34800 Federal Register / Vol. 61, No. 129 / Wednesday, July 3, 1996 / Notices

Dated: June 27, 1996.

Richard W. Surdi,

Acting Director, Office of Fisheries

Conservation and Management, National

Marine Fisheries Service.

[FR Doc. 96–17048 Filed 7–2–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–22–F

[I.D. 062696C]

Western Pacific Fishery Management

Council; Public Meetings

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of public meetings.

SUMMARY: The Western Pacific Fishery

Management Council (Council) will

hold its 90th meeting.

DATES: The meeting will be held on

August 7–9, 1996. See SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION for specific dates and

times.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at

the Kaluakoi Hotel, Hoaloha Room,

Molokai, HI; telephone: (808) 552–2555.

Council address: Western Pacific

Fishery Management Council, 1164

Bishop St., Suite 1405, Honolulu, HI,

96813.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kitty M. Simonds, Executive Director;

telephone 808–522–8220.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

Council’s Standing Committees will

meet from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on

August 7. The full Council will meet

from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on August

8–9. There will be a Community

Meeting at the Mitchell Pauole Center

from 5:30 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on August

8.

The Council will discuss and may

take action on the following agenda

items:

1. Reports from the islands;

2. Reports from fishery agencies and

organizations;

3. Ecosystems and Habitat, including:

(a) Summary of recent issues and

activities, and

(b) Project update on large scale

transplant of live corals in Hawaii;

4. Pelagic fishery issues, including:

(a) 1995 annual report island-area

summaries,

(b) Status of NMFS Pelagic Research,

(c) Bycatch issues,

(d) Status of request for single-Council

designation for management of domestic

pelagic fisheries in the Pacific,

(e) Status of Albatross Workshop,

(f) Pelagics data amendment, and

(g) Status of shark, turtle and albatross

assessment;

5. Crustaceans Milestones 1997–1999;

6. Bottomfish issues, including:

(a) 1995 annual report island-area

summaries,

(b) Status of Department of Land and

Natural Resources management plan for

Main Hawaiian Island onaga and ehu,

(c) Council’s preliminary management

plan for Main Hawaiian Island Onaga

and Ehu stocks,

(d) Limited entry alternatives for the

Mau Zone, and

(e) Milestones 1997–1999;

7. Enforcement issues, including:

(a) NMFS activities and Vessel

Monitoring System (VMS) update,

(b) Status of violations, and

(c) Amendment to require VMS on all

foreign vessels;

8. Native rights and indigenous

fishing issues, including;

(a) Status of relevant Magnuson

Fisheries Conservation and Management

Act (Magnuson Act) amendments, and

(b) Molokai subsistence

demonstration project;

9. Program planning, including;

(a) Status of Magnuson Act reauthorization,

(b) Status of Western Pacific Fisheries

Information Network (WPacFIN), and

(c) Milestones;

10. Administrative matters; and

11. Other business as required.

Special Accommodations

This meeting is physically accessible

to people with disabilities. Requests for

sign language interpretation or other

auxiliary aids should be directed to

Kitty M. Simonds, 808–522–8220

(voice) or 808–522–8226 (fax), at least 5

days prior to meeting date.

Dated: June 27, 1996.

Richard W. Surdi,

Acting Director, Office of Fisheries

Conservation and Management, National

Marine Fisheries Service.

[FR Doc. 96–17049 Filed 7–2–96; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3510–22–F

[I.D. 062796A]

Endangered Species; Permits

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Receipt of an application for

modification 7 to scientific research

permit 825 (P513).

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that

the Columbia River Inter-tribal Fish

Commission at Portland, OR (CRITFC)

has applied in due form for a

modification to a permit to take

endangered and threatened species for

the purpose of scientific research.

DATES: Written comments or requests for

a public hearing on this application

must be received on or before August 2,

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: CRITFC

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).

CRITFC (P513) requests modification

7 to permit 825 for authorization to take

juvenile, threatened, Snake River fall

chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus

tshawytscha) annually associated with a

study designed to monitor the extent of

dissolved nitrogen gas supersaturation

effects on outmigrating juvenile

anadromous fish in the Snake and

Columbia Rivers in the Pacific

Northwest. Permit 825 authorizes an

annual take of adult and juvenile,

threatened, Snake River spring/summer

chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus

tshawytscha) and juvenile, endangered,

Snake River sockeye salmon

(Oncorhynchus nerka) associated with

several scientific research studies

including the dissolved nitrogen gas

supersaturation study. Juvenile fall

chinook salmon are proposed to be

captured, anesthetized, examined,

allowed to recover from the anesthetic,

and released. The probability of a

juvenile, ESA-listed, Snake River fall

chinook salmon indirect mortality

associated with the study is negligible.

Modification 7 is requested for the

duration of the permit. Permit 825

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