AGENCY:
Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
ACTION:
Notice.
SUMMARY:
The public is invited to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species.
DATES:
We must receive written data or comments on these applications at the address given below, by September 27, 2006.
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: Fish and Wildlife Service, 1875 Century Boulevard, Suite 200, Atlanta, Georgia 30345 (Attn: Victoria Davis, Permit Biologist).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Victoria Davis, telephone 404/679-4176; facsimile 404/679-7081.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
The public is invited to comment on the following applications for permits to conduct certain activities with endangered and threatened species. This notice is provided under 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 the following methods. You may mail comments to the Service's Regional Office (see ADDRESSES section) or via electronic mail (e-mail) to victoria_davis@fws.gov. Please include your name and return address in your e-mail message. If you do not receive a confirmation from the Service that we have received your e-mail message, contact us directly at the telephone number listed above (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section). Finally, you may hand deliver comments to the Service office listed above (see ADDRESSES section).
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. 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.
TE129505-0
Applicant: Gary Richard, O'Neill, Jr., Warren, Arkansas
The applicant requests authorization to take (capture, identify, release) the red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis) while conducting population surveys and management activities. The proposed activities would occur in Bradley, Calhoun, Drew, and Cleveland Counties, Arkansas.
TE132772-0
Applicant: USDA Forest Service, National Forests in Alabama, Montgomery, Alabama
The applicant requests authorization to take (capture, identify, measure, release) the following species: Southern acornshell (Epioblasma othcaloogensis), Cumberlandian combshell (Epioblasma brevidens), upland combshell (Epioblasma metastriata), triangular kidneyshell (Ptychobranchus greeni), Coosa moccasinshell (Medionidus parvulus), southern pigtoe (Pleurobema georgianum), blue shiner (Cyprinella caerulea), flattened musk turtle (Sternotherus depressus), Cahaba shiner (Notropis cahabae), goldline darter (Percina aurolineata), orange-nacre mucket (Lampsilis perovalis), Alabama moccasinshell (Medionidus acutissimus), southern clubshell (Pleurobema decisum), dark pigtoe (Pleurobema furvum), ovate clubshell (Pleurobema perovatum), Lacy elimia (Elimia crenatella), round rocksnail (Leptoxis ampla), painted rocksnail (Leptoxis taeniata), flat pebblesnail (Lepyrium showalteri), cylindrical lioplax (Lioplax cyclostomaformis), and tulotoma snail (Tulotoma magnifica) while conducting presence/absence surveys. The proposed activities would occur in the National Forests located in Alabama.
Dated: August 8, 2006.
Cynthia K. Dohner,
Acting Regional Director.
[FR Doc. E6-14241 Filed 8-25-06; 8:45 am]
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