[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 45 (Friday, March 7, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10544-10545]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-5696]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 022897F]


Endangered Species; Permits

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

ACTION: Receipt of an application for modification to research permit 
900 (P770#66).

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Coastal Zone and Estuarine 
Studies Division, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, NMFS in Seattle, 
WA (CZESD) has applied in due form for a modification to a permit 
authorizing takes of endangered and threatened species for scientific 
research purposes.
DATES: Written comments or requests for a public hearing on any of 
these applications must be received on or before April 7, 1997.


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ADDRESSES: The application 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
    Environmental and Technical Services Division, 525 NE Oregon 
Street, Suite 500, Portland, OR 97232-4169 (503-230-5400).
    Written comments or requests for a public hearing should be 
submitted to the Chief, Environmental and Technical Services Division, 
Portland.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: CZESD requests a modification to a permit 
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 217-227).
    For the modification to permit 900 (P770#66), CZESD requests takes 
of juvenile, threatened, Snake River spring/summer chinook salmon 
(Oncorhynchus tshawytscha); juvenile, threatened, Snake River fall 
chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus tshawytscha); and juvenile, endangered, 
Snake River sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) associated with a new 
study designed to determine the relative survival of juvenile salmon 
passing through the spillway of The Dalles Dam. The takes associated 
with the study is requested for a duration of three years. ESA-listed 
fish will be captured at Bonneville Dam, anesthetized, tagged with 
passive integrated transponders, transported to The Dalles Dam, allowed 
to recover from the anesthetic, released in front of the spillway and 
downstream from the dam, and electronically detected at Bonneville Dam. 
This request for modification to permit 900 supplements a previous 
request for modification 4 to permit 900 (62 FR 9178, February 28, 
1997).
    Those individuals requesting a hearing on the permit modification 
request should set out the specific reasons why a hearing would be 
appropriate (see ADDRESSES). The holding of such a hearing is at the 
discretion of the Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, NOAA. All 
statements and opinions contained in the above application summary are 
those of the applicant and do not necessarily reflect the views of 
NMFS.

    Dated: March 3, 1997.
Robert C. Ziobro,
Acting Chief, Endangered Species Division, Office of Protected 
Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 97-5696 Filed 3-6-97; 8:45 am]
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