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DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 7612] 

In the Matter of the Designation of 

Jurdan Martitegui Lizaso, Also Known 

as Jurdan Martitegui, Also Known as 

Arlas, as a Specially Designated Global 

Terrorist Pursuant to Section 1(b) of 

Executive Order 13224, as Amended 

Acting under the authority of and in 

accordance with section 1(b) of 

Executive Order 13224 of September 23, 

2001, as amended by Executive Order 

13268 of July 2, 2002, and Executive 

Order 13284 of January 23, 2003, I 

hereby determine that the individual 

known as Jurdan Martitegui Lizaso, also 

known as Jurdan Martitegui, also known 

as Arlas, committed, or poses a 

significant risk of committing, acts of 

terrorism that threaten the security of 

U.S. nationals or the national security, 

foreign policy, or economy of the United 

States. 

Consistent with the determination in 

section 10 of Executive Order 13224 that 

‘‘prior notice to persons determined to 

be subject to the Order who might have 

a constitutional presence in the United 

States would render ineffectual the 

blocking and other measures authorized 

in the Order because of the ability to 

transfer funds instantaneously,’’ I 

determine that no prior notice needs to 

be provided to any person subject to this 

determination who might have a 

constitutional presence in the United 

States, because to do so would render 

ineffectual the measures authorized in 

the Order. 

This notice shall be published in the 

Federal Register. 

Dated: September 20, 2011. 

William J. Burns, 

Deputy Secretary of State. 

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice 6808] 

Advisory Committee on International 

Postal and Delivery Services 

AGENCY: Department of State. 

ACTION: Notice; advisory committee 

meeting cancellation. 

SUMMARY: The Department of State gives 

notice of cancellation of the meeting of 

the Advisory Committee on 

International Postal and Delivery 

Services scheduled for September 29, 

2011, and announced in the Federal 

Register on Friday, September 2, 2011. 

The meeting will be rescheduled for a 

date to be announced in the future. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Laree Martin, Office of Global Systems 

(IO/GS), Bureau of International 

Organization Affairs, U.S. Department of 

State, at (202) 647–1526, 

Martinl@state.gov. 

Dated: September 15, 2011. 

Nerissa J. Cook, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary, Bureau of 

International Organization Affairs, 

Department of State. 

[FR Doc. 2011–24803 Filed 9–26–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Office of Commercial Space 

Transportation (AST); Notice of 

Availability and Request for Comment 

on the Draft Environmental 

Assessment (EA) for Issuing an 

Experimental Permit to SpaceX for 

Operation of the Grasshopper Vehicle 

at the McGregor Test Site, Texas 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), Department of 

Transportation. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability, Notice of 

Public Comment Period, and Request for 

Comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) of 1969, 42 United States Code 

4321–4347 (as amended), Council on 

Environmental Quality (CEQ) NEPA 

implementing regulations (40 Code of 

Federal Regulations [CFR] parts 1500– 

1508), and FAA Order 1050.1E, Change 

1, the FAA is announcing the 

availability of and requesting comments 

on the Draft EA for Issuing an 

Experimental Permit to SpaceX for 

Operation of the Grasshopper Vehicle at 

the McGregor Test Site, Texas. 

The Draft EA was prepared in 

response to an application for an 

experimental permit from Space 

Exploration Technologies Corporation 

(SpaceX). Under the Proposed Action, 

the FAA would issue an experimental 

permit to SpaceX to conduct suborbital 

launches and landings of the 

Grasshopper Reusable Launch Vehicle 

(RLV) from the McGregor test site in 

McGregor, TX. The Grasshopper RLV is 

a vertical takeoff and vertical landing 

vehicle. The McGregor test site is 

located within the city limits of the City 

of McGregor, TX in Coryell and 

McLennan Counties, approximately 20 

miles southwest of Waco, TX. The Draft 

EA addresses the potential 

environmental impacts of implementing 

the Proposed Action and the No Action 

Alternative of not issuing an 

experimental permit to SpaceX. 

The FAA has posted the Draft EA on 

the FAA/AST Web site at http://www.

faa.gov/about/office_org/headquarters_

offices/ast/. In addition, copies of the 

Draft EA were sent to persons and 

institutions on the distribution list (see 

Chapter 8 of the Draft EA). A paper copy 

of the Draft EA may be reviewed for 

comment during regular business hours 

at the following location: 

McGinley Memorial Library, 317 

Main Street, McGregor, TX 76657. 

DATES: Interested parties are invited to 

submit comments on environmental 

issues and concerns on or before 

October 26, 2011, or 30 days from the 

date of publication of this Notice of 

Availability, whichever is later. 

ADDRESSES: Please submit comments in 

writing to Mr. Daniel Czelusniak, 

Environmental Program Lead, Office of 

Commercial Space Transportation, 

Federal Aviation Administration, 800 

Independence Avenue, SW., Room 325, 

Washington, DC 20591; or by e-mail at 

Daniel.Czelusniak@faa.gov. 

Additional Information: Under the 

Proposed Action, the FAA would issue 

an experimental permit to SpaceX, 

which would authorize SpaceX to 

conduct suborbital launches and 

landings of the Grasshopper RLV from 

the McGregor test site in McGregor, TX. 

SpaceX has determined that to support 

the Grasshopper RLV activities under 

the experimental permit, it would be 

necessary to construct a launch pad and 

additional support infrastructure (water 

lines). Therefore, the Proposed Action 

analyzed in the Draft EA includes the 

activities that would be authorized by 

the experimental permit (i.e., the 

operation of the launch vehicle) as well 

as the construction of the launch pad 

and installation of water lines. The 

experimental permit would be valid for 

one year and would authorize an 

unlimited number of launches. The 

FAA could renew the experimental 

permit if requested, in writing, by 

SpaceX at least 60 days before the 

permit expires. SpaceX anticipates that 

the Grasshopper RLV program would 

require up to 3 years to complete. 

Therefore, the Proposed Action 

considers one new permit and two 

potential permit renewals. 

Although an experimental permit 

would authorize an unlimited number 

of launches, the FAA, in conjunction 

with SpaceX, developed a conservative 

set of assumptions regarding the 

possible number of launches that could 

be conducted under any one 

experimental permit for the 

Grasshopper RLV at the McGregor test 

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site. The FAA has assumed that SpaceX 

would conduct up to 70 annual 

suborbital launches of the Grasshopper 

RLV under an experimental permit at 

the McGregor test site. This estimation 

is a conservative number and considers 

potential multiple launches per day and 

potential launch failures. 

The only alternative to the Proposed 

Action analyzed in the Draft EA is the 

No Action Alternative. Under the No 

Action Alternative, the FAA would not 

issue an experimental permit to SpaceX 

for operation of the Grasshopper RLV at 

the McGregor test site. Existing SpaceX 

activities would continue at the 

McGregor test site. Please refer to 

Section 2.2 of the Draft EA for a brief 

discussion of existing SpaceX activities. 

The resource areas considered in the 

Draft EA include air quality; noise and 

compatible land use; land use 

(including U.S. Department of 

Transportation Section 4(f) Properties); 

biological resources (fish, wildlife, and 

plants); historical, architectural, 

archaeological, and cultural resources; 

hazardous materials, pollution 

prevention, and solid waste; light 

emissions and visual resources; natural 

resources and energy supply; water 

resources (surface waters and wetlands, 

groundwater, floodplains, and water 

quality); socioeconomics, environmental 

justice, and children’s environmental 

health and safety; and secondary 

(induced) impacts. Potential cumulative 

impacts of the Proposed Action were 

also addressed in the Draft EA. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Daniel Czelusniak, Environmental 

Program Lead, Office of Commercial 

Space Transportation, Federal Aviation 

Administration, 800 Independence 

Avenue, SW., Room 325, Washington, 

DC 20591; telephone (202) 267–5924; 

e-mail: Daniel.Czelusniak@faa.gov. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on September 

20, 2011. 

Glenn H. Rizner, 

Deputy Manager, Space Transportation 

Development Division. 

[FR Doc. 2011–24717 Filed 9–26–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Maritime Administration 

Meeting of the Marine Transportation 

System National Advisory Council 

AGENCY: Maritime Administration. 

ACTION: Notice of Public Meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Maritime Administration 

(MarAd) announces that the Marine 

Transportation System National 

Advisory Council (MTSNAC) will hold 

a meeting on October 12–13, 2011 to 

assess its priorities for the coming year, 

and to discuss other issues of 

importance to the Marine 

Transportation System. During the two 

day meeting, a public comment period 

is scheduled for 1 p.m.–1:30 p.m. on 

Wednesday, October 12, 2011. Members 

of the public who would like to speak 

are asked to contact Richard J. Lolich by 

October 5, 2011. To provide time for as 

many people to speak as possible, 

speaking time for each individual will 

be limited to three minutes. We hope to 

be able to accommodate everyone who 

would like to speak at the meeting, but 

if there are more interested participants 

than time available, we will limit 

participants in order of date and time of 

registration. Commenters will be placed 

on the agenda in the order in which 

notifications are received. If time 

allows, time will be allotted to those 

attending the meeting to speak, even if 

they had not previously registered to 

speak. Copies of oral comments must be 

submitted in writing at the meeting. 

Additional written comments are 

welcome and must be filed with Richard 

Lolich by October 14, 2011. [See also 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT] 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Wednesday, October 12, 2011, from 9 

a.m. to 5 p.m. and Thursday, October 

13, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in 

the Media Center at the U.S. Department 

of Transportation Headquarters, 1200 

New Jersey Ave., SE., Washington, DC 

20590. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Richard Lolich, (202) 366–0704; 

Maritime Administration, MAR–540, 

Room W21–310, 1200 New Jersey Ave., 

SE., Washington, DC 20590–0001; 

richard.lolich@dot.gov. 

Authority: 5 U.S.C. App 2, Sec. 9(a)(2); 41 

CFR 101–6. 1005; DOT Order 1120.3B) 

By Order of the Maritime Administrator. 

Date: September 22, 2011. 

Christine Gurland, 

Acting Secretary, Maritime Administration. 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Pipeline and Hazardous Materials 

Safety Administration 

[Docket No. PHMSA–2011–0157; Notice No. 

11–6] 

Clarification on the Division 1.1 

Fireworks Approvals Policy 

AGENCY: Pipeline and Hazardous 

Materials Safety Administration 

(PHMSA), DOT. 

ACTION: Clarification. 

SUMMARY: In this document, PHMSA is 

seeking comment on its intent to clarify 

its fireworks approvals policy whereby 

the Office of Hazardous Materials Safety 

(OHMS), Approvals and Permits 

Division will accept only those 

classification approval applications for 

Division 1.1 fireworks that have been 

examined and assigned a recommended 

shipping description, division and 

compatibility group by a DOT-approved 

explosives test laboratory, or that have 

been issued an approval for the 

explosive by the competent authority of 

a foreign government acknowledged by 

PHMSA’s Associate Administrator. If 

the Associate Administrator finds the 

approval request meets the regulatory 

criteria, the new explosive will be 

approved in writing and assigned an EX 

number. 

DATES: Comments Due Date: October 27, 

2011. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by identification of the docket number 

(PHMSA–2011–0157 (Notice No. 11–6)) 

by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: Go to 

http://www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

online instructions for submitting 

comments. 

• Fax: 1–202–493–2251. 

• Mail: Docket Operations, U.S. 

Department of Transportation, West 

Building, Ground Floor, Room W12– 

140, Routing Symbol M–30, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 

20590. 

• Hand Delivery: To Docket 

Operations, Room W12–140 on the 

ground floor of the West Building, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, 

DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. 

Instructions: All submissions must 

include the agency name and docket 

number for this notice at the beginning 

of the comment. All comments received 

will be posted without change to the 

Federal Docket Management System 

(FDMS), including any personal 

information. 

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