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the scheduling of a teleconference for 

the transaction of National Science 

Board business, as follows: 

TIME AND DATE: Open meeting of the 

Executive Committee of the National 

Science Board, to be held Friday, June 

22, 2018, from 4:00–5:00 p.m. EDT. 

PLACE: This meeting will be held by 

teleconference at the National Science 

Foundation, 2415 Eisenhower Ave., 

Alexandria, VA 22314. 

STATUS: Open. 

MATTERS TO BE CONSIDERED: Committee 

Chair’s Opening Remarks; approval of 

Executive Committee Minutes of April 

2, 2018; discuss issues and topics for an 

agenda of the NSB Meeting scheduled 

for July 17–18, 2018. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Point of contact for this meeting is: 

James Hamos, 2415 Eisenhower Ave., 

Alexandria, VA 22314. Telephone: (703) 

292–8000. 

You may find meeting information 

and updates (time, place, subject matter 

or status of meeting) at http://

www.nsf.gov/nsb/meetings/notices.

jsp#sunshine. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: An audio 

listening line will be available for the 

public. Members of the public must 

contact the Board Office to request the 

number by sending an email to 

nationalsciencebrd@nsf.gov at least 24 

hours prior to the teleconference. 

Chris Blair, 

Executive Assistant to the NSB Office. 

[FR Doc. 2018–13490 Filed 6–19–18; 4:15 pm] 

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Notice of Permit Applications Received 

Under the Antarctic Conservation Act 

of 1978 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Notice of permit applications 

received. 

SUMMARY: The National Science 

Foundation (NSF) is required to publish 

a 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 in 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 July 23, 2018. This 

application may be inspected by 

interested parties at the Permit Office, 

address below. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

addressed to Permit Office, Office of 

Polar Programs, National Science 

Foundation, 2415 Eisenhower Avenue, 

Alexandria, Virginia 22314. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nature McGinn, ACA Permit Officer, at 

the above address, 703–292–8030, or 

ACApermits@nsf.gov. 

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 a requiring 

special protection. The regulations 

establish such a permit system to 

designate Antarctic Specially Protected 

Areas. 

Application Details 

1. Applicant: Permit Application: 

2019–001. 

Ron Naveen, Oceanites, Inc., PO Box 

15259, Chevy Chase, MD 20825. 

Activity for Which Permit is 

Requested: Take, Harmful Interference, 

Enter Antarctic Specially Protected 

Areas. The applicant proposes to 

continue data collections activities 

conducted to support the Antarctic Site 

Inventory. Visitor site surveys may 

include censusing penguin and seabird 

colonies throughout the Antarctic 

Peninsula. There is the potential for 

slight disturbance of the birds during 

surveying and censusing. This permit 

would address the potential for 

infrequent, minimal take or harmful 

interference of the following species: 

Adelie penguin (Pygoselis adeliae), 

chinstrap penguin (P. antarctica), 

gentoo penguin, (P. papua), southern 

giant petrel (Macronectes giganteus), 

southern fulmar (Fulmarus 

glacialoides), cape petrel (Daption 

capense), Antarctic blue-eyed shag 

(Phalacrocorax atriceps), Antarctic 

brown skua (Catharacta antarctica), 

south polar skua (C. maccormicki), kelp 

gull (Larus dominicanus), and Antarctic 

tern (Sterna vittata). While conducting 

visitor site surveys and censuses, the 

applicant would potentially enter a 

number of Antarctic Specially Protected 

Areas (ASPAs) in the Antarctic 

Peninsula region. 

Location: Antarctic Peninsula region, 

including ASPA 107, Emperor Island; 

ASPA 108, Green Island; ASPA 109, 

Moe Island; APSA 110, Lynch Island; 

ASPA 111, Southern Powell Island and 

adjacent islands; ASPA 112, 

Coppermine Peninsula; ASPA 113, 

Litchfield Island; ASPA 114, Northern 

Coronation Island; ASPA 115, 

Lagotellerie Island; ASPA 117, Avian 

Island; ASPA 125, Fildes Peninsula; 

ASPA 126, Byers Peninsula; ASPA 128, 

Western Shore of Admiralty Bay; ASPA 

129, Rothera Point; ASPA 132, Potter 

Peninsula; ASPA 133, Harmony Point; 

ASPA 134, Cierva Point and offshore 

islands; ASPA 139, Biscoe Point; ASPA 

140, Parts of Deception Island; ASPA 

144, Chile Bay (Discovery Bay); ASPA 

145, Port Foster; ASPA 146, South Bay; 

ASPA 148, Mount Flora; ASPA 149, 

Cape Shirreff and San Telmo Island; 

ASPA 150, Ardley Island; ASPA 151, 

Lions Rump; ASPA 152, Western 

Bransfield Strait; and ASPA 153, 

Eastern Dallmann Bay. 

Dates of Permitted Activities: 

September 1, 2018–August 31, 2023. 

Nadene Kennedy, 

Polar Coordination Specialist, Office of Polar 

Programs. 

[FR Doc. 2018–13355 Filed 6–20–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7555–01–P 

PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY 

CORPORATION 

Proposed Submission of Information 

Collection for OMB Review; Comment 

Request; Survey of Multiemployer 

Pension Plan Withdrawal Liability 

Information 

AGENCY: Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation. 

ACTION: Notice of intent to request OMB 

approval. 

SUMMARY: The Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation (PBGC) intends to request 

that OMB approve, under the Paperwork 

Reduction Act, a survey of terminated 

and insolvent multiemployer pension 

plans to obtain withdrawal liability 

information. PBGC needs the 

withdrawal liability information to 

estimate its multiemployer program 

liabilities for purposes of its financial 

statements. This notice informs the 

public of PBGC’s intent and solicits 

public comment on the collection of 

information. 

DATES: Comments should be submitted 

by August 20, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be 

submitted by any of the following 

methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: http:// 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the online 

instructions for submitting comments. 


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1Under section 4041A(f)(2) of ERISA, PBGC may 

prescribe reporting requirements for terminated 

multiemployer pension plans, which PBGC 

considers appropriate to protect the interests of 

plan participants and beneficiaries or to prevent 

unreasonable loss to the corporation. 

2Under section 4261(b)(1) of ERISA, PBGC 

provides financial assistance under such conditions 

as the corporation determines are equitable and are 

appropriate to prevent unreasonable loss to the 

corporation with respect to the plan. 

3Section 4008 of ERISA requires the corporation, 

as soon as practicable after the close of each fiscal 

year, to transmit a report to the President and the 

Congress, including financial statements setting 

forth the finances of the corporation at the end of 

the fiscal year and the result of its operations 

(including the source and application of its funds) 

for the fiscal year. 

4As of September 30, 2017, there were 68 

terminated plans not yet receiving financial 

assistance and 72 insolvent plans that received 

financial assistance from PBGC. See PBGC FY 2017 

Annual Report, page 94 at https://www.pbgc.gov/ 

sites/default/files/pbgc-annual-report-2017.pdf. 

Approximately 65 of the plans have 500 or more 

participants. 

• Email: paperwork.comments@

pbgc.gov. Refer to Withdrawal Liability 

Survey in the subject line. 

• Mail or Hand Delivery: Regulatory 

Affairs Division, Office of the General 

Counsel, Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation, 1200 K Street NW, 

Washington, DC 20005–4026. 

All submissions received must 

include the agency’s name (Pension 

Benefit Guaranty Corporation, or PBGC) 

and refer to the Withdrawal Liability 

Survey. All comments received will be 

posted without change to PBGC’s 

website, www.pbgc.gov, including any 

personal information provided. Copies 

of the collection of information may be 

obtained by writing to Disclosure 

Division, Office of the General Counsel, 

Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, 

1200 K Street NW, Washington, DC 

20005–4026, or calling 202–326–4040 

during normal business hours. TTY 

users may call the Federal relay service 

toll-free at 800–877–8339 and ask to be 

connected to 202–326–4040. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Hilary Duke, Assistant General Counsel 

for Regulatory Affairs, Office of the 

General Counsel, Pension Benefit 

Guaranty Corporation, 1200 K Street 

NW, Washington, DC 20005–4026, 202– 

326–4400, extension 3839. TTY users 

may call the Federal relay service tollfree at 1–800–877–8339 and ask to be 

connected to 202–326–4400, extension 

3839. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: When a 

contributing employer withdraws from 

an underfunded multiemployer pension 

plan, the plan sponsor assesses 

withdrawal liability against the 

employer. The plan sponsor is required 

to determine and collect withdrawal 

liability in accordance with section 

4219 of the Employee Retirement 

Income Security Act of 1974 (ERISA). 

The plan sponsor assesses withdrawal 

liability by issuing a notice to an 

employer, including the amount of the 

employer’s liability and a schedule of 

payments. PBGC’s regulation on Notice, 

Collection, and Redetermination of 

Withdrawal Liability (29 CFR part 4219) 

requires the plan sponsor to file with 

PBGC a certification that notices have 

been provided to employers. 

PBGC is proposing to collect 

information about withdrawal liability 

that is owed by withdrawn employers of 

terminated 1 and insolvent 2

multiemployer pension plans. PBGC 

would distribute a survey that insolvent 

plans receiving financial assistance and 

terminated plans not yet receiving 

financial assistance would be required 

to complete and return to PBGC. 

Smaller plans with less than 500 

participants would not be required to 

complete the survey. PBGC needs the 

information from the survey about 

withdrawal liability payments and 

settlements, and whether employers 

have withdrawn from the plan but have 

not yet been assessed withdrawal 

liability, to estimate with more 

precision PBGC’s multiemployer 

liabilities for purposes of its financial 

statements.3 PBGC would also use the 

information for its Multiemployer 

Pension Insurance Modelling System 

assumptions on collection of 

withdrawal liability. Information 

provided to PBGC would be confidential 

to the extent provided in the Freedom 

of Information Act and the Privacy Act. 

The survey would be sent to 

approximately 65 plans.4 PBGC 

estimates that each survey would 

require approximately 4 hours to 

complete by a combination of pension 

fund office staff (50%) and outside 

attorneys (50%). PBGC estimates an 

hour burden of 130 hours (based on 

pension fund office time). The estimated 

dollar equivalent of this hour burden, 

based on an assumed hourly rate of $75 

for administrative, clerical, and 

supervisory time is $9,750. PBGC 

estimates a cost burden for the 

withdrawal liability survey of $52,000 

(based on 130 attorney hours assuming 

an average hourly rate of $400). PBGC 

further estimates that the average 

burden will be 2 hours of pension fund 

office staff time and $800 per plan. 

PBGC intends to request that OMB 

approve PBGC’s use of this survey for 

three years. An agency may not conduct 

or sponsor, and a person is not required 

to respond to, a collection of 

information unless it displays a 

currently valid OMB control number. 

PBGC is soliciting public comments 

to— 

• Evaluate whether the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

• Evaluate the accuracy of the 

agency’s estimate of the burden of the 

collection of information, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; 

• Enhance the quality, utility, and 

clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

• Minimize the burden of the 

collection of information on those who 

are to respond, including through the 

use of appropriate automated, 

electronic, mechanical, or other 

technological collection techniques or 

other forms of information technology, 

e.g., permitting electronic submission of 

responses. 

Issued in Washington, DC 

Hilary Duke, 

Assistant General Counsel for Regulatory 

Affairs, Pension Benefit Guaranty 

Corporation. 

[FR Doc. 2018–13330 Filed 6–20–18; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7709–02–P 

PRESIDIO TRUST 

Notice of Public Meeting 

AGENCY: The Presidio Trust. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Presidio Trust Act, and in accordance 

with the Presidio Trust’s bylaws, notice 

is hereby given that a public meeting of 

the Presidio Trust Board of Directors 

will be held commencing 4:30 p.m. on 

July 25, 2018, at the Officers’ Club, 50 

Moraga Avenue, Presidio of San 

Francisco, California. 

The purposes of this meeting are: To 

provide the Board Chair’s report; to 

provide the Chief Executive Officer’s 

report; to receive selected presentations 

of concept proposals for development of 

the Fort Scott site; to receive public 

comment on the selected concept 

proposals for the Fort Scott site; to 

consider and potentially select which 

proposers will be invited to respond to 

a Request for Proposal for the Fort Scott 

site; and to receive public comment on 

other matters pertaining to Trust 

business. 

Individuals requiring special 

accommodation at this meeting, such as 

needing a sign language interpreter, 

should contact Mollie Matull at 415– 

561–5300 prior to July 18, 2018. 


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