[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 169 (Friday, August 31, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 50411-50412]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-17234]


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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 
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 October 1, 2007. 
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: Nadene G. Kennedy at the above address 
or (703) 292-7405.

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

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    1. Applicant: Andrea Polli, 43-01 21st Street, 300, Long 
Island City, NY 11101.
    Permit Application No.: 2008-001.
    Activity for Which Permit Is Requested: Enter Antarctic Specially 
Protected Areas. The applicant is a participant in the Artists and 
Writers Program and will work with scientists gathering and modeling 
environmental data as part of the McMurdo Dry Valleys Long Term 
Ecological Research Project. One aspect of the project relates to the 
history of the area. Therefore the applicant wishes to visit the 
McMurdo Sound area historic huts at Discovery Hut (ASPA 158), 
Cape Evans (ASPA 155) and Cape Royds (ASPA 157) for 
video and photographic documentation.
    Location: Discovery Hut (ASPA 158), Cape Evans (ASPA 
155) and Cape Royds (ASPA 157).
    Dates: December 1, 2007 to January 10, 2008.
    2. Applicant: Robert A. Garrott, Ecology Department, Montana State 
University, 310 Lewis Hall, Bozeman, MT 59715.
    Permit Application No.: 2008-016.
    Activity for Which Permit Is Requested: Take, Import into the 
U.S.A. and Enter Antarctic Specially Protected Area (ASPA). The 
applicant plans to capture, tag, weigh and collect small skin and 
muscle samples from up to 280 adult and pup Weddell seals, in order to 
evaluate how temporal variation in the marine environment affects a 
long-lived mammal's population dynamics. In addition, the applicant 
proposes to visit the White Island Antarctic Specially Protected Area 
(ASPA 137) to census and tag seals in this isolated colony.
    Location: McMurdo Sound sea ice and Northwest White Island (ASPA 
127).
    Dates: October 1, 2007 to February 15, 2012.

Nadene G. Kennedy,
Permit Officer, Office of Polar Programs.
 [FR Doc. E7-17234 Filed 8-30-07; 8:45 am]
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