[Federal Register Volume 68, Number 69 (Thursday, April 10, 2003)]
[Notices]
[Pages 17670-17671]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 03-8743]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service


Notice of Receipt of Application for Endangered Species Permit

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, Interior.

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ACTION: Notice of receipt.

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SUMMARY: The following applicant has applied for a permit to conduct 
certain activities with an endangered species. This notice is provided 
pursuant to section 10(c) of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as 
amended (16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.):

PRT--TE069518

    Applicant: University of Maine, Orono, Maine

DATES: Written data or comments on this application must be received at 
the address given below by May 12, 2003.

ADDRESSES: Documents and other information submitted with this 
application are available for review by any party who submits a written 
request for a copy of such documents to the following office within 30 
days of the date of publication of this notice: U.S. Fish and Wildlife 
Service, 300 Westgate Center Drive, Hadley, Massachusetts 01035. 
Attention: Diane Lynch, Regional Endangered Species Permits 
Coordinator, telephone: (413) 253-8628; facsimile: (413) 253-8482.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Diane Lynch, telephone: (413) 253-
8628; facsimile (413) 253-8482.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: You are invited to comment on the 
application from the University of Maine, PRT-TE069510. This 
application requests authorization to take (harass, in the form of 
stress, and kill) Gulf of Maine, distinct population segment, Atlantic 
salmon (Salmo salar) stocks, for scientific purposes. DPS stocks for 
this study include stock from the: Denny's, Machias, East Machias, 
Pleasant, Sheepscot, and Narraguagus Rivers. No wild fish will be used 
in this study only stocks currently propagated at the Craig Brook 
National Fish Hatchery.

    Dated: March 28, 2003.
Richard O. Bennett,
Acting Regional Director.
[FR Doc. 03-8743 Filed 4-9-03; 8:45 am]
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