[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 26 (Wednesday, February 7, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4626-4627]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-2580]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 013096B]
Endangered Species; Permits
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
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Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Receipt of two applications for scientific research permits
(P497D and P510B).
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Idaho Cooperative Fish and
Wildlife Research Unit at Moscow, ID (ICFWRU) and the Shoshone-Bannock
Tribes at Fort Hall, ID (SBT) have applied in due form for permits to
take threatened or endangered species for the purpose of scientific
research.
DATES: Written comments or requests for a public hearing on either of
these applications must be received on or before March 8, 1996.
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).
Written comments or requests for a public hearing should be
submitted to the Chief, Endangered Species Division, Office of
Protected Resources.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: ICFWRU and SBT request permits 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 listed fish and
wildlife permits (50 CFR parts 217-227).
ICFWRU (P497D) requests a 5-year permit to take adult, threatened,
Snake River spring/summer and fall chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus
tshawytscha) associated with a study designed to assess the passage
success of migrating adult salmonids at the four dams and reservoirs in
the lower Columbia River, evaluate specific flow and spill conditions,
and evaluate measures to improve passage. Adult salmonids are proposed
to be captured, anesthetized, fitted with radio transmitters and
identifier tags, allowed to recover from the anesthetic, and released.
Once returned to the river, the movement and migration timing of each
fish will be recorded at fixed-site and mobile receiver stations as the
fish migrate upstream. Primary benefits of the study will be the
ability to identify areas in the fishways that are problematic for
adult passage and to determine the proportion of salmonids that
ultimately pass the upstream dams and enter tributaries to spawn, enter
hatcheries, are taken in fisheries, or are losses between the dams.
SBT (P510B) requests a 5-year permit to take juvenile, endangered,
Snake River sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) associated with a study
designed to evaluate the destiny of the ESA-listed juvenile sockeye
salmon from the Idaho Department of Fish and Game's captive broodstock
program that were released into Pettit Lake, ID in July, 1995 under the
authority of permit 795 (60 FR 37052, July 19, 1995). An evaluation of
the success of this release is necessary to make management decisions
on future releases of the progeny from the captive broodstock program.
To estimate overwinter survival, monitor downstream migration, and
calculate smolt-to-adult return rates, juvenile sockeye outmigrating
from the lake each year are proposed to be captured, anesthetized,
tagged with passive integrated transponders and/or weighed and
measured, allowed to recover from the anesthetic, and released.
Those individuals requesting a hearing (see ADDRESSES) should set
out the specific reasons why a hearing on either 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 these application summaries are those of the
applicants and do not necessarily reflect the views of NMFS.
Dated: January 31, 1996.
Russell J. Bellmer,
Chief, Endangered Species Division, Office of Protected Resources,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 96-2580 Filed 2-6-96; 8:45 am]
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