49470 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 183 / Monday, September 22, 1997 / Notices

Dated: September 12, 1997.

John J. Da Ponte, Jr.

Executive Secretary.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

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Caribbean Fishery Management

Council; Committee Meeting

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

SUMMARY: The Caribbean Fishery

Management Council’s (Council)

Enforcement Committee will hold a

meeting.

DATES: The meeting will be held on

October 1, 1997, from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00

p.m., approximately.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at

the Best Western Hotel Pierre, located at

De Diego Ave., Santurce, Puerto Rico.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Caribbean Fishery Management Council,

268 Mun ̃ oz Rivera Ave., Suite 1108, San

Juan, Puerto Rico 00918-2577;

telephone: (787) 766-5926.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Council will hold an Enforcement

Committee meeting to discuss topics

related to enforcement of the Queen

Conch Fishery Management Plan and

the proposed MCD off South of St. John,

U.S.V.I.

The meeting is open to the public,

and will be conducted in English.

Interested persons are invited to attend

and participate with oral or written

statements regarding the agenda issues.

Although other issues not contained

in this agenda may come before this

Committee for discussion, in accordance

with the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery

Conservation and Management Act,

those issues may not be the subject of

formal Committee action during this

meeting. Committee action will be

restricted to those issues specifically

identified in the agenda listed in this

notice.

Special Accommodations

This meeting is physically accessible

to people with disabilities. For more

information or requests for sign

language interpretation and/or other

auxiliary aids please contact Mr. Miguel

A. Rolo ́n, Executive Director, at the

Council (see ADDRESSES), at least 5 days

prior to the meeting date.

Dated: September 16, 1997.

Richard W. Surdi,

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

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Marine Mammals; Permit No. 836

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Receipt of application for

amendment and issuance of

amendment.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that Dr.

Daniel P. Costa, University of California,

Santa Cruz, 1156 High Street, Santa

Cruz, California 95064, has requested an

amendment to Permit No. 836, and an

amendment has been issued authorizing

the conduct of the proposed research.

DATES: Written comments must be

received on or before October 22, 1997.

ADDRESSES: The amendment request

and related documents are available for

review upon written request or by

appointment in the following office(s):

Permits and Documentation Division,

Office of Protected Resources, NMFS,

1315 East-West Highway, Room 13130,

Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301/713–

2289); and

Regional Administrator, Southwest

Region, 501 West Ocean Boulevard,

Suite 4200,Long Beach, CA 90802–4213

(310/980–4001).

Written comments for the record on

this request should be submitted to the

Chief, Permits and Documentation

Division, F/PR1, Office of Protected

Resources, NMFS, 1315 East-West

Highway, Room 13130, Silver Spring,

MD 20910.

Comments may also be submitted by

facsimile at (301) 713–0376, provided

the facsimile is confirmed by hard copy

submitted by mail and postmarked no

later than the closing date of the

comment period. Please note that

comments will not be accepted by email or other electronic media.

Concurrent with the publication of

this notice in the Federal Register,

NMFS is forwarding copies of the

application and amended permit to the

Marine Mammal Commission and its

Committee of Scientific Advisors.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

subject amendment to permit no. 836,

issued on May 19, 1993 (58 FR 29199)

is requested under the authority of the

Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972,

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

Permit no. 836 authorizes the permit

holder to, among other things, capture

and instrument elephant seals

((Mirounga angustirostris) at Ano

Nuevo, CA and release them at sea up

to 200 km from Ano Nuevo to study the

effects of low frequency sounds under

1,000 Hz (ATOC). The permit holder has

requested authorization to expand the

research area to enable him to

investigate the potential effect of the

Navy’s Surface Towed Array

Surveillance System Low Frequency

Active (SURTASS LFA) system on the

behavior of elephant seals (Mirounga

angustirostris). The amendment request

involves no increase in the number of

animals currently authorized to be taken

under the Permit. Nor does it involve

any changes to the currently authorized

experimental protocol.

The permit holder states that the

operation of the LFA source will occur

only between September 15, 1997 to

October 11, 1997, and that a significant

research opportunity will be lost if the

requested authorization is not provided.

Therefore, in light of the time

constraints and the unique research

opportunity that would otherwise be

lost, pursuant to Section 104(c)(3)(A) of

the Marine Mammal Protection Act and

50 CFR 216.33(e)(6) of the MMPA

regulations, we issued an amendment to

Permit No. 836 granting the

authorization.

In compliance with the National

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42

U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), an initial

determination has been made that the

activity proposed is categorically

excluded from the requirement to

prepare an environmental assessment or

environmental impact statement.

Dated: September 11, 1997.

Ann D. Terbush,

Chief, Permits and Documentation Division,

Office of Protected Resources, National

Marine Fisheries Service.

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