42506 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 140 / Tuesday, July 22, 2014 / Notices 

DATES: Written, telefaxed, or email 

comments must be received on or before 

August 21, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: The permit and related 

documents are available for review 

upon written request or by appointment 

in the following office: 

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. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Courtney Smith or Amy Sloan, 

(301)427–8401. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April 

3, 2014, notice was published in the 

Federal Register (79 FR 18669) that a 

request for a permit to conduct 

commercial or educational photography 

had been submitted by the above-named 

applicant. The requested permit has 

been issued under the authority of the 

Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972, 

as amended (MMPA; 16 U.S.C. 1361 et 

seq.) and the regulations governing the 

taking and importing of marine 

mammals (50 CFR part 216). Section 

104(c)(6) provides for photography for 

educational or commercial purposes 

involving non-endangered and nonthreatened marine mammals in the 

wild. 

Permit No. 18694 authorizes 

commercial/educational underwater 

and vessel-based filming and 

photography of the freshwater harbor 

seal population at Lake Iliamna, Alaska. 

Filming will take place for 

approximately one week between spring 

and fall annually, most likely during the 

seals’ molt period in summer, after 

pupping; up to 280 seals may be 

approached and filmed annually. 

Obtained footage will be part of an 

international documentary film 

presenting the world’s other freshwater 

seal species, to be published in Europe. 

In compliance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 

U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), an final 

determination has been made that the 

activity proposed is categorically 

excluded from the requirement to 

prepare an environmental assessment or 

environmental impact statement. 

Dated: July 17, 2014. 

Julia Harrison, 

Chief, Permits and Conservation Division, 

Office of Protected Resources, National 

Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 2014–17187 Filed 7–21–14; 8:45 am] 

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CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meeting 

TIME AND DATE: Thursday, July 24, 2014, 

10 a.m.–12 p.m. 

PLACE: Room 420, Bethesda Towers, 

4330 East West Highway, Bethesda, 

Maryland. 

STATUS: Commission Meeting—Open to 

the Public 

Matters To Be Considered 

Hearing: Agenda and Priorities for 

Fiscal Years 2015 and 2016 

A live webcast of the Meeting can be 

viewed at www.cpsc.gov/live. 

For a recorded message containing the 

latest agenda information, call (301) 

504–7948. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Todd A. Stevenson, Office of the 

Secretary, U.S. Consumer Product 

Safety Commission, 4330 East West 

Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814, (301) 

504–7923. 

Dated: July 17, 2014. 

Todd A. Stevenson, 

Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2014–17276 Filed 7–18–14; 11:15 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Defense Acquisition Regulations 

System 

Providing Accelerated Payment to 

Small Business Subcontractors 

AGENCY: Defense Acquisition 

Regulations System, Department of 

Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Director, Defense Procurement and 

Acquisition Policy memorandum of July 

14, 2014, DoD is re-instating the 

temporary practice of providing 

accelerated payments to all prime 

contractors. 

DATES: Effective August 1, 2014 through 

December 31, 2016, unless otherwise 

rescinded or extended. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mark Gomersall, phone 571–372–6099. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: OMB 

Memorandum M–14–10, Extension of 

Policy to Provide Accelerated Payment 

to Small Business Subcontractors (July 

10, 2014) has extended the temporary 

policy previously initiated in OMB 

Memorandum M–12–16, Providing 

Prompt Payment to Small Business 

Subcontractors (July 11, 2012), which 

established the administration’s 

initiative to accelerate Federal Payments 

to prime contractors, so that prime 

contractors can, in turn, expedite 

payments to their small business 

subcontractors. The memoranda are 

available at: http://www.whitehouse.

gov/omb/memoranda_default 

This notice promulgates the Director, 

Defense Procurement and Acquisition 

Policy (DPAP) memorandum, Providing 

Accelerated Payment to Small Business 

Subcontracts (July 14, 2014), to 

implement the OMB Memorandum M– 

14–10 within DoD. 

DoD is re-instating the temporary 

practice of providing accelerated 

payments to all prime contractors, 

effective August 1, 2014. DoD 

contracting officers will continue to use 

the clause at FAR 52.232–40, Providing 

Accelerated Payments to Small Business 

Subcontractors, which requires 

contractors, upon receipt of accelerated 

payments from the Government, to 

make accelerated payments to small 

business subcontractors. The Director, 

DPAP memorandum is available at: 

http://www.acq.osd.mil/dpap/policy/

policyvault/USA004292–14–DPAP.pdf. 

Amy G. Williams 

Deputy, Defense Acquisition Regulations 

System. 

[FR Doc. 2014–17061 Filed 7–21–14; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP14–513–000] 

Colombia Pipeline, LLC; Notice of 

Application 

Take notice that on July 1, 2014, 

Colombia Pipeline, LLC (Colombia), 

17086 Interstate Highway 10 West, Suite 

210, San Antonio, Texas 78257, filed an 

application pursuant to section 3 of the 

Natural Gas Act and part 153 of the 

Commission’s regulations, for an order 

authorizing the siting, connection, 

construction, and operation of new 

border crossing pipeline facilities for the 

exportation of up to 1.120 billion cubic 

feet per day of natural gas at the 

International Boundary between the 

United States and Mexico in Webb 

County, Texas, and for a Presidential 

Permit for such facilities, all as more 

fully set forth in the application which 

is on file with the Commission and open 

to public inspection. The filing may also 

be viewed on the web at http://

www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. 

Enter the docket number excluding the 

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