[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 104 (Wednesday, May 31, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28390-28391]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-13264]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 052295B]


Marine Mammals

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

ACTION: Receipt of application to modify permit no. 927 (P79I).

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that Institute of Marine Science, 
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, has requested a 
modification to permit No. 927.

ADDRESSES: The modification request and related documents are available 
for review upon written request or by appointment in the following 
office(s):
    Permits Division, Office of Protected Resources, NMFS, 1315 East-
West Highway, Room 13130, Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301/713-2289);
    Director, Southwest Region, NMFS, 310 W. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach, 
CA 90802-4213 (310/980-4001); and
    Director, Alaska Region, NMFS, P.O. Box 21668, Juneau, AK 99802-
1668 (907/586-7221).
    Written data or views, or requests for a public hearing on this 
request should be submitted to the Director, Office of Protected 
Resources, NMFS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1315 East-West 
Highway, Room 13130, Silver Spring, MD 20910, within 30 days of the 
publication of this notice. Those individuals requesting a hearing 
should set forth the specific reasons why a hearing on this particular 
modification request would be appropriate.
    Concurrent with the publication of this notice in the Federal 
Register, the Secretary of Commerce is forwarding copies of this 
application to the Marine Mammal Commission and its Committee of 
Scientific Advisors.

[[Page 28391]] SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The subject modification to 
permit No. 927, issued on June 17, 1994 (publ. June 23, 1994, 59 FR 
32419) is requested under the authority of the Marine Mammal Protection 
Act of 1972, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), the Regulations 
Governing the Taking and Importing of Marine Mammals (50 CFR part 216), 
the Fur Seal Act of 1966, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1151 et seq.), and fur 
seal regulations at 50 CFR part 215.
    Permit No. 927 authorizes the permit holder to capture, tag, and 
sample up to 220 fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) and to incidentally 
harass up to 69,000 annually during research activities. The permit 
holder requests authorization to increase the sample size of adult 
females from 60 to 120 and pups from 160 to 560. The increase is 
requested for: comparison of St. Paul vs St. George Island with regard 
to foraging ecology and its possible influence in explaining 
differences in the rate of recovery of populations of fur seals; 
continuation of studies of milk intake, metabolism, growth, 
thermoregulation and condition at weaning; and determine if pups with 
greater mass prior to weaning have a different fatty acid composition 
from pups of lower mass.

    Dated: May 23, 1995.
Ann D. Terbush,
Chief, Permits and Documentation Division, Office of Protected 
Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 95-13264 Filed 5-30-95; 8:45 am]
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