81_FR_88508 81 FR 88273 - Notice of Permit Applications Received Under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978

81 FR 88273 - Notice of Permit Applications Received Under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION

Federal Register Volume 81, Issue 235 (December 7, 2016)

Page Range88273-88274
FR Document2016-29322

The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required to publish a notice of permit applications received to conduct activities regulated under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. NSF has published regulations under the Antarctic Conservation Act at Title 45 Part 670 of the Code of Federal Regulations. This is the required notice of permit applications received.

Federal Register, Volume 81 Issue 235 (Wednesday, December 7, 2016) 
[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 235 (Wednesday, December 7, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 88273-88274]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2016-29322]


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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION


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

AGENCY: National Science Foundation.

ACTION: Notice of Permit Applications Received 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 permit applications received to conduct activities regulated 
under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. NSF has published 
regulations under the Antarctic Conservation Act at Title 45 Part 670 
of the Code of Federal Regulations. This is the required notice of 
permit applications received.

DATES: Interested parties are invited to submit written data, comments, 
or views with respect to this permit application by January 6, 2017. 
This application may be inspected by interested parties at the Permit 
Office, address below.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be addressed to Permit Office, Room 755, 
Division of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson 
Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nature McGinn, ACA Permit Officer, at 
the above address or [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The National Science Foundation, as directed 
by the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95-541), as amended 
by the Antarctic Science, Tourism and Conservation Act of 1996, has 
developed regulations for the establishment of a permit system for 
various activities in Antarctica and designation of certain animals and 
certain geographic areas a requiring special protection. The 
regulations

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establish such a permit system to designate Antarctic Specially 
Protected Areas.

Application Details

Permit Application: 2017-034

1. Applicant: Dr. David W. Johnston, Duke University Marine Laboratory, 
Beaufort, NC 28516.

    Activity for Which Permit is Requested: Take; Harmful Interference; 
Enter Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA). The applicant proposes 
to use unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for photogrammetry and aerial 
surveys of whales and seabirds in the Antarctic Peninsula region 
between Charcot Island and the North Gerlache Strait, including ASPA 
No. 117, Avian Island, Marguerite Bay. The applicant plans to use both 
fixed-wing and multicopter small UAS at altitudes of 50--300 feet above 
the target species. Average flight times are expected to range from 12 
to 35 minutes. The UAS pilots have experience appropriate for the 
proposed activities. The species subject to take or harmful 
interference as result of the proposed activity include: humpback 
whales (n=100 per year), minke whales (n=100 per year), Adelie penguins 
(n=2000 per year), Gentoo penguins (n=2000 per year), chinstrap 
penguins (n=500 per year), brown skua (n=50 per year), south polar skua 
(n=50 per year), giant petrel (n=50 per year), kelp gull (n=100 per 
year), blue-eyed shag (n=100 per year), snowy sheathbill (n=50 per 
year). The applicant currently holds a Marine Mammal Protection Act 
permit (14809-02) that allows for the take of the whale species in the 
Southern Ocean by photogrammetry and photo-identification.
    Location: Antarctic Peninsula region; Torgersen Island; ASPA No. 
117, Avian Island, Marguerite Bay.
    Dates: January 5, 2017--March 31, 2019.

Nadene G. Kennedy,
Polar Coordination Specialist, Division of Polar Programs.
[FR Doc. 2016-29322 Filed 12-6-16; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 7555-01-P

Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 235 / Wednesday, December 7, 2016 / Notices 88273 II. Method of Collection ACTION: Notice of Permit Applications the course of one season of filming. The NASA FAR Supplement clauses for Received under the Antarctic applicant has also applied for a patent rights and new technology Conservation Act of 1978, Public Law commercial or education photography encourage the contractor to use an 95–541. permit from the National Marine electronic form and provide a hyperlink Fisheries Service under the authority of SUMMARY: The National Science the Marine Mammal Protection Act of to the electronic New Technology Foundation (NSF) is required to publish Reporting Web (eNTRe) site http:// 1972, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1361 et a notice of permit applications received seq.). invention.nasa.gov. This Web site has to conduct activities regulated under the Location: McMurdo Sound and Ross been set up to help NASA employees Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. Sea, Antarctica. and parties under NASA funding NSF has published regulations under Dates: January 1—February 15, 2017. agreements (i.e., contracts, grants, the Antarctic Conservation Act at Title cooperative agreements, and Nadene G. Kennedy, 45 Part 670 of the Code of Federal subcontracts) to report new technology Polar Coordination Specialist, Division of Regulations. This is the required notice information directly, via a secure Polar Programs. of permit applications received. Internet connection, to NASA. [FR Doc. 2016–29321 Filed 12–6–16; 8:45 am] DATES: Interested parties are invited to III. Data submit written data, comments, or BILLING CODE 7555–01–P Title: NFS 1827—Patents, Data, and views with respect to this permit Copyrights. application by January 6, 2017. This NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION OMB Number: 2700–0052. application may be inspected by Type of Review: Extension of a interested parties at the Permit Office, Notice of Permit Applications Received currently approved collection. address below. Under the Antarctic Conservation Act Affected Public: Businesses or other ADDRESSES: Comments should be of 1978 for-profit institutions. addressed to Permit Office, Room 755, Estimated Number of Respondents: AGENCY: National Science Foundation. Division of Polar Programs, National 2,240. ACTION: Notice of Permit Applications Estimated Time per Response: 5 hours Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230. Received under the Antarctic average. Conservation Act of 1978, Public Law Estimated Total Annual Burden FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 95–541. Hours: 11,395. Nature McGinn, ACA Permit Officer, at Estimated Total Annual Cost: the above address or ACApermits@ SUMMARY: The National Science $94,093. nsf.gov. Foundation (NSF) is required to publish IV. Request for Comments SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The a notice of permit applications received National Science Foundation, as to conduct activities regulated under the Comments are invited on—(1) Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. directed by the Antarctic Conservation whether the proposed collection of NSF has published regulations under Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95–541), as information is necessary for the proper the Antarctic Conservation Act at Title amended by the Antarctic Science, performance of the functions of NASA, 45 Part 670 of the Code of Federal Tourism and Conservation Act of 1996, including whether the information Regulations. This is the required notice has developed regulations for the collected has practical utility; (2) the of permit applications received. establishment of a permit system for accuracy of NASA’s estimate of the DATES: Interested parties are invited to various activities in Antarctica and burden (including hours and cost) of the submit written data, comments, or designation of certain animals and proposed collection of information; (3) views with respect to this permit certain geographic areas a requiring ways to enhance the quality, utility, and application by January 6, 2017. This special protection. The regulations clarity of the information to be application may be inspected by establish such a permit system to collected; and (4) ways to minimize the interested parties at the Permit Office, designate Antarctic Specially Protected burden of the collection of information address below. Areas. on respondents, including automated ADDRESSES: Comments should be collection techniques or the use of other Application Details forms of information technology. addressed to Permit Office, Room 755, Permit Application: 2017–033 Division of Polar Programs, National Comments submitted in response to this notice will be summarized and 1. Applicant: Joseph Wilson, Penguin Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson included in the request for OMB Films Ltd, 1 St Augustine’s Lane, Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230. approval of this information collection. Bristol BS1 5DE United Kingdom. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: They will also become a matter of Activity for Which Permit is Nature McGinn, ACA Permit Officer, at public record. Requested: Take. The applicant the above address or ACApermits@ proposes to film killer whales (Orcinus nsf.gov. Frances Teel, orca) and minke whales (Balaenoptera SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NASA PRA Clearance Officer. bonarensis) in McMurdo Sound and the National Science Foundation, as [FR Doc. 2016–29264 Filed 12–6–16; 8:45 am] Ross Sea in Antarctica. Filming will be directed by the Antarctic Conservation BILLING CODE 7510–13–P done via helicopter using long-range Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95–541), as asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES telephoto lenses and from the sea ice amended by the Antarctic Science, edge via an underwater camera. For the Tourism and Conservation Act of 1996, NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION helicopter-based filming, the applicant has developed regulations for the proposes to fly at altitudes no lower establishment of a permit system for Notice of Permit Applications Received than 600 vertical feet and plans to film various activities in Antarctica and Under the Antarctic Conservation Act the whales at an angle, from the side. designation of certain animals and of 1978 The applicant plans to target and certain geographic areas a requiring AGENCY: National Science Foundation. potentially disturb up to 60 whales over special protection. The regulations VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:54 Dec 06, 2016 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00077 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\07DEN1.SGM 07DEN1

88274 Federal Register / Vol. 81, No. 235 / Wednesday, December 7, 2016 / Notices establish such a permit system to SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Notice is designate Antarctic Specially Protected Commission (NRC) has issued renewed hereby given that the NRC has issued Areas. facility operating license No. NPF–29 to renewed facility operating license No. Entergy Company (Entergy or the NPF–29 to Entergy Company, the Application Details licensee), the operator of Grand Gulf operator of GGNS. Renewed facility Permit Application: 2017–034 Nuclear Station, Unit 1 (GGNS). operating license No. NPF–29 1. Applicant: Dr. David W. Johnston, Renewed facility operating license No. authorizes operation of GGNS by the Duke University Marine Laboratory, NPF–29 authorizes operation of GGNS licensee at reactor core power levels not Beaufort, NC 28516. by the licensee at reactor core power in excess of 4,408 megawatts thermal, in Activity for Which Permit is levels not in excess of 4,408 megawatts accordance with the provisions of the Requested: Take; Harmful Interference; thermal, in accordance with the GGNS renewed license and technical Enter Antarctic Specially Protected Area provisions of the GGNS renewed license specifications. The NRC’s ROD that (ASPA). The applicant proposes to use and technical specifications. In supports the NRC’s decision to renew unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for addition, the NRC has prepared a record facility operating license No. NPF–29 is photogrammetry and aerial surveys of of decision (ROD) that supports the available in ADAMS under Accession whales and seabirds in the Antarctic NRC’s decision to renew facility No. ML16243A024. As discussed in the Peninsula region between Charcot operating license No. NPF–29. ROD and the final supplemental Island and the North Gerlache Strait, environmental impact statement (FSEIS) DATES: The license renewal of facility for GGNS, Supplement 50 to NUREG– including ASPA No. 117, Avian Island, operating license No. NPF–29 was 1437, ‘‘Generic Environmental Impact Marguerite Bay. The applicant plans to effective on December 1, 2016. Statement for License Renewal of use both fixed-wing and multicopter ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID Nuclear Plants Regarding Grand Gulf small UAS at altitudes of 50—300 feet NRC–2016–0236 when contacting the Nuclear Station, Unit 1,’’ dated above the target species. Average flight NRC about the availability of November 30, 2014 (ADAMS Accession times are expected to range from 12 to information regarding this document. No. ML14328A171), the NRC has 35 minutes. The UAS pilots have You may obtain publicly-available considered a range of reasonable experience appropriate for the proposed information related to this document alternatives that included natural gas activities. The species subject to take or using any of the following methods: combined-cycle (NGCC), supercritical harmful interference as result of the • Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to pulverized coal, combination of wind, proposed activity include: humpback http://www.regulations.gov and search solar, and NGCC, and the no action whales (n=100 per year), minke whales for Docket ID NRC–2016–0236. Address alternative. The ROD and FSEIS (n=100 per year), Adelie penguins questions about NRC dockets to Carol document the NRC decision for the (n=2000 per year), Gentoo penguins Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; environmental review that the adverse (n=2000 per year), chinstrap penguins email: Carol.Gallagher@nrc.gov. For environmental impacts of license (n=500 per year), brown skua (n=50 per technical questions, contact the renewal for GGNS are not so great that year), south polar skua (n=50 per year), individual listed in the FOR FURTHER preserving the option of license renewal giant petrel (n=50 per year), kelp gull INFORMATION CONTACT section of this for energy planning decision makers (n=100 per year), blue-eyed shag (n=100 document. would be unreasonable. per year), snowy sheathbill (n=50 per Grand Gulf Nuclear Station, Unit 1 is • NRC’s Agencywide Documents year). The applicant currently holds a a boiling water reactor located 20 miles Access and Management System Marine Mammal Protection Act permit southwest of Vicksburg, Mississippi. (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly- (14809–02) that allows for the take of The application for the renewed license, available documents online in the the whale species in the Southern ‘‘License Renewal Application, Grand ADAMS Public Documents collection at Ocean by photogrammetry and photo- Gulf Nuclear Station, Unit 1,’’ dated http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ identification. October 28, 2011, as supplemented by Location: Antarctic Peninsula region; adams.html. To begin the search, select ‘‘ADAMS Public Documents’’ and then letters dated through October 3, 2016 Torgersen Island; ASPA No. 117, Avian (ADAMS Accession No. ML11308A052), Island, Marguerite Bay. select ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.’’ For problems with ADAMS, complied with the standards and Dates: January 5, 2017—March 31, requirements of the Atomic Energy Act 2019. please contact the NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR) reference staff at of 1954, as amended (the Act), and the Nadene G. Kennedy, 1–800–397–4209, 301–415–4737, or by NRC’s regulations. As required by the Polar Coordination Specialist, Division of email to pdr.resource@nrc.gov. The Act and the NRC’s regulations in Polar Programs. ADAMS accession number for each chapter 1 of title 10 of the Code of [FR Doc. 2016–29322 Filed 12–6–16; 8:45 am] document referenced in this document Federal Regulations (10 CFR), the NRC BILLING CODE 7555–01–P (if that document is available in has made appropriate findings, which ADAMS) is provided the first time that are set forth in the license. A public a document is referenced. notice of the proposed issuance of the renewed license and an opportunity for NUCLEAR REGULATORY • NRC’s PDR: You may examine and a hearing was published in the Federal COMMISSION purchase copies of public documents at Register on December 27, 2011 (76 FR the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One asabaliauskas on DSK3SPTVN1PROD with NOTICES [Docket No. 50–416; NRC–2016–0236] 80980). White Flint North, 11555 Rockville For further details with respect to this License Renewal for Grand Gulf Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. action, see: (1) Entergy Company, Nuclear Station, Unit 1 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: license renewal application for Grand AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory Emmanuel Sayoc, Office of Nuclear Gulf Nuclear Station, Unit 1, dated Commission. Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear October 28, 2011, as supplemented by Regulatory Commission, Washington, letters dated through October 3, 2016; ACTION: License renewal and record of DC 20555; telephone: 301–415–4084; (2) the NRC’s safety evaluation report decision; issuance. email: Emmanuel.Sayoc@nrc.gov. published on October 18, 2016 (ADAMS VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:54 Dec 06, 2016 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00078 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\07DEN1.SGM 07DEN1


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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionNotice of Permit Applications Received under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978, Public Law 95-541.
DatesInterested parties are invited to submit written data, comments, or views with respect to this permit application by January 6, 2017. This application may be inspected by interested parties at the Permit
ContactNature McGinn, ACA Permit Officer, at
FR Citation81 FR 88273 
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