[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 105 (Thursday, May 30, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 27052-27053]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-13453]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 051396G]


Marine Mammals; Permit No. 927 (P79I)

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

ACTION: Receipt of application for modification.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the Institute of Marine Science, 
University of California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064 (Principal 
Investigators: Daniel P. Costa and Michael E. Goebel) has requested a 
modification to permit no. 927.

DATES: Written comments must be received on or before July 1, 1996.

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

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Highway, Room 13130, Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301/713-2289); and
    Alaska Region, NMFS, P.O. Box 21668, Juneau, AK 99802-1668 (907/
586-7221).
    Written data or views, or requests for a public hearing on this 
request should be submitted to the Director, Office of Protected 
Resources, NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 13130, Silver Spring, MD 
20910. 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, NMFS 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. 927, 
issued on June 17, 1994 (59 FR 32419) 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. 927, as amended on July 12, 1995, authorizes the permit 
holder to take northern fur seals (Callorhinus ursinus) in the 
following manner: Capture, flipper tag, sample, weigh, measure, mark 
and release up to 440 adult females and pups; an additional 400 male/
female pups for body composition and metabolic and energetic use 
studies; accidentally kill up to 6 annually; and inadvertently harass 
up to 69,080 during the conduct of these activities.
    The permit holder requests authorization to: Subsample an 
additional 30 pups used in the oxygen consumption and metabolic rate 
study; expand the capture dates from 1 September to 1 July; obtain 100 
muscle samples and 8 pelts from sub-adult animals killed in the 
subsistence harvest or from other animals that die of nartural causes; 
subsample an additional 30 pups in the milk intake, metabolism, growth, 
condition and thermoregulation study of body composition; subsample 30 
pups in the total blood volume study; and measure total blood volume in 
50 adult females. No additional live animals are requested.

    Dated: May 14, 1996.
Ann D. Terbush,
Chief, Permits and Documentation Division, Office of Protected 
Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 96-13453 Filed 5-29-96; 8:45 am]
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