[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 122 (Wednesday, June 25, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 34302-34303]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-16606]
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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 species. This notice is provided
pursuant to section 10(a) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as
amended (16 U.S.C. 1531, et seq.).
Permit No. PRT-821577
Applicant: Duane Shroufe, Phoenix, Arizona.
Applicant requests authorization to conduct presence/absence
surveys for cactus ferruginous pygmy-owls (Glaucidium brasilianum
cactorum) in Arizona.
Permit No. PRT-819531
Applicant: Russell B. Duncan, Phoenix, Arizona.
Applicant requests authorization to conduct presence/absence
surveys for cactus ferruginous pygmy-owls (Glaucidium brasilianum
cactorum) in Arizona.
Permit No. PRT-828823
Applicant: Dr. Bryon K. Clarke, Durant, Oklahoma.
Applicant requests authorization to survey for, capture, and
release unharmed at capture sites Ozark big-eared bats (Plecotus
townsendii ingens), Indiana gray bats (Myotis sodalis), and gray bats
(Myotis grisescens) occurring in Adair, Atoka, Bryan, Cherokee,
Choctaw, Delaware, Johnston, Latimer, LeFlore, Marshall, McCurtain,
Ottawa, Pushmataha, and Sequoyah Counties, Oklahoma.
Permit No. PRT-828830
Applicant: Jeffrey R. Simms, Tucson, Arizona.
Applicant requests authorization to survey, take, handle, measure,
weigh, photograph, and immediately release unharmed at capture sites
lesser long-nosed bats (Leptonycteris curasoae yerbabuena), Gila
topminnows (Poeciliopsis occidentalis), desert pupfish (Cyprinodon
macularius), woundfin (Plagopterus argentissimus), Virgin River chub
(Gila robusta seminuda), and razorback suckers (Xyrauchen texanus).
Permit No. PRT-828916
Applicant: Becky Yeager, Logan, Utah.
Applicant requests authorization to conduct presence/absence
surveys for southwestern willow flycatchers (Empidonax traillii
extimus) between the mouth of the Virgin River Gorge near Littlefield,
Arizona, to the Arizona side of Lake Mead.
Permit No. PRT-829362
Applicant: Dr. Bruce Thompson, Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Applicant requests authorization to conduct a nest watch program
for bald eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) and to survey for
southwestern willow flycatchers (Empidonax traillii extimus) in New
Mexico.
Permit No. PRT-829114
Applicant: Dr. Joyce Maschinski, Flagstaff, Arizona.
Applicant requests authorization to collect the following seedheads
from Arizona cliffrose (Purshia subintegra) in the Verde Valley,
Arizona; seedheads from San Francisco Peaks groundsel (Senecio
franciscanus) from the San Francisco Peaks, Arizona; cuttings from the
Todsen's pennyroyal (Hedeoma todsenii) in the Sacramento Mountains, New
Mexico; fruits from the Holy Ghost ipomopsis (Ipomopsis sanctispiritus)
from Holy Ghost Canyon, New Mexico; and fruits from Sacramento prickly-
poppy (Argemone pleiacantha ssp. pinnathisects) in each of the 7
drainages on the west side of the Sacramento Mountains, New Mexico.
Permit No. PRT-829118
Applicant: Deborah M. Finch, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Applicant requests authorization to conduct presence/absence
surveys for southwestern willow flycatchers (Empidonax traillii
extimus) at the Rio Grande Nature Center in Albuquerque, and at the
Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge in Socorro, New Mexico.
Permit No. PRT-829191
Applicant: Jerry D. Fife, Laveen, Arizona.
Applicant requests authorization to obtain radiated (Geochelone
radiata) and Galapagos (Geochelone elephantopus) tortoises and breed
them in Arizona.
Permit No. PRT-829243
Applicant: Amy M. Kear, Los Lunas, New Mexico.
Applicant requests authorization to conduct presence/absence
surveys for southwestern willow flycatchers (Empidonax traillii
extimus) within New Mexico.
Permit No. PRT-829281
Applicant: Charles J. Burt, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Applicant requests authorization to conduct presence/absence
surveys for southwestern willow flycatchers (Empidonax traillii
extimus), aplomado falcons (Falco femoralis septentrionalis), Mexican
spotted owls (Strix occidentals lucida), peregrine falcons (Falco
pereginus anatum), and cactus ferruginous pygmy-owls (Glaucidium
brasilianum cactorum) in Arizona, New Mexico, and Texas.
Permit No. PRT-829960
Applicant: Jonathan Thompson, Kingsville, Texas.
Applicant requests authorization to survey for, band, and radio-
mark piping plovers (Charadrius melodus) along the southern Gulf Coast
of Texas.
Permit No. PRT-828963
Applicant: Dr. Stuart Henry Woods, Warner, Oklahoma.
Applicant requests authorization to conduct presence/absence
surveys for the American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) in
Muskogee County, Oklahoma.
Permit No. PRT-829761
Applicant: Linda Rundell, Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Applicant requests authorization to conduct presence/absence
surveys for aplomado falcons (Falco femoralis septentrionalis),
peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus), southwestern willow flycatchers
(Empidonax traillii extimus), and Mexican spotted owls (Strix
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occidentals lucida) in Las Cruces District Lands of the Bureau of Land
Management in New Mexico.
Permit No. PRT-829855
Applicant: Timothy G. Baumann, Evergreen, Colorado.
Applicant requests authorization to conduct presence/absence
surveys for southwestern willow flycatchers (Empidonax traillii
extimus) in New Mexico and Arizona.
Permit No. PRT-829996
Applicant: Richard A. Bayer, Houston, Texas.
Applicant requests authorization to acquire and maintain a
hawksbill sea turtle (Eretomochelys imbricata) and 2 Kemp's ridley sea
turtles (Lepidochelys kempii) at the Houston Zoological Gardens.
Permit No. PRT-830177
Applicant: Anthony F. Amos, Port Aransas, Texas.
Applicant requests authorization to rescue and/or receive,
transport, and maintain for rehabilitation purposes at the Marine
Science Institute, sick and injured specimens of the following
protected species: green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas), Kemp's ridley sea
turtle (Lepidochelys kempii), loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta),
hawksbill sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), and the leatherback sea
turtle (Dermochelys coriacea). Rehabilitated sea turtles will be
released back into the wild at location of capture. Applicant also
requests authorization to salvage and necropsy dead specimens.
Permit No. PRT-829943
Applicant: John Axtell, Minden, Nevada.
Applicant requests authorization to obtain and breed masked
bobwhite quail (Colinus virginianus ridgwayi) for scientific research
and recovery purposes.
Permit No. PRT-829995
Applicant: Richard W. Buickerood, Dallas, Texas.
Applicant requests authorization to obtain 100 fountain darters
(Etheostoma fonticola) for educational display purposes from the San
Marcos National Fish Hatchery and Technology Center in San Marcos,
Texas for the Dallas Zoo and Dallas Aquarium.
DATES: Written comments on these permit applications must be received
by July 25, 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, Division of Endangered Species/Permits, P.O. Box
1306, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87103. 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.
Lynn B. Starnes,
Regional Director, Region 2, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
[FR Doc. 97-16606 Filed 6-24-97; 8:45 am]
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