[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 104 (Wednesday, May 31, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 28390-28391]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-13264]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 052295B]
Marine Mammals
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Receipt of application to modify permit no. 927 (P79I).
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that Institute of Marine Science,
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, has requested a
modification to permit No. 927.
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, Southwest Region, NMFS, 310 W. Ocean Blvd., Long Beach,
CA 90802-4213 (310/980-4001); and
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, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1315 East-West
Highway, Room 13130, Silver Spring, MD 20910, within 30 days of the
publication of this notice. 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, the Secretary of Commerce is forwarding copies of this
application to the Marine Mammal Commission and its Committee of
Scientific Advisors.
[[Page 28391]] SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The subject modification to
permit No. 927, issued on June 17, 1994 (publ. June 23, 1994, 59 FR
32419) 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 Fur Seal Act of 1966, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1151 et seq.), and fur
seal regulations at 50 CFR part 215.
Permit No. 927 authorizes the permit holder to capture, tag, and
sample up to 220 fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) and to incidentally
harass up to 69,000 annually during research activities. The permit
holder requests authorization to increase the sample size of adult
females from 60 to 120 and pups from 160 to 560. The increase is
requested for: comparison of St. Paul vs St. George Island with regard
to foraging ecology and its possible influence in explaining
differences in the rate of recovery of populations of fur seals;
continuation of studies of milk intake, metabolism, growth,
thermoregulation and condition at weaning; and determine if pups with
greater mass prior to weaning have a different fatty acid composition
from pups of lower mass.
Dated: May 23, 1995.
Ann D. Terbush,
Chief, Permits and Documentation Division, Office of Protected
Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 95-13264 Filed 5-30-95; 8:45 am]
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