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by January 7, 2013. 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. 

Dated: November 29, 2012. 

Alexandra M. Lord, 

Acting Chief, National Register of Historic 

Places/National Historic Landmarks Program. 

ARIZONA 

Pima County 

Owen Homesite, (Tucson Health Seekers 

MPS) 1415 E. Prince Rd., Tucson, 

12001142 

Tucson Medical Center, (Tucson Health 

Seekers MPS), 5301 E. Grant Rd., Tucson, 

12001143 

CALIFORNIA 

Napa County 

Monte Vista and Diamond Mountain 

Vineyard, 2121 Diamond Mountain Rd., 

Calistoga, 12001144 

GEORGIA 

Lumpkin County 

Blood Mountain Trail Shelter, Blood 

Mountain Wilderness Area, Blairsville, 

12001145 

ILLINOIS 

Williamson County 

Marion Veterans Administration Hospital 

Historic District, (United States Second 

Generation Veterans Hospitals MPS), 2401 

W. Main St., Marion, 12001146 

INDIANA 

Allen County 

Lafayette Place Historic District, (Historic 

Residential Suburbs in the United States, 

1830–1960 MPS), Roughly bounded by S. 

Calhoun & Lafayette Sts., McKinnie & Pettit 

Aves., Fort Wayne, 12001147 

Floyd County 

Georgetown Historic District, Roughly 

bounded by Georgetown-Greenville Rd., 

Canal Ln., Walnut St. & unnamed alley, 

Georgetown, 12001148 

Grant County 

Meshingomesia Cemetery and Indian School 

Historic District, 3820 Co. Rd. 600 N., 

Jalapa, 12001149 

Lake County 

Lake County Sanatorium, Nurse’s Home and 

Superintendent’s Residence (Boundary 

Increase), 425 W. 93rd Ave., Crown Point, 

12001150 

Marshall County 

Bremen Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station, 

Jct. of Douglas Rd. & IN 106, Bremen, 

12001151 

Bremen Water Tower, W. side of 100 blk. of 

S. Jackson St., Bremen, 12001152 

Polk Township District No. 2 School, 18998 

W. 2A Rd., Walkerton, 12001153 

Miami County 

Peru High School Historic District, (Indiana’s 

Public Common and High Schools MPS), 

80 W. 6th St., Peru, 12001154 

Ripley County 

Milan Masonic Lodge No. 31, 312 Main St., 

Milan, 12001155 

NORTH CAROLINA 

Currituck County 

Coinjock Colored School, 4358 Caratoke 

Hwy., Coinjock, 12001156 

Durham County 

Biddle, Mary Duke, Estate, 1044 & 1050 W. 

Forest Hills Blvd., Durham, 12001157 

Hertford County 

Uptown Suburbs Historic District, Roughly 

bounded by W. Lexington & Sunset Aves., 

Westchester Dr., Johnson & W. Ray Sts., 

High Point, 12001158 

WASHINGTON 

Clark County 

Clark County Poor Farm—Southwestern 

Washington Experiment Station, 1919 NE. 

78th St., Vancouver, 12001159 

Mason County 

Mason County Courthouse, 419 N. 4th St., 

Shelton, 12001160 

San Juan County 

Donohue, Michael and Myra, House, 1159 N. 

Beach Rd., Eastsound, 12001161 

A request for removal has been made for 

the following resources: 

WISCONSIN 

Rock County 

Leedle Mill Truss Bridge, SR 1, Evansville, 

80000398 

KANSAS 

Ellis County 

Krueger Building, 811 Fort St., Hays, 

06000111 

Saline County 

Brookville Hotel, Perry St., Brookville, 

72000525 

[FR Doc. 2012–30758 Filed 12–20–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4312–51–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

[Docket No. BOEM–2012–0079] 

Research Lease for Renewable Energy 

on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) 

Offshore Virginia, Request for 

Competitive Interest (RFCI) 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management (BOEM), Interior. 

ACTION: Public Notice of an Unsolicited 

Request for an OCS Research Lease; 

Request for Competitive Interest; and 

Request for Public Comment. 

SUMMARY: The purpose of this public 

notice is to: (1) Describe the proposal 

submitted to BOEM by the 

Commonwealth of Virginia, Department 

of Mines Minerals and Energy (DMME) 

to acquire an OCS lease for wind energy 

research activities; (2) solicit public 

input regarding the proposal, its 

potential environmental consequences, 

and the use of the area in which the 

proposed project would be located; and 

(3) solicit indications of competitive 

interest for a research lease in the area 

identified by DMME for activities that 

would support future, potential 

commercial wind development. 

On June 1, 2012, BOEM received an 

unsolicited request for a research lease 

from DMME. The objective of DMME is 

to obtain a lease under 30 CFR 585.238 

for renewable energy research activities, 

including the siting of two 

meteorological and ocean monitoring 

platforms for pre-and post-construction 

collection of resource data, including 

wind velocities, water levels, waves, 

and bird and bat activities, to support 

the future production of renewable 

energy within and around the Wind 

Energy Area (WEA) offshore Virginia, 

identified by BOEM. 

This RFCI is published pursuant to 

subsection 8(p)(3) of the OCS Lands Act, 

as amended by section 388 of the Energy 

Policy Act of 2005 (EPAct) (43 U.S.C. 

1337(p)(3)), and the implementing 

regulations at 30 CFR Part 585. 

DATES: If you are a Federal agency or a 

state entity submitting an indication of 

interest in acquiring a research lease for 

the area proposed by DMME, your 

submission must be sent by mail, 

postmarked no later than January 22, 

2013 for your submission to be 

considered. If you are providing 

comments or other submissions of 

information, you may send them by 

mail, postmarked by this same date, or 

you may submit them through the 

Federal Rulemaking Portal at http:// 

www.regulations.gov, also by this same 

date. 

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Submission Procedures: Federal 

agencies and state entities wishing to 

obtain a research lease for the area 

requested by DMME should submit 

detailed and specific information as 

described in the section entitled 

‘‘Required Indication of Interest 

Information.’’ If you are submitting an 

indication of competitive interest for a 

research lease or comments, please 

submit it by mail to the following 

address: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Office of Renewable 

Energy Programs, 381 Elden Street, HM 

1328, Herndon, Virginia 20170. 

Submissions must be postmarked by 

January 22, 2013 to be considered by 

BOEM for the purposes of determining 

competitive interest. In addition to a 

paper copy of your submission, include 

an electronic copy on a compact disc. 

BOEM will list the parties that submit 

indications of competitive interest on 

the BOEM Web site after the 30-day 

comment period has closed. 

If you wish to protect the 

confidentiality of your submissions or 

comments, clearly mark the relevant 

sections and request that BOEM treat 

them as confidential. Please label 

privileged or confidential information 

‘‘Contains Confidential Information’’ 

and consider submitting such 

information as a separate attachment. 

Treatment of confidential information is 

addressed in the section of this notice 

entitled, ‘‘Privileged or Confidential 

Information.’’ BOEM will post all 

comments on regulations.gov unless 

labeled as confidential. Information that 

is not labeled as privileged or 

confidential will be regarded by BOEM 

as suitable for public release. 

If you are submitting comments and 

other information concerning the 

proposed research lease area, you may 

use either of the following two methods: 

1. Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

http://www.regulations.gov. In the entry 

entitled ‘‘Enter Keyword or ID,’’ enter 

BOEM–2012–0079, and then click 

‘‘search.’’ Follow the instructions to 

submit public comments and view 

supporting and related materials 

available for this notice. 

2. Alternatively, comments may be 

submitted by mail to the following 

address: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management, Office of Renewable 

Energy Programs, 381 Elden Street, HM 

1328, Herndon, Virginia 20170. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Casey Reeves, Renewable Energy 

Program Specialist, BOEM, Office of 

Renewable Energy Programs, 381 Elden 

Street, HM 1328, Herndon, Virginia 

20170; phone (703) 787–1320. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the RFCI 

Responses to this public notice will 

allow BOEM to determine, pursuant to 

30 CFR 585.238, whether or not there is 

competitive interest in acquiring an 

OCS research lease in the area requested 

by DMME. At this time, BOEM is only 

soliciting indications of interest in 

obtaining a research lease in the area 

described in this notice. If BOEM 

receives no competing indications of 

interest for a research lease in response 

to this notice, BOEM may decide to 

move forward with the research leasing 

process using the non-competitive 

procedures described in 30 CFR 

585.238(d). 

BOEM previously solicited 

nominations for commercial wind 

development in the Virginia WEA 

through the publication of a notice, on 

February 3, 2012, entitled, ‘‘Commercial 

Leasing for Wind Power Development 

on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) 

Offshore Virginia—Call for Information 

and Nominations’’ (77 FR 5545). In that 

notice, BOEM identified the area that 

DMME had proposed for potential 

research activities, and BOEM requested 

the any entity submitting a nomination 

for a potential commercial lease area 

that overlapped with DMME’s potential 

research lease area include in their 

nomination information relating to 

potential interaction between the 

nominating entity’s proposed activities 

and DMME’s proposed activities. 

Specifically, BOEM asked whether the 

nominating entity would consider the 

proposed DMME activities to be 

compatible with its commercial wind 

activities proposed for the Virginia 

WEA. BOEM also stated that if the 

nominating entity believed it would be 

necessary to exclude or restrict DMME’s 

proposed activities from occurring in 

the commercial lease area, then the 

nominating entity should provide an 

explanation. No nominating entities 

indicated that there would be potential 

incompatibilities with the proposed 

DMME research activities. Therefore, 

BOEM determined that it would be 

appropriate to move forward with 

DMME’s research lease application and 

publish this RFCI. 

This notice also provides an 

opportunity for interested stakeholders 

to comment on the proposed lease area 

and the proposed DMME research 

project and any potential impacts that 

the project may have. BOEM will 

consider comments submitted when 

deciding whether and how to move 

forward with the research leasing 

process. 

DMME’s Proposed Research Activities 

DMME’s proposed research activities 

are described in their unsolicited 

request for a research lease, which is 

available at the following URL: http://

www.boem.gov/uploadedFiles/BOEM/

Renewable_Energy_Program/State_

Activities/VA%20DMME%20

Application%20for%20Sec238%20

Research%20Lease1%202012–06–

01.pdf. 

Description of the Proposed Research 

Lease Area 

The proposed research lease area 

consists of four OCS sub-blocks (i.e., 1/ 

16 of an OCS block). The table below 

describes the OCS lease sub-blocks 

included within the area of interest. 

Protraction 

name 

Protraction 

No. 

Block 

No. 

Sub 

block 

Currituck Sound ......................................................................................................... NJ18–11 6014 B,C 

Currituck Sound ......................................................................................................... NJ18–11 6164 N,O 

Map of the Area 

A map of the area proposed by DMME 

and the area included in this RFCI can 

be found at the following URL: http:// 

www.boem.gov/Renewable-EnergyProgram/State-Activities/Virginia.aspx. 

A large scale map of the RFCI area 

showing boundaries of the area with the 

numbered blocks is available from 

BOEM at the following address: Bureau 

of Ocean Energy Management, Office of 

Renewable Energy Programs, 381 Elden 

Street, HM 1328, Herndon, Virginia 

20170. Phone: (703) 787–1320, Fax: 

(703) 787–1708. 

Required Indication of Interest 

Information 

If you are a Federal agency or a state 

entity and you intend to submit an 

indication of competitive interest for a 

research lease for the area identified in 

this notice you must provide the 

following: 

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(1) A statement that you wish to 

acquire a research lease for the proposed 

lease area (i.e., the entire area as 

described above). BOEM will not 

consider indications of interest if they 

cover less than the entire proposed 

research lease area. Any interest in an 

area located outside of the proposed 

research lease area should be submitted 

separately pursuant to 30 CFR 585.238; 

(2) A general description of your 

objectives and the facilities that you 

would use to achieve those objectives; 

(3) A general schedule of proposed 

activities; 

(4) Available and pertinent data and 

information concerning renewable 

energy resources and environmental 

conditions in the area that you wish to 

lease, including energy and resource 

data and information used to evaluate 

the area of interest. Where applicable, 

spatial information should be submitted 

in a format compatible with ArcGIS 9.3 

in a geographic coordinate system (NAD 

83); 

(5) Documentation demonstrating that 

you are legally qualified to hold a 

research lease as set forth in 30 CFR 

585.106 and 107. Examples of the 

documentation appropriate for 

demonstrating your legal qualifications 

and related guidance can be found in 

Chapter 2 and Appendix B of the 

Guidelines for the Minerals 

Management Service Renewable Energy 

Framework available at: http:// 

www.boem.gov/Renewable-EnergyProgram/Regulatory-Information/ 

Index.aspx. Legal qualification 

documents will be placed in an official 

file that may be made available for 

public review. If you wish that any part 

of your legal qualification 

documentation be kept confidential, 

clearly identify what should be kept 

confidential, and submit it under 

separate cover (see ‘‘Protection of 

Privileged or Confidential Information 

Section,’’ below); and 

(6) Documentation demonstrating that 

you are technically and financially 

capable of constructing, operating, 

maintaining and decommissioning the 

facilities described in your submission. 

Guidance regarding the required 

documentation to demonstrate your 

technical and financial qualifications 

can be found at: http://www.boem.gov/ 

Renewable-Energy-Program/RegulatoryInformation/Index.aspx. 

It is critical that you provide a 

complete submission of competitive 

interest including the items identified in 

(1) through (6) so that BOEM may 

consider your submission in a timely 

manner. If BOEM reviews your 

submission and determines that it is 

incomplete, BOEM will inform you of 

this determination in writing and 

describe the information that BOEM 

wishes you to provide in order for 

BOEM to deem your submission 

complete. You will be given 15 business 

days from the date of the letter to 

provide the information that BOEM 

found to be missing from your original 

submission. If you do not meet this 

deadline, or if BOEM determines your 

second submission is also insufficient, 

BOEM may deem your submission 

invalid. In such a case, BOEM would 

not consider your submission. 

Environmental Review Process 

On February 3, 2012, BOEM 

published an environmental assessment 

(EA) and finding of no significant 

impact (FONSI) for the issuance of 

commercial and research leases and 

approval of a reasonably foreseeable 

range of data collection devices in the 

WEAs offshore New Jersey, Maryland, 

Delaware, and Virginia. The EA and 

FONSI can be found at: http:// 

www.boem.gov/Renewable-EnergyProgram/Smart-from-the-Start/ 

Index.aspx. If BOEM issues a research 

lease to DMME, BOEM would determine 

whether the EA adequately considers 

the environmental consequences of the 

activities proposed in DMME’s 

submitted plan, which would include 

the results of the necessary site 

characterization surveys. If the analysis 

in the EA adequately considers these 

consequences, then no further National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 

analysis would be required before the 

plan could be approved. If, on the other 

hand, BOEM determines that the 

analysis in the EA is inadequate for that 

purpose, BOEM would prepare an 

additional NEPA analysis before 

approving the plan. 

Protection of Privileged or Confidential 

Information 

Freedom of Information Act 

BOEM will protect privileged or 

confidential information that you 

submit as required by the Freedom of 

Information Act (FOIA). Exemption 4 of 

FOIA applies to trade secrets and 

commercial or financial information 

that you submit that is privileged or 

confidential. If you wish to protect the 

confidentiality of such information, 

clearly mark it and request that BOEM 

treat it as confidential. BOEM will not 

disclose such information, subject to the 

requirements of FOIA. Please label 

privileged or confidential information, 

‘‘Contains Confidential Information,’’ 

and consider submitting such 

information as a separate attachment. 

However, BOEM will not treat as 

confidential any aggregate summaries of 

such information or comments not 

containing such information. 

Additionally, BOEM will not treat as 

confidential: (1) The legal title of the 

nominating Federal or state agency; or 

(2) the geographic location of facilities 

and the types of those facilities. 

Information that is not labeled as 

privileged or confidential will be 

regarded by BOEM as suitable for public 

release. 

Section 304 of the National Historic 

Preservation Act (16 U.S.C. 470w–3(a)) 

BOEM is required, after consultation 

with the Secretary of the Interior, to 

withhold the location, character, or 

ownership of historic resources, if it 

determines that disclosure may, among 

other things, cause a significant 

invasion of privacy, risk harm to the 

historic resources or impede the use of 

a traditional religious site by 

practitioners. Tribal entities and other 

interested parties should designate 

information that they wish to be held as 

‘‘confidential.’’ 

Dated: December 18, 2012. 

Tommy P. Beaudreau, 

Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[USITC SE–12–034] 

Government In the Sunshine Act 

Meeting Notice 

AGENCY HOLDING THE MEETING: United 

States International Trade Commission. 

TIME AND DATE: December 28, 2012 at 

11:00 a.m. 

PLACE: Room 101, 500 E Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20436, Telephone: 

(202) 205–2000. 

STATUS: Open to the public. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

1. Agendas for future meetings: None. 

2. Minutes. 

3. Ratification List. 

4. Vote in Inv. No. 731–TA–1205 

(Preliminary)(Silica Bricks and Shapes 

from China). The Commission is 

currently scheduled to transmit its 

determination to the Secretary of 

Commerce on or before December 31, 

2012; Commissioners’’ opinions are 

currently scheduled to be transmitted to 

the Secretary of Commerce on or before 

January 8, 2013. 

5. Outstanding action jackets: None. 

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