[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 10 (Tuesday, January 17, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 3400]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-995]



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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.

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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.

DATES: The public hearing will take place on February 9, 1995 at 6:00 
P.M., at the Kauai War Memorial Convention Hall, 4191 Hardy St., Lihue, 
Kauai, Hawaii.

ADDRESSES: To obtain 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 before 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 use slides or overheads only if 
absolutely necessary during presentations, and copies of any slides or 
overheads should be made available to Mr. Nitta on the day of the 
hearing.
    Other persons 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 requires additional information or special 
accommodations to attend the public hearing should contact the person 
named above at least 7 days before 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 10, 1995.
Patricia L. Toppings,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, Department of Defense.
[FR Doc. 95-995 Filed 1-13-95; 8:45 am]
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