Federal Register: September 17, 2009 (Volume 74, Number 179)

DOCID: fr17se09-61 FR Doc E9-22377

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

FWS ID: [FWS-R2-ES-2009-N189; 20124-1113-0000-F5]

NOTICE: NOTICES

DOCID: fr17se09-61

DOCUMENT ACTION: Notice of receipt of applications; request for public comment.

SUBJECT CATEGORY:

Endangered and Threatened Species Permit Applications

DATES: To ensure consideration, written comments must be received on or before October 19, 2009.

DOCUMENT SUMMARY:

The following applicants have applied for scientific research permits to conduct certain activities with endangered species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (Act). The Act requires that we invite public comment on these permit applications.

SUMMARY:

Endangered and Threatened Species Permit Applications

SUPPLEMENTAL INFORMATION

Public Availability of Comments

Before including your address, phone number, email address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire commentincluding your personal identifying informationmay be made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.
Permit TE829996

Applicant: Houston Zoo, Houston, Texas.

Applicant requests an amendment to their current permit for research and recovery purposes to conduct presence/absence surveys of jaguarundi (Felis yagouaroundi cacomitli) within Texas.
Permit TE051832

Applicant: The Phoenix Zoo, Phoenix, Arizona.

Applicant requests an amendment to a current permit to capture and breed Mt. Graham red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus grahamensis) to be held in the zoo and eventually released back into the wild. Permit TE225730

Applicant: Scott Cutler, El Paso, Texas.

Applicant requests a new permit for education purposes to display skeletons and skins of salvaged California condors (Gymnogyps californianus) at the Centennial Museum within the University of Texas at El Paso.
Permit TE226653

Applicant: The Arboretum at Flagstaff, Flagstaff, Arizona.

Applicant requests a new permit for research and recovery purposes to conduct presence/absence surveys of the following plants: sentry milkvetch (Astragalus cremnophylax var. cremnophylax), Mancos milk vetch (Astragalus humillimus), Arizona cliffrose (Purshia subintegra), and autumn buttercup (Ranunculus aestivalis) within New Mexico, Arizona, and Utah.
Permit TE192855

Applicant: Amnis Opes Institute, LLC., Cornvallis, Oregon.

Applicant request a new permit for research and recovery purposes to conduct presence/absence surveys of humpback chub (Gila cypha) within the Colorado River, Arizona.

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.

Dated: September 10, 2009.
Brian Millsap,
Regional Director, Southwest Region, Fish and Wildlife Service. [FR Doc. E922377 Filed 91609; 8:45 am]
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT

Susan Jacobsen, Chief, Endangered Species Division, P.O. Box 1306, Albuquerque, NM 87103; (505) 2486920.