Notice of Availability of a Draft Site-Specific Environmental Assessment and Notice of Public Hearings; Correction, 52555-52556 [2010-21154]

Download as PDF Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 165 / Thursday, August 26, 2010 / Notices NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Notice of Availability of a Draft SiteSpecific Environmental Assessment and Notice of Public Hearings; Correction National Science Foundation. Notice of the availability of a Draft Site-Specific Environmental Assessment (Draft SSEA) for the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI), request for public comment on the Draft SSEA, and notice of public hearings; Correction. AGENCY: ACTION: The National Science Foundation (NSF) published a document in the Federal Register of August 16, 2010, concerning requests for public comment on a Draft SiteSpecific Environmental Assessment for the Ocean Observatories Initiative (OOI). The document did not include the dates and times for the open house sessions. mstockstill on DSKH9S0YB1PROD with NOTICES SUMMARY: Correction In the Federal Register of August 16, 2010, in FR Doc. 2010–20107, on page 50008, in the second column, correct the DATES AND ADDRESSES caption to read: DATES AND ADDRESSES: All hearings will start with an open house session from 7 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. A presentation and formal public comment period will be held from 7:45 p.m. to 9 p.m. Public hearings will be held on the following dates and at the following locations: • Wednesday, September 1, 2010, at Westport Maritime Museum, Westport, WA. • Thursday, September 2, 2010, at Guin Library Seminar Room, Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport, OR. • Wednesday, September 8, 2010 date, at New Bedford Library, 613 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 02740–6203. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Copies of the Draft SSEA are available upon request from: Jean McGovern, NSF, Division of Ocean Sciences, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230; Telephone: (703) 292–7591. The Draft SSEA is also available at the following Web site: https://www.nsf.gov/geo/oce/ envcomp/index.jsp. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The text from the original notice follows: The National Science Foundation (NSF) gives notice of the availability of the Draft SSEA for the OOI, and requests public review and comment on the document. NSF also provides notice of public hearings on the Draft SSEA for the OOI. The Division of Ocean Sciences in the Directorate for VerDate Mar<15>2010 20:12 Aug 25, 2010 Jkt 220001 Geosciences (GEO/OCE) has prepared a Draft SSEA for the OOI, a multi-million dollar Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction effort intended to put moored and cable infrastructure in discrete locations in the coastal and global ocean. The Draft SSEA has been prepared to assess the potential impacts on the human and natural environment associated with proposed site-specific requirements in the design, installation, and operation of the OOI that were previously assessed in a 2008 Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) and a 2009 Supplemental Environmental Report (SER). The scope of the environmental impact analysis of the SSEA is tiered from the previously prepared PEA, associated Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI), and SER. It focuses only on those activities and the associated potential impacts, including cumulative impacts, resulting from the site-specific installation and operation of OOI assets and not previously assessed in the PEA and SER. The Draft SSEA is available for public comment for a 30-day period. Comments may be mailed to Jean McGovern, National Science Foundation, Division of Ocean Sciences, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230, or submitted via e-mail at nepacomments@nsf.gov. The deadline for submitting comments is September 15, 2010. NSF will conduct three public hearings to receive oral and written comments on the Draft SSEA. Federal, state, and local agencies, Native American Tribes and Nations, and interested individuals are invited to be present or represented at the public hearings. This notice announces the dates and locations of the public hearings for this Draft SSEA. An open house session will precede the scheduled public hearing at each of the locations listed below and will allow individuals to review the information presented in the Draft SSEA. NSF representatives will be available during the open house sessions to clarify information related to the Draft SSEA. Oceanographic research has long relied on research vessel cruises (expeditions) as the predominate means to make direct measurements of the ocean. Remote sensing (use of satellites) has greatly advanced abilities to measure ocean surface characteristics over extended periods of time. A major advancement for oceanographic research methods is the ability to make sustained, long-term, and adaptive measurements from the surface to the ocean bottom. ‘‘Ocean Observatories’’ are now being developed to further this goal. Building upon recent technology PO 00000 Frm 00052 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 52555 advances and lessons learned from prototype ocean observatories, NSF’s Ocean Sciences Division (OCE) is proposing to fund the OOI, an interactive, globally distributed and integrated infrastructure that will be the backbone for the next generation of ocean sensors and resulting complex ocean studies presently unachievable. The OOI reflects a community-wide, national and international scientific planning effort and is a key NSF contribution to the broader effort to establish focused national ocean observatory capabilities through the Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS). The OOI infrastructure would include cables, buoys, deployment platforms, moorings, junction boxes, electric power generation (solar, wind, and/or fuel cell,), and two-way communications systems. This large-scale infrastructure would support sensors located at the sea surface, in the water column, and at or beneath the seafloor. The OOI would also support related elements, such as unified project management, data dissemination and archiving, modeling of oceanographic processes, and education and outreach activities essential to the long-term success of ocean science. It would include the first U.S. multi-node cabled observatory; fixed and re-locatable coastal arrays coupled with mobile assets; and advanced buoys for interdisciplinary measurements, especially for data limited areas of the Southern Ocean and other high-latitude locations. The OOI design is based upon three main technical elements across global, regional, and coastal scales. At the global and coastal scales, moorings would provide locally generated power to seafloor and platform instruments and sensors and use a satellite link to shore and the Internet. Up to four Global Scale Nodes (GSN) or buoy sites are proposed for ocean sensing in the Eastern Pacific and Atlantic oceans. The Regional-Scale Nodes (RSN) off the coast of Washington and Oregon would consist of seafloor observatories with various chemical, biological, and geological sensors linked with submarine cables to shore that provide power and Internet connectivity. Coastal-Scale Nodes (CSN) would be represented by the fixed Endurance Array, consisting of a combination of cabled nodes and stand-alone moorings, off the coast of Washington and Oregon, and the relocatable Pioneer Array off the coast of Massachusetts, consisting of a suite of stand-alone moorings. In addition, there would be an integration of mobile assets such as autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVS) and/or E:\FR\FM\26AUN1.SGM 26AUN1 52556 Federal Register / Vol. 75, No. 165 / Thursday, August 26, 2010 / Notices gliders with the GSN, RSN, and CSN observatories. The Draft SSEA is available upon request from: Jean McGovern, NSF, Division of Ocean Sciences, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230; Telephone: (703) 292–7591. It is also available for electronic public viewing at the following Web site: https:// www.nsf.gov/geo/oce/envcomp/ index.jsp. Federal, state, local agencies, Native American Tribes and Nations, and interested parties are invited to be present or represented at the public hearings. Written comments can also be submitted during the open house sessions preceding the public hearings or at any time during the 30-day public review period of the Draft SSEA. Oral statements will be heard and transcribed by a stenographer; however, to ensure the accuracy of the record, all statements should be submitted in writing. All statements, both oral and written, will become part of the public record on the Draft SSEA and will be responded to in the Final SSEA. Equal weight will be given to both oral and written statements. In the interest of time available time, and to ensure all who wish to give an oral statement have the opportunity to do so, each speaker’s comments will be limited to three (3) minutes. If a long statement is to be presented, it should be summarized at the public hearing with the full text submitted either in writing at the hearing or mailed to Jean McGovern, National Science Foundation, Division of Ocean Sciences, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230. In addition, comments may be submitted via e-mail at nepacomments@nsf.gov. Dated: August 20, 2010. Suzanne H. Plimpton, Reports Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation. [FR Doc. 2010–21154 Filed 8–25–10; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7555–01–P NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION mstockstill on DSKH9S0YB1PROD with NOTICES Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS); Meeting of the ACRS Subcommittee on Regulatory Policies and Practices The ACRS Subcommittee on Regulatory Policies and Practices will hold a meeting on September 22, 2010, Room T–2B1, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. The entire meeting will be open to public attendance. The agenda for the subject meeting shall be as follows: VerDate Mar<15>2010 20:12 Aug 25, 2010 Jkt 220001 Wednesday, September 22, 2010–8:30 a.m. Until 5 p.m. NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION The Subcommittee will discuss the Draft Final Rule to Risk-Informed Changes to Loss-of-Coolant Accident Technical Requirements. The Subcommittee will hear presentations by and hold discussions with representatives of the NRC staff and other interested persons regarding this matter. The Subcommittee will gather information, analyze relevant issues and facts, and formulate proposed positions and actions, as appropriate, for deliberation by the Full Committee. Members of the public desiring to provide oral statements and/or written comments should notify the Designated Federal Official (DFO), Peter Wen (telephone 301–415–2832 or e-mail Peter.Wen@nrc.gov) five days prior to the meeting, if possible, so that appropriate arrangements can be made. Thirty-five hard copies of each presentation or handout should be provided to the DFO thirty minutes before the meeting. In addition, one electronic copy of each presentation should be e-mailed to the DFO one day before the meeting. If an electronic copy cannot be provided within this timeframe, presenters should provide the DFO with a CD containing each presentation at least thirty minutes before the meeting. Electronic recordings will be permitted only during those portions of the meeting that are open to the public. Detailed procedures for the conduct of and participation in ACRS meetings were published in the Federal Register on October 14, 2009, (74 FR 58268–58269). Detailed meeting agendas and meeting transcripts are available on the NRC Web site at https://www.nrc.gov/readingrm/doc-collections/acrs. Information regarding topics to be discussed, changes to the agenda, whether the meeting has been canceled or rescheduled, and the time allotted to present oral statements can be obtained from the Web site cited above or by contacting the identified DFO. Moreover, in view of the possibility that the schedule for ACRS meetings may be adjusted by the Chairman as necessary to facilitate the conduct of the meeting, persons planning to attend should check with these references if such rescheduling would result in a major inconvenience. Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS) Meeting of the ACRS Subcommittee on AP1000 Dated: August 19, 2010. Cayetano Santos, Chief, Reactor Safety Branch A, Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards. [FR Doc. 2010–21262 Filed 8–25–10; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590–01–P PO 00000 Frm 00053 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 The ACRS Subcommittee on AP1000 will hold a meeting on September 20– 21, 2010, Room T–2B1, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, Maryland. The entire meeting will be open to public attendance, with the exception of a portion that may be closed to protect unclassified safeguards information or information that is proprietary to Westinghouse Electric Company and its contractors, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(3) and (4). The agenda for the subject meeting shall be as follows: Monday, September 20, 2010—8:30 a.m. Until 5 p.m. and Tuesday, September 21, 2010, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. The Subcommittee will discuss selected chapters of the Final Safety Evaluation Report (FSER) of the Revision 17 to AP1000 Design Control Document (DCD) Amendment and the Combined License Application (COL). The Subcommittee will hear presentations by and hold discussions with representatives of the NRC staff, Westinghouse, COL Applicant, and other interested persons regarding this matter. The Subcommittee will gather information, analyze relevant issues and facts, and formulate proposed positions and actions, as appropriate, for deliberation by the Full Committee. Members of the public desiring to provide oral statements and/or written comments should notify the Designated Federal Official (DFO), Weidong Wang (telephone 301–415–6279 or e-mail Weidong.Wang@nrc.gov) five days prior to the meeting, if possible, so that appropriate arrangements can be made. Thirty-five hard copies of each presentation or handout should be provided to the DFO thirty minutes before the meeting. In addition, one electronic copy of each presentation should be e-mailed to the DFO one day before the meeting. If an electronic copy cannot be provided within this timeframe, presenters should provide the DFO with a CD containing each presentation at least thirty minutes before the meeting. Electronic recordings will be permitted only during those portions of the meeting that are open to the public. Detailed procedures for the conduct of and participation in ACRS meetings were published in the Federal Register on October 14, 2009, (74 FR 58268–58269). E:\FR\FM\26AUN1.SGM 26AUN1

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION


Notice of Availability of a Draft Site-Specific Environmental 
Assessment and Notice of Public Hearings; Correction

AGENCY: National Science Foundation.

ACTION: Notice of the availability of a Draft Site-Specific 
Environmental Assessment (Draft SSEA) for the Ocean Observatories 
Initiative (OOI), request for public comment on the Draft SSEA, and 
notice of public hearings; Correction.

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SUMMARY: The National Science Foundation (NSF) published a document in 
the Federal Register of August 16, 2010, concerning requests for public 
comment on a Draft Site-Specific Environmental Assessment for the Ocean 
Observatories Initiative (OOI). The document did not include the dates 
and times for the open house sessions.

Correction

    In the Federal Register of August 16, 2010, in FR Doc. 2010-20107, 
on page 50008, in the second column, correct the DATES and ADDRESSES 
caption to read:

DATES and ADDRESSES: All hearings will start with an open house session 
from 7 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. A presentation and formal public comment 
period will be held from 7:45 p.m. to 9 p.m. Public hearings will be 
held on the following dates and at the following locations:
     Wednesday, September 1, 2010, at Westport Maritime Museum, 
Westport, WA.
     Thursday, September 2, 2010, at Guin Library Seminar Room, 
Hatfield Marine Science Center, Newport, OR.
     Wednesday, September 8, 2010 date, at New Bedford Library, 
613 Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 02740-6203.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Copies of the Draft SSEA are available 
upon request from: Jean McGovern, NSF, Division of Ocean Sciences, 4201 
Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230; Telephone: (703) 292-7591. The Draft 
SSEA is also available at the following Web site: https://www.nsf.gov/geo/oce/envcomp/index.jsp.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The text from the original notice follows:
    The National Science Foundation (NSF) gives notice of the 
availability of the Draft SSEA for the OOI, and requests public review 
and comment on the document. NSF also provides notice of public 
hearings on the Draft SSEA for the OOI. The Division of Ocean Sciences 
in the Directorate for Geosciences (GEO/OCE) has prepared a Draft SSEA 
for the OOI, a multi-million dollar Major Research Equipment and 
Facilities Construction effort intended to put moored and cable 
infrastructure in discrete locations in the coastal and global ocean. 
The Draft SSEA has been prepared to assess the potential impacts on the 
human and natural environment associated with proposed site-specific 
requirements in the design, installation, and operation of the OOI that 
were previously assessed in a 2008 Programmatic Environmental 
Assessment (PEA) and a 2009 Supplemental Environmental Report (SER). 
The scope of the environmental impact analysis of the SSEA is tiered 
from the previously prepared PEA, associated Finding of No Significant 
Impact (FONSI), and SER. It focuses only on those activities and the 
associated potential impacts, including cumulative impacts, resulting 
from the site-specific installation and operation of OOI assets and not 
previously assessed in the PEA and SER. The Draft SSEA is available for 
public comment for a 30-day period. Comments may be mailed to Jean 
McGovern, National Science Foundation, Division of Ocean Sciences, 4201 
Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230, or submitted via e-mail at 
nepacomments@nsf.gov. The deadline for submitting comments is September 
15, 2010.
    NSF will conduct three public hearings to receive oral and written 
comments on the Draft SSEA. Federal, state, and local agencies, Native 
American Tribes and Nations, and interested individuals are invited to 
be present or represented at the public hearings. This notice announces 
the dates and locations of the public hearings for this Draft SSEA. An 
open house session will precede the scheduled public hearing at each of 
the locations listed below and will allow individuals to review the 
information presented in the Draft SSEA. NSF representatives will be 
available during the open house sessions to clarify information related 
to the Draft SSEA.
    Oceanographic research has long relied on research vessel cruises 
(expeditions) as the predominate means to make direct measurements of 
the ocean. Remote sensing (use of satellites) has greatly advanced 
abilities to measure ocean surface characteristics over extended 
periods of time. A major advancement for oceanographic research methods 
is the ability to make sustained, long-term, and adaptive measurements 
from the surface to the ocean bottom. ``Ocean Observatories'' are now 
being developed to further this goal. Building upon recent technology 
advances and lessons learned from prototype ocean observatories, NSF's 
Ocean Sciences Division (OCE) is proposing to fund the OOI, an 
interactive, globally distributed and integrated infrastructure that 
will be the backbone for the next generation of ocean sensors and 
resulting complex ocean studies presently unachievable. The OOI 
reflects a community-wide, national and international scientific 
planning effort and is a key NSF contribution to the broader effort to 
establish focused national ocean observatory capabilities through the 
Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS).
    The OOI infrastructure would include cables, buoys, deployment 
platforms, moorings, junction boxes, electric power generation (solar, 
wind, and/or fuel cell,), and two-way communications systems. This 
large-scale infrastructure would support sensors located at the sea 
surface, in the water column, and at or beneath the seafloor. The OOI 
would also support related elements, such as unified project 
management, data dissemination and archiving, modeling of oceanographic 
processes, and education and outreach activities essential to the long-
term success of ocean science. It would include the first U.S. multi-
node cabled observatory; fixed and re-locatable coastal arrays coupled 
with mobile assets; and advanced buoys for interdisciplinary 
measurements, especially for data limited areas of the Southern Ocean 
and other high-latitude locations.
    The OOI design is based upon three main technical elements across 
global, regional, and coastal scales. At the global and coastal scales, 
moorings would provide locally generated power to seafloor and platform 
instruments and sensors and use a satellite link to shore and the 
Internet. Up to four Global Scale Nodes (GSN) or buoy sites are 
proposed for ocean sensing in the Eastern Pacific and Atlantic oceans. 
The Regional-Scale Nodes (RSN) off the coast of Washington and Oregon 
would consist of seafloor observatories with various chemical, 
biological, and geological sensors linked with submarine cables to 
shore that provide power and Internet connectivity. Coastal-Scale Nodes 
(CSN) would be represented by the fixed Endurance Array, consisting of 
a combination of cabled nodes and stand-alone moorings, off the coast 
of Washington and Oregon, and the relocatable Pioneer Array off the 
coast of Massachusetts, consisting of a suite of stand-alone moorings. 
In addition, there would be an integration of mobile assets such as 
autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVS) and/or

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gliders with the GSN, RSN, and CSN observatories.
    The Draft SSEA is available upon request from: Jean McGovern, NSF, 
Division of Ocean Sciences, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230; 
Telephone: (703) 292-7591. It is also available for electronic public 
viewing at the following Web site: https://www.nsf.gov/geo/oce/envcomp/index.jsp.
    Federal, state, local agencies, Native American Tribes and Nations, 
and interested parties are invited to be present or represented at the 
public hearings. Written comments can also be submitted during the open 
house sessions preceding the public hearings or at any time during the 
30-day public review period of the Draft SSEA.
    Oral statements will be heard and transcribed by a stenographer; 
however, to ensure the accuracy of the record, all statements should be 
submitted in writing. All statements, both oral and written, will 
become part of the public record on the Draft SSEA and will be 
responded to in the Final SSEA. Equal weight will be given to both oral 
and written statements. In the interest of time available time, and to 
ensure all who wish to give an oral statement have the opportunity to 
do so, each speaker's comments will be limited to three (3) minutes. If 
a long statement is to be presented, it should be summarized at the 
public hearing with the full text submitted either in writing at the 
hearing or mailed to Jean McGovern, National Science Foundation, 
Division of Ocean Sciences, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230. In 
addition, comments may be submitted via e-mail at nepacomments@nsf.gov.

    Dated: August 20, 2010.
Suzanne H. Plimpton,
Reports Clearance Officer, National Science Foundation.
[FR Doc. 2010-21154 Filed 8-25-10; 8:45 am]
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