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

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/.