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number of incidences of take, such as
ability to track groups or individuals.
iii. Results of acoustic monitoring,
including the information described in
in the Monitoring Plan.
(b) Reporting injured or dead marine
mammals:
i. In the unanticipated event that the
specified activity clearly causes the take
of a marine mammal in a manner
prohibited by this IHA, such as an
injury (Level A harassment), serious
injury, or mortality, Navy shall
immediately cease the specified
activities and report the incident to the
Office of Protected Resources (301–427–
8425), NMFS, and the West Coast
Regional Stranding Coordinator (206–
526–6550), NMFS. The report must
include the following information:
A. Time and date of the incident;
B. Description of the incident;
C. Environmental conditions (e.g.,
wind speed and direction, Beaufort sea
state, cloud cover, and visibility);
D. Description of all marine mammal
observations in the 24 hours preceding
the incident;
E. Species identification or
description of the animal(s) involved;
F. Fate of the animal(s); and
G. Photographs or video footage of the
animal(s).
Activities shall not resume until NMFS
is able to review the circumstances of
the prohibited take. NMFS will work
with Navy to determine what measures
are necessary to minimize the likelihood
of further prohibited take and ensure
MMPA compliance. Navy may not
resume their activities until notified by
NMFS.
i. In the event that Navy discovers an
injured or dead marine mammal, and
the lead observer determines that the
cause of the injury or death is unknown
and the death is relatively recent (e.g.,
in less than a moderate state of
decomposition), Navy shall immediately
report the incident to the Office of
Protected Resources, NMFS, and the
West Coast Regional Stranding
Coordinator, NMFS.
The report must include the same
information identified in 6(b)(i) of this
IHA. Activities may continue while
NMFS reviews the circumstances of the
incident. NMFS will work with Navy to
determine whether additional
mitigation measures or modifications to
the activities are appropriate.
ii. In the event that Navy discovers an
injured or dead marine mammal, and
the lead observer determines that the
injury or death is not associated with or
related to the activities authorized in the
IHA (e.g., previously wounded animal,
carcass with moderate to advanced
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decomposition, scavenger damage),
Navy shall report the incident to the
Office of Protected Resources, NMFS,
and the West Coast Regional Stranding
Coordinator, NMFS, within 24 hours of
the discovery. Navy shall provide
photographs or video footage or other
documentation of the stranded animal
sighting to NMFS.
7. This Authorization may be
modified, suspended or withdrawn if
the holder fails to abide by the
conditions prescribed herein, or if the
authorized taking is having more than a
negligible impact on the species or stock
of affected marine mammals.
Request for Public Comments
We request comment on our analysis,
the draft authorization, and any other
aspect of this Notice of Proposed IHA
for Navy’s pier replacement activities.
Please include with your comments any
supporting data or literature citations to
help inform our final decision on Navy’s
request for an MMPA authorization.
Dated: August 4, 2016.
Donna S. Wieting,
Director, Office of Protected Resources,
National Marine Fisheries Service.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration
U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing
System (IOOS®) Advisory Committee
National Ocean Service,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of availability for final
programmatic environmental
assessment and finding of no significant
impact.
AGENCY:
The U.S. IOOS office,
National Ocean Service (NOS), National
Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), has finalized a
Programmatic Environmental
Assessment (PEA) which analyzed the
potential environmental impacts
associated with ocean observing
activities including sensors and
instrumentation; vessels (including
personal watercraft) and sampling;
autonomous underwater vehicles
(AUV), gliders, and drifters; moorings,
marine stations, buoys, and fixed arrays;
High Frequency radar (HF radar); and
sound navigation and ranging (sonar)
and light detection and ranging (lidar)
and prepared a Finding of No
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Significant Impact (FONSI) to the
environmental resources within U.S.
IOOS regions.
In parallel with the preparation of the
draft and final PEA, IOOS initiated and
completed a technical review
consultation with National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS) Office of
Habitat Conservation Essential Fish
Habitat (EFH), regarding the MagnusonStevens Act. Furthermore, subsequent to
extensive discussion with and training
by NMFS Office of Protected Resources
(OPR) under the National Marine
Sanctuaries, Endangered Species and
Marine Mammal Protection Acts, it has
been determined that IOOS observing
activities would have negligible or no
impact to environmental resources
under the proposed action. The IOOS
proposed action provides a mitigation
strategy to address any unique
situations, on a site-specific basis, as
more information becomes available.
The final PEA and signed FONSI are
posted on the IOOS Web site at https://
ioos.noaa.gov/about/governance-andmanagement/environmentalcompliance/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Regina Evans, U.S. IOOS Program, 1315
East-West Highway, 2nd Floor, Silver
Spring, MD 20910, Silver Spring, MD
20910; Phone 240–533–9468; Fax 301–
713–3281; Email regina.evans@
noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Observing
activities support the core mission of
U.S. IOOS: systematic provision of
readily accessible marine environmental
data and data products in an
interoperable, reliable, timely, and userspecified manner to end-users/
customers to serve seven critical and
expanding societal needs: (1) Improve
predictions of climate change and
weather and their effects on coastal
communities and the nation; (2)
Improve the safety and efficiency of
maritime operations; (3) More
effectively mitigate the effects of natural
hazards; (4) Improve national and
homeland security; (5) Reduce public
health risks; (6) More effectively protect
and restore healthy coastal ecosystems;
and (7) Enable the sustained use of
ocean and coastal resources.
IOOS’s conclusion of no significant
impact is based on the best available
scientific data and consultations with
underwater acoustic experts and
biologists from NMFS. Special emphasis
was placed on the impacts to marine
mammals, endangered species, and
essential fish habitat. IOOS has adopted
conservation recommendations from
EFH and project design criteria (PDC),
or best management practices, which
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were created to avoid adverse effects to
all ESA-listed species and designated
critical habitats from OPR. As
implemented, the conservation
recommendations and PDCs would
insure that all U.S. IOOS funded
activities (individually and in aggregate)
avoid adverse effects to protected
resources.
Dated: July 26, 2016.
Zdenka Willis,
Director, U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing
System Office.
[FR Doc. 2016–18842 Filed 8–8–16; 8:45 am]
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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING
COMMISSION
Agency Information Collection
Activities Under OMB Review
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In compliance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995
(PRA), this notice announces that the
Information Collection Request (ICR)
abstracted below has been forwarded to
the Office of Management and Budget
(OMB) for review and comment. The
ICR describes the nature of the
information collection and its expected
costs and burden.
DATES: Comments must be submitted on
or before September 8, 2016.
ADDRESSES: Comments regarding the
burden estimated or any other aspect of
SUMMARY:
the information collection, including
suggestions for reducing the burden,
may be submitted directly to the Office
of Information and Regulatory Affairs
(OIRA) in OMB, within 30 days of the
notice’s publication, by email at
OIRAsubmissions@omb.eop.gov. Please
identify the comments by OMB Control
No. 3038–0017. Please provide the
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission (‘‘CFTC’’ or
‘‘Commission’’) with a copy of all
submitted comments at the address
listed below. Please refer to OMB
Reference No. 3038–0017, found on
https://reginfo.gov. Comments may also
be mailed to the Office of Information
and Regulatory Affairs, Office of
Management and Budget, Attention:
Desk Officer for the Commodity Futures
Trading Commission, 725 17th Street
NW., Washington, DC 20503, and to:
Gary Martinaitis, Associate Director,
Division of Market Oversight,
Commodity Futures Trading
Commission, Three Lafayette Centre,
1155 21st Street NW., Washington, DC
20581; or through the CFTC Web site at
https://comments.cftc.gov. Follow the
instructions for submitting comments
through the Web site.
Comments may also be mailed to:
Christopher J. Kirkpatrick, Secretary of
the Commission, Commodity Futures
Trading Commission, Three Lafayette
Centre, 1155 21st Street NW.,
Washington, DC 20581 or by Hand
Deliver/Courier at the same address.
A copy of the supporting statements
for the collection of information
discussed above may be obtained by
visiting RegInfo.gov. All comments must
be submitted in English, or if not,
accompanied by an English translation.
Comments will be posted as received to
www.cftc.gov.
Gary
Martinaitis, Associate Director, Division
of Market Oversight, Commodity
Futures Trading Commission, (202)
418–5209; email: gmartinaitis@cftc.gov,
and refer to OMB Control No. 3038–
0017. A copy may also be obtained from
this contact.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Title: Notice of Intent to Renew
Collection, Market Surveys (OMB
Control No. 3038–0017). This is a
request for extension of a currently
approved information collection.
Abstract: Under Commission Rule
21.02, upon call by the Commission,
information must be furnished related to
futures or options positions held or
introduced by futures commission
merchants, members of contract
markets, introducing brokers, and
foreign brokers and, for options
positions, by each reporting market.
This rule is designed to assist the
Commission in prevention of market
manipulation and is promulgated
pursuant to the Commission’s
rulemaking authority contained in
section 8a of the Commodity Exchange
Act, 7 U.S.C. 12a (2010).
Burden Statement: The respondent
burden for this collection is estimated to
be as follows:
ESTIMATED ANNUAL REPORTING BURDEN
Annual
number of
respondents
17 CFR §
21.02 .........................................................................................
The total annual cost burden per
respondent is estimated to be $38,500.
The Commission based its calculation
on a blended hourly wage rate of $55 for
a Programmer and Compliance
Manager.1
400
Frequency
of response
Annually ....
Dated: August 4, 2016.
Christopher J. Kirkpatrick,
Secretary of the Commission.
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Government-Industry Advisory Panel;
Notice of Federal Advisory Committee
Meeting
Office of the Under Secretary of
Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and
Logistics), Department of Defense (DoD).
AGENCY:
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
arriving at a wage rate for the hourly costs
imposed, Commission staff used the Management &
Professional Earnings in the Securities Industry
Report, published in 2013 by the Securities
Industry and Financial Markets Associations
(Report). The wage rate used the median salary of
a Programmer and Compliance Manager as
published in the 2013 Report and divided that
figure by 2000 annual working hours to arrive at the
hourly rate of $55.
400
Hours per
response
ACTION:
Authority: 44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.
1 In
Total annual
responses
The Department of Defense is
publishing this notice to announce the
following Federal advisory committee
meeting of the Government-Industry
Advisory Panel. This meeting is open to
the public.
DATES: The meeting will be held from
9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. on Tuesday,
August 23, 2016. Public registration will
begin at 8:45 p.m. For entrance into the
meeting, you must meet the necessary
requirements for entrance into the
Pentagon. For more detailed
information, please see the following
link: https://www.pfpa.mil/access.html.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS[supreg]) Advisory
Committee
AGENCY: National Ocean Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), Department of Commerce.
ACTION: Notice of availability for final programmatic environmental
assessment and finding of no significant impact.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. IOOS office, National Ocean Service (NOS), National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), has finalized a
Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) which analyzed the
potential environmental impacts associated with ocean observing
activities including sensors and instrumentation; vessels (including
personal watercraft) and sampling; autonomous underwater vehicles
(AUV), gliders, and drifters; moorings, marine stations, buoys, and
fixed arrays; High Frequency radar (HF radar); and sound navigation and
ranging (sonar) and light detection and ranging (lidar) and prepared a
Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) to the environmental resources
within U.S. IOOS regions.
In parallel with the preparation of the draft and final PEA, IOOS
initiated and completed a technical review consultation with National
Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Office of Habitat Conservation
Essential Fish Habitat (EFH), regarding the Magnuson-Stevens Act.
Furthermore, subsequent to extensive discussion with and training by
NMFS Office of Protected Resources (OPR) under the National Marine
Sanctuaries, Endangered Species and Marine Mammal Protection Acts, it
has been determined that IOOS observing activities would have
negligible or no impact to environmental resources under the proposed
action. The IOOS proposed action provides a mitigation strategy to
address any unique situations, on a site-specific basis, as more
information becomes available.
The final PEA and signed FONSI are posted on the IOOS Web site at
https://ioos.noaa.gov/about/governance-and-management/environmental-compliance/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Regina Evans, U.S. IOOS Program, 1315
East-West Highway, 2nd Floor, Silver Spring, MD 20910, Silver Spring,
MD 20910; Phone 240-533-9468; Fax 301-713-3281; Email
regina.evans@noaa.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Observing activities support the core
mission of U.S. IOOS: systematic provision of readily accessible marine
environmental data and data products in an interoperable, reliable,
timely, and user-specified manner to end-users/customers to serve seven
critical and expanding societal needs: (1) Improve predictions of
climate change and weather and their effects on coastal communities and
the nation; (2) Improve the safety and efficiency of maritime
operations; (3) More effectively mitigate the effects of natural
hazards; (4) Improve national and homeland security; (5) Reduce public
health risks; (6) More effectively protect and restore healthy coastal
ecosystems; and (7) Enable the sustained use of ocean and coastal
resources.
IOOS's conclusion of no significant impact is based on the best
available scientific data and consultations with underwater acoustic
experts and biologists from NMFS. Special emphasis was placed on the
impacts to marine mammals, endangered species, and essential fish
habitat. IOOS has adopted conservation recommendations from EFH and
project design criteria (PDC), or best management practices, which
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were created to avoid adverse effects to all ESA-listed species and
designated critical habitats from OPR. As implemented, the conservation
recommendations and PDCs would insure that all U.S. IOOS funded
activities (individually and in aggregate) avoid adverse effects to
protected resources.
Dated: July 26, 2016.
Zdenka Willis,
Director, U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System Office.
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