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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
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Marine Mammals; File No. 15616
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; issuance of permit.
AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given that
Craig Matkin, North Gulf Oceanic
Society, Homer, AK, has been issued a
permit to conduct research on marine
mammals.
ADDRESSES: The permit and related
documents are available for review
upon written request or by appointment
in the following offices:
Permits, Conservation and Education
Division, Office of Protected Resources,
NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room
13705, Silver Spring, MD 20910; phone
(301)713–2289; fax (301)713–0376; and
Alaska Region, NMFS, P.O. Box 21668,
Juneau, AK 99802–1668; phone (907)
586–7221; fax (907) 586–7249.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Tammy Adams or Kristy Beard, (301)
713–2289.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On
January 5, 2011, notice was published in
the Federal Register (76 FR 542) that a
request for a permit to conduct research
on marine mammals had been
submitted by the above-named
applicant. The requested permit has
been issued under the authority of the
Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972,
as amended (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), and
the regulations governing the taking and
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importing of marine mammals (50 CFR
part 216).
The permit allows harassment of
marine mammals during conduct of
research in Alaskan waters, including
southeast Alaska, Prince William
Sound, the Kenai Peninsula, the Eastern
Aleutian Islands, and the Bering Sea.
The purpose of the research is to
maintain a long-term killer whale
(Orcinus orca) monitoring program in
Alaskan waters that was initiated over
25 years ago. In addition, the permit
holder will examine movements of other
non-endangered cetacean species along
the North Gulf Coast of Alaska in
relation to U.S. Navy testing activities.
The research activities include photoidentification, passive acoustic
recording, biopsy sampling, tagging
with barbed darts and suction cups, and
collecting samples of marine mammal
carcasses from sites of killer whale
predation.
In compliance with the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42
U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), a final
determination has been made that the
activity proposed is categorically
excluded from the requirement to
prepare an environmental assessment or
environmental impact statement.
Dated: March 9, 2011.
Tammy C. Adams,
Acting Chief, Permits, Conservation and
Education Division, Office of Protected
Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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Notice of Availability of Draft Waste
Incidental to Reprocessing Evaluation
for the Vitrification Melter at the West
Valley Demonstration Project for West
Valley, New York
Office of Environmental
Management, U.S. Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:
The Department of Energy
(DOE) announces the availability of a
draft evaluation which shows that the
vitrification melter (used to vitrify waste
from reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel
and certain treatment material) at the
West Valley Demonstration Project
(WVDP), located at the Western New
York Service Center in West Valley,
New York, is waste incidental to
reprocessing and thus is not high-level
radioactive waste (HLW) and may be
managed and disposed of offsite as lowlevel waste (LLW). DOE prepared the
draft evaluation pursuant to DOE
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Management. DOE is consulting with
the Nuclear Regulatory Commission
(NRC) before finalizing this evaluation.
Although it is not required by DOE
Manual 435.1–1, DOE is making the
draft evaluation available for public and
state review and comment during the
NRC consultative review period. DOE
will make its final evaluation and
determination as to whether the
vitrification melter is HLW, or is waste
incidental to reprocessing which can be
managed and disposed of as LLW, after
consideration of any public, state, and
NRC comments on this draft evaluation.
DATES: The comment period will end
April 28, 2011. Comments received after
that time will be considered to the
extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: The draft waste evaluation
is available on the Internet at https://
apps.em.doe.gov/wvdp/, and is publicly
available for review at the following
locations: U.S. Department of Energy,
Public Reading Room, 1000
Independence Avenue, SW.,
Washington, DC 20585, phone: (202)
586–5955, or fax: (202) 586–0575; and
U.S. DOE, West Valley Demonstration
Project Public Reading Room located at
the Town of Concord Hulbert Library,
18 Chapel St., Springville, New York
14141, phone: (716) 592–7742. Written
comments should be submitted to: Mr.
Daniel Sullivan, U.S. Department of
Energy, West Valley Demonstration
Project, 10282 Rock Springs Road, West
Valley, New York 14171–9799.
Alternatively, comments may also be
filed electronically by e-mail to
melter@wv.doe.gov or by fax at (716)
942–4703.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information about this draft
waste evaluation, please contact Mr.
Daniel Sullivan at the mailing address
or Web site listed above.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
vitrification melter is a box structure,
approximately 10 feet on each side, with
a stainless steel outer structure and an
interior lined with refractory materials.
It was used to solidify high-level waste
which had been generated by
commercial reprocessing of spent
nuclear fuel at the Western New York
Nuclear Service Center in West Valley,
New York by Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc.
from 1966 through 1972. DOE
undertook the solidification activities
pursuant to DOE’s responsibilities
under the West Valley Demonstration
Project Act. To solidify the waste, DOE
vitrified the waste (combined it at a high
temperature with borosilicate glass) and
transferred the molten glass-waste
mixture into specially developed
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RIN 0648-XA123
Marine Mammals; File No. 15616
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; issuance of permit.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that Craig Matkin, North Gulf Oceanic
Society, Homer, AK, has been issued a permit to conduct research on
marine mammals.
ADDRESSES: The permit and related documents are available for review
upon written request or by appointment in the following offices:
Permits, Conservation and Education Division, Office of Protected
Resources, NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 13705, Silver Spring, MD
20910; phone (301)713-2289; fax (301)713-0376; and Alaska Region, NMFS,
P.O. Box 21668, Juneau, AK 99802-1668; phone (907) 586-7221; fax (907)
586-7249.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tammy Adams or Kristy Beard, (301)
713-2289.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On January 5, 2011, notice was published in
the Federal Register (76 FR 542) that a request for a permit to conduct
research on marine mammals had been submitted by the above-named
applicant. The requested permit has been issued under the authority of
the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, as amended (16 U.S.C. 1361 et
seq.), and the regulations governing the taking and importing of marine
mammals (50 CFR part 216).
The permit allows harassment of marine mammals during conduct of
research in Alaskan waters, including southeast Alaska, Prince William
Sound, the Kenai Peninsula, the Eastern Aleutian Islands, and the
Bering Sea. The purpose of the research is to maintain a long-term
killer whale (Orcinus orca) monitoring program in Alaskan waters that
was initiated over 25 years ago. In addition, the permit holder will
examine movements of other non-endangered cetacean species along the
North Gulf Coast of Alaska in relation to U.S. Navy testing activities.
The research activities include photo-identification, passive acoustic
recording, biopsy sampling, tagging with barbed darts and suction cups,
and collecting samples of marine mammal carcasses from sites of killer
whale predation.
In compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969
(42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), a final determination has been made that the
activity proposed is categorically excluded from the requirement to
prepare an environmental assessment or environmental impact statement.
Dated: March 9, 2011.
Tammy C. Adams,
Acting Chief, Permits, Conservation and Education Division, Office of
Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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