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(16 U.S.C. 1531-1543) and the NMFS

regulations governing ESA-listed fish

and wildlife permits (50 CFR parts 217–

227).

IDFG (P503S) requests a permit to

take threatened Snake River spring/

summer chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus

tshawytscha) associated with a captive

rearing program for three populations of

chinook salmon in Idaho. The captive

rearing program has been proposed as

an effort to forestall the extinction of the

local populations and to preserve the

overall stock structure of Snake River

spring/summer chinook salmon. The

long-term objective of the program is to

achieve the sustainable recovery of the

ESA-listed Snake River salmon

populations. IDFG propose to collect

juveniles for the captive rearing program

annually from the upper Salmon River

tributaries of West Fork Yankee Fork,

upper East Fork, and Lemhi River. IDFG

propose to rear and maintain the fish

collected until mature. IDFG intends to

prevent cohort collapse by

supplementing the respective natural

adult spawning populations with adults

from the captive rearing program.

The captive rearing program was

initiated when NMFS issued emergency

permit 972 to IDFG on August 7, 1995

(60 FR 42147, August 15, 1995) to allow

the collection, handling, and rearing of

juvenile, ESA-listed, chinook salmon.

Earlier this year, IDFG requested

modification 1 to permit 972 for

authorization to transfer some of the

ESA-listed juveniles collected last year

to NMFS’s Manchester Marine

Experimental Station in WA (61 FR

14296, April 1, 1996). IDFG also

requested that the NMFS staff at the

laboratory be authorized to rear and

maintain the ESA-listed juvenile fish as

an agent of IDFG under permit 972.

Under their new permit application,

IDFG propose that the ESA-listed fish

being reared by NMFS be transported

back to IDFG when mature to be

released in their natal streams for

spawning. The issuance of modification

1 to permit 972 is pending. Should a

new permit be issued for the captive

rearing program, that permit would

replace permit 972.

ODFW (P211J) requests a permit to

take threatened Snake River spring/

summer chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus

tshawytscha) associated with a captive

broodstock program for three

populations of chinook salmon in

Oregon. The captive broodstock

program has been proposed as an effort

to forestall the extinction of the local

populations and to preserve the overall

stock structure of Snake River spring/

summer chinook salmon. The long-term

objective of the program is to achieve

the sustainable recovery of the ESAlisted Snake River salmon populations.

ODFW propose to collect juveniles for

the captive broodstock program

annually from the Grande Ronde River

Basin tributaries of the Lostine River,

Catherine Creek, and the upper Grande

Ronde River in northeast Oregon.

ODFW propose to rear and maintain the

ESA-listed fish in hatcheries until

mature, spawn the fish, rear and

maintain the resulting progeny to

smolts, and release the offspring in their

respective parental streams and/or other

chinook producing streams within that

drainage. ODFW also propose to

outplant adults and/or progeny as eggs

or parr produced in excess of smolt

needs directly into unseeded historic

production areas and to collect adults

for broodstock beginning in 1997 should

returns allow.

The captive broodstock program was

initiated when NMFS issued emergency

permit 973 to ODFW on August 7, 1995

(60 FR 42147, August 15, 1995) to allow

the collection, handling, and rearing of

juvenile, ESA-listed, chinook salmon.

Earlier this year, ODFW requested

modification 1 to permit 973 for

authorization to transfer some of the

ESA-listed juveniles collected last year

to NMFS’s Manchester Marine

Experimental Station in WA (61 FR

14296, April 1, 1996). ODFW also

requested that the NMFS staff at the

laboratory be authorized to rear and

maintain the ESA-listed juvenile fish as

an agent of ODFW under permit 973.

Under their new permit application,

ODFW propose that the ESA-listed fish

being reared by NMFS be transported

back to ODFW when mature to be

spawned at ODFW’s Bonneville

Hatchery. The issuance of modification

1 to permit 973 is pending. Should a

new permit be issued for the captive

broodstock program, that permit would

replace permit 973.

Those individuals requesting a

hearing (see ADDRESSES) should set out

the specific reasons why a hearing on

either of these applications 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 these application

summaries are those of the applicants

and do not necessarily reflect the views

of NMFS.

Dated: May 14, 1996.

Eric H. Ostrovsky,

Acting Chief, Endangered Species Division,

Office of Protected Resources, 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 to modify

permit no. 987 (P598).

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that Dr.

Jim Darling, Box 384, Tofino, B.C.,

Canada V0R 2Z0, has requested a

modification to Permit No. 987.

DATES: Written comments must be

received on or before June 19, 1996.

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); and

Director, Alaska Region, National

Marine Fisheries Service, P.O. Box

21668, Juneau, AK 99802–1668.

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, National Marine Fisheries

Service, Silver Spring, MD 20910. Those

individuals requesting a hearing should

set forth the specific reasons why a

hearing on this particular request would

be appropriate.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Jeannie Drevenak, 301/713–2289.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

subject modification is requested under

the authority of the Marine Mammal

Protection Act of 1972, as amended (16

U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), and the Regulations

Governing the Taking and Importing of

Marine Mammals (50 CFR part 216).

The Permit Holder is currently

authority to take (i.e., harass) up to 200

humpback whale (Megaptera

novaeangliae) in the course of

behavioral and photo-identification

studies and biopsy sampling, in the

waters around the main Hawaiian

Islands, primarily off of Maui, Hawaii,

over a period of 2 years. The purpose of

the research is to collect genetic

information that will, among other

things, determine the sex and behavior

patterns of individual humpback whales

involved in ‘‘singing’’ behavior.

The Holder is now requesting that the

Permit be modified to: (1) Increase the

total number of harassment takes

authorized from 200 to up to 1000

animals annually, up to 100 of which

may be biopsy sampled annually; (2)

increase the duration of the permit from

two to three years; (3) authorize the
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biopsy of 10 cows with calves or

yearlings (biopsy of calves/yearlings is

not requested); (4) opportunistically

collect biopsy samples from dead

stranded whales and retrieve humpback

whale carcasses for necropsy; (5) add

Southeast Alaska, specifically Frederick

Sound and Stephens Passage as research

locations; and (6) in the requested

Alaska locations, allow the take by

harassment of up to 500 humpback

whales annually, up to 100 of which

may be biopsy sampled annually.

Concurrent with the publication of

this notice in the Federal Register,

NMFS is forwarding copies of this

application to the Marine Mammal

Commission and its Committee of

Scientific Advisors.

Dated: May 13, 1996.

Ann D. Terbush,

Chief, Permits and Documentation Division,

Office of Protected Resources, National

Marine Fisheries Service.

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Marine Mammals; Permit No. 928

(P351E)

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Receipt of application for

modification.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that

North Gulf Oceanic Society, P.O. Box

15244, Homer, Alaska 99603, has

requested a modification to permit No.

928.

DATES: Written comments must be

received on or before June 14, 1996.

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, 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, 1315 EastWest Highway, Room 13130, Silver

Spring, MD 20910. 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,

NMFS is forwarding copies of this

application to the Marine Mammal

Commission and its Committee of

Scientific Advisors.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

subject modification to permit no. 928,

issued on July 18, 1994 (59 FR 37745)

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).

Permit No. 928 authorizes the Permit

Holder to harass during photoidentification studies up to 100

humpback whales (Megaptera

novaeangliae) annually in Prince

William Sound, Alaska and adjacent

waters. Permit Holder now seeks

authorization to: Increase the number of

humpback whales authorized to be

harassed during photo-identification

activities to 400 annually; biopsy

sample up to 50 of these animals

annually, not to exceed 100 takes in four

years; and to expand the research area

to include all Alaska waters.

Dated: May 14, 1996.

Ann D. Terbush,

Chief, Permit and Documentation Division,

Office of Protected Resources, National

Marine Fisheries Service.

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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING

COMMISSION

Advisory Committee on CFTC-State

Cooperation; May 21, 1996 Public

Meeting

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading

Commission.

ACTION: Correction of time of meeting.

On May 9, 1996, the Commodity

Futures Trading Commission published

a notion in the Federal Register (61 FR

21163) announcing that the

Commission’s Advisory Committee on

CFTC-State Cooperation will conduct a

public meeting on May 21, 1996 that

will begin at 9:00 a.m. and last until

12:00 noon. The time that this May 21,

1996 meeting will be held is from 9:30

a.m. to 12:30 p.m. in the first floor

hearing room (Room 1000) of the

Commission’s Washington, D.C.

headquarters, Three Lafayette Centre,

1155 21st Street NW., Washington, D.C.

Jean A. Webb,

Secretary of the Commission.

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army

Armed Forces Epidemiological Board

(AFEB); Partially-Closed Meeting

AGENCY: Office of the Surgeon General.

ACTION: Notice of partially-closed

meeting.

SUMMARY: In accordance with section

10(a)(2) of Public Law 92–463, The

Federal Advisory Committee Act, this

announces the forthcoming AFEB

Meeting. The meeting will be held from

0800–1630, Thursday, June 27, 1996.

The purpose of the meeting is to

complete pending Board issues and to

conduct an executive planning session

of the Board and completion of pending

issues. There will also be a classified

update on biological defense. The

meeting location will be at the Walter

Reed Army Institute of Research,

Washington, D.C., Building 40 Room

3092. This meeting will be partially

closed to the public in accordance with

Section 552b(c) of title 5, U.S.C.

specifically subparagraph (1) thereof

and title 5, U.S.C., appendix 1,

subsection 10(d). The remainder of the

meeting will be open to the public but

limited by space accommodations. Any

interested person may attend, appear

before or file statements with the

committee at the time and in the

manner permitted by the committee.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

COL Vicky Fogelman, AFEB Executive

Secretary, Armed Force Epidemiological

Board, Skyline Six, 5109 Leesburg Pike,

Room 667, Falls Church, Virginia

22041–3258, (703) 681–8012/3.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: None.

Gregory D. Showalter,

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.

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Army Science Board; Notice of Closed

Meeting

In accordance with Section 10(a)(2) of

the Federal Advisory Committee Act

(P.L. 92–463), announcement is made of

the following Committee Meeting:

Name of Committee: Army Science Board

(ASB).