[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 91 (Monday, May 12, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 25965-25966]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-12325]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
Endangered and Threatened Species Permit Applications
ACTION: Notice of receipt of applications.
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SUMMARY: The following applicants have applied for a permit to conduct
certain activities with endangered and/or threatened species. This
notice is provided pursuant to section 10(A) of the Endangered Species
Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1532, et seq.).
Permit No. PRT-826939
Applicant: Jerome Stefferud, Phoenix, Arizona.
Applicant requests authorization to take (using electrofishing, all
types of nets, minnow traps, snorkeling, and other accepted techniques)
voucher specimens, and to monitor fish habitats and populations of the
Gila topminnow (Poeciliopsis occidentalis) in waters on or adjacent to
the Coronado, Prescott, and Tonto National Forests, Arizona.
Permit No. PRT-827366
Applicant: Dr. Michael Powell, Alpine, Texas.
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Applicant requests authorization to collect buds, flowers, fruits,
seeds, spine clusters, and whole plants from the following species:
bunched cory cactus (Coryphantha ramillosa), Sneed pincushion cactus
(Coryphantha sneedii var. sneedii), Lee pincushion cactus (Coryphantha
sneedii var leei) (flowers and/or fruits only), Lloyd's mariposa cactus
(Echinomastus mariposensis=Neolloydia mariposensis), Lloyd's hedgehog
cactus (Echinocereus lloydii), and Chisos Mountain hedgehog cactus
(Echinocereus chisoensis).
Permit No. PRT-827367
Applicant: Levi D. Deike, Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
Applicant requests authorization to handle, measure, tag, and
immediately release unharmed at the capture site, and monitor out-grow
activities or razorback suckers (Xyrauchen texanus) and bonytail chubs
(Gila elegans) from Lake Havasu and the Colorado River south of the
Interstate 40 bridge on Havasu National Wildlife Refuge in Arizona and
California.
Permit No. PRT-827368
Applicant: Dr. W.E. Briles, DeKalb, Illinois.
Applicant requests authorization to captively propagate masked
bobwhites (Colinus virginianus ridgwayi) for the purpose of
characterization of the major histocompatibility complex (a group of
loci which have been implicated in disease resistance).
Permit No. PRT-827372
Applicant: Dr. William M. Block, Flagstaff, Arizona.
Applicant requests authorization to monitor populations by
recording all sightings (date, time, location, activity, age, class),
capture, handle, band, and attach radio transmitters and satellite
transmitter units, and release unharmed at the capture sites Mexican
spotted owls (Strix occidentalis lucida), and bald eagles (Haliaeetus
leucocephalus) wintering on the Coconino National Forest in Arizona.
Permit No. PRT-827402
Applicant: Dennis M. Herbert, Ft. Hood, Texas.
Applicant requests authorization to capture, band, and immediately
release unharmed at the capture sites golden-cheeked warblers
(Dendroica chrysoparia) and black-capped vireos (Vireo atricapillus).
Permit No. PRT-827369
Applicant: John R. (Rusty) Mase, Jr., Austin, Texas.
Applicant requests authorization to survey for golden-cheeked
warblers (Dendroica chrysoparia) in central Texas, and Houston toads
(Bufo houstonensis) in east-central Texas.
Permit No. PRT-797127
Applicant: Lloyd S. Wagner, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Applicant requests authorization to add the Pecos bluntnose shiner
(Notropis simus pecosensis), and the Rio Grande silvery minnow
(Hybognathus amarus) to his U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Endangered
Species Permit, and to take limited numbers of these species from the
wild to monitor the effects of flood control projects and activities on
these protected fishes.
Permit No. PRT-828234
Applicant: Steven Towers, Redding, California.
Applicant requests authorization to conduct presence/absence
surveys for the Southwestern willow flycatcher (Empidonax traillii
extimus) throughout its historic range in Arizona, New Mexico, and
Texas.
Permit No. PRT-798107
Applicant: Kenneth J. Kingsley, Tucson, Arizona.
Applicant requests authorization to conduct presence/absence
surveys for the cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl (Glaucidium brasilianum
cactorum) in Arizona.
Permit No. PRT-822998
Applicant: John M. McGee, Tucson, Arizona.
Applicant requests authorization to conduct presence/absence
surveys for the cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl (Glaucidium brasilianum
cactorum) in Arizona.
Permit No. PRT-828640
Applicant: Dr. Lisa K. Harris, Tucson, Arizona.
Applicant requests authorization to conduct presence/absence
surveys for the cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl (Glaucidium brasilianum
cactorum) in Arizona.
Permit No. PRT-828642
Applicant: Mary E. Darling, Tucson, Arizona.
Applicant requests authorization to conduct presence/absence
surveys for the cactus ferruginous pygmy-owl (Glaucidium brasilianum
cactorum), southwestern willow flycatcher (Empidonax traillii extimus),
and the Sonora tiger salamander (Ambystoma tigrinum stebbinsi) in
Arizona.
Permit No. PRT-828647
Applicant: Dr. Charles M. Mather, Chickasha, Oklahoma.
Applicant requests authorization to conduct presence/absence
surveys for the Ouachita rock pocketbook (Arkansia wheeleri) in the
Kiamichi, Little River, and Red River drainages in southeast Oklahoma
and northeast Texas.
Permit No. PRT-828655
Applicant: Mike Ford, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Applicant requests authorization to conduct presence/absence
surveys for the southwestern willow flycatcher (Empidonax traillii
extimus), Mexican spotted owl (Strix occidentalis lucida), and
peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus) on Bureau of Land Management lands
in New Mexico.
Permit No. PRT-828723
Applicant: Dr. C. Val Grant, Logan, Utah.
Applicant requests authorization to conduct presence/absence
surveys for the southwestern willow flycatcher (Empidonax traillii
extimus), and Mexican spotted owl (Strix occidentalis lucida), in Las
Animas and Costilla Counties, Colorado, and Colfax and Taos Counties,
New Mexico.
DATES: Written comments on these permit applications must be received
on or before June 11, 1997.
ADDRESSES: Written data or comments should be submitted to the Legal
Instruments Examiner, Division of Endangered Species/Permits,
Ecological Services, P.O. Box 1306, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87103.
Please refer to the respective permit number for each application when
submitting comments. All comments received, including names and
addresses, will become part of the official administrative record and
may be made available to the public.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,
Ecological Services, (see address above). Please refer to the
respective permit number for each application when requesting copies of
documents. Documents and other information submitted with these
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 within 30 days
of the date of publication of this notice, to the address above.
David Yazzie,
Regional Director, Region 2, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
[FR Doc. 97-12325 Filed 5-9-97; 8:45 am]
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