[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 18 (Friday, January 26, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 2493]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-1427]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 011896A]


Marine Mammals

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

ACTION: Issuance of scientific research Permit No. 983 (P772#67)

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that Dr. Michael F. Tillman, Southwest 
Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, 8604 La 
Jolla Shores Drive, La Jolla, CA 92038 has been issued a permit to take 
Antarctic pinnipeds for purposes of scientific research.

ADDRESSES: The permit and related documents are available for review 
upon written request or by appointment, in the following office(s):
    Permits Division, Office of Protected Resources, National Marine 
Fisheries Service, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 13130, Silver Spring, 
MD 20910 (301/713-2289).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 13, 1995, notice was published 
in the Federal Register (60 FR 64028) that a request for a scientific 
research permit to take southern elephant seals, (Mirounga leonina), 
Antarctic fur seals (Arctocephalus gazella) Weddell seals 
(Leptonychotes weddellii), crabeater seals (Lobodon carcinophagus), 
leopard seals (Hydrurga leptonyx), and Ross seals (Ommatophoca rossii), 
had been submitted by the above-named individual. The requested permit 
has been issued 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).

    Dated: January 18, 1996.
Ann D. Terbush,
Chief, Permits and Documentation Division, Office of Protected 
Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 96-1427 Filed 1-25-96; 8:45 am]
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