[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 198 (Tuesday, October 14, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 61618-61619]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-24332]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN 0648-XC100


Marine Mammals; File No. 17115

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

ACTION: Notice; issuance of permit amendment.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that a major amendment to Permit No. 
17115-02 has been issued to James Lloyd-Smith, Ph.D., Department of 
Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Los 
Angeles, 610 Charles E. Young Dr. South, Box 723905, Los Angeles, CA 
90095-7239.

ADDRESSES: The permit amendment and related documents are available for 
review upon written request or by appointment in the following office:
    Permits and Conservation Division, Office of Protected Resources, 
NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 13705, Silver Spring, MD 20910; 
phone: (301) 427-8401; fax: (301)713-0376.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amy Sloan, (301) 427-8401.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On July 16, 2014, notice was published in 
the Federal Register (79 FR 41538) that a request for an amendment 
Permit No. 17115-02 to conduct research on California sea lions 
(Zalophus californianus) had been submitted by the above-named 
applicant. The requested permit amendment has been issued under the 
authority of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, as amended (16 
U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), and

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the regulations governing the taking and importing of marine mammals 
(50 CFR part 216).
    Permit No. 17115-03 authorizes the permit holder to study the 
prevalence of leptospirosis in wild California sea lions in California. 
The amendment authorizes the permit holder to expand the sampling 
season to any time of year excluding peak pupping season on rookeries, 
change the project location from A[ntilde]o Nuevo Island and Monterey 
Bay as separate locations to a combined coastal California area 
including offshore islands, increase the number of sea lions sampled, 
add captures of pups, add water captures and use of injectable drugs, 
increase incidental disturbance of California sea lions and add 
incidental disturbance of eastern Steller sea lions (Eumetopias 
jubatus) and northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus), and take 
additional samples in the event of an unusual mortality event or 
disease outbreak. The permit expires September 30, 2017.
    In compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 
(42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), a final determination has been made that the 
activity proposed is categorically excluded from the requirement to 
prepare an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement.

    Dated: October 8, 2014.
Julia Harrison,
Chief, Permits and Conservation Division, Office of Protected 
Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 2014-24332 Filed 10-10-14; 8:45 am]
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