# Endangered and Threatened Species; Receipt of 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 or threatened species under the Endangered Species Act. 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 your written comments on or before October 3, 2022.
**ADDRESSES:**
*Document availability and comment submission:* Submit requests for copies of the applications and related documents and submit any comments by one of the following methods. All requests and comments should specify the applicant name(s) and application number(s) ( *e.g.,* XXXXXX or PER0001234).
• *Email: [email protected].*
• *U.S. Mail:* Susie Tharratt, Regional Recovery Permit Coordinator, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 2800 Cottage Way, Room W-2606, Sacramento, CA 95825.
**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**
Susie Tharratt, via phone at 916-414-6561, or via email at *[email protected].* Individuals in the United States who are deaf, deafblind, hard of hearing, or have a speech disability may dial 711 (TTY, TDD, or TeleBraille) to access telecommunications relay services. Individuals outside the United States should use the relay services offered within their country to make international calls to the point-of-contact in the United States.
**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**
We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, invite the public to comment on applications for permits under section 10(a)(1)(A) of the Endangered Species Act, as amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 *et seq.* ). The requested permits would allow the applicants to conduct activities intended to promote recovery of species that are listed as endangered or threatened under the ESA.
**Background**
With some exceptions, the ESA prohibits activities that constitute take of listed species unless a Federal permit is issued that allows such activity. The ESA's definition of “take” includes such activities as pursuing, harassing, trapping, capturing, or collecting, in addition to hunting, shooting, harming, wounding, or killing.
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 in the Code of Federal Regulations 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.
| Application No. | Applicant, city, state | Species | Location | Take activity | Permit |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 080779 | Melissa Busby, San Diego, California | • Quino checkerspot butterfly (
) | CA | Survey by pursuit; capture, handle, release, collect adult vouchers, and collect branchiopod cysts | Renew. |
| | | • Vernal pool tadpole shrimp (
). | | | |
| | | • Riverside fairy shrimp (
). | | | |
| | | • San Diego fairy shrimp (
). | | | |
| 148555 | Phillip Brylski, Irvine, CA | • Fresno kangaroo-rat (
) | CA | Survey, capture, handle, and release | Renew. |
| | | • Tipton kangaroo-rat (
) | | | |
| | | • San Bernardino kangaroo-rat (
) | | | |
| | | • Stephen's kangaroo-rat (
) | | | |
| | | • Pacific pocket mouse (
) | | | |
| | | • Salt marsh harvest mouse (
) | | | |
| | | • Amargosa vole (
) | | | |
| 85618B | Biological Resources Services, LLC., Folsom, California | • California tiger salamander (
), Sonoma County and Santa Barbara County distinct population segments | CA | Survey, capture, handle, and release | Renew. |
| PER0036109 | Sarah Flaherty, Berkeley, California | • California tiger salamander (
), Sonoma County and Santa Barbara County distinct population segments | CA | Survey, capture, handle, and release | New. |
| 17211C | Zoological Society of San Diego, San Diego, California | • San Diego ambrosia (
). | CA | Collect herbarium and genetic samples, conduct establishment and maintenance of a living collection or seed bank, conduct propagation, conduct pollination, and do genetic research | Renew and amend. |
| 64546A | Power Engineers, Inc., Hailey, Idaho | • Southwestern willow flycatcher (
) | CA, NV, NM, AZ, TX, CO, UT | Play recorded vocalizations | Renew and amend. |
| PER0050068 | David Jacobs, Los Angeles, California | • Tidewater goby (
) | CA | Survey, capture, handle, measure, relocate, release, collect voucher specimens | New. |
| PER0050163 | Anderson Tate-Montenegro, Sacramento, California | • Conservancy fairy shrimp (
) | CA | Survey, capture, handle, release, collect adult vouchers, and collect branchiopod cysts | New. |
| PER0050168 | Nicolette Murphey, Tehachapi, California | • Conservancy fairy shrimp (
) | CA | Survey, capture, handle, release, collect adult vouchers, and collect branchiopod cysts | New. |
| PER0050169 | Tanner Lichty, Orangevale, California | • Conservancy fairy shrimp (
) | CA | Survey, capture, handle, release, collect adult vouchers, and collect branchiopod cysts | New. |
| 068745 | Jeffery Wilcox, Vallejo, California | • California tiger salamander (
), Sonoma County and Santa Barbara County distinct population segments | CA | Survey, capture, handle, collect tail tissue, and release | Renew. |
| 799570 | Carol Witham, Sacramento, California | • Conservancy fairy shrimp (
) | CA | Survey, capture, handle, release, collect adult vouchers, collect branchiopod cysts, conduct training workshops to non-permitted individuals, remove and reduce to possession from lands under Federal jurisdiction | New. |
| 012973 | ECORP Consulting, Inc., Rocklin, California | • Giant kangaroo-rat (
). | CA | Survey, capture, handle, release, collect adult vouchers, collect branchiopod cysts, process vernal pool soil samples, and culture and hatch out branchiopod resting eggs for species identification | Renew. |
| | | • California tiger salamander (
), Sonoma County and Santa Barbara County distinct population segments | | | |
| | | • Salt marsh harvest mouse (
) | | | |
| 62868B | The Klamath Tribes, Chloquin, Oregon | • Shortnose sucker (
) | OR | Survey, trap, capture, handle, mark, collect tissue samples, collect gametes, collect and rear in captivity, relocate/reintroduce, sacrifice, and release | Amend. |
| 98536C | Stillwater Sciences, Berkeley, California | • California tiger salamander (
), Sonoma County and Santa Barbara County distinct population segments | CA | Survey, capture, handle, and release | Amend. |
| 837448 | Douglas Allen, San Diego, California | • Conservancy fairy shrimp (
) | CA | Survey by pursuit, survey capture, handle, release, collect adult vouchers, and collect branchiopod cysts | Renew. |
| | | • Riverside fairy shrimp (
) | | | |
| | | • San Diego fairy shrimp (
) | | | |
| | | • Quino checkerspot butterfly (
) | | | |
| 19906C | Ross Taylor, McKinleyville, California | • Tidewater goby (
) | CA | Survey, capture, handle, measure, relocate, release, collect voucher specimens | Renew. |
| 009018 | Rancho Santa Ana Botanical Garden, Claremont, California | • San Mateo thornmint (
ssp.
) | CA, NV | Remove/reduce to possession from lands under Federal jurisdiction, collect herbarium and genetic samples, carry out establishment and maintenance of a living collection or seed bank, conduct propagation, conduct pollination, and do genetic research | Renew and amend. |
| | | • Del Mar manzanita (
ssp.
) | | | |
| | | • Presidio manzanita (
var.
) | | | |
| | | • Marsh sandwort (
) | | | |
| | | • Cushenbury milk-vetch (
) | | | |
| | | • Braunton's milk-vetch (
) | | | |
| | | • Clara Hunt's milk-vetch (
) | | | |
| | | • Lane Mountain milk-vetch (
) | | | |
| | | • Coachella Valley milk-vetch (
var.
) | | | |
| | | • Ventura Marsh milk-vetch (
var.
) | | | |
| | | • Coastal dunes milk-vetch (
var.
) | | | |
| | | • Triple-ribbed milk-vetch (
) | | | |
| | | • San Jacinto Valley crownscale (
var.
) | | | |
| | | • Nevin's barberry (
) | | | |
| | | • Island barberry (
ssp.
). | | | |
| | | • Hoffmann's rock-cress (
) | | | |
| | | • Stebbins' morning-glory (
) | | | |
| | | • White sedge (
) | | | |
| | | • Tiburon paintbrush (
ssp.
) | | | |
| | | • Soft-leaved paintbrush (
) | | | |
| | | • California jewelflower (
) | | | |
| | | • Coyote ceanothus (
) | | | |
| | | • Pine Hill ceanothus (
) | | | |
| | | • Catalina Island mountain-mahogany (
) | | | |
| | | • Howell's spineflower (
) | | | |
| | | • Orcutt's spineflower (
) | | | |
| | | • Ben Lomond spineflower (
var.
) | | | |
| | | • Scotts Valley spineflower (
var.
) | | | |
| | | • Robust spineflower (
var.
) | | | |
| | | • Sonoma spineflower (
) | | | |
| | | • Fountain thistle (
var.
) | | | |
| | | • Chorro Creek bog thistle thistle (
var.
) | | | |
| | | • Suisun thistle (
var.
) | | | |
| | | • La Graciosa thistle (
) | | | |
| | | • Presidio clarkia (
) | | | |
| | | • Vine Hill clarkia (
) | | | |
| | | • Pismo clarkia (
ssp.
) | | | |
| | | • Salt marsh bird's-beak (
ssp.
) | | | |
| | | • Soft bird's beak (
ssp.
) | | | |
| | | • Palmate-bracted bird's-beak (
) | | | |
| | | • Pennell's bird's-beak (
ssp.
) | | | |
| | | • Gaviota tarplant (
ssp.
) | | | |
| | | • Baker's larkspur (
) | | | |
| | | • Yellow larkspur (
) | | | |
| | | • San Clemente Island larkspur larkspur (
ssp.
) | | | |
| | | • Slender-horned spineflower (
) | | | |
| | | • Santa Clara Valley dudleya (
) | | | |
| | | • Kern mallow (
) | | | |
| | | • Santa Ana River woolly-star (
ssp.
) | | | |
| | | • Indian Knob mountainbalm (
) | | | |
| | | • Lompoc yerba santa (
) | | | |
| | | • Ione (incl. Irish Hill) buckwheat (
[incl. var.
]) | | | |
| | | • Cushenbury buckwheat (
var.
) | | | |
| | | • San Mateo woolly sunflower (
) | | | |
| | | • San Diego button-celery (
var.
) | | | |
| | | • Loch Lomond coyote thistle (
) | | | |
| | | • Contra Costa wallflower (
var.
) | | | |
| | | • Menzies' wallflower (
) | | | |
| | | • Ben Lomond wallflower (
) | | | |
| | | • Pine Hill flannelbush (
ssp.
) | | | |
| | | • Mexican flannelbush (
) | | | |
| | | • Island bedstraw (
) | | | |
| | | • El Dorado bedstraw (
ssp.
) | | | |
| | | • Monterey gilia (
ssp.
) | | | |
| | | • Hoffmann's slender-flowered gilia (
ssp.
) | | | |
| | | • Burke's goldfields (
) | | | |
| | | • Contra Costa goldfields (
) | | | |
| | | • San Francisco lessingia (
[=
var.
]) | | | |
| | | • Western lily (
) | | | |
| | | • Pitkin marsh lily (
ssp.
) | | | |
| | | • Butte County meadowfoam (
ssp.
) | | | |
| | | • Sebastopol meadowfoam (
) | | | |
| | | • San Clemente Island woodland-star (
) | | | |
| | | • Clover (Tidestrom's) lupine (
) | | | |
| | | • Nipomo Mesa lupine (
) | | | |
| | | • San Clemente Island bush-mallow (
) | | | |
| | | • Santa Cruz Island bush-mallow (
var.
) | | | |
| | | • Island malacothrix (
) | | | |
| | | • Willowy monardella (
) | | | |
| | | • San Joaquin wooly-threads (
[=
]
) | | | |
| | | • Few-flowered navarretia (
ssp.
[=
]) | | | |
| | | • California Orcutt grass (
) | | | |
| | | • Antioch Dunes evening-primrose (
ssp.
) | | | |
| | | • Hairy Orcutt grass (
) | | | |
| | | • Cushenbury oxytheca (
var.
) | | | |
| | | • White-rayed pentachaeta (
) | | | |
| | | • Lyon's pentachaeta (
) | | | |
| | | • Island phacelia (
ssp.
) | | | |
| | | • Yreka phlox (
) | | | |
| | | • Yadon's piperia (
) | | | |
| | | • Calistoga allocarya (
) | | | |
| | | • San Bernardino bluegrass (
) | | | |
| | | • Napa bluegrass (
) | | | |
| | | • San Diego mesa-mint (
) | | | |
| | | • Otay mesa-mint (
) | | | |
| | | • Scotts Valley polygonum (
) | | | |
| | | • Hickman's potentilla (
) | | | |
| | | • Gambel's watercress (
) | | | |
| | | • Lake County stonecrop (
) | | | |
| | | • Santa Cruz Island rockcress (
) | | | |
| | | • Keck's checker-mallow (
) | | | |
| | | • Kenwood marsh checker-mallow (
ssp.
) | | | |
| | | • Metcalf Canyon jewelflower (
ssp.
) | | | |
| | | • Monterey clover (
). | | | |
| | | • Solano grass (
) | | | |
| | | • Santa Barbara Island liveforever (
) | | | |
| | | • Hartweg's golden sunburst (
) | | | |
| 068072 | Philippe Vergne, Boulder, Colorado | • Stephen's kangaroo-rat (
) | CA | Survey, capture, handle, and release | Renew. |
**Public Availability of Comments**
Written comments we receive become part of the administrative record associated with this action. 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 request in your comment that we withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so. All submissions from organizations or businesses, and from individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of be made available for public disclosure in their entirety.
**Next Steps**
If we decide to issue permits to any of the applicants listed in this notice, we will publish a notice in the *Federal Register* .
**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.* ).
Peter Erickson,
Acting Regional Ecological Services Program Manager, Pacific Southwest Region, Sacramento, California.