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Wyoming ranchers with the opportunity
to voluntarily conserve greater sagegrouse and its habitat while carrying out
their ranching activities. Ranchers may
apply for an enhancement of survival
permit under the Endangered Species
Act of 1973, as amended (ESA), by
agreeing to implement certain
conservation measures in the Umbrella
CCAA that apply to their properties.
Pursuant to the National Environmental
Policy Act, we also prepared a draft
environmental assessment (EA) that
analyzes the potential impacts to the
human environment from the proposed
Umbrella CCAA and alternatives to the
action.
DATES: Written comments must be
submitted by March 11, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Send written comments by
U.S. mail to Tyler Abbott, Deputy Field
Supervisor, Wyoming Ecological
Services Field Office, U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, 5353 Yellowstone
Road, Suite 308A, Cheyenne, WY
82009, or via email to
WYSagegrouseCCAA@fws.gov. You also
may send comments by facsimile to
307–772–2358. The draft CCAA and EA
are available on our Mountain-Prairie
Region Ecological Services Web site at
www.fws.gov/wyominges/. You also may
review copies of these documents
during regular business hours at the
Wyoming Ecological Services Field
Office (see address above). If you do not
have access to the Web site or cannot
visit our office, you may request copies
by telephone at 307–772–2374 ext. 231
or by letter to the Wyoming Field Office.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Tyler Abbott, U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, 307–772–2374 ext. 231;
tyler_abbott@fws.gov.
Under a
Candidate Conservation Agreement with
Assurances (CCAA), participating
landowners voluntarily undertake
management activities on their property
to enhance, restore, or maintain habitat
benefiting species that are proposed for
listing or candidates for listing under
the ESA, or those species that may
become candidates. A CCAA, and the
subsequent permits that are issued
pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(A) of the
ESA (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), encourage
private and non-Federal property
owners to implement conservation
efforts for species by assuring property
owners that they will not be subjected
to increased land use restrictions as a
result of efforts to attract or increase the
numbers or distribution of a listed
species on their property if that species
becomes listed under the ESA in the
future. CCAA permit application
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requirements and issuance criteria are
found in 50 CFR 17.22(d) and 17.32(d).
On March 23, 2010, the Service
determined that listing the greater sagegrouse (Centrocercus urophasianus)
under the ESA (16 U.S.C. 1538) was
warranted, but precluded by the need to
address higher priority species first. As
result, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service, in coordination with the
Wyoming Governor’s Office, the Bureau
of Land Management, the Natural
Resources Conservation Service, the
Wyoming Department of Agriculture,
Wyoming Game and Fish Department,
and the Wyoming Association of
Conservation Districts, developed a
draft statewide umbrella CCAA for
ranch management. The intent of the
umbrella CCAA is to use voluntary,
proactive conservation measures to
reduce or remove threats to the greater
sage-grouse, thereby potentially
reducing the need to list the species.
The draft umbrella CCAA covers an area
of approximately 17 million acres of
privately owned lands within the range
of the greater sage-grouse in Wyoming.
The draft umbrella CCAA contains a
comprehensive menu of conservation
measures designed to reduce or remove
each identified potential threat to the
greater sage-grouse that may occur on a
ranching operation in Wyoming. This
approach allows each interested rancher
to select conservation measures specific
to their operation, rather than require
each participant to conform to one
prescriptive action. A private landowner
who wishes to enroll in the umbrella
CCAA would develop a streamlined
individual CCAA for the enrolled
property. Partner agencies would assist
the landowner in selecting the
conservation measures from the
umbrella CCAA that would address
threats occurring on the property to be
enrolled. Each landowner would submit
their individual CCAA to the Service to
apply for a section 10(a)(1)(A) permit for
take of the sage-grouse incidental to
conservation and ranching activities,
should the species become listed.
The Service and other participating
agencies have also prepared a draft EA
that considers the potential impacts of
implementing the umbrella CCAA and
issuing assurances and individual
permits to private landowners
participating in the umbrella CCAA.
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 comment—including your
personal identifying information—may
be made publicly available at any time.
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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.
Dated: January 23, 2013.
Michael Thabault,
Acting Regional Director, Mountain-Prairie
Region, Denver, Colorado.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS–R4–ES–2013–N007; 40120–1112–
0000–F2]
Receipt of Applications for
Endangered Species Permits
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
We, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, invite the public to
comment on the following applications
to conduct certain activities with
endangered species. With some
exceptions, the Endangered Species Act
(ESA) prohibits activities with listed
species unless a Federal permit is issued
that allows such activities. The ESA
requires that we invite public comment
before issuing these permits.
DATES: We must receive written data or
comments on the applications at the
address given below, by March 11, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Documents and other
information submitted with the
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 to
the following office within 30 days of
the date of publication of this notice:
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1875
Century Boulevard, Suite 200, Atlanta,
GA 30345 (Attn: Cameron Shaw, Permit
Coordinator).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Cameron Shaw, telephone 904/731–
3191; facsimile 904/731–3045.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
public is invited to comment on the
following applications for permits to
conduct certain activities with
endangered and threatened species
pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(A) of the
Endangered Species Act of 1973, as
amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) and
our regulations in the Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) at 50 CFR part 17.
This notice is provided under section
10(c) of the Act.
SUMMARY:
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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: permitsR4ES@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).
Before including your address,
telephone number, email address, or
other personal identifying information
in your comments, you should be aware
that your entire comment—including
your personal identifying information—
may be made publicly available at any
time. While you can ask us in your
comments to withhold your personal
identifying information from public
review, we cannot guarantee that we
will be able to do so.
Permit Application Number: TE–
91331A
Applicant: Timothy Day, Pensacola,
Florida.
Applicant requests authorization to
take (capture, mark, translocate and
release) Perdido Key beach mouse
(Peromyscus polionotus tryssillepsis),
Choctawhatchee beach mouse
(Peromyscus polionotus allophrys) and
Alabama beach mouse (Peromyscus
polionotus ammobates) for the purpose
of conducting presence/absence surveys
and assisting in species recovery efforts.
These activities will be conducted in
Escambia and Walton Counties, Florida
and Baldwin County, Alabama.
Permit Application Number: TE–
91366A
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Applicant: Dr. Paul Stewart, Troy,
Alabama.
Applicant requests authorization to
take (capture, translocate, collect
voucher specimens, and release) 68
freshwater mussels species and 17
freshwater fish species in the State of
Alabama.
Permit Application Number: TE–
91373A
Applicant: Jonathan Miller, Troy,
Alabama.
Applicant requests authorization to
take (capture, translocate, collect
voucher specimens, and release) 68
freshwater mussels species and 17
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freshwater fish species in the State of
Alabama.
Giles, Pulaski, Bland and Tazewell
Counties, Virginia.
Permit Application Number: TE–84054
Permit Application Number: TE–
95412A
Applicant: URS Corporation, Franklin,
Tennessee.
Applicant requests amended
authorization to take (capture, handle,
and release) the Etowah darter
(Etheostoma etowahae) and the
Conasauga logperch (Percina jenkinsi)
for the purpose of conducting presence/
absence surveys in Georgia.
Permit Application Number: TE–
94714A
Applicant: Natural Natives Inc., Seneca,
South Carolina.
Applicant requests authorization to
engage in interstate commerce (sell) 19
listed plant species.
Permit Application Number: TE–206872
Applicant: Joy O’Keefe, Terre Haute,
Indiana.
Applicant requests amended
authorization to take (capture, mark,
collect tissues, salvage, attach scientific
devices and release) Virginia big-eared
bats (Corynorhinus townsendii
virginianus) for the purpose of scientific
research. These activities will be
conducted within the states of
Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia and
West Virginia.
Permit Application Number: TE–54973
Applicant: North Carolina State
University, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Applicant requests renewed
authorization to take (capture, hold,
propagate in captivity and release) St.
Francis Satyr butterflies for the purpose
of scientific research and species
recovery. These activities will occur in
North Carolina.
Permit Application Number: TE–
94728A
Applicant: Environmental Consulting
Operations, Benton, Arkansas.
Applicant request authorization to
conduct presence/absence surveys on
the American burying beetle
(Nicrophorus americanus) in the State
of Arkansas.
Permit Application Number: TE–
95405A
Applicant: Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and State University,
Blacksburg, Virginia.
Applicant requests authorization to
take (capture, mark, collect tissues,
salvage, attach scientific devices and
release) Indiana bats (Myotis sodalis) for
the purpose of scientific research. These
activities will be conducted at Fort
Knox, Kentucky, and in Montgomery,
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Applicant: Kentucky Department of
Environmental Protection, Frankfort,
Kentucky.
Applicant requests authorization to
take (capture, translocate, collect
voucher specimens, and release) 29
freshwater mussels species and 6
freshwater fish species while
conducting surveys and scientific
research in the State of Kentucky.
Permit Application Number: TE–
86220A
Applicant: Florida Museum of Natural
History, University of Florida,
Gainesville, Florida.
Applicant requests authorization to
take (capture, translocate, temporarily
house, propagate in captivity, and
release) Schaus Swallowtail butterflies
(Heraclides aristodemus ponceanus) in
the State of Florida.
Dated: January 31, 2013.
Jacquelyn B. Parrish,
Acting Regional Director.
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Renewal of Approved Information
Collection
Bureau of Land Management,
Interior.
ACTION: 30-day notice and request for
comments.
AGENCY:
The Bureau of Land
Management (BLM) has submitted an
information collection request to the
Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) to continue the collection of
information that enables the BLM to
monitor compliance with timber export
restrictions. The Office of Management
and Budget (OMB) previously approved
this information collection activity, and
assigned it control number 1004–0058.
DATES: The OMB is required to respond
to this information collection request
within 60 days but may respond after 30
days. For maximum consideration,
written comments should be received
on or before March 11, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Please submit comments
directly to the Desk Officer for the
Department of the Interior (OMB #1004–
0058), Office of Management and
SUMMARY:
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[FWS-R4-ES-2013-N007; 40120-1112-0000-F2]
Receipt of Applications for Endangered Species Permits
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite the public to
comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities
with endangered species. With some exceptions, the Endangered Species
Act (ESA) prohibits activities with listed species unless a Federal
permit is issued that allows such activities. The ESA requires that we
invite public comment before issuing these permits.
DATES: We must receive written data or comments on the applications at
the address given below, by March 11, 2013.
ADDRESSES: Documents and other information submitted with the
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 to the following
office within 30 days of the date of publication of this notice: U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, 1875 Century Boulevard, Suite 200, Atlanta,
GA 30345 (Attn: Cameron Shaw, Permit Coordinator).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Cameron Shaw, telephone 904/731-3191;
facsimile 904/731-3045.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The public is invited to comment on the
following applications for permits to conduct certain activities with
endangered and threatened species pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(A) of
the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.)
and our regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) at 50 CFR
part 17. This notice is provided under section 10(c) of the Act.
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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: permitsR4ES@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).
Before including your address, telephone number, email address, or
other personal identifying information in your comments, you should be
aware that your entire comment--including your personal identifying
information--may be made publicly available at any time. While you can
ask us in your comments to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be
able to do so.
Permit Application Number: TE-91331A
Applicant: Timothy Day, Pensacola, Florida.
Applicant requests authorization to take (capture, mark,
translocate and release) Perdido Key beach mouse (Peromyscus polionotus
tryssillepsis), Choctawhatchee beach mouse (Peromyscus polionotus
allophrys) and Alabama beach mouse (Peromyscus polionotus ammobates)
for the purpose of conducting presence/absence surveys and assisting in
species recovery efforts. These activities will be conducted in
Escambia and Walton Counties, Florida and Baldwin County, Alabama.
Permit Application Number: TE-91366A
Applicant: Dr. Paul Stewart, Troy, Alabama.
Applicant requests authorization to take (capture, translocate,
collect voucher specimens, and release) 68 freshwater mussels species
and 17 freshwater fish species in the State of Alabama.
Permit Application Number: TE-91373A
Applicant: Jonathan Miller, Troy, Alabama.
Applicant requests authorization to take (capture, translocate,
collect voucher specimens, and release) 68 freshwater mussels species
and 17 freshwater fish species in the State of Alabama.
Permit Application Number: TE-84054
Applicant: URS Corporation, Franklin, Tennessee.
Applicant requests amended authorization to take (capture, handle,
and release) the Etowah darter (Etheostoma etowahae) and the Conasauga
logperch (Percina jenkinsi) for the purpose of conducting presence/
absence surveys in Georgia.
Permit Application Number: TE-94714A
Applicant: Natural Natives Inc., Seneca, South Carolina.
Applicant requests authorization to engage in interstate commerce
(sell) 19 listed plant species.
Permit Application Number: TE-206872
Applicant: Joy O'Keefe, Terre Haute, Indiana.
Applicant requests amended authorization to take (capture, mark,
collect tissues, salvage, attach scientific devices and release)
Virginia big-eared bats (Corynorhinus townsendii virginianus) for the
purpose of scientific research. These activities will be conducted
within the states of Kentucky, North Carolina, Virginia and West
Virginia.
Permit Application Number: TE-54973
Applicant: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina.
Applicant requests renewed authorization to take (capture, hold,
propagate in captivity and release) St. Francis Satyr butterflies for
the purpose of scientific research and species recovery. These
activities will occur in North Carolina.
Permit Application Number: TE-94728A
Applicant: Environmental Consulting Operations, Benton, Arkansas.
Applicant request authorization to conduct presence/absence surveys
on the American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) in the State of
Arkansas.
Permit Application Number: TE-95405A
Applicant: Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
Blacksburg, Virginia.
Applicant requests authorization to take (capture, mark, collect
tissues, salvage, attach scientific devices and release) Indiana bats
(Myotis sodalis) for the purpose of scientific research. These
activities will be conducted at Fort Knox, Kentucky, and in Montgomery,
Giles, Pulaski, Bland and Tazewell Counties, Virginia.
Permit Application Number: TE-95412A
Applicant: Kentucky Department of Environmental Protection, Frankfort,
Kentucky.
Applicant requests authorization to take (capture, translocate,
collect voucher specimens, and release) 29 freshwater mussels species
and 6 freshwater fish species while conducting surveys and scientific
research in the State of Kentucky.
Permit Application Number: TE-86220A
Applicant: Florida Museum of Natural History, University of Florida,
Gainesville, Florida.
Applicant requests authorization to take (capture, translocate,
temporarily house, propagate in captivity, and release) Schaus
Swallowtail butterflies (Heraclides aristodemus ponceanus) in the State
of Florida.
Dated: January 31, 2013.
Jacquelyn B. Parrish,
Acting Regional Director.
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