80_FR_57421 80 FR 57238 - Notice of Permit Modification Received Under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978

80 FR 57238 - Notice of Permit Modification Received Under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Federal Register Volume 80, Issue 183 (September 22, 2015)

Page Range57238-57239
FR Document2015-24001

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required to publish a notice of requests to modify permits issued to conduct activities regulated and permits issued under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. NSF has published regulations under the Antarctic Conservation Act at Title 45 Part 671 of the Code of Federal Regulations. This is the required notice of a requested permit modification and permit issued.

Federal Register, Volume 80 Issue 183 (Tuesday, September 22, 2015) 
[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 183 (Tuesday, September 22, 2015)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2015-24001]


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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION


Notice of Permit Modification Received Under the Antarctic 
Conservation Act of 1978

AGENCY: National Science Foundation.

ACTION: Notice of Permit Modification Request Received and Permit 
Issued

[[Page 57239]]

under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978, Public Law 95-541.

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SUMMARY: The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required to publish a 
notice of requests to modify permits issued to conduct activities 
regulated and permits issued under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 
1978. NSF has published regulations under the Antarctic Conservation 
Act at Title 45 Part 671 of the Code of Federal Regulations. This is 
the required notice of a requested permit modification and permit 
issued.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Li Ling Hamady, ACA Permit Officer, 
Division of Polar Programs, Rm. 755, National Science Foundation, 4201 
Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22230. Or by email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Foundation issued a permit (ACA 2012-WM-
002) to Dr. George Watters on September 29, 2011. The issued permit 
allows the applicant to operate a remote field camp in ASPA 149 Cape 
Shirreff, Livingston Island.
    Now the applicant proposes a permit modification to install up to 
10 remote, autonomous, and easily removable camera systems at the U.S. 
AMLR study sites within ASPA 149 to breeding aggregations of gentoo and 
chinstrap penguins and Antarctic fur seals and other pinnipeds. The 
cameras would provide time-lapse photography during breeding and non-
breeding seasons to estimate key monitoring parameters such as arrival 
timing, reproductive chronology and success, young production, 
overwinter attendance, and census data. The camera deployment at this 
site would be identical in nature to the camera deployment already 
approved for the applicant within ASPA 128, at Copacabana, King George 
Island. The Environmental Officer has reviewed the modification request 
and has determined that the amendment is not a material change to the 
permit, and it will have a less than a minor or transitory impact.
    DATES: September 16, 2015 to April 1, 2016.
    The permit modification was issued on September 16, 2015.

Nadene G. Kennedy,
Polar Coordination Specialist, Division of Polar Programs.
[FR Doc. 2015-24001 Filed 9-21-15; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 7555-01-P

57238 Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 183 / Tuesday, September 22, 2015 / Notices system to designate Antarctic Specially in the Antarctica. The cameras will be certain geographic areas a requiring Protected Areas. mounted on a scaffold pole supported special protection. The regulations by an aluminum tripod. No establish such a permit system to Application Details malfunctions or adverse effects were designate Antarctic Specially Protected Permit Application: 2016–011 seen in previous deployments. The Areas. 1. Applicant: Stephanie Jenourvrier, instruments also record air temperature. APPLICATION DETAILS: Woods Hole Oceanographic The cameras are intended to remain in 1. Applicant Institution, Woods Hole, MA 02453. situ and operate remotely for five Brent S. Stewart, Ph.D., J.D., 3889 Activity for Which Permit is seasons. The units are completely Creststone Place, San Diego, CA Requested: The applicant intends to weatherproof and are powered by Permit Application: 2016–010 collect a multi-scale and temporal batteries that are charged via a solar cell. Dates: 1 December 2015 through 1 Activity for Which Permit Is Requested baseline data set on the largest cluster of Adelie penguin breeding colonies in January 2016. Take; Applicant desires to visit sites the Antarctic Peninsula (AP). The area Nadene G. Kennedy, accessible by IAATTO registered tourist near the Danger Islands in the Weddell Polar Coordination Specialist, Division of vessels and utilize a miniature (<1kg Sea (eastern AP) may account for half of Polar Programs. mass), multi-rotor (<20 cm rotor arm the total breeding population of Adelie [FR Doc. 2015–24004 Filed 9–21–15; 8:45 am] radius), remotely operated, battery penguins in the AP, yet these colonies BILLING CODE 7555–01–P powered (electric motor) UAS are little known. Penguin population (Unmanned Aerial System) equipped shifts have been documented in the with a small high resolution camera. western AP and this study will help NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION The project will photo document reduce uncertainty for the eastern AP Antarctic landscapes and the populations. Should the weather Notice of Permit Applications Received distribution and abundance of birds that preclude reaching the site, alternative Under the Antarctic Conservation Act occur at those sites. Bird species may study sites have been identified. of 1978 include rockhopper, chinstrap, Adelie, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) and emperor penguins, and skuas, AGENCY: National Science Foundation Filming: The applicant wishes to fly a sheathbills, kelp gulls, and giant petrels, small, battery operated, remotely- ACTION: Notice of Permit Applications and birds may be roosting and/or controlled quadrotor Unmanned Aerial Received under the Antarctic breeding. ‘‘Take’’ would be unintended Vehicle (UAV) in order to photograph Conservation Act of 1978, Public Law and unexpected incidental, brief, minor penguin colonies as part of a multiscale 95–541. disturbance to 50 or less individual spatial survey of penguin colonies. The SUMMARY: The National Science birds of each species (depending on the primary flight mode for the vehicles will Foundation (NSF) is required to publish species, as noted in the application) be automatic take off, landing, and a notice of permit applications received during aerial vehicle flights at 25 to 60m waypoint using ground station software. to conduct activities regulated under the in altitude, no further than 200m lateral The secondary/emergency mode is Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. distance away from the human operator, remote control operation of the UAV by NSF has published regulations under for no longer than 25 minutes in a trained pilot on the ground. In both the Antarctic Conservation Act at Title duration. The applicant has successfully flight modes the quadcopter will always 45 Part 670 of the Code of Federal deployed the equipment array over 75 be flown within visible sight of the pilot Regulations. This is the required notice times in various temperate, tropical and and designated observers. Operations of permit applications received. sub-polar environments, without will only be conducted inside the wildlife disturbance. DATES: Interested parties are invited to 10m/s maximum wind speed estimate. submit written data, comments, or Location The UAV will only be flown in visual views with respect to this permit Various sites visited by IAATO meteorological conditions. Flights will application by October 22, 2015. This registered vessels at Sub-Antarctic be flown between 50 and 200 ft. above application may be inspected by Islands, South Orkney Islands, South the colonies in keeping with previous interested parties at the Permit Office, Shetland Islands, and the Antarctic experience by other researcher engaged address below. Peninsula. in similar UAV-based surveys of ADDRESSES: Comments should be wildlife in the Antarctic. A risk analysis Dates and mitigation measures should reduce addressed to Permit Office, Room 755, the risk of loss the UAV. The UAV Division of Polar Programs, National October 15, 2015–October 14, 2020 pilots will be trained to the standard of Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230. Nadene G. Kennedy, ground school training provide for a Polar Coordination Specialist, Division of private pilot’s license and training on FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Li Polar Programs. simulators and significant flight time Ling Hamady, ACA Permit Officer, at [FR Doc. 2015–23999 Filed 9–21–15; 8:45 am] with the UAVs will be conducted before the above address or ACApermits@ nsf.gov or (703) 292–7149. BILLING CODE 7555–01–P deployment. The applicant is seeking a Waste Permit to cover any accidental SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The releases that may result from flying a National Science Foundation, as NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION UAV. directed by the Antarctic Conservation tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES Remote Cameras: The applicant Act of 1978 (Public Law 95–541), as Notice of Permit Modification Received wishes to deploy a network of four amended by the Antarctic Science, Under the Antarctic Conservation Act solar-powered, satellite-linked remote Tourism and Conservation Act of 1996, of 1978 cameras to examine penguin vital rates. has developed regulations for the The time-lapse cameras, specially establishment of a permit system for AGENCY: National Science Foundation. designed for this application, have been various activities in Antarctica and ACTION:Notice of Permit Modification field tested over the winter at other sites designation of certain animals and Request Received and Permit Issued VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:39 Sep 21, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00094 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\22SEN1.SGM 22SEN1

Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 183 / Tuesday, September 22, 2015 / Notices 57239 under the Antarctic Conservation Act of NUCLEAR REGULATORY FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 1978, Public Law 95–541. COMMISSION Adrian Muñiz, Office of New Reactors, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission, [Docket No. 52–024; NRC–2008–0233] SUMMARY: The National Science Washington, DC, 20555–0001; Foundation (NSF) is required to publish Entergy Operations, Inc.; Grand Gulf, telephone: 301–415–4093; email: a notice of requests to modify permits Unit 3 Adrian.Muniz@nrc.gov. issued to conduct activities regulated SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A notice and permits issued under the Antarctic AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory of receipt and availability of this Commission. application was previously published in Conservation Act of 1978. NSF has published regulations under the ACTION: Application for combined the Federal Register (73 FR 14849) on Antarctic Conservation Act at Title 45 license; withdrawal. March 19, 2008. On April 24, 2008, a subsequent notice was published in the Part 671 of the Code of Federal SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Federal Register (73 FR 22180) Regulations. This is the required notice Commission (NRC) is withdrawing an announcing the acceptance of the of a requested permit modification and application for a combined license GGNS3 COL application for docketing permit issued. (COL) for a single unit of the Economic in accordance with part 2 of Title 10 of FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Li Simplified Boiling-Water Reactor the Code of Federal Regulations (10 Ling Hamady, ACA Permit Officer, (ESBWR). This reactor would be CFR), ‘‘Agency Rules of Practice and identified as Grand Gulf Nuclear Procedure,’’ and 10 CFR part 52, Division of Polar Programs, Rm. 755, Station, Unit 3 (GGNS3) and is located ‘‘Licenses, Certifications, and Approvals National Science Foundation, 4201 adjacent to the current Grand Gulf for Nuclear Power Plants.’’ The docket Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22230. Nuclear Station site in Claiborne number established for this application Or by email: ACApermits@nsf.gov. County, Mississippi. is 52–024. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The DATES: The effective date of the By letter dated January 9, 2009, Foundation issued a permit (ACA 2012– withdrawal of the application for Entergy Operations, Inc. (EOI) requested WM–002) to Dr. George Watters on combined license is September 22, that the NRC temporarily suspend the September 29, 2011. The issued permit 2015. COL application review, including any allows the applicant to operate a remote ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID supporting reviews by external agencies, field camp in ASPA 149 Cape Shirreff, NRC–2008–0233 when contacting the until further notice (ADAMS Accession Livingston Island. NRC about the availability of No. ML090130174). The NRC granted information regarding this document. the suspension request (ADAMS Now the applicant proposes a permit Accession No. ML090080523). By letter modification to install up to 10 remote, You may obtain publicly-available information related to this action by the dated February 9, 2015, EOI requested autonomous, and easily removable the NRC to withdraw the GGNS3 COL camera systems at the U.S. AMLR study following methods: • Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to application, including the Safeguards/ sites within ASPA 149 to breeding Security Part, from the docket (ADAMS aggregations of gentoo and chinstrap http://www.regulations.gov and search for docket ID NRC–2008–0233. Address Accession No. ML15040A078). Pursuant penguins and Antarctic fur seals and to the requirements in 10 CFR part 2, other pinnipeds. The cameras would questions about NRC dockets to Carol Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; the Commission grants EOI its request to provide time-lapse photography during withdraw the GGNS3 COL application. email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For breeding and non-breeding seasons to Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 15th day technical questions, contact the estimate key monitoring parameters individual listed in the FOR FURTHER of September, 2015. such as arrival timing, reproductive INFORMATION CONTACT section of this For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. chronology and success, young document. Francis M. Akstulewicz, production, overwinter attendance, and • NRC’s Agencywide Documents Director, Division of New Reactor Licensing, census data. The camera deployment at Access and Management System Office of New Reactors. this site would be identical in nature to (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly [FR Doc. 2015–24032 Filed 9–21–15; 8:45 am] the camera deployment already available documents online in the BILLING CODE 7590–01–P approved for the applicant within ASPA ADAMS Public Documents collection at 128, at Copacabana, King George Island. http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ The Environmental Officer has reviewed adams.html. To begin the search, select NUCLEAR REGULATORY the modification request and has ‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then COMMISSION determined that the amendment is not select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS a material change to the permit, and it Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS, Advisory Committee on the Medical will have a less than a minor or please contact the NRC’s Public Uses of Isotopes; Meeting Notice transitory impact. Document Room (PDR) reference staff at AGENCY: U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by Commission. DATES: September 16, 2015 to April 1, email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The ACTION: Notice of meeting. 2016. ADAMS accession number for each The permit modification was issued document referenced in this document SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory on September 16, 2015. (if that document is available in Commission (NRC) will convene a tkelley on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES ADAMS) is provided the first time that teleconference meeting of the Advisory Nadene G. Kennedy, the document is referenced. Committee on the Medical Uses of Polar Coordination Specialist, Division of • NRC’s PDR: You may examine and Isotopes (ACMUI) on December 18, Polar Programs. purchase copies of public documents at 2015, to discuss the draft report of the [FR Doc. 2015–24001 Filed 9–21–15; 8:45 am] the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One ACMUI Rulemaking Subcommittee that BILLING CODE 7555–01–P White Flint North, 11555 Rockville was formed to provide comments to the Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. NRC staff on the draft final rule for title VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:39 Sep 21, 2015 Jkt 235001 PO 00000 Frm 00095 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\22SEN1.SGM 22SEN1


Document Created: 2015-12-15 09:35:22
Document Modified: 2015-12-15 09:35:22
CategoryRegulatory Information
CollectionFederal Register
sudoc ClassAE 2.7:
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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of Permit Modification Request Received and Permit Issued under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978, Public Law 95-541.
DatesSeptember 16, 2015 to April 1, 2016.
ContactLi Ling Hamady, ACA Permit Officer, Division of Polar Programs, Rm. 755, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22230. Or by email: [email protected]
FR Citation80 FR 57238 
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