Federal Register / Vol. 76, No. 159 / Wednesday, August 17, 2011 / Notices 51001 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Environmental Technologies Trade 

Advisory Committee Public Meeting 

AGENCY: International Trade 

Administration, DOC. 

ACTION: Notice of Federal Advisory 

Committee Meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the 

schedule and proposed agenda of a 

meeting of the Environmental 

Technologies Trade Advisory 

Committee (ETTAC). 

DATES: The meeting is scheduled for 

Thursday, October 6, 2011, at 9 a.m. 

Eastern Daylight Time (EDT). 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in 

Room 4830 at the U.S. Department of 

Commerce, Herbert Clark Hoover 

Building, 1401 Constitution Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20230. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Todd DeLelle, Office of Energy & 

Environmental Industries (OEEI), 

International Trade Administration, 

Room 4053, 1401 Constitution Avenue, 

NW., Washington, DC 20230. (Phone: 

202–482–4877; Fax: 202–482–5665; email: todd.delelle@trade.gov.) This 

meeting is physically accessible to 

people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to 

OEEI at 202–482–5225 no less than one 

week prior to the meeting. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

meeting will take place from 9 a.m. to 

3:30 p.m. This meeting is open to the 

public and time will be permitted for 

public comment from 3–3:30 p.m. 

Written comments concerning ETTAC 

affairs are welcome any time before or 

after the meeting. Minutes will be 

available within 30 days of this meeting. 

This will be the second meeting of this 

committee under the current charter. 

Background: The ETTAC is mandated 

by Public Law 103–392. It was created 

to advise the U.S. government on 

environmental trade policies and 

programs, and to help it to focus its 

resources on increasing the exports of 

the U.S. environmental industry. 

ETTAC operates as an advisory 

committee to the Secretary of Commerce 

and the Trade Promotion Coordinating 

Committee (TPCC). ETTAC was 

originally chartered in May of 1994. It 

was most recently re-chartered until 

October 2012. 

Edward A. O’Malley, 

Director, Office of Energy and Environmental 

Industries. 

[FR Doc. 2011–20935 Filed 8–16–11; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

RIN 0648–XA602 

Marine Mammals; File Nos. 16109 and 

15575 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice; receipt of applications. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

GeoMarine, Inc. [File No. 16109] 

(Responsible Party: Jason Holt See; 

Principal Investigator: Amy Whitt), 2201 

K Avenue, Suite A2, Plano, TX 75074 

and Robert DiGiovanni Jr. [File No. 

15575], Riverhead Foundation for 

Marine Research and Preservation, 467 

East Main St., Riverhead, NY 11901 

have applied in due form for permits to 

conduct research on marine mammals 

and sea turtles. 

DATES: Written, telefaxed, or e-mail 

comments must be received on or before 

September 16, 2011. 

ADDRESSES: The applications and 

related documents are available for 

review by selecting ‘‘Records Open for 

Public Comment’’ from the Features box 

on the Applications and Permits for 

Protected Species (APPS) home page, 

https://apps.nmfs.noaa.gov, and then 

selecting File No. 16109 or 15575 from 

the list of available applications. 

These documents are also available 

upon written request or by appointment 

in the following offices: 

Permits, Conservation and Education 

Division, Office of Protected 

Resources, NMFS, 1315 East-West 

Highway, Room 13705, Silver Spring, 

MD 20910; phone (301) 427–8401; fax 

(301) 713–0376; 

Northeast Region, NMFS, 55 Great 

Republic Drive, Gloucester, MA 

01930; phone (978) 281–9328; fax 

(978) 281–9394; and 

Southeast Region, NMFS, 263 13th 

Avenue South, Saint Petersburg, FL 

33701; phone (727) 824–5312; fax 

(727) 824–5309. 

Written comments on these 

applications should be submitted to the 

Chief, Permits, Conservation and 

Education Division, at the address listed 

above. Comments may also be submitted 

by facsimile to (301) 713–0376, or by email to NMFS.Pr1Comments@noaa.gov. 

Please include the File No. in the 

subject line of the e-mail comment. 

Those individuals requesting a public 

hearing should submit a written request 

to the Chief, Permits, Conservation and 

Education Division at the address listed 

above. The request should set forth the 

specific reasons why a hearing on this 

application would be appropriate. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Joselyd Garcia-Reyes or Laura Morse 

(301) 427–8401. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

subject permits are requested under the 

authority of the Marine Mammal 

Protection Act of 1972, as amended 

(MMPA; 16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), the 

regulations governing the taking and 

importing of marine mammals (50 CFR 

part 216), the Endangered Species Act of 

1973, as amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 

et seq.), and the regulations governing 

the taking, importing, and exporting of 

endangered and threatened species (50 

CFR parts 222–226). 

Each application is summarized 

below. For specific take numbers of 

each species, please refer to the 

associated application. 

GeoMarine, Inc. [File No. 16109], 

requests a permit to conduct scientific 

research on 35 species of cetaceans, four 

species of pinnipeds, five species of sea 

turtles from New Jersey to North 

Carolina. The purpose of the research is 

to assess the distribution, abundance, 

behavior, and migration of these species 

in nearshore waters of southern New 

Jersey to North Carolina, which is a 

region of significant potential offshore 

wind farm development. Eleven of the 

44 species to be targeted for research are 

listed as threatened or endangered: blue 

whale (Balaenoptera musculus), fin 

whale (B. physalus), humpback whale 

(Megaptera novaeangliae), North 

Atlantic right whale (Eubalaena 

glacialis), sei whale (B. borealis), sperm 

whale (Physeter macrocephalus), green 

sea turtle (Chelonia mydas), hawksbill 

sea turtle (Eretmochelys imbricata), 

loggerhead sea turtle (Caretta caretta), 

Kemp’s ridley sea turtle (Lepidochelys 

kempii), and leatherback sea turtle 

(Dermochelys coriacea). Types of take 

would include harassment by survey 

approach during shipboard transect 

surveys. The permit would be valid for 

a period of five years. 

Robert Di Giovanni, Jr. [File No. 

15575], requests a permit to conduct 

photo-identification surveys from both 

aerial and vessel platforms to assess 

seasonal abundance and distribution of 


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