[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 54 (Monday, March 20, 2000)]
[Notices]
[Page 14947]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-6810]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

[I.D. 030100E]


Marine Mammals; File No. 763-1534-00

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

ACTION: Issuance of permit.

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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that the National Zoological Park, 
Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. 20008-2598 [Principal 
Investigator: Dr. Daryl Boness], has been issued a permit to import/
export grey seal specimen and other non-endangered marine mammal 
specimen for purposes of scientific research.

ADDRESSES: The permit 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); and
    Regional Administrator, Northeast Region, NMFS, One Blackburn 
Drive, Gloucester, MA 01930, (978/281-9250).

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

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On December 30, 1999, notice was published 
in the Federal Register (64 FR 73523) that a request for a scientific 
research permit to collect samples from grey seals and import/export 
samples taken opportunistcally from non-endangered marine mammals of 
the Orders Pinnipedia (except walrus) and Cetacea had been submitted by 
the above-named organization. The requested permit has been issued 
under the authority of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, as 
amended (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), the Regulations Governing the Taking 
and Importing of Marine Mammals (50 CFR part 216), and the Fur Seal Act 
of 1966, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1151 et seq.).

    Dated: March 10, 2000.
Ann D. Terbush,
Chief, Permits and Documentation Division, Office of Protected 
Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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