Justification for No Material/Nonsubstantive Change Request

Federal Fish and Wildlife Permit Applications and Reports – Native Endangered and Threatened Species;

50 CFR 10, 13, and 17

1018-0094

Justification for No Material/Nonsubstantive Change

The Service is proposing to separate the existing approved FWS Form 3-200-55 into the following two separate forms:

• Form 3-200-59, Recovery Permit Application Form

• Form 3-200-60, Interstate Commerce Application Form

The previously approved form 3-200-55 included text detailing the application for two different permit types (asking the applicant to select either Recovery Permit or Interstate Commerce). Because of this, the original permit application form was lengthy and confusing. By splitting this into two forms (3-200-59 for Recovery Permits and 3-200-59 for Interstate Commerce), this reduces the overall form length and reduces confusion. The new form fields match the original fields with no new instructions added; however, the text accompanying the fields on the new forms is not identical to the old form due to the clarifying nature of the split. We do not anticipate a burden change in conjunction with this change.