# 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.
**DATES:**
Written data, comments or requests must be received by November 30, 2005.
**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 ( *ADDRESSES* above).
**PRT-107396**
*Applicant:* Texas Tech University, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Lubbock, TX.
The applicant requests a permit to import blood samples taken from wild chuckwallas ( *Sauromalus varius* ) on San Esteban Island, Mexico, for the purpose of scientific research/enhancement of the survival of the species.
**PRT-107930**
*Applicant:* Texas Tech University, Dept. of Biological Sciences, Lubbock, TX.
**PRT-107930**
The applicant requests a permit to import blood samples collected from live wild animals of the following species: Chinese alligator ( *Alligator sinensis* ), spectacled caiman ( *Caiman crocodilus* ), broad-snouted caiman ( *Caiman latirostris* ), black caiman ( *Melanosuchus niger* ), American crocodyle ( *Crocodulus acutus* ), slender-snouted crocodile ( *C. cataphractus* ), Orinoco crocodile ( *C. intermedius* ), Philippine crocodile ( *C. mindorensis* ), Morelet's crocodile ( *C. moreletii* ), mugger ( *C. palustris* ), estuarine crocodile ( *C. porosus* ), Cuban crocodile ( *C. rhombifer* ), Siamese crocodile ( *C. siamensis* ), African dwarf crocodile ( *Osteolaemus tetraspis* ), false gharial ( *Tomistoma schlegelii* ), and Indian gharial ( *Gavialis gangeticus* ) from areas around the world for the purpose of scientific research/enhancement of the survival of the species.
**PRT-111397**
*Applicant:* Donald S. Priest, San Francisco, CA.
The applicant requests a permit to import the sport-hunted trophy of one male bontebok ( *Damaliscus pygargus pygargus* ) 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.
Dated: October 7, 2005.
Monica Farris,
Senior Permit Biologist, Branch of Permits, Division of Management Authority.