[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 233 (Tuesday, December 4, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Page 71842]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-29226]


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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION


Notice of Permit Applications Received Under the Antarctic 
Conservation Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95-541)

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 3, 2013. 
This application may be inspected by interested parties at the Permit 
Office, address below.

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

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Polly A. Penhale at the above address 
or (703) 292-7420.

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 establish such a permit system to designate Antarctic 
Specially Protected Areas.
    The applications received are as follows:

Permit Application: 2013-025

    1. Applicant: Alison Cleary, University of Rhode Island, Graduate 
School of Oceanography, South Ferry Road, Narragansett, RI 02882.

Activity for Which Permit Is Requested

    Introduce non-indigenous species into Antarctica. The applicant 
will use 5 x 100 mls each of Ditylum brightwellii, Heterocapsa 
triguetra, and Tallassiosira rotula cultures, as well as 500 grams of 
Artemia salina cysts as food for krill. They plan to measure how fast 
DNA is digested by feeding a group of krill a single prey type, and 
then taking away the prey, and preserving krill at a series of later 
time points. By measuring how much of the prey DNA is left in the krill 
guts after various amounts of time since feeding, they can calculate 
how quickly the DNA was digested. Applying this calculation to 
measurements of prey DNA in the stomachs of wild krill, they can then 
determine how much of each tpe of prey the wild krill were eating.

Location

    West Antarctic Peninsula, specifically Flanders, Andvord, 
Wilhelmina and Charlotte Bays, and in the adjacent areas of the 
Gerlache Strait.

Dates

    March 1, 2013 to March 1, 2014

Nadene G. Kennedy,
Permit Officer, Office of Polar Programs.
[FR Doc. 2012-29226 Filed 12-3-12; 8:45 am]
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