ML093100184

Arizona Game and Fish Department Fax to Lisa Regner Dated October 19, 2009

ML093100184
Person / Time
Site:	Palo Verde
Issue date:	10/19/2009
From:	Ritter G State of AZ, Game & Fish Dept
To:	David Wrona License Renewal Projects Branch 2
Regner L M, NRR/DLR, 415-1906
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.JANICE Y. BREWER THE STATE OF ARIZONA CoMMISSIONERs CHAIMAN. BOB iltA7, OOE. Tn)c50N JENNIrER L, MAPTIN. PHOCNIY GAME AND FISH DEPARTMENT JRER7*..WOOPMOIE,*PHOLL NOPMAN W. FREEMAN*, CHINO VALLEY 5000 W. CAREFREE HIGHWAY jADI R, HU.TED, SCT IN(ERVILLE PHOENix, AZ 85086-5000 DIRECTOR LARP* 0. VOYLIS (602) 942-3000 - WWW.AZGFO.GOV DEPUTY DIRECTORS GARY R. HovArI"E ROSERT D. BROSCHEIi July 16, 2009 Mr. David J. Wrona Division of License Renewal Office of Nuclear Reactor Regulation US Nuclear Regulatory Commission Washington, DC 20555-0001 Re:

Special Status Species Information for Palo Verde Nuclear Facility and Transmission Line License Renewal Review.

Dear Mr. Wrona:

The Arizona Game and Fish Department (Department) has reviewed your request)dated June 12,

.2009, regarding special status species information associated with the above-referenced project area. The Department's Heritage Data Management System (HDMS) has been accessed and current records show that the special status species listed on the attachment have been documented as occurring in the project vicinity. The Department's HDMS data are not intended to include potential distribution of special status species. Arizona is large and diverse with plants, animals, and environmental conditions that are ever changing. Consequently, many areas may contain species that biologists do not know about or species previously noted in a particular area may no longer occur there. Not all of Arizona has been surveyed for special status species, and surveys that have been conducted have varied greatly in scope and intensity.

If you have any questions regarding this letter, please contact me at (623) 236-7606. General status information, county and watershed distribution lists and abstracts for some special status species are also available on our web site at httn://www-.az*.fd.gov/hdms.

Sincerely Ginger Ritter Project Evaluation Program Specialist cc:

Laura Canaca, Project Evaluation Program Supervisor Russ Haughey, Habitat Program Manager, Region VI AGFD 4M09-06181622 AN EQUAL OPPOATUNITy REASONABLE ACCOMMODAY]ONS AGENCY

Special Status Species within 5 Miles of Palo Verde Nuclear Plant Facility NAME COMMON NAME ESA USFS BILM STATE jopuntia echinocarpa Staw-top Chola S

SR Special Status Species within 3 Miles of Palo Verde Transmission Lines NAME COMMON NAME ESA USFS BLM STATE Ardea alba Great Egret WSC Athene cunicularia hypugaea Western Burrowing Owl SC S

Bat Colony CHforXyrouchen texonus Designated Critical Habitat for razorback sucker Charina trivirgata gracia Desert Rosy Boa SC S

S Coccyzus americanus Yellow-billed Cuckoo (Western U.S. DPS)

C WSC Colorado River Indian Reservation Colorado River Indian Reservation Dendrocygna autumnalis

.Black-bellied Whistling-Duck WSC Emnpidonax troillhi ex timus Southwestern Willow Flycatcher LE S

WSC Gila Bend - Sierra Estrella Linkage Design Wildlife Corridor Gila River Indian Reservation Gila River Indian Reservation Gopherus agassizii (Sonoran Population)

Sonoran Desert Tortoise SC WSC Halioeetus leucocepholus (wintering pop.)

Bald Eagle - Winter Population SC S

WSC Ixobrychus exilis Least Bittern WSC Lasiurus blossevillii Western Red Bat WSC Macrotus colifornicus California Leaf-nosed Bat SC WSC

.Myotis velifer Cave Myotis SC S

Opuntia echinocarpa Straw-top Cholla SR

,Rallus longirostris yumanensis Yuma Clapper Rail LE WSC

)Xyrauchen texanus Razorback Sucker LE S

WSC L4 0-1 I,r-a 0

14 AGFD #M09-06181622. Palo Verde License Renewal Application Review.

Arizona Game and Fish Department, Heritage Data Management System, July 16, 2009.

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