological
Services, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Atlanta, Georgia
The applicant requests an amendment to his current permit to
authorize all U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) biological
staff, official volunteers, and designated agents of the Service in the
Southeast Region (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky,
Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee,
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands) to take or remove
and reduce to possession all listed, proposed, and candidate species in
the Southeast Region to enhance propagation or survival or conduct
scientific research aimed at the conservation of the species in
accordance with the mission of the Service to promote recovery of
endangered and threatened species and all other applicable laws and
regulations.
Permit Application Number: TE 077175-3
Applicant: Troy Best, Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama
The applicant requests renewal and an amendment to his current
permit to authorize take (enter hibernacula, salvage dead bats, capture
with mist nets or harp traps, handle, identify, band, radio tag, light-
tag, collect hair samples, wing-punch, and selectively euthanize for
white-nose syndrome testing) of northern long-eared bats (Myotis
septentrionalis) for recovery-related research in Alabama.
Dated: January 13, 2015.
Leopoldo Miranda,
Acting Deputy Regional Director, Southeast Region.
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