[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 216 (Tuesday, November 9, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 68830-68831]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-28202]


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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION


Notice of permit applications received Under the Antarctic 
Conservation Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95-541)

AGENCY: National Science Foundation.

ACTION: Notice of permit applications received under the Antarctic 
Conservation Act of 1978, Public Law 95-541.

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SUMMARY: The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required to publish 
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 at Title 45 Part 670 
of 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 December 9, 2010. 
This application may be inspected by interested parties at the Permit 
Office, address below.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be addressed to Permit Office, Room 755, 
Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson 
Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nadene G. Kennedy at the above address 
or (703) 292-7405.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The National Science Foundation, as directed 
by the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95-541), 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 as requiring special protection. The 
regulations establish such a permit system to designate Antarctic 
Specially Protected Areas.
    The applications received are as follows:

Permit Application No. 2011-006

1. Applicant: Diane Marie McKnight, INSTAAR, 1560 30th Street, Boulder, 
CO 80309.

Activity for Which Permit Is Requested

    Enter into Antarctic Specially Protected Area. The applicant plans 
to enter the Canada Glacier, Lake Fryxell (ASPA <greek-i>131) to 
continue operation of a previously installed, continuously recording 
stream gauge station, perform maintenance, conduct stream flow 
measurements and collect water quality samples near the stream gauge 
site. The applicant will also collect water quality samples of the 
melt-water of the Canada Glacier and along the length of the stream to 
study in-stream biogeochemical processes. Samples of the microbial mats 
and mosses will also be collected for study. LIDAR and other survey and 
monitoring techniques may be used to detect changes in the stream bed 
and algal mat distribution over time.

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Location: Canada Glacier, Lake Fryxell, Taylor Valley (ASPA 131)

Dates: February 28, 2011 to February 28, 2016

Permit Application No. 2011-022.

2. Applicant: Adam Kustka, Department of Earth & Environmental 
Sciences, Rutgers University, 101 Warren Street, Newark, NJ 07102.

Activity for Which Permit Is Requested

    Export from USA, and Introduce Non-indigenous Species into 
Antarctica. The applicant is investigating the role of modified 
circumpolar deep water on supplying Fe to the surface ocean and how 
this Fe supply impacts initial CO\2\ sequestration and how it impacts 
the composition of the phytoplankton community assemblage. To trace the 
fate and recycling of organic carbon and Fe that has been incorporated 
into phytoplankton, they will use cell lysates labeled with the 
radioisotopes of C or Fe. In complementary experiments, lysates will 
also be labeled with the stable isotope 13C. These lysates will be 
generated in the university lab using cultures of a centric diatom 
(Thhalassiosira weissflogii) and a temperate haptophyte (Phaeocystic 
globosa)--species that cannot tolerate seawater temperatures in 
Antarctica. The lysates will be shipped from the University via New 
Zealand and used onboard the research vessel, Nathaniel B. Palmer, in 
the Ross Sea. Once experiments are concluded, the lysates will be 
placed in the radioactive waste stream and not released to the 
environment.

Location: Ross Sea, Antarctica

Dates: January 1, 2011 to March 1, 2011

Nadene G. Kennedy,
Permit Officer, Office of Polar Programs.
[FR Doc. 2010-28202 Filed 11-8-10; 8:45 am]
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