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Federal Register/Vol. 69, No. 55/Monday, March 22, 2004/Notices 13326 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 55 / Monday, March 22, 2004 / Notices (Dermochelys coriacea) while (Percina aurolineata), Conasauga Anthony’s river snail (Athernia administrating the State stranding logperch (Percina jenkinsi), snail darter anthonyi) while conducting dredging program, conducting presence and (Percina tanasi), flatwoods salamander and presence or absence surveys. The absence studies, and managing the (Ambystoma cingulatum), fat threeridge proposed activities would occur in population. The proposed activities (Amblema neislerii), purple Jackson County, Alabama. would occur in the State of Alabama. bankclimber (Elliptoideus sloatianus), Dated: March 10, 2004. Injured or sick sea turtles would be upland combshell (Epioblasma Sam D. Hamilton, transported to facilities in Florida, metastriata), southern acornshell Mississippi, or Louisiana. (Epioblasma othcaloogensis), southern Regional Director. Applicant: Curtis S. Garriock, Pittsboro, combshell (Epioblasma penita), fine- [FR Doc. 04–6331 Filed 3–19–04; 8:45 am] North Carolina, TE083020–0. lined pocketbook (Lampsilis altilis), BILLING CODE 4310–55–P The applicant requests authorization Orange-nacre mucket (Lampsilis to take (capture and release) Saint perovalis), shinyrayed pocketbook Francis’ Satyr (Neonympha mitchellii (Lampsilis subangulata), Alabama DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR francisci) while conducting presence moccasinshell (Medionidus Fish and Wildlife Service and absence studies and population acutissimus), Coosa moccasinshell inventories. The activities would take (Medionidus parvulus), gulf Endangered and Threatened Wildlife place at Fort Bragg Army Base, moccasinshell (Medionidus and Plants; 90-Day Finding on a Cumberland and Hoke Counties, North penicillatus), Ochlockonee Petition To Delist the Pacific Coast Carolina. moccasinshell (Medionidus Population of the Western Snowy Applicant: Erin Kathleen Garrison, simpsonianus), southern clubshell Plover and Initiation of a 5-Year Review Tennessee Cooperative Fishery Unit, (Pleurobema decisum), southern pigtoe Cookeville, Tennessee, TE083662–0. (Pleurobema georgianum), ovate AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, The applicant requests authorization clubshell (Pleurobema perovatum), oval Interior. to take (capture, tissue samples, pigtoe (Pleurobema pyriforme), and ACTION: Notice of 90-day petition sacrifice one, and release) the bluemask triangular kidneyshell (Ptychobranchus finding and initiation of status review darter (Etheostoma (Doration) sp.) while greenii) while conducting presence and for the 12-month finding and 5-year investigating genetic flow between absence studies and population review. seemingly isolated populations of the monitoring. The proposed activities species and determining the amount of would occur throughout the State of SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and genetic variation within populations. Georgia. Wildlife Service (Service), announce a The proposed activities would occur on Applicant: USDA Forest Service, 90-day finding on a petition to remove Cane Creek (Van Buren County, Southern Research Station, Charles the Pacific coast population of the Tennessee), the Caney Fork (White Andrew Dolloff, Blacksburg, Virginia, western snowy plover (Charadrius County, Tennessee), and Collins River TE084010–0. alexandrinus nivosus) from the Federal (Grundy and Warren County, The applicant requests authorization List of Threatened and Endangered Tennessee). These rivers drain into to take (capture, identify, examine, Wildlife and Plants (List) pursuant to Great Fall Reservoir (White County, measure, release) the Carolina the Endangered Species Act (Act) [16 Tennessee). heelsplitter (Lasmigona decorata). The U.S.C. 1531 et seq.]. We find that the Applicant: Dr. Gary O. Graening, The purpose of the take would be to describe petition presents substantial Nature Conservancy, Little Rock, habitat conditions and mussel information that delisting the Pacific Arkansas, TE083697–0. distribution, density, and population coast population of the western snowy The applicant requests authorization size structure within a 16 km reach of plover may be warranted, and are to take (use diving lights underwater Mountain Creek using quantitative, initiating a status review. We are and collect one voucher specimen from statistically valid and repeatable requesting submission of any new each new location) the Amblyopsis methods. Specifically, the proposed information on the Pacific coast rosae, Cambarus aculabrum, and activities would take place at the population of the western snowy plover Cambarus zophonastes while updating confluence of Mountain Creek and since its original listing as a threatened their status and distribution and while Turkey Creek, south of State Road 62 species in 1993. Following this status performing ongoing monitoring of the crossing; Edgefield and Greenwood review, we will issue a 12-month populations and their habitat. The Counties, South Carolina. finding on the petition to delist. Because activities would take place in Benton, Applicant: North Carolina State a status review is also required for the Carroll, Washington, Madison, Boone, University, Department of Botany, 5-year review of listed species under Stone, Newton, Marion, Baxter, Sharp, Qiu-yun Xiang, Raleigh, North section 4(c)(2)(A) of the Act, we are Randolph, Izard, Searcy, Independence, Carolina, TE084018–0. electing to prepare these reviews Crawford, and Lawrence Counties, The applicant request authorization to simultaneously. At the conclusion of Arkansas; Delaware, Ottawa, Adair, and possess (collect leaf material and seeds) these simultaneous reviews, we will Cherokee Counties, Oklahoma. from the (Echinacea laevigata) smooth issue the 12-month finding on the Applicant: Fish and Wildlife Associates, coneflower for while conducting genetic petition, as provided in section Inc., Pamela M. Boaze, Whittier, diversity analyses and out crossing 4(b)(3)(B) of the Act, and make the North Carolina, TE083941–0. rates. The proposed activities would requisite finding under section The applicant requests authorization occur in the States of Georgia, North 4(c)(2)(B) of the Act based on the results to take (capture, identify, and release) Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. of the 5-year review. the following species: Blue shiner Applicant: URS Corporation, James R. DATES: The finding announced in this (Cyprinella caerulea), Etowah darter Orr, Franklin, Tennessee, TE084054– document was made on February 20, (Etheostoma etowahae), Cherokee darter 0. 2004. To be considered in the 12-month (Etheostoma scotti), Amber darter The applicant request authorization to finding on this petition or the 5-year (Percina antesella), goldline darter take (capture, identify, release) the review, comments and information VerDate jul<14>2003 15:22 Mar 19, 2004 Jkt 203001 PO 00000 Frm 00048 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\22MRN1.SGM 22MRN1 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 55 / Monday, March 22, 2004 / Notices 13327 should be submitted to us by May 21, on December 7, 1999 (64 FR 68508). On wintering locations on the Pacific coast 2004. June 19, 2003, the U.S. District Court for and in the Gulf of California, where they ADDRESSES: Comments, material, the District of Oregon found that our may mix with birds from the Pacific information, or questions concerning critical habitat designation was not Coast WSP (Page et al. 1995a, 1995b). this petition and finding should be sent consistent with the requirements of However, evidence from several to Field Supervisor, Sacramento Fish section 4(b)(2) of the Act, and remanded banding studies indicates the two and Wildlife Office, U.S. Fish and the designation to us; the Court partially populations separate out again to nest Wildlife Service, 2800 Cottage Way, vacated the 1999 critical habitat (Gary Page, et al., Point Reyes Bird Sacramento, California 95825–1846. The designation. Observatory, in litt. 2002.). The timing of the nesting season petition, finding, and supporting Biology and Distribution information are available for public varies with location, but in coastal inspection by appointment during Snowy plovers are small shorebirds, California it tends to run from March normal business hours at the above about 16 centimeters (6 inches) long, through September (Page et al. 1995a). address. with pale brown upperparts, buff Breeding locations tend to be sandy colored bellies, and darker patches on areas close to water, including beaches, FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Glen their shoulders and heads. Their dark salt pans, and alkaline playas. Clutches, Tarr or Arnold Roessler, Fish and gray to black legs are a useful which most commonly consist of three Wildlife Biologists, at the above distinguishing feature when comparing eggs, are laid in shallow scrapes or Sacramento address (telephone: (916) to other plover species (Page et al. depressions in the sand. Snowy plovers 414–6600). 1995a). Two subspecies of snowy plover generally form monogamous pair bonds SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: nest in North America: the western and share incubation duties, but Background snowy plover (WSP) and the Cuban western snowy plover females typically snowy plover. desert the brood shortly after hatching, Section 4(b)(3)(A) of the Endangered The nesting range of the first and may renest with a new male if time Species Act (Act) [16 U.S.C. 1531 et subspecies, the western snowy plover remains in the season to do so. Males seq.] requires that we make a finding on (Charadrius alexandrinus nivosus), typically care for the young until
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