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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Notice of Permit Applications Received
Under the Antarctic Conservation Act
of 1978
National Science Foundation.
ACTION: Notice of permit applications
received.
AGENCY:
The National Science
Foundation (NSF) is required to publish
a notice of permit applications received
to conduct activities regulated under the
Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978.
NSF has published regulations under
the Antarctic Conservation Act in the
Code of Federal Regulations. This is the
required notice of permit applications
received.
SUMMARY:
Interested parties are invited to
submit written data, comments, or
views with respect to this permit
application by March 4, 2021. This
application may be inspected by
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interested parties at the Permit Office,
address below.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be
addressed to Permit Office, Office of
Polar Programs, National Science
Foundation, 2415 Eisenhower Avenue,
Alexandria, Virginia 22314.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Nature McGinn, ACA Permit Officer, at
the above address, 703–292–8030, or
ACApermits@nsf.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
National Science Foundation, as
directed by the Antarctic Conservation
Act of 1978 (Public Law 95–541, 45 CFR
671), as amended by the Antarctic
Science, Tourism and Conservation Act
of 1996, has developed regulations for
the establishment of a permit system for
various activities in Antarctica and
designation of certain animals and
certain geographic areas a requiring
special protection. The regulations
establish such a permit system to
designate Antarctic Specially Protected
Areas.
Application Details
Permit Application: 2021–007
1. Applicant: Lynne Talley, Scripps
Institution of Oceanography, UCSD, La
Jolla, CA 92093–0230.
Activity for Which Permit is Requested
Type, description of activity.
Location
Waste Management. The applicant is
seeking a waste management permit for
waste management activities associated
with the deployment of floating
oceanographic profiling instruments
(Argo floats) in Southern Ocean waters.
The Argo floats would autonomously
collect temperature, salinity, oxygen,
pH, nitrate, fluorescence, backscatter,
and irradiance from 0 to 2000 m, every
10 days. The floats would freely drift
and would likely leave and enter the
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region over the course of their
operational lifetimes. The applicant
proposes to release a maximum of 150
Argo floats south of 60°S during the
permit period. Float dimensions are 75
inches tall by 9 inches diameter,
weighing approximately 65 lbs. Each
float includes 19DD lithium cells, with
approximately 0.198 gm of lithium. The
floats would drift at 1000 m depth and
come to the surface every 10 days. Their
lifetime is approximately 5 years, after
which the batteries would be depleted
and the floats would no longer surface,
but would remain in the ocean and sink
to the ocean floor. The Agro floats
deployed in the Southern Ocean would
be part of a global array. The Argo array
provides operational and research data
that inform nowcast and forecast
services, contributing to saving lives,
avoiding property damage, and
informing the public and government
responses to environmental variability
and change.
Dates of Permitted Activities
February 1, 2021–October 31, 2025.
Erika N. Davis,
Program Specialist, Office of Polar Programs.
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Activities: Comment Request; National
Science Foundation Major Facilities
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National Science Foundation.
Notice and request for
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the
requirement of the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995, the National
Science Foundation (NSF) is providing
opportunity for public comment on
revisions to the NSF Major Facilities
Guide (MFG).
DATES: Written comments should be
received by April 5, 2021 to be assured
of consideration. Comments received
after that date will be considered to the
extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: Written comments
regarding the information collection and
requests for copies of the proposed
information collection request should be
addressed to Suzanne Plimpton, Reports
Clearance Officer, National Science
Foundation, 2415 Eisenhower Ave., Rm.
W 18253, Alexandria, VA 22314, or by
email to splimpto@nsf.gov.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
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Title of Collection: Major Facilities
Guide.
OMB Approval Number: 3145–0239.
Expiration Date of Approval:
September 30, 2022.
Type of Request: Intent to seek
approval to extend with revision an
information collection for three years.
Proposed Project: The primary
purpose of this revision is to provide
expectations for construction schedules
for alignment with good practices,
minimum competencies for project
personnel, and guidance on the content
of Segregation of Funding Plans and
how to scale earned value management
systems (EVMS). The draft version of
the NSF MFG is available on the NSF
website at: https://www.nsf.gov/bfa/lfo/
lfo_documents.jsp.
To facilitate review, a Change Log
with brief comment explanations of the
changes is provided in the guide. NSF
is particularly interested in public
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in Section 4.3 Schedule Development,
Estimating, and Analysis and in Section
4.6.6 Project Personnel and
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‘‘To promote the progress of science;
to advance the national health,
prosperity, and welfare; to secure the
national defense.* * *’’
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• Basic scientific research and
research fundamental to the engineering
process;
• Programs to strengthen scientific
and engineering research potential;
• Science and engineering education
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various fields of science and
engineering;
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information for policy formulation; and
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Among Federal agencies, NSF is a
leader in providing the academic
community with advanced
instrumentation needed to conduct
state-of-the-art research and to educate
the next generation of scientists,
engineers, and technical workers. The
knowledge generated by these tools
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sustains U.S. leadership in science and
engineering (S&E) to drive the U.S.
economy and secure the future. NSF’s
responsibility is to ensure that the
research and education communities
have access to these resources, and to
provide the support needed to utilize
them optimally, and implement timely
upgrades.
The scale of advanced
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research instruments to shared
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by entire communities. The demand for
such instrumentation is very high, and
is growing rapidly, along with the pace
of discovery. For major facilities and
shared infrastructure, the need is
particularly high. This trend is expected
to accelerate in the future as increasing
numbers of researchers and educators
rely on such large facilities,
instruments, and databases to provide
the reach to make the next intellectual
leaps.
NSF currently provides support for
facility construction from two accounts:
The Major Research Equipment and
Facility Construction (MREFC) account,
and the Research and Related Activities
(R&RA) account. The MREFC account,
established in FY 1995, is an agencywide capital account which provides
funding for the construction stage of
major facilities, roughly $100M or
greater, and mid-scale projects in the
range of approximately $20–$100M.
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infrastructure, instrumentation and
equipment that are accessible to a broad
community of researchers and/or
educators. Facilities may be centralized
or may consist of distributed
installations. They may incorporate
large-scale networking or computational
infrastructure, multi-user instruments or
networks of such instruments, or other
infrastructure, instrumentation and
equipment having a major impact on a
broad segment of a scientific or
engineering discipline. Historically,
awards have been made for such diverse
projects as accelerators, telescopes,
research vessels and aircraft, and
geographically distributed but
networked sensors and instrumentation.
The growth and diversification of
large facility projects require that NSF
remain attentive to the ever-changing
issues and challenges inherent in their
planning, construction, operation,
management, and oversight. Most
importantly, dedicated, competent NSF
and awardee staff are needed to manage
and oversee these projects; giving the
attention and oversight that good
practice dictates and that proper
accountability to taxpayers and
Congress demands. To this end, there is
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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION
Notice of Permit Applications Received Under the Antarctic
Conservation Act of 1978
AGENCY: National Science Foundation.
ACTION: Notice of permit applications received.
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SUMMARY: The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required to publish a
notice of permit applications received to conduct activities regulated
under the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. NSF has published
regulations under the Antarctic Conservation Act in the Code of Federal
Regulations. This is the required notice of permit applications
received.
DATES: Interested parties are invited to submit written data, comments,
or views with respect to this permit application by March 4, 2021. This
application may be inspected by interested parties at the Permit
Office, address below.
ADDRESSES: Comments should be addressed to Permit Office, Office of
Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, 2415 Eisenhower Avenue,
Alexandria, Virginia 22314.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nature McGinn, ACA Permit Officer, at
the above address, 703-292-8030, or [email protected].
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The National Science Foundation, as directed
by the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978 (Public Law 95-541, 45 CFR
671), as amended by the Antarctic Science, Tourism and Conservation Act
of 1996, has developed regulations for the establishment of a permit
system for various activities in Antarctica and designation of certain
animals and certain geographic areas a requiring special protection.
The regulations establish such a permit system to designate Antarctic
Specially Protected Areas.
Application Details
Permit Application: 2021-007
1. Applicant: Lynne Talley, Scripps Institution of Oceanography,
UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093-0230.
Activity for Which Permit is Requested
Type, description of activity.
Location
Waste Management. The applicant is seeking a waste management
permit for waste management activities associated with the deployment
of floating oceanographic profiling instruments (Argo floats) in
Southern Ocean waters. The Argo floats would autonomously collect
temperature, salinity, oxygen, pH, nitrate, fluorescence, backscatter,
and irradiance from 0 to 2000 m, every 10 days. The floats would freely
drift and would likely leave and enter the
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region over the course of their operational lifetimes. The applicant
proposes to release a maximum of 150 Argo floats south of 60[deg]S
during the permit period. Float dimensions are 75 inches tall by 9
inches diameter, weighing approximately 65 lbs. Each float includes
19DD lithium cells, with approximately 0.198 gm of lithium. The floats
would drift at 1000 m depth and come to the surface every 10 days.
Their lifetime is approximately 5 years, after which the batteries
would be depleted and the floats would no longer surface, but would
remain in the ocean and sink to the ocean floor. The Agro floats
deployed in the Southern Ocean would be part of a global array. The
Argo array provides operational and research data that inform nowcast
and forecast services, contributing to saving lives, avoiding property
damage, and informing the public and government responses to
environmental variability and change.
Dates of Permitted Activities
February 1, 2021-October 31, 2025.
Erika N. Davis,
Program Specialist, Office of Polar Programs.
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