APPS Online Application and Help Instruction Document

OMB # 0648-0402
Exp. Date: 10/31/21

AUTHORIZATIONS AND PERMITS
FOR PROTECTED SPECIES (APPS)

Online Application Instructions
and
Help Document

July 2021
National Marine Fisheries Service
Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

TABLE OF CONTENTS
Chapter 1: Introduction to APPS
Chapter 2: How to Use the APPS System
Chapter 3: NMFS Pacific Marine/Anadromous Fish and
Invertebrates Scientific Research
Authorizations and Oregon Scientific Take
Permits
Chapter 4: NMFS Endangered Species and Marine
Mammals
Section A: Endangered Species
•
Scientific Research and Enhancement
Permits
•

Section B: Marine Mammal Scientific
Research and Enhancement Permits

•

Section C: General Authorization (nonlisted marine mammals only)

Please click here for guidance on coral permits
Chapter 5: Online Reporting
Chapter 6: How to Use the Search Function
Appendix I: Overview of Authorization and Permit
Types

Appendix II: Personnel Definitions for Authorizations
and Permits
Appendix III: Glossary
Appendix IV: NMFS and 4(d) State Contacts
Appendix V: Sub-Basin Reference Maps for 4(d), Salmon
ESA, and Oregon Permits (Includes
California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington)
Appendix VI: Oregon Region Ocean Shoreline
Reference Maps
Appendix VII: Take Table Drop-Down Menus

Public Burden Statement: A Federal agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, nor shall a person be subject to a
penalty for failure to comply with an information collection subject to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 unless the information
collection has a currently valid OMB Control Number. The approved OMB Control Number for this information collection is 0648-0402. Without this
approval, we could not conduct this information collection. Public reporting for this information collection is estimated to be approximately twelve hours per
response for applications, six hours per response for modification requests, and two hours per response for annual reports. These estimates include the
time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the information
collection. All responses to this information collection are required to obtain benefits. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect
of this information collection, including suggestions for reducing this burden to the National Marine Fisheries Service - West Coast Region, Protected
Species Division at: 1201 Northeast Lloyd Boulevard, Suite 1100, Portland, OR, 97232.