[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 59 (Wednesday, March 27, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Pages 18632-18633]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-06938]


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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 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 April 26, 2013. 
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: Polly A. Penhale at the above address 
or (703) 292-7420.

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 requiring special protection. The regulations 
establish such a permit system to designate Antarctic Specially 
Protected Areas.
    The applications received are as follows:
    Permit Application: 2013-029
    1. Applicant Chi-Hing Christina Cheng, Department of Animal 
Biology, 515 Morrill Hall, University of Illinois, 505 S. Goodwin 
Avenue, Urbana, IL 61801.

Activity for Which Permit is Requested

    Enter Antarctic Specially Protected Areas. The applicant intends to 
enter ASPA 152-Western Bransfield Strait, and ASPA 153-Eastern Dallmann 
Bay to capture Antarctic fish by trawling and trapping. The project 
will study the antifreeze glycoprotein that is circulated in their 
circulatory space. For two of the species, D. mawsoni and C. aceratus, 
they will collect juveniles that will be sampled for obtaining 
sequences of genes expressed in young developmental stages. These will 
be added to sequences of adult D. mawsoni collected from McMurdo Sound, 
and adult C. aceratus that will be collected at the same time as the 
juveniles. The purpose is to have different ages represented in a 
comprehensive transcriptome of both species, for comparing to a basal 
non-Antarctic

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notothenioid for the purpose of understanding how gene expression 
contributed to cold adaptation in Antarctic species.
    East Dallmann Bay (ASPA 153) and Western Bransfield Strait around 
Low Island (ASPA 152) have historically been the locations that yield 
these target species.

Location

    Antarctic Peninsula including ASPA 152-Western Bransfield Strait, 
and ASPA 153-Eastern Dallmann Bay.

Dates

    July 1, 2013 to September 30, 2013.

Nadene G. Kennedy,
Permit Officer, Division of Polar Programs.
[FR Doc. 2013-06938 Filed 3-26-13; 8:45 am]
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