[Federal Register Volume 80, Number 183 (Tuesday, September 22, 2015)]
[Notices]
[Page 57237]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2015-24000]


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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION


Notice of Permit Modification Received Under the Antarctic 
Conservation Act of 1978

AGENCY: National Science Foundation.

ACTION: Notice of Permit Modification Request Received and Permit 
Issued 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 requests to modify permits issued to conduct activities 
regulated and permits issued under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 
1978. NSF has published regulations under the Antarctic Conservation 
Act at Title 45 Part 671 of the Code of Federal Regulations. This is 
the required notice of a requested permit modification and permit 
issued.

DATES: September 16, 2015 to March 15, 2016.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Li Ling Hamady, ACA Permit Officer, 
Division of Polar Programs, Rm. 755, National Science Foundation, 4201 
Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22230. Or by email: [email protected]

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Foundation issued a permit (ACA 2012-WM-
001) to Dr. George Watters on September 29, 2011. The issued permit 
allows the applicant to run a field camp including deployment of 
instruments (radio tags on animals) and use of hazardous materials 
including radio isotopes. A recent modification to this permit, dated 
December 21, 2013, permitted the applicant to install up to 12 remote, 
autonomous, and easily removable camera systems near breeding 
aggregations of Ad[eacute]lie, gentoo, and chinstrap penguins 
throughout ASPA #128 on King George Island. The cameras will provide 
time-lapse photography during breeding and non-breeding seasons to 
estimate key monitoring parameters such as arrival timing, reproductive 
chronology and success, chick production, overwinter attendance, and 
census data. Now the applicant proposes a permit modification to 
install up to 22 of these cameras within ASPA 128 The Environmental 
Officer has reviewed the modification request and has determined that 
the amendment is not a material change to the permit, and it will have 
a less than a minor or transitory impact.

    The permit modification was issued on September 16, 2015.
Nadene G. Kennedy,
Polar Coordination Specialist, Division of Polar Programs.
[FR Doc. 2015-24000 Filed 9-21-15; 8:45 am]
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