Endangered and Threatened Species Permit Applications

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

Endangered and Threatened Species Permit Applications

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of receipt of applications.

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The following applicants have applied for permits 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.).

PRT-834589

Applicant: R.D. Zande & Associates, Inc., Columbus, Ohio; Robert F.

Madej, principal investigator.

The applicant requests a permit to take (capture and release;

survey hibernacula) gray bat (Myotis grisescens) and Indiana bat

(Myotis sodalis); take (capture and release; collect one voucher

specimen per site) American burying (=giant carrion) beetle

(Nicrophorus americanus); take (capture and release) Hine's (=Ohio)

emerald dragonfly (Somatochlora hineana); and take (survey habitat)

Mitchell's satyr butterfly (Neonympha mitchellii mitchellii) throughout

their ranges. Activities are proposed to document presence or absence

of the species for the purpose of survival and enhancement of the

species in the wild.

PRT-834596

Applicant: 3D/International, Inc. Environmental Group, Cincinnati,

Ohio.

The applicant requests a permit to take (capture and release;

collect empty shells) clubshell mussel (Pleurobema clava) and northern

riffleshell mussel (Epioblasma torulosa rangiana) and to take (capture

and release) American burying (=giant carrion) beetle (Nicrophorus

americanus) and Hine's (=Ohio) emerald dragonfly (Somatochlora hineana)

at Wright Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. Activities are proposed to

document presence or absence of the species for the purpose of survival

and enhancement of the species in the wild.

Written data or comments should be submitted to the Regional

Director, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Ecological Services

Operations, 1 Federal Drive, Fort Snelling, Minnesota 55111-4056, and

must be received on or before October 30, 1997.

Documents and other information submitted with these applications

are available for review by any party who submits a written request for

a copy of such documents to the following office within 30 days of the

date of publication of this notice: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service,

Ecological Services Operations, 1 Federal Drive, Fort Snelling,

Minnesota 55111-4056. Telephone: (612/725-3536 x224); FAX: (612/725-

3526).

Dated: September 26, 1997.

John A. Blankenship,

Assistant Regional Director, IL, IN, MO (Ecological Services), Region

3, Fort Snelling, Minnesota.

[FR Doc. 97-25908 Filed 9-29-97; 8:45 am]

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