[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 73 (Monday, April 15, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 16513-16514]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-9197]



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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION


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

AGENCY: National Science Foundation.

ACTION: Notice of Permit Applications Received under the Antarctic 
Conservation Act of 1978, P.L. 95-541.

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SUMMARY: The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required to publish 
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 these permit applications by May 10, 1996. 
Permit applications 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:
Nadene G. Kennedy at the above address or (703) 306-1033.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The National Science Foundation, as directed 
by the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978 (Public Law 95-541), has 
developed regulations that implement the ``Agreed Measures for the 
Conservation of Antarctic Fauna and Flora'' for all United States 
citizens. The Agreed Measures, developed by the Antarctic Treaty 
Consultative Parties, recommended establishment of a permit system for 
various activities in Antarctica and designation of certain animals and 
certain geographic areas as requiring special protection. The 
regulations establish such a permit system to designate Specially 
Protected Areas and Sites of Special Scientific Interest.
    The applications received are as follows:

1. Applicant

    Ron Koger, Project Director, Antarctic Support Associates, 61 
Inverness Drive East, Suite 300, Englewood, Colorado 80112, Permit 
Application No. 97-001.

Activity for Which Permit Is Requested

    The applicant proposes to enter the White Island Site of Special 
Scientific Interest #18 enroute to the INMARSAT transmitting/receiving 
facility located on Black Island for the purpose of conducting routine 
maintenance and emergency repair work. Route of travel through SSSI No. 
18, approximately 10 km along the south-west section then through White 
Strait, has been deemed the only safe year-round surface traverse route 
to the Black Island site. Surface traverse through the SSSI will be via 
tracked vehicle, snow mobile, hovercraft, and/or foot travel including 
ski and snowshoe. Activities within the SSSI will comply fully with the 
management plan including maintaining a greater than 50 meter distance 
from the Weddell seal population.

Location

    White Island (SSSI #18), McMurdo Sound, Antarctica.

Dates

    June 1, 1996-May 31; 2000.

2. Applicant

    David F. Parmelee, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Natural History, Box 
454009, University of Nevada, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, Nevada 
89154-4009, Permit Application No. 96-003.

Activity for Which Permit Is Requested

Taking; Import Into the U.S.
    The applicant is a former principal investigator with the U.S. 
Antarctic Program who banded and monitored numerous birds in the Palmer 
Station vicinity during the mid/1970's to mid/1980's. Since that time, 
the applicant has been lecturing onboard cruise ships operating in the 
Antarctic Peninsula area which permits him to continue observations. 
This season he will return to the Peninsula as a lecturer and requests 
permission to continue monitoring previously banded individuals. In 
addition, the applicant would like to salvage up to 12 dead birds each 
of penguins, albatrosses, storm-petrels, diving petrels, sheathbills, 
skuas, waterfowl, waders and songbirds and import them into the U.S. 
for scientific study conducted at the Barrick Museum of Natural 
History, University of Nevada.

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Location

    Antarctic Peninsula regions, including Anvers Island, the South 
Shetlands and South Orkney Islands.

Dates

    November 1, 1996-December 31, 1996.
Nadene G. Kennedy,
Permit Office, Office of Polar Programs.
[FR Doc. 96-9197 Filed 4-12-96; 8:45 am]
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