Endangered and Threatened Species Permit Applications

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

Endangered and Threatened Species Permit Applications

ACTION: Notice of receipt of applications.

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SUMMARY: The following applicants have applied for a permit to conduct

certain activities with endangered species. This notice is provided

pursuant to section 10(a) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as

amended (16 U.S.C. 1531, et seq.).

Permit No. PRT-842116

Applicant: Lewisville Aquatic Ecosystem Research Facility,

Lewisville, Texas.

Applicant requests authorization to conduct scientific research and

recovery activities for Texas wildrice (Zizania texana).

Permit No. PRT-813889

Applicant: Navajo Fish and Wildlife Department, Window Rock,

Arizona.

Applicant requests authorization to conduct presence/absence

surveys for peregrine falcons (Falco peregrinus), black-footed ferrets

(Mustela nigripes), southwestern willow flycatchers (Empidonax traillii

extimus), Mancos milkvetch (Astragalus humillimus), and Brady

pincushion cactus (Pediocactus (=tourmeya) bradyi) in Arizona and New

Mexico and in portions of the Navajo Nation.

Permit No. PRT-839814

Applicant: Sea World of Texas, San Antonio, Texas.

Applicant requests authorization to maintain Kemp's ridley

(Lepidochelys kempii) sea turtles, hawksbill (Eretmochelys imbricata)

sea turtles, leatherback (Dermochelys coriacea) sea turtles, green

(Chelonia mydas) sea turtles and loggerhead (Caretta caretta) sea

turtles for research and recovery purposes, education, display and

rehabilitation of sick and injured specimens of all sea turtles species

from the coastal area of Texas.

Permit No. PRT-842565

Applicant: Cibola National Forest.

Applicant requests authorization to conduct presence/absence

surveys for southwestern willow flycatchers (Empidonax traillii

extimus), American peregrine falcons (Falco pereginus anatum), bald

eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), and Zuni fleabane (Erigeron

rhizomatus) on the Cibola National Forests in New Mexico.

Permit No. PRT-842566

Applicant: Lamar University, Department of Biology, Beaumont, Texas.

Applicant requests authorization for scientific research and

recovery purposes to collect specimens of 25 populations of Texas

prairie dawn-flower (Hymenoxys texana) from the greater Houston, Texas,

area and Harris and Fort Bend Counties, Texas.

Permit No. PRT-842583

Applicant: La Tierra Environmental Consulting, Las Cruces, New

Mexico.

Applicant requests authorization to conduct presence/absence

surveys for aplomado falcons (falco femoralis septentrionalis), and

southwestern willow flycatchers (Empidonax traillii extimus) on Fort

Bliss and New Mexico.

Permit No. PRT-831540

Applicant: City of San Marcos, San Marcos, Texas.

Applicant requests authorization to collect Texas wildrice (Zizania

texana) for scientific research and recovery purposes in the San Marcos

River, Texas.

Permit No. PRT-772084

Appliant: Sunrise Nursery, Leander, Texas.

Applicant requests authorization to sell in interstate commerce

artificially propagated specimens of the federally protected star

cactus (Astrophytum (=Echinocactus) asterias) and Pima pineapple cactus

(Coryphantha scheeri var. robustispina).

Permit No. PRT-839505

Applicant: Aaron D. Flesch, Flagstaff, Arizona.

Applicant requests authorization to survey for masked bobwhite

(Colinus virginianus ridgwayi) on the Buenos Aires National Wildlife

Refuge in Arizona, and the Pima pineapple cactus (Coryphantha scheeri

robustispina) in Pima County, Arizona.

Permit No. PRT-841838

Applicant: Karen Ritchie, Austin, Texas.

Applicant requests authorization to survey for nesting red-cockaded

woodpeckers (Picoides borealis) in Bell, Hays, Travis, Williamson,

Hardin, Walker, Montgomery, and Walker Counties, Texas.

Permit No. PRT-844147

Applicant: Program on Genetics, University of Arizona, Tucson,

Arizona.

Applicant requests authorization to collect Arizona hedgehop cactus

(Echinocereus triglochidiatus var. arizonicus) from the Bureau of Land

Management-Safford District, Cibola, Apache-Sitgreaves, Coronado, and

Gila National Forests in Arizona and New Mexico.

Permit No. PRT-828640

Applicant: Harris Environmental Group, Tucson, Arizona.

Applicant requests authorization to conduct presence/absence

surveys for southwestern willow flycatchers (Empidonax traillii

extimus) in riparian areas of Arizona and New Mexico; and lesser long-

nosed bats (Leptonycteris curasoea yerbabuenae) within Arizona and New

Mexico.

DATES: Written comments on these permit applications must be received

on or before August 17, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Written data or comments should be submitted to the Legal

Instruments Examiner, Division of Endangered Species/Permits,

Ecological Services, P.O. Box 1306, Albuquerque, New Mexico 87103.

Please refer to the respective permit number for each application when

submitting comments. All comments received, including names and

addresses, will become part of the official administrative record and

may be made available to the public.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Ecological Services, Division of

Endangered Species/Permits, P.O. Box 1306, Albuquerque, New Mexico

87103. Please refer to the respective permit number for each

application when requesting copies of documents. 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 within 30 days of the date of publication of this

notice, to the address above.

Renne Lohoefener,

ARD-Ecological Services Region 2, Albuquerque, New Mexico.

[FR Doc. 98-19075 Filed 7-16-98; 8:45 am]

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