# Endangered Species Recovery Permit Applications
**AGENCY:**
Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
**ACTION:**
Notice of receipt of permit applications; request for comment.
**SUMMARY:**
We invite the public to comment on the following applications to conduct certain activities with endangered species.
**DATES:**
Comments on these permit applications must be received on or before January 22, 2007.
**ADDRESSES:**
Written data or comments should be submitted to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Chief, Endangered Species, Ecological Services, 911 NE. 11th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97232-4181 (telephone: 503-231-2063; fax: 503-231-6243). 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:**
Linda Belluomini, Fish and Wildlife Biologist, at the above Portland address, (telephone: 503-231-2063; fax: 503-231-6243).
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
The following applicants have applied for scientific research permits to conduct certain activities with endangered species pursuant to section 10(a)(1)(A) of the Endangered Species Act (16 U.S.C. 1531 *et seq.* ). The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (we) solicits review and comment from local, State, and Federal agencies, and the public on the following permit requests.
**Permit No. TE-135948**
**Applicant: Natalie Brodie, San Diego, California**
The applicant requests a permit to take (survey by pursuit) the Quino checkerspot butterfly ( *Euphydryas editha quino* ) in conjunction with surveys throughout the range of the species in California for the purpose of enhancing its survival.
**Permit No TE-816187**
**Applicant: David Cook, Santa Rosa, California**
The permittee requests an amendment to take (harass by survey, mark, collect tissue samples, release, and recapture) the California tiger salamander ( *Ambystoma californiense* ) in conjunction with ecology, distribution, and genetics research in Sonoma County, California, for the purpose of enhancing its survival.
**Permit No. TE-135974**
**Applicant: Michael S. Marangio, El Cerrito, California**
The applicant requests a permit to take (harass by survey, capture, and release) the California tiger salamander ( *Ambystoma californiense* ) and the Santa Cruz long-toed salamander ( *Ambystoma macrodactylum croceum* ) in conjunction with surveys throughout the range of each species in California for the purpose of enhancing their survival.
**Permit No. TE-051242**
**Applicant: Monica Alfaro, San Diego, California**
The applicant requests a permit to take (survey by pursuit) the Quino checkerspot butterfly ( *Euphydryas editha quino* ) in conjunction with surveys throughout the range of the species in California for the purpose of enhancing its survival.
**Permit No. TE-051236**
**Applicant: Erika Alfaro, San Diego, California**
The permittee requests an amendment to take (survey by pursuit) the Quino checkerspot butterfly ( *Euphydryas editha quino* ) in conjunction with surveys throughout the range of the species in California for the purpose of enhancing its survival.
**Permit No. TE-136973**
**Applicant: Judi Tamasi, Santa Monica, California**
The applicant requests a permit to take (survey, collect, and kill) the Riverside fairy shrimp (Streptocephalus wootoni) in conjunction with monitoring in Ventura County, California, for the purpose of enhancing its survival.
**Permit No. TE-096745**
**Applicant: Scott Larsen, Oakhurst, California**
The permittee requests an amendment to take (harass by survey, capture, and release) the California tiger salamander ( *Ambystoma californiense* ) in conjunction with surveys throughout the range of the species in California for the purpose of enhancing its survival.
**Permit No. TE-137006**
**Applicant: Thea B. Benson, Paso Robles, California**
The applicant requests a permit to take (harass by survey) the southwestern willow flycatcher ( *Empidonax trailli extimus* ) in conjunction with surveys throughout the range of the species in California for the purpose of enhancing its survival.
**Permit No. TE-138603**
**Applicant: Edward F. Woch, San Diego, California**
The applicant requests a permit to take (survey by pursuit) the Quino checkerspot butterfly ( *Euphydryas editha quino* ) in conjunction with surveys throughout the range of the species in California for the purpose of enhancing its survival.
**Permit No. TE-122123**
**Applicant: Douglas McNair, Pasadena, California**
The applicant requests a permit to take (harass by survey, monitor, capture, and band) the light footed clapper rail ( *Rallus longirostris levipes* ), the Yuma clapper rail ( *Rallus longirostris yumanensis* ), the California clapper rail ( *Rallus longirostris obsoletus* ), and the California least tern ( *Sternula antillarum* ) in conjunction with monitoring and other life history studies throughout the range of each species in California and Arizona for the purpose of enhancing their survival.
We solicit public review and comment on each of these recovery permit applications. 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 addresses from 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, but you should be aware that we may be required to disclose your name and address pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act. 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. Comments and materials received will be available for public inspection, by appointment, during normal business hours at the above address.
Dated: November 17, 2006.
Michael Fris,
Acting Manager, California/Nevada Operations Office, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.