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provide information demonstrating that

they actively engaged in conformity

assessment procedures related to

relevant EU directives. This may

include subcontractor relationships

with EU notified or competent bodies.

Based on responses to this notice,

NIST will compile a list of interested

organizations. This list will be provided

to European Commission officials to

illustrate the types of organizations that

may be qualified and subsequently

considered for U.S. designated

conformity assessment body status. It is

emphasized that organizations do not

automatically qualify as designated

conformity assessment bodies simply by

responding to this notice. Formal

application and processing under

NVCASE or equivalent program will be

required before designated status can be

granted. (OMB Control No. 0693–0019).

DATES: Comments on this request must

be received by June 6, 1996.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be

submitted in writing to Dr. Belinda L.

Collins, Director, Office of Standards

Services, National Institute of Standards

and Technology, Building 820, room

282, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, by

fax at 301–963–2871 or by e-mail to

belinda.collins@nist.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Dr. Belinda L. Collins, in writing at

NIST, Building 820, room 282,

Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, by

telephone at 301–975–4000, by fax at

301–963–2871 or by e-mail to

belinda.collins@nist.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S.

Government is currently engaged in

negotiations with the EU for the purpose

of entering into a Mutual Recognition

Agreement (MRA) regarding the

acceptance of each other’s testing and

certification programs in regulated

product areas. Under the National

Technology Transfer and Advancement

Act of 1995 (P.L. 104–113), signed

March 7, 1996, NIST is designated as

the federal agency with responsibility

for coordinating accreditation activities.

NIST also operates the National

voluntary Conformity Assessment

System Evaluation (NVCASE) program

as a means of providing U.S. domestic

entities with a U.S. Government

‘‘assurance of competency’’ to facilitate

the acceptance of test data or product

certifications issued in this country by

governments of other countries on the

same basis as test data or product

certification issued in the other country.

This notice is a solicitation of interest

on the part of U.S. conformity

assessment entities in obtaining U.S.

government recognition of their

technical competence pursuant to a

U.S.-EU MRA.

Interested persons should respond in

writing to the above address. All

comments submitted in response to this

notice will become part of the public

record and will be available for

inspection and copying at the U.S.

Department of Commerce Central

Reference and Records and Inspection

Facility, Room 6020, Herbert C. Hoover

Building, 14th and Constitution

Avenue, Washington, D.C. 20230.

Dated: April 30, 1996.

Samuel Kramer,

Associate Director.

[FR Doc. 96–11288 Filed 5–6–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–13–M

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

[I.D. 042996D]

Endangered Species; Permits

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Receipt of an application for

modification 4 to scientific research/

monitoring permit 822 (P500B).

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that

the Fish Passage Center at Portland, OR

(FPC) has applied in due form for a

modification to a permit to take

endangered and threatened species for

the purpose of scientific research/

monitoring.

DATES: Written comments or requests for

a public hearing on this application

must be received on or before June 6,

1996.

ADDRESSES: The application and related

documents are available for review in

the following offices, by appointment:

Office of Protected Resources, F/PR8,

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, Endangered Species Division,

Office of Protected Resources.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: FPC

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).

FPC (P500B) requests modification 4

to permit 822 for an increase in their

annual take of ESA-listed species

associated with an additional scientific

research/monitoring activity, an

increase in the number of outmigrating

juvenile salmonids in 1996, and

recognition of an ESA-listed adult

salmon incidental take. Permit 822

authorizes an annual take of juvenile,

threatened, naturally-produced and

artificially-propagated, 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 scientific research/

monitoring activities at upstream

locations and at the hydropower dams

on the Snake and Columbia Rivers in

the Pacific Northwest.

FPC requests an increase in the

number of juvenile, ESA-listed,

naturally-produced and artificiallypropagated, Snake River spring/summer

chinook salmon associated with the

operation of a second airlift sampler at

John Day Dam during the 1996 juvenile

outmigration. FPC requests an increase

in the number of juvenile, ESA-listed,

Snake River sockeye salmon to be

captured and handled, and an increase

in the resulting indirect mortality of

these fish, associated with an increase

in the estimate of the number of ESAlisted salmon juveniles expected to

outmigrate in 1996. In addition, FPC

requests an incidental take of adult and

jack, ESA-listed, Snake River spring/

summer chinook salmon associated

with fallbacks through the juvenile

bypass systems at Bonneville and John

Day Dams on the Columbia River. FPC

also requests a modification of their

sampling protocol for monitoring

juvenile salmonids for symptoms of gas

bubble trauma (GBT). An additional

take of ESA-listed species is not

requested for the modified GBT

sampling protocol. Modification 4 is

requested for the duration of the permit.

Permit 822 expires on December 31,

1997.

Those individuals requesting a

hearing (see ADDRESSES) should set out

the specific reasons why a hearing on

this application would be appropriate.

The holding of such hearing is at the

discretion of the Assistant

Administrator for Fisheries, NOAA. All

statements and opinions contained in

this application summary are those of

the applicant and do not necessarily

reflect the views of NMFS.
Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 89 / Tuesday, May 7, 1996 / Notices 20515

Dated: April 29, 1996.

Margaret Lorenz,

Acting Chief, Endangered Species Division,

Office of Protected Resources, National

Marine Fisheries Service.

[FR Doc. 96–11264 Filed 5–6–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–22–F

[I.D. 042996C]

Endangered Species; Permits

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Issuance of modification 5 to

permit 817 (P45K), modification 1 to

permit 956 (P45S), and receipt of a

notification of withdrawal of the request

for modification 3 to permit 849 (P510).

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that

NMFS has issued modifications to

permits that authorize takes of

Endangered Species Act-listed species

for the purpose of scientific research,

subject to certain conditions set forth

therein, to the National Biological

Service at Cook, WA (NBS) and has

received notification of the withdrawal

of a modification request from the

Shoshone-Bannock Tribes at Fort Hall,

ID (SBT).

ADDRESSES: The applications and

related documents are available for

review in the following offices, by

appointment:

Office of Protected Resources, F/PR8,

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).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

modifications to permits were issued

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–

222).

Notice was published on February 29,

1996 (61 FR 7776) that an application

had been filed by NBS (P45K) for

modification 5 to scientific research

permit 817. Modification 5 to permit

817 was issued on April 16, 1996.

Permit 817 authorizes a direct take of

juvenile, threatened, Snake River fall

chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus

tshawytscha) and an indirect take of

juvenile, threatened, Snake River

spring/summer chinook salmon

(Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) associated

with scientific research on the

spawning, rearing, and migratory

requirements of fall chinook salmon in

the Columbia River Basin. Modification

5 authorizes an increase in the annual

take of ESA-listed species in association

with three additional scientific research

activities. NBS will evaluate the extent,

seasonality, and size selectivity of

predation on subyearling fall chinook

salmon; estimate food availability and

growth of subyearling fall chinook

salmon in nearshore rearing habitats for

eventual use in a bioenergetics model;

and relate juvenile fall chinook salmon

survival to physiological development.

Modification 5 is valid for the duration

of the permit. Permit 817 expires on

December 31, 1996.

Notice was published on February 29,

1996 (61 FR 7776) that an application

had been filed by NBS (P45S) for

modification 1 to scientific research

permit 956. Modification 1 to permit

956 was issued on April 23, 1996.

Permit 956 authorizes a take of juvenile,

ESA-listed, Snake River spring/summer

chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus

tshawytscha) associated with a study

designed to provide managers with data

on the distribution, abundance,

movement, and habitat use of

anadromous fish that migrate through

Lower Granite Reservoir on the Snake

River in WA. For modification 1, NBS

is authorized to collect juvenile fish, a

portion of which will be ESA-listed

juveniles, with a purse seine in Lower

Granite pool to obtain the maximum

sample size needed for annual radio tag

transmitter research. NBS will apply

radio transmitter tags by surgical

implantation and transport the ESAlisted juvenile fish from the point of

acquisition to an upstream release site.

NBS will use radio-tagged fish to

evaluate the operation of a surface

collector prototype in the forebay of

Lower Granite Dam. Also, NBS will

capture, handle, and release ESA-listed

juvenile fish while using a mid-water

trawl for species verification of

hydroacoustic surveys. Modification 1 is

valid for the duration of the permit.

Permit 956 expires on September 30,

1999.

Notice was published on March 5,

1996 (61 FR 8568) that an application

had been filed by SBT (P510) for

modification 3 to scientific research

permit 849. Permit 849 authorizes a take

of adult and juvenile, threatened, Snake

River spring/summer chinook salmon

(Oncorhynchus tshawytscha) associated

with stock assessment and fish

condition surveys in the Salmon River

subbasin and the pond series of Yankee

Fork, Salmon River in Idaho. For

modification 3, SBT requested to

expand the area of their electrofishing

research to include the Salmon River

subbasin, an area previously

unspecified for this research activity.

Notification has been received that SBT

would like to withdraw the request for

modification 3 to permit 849. Since the

target species of the proposed expanded

research area is bull trout, a non-listed

species, and there is a possibility of an

incidental take of an ESA-listed species

associated with the research, SBT will

submit an incidental take permit

application.

Issuance of the modifications, as

required by the ESA, was based on a

finding that such actions: (1) Were

requested in good faith, (2) will not

operate to the disadvantage of the ESAlisted species that are the subject of the

permits, and (3) is consistent with the

purposes and policies set forth in

section 2 of the ESA and the NMFS

regulations governing ESA-listed

species permits.

Dated: April 29, 1996.

Margaret Lorenz,

Acting Chief, Endangered Species Division,

Office of Protected Resources, National

Marine Fisheries Service.

[FR Doc. 96–11265 Filed 5–6–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–22–P

COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING

COMMISSION

Proposed Collection; Comment

Request for Extension of Two

Currently Approved Information

Collections; 3038–0021 and 3038–0023

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading

Commission.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In accordance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, (Pub.

L. 104–13) this notice announces that

the Commodity Futures Trading

Commission intends to submit to the

Office of Management and Budget

requests for the extension of two

currently approved information

collections which expire on June 30,

1996. These collections are:

3038–0021—Regulations Governing

Bankruptcies of Commodity Brokers

3038–0023—Regulations and Forms Relating

to Registration with the Commission

ADDRESSES: Persons wishing to

comment on these information

collections should contact Jeff Hill,

Office of Management and Budget,

Room 3228, NEOB, Washington, DC

20502, (202) 395–7340. Copies of the

submission are available from Joe F.

Mink, Agency Clearance Officer, (202)

418–5170.