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comprehensive conservation plans and

associated environmental documents

pursuant to the Service’s

Comprehensive Conservation Planning

Policy and the National Environmental

Policy Act and implementing

regulations.

The meetings are scheduled as

follows:

Tuesday, June 19, 2001, 6 p.m.–9 p.m.,

Currituck County Commissioners;

Meeting Room, Old County

Courthouse, Second Floor, 105

Courthouse Road, Currituck, NC

27929.

Thursday, June 21, 2001, 6 p.m.–9 p.m.,

Corolla Fire Station, 827 Whalehead

Drive, Corolla, NC 27927.

Tuesday, June 26, 2001, 6 p.m.–9 p.m.,

Creeds Elementary School, 920

Princess Anne Road, Virginia Beach,

VA 23457.

Thursday, June 28, 2001, 6 p.m.–9 p.m.,

Knotts Island Ruritan Building, 126

Brumley Road, Knotts Island, NC

27950.

DATES: Written comments should be

received on or before June 25, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Address comments and

requests for more information to the

following: D.A. Brown, M.S., P.W.S.,

1106 West Queen Street, P.O. Box 329,

Edenton, North Carolina 27932, (252)

482–2364.

Information concerning these refuges

may be found at the following website:

http://rtncf-rci.ral.r4.fws.gov

If you wish to comment, you may

submit your comments by any one of

several methods. You may mail

comments to the above address. You

may also comment via the Internet to

the following address:

D_A_Brown@fws.gov. Please submit

Internet comments 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 system

that we have received your Internet

message. If you do not receive a

confirmation from the system that we

have received your Internet message,

contact D.A. Brown directly at the above

address. Finally, you may hand-deliver

comments to Mr. Brown at 1106 West

Queen Street, Edenton, North Carolina.

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 form

the record, which we will honor to the

extent allowable by law. There also may

be circumstances in which we would

withhold from the record a respondent’s

identity, as allowable by law. If you

wish us to withhold your name and/or

address, you must state this

prominently at the beginning of your

comment. However, we will not

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.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: It is the

policy of the Fish and Wildlife Service

to have all lands within the National

Wildlife Refuge System managed in

accordance with an approved

Comprehensive Conservation Plan. The

plan guides management decisions and

identifies the goals, objectives, and

strategies for achieving refuge purposes.

Public input into this planning process

is encouraged. The plan will provide

other agencies and the public with a

clear understanding of the desired

conditions of the refuge and how the

Service will implement management

strategies.

Mackay Island National Wildlife

Refuge was established in 1961, as a

wintering area for greater snow geese

and feeding habitat for other migratory

birds—primarily waterfowl.

Currituck National Wildlife Refuge,

administered by Mackay Island Refuge,

was established in 1983, to preserve and

protect a portion of the North Carolina

Outer Banks, one of the largest

undeveloped coastal barrier ecosystems

remaining on the east coast. The

Service’s ownership ensures

perpetuation of basic wetland functions,

including nutrient cycling, floodplain

and erosion control, and assists in

preserving the role of Currituck Sound

estuaries as nurseries. The ground is an

important black duck wintering area.

Dated: May 11, 2001.

Judy L. Pulliam,

Acting Regional Director.

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BILLING CODE 4310–55–M

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

Endangered and Threatened Species

Permit Applications

ACTION: Notice of receipt of applications.

SUMMARY: The following applicants have

applied for a scientific research permit

to conduct certain activities with

endangered species pursuant to section

10(a)(1)(A) of the Endangered Species

Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C.

1531, et seq.). These take permits are for

research and recovery purposes.

Permit No. TE–041875–0

Applicant: John L. Koprowski,

Tucson, Arizona.

Applicant requests a permit to

capture, ear-tag, and release Mt. Graham

red squirrels (Tamiasciurus hudsonicus

grahamensis) for a population ecology

study within Arizona.

Permit No. TE–041877–0

Applicant: Southland Consulting

Services, L.L.C., Clinton, Louisiana.

Applicant requests a permit to

conduct presence/absence surveys for

interior least tern (Sterna antillarum

athalassos) in Oklahoma and Texas.

Permit No. TE–042679–0

Applicant: Charles A. Bergman,

Tacoma Washington.

Applicant requests a permit to

photograph a southwestern willow

flycatcher (Empidonax traillii extimus)

at a nest site in Arizona as part of an

education book concerning endangered

species.

Permit No. TE–042663–0

Applicant: Kathleen E. Conway,

Grand Junction, Colorado.

Applicant requests a permit to

conduct presence/absence surveys for

southwestern willow flycatcher

(Empidonax traillii extimus) within

Colorado.

Permit No. TE–041874–0

Applicant: WestWater Engineering,

Grand Junction, Colorado.

Applicant requests a permit to

conduct presence/absence surveys for

southwestern willow flycatcher

(Empidonax traillii extimus) within

Colorado.

Permit No. TE–041869–0

Applicant: The Louis Berger Group,

Inc., Santa Fe, New Mexico.

Applicant requests a permit to

conduct presence/absence surveys for

southwestern willow flycatcher

(Empidonax traillii extimus) within

Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado,

California, and Nevada.

Permit No. TE–042659–0

Applicant: Marty R. Stratman,

Gunnison, Colorado.

Applicant requests a permit to

conduct presence/absence surveys for

southwestern willow flycatcher

(Empidonax traillii extimus) within

Colorado.

Permit No. TE–041873–0

Applicant: Lynn Cudlip, Gunnison,

Colorado.

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Applicant requests a permit to

conduct presence/absence surveys for

southwestern willow flycatcher

(Empidonax traillii extimus) within

Colorado.

Permit No. TE–041868–0

Applicant: Kevin L. Hamann,

Edgewood, New Mexico.

Applicant requests a permit to

conduct presence/absence surveys for

southwestern willow flycatcher

(Empidonax traillii extimus) within

Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado.

Permit No. TE–042958–0

Applicant: Dwight Chapman, dba,

Southwest Research, Boulder, Colorado.

Applicant requests a permit to

conduct presence/absence surveys for

southwestern willow flycatcher

(Empidonax traillii extimus) within

Utah.

Permit No. TE–043060–0

Applicant: ERO Resources

Corporation, Denver, Colorado.

Applicant requests a permit to

conduct presence/absence surveys for

southwestern willow flycatcher

(Empidonax traillii extimus) within

Colorado.

Permit No. TE–042955–0

Applicant: Greystone Environmental

Consultants, Inc., Greenwood Village,

Colorado.

Applicant requests a permit to

conduct presence/absence surveys for

southwestern willow flycatcher

(Empidonax traillii extimus), Yuma

clapper rail (Rallus longirostris

yumanensis), and cactus ferruginous

pygmy-owl (Glaucidium brasilianum

cactorum) within Arizona.

Permit No. TE–023159–1

Applicant: SORA (Southwestern

Ornithological Research & Adventures),

Albuquerque, New Mexico.

Applicant requests a permit to

conduct presence/absence surveys for

the northern aplomado falcon (Falco

femoralis septentrionalis) within New

Mexico.

Permit No. TE–042662–0

Applicant: Charles Rex Wahl, Tucson,

Arizona.

Applicant requests a permit conduct

presence/absence surveys for the

following species: Brown pelican

(Pelicanus occidentalis), Yuma clapper

rail (Rallus longirostris yumanensis),

black-capped vireo (Vireo atricapillus),

golden-cheeked warbler (Dendroica

chrysoparia), piping plover (Charadrius

melodus), cactus ferruginous pygmyowl (Glaucidium brasilianum

cactorum), Mexican spotted owl (Strix

occidentalis lucida) and southwestern

willow flycatcher (Empidonax traillii

extimus) within Texas, Arizona, and

New Mexico.

Permit No. TE–041879–0

Applicant: Michele S. Johnson,

Houston, Texas.

Applicant requests a permit to capture

and rehabilitate the brown pelican

(Pelicanus occidentalis) and piping

plover (Charadrius melodus) in case of

an oil spill or if orphaned or injured

within Texas.

Permit No. TE–042951–0

Applicant: Gila River Indian

Community, Department of Land and

Water, Sacaton, Arizona.

Applicant requests a permit to

propagate bonytail chub (Gila elegans)

for restocking into the Colorado River at

Lake Havasu, Arizona.

Permit No. TE–042961–0

Applicant: Marlis R. Douglas, Fort

Collins, Colorado.

Applicant requests a permit to

capture, tag, take fin clippings for

genetic analyses of bonytail chub (Gila

elegans) within Arizona.

Permit No. TE–028649–0

Applicant: Chris Thibodaux,

Wimberley, Texas.

Applicant requests a permit to

conduct presence/absence surveys for

the following karst invertebrates species

in Bexar County, Texas: Helotes mold

beetle (Batrisodes venyivi), Robber

Baron Cave harvestman (Texella

cokendolpheri), Robber Baron Cave

spider (Cicurina baronia), Madla’s cave

spider (Cicurina madla), vesper cave

spider (Cincurina vespera), Government

Canyon cave spider (Neoleptoneta

microps), as well as another cave spider

(Cicurina venii) and two cave beetles

(Rhadine exilis and Rhadine infernalis)

that do not have common names. These

activities will be conducted within

Texas.

Permit No. TE–041876–0

Applicant: Loreen Allphin

Woolstenhulme, Provo, Utah.

Applicant requests a permit to collect

plant parts, fruits, and seeds from the

Sentry milk-vetch (Astragalus

cremnophalax var. cremnophalax)

within Arizona.

Permit No. TE–042662–0

Applicant: Gena K. Janssen, Austin,

Texas.

Applicant requests a permit to collect

fruits and seeds from the following

plant species: Zapata bladderpod

(Lesquerella thamnophila), Texas

Ayenia (Ayenia limitaris), Walker’s

manioc (Manihot walkerae), and

Johnston’s frankenia (Frankenia

johnstonii) within Texas.

DATES: Written comments on these

permit applications must be received on

or before June 25, 2001.

ADDRESS: Written data or comments

should be submitted to the Chief,

Endangered Species Division, Ecological

Services, P.O. Box 1306, Room 4102,

Albuquerque, New Mexico 87103; (505)

248–6649; Fax (505) 248–6788.

Documents will be available for public

inspection by written request, by

appointment only, during normal

business hours (8:00 to 4:30) at the U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service, Albuquerque,

New Mexico. 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:

Chief, Endangered Species Division,

Albuquerque, New Mexico, at the above

address. 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.

Stephen C. Helfert,

Assistant Regional Director, Ecological

Services, Region 2, Albuquerque, New

Mexico.

[FR Doc. 01–13241 Filed 5–24–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4310–55–U

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Draft General Management Plan/

Environmental Impact Statement

(GMP/EIS), Crater Lake National Park,

Oregon

AGENCY: National Park Service.

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an

environmental impact statement.

SUMMARY: Under the provisions of the

National Environmental Policy Act, the

National Park Service is preparing an

environmental impact statement for the

general management plan for Crater

Lake National park.

The plan is needed to guide the

protection and preservation of the

natural and cultural environments,

considering a variety of interpretive and

recreational visitor experiences that