[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 160 (Friday, August 18, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Page 43124]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-20543]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 080295D]


Marine Mammals

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

ACTION: Receipt of application to modify permit no. 836 (P79F).

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Institute of Marine Science, 
University of California, Santa Cruz, (Principal Investigators: Dr. 
Burney J. Le Boeuf, Dr. C. Leo Ortiz, Dr. Daniel P. Costa) has 
requested a modification to permit No. 836.

ADDRESSES: The modification request and related documents are available 
for review upon written request or by appointment in the following 
office(s):
    Permits Division, Office of Protected Resources, NMFS, 1315 East-
West Highway, Room 13130, Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301/713-2289); and
    Southwest Region, NMFS, 501 West Ocean Blvd., Suite 4200, 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, Office of 
Protected Resources, NMFS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1315 
East-West Highway, Room 13130, 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 modification 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 modification to permit No. 836, 
issued on May 12, 1993, as amended on June 29, 1994, is requested under 
the authority of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, as amended 
(16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), and the Regulations Governing the Taking and 
Importing of Marine Mammals (50 CFR part 216).
    Permit No. 836 authorizes the permit holder to incidentally harass 
up to 69,950 elephant seals (Mirounga angustirostris) while conducting 
a variety of scientific studies such as tagging, capture/release, 
marking, weighing, measuring and sampling, attaching electronic 
instruments, translocation, and energetics experiments.
    The permit holder requests authorization to: (1) Obtain biopsy 
samples from juvenile elephant seals for examination of muscle 
structure as it relates to aerobic capacity; (2) change release site 
from Point Sur to up to 5 miles (8 km) from Pioneer Seamount, 
approximately 70 miles (112 km) west of Half Moon Bay for studies of 
the effect of low frequency sound on translocated seals; and (3) import 
up to 300 adult female, 300 weaned pup and 50 adult male southern 
elephant seal tissue samples from Peninsula Valdez, Patagonia, 
Argentia.

    Dated: August 14, 1995.
Gary Barone,
Acting Chief, Permits and Documentation Division, Office of Protected 
Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 95-20543 Filed 8-17-95; 8:45 am]
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