[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 155 (Tuesday, August 12, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43143-43144]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-21186]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 080597B]


Endangered Species; Permits

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

ACTION: Issuance of permit 1055 (P646) and modification 2 to permit 
1025 (P622).

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that NMFS has issued a permit to Amy 
Harris, a student of California State University at Sacramento, CA and 
a modification to a permit to the California Department of Fish and 
Game at Sacramento, CA (CDFG) providing authorization for takes of an 
endangered species for the purpose of scientific research, subject to 
certain conditions set forth therein.

ADDRESSES: The applications and related documents are available for 
review in the following offices, by appointment:
    Office of Protected Resources, F/PR3, NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, 
Silver Spring, MD 20910-3226 (301-713-1401); and
    Protected Species Division, NMFS, 777 Sonoma Avenue, Room 325, 
Santa Rosa, CA 95404-6528 (707-575-6064).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The permit and the permit modification were 
issued under the authority of section 10 of the Endangered Species Act 
of 1973 (ESA) (16 U.S.C. 1531-1543) and the NMFS regulations governing 
ESA-listed fish and wildlife permits (50 CFR parts 217-222).
    Notice was published on May 12, 1997 (62 FR 25927) that an 
application had been filed by Amy Harris (P646) for a scientific 
research permit. Permit 1055 was issued to Amy Harris on August 1, 
1997. Permit 1055 authorizes Amy Harris an annual take of juvenile, 
endangered, Sacramento River winter-run chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus 
tshawytscha) associated with a study designed to compare the relative 
abundance of juvenile chinook salmon in restored and naturally-
occurring shallow-water habitats in the northern

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Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Permit 1055 expires on June 30, 1999.
    Notice was published on May 12, 1997 (62 FR 25927) that an 
application had been filed by CDFG (P622) for modification 2 to 
scientific research permit 1025. Modification 2 to permit 1025 was 
issued to CDFG on August 1, 1997. For the permit modification, CDFG is 
authorized an increase in the annual take of juvenile, endangered 
Sacramento River winter-run chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) 
associated with a new study to be conducted within Butte Creek in the 
Sutter Bypass. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the timing and 
relative abundance of juvenile anadromous salmonids, particularly 
spring-run chinook salmon, as they pass through the Sutter Bypass en 
route to the Delta. This information will be used to assess, monitor, 
and adaptively manage operations of Delta water exports by the State 
Water Project and Central Valley Project. Modification 2 to permit 1025 
is valid for the duration of the permit. Permit 1025 expires on June 
30, 2001.
    Issuance of the permit and permit modification, as required by the 
ESA, was based on a finding that such actions: (1) Were requested/
proposed in good faith, (2) will not operate to the disadvantage of the 
ESA-listed species that is the subject of the permits, and (3) are 
consistent with the purposes and policies set forth in section 2 of the 
ESA and the NMFS regulations governing ESA-listed species permits.

    Dated: August 5, 1997.
Nancy Chu,
Chief, Endangered Species Division, Office of Protected Resources, 
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 97-21186 Filed 8-11-97; 8:45 am]
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