[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 183 (Tuesday, September 22, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57238-57239]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[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
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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]
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