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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary

 

Marine Mammals

AGENCY: Department of Defense, Advanced Research Projects Agency.

ACTION: Notice of public hearing on draft environmental impact 
statement.

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SUMMARY: The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA), in cooperation 
with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), and the University 
of California, San Diego (UCSD) as the state lead agency, will hold a 
public hearing on a draft environmental impact statement/environmental 
impact report EIS/EIR) for the California Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean 
Climate (ATOC) Project and its associated Marine Mammal Research 
Program.

DATES: The public hearing will take place on January 6, 1995 at 5:30 
PM, and the Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, 307 Church Street, Santa Cruz, 
California.

ADDRESSES: For a copy of the Draft EIS/EIR, contact Marilyn E. Cox, 
Campus Planning Office, 0006, 9500 Gilman Drive, University of 
California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093. Telephone (619) 534-3860.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
All non-government organizations and scientists who wish to present 
prepared testimony should contact Ms. Marilyn E. Cox at the address 
given above at least 48 hours in advance of the hearing so that a 
general agenda can be prepared. People who are deaf or hearing impaired 
may place call through the California Relay Service at 1-800 735-2922. 
A written copy of each testimony to be presented is requested on the 
day of the hearing. It is advised to use slides or overheads only if 
absolutely necessary during presentations, and copies of any slides or 
overheads are requested to be made available to Ms. Cox on the day of 
the hearing.
    Other people who are interested in making a statement at this 
hearing should bring a written copy of the statement to the hearing, 
and will be given an opportunity to make such statements following the 
prepared testimonies. Anyone who needs additional information or 
requires special accommodations to attend the public hearing should 
contact the person named above at least 7 days in advance of the 
hearing. Comments on the Draft EIS/EIR will be accepted until January 
17, 1995.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 3, 1994 notice was published in the 
Federal Register (49 FR 22822) that the ARPA, in cooperation with the 
NMFS, intended to prepare an EIS, pursuant to the National 
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), on an application for a scientific 
research permit to allow harassment of marine mammals and sea turtles 
by a low frequency sound source associated with the ATOC program in 
California waters, and to monitor the effects thereof. The ATOC project 
is a basin scale research effort to determine long-term ocean climate 
changes by using acoustic sound paths in the sea's deep ``sound 
channel'' to precisely measure average ocean temperatures. A two-year 
research program is proposed to be carried out to study any potential 
effects of the ATOC sound transmissions on marine mammals and sea 
turtles. Two sound sources are currently proposed; one offshore 
California near Point Sur (which is the subject of this Draft EIS/EIR) 
and the other off the north shore of Kauai, Hawaii (the subject of a 
separate draft EIS).

    Dated: November 28, 1994.
Patricia L. Toppings,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 94-29620 Filed 12-1-94; 8:45 am]
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