Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 129 / Wednesday, July 5, 2000 / Notices 41447

copies) should be received in the SAB

Executive Director’s Office by July 5,

2000, in order to provide sufficient time

for SAB review. Written comments

received by the SAB Executive Director

after July 5 will be distributed to the

SAB, but may not be reviewed prior to

the meeting date. Approximately thirty

(30) seats will be available for the public

including five (5) seats reserved for the

media. Seats will be available on a firstcome first-served basis.

Matters To Be Considered: The

meeting will include the following

topics: (1) Overview of NOAA’s

Alaskan, Arctic and Northern Pacific

Region Science and Research programs,

(2) NOAA’s involvement in the National

Oceanographic Partnership Program, (3)

Discussion of the SAB Report for the

next NOAA Administrator, (4) Public

Input Session with SAB discussion, (5)

Presentation and SAB discussion of the

proposal for Lab and Joint Institute

Reviews, (6) SAB Sub-Committee and

Working Group Reports, (7) SAB

debriefing of NOAA response to SAB

commendations on Northwest Salmon,

(8) Presentations of University of Alaska

Fairbanks Cooperative Institute for

Arctic Research (CIFAR) major NOAA

activities and research programs.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.

Michael S. Uhart, Executive Director,

Science Advisory Board, NOAA, Rm.

11142, 1315 East-West Highway, Silver

Spring, Maryland 20910 (Phone: 301–

713–9121, Fax: 301–713–3515, E-mail:

Michael.Uhart@noaa.gov); or visit the

NOAA SAB website at

www.sab.noaa.gov.

Dated: June 28, 2000.

Louisa Koch,

Deputy Assistant Administrator, OAR.

[FR Doc. 00–16943 Filed 7–3–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–08–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

[I.D. 060800C]

Marine Mammals

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Issuance of photography permit

no. 963–1535.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that

Wild Things Photography, P.O. Box

34517, 4474 Julep Street, Juneau, Alaska

99803, has been issued a permit to take

by Level B harassment one species,

harbor seal (Phoca vitulina), of nonthreatened, non-endangered marine

mammals for purposes of commercial

photography.

ADDRESSES: The permit and related

documents are available for review

upon written request or by appointment

in the following offices:

Permits Division, Office of Protected

Resources, NMFS,

1315 East-West Highway, Room

13130, Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301/

713–2289); and

Regional Administrator, Alaska

Region, 709 W. 9th Street, Federal

Building Room 461, P.O. Box 21668,

Juneau, AK 99802 (907/586–7235).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On

November 23, 1999, notice was

published in the Federal Register (64

FR 65687) that the above-named

applicant had submitted a request for a

permit to take one species of marine

mammals by Level B harassment during

the course of commercial photographic

activities in Glacier Bay National Park,

Alaska. The requested permit has been

issued, under the authority of § 104(c)(6)

of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of

1972, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1361 et

seq.).

Dated: June 27, 2000.

Ann D. Terbush,

Chief, Permits and Documentation Division,

Office of Protected Resources, National

Marine Fisheries Service.

[FR Doc. 00–16935 Filed 7–3–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–22–F

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

[I.D. 062700C]

Marine Mammals; File No. 782–1438

and P77–4#2

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Issuance of permit amendments.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that

the National Marine Mammal

Laboratory, National Marine Fisheries

Service, NOAA, 7600 Sand Point Way

NE, Seattle, Washington 98115–0070

has been issued an amendment to

scientific research Permit No. 782–1438;

and that the Northeast Fisheries Science

Center, National Marine Fisheries

Service, NOAA, 166 Water Street,

Woods Hole, MA 02546–1026 has been

issued an amendment to scientific

research Permit No. 917 (File No. P77–

4#2).

ADDRESSES: The amendments and

related documents are available for

review upon written request or by

appointment in the following office(s):

File Nos. 782–1438 and P77–4#2:

Permits and Documentation Division,

Office of Protected Resources, NMFS,

1315 East-West Highway, Room 13705,

Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301/713–

2289);

File No. 782–1438: Southwest Region,

National Marine Fisheries Service,

NOAA, 501 West Ocean Boulevard,

Suite 4200, Long Beach, CA 90802–4213

(562/980–4001);

File No. 782–1438: Alaska Region,

National Marine Fisheries Service,

NOAA, P.O. Box 21668, Juneau, AK

99802 (907/586–7235);

File No. P77–4#2 (Permit No. 917):

Northeast Region, NMFS, One

Blackburn Drive, Gloucester, MA 01930,

(978/281–9250).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Simona Roberts or Ruth Johnson, 301/

713–2289.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 4,

2000, notice was published in the

Federal Register (65 FR 25912) that an

amendment of Permit No. 782–1438,

issued on May 8, 1998 (63 FR 27265)

and of Permit No. 917 (File No. P77–

4#2), issued on May 11, 1994 (59 FR

25892), as amended on April 16, 1999

(64 FR 6326), had been requested by the

above-named institutions. The

requested amendments have been

granted 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 (ESA; 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. 782–1438 authorizes the

National Marine Mammal Laboratory to

take various large and small cetacean

species through photographic aerial

surveys (Project I), biopsy sampling and

photo-id (Project II), small cetacean

species and pinnipeds through vessel

surveys (Project III) and gray whales

through biopsy sampling, tagging,

photo-id and harassment (Project IV).

The amendment now authorizes the

National Marine Mammal Laboratory to

satellite-tag, flipper tag, VHF radio/time

depth recorder(TDR) suction cup-tag

and biopsy sample beluga whales

(Delphinapterus leucas) in Alaskan

waters.