Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Incidental Take Permit Application; Habitat Conservation Plan and Associated Documents; Meteorological Towers, Lāna’i, HI

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2011-12-07/pdf/2011-31427.pdf

The U.S Fish and Wildlife Service (Service), has received an application from Castle and Cooke Resorts, LLC (applicant) to renew the incidental take permit number TE194350–0, associated with an existing habitat conservation plan (HCP), under the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA). The applicant is requesting a six-year extension of an incidental take permit for incidental take of the endangered Hawaiian petrel (Pterodroma sandwichensis), endangered Hawaiian stilt (Himantopus mexicanus knudseni), endangered Hawaiian hoary bat (Lasiurus cinereus semotus), and the threatened Newell’s (Townsend’s) shearwater (Puffinus auricularis newelli) on the island of Lānaʻi, Hawai‘i. The applicant remains in compliance with all of the conditions and authorizations in the original permit and no take has been documented to date. The applicant is also applying to the Hawai‘i Department of Land and Natural Resources to extend their State incidental take license. The Service requests public comment on the permit renewal application and HCP, as well as on the Service’s preliminary determination that the action is covered under the environmental assessment completed for the initial permit issuance. All comments from interested parties must be received on or before January 06, 2012. Please address written comments to Loyal Mehrhoff, Project Leader, Pacific Islands Fish and Wildlife Office, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 300 Ala Moana Boulevard, Room 3-122, Honolulu, HI 96850. You may also send comments by facsimile to (808) 792-9580. For more information, please contact Bill Standley, Fish and Wildlife Biologist, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service at the above address. He may be reached by telephone (808) 792–9400 (see, 76 FR 76434, December 07, 2011).

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http://oeqc.doh.hawaii.gov/Shared%20Documents/Environmental_Notice/current_issue.pdf