Federal Register / Vol. 80, No. 48 / Thursday, March 12, 2015 / Notices 12985 

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

International Trade Administration 

Education Mission to Central America; 

March 16–19, 2015 

AGENCY: International Trade 

Administration, Department of 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Amendment. 

SUMMARY: The United States Department 

of Commerce, International Trade 

Administration is amending the Notice 

published at 79 FR 34287, June 16, 

2014, for the education mission to El 

Salvador and Honduras, with an 

optional stop in Nicaragua, from March 

16–19, 2015 to revise the mission 

description from executive-led to nonexecutive led. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

U.S. Export Assistance Center Silicon 

Valley, Gabriela Zelaya, International 

Trade Specialist, Tel: 408–535–2757, 

ext. 107, Email: gabriela.zelaya@

trade.gov. 

Laura Gimenez, Commercial Officer, El 

Salvador, Tel: (011–503) 2501–3221, 

Email: laura.gimenez@trade.gov. 

Aileen Nandi, Commercial Officer, El 

Salvador, Tel: (408) 535–2757, ext. 

102, Email: aileen.nandi@trade.gov. 

U.S. Export Assistance Center 

Lexington, Sara Moreno, International 

Trade Specialist, Tel: 859–225–7001, 

Email: sara.moreno@trade.gov. 

Frank Spector, 

International Trade Specialist. 

[FR Doc. 2015–05595 Filed 3–11–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–DR–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Guantanamo Bay to Dania Beach 

Submarine Fiber Optic Cable System 

(GTMO SFOC); Environmental 

Assessment (EA)/Finding of No 

Significant Impact (FONSI) 

AGENCY: U.S. Defense Information 

Systems Agency, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The Defense Information 

Systems Agency (DISA) is announcing 

that it has prepared an Environmental 

Assessment (EA) and issued a Finding 

of No Significant Impact (FONSI) 

relating to DISA’s evaluation of the 

Proposed Action and Alternatives to 

installing Submarine Fiber Optic Cable 

(SFOC) for communication purposes 

between the DISN Facilities at Miami FL 

and U.S. Naval Station Guantanamo 

Bay, Cuba (GTMO) in order to supply 

high Bandwidth to DoD activities at 

GTMO. This SFOC will improve longhaul communications between the 

continental U.S. (CONUS) and GTMO. 

The FONSI reports the studies that 

prove that there will be no significant 

environmental impact from the 

installation of this SFOC. This notice 

announces the availability of the final 

EA and FONSI to concerned agencies 

and the public. 

ADDRESSES: Requests to receive a copy 

of the EA or FONSI should be mailed to 

Defense Information Systems Agency, 

Public Affairs Officer, P.O. Box 549, Ft. 

Meade, MD 20755–0549. Arrangements 

must be made in advance to pick the 

documents, due to facility security 

requirements. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

DISA Public Affairs at 301–225–8100 or 

disa.meade.SPI.mbx.disa-pao or DISA, 

P.O. box 549, Ft. Meade, MD 20755– 

0549. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: Pursuant to the Council 

on Environmental Quality (CEQ) 

regulations for implementing the 

procedural provisions of the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA; 40 

Code of Federal Regulations [CFR] parts 

1500–1508) and 32 CFR part 188, 

Environmental Effects in the United 

States of DoD Actions, the U.S. Defense 

Information Systems Agency (DISA) 

prepared an Environmental Assessment 

(EA) to analyze the installation of a 

submarine fiber optic cable connecting 

the Defense Information System 

Network (DISN) node located at 

Guantanamo Bay (GTMO), Cuba to the 

DISN node located in Miami, FL. The 

DISA is a Department of Defense (DoD) 

combat support agency under the 

direction, authority and control of the 

Assistant Secretary of Defense for 

Command, Control, Communications, 

and Intelligence (ASD [C31]). 

The Guantanamo Bay to Dania Beach 

Submarine Fiber Optic Cable System 

involves two existing, shore-based U.S. 

naval facilities where the GTMO SFOC 

will be landed end-to-end. On the 

CONUS end, the cable will be landed at 

the U.S. Navy’s South Florida Ocean 

Measurement Facility (SFOMF) at Dania 

Beach, Florida; from there, the GTMO 

SFOC will span the entirety of Florida’s 

Territorial Waters (3 nautical miles 

[nm]), extending through the U.S. 

Territorial Sea (12 nm) and Contiguous 

Zone (24 nm), with the majority of the 

cable system passing through a 

combination of the U.S. Exclusive 

Economic Zone (EEZ), the Bahamian 

EEZ, and the Cuban EEZ to the 

nearshore landing at the American 

Naval Station Guantanamo Bay 

(NAVSTAGTMO). The DISA will lease 

commercial dark fiber to facilitate the 

terrestrial connection between SFOMF 

and the Network Access Point (NAP) of 

the Americas in Miami, Florida to 

provide DISN node-to-node connection. 

Purpose and Need: The purpose of the 

Proposed Action is to improve long-haul 

communications between the 

continental U.S. (CONUS) and GTMO. 

Long-haul communications 

requirements at GTMO are currently 

provided by commercial satellite 

services. A Submarine Fiber Optic Cable 

(SFOC) provides significantly more 

bandwidth than satellite services, 

exhibits very low latency, and is not 

subject to adverse atmospheric 

conditions, such as severe weather (for 

example, tropical rain storms and 

hurricanes). Therefore, the SFOC will 

increase the level and reliability of 

communication service between 

CONUS and GTMO. The attached EA 

and this FONSI were prepared in 

compliance with the NEPA (42 U.S.C. 

4321–4347), CEQ regulations for 

implementing the procedural provisions 

of the NEPA (40 Code of Federal 

Regulations [CFR] parts 1500–1508), 

and 32 CFR part 188, Environmental 

Effects in the United States of DoD 

Actions. The attached EA considers all 

potential impacts of the Proposed 

Action and Alternatives, including the 

No Action Alternative. This Finding of 

No Significant Impact (FONSI) 

summarizes the DISA’s evaluation of the 

Proposed Action and Alternatives. 

Alternatives Considered: Dania Beach, 

Florida Nearshore Cable Route 

Alternatives—Two action alternatives 

were analyzed for the nearshore 

installation route proposed at Dania 

Beach, Florida within the 12 nm limit 

of NEPA applicability. Of these two 

alternatives, Alternative 2 (Preferred) 

involving the bundling of the GTMO 

SFOC to the existing CS–125 cable that 

has been installed through the nearshore 

coral reef tracks was selected. This 

alternative provides the greatest degree 

of natural resource protection as it is colocated through a corridor that has 

previously received environmental 

agency clearances. 

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Nearshore 

Cable Route Alternatives—Of the three 

alternatives considered, Alternative 3 

(Glass Beach) was selected as the 

preferred landing site which contains an 

existing concrete landing station 

supporting two subaqueous utility lines 

and communication infrastructure 

coming ashore at this location. Colocating the GTMO SFOC cable within 

this existing corridor provides the 

greatest degree of environmental impact 


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