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virtual. See DATES and ADDRESSES for
the dates and times of the public
scoping meetings. The public scoping
meetings will provide the Service an
opportunity to present information
pertinent to the GCP and for the public
to ask questions on the scope of issues
and alternatives we should consider
when preparing the draft EIS and to
discuss ideas with Service staff. We will
not record comments at the public
meetings; we will accept scoping
comments only in writing, by the
methods listed in ADDRESSES.
Reasonable Accommodations
Persons needing reasonable
accommodations to attend and
participate in the public scoping
meetings should contact the Service’s
Palm Springs Fish and Wildlife Office,
using one of the methods listed in FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT as soon
as possible. To allow sufficient time to
process requests, please make contact
no later than 1 week before the desired
public meeting. Information regarding
this proposed action is available in
alternative formats upon request.
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Request for Identification of Potential
Alternatives, Information, and Analyses
Relevant to the Proposed Actions
We request data, comments, views,
arguments, new information, analysis,
new alternatives, or suggestions on the
proposed action from the public;
affected Federal, State, Tribal, and local
governments, agencies, and offices; the
scientific community; industry; or any
other interested party. We will consider
these comments in developing the draft
EIS. Specifically, we seek:
1. Biological information, analysis
and relevant data concerning the desert
tortoise and other wildlife;
2. Potential effects that the GCP could
have on the desert tortoise and its
associated ecological communities or
habitats;
3. Potential effects that the GCP could
have on other aspects of the human
environment, including ecological,
aesthetic, historic, cultural, economic,
social, environmental justice, or health
effects;
4. Other possible reasonable
alternatives to the proposed action that
the Service should consider, including
additional or alternative avoidance,
minimization, and mitigation measures;
5. The presence of historic
properties—including archaeological
sites, buildings and structures, historic
events, sacred and traditional areas, and
other historic preservation concerns—in
the proposed permit area, which are
required to be considered in project
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planning by the National Historic
Preservation Act;
6. Information on other current or
planned activities in, or in the vicinity
of, the plan area and their possible
impacts on the desert tortoise, including
any connected actions that are closely
related and should be discussed in the
same draft EIS; and
7. Other information relevant to the
GCP and its impacts on the human
environment.
Once the Service has prepared the
draft EIS, we will provide further
opportunity for comment on the GCP
through an additional public comment
period.
Public Availability of Comments
You may submit your comments and
materials by one of the methods listed
in ADDRESSES. Before including your
address, phone number, or other
personal identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment, including your
personal identifying information, might
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. 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.
Comments and materials we receive
and supporting documentation we use
in preparing the draft EIS will be
available for public inspection online in
Docket No. FWS–R8–ES–2023–0084 at
https://www.regulations.gov (see FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT).
Decision Maker and Nature of Decision
To Be Made
The decision maker is the Assistant
Regional Director for Ecological Services
(ARD) of the Pacific Southwest Region
of the Service. If, after publication of the
record of decision, we determine that all
requirements are met for approval of
incidental take permits under the GCP,
the ARD will issue a decision on
whether to approve the GCP.
Authority
We provide this notice in accordance
with the requirements of section 10(c) of
the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16
U.S.C. 1539(c)) and its implementing
regulations (50 CFR 17.22) and National
Environmental Policy Act regulations
pertaining to the publication of a notice
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of intent to issue an environmental
impact statement (40 CFR 1501.9(d)).
Michael J. Senn,
Assistant Regional Director—Ecological
Services, Pacific Southwest Region, U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service, Sacramento, California.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[Docket No. FWS–HQ–IA–2023–0011;
FXIA16710900000–234–FF09A30000]
Endangered Species; Issuance of
Permits
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of issuance of permits.
AGENCY:
We, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service (Service), have issued
the following permits to conduct certain
activities with endangered species. We
issue these permits under the
Endangered Species Act (ESA).
ADDRESSES: Information about the
applications for the permits listed in
this notice is available online at https://
www.regulations.gov. See
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for details.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brenda Tapia, by phone at 703–358–
2185, or via email at DMAFR@fws.gov.
Individuals in the United States who are
deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have
a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY,
TDD, or TeleBraille) to access
telecommunications relay services.
Individuals outside the United States
should use the relay services offered
within their country to make
international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States.
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 (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
SUMMARY:
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and policy set forth in section 2 of the
ESA.
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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 https://
www.regulations.gov and search for the
appropriate permit number (e.g.,
12345C) provided in the following table:
ePermit No.
Applicant
86992C ...................................
70061C ...................................
40226D ...................................
PER0017129 ..........................
77784D ...................................
PER0028414 ..........................
54247C ...................................
PER0024280 ..........................
85481D ...................................
PER0026582 ..........................
PER0025129 ..........................
PER0014869 ..........................
73080C ...................................
72865D ...................................
PER0042600 ..........................
42192D ...................................
32317D ...................................
37469D ...................................
08288D ...................................
46595D ...................................
PER0043133 ..........................
73030C ...................................
PER0045505 ..........................
28644D ...................................
24612D ...................................
03114D ...................................
PER0036283 ..........................
PER0042461 ..........................
PER0050556 ..........................
PER0050974 ..........................
PER0046199 ..........................
PER0044674 ..........................
PER0043459 ..........................
17070D ...................................
52689C ...................................
PER0043674 ..........................
51278D ...................................
97878C ...................................
54295C ...................................
62557C ...................................
PER0052084 ..........................
76772C ...................................
62051D ...................................
76127C ...................................
PER0050971 ..........................
837068 ...................................
74969C ...................................
59526D ...................................
PER0047993 ..........................
63058C ...................................
97800C ...................................
PER0049577 ..........................
59012C ...................................
PER0054866 ..........................
Mike Cunningham ...............................................................................................................
Brian Spicer ........................................................................................................................
James Lines ........................................................................................................................
Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute ..........................................
Honolulu Zoo .......................................................................................................................
Smithsonian National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute ..........................................
Edward Aston ......................................................................................................................
Toledo Zoological Society ...................................................................................................
Oklahoma City Zoological Park, dba Oklahoma City Zoo ..................................................
Eastern Connecticut State University .................................................................................
Friends of the Topeka Zoo, Inc ..........................................................................................
Virginia Safari Park and Preservation Center, Inc., dba Virginia Safari Park ....................
Stewart Schanzenbach .......................................................................................................
Richard Roark .....................................................................................................................
Jeremy Hammond ...............................................................................................................
Robert Wier .........................................................................................................................
Arnold Beck .........................................................................................................................
Ronnie Williams ..................................................................................................................
Hugh Richardson ................................................................................................................
Bernard McMasters .............................................................................................................
California Academy of Sciences .........................................................................................
Edwin Hartman ...................................................................................................................
American Museum of Natural History .................................................................................
Philip Geisse .......................................................................................................................
Jeff Demaske ......................................................................................................................
Mathew Bell ........................................................................................................................
Miami-Dade Zoological Park and Gardens ........................................................................
Indianapolis Zoological Society, Inc., dba Indianapolis Zoo ..............................................
Florida State University Robert K. Godfrey Herbarium ......................................................
Harvard University Museum of Comparative Zoology ........................................................
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo ....................................................................................................
Mark D. Simpson ................................................................................................................
Kevin L. Emrath ..................................................................................................................
Donald Youngblood ............................................................................................................
Terry L. Anderson ...............................................................................................................
Clinton A. Bissett ................................................................................................................
Tanner Glidden ...................................................................................................................
Rich J. Cabela ....................................................................................................................
Christian M. Rothermel .......................................................................................................
Earnest Joseph Dosio .........................................................................................................
Yale University Peabody Museum of Natural History ........................................................
Mark Wayne Pirkle ..............................................................................................................
William B. Stroud ................................................................................................................
Phillip D. Landry ..................................................................................................................
Duke University ...................................................................................................................
Emory National Primate Research Center .........................................................................
Rudy Nix .............................................................................................................................
Abraham Garza ...................................................................................................................
Miami-Dade Zoological Park and Gardens ........................................................................
Thomas Sloan .....................................................................................................................
Michael Stein ......................................................................................................................
Michael W. Howard .............................................................................................................
Michael Towbin ...................................................................................................................
Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum ........................................................................................
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Authorities
We issue this notice under the
authority of the Endangered Species
Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et
seq.), and its implementing regulations.
Brenda Tapia,
Supervisory Program Analyst/Data
Administrator, Branch of Permits, Division
of Management Authority.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[Docket No. FWS–HQ–IA–2023–0108;
FXIA16710900000–234–FF09A30000]
I. Public Comment Procedures
Foreign Endangered Species; Receipt
of Permit Applications
Fish and Wildlife Service,
Interior.
ACTION: Notice of receipt of permit
applications; request for comments.
AGENCY:
We, the U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, invite the public to
comment on applications to conduct
certain activities with foreign species
that are listed as endangered under the
Endangered Species Act (ESA). With
some exceptions, the ESA prohibits
activities with listed species unless
Federal authorization is issued that
allows such activities. The ESA also
requires that we invite public comment
before issuing permits for any activity
otherwise prohibited by the ESA with
respect to any endangered species.
DATES: We must receive comments by
August 16, 2023.
ADDRESSES:
Obtaining Documents: The
applications, application supporting
materials, and any comments and other
materials that we receive will be
available for public inspection at
https://www.regulations.gov in Docket
No. FWS–HQ–IA–2023–0108.
Submitting Comments: When
submitting comments, please specify the
name of the applicant and the permit
number at the beginning of your
comment. You may submit comments
by one of the following methods:
• Internet: https://
www.regulations.gov. Search for and
submit comments on Docket No. FWS–
HQ–IA–2023–0108.
• U.S. Mail: Public Comments
Processing, Attn: Docket No. FWS–HQ–
IA–2023–0108; U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service Headquarters, MS: PRB/3W;
5275 Leesburg Pike; Falls Church, VA
22041–3803.
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For more information, see Public
Comment Procedures under
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Brenda Tapia, by phone at 703–358–
2185 or via email at DMAFR@fws.gov.
Individuals in the United States who are
deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have
a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY,
TDD, or TeleBraille) to access
telecommunications relay services.
Individuals outside the United States
should use the relay services offered
within their country to make
international calls to the point-ofcontact in the United States.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. How do I comment on submitted
applications?
We invite the public and local, State,
Tribal, and Federal agencies to comment
on these applications. Before issuing
any of the requested permits, we will
take into consideration any information
that we receive during the public
comment period.
You may submit your comments and
materials by one of the methods in
ADDRESSES. We will not consider
comments sent by email or to an address
not in ADDRESSES. We will not consider
or include in our administrative record
comments we receive after the close of
the comment period (see DATES).
When submitting comments, please
specify the name of the applicant and
the permit number at the beginning of
your comment. Provide sufficient
information to allow us to authenticate
any scientific or commercial data you
include. The comments and
recommendations that will be most
useful and likely to influence agency
decisions are: (1) Those supported by
quantitative information or studies; and
(2) those that include citations to, and
analyses of, the applicable laws and
regulations.
B. May I review comments submitted by
others?
You may view and comment on
others’ public comments at https://
www.regulations.gov unless our
allowing so would violate the Privacy
Act (5 U.S.C. 552a) or Freedom of
Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552).
C. Who will see my comments?
If you submit a comment at https://
www.regulations.gov, your entire
comment, including any personal
identifying information, will be posted
on the website. If you submit a
hardcopy comment that includes
personal identifying information, such
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as your address, phone number, or
email address, you may request at the
top of your document that we withhold
this information from public review.
However, we cannot guarantee that we
will be able to do so. Moreover, 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.
II. Background
To help us carry out our conservation
responsibilities for affected species, and
in consideration of section 10(c) of the
Endangered Species Act of 1973, as
amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.),
we invite public comments on permit
applications before final action is taken.
With some exceptions, the ESA
prohibits certain activities with listed
species unless Federal authorization is
issued that allows such activities.
Permits issued under section 10(a)(1)(A)
of the ESA allow otherwise prohibited
activities for scientific purposes or to
enhance the propagation or survival of
the affected species. Service regulations
regarding prohibited activities with
endangered species, captive-bred
wildlife registrations, and permits for
any activity otherwise prohibited by the
ESA with respect to any endangered
species are available in title 50 of the
Code of Federal Regulations in part 17.
III. Permit Applications
We invite comments on the following
applications.
Endangered Species
Applicant: Fort Worth Zoo, Fort Worth,
TX; Permit No. PER3024895
The applicant requests a permit to
import one female captive-bred black
rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) from
Africam SA, Puabla, Mexico, for the
purpose of enhancing the propagation or
survival of the species. This notification
is for a single import.
Applicant: Obioma Ogbonna, Aledo,
TX; Permit No. PER2584692
The applicant requests a permit to
import from Munich, Germany, one lifesize mount of a male captive-bred
African lion (Panthera leo) for the
purpose of enhancing the propagation or
survival of the species. This notification
is for a single import.
Applicant: Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical
Garden, Cincinnati, OH; Permit No.
PER3108901
The applicant requests a permit to
import four live captive-bred Asian
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service
[Docket No. FWS-HQ-IA-2023-0011; FXIA16710900000-234-FF09A30000]
Endangered Species; Issuance of Permits
AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION: Notice of issuance of permits.
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SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), have issued
the following permits to conduct certain activities with endangered
species. We issue these permits under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
ADDRESSES: Information about the applications for the permits listed in
this notice is available online at https://www.regulations.gov. See
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for details.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Brenda Tapia, by phone at 703-358-
2185, or via email at [email protected]. Individuals in the United States
who are deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability
may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access telecommunications
relay services. Individuals outside the United States should use the
relay services offered within their country to make international calls
to the point-of-contact in the United States.
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 (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
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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 https://www.regulations.gov and
search for the appropriate permit number (e.g., 12345C) provided in the
following table:
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ePermit No. Applicant Permit issuance date
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86992C.............................. Mike Cunningham....................... March 29, 2022.
70061C.............................. Brian Spicer.......................... March 17, 2022.
40226D.............................. James Lines........................... March 11, 2022.
PER0017129.......................... Smithsonian National Zoo and March 23, 2022.
Conservation Biology Institute.
77784D.............................. Honolulu Zoo.......................... May 9, 2022.
PER0028414.......................... Smithsonian National Zoo and May 9, 2022.
Conservation Biology Institute.
54247C.............................. Edward Aston.......................... May 18, 2022.
PER0024280.......................... Toledo Zoological Society............. March 23, 2022.
85481D.............................. Oklahoma City Zoological Park, dba June 14, 2022.
Oklahoma City Zoo.
PER0026582.......................... Eastern Connecticut State University.. June 23, 2022.
PER0025129.......................... Friends of the Topeka Zoo, Inc........ July 12, 2022.
PER0014869.......................... Virginia Safari Park and Preservation August 12, 2022.
Center, Inc., dba Virginia Safari
Park.
73080C.............................. Stewart Schanzenbach.................. August 17, 2022.
72865D.............................. Richard Roark......................... August 19, 2022.
PER0042600.......................... Jeremy Hammond........................ August 19, 2022.
42192D.............................. Robert Wier........................... August 19, 2022.
32317D.............................. Arnold Beck........................... August 19, 2022.
37469D.............................. Ronnie Williams....................... August 19, 2022.
08288D.............................. Hugh Richardson....................... August 23, 2022.
46595D.............................. Bernard McMasters..................... August 19, 2022.
PER0043133.......................... California Academy of Sciences........ August 24, 2022.
73030C.............................. Edwin Hartman......................... September 1, 2022.
PER0045505.......................... American Museum of Natural History.... September 1, 2022.
28644D.............................. Philip Geisse......................... September 20, 2022.
24612D.............................. Jeff Demaske.......................... September 19, 2022.
03114D.............................. Mathew Bell........................... September 15, 2022.
PER0036283.......................... Miami-Dade Zoological Park and Gardens September 21, 2022.
PER0042461.......................... Indianapolis Zoological Society, Inc., October 11, 2022.
dba Indianapolis Zoo.
PER0050556.......................... Florida State University Robert K. October 19, 2022.
Godfrey Herbarium.
PER0050974.......................... Harvard University Museum of October 20, 2022.
Comparative Zoology.
PER0046199.......................... Cheyenne Mountain Zoo................. October 25, 2022.
PER0044674.......................... Mark D. Simpson....................... October 31, 2022.
PER0043459.......................... Kevin L. Emrath....................... October 31, 2022.
17070D.............................. Donald Youngblood..................... October 31, 2022.
52689C.............................. Terry L. Anderson..................... October 28, 2022.
PER0043674.......................... Clinton A. Bissett.................... October 31, 2022.
51278D.............................. Tanner Glidden........................ October 31, 2022.
97878C.............................. Rich J. Cabela........................ October 31, 2022.
54295C.............................. Christian M. Rothermel................ October 31, 2022.
62557C.............................. Earnest Joseph Dosio.................. October 31, 2022.
PER0052084.......................... Yale University Peabody Museum of November 2, 2022.
Natural History.
76772C.............................. Mark Wayne Pirkle..................... November 4, 2022.
62051D.............................. William B. Stroud..................... November 14, 2022.
76127C.............................. Phillip D. Landry..................... November 14, 2022.
PER0050971.......................... Duke University....................... November 17, 2022.
837068.............................. Emory National Primate Research Center November 21, 2022.
74969C.............................. Rudy Nix.............................. November 28, 2022.
59526D.............................. Abraham Garza......................... November 28, 2022.
PER0047993.......................... Miami-Dade Zoological Park and Gardens November 29, 2022.
63058C.............................. Thomas Sloan.......................... December 01, 2022.
97800C.............................. Michael Stein......................... December 02, 2022.
PER0049577.......................... Michael W. Howard..................... December 06, 2022.
59012C.............................. Michael Towbin........................ December 14, 2022.
PER0054866.......................... Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum.......... January 4, 2023.
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Authorities
We issue this notice under the authority of the Endangered Species
Act, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), and its implementing
regulations.
Brenda Tapia,
Supervisory Program Analyst/Data Administrator, Branch of Permits,
Division of Management Authority.
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