29260 Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 98 / Wednesday, May 21, 2014 / Notices 

By the Commission. 

Lynn M. Powalski, 

Deputy Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2014–11839 Filed 5–19–14; 11:15 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE 

[Public Notice: 8742] 

Renewal of Defense Trade Advisory 

Group Charter 

AGENCY: Department of State. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of State 

announces the renewal of the Charter 

for the Defense Trade Advisory Group 

(DTAG). The DTAG advises the 

Department on its support for and 

regulation of defense trade to help 

ensure the foreign policy and national 

security of the United States continue to 

be protected and advanced, while 

helping to reduce unnecessary 

impediments to legitimate exports in 

order to support the defense 

requirements of U.S. friends and allies. 

It is the only Department of State 

advisory committee that addresses 

defense trade related topics. The DTAG 

will remain in existence for two years 

after the filing date of the Charter unless 

terminated or renewed sooner. The 

DTAG is authorized by 22 U.S.C. 

§§ 2651a and 2656 and the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, 5 U.S.C. 

Appendix. 

For more information, contact Lisa V. 

Aguirre, Alternate Designated Federal 

Officer, Defense Trade Advisory Group, 

Department of State, Washington, DC 

20520, telephone: (202) 663–2830. 

Date: May 14, 2014. 

Lisa V. Aguirre, 

Alternate Designated Federal Officer, Defense 

Trade Advisory Group, U.S. Department of 

State. 

[FR Doc. 2014–11776 Filed 5–20–14; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Office of Commercial Space 

Transportation; Notice of Availability 

and Request for Comment on the Draft 

Environmental Assessment (EA) for 

Issuing an Experimental Permit to 

Space Exploration Technologies Corp. 

(SpaceX) for Operation of the 

DragonFly Vehicle at the McGregor 

Test Site, McGregor, Texas. 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability, Notice of 

Public Comment Period, and Request for 

Comment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969, as amended (NEPA; 42 U.S.C. 

4321, et seq.), Council on 

Environmental Quality NEPA 

implementing regulations (40 CFR Parts 

1500–1508), and FAA Order 1050.1E, 

Environmental Impacts: Policies and 

Procedures, 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 DragonFly 

Vehicle at the McGregor Test Site, 

McGregor, Texas. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Daniel Czelusniak, Office of Commercial 

Space Transportation, Federal Aviation 

Administration, 800 Independence 

Avenue SW., Suite 325, Washington, DC 

20591; telephone (202) 267–5924; email 

Daniel.Czelusniak@faa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Draft 

EA was prepared to analyze the 

potential environmental impacts of 

SpaceX’s proposal to conduct suborbital 

launches and landings of the DragonFly 

reusable launch vehicle (RLV) at the 

McGregor, Texas test site located in 

McLennan and Coryell Counties. To 

conduct this experimental testing, 

SpaceX must obtain an experimental 

permit from the FAA. Under the 

Proposed Action addressed in the EA, 

the FAA would issue an experimental 

permit to SpaceX, which would 

authorize SpaceX to conduct suborbital 

launches and landings of the DragonFly 

RLV from the McGregor test site. To 

support the DragonFly RLV activities 

under the experimental permit, SpaceX 

would construct a 40 foot (ft) by 40 ft 

launch pad. 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. SpaceX anticipates the DragonFly 

RLV program would require up to two 

years to complete (2014–2015). 

Therefore, the Proposed Action 

considers one new permit and one 

potential permit renewal. A maximum 

of 30 annual operations are proposed in 

each year of operation. 

The Draft EA addresses the potential 

environmental impacts of implementing 

the Proposed Action and the No Action 

Alternative. Under the No Action 

Alternative, the FAA would not issue an 

experimental permit to SpaceX for the 

operation of the DragonFly RLV at the 

McGregor test site. Existing SpaceX 

activities would continue at the 

McGregor test site, which include 

engine testing for the Falcon 9 launch 

vehicle. 

The impact categories considered in 

the Draft EA include air quality; noise 

and compatible land use; Department of 

Transportation Act: Section 4(f); 

historical, architectural, archaeological, 

and cultural resources; fish, wildlife, 

and plants; water quality (surface 

waters, groundwater, wetlands, and 

floodplains); natural resources and 

energy supply; hazardous materials, 

pollution prevention, and solid waste; 

light emissions and visual impacts; and 

socioeconomics, environmental justice, 

and children’s environmental health 

risks and safety risks. The Draft EA also 

considers the potential cumulative 

environmental impacts. 

The FAA has posted the Draft EA on 

the FAA Web site at http://www.faa.gov/ 

about/office_org/headquarters_offices/

ast/environmental/review/permits/. 

A paper copy of the Draft EA may be 

reviewed during regular business hours 

at the following library: 

• McGinley Memorial Library, 317 

Main Street, McGregor, TX 76657 

DATES: The FAA encourages all 

interested parties to provide comments 

concerning the scope and content of the 

Draft EA. To ensure that all comments 

can be addressed in the Final EA, 

comments on the draft must be received 

by the FAA, preferably in writing, on or 

before June 16, 2014, or 30 days from 

the date of publication of this Notice of 

Availability, whichever is later. 

Comments should be as specific as 

possible and address the analysis of 

potential environmental impacts and 

the adequacy of the proposed action or 

merits of alternatives being considered. 

Reviewers should organize their 

comments to be meaningful and inform 

the FAA of their interests and concerns 

by quoting or providing specific 

references to the text of the Draft EA. 

Matters that could have been raised 

with specificity during the comment 

period on the Draft EA may not be 

considered if they are raised for the first 

time later in the decision process. This 

commenting procedure is intended to 

ensure that substantive comments and 

concerns are made available to the FAA 

in a timely manner so that the FAA has 

an opportunity to address them. 

ADDRESSES: Please submit comments in 

writing to Mr. Daniel Czelusniak, Office 

of Commercial Space Transportation, 

Federal Aviation Administration, 800 

Independence Avenue SW., Suite 325, 

Washington, DC 20591; or by email at 

Daniel.Czelusniak@faa.gov. 

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