[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 197 (Thursday, October 12, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53169-53170]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-25199]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 100395A]


Marine Mammals

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

ACTION: Receipt of application to modify permit no. 867 (P540).

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that Dr. Frank Cipriano, Kewalo Marine 
Laboratory 13 Ahui Street, Honolulu, HI 96813, has requested a 
modification to permit No. 867.

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);
    Director, Southwest Region, NMFS, 501 West Ocean Boulevard, Suite 
4200, Long Beach, CA 90802-4213 (310/980-4015), including the Pacific 
Area Office of NMFS, 2570 Dole Street, Room 106, Honolulu, HI 96822-
2396 (808/955-8831);
    Director, Northwest Region (206/526-6150) and Director, National 
Marine Mammal Laboratory (206/526-4020), NMFS, 7600 Sand Point Way, NE, 
BIN C15700, Seattle, WA 98115;
    Director, Alaska Region, NMFS, Federal Annex, P.O. Box 21668, 
Juneau, AK 99802 (907/586-7221); and
    Director, Southeast Region, National Marine Fisheries Service, 9450 
Koger Blvd., St. Petersburg, FL 33702 (813/893-3141).
    Written data or views, or requests for a public hearing on this 
request should be submitted to the Director, 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. 867, 
issued on July 20, 1993 (58 FR 40114) and modified on April 12, 1994 
(59 FR 6949), 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 (16 U.S.C. 1531 et 
seq.) and the regulations governing endangered fish and wildlife (50 
CFR 222).
    Permit No. 867 authorizes the permit holder to obtain and/or import 
blood, and/or muscle, liver, gonadal, skin or blubber samples from 
various cetacean species for phylogenetic analyses. Samples may be 
obtained from available collections and museums in the United States, 
or imported from Argentina, Canada, Chile, France, Peru, New Zealand, 
South Africa, and the United Kingdom.
    The permit holder requests authorization to include two other 
species, Commerson's dolphin (Cephalorhynchus commersoni) and killer 
whale (Orcinus orca) in the analysis to help in the assessment of the 
relationship of various Lagenorhynchus species to other dolphins; and 
increase the number of bottlenose dolphin specimens to be obtained from 
6 to 40 specimens. Additionally, he requests that bones and teeth be 
added to the list of tissues that may be obtained and imported and to 
import samples from Australia. The C. commersoni specimens and O. orca 
specimens are available from Sea World and several other tissue 
collections.

    Dated: October 3,1995.
Ann D. Terbush,
Chief, Permits and Documentation Division, Office of Protected 
Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 95-25199 Filed 10-11-95; 8:45 am]
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