[Federal Register Volume 64, Number 224 (Monday, November 22, 1999)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 63783]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 99-30422]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

50 CFR Part 216

[Docket No. 990927266-9266-01; I.D. 072699A]
RIN 0648-AM62


Taking and Importing Marine Mammals; Taking Marine Mammals 
Incidental to Navy Operations of Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System 
Low Frequency Active Sonar; Correction

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

ACTION: Correction to advance notice of proposed rulemaking.

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SUMMARY: This document contains corrections to the advance notice of 
proposed rulemaking that was published on October 22, 1999. These 
corrections are necessary to inform the public of the correct distance 
the U.S. Navy proposes to use to safeguard marine mammals from 
receiving more than a non-serious injury due to sounds from the Navy's 
Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System (SURTASS) Low Frequency Active 
(LFA) Sonar.

ADDRESSES: A copy of the U.S. Navy application may be obtained by 
writing to Donna Wieting, Chief, Marine Mammal Conservation Division, 
Office of Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service, 1315 
East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910-3226.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Kenneth R. Hollingshead, Office of 
Protected Resources, NMFS, (301) 713-2055, ext 128.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On October 22, 1999, NMFS published a notice 
(64 FR 57026) that NMFS had received a request from the U.S. Navy for a 
small take of certain marine mammal species incidental to Navy 
operations of SURTASS LFA Sonar over the next 5 years.

Need for Correction

    As published, the notice contains errors to the proposed safety 
zone that may prove to be misleading and are in need of correction.

Correction of Publication

    Accordingly, the publication on October 22, 1999, of the advance 
notice of proposed rulemaking (I.D. 072699A), which was the subject of 
FR Doc. 99-27579, is corrected as follows:
    On page 57028, in the first column, under the heading Risk 
Analysis, in paragraph two, the sentence beginning on line 13, is 
corrected to read: ``However, the RL for serious injury would be much 
higher, and the marine mammal would have to be much closer to the array 
than the 1 km (0.54 nm) radius around the vertical array delineating 
the 180 dB sound field.''
    On page 57028, in the second column, in the second complete 
paragraph, in line 7 the words inside the parentheses are corrected to 
read: ``(inside the 180 dB re 1 Parms sound field; 
approximately 1 km (0.54 nm) from the source)''

    Dated: November 16, 1999.
Penelope D. Dalton,
Assistant Administrator for Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries 
Service.
[FR Doc. 99-30422 Filed 11-19-99; 8:45 am]
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