[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 205 (Monday, October 26, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 55069-55070]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-25567]


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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 November 25, 2009. 
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 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 No. 2010-019

    1. Applicant: Louis L. Jacobs, Earth Sciences, Southern Methodist 
University, Dallas, TX 75275.

Activity for Which Permit Is Requested

    Take. The applicant plans collect primarily the skulls and humerus 
or femur, with soft tissue, from seal mummies of all species on an 
opportunistic basis. The specimens collected would be radiocarbon dated 
and sampled for organochlorines in residual lipids in the long bones. 
The remainder of the samples will be housed in the Southern Methodist 
Univeristy's Shuler Museum of Paleontology. The samples will provide 
time context for ecological interpretation of stable isotopes and the 
history of pollution in this portion of Antarctica.

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Location

    Seymour Island, Antarctic Peninsula and nearby locations.

Dates

    November 1, 2009 to December 31, 2009.

Nadene G. Kennedy,
Permit Officer, Office of Polar Programs.
[FR Doc. E9-25567 Filed 10-23-09; 8:45 am]
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