[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 64 (Tuesday, April 4, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 17058]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-8169]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 031495C]


Marine Mammals

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

ACTION: Modification no. 2 to scientific research permit no. 873 
(P772#63).

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that a request for modification of 
scientific research permit no. 873 submitted by the Southwest Fisheries 
Science Center, NMFS, P.O. Box 271, La Jolla, CA 92038-0271, has been 
granted.

ADDRESSES: The modification 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, Suite 13130, Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301/713-2289); and

    Director, Southwest Region, NMFS, 501 West Ocean Boulevard, Suite 
4200, Long Beach, CA 90802, (310/980-4016).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On February 15, 1995, notice was published 
in the Federal Register (60 FR 8632) that a modification of permit no. 
873, issued July 28, 1993 (58 FR 34038), had been requested by the 
above-named organization. The requested modification has been granted 
under the authority of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, as 
amended (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), the provisions of Sec. 216.33(d) and 
(e) of the Regulations Governing the Taking and Importing of Marine 
Mammals (50 CFR part 216), the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA), as 
amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.), and the provisions of Sec. 222.25 of 
the Regulations Governing the Taking, Importing, and Exporting of 
Endangered Fish and Wildlife (50 CFR part 222).

    Permit no. 873 authorized the permit holder to biopsy several 
species of cetaceans off the Pacific and Southern Oceans, and to import 
biopsy tissues collected outside of U.S. waters. The permit has been 
modified to add several additional species to the permit authority, to 
import biopsy tissues from these additional species, to expand the 
study area to include the Indian Ocean, to biopsy gray whales 
(including animals accompanying calves), fin, sei, minke, and right 
whales, and to employ photo-identification and photogrammetry 
techniques to study both gray whales and the additional species 
mentioned above.

    Issuance of this modification, as required by the ESA, was based on 
a finding that such modification: (1) Was applied for in good faith; 
(2) will not operate to the disadvantage of the endangered species 
which are the subject of this permit; and (3) is consistent with the 
purposes and policies set forth in section 2 of the ESA.

    Dated: March 21, 1995.

Ann D. Terbush,

Chief, Permits & Documentation Division, National Marine Fisheries 
Service.

[FR Doc. 95-8169 Filed 4-3-95; 8:45 am]
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