Notice of Record of Decision for Louisiana Regional Restoration Planning Program, 28955-28956 [E7-9940]

Download as PDF pwalker on PROD1PC71 with NOTICES Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 99 / Wednesday, May 23, 2007 / Notices L. 89–651, 80 Stat. 897; 15 CFR part 301). Related records can be viewed between 8:30 a.m. and 5 p.m. in Room 2104, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th and Penn. Ave., NW, Washington, DC. Comments: None received. Decision: Approved. We know of no instrument of equivalent scientific value to the foreign instruments described below, for such purposes as each is intended to be used, which was being manufactured in the United States at the time of its order. Docket Number: 06–054. Applicant: Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN. Instrument: DBF Fiber Laser System. Manufacturer: Koheras A/S, Denmark. Intended Use: See notice at 72 FR 20505, April 25, 2007. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides a means to describe and formulate the physical description of the fundamental noise properties of optical frequency combs and their application to Optical Arbitrary Waveform Generation. An ultra–narrow (1.0 kHz optical linewidth) CW laser is used to sweep the carrier frequency and beat it with a conventional mode–locked laser based optical frequency comb. The CW laser also provides a 60 pm fast piezo tuning range and 700 pm thermal tuning with 100 mW output power. Docket Number: 06–059. Applicant: Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Instrument: Micro–dissecting Microscope. Manufacturer: Singer Instruments, UK. Intended Use: See notice at 72 FR 20505, April 25, 2007. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides capability to identify and categorize genes that control DNA replication and repair using a simple model organism known as baker’s yeast. It is a unique motorized micromanipulator specifically designed to separate single aspo–spores of yeast. It provides automatic micro–dissection and can ‘‘memorize’’ the locations of each ascus so that it can shuttle between positions automatically. Docket Number: 06–067. Applicant: The University of Illinois, Champaign, IL. Instrument: Ti: Sapphire Lasers (2), Model TIS SF–077s. Manufacturer: Tekhnoscan, Russia. Intended Use: See notice at 72 FR 20505, April 25, 2007. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides a means of studying the application of ultra–cold atom gases to quantum simulation. The lasers will be used to create an optical lattice, and part of a system for driving stimulated Raman transitions. One laser provides a linewidth less than 100 kHz and a drift rate < 50 MHz/hour, locked to an external reference cavity. The other provides < 5 MHz linewidth (without an external reference cavity) but passive VerDate Aug<31>2005 18:32 May 22, 2007 Jkt 211001 stability equal to the other. Both are completely reconfigurable to the point of removing all optical elements from the cavity, running the cavity in a linear configuration, and inserting an electro– optic modulator. They employ phase– locking optics and electronics with low drift rates, since they will not be locked to a spectroscopic reference. Docket Number: 07–005. Applicant: Millersville University Physics Department, Millersville PA. Instrument: HeNe Laser Cavity Educational Kit, Model CA–1200. Manufacturer: MICOS GmbH, Germany. Intended Use: See notice at 72 FR 20505, April 25, 2007. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides a test bench in the lab portion of a course on optics for instruction in the physical principles and the components of a laser. Students will use the kit to build and reconfigure a He–NE Laser themselves and study the role of different optical elements in the lasing effect. Lab studies will include intensity distribution, Gaussian beam, polarization, divergence, coherence monochromatism and other properties of light. Docket Number: 07–007. Applicant: Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, IL. Instrument: High Temperature Nano Test System. Manufacturer: Micro Materials, Ltd., UK. Intended Use: See notice at 72 FR 20505, April 25, 2007. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides examination of the mechanical properties of Ni–base alloys at elevated temperature. Nano–indentation tests can be conducted on specimens at a range of temperatures from room temperature to 750 C to assess the hardness and modulus of Ni–base alloys an also the constituent phases present in experimental Ni–base alloys and new high temperature materials. The instrument employs a unique horizontally designed pendulum indenter which enables insertion of a high temperature heating stage and tip heater as well as a protective heat shield to allow testing of specimens at temperatures in excess of 750 C. Other systems which use a vertical pendulum are currently limited to 400 C. Docket Number: 07–011. Applicant: State University of New York, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794. Instrument: Low–level Beta Multicounter System. Manufacturer: Riso National Laboratory, Denmark. Intended Use: See notice at 72 FR 20505, April 25, 2007. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides measurement of emissions from very small quantities of naturally occurring, dissolved radioactive isotopes of thorium and lead in seawater which are PO 00000 Frm 00011 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 28955 attached to particulate matter in very small quantities. Samples of the isotopes are taken at various depths and serve as tracers of the movement of carbon to the deep, an important process for understanding climate change. The instrument is the only beta detector that meets the requirements of five simultaneous measurements with extremely low background count rates of 0.2 cpm. It is also portable and capable of field use in harsh environments. It also able to hold 22 mm diameter filter holders and is in standard use by many low level radiation laboratories around the world. Docket Number: 07–012. Applicant: University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI. Instrument: Real–time 3D Motion Capture System. Manufacturer: Phoenix Technologies, Inc., Canada. Intended Use: See notice at 72 FR 20505, April 25, 2007. Reasons: The foreign instrument provides accurate measurement of limb movements of monkey subjects performing reach–tograsp tasks. Electrical signals derived from individual brain cells are correlated with parameters of movement in order to determine how information is encoded in the signals that the brain uses to communicate with the muscles which is relevant to neuro–prosthetics, spinal chord injury, stroke and motor rehabilitation. The dimensions of the testing chamber require that the infrared position markers can operate at a minimum distance of 0.6 m. Other comparable systems require more than twice that distance. The Phoenix system also uses markers of much less diameter, which minimally interfere with natural limb movement. The capabilities of each of the foreign instruments described above are pertinent to each applicants intended purpose and we know of no other instrument or apparatus being manufactured in the United States which is of equivalent scientific value to any of the foreign instruments. Faye Robinson, Director, Statutory Import Program Staff, Import Administration. [FR Doc. E7–9921 Filed 5–22–07; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Notice of Record of Decision for Louisiana Regional Restoration Planning Program National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce. SUMMARY: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), AGENCY: E:\FR\FM\23MYN1.SGM 23MYN1 28956 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 99 / Wednesday, May 23, 2007 / Notices pwalker on PROD1PC71 with NOTICES an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, has prepared a Record of Decision (ROD) regarding the January 5, 2007, final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for the Louisiana Regional Restoration Planning Program (RRP Program). The ROD has been written pursuant to § 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), regulations promulgated by the Council on Environmental Quality (40 CFR part 1505.2), and the NOAA Administrative Order on implementing environmental review procedures (NAO 216–6). The ROD is a concise statement of the management planning and environmental impact analysis process completed, the alternatives considered, and the basis for the selection of preferred alternative. The notice of availability for the final PEIS was published in the Federal Register on January 5, 2007, with the close of the mandatory waiting period on February 20, 2007. No comments were received on the final PEIS. It is the decision of the NOAA, along with the Department of the Interior and the State of Louisiana, to implement the Louisiana RRP Program using the methods evaluated in the PEIS. Because the analysis is programmatic in nature, site and injury-specific features will dictate which restoration alternatives are most appropriate for individual injuries. All practicable means to avoid or minimize environmental harm from the RRP Program alternative selected have been adopted. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Questions regarding the PEIS and ROD and requests for copies of these documents should be addressed to either: Karolien Debusschere, Deputy Coordinator, Louisiana Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office, Office of the Governor, 150 Third Street, Suite 405, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70801; 225/219–5800; e-mail address: Karolien.Debusschere@la.gov, or Tony Penn, Southeast Branch Chief, NOAA, Assessment and Restoration Division, 1305 East-West Highway, SSMC #4, 10th floor, Silver Spring, MD 20910; fax number 301/713–4387; e-mail address: Tony.Penn@noaa.gov. The PEIS and Record of Decision are available via the Internet at https:// www.darrp.noaa.gov/southeast/rrpp-la/ and https://www.losco.state.la.us/admin/ RRP/RRPprogram_view.asp. Dated: May 15, 2007. Ken Barton, Director, Office of Response and Restoration, National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. [FR Doc. E7–9940 Filed 5–22–07; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–JE–P VerDate Aug<31>2005 18:32 May 22, 2007 Jkt 211001 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [XRIN: 0648–XA49] New England Fishery Management Council; Public Meeting National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce. ACTION: Notice of a public meeting. AGENCY: SUMMARY: The New England Fishery Management Council (Council) is scheduling a public meeting of its Whiting Advisory Panel, in June, 2007, to consider actions affecting New England fisheries in the exclusive economic zone (EEZ). Recommendations from this group will be brought to the full Council for formal consideration and action, if appropriate. DATES: The meeting will be held on Thursday, June 7, 2007, at 10 a.m. ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the Hilton Hotel, 21 Atwells Avenue, Providence, RI 02903; telephone: (401) 831–3900; fax: (401) 751–0007. Council address: New England Fishery Management Council, 50 Water Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul J. Howard, Executive Director, New England Fishery Management Council; telephone: (978) 465–0492. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Committee will review Advisory Panel role and responsibilities, elect Advisory Panel Chairman and Vice Chairman. The committee will also review management measures and alternatives under consideration in an amendment to the Multispecies (Groundfish) FMP to address small mesh multispecies (whiting, red hake, offshore hake). The committee will develop Advisory Panel comments and recommendations regarding small mesh multispecies management measures and alternatives under consideration, including: optimum yield (OY) specifications, total allowable catches (TACs); a limited access program for the small mesh multispecies fishery; measures to address historical fisheries; and possession limits for small mesh multispecies and other management measures that may be considered. Although non-emergency issues not contained in this agenda may come before this group for discussion, those issues may not be the subject of formal action during this meeting. Action will be restricted to those issues specifically listed in this notice and any issues PO 00000 Frm 00012 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 arising after publication of this notice that require emergency action under section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens Act, provided the public has been notified of the Council’s intent to take final action to address the emergency. Special Accommodations This meeting is physically accessible to people with disabilities. Requests for sign language interpretation or other auxiliary aids should be directed to Paul J. Howard, Executive Director, at (978) 465–0492, at least 5 days prior to the meeting date. Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. Dated: May 18, 2007. Tracey L. Thompson, Acting Director, Office of Sustainable Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. [FR Doc. E7–9906 Filed 5–22–07; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–22–S DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [XRIN: 0648–XA51] New England Fishery Management Council; Public Informational Meeting. National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce. ACTION: Notice of a public informational meeting. AGENCY: SUMMARY: Trans-Boundary Resource Assessment Committee (TRAC) Industry/Science Data Exchange Meeting. The meeting will be held on Thursday, June 7, 2007, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at the New Bedford Free Public Library, 613 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 02740; telephone: (508) 991–6279. Council address: New England Fishery Management Council, 50 Water Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul J. Howard, Executive Director, New England Fishery Management Council; telephone: (978) 465–0492. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Amendment 13 to the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan adopted a system to coordinate the management of trans-boundary stocks of cod, haddock, and yellowtail flounder with Canada. As part of that system, each year, the Trans-Boundary Resource Assessment Committee (TRAC) DATES: E:\FR\FM\23MYN1.SGM 23MYN1

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE


 Notice of Record of Decision for Louisiana Regional Restoration 
Planning Program

AGENCY: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 
Commerce.
SUMMARY: The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

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an agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, has prepared a Record of 
Decision (ROD) regarding the January 5, 2007, final Programmatic 
Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for the Louisiana Regional 
Restoration Planning Program (RRP Program). The ROD has been written 
pursuant to Sec.  102(2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act 
(NEPA) of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), regulations promulgated by the 
Council on Environmental Quality (40 CFR part 1505.2), and the NOAA 
Administrative Order on implementing environmental review procedures 
(NAO 216-6). The ROD is a concise statement of the management planning 
and environmental impact analysis process completed, the alternatives 
considered, and the basis for the selection of preferred alternative. 
The notice of availability for the final PEIS was published in the 
Federal Register on January 5, 2007, with the close of the mandatory 
waiting period on February 20, 2007. No comments were received on the 
final PEIS.
    It is the decision of the NOAA, along with the Department of the 
Interior and the State of Louisiana, to implement the Louisiana RRP 
Program using the methods evaluated in the PEIS. Because the analysis 
is programmatic in nature, site and injury-specific features will 
dictate which restoration alternatives are most appropriate for 
individual injuries. All practicable means to avoid or minimize 
environmental harm from the RRP Program alternative selected have been 
adopted.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION: Questions regarding the PEIS and ROD and 
requests for copies of these documents should be addressed to either: 
Karolien Debusschere, Deputy Coordinator, Louisiana Oil Spill 
Coordinator's Office, Office of the Governor, 150 Third Street, Suite 
405, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 70801; 225/219-5800; e-mail address: 
Karolien.Debusschere@la.gov, or Tony Penn, Southeast Branch Chief, 
NOAA, Assessment and Restoration Division, 1305 East-West Highway, SSMC 
4, 10th floor, Silver Spring, MD 20910; fax number 301/713-
4387; e-mail address: Tony.Penn@noaa.gov.
    The PEIS and Record of Decision are available via the Internet at 
https://www.darrp.noaa.gov/southeast/rrpp-la/ and https://
www.losco.state.la.us/admin/RRP/RRPprogram_view.asp.

    Dated: May 15, 2007.
Ken Barton,
Director, Office of Response and Restoration, National Ocean Service, 
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
 [FR Doc. E7-9940 Filed 5-22-07; 8:45 am]
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