[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 7 (Wednesday, January 11, 1995)] [Notices] [Pages 2742-2743] From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] [FR Doc No: 95-648] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- [[Page 2743]] DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Office of the Secretary Marine Mammals agency: Advanced Research Projects Agency, DOD. action: Notice of public hearing on draft environmental impact statement. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- summary: The Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) in cooperation with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) will hold a public hearing on a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Kauai Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean Climate (ATOC) Project and its associated Marine Mammal Research Program (MMRP). dates: The public hearing will take place on February 10, 1995, at 6:00 PM, at the Mabel Smyth Building, 510 S. Beretania Street, Honolulu, Hawaii. addresses: For a copy of the Draft EIS, 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 Mr. Eugene Nitta, Protected Species Program Coordinator, Pacific Ocean Area-NMFS at (808) 973-2937 at least 48 hours in advance of the hearing so that a general agenda can be prepared. 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 Mr. Nitta 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 seven (7) days in advance of the hearing. Comments on the Draft EIS will be accepted until February 20, 1995. supplementary information: On April 15, 1994, notice was published in the Federal Register 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 waters off Kauai, Hawaii, 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 off the north shore of Kauai, Hawaii (which is the subject of this Draft EIS) and the other offshore California near Point Sur (the subject of a separate draft EIS). Dated: January 6, 1995. Patricia L. Toppings, Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense. [FR Doc. 95-648 Filed 1-10-95; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 5000-04-M