[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 26 (Wednesday, February 7, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4626-4627]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-2580]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 013096B]


Endangered Species; Permits

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

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Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.

ACTION: Receipt of two applications for scientific research permits 
(P497D and P510B).

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Idaho Cooperative Fish and 
Wildlife Research Unit at Moscow, ID (ICFWRU) and the Shoshone-Bannock 
Tribes at Fort Hall, ID (SBT) have applied in due form for permits to 
take threatened or endangered species 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 March 8, 1996.

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
    Environmental and Technical Services Division, 525 NE Oregon 
Street, Suite 500, Portland, OR 97232-4169 (503-230-5400).
    Written comments or requests for a public hearing should be 
submitted to the Chief, Endangered Species Division, Office of 
Protected Resources.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: ICFWRU and SBT 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).
    ICFWRU (P497D) requests a 5-year permit to take adult, threatened, 
Snake River spring/summer and fall chinook salmon (Oncorhynchus 
tshawytscha) associated with a study designed to assess the passage 
success of migrating adult salmonids at the four dams and reservoirs in 
the lower Columbia River, evaluate specific flow and spill conditions, 
and evaluate measures to improve passage. Adult salmonids are proposed 
to be captured, anesthetized, fitted with radio transmitters and 
identifier tags, allowed to recover from the anesthetic, and released. 
Once returned to the river, the movement and migration timing of each 
fish will be recorded at fixed-site and mobile receiver stations as the 
fish migrate upstream. Primary benefits of the study will be the 
ability to identify areas in the fishways that are problematic for 
adult passage and to determine the proportion of salmonids that 
ultimately pass the upstream dams and enter tributaries to spawn, enter 
hatcheries, are taken in fisheries, or are losses between the dams.
    SBT (P510B) requests a 5-year permit to take juvenile, endangered, 
Snake River sockeye salmon (Oncorhynchus nerka) associated with a study 
designed to evaluate the destiny of the ESA-listed juvenile sockeye 
salmon from the Idaho Department of Fish and Game's captive broodstock 
program that were released into Pettit Lake, ID in July, 1995 under the 
authority of permit 795 (60 FR 37052, July 19, 1995). An evaluation of 
the success of this release is necessary to make management decisions 
on future releases of the progeny from the captive broodstock program. 
To estimate overwinter survival, monitor downstream migration, and 
calculate smolt-to-adult return rates, juvenile sockeye outmigrating 
from the lake each year are proposed to be captured, anesthetized, 
tagged with passive integrated transponders and/or weighed and 
measured, allowed to recover from the anesthetic, and released.
    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: January 31, 1996.
Russell J. Bellmer,
Chief, Endangered Species Division, Office of Protected Resources, 
National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 96-2580 Filed 2-6-96; 8:45 am]
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