[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 181 (Monday, September 18, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 56297]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-23919]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[I.D.090500C]


Marine Mammals; File No. P368D

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

ACTION: Isuance of permit amendment.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that Dr. James T. Harvey, Moss Landing 
Marine Laboratories, P.O. Box 450, Moss Landing, CA 95039-0450 has been 
issued an amendment to scientific research Permit No. 938.

ADDRESSES: The amendment and related documents are available for review 
upon written request or by appointment in the following office(s):
    Permits and Documentation Division, Office of Protected Resources, 
NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 13705, Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301/
713-2289);
    Regional Administrator, Alaska Region, NMFS, P.O. Box 21668, 
Juneau, AK 99802 (907/586-7221).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Simona Roberts or Ruth Johnson, 301/
713-2289.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On August 7, 2000, notice was published in 
the Federal Register (65 FR 48221) that an amendment of Permit No. 938, 
issued February 2, 1995 (60 FR 7753), had been requested by the above-
named organization. The requested amendment has been granted 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. 938 authorizes the permit holder to take various species 
of marine mammals of the suborders Mysticeti, Odontoceti, Pinnipedia, 
and southern sea otter of the California coast annually during: aerial 
and vessel surveys, behavioral observations, photographic 
identification, and VHF and TDR tagging. With this amendment, the 
permit holder is now authorized to place implantable VHF and TDR tags 
on up to eight killer whales in southeast Alaska.

    Dated: September 12, 2000.
Ann D. Terbush,
Division Chief, Permits and Documentation Division, Office of Protected 
Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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