Federal Register / Vol. 79, No. 66 / Monday, April 7, 2014 / Notices 19127 

Signed at Washington, DC, on April 1, 

2014. 

David Michaels, 

Assistant Secretary of Labor for Occupational 

Safety and Health. 

[FR Doc. 2014–07630 Filed 4–4–14; 8:45 am] 

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NATIONAL FOUNDATION ON THE 

ARTS AND THE HUMANITIES 

National Endowment for the Arts 

Proposed Collection; Comment 

Request 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The National Endowment for 

the Arts (NEA), as part of its continuing 

effort to reduce paperwork and 

respondent burden, conducts a 

preclearance consultation program to 

provide the general public and federal 

agencies with an opportunity to 

comment on proposed and/or 

continuing collections of information in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA95) [44 

U.S.C. 3506(c)(A)]. This program helps 

to ensure that requested data can be 

provided in the desired format, 

reporting burden (time and financial 

resources) is minimized, collection 

instruments are clearly understood, and 

the impact of collection requirements on 

respondents can be properly assessed. 

Currently, the NEA is soliciting 

comments concerning the proposed 

information collection on arts 

participation in the U.S. A copy of the 

current information collection request 

can be obtained by contacting the office 

listed below in the address section of 

this notice. 

DATES: Written comments must be 

submitted to the office listed in the 

address section below on or before June 

1, 2014. The NEA is particularly 

interested in comments which: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

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 

proposed 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 submissions 

of responses. 

ADDRESSES: Mail comments to: Sunil 

Iyengar, National Endowment for the 

Arts, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue NW., 

Room 616, Washington, DC 20506– 

0001, telephone (202) 682–5424 (this is 

not a toll-free number), fax (202) 682– 

5677 or send them via email to 

research@arts.gov. 

Dated: April 2, 2014. 

Kathy Plowitz-Worden, 

Office of Guidelines and Panel Operations, 

National Endowment for the Arts. 

[FR Doc. 2014–07645 Filed 4–4–14; 8:45 am] 

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Notice of Permit Emergency Provision 

Under the Antarctic Conservation Act 

of 1978 (Pub. L. 95–541) 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Notice of permit emergency 

provision for hazardous waste stored in 

Antarctica at McMurdo Station for more 

than 15 months due to an emergency, as 

specified by § 671.17. 

SUMMARY: The Program of Environment 

Safety and Health in the Division of 

Polar Programs in accordance with 

§ 671.17, is giving notice that an 

emergency relating to considerations of 

human health and safety and ship safety 

caused hazardous waste to be stored at 

McMurdo Station for more than 15 

months. 

Hazardous waste in the form of 

batteries (1,600 lbs), biomedical waste 

from the clinic (4,500 lbs), chemical 

waste (31,000 lbs), compressed gases 

(2,000 lbs), hazardous debris (18,000 

lbs), glycol (65,500 lbs), PCBs from 

cleanup of historic activities (1,100 lbs), 

petroleum products (132,600 lbs), 

radioactive material from scientific 

research (1,200 lbs) and solvents/paints 

(3,200 lbs) was segregated and packaged 

for removal from McMurdo Station at 

the end of the 2013–2014 season and 

was to be removed from the station in 

February 2014. 

On 6 February 2014, cargo operations 

to load the containers containing the 

segregated and packaged waste from the 

ice pier onto the M/V Maersk Illinois 

were suspended due to safety issues. 

Conditions of very high winds (30 knots 

sustained and up to 50 knot gusts) and 

severe wave action made operations on 

the ice pier dangerous. Throughout the 

course of the two day storm, several of 

the lines from the ship to the ice pier 

parted and the ice pier fractured into 

multiple pieces. A short lull in the 

storm on 7 February provided the ship 

the opportunity to safely pull away from 

the ice pier. The storm brought an 

increasing number of icebergs to the 

area and in the interest of safety, the 

ship proceeded north away from 

McMurdo Station. Once the storm had 

subsided, the broken ice pier was found 

to be unfit for further operations and all 

containers (including those containing 

the packaged hazardous waste) which 

had not been previously loaded onto the 

cargo ship remained on station. The 

packaged waste material has been 

secured until removal during the 2014– 

2015 season. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Polly A. Penhale at (703) 292–7420. 

Nadene G. Kennedy, 

Polar Coordination Specialist, Division of 

Polar Programs. 

[FR Doc. 2014–07668 Filed 4–4–14; 8:45 am] 

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NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[NRC–2014–0001] 

Sunshine Act Meeting Notice 

DATE: Weeks of April 7, 14, 21, 28, May 

5, 12, 2014. 

PLACE: Commissioners’ Conference 

Room, 11555 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 

Maryland. 

STATUS: Public and Closed. 

Week of April 7, 2014 

Thursday, April 10, 2014 

8:55 a.m.—Affirmation Session (Public 

Meeting) (Tentative) 

Aerotest Operations, Inc. (Aerotest 

Radiography and Research Reactor), 

Joint Demand for Hearing on Denial of 

License Renewal and Indirect License 

Transfer Regarding Aerotest 

Radiography and Research Reactor 

Facility Operating License No. R–98 

(Aug. 13, 2013); Joint Answer to and 

Demand for Hearing on Order 

Prohibiting Operation of Aerotest 

Radiography and Research Reactor 

Facility Operating License No. R–98 

(Aug. 13, 2013); NRC Staff Motion to 

Sever the Demand for Hearing on Denial 

of License Renewal from the Demand 

for Hearing on Indirect License Transfer 

Regarding Aerotest Radiography and 

Research Reactor (Aug. 21, 2013). 

(Tentative) 

This meeting will be webcast live at 

the Web address—http://www.nrc.gov/. 

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