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exonerated and reimbursed taxes in 

each calendar year by Eurodif’s total 

sales during that calendar year. We 

adjusted Eurodif’s sales denominator 

using the methodology described in the 

‘‘Purchase at Prices that Constitute 

‘‘More Than Adequate Remuneration’’

section, above. On this basis, we 

preliminarily determine a net 

countervailable subsidy to Eurodif from 

this program of 0.34 percent ad valorem

in 2001 and 1.63 percent ad valorem in 

2002.

Verification

In accordance with section 782(i) of 

the Act, we conducted verification at 

Eurodif and the GOF on November 11 

through November 14, 2003.

Preliminary Results of Review

In accordance with section 

703(d)(1)(A)(i) of the Act, we have 

calculated an individual rate for 

Eurodif, the only company under 

review, for 2001 and 2002. We 

preliminarily determine that the total 

estimated net countervailable subsidy 

rate is 6.54 percent ad valorem for 2001 

and 3.03 percent ad valorem for 2002.

If the final results of this review 

remain the same as these preliminary 

results, the Department intends to 

instruct the U.S. Customs and Border 

Protection(CBP), within 15 days of 

publication of the final results of this 

review, to liquidate shipments of low 

enriched uranium from France by 

Eurodif entered, or withdrawn from 

warehouse, for consumption from May 

14, 2001 through September 11, 2001 at 

6.54 percent ad valorem and from 

February 13, 2002 through December 31, 

2002 at 3.03 percent ad valorem of the 

f.o.b. invoice price. The Department also 

intends to instruct CBP to collect cash 

deposits of estimated countervailing 

duties at 3.03 percent ad valorem of the 

f.o.b. invoice price on all shipments of 

the subject merchandise from the 

reviewed company, entered, or 

withdrawn from warehouse, for 

consumption on or after the date of 

publication of the final results of this 

review.

Because the URAA replaced the 

general rule in favor of a country-wide 

rate with a general rule in favor of 

individual rates for investigated and 

reviewed companies, the procedures for 

establishing countervailing duty rates, 

including those for non-reviewed 

companies, are now essentially the same 

as those in antidumping cases, except as 

provided for in section 777A(e)(2)(B) of 

the Act. The requested review will 

normally cover only those companies 

specifically named. See 19 CFR 

351.213(b). Pursuant to 19 CFR 

351.212(c), for all companies for which 

a review was not requested, duties must 

be assessed at the cash deposit rate, and 

cash deposits must continue to be 

collected, at the rate previously ordered. 

As such, the countervailing duty cash 

deposit rate applicable to a company 

can no longer change, except pursuant 

to a request for a review of that 

company. See Federal-Mogul 

Corporation and The Torrington 

Company v. United States, 822 F.Supp. 

782 (CIT 1993) and Floral Trade Council 

v. United States, 822 F.Supp. 766 (CIT 

1993) (interpreting 19 CFR 353.22(e), 

the antidumping regulation on 

automatic assessment, which is 

identical to 19 CFR 351.212(c)(ii)(2). 

Therefore, the cash deposit rates for all 

companies except those covered by this 

review will be unchanged by the results 

of this review.

We will instruct CBP to continue to 

collect cash deposits for non-reviewed 

companies at the most recent companyspecific or country-wide rate applicable 

to the company. Accordingly, the cash 

deposit rates that will be applied to nonreviewed companies covered by this 

order will be the rate for that company 

established in the most recently 

completed administrative proceeding. 

See Notice of Amended Final 

Determination and Notice of 

Countervailing Duty Order: Low 

Enriched Uranium from France, 67 FR 

6889 (February 13, 2002). These rates 

shall apply to all non-reviewed 

companies until a review of a company 

assigned these rates is requested.

Public Comment

Pursuant to 19 CFR 351.224(b), the 

Department will disclose to parties to 

the proceeding any calculations 

performed in connection with these 

preliminary results within five days 

after the date of the public 

announcement of this notice. Pursuant 

to 19 CFR 351.309, interested parties 

may submit written comments in 

response to these preliminary results. 

Unless otherwise indicated by the 

Department, case briefs must be 

submitted within 30 days after the date 

of publication of this notice, and 

rebuttal briefs, limited to arguments 

raised in case briefs, must be submitted 

no later than five days after the time 

limit for filing case briefs, unless 

otherwise specified by the Department. 

Parties who submit argument in this 

proceeding are requested to submit with 

the argument: (1) a statement of the 

issue, and (2) a brief summary of the 

argument. Parties submitting case and/

or rebuttal briefs are requested to 

provide the Department copies of the 

public version on disk. Case and 

rebuttal briefs must be served on 

interested parties in accordance with 19 

CFR 351.303(f). Also, pursuant to 19 

CFR 351.310, within 30 days of the date 

of publication of this notice, interested 

parties may request a public hearing on 

arguments to be raised in the case and 

rebuttal briefs. Unless the Secretary 

specifies otherwise, the hearing, if 

requested, will be held two days after 

the date for submission of rebuttal 

briefs, that is, thirty-seven days after the 

date of publication of these preliminary 

results.

Representatives of parties to the 

proceeding may request disclosure of 

proprietary information under 

administrative protective order no later 

than 10 days after the representative’s 

client or employer becomes a party to 

the proceeding, but in no event later 

than the date the case briefs, under 19 

CFR 351.309(c)(ii), are due. The 

Department will publish the final 

results of this administrative review, 

including the results of its analysis of 

arguments made in any case or rebuttal 

briefs.

This administrative review is issued 

and published in accordance with 

sections 751(a)(1) and 777(I)(1) of the 

Act (19 U.S.C. 1675(a)(1) and 19 U.S.C. 

1677f(I)(1)).

Dated: January 29, 2004.

James J. Jochum,

Assistant Secretary Import Administration.

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BILLING CODE 3510–DS–S

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

International Trade Administration 

[Docket No. 040129030–4030–01] 

Special American Business Internship 

Training Program (SABIT)

AGENCY: International Trade 

Administration (ITA), U.S. Department 

of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This Notice announces 

availability of funds for the Special 

American Business Internship Training 

Program (SABIT), for training business 

executives and scientists (also referred 

to as ‘‘Interns’’) from Eurasia (see 

program description for eligible 

countries). The amount of financial 

assistance available for the program is 

$1,500,000.

DATES: Applications must be received 

by 5 p.m. Eastern Time on April 23, 

2004. Processing of complete 

applications takes approximately three 

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to six months. All awards will be made 

by September 30, 2004.

ADDRESSES: Request for Applications: 

Competitive Application Kits will be 

available from ITA starting on the day 

this notice is published. To obtain a 

copy of the Application Kit please 

contact SABIT by: (1) E-mail at 

SABITApply@ita.doc.gov, providing 

your name, company name and address; 

(2) Telephone (202) 482–0073; (3) The 

World Wide Web at http://

www.mac.doc.gov/sabit/sabit.html; (4) 

Facsimile (202) 482–2443; (5) Mail: 

Send a written request with two selfaddressed mailing labels to Application 

Request, The SABIT Program, U.S. 

Department of Commerce, 1401 

Constitution Avenue, NW., FCB 4100W, 

Washington, DC 20230. The telephone 

numbers are not toll free numbers. Only 

one copy of the Application Kit will be 

provided to each organization 

requesting it, but it may be reproduced 

by the requesters.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Tracy M. Rollins, Director, SABIT 

Program, U.S. Department of Commerce, 

phone (202) 482–0073, facsimile (202) 

482–2443. These are not toll free 

numbers.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Electronic 

Access: The full funding opportunity 

announcement for the SABIT program is 

available via Web site: http://

www.fedgrants.gov or by contacting the 

program official identified above. 

Funding Availability: Pursuant to 

section 632(a) of the Foreign Assistance 

Act of 1961, as amended (the ‘‘Act’’) 

funding to the U.S. Department of 

Commerce (DOC) for the program will 

be provided by the United States 

Agency for International Development 

(AID). ITA will award financial 

assistance and administer the program 

pursuant to the authority contained in 

section 635(b) of the Act and other 

applicable grant rules. The amount of 

financial assistance available for the 

program is $1,500,000. Additional 

funding may become available at a 

future date.

Statutory Authority: 22 U.S.C. 2395(b).

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance 

(CFDA): 11.114, Special American Business 

Internship Training Program.

Program Description: The Department 

of Commerce, International Trade 

Administration (ITA) established the 

SABIT program in September 1990 to 

assist Eurasia’s transition to a market 

economy. Since that time, SABIT has 

been supporting U.S. companies and 

organizations that wish to provide 

business executives and scientists from 

Eurasia three to six month programs of 

hands-on training in a U.S. market 

economy. Under the SABIT program, 

qualified U.S. firms will receive funds 

through a cooperative agreement with 

ITA to help defray the cost of hosting 

Interns. The training must take place in 

the United States. ITA will approve 

Eurasian managers or scientists 

nominated by participating U.S. 

companies, or assist in identifying 

eligible candidates. Interns may be from 

any of the following countries in 

Eurasia: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, 

Georgia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, 

Moldova, Russia, Tajikistan, 

Turkmenistan, Ukraine, and Uzbekistan. 

Some Eurasian countries may have 

certain restrictions with regard to U.S. 

funding. These restrictions, and any 

waivers of restrictions, are made by the 

U.S. Department of State, not the SABIT 

program. Information on current 

restrictions is available upon request, 

but new restrictions may be put into 

place after a grant is awarded. The U.S. 

firms will be expected to provide the 

Interns with a hands-on, non-academic, 

executive training program designed to 

maximize their exposure to management 

or commercially oriented scientific 

operations. At the end of the training 

program, the Intern must return to his/

her home country. If there is any 

evidence of a conflict of interest 

between the nominated Intern and the 

company, the Intern is disqualified.

Managers: SABIT assists economic 

restructuring in Eurasia by providing 

mid-to-senior level business managers 

with practical training in American 

methods of innovation and management 

in such areas as strategic planning, 

financing, production, distribution, 

marketing, accounting, wholesaling, 

and/or labor relations. This first-hand 

experience in the U.S. economy enables 

Interns to become leaders in 

establishing and operating a market 

economy in Eurasia, and creates a 

unique opportunity for U.S. firms to 

familiarize key executives from Eurasia 

with their products and services. 

Sponsoring U.S. firms will benefit by 

establishing relationships with 

managers in similar industries who are 

uniquely positioned to assist their U.S. 

sponsors in doing business in Eurasia. 

Scientists: SABIT provides 

opportunities for gifted scientists to 

apply their skills to peaceful research 

and development in the civilian sector, 

in areas such as defense conversion, 

medical research, and the environment, 

and exposes them to the role of 

scientific research in a market economy 

where applicability of research relates to 

business success. Sponsoring firms in 

the U.S. scientific community also 

benefit from exchanging information 

and ideas, and different approaches to 

new technologies. 

All internships are three to six 

months; however, ITA reserves the right 

to allow an Intern to stay for a shorter 

period of time (no less than one month). 

ITA will reimburse companies for the 

round trip international travel (coach 

class tickets) of each Intern from the 

Intern’s home city in Eurasia to the U.S. 

internship site, a stipend of $34 per day 

to the Intern(s), and housing costs of up 

to $500.00 per month (excluding 

utilities or telephone services). For 

cities with higher costs of living, up to 

$750.00 a month (excluding utilities or 

telephone services) may be reimbursed. 

Interns must return to their home 

countries immediately upon completion 

of their U.S. internships. 

U.S. firms wishing to utilize SABIT in 

order to be matched with an intern 

without applying for financial 

assistance may do so. Such firms will be 

responsible for all costs, including 

travel expenses, related to sponsoring 

the intern. However, prior to acceptance 

as a SABIT intern, work plans and 

candidates must be approved by the 

SABIT Program. Furthermore, program 

training will be monitored by SABIT 

staff and evaluated upon completion of 

training. ITA does not guarantee that it 

will match Applicants with the profile 

provided to SABIT. 

Award Period: Recipient firms will 

have one year from the date listed on 

the Financial Assistance Award form, 

CD–450, in order to use the funds. 

However, DOC reserves the right to 

allow an extension if the recipient can 

justify the need for extra time. 

Eligibility: Eligible applicants for the 

SABIT program will include all forprofit or non-profit U.S. corporations, 

associations, organizations or other 

public or private entities located in the 

United States. Agencies or divisions of 

the Federal Government are not eligible. 

However, state and local governments 

are eligible. 

Matching Requirements: The budget 

will not include matching requirements, 

however, recipients are expected to bear 

the costs beyond the $34 per day 

stipend, additional lodging costs 

(including utilities and local telephone 

service) beyond the reimbursed amount, 

any training-related travel within the 

United States, visa cost, emergency 

medical insurance, training manuals 

and provisions of the hands-on training 

for the Interns.

Project Funding Priorities: Applicant 

must indicate involvement in priority 

business sector(s). While Applicants 

involved in any industry sector may 

apply to the program, priority 

consideration is given to those operating 

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in the following sectors: (a) 

Agribusiness (including food processing 

and distribution, and agricultural 

equipment), (b) Defense conversion, (c) 

Energy, (d) Environment (including 

environmental clean-up), (e) Financial 

services (including banking and 

accounting), (f) Housing, construction 

and infrastructure, (g) Medical 

equipment, supplies, pharmaceuticals, 

and health care management, (h) 

Product standards and quality control, 

(i) Telecommunications, (j) 

Transportation and (k) Biotechnology. 

Priority funding will also be given to 

applicants applying to host Interns from 

the following countries: Armenia, 

Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, 

Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. 

Evaluation and Selection Procedures:

Each application will receive an 

independent, objective review by one or 

more three or four-member review 

panels qualified to evaluate applications 

submitted under the program. Panels 

may include federal employees and 

non-federal individuals. No consensus 

advice will be given by the panel. 

Applications will be evaluated on a 

competitive basis after the deadline date 

in accordance with the selection 

evaluation criteria set forth above. 

Applicants that have received a passing 

score of 70 or above, based on the 

evaluation criteria weighting, will be 

ranked and awards will be made until 

funds are depleted. Applicants receiving 

scores below 70 will not be considered. 

ITA reserves the right to limit the award 

amount as well as the number of Interns 

per applicant. 

Applicants must provide evidence of 

a satisfactory record of performance in 

grants, contracts and/or cooperative 

agreements with the Federal 

Government, if applicable. (Applicants 

who are or have been deficient in 

current or recent performance in their 

grants, contracts, and/or cooperative 

agreements with the Federal 

Government shall be presumed to be 

unable to meet this requirement.) If 

applicant has a Federal Government 

Performance Record Statement, this 

must be noted as specified in the 

Application Kit. If there is no record to 

date, the Applicant should indicate this. 

Not having a record of performance will 

not count against an organization. 

Evaluation Criteria: Consideration for 

financial assistance will be given to 

those SABIT proposals that provide the 

following: 

(1) Work Plan. The Applicant 

organization must provide a detailed 

work plan for the intended training. If 

the Applicant organization is providing 

different training plans for different 

Interns, it MUST attach a separate work 

plan for each. If Interns will be trained 

on the same plan, only one plan needs 

to be attached. If an internship will take 

place at several organizations, a work 

plan for each organization must be 

provided. The work plan must include: 

(a) A detailed week-by week description 

of internship activities; (b) a description 

of the intern’s duties and 

responsibilities; (c) complete contact 

information for the everyday internship 

coordinator; (d) locations of training 

within the company, if the internship(s) 

will be in different divisions; (e) 

locations of training outside the 

company. If the Intern will spend 

substantial amounts of time at one or 

more external organizations or 

companies (over one week) the 

organization MUST provide a letter 

from each of those companies, 

indicating their willingness and ability 

to provide the planned training. 

Evaluation Scale: 0–40 points. 

(2) Training Objectives Statement.

The Applicant organization must 

provide an objectives statement, clearly 

titled ‘‘Training Objectives’’ with the 

name of the Applicant organization 

noted indicating why the organization 

wishes to provide a professional 

training experience to a Eurasian 

manager or scientist. The Applicant 

organization must explain how the 

proposed training would further the 

intent and goals of the SABIT program 

to provide practical, on-the-job, nonacademic, non-classroom training for a 

professional-level Intern. Evaluation 

Scale: 0–30 points. 

(3) Intern Description(s) and 

Resume(s): The Applicant organization 

should provide descriptions for all the 

Interns requested. This description 

should note the experience, education, 

and skills desired in a qualified 

candidate for the training they intend to 

provide. If an organization wants Interns 

from a specific region or country of 

Eurasia, it should be indicated in the 

application. If an organization has 

nominated candidates for training, their 

resumes must be attached. Additionally, 

the organization must describe for 

SABIT the relationship they have with 

the nominated candidates. All Intern 

candidates must meet SABIT criteria in 

order to participate. Evaluation Scale:

0–15 points. 

(4) Financial Resources 

Documentation: Evidence of adequate 

financial resources of the Applicant 

organization to cover the costs involved 

in providing an internship(s). Evidence 

may include a published annual report, 

or a letter from the company’s outside, 

independent accountant attesting to the 

organization’s financial ability to 

support the training program planned 

and the funds requested or a letter from 

the organization’s bank. All letters must 

be on the accountant’s or bank’s 

letterhead and addressed to the United 

States Department of Commerce. 

Evaluation Scale: 0–15 points. 

Evaluation criteria are listed in 

decreasing importance. That is, 

evaluation criterion 1 is most important, 

followed by criterion 2, etc.

Selection Factors: The final selecting 

official reserves the right to choose or 

recommend recipients based on U.S. 

geographic location, organization size as 

well as priority business sectors and 

country priorities (listed in Project 

Funding Priorities, above) and past 

performance, when making awards. 

Recipients may be eligible, pursuant to 

approval of an amendment of an active 

award, to host additional interns under 

the program. The Director of the SABIT 

Program is the final selecting official for 

each award. 

Intergovernmental Review:

Applications under this program are not 

subject to Executive Order 12372, 

‘‘Intergovernmental Review of Federal 

Programs.’’

Application Forms and Kit: To obtain 

an Application Kit, please refer to the 

section above marked ADDRESSES. An 

original and two copies of the 

application (including all relevant 

standard forms and supplemental 

material) are to be sent to the address 

designated in the Application Kit and 

received no later than 5 p.m. Eastern 

Time on the closing date. Sign the 

original application (including forms) 

with blue ink. 

Other Requirements: Department of 

Commerce Pre-Award Notification 

Requirements for Grants and 

Cooperative Agreements, which are 

contained in Federal Register Notice of 

October 1, 2001 (66 FR 49917), as 

amended by the Notice published on 

October 30, 2002 (67 FR 66109), are 

applicable. 

All applicants are advised of the 

following: 

1. Participating companies will be 

required to comply with all relevant 

U.S. tax and export regulations. Export 

controls may relate not only to licensing 

of products for export, but also to 

technical data transfer. The U.S. 

Department of Commerce’s Bureau of 

Industry and Security (BIS formerly 

BXA, the Bureau of Export 

Administration) reviews applications in 

question to determine whether export 

licenses are required. SABIT will not 

award a grant until the export license 

issue has been satisfied. 

2. The following statutes apply to this 

program: Section 907 of the FREEDOM 

Support Act, Public Law 102–511, 22 

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U.S.C. 5812 note (Restriction on 

Assistance to the Government of 

Azerbaijan); Public Law 107–115 

(Waiver of Section 907 of the Freedom 

Support Act); 7 U.S.C. 5201 et seq.

(Agricultural Competitiveness and 

Trade—the Bumpers Amendment); The 

Foreign Assistance Act of 1961, as 

amended, including Chapter 11 of Part 

I, section 498A(b), Public Law 102–511, 

22 U.S.C. 2295a(b) (regarding 

ineligibility for assistance); 22 U.S. C. 

2420(a), section 660(a) of The Foreign 

Assistance Act of 1961, as amended 

(Police Training Prohibition); and 

provisions in the annual Foreign 

Operations, Export Financing, and 

Related Programs Appropriations Acts, 

concerning impact on jobs in the United 

States (see, e.g., 536 of Pub. L. 106–113). 

3. The collection of information is 

approved by the Office of Management 

and Budget, OMB Control Number 

0625–0225. Public reporting for this 

collection of information is estimated to 

be six hours per response, including the 

time for reviewing instructions, and 

completing and reviewing the collection 

of information. All responses to this 

collection of information are voluntary, 

and will be protected from disclosure to 

the extent allowed under the Freedom 

of Information Act. 

The use of Standard Forms 270, 424 

and 424B is approved under OMB 

Control Numbers 0348–0004, 0348–

0043 and 0348–0040, respectively. 

Notwithstanding any other provision of 

law, no person is required to respond to, 

nor shall any person be subject to a 

penalty for failure to comply with, a 

collection of information subject to the 

requirements of the PRA unless that 

collection of information displays a 

currently valid OMB number. Send 

comments regarding the burden 

estimate or any other aspect of this 

collection of information, including 

suggestions for reducing this burden, to 

the Reports Clearance Officer, 

International Trade Administration, 

Department of Commerce, Room 4001, 

14th and Constitution Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20230. 

4. Executive Order 12866: It has been 

determined that this notice is not 

significant for purposes of E.O. 12866. 

5. Executive Order 13132: It has been 

determined that this notice does not 

contain policies with Federalism 

implications as that term is defined in 

E.O. 13132. 

6. Administrative Procedure Act/

Regulatory Flexibility Act: Because prior 

notice and opportunity for public 

comment are not required by the 

Administrative Procedure Act for rules 

concerning public property, loans, 

grants, benefits and contracts (5 U.S.C. 

553(a)(2)), a Regulatory Flexibility 

Analysis is not required and has not 

been prepared for this notice (5 U.S.C. 

601 et seq.).

Dated: February 2, 2004. 

Tracy M. Rollins, 

Director, SABIT Program.

[FR Doc. 04–2457 Filed 2–4–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–HE–P

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration

[I.D. 013004F]

Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management 

Council; Public Meeting

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

SUMMARY: The Joint Mid-Atlantic 

Fishery Management Council (MAFMC) 

and the New England Fishery 

Management Council (NEFMC) Spiny 

Dogfish Committee will hold a public 

meeting.

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Wednesday, February 18, 2004, from 9 

a.m. to 5 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Comfort Inn Airport, 1940 Post 

Road, Warwick, RI; telephone: 401–732–

0470.

Council address: Mid-Atlantic Fishery 

Management Council, 300 S. New 

Street, Room 2115, Dover, DE 19904.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Daniel T. Furlong, Executive Director, 

Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management 

Council; telephone: 302–674–2331, ext. 

19.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

purpose of this meeting is to identify 

issues to be included in the hearing 

draft of Amendment 1 to the Spiny 

Dogfish Fishery Management Plan.

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained in this agenda may come 

before this group for discussion, those 

issues may not be the subject of formal 

action during this meeting. Action will 

be restricted to those issues specifically 

identified in this notice and any issues 

arising after publication of this notice 

that require emergency action under 

section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act, provided the public has been 

notified of the Council’s intent to take 

final action to address the emergency.

Special Accommodations

This meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to 

Joanna Davis at the Mid-Atlantic 

Council Office (see ADDRESSES) at least 

5 days prior to the meeting date.

Dated: February 2, 2004.

Peter H. Fricke,

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.

[FR Doc. 04–2415 Filed 2–4–04; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–22–S

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration

[I.D. 013004E]

Endangered Species; File No.1295

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce.

ACTION: Receipt of application for 

modification

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the NMFS Northeast Fisheries Science 

Center (Responsible Official- Dr. John 

Boreman), 166 Water Street, Woods 

Hole, MA 02543–1097, has requested a 

modification to scientific research 

Permit No. 1295.

DATES: Written or telefaxed comments 

must be received on or before March 8, 

2004.

ADDRESSES: The modification request 

and related documents are available for 

review upon written request or by 

appointment in the following offices:

Permits, Conservation and Education 

Division, Office of Protected Resources, 

NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 

13705, Silver Spring, MD 20910; phone 

(301)713–2289; fax (301)713–0376; and

Northeast Region, NMFS, One 

Blackburn Drive, Gloucester, MA 

01930–2298; phone (978)281–9200; fax 

(978)281–9371.

Written comments or requests for a 

public hearing on this request should be 

submitted to the Chief, Permits, 

Conservation and Education Division, 

F/PR1, Office of Protected Resources, 

NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 

13705, Silver Spring, MD 20910. Those 

individuals requesting a hearing should 

set forth the specific reasons why a 

hearing on this particular modification 

request would be appropriate.

Comments may also be submitted by 

facsimile at (301)713–0376, provided 

the facsimile is confirmed by hard copy