[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 91 (Wednesday, May 10, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Pages 30126-30127]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-11649]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service


Endangered and Threatened Species Permit Applications

ACTION: Notice of receipt of applications.

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SUMMARY: The following applicants have applied for a permit to conduct 
certain activities with endangered species. This notice is provided 
pursuant to section 10(a) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 
amended (16 U.S.C. 1531, et seq.).

Permit No. TE-25131

    Applicant: Dr. Lawrence E. Stevens, Flagstaff, Arizona.
    Applicant requests authorization for scientific research and 
recovery purposes to collect in the wild and conduct activities with 
the Kanab ambersnail (Oxyloma haydeni kanabensis) in Arizona.

Permit No. TE-25594

    Applicant: Clay Nelson, Flagstaff, Arizona.
    Applicant requests authorization to conduct scientific research for 
recovery purposes for the Kanab ambersnail (Oxyloma haydeni kanabensis) 
at Northern Arizona University and Glen Canyon Dam, Coconino County, 
Arizona.

Permit No. TE-26436

    Applicant: George Veni, San Antonio, Texas.
    Applicant requests authorization for scientific research and 
recovery purposes to collect the following endangered or threatened in 
Texas:

Peck's Cave amphipod (Stygobromus pecki)
Coffin Cave Mold beetle (Batrisodes texanus)
Kretschmarr Cave Mold beetle (Texamaurops reddelli)
Tooth Cave ground beetle (Rhadine persephone)

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Tooth Cave Pseudoscorpion (Tartarocreagris texana)
Bee Creek Cave harvestman (Texella reddelli)
Bone Cave harvestman (Texella reyesi)
Tooth Cave spider (Neoleptoneta myopica)
Texas blind salamander (Typhlomolge rathbuni)
Mexican long-nosed bat (Leptonycteris nivalis)
Barton Springs salamander (Eurycea sosorum)

    The following species will not be collected but potentially 
impacted.

San Marcos salamander (Eurycea nana)
Fountain darter (Etheostoma fonticola)
Big Bend gambusia (Gambusia gaigei)
Clear Creek gambusia (Gambusia heterochir)
Pecos gambusia (Gambusia nobilis)
San Marcos gambusia (Gambusia georgei)
Comanche Springs pupfish (Cyprinodon elegans)
Leon Springs pupfish (Cyprinodon bovinus)
Comal Springs dryopid beetle (Stygoparnus comalensis)
Comal Springs riffle beetle (Heterelmis comalensis)
Texas wild rice (Zizania texana)

Permit No. TE-829995

    Applicant: Dallas Zoo/Dallas Aquarium, Dallas, Texas.
    Applicant requests authorization to monitor the reproductive 
success of the interior least tern (Sterna antillarum athalassos) in 
Dallas County, Texas.

Permit No. TE-839505

    Applicant: Aaron D. Flesch, Tucson, Arizona.
    Applicant requests authorization for recovery purposes to conduct 
presence/absence surveys for the southwestern willow flycatcher 
(Empidonax traillii extimus) in Arizona and New Mexico.

Permit No. TE--814933

    Applicant: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Austin, Texas.
    Applicant requests authorization for scientific research and 
recovery purposes to collect and conduct activities for the Devil's 
River minnow (Dionda diaboli) in Texas.

Permit No. TE-26700

    Applicant: John A. Kugler, Sonoita, Arizona.
    Applicant requests authorization for recovery purposes to conduct 
presence/absence surveys and collect Gila trout (Oncorhynchus gilae) in 
Santa Cruz, Cochise, Graham, Pima, Maricopa, and Yuma Counties, 
Arizona.

Permit No. TE-26690

    Applicant: Dynamac Corporation, Corvallis, Oregon.
    Applicant requests authorization for recovery purposes to conduct 
presence/absence surveys for the Colorado pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus 
lucius), humpback chub (Gila cypha), and razorback sucker (Xyrauchen 
texanus) along the Verde River in Arizona.

Permit No. TE-26711

    Applicant: Coconino National Forest, Flagstaff, Arizona.
    Applicant requests authorization for recovery purposes to conduct 
presence/absence surveys for the southwestern willow flycatcher 
(Empidonax traillii extimus), bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), 
Yuma clapper rail (Rallus longirostris yumanensis), black-footed ferret 
(Mustela nigripes), Colorado pikeminnow (Ptychocheilus lucius), 
razorback sucker (Xyrauchen texanus), and Gila topminnow (Poeciliopsis 
occidentalis occidentalis) in Arizona, Yavapai, and Coconino Counties, 
Arizona.

DATES: Written comments on these permit applications must be received 
on or before June 9, 2000.

ADDRESS: Written data or comments should be submitted to the Legal 
Instruments Examiner, Division of Endangered Species/Permits, 
Ecological Services, P.O. Box 1306, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87103. 
Please refer to the respective permit number for each application when 
submitting comments. All comments received, including names and 
addresses, will become part of the official administrative record and 
may be made available to the public.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 
Ecological Services, Division of Endangered Species/Permits, P.O. Box 
1306, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87103. Please refer to the respective 
permit number for each application when requesting copies of documents. 
Documents and other information submitted with these 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 within 30 days of the date of 
publication of this notice, to the address above.


Bryan Arroyo,
Programmatic Assistant Regional Director, Ecological Services, Region 
2, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
[FR Doc. 00-11649 Filed 5-9-00; 8:45 am]
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