80470 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 245 / Wednesday, December 22, 2010 / Notices 

Dated: December 17, 2010. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2010–32082 Filed 12–21–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XA103 

Pacific 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 Pacific Fishery 

Management Council’s (Council) 

Groundfish Management Team (GMT) 

will hold a working meeting, which is 

open to the public. 

DATES: The GMT meeting will be held 

Monday, January 10, 2011 from 3 p.m. 

until business for the day is completed. 

The GMT meeting will reconvene 

Tuesday, January 11 through Friday, 

January 14, from 8:30 a.m. until 

business for each day is completed. 

ADDRESSES: The GMT meeting will be 

held at the Renaissance Long Beach 

Hotel, 111 East Ocean Boulevard, Long 

Beach, CA 90802. 

Council address: Pacific Fishery 

Management Council, 7700 NE. 

Ambassador Place, Suite 101, Portland, 

OR 97220–1384. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Kelly Ames or Mr. John DeVore, 

Groundfish Management Staff Officers; 

telephone: (503) 820–2280. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

purpose of the GMT work session is to 

review team roles and responsibilities, 

conduct workload planning for 2011, 

review the latest West Coast Groundfish 

Observer Data, and discuss 

improvements to the biennial 

management process. The GMT may 

also address other assignments relating 

to groundfish management. No 

management actions will be decided by 

the GMT. 

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained in the meeting agenda may 

come before the GMT for discussion, 

those issues may not be the subject of 

formal GMT action during this meeting. 

GMT action will be restricted to those 

issues specifically listed 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 GMT’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 Mr. 

Kris Kleinschmidt at (503) 820–2280 at 

least 5 days prior to the meeting date. 

Dated: December 17, 2010. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2010–32083 Filed 12–21–10; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XA096 

Marine Mammals; File No. 14335 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; receipt of application for 

permit amendment. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the Alaska SeaLife Center, Seward, AK, 

has applied for an amendment to 

Scientific Research Permit No. 14335. 

DATES: Written, telefaxed, or e-mail 

comments must be received on or before 

January 21, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: The application and related 

documents are available for review by 

selecting ‘‘Records Open for Public 

Comment’’ from the Features box on the 

Applications and Permits for Protected 

Species home page, https:// 

apps.nmfs.noaa.gov, and then selecting 

File No. 14335 from the list of available 

applications. 

These documents are also available 

upon written request or by appointment 

in the following office(s): 

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 

Alaska Region, NMFS, P.O. Box 

21668, Juneau, AK 99802–1668; phone 

(907) 586–7221; fax (907) 586–7249. 

Written comments on this application 

should be submitted to the Chief, 

Permits, Conservation and Education 

Division, at the address listed above. 

Comments may also be submitted by 

facsimile to (301) 713–0376, or by email to NMFS.Pr1Comments@noaa.gov. 

Please include the File No. in the 

subject line of the e-mail comment. 

Those individuals requesting a public 

hearing should submit a written request 

to the Chief, Permits, Conservation and 

Education Division at the address listed 

above. The request should set forth the 

specific reasons why a hearing on this 

application would be appropriate. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Tammy Adams or Amy Sloan, (301) 

713–2289. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

subject amendment to Permit No. 14335 

is requested under the authority of the 

Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, 

as amended (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), the 

regulations governing the taking and 

importing of marine mammals (50 CFR 

part 216), the Endangered Species Act of 

1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et 

seq.), and the regulations governing the 

taking, importing, and exporting of 

endangered and threatened species (50 

CFR 222–226). 

Permit No. 14335, issued on August 

17, 2009 (74 FR 44822), authorizes the 

permit holder to take Steller sea lions 

(Eumetopias jubatus) during 

investigations of the decline of the 

western stock and its failure to recover, 

and to assist recovery efforts. Data may 

be obtained on juvenile survival, 

epidemiology, endocrinology, 

immunology, virology, physiology, 

ontogenetic and annual body condition 

cycles, foraging behavior and habitat 

selection. Pups and juveniles of both 

sexes in the Gulf of Alaska may be 

captured each year, with a subset of 

juveniles selected for temporary 

quarantine captivity and associated 

projects at the ASLC. Activities involve 

capture, drug administration, 

anesthesia, fecal and urine collection, 

external and internal instruments, 

marking, morphometrics, behavioral 

observations, photogrammetry, tissue 

sampling, ultrasound, and x-ray. The 

permit also authorizes research-related 

mortality of Steller sea lions from the 

western stock. 

The permit holder is requesting the 

permit be amended to revise terms and 

conditions related to mitigation for 

temporary captivity, and associated 

post-surgical and hot-branding 

monitoring. Specifically, the permit 

holder requests permission to: (1) 

Reduce the post-surgical monitoring 

from 14 days to 10 days prior to release; 

(2) surgically implant animals that are 

below capture mass; and (3) retain for 

surgical implantation and other captive 


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