[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 58 (Friday, March 27, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Page 13420]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-6899]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

RIN 0648-X036


Endangered Species; File No. 1547-02

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

ACTION:  Notice; issuance of permit modification.

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SUMMARY:  Notice is hereby given that the New York State Department of 
Environmental Conservation (Kathryn Hattala, Principal Investigator), 
21 South Putt Corners Road; New Paltz, NY 12561, has been issued a 
modification to scientific research Permit No. 1547-02.

ADDRESSES:  The modification and related documents are available for 
review upon written request or by appointment in the following offices:
    Permits, Conservation and Education Division, Office of Protected 
Resources, NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 13705, Silver Spring, MD 
20910; phone (301)713-2289; fax (301)427-2521; and
    Northeast Region, NMFS, 55 Great Republic Drive, Gloucester, MA 
01930; phone (978)281-9300; fax (978)281-9333;

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:  Malcolm Mohead or Kate Swails, 
(301)713-2289.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 9, 2008, notice was published in 
the Federal Register (72 FR 74708) that a modification of Permit No. 
1547-01, issued March 22, 2007 (72 FR 17135), had been requested by the 
above-named individual. The requested modification has been granted 
under the authority of the Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended 
(ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.) and the regulations governing the taking, 
importing, and exporting of endangered and threatened species (50 CFR 
222-226).
    In addition to all research activities authorized under Permit No. 
1547-01, this modification authorizes anesthesia and gastric lavage on 
up to 200 shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser brevirostrum) in the Haverstraw 
and Newburgh Bays of the Hudson River. The researcher also is permitted 
one unintentional mortality of a shortnose sturgeon during the 
remaining permitted period. The goal of the additional research will be 
to document the diet of shortnose sturgeon occupying the same habitat 
as Atlantic sturgeon (Acipenser oxyrhynchus oxyrhynchus) in the lower 
Hudson River. This modification will be valid through the expiration 
date of the original permit, October 31, 2011.
    Issuance of this modification, as required by the ESA, was based on 
a finding that such permit (1) was applied for in good faith, (2) will 
not operate to the disadvantage of such endangered or threatened 
species, and (3) is consistent with the purposes and policies set forth 
in section 2 of the ESA.

    Dated: March 24, 2009.
Tammy C. Adams,
Acting Chief, Permits, Conservation and Education Division, Office of 
Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. E9-6899 Filed 3-26-09; 8:45 am]
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