19888 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 77 / Friday, April 21, 1995 / Notices

Dated: April 17, 1995.

Gary Matlock,

Program Management Officer, National

Marine Fisheries Service.

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Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management

Council; Meeting

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of public meetings.

SUMMARY: The Mid-Atlantic Fishery

Management Council’s Summer

Flounder Monitoring Committee will

hold a public meeting on May 4, 1995.

The main objective of this meeting is to

review fishing mortality rate reduction

strategies for summer flounder.

DATES: The meeting will be held on May

4, 1995, from 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at

the Holiday Inn, Essington Room, 45

Industrial Highway, Essington, PA;

telephone: (610) 521–2400.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

David R. Keifer, Executive Director,

Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management

Council, 300 S. New Street, Dover, DE

19901; telephone (302) 674–2331.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This

meeting is physically accessible to

people with disabilities. Requests for

sign language interpretation or other

auxiliary aids should be directed to

Joanna Davis at least 5 days prior to the

meeting date.

Dated: April 18, 1995.

Richard H. Schaefer,

Director, Office of Fisheries Conservation and

Management, National Marine Fisheries

Service.

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Marine Mammals

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Receipt of application for a

scientific research permit (P66J).

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that

the Alaska Department of Fish and

Game has applied in due form for a

permit to take Steller and California sea

lions for the purposes of scientific

research.

DATES: Written comments must be

received on or before May 22, 1995.

ADDRESSES: The application 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);

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 Chief, Permits

Division, F/PR1, Office of Protected

Resources, 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

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.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

subject permit 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 Taking,

Importing, and Exporting of Endangered

Fish and Wildlife (50 CFR part 222).

The applicant seeks authorization to

take a maximum of 125 Steller sea lions

(Eumetopias jubatus) by trapping,

darting, sampling, and gas anesthesia

(including a maximum of 20 by

recapture for follow-up blood sampling

and removal of instruments); a

maximum of 400 Steller pups over 6

months old by hand capture, gas

anesthesia, and marking; a maximum of

10,000 Stellers by harassment during

the course of capturing suitable animals;

a maximum of 15 Stellers by

unintentional mortality during the

course of capture and chemical

immobilization and salvaged specimens

of stranded animals, premature pups,

and mortalities associated with this and

other research activities. The applicant

also seeks authorization to take up to 30

rehabilitated California sea lions

(Zalophus californianus) by injection

with experimental immobilization drugs

and a maximum of 3 for unintentional

mortality. All takes will be over a 5-year

period. The applicant proposes to

initiate this work on June 15, 1995. The

objectives of this research are to test and

develop safe protocol for chemical

restraint, determine movements, habitat

usage and commercial fishery

interactions, compare condition indices

between eastern and western stocks,

determine dispersal area and extent of

mixing of eastern and western stock

pups, and develop safe winter capturing

methods of sea lions.

Dated: April 17, 1995.

Ann D. Terbush,

Chief, Permits & Documentation Division,

National Marine Fisheries Service.

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Marine Mammals

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Issuance of scientific research

permit No. 951 (P580).

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that

Carole A. Conway, 407 Garces Drive,

San Francisco, CA 94132, has been

issued a permit to import two blue

whale skin samples Balaenoptera

musculus) (approximate weight 100–

200 mg) for purposes of scientific

research.

ADDRESSES: The permit 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

Southwest Region, NMFS, 501 West

Ocean Boulevard, #4200, Long Beach,

CA 90802–4213 (310/980–4015).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On

February 23, 1995, notice was published

in the Federal Register (60 FR 10067)

that a request for a scientific research

permit to import blue whale skin

samples had been submitted by the

above-named individual. The requested

permit has been issued 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 (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.),

and the Regulations Governing

Endangered Species Permits (50 CFR

parts 217–222).

Issuance of this permit as required by

the ESA was based on a finding that