[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 166 (Monday, August 26, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Page 43738]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-21708]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
[I.D. 081696C]


Marine Mammals; Scientific Research Permit No. 1009 (P613)

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

ACTION: Issuance of permit.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that Dr. Glenn Cota, Center for Coastal 
Physical Oceanography, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Virginia 
23529, has been issued a permit to import marine mammal specimens for 
scientific purposes.

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, NMFS, 1315 East-
West Highway, Room 13130, Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301/713-2289); and
    Director, Northeast Region, NMFS, One Blackburn Drive, Gloucester, 
MA 01930-2298 (508/281-9250).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 12, 1996, notice was published in 
the Federal Register (61 FR 29741) that a request for a scientific 
research permit to import Narwhal (Monodon monoceros), beluga whale 
(Dephinapterus leucas), bearded seal (Erignahtus barbatus), and ringed 
seal (Phoca sibirica) samples from Canada 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: August 15, 1996.
Ann D. Terbush,
Chief, Permits and Documentation Division, Office of Protected 
Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 96-21708 Filed 8-23-96; 8:45 am]
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