Special Accommodations. This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids should be directed to Ms. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ at (503) 326–6352 at least 5 days prior to the meeting date. Dated: August 8, 2001. [FR Doc. 01–20284 Filed 8–10–01; 8:45 am] to its OBC seismic survey activities and, more probably, a total of less than 1,300 a work session by telephone conference, which is open to the public. bowheads may be harassed based on the number of bowheads that might potentially be within 20 km of the airgun arrays. NMFS concurs and is therefore authorizing a take for bowhead whales by Level B harassment of 1,965 animals (based on the average of 2,630 and 1,300 animals). NMFS believes that no bowheads will be killed or seriously injured by ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇’s activity and accordingly has not authorized takings for injury or mortality. Open-water seismic exploration in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea does have some potential to influence seal hunting activities by residents of Nuiqsut. However, because the main summer sealing by the village of Nuiqsut is conducted off the Colville Delta, west of the proposed survey area, and the zone of influence by seismic sources on seals is expected to be fairly small (less than a few hundred meters), NMFS believes that WesternGeco’s OBC seismic survey will not have an unmitigable adverse impact on the availability of seals for subsistence uses. Accordingly, NMFS has issued an IHA to WesternGeco, LLC for the ocean bottom cable seismic survey operations described in this notice during the 2001 open water season in the Alaskan Beaufort Sea provided the mitigation, monitoring, and reporting requirements described in this document and in the IHA are undertaken. Dated: August 1, 2001. [FR Doc. 01–20281 Filed 8–10–01; 8:45 am] DATES: The telephone conference will be held Monday, August 27, 2001, from 2 p.m. to 4 p.m.
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