2019-13790. Endangered Species; Marine Mammals; Issuance of Permits

AGENCY:

Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION:

Notice of issuance of permits.

SUMMARY:

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, have issued the following permits to conduct certain activities with endangered species, marine mammals, or both. We issue these permits under the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

ADDRESSES:

Information about the applications for the issued permits listed in this notice is available online at www.regulations.gov. See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for details.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Brenda Tapia, by phone at 703-358-2104, via email at [e-mail], or via the Federal Relay Service at 800-877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), have issued permits to conduct certain activities with endangered and threatened species in response to permit applications that we received under the authority of section 10(a)(1)(A) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.)

After considering the information submitted with each permit application and the public comments received, we issued the requested permits subject to certain conditions set forth in each permit. For each application for an endangered species, we found that (1) the application was filed in good faith, (2) the granted permit would not operate to the disadvantage of the endangered species, and (3) the granted permit would be consistent with the purposes and policy set forth in section 2 of the ESA.

Availability of Documents

The permittees' original permit application materials, along with public comments we received during public comment periods for the applications, are available for review. To locate the application materials and received comments, go to www.regulations.gov and search for the appropriate permit number (e.g., 12345C) provided in the following tables.

Permit No.	Applicant	Permit issuance date
Endangered Species
93328C	University of Texas at Arlington	February 27, 2019.
66689C	Memphis Zoo	February 1, 2019.
86989C	Audubon Nature Institute	February 1, 2019.
90228C	Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa, Inc	January 31, 2019.
91602C	Dr. Viktoria Oelze, University of California Santa Cruz	January 30, 2019.
93509C	Dmitri Petrov	February 26, 2019.
78121C	Pinola Conservancy	February 26, 2019.
77865C	Maria de Lourdes Martinez Estevez	February 26, 2019.
19818A	Phoenix Herpetological Society, Inc	February 26, 2019.
Marine Mammals
75595C	ABR, Inc	March 1, 2019.

Authorities

We issue this notice under the authority of the ESA and the Marine Mammal Protection Act as amended (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.) and their implementing regulations.

Brenda Tapia,

Program Analyst/Data Administrator, Branch of Permits, Division of Management Authority.