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[FR Doc No: 94-27556]
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Notice of Permit Applications Received Under the Antarctic
Conservation Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95-541)
AGENCY: National Science Foundation.
ACTION: Notice of permit application received under the Antarctic
Conservation Act of 1978, P.L. 95-541.
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SUMMARY: The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required to publish
notice of permit applications received to conduct activities regulated
under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. NSF has published
regulations under the Antarctic Conservation Act at Title 45 Part 670
of the Code of Federal Regulations. This is the required notice of
permit applications received.
DATES: Interested parties are invited to submit written data, comments,
or views with respect to this permit application by December 1, 1994.
Permit applications may be inspected by interested parties at the
Permit Office, address below.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be addressed to Permit Office, Room 755,
Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson
Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nadene G. Kennedy at the above address or (703) 306-1031.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The National Science Foundation, as directed
by the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978 (Public Law 95-541), has
developed regulations that implement the ``Agreed Measures for the
Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora'' of all United States
citizens. The Agreed Measures, developed by the Antarctic Treaty
Consultative Parties, recommended establishment of a permit system for
various activities in Antarctica and designation of certain animals and
certain geographic areas requiring special protection. The regulations
establish such a permit system to designate Specially Protected Areas
and Sites of Special Scientific Interest.
The application received follows:
1. Applicant: David F. Parmelee, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural
History, University of Nevada, P.O. Box 454009, Las Vegas, Nevada
89154-4009--Permit Application No. 95-027.
Activity for Which Permit is Requested
Taking; Import into the United States.
The applicant is a former Principal Investigator with the U.S.
Antarctic Program who had banded and monitored numerous birds in the
Palmer Station vicinity during the years 1972-1985. repeated monitoring
of these banded individuals yields important scientific data. The
applicant has taken every opportunity to carry on this monitoring,
including those times such as now when traveling on cruise vessels as a
lecturer on polar conservation and biology. The applicant requests
permission to continue monitoring previous banded individuals. In
addition, the applicant would like to salvage up to 4-10 dead birds
each of penguins, albatrosses, petrels, storm-petrels, diving petrels,
sheathbills, skuas, gulls and terns and import them into the U.S. for
scientific study conducted at the Barrick Museum of Natural History,
University of Nevada.
Location
Antarctic Peninsula regions, including Anvers Island, the South
Shetland and South Orkney Islands and the Weddell Sea area.
Dated: November 20, 1994-December 20, 1994.
Nadene G. Kennedy,
Permit Office, Office of Polar Programs.
[FR Doc. 94-27556 Filed 11-7-94; 8:45 am]
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