Factoid/2003/09/04
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Navy Gets Permission to Kill More Whales
- "SURTASS SONAR MARINE MAMMAL TAKE PERMITS: In accordance with the Marine Mammal Protection Act (MMPA), as amended, and implementing regulations, notification is hereby given that NMFS has issued two 1-year Letters of Authorization (LOAs) to take marine mammals by harassment incidental to the U.S. Navy's operation of Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System Low Frequency Active (SURTASS LFA) sonar operations to the Chief of Naval Operations, Department of the Navy, 2000 Navy Pentagon, Washington, D.C., and persons operating under his authority." - excerpt from the U.S. Government's Federal Register, as reported by the Endangered Species Coalition in the email newsletter Greenlines, http://www.stopextinction.org/News/NewsMain.cfm.
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