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Emergency Exemption: Issuance

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[Federal Register: January 14, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 10)]
[Notices]
[Page 2421]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Fish and Wildlife Service


Emergency Exemption: Issuance

    On January 6,2000, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service)
issued a permit (PRT-021542)to the Service, Division of Law
Enforcement, Arlington, Virginia to re-export a 6 month old chimpanzee
(Pan troglodytes). The 30-day public comment period required by section
10(c) of the Endangered Species Act was waived. The Service determined
that an emergency affecting the health and life of the chimpanzee
existed and that no reasonable alternative was available to the
applicant, for the following reasons: (1) the animal had been recently
removed from the wild; (2) the possible rehabilitation of the animal
would be facilitated by a speedy return to Africa ; (3) the River
Gambia National Park Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Project in The Gambia
would be able to take this animal and has a nursing female which
recently lost an offspring; (4) an individual willing to transport the
young chimpanzee was available on short notice.

    Dated: January 10, 2000.
Kristen Nelson,
Chief, Branch of Permits (Domestic), Office of Management Authority.
[FR Doc. 00-896 Filed 1-13-00; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4310-55-U

 
 

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