[Federal Register Volume 81, Number 147 (Monday, August 1, 2016)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50565-50566]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2016-18141]
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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 August 31, 2016.
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] or (703) 292-7149.
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
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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.
Application Details
Permit Application: 2017-006
1. Applicant: Joseph Wilson, Penguin Films Ltd, 1 St Augustine's Lane,
Bristol BS1 5DE United Kingdom.
Activity for Which Permit is Requested: ASPA entry. The applicant
requests entry to Cape Crozier, ASPA 124, and Cape Royds, ASPA 121, in
order to film an Adelie penguin documentary film for Disney. The
applicant and team would use long lens filming techniques, which allows
the camera person to be at a distance from the animals to capture
natural behaviors. The work would be observational and would not
involve interactions with penguins. The team would be working with
penguin scientists who conduct work in Cape Crozier and Cape Royds.
Location: Cape Crozier, ASPA 124; Cape Royds, ASPA 121.
Dates: October 14, 2016-February 10, 2017.
Permit Application: 2017-010
2. Applicant: Brent S. Stewart, Ph.D., J.D., Hubbs-Seaworld Research
Institute, 2595 Ingraham Street, San Diego, CA 92109.
Activity for Which Permit is Requested: Take. The applicant is
planning to make photographs at terrestrial continental and island
locations on the east and west sides of the Antarctic Peninsula, where
seabirds roost and breed, to document and observe changes in the
physical characteristics of those habitats and the distribution and
abundance of seabirds that use them relative to local and regional
changes in environmental conditions. The applicant states that brief,
minor, incidental disturbance to behaviors of seabirds might be
possible, though unlikely, owing to auditory or visual detection by the
seabirds of a camera-equipped (e.g., GoPro) aerial telerobot as it
passes quickly overhead while making photographs. The remotely
operated, battery powered, multi-rotor model aerial telerobot (e.g.,
DJI Phantom 3 Pro) will be operated from a Zodiac offshore, or from
locations on beaches. The aerial telerobot will be operated within line
of sight distances (<400 m) and altitudes of 30 to 100 m and for 10 to
20 minutes during each flight. One flight will be made at each location
visited and each location will be visited one to three times each year
during the Austral summer (October to March). The applicant has applied
for a permit to take the following species and numbers of birds: Less
than 30 per year of gentoo penguin (Pygocelis papua), rockhopper
penguin (Eudyptes crestatus), chinstrap penguin (Pygocelis antarctica),
and Adelie penguin (Pygocelis adeliae); and less than 20 per year of
brown skua (Catharacta lonnbergi), south polar skua (Catharacta
mccormicki), sheathbill (Chionis alba), blue-eyed shag (Phalacrocorax
atriceps), southern black-backed (kelp) gull (Larus dominicanus), and
Antarctic tern (Sterna vittata).
Location: Aitcho Islands; Alcock Island; Ardley Island; Argentine
Islands; Astrolabe Island; Baily Head, Deception Island; Barcroft
Islands, Biscoe Islands; Bennett Islands, Hanusse Bay; Berthelot
Islands; Blaiklock Islands; Bongrain Point, west side of Pourquoi Pas
Island; Brown Bluff, Tabarin Peninsula; Camp Point, Eastern Marguerite
Bay; Challenger Island, Gerlache Strait; Port Charcot, Booth Island;
Christiania Islands; Comb Ridge, Northern James Ross Island; Cormorant
Island; Crystal Hill, Prince Gustav Channel; Cuverville Island; Damoy
Point, Wiencke Island; Danco Island; Danger Islands; Detaille Island;
Devil Island; Cape Dubouzet; Cape Dundas, Eastern Laurie Island;
Duthiers Point; Enterprise Island, Gerlache Strait; Cape Evensen;
Fildes Peninsula; Fish Islands; Cape Gage, Eastern James Ross Island;
Gaston Islands, Gerlache Strait; Georges Point, Nothern Ronge Island;
Gin Cove, Western James Ross Island; Gosling Islands; Gourdin Island;
Half Moon Island; Hannah Point; Heroina Island; Horseshoe Island;
Hovgaard Island; Huemel Island; Jonassen Island; Cape Kinnes, Joinville
Island; Cape Kjellman; Melchior Islands; Metchnikoff Point, Northern
Brabant Island; Murray Island; Orne Islands; Palaver Point; Paulet
Island; Pendulum Cove, Deception Island; Penguin Island; Penguin Point,
Seymour Island; Petermann Island; Pitt islands; Pleneau Island; Portal
Point; Prospect Point, Holtedahl Bay; Ronge Island; Rosamel Island; Rum
Cove, James Ross Island; Seymour Island; Shingle Cove, Coronation
Island; Skontorp, Cove, Paradise Harbor; Small Island; Snow Hill
Island; Spring Point, Hughes Bay; Stonington Island; Torgersen Island,
Anvers Island; View Point, Duse Bay, Trinity Peninsula; Whalers Bay,
Deception Island; Yalour Islands, Penola Strait; Yankee Harbor,
Greenwich Island.
Dates: October 1, 2016-September 30, 2021.
Nadene G. Kennedy,
Polar Coordination Specialist, Division of Polar Programs.
[FR Doc. 2016-18141 Filed 7-29-16; 8:45 am]
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