6950 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 31 / Friday, February 14, 1997 / Notices

Regional Administrator, Southeast

Region, NMFS, 9721 Executive Center

Drive, St. Petersburg, FL 33702–2432

(813/570–5301).

Dated: February 4, 1997.

Ann D. Terbush,

Chief, Permits and Documentation Division,

Office of Protected Resources, National

Marine Fisheries Service.

Dated: February 7, 1997.

Margaret Tieger,

Chief, Branch of Permits, Office of

Management Authority, U.S. Fish and

Wildlife Service.

[FR Doc. 97–3706 Filed 2–13–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

[I.D. 020797D]

Marine Mammals; Permit No. 873

(P773#63)

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Scientific research permit

amendment.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that a

request for amendment of scientific

research permit no. 873 submitted by

the Southwest Fisheries Science Center,

NMFS, P.O. Box 271, La Jolla, CA

92038–0271, has been granted.

ADDRESSES: The amendment 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, Suite 13130,

Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301/713–

2289); and

Regional Administrator, Southwest

Region, NMFS, 501 West Ocean

Boulevard, Suite 4200, Long Beach, CA

90802, (310/980–4016).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On

December 9, 1996, notice was published

in the Federal Register (61 FR 64857)

that an amendment of permit no. 873,

issued July 28, 1993 (58 FR 34038), had

been requested by the above-named

organization. The requested amendment

has been granted under the authority of

the Marine Mammal Protection Act of

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

seq.), the provisions of § 216.39 of 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 provisions of § 222.25

of the Regulations Governing the

Taking, Importing, and Exporting of

Endangered Fish and Wildlife (50 CFR

part 222.23).

Permit no. 873 authorized the permit

holder to biopsy several species of

cetaceans off the Pacific, Southern, and

Indian Oceans, as well as U.S. territorial

waters of the Pacific and Southern

Oceans and the Gulf of Mexico; and to

import biopsy tissues collected outside

of U.S. waters. The permit has been

amended to authorize the attachment of

radio tags to up to 20 sperm whales

(Physeter macrocephalus) per year in

the eastern north Pacific Ocean.

Issuance of this amendment, as

required by the ESA, was based on a

finding that such amendment: (1) Was

applied for in good faith; (2) will not

operate to the disadvantage of the

endangered species which are the

subject of this permit; and (3) is

consistent with the purposes and

policies set forth in section 2 of the

ESA.

Dated: February 10, 1997.

Ann D. Terbush,

Chief, Permits and Documentation Division,

Office of Protected Resources, National

Marine Fisheries Service.

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COMMITTEE FOR THE

IMPLEMENTATION OF TEXTILE

AGREEMENTS

Establishment of Import Limits for

Certain Cotton, Wool, Man-Made Fiber,

Silk Blend and Other Vegetable Fiber

Textiles and Textile Products and Silk

Apparel Produced or Manufactured in

the People’s Republic of China

February 10, 1997.

AGENCY: Committee for the

Implementation of Textile Agreements

(CITA).

ACTION: Issuing a directive to the

Commissioner of Customs establishing

limits

EFFECTIVE DATE: February 14, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jennifer Aldrich, International Trade

Specialist, Office of Textiles and

Apparel, U.S. Department of Commerce,

(202) 482–4212. For information on the

quota status of these limits, refer to the

Quota Status Reports posted on the

bulletin boards of each Customs port or

call (202) 927–6703. For information on

embargoes and quota re-openings, call

(202) 482–3715.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Authority: Executive Order 11651 of March

3, 1972, as amended; section 204 of the

Agricultural Act of 1956, as amended (7

U.S.C. 1854).

In a Memorandum of Understanding

dated February 1, 1997, the

Governments of the United States and

the People’s Republic of China agreed to

effectuate a Bilateral Cotton, Wool, ManMade Fiber, Silk Blend and Other

Vegetable Fiber Textile Agreement and

a Silk Apparel Agreement. The textile

agreement is for a four-year period,

through December 31, 2000; the silk

apparel agreement is for a one-year

period, through December 31, 1997.

In the letter published below from the

Chairman of CITA, the Commissioner of

Customs is directed to establish limits

for the period beginning on January 1,

1997 and extending through December

31, 1997.

Should China become a member of

the World Trade Organization (WTO)

and should the United States apply the

Agreement establishing the WTO to

China, the limits set forth above may be

subject to adjustment pursuant to the

provisions of the Uruguay Round

Agreement on Textiles and Clothing, the

Uruguay Round Agreements Act and

any administrative arrangements

notified to the Textiles Monitoring

Body.

A description of the textile and

apparel categories in terms of HTS

numbers is available in the

CORRELATION: Textile and Apparel

Categories with the Harmonized Tariff

Schedule of the United States (see

Federal Register notice 59 FR 15381,

published on April 1, 1994; and 61 FR

66263, published on December 17,

1996). Also see 62 FR 1875, published

on January 14, 1997.

The letter to the Commissioner of

Customs and the actions taken pursuant

to it are not designed to implement all

of the provisions of the bilateral, but are

designed to assist only in the

implementation of its provisions.

Troy H. Cribb,

Chairman, Committee for the Implementation

of Textile Agreements.

Committee for the Implementation of Textile

Agreements

February 10, 1997.

Commissioner of Customs,

Department of the Treasury, Washington, DC

20229.

Dear Commissioner: This directive cancels

and supersedes the directive issued to you on

January 10, 1997, by the Chairman,

Committee for the Implementation of Textile

Agreements. That directive concerns imports

of certain cotton, wool, man-made fiber, silk

blend and other vegetable fiber textiles and

textile products and silk apparel, produced