[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 48 (Friday, March 13, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 10968-10969]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-5291]


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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION


Notice of Permit Applications Received Under the Antarctic 
Conservation Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95-541)

AGENCY: National Science Foundation.

ACTION: Notice of Permit Applications Received Under the Antarctic 
Conservation Act of 1978, Public Law 95-541.

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SUMMARY: The National Science Foundation (NSF) is required to publish 
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 at Title 45 Part 670 
of 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 April 13, 2009. 
This application may be inspected by interested parties at the Permit 
Office, address below.

ADDRESSES: Comments should be addressed to Permit Office, Room 755, 
Office of Polar Programs, National Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson 
Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Nadene G. Kennedy at the above address 
or (703) 292-7405.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The National Science Foundation, as directed 
by the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95-541), 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

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certain geographic areas a requiring special protection. The 
regulations establish such a permit system to designate Antarctic 
Specially Protected Areas.
    The application received follows:

1. Permit Application No. 2009-025

Applicant

    Cindy Lee Van Dover, Duke University Marine Lab, 135 Marine Lab 
Road, Beaufort, NC 28516.

Activity for Which Permit Is Requested

    Take, Introduce Non-Indigenous Species into Antarctica, and Import 
into the USA. The applicant plans to collect sediment cores and seep 
invertebrates from the Larsen B embayment in order to (1) Characterize 
trophic relations between sediment bacteria, clams and other macro-
invertebrates present in newly-discovered cold seeps; (2) provide a 
preliminary assessment of the genetic population structure of Larsen B 
cold seep clams; and (3) characterize the evolutionary relationship 
between Larsen B cold seep clams and other members of the family 
Vesicomyidae. In addition, the applicant will deploy North Atlantic 
Right Whale vertebrae bones and pine wood substrate on eight moorings 
scattered through the Larsen B embayment. If time permits, 
invertebrates will be collected from the whale bone and wood 
substrates. During their second season, additional sediment cores will 
be collected as well as invertebrates, and the bone and wood moorings 
will be recovered.

Location

    Larsen B Embayment, Antarctica.

Dates

    January 1, 2010 to March 31, 2012.

Nadene G. Kennedy,
Permit Officer, Office of Polar Programs.
[FR Doc. E9-5291 Filed 3-12-09; 8:45 am]
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