48880 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 180 / Wednesday, September 17, 1997 / Notices

Agenda: Report of the Director, National

Cancer Institute; Legislative Update; Report

of the President’s Cancer Panel; Science

Information System Report; NCAB Policy

Statement: Impact of Managed Care on

Cancer Clinical Investigations; Clinical Trials

Program Review Group Report; NCI

Exceptions Process; Cancer Control Program

Review Group Report; Reorganization of

Extramural Programs & Update on Centers;

NIH & Managed Health Care Organizations;

Colorectal Cancer Screening; GPRA Update

for Advisory Councils; Changes in NIH

Rebuttal Policy & NCAB Operating

Procedures; Progress Review Groups Update;

NCI Website Demonstrations; Subcommittee

Reports and other Council business.

This notice is being published less than 15

days prior to the meeting due to the urgent

need to meet timing limitations imposed by

the review and funding cycle.

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program Numbers:

(93.393, Cancer Cause and Prevention

Research; 93.392, Cancer Detection and

Diagnosis Research; 93.394, Cancer

Treatment Research; 93.396, Cancer Biology

Research; 93.397, Cancer Centers Support;

93.398, Cancer Research Manpower; 93.399,

Cancer Control.)

Dated: September 11, 1997.

LaVerne Y. Stringfield,

Committee Management Officer, NIH.

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND

HUMAN SERVICES

National Institutes of Health

National Institute of Nursing Research;

Notice of Closed Meeting

Pursuant to Section 10(d) of the

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as

amended (5 U.S.C. Appendix 2), notice

is hereby given of the following

meeting:

Name of Committee: National Institute of

Nursing Research Initial Review Group.

Date: October 29–31, 1997.

Time: 8:30 a.m. until adjournment.

Place: Holiday Inn Chevy Chase, 5520

Wisconsin Avenue, Chevy Chase, Maryland

20815.

Contact Person: Carole Hudgings, Ph.D.,

R.N., Building 45, Room 3AN–18, 45 Center

Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, (301) 594–5976.

Purpose/Agenda: To review and evaluate

grant applications.

This meeting will be closed in accordance

with the provisions set forth in secs.

552(b)(4) and 552b(c)(6), Title 5, U.S.C.

Applications and the discussions could

reveal confidential trade secrets or

commercial property such as patentable

material and personal information

concerning individuals associated with the

applications, the disclosure of which would

constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of

personal privacy.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance

Program No. 93.361, Nursing Research,

National Institutes of Health)

Dated: September 10, 1997.

LaVerne Y. Stringfield,

Committee Management Officer, NIH.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

Notice of Receipt of Applications for

Permit

The following applicants have

applied for a permit to conduct certain

activities with endangered species. This

notice is provided pursuant to Section

10(c) of the Endangered Species Act of

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

seq.):

PRT–833981

Applicant: Laurel Croft, Temecula, CA

The applicant requests a permit to reimport 1 male and 2 female Hawaiian

geese (Branta sandvicensis) and 1 male

and 1 female Palawan peacock pheasant

(Polyplecton emphanum) for the

purpose of enhancement of the survival

of the species through captive

propagation.

PRT–833380

Applicant: David Owens, Texas A&M

University, College Station,TX

The applicant requests a permit to

import biological samples of multiple

sea turtle species from Mexico, Grand

Cayman, and Costa Rica for the purpose

of scientific research related to survival

of the species.

PRT–834298

Applicant: Miami Metrozoo, Miami, FL

The applicant requests a permit to reexport to Panama the carcass of one

female harpy eagle (Harpia harpyja)

which was imported from Panama into

the United States to be prepared into an

osteological specimen.

The public is invited to comment on

the following application for permits to

conduct certain activities with marine

mammals. The application was

submitted to satisfy requirements of the

Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972,

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

the regulations governing marine

mammals (50 CFR 18).

PRT–834123

Applicant: Daniel Currier, Fargo, ND

The applicant requests a permit to

import a polar bear (Ursus maritimus)

sport-hunted from the McClintock

Channel polar bear population,

Northwest Territories, Canada for

personal use.

Written data or comments should be

submitted to the Director, U.S. Fish and

Wildlife Service, Office of Management

Authority, 4401 North Fairfax Drive,

Room 430, Arlington, Virginia 22203

and must be received by the Director

within 30 days of the date of this

publication.

Documents and other information

submitted with these applications are

available for review, subject to the

requirements of the Privacy Act and

Freedom of Information Act, by any

party who submits a written request for

a copy of such documents to the

following office within 30 days of the

date of publication of this notice: U.S.

Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of

Management Authority, 4401 North

Fairfax Drive, Room 430, Arlington,

Virginia 22203. Phone: (703/358–2104);

FAX: (703/358–2281).

Dated: September 12, 1997.

Mary Ellen Amtower,

Acting Chief, Branch of Permits, Office of

Management Authority.

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

Issuance of Permit for Marine

Mammals

On July 3, 1997, a notice was

published in the Federal Register, Vol.

62, No. 128, Page 36070, that an

application had been filed with the Fish

and Wildlife Service by Kenneth

Werling, Celina, OH for a permit (PRT–

830535) to import a sport-hunted polar

bear (Ursus maritimus) trophy, taken

from the Southern Beaufort Sea

population, Northwest Territories,

Canada for personal use.

Notice is hereby given that on

September 3, 1997, as authorized by the

provisions of the Marine Mammal

Protection Act of 1972, as amended (16

U.S.C. 1361 et seq.) the Fish and

Wildlife Service authorized the

requested permit subject to certain

conditions set forth therein.

On July 10, 1997, a notice was

published in the Federal Register, Vol.

62, No. 132, Page 37072, that an

application had been filed with the Fish

and Wildlife Service by Jim Deal,

Ramsey, MN for a permit (PRT–831567)

to import a sport-hunted polar bear

(Ursus maritimus) trophy, taken from

the McClintock Channel population,

Northwest Territories, Canada for

personal use.