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Permits and Conservation Division,
Office of Protected Resources, NMFS,
1315 East-West Highway, Room 13705,
Silver Spring, MD 20910; phone (301)
427–8401; fax (301) 713–0376; and
Southeast Region, NMFS, 263 13th
Avenue South, Saint Petersburg, FL
33701; phone (727) 824–5312; fax (727)
824–5309.
Written comments on this application
should be submitted to the Chief,
Permits, Conservation and Education
Division:
• By email to
NMFS.Pr1Comments@noaa.gov (include
the File No. in the subject line of the
email),
• By facsimile to (301) 713–0376, or
• At the address listed above.
Those individuals requesting a public
hearing should submit a written request
to the Chief, Permits, Conservation and
Education Division at the address listed
above. The request should set forth the
specific reasons why a hearing on this
application would be appropriate.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Amy Hapeman or Colette Cairns, (301)
427–8401.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
subject permit is requested under the
authority of the Endangered Species Act
of 1973, as amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C.
1531 et seq.) and the regulations
governing the taking, importing, and
exporting of endangered and threatened
species (50 CFR 222–226).
The applicant requests a 5-year permit
to continue long-term research on the
demographics and movements of green,
loggerhead, hawksbill, and Kemp’s
ridley sea turtles in the Key West
National Wildlife Refuge and extend
this work to an additional study area,
the Big Bend of Florida. The objectives
of the research are to: (1) Obtain
information on sea turtle abundance,
size frequencies, and sex ratios; (2)
determine the genetic origin of sea turtle
populations in the region; (3) continue
to monitor turtle foraging habits; (4)
track prevalence of fibropapilomatosis
in sea turtles; (5) track green sea turtle
movements west of the Marquesas Keys;
and (6) identify habitat preferences of
hawksbill sea turtles in the Key West
National Wildlife Refuge. Up to 160
green, 160 loggerhead, 75 hawksbill,
and 66 Kemp’s ridley sea turtles would
be captured annually for flipper and
passive integrated transponder tagging,
blood and tissue sampling,
morphometrics, photography, and
weights. A subset of sea turtles would
be lavaged and/or satellite tagged. In
addition to captures, researchers would
conduct vessel surveys to observe and
count sea turtles in the area.
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Dated: February 29, 2012.
P. Michael Payne,
Chief, Permits and Conservation Division,
Office of Protected Resources, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
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Endangered Species; File Nos. 15661,
10027, and 15685
National Marine Fisheries
Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),
Commerce.
ACTION: Issuance of permits and permit
modification.
AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given that
NMFS has issued two permits and one
permit modification to take green
(Chelonia mydas) and hawksbill
(Eretmochelys imbricata) sea turtles for
scientific research. See SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION for information regarding
permittees.
SUMMARY:
The permit and related
documents are available for review
upon written request or by appointment
in the following offices:
Permits and Conservation Division,
Office of Protected Resources, NMFS,
1315 East-West Highway, Room 13705,
Silver Spring, MD 20910; phone (301)
427–8401; fax (301) 713–0376; and
Pacific Islands Region, NMFS, 1601
Kapiolani Blvd., Rm. 1110, Honolulu,
HI 96814–4700; phone (808) 944–2200;
fax (808) 973–2941.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Amy Hapeman or Colette Cairns, (301)
427–8401.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May
11, 2011, notice was published in the
Federal Register (76 FR 27306) that a
request for a scientific research permit
to take green and hawksbill sea turtles
had been submitted by the
Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana
Islands (CNMI) Division of Fish and
Wildlife, (Arnold Palacios, Responsible
Party). On June 15, 2011, notice was
published in the Federal Register (76
FR 34967) that a request for a scientific
research permit modification to take
green sea turtles had been submitted by
the Center for Biodiversity and
Conservation, American Museum of
Natural History (AMNH; Responsible
Party: Eleanor Sterling, Ph.D.). On June
20, 2011, notice was published in the
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Federal Register (76 FR 35842) that a
request for a scientific research permit
to take green and hawksbill sea turtles
had been submitted by the NMFS
Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center
(PIFSC; Samuel Pooley, Ph.D.,
Responsible Party). The requested
permits and permit modification have
been issued under the authority of the
Endangered Species Act of 1973, as
amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.)
and the regulations governing the
taking, importing, and exporting of
endangered and threatened species
(50 CFR parts 222–226). The following
summarizes each permit.
The CNMI was issued a five-year
permit, No. 15661, to conduct research
on sea turtles to characterize population
structure, size class composition,
foraging ecology, and migration patterns
for green and hawksbill sea turtles in
the Northern Mariana Islands.
Authorized research consists of counts
and hand captures of sea turtles during
vessel surveys. Captured sea turtles may
be measured, weighed, flipper tagged,
passive integrated transponder (PIT)
tagged, temporarily marked, tissue
sampled, photographed, and released. A
subset of the turtles may be satellite
tagged before release and then tracked
from the vessel. A small number of sea
turtle carcasses, tissues or parts may be
opportunistically salvaged each year.
The AMNH was issued a modification
to Permit No. 10027–03, originally
issued on July 30, 2008 (73 FR 44224).
Permit No. 10027–03 authorized the
AMNH to study the population biology
and connectivity of green and hawksbill
sea turtles focusing on distribution and
abundance, ecology, health, and threats
to sea turtles at the Palmyra Atoll in the
Pacific Ocean. This modification, Permit
No. 10027–04, increases the number of
green sea turtles taken during research
and the number of green sea turtles that
may be sonic tagged annually. These
data will help determine if temporal,
stage-specific, or sex-specific movement
patterns exist for the population of sea
turtles at Palmyra. The modified permit
expires on July 31, 2013.
The PIFSC was issued a five-year
permit, No. 15685, to continue longterm monitoring of green and hawksbill
sea turtles in the Hawaiian Islands to
determine growth rates, health status,
stock and population structure, foraging
ecology, habitat use, and movements.
Researchers may capture, measure,
flipper and PIT tag, weigh, biologically
sample (tissue, blood, scute, and
lavage), and attach transmitters to green
and hawksbill sea turtles before release.
Issuance of the permits, as required by
the ESA, was based on a finding that
such permits (1) were applied for in
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may be publicly accessible. Do not
submit Confidential Business
Information or otherwise sensitive or
protected information. NTIA will accept
anonymous comments (enter ‘‘N/A’’ in
the required fields if you wish to remain
anonymous).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Aaron Burstein, National
Telecommunications and Information
Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, 1401 Constitution Avenue
NW., Room 4725, Washington, DC
20230; telephone (202) 482–1055; email
aburstein@ntia.doc.gov. Please direct
media inquiries to NTIA’s Office of
Public Affairs, (202) 482–7002.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
good faith, (2) will not operate to the
disadvantage of such endangered or
threatened species, and (3) are
consistent with the purposes and
policies set forth in section 2 of the
ESA.
Dated: February 28, 2012.
P. Michael Payne,
Chief, Permits and Conservation Division,
Office of Protected Resources, National
Marine Fisheries Service.
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Background
[Docket No. 120214135–2135–01]
RIN 0660–XA27
Multistakeholder Process To Develop
Consumer Data Privacy Codes of
Conduct
National Telecommunications
and Information Administration, U.S.
Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
AGENCY:
The National
Telecommunications and Information
Administration (NTIA) is requesting
comment on substantive consumer data
privacy issues that warrant the
development of legally enforceable
codes of conduct, as well as procedures
to foster the development of these
codes. NTIA invites public comment on
these issues from all stakeholders with
an interest in consumer data privacy,
including the commercial, academic
and civil society sectors, and from
federal and state enforcement agencies.
DATES: Comments are due on or before
5 p.m. Eastern Daylight Savings Time on
March 26, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Written comments may be
submitted by email to
privacyrfc2012@ntia.doc.gov. Comments
submitted by email should be machinesearchable and should not be copyprotected. Written comments also may
be submitted by mail to 1401
Constitution Avenue NW., Room 4725,
Washington, DC 20230. Responders
should include the name of the person
or organization filing the comment, as
well as a page number, on each page of
their submissions. All comments
received are a part of the public record
and will generally be posted to https://
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example, name, address, etc.)
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The Executive Office of the President
released Consumer Data Privacy in a
Networked World: A Framework for
Protecting Privacy and Promoting
Innovation in the Global Digital
Economy (the ‘‘Privacy and Innovation
Blueprint’’) on February 23, 2012. Two
central elements of the Privacy and
Innovation Blueprint are: (1) A
Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, which
is a set of principles the Administration
believes should govern the handling of
personal data in commercial sectors that
are not subject to existing Federal
privacy statutes; and (2) a
multistakeholder process, which NTIA
will convene, to develop legally
enforceable codes of conduct that
specify how the Consumer Privacy Bill
of Rights applies in specific business
contexts.
These discussions will be open to
participation by all interested
stakeholders, transparent, and
consensus-driven.1 Open participation
is necessary to ensure that codes of
conduct reflect input from the broad
array of stakeholders that have interests
in putting the Consumer Privacy Bill of
Rights into practice. Any person or
organization may choose to participate,
no one is under an obligation to
participate once discussions have
started, and NTIA anticipates that there
will be opportunities to join a process
once it is underway. Transparency is
necessary to allow those who do not
participate in the process to understand
1 Privacy and Innovation Blueprint at 2, available
at https://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/
privacy-final.pdf (proposing a privacy
multistakeholder process that consists of ‘‘open,
transparent forums in which stakeholders who
share an interest in specific markets or business
contexts will work toward consensus on
appropriate, legally enforceable codes of conduct’’);
id. at 23–25, 37 (discussing importance of
consensus in multistakeholder processes that
develop Internet policy and standards).
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how participants reached their
decisions. Consensus of a broad set of
stakeholders, achieved through a
transparent process, will lend
legitimacy to the code of conduct. At the
same time, consensus will encourage
companies to adopt codes of conduct;
the decision to adopt a code of conduct
is voluntary, and companies are
unlikely to adopt a code about which
they have serious reservations.2
The privacy multistakeholder process
is voluntary. A code of conduct will not
be binding on a company unless and
until that company affirmatively
commits to follow it. NTIA expects that
a company’s public commitment to
follow a code of conduct will be legally
enforceable, provided the company is
subject to the Federal Trade
Commission’s jurisdiction.3 Enforceable
codes of conduct based on the
principles set forth in the Consumer
Privacy Bill of Rights will provide
consumers clear, understandable
baseline protections and give businesses
greater certainty about how agreed upon
privacy principles apply to them.
Companies will build consumer trust by
engaging directly with consumers and
other stakeholders during the process
and adopting a code of conduct that
stakeholders develop through this
process.4 Moreover, in any enforcement
action based on conduct covered by a
code, the FTC would likely consider a
company’s adherence to such a code
favorably.5
NTIA’s role in the privacy
multistakeholder process will be to
provide a forum for discussion and
consensus-building among stakeholders.
In situations in which stakeholders
disagree over how best to interpret the
Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights, NTIA’s
role, as explained in the Privacy and
Innovation Blueprint, ‘‘will be to help
the parties reach clarity on what their
positions are and whether there are
options for compromise toward
consensus, rather than substituting its
own judgment.’’ 6 Furthermore,
stakeholder groups convened to develop
codes of conduct will not be advisory
committees, as neither NTIA nor any
other Federal agency or office will seek
consensus advice or recommendations
2 See Privacy and Innovation Blueprint at 23–24,
37 (discussing importance of consensus in
multistakeholder processes).
3 Currently, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
brings cases based on violations of a company’s
public commitments in its privacy statements under
the FTC’s authority to prevent deceptive acts or
practices. See 15 U.S.C. 45. A code of conduct
developed through a multistakeholder process
likely would be enforceable under this authority.
4 Privacy and Innovation Blueprint at 24.
5 Id.
6 Id. at 27.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
RIN 0648-XB053
Endangered Species; File Nos. 15661, 10027, and 15685
AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Commerce.
ACTION: Issuance of permits and permit modification.
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SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that NMFS has issued two permits and
one permit modification to take green (Chelonia mydas) and hawksbill
(Eretmochelys imbricata) sea turtles for scientific research. See
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for information regarding permittees.
ADDRESSES: The permit and related documents are available for review
upon written request or by appointment in the following offices:
Permits and Conservation Division, Office of Protected Resources,
NMFS, 1315 East-West Highway, Room 13705, Silver Spring, MD 20910;
phone (301) 427-8401; fax (301) 713-0376; and
Pacific Islands Region, NMFS, 1601 Kapiolani Blvd., Rm. 1110,
Honolulu, HI 96814-4700; phone (808) 944-2200; fax (808) 973-2941.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amy Hapeman or Colette Cairns, (301)
427-8401.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On May 11, 2011, notice was published in the
Federal Register (76 FR 27306) that a request for a scientific research
permit to take green and hawksbill sea turtles had been submitted by
the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) Division of
Fish and Wildlife, (Arnold Palacios, Responsible Party). On June 15,
2011, notice was published in the Federal Register (76 FR 34967) that a
request for a scientific research permit modification to take green sea
turtles had been submitted by the Center for Biodiversity and
Conservation, American Museum of Natural History (AMNH; Responsible
Party: Eleanor Sterling, Ph.D.). On June 20, 2011, notice was published
in the Federal Register (76 FR 35842) that a request for a scientific
research permit to take green and hawksbill sea turtles had been
submitted by the NMFS Pacific Islands Fisheries Science Center (PIFSC;
Samuel Pooley, Ph.D., Responsible Party). The requested permits and
permit modification have been issued under the authority of the
Endangered Species Act of 1973, as amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 et
seq.) and the regulations governing the taking, importing, and
exporting of endangered and threatened species (50 CFR parts 222-226).
The following summarizes each permit.
The CNMI was issued a five-year permit, No. 15661, to conduct
research on sea turtles to characterize population structure, size
class composition, foraging ecology, and migration patterns for green
and hawksbill sea turtles in the Northern Mariana Islands. Authorized
research consists of counts and hand captures of sea turtles during
vessel surveys. Captured sea turtles may be measured, weighed, flipper
tagged, passive integrated transponder (PIT) tagged, temporarily
marked, tissue sampled, photographed, and released. A subset of the
turtles may be satellite tagged before release and then tracked from
the vessel. A small number of sea turtle carcasses, tissues or parts
may be opportunistically salvaged each year.
The AMNH was issued a modification to Permit No. 10027-03,
originally issued on July 30, 2008 (73 FR 44224). Permit No. 10027-03
authorized the AMNH to study the population biology and connectivity of
green and hawksbill sea turtles focusing on distribution and abundance,
ecology, health, and threats to sea turtles at the Palmyra Atoll in the
Pacific Ocean. This modification, Permit No. 10027-04, increases the
number of green sea turtles taken during research and the number of
green sea turtles that may be sonic tagged annually. These data will
help determine if temporal, stage-specific, or sex-specific movement
patterns exist for the population of sea turtles at Palmyra. The
modified permit expires on July 31, 2013.
The PIFSC was issued a five-year permit, No. 15685, to continue
long-term monitoring of green and hawksbill sea turtles in the Hawaiian
Islands to determine growth rates, health status, stock and population
structure, foraging ecology, habitat use, and movements. Researchers
may capture, measure, flipper and PIT tag, weigh, biologically sample
(tissue, blood, scute, and lavage), and attach transmitters to green
and hawksbill sea turtles before release.
Issuance of the permits, as required by the ESA, was based on a
finding that such permits (1) were applied for in
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good faith, (2) will not operate to the disadvantage of such endangered
or threatened species, and (3) are consistent with the purposes and
policies set forth in section 2 of the ESA.
Dated: February 28, 2012.
P. Michael Payne,
Chief, Permits and Conservation Division, Office of Protected
Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.
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