[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 31 (Wednesday, February 15, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8632-8633]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-3696]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 020195B]


Marine Mammals

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

ACTION: Receipt of application to modify permit no. 873 (P772#63).

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Southwest Fisheries Science 
Center, NMFS, P.O. Box 271, La Jolla, CA 92038-0271, has requested a 
modification to permit no. 873.

ADDRESSES: The modification request 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, Room 13130, Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301/713-2289); and
    Director, Southwest Region, NMFS, 501 West Ocean Boulevard, Suite 
4200, Long Beach, CA 90802, (310/980-4016).
    Written data or views, or requests for a public hearing on this 
request should be submitted to the Chief, Permits Division, Office of 
Protected Resources, F/PR1, NMFS, 1335 East-West Highway, 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 
request to the Marine Mammal Commission and its Committee of Scientific 
Advisors.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The subject modification to permit no. 873, 
issued on July 28, 1993 (58 FR 34038), 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 Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 
amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), and the Regulations Governing the 
[[Page 8633]] Taking, Importing, and Exporting of Endangered Fish and 
Wildlife (50 CFR part 222).
    Permit no. 873 authorizes the permit holder to biopsy several 
species of cetaceans off the coasts of Washington, Oregon, California, 
Mexico, and in the Southern Ocean; to import biopsy tissues collected 
outside of U.S. waters; and to conduct photo-identification and 
photogrammetry studies on these species. The permit holder requests 
authorization to add several additional species to the permit 
authority; to import biopsy tissues from these additional species; to 
expand the study area to include the Indian Ocean; to biopsy gray 
whales (including animals accompanying calves), fin, sei, minke, and 
right whales; and to employ photo-identification and photogrammetry 
techniques to study both gray whales and the additional species 
mentioned above.

    Dated: February 9, 1995.
P.A. Montanio,
Acting Director, Office of Protected Resources, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 95-3696 Filed 2-14-95; 8:45 am]
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