[Federal Register Volume 60, Number 16 (Wednesday, January 25, 1995)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4891-4892]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 95-1782]



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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
[I.D. 011295C]


Marine Mammals

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

ACTION: Receipt of application to modify permit no. 887 (P79H).

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that Dr. Ronald J. Schusterman, 
Research Biologist, Institute of Marine Sciences, University of 
California, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, has requested a modification to 
permit No. 887.

ADDRESSES: The modification request 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);
    Southwest Region, NMFS, 501 W. Ocean Boulevard, Long Beach, CA 
90802-4213 (310/980-4047).
    Written data or views, or requests for a public hearing on this 
request should be submitted to the Chief, Permits Division, Office of 
Protected Resources, NMFS, NOAA, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1335 
East-West Highway, F/PR1, Silver Spring, MD 20910, within 30 days of 
the publication of this notice. Those individuals requesting a hearing 
should set forth the specific reasons why a hearing on this particular 
modification request would be appropriate.
    Concurrent with the publication of this notice in the Federal 
Register, the Secretary of Commerce is forwarding copies of this 
application to the Marine Mammal Commission and its Committee of 
Scientific Advisors.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The subject modification to permit No. 889, 
issued on March 9, 1994 (59 FR 12266), is requested 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 [[Page 4892]] and 
Importing of Marine Mammals (50 CFR part 216).
    Permit No. 889 authorizes the permit holder to maintain one 
elephant seal. The seal will be trained for in-air and underwater sound 
detection threshold tests. The permit holder requests authorization to 
maintain an additional elephant seal from beached/stranded stock to 
conduct visual sensitivity tests.

    Dated: January 18, 1995.
P.A. Montanio,
Acting Director, Office of Protected Resources, National Marine 
Fisheries Service.
[FR Doc. 95-1782 Filed 1-24-95; 8:45 am]
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