Federal Register: December 27, 2006 (Volume 71, Number 248)
DOCID: FR Doc E6-22135
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
NOTICE: NOTICES
ACTION: Endangered and threatened species:
DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice.
SUBJECT CATEGORY:
Receipt of Applications for Endangered Species Permits
DATES: We must receive written data or comments on these applications at the address given below, by January 26, 2007.
DOCUMENT SUMMARY:
The public is invited to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species.
SUMMARY:
Endangered and threatened species permit applications,
SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION
The public is invited to comment on the following applications for permits to conduct certain activities with endangered and threatened species. This notice is provided under section 10(c) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). 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 via electronic mail (email) to victoria_davis@fws.gov. 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 section). Finally, you may hand deliver comments to the Fish and Wildlife Service office listed above (see ADDRESSES section).
Our practice is to make comments, including names and home addresses of respondents, available for public review during regular business hours. Individual respondents may request that we withhold their home address from the administrative record. We will honor such requests to the extent allowable by law. There may also be other circumstances in which we would withhold from the administrative record a respondent's identity, as allowable by law. If you wish us to withhold your name and address, you must state this prominently at the beginning of your comments. However, we will not consider anonymous comments. We will make all submissions from organizations or businesses, and from individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of organizations or businesses, available for public inspection in their entirety.
Applicant: Joanne M. Potts, University of Saint Andrews, Saint Andrews, Fife, Scotland, TE1394050.
The applicant requests authorization to take (capture, radio tag/ collar, examine, measure, release, recapture) the Key Largo woodrat (Neotoma floridana smalli) and Key Largo cotton mouse (Peromyscus gossypinus allapaticola) while developing efficient and reliable methods for longterm monitoring of the Key Largo woodrat's population size. Although the Key Largo cotton mouse is not the target species, it may be incidentally captured. The proposed activities would occur on the Crocodile Lakes National Wildlife Refuge (Monroe County, Florida) and the Key Largo Hammocks Botanical Reserve (Dade County, Florida).
Applicant: FTN Associates, Ltd., Dennis E. Ford, Little Rock, Arkansas, TE1394740.
The applicant requests authorization to take (capture, identify, release) the American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) while conducting longterm monitoring of the population at the Fort Chaffee Maneuver Training Center in Crawford, Franklin, and Sebastian Counties, Arkansas.
Applicant: Steven Bradford Cook, Cookeville, Tennessee, TE1401510.
The applicant requests authorization to take (capture, temporarily
hold, release) the Nashville crayfish (Orconectes shoupi) while
developing a macro and micro habitat model. The proposed activities
would occur in the Mill Creek Watershed, Davidson and Williamson Counties, Tennessee.
Dated: December 1, 2006.
Cynthia Dohner,
Acting Regional Director.
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
Victoria Davis, telephone 404/679- 4176; facsimile 404/6797081.