31 October 
6 November 
7 November 
7 November 
7 November 
Interior, Bureau of Land Management, comment- 
ing on the "Draft Environmental Impact Statement 
for the Lower Cook Inlet-Shelikof Strait 
Alaska Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas 
Lease Sale Number 60" and recommending that 
the Bureau consult with the National Marine 
Fisheries Service and the Fish and Wildlife 
Service, if it has not already done so, to 
determine the precise measures and monitoring 
program(s) that would be needed to provide 
the necessary assurance that the proposed 
action would not be contrary to the intents 
and provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection 
Act. 
Commerce, scientific research permit applica- 
tion, USSR Ministry of Fisheries. 
Commerce, public display permit application, 
Baltimore Aquarium, Inc. 
Interior, Bureau of Land Management, commenting 
on the planning process for proposed Gulf of 
Mexico offshore oil and gas lease sales numbers 
72 and 74 and recommending that the Bureau: 
(1) incorporate certain provisions recommended 
by the Fish and Wildlife Service for the 
protection of the West Indian manatee into 
lease sale stipulations; (2) consult with the 
National Marine Fisheries Service to identify 
stipulations, monitoring programs and other 
measures necessary to protect bottlenose 
dolphins and other non-endangered marine 
mammals; (3) modify the proposed action(s) and 
undertake such research and monitoring programs 
as may be needed to assure that there would be 
no significant direct or indirect effect on 
marine mammal populations; and (4) consult 
with both Services to determine whether and 
how existing research and monitoring programs 
might be coordinated and integrated to meet 
data needs more effectively and at less cost. 
Commerce, transmitting the results of a review 
of the National Marine Fisheries Service's 
tuna-porpoise research program and recommend- 
ing that the Service: take steps to articulate 
the tuna-porpoise research program to be 
conducted during the next five years; schedule 
regular reviews of the various aspects of that 
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