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[FR Doc. 2017–16110 Filed 7–31–17; 8:45 am] Service Headquarters, MS: IA; 5275 information from public review, we BILLING CODE 4210–67–C Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041– cannot guarantee that we will be able to 3803; telephone 703–358–2023; do so. facsimile 703–358–2280. II. Background DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: To help us carry out our conservation Fish and Wildlife Service I. Public Comment Procedures responsibilities for affected species, and A. How do I request copies of in consideration of section 10(a)(1)(A) of [Docket No. FWS–HQ–IA–2017–0038; the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as FXIA16710900000–178–FF09A30000] applications or comment on submitted applications? amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), along with Executive Order 13576, Foreign Endangered Species; Receipt Send your request for copies of of Applications for Permit ‘‘Delivering an Efficient, Effective, and applications or comments and materials Accountable Government,’’ and the AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, concerning any of the applications to President’s Memorandum for the Heads Interior. the contact listed under FOR FURTHER of Executive Departments and Agencies INFORMATION CONTACT. Please include ACTION: Notice of receipt of applications of January 21, 2009—Transparency and for permit. the Federal Register notice publication Open Government (74 FR 4685; Jan. 26, date, the PRT-number, and the name of 2009), which call on all Federal SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and the applicant in your request or agencies to promote openness and Wildlife Service, invite the public to submission. We will not consider transparency in Government by comment on the following applications requests or comments sent to an email disclosing information to the public, we to conduct certain activities with or address not listed under ADDRESSES. invite public comment on these permit endangered species, marine , If you provide an email address in your applications before final action is taken. or both. With some exceptions, the request for copies of applications, we Endangered Species Act (ESA) prohibits will attempt to respond to your request III. Permit Applications activities with listed species unless electronically. We invite the public to comment on Federal authorization is acquired that Please make your requests or applications to conduct certain allows such activities. comments as specific as possible. Please activities with endangered and DATES: We must receive comments or confine your comments to issues for threatened species. With some requests for documents on or before which we seek comments in this notice, exceptions, the Endangered Species Act August 31, 2017. and explain the basis for your (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.; ESA) prohibits comments. Include sufficient activities with listed species unless ADDRESSES: Submitting Comments: You information with your comments to Federal authorization is acquired that may submit comments by one of the allow us to authenticate any scientific or allows such activities. following methods: commercial data you include. • Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// Applicant: University of Texas-Austin, The comments and recommendations Austin, TX PRT–124346 www.regulations.gov. Follow the that will be most useful and likely to instructions for submitting comments The applicant requests a permit to influence agency decisions are: (1) import tissue samples of Verreaux’s on Docket No. FWS–HQ–IA–2017–0038. Those supported by quantitative • U.S. mail or hand-delivery: Public sifaka information or studies; and (2) those (Propithecus verreauxi) from Comments Processing, Attn: Docket No. that include citations to, and analyses FWS–HQ–IA–2017–0038, U.S. Fish and Morondava, Madagascar, for scientific of, the applicable laws and regulations. research. This notification covers Wildlife Service, MS: BPHC; 5275 We will not consider or include in our Leesburg Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041– activities to be conducted by the administrative record comments we applicant over a 5-year period. 3803. receive after the close of the comment Applicant: Wildlife & Environmental When submitting comments, please period (see DATES) or comments Conservation, Inc., Moorpark, CA; indicate the name of the applicant and delivered to an address other than those PRT–29610C the PRT# you are commenting on. We listed above (see ADDRESSES). will post all comments on http:// The applicant requests a permit to www.regulations.gov. This generally B. May I review comments submitted by purchase in interstate commerce two means that we will post any personal others? captive-born male cheetahs (Acinonyx information you provide us (see the Comments, including names and jubatus) from Metro Richmond Zoo, Public Comments section for more street addresses of respondents, will be Moseley, Virginia, to enhance the information). available for public review at the street propagation or survival of the species. Viewing Comments: Comments and address listed under ADDRESSES. The Applicant: Veterinary Initiative for materials we receive will be available public may review documents and other Endangered Wildlife, Bozeman, MT; for public inspection on http:// information applicants have sent in PRT–75654B www.regulations.gov, or by support of the application unless our The applicant requests amendment of appointment, between 8 a.m. and 4 allowing viewing would violate the their permit to import biological p.m., Monday through Friday, except Privacy Act or Freedom of Information samples from the Ministry of Forestry & Federal holidays, at the U.S. Fish and Act. Before including your address, Soil Conservation, Chitwan, , to Wildlife Service, Division of phone number, email address, or other include the following species: Asian Management Authority, 5275 Leesburg personal identifying information in your elephant (Elephas maximus), Indian Pike, Falls Church, VA 22041–3803; comment, you should be aware that rhinoceros (Rhinoceros unicornis), telephone 703–358–2095. your entire comment—including your (Sus salvanius), Alpine FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: personal identifying information—may musk (Moschus chrysogaster), Joyce Russell, Government Information be made publicly available at any time. black (Moschus fuscus), Specialist, Division of Management While you can ask us in your comment seladang ( gaurus), Chiru Authority, U.S. Fish and Wildlife to withhold your personal identifying (Pantholops hodgsonii), Himalayan

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(Nemorhaedus goral), Himalayan Loei, Thailand, to enhance the Applicant: Corey Schaefer, Mountain (Capricornis thar), propagation or survival of the species. Home, TX; PRT–24114C ( duvaucelii, listed as swamp This notification is for a single export. Applicant: Amanda Henson, Carrollton, deer ( duvauceli)), Indochina hog Applicant: Xiaobo Chu, San Ramon, CA; TX; PRT–32538C deer (Axis porcinus), hispid hare PRT–62256A IV. Next Steps (Caprolagus hispidus), snow leopard The applicant requests a renewal and (Panthera uncia), spotted linsang amendment to a captive-bred wildlife If the Service decides to issue permits (Prionodon pardicolor), Kashmir gray registration under 50 CFR 17.21(g) for to any of the applicants listed in this langur (Semnopithecus ajax), grey the radiated tortoise (Astrochelys notice, we will publish a notice in the langur (Semnopithecus hector), and radiata), to enhance the propagation or Federal Register. You may locate the Nepal grey langur (Semnopithecus survival of the species. This notification Federal Register notice announcing the schistaceus) for the purpose of scientific covers activities to be conducted by the permit issuance date by searching in research. This notification covers applicant over a 5-year period. www.regulations.gov under the permit number listed in this document. activities to be conducted by the Applicant: Jack L. Phillips, Gladewater, applicant over a 4-year period. TX; PRT–195823 V. Public Comments Applicant: Naples Zoo, Inc., Naples, FL; The applicant requests a renewal to a You may submit your comments and PRT–30387C captive-bred wildlife registration under materials concerning this notice by one The applicant requests a renewal and 50 CFR 17.21(g) for the red of the methods listed in ADDRESSES. We amendment to a captive-bred wildlife ( leche), to enhance the will not consider comments sent by registration under 50 CFR 17.21(g) for propagation or survival of the species. email or fax or to an address not listed the following species: Cheetah This notification covers activities to be in ADDRESSES. (Acinonyx jubatus), slender-horned conducted by the applicant over a 5- If you submit a comment via http:// (Gazella leptoceros), radiated year period. This applicant was www.regulations.gov, your entire tortoise (Astrochelys radiata), siamang published in the Federal Register on comment, including any personal (Symphalangus syndactylus), clouded March 22, 2017. We are providing identifying information, will be posted leopard (Neofelis nebulosa), tiger current application material for the on the Web site. If you submit a (Panthera tigris), northern plains gray public’s review and comment. hardcopy comment that includes langur (Semnopithecus entellus), Applicant: Michael A. Soupios, East personal identifying information, you Francois’ langur (Trachypithecus North Port, NY; PRT–18167C may request at the top of your document francoisi), white-headed lemur The applicant requests a captive-bred that we withhold this information from (Eulemur albifrons), red-collared lemur wildlife registration under 50 CFR public review. However, we cannot (Eulemur collaris), ring-tailed lemur 17.21(g) for the Galapagos tortoise guarantee that we will be able to do so. (Lemur catta), red ruffed lemur (Varecia (Chelonoidis nigra) to enhance species We will post all hardcopy comments rubra), red-cheeked gibbon (Nomascus propagation or survival. This on http://www.regulations.gov. gabriellae), lar gibbon (Hylobates lar), notification covers activities to be and cotton-top tamarin (Saguinus conducted by the applicant over a 5- VI. Authorities oedipus), to enhance the propagation or year period. Endangered Species Act of 1973, (16 survival of the species. This notification Applicant: Safari West, Santa Rosa, CA; U.S.C. 1531 et seq.). covers activities to be conducted by the PRT–27040C Joyce Russell, applicant over a 5-year period. The applicant requests a renewal and Applicant: Palfam Ranch Management Government Information Specialist, Branch amendment to a captive-bred wildlife of Permits, Division of Management LLC, Giddings, TX; PRT–64738A registration under 50 CFR 17.21(g) for Authority. The applicant requests a renewal of the following species: Cheetah [FR Doc. 2017–16121 Filed 7–31–17; 8:45 am] the permit authorizing the cull of excess (Acinonyx jubatus), northern bald ibis BILLING CODE 4333–15–P barasingha (Rucervus duvaucelii) and (Geronticus eremita), ring-tailed lemur red lechewe (Kobus leche) from the (Lemur catta), and the black and white captive herd maintained at their facility, ruffed lemur (Varecia variegata), to DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR to enhance the species’ propagation and enhance the propagation or survival of survival. This notification covers the species. This notification covers Bureau of Land Management activities to be conducted by the activities to be conducted by the [LLWY–957000–17–L13100000–PP0000] applicant over a 5-year period. applicant over a 5-year period. Applicant: Southeastern Louisiana Trophy Applicants Filing of Plats of Survey, Nebraska and University, Hammond, LA; PRT– Wyoming 32285C The following applicants each request a permit to import sport-hunted trophies AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, The applicant requests a permit to of a male ( Interior. import the olive ridley sea turtle pygargus pygargus) culled from a ACTION: Notice of official filing. (Lepidochelys olivacea) plasma and captive herd maintained under the gonad samples from the Conservation management program of the Republic of SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land Area, Tempisque, Guancaste, Costa South Africa, for the purpose of Management (BLM) is scheduled to file Rica, for the purpose of scientific enhancing the propagation or survival of plats of survey 30 calendar days from research. This notification covers the species. the date of this publication in the BLM activities to be conducted by the Applicant: Chadwick Derral King, Wyoming State Office, Cheyenne, applicant over a 5-year period. Seminole, TX; PRT–30891C Wyoming. The surveys, which were Applicant: Michael Wallace, Mineral, Applicant: Robert Earl Anderson, Jr., executed at the request of the Bureau of VA; PRT–32834C Georgetown, KY; PRT–30893C Indian Affairs and the BLM, are The applicant requests a permit to Applicant: Arnulfo Rodriguez, Spring, necessary for the management of these export ‘olulu (Brighamia insignis) to TX; PRT–20528C lands.

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