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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Fish and Wildlife Service

 

Notice of Receipt of Application for Permit

    The public is invited to comment on the following application for a 
permit to conduct certain activities with marine mammals. The 
application was submitted to satisfy requirements of the Marine Mammal 
Protection Act of 1972, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.) and the 
regulations governing marine mammals (50 CFR 18).
    Applicant: Daesaeng Corporation, Seoul, Korea, PRT-792768. The U.S 
agent for this aquarium is: International Animal Exchange, Ferndale, 
Michigan.
    Type of Permit: Take for public display
    Name and Number of Animals: Northern sea otter (Enhydra lutris 
lutris), 5
    Summary of Activity to be Authorized: The applicant requests to 
take (permanently remove) from the wild and export one male and four 
female northern sea otters and inadvertently harass others during 
capture. The sea otters will be on permanent public display at Daesaeng 
Corporation's 63 Aquarium where educational information will be 
provided to the public. As required under the 1994 amendments to the 
Act, the applicant has submitted professionally recognized standards on 
which the educational information is based. These standards are 
available as part of the application for public comment.
    Source of Marine Mammals for Research/Public Display: The applicant 
document that currently there are no sea otters in captivity available 
for their acquisition; therefore, the applicant is requesting removal 
of 5 sea otters from the waters surrounding Kodiak Island, Alaska.
    Period of Activity: September through October, 1994.
    Concurrent with the publication of this notice in the Federal 
Register, the Office of Management Authority is forwarding copies of 
this application to the Marine Mammal Commission and the Committee of 
Scientific Advisors for their review.
    Written data or comments, requests for copies of the complete 
application, or requests for a public hearing on this application 
should be sent to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of 
Management Authority, 4401 N. Fairfax Drive, Room 420(c), Arlington, 
Virginia 22203, telephone 703/358-2104 or fax 703/358-2281 and must be 
received within 30 days of the date of publication of this notice. 
Anyone requesting a hearing should give specific reasons why a hearing 
would be appropriate. The holding of such hearing is at the discretion 
of the Director.
    Documents and other information submitted with these applications 
are available for review, subject to the requirements of the Privacy 
Act and Freedom of Information Act, by any party who submits a written 
request for a copy of such documents within 30 days of the date of 
publication of this notice at the above address.

    Dated: August 12, 1994.
Margaret Tieger,
Acting Chief Branch of Permits, Office of Management Authority.
[FR Doc. 94-20166 Filed 8-16-94; 8:45 am]
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