82_FR_44740 82 FR 44556 - National Telecommunications and Information Administration; Notice of Intent To Prepare a Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement and Conduct Scoping for the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network

82 FR 44556 - National Telecommunications and Information Administration; Notice of Intent To Prepare a Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement and Conduct Scoping for the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
First Responder Network Authority

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 184 (September 25, 2017)

Page Range44556-44557
FR Document2017-20408

The First Responder Network Authority (``FirstNet'') announces its intent to prepare a Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (``PEIS'') and conduct scoping for the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network. The Supplemental PEIS will address the processes FirstNet will follow for National Environmental Policy Act (``NEPA'') compliance and assessing potential impacts at the site- specific scale.

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 184 (Monday, September 25, 2017) 
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 184 (Monday, September 25, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44556-44557]
From the Federal Register Online  [www.thefederalregister.org]
[FR Doc No: 2017-20408]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

First Responder Network Authority

[Docket Number 170912896-7896-01]
RIN 0660-XC037


National Telecommunications and Information Administration; 
Notice of Intent To Prepare a Supplemental Programmatic Environmental 
Impact Statement and Conduct Scoping for the Nationwide Public Safety 
Broadband Network

AGENCY: First Responder Network Authority, National

[[Page 44557]]

Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of intent.

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SUMMARY: The First Responder Network Authority (``FirstNet'') announces 
its intent to prepare a Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact 
Statement (``PEIS'') and conduct scoping for the Nationwide Public 
Safety Broadband Network. The Supplemental PEIS will address the 
processes FirstNet will follow for National Environmental Policy Act 
(``NEPA'') compliance and assessing potential impacts at the site-
specific scale.

DATES: The scoping period for this notice will begin on September 25, 
2017 and will end on October 24, 2017. Submit comments on or before 
October 24, 2017.

ADDRESSES: The public is invited to submit written comments to this 
Notice. Written comments may be submitted electronically via email to 
[email protected] or by mail (to the address listed in FOR 
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT). Comments received will be made part of 
the public record and may be posted to FirstNet's Web site 
(www.firstnet.gov) without change. Comments should be machine readable 
and should not be copy-protected. All personally identifiable 
information (e.g., name, address) voluntarily submitted by the 
commenter may be publicly accessible. Do not submit confidential 
business information or otherwise sensitive or protected information.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amanda Goebel Pereira, NEPA 
Coordinator, First Responder Network Authority, National 
Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, M/S 243, Reston, VA 20192.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation 
Act of 2012 (Pub. L. 112-96, Title VI, 126 Stat. 256 (codified at 47 
U.S.C. 1401 et seq.)) (the ``Act'') created and authorized FirstNet to 
take all actions necessary to ensure the building, deployment, and 
operation of an interoperable, nationwide public safety broadband 
network (``NPSBN'') based on a single, national network architecture. 
The Act meets a longstanding and critical national infrastructure need, 
to create a single, nationwide network that will, for the first time, 
allow police officers, fire fighters, emergency medical service 
professionals, and other public safety entities to effectively 
communicate with each other across agencies and jurisdictions. The 
NPSBN is intended to enhance the ability of the public safety community 
to perform more reliably, effectively, and safely; increase situational 
awareness during an emergency; and improve the ability of the public 
safety community to effectively engage in those critical activities.
    The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321-4347) 
(``NEPA'') requires federal agencies to undertake an assessment of 
environmental effects of their proposed actions prior to making a final 
decision and implementing the action. NEPA requirements apply to any 
federal project, decision, or action that may have a significant impact 
on the quality of the human environment. NEPA also establishes the 
Council on Environmental Quality (``CEQ''), which issued regulations 
implementing the procedural provisions of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500-
1508).
    Due to the geographic scope of FirstNet (all 50 states, the 
District of Columbia, and five territories) and the diversity of 
ecosystems potentially traversed by the project, FirstNet has prepared, 
and is in the process of publishing, five regional Final PEISs. The 
five Final PEISs are divided into the East, Central, West, South, and 
Non-Contiguous Regions, and each analyzes potential impacts of the 
deployment and operation of the NPSBN on the natural and human 
environment based on impact significance criteria developed at the 
programmatic level. FirstNet has also recently prepared and published 
for public and agency comment a draft document outlining its revised 
Procedures for Implementing the National Environmental Policy Act, the 
public comment period for which ended July 24, 2017.
    Now that FirstNet has selected a network partner for building out 
the NPSBN and the draft revised implementing procedures have been 
published, a Supplemental PEIS will be prepared that will (1) 
incorporate the final version of FirstNet's revised implementing 
procedures and will assess any changes to potential impacts to the 
human or natural environment at the programmatic level as a result of 
those revised procedures and (2) will describe the processes FirstNet 
will follow in accordance with NEPA to assess potential impacts at the 
site-specific scale using impact significance criteria to be developed 
using a resource-appropriate framework.

    Dated: September 20, 2017.
Amanda Goebel Pereira,
NEPA Coordinator, First Responder Network Authority.
[FR Doc. 2017-20408 Filed 9-22-17; 8:45 am]
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44556 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 184 / Monday, September 25, 2017 / Notices be sent to Thomas P. Dickson, Acting information are RUS Form 211, DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Director, Program Development and ‘‘Engineering Service Contract for the Regulatory Analysis, USDA Rural Design and Construction of a Generating Economic Development Administration Utilities Service, 1400 Independence Plant,’’ RUS Form 220, ‘‘Architectural Avenue SW., Stop 1522, Washington, Services Contract,’’ and RUS Form 236, Notice of Petitions by Firms for DC 20250–1522. Telephone: (202) 690– Engineering Service Contract, ‘‘Electric Determination of Eligibility To Apply 4492, Fax: (202) 720–3485, Email: System Design and Construction.’’ for Trade Adjustment Assistance Thomas.Dickson@wdc.usda.gov. Estimate of Burden: Public reporting Title: 7 CFR part 1724, Electric burden for this collection of information AGENCY:Economic Development Engineering, Architectural Services and is estimated to average 1.07 hours per Administration, U.S. Department of Design Policies and Procedures. response. Commerce. OMB Control Number: 0572–0118. Respondents: Businesses, not-for- Type of Request: Extension of a profit institutions and others. ACTION: Notice and opportunity for currently approved collection. Estimated Number of Respondents: public comment. Abstract: The Agency requires 59. borrowers to use standard contract Estimated Number of Responses per SUMMARY: The Economic Development forms under certain circumstances. The Respondent: 1. Administration (EDA) has received use of standard forms helps assure the Estimated Total Annual Burden on petitions for certification of eligibility to Agency that appropriate standards and Respondents: 63 hours. apply for Trade Adjustment Assistance Copies of this information collection from the firms listed below. specifications are maintained, that the can be obtained from Rebecca Hunt, Agency’s loan security is not adversely Accordingly, EDA has initiated Program Development and Regulatory affected, and that loan and loan investigations to determine whether Analysis, at (202) 205–3660. Fax: (202) guarantee funds are used effectively and increased imports into the United States 720–3485. for the intended purpose. All responses to this notice will be of articles like or directly competitive Standardization of forms by the Agency summarized and included in the request with those produced by each of these results in substantial savings to for OMB approval. All comments will firms contributed importantly to the Borrowers. If standard forms were not also become a matter of public record. total or partial separation of the firm’s used, borrowers would be required to workers, or threat thereof, and to a prepare documents and the government Dated: September 8, 2017. decrease in sales or production of each would require extensively and costly Christopher A. McLean, petitioning firm. review by both the Agency and the Acting Administrator, Rural Utilities Service. Office of General Counsel. The contract [FR Doc. 2017–20340 Filed 9–22–17; 8:45 am] SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: forms included in this collection of BILLING CODE P LIST OF PETITIONS RECEIVED BY EDA FOR CERTIFICATION OF ELIGIBILITY TO APPLY FOR TRADE ADJUSTMENT ASSISTANCE [9/9/2017 through 9/19/2017] Date accepted Firm name Firm address for Product(s) investigation Poyant Signs, Inc. ................... 125 Samuel Barnett Boule- 9/12/2017 The firm manufactures custom, lighted signs for both interior vard, New Bedford, MA and exterior applications. 02745. SES America, Inc. ................... 21 Quinton Street, Warwick, 9/15/2017 The firm manufactures high-quality, energy-efficient, illumi- RI 02888. nated signs and Dynamic Message Signs which are illumi- nated, digital signs mainly used by Departments of Trans- portation. MSI Mold Builders Southeast, 12300 6th Street Southwest, 9/19/2017 The firm manufactures industrial molds. Inc. Cedar Rapids, IA 52404. Any party having a substantial 315.9 for procedures to request a public DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE interest in these proceedings may hearing. The Catalog of Federal request a public hearing on the matter. Domestic Assistance official number First Responder Network Authority A written request for a hearing must be and title for the program under which [Docket Number 170912896–7896–01] submitted to the Trade Adjustment these petitions are submitted is 11.313, Assistance for Firms Division, Room Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms. RIN 0660–XC037 71030, Economic Development Administration, U.S. Department of Irette Patterson, National Telecommunications and asabaliauskas on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with NOTICES Commerce, Washington, DC 20230, no Program Analyst. Information Administration; Notice of later than ten (10) calendar days [FR Doc. 2017–20390 Filed 9–22–17; 8:45 am] Intent To Prepare a Supplemental following publication of this notice. 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Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 184 / Monday, September 25, 2017 / Notices 44557 Telecommunications and Information each other across agencies and Dated: September 20, 2017. Administration, U.S. Department of jurisdictions. The NPSBN is intended to Amanda Goebel Pereira, Commerce. enhance the ability of the public safety NEPA Coordinator, First Responder Network ACTION: Notice of intent. community to perform more reliably, Authority. effectively, and safely; increase [FR Doc. 2017–20408 Filed 9–22–17; 8:45 am] SUMMARY: The First Responder Network situational awareness during an BILLING CODE 3510–TL–P Authority (‘‘FirstNet’’) announces its emergency; and improve the ability of intent to prepare a Supplemental the public safety community to Programmatic Environmental Impact effectively engage in those critical DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Statement (‘‘PEIS’’) and conduct scoping activities. for the Nationwide Public Safety Foreign-Trade Zones Board Broadband Network. The Supplemental The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321–4347) [B–58–2017] PEIS will address the processes FirstNet will follow for National Environmental (‘‘NEPA’’) requires federal agencies to Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 23—Erie Policy Act (‘‘NEPA’’) compliance and undertake an assessment of County, New York; Notification of assessing potential impacts at the site- environmental effects of their proposed Proposed Production Activity; specific scale. actions prior to making a final decision Cummins, Inc.; (Diesel and Gas DATES: The scoping period for this and implementing the action. NEPA Engines); Lakewood and Jamestown, notice will begin on September 25, 2017 requirements apply to any federal New York and will end on October 24, 2017. project, decision, or action that may Submit comments on or before October have a significant impact on the quality The Erie County Industrial 24, 2017. of the human environment. NEPA also Development Agency, grantee of FTZ establishes the Council on 23, submitted a notification of proposed ADDRESSES: The public is invited to Environmental Quality (‘‘CEQ’’), which production activity to the FTZ Board on submit written comments to this Notice. issued regulations implementing the behalf of Cummins, Inc. (Cummins), Written comments may be submitted procedural provisions of NEPA (40 CFR located within Subzone 23D in electronically via email to parts 1500–1508). Lakewood and Jamestown, New York. PEIScomments@firstnet.gov or by mail The notification conforming to the (to the address listed in FOR FURTHER Due to the geographic scope of requirements of the regulations of the INFORMATION CONTACT). Comments FirstNet (all 50 states, the District of FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was received will be made part of the public Columbia, and five territories) and the received on August 28, 2017. record and may be posted to FirstNet’s diversity of ecosystems potentially The Cummins facility is used for the Web site (www.firstnet.gov) without traversed by the project, FirstNet has production of diesel and gas engines. change. Comments should be machine prepared, and is in the process of Pursuant to 15 CFR 400.14(b), FTZ readable and should not be copy- publishing, five regional Final PEISs. activity would be limited to the specific protected. All personally identifiable The five Final PEISs are divided into the foreign-status materials and components information (e.g., name, address) East, Central, West, South, and Non- and specific finished products described voluntarily submitted by the commenter Contiguous Regions, and each analyzes in the submitted notification (as may be publicly accessible. Do not potential impacts of the deployment and described below) and subsequently submit confidential business operation of the NPSBN on the natural authorized by the FTZ Board. information or otherwise sensitive or and human environment based on Production under FTZ procedures protected information. impact significance criteria developed at could exempt Cummins from customs FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: the programmatic level. FirstNet has duty payments on the foreign-status Amanda Goebel Pereira, NEPA also recently prepared and published for components used in export production. Coordinator, First Responder Network public and agency comment a draft On its domestic sales, for the foreign- Authority, National document outlining its revised status materials/components noted Telecommunications and Information Procedures for Implementing the below, Cummins would be able to Administration, U.S. Department of National Environmental Policy Act, the choose the duty rates during customs Commerce, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, public comment period for which ended entry procedures that apply to: M/S 243, Reston, VA 20192. July 24, 2017. Automotive diesel and natural gas SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The engines; industrial diesel engines; Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Now that FirstNet has selected a stationary generator diesel engines; and, Creation Act of 2012 (Pub. L. 112–96, network partner for building out the recreational marine diesel engines (duty Title VI, 126 Stat. 256 (codified at 47 NPSBN and the draft revised free to 2.5%). Cummins would be able U.S.C. 1401 et seq.)) (the ‘‘Act’’) created implementing procedures have been to avoid duty on foreign-status and authorized FirstNet to take all published, a Supplemental PEIS will be components which become scrap/waste. actions necessary to ensure the building, prepared that will (1) incorporate the Customs duties also could possibly be deployment, and operation of an final version of FirstNet’s revised deferred or reduced on foreign-status interoperable, nationwide public safety implementing procedures and will production equipment. broadband network (‘‘NPSBN’’) based assess any changes to potential impacts The components and materials to the human or natural environment at asabaliauskas on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with NOTICES on a single, national network sourced from abroad include: architecture. The Act meets a the programmatic level as a result of Accumulators; adapters (air inlet/filter longstanding and critical national those revised procedures and (2) will head/hydraulic pump/spline); cylinder infrastructure need, to create a single, describe the processes FirstNet will blocks; steel and iron braces (bracket/ nationwide network that will, for the follow in accordance with NEPA to fuel pump/gear housing/tube); brackets first time, allow police officers, fire assess potential impacts at the site- (belt tensioner/breather/electronic fighters, emergency medical service specific scale using impact significance control module/lifting/shipping/transfer professionals, and other public safety criteria to be developed using a pump); main bearing caps; steel injector entities to effectively communicate with resource-appropriate framework. clamps; ignition coils; exhaust collars; VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:45 Sep 22, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\25SEN1.SGM 25SEN1


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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 intent.
DatesThe scoping period for this notice will begin on September 25, 2017 and will end on October 24, 2017. Submit comments on or before October 24, 2017.
ContactAmanda Goebel Pereira, NEPA Coordinator, First Responder Network Authority, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, M/S 243, Reston, VA 20192.
FR Citation82 FR 44556 
RIN Number0660-XC03
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