[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 36 (Thursday, February 23, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10067-10068]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-4370]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 020895A]


Marine Mammals

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

ACTION: Receipt of application for a scientific research permit (P580).

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that Ms. Carol Anne Conway, 407 Garces 
Drive, San Francisco, CA 94132, has applied in due form for a permit to 
import blue whale (Balaenoptera musculus) tissue samples from 
Newfoundland, Canada, for purposes of scientific research.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before March 27, 1995.

ADDRESSES: The application and related documents are available for 
review upon written request or by appointment in the following offices:
    Permits Division, Office of Protected Resources, NMFS, 1315 East-
West Highway, Room 13130, Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301/713-2289); and
    Southwest Region, 501 W. Ocean Boulevard, Long Beach, CA 90802-4213 
(310/980-4001).
    Written data or views, or requests for a public hearing on this 
request, should be submitted to the Chief, Permits Division, F/PR1, 
Office of Protected Resources, NMFS, 1335 East-West Highway, Silver 
Spring, MD 20910, within 30 days of the publication of this notice. 
Those individuals requesting a hearing should set forth the specific 
reasons why a hearing on this particular request would be appropriate.
    Concurrent with the publication of this notice in the Federal 
Register, the Secretary of Commerce is forwarding copies of this 
application to the Marine Mammal Commission and its Committee of 
Scientific Advisors.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The subject permit is requested under the 
authority of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, as amended (16 
U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), the Regulations Governing the Taking and 
Importing of Marine Mammals (50 CFR part 216), the Endangered Species 
Act of 1973, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) and the Regulations 
Governing the Taking, Importing, and Exporting of Endangered Fish and 
Wildlife (50 CFR part 222).
    The applicant proposes to import blue whale samples from Canada. 
The samples are to be used in a study of the sexual composition of the 
blue whale population off the western coast of the United States using 
molecular genetic techniques. Since the Canadian samples are from ice-
entrapped animals for which the sex was visually determined, they will 
be used as positive controls for the genetic technique. Samples from 
live populations off the western coast were collected under another 
permit (No. 675), and subsamples will be provided to the applicant by 
the permittee.

    [[Page 10068]] Dated: February 16, 1995.
P.A. Montanio,
Acting Director, Office of Protected Resources National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 95-4370 Filed 2-22-95; 8:45 am]
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