[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 220 (Wednesday, November 15, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57402-57403]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-28205]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 110695A]


Endangered Species; Permits

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

ACTION: Receipt of two applications for scientific research permits 
(P599 and P600).

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the California Department of Water 
Resources in Sacramento, CA (CDWR) and California State University at 
Chico, CA (CSU) have applied in due form for permits to take juvenile, 
endangered, Sacramento River winter-run chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus 
tshawytscha) for the purpose of scientific research.

DATES: Written comments or requests for a public hearing on either of 
these applications must be received on or before December 15, 1995.

ADDRESSES: The applications and related documents are available for 
review in the following offices, by appointment:

    Office of Protected Resources, F/PR8, NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, 
Silver Spring, MD 20910-3226 (301-713-1401); and

    Director, Southwest Region, NMFS, NOAA, 501 West Ocean Blvd., Suite 


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4200, Long Beach, CA 90802-4213 (310-980-4016).
    Written comments or requests for a public hearing should be 
submitted to the Chief, Endangered Species Division, Office of 
Protected Resources.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: CDWR and CSU request permits under the 
authority of section 10 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (ESA) (16 
U.S.C. 1531-1543) and the NMFS regulations governing listed fish and 
wildlife permits (50 CFR parts 217-227).
    CDWR (P599) requests a 3-year permit to collect non-lethal fin 
tissue samples from juvenile chinook salmon for genetic research. The 
goal is to develop a technique to distinguish between California's 
Central Valley chinook races in a mixed-stock population, particularly 
winter-run, based on an analysis of the nuclear DNA material from the 
fin tissue samples. CDWR will obtain juvenile fish from the U.S. Fish 
and Wildlife Service and the California Department of Fish and Game, 
agencies that are authorized to capture and handle listed fish under 
separate authorizations. CDWR proposes to anesthetize the juvenile 
fish, excise a 1 mm2 piece of caudal fin tissue using disinfected 
stainless steel scissors, allow the fish to recover from the 
anesthetic, and release the fish back into the watershed.
    CSU (P600) requests a 3-year permit to assess the use of the non-
natal rearing habitat in the Central Valley by juvenile chinook salmon, 
specifically the small, intermittent tributaries. This knowledge may be 
important to protecting listed fish populations since many of the 
smaller tributaries are being degraded. CSU proposes to capture listed 
juveniles with a nylon seine, anesthetize the fish, obtain biological 
information, allow the fish to recover from the anesthetic, and release 
the fish into the habitat from which they were captured.
    Those individuals requesting a hearing (see ADDRESSES) should set 
out the specific reasons why a hearing on either application would be 
appropriate. The holding of such hearing is at the discretion of the 
Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, NOAA. All statements and 
opinions contained in these application summaries are those of the 
applicants and do not necessarily reflect the views of NMFS.

    Dated: November 8, 1995.
Russell J. Bellmer,
Chief, Endangered Species Division, Office of Protected Resources, 
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 95-28205 Filed 11-14-95; 8:45 am]
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