Endangered Species; Marine Mammals; Issuance of Permits

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

[Docket No. FWS-HQ-IA-2019-0024; FXIA16710900000-178-FF09A30000]

Endangered Species; Marine Mammals; Issuance of Permits

AGENCY:

Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION:

Notice of issuance of permits.

SUMMARY:

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, have issued the following permits to conduct certain activities with endangered species, marine mammals, or both. We issue these permits under the Endangered Species Act and the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

ADDRESSES:

Information about the applications for the issued permits listed in this notice is available online at

www.regulations.gov.

See

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

for details.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Brenda Tapia, by phone at 703-358-2104, via email at

DMAFR@fws.gov,

or via the Federal Relay Service at 800-877-8339.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), have issued permits to conduct certain activities with endangered and threatened species in response to permit applications that we received under the authority of section 10(a)(1)(A) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531

et seq.

)

After considering the information submitted with each permit application and the public comments received, we issued the requested permits subject to certain conditions set forth in each permit. For each application for an endangered species, we found that (1) the application was filed in good faith, (2) the granted permit would not operate to the disadvantage of the endangered species, and (3) the granted permit would be consistent with the purposes and policy set forth in section 2 of the ESA.

Availability of Documents

The permittees' original permit application materials, along with public comments we received during public comment periods for the applications, are available for review. To locate the application materials and received comments, go to

www.regulations.gov

and search for the appropriate permit number (

e.g.,

12345C) provided in the following tables.

Permit No.

Applicant

Permit issuance date

Endangered Species

93328C

University of Texas at Arlington

February 27, 2019.

66689C

Memphis Zoo

February 1, 2019.

86989C

Audubon Nature Institute

February 1, 2019.

90228C

Lowry Park Zoological Society of Tampa, Inc

January 31, 2019.

91602C

Dr. Viktoria Oelze, University of California Santa Cruz

January 30, 2019.

93509C

Dmitri Petrov

February 26, 2019.

78121C

Pinola Conservancy

February 26, 2019.

77865C

Maria de Lourdes Martinez Estevez

February 26, 2019.

19818A

Phoenix Herpetological Society, Inc

February 26, 2019.

Marine Mammals

75595C

ABR, Inc

March 1, 2019.

Authorities

We issue this notice under the authority of the ESA and the Marine Mammal Protection Act as amended (16 U.S.C. 1361

et seq.

) and their implementing regulations.

Brenda Tapia,

Program Analyst/Data Administrator, Branch of Permits, Division of Management Authority.

[FR Doc. 2019-13790 Filed 6-27-19; 8:45 am]

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