# Receipt of Applications for Permit
**AGENCY:**
Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
**ACTION:**
Notice of receipt of applications for permit.
**SUMMARY:**
The public is invited to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species and/or marine mammals.
**DATES:**
Written data, comments or requests must be received by December 1, 2003.
**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 within 30 days of the date of publication of this notice to: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Division of Management Authority, 4401 North Fairfax Drive, Room 700, Arlington, Virginia 22203; fax 703/358-2281.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Division of Management Authority, telephone 703/358-2104.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
**Endangered Species**
The public is invited to comment on the following applications 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.* ). Written data, comments, or requests for copies of these complete applications should be submitted to the Director (address above).
**PRT-072584**
*Applicant:* Columbia University, CERC, New York, NY
The applicant requests a permit to export/re-export biological samples from mongoose lemur ( *Eulemur mongoz* ), Ring-tailed lemur ( *Lemur catta* ), and grey gentle lemur ( *Hapalemur griseus* ), going to Cambridge University in the United Kingdom for the purpose of scientific research. This notification covers activities to be conducted by the applicant over a five-year period.
**PRT-078305**
*Applicant:* Clarence E. Ellis, Powell, WY
The applicant requests a permit to import the sport-hunted trophy of one male bontebok ( *Damaliscus pygargus dorcas* ) culled from a captive herd maintained under the management program of the Republic of South Africa, for the purpose of enhancement of the survival of the species.
**PRT-078306**
*Applicant:* T. F. Lambert, Memphis, TN
The applicant requests a permit to import the sport-hunted trophy of one male bontebok ( *Damaliscus pygargus dorcas* ) culled from a captive herd maintained under the management program of the Republic of South Africa, for the purpose of enhancement of the survival of the species.
**PRT-074414**
*Applicant:* Little Rock Zoological Gardens, Little Rock, AR
The applicant requests a permit to import two captive born female Western lowland gorillas ( *Gorilla gorilla gorilla* ) from the Toronto Zoo, Ontario, Canada for the purpose of enhancement of the survival of the species through captive propagation.
Dated: October 17, 2003.
Michael S. Moore,
Senior Permit Biologist, Branch of Permits, Division of Management Authority.