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TABLE 1—PERMIT APPLICATIONS RECEIVED—Continued 

Application No. Applicant, city, state Species Location Take activity Permit action 

134338 ................... Brenna Ogg, San Diego, 

California.

• Quino checkerspot butterfly 

(Euphydryas editha quino).

• Conservancy fairy shrimp 

(Branchinecta conservatio).

• Longhorn fairy shrimp (Branchinecta 

longiantenna).

• Vernal pool tadpole shrimp 

(Lepidurus packardi).

• Riverside fairy shrimp 

(Streptocephalus woottoni).

• San Diego fairy shrimp 

(Branchinecta sandiegonensis).

CA Survey, pursue, capture, handle, release, collect adult vouchers, and 

collect resting eggs.

Renew and 

amend. 

62708B .................. Mary Halterman, Onyx, 

California.

• Southwestern willow flycatcher 

(Empidonax traillii extimus).

CA Survey .................................................. Renew. 

036499 ................... National Park Service— 

Golden Gate National 

Recreation Area, San 

Francisco, California.

• San Francisco garter snake 

(Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia).

CA Survey, capture, handle, temporarily 

hold in captivity, transport, mark, 

conduct telemetry, collect biological 

samples, and release.

Amend. 

92167B .................. San Francisco Zoological 

Society, San Francisco, 

California.

• Foothill yellow-legged frog (Rana 

boylii), South Coast and South Sierra distinct population segments.

• San Francisco garter snake 

(Thamnophis sirtalis tetrataenia).

• California tiger salamander 

(Ambystoma californiense) Santa 

Barbara County and Sonoma County distinct population segments.

CA, NV Transport, captive-rear, provide veterinary treatment and husbandry, take 

biological samples, mark, provide 

disease treatment and immunization, hold for educational display, release, sacrifice, and necropsy.

Amend. 

Public Availability of Comments 

Written comments we receive become 

part of the administrative record 

associated with this action. 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 request in your comment 

that we 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, will be 

made available for public disclosure in 

their entirety. 

Next Steps 

If we decide to issue permits to any 

of the applicants listed in this notice, 

we will publish a notice in the Federal 

Register. 

Authority 

We publish this notice under section 

10(c) of the Endangered Species Act of 

1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et 

seq.). 

Angela Picco, 

Regional Threatened and Endangered Species 

Lead, Ecological Services, Pacific Southwest 

Region, Sacramento, California. 

[FR Doc. 2024–29643 Filed 12–16–24; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

[Docket No. FWS–R4–ES–2024–0189; 

FXES11140400000–256–FF04EF4000] 

Receipt of Incidental Take Permit 

Application and Proposed Habitat 

Conservation Plan for the Sand Skink; 

Polk County, FL; Categorical Exclusion 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability; request 

for comments and information. 

SUMMARY: We, the Fish and Wildlife 

Service (Service), announce receipt of 

an application from RWLC Development 

Sub, LLC (applicant) for an incidental 

take permit (ITP) under the Endangered 

Species Act. The applicant requests the 

ITP to take the federally listed sand 

skink and bluetail mole skink (skinks) 

incidental to the construction of a 

commercial development in Polk 

County, Florida. We request public 

comment on the application, which 

includes the applicant’s proposed 

habitat conservation plan (HCP), and on 

the Service’s preliminary determination 

that the proposed permitting action may 

be eligible for a categorical exclusion 

pursuant to the Council on 

Environmental Quality’s National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 

regulations, the Department of the 

Interior’s (DOI) NEPA regulations, and 

the DOI Departmental Manual. To make 

this preliminary determination, we 

prepared a draft environmental action 

statement and low-effect screening form, 

both of which are also available for 

public review. We invite comment from 

the public and local, State, Tribal, and 

Federal agencies. 

DATES: We must receive your written 

comments on or before January 16, 

2025. 

ADDRESSES: 

Obtaining Documents: The documents 

this notice announces, as well as any 

comments and other materials that we 

receive, will be available for public 

inspection online in Docket No. FWS– 

R4–ES–2024–0189 at https://

www.regulations.gov. 

Submitting Comments: If you wish to 

submit comments on any of the 

documents, you may do so in writing by 

one of the following methods: 

• Online: https://

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments 

on Docket No. FWS–R4–ES–2024–0189; 

or 

• U.S. mail: Public Comments 

Processing, Attn: Docket No. FWS–R4– 

ES–2024–0189; U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service, MS: PRB/3W, 5275 Leesburg 

Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041–3803. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Erin 

Gawera, by U.S. mail (see ADDRESSES), 

by telephone at 904–404–2464, or via 

email at erin_gawera@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. 

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We, the 

Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), 

announce receipt of an application from 

RWLC Development Sub, LLC 

(applicant) for an incidental take permit 

(ITP) under the Endangered Species Act 

of 1973, as amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 

1531 et seq.). The applicant requests the 

ITP to take federally listed sand skinks 

(Neoseps reynoldsi) and bluetail mole 

skinks (Eumeces egregius lividus) 

(skinks), federally listed as threatened 

under the ESA, incidental to the 

construction and operation of a 

commercial development in Polk 

County, Florida. We request public 

comments on the application, which 

includes the applicant’s habitat 

conservation plan (HCP), and on the 

Service’s preliminary determination that 

this proposed ITP qualifies as ‘‘low 

effect,’’ and may qualify for a categorical 

exclusion pursuant to the Council on 

Environmental Quality’s National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 

regulations (40 CFR 1501.4), the 

Department of the Interior’s (DOI) NEPA 

regulations (43 CFR 46), and the DOI’s 

Departmental Manual (516 DM 

8.5(C)(2)). To make this preliminary 

determination, we prepared a draft 

environmental action statement and 

low-effect screening form, both of which 

are also available for public review. 

Proposed Project 

The applicant requests a 5-year ITP to 

take skinks via the conversion of 

approximately 1.68 acres (ac) of 

occupied nesting, foraging, and 

sheltering skink habitat incidental to the 

construction and operation of a 

commercial development on 12.64 ac on 

Parcel #: 27–26–29–706500–030310 and 

27–26–29–706500–030300 in Section 

29, Township 26 S, Range 27 E, Polk 

County, Florida. The applicant proposes 

to mitigate for take of the skinks by 

purchasing credits equivalent to 3.36 ac 

of skink-occupied habitat within the 

Lake Wales Ridge Conservation Bank or 

another Service-approved conservation 

bank. The Service would require the 

applicant to purchase the credits prior 

to engaging in any phase of the project. 

Our Preliminary Determination 

The Service has made a preliminary 

determination that the applicant’s 

proposed project—including the 

construction of the buildings and 

associated infrastructure (e.g., electric, 

water, and sewer lines)—would 

individually and cumulatively have a 

minor or negligible effect on the skinks 

and the human environment. Therefore, 

we have preliminarily determined that 

the proposed ESA section 10(a)(1)(B) 

permit would be a low-effect ITP that 

individually or cumulatively would 

have a minor effect on the skinks and 

may qualify for application of a 

categorical exclusion pursuant to the 

Council on Environmental Quality’s 

NEPA regulations, DOI’s NEPA 

regulations, and the DOI Departmental 

Manual. A low-effect incidental take 

permit is one that would result in (1) 

minor or negligible effects on species 

covered in the HCP; (2) nonsignificant 

effects on the human environment; and 

(3) impacts that, when added together 

with the impacts of other past, present, 

and reasonably foreseeable actions, 

would not result in significant 

cumulative effects to the human 

environment. 

Next Steps 

The Service will evaluate the 

application and the comments to 

determine whether to issue the 

requested ITP. We will also conduct an 

intra-Service consultation pursuant to 

section 7 of the ESA to evaluate the 

effects of the proposed take. After 

considering the preceding and other 

matters, we will determine whether the 

permit issuance criteria of section 

10(a)(1)(B) of the ESA have been met. If 

met, the Service will issue ITP number 

PER13163374 to RWLC Development 

Sub, LLC. 

Public Availability of Comments 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, be aware that your entire 

comment, including your personal 

identifying information, may be made 

available to the public. 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 

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. 

Authority 

The Service provides this notice 

under section 10(c) of the Endangered 

Species Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) and 

its implementing regulations (50 CFR 

17.32) and the National Environmental 

Policy Act (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) and 

its implementing regulations (40 CFR 

parts 1500 through 1508 and 43 CFR 

part 46). 

Robert L. Carey, 

Manager, Division of Environmental Review, 

Florida Ecological Services Field Office. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[PO4820000251] 

Wyoming Resource Advisory Council 

Announces 2025 Meetings 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of public meetings. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act of 1976 and the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act of 1972, the U.S. 

Department of the Interior, Bureau of 

Land Management’s (BLM) Wyoming 

Resource Advisory Council (RAC) is 

announcing its 2025 meeting dates. 

DATES: The Wyoming RAC will meet as 

follows: 

• January 29, 2025, in-person and 

virtually, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 

MT. A speaker presentation will be held 

January 30, 2025, beginning at 8:30 a.m.; 

• April 23, 2025, in-person and 

virtually, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. 

MT. A field tour will be held April 24, 

2025, beginning at 8:30 a.m.; 

• July 9, in-person and virtually, from 

8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. MT. A field tour 

will be held July 10, 2025, beginning at 

8:30 a.m.; 

• October 21, in-person and virtually, 

from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. MT. A field 

tour will be held October 22, 2025, 

beginning at 8:30 a.m. 

All meetings and field tours are open 

to the public. The public is responsible 

for their own transportation on field 

tours and to meetings. 

ADDRESSES: The January 29 meeting will 

be held at the BLM Wyoming State 

Office at 5353 Yellowstone Road, 

Cheyenne, WY 82009, as well as 

virtually through the Zoom platform. 

The April 23 meeting will be held at 

a determined Wyoming Field Office, as 

well as virtually through the Zoom 

platform. 


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