[Federal Register Volume 59, Number 116 (Friday, June 17, 1994)]
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[FR Doc No: 94-14725]


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[Federal Register: June 17, 1994]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 052694B]

 

Marine Mammals

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

ACTION: Issuance of marine mammal permit modification (P501).

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that Dr. Raymond J. Tarpley, Assistant 
Professor, Department of Veterinary Anatomy, Texas A&M University, 
College Station, TX 77843, applied and was granted a modification to 
Scientific Research Permit No. 780. This modification becomes effective 
upon signature.

ADDRESSES: Documents submitted in connection with this permit, as 
modified, are available for review, by appointment, in the Permit 
Division, Office of Protected Resources, NMFS, NOAA, 1335 East-West 
Hwy., Silver Spring, MD 20910, (301/713-2289);
    Director, Southeast Region, NMFS, NOAA, 9721 Executive Center 
Drive, St. Petersburg, FL 33702 (813/893-3141); and Director, Alaska 
Region, NMFS, NOAA, P.O. Box 21668, Juneau, AK 99802 (907/568-7221).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 2, 1994, notice was published in the 
Federal Register (59 FR 22593) that a modification of Permit No. 780, 
issued May 20, 1992 (57 FR 21396), had been requested by the above 
named individual. Notice is hereby given that the Permit, as modified, 
was issued pursuant to the provisions of Sections 216.33(d) and (e) of 
the Regulations Governing the Taking and Importing of Marine Mammals 
(50 CFR Part 216), and Section 222.25 of the regulations governing 
endangered fish and wildlife permits.
    The Permit authorized collection of tissue samples from up to 30 
bowhead whales (Balaena mysticetus) and 40 beluga whales 
(Delphinapterus leucas) taken during the Alaskan Eskimo subsistence 
harvest, import tissue samples from 10 beluga whales taken for 
subsistence purposes by the Inuit in Canada, and import tissue samples 
from harbor porpoise (Phocoena phocoena), Dall's porpoise (Phocoenoides 
dalli) and killer whales (Orcinus orca) found dead as a result of 
stranding. The modification authorizes an unlimited number of sample 
collections from all bowhead and beluga whales landed in the Alaskan 
Eskimo subsistence harvest and beluga whale samples imported from 
Canada.

    Dated: June 10, 1994.
Herbert W. Kaufman,
Deputy Director, Office of Protected Resources, National Marine 
Fisheries.
[FR Doc. 94-14725 Filed 6-16-94; 8:45 am]
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