Incidental Take Permit Applications Received To Participate in American Burying Beetle Amended Oil and Gas Industry Conservation Plan in Oklahoma, 39445-39446 [2017-17533]

Agencies

• Fish and Wildlife Service
• DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 159 (Friday, August 18, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39445-39446]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-17533]



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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR



Fish and Wildlife Service



[FWS-R2-ES-2017-N094; FXES11140200000-178-FF02ENEH00]




Incidental Take Permit Applications Received To Participate in 

American Burying Beetle Amended Oil and Gas Industry Conservation Plan 

in Oklahoma



AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.



ACTION: Notice of availability; request for public comments.



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SUMMARY: Under the Endangered Species Act, as amended (Act), we, the 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite the public to comment on 

federally listed American burying beetle incidental take permit 

applications. The applicants anticipate American burying beetle take as 

a result of impacts to habitat the species uses for breeding, feeding, 

and sheltering in Oklahoma. The take would be incidental to the 

applicants' activities associated with oil and gas well field and 

pipeline infrastructure (gathering, transmission, and distribution), 

including geophysical exploration (seismic), construction, maintenance, 

operation, repair, decommissioning, and reclamation. If approved, the 

permits would be issued under the approved American Burying Beetle 

Amended Oil and Gas Industry Conservation Plan (ICP) Endangered Species 

Act Section 10(a)(1)(B) Permit Issuance in Oklahoma.



DATES: To ensure consideration, written comments must be received on or 

before September 18, 2017.



ADDRESSES: You may obtain copies of all documents and submit comments 

on the applicants' incidental take permit (ITP) applications by one of 

the following methods. Please refer to the proposed permit number when 

requesting documents or submitting comments.

    [cir] U.S. Mail: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of 

Endangered Species--HCP Permits, P.O. Box 1306, Room 6034, Albuquerque, 

NM 87103.

    [cir] Electronically: fw2_hcp_permits@fws.gov.



FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Marty Tuegel, Branch Chief, by U.S. 

mail at: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Environmental Review Division, 

P.O. Box 1306, Room 6034, Albuquerque, NM 87103; or by telephone at 

505-248-6651.



SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 



Introduction



    Under the Endangered Species Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et 

seq.; Act), we, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite the public 

to comment on incidental take permit (ITP) applications to take the 

federally listed American burying beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) 

during oil and gas well field infrastructure geophysical exploration 

(seismic) and construction, maintenance, operation, repair, and 

decommissioning, as well as oil and gas gathering, transmission, and 

distribution pipeline infrastructure construction, maintenance, 

operation, repair, decommissioning, and reclamation in Oklahoma.

    If approved, the permits would be issued to the applicants under 

the American Burying Beetle Amended Oil



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and Gas Industry Conservation Plan (ICP) Endangered Species Act Section 

10(a)(1)(B) Permit Issuance in Oklahoma. The original ICP was approved 

on May 21, 2014, and the ``no significant impact'' finding notice was 

published in the Federal Register on July 25, 2014 (79 FR 43504). The 

draft amended ICP was made available for comment on March 8, 2016 (81 

FR 12113), and approved on April 13, 2016. The ICP and the associated 

environmental assessment/finding of no significant impact are available 

on the Web site at https://www.fws.gov/southwest/es/oklahoma/ABBICP. 

However, we are no longer taking comments on these finalized, approved 

documents.



Applications Available for Review and Comment



    We invite local, State, Tribal, and Federal agencies, and the 

public to comment on the following applications under the ICP, for 

incidentally taking the federally listed American burying beetle. 

Please refer to the appropriate permit number (e.g., TE-123456) when 

requesting application documents and when submitting comments. 

Documents and other information the applicant has submitted with this 

application are available for review, subject to Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 

552a) and Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) requirements.



Permit TE35998C



Applicant: NGPL PipeCo, LLC and Subsidiaries, Tulsa, OK.



    Applicant requests a permit for oil and gas upstream and midstream 

production, including oil and gas well field infrastructure geophysical 

exploration (seismic) and construction, maintenance, operation, repair, 

and decommissioning, as well as oil and gas gathering, transmission, 

and distribution pipeline infrastructure construction, maintenance, 

operation, repair, decommissioning, and reclamation in Oklahoma.



Permit TE35997C



Applicant: Wildhorse Terminal, LLC, Houston, TX.



    Applicant requests a permit for oil and gas upstream and midstream 

production, including oil and gas well field infrastructure geophysical 

exploration (seismic) and construction, maintenance, operation, repair, 

and decommissioning, as well as oil and gas gathering, transmission, 

and distribution pipeline infrastructure construction, maintenance, 

operation, repair, decommissioning, and reclamation in Oklahoma.



Permit TE38803C



Applicant: Antioch Operating, LLC, Oklahoma City, OK.



    Applicant requests a permit for oil and gas upstream and midstream 

production, including oil and gas well field infrastructure geophysical 

exploration (seismic) and construction, maintenance, operation, repair, 

and decommissioning, as well as oil and gas gathering, transmission, 

and distribution pipeline infrastructure construction, maintenance, 

operation, repair, decommissioning, and reclamation in Oklahoma.



Public Availability of Comments



    Written comments we receive become part of the public record 

associated with this action. 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. While you can request in your comment that we withhold 

your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot 

guarantee that we will be able to do so. We will not consider anonymous 

comments. All submissions from organizations or businesses, and from 

individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of 

organizations or businesses, will be made available for public 

disclosure in their entirety.



Authority



    We provide this notice under section 10(c) of the Act (16 U.S.C. 

1531 et seq.) and its implementing regulations (50 CFR 17.22) and the 

National Environmental Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and its 

implementing regulations (40 CFR 1506.6).



Joy E. Nicholopoulos,

Acting Regional Director, Southwest Region, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service.

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