Receipt of Application(s) for Permit

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service

Receipt of Application(s) for Permit

The public is invited to comment on the following application(s)

for permits to conduct certain activities with marine mammals. The

application(s) was/were submitted to satisfy requirements of the Marine

Mammal Protection Act of 1972, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.) and

the regulations governing marine mammals (50 CFR part 18).

Applicant: Alaska Fish and Wildlife Research Center, National

Biological Survey, Anchorage, AK, PRT-740507.

Type of Permit: Scientific Research.

Name of Animals: Alaska sea otters (Enhydra lutris), 400.

Summary of Activity to be Authorized: The applicant requests

renewal of their permit which currently authorizes take (capture/

recapture, transport, temporarily maintain, drug, flipper tag, inject

with subcutaneous transponder chip, obtain blood and urine samples,

biopsy oral and vaginal lesions, implant radio transmitters, and

release) up to 200 sea otters, incidentally capture and release 200 sea

otters, reimportation of parts of deceased otters previously exported

to Marine World, Japan and Vancouver Aquarium, Canada, and importation

of tissue samples from live and deceased sea otters in Canada and

Russia while conducting research with foreign counterparts. The

applicant requests an amendment to their permit to include collection

of sea otter carcasses or parts from sea otters found dead on beaches

or in waters throughout Alaska, or from sea otter carcasses discarded

by native subsistence hunters. Samples will be taken and imported for

analyses of serum chemistry, serum hormones, and genetics.

Source of Marine Mammals for Research: Wild sea otters of all ages

and sexes to be used in the research.

Period of Activity: Through 1996.

Applicant: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Marine Mammals

Management, Anchorage, AK, PRT-790174.

Type of Permit: Import.

Name and Number of Animals: Polar bear (Ursus maritimus), 400

annually.

Summary of Activity to be Authorized: The applicant requests a

permit to import polar bear teeth collected under the Marking and

Tagging Program administered by the Marine Mammals Management Office.

The teeth will be sectioned and age determinations made to monitor

changes in the sex and age structure of polar bears taken under the

Native subsistence harvest program.

Source of Marine Mammals for Research: Polar bears of all ages and

sexes taken during Native subsistence hunting.

Period of Activity: Through 1996.

Applicant: Carle Foundation Hospital, Urbana, IL, PRT-691972.

Type of Permit: Import.

Name and Number of Animals: Polar bear (Ursus maritimus), 3.

Summary of Activity to be Authorized: The applicant requests

amendment to their current permit to import liver, pituitary, kidney,

muscle, adrenal, lung, heart, thyroid, medulla, femur and gonad tissues

taken from 3 polar bears used in toxicological studies. Samples will be

used to collect data on the residency times of Telazol and on tissue

contamination by industrial pollutants.

Source of Marine Mammals for Research: Canada.

Period of Activity: Through December 1994.

Concurrent with the publication of this notice in the Federal

Register, the Office of Management Authority is forwarding copies of

this application to the Marine Mammal Commission and the Committee of

Scientific Advisors for their review.

Written data or comments, requests for copies of the complete

application, or requests for a public hearing on this application

should be submitted to the Director, Office of Management Authority,

4401 N. Fairfax Dr., room 420(c), Arlington, Virginia 22203 and must be

received by the Director within 30 days of the date of publication of

this notice. Anyone requesting a hearing should give specific reasons

why a hearing would be appropriate. The holding of such hearing is at

the discretion of the Director.

Documents and other information submitted with these applications

are available for review, subject to the requirements of the Privacy

Act and Freedom of Information Act, 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, Office of Management Authority, 4401 North Fairfax Drive, room

420(c), Arlington, Virginia 22203. Phone: (703/358-2104); FAX: (703/

358-2281).

Dated: May 19, 1994.

Margaret Tieger,

Acting Chief, Branch of Permits, Office of Management Authority.

[FR Doc. 94-12663 Filed 5-24-94; 8:45 am]

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