Notice of Receipt of Application for Endangered Species Permit

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Notice of Receipt of Application for Endangered Species Permit

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-824723

Applicant: Dr. Reed Bowman, Archbold Biological Station, Lake

Placid, Florida

The applicant requests a permit to take (capture, band, conduct

population surveys, translocate, and augment cavity trees) the

endangered red-cockaded woodpecker, Picoides borealis, and to take

(capture, band, and temporarily retain for metabolic research) the

threatened Florida scrub jay, Aphelocoma coerulescens coerulescens,

throughout the species' ranges at Avon Park Air Force Range, Polk and

Highland Counties, Florida, and in Brevard County, Florida for the

purpose of enhancement of survival of these species.

PRT-824727

Applicant: Dr. Oscar Pung, Georgia Southern University, Statesboro,

Georgia

The applicant requests a permit to take (harass specimens captured

by previously authorized permittees in order to sample blood for

endoparasites, and harass in order to collect ectoparasites from nest

cavities after the young have fledged) the endangered red-cockaded

woodpecker, Picoides borealis, throughout the species range at Fort

Stewart, Chatham, Liberty, Long, Bryan, Tattnall, and Evans Counties,

Georgia for the purpose of enhancement of survival of the species.

PRT-824729

Applicant: D. Patrick Ferral, Ferral Environmental Services Inc.,

Camden, South Carolina

The applicant requests a permit to take (capture and harass for

banding, translocation, and nest cavity augmentation) the endangered

red-cockaded woodpecker, Picoides borealis, throughout the species

range in North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,

Texas, and Louisiana for the purpose of enhancement of survival of the

species.

Written data or comments on these applications should be submitted

to: Regional Permit Biologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 1875

Century Boulevard, Suite 200, Atlanta, Georgia 30345. All data and

comments must be received by March 12, 1997.

Documents and other information submitted with these applications

are available for review, subject to the requirements of the Privacy

Act and Freedom of Information Act, 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, 1875 Century Boulevard, Suite 200, Atlanta, Georgia 30345

(Attn: David Dell, Permit Biologist). Telephone: 404/679-7313; Fax:

404/679-7081.

Dated: January 31, 1997.

C. Monty Halcomb,

Acting Regional Director, Region 4, Atlanta, Georgia.

[FR Doc. 97-3183 Filed 2-7-97; 8:45 am]

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