[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 201 (Tuesday, October 17, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 61306]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-26655]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[I.D. 091400A]


Marine Mammals

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

ACTION: Issuance of photography permit no. 986-1592-00.

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SUMMARY: Pandion Enterprises, P.O. Box 545, Summerland, California 
93067, [Permit Holder: Bruce Reitherman], has been issued a permit to 
take by Level B harassment one species, elephant seal(Mirounga 
angustirostris), of non-threatened, non-endangered marine mammals for 
purposes of commercial photography.

ADDRESSES: The permit and related documents are available for review 
upon written request or by appointment in the following offices:
    Permits Division, Office of Protected Resources, NMFS,1315 East-
West Highway, Room 13130, Silver Spring, MD 20910 (301/713-2289); and
    Regional Administrator, Southwest Region, NMFS, 501 West Ocean 
Boulevard, Long Beach, California 90802-4213, (562/980-4000).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:  On August 9, 2000, notice was published in 
the Federal Register(65 FR 48679) that the above-named applicant had 
submitted a request for a permit to take one species of marine mammals 
by Level B harassment during the course of commercial photographic 
activities in Piedras Blancas and Ano Nuevo, California. The requested 
permit has been issued, under the authority of Sec. 104(c)(6) of the 
Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1361 et 
seq.).

    Dated: October 5, 2000.
Ann D. Terbush,
Chief, Permits and Documentation Division, Office of Protected 
Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 00-26655 Filed 10-16-00; 8:45 am]
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