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BILLING CODE 4312–51–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Ocean Energy Management 

[Docket No. BOEM–2012–0074] 

Interim Policy Leasing for Renewable 

Energy Data Collection Facility on the 

Outer Continental Shelf off the Coast 

of Georgia 

AGENCY: Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management (BOEM), Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Prepare an 

Environmental Assessment. 

SUMMARY: This Notice of Intent (NOI) to 

prepare an Environmental Assessment 

(EA) is being published as an initial step 

for the purpose of involving Federal 

agencies, states, tribes, local 

governments, and the public in the 

preparation of an EA. The EA will 

consider the environmental 

consequences associated with issuing a 

lease for an offshore data collection 

facility located on the Outer Continental 

Shelf (OCS), in accordance with 

applicable Department of the Interior 

(DOI) and Council on Environmental 

Quality (CEQ) regulations implementing 

the provisions of the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 

1969 as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et 

seq.). 

On November 6, 2007, the Minerals 

Management Service, now BOEM, 

announced an interim policy for 

authorizing the issuance of leases for the 

installation of offshore data collection 

and technology testing facilities on the 

OCS (72 FR 62673). An applicant has 

submitted a lease proposal to BOEM 

pursuant to the interim policy and, thus, 

has initiated the need for an EA. 

On April 7, 2011, Southern Company 

submitted an application to lease three 

OCS blocks, approximately 3—11 

nautical miles off the coast of Tybee 

Island, Georgia, under its original 

nomination submitted on July 23, 2008. 

The areas proposed for leasing are 

identified as Brunswick NH 17–02 OCS 

blocks numbered 6074, 6174, and 6126. 

The proposed lease area covers about 70 

square kilometers (17,280 acres) of 

seafloor, and ranges from a depth of 12 

meters (m) in Block 6074 to 20 m in the 

eastern half of Block 6126. Southern 

Company submitted amended project 

applications on May 18, 2012, and 

October 25, 2012, which describe 

additional data collection and 

technology testing activities to be 

conducted on the proposed lease. 

Southern Company intends to deploy a 

meteorological tower and/or a 

meteorological buoy that will measure 

wind speed, direction and shear, and 

potentially collect other environmental 

data during the five year lease term. 

BOEM intends to prepare an EA for 

the purpose of considering the 

environmental consequences associated 

with issuing an interim policy lease to 

Southern Company; this EA will 

consider impacts associated with the 

deployment and installation of a 

meteorological tower and/or the 

deployment of a meteorological buoy. 

At a minimum, the EA will consider the 

alternatives of no action (i.e., no 

issuance of a lease) and the issuance of 

a lease and approval of certain 

technology testing activities within the 

lease area, such as installation of a fixed 

meteorological tower and/or 

deployment of a meteorological buoy. 

With this NOI, BOEM requests 

comments and input from Federal, state, 

and local government agencies, tribal 

governments, and other interested 

parties on important environmental 

issues and alternatives that may be 

appropriate for consideration in the EA. 

BOEM also requests information 

pertaining to measures (e.g., limitations 

on activities based on technology, siting, 

or timing) that would minimize the 

reasonably foreseeable impacts to 

environmental resources and 

socioeconomic conditions which could 

result from the proposed activity. BOEM 

will conduct consultations with other 

Federal agencies, tribal governments, 

and affected states during the EA 

process. 

Authority: BOEM publishes this NOI to 

prepare an EA pursuant to 43 CFR 46.305. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Michelle Morin, BOEM Office of 

Renewable Energy Programs, 381 Elden 

Street, HM 1328, Herndon, Virginia 

20170–4817, (703) 787–1340 or 

michelle.morin@boem.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

1. Interim Policy 

Subsection 8(p) of the OCS Lands Act 

(43 U.S.C. 1337(p)), which was added 

by section 388 of the Energy Policy Act 

of 2005 (EPAct), gave the Secretary of 

the Interior the authority to issue leases, 

easements and rights-of-way on the OCS 

for alternative energy activities. The 

Secretary delegated this authority to 

BOEM. In a Request for Information and 

Nominations published on November 6, 

2007, in the Federal Register (72 FR 

62673), BOEM announced that it had 

established an interim policy under 

which it would issue limited leases 

authorizing renewable energy resource 

assessment, data collection, and 

technology testing activities on the OCS 

and that it was accepting nominations 

for limited leases to conduct such 

activities. Leases issued under the 

interim policy have a term of five years, 

and do not authorize the production or 

transmission of energy. In response to 

the November 6, 2007 notice, BOEM 

received more than 40 nominations 

proposing areas for interim policy leases 

on the OCS off the Pacific and Atlantic 

Coasts. 

BOEM reviewed in detail all 

nominations received and, on April 18, 

2008, identified 16 proposed lease areas 

for consideration based on factors such 

as the technological complexity of the 

proposed project, timing needs, 

competing OCS space-use issues, and 

relevant state-supported renewable 

energy activities and initiatives (73 FR 

21152). BOEM also took into 

consideration the importance of 

supporting the advancement of 

activities related to the development of 

each of the renewable energy resource 

types that would be studied in the 

proposals—wind, ocean current, and 

wave. Of the 16 areas, BOEM identified 

three proposed areas offshore Georgia as 

suitable areas for renewable energy 

resource data collection and technology 

testing. 

In the April 18, 2008 notice, BOEM 

solicited expressions of competitive 

interest from parties interested in 

leasing any of these nominated areas. 

The notice also invited comments and 

solicited information from the public 

regarding the suitability of these areas 

for leasing and the environmental and 

socioeconomic consequences that may 

be associated with issuing research 

leases in these areas. 

The terms outlined in the BOEM 

interim policy lease and stipulations 

published in the Federal Register (73 

FR 21363) on April 21, 2008, govern 

interim policy leases. More information 

about the interim policy can be found at 

the following web address: http:// 

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

Index.aspx#Interim_Policy. 

2. Cooperating Agencies 

BOEM invites Federal, state, and local 

government agencies as well as tribal 

governments to consider becoming 

cooperating agencies in the preparation 

of the EA. CEQ regulations 

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1The record is defined in sec. 207.2(f) of the 

Commission’s Rules of Practice and Procedure (19 

CFR 207.2(f)). 

implementing the procedural provisions 

of NEPA define cooperating agencies as 

those with ‘‘jurisdiction by law or 

special expertise’’ (40 CFR 1508.5). 

Potential cooperating agencies should 

consider their authority and capacity to 

assume the responsibilities of a 

cooperating agency and remember that 

an agency’s role in the environmental 

analysis neither enlarges nor diminishes 

the final decisionmaking authority of 

any other agency involved in the NEPA 

process. 

Upon request, BOEM will provide 

potential cooperating agencies with a 

draft Memorandum of Agreement that 

includes a schedule with critical action 

dates and milestones, mutual 

responsibilities, designated points of 

contact, and expectations for handling 

pre-decisional information. Agencies 

should also consider the ‘‘Factors for 

Determining Whether To Invite, 

Decline, or End Cooperating Agency 

Status’’ in Attachment 1 of CEQ’s 

January 30, 2002, Memorandum for the 

Heads of Federal Agencies: Cooperating 

Agencies in Implementing the 

Procedural Requirements of the NEPA. 

Copies of this document are available at 

the following web addresses: http:// 

ceq.hss.doe.gov/nepa/regs/cooperating/ 

cooperatingagenciesmemorandum.html 

and http://ceq.hss.doe.gov/nepa/regs/ 

cooperating/ 

cooperatingagencymemofactors.html. 

BOEM, as the lead agency, will not 

provide financial assistance to 

cooperating agencies. Even if an 

organization is not a cooperating 

agency, opportunities will exist to 

provide information and comments to 

BOEM during the normal public input 

phases of the NEPA process. 

3. Comments 

Federal, state, local government 

agencies, tribal governments, and other 

interested parties are requested to send 

their written comments regarding 

important environmental issues and the 

identification of reasonable alternatives 

related to the proposed issuance of an 

interim policy lease to Southern 

Company to conduct data collection and 

technology testing activities in one of 

the following ways: 

1. Electronically: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. In the entry titled 

‘‘Enter Keyword or ID,’’ enter ‘‘BOEM– 

2012–0074,’’ then click ‘‘Search.’’ 

Follow the instructions to submit public 

comments and view supporting and 

related materials available for this 

document. 

2. In written form, delivered by hand 

or by mail, enclosed in an envelope 

labeled ‘‘Comments on OCS Renewable 

Energy Program Interim Policy Lease for 

Southern Company’’ to Program 

Manager, Office of Renewable Energy 

Programs (HM 1328), Bureau of Ocean 

Energy Management, 381 Elden Street, 

Herndon, Virginia 20170. 

Comments should be submitted no 

later than January 14, 2013. 

Dated: December 5, 2012. 

Tommy P. Beaudreau, 

Director, Bureau of Ocean Energy 

Management. 

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BILLING CODE 4310–MR–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation No. 731–TA–921 (Second 

Review)] 

Folding Gift Boxes From China 

Determination 

On the basis of the record 1 developed 

in the subject five-year review, the 

United States International Trade 

Commission (Commission) determines, 

pursuant to section 751(c) of the Tariff 

Act of 1930 (19 U.S.C. 1675(c)), that 

revocation of the antidumping duty 

order on folding gift boxes from China 

would be likely to lead to continuation 

or recurrence of material injury to an 

industry in the United States within a 

reasonably foreseeable time. 

Background 

The Commission instituted this 

review on April 2, 2012 (77 FR 19714) 

and determined on July 6, 2012 that it 

would conduct an expedited review (77 

FR 42762, July 20, 2012). 

The Commission transmitted its 

determination in this review to the 

Secretary of Commerce on December 10, 

2012. The views of the Commission are 

contained in USITC Publication 4365 

(November 2012), entitled Folding Gift 

Boxes from China: Investigation No. 

731–TA–921 (Second Review). 

By order of the Commission. 

Issued: December 10, 2012. 

Lisa R. Barton, 

Acting Secretary to the Commission. 

[FR Doc. 2012–30162 Filed 12–13–12; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7020–02–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation No. 337–TA–846] 

Certain CMOS Image Sensors and 

Products Containing Same; 

Investigations: Terminations, 

Modifications and Rulings 

AGENCY: U.S. International Trade 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the U.S. International Trade 

Commission has determined not to 

review an initial determination (‘‘ID’’) 

(Order No. 9) granting unopposed 

motions to terminate the abovecaptioned investigation based on a 

settlement agreement. The investigation 

is terminated. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Clark S. Cheney, Office of the General 

Counsel, U.S. International Trade 

Commission, 500 E Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20436, telephone 202– 

205–2661. Copies of non-confidential 

documents filed in connection with this 

investigation are or will be available for 

inspection during official business 

hours (8:45 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.) in the 

Office of the Secretary, U.S. 

International Trade Commission, 500 E 

Street SW., Washington, DC 20436, 

telephone 202–205–2000. General 

information concerning the Commission 

may also be obtained by accessing its 

Internet server (http://www.usitc.gov). 

The public record for this investigation 

may be viewed on the Commission’s 

electronic docket (EDIS) at http:// 

edis.usitc.gov. Hearing-impaired 

persons are advised that information on 

this matter can be obtained by 

contacting the Commission’s TDD 

terminal on 202–205–1810. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Commission instituted this investigation 

on June 6, 2012, based on a complaint 

filed by California Institute of 

Technology of Pasadena, California 

(‘‘CalTech’’). 77 FR 33488 (June 6, 

2012). The complaint alleged violations 

of section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930, 

as amended (19 U.S.C. 1337), in the 

importation into the United States, the 

sale for importation, and the sale within 

the United States after importation of 

certain CMOS image sensors and 

products containing the same based on 

infringement of three United States 

patents. The notice of investigation 

named as respondents 

STMicroelectronics of Geneva, 

Switzerland, and STMicroelectronics 

Inc., of Coppell, Texas (collectively, 

‘‘STMicro’’); Nokia Corp., of Espoo, 

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