National Telecommunications and Information Administration; Notice of Intent To Prepare a Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement and Conduct Scoping for the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network, 44556-44557 [2017-20408]

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Firm address 19:45 Sep 22, 2017 Product(s) 125 Samuel Barnett Boulevard, New Bedford, MA 02745. 21 Quinton Street, Warwick, RI 02888. 9/12/2017 The firm manufactures custom, lighted signs for both interior and exterior applications. 9/15/2017 12300 6th Street Southwest, Cedar Rapids, IA 52404. 9/19/2017 The firm manufactures high-quality, energy-efficient, illuminated signs and Dynamic Message Signs which are illuminated, digital signs mainly used by Departments of Transportation. The firm manufactures industrial molds. Any party having a substantial interest in these proceedings may request a public hearing on the matter. A written request for a hearing must be submitted to the Trade Adjustment Assistance for Firms Division, Room 71030, Economic Development Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230, no later than ten (10) calendar days following publication of this notice. These petitions are received pursuant to section 251 of the Trade Act 1974, as amended. 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National Telecommunications and Information Administration; Notice of Intent To Prepare a Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement and Conduct Scoping for the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network [FR Doc. 2017–20390 Filed 9–22–17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–WH–P PO 00000 First Responder Network Authority [Docket Number 170912896–7896–01] RIN 0660–XC037 First Responder Network Authority, National AGENCY: Frm 00002 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\25SEN1.SGM 25SEN1 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 184 / Monday, September 25, 2017 / Notices Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce. ACTION: Notice of intent. The First Responder Network Authority (‘‘FirstNet’’) announces its intent to prepare a Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (‘‘PEIS’’) and conduct scoping for the Nationwide Public Safety Broadband Network. The Supplemental PEIS will address the processes FirstNet will follow for National Environmental Policy Act (‘‘NEPA’’) compliance and assessing potential impacts at the sitespecific scale. DATES: The scoping period for this notice will begin on September 25, 2017 and will end on October 24, 2017. Submit comments on or before October 24, 2017. ADDRESSES: The public is invited to submit written comments to this Notice. Written comments may be submitted electronically via email to PEIScomments@firstnet.gov or by mail (to the address listed in FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT). Comments received will be made part of the public record and may be posted to FirstNet’s Web site (www.firstnet.gov) without change. Comments should be machine readable and should not be copyprotected. All personally identifiable information (e.g., name, address) voluntarily submitted by the commenter may be publicly accessible. Do not submit confidential business information or otherwise sensitive or protected information. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amanda Goebel Pereira, NEPA Coordinator, First Responder Network Authority, National Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, M/S 243, Reston, VA 20192. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2012 (Pub. L. 112–96, Title VI, 126 Stat. 256 (codified at 47 U.S.C. 1401 et seq.)) (the ‘‘Act’’) created and authorized FirstNet to take all actions necessary to ensure the building, deployment, and operation of an interoperable, nationwide public safety broadband network (‘‘NPSBN’’) based on a single, national network architecture. The Act meets a longstanding and critical national infrastructure need, to create a single, nationwide network that will, for the first time, allow police officers, fire fighters, emergency medical service professionals, and other public safety entities to effectively communicate with asabaliauskas on DSKBBXCHB2PROD with NOTICES SUMMARY: VerDate Sep<11>2014 19:45 Sep 22, 2017 Jkt 241001 each other across agencies and jurisdictions. The NPSBN is intended to enhance the ability of the public safety community to perform more reliably, effectively, and safely; increase situational awareness during an emergency; and improve the ability of the public safety community to effectively engage in those critical activities. The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321–4347) (‘‘NEPA’’) requires federal agencies to undertake an assessment of environmental effects of their proposed actions prior to making a final decision and implementing the action. NEPA requirements apply to any federal project, decision, or action that may have a significant impact on the quality of the human environment. NEPA also establishes the Council on Environmental Quality (‘‘CEQ’’), which issued regulations implementing the procedural provisions of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500–1508). Due to the geographic scope of FirstNet (all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and five territories) and the diversity of ecosystems potentially traversed by the project, FirstNet has prepared, and is in the process of publishing, five regional Final PEISs. The five Final PEISs are divided into the East, Central, West, South, and NonContiguous Regions, and each analyzes potential impacts of the deployment and operation of the NPSBN on the natural and human environment based on impact significance criteria developed at the programmatic level. FirstNet has also recently prepared and published for public and agency comment a draft document outlining its revised Procedures for Implementing the National Environmental Policy Act, the public comment period for which ended July 24, 2017. Now that FirstNet has selected a network partner for building out the NPSBN and the draft revised implementing procedures have been published, a Supplemental PEIS will be prepared that will (1) incorporate the final version of FirstNet’s revised implementing procedures and will assess any changes to potential impacts to the human or natural environment at the programmatic level as a result of those revised procedures and (2) will describe the processes FirstNet will follow in accordance with NEPA to assess potential impacts at the sitespecific scale using impact significance criteria to be developed using a resource-appropriate framework. PO 00000 Frm 00003 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 44557 Dated: September 20, 2017. Amanda Goebel Pereira, NEPA Coordinator, First Responder Network Authority. [FR Doc. 2017–20408 Filed 9–22–17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510–TL–P DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE Foreign-Trade Zones Board [B–58–2017] Foreign-Trade Zone (FTZ) 23—Erie County, New York; Notification of Proposed Production Activity; Cummins, Inc.; (Diesel and Gas Engines); Lakewood and Jamestown, New York The Erie County Industrial Development Agency, grantee of FTZ 23, submitted a notification of proposed production activity to the FTZ Board on behalf of Cummins, Inc. (Cummins), located within Subzone 23D in Lakewood and Jamestown, New York. The notification conforming to the requirements of the regulations of the FTZ Board (15 CFR 400.22) was received on August 28, 2017. The Cummins facility is used for the production of diesel and gas engines. Pursuant to 15 CFR 400.14(b), FTZ activity would be limited to the specific foreign-status materials and components and specific finished products described in the submitted notification (as described below) and subsequently authorized by the FTZ Board. Production under FTZ procedures could exempt Cummins from customs duty payments on the foreign-status components used in export production. On its domestic sales, for the foreignstatus materials/components noted below, Cummins would be able to choose the duty rates during customs entry procedures that apply to: Automotive diesel and natural gas engines; industrial diesel engines; stationary generator diesel engines; and, recreational marine diesel engines (duty free to 2.5%). Cummins would be able to avoid duty on foreign-status components which become scrap/waste. Customs duties also could possibly be deferred or reduced on foreign-status production equipment. The components and materials sourced from abroad include: Accumulators; adapters (air inlet/filter head/hydraulic pump/spline); cylinder blocks; steel and iron braces (bracket/ fuel pump/gear housing/tube); brackets (belt tensioner/breather/electronic control module/lifting/shipping/transfer pump); main bearing caps; steel injector clamps; ignition coils; exhaust collars; E:\FR\FM\25SEN1.SGM 25SEN1

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[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 184 (Monday, September 25, 2017)]
[Notices]
[Pages 44556-44557]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2017-20408]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

First Responder Network Authority

[Docket Number 170912896-7896-01]
RIN 0660-XC037


National Telecommunications and Information Administration; 
Notice of Intent To Prepare a Supplemental Programmatic Environmental 
Impact Statement and Conduct Scoping for the Nationwide Public Safety 
Broadband Network

AGENCY: First Responder Network Authority, National

[[Page 44557]]

Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of intent.

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SUMMARY: The First Responder Network Authority (``FirstNet'') announces 
its intent to prepare a Supplemental Programmatic Environmental Impact 
Statement (``PEIS'') and conduct scoping for the Nationwide Public 
Safety Broadband Network. The Supplemental PEIS will address the 
processes FirstNet will follow for National Environmental Policy Act 
(``NEPA'') compliance and assessing potential impacts at the site-
specific scale.

DATES: The scoping period for this notice will begin on September 25, 
2017 and will end on October 24, 2017. Submit comments on or before 
October 24, 2017.

ADDRESSES: The public is invited to submit written comments to this 
Notice. Written comments may be submitted electronically via email to 
PEIScomments@firstnet.gov or by mail (to the address listed in FOR 
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT). Comments received will be made part of 
the public record and may be posted to FirstNet's Web site 
(www.firstnet.gov) without change. Comments should be machine readable 
and should not be copy-protected. All personally identifiable 
information (e.g., name, address) voluntarily submitted by the 
commenter may be publicly accessible. Do not submit confidential 
business information or otherwise sensitive or protected information.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Amanda Goebel Pereira, NEPA 
Coordinator, First Responder Network Authority, National 
Telecommunications and Information Administration, U.S. Department of 
Commerce, 12201 Sunrise Valley Drive, M/S 243, Reston, VA 20192.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation 
Act of 2012 (Pub. L. 112-96, Title VI, 126 Stat. 256 (codified at 47 
U.S.C. 1401 et seq.)) (the ``Act'') created and authorized FirstNet to 
take all actions necessary to ensure the building, deployment, and 
operation of an interoperable, nationwide public safety broadband 
network (``NPSBN'') based on a single, national network architecture. 
The Act meets a longstanding and critical national infrastructure need, 
to create a single, nationwide network that will, for the first time, 
allow police officers, fire fighters, emergency medical service 
professionals, and other public safety entities to effectively 
communicate with each other across agencies and jurisdictions. The 
NPSBN is intended to enhance the ability of the public safety community 
to perform more reliably, effectively, and safely; increase situational 
awareness during an emergency; and improve the ability of the public 
safety community to effectively engage in those critical activities.
    The National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321-4347) 
(``NEPA'') requires federal agencies to undertake an assessment of 
environmental effects of their proposed actions prior to making a final 
decision and implementing the action. NEPA requirements apply to any 
federal project, decision, or action that may have a significant impact 
on the quality of the human environment. NEPA also establishes the 
Council on Environmental Quality (``CEQ''), which issued regulations 
implementing the procedural provisions of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500-
1508).
    Due to the geographic scope of FirstNet (all 50 states, the 
District of Columbia, and five territories) and the diversity of 
ecosystems potentially traversed by the project, FirstNet has prepared, 
and is in the process of publishing, five regional Final PEISs. The 
five Final PEISs are divided into the East, Central, West, South, and 
Non-Contiguous Regions, and each analyzes potential impacts of the 
deployment and operation of the NPSBN on the natural and human 
environment based on impact significance criteria developed at the 
programmatic level. FirstNet has also recently prepared and published 
for public and agency comment a draft document outlining its revised 
Procedures for Implementing the National Environmental Policy Act, the 
public comment period for which ended July 24, 2017.
    Now that FirstNet has selected a network partner for building out 
the NPSBN and the draft revised implementing procedures have been 
published, a Supplemental PEIS will be prepared that will (1) 
incorporate the final version of FirstNet's revised implementing 
procedures and will assess any changes to potential impacts to the 
human or natural environment at the programmatic level as a result of 
those revised procedures and (2) will describe the processes FirstNet 
will follow in accordance with NEPA to assess potential impacts at the 
site-specific scale using impact significance criteria to be developed 
using a resource-appropriate framework.

    Dated: September 20, 2017.
Amanda Goebel Pereira,
NEPA Coordinator, First Responder Network Authority.
[FR Doc. 2017-20408 Filed 9-22-17; 8:45 am]
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