82 FR 45806 - Notice of Availability of a Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the South Region of the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Telecommunications and Information Administration
First Responder Network Authority

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 189 (October 2, 2017)

Page Range		45806-45807
FR Document		2017-20933

The First Responder Network Authority (``FirstNet'') announces the availability of the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the South Region (``Final PEIS''). The Final PEIS evaluates the potential environmental impacts of the proposed nationwide public safety broadband network in the South Region (Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Texas).

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Telecommunications and Information Administration

First Responder Network Authority

[Docket Number: 160929903-6903-02]
RIN 0660-XC025


Notice of Availability of a Final Programmatic Environmental 
Impact Statement for the South Region of the Nationwide Public Safety 
Broadband Network

AGENCY: First Responder Network Authority, National Telecommunications 
and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of availability of a final programmatic environmental 
impact statement.

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SUMMARY: The First Responder Network Authority (``FirstNet'') announces 
the availability of the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact 
Statement for the South Region (``Final PEIS''). The Final PEIS 
evaluates the potential environmental impacts of the proposed 
nationwide public safety broadband network in the South Region 
(Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, 
New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, and 
Texas).

ADDRESSES: The Final PEIS is available for download from 
www.regulations.gov FIRSTNET-2017-0006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For more information on the Final 
PEIS, contact Amanda Goebel Pereira, NEPA Coordinator, First Responder 
Network Authority, National Telecommunications and Information 
Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, (571) 665-6072, 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 (see 40 CFR parts 1500-
1508). Among other considerations, CEQ regulations at 40 CFR 1508.28 
recommend the use of tiering from a ``broader environmental impact 
statement (such as a national program or policy statements) with 
subsequent narrower statements or environmental analysis (such as 
regional or basin wide statements or ultimately site-specific 
statements) incorporating by reference the general discussions and 
concentrating solely on the issues specific to the statement 
subsequently prepared.''
    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 elected to 
prepare five regional PEISs. The five PEISs are divided into the East, 
Central, West, South, and Non-Contiguous Regions. The South Region 
consists of Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, 
Mississippi, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, 
Tennessee, and Texas. The Final PEIS analyzes potential impacts of the 
deployment and operation of the NPSBN on the natural and human 
environment in the South Region, in accordance with FirstNet's 
responsibilities under NEPA.
    Now that this PEIS has been completed and once a Record of Decision 
(ROD) has been signed, the proposed FirstNet projects can begin to 
submit the site-specific environmental documentation to determine if 
the proposed project has been adequately evaluated in the PEIS or 
whether it instead warrants a Categorical Exclusion, an Environmental

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Assessment, or an Environmental Impact Statement.

    Dated: September 26, 2017.
Amanda Goebel Pereira,
NEPA Coordinator, First Responder Network Authority.
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Assessment, or an Environmental Dated: September 26, 2017. discussed in the Preliminary Decision
Impact Statement. Andrew McGilvray, Memorandum is included as Appendix
Dated: September 26, 2017. Executive Secretary. II to this notice. The Preliminary
Amanda Goebel Pereira, [FR Doc. 2017–21054 Filed 9–29–17; 8:45 am] Decision Memorandum is a public
BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P document and is on file electronically
NEPA Coordinator, First Responder Network
Authority.
via Enforcement and Compliance’s
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
[FR Doc. 2017–20933 Filed 9–29–17; 8:45 am]
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Centralized Electronic Service System
BILLING CODE 3510–60–P
(ACCESS). ACCESS is available to
International Trade Administration registered users at http://
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE [C–122–860] access.trade.gov, and is available to all
parties in the Central Records Unit,
Foreign-Trade Zones Board 100- to 150-Seat Large Civil Aircraft room B8024 of the main Department of
From Canada: Preliminary Affirmative Commerce building. In addition, a
[B–60–2017] Countervailing Duty Determination and complete version of the Preliminary
Alignment of Final Determination With Decision Memorandum can be accessed
Foreign-Trade Zone 123—Denver, Final Antidumping Duty Determination directly at http://enforcement.trade.gov/
Colorado; Application for Subzone; frn/. The signed and electronic versions
Ackerman North America LLC/dba AGENCY: Enforcement and Compliance,
of the Preliminary Decision
Amann USA, Broomfield, Colorado International Trade Administration,
Memorandum are identical in content.
Department of Commerce.
An application has been submitted to SUMMARY: The Department of Commerce Scope of the Investigation
the Foreign-Trade Zones Board (the (the Department) preliminarily
Board) by the City and County of The product covered by this
determines that countervailable investigation is aircraft from Canada.
Denver, Colorado, grantee of FTZ 123, subsidies are being provided to
requesting subzone status for the facility For a complete description of the scope
producers and exporters of 100- to 150- of the investigation, see Appendix I.
of Ackerman North America LLC/dba seat large civil aircraft (aircraft) from
Amann USA, located in Broomfield, Canada. The period of investigation is Scope Comments
Colorado. The application was January 1, 2016, through December 31, In accordance with the preamble to
submitted pursuant to the provisions of 2016. the Department’s regulations,4 the
the Foreign-Trade Zones Act, as DATES: Applicable October 2, 2017. Initiation Notice set aside a period of
amended (19 U.S.C. 81a–81u), and the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: time for parties to raise issues regarding
regulations of the Board (15 CFR part Andrew Medley or Ross Belliveau, AD/ product coverage, (i.e., scope).5 Certain
400). It was formally docketed on CVD Operations, Office II, Enforcement interested parties commented on the
September 26, 2017. and Compliance, International Trade scope of the investigation as it appeared
The proposed subzone (0.07 acres) is Administration, U.S. Department of in the Initiation Notice. The Department
located at 452 Burbank Street, Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue intends to issue its preliminary decision
Broomfield, Colorado. No authorization NW., Washington, DC 20230; telephone: regarding comments concerning the
for production activity has been (202) 482–4987, or (202) 482–4952, scope of the antidumping duty (AD) and
requested at this time. respectively. countervailing duty (CVD)
In accordance with the Board’s investigations in the preliminary
regulations, Christopher Kemp of the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
determination of the companion AD
FTZ Staff is designated examiner to Background investigation.
review the application and make
This preliminary determination is
recommendations to the FTZ Board. Methodology
made in accordance with section 703(b)
Public comment is invited from The Department is conducting this
of the Tariff Act of 1930, as amended
interested parties. Submissions shall be investigation in accordance with section
(the Act). The Department published the
addressed to the Board’s Executive 701 of the Act. For each of the subsidy
notice of initiation of this investigation
Secretary at the address below. The programs found countervailable, the
on May 26, 2017.1 On July 5, 2017, the
closing period for their receipt is Department preliminarily determines
Department postponed the preliminary
November 13, 2017. Rebuttal comments that there is a subsidy, i.e., a financial
determination of this investigation and
in response to material submitted contribution by an ‘‘authority’’ that
the revised deadline is now September
during the foregoing period may be gives rise to a benefit to the recipient,
25, 2017.2 For a complete description of
submitted during the subsequent 15-day and that the subsidy is specific.6
the events that followed the initiation of
period to November 27, 2017.
this investigation, see the Preliminary Alignment
A copy of the application will be
Decision Memorandum.3 A list of topics
available for public inspection at the As noted in the Preliminary Decision
Office of the Executive Secretary, 1 See 100- to 150-Seat Large Civil Aircraft From Memorandum, in accordance with
Foreign-Trade Zones Board, Room Canada: Initiation of Countervailing Duty section 705(a)(1) of the Act and 19 CFR
21013, U.S. Department of Commerce, Investigation, 82 FR 24292 (May 26, 2017) 351.210(b)(4), the Department is
1401 Constitution Avenue NW., (Initiation Notice). aligning the final CVD determination in
2 See 100- to 150-Seat Large Civil Aircraft from
Washington, DC 20230–0002, and in the
sradovich on DSK3GMQ082PROD with NOTICES

Canada: Postponement of Preliminary
this investigation with the final
‘‘Reading Room’’ section of the Board’s Determination in the Countervailing Duty
Web site, which is accessible via Investigation, 82 FR 31045 (July 5, 2017). 4 See Antidumping Duties; Countervailing Duties,

www.trade.gov/ftz. 3 See Memorandum, ‘‘Decision Memorandum for Final Rule, 62 FR 27296, 27323 (May 19, 1997).
5 See Initiation Notice.
For further information, contact the Preliminary Determination of the
Countervailing Duty Investigation of 100- to 150- 6 See sections 771(5)(B) and (D) of the Act
Christopher Kemp at Seat Large Civil Aircraft from Canada,’’ dated regarding financial contribution; section 771(5)(E)
Christopher.Kemp@trade.gov or (202) concurrently with, and hereby adopted by, this of the Act regarding benefit; and section 771(5A) of
482–0862. notice (Preliminary Decision Memorandum). the Act regarding specificity.

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Section		Notices
Action		Notice of availability of a final programmatic environmental impact statement.
Contact		For more information on the Final PEIS, contact Amanda Goebel Pereira, NEPA Coordinator, First Responder Network Authority, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, (571) 665-6072, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, M/S 243, Reston, VA 20192.
FR Citation		82 FR 45806
RIN Number		0660-XC02

82 FR 45806 - Notice of Availability of a Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for the South Region of the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCENational Telecommunications and Information AdministrationFirst Responder Network Authority

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