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Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 189 / Thursday, September 29, 2016 / Notices 66991 Under the MMPA, you may request a tetraspis), broad-snouted caiman application, including the draft SHA hearing on any MMPA application (Caiman latirostris), black caiman and the draft EA, available for public received. If you request a hearing, give (Melanosuchus niger), and tomistoma review and comment. specific reasons why a hearing would be (Tomistoma schlegelii). This notification DATES: To ensure consideration, written appropriate. The holding of such a covers activities to be conducted by the comments must be received from hearing is at the discretion of the applicant over a 5-year period. interested parties by October 31, 2016. Service Director. B. Endangered Marine Mammals and ADDRESSES: To request further III. Permit Applications Marine Mammals information or submit written comments, please use one of the A. Endangered Species Applicant: SeaWorld, LLC, San Diego, CA; PRT–02152C following methods, and note that your information request or comments are in Applicant: Phoenix Herpetological The applicant requests a permit for Society, Scottsdale, AZ; PRT–90722B reference to the Roseburg Resources Co. public display of one Pacific walrus draft SHA and draft EA. The applicant requests a permit to (Odobenus rosmarus divergens) which • export two male and two female captive Internet: Documents may be viewed had been found as an abandoned calf and downloaded on the Internet at bred Grand Cayman blue iguanas near Barrow, Alaska, was rescued, (Cyclura lewisi) for the purpose of http://www.fws.gov/ofwo/. rehabilitated, and subsequently deemed • Email: [email protected]. enhancement of the survival of the non-releasable by the U.S. Fish and species. Include ‘‘Roseburg Resources Co. SHA’’ Wildlife Service because the calf did not in the subject line of the message. Applicant: Fred Gage, La Jolla, CA; have the necessary skills to survive in • U.S. Mail: Robin Bown; U.S. Fish PRT–99616B the wild. and Wildlife Service; Oregon Fish and The applicant requests a permit to Concurrent with publishing this Wildlife Office; 2600 SE 98th Ave., import biological samples from captive notice in the Federal Register, we are Suite 100, Portland, OR 97266. bred Sumatran orangutan (Pongo abelii) forwarding copies of the above • Fax: 503–231–6195. for the purpose of scientific research. applications to the Marine Mammal • In-Person Drop-off, Viewing, or Commission and the Committee of Applicant: Panther Ridge Conservation Pickup: Call 503–231–6970 to make an Scientific Advisors for their review. Center, Wellington, FL; PRT–203027 appointment (necessary for viewing or The applicant requests amendment of Brenda Tapia, pickup only) during regular business an existing captive-bred wildlife Program Analyst/Data Administrator, Branch hours at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife registration under 50 CFR 17.21(g) to of Permits, Division of Management Service; Oregon Fish and Wildlife add the following species to enhance Authority. Office; 2600 SE 98th Ave., Suite 100; species propagation or survival: Leopard [FR Doc. 2016–23460 Filed 9–28–16; 8:45 am] Portland, OR 97266. Written comments (Panthera pardus) and cheetah BILLING CODE 4333–15–P can be dropped off during regular (Acinonyx jubatus). This notification business hours at the above address on covers activities to be conducted by the or before the closing date of the public applicant over a 5-year period. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR comment period (see DATES). FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Applicant: William Ahrens, Marvin, NC; Fish and Wildlife Service Robin Bown, U.S. Fish and Wildlife PRT–86901B [FWS–R1–ES–2016–N023; Service (see ADDRESSES), telephone 503– The applicant requests a captive-bred FXES11120100000–167–FF01E00000] 231–6179. If you use a wildlife registration under 50 CFR telecommunications device for the deaf 17.21(g) for the following species to Proposed Roseburg Resources Co. (TDD), please call the Federal enhance species propagation or Safe Harbor Agreement for the Information Relay Service (FIRS) at survival: Radiated tortoise (Astrochelys Northern Spotted Owl and Draft 800–877–8339. radiata), Bolson tortoise (Gopherus Environmental Assessment SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The flavomarginatus), aquatic box turtle Roseburg Resources Co. has applied to (Terrapene coahuila), and Galapagos AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, the Service for a permit under section tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra). This Interior. 10(a)(1)(A) of the ESA (16 U.S.C. 1531 notification covers activities to be ACTION: Notice of availability; request et seq.). The permit application includes conducted by the applicant over a 5- for comments. a draft SHA. The Service has drafted an year period. SUMMARY: We, the U.S. Fish and EA addressing the effects of the Applicant: Phoenix Herpetological Wildlife Service (Service), have received proposed permit action on the human Society, Scottsdale, AZ; PRT–19818A an application from Roseburg Resources environment. The applicant requests amendment of Co. for an Endangered Species Act The SHA covers approximately an existing captive-bred wildlife (ESA) Enhancement of Survival Permit 45,100 acres of forest lands owned by registration under 50 CFR 17.21(g) to (permit) for take of the federally the Roseburg Resources Co. where add the following species to enhance threatened northern spotted owl. The timber management activities will occur species propagation or survival: Cuban permit application includes a draft Safe within the experiment treatment portion crocodile (Crocodylus rhombifer), Harbor Agreement (SHA) addressing of the Union/Myrtle (Klamath) Study saltwater crocodile (Crocodylus Service access to Roseburg Resources Area near Canyonville in Douglas porosus), Philippine crocodile Co. lands for the survey and removal of County, Oregon. The SHA addresses (Crocodylus mindorensis), African barred owls as part of the Service’s timber management activities only in slender-snouted crocodile (Crocodylus Barred Owl Removal Experiment in the treatment portion of the study area cataphractus), freshwater crocodile Douglas County, Oregon. In response to on Roseburg Resources Co. lands. (Crocodylus johnstoni), Orinoco the permit application, the Service has Impacts to the threatened northern crocodile (Crocodylus intermedius), prepared a draft environmental spotted owl (Strix occidentalis caurina) Chinese alligator (Alligator sinensis), assessment (EA) addressing the permit (spotted owl) associated with the Dwarf crocodile (Osteolaemus tetraspis action. We are making the permit experiment in non-treatment portions of VerDate Sep<11>2014 18:51 Sep 28, 2016 Jkt 238001 PO 00000 Frm 00073 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\29SEN1.SGM 29SEN1 mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES 66992 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 189 / Thursday, September 29, 2016 / Notices the study area are addressed in an Roseburg Resources Co. Safe Harbor Co. lands after barred owl removal in environmental assessment prepared by Agreement the treatment area occurs. the Service for the experiment (Service The purpose of the Roseburg 2013a. Final Environmental Impact The proposed Roseburg Resources Co. Resources Co.’s participation in the Statement for the Experimental Removal SHA addresses Service access to lands experiment under a SHA is to of Barred Owls to Benefit Threatened administered by the company in demonstrate continued good faith Spotted Owls. Portland, Oregon). The support of implementing the experiment cooperation with the Service regarding proposed term of the permit and the (Service 2013a. Final Environmental this recovery action, and to obtain ESA SHA is 10 years. In return for Impact Statement for the Experimental regulatory assurances during and after permission to access their lands for Removal of Barred Owls to Benefit the experiment period. barred owl (Strix varia) surveys and Threatened Spotted Owls. Portland, To support the experiment, under the removal in support of the experiment, Oregon) in the Union/Myrtle (Klamath) SHA the Roseburg Resources Co. will the permit would authorize take of the Study Area in Douglas County, Oregon. provide the researchers access to the spotted owl caused by forest The SHA covers about 45,100 acres of company’s lands to survey barred owls management activities on Roseburg Roseburg Resources Co. lands where within the study area, and to remove Resources Co. lands at currently timber management activities will occur barred owls located on Roseburg unoccupied, non-baseline sites that may within the treatment portion of the Resources Co. lands within the be re-occupied by spotted owls as a Union/Myrtle (Klamath) Study Area. treatment portion of the study area. In result of barred owl removal for the term The entire treatment area covers lands addition, the Roseburg Resources Co. of the permit. owned by many different landowners. will defer management activities to The treatment area includes 49 percent support actively nesting spotted owls on Background Federal lands, <1 percent State lands, 27 any reoccupied, non-baseline spotted Under a SHA, participating percent private lands not owned by the owl sites during the nesting season. landowners voluntarily undertake company, and 24 percent Roseburg The Service’s Proposed Action activities on their property to benefit Resources Co. lands. If barred owl removal leads to the re-occupancy of The Service proposes to enter into the species listed under the ESA. SHAs and SHA and to issue a permit to the currently unoccupied sites by spotted their associated