# Endangered Species; Recovery Permit Applications
**AGENCY:**
Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.
**ACTION:**
Notice of receipt of permit applications; request for comments.
**SUMMARY:**
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, have received applications for permits to conduct activities intended to enhance the propagation or survival of endangered species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended. We invite the public and local, State, Tribal, and Federal agencies to comment on these applications. Before issuing any of the requested permits, we will take into consideration any information that we receive during the public comment period.
**DATES:**
We must receive written data or comments on the applications by July 6, 2020.
**ADDRESSES:**
*Reviewing Documents:* Documents and other information submitted with the applications are available for review, subject to the requirements of the Privacy Act and Freedom of Information Act. Submit a request for a copy of such documents to Karen Marlowe (see *FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT* ).
*Submitting Comments:* If you wish to comment, you may submit comments by one of the following methods:
• *U.S. mail:* U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Regional Office, Ecological Services, 1875 Century Boulevard, Atlanta, GA 30345 (Attn: Karen Marlowe, Permit Coordinator).
• *Email: [email protected].* Please include your name and return address in your email message. If you do not receive a confirmation from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that we have received your email message, contact us directly at the telephone number listed in *FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT* .
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Karen Marlowe, Permit Coordinator, 404-679-7097 (telephone), *[email protected]* (email), or 404-679-7081 (fax). Individuals who are hearing or speech impaired may call the Federal Relay Service at 1-800-877-8339 for TTY assistance.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
We invite review and comment from local, State, and Federal agencies and the public on applications we have received for permits to conduct certain activities with endangered and threatened species under section 10(a)(1)(A) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 *et seq.* ), and our regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) at 50 CFR part 17. With some exceptions, the ESA prohibits activities that constitute take of listed species unless a Federal permit is issued that allows such activities. The ESA's definition of “take” includes hunting, shooting, harming, wounding, or killing, and also such activities as pursuing, harassing, trapping, capturing, or collecting.
A recovery permit issued by us under section 10(a)(1)(A) of the ESA authorizes the permittee to conduct activities with endangered or threatened species for scientific purposes that promote recovery or for enhancement of propagation or survival of the species. These activities often include such prohibited actions as capture and collection. Our regulations implementing section 10(a)(1)(A) for these permits are found at 50 CFR 17.22 for endangered wildlife species, 50 CFR 17.32 for threatened wildlife species, 50 CFR 17.62 for endangered plant species, and 50 CFR 17.72 for threatened plant species.
**Permit Applications Available for Review and Comment**
Proposed activities in the following permit requests are for the recovery and enhancement of propagation or survival of the species in the wild. The ESA requires that we invite public comment before issuing these permits. Accordingly, we invite local, State, Tribal, and Federal agencies and the public to submit written data, views, or arguments with respect to these applications. The comments and recommendations that will be most useful and likely to influence agency decisions are those supported by quantitative information or studies.
Before including your address, phone number, email address, or other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be aware that your entire comment—including your personal identifying information—may be made publicly available at any time. While you can ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.
| Permit application No. | Applicant | Species | Location | Activity | Type of take | Permit action |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| TE 41955C-1 | Anthony Miller, Lexington, KY | BATS: Indiana bats (
), gray bats (
), northern long-eared bats (
), and Virginia big-eared bats (
); FISH: Blackside dace (
and Kentucky arrow darter (
); MUSSELS: Clubshell (
), Cumberland bean (
), Cumberland elktoe (
), Cumberlandian combshell (
), fanshell (
), fat pocketbook (
), littlewing pearlymussel (
), northern riffleshell (
), orangefoot pimpleback (
), oyster mussel (
), pink mucket (
), purple cat's paw (
), ring pink (
), and rough pigtoe (
) | Bats: Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming; Fish and Mussels: Kentucky | Presence/absence surveys | Bats: Enter hibernacula and summer roost caves, capture with mist nets or harp traps, handle, identify, band, radio-tag, collect hair samples, light-tag, wing-punch; Fish: Capture with hand nets and seines, handle, identify, and release; Mussels: Remove from the substrate for identification, data collection, and return | Renewal. |
| TE 67197D-0 | Tyler Black, Chapel Hill, NC | CRAYFISH: Big Sandy crayfish (
), Guyandotte River crayfish (
), and Nashville crayfish (
); FISH: Laurel dace (
), blue shiner (
), bluemask darter (
), relict darter (
), candy darter (
), duskytail darter (
), Maryland darter (
), Kentucky arrow darter (
), Cumberland darter (
), trispot darter (
), boulder darter (
), Barrens topminnow (
), palezone shiner (
), Cape Fear shiner (
), smoky madtom (
) chucky madtom (
), pygmy madtom (
), amber darter (
), goldline darter (
), Conasauga logperch (
), Roanoke logperch (
), snail darter (
), and blackside dace (
); MUSSELS: Cumberland elktoe (
), dwarf wedgemussel (
), Appalachian elktoe (
), spectaclecase (
), fanshell (
), dromedary pearlymussel (
), yellow lance (
), Tar River spinymussel (
), Cumberlandian combshell (
), oyster mussel (
), yellow blossom (
), tan riffleshell (
), upland combshell (
), purple cat's paw (
), southern acornshell (
), green blossom (
), northern riffleshell (
), tubercled blossom (
), snuffbox mussel (
), turgid blossom (
), shiny pigtoe (
), finerayed pigtoe (
), Atlantic pigtoe (
), cracking pearlymussel (
), pink mucket (
), finelined pocketbook (
), Alabama lampmussel (
), Carolina heelsplitter (
), birdwing pearlymussel (
), scaleshell mussel (
), Alabama moccasinshell (
), Coosa moccasinshell (
), ring pink (
), littlewing pearlymussel (
), white wartyback (
), orangefoot pimpleback (
), sheepnose (
), clubshell (
), James spinymussel (
), southern clubshell (
), southern pigtoe (
), Cumberland pigtoe (
), Georgia pigtoe (
), ovate clubshell (
), rough pigtoe (
), slabside pearlymussel (
), fat pocketbook (
), triangular kidneyshell (
), fluted kidneyshell (
), rabbitsfoot (
), rough rabbitsfoot (
), winged mapleleaf (
), Cumberland monkeyface (
), Appalachian monkeyface (
), pale lilliput (
), rayed bean (
), purple bean (
), and Cumberland bean (
); SNAILS: Anthony's riversnail (
) | Delaware, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia | Presence/ absence surveys, population monitoring, genetic sampling, collection for propagation and translocation | Capture, handle, identify, mark, tag, collect tissue samples, and release | New. |
| TE 66039A-1 | Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, Benton, AR | AMPHIBIANS: Ozark hellbender (
); MUSSELS: Ouachita rock pocketbook (
), snuffbox mussel (
), Arkansas fatmucket (
), speckled pocketbook (
), Neosho mucket (
), rabbitsfoot (
), and winged mapleleaf (
) | Arkansas | Captive propagation and release | Capture, transport, artificially propagate, and release | Renewal and amendment. |
| TE 68453D-0 | Andrew Edelman, University of West Georgia, Carrolton, GA | Gray bat (
), northern long-eared bat (
), and Indiana bat (
) | Alabama, Georgia, and South Carolina | Presence/absence surveys, population monitoring | Enter hibernacula and maternity roost caves, mist-net, capture, handle, band, radio-tag, and collect hair samples | New. |
| TE 040792-5 | US Forest Service—Savannah River Site, New Ellenton, SC | Red-cockaded woodpecker (
) | Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, and South Carolina | Population management and monitoring | Capture, band, monitor nest cavities, construct and monitor artificial nest cavities and restrictors, and translocate | Renewal and amendment. |
| TE 697819-5 | US Fish and Wildlife Service, Atlanta, GA | All endangered species in the Southeast Region | Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands | All activities in furtherance of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's mission to conserve endangered wildlife and plants and the ecosystems upon which they depend | Conduct take of endangered species of wildlife wherever found and removal and reduction to possession of endangered species of plants from lands under Federal jurisdiction in the Southeast Region | Renewal. |
| TE 075925-3 | Shaw Air Force Base, Columbia, SC | Red-cockaded woodpecker (
) | Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas, and Virginia | Population management and monitoring | Capture, band, monitor nest cavities, construct and monitor artificial nest cavities and restrictors, and translocate | Renewal and amendment. |
| TE 70041D-0 | Kristina Witter, Jacksonville, FL | Red-cockaded woodpecker (
) | Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee | Population management and monitoring | Capture, band, monitor nest cavities, construct and monitor artificial nest cavities and restrictors, and translocate | New. |
| TE 35594A-4 | Alabama Power Company, Birmingham, AL | Rush darter (
) and trispot darter (
) | Alabama | Presence/absence surveys | Capture with hand nets and seines, handle, identify, and release | Amendment. |
| TE 108584-7 | Tim Nehus, Lebanon, TN | CRAYFISH: Nashville crayfish (
); MUSSELS: Birdwing pearlymussel (
), oyster mussel (
), tan riffleshell (
Cumberland monkeyface (
), orangefoot pimpleback (
), Cumberland elktoe (
), Appalachian elktoe (
), fanshell
), dromedary pearlymussel (
), Cumberlandian combshell (
), yellow-blossom pearlymussel (
), upland combshell (
), Southern acornshell (
), green blossom pearlymussel (
), tuberculed-blossom pearlymussel (
), turgid blossom pearlymussel (
), purple cat's paw (
), fine-lined pocketbook (
), pink mucket pearlymussel (
), Alabama lampmussel (
), Alabama moccasinshell (
), Coosa moccasinshell (
), ring pink mussel (
), little-wing pearlymussel
), white wartyback (
), clubshell (
), Southern clubshell (
), Southern pigtoe (
), Cumberland pigtoe (
), ovate clubshell (
rough pigtoe (
), triangular kidneyshell (
), rough rabbitsfoot (
), winged mapleleaf
), Appalachian monkeyface (
), pale lilliput (
), Cumberland bean pearlymussel (
), and purple bean (
); FISH: Blue shiner (
), bluemask darter (
), duskytail darter (
), boulder darter (
), palezone shiner (
), smoky madtom (
), yellowfin madtom (
), pygmy madtom (
), amber darter (
), Conasauga logperch (
), snail darter (
), and blackside dace (
) | Tennessee | Presence/absence surveys | Capture, identify, measure, sex, and release | Renewal. |
| TE 59798B-2 | Daguna Consulting, LLC, Rochester, MN | Cumberland elktoe (
), Appalachian elktoe (
), birdwing pearlymussel (
), spectaclecase (
), fanshell (
), dromedary pearlymussel (
), Cumberlandian combshell (
), oyster mussel (
), yellow-blossom pearlymussel (
), green-blossom pearlymussel (
), tuberculed-blossom pearlymussel (
), snuffbox (
), turgid-blossom pearlymussel (
), tan riffleshell (
fine-rayed pigtoe (
), shiny pigtoe (
), cracking pearlymussel (
), pink mucket pearlymussel (
), Higgins eye (
), Alabama lampmussel (
), scaleshell (
), slabside pearlymussel (
), little-wing pearlymussel
), sheepnose (
), clubshell (
), rough pigtoe (
), fat pocketbook (
), fluted kidneyshell (
), rough rabbitsfoot (
), winged mapleleaf
), Cumberland monkeyface (
), Appalachian monkeyface (
), pale lilliput (
), purple bean (
), and Cumberland bean pearlymussel (
) | Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Tennessee, and Wisconsin | Presence/absence surveys | Capture, handle, identify, measure, age by examining shell growth rings, sex, photograph, PIT-tag or plastic shell tag, mark, and release | Renewal. |
| TE 71050D-0 | Brett Andersen, Papillion, NE | Northern long-eared bat (
) and Indiana bat (
) | Alabama, Arkansas, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming | Presence/absence surveys and habitat use studies | Enter hibernacula, capture with mist-nets and harp traps, handle, band, and radio-tag | New. |
| TE 178815-1 | Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, Frankfort, KY | Cumberland elktoe (
), fanshell (
), dromedary pearlymussel (
), Cumberlandian combshell (
), oyster mussel (
), yellow-blossom pearlymussel (
), purple cat's paw (
), white cat's paw (
), green-blossom pearlymussel (
), tan blossom pearlymussel (
), tuberculed-blossom pearlymussel (
), turgid-blossom pearlymussel (
), tan riffleshell (
crackling pearlymussel (
), pink mucket pearlymussel (
), Higgins eye (
), Alabama lampmussel (
), scaleshell (
), ring pink mussel (
), little-wing pearlymussel
), white wartyback mussel (
), sheepnose (
), clubshell (
), orange footed pimpleback (
), rough pigtoe (
), fat pocketbook (
), rough rabbitsfoot (
), winged mapleleaf
), Appalachian monkeyface (
), and Cumberland bean pearlymussel (
) | Kentucky | Captive propagation and release | Capture, handle, transport, propagate, and release | Renewal. |
| TE 142806-2 | James Cox, Tall Timbers Research Station, Tallahassee, FL | Red-cockaded woodpecker (
) | Florida and Georgia | Population management and monitoring | Capture, band, monitor nest cavities, construct and monitor artificial nest cavities and restrictors, and translocate | Renewal. |
| TE 71653D-0 | The Nature Conservancy, Camp Shelby, MS | Louisiana quillwort (
) | Department of Defense lands and Desoto National Forest lands within Camp Shelby, Mississippi DeSoto National Forest | Demographic and life history study | Collect leaves, sporophylls, and whole plants | New. |
| TE 72782D-0 | Michael Cove, Zebulon, NC | Key Largo woodrat (
) and Key Largo cotton mouse (
) | Crocodile Lake National Wildlife Refuge and Dagny Johnson Botanical State Park, Key Largo, Monroe County, Florida | Presence/absence surveys, nest monitoring, and population monitoring | Capture, ear-tag, radio-tag, PIT-tag, release, and insert data loggers into nests | New. |
| TE 38906B-1 | National Park Service, Christiansted, VI | Loggerhead sea turtle (
), green sea turtle (
), leatherback sea turtle (
) and hawksbill sea turtle (
) | Buck Island Reef National Monument, St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands | Population monitoring and scientific research | Capture, restrain, handle, relocate nests, excavate hatched nests, collect tissue, blood, and carapace samples, PIT-tag, attach flipper, acoustic, and satellite tags | Renewal and amendment. |
**Authority**
We publish this notice under section 10(c) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 *et seq.* ).
John Tirpak,
Deputy Assistant Regional Director, Ecological Services.