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Activity Number of household 

responses 

Number of participant 

respondents 

Completion time per 

response 

(minutes) 

Annual burden hours 

Wave 3 Wildlife Watching interviews .............. .................................... 3,697 20 1,232 

Totals ........................................................ 14,010 15,624 .................................... 6,770 

III. Comments 

We invite comments concerning this 

information collection on: 

• Whether or not the collection of 

information is necessary, including 

whether or not the information will 

have practical utility; 

• The accuracy of our estimate of the 

burden for this collection of 

information; 

• Ways to enhance the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

• Ways to minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on 

respondents. 

Comments that you submit in 

response to this notice are a matter of 

public record. We will include or 

summarize each comment in our request 

to OMB to approve this IC. 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 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: February 11, 2015. 

Tina A. Campbell, 

Chief, Division of Policy, Performance, and 

Management Programs, U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service. 

[FR Doc. 2015–03237 Filed 2–17–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R4–ES–2014–N028; 40120–1112– 

0000–F2] 

Receipt of Applications for 

Endangered Species Permits 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice. 

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 20, 2015. 

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: David Dell, Permit 

Coordinator). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Karen Marlowe, 10(a)(1)(A) Permit 

Coordinator, telephone 205–726–2667; 

facsimile 205–726–2479. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

public is invited to comment on the 

following applications for permits to 

conduct certain activities with 

endangered and threatened species 

under 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 17. This 

notice is provided under section 10(c) of 

the Act. 

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 send them 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). Finally, you may 

hand-deliver comments to the Fish and 

Wildlife Service office listed above (see 

ADDRESSES). 

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 Applications 

Permit Application Number: TE 

237537–1 

Applicant: Peter Raven, Missouri 

Botanical Gardens, St. Louis, Missouri 

The applicant requests renewal and 

amendment of their current permit to 

add authorization to remove and reduce 

to possession (through seed and leaf 

material collection) 17 species of 

endangered and threatened plant 

species from lands under Federal 

jurisdiction in Alabama, Tennessee, 

Kentucky, West Virginia, Illinois, 

Missouri, Virginia, and Mississippi for 

ex situ conservation, research, 

propagation, and educational display. 

Permit Application Number: TE 

146761–3 

Applicant: Pedro Ramos, Big Cypress 

National Preserve, National Park 

Service, Ochopee, Florida 

The applicant requests renewal of 

their current permit to take (capture, 

harass, chemically immobilize, hold 

temporarily, transport, radio collar, take 

tissue and blood samples, provide 

medical treatment for injury or illness 

including appropriate vaccinations, 

subsequently release, and euthanize) the 

Florida panther (Felis concolor coryi) for 

the purpose of maintaining a healthy 

panther population, to assess the habitat 

potential to support panthers, to 

monitor the effects of the genetic 

restoration project, and to evaluate the 

accuracy of the global positioning 

system radio-collars and aerial telemetry 

throughout the species’ range. 

Permit Application Number: TE 

092945–3 

Applicant: James Lindsay, Florida 

Power and Light Company, Juno Beach, 

Florida 

The applicant requests renewal and 

amendment of their permit to authorize 

the capture of non-breeding American 

crocodiles (Crocodylus acutus) less than 


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2 meters in total length during the 

nesting season for assessment of 

survival and growth rates and to 

authorize all permitted activities 

(capture, examine, weigh, sex, collect 

tissue samples, mark, radio-tag, radio 

track, relocate, and release) for 

American crocodiles in the Florida 

Power and Light Everglades Mitigation 

Bank, in addition to the previously 

permitted location of the Florida Power 

and Light Turkey Point Power Plant 

Cooling Canals, for purposes of 

conducting monitoring surveys and 

documenting nesting activity and 

utilization of the cooling canal system 

in Dade County, Florida. 

Permit Application Number: TE 

54578B–0 

Applicant: Mary Frazer, Raleigh, 

North Carolina 

The applicant requests authorization 

to take (enter hibernacula or maternity 

roost caves, salvage dead bats, capture 

with mist nets or harp traps, handle, 

identify, collect hair and tissue samples, 

band, radio-tag, pit-tag, light-tag, wingpunch, and selectively euthanize for 

white-nose syndrome testing) Virginia 

big-eared bats (Corynorhinus (=plecotus) 

townsendii virginianus), Indiana bats 

(Myotis sodalis), gray bats (Myotis 

grisescens), and northern long-eared 

bats (Myotis septentrionalis) for the 

purposes of conducting presence/

absence surveys, studies to document 

habitat use, determining presence of 

white nose syndrome, and population 

monitoring in North Carolina, South 

Carolina, Tennessee, and Georgia. 

Permit Application Number: TE 

002412–6 

Applicant: Cecil Comalander, 

Milliken Forestry Company Inc., 

Columbia, South Carolina 

The applicant requests renewal of his 

current permit to take (capture, band, 

install artificial cavities and restrictors, 

and translocate) red-cockaded 

woodpeckers (Picoides borealis) for the 

purposes of monitoring and managing 

populations in South Carolina. 

Permit Application Number: TE 

54891B–0 

Applicant: Luke Dodd, Eastern 

Kentucky University, Richmond, 

Kentucky 

The applicant requests authorization 

to take (capture with mist nets or harp 

traps, handle, band, radio-tag) Indiana 

bats (Myotis sodalis), gray bats (Myotis 

grisescens), and northern long-eared 

bats (Myotis septentrionalis) for the 

purposes of conducting presence/

absence surveys, studies to document 

habitat use, and population monitoring 

in Kentucky. 

Permit Application Number: TE 

834056–5 

Applicant: Kellie Keys, North Florida 

Wildlife LLC, Crawfordville, Florida 

The applicant requests renewal of the 

current permit to take (capture, band, 

release, construct and monitor nest 

cavities and restrictors) red-cockaded 

woodpeckers (Picoides borealis) for the 

purposes of monitoring and managing 

populations in Arkansas, Florida, 

Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, 

Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, 

Virginia, Oklahoma, and Texas. 

Permit Application Number: TE 

079972–3 

Applicant: Eric Baka, Louisiana 

Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, 

Pineville, Louisiana 

The applicant requests renewal of his 

current permit to take (capture, band, 

release, install drilled and insert 

cavities, install cavity restrictors, and 

translocate) red-cockaded woodpeckers 

(Picoides borealis) for the purposes of 

banding juveniles and adults, and 

monitoring populations and nest 

cavities in Louisiana. 

Permit Application Number: TE 

096554–3 

Applicant: James Robinson, Biological 

Systems Consultants Inc., Lexington, 

Kentucky 

The applicant requests renewal of his 

current permit to take (capture, identify, 

and release) blackside dace (Phoxinus 

cumberlandensis) and take (capture, 

sex, weigh, measure, band, and radiotag) Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis), gray 

bat (Myotis grisescens), and Virginia bigeared bat (Corynorhinus townsendii 

virginianus) for the purpose of 

conducting presence/absence surveys in 

Tennessee and Kentucky. 

Permit Application Number: TE 

55292B–0 

Applicant: Robert Fletcher, University 

of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 

The applicant requests authorization 

to take (capture, band, mark, radio-tag, 

measure, collect feather samples, 

release, and monitor) everglade snail 

kites (Rostrhamus sociabilis plumbeus) 

for demographic and movement studies 

in the State of Florida to enhance the 

survival of the species. 

Permit Application Number: TE 

55286B–0 

Applicant: Hayden Mattingly, 

Tennessee Technical University, 

Cookeville, Tennessee 

The applicant requests authorization 

to take (capture via seining, kickseining, electrofishing, trapping, and/or 

hand-netting, and marking and finclipping) pygmy madtoms (Noturus 

stanauli) in the Clinch and Duck River 

drainages in the state of Tennessee for 

the purposes of conducting presence/

absence surveys and developing DNA 

detection techniques. 

Permit Application Number: TE 

48833A–1 

Applicant: Brian Carver, Tennessee 

Technical University, Cookeville, 

Tennessee 

The applicant requests an amendment 

to the current permit to take (enter 

hibernacula or maternity roost caves, 

salvage dead bats, capture with mist 

nets or harp traps, handle, identify, 

collect hair and tissue samples, band, 

radio-tag, pit-tag, light-tag, and wingpunch) northern long eared bats (Myotis 

septentrionalis) throughout the range of 

the species. 

Permit Application Number: TE 

100626–9 

Applicant: Jeff Selby, AST 

Environmental, Decatur, Alabama 

The applicant requests an amendment 

to the current permit to take (capture, 

identify, release) the following species: 

Diamond tryonia (Pseudotryonia 

adamantina), Gonzalez springsnail 

(Tryonia circumstriata), Pecos assiminea 

snail (Assiminea pecos), phantom 

springsnail (Tryonia cheatumi), San 

Bernadino springsnail (Pyrgulopsis 

bernardina), three forks springsnail 

(Pyrgulopsis trivialis), Neosho mucket 

(Lampsilis rafinesqueana), rabbitsfoot 

(Quadrula cylindrica cylindrica), 

scaleshell mussel (Leptodea leptodon), 

and winged mapleleaf (Quadrula 

fragosa) for the purpose of conducting 

presence/absence surveys throughout 

the species’ ranges. 

Permit Application Number: TE 

94704A–1 

Applicant: Dorothy C. Brown, 

Woodstock, Georgia 

The applicant requests an amendment 

to her current permit to take (enter 

hibernacula or maternity roost caves, 

salvage dead bats, capture with mist 

nets or harp traps, handle, identify, 

collect hair samples, band, radio-tag, 

light-tag, wing punch, and selectively 

euthanize for white nose syndrome 

testing) the Virginia big-eared bat 

(Corynorhinus (=plecotus) townsendii 

virginianus) in West Virginia, Virginia, 

North Carolina, Kentucky, and 

Tennessee, and to add States throughout 

the range of the Indiana bat (Myotis 

sodalis), gray bat (Myotis grisescens), 

and northern long-eared bat (Myotis 

septentrionalis) for the purposes of 


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conducting presence/absence surveys 

and white-nose syndrome surveillance 

and research-related activities. 

Permit Application Number: TE 

38906B–0 

Applicant: Ian Lundgren, National 

Park Service, Christiansted, Virgin 

Islands 

The applicant requests authorization 

to take (relocate nests; excavate hatched 

nests; collect tissue, blood, and carapace 

samples; and attach satellite, acoustic, 

flipper, and PIT tags) hawksbill sea 

turtles (Eretmochelys imbricata), green 

sea turtles (Chelonia mydas), 

leatherback sea turtles (Dermochelys 

coriacea), and loggerhead sea turtles 

(Caretta caretta) within Buck Island 

Reef National Monument boundaries, 

for inventory, monitoring, and research 

activities. 

Permit Application Number: TE 

14102A–1 

Applicant: Carl Dick, Western 

Kentucky University, Bowling Green, 

Kentucky 

The applicant requests an amendment 

to the current permit to take (capture 

with mist nets or harp traps, handle, 

identify, and collect ectoparasites) 

northern long-eared bats (Myotis 

septentrionalis) throughout the range of 

the species. 

Permit Application Number: TE 

56028B–0 

Applicant: Terry Hopkins, Eagleville, 

Tennessee 

The applicant requests authorization 

to take (enter hibernacula or maternity 

roost caves, capture with mist nets or 

harp traps, handle, and identify) Indiana 

bat (Myotis sodalis), gray bat (Myotis 

grisescens), and northern long-eared bat 

(Myotis septentrionalis) for purposes of 

conducting presence/absence surveys, 

documenting habitat use, and evaluating 

potential impacts of industrial, 

commercial, and military activities 

throughout the species’ respective 

ranges. 

Permit Application Number: TE 

56430B–0 

Applicant: Jonathan Hootman, 

Whitesburg, Kentucky 

The applicant requests authorization 

to take (enter hibernacula, salvage dead 

bats, capture with mist nests or harp 

traps, handle, take measurements, 

collect hair samples and fecal material, 

fungal lift tape, swab, wing-punch, 

band, light-tag, radio-tag, pit-tag, and 

release) Indiana bat (Myotis sodalis) and 

northern long-eared bat (Myotis 

septentrionalis) for purposes of 

conducting presence/absence surveys, 

documenting habitat use, white nose 

detection and surveillance, and 

evaluating the effectiveness of acoustic 

identification methods throughout the 

species’ respective ranges. 

Dated: February 10, 2015. 

Leopoldo Miranda, 

Assistant Regional Director—Ecological 

Services, Southeast Region. 

[FR Doc. 2015–03314 Filed 2–17–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–55–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[FWS–R2–ES–2015–N014; 

FXES11130200000–156–FF02ENEH00] 

Receipt of Incidental Take Permit 

Applications for Participation in the Oil 

and Gas Industry Conservation Plan 

for the American Burying Beetle in 

Oklahoma 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability; request 

for public comments. 

SUMMARY: Under the Endangered 

Species Act, as amended (Act), we, the 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite 

the public to comment on incidental 

take permit applications for take of the 

federally listed American burying beetle 

resulting from activities associated with 

the geophysical exploration (seismic) 

and construction, maintenance, 

operation, repair, and decommissioning 

of oil and gas well field infrastructure 

within Oklahoma. If approved, the 

permits would be issued under the 

approved Oil and Gas Industry 

Conservation Plan Associated with 

Issuance of Endangered Species Act 

Section 10(a)(1)(B) Permits for the 

American Burying Beetle in Oklahoma 

(ICP). 

DATES: To ensure consideration, written 

comments must be received on or before 

March 20, 2015. 

ADDRESSES: You may obtain copies of 

all documents and submit comments on 

the applicant’s ITP applications by one 

of the following methods. Please refer to 

the specific permit number when 

requesting documents or submitting 

comments. 

Æ U.S. Mail: U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, Division of Endangered 

Species—HCP Permits, P.O. Box 1306, 

Room 6034, Albuquerque, NM 87103. 

Æ Electronically: fw2_hcp_permits@

fws.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Marty Tuegel, Branch Chief, by U.S. 

mail at Environmental Review, 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 

for take of the federally listed American 

burying beetle (Nicrophorus 

americanus) resulting from activities 

associated with geophysical exploration 

(seismic) and construction, 

maintenance, operation, repair, and 

decommissioning of oil and gas well 

field infrastructure within Oklahoma. If 

approved, the permits would be issued 

to the applicants under the Oil and Gas 

Industry Conservation Plan Associated 

with Issuance of Endangered Species 

Act Section 10(a)(1)(B) Permits for the 

American Burying Beetle in Oklahoma 

(ICP). The ICP was made available for 

comment on April 16, 2014 (79 FR 

21480), and approved on May 21, 2014 

(publication of the FONSI notice was on 

July 25, 2014; 79 FR 43504). The ICP 

and the associated environmental 

assessment/finding of no significant 

impact are available on the Web site at 

http://www.fws.gov/southwest/es/

oklahoma/ABBICP. However, we are no 

longer taking comments on these 

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 incidental take of the 

federally listed ABB. Please refer to the 

appropriate permit number (TE– 

123456), listed below, when requesting 

application documents and when 

submitting comments. Documents and 

other information the applicants have 

submitted with these applications are 

available for review, subject to the 

requirements of the Privacy Act (5 

U.S.C. 552a) and Freedom of 

Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552). 

Permit TE–55184B 

Applicant: TOMPC, LLC, Edmond, OK 

Applicant requests a new permit for 

oil and gas midstream production, 

including construction, maintenance, 

operation, repair, decommissioning, and 

reclamation of oil and gas gathering, 

transmission, and distribution pipeline 

infrastructure within Oklahoma. 


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