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ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

addressed to Permit Office, Office of 

Polar Programs, National Science 

Foundation, 2415 Eisenhower Avenue, 

Alexandria, Virginia 22314 or 

ACApermits@nsf.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Andrew Titmus, ACA Permit Officer, at 

the above address, 703–292–4479. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

National Science Foundation, as 

directed by the Antarctic Conservation 

Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95–541, 45 CFR 

670), 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. 

Application Details 

Permit Application: 2024–009 

1. Applicant 

Steve Wellmeier, Director of Special 

Projects, Poseidon Expeditions USA 

LLC, 245 Warwick Ave, Suite 119, 

Warwick, RI 02889 

Activity for Which Permit Is Requested 

Waste Management. The applicant 

seeks an Antarctic Conservation Act 

permit for waste management activities 

associated with coastal camping and the 

operation of a remotely piloted aircraft 

system (RPAS) in the Antarctic 

Peninsula region. The applicant seeks 

permission for no more than 30 campers 

and expedition staff to camp overnight 

at select locations for a maximum of 10 

hours ashore. Camping would be away 

from vegetated sites and wildlife 

concentrations, avoiding any lakes, 

protected areas, historical sites, and 

scientific stations. Tents would be 

pitched on snow, ice, or bare smooth 

rock, at least 20m from the high-water 

line. No food, other than emergency 

rations, would be brought onshore and 

all wastes, including human waste, 

would be collected and returned to the 

ship for proper disposal. For remotely 

piloted aircraft systems (RPAS) 

operation, the applicant proposes to 

operate small, battery-operated RPAS 

consisting, in part, of a quadcopter 

equipped with cameras to collect 

commercial and educational footage of 

the Antarctic. The quadcopter would 

not be flown over concentrations of 

birds or mammals, or over Antarctic 

Specially Protected Areas or Historic 

Sites and Monuments. The RPAS would 

only be operated by pilots with 

extensive experience, who are preapproved by the Expedition Leader. 

Location 

Port Lockroy, Damoy Point/Dorian 

Bay, Paradise Bay, Errera Channel, 

Neumeyer Channel, Petermann Island, 

other locations south of the Lemaire 

Channel, locations in the South 

Shetland Islands and Antarctic Sound, 

Antarctic Peninsula area. 

Dates of Permitted Activities 

October 28, 2023–March 30, 2028. 

Kimiko S. Bowens-Knox, 

Program Analyst, Office of Polar Programs. 

[FR Doc. 2023–19966 Filed 9–14–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7555–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket Nos. 50–611 and 50–612; NRC– 

2023–0138] 

Kairos Power, LLC; Hermes 2 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Construction permit 

application; acceptance for docketing. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) staff accepts and 

dockets an application for a 

construction permit for the Hermes 2 

test reactor facility to be built in Oak 

Ridge, Tennessee. 

DATES: This action becomes effective on 

September 11, 2023. 

ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID 

NRC–2023–0138 when contacting the 

NRC about the availability of 

information regarding this document. 

You may obtain publicly available 

information related to this document 

using any of the following methods: 

• Federal Rulemaking Website: Go to 

https://www.regulations.gov and search 

for Docket ID NRC–2023–0138. Address 

questions about Docket IDs in 

Regulations.gov to Stacy Schumann; 

telephone: 301–415–0624; email: 

Stacy.Schumann@nrc.gov. For technical 

questions, contact the individual listed 

in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section of this document. 

• NRC’s Agencywide Documents 

Access and Management System 

(ADAMS): You may obtain publicly 

available documents online in the 

ADAMS Public Documents collection at 

https://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ 

adams.html. To begin the search, select 

‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.’’ For 

problems with ADAMS, please contact 

the NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR) 

reference staff at 1–800–397–209, at 

301–415–4737, or by email to 

PDR.Resource@nrc.gov. The ADAMS 

accession number for each document 

referenced (if it is available in ADAMS) 

is provided the first time that it is 

mentioned in this document. 

• NRC’s PDR: The PDR, where you 

may examine and order copies of 

publicly available documents, is open 

by appointment. To make an 

appointment to visit the PDR, please 

send an email to PDR.Resource@nrc.gov 

or call 1–800–397–4209 or 301–415– 

4737, between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. eastern 

time (ET), Monday through Friday, 

except Federal holidays. 

• NRC’s Public website: The 

construction permit application is 

available under the NRC’s Hermes 

Construction Permit Application public 

website at https://www.nrc.gov/reactors/ 

non-power/new-facility-licensing/

hermes2-kairos.html. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michael Orenak, Office of Nuclear 

Reactor Regulation, U.S. Nuclear 

Regulatory Commission, Washington, 

DC 20555–0001; telephone: 301–415– 

3229; email: Michael.Orenak@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Discussion 

On July 14, 2023, Kairos Power LLC 

(Kairos) filed, pursuant to part 50 of title 

10 of the Code of Federal Regulations 

(10 CFR), ‘‘Domestic Licensing of 

Production and Utilization Facilities,’’ 

an application (ADAMS Package 

Accession No. ML23195A121) for a 

construction permit for the Hermes 2 

test reactor facility (a ‘‘testing facility’’ 

as defined in 10 CFR 50.2), which 

would be located in Oak Ridge, 

Tennessee. The Hermes 2 facility would 

contain two fluoride-salt cooled, hightemperature reactors that use solid tristructural isotropic fuel in pebble form, 

intermediate liquid-sodium loops, and a 

common power conversion unit. A 

notice of receipt and availability was 

published in the Federal Register on 

August 4, 2023 (88 FR 51876). 

The Hermes 2 construction permit 

application consists of the following 

information: 

• The general information required by 

10 CFR 50.33, 

• The Preliminary Safety Analysis 

Report required by 10 CFR 50.34(a), 

• The Environmental Report required 

by 10 CFR 50.30(f), 

• Exemption requests to support 

issuance of a construction permit, 

• Two technical reports, KP–TR–017 

and KP–TR–022, 

• A summary of the deletions from 

the Hermes Preliminary Safety Analysis 

Report, and 


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1 15 U.S.C. 78s(b)(1). 

2 17 CFR 240.19b–4. 

3 17 CFR 240.19b–4(f)(6). 

• A request to invoice the filing fee 

required by 10 CFR 50.30(e) and 10 CFR 

170.21. 

The NRC staff determined that the 

application is acceptable for docketing 

under Docket Nos. 50–611 and 50–612. 

The NRC staff provided Kairos notice of 

the acceptance and docketing 

determinations by letter dated 

September 11, 2023 (ADAMS Accession 

No. ML23233A167). 

The NRC staff will perform a detailed 

technical review of the construction 

permit application and document its 

safety findings in a safety evaluation 

report. Also, the NRC staff will perform 

an environmental review and document 

its findings in accordance with 10 CFR 

part 51, ‘‘Environmental Protection 

Regulations for Domestic Licensing and 

Related Regulatory Functions,’’ and the 

National Environmental Policy Act. 

Docketing of the application does not 

preclude the NRC from requesting 

additional information from the 

applicant as the review proceeds, nor 

does it predict whether the Commission 

will grant or deny the application. The 

construction permit application will be 

referred to the Advisory Committee on 

Reactor Safeguards for review and 

report consistent with 10 CFR 50.58, 

‘‘Hearings and report of the Advisory 

Committee on Reactor Safeguards.’’ If, 

after holding an evidentiary hearing, the 

Commission finds that the construction 

permit application meets the applicable 

standards of the Atomic Energy Act and 

the Commission’s regulations, and that 

any required notifications to other 

agencies and bodies have been made, 

the Commission will issue a 

construction permit, in the form and 

containing conditions and limitations 

that the Commission finds appropriate 

and necessary. 

The Commission will announce, in a 

future Federal Register notice, the 

opportunity to petition for leave to 

intervene in a proceeding on the 

construction permit application. 

Dated: September 11, 2023. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Michael D. Orenak, 

Project Manager, Advanced Reactor Licensing 

Branch 1, Division of Advanced Reactors and 

Non-Power Production and Utilization 

Facilities, Office of Nuclear Reactor 

Regulation. 

[FR Doc. 2023–19935 Filed 9–14–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2023–0001] 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

TIME AND DATE: Weeks of September 18, 

25, October 2, 9, 16, 23, 2023. The 

schedule for Commission meetings is 

subject to change on short notice. The 

NRC Commission Meeting Schedule can 

be found on the internet at: https://

www.nrc.gov/public-involve/publicmeetings/schedule.html. 

PLACE: The NRC provides reasonable 

accommodation to individuals with 

disabilities where appropriate. If you 

need a reasonable accommodation to 

participate in these public meetings or 

need this meeting notice or the 

transcript or other information from the 

public meetings in another format (e.g., 

Braille, large print), please notify Anne 

Silk, NRC Disability Program Specialist, 

at 301–287–0745, by videophone at 

240–428–3217, or by email at 

Anne.Silk@nrc.gov. Determinations on 

requests for reasonable accommodation 

will be made on a case-by-case basis. 

STATUS: Public. 

Members of the public may request to 

receive the information in these notices 

electronically. If you would like to be 

added to the distribution, please contact 

the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, 

Office of the Secretary, Washington, DC 

20555, at 301–415–1969, or by email at 

Wendy.Moore@nrc.gov. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: 

Week of September 18, 2023 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of September 18, 2023. 

Week of September 25, 2023—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of September 25, 2023. 

Week of October 2, 2023—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of October 2, 2023. 

Week of October 9, 2023—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of October 9, 2023. 

Week of October 16, 2023—Tentative 

Thursday, October 19, 2023 

9:00 a.m. Hearing on Construction 

Permit for Kairos Hermes NonPower Test Reactor: Section 189a of 

the Atomic Energy Act Proceeding 

(Public Meeting); (Contact: Matthew 

Hiser: 301–415–2454; Tami Dozier: 

301–415–2272) 

Additional Information: The meeting 

will be held in the Commissioners’ 

Conference Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, 

Rockville, Maryland. The public is 

invited to attend the Commission’s 

meeting in person or watch live via 

webcast at the web address—https://

video.nrc.gov/. 

Week of October 23, 2023—Tentative 

There are no meetings scheduled for 

the week of October 23, 2023. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

For more information or to verify the 

status of meetings, contact Wesley Held 

at 301–287–3591 or via email at 

Wesley.Held@nrc.gov. 

The NRC is holding the meetings 

under the authority of the Government 

in the Sunshine Act, 5 U.S.C. 552b. 

Dated: September 13, 2023. 

For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. 

Wesley W. Held, 

Policy Coordinator, Office of the Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2023–20164 Filed 9–13–23; 4:15 pm] 

BILLING CODE 7590–01–P 

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE 

COMMISSION 

[Release No. 34–98349; File No. SR–FINRA– 

2023–011] 

Self-Regulatory Organizations; 

Financial Industry Regulatory 

Authority, Inc.; Notice of Filing and 

Immediate Effectiveness of a Proposed 

Rule Change To Extend the 

Implementation Date of Certain 

Amendments to FINRA Rule 4210 

Approved Pursuant to SR–FINRA– 

2015–036 

September 11, 2023. 

Pursuant to Section 19(b)(1) of the 

Securities Exchange Act of 1934 

(‘‘Act’’) 1 and Rule 19b–4 thereunder,2

notice is hereby given that on August 

29, 2023, the Financial Industry 

Regulatory Authority, Inc. (‘‘FINRA’’) 

filed with the Securities and Exchange 

Commission (‘‘SEC’’ or ‘‘Commission’’) 

the proposed rule change as described 

in Items I and II below, which Items 

have been prepared by FINRA. FINRA 

has designated the proposed rule change 

as constituting a ‘‘non-controversial’’ 

rule change under paragraph (f)(6) of 

Rule 19b–4 under the Act,3 which 

renders the proposal effective upon 

receipt of this filing by the Commission. 

The Commission is publishing this 

notice to solicit comments on the 

proposed rule change from interested 

persons. 


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