[Federal Register: January 14, 2000 (Volume 65, Number 10)] [Notices] [Page 2421] From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov] [DOCID:fr14ja00-67] ======================================================================= ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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