ML082960393
| ML082960393 | |
| Person / Time | |
|---|---|
| Site: | Bellefonte  |
| Issue date: | 10/15/2008 |
| From: | Peters A State of AL, Dept of Conservation & Natural Resources |
| To: | Bulavinetz R NRC/NRR/ADRO |
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| Download: ML082960393 (5) | |
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STATE OF ALABAMA DEPARTMENT OF CONSERVATION AND NATURAL RESOURCES 64 NORTH UNION STREET MONTGOMERY, AL 36130 JAMES I. GRIGGS.DIRECTOR BOB RILEY GREGORY M.LEIN. ASSISTANT DIRECTOR GOVERNOR STATE LANDS DIVISION M. BARNETT LAWLEY TELEPHONE (334)242-3484 COMMISSIONER FAX NO. (334)242-0999 October 15, 2008 Mr. Richard Bulavinetz Nuclear Regulatory Commission Rockville, MD 20852 RE: Sensitive Species Information request Bellefonte Nuclear Reactor Sites
Dear Mr. Bulavinetz:
The Natural Heritage Section office received your e-mail dated October 9, 2008 addressed to Steve Rider on October 15, 2008 and has since developed the following information pertaining to sensitive species (state protected, and federally listed candidate, threatened, and endangered species). I have enclosed a list of sensitive species which the Natural Heritage Section Database or the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have indicated occur or have occurred in Jackson County. Additionally, I have listed some potentially helpful and informative web sites at the end of this letter.
The Natural Heritage Section database contains numerous records of sensitive species in Jackson County. Our database indicates the area of interest has had no biological survey performed at the delineated location, by our staff or any individuals referenced in our database. Therefore we can make no accurate assessment to the past or current inhabitancy of any federal or state protected species at that location. A biological survey conducted by trained professionals is the most accurate way to ensure that no sensitive species are jeopardized by the development activities. The closest sensitive species is recorded in our database as occurring approximately 3.8 miles from the subject site. This federally listed endangered species (Gray Bat) will forage over land and water and occurs throughout the Tennessee River system habitat.*
I hope this information will be useful to you. The provided information is to help you in fulfilling your necessary legal obligations. The information does not suggest that protected species are not at this location. The specific location of a sensitive species is considered confidential information by a State Lands Division Regulation and can be released only to individuals who enter into a confidentiality and indemnity contract with the State Lands Division.
The Natural Heritage Section provides this information as a service to the people of Alabama. The NHS acts as a clearing house for species distribution data. We happily The Department of Consenvationand Natural Resources does not discriminate on (he basis of race. color, religion, age, gender, national origin. or disability inits hiringor employment practices nor in admission to, access to, or operationsof tisprograms, srNices. or activities.
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10/15/2008 Page 2 accept any information environmental researchers are willing to donate. Sensitive species exact locations are kept confidential. If you would be willing to donate any information to this database, we will be better able to assist all individuals interested in environmental compliance.
Sincerely, Ashley Peters Database Manager Natural Heritage Section Enclosures
- Paraphrased Information from NatureServe. 2006. NatureServe Explorer: An online encyclopedia of life [web application]. Version 5.0. NatureServe, Arlington, Virginia.
Available http://www.natureserve.org/explorer. (Accessed: August 18, 2006).
Potentially helpful web sites Information about federally listed species http://daphne.fws.gov/es/specieslst.htm http://www.pfmt.org/wildlife/endangered/
http://www.natureserve.org/explorer/
State Protected Species Regulations:
http://www.outdooralabama.com/hunting/regulations/regs.cfm
ALABAMA'S FEDERALLY LISTED AND STATE PROTECTED SPECIES (BY COUNTY)
This is a list of species deemed sensitive by the Alabama State Lands Division's Natural Heritage Section-(SLD-NHS) believed to occur in the designated county and the legal protection status of either State protected or federally listed. This list is a combination of the April 2007 U.S.F.W. Service (Daphne field Office) federally listed species by county list and the Alabama State Lands Division's Natural Heritage Section Database of species distributions data. This list is continually being updated, and, therefore, it may be incomplete or inaccurate and is provided strictly for informational purposes. It does not constitute any form of Section 7 consultation. We recommend that the U.S.F.W. Service Field Office in Daphne be contacted for Section 7 consultations. Site specific information can be provided by the Alabama SLD-NHS and/or the U.S.F.W. Service (Daphne field Office) prior to project activities. To be certain of occurrence, surveys should be conducted by qualified biologists to determine if a sensitive species occurs within a project area. Species not listed for a given county does not imply that they do not occur there, only that their occurrence there is as yet unrecorded by these two agencies. This list is currently under review and refects only our current understandina of snecies distributions.
Jackson State Regulation Protection Status Common name Scientific Name Applicable Candidate Slabside Pearlymussel Lexingtonia dolabelloides 220-2-.98 (1) (a)
Candidate White FringelessOrchid Platanthera integrilabia Endangered Gray Bat Myotis grisescens 220-2-.92 (1) (e)
Endangered Green Pitcher-plant Sarracenia oreophila Endangered Hine's Emerald Dragonfly (P) Somatochlora hineana Endangered Indiana Bat Myotis sodalis 220-2-.92 (1) (e)
Endangered Morefield's Leather Flower Clematis morefieldii Endangered Orangefoot (Pearlymussel) Pimple Plethobasus cooperianus 220-2-.98 (1) (a)
Endangered Pale (Pearlymussel) Lilliput Toxolasma cylindrellus 220-2-.98 (1) (a)
Endangered Palezone Shiner Notropis albizonatus 220-2-.92 (1) (a)
Endangered Pink (Pearlymussel) Mucket Lampsilis abrupta 220-2-.98 (1) (a)
Endangered / Alabama Lampmussel Lampsilis virescens 220-2-.98 (1) (a)
Experimental Endangered / Anthony's Riversnail Athearnia anthonyi 220-2-.98 (1) (a)
Experimental Endangered / Finerayed Pigtoe Fusconaia cuneolus 220-2-.98 (1) (a)
Experimental Endangered / Shiny Pigtoe Fusconaia cor 220-2-.98 (1) (a)
Experimental State Protected Bald Eagle Haliaeetus leucocephalus 220-2-.92 (1) (d)
State Protected Cumberland Moccasinqhell Medionidus conradicus. 220-2-.98 (1) (a)
State Protected Green Salamander Aneides aeneus 220-2-.92 (1) (b)
State Protected Lollipop Darter Etheostoma neopterum 220-2-.92 (1) (a)
State Protected Osprey Pandion haliaetus 220-2-.92 (1) (d)
State Protected Paddlefish Polyodon spathula 220-2-.94 State Protected Rabbitsfoot Quadrula cylindrica 220-2-.98 (1) (a)
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Jackson State Regulation Protection Status Common name Scientific Name Applicable State Protected Rafinesque's Big-eared Bat Corynorhinus rafinesquii 220-2-.92 (1) (e)
State Protected Sheepnose Plethobasus cyphyus 220-2-.98 (1) (a)
State Protected Slippershell Mussel Alasmidonta viridis 220-2-.98 (1) (a)
State Protected. Southern Cavefish Typhlichthys subterraneus 220-2-.92 (1) (a)
State Protected Spring Pygmy Sunfish Elassoma alabamae 220-2-.92 (1) (a)
State Protected Tennessee Cave Salamander Gyrinophilus palleucus 220-2-.92 (1) (b)
State Protected Tuscumbia Darter Etheostoma tuscumbia 220-2-.92 (1) (a)
Threatened American Hart's-tongue Fern Asplenium scolopendrium americanum Threatened Price's Potato Bean Apios priceana Threatened Snail Darter Percina tanasi 220-2-.92 (1) (a)
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Key to codes on list:
Endangered - Federally listed as Endangered (P) - Possible Occurrence Threatened - Federally listed as Threatened (S/A) - Similarity of Appearance to a listed species Candidate - Federally listed as Candidate (PE). - Proposed for federal listing as Endangered State Protected - It is unlawful to take, capture, (PT) - Proposed for federal listing as Threatened or kill; possess, sell, trade for anything of (CH) - Cristical Habitat has been designated monetary value, or offer to sell or trade these (PCH) - Cristical Habitat has been proposed species. Alabama Regulations relating to game, (H) - Historically known to have occured in the fish, and furbearing animals. 2005-2006.
Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
Experimental - Species is protected throught its range including Colbert and Lauderdale counties except for the nonessential experimental population. Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants; Establishment of Nonessential Experimental Population Status for 16 Freshwater Mussels and 1 Freshwater Snail in the Free-Flowing Reach of the Tennessee River below the Wilson Dam, Colbert and Lauderdale Counties, Alabama. [Federal Register; June 14, 2001 (Volume 66, Number Notes:
- Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus), red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides borealis) and the American peregrine falcon (Falco peregrinus anatum) may occur in any county, if habitat exists.
- Wood stork: July - October
- Bald eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) has been delisted. This species is still protected by the non-game species regulation and the migratory bird act. This species distribution is statewide but it is most likely to be observed near large rivers .and reservoirs.
- Sea turtles: Only loggerhead is potential nester, the rest are in coastal waters.
- Black bear (Ursus americanus sp.) - known to exist in Mobile County, but not listed.
-Gulf moccasinshell (Mediondus penicillatus), oval pigtoe (Pleurobema pyriforme), Chipola slabshell (El liptio chipolaensis), and purple bankclimber (Elliptoideus sloatianus) are freshwater mussels of the family Unionidae found only in eastern Gulf Slope streams draining the Apalachicolan Region, defined as streams from the Escambia to the Suwannee river systems, and occurring in southeast Alabama, southwest Georgia, and north Florida. All are listed as "Endangered".
- Fanshell (Cyprogenia stegaria), oyster mussel (Epioblasma capsaeformis), and Catspaw (purple cat's paw pearlymussel) (Epioblasma obliquata obliquata) are historically known to be found in the Tennessee River system and drainage.
-Gentian pinkroot (Spigelia gentianoides) has been historically found along the Alabama-Florida border.
-West Indian Manatee (Trichechus manatus) has been known to move north along the gulf coast west to Louisiana.
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