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Thomas Murray,
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[FWS–R4–ES–2019–N069;
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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill 2019 Draft
Supplemental Restoration Plan;
Mississippi Trustee Implementation
Group
Department of the Interior.
Notice of availability; request
for public comments.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
In accordance with the Oil
Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA), the
National Environmental Policy Act
(NEPA), the Deepwater Horizon Oil
Spill Final Programmatic Damage
Assessment and Restoration Plan and
Final Programmatic Environmental
Impact Statement (Final PDARP/PEIS),
Record of Decision, and Consent Decree,
the Federal and State natural resource
trustee agencies for the Mississippi
Trustee Implementation Group
(Mississippi TIG) have prepared a
Mississippi Trustee Implementation
Group 2019 Draft Supplemental
Restoration Plan: Grand Bay Land
Acquisition and Habitat Management
(SRP) to evaluate funding additional
land acquisition from willing sellers and
habitat management within the Grand
Bay Land Acquisition and Habitat
Management project (Grand Bay Project)
footprint. The Mississippi TIG originally
evaluated and selected the Grand Bay
Project as part of the Mississippi Trustee
Implementation Group 2016–2017
Restoration Plan/Environmental
Assessment (2016–2017 RP/EA). The
SRP provides for an additional
$10,000,000 for the Grand Bay Project.
The Grand Bay Project would continue
the process of conserving and restoring
wetlands, coastal, and nearshore
habitats injured as a result of the
Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which
occurred on or about April 20, 2010, in
the Gulf of Mexico. We invite comments
on the draft SRP.
DATES: Submitting Comments: You must
submit comments on the draft SRP on
or before August 1, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Obtaining Documents: You
may download the draft SRP from any
of the following websites:
• https://
www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov.
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• https://www.doi.gov/
deepwaterhorizon/adminrecord.
Alternatively, you may request a CD
of the SRP (see FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT).
Submitting Comments: You may
submit comments on the draft SRP by
one of the following methods:
• Via the Web: https://
www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov/
restoration-areas/mississippi.
• Via U.S. Mail: U.S. Fish and
Wildlife Service, P.O. Box 29649,
Atlanta, GA 30345. In order to be
considered, mailed comments must be
postmarked on or before the comment
deadline given in DATES.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nanciann Regalado, via email at
nanciann_regalado@fws.gov, via
telephone at 678–296–6805, or via the
Federal Relay Service at 800–877–8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Introduction
In accordance with the Oil Pollution
Act of 1990 (OPA), the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the
Final PDARP/PEIS, Record of Decision,
and Consent Decree, the Federal and
State natural resource trustee agencies
for the Mississippi TIG have prepared a
SRP to evaluate funding additional land
acquisition from willing sellers and
habitat management within the Grand
Bay Land Acquisition and Habitat
Management project (Grand Bay Project)
footprint. The Mississippi TIG originally
evaluated and selected the Grand Bay
Project as part of the 2016–2017 RP/EA.
The SRP provides for an additional
$10,000,000 for the Grand Bay Project.
The Grand Bay Project would continue
the process of conserving and restoring
wetlands, coastal, and nearshore
habitats injured as a result of the
Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which
occurred on or about April 20, 2010, in
the Gulf of Mexico.
The Mississippi TIG evaluated and
selected several restoration projects
from a reasonable range of alternatives
described in the 2016–2017 RP/EA.
Projects selected for implementation
include the Grand Bay Project. As
described in Section 3.4 of the 2016–
2017 RP/EA, the Mississippi TIG
allocated $6 million to initiate the
acquisition and to commence
management in nearshore coastal and
wetland habitats within the Grand Bay
Project boundary, which includes the
acquisition boundaries of the Grand Bay
National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge), the
Grand Bay National Estuarine Research
Reserve (NERR), and the Grand Bay
Savanna Coastal Preserve (Preserve).
The final 2016–2017 RP/EA can be
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www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov/
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Background
On April 20, 2010, the mobile
offshore drilling unit Deepwater
Horizon, which was being used to drill
a well for BP Exploration and
Production, Inc. (BP), in the Macondo
prospect (Mississippi Canyon 252—
MC252), experienced a significant
explosion, fire, and subsequent sinking
in the Gulf of Mexico, resulting in an
unprecedented volume of oil and other
discharges from the rig and from the
wellhead on the seabed. The Deepwater
Horizon oil spill is the largest oil spill
in U.S. history, discharging millions of
barrels of oil over a period of 87 days.
In addition, well over 1 million gallons
of dispersants were applied to the
waters of the spill area in an attempt to
disperse the spilled oil. An
undetermined amount of natural gas
was also released into the environment
as a result of the spill.
The Trustees conducted the natural
resource damage assessment (NRDA) for
the Deepwater Horizon oil spill under
the Oil Pollution Act 1990 (OPA; 33
U.S.C. 2701 et seq.). Pursuant to OPA,
Federal and State agencies act as
trustees on behalf of the public to assess
natural resource injuries and losses and
to determine the actions required to
compensate the public for those injuries
and losses. The OPA further instructs
the designated trustees to develop and
implement a plan for the restoration,
rehabilitation, replacement, or
acquisition of the equivalent of the
injured natural resources under their
trusteeship, including the loss of use
and services from those resources from
the time of injury until the time of
restoration to baseline (the resource
quality and conditions that would exist
if the spill had not occurred) is
complete.
The Deepwater Horizon Trustees are:
• U.S. Department of the Interior
(DOI), as represented by the National
Park Service,
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and
Bureau of Land Management;
• National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration (NOAA), on behalf of
the U.S. Department of Commerce;
• U.S. Department of Agriculture
(USDA);
• U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA);
• State of Louisiana Coastal
Protection and Restoration Authority,
Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office,
Department of Environmental Quality,
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Department of Wildlife and Fisheries,
and Department of Natural Resources;
• State of Mississippi Department of
Environmental Quality (MDEQ);
• State of Alabama Department of
Conservation and Natural Resources and
Geological Survey of Alabama;
• State of Florida Department of
Environmental Protection and Fish and
Wildlife Conservation Commission; and
• State of Texas: Texas Parks and
Wildlife Department, Texas General
Land Office, and Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality.
On April 4, 2016, the United States
District Court for the Eastern District of
Louisiana entered a Consent Decree
resolving civil claims by the DWH oil
spill trustees against BP Exploration and
Production Inc. (BP) arising from the
DWH oil spill: United States v. BPXP et
al., Civ. No. 10–4536, centralized in
MDL 2179, In re: Oil Spill by the Oil Rig
‘‘Deepwater Horizon’’ in the Gulf of
Mexico, on April 20, 2010 (E.D. La.)
(https://www.justice.gov/enrd/deepwaterhorizon). Pursuant to that Consent
Decree, restoration projects in
Mississippi are now selected and
implemented by the Mississippi TIG.
The Mississippi TIG is composed of one
State and four Federal Trustees: MDEQ,
DOI, NOAA, USDA, and EPA.
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Overview of the Mississippi TIG SRP
The SRP is being released in
accordance with OPA NRDA regulations
found in the Code of Federal
Regulations (CFR) at 15 CFR part 990,
NEPA, the Consent Decree, and the
Final PDARP/PEIS.
The MS TIG proposes to allocate an
additional $10 million in funding in this
Draft SRP to support further acquisition
and/or habitat management and project
success monitoring within the boundary
of the Grand Bay Project originally
selected in the 2016–2017 RP/EA.
The proposal is intended to continue
the process of using Deepwater Horizon
restoration funding to restore natural
resources injured or lost as a result of
the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Details
are provided in the SRP. Additional
restoration planning for the Mississippi
Restoration Area will continue.
Next Steps
After the public comment period
ends, the Trustees will consider and
address the comments received before
issuing a final SRP.
Public Availability of Comments
Before including your address, phone
number, email address, or other
personal identifying information in your
comment, you should be aware that
your entire comment—including your
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personal identifying information—may
be made publicly available at any time.
While you can ask us in your comment
to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we
cannot guarantee that we will be able to
do so.
Administrative Record
The documents comprising the
Administrative Record for this SRP can
be viewed electronically at https://
www.doi.gov/deepwaterhorizon/
adminrecord.
Authority
The authority of this action is the Oil
Pollution Act of 1990 (33 U.S.C. 2701 et
seq.) and its implementing Natural
Resource Damage Assessment
regulations found at 15 CFR part 990
and the National Environmental Policy
Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.).
Mary Josie Blanchard,
Department of the Interior, Director of Gulf
of Mexico Restoration.
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INTERNATIONAL TRADE
COMMISSION
[Investigation No. 337–TA–1165]
Certain Barcode Scanners, Scan
Engines, Products Containing the
Same, and Components Thereof;
Institution of Investigation
U.S. International Trade
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
Notice is hereby given that a
complaint was filed with the U.S.
International Trade Commission on May
31, 2019, under section 337 of the Tariff
Act of 1930, as amended, on behalf of
Honeywell International, Inc. of Morris
Plains, New Jersey, Hand Held Products,
Inc. of Fort Mill, South Carolina, and
Metrologic Instruments, Inc. of Fort
Mill, South Carolina. Supplements to
the Complaint were filed on June 7, 17,
and 18, 2019. The complaint, as
supplemented, alleges violations of
section 337 based upon the importation
into the United States, the sale for
importation, and the sale within the
United States after importation of
certain barcode scanners, scan engines,
products containing the same, and
components thereof by reason of
infringement of certain claims of U.S.
Patent No. 9,465,970 (‘‘the ’970 patent’’);
U.S. Patent No. 8,978,985 (‘‘the ’985
patent’’); U.S. Patent No. 7,148,923 (‘‘the
’923 patent’’); U.S. Patent No. 7,527,206
SUMMARY:
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(‘‘the ’206 patent’’); U.S. Patent No.
9,659,199 (‘‘the ’199 patent’’); and U.S.
Patent No. 7,159,783 (‘‘the ’783 patent’’).
The complaint further alleges that an
industry in the United States exists as
required by the applicable Federal
Statute.
The complainants request that the
Commission institute an investigation
and, after the investigation, issue a
limited exclusion order and cease and
desist orders.
ADDRESSES: The complaint, except for
any confidential information contained
therein, is available for inspection
during official business hours (8:45 a.m.
to 5:15 p.m.) in the Office of the
Secretary, U.S. International Trade
Commission, 500 E Street SW, Room
112, Washington, DC 20436, telephone
(202) 205–2000. Hearing impaired
individuals are advised that information
on this matter can be obtained by
contacting the Commission’s TDD
terminal on (202) 205–1810. Persons
with mobility impairments who will
need special assistance in gaining access
to the Commission should contact the
Office of the Secretary at (202) 205–
2000. General information concerning
the Commission may also be obtained
by accessing its internet server at
https://www.usitc.gov. The public
record for this investigation may be
viewed on the Commission’s electronic
docket (EDIS) at https://edis.usitc.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Katherine Hiner, Office of the Secretary,
Docket Services Division, U.S.
International Trade Commission,
telephone (202) 205–1802.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Authority: The authority for
institution of this investigation is
contained in section 337 of the Tariff
Act of 1930, as amended, 19 U.S.C.
1337, and in section 210.10 of the
Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedure, 19 CFR 210.10 (2019).
Scope of Investigation: Having
considered the complaint, the U.S.
International Trade Commission, on
June 26, 2019, ordered that—
(1) Pursuant to subsection (b) of
section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, as
amended, an investigation be instituted
to determine whether there is a
violation of subsection (a)(1)(B) of
section 337 in the importation into the
United States, the sale for importation,
or the sale within the United States after
importation of certain products
identified in paragraph (2) by reason of
infringement of one or more of claims 1,
2, 4–9, 13–21, 22, 23, 25–30, 34–42, 43,
44, 46–51, 55–63, and 85 of the ’970
patent; claims 1, 2, 4–9, 12, 13, 15–21,
22, and 23–27 of the ’985 patent; claims
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
[FWS-R4-ES-2019-N069; FVHC98220410150-XXX-FF04H00000]
Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill 2019 Draft Supplemental Restoration
Plan; Mississippi Trustee Implementation Group
AGENCY: Department of the Interior.
ACTION: Notice of availability; request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA), the
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Deepwater Horizon Oil
Spill Final Programmatic Damage Assessment and Restoration Plan and
Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (Final PDARP/PEIS),
Record of Decision, and Consent Decree, the Federal and State natural
resource trustee agencies for the Mississippi Trustee Implementation
Group (Mississippi TIG) have prepared a Mississippi Trustee
Implementation Group 2019 Draft Supplemental Restoration Plan: Grand
Bay Land Acquisition and Habitat Management (SRP) to evaluate funding
additional land acquisition from willing sellers and habitat management
within the Grand Bay Land Acquisition and Habitat Management project
(Grand Bay Project) footprint. The Mississippi TIG originally evaluated
and selected the Grand Bay Project as part of the Mississippi Trustee
Implementation Group 2016-2017 Restoration Plan/Environmental
Assessment (2016-2017 RP/EA). The SRP provides for an additional
$10,000,000 for the Grand Bay Project. The Grand Bay Project would
continue the process of conserving and restoring wetlands, coastal, and
nearshore habitats injured as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil
spill, which occurred on or about April 20, 2010, in the Gulf of
Mexico. We invite comments on the draft SRP.
DATES: Submitting Comments: You must submit comments on the draft SRP
on or before August 1, 2019.
ADDRESSES: Obtaining Documents: You may download the draft SRP from any
of the following websites:
https://www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov.
https://www.doi.gov/deepwaterhorizon/adminrecord.
Alternatively, you may request a CD of the SRP (see FOR FURTHER
INFORMATION CONTACT).
Submitting Comments: You may submit comments on the draft SRP by
one of the following methods:
Via the Web: https://www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov/restoration-areas/mississippi.
Via U.S. Mail: U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, P.O. Box
29649, Atlanta, GA 30345. In order to be considered, mailed comments
must be postmarked on or before the comment deadline given in DATES.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nanciann Regalado, via email at
[email protected], via telephone at 678-296-6805, or via the
Federal Relay Service at 800-877-8339.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Introduction
In accordance with the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA), the
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the Final PDARP/PEIS, Record
of Decision, and Consent Decree, the Federal and State natural resource
trustee agencies for the Mississippi TIG have prepared a SRP to
evaluate funding additional land acquisition from willing sellers and
habitat management within the Grand Bay Land Acquisition and Habitat
Management project (Grand Bay Project) footprint. The Mississippi TIG
originally evaluated and selected the Grand Bay Project as part of the
2016-2017 RP/EA. The SRP provides for an additional $10,000,000 for the
Grand Bay Project. The Grand Bay Project would continue the process of
conserving and restoring wetlands, coastal, and nearshore habitats
injured as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which occurred
on or about April 20, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico.
The Mississippi TIG evaluated and selected several restoration
projects from a reasonable range of alternatives described in the 2016-
2017 RP/EA. Projects selected for implementation include the Grand Bay
Project. As described in Section 3.4 of the 2016-2017 RP/EA, the
Mississippi TIG allocated $6 million to initiate the acquisition and to
commence management in nearshore coastal and wetland habitats within
the Grand Bay Project boundary, which includes the acquisition
boundaries of the Grand Bay National Wildlife Refuge (Refuge), the
Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve (NERR), and the Grand Bay
Savanna Coastal Preserve (Preserve). The final 2016-2017 RP/EA can be
found at https://www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov/2017/07/mississippi-trustee-implementation-group-releases-first-restoration-plan.
Background
On April 20, 2010, the mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater
Horizon, which was being used to drill a well for BP Exploration and
Production, Inc. (BP), in the Macondo prospect (Mississippi Canyon
252--MC252), experienced a significant explosion, fire, and subsequent
sinking in the Gulf of Mexico, resulting in an unprecedented volume of
oil and other discharges from the rig and from the wellhead on the
seabed. The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is the largest oil spill in
U.S. history, discharging millions of barrels of oil over a period of
87 days. In addition, well over 1 million gallons of dispersants were
applied to the waters of the spill area in an attempt to disperse the
spilled oil. An undetermined amount of natural gas was also released
into the environment as a result of the spill.
The Trustees conducted the natural resource damage assessment
(NRDA) for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill under the Oil Pollution Act
1990 (OPA; 33 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.). Pursuant to OPA, Federal and State
agencies act as trustees on behalf of the public to assess natural
resource injuries and losses and to determine the actions required to
compensate the public for those injuries and losses. The OPA further
instructs the designated trustees to develop and implement a plan for
the restoration, rehabilitation, replacement, or acquisition of the
equivalent of the injured natural resources under their trusteeship,
including the loss of use and services from those resources from the
time of injury until the time of restoration to baseline (the resource
quality and conditions that would exist if the spill had not occurred)
is complete.
The Deepwater Horizon Trustees are:
U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI), as represented by
the National Park Service,
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and Bureau of Land Management;
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), on
behalf of the U.S. Department of Commerce;
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA);
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA);
State of Louisiana Coastal Protection and Restoration
Authority, Oil Spill Coordinator's Office, Department of Environmental
Quality,
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Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, and Department of Natural
Resources;
State of Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality
(MDEQ);
State of Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural
Resources and Geological Survey of Alabama;
State of Florida Department of Environmental Protection
and Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission; and
State of Texas: Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, Texas
General Land Office, and Texas Commission on Environmental Quality.
On April 4, 2016, the United States District Court for the Eastern
District of Louisiana entered a Consent Decree resolving civil claims
by the DWH oil spill trustees against BP Exploration and Production
Inc. (BP) arising from the DWH oil spill: United States v. BPXP et al.,
Civ. No. 10-4536, centralized in MDL 2179, In re: Oil Spill by the Oil
Rig ``Deepwater Horizon'' in the Gulf of Mexico, on April 20, 2010
(E.D. La.) (https://www.justice.gov/enrd/deepwater-horizon). Pursuant to
that Consent Decree, restoration projects in Mississippi are now
selected and implemented by the Mississippi TIG. The Mississippi TIG is
composed of one State and four Federal Trustees: MDEQ, DOI, NOAA, USDA,
and EPA.
Overview of the Mississippi TIG SRP
The SRP is being released in accordance with OPA NRDA regulations
found in the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) at 15 CFR part 990,
NEPA, the Consent Decree, and the Final PDARP/PEIS.
The MS TIG proposes to allocate an additional $10 million in
funding in this Draft SRP to support further acquisition and/or habitat
management and project success monitoring within the boundary of the
Grand Bay Project originally selected in the 2016-2017 RP/EA.
The proposal is intended to continue the process of using Deepwater
Horizon restoration funding to restore natural resources injured or
lost as a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Details are
provided in the SRP. Additional restoration planning for the
Mississippi Restoration Area will continue.
Next Steps
After the public comment period ends, the Trustees will consider
and address the comments received before issuing a final SRP.
Public Availability of Comments
Before including your address, phone number, email address, or
other personal identifying information in your comment, you should be
aware that your entire comment--including your personal identifying
information--may be made publicly available at any time. While you can
ask us in your comment to withhold your personal identifying
information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be
able to do so.
Administrative Record
The documents comprising the Administrative Record for this SRP can
be viewed electronically at https://www.doi.gov/deepwaterhorizon/adminrecord.
Authority
The authority of this action is the Oil Pollution Act of 1990 (33
U.S.C. 2701 et seq.) and its implementing Natural Resource Damage
Assessment regulations found at 15 CFR part 990 and the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.).
Mary Josie Blanchard,
Department of the Interior, Director of Gulf of Mexico Restoration.
[FR Doc. 2019-14074 Filed 7-1-19; 8:45 am]
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