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###### Department of the Interior

###### Fish and Wildlife Service 

# AGENCY:

Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

# ACTION:

Notice of receipt of application for endangered species permit.

# SUMMARY:

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

                        If you wish to comment, you may submit comments by any one of several methods. You may mail comments to the Service's Regional Office (see                         **ADDRESSES**                        ). You may also comment via the internet to “victoria_davis@fws.gov”. Please submit comments over the internet as an ASCII file avoiding the use of special characters and any form of encryption. Please also include your name and return address in your internet message. If you do not receive a confirmation from the Service that we have received your internet message, contact us directly at either telephone number listed below (see                         **FURTHER INFORMATION**                        ). Finally, you may hand deliver comments to either Service office listed below (see                         **ADDRESSES**                        ). Our practice is to make comments, including names and home addresses of respondents, available for public review during regular business hours. Individual respondents may request that we withhold their home address from the administrative record. We will honor such requests to the extent allowable by law. There may also be other circumstances in which we would withhold from the administrative record a respondent's identity, as allowable by law. If you wish us to withhold your name and address, you must state this prominently at the beginning of your comments. We will not; however, consider anonymous comments. We will make all submissions from organizations or businesses, and from individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of organizations or businesses, available for public inspection in their entirety.                     

# DATES:

Written data or comments on these applications must be received, at the address given below, by December 18, 2000. 

# ADDRESSES:

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 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, Georgia 30345 (Attn: Victoria Davis, Permit Biologist). Telephone: 404/679-4176; Facsimile: 404/679-7081. 

# FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Victoria Davis, Telephone: 404/679-4176; Facsimile: 404/679-7081. 

# SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

*Applicant:*                     Kevin J. Roe, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, Alabama TE035514-0.                

                    The applicant requests authorization to take the Kentucky Cave shrimp,                     *Palaemonias ganteri*                     and the Alabama Cave shrimp,                     *Palaemonias alabamae. Palaemonias ganteri*                     will be obtained throughout the species range at Mammoth Cave National Park, Barren, Edmonson, and Hart Counties.                     *Palaemonias alabamae*                     will be obtained throughout the species range at the Glover-Brazelton Cave system and Bobcat Cave, Madison, County, Alabama. The purpose of the take to examine morphological and molecular characters of extant population to accurately determine their taxonomic and systematic status.                 

Dated: November 6, 2000. 

H. Dale Hall, 

Acting Regional Director. 

[FR Doc. 00-29313 Filed 11-15-00; 8:45 am] 

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