[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 17 (Tuesday, January 27, 1998)]
[Notices]
[Pages 3909-3910]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-1859]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service


Endangered and Threatened Species Permit Applications

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of receipt of application.

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    The following applicant has applied for a permit 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.).

PRT-697830

    Applicant: Assistant Regional Director, Ecological Services, Region 
3, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Fort Snelling, Minnesota.
    The applicant requests to renew and amend his current permit to 
take the following species for scientific purposes and the enhancement 
of propagation or survival of the species in the wild in accordance 
with listing, recovery outlines, recovery plans, and/or other Service 
work for those species:

Mammals

bat, gray (Myotis grisescens)
bat, Indiana (Myotis sodalis)
bat, Ozark big-eared (Plecotus townsendii ingens)
wolf (Canis lupus)

Birds

eagle, bald (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)
falcon, peregrine (Falco peregrinus)
plover, piping (Charadrius melodus)
tern, least tern (Sterna antillarum)
warbler, Kirtland's (wood) (Dendroica kirtlandii)

Reptiles

snake, copperbelly water (northern population) (Nerodia erythrogaster 
neglecta)

Fish

cavefish, Ozark (Amblyopsis rosae)
darter, Niangua (Etheostoma nianguae)
madtom, Scioto (Noturus trautmani)
madtom, Neosho (Noturus placidus)
sturgeon, pallid (Scaphirhynchus albus)

Clams

clubshell (Pleurobema clava)
fanshell [Cyprogenia stegaria (=irrorata)]
mussel, ring pink (=golf stick pearly) (Obovaria retusa)
mussel, winged mapleleaf (Quadrula fragosa)
pearlymussel, cracking [Hemistena (=Lastena) lata]
pearlymussel, Curtis' [Epioblasma (=Dysnomia) florentina curtisi]
pearlymussel, Higgins' eye (Lampsilis higginsi)
pearlymussel, orange-foot pimple back (Plethobasus cooperianus)
pearlymussel, pink mucket [Lampsilis (=abrupta) orbiculata]
pearlymussel, purple cat's paw pearly mussel [Epioblasma (=Dysnomia) 
obliquata obliquata (=sulcata sulcata)]
pearlymussel, tubercled-blossom [Epioblasma (=Dysnomia) torulosa 
torulosa]
pearlymussel, turgid-blossom [Epioblasma (=Dysnomia) turgidula]
pearlymussel, white cat's paw [Epioblasma (=Dysnomia) obliquata 
perobliqua]
pearlymussel, white wartyback (Plethobasus cicatricosus)

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pigtoe, rough (Pleurobema plenum)
pocketbook, fat [Potamilus (=Proptera) capax]
riffleshell, northern (Epioblasma torulosa rangiana)

Snails

snail, Iowa Pleistocene (Discus macclintocki)

Insects

beetle, American burying (=giant carrion) (Nicrophorus americanus)
beetle, Hungerford's crawling water (Brychius hungerfordi)
butterfly, Karner blue (Lycaeides melissa samuelis)
butterfly, Mitchell's satyr (Neonympha mitchellii mitchellii)
dragonfly, Hine's (=Ohio) emerald (Somatochlora hineana)

Plants

Aconitum noveboracense (northern wild monkshood)
Apios priceana (Price's potato-bean)
Asclepias meadii (Mead's milkweed)
Asplenium (=Phyllitis) scolopendrium (=japonica) var. americanum 
(American hart's-tongue fern)
Boltonia decurrens (decurrent false aster)
Cirsium pitcheri (Pitcher's thistle)
Dalea foliosa (=Petalostemum f.) (leafy prairie-clover)
Erythronium propullans (Minnesota dwarf trout lily)
Geocarpon minimum (no common name)
Hymenoxys herbacea (=acaulis var. glabra) (lakeside daisy)
Iris lacustris (dwarf lake iris)
Isotria medeoloides (small whorled pogonia)
Lespedeza leptostachya (prairie bush-clover)
Lesquerella filiformis (Missouri bladder-pod)
Lindera melissifolia (pondberry)
Mimulus glabratus var. michiganensis (Michigan monkey-flower)
Oxytropis campestris var. chartacea (Fassett's locoweed)
Platanthera leucophaea (eastern prairie fringed orchid)
Platanthera praeclara (western prairie fringed orchid)
Sedum integrifolium ssp. leedyi (Leedy's roseroot)
Solidago houghtonii (Houghton's goldenrod)
Spiraea virginiana (Virginia spiraea)
Trifolium stoloniferum (running buffalo clover)

    Written data or comments should be submitted to the Regional 
Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Ecological Services 
Operations, 1 Federal Drive, Fort Snelling, Minnesota 55111--4056, and 
must be received within 30 days of the date of this publication.
    Documents and other information submitted with these applications 
are available for review 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, 
Ecological Services Operations, 1 Federal Drive, Fort Snelling, 
Minnesota 55111-4056. Telephone: (612/725-3536 x224); FAX: (612/725-
3526).

    Dated: January 20, 1998.
Matthias A. Kerschbaum,
Acting Assistant Regional Director, IL, IN, MO (Ecological Services), 
Region 3, Fort Snelling, Minnesota.
[FR Doc. 98-1859 Filed 1-26-98; 8:45 am]
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