Receipt of Application for Endangered Species Permit

AGENCY:

Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

ACTION:

Notice of receipt of application for endangered species permit.

SUMMARY:

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.).

If you wish to comment, you may submit comments by any one of several methods. You may mail comments to the Service's Regional Office (see ADDRESSES). You may also comment via the internet to “victoria_davis@fws.gov”. Please submit comments over the internet as an ASCII file avoiding the use of special characters and any form of encryption. Please also include your name and return address in your internet message. If you do not receive a confirmation from the Service that we have received your internet message, contact us directly at either telephone number listed below (see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT). Finally, you may hand deliver comments to the Service office listed below (see ADDRESSES). Our practice is to make comments, including names and home addresses of respondents, available for public review during regular business hours. Individual respondents may request that we withhold their home address from the administrative record. We will honor such requests to the extent allowable by law. There may also be other circumstances in which we would withhold from the administrative record a respondent's identity, as allowable by law. If you wish us to withhold your name and address, you must state this prominently at the beginning of your comments. We will not; however, consider anonymous comments. We will make all submissions from organizations or businesses, and from individuals identifying themselves as representatives or officials of organizations or businesses, available for public inspection in their entirety.

DATES:

Written data or comments on these applications must be received, at the address given below, by October 10, 2000.

ADDRESSES:

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: Victoria Davis, Permits Biologist). Telephone: 404/679-4176; Facsimile: 404/679-7081.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Victoria Davis, Telephone: 404/679-4176; Facsimile: 404/679-7081.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Applicant: Dr. Thomas C. Emmel, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, TE027393-0

The applicant requests a permit to capture the Swallowtail butterflies, Heraclides (Papilio) aristodemus ponceanus, and to maintain existing captive populations for the purpose of reintroduction to the wild throughout the southern Florida mainland and Keys.

Applicant: Tetra Tech, Inc., Owings Mills, Maryland, TE032755-0

The applicant requests authorization to take (capture, identify, release) federally-listed fishes (spotfin chub, Cyprinella monacha; duskytail darter, Etheostoma percnurum; yellowfin madtom, Notorus flavipinnis), during the course of aquatic surveys in the Holston River within the Holston Army Annunition Plant, Kingsport, Tennessee (Hawkins County). Any taking would occur during routine biological surveys for the purpose of enhancement of survival of the species.