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Of the three marine mammal species 

anticipated to occur in the proposed 

activity areas, none are listed under the 

ESA. Table 1 in this document presents 

the abundance of each species or stock, 

the proposed take estimates, and the 

percentage of the affected populations 

or stocks that may be taken by 

harassment. Based on these estimates, 

PISCO would take less than 2.1% of 

each species or stock. Because these are 

maximum estimates, actual take 

numbers are likely to be lower, as some 

animals may select other haulout sites 

the day the researchers are present. 

Based on the analysis contained 

herein of the likely effects of the 

specified activity on marine mammals 

and their habitat, and taking into 

consideration the implementation of the 

proposed mitigation and monitoring 

measures, NMFS preliminarily finds 

that the rocky intertidal monitoring 

program will result in the incidental 

take of small numbers of marine 

mammals, by Level B harassment only, 

and that the total taking from the rocky 

intertidal monitoring program will have 

a negligible impact on the affected 

species or stocks. 

TABLE 1—POPULATION ABUNDANCE ESTIMATES, TOTAL PROPOSED LEVEL B TAKE, AND PERCENTAGE OF POPULATION

THAT MAY BE TAKEN FOR THE POTENTIALLY AFFECTED SPECIES DURING THE PROPOSED ROCKY INTERTIDAL MONITORING PROGRAM

Species Abundance * Total proposed 

level B take 

Percentage of 

stock or 

population 

Harbor Seal ...................................................................................................................... 1 30,196 

2 16,165 

337 1.1–2.1 

California Sea Lion .......................................................................................................... 296,750 60 0.02 

Northern Elephant Seal ................................................................................................... 124,000 36 0.03 

* Abundance estimates are taken from the 2012 U.S. Pacific Marine Mammal Stock Assessments (Carretta et al., 2013). 1 California stock abundance estimate. 

2Oregon/Washington stock abundance estimate. 

Impact on Availability of Affected 

Species or Stock for Taking for 

Subsistence Uses 

There are no relevant subsistence uses 

of marine mammals implicated by this 

action. Therefore, NMFS has 

determined that the total taking of 

affected species or stocks would not 

have an unmitigable adverse impact on 

the availability of such species or stocks 

for taking for subsistence purposes. 

Endangered Species Act (ESA) 

None of the marine mammals for 

which incidental take is proposed are 

listed as threatened or endangered 

under the ESA. NMFS’ Permits and 

Conservation Division worked with the 

NMFS Southwest Regional Office to 

ensure that Steller sea lions would be 

avoided and incidental take would not 

occur. Therefore, NMFS has determined 

that issuance of the proposed IHA to 

PISCO under section 101(a)(5)(D) of the 

MMPA will have no effect on species 

listed as threatened or endangered 

under the ESA. 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) 

In 2012, we prepared an EA analyzing 

the potential effects to the human 

environment from conducting rocky 

intertidal surveys along the California 

and Oregon coasts and issued a Finding 

of No Significant Impact (FONSI) on the 

issuance of an IHA for PISCO’s rocky 

intertidal surveys in accordance with 

section 6.01 of the NOAA 

Administrative Order 216–6 

(Environmental Review Procedures for 

Implementing the National 

Environmental Policy Act, May 20, 

1999). PISCO’s proposed activities and 

impacts for 2013–2014 are within the 

scope of our 2012 EA and FONSI. We 

have reviewed the 2012 EA and 

determined that there are no new direct, 

indirect, or cumulative impacts to the 

human and natural environment 

associated with the IHA requiring 

evaluation in a supplemental EA and 

we, therefore, intend to reaffirm the 

2012 FONSI. 

Proposed Authorization 

As a result of these preliminary 

determinations, NMFS proposes to 

authorize the take of marine mammals 

incidental to PISCO’s rocky intertidal 

monitoring research activities, provided 

the previously mentioned mitigation, 

monitoring, and reporting requirements 

are incorporated. 

Dated: October 25, 2013. 

Donna S. Wieting, 

Director, Office of Protected Resources, 

National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Proposed Collection; 

Comment Request: Part 41, Relating to 

Security Futures Products 

AGENCY: Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Commodity Futures 

Trading Commission (CFTC) is 

announcing an opportunity for public 

comment on the extension of a proposed 

collection of certain information by the 

agency. In compliance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 

(PRA), (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.), Federal 

agencies are required to publish notice 

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proposed collection of information, 

including each proposed extension of an 

existing collection of information, and 

to allow 60 days for public comment in 

response to the notice. This notice 

solicits comments, as described below, 

on the proposed Information Collection 

Request (ICR) titled: Part 41, Relating to 

Security Futures Products; OMB Control 

Number 3038–0059. 

DATES: Comments must be submitted on 

or before February 21, 2014. 

ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed to 

David Steinberg, Associate Director, 

Division of Market Oversight, U.S. 

Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission, 1155 21st Street NW., 

Washington, DC 20581. Comments may 

also be submitted, regarding the burden 

estimate, or any other aspect of the 

information collection, including 

suggestions for reducing the burden, by 

any of the following methods: 

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Online process: http://

comments.cftc.gov. Follow the 

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through the Web site. 

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1 17 CFR 145.9. 

Commodity Futures Trading 

Commission, 1155 21st Street NW., 

Washington, DC 20581. 

Hand delivery/Courier: Same as Mail 

above. 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://

www.regulations.gov/search/index.jsp. 

Follow the instructions for submitting 

comments. 

Please submit your comments using 

only one method. 

All comments must be submitted in 

English, or if not, accompanied by an 

English translation. Comments will be 

posted as received to http://

www.cftc.gov. You should submit only 

information that you wish to make 

available publicly. If you wish the 

Commission to consider information 

that you believe is exempt from 

disclosure under the Freedom of 

Information Act, a petition for 

confidential treatment of the exempt 

information may be submitted according 

to the procedures established in § 145.9 

of the Commission’s regulations.1

The Commission reserves the right, 

but shall have no obligation, to review, 

pre-screen, filter, redact, refuse, or 

remove any or all of your submission 

from http://www.cftc.gov that it may 

deem to be inappropriate for 

publication, such as obscene language. 

All submissions that have been redacted 

or removed that contain comments on 

the merits of the ICR will be retained in 

the public comment file and will be 

considered as required under the 

Administrative Procedure Act and other 

applicable laws, and may be accessible 

under the Freedom of Information Act. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

David Steinberg (202) 418–5102; FAX: 

(202) 418–5527; email: dsteinberg@

cftc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Affected Entities: Entities potentially 

affected by this action are businesses 

and other for-profit institutions. 

Title: Part 41, Relating to Security 

Futures Products (OMB Control No. 

3038–0059). This is a request for 

extension of a currently approved 

information collection. 

Abstract: Section 4d(c) of the 

Commodity Exchange Act (CEA), 7 

U.S.C. 6d(c), requires the CFTC to 

consult with the SEC and issue such 

rules, regulations, or orders as are 

necessary to avoid duplicative or 

conflicting regulations applicable to 

firms that are fully registered with the 

SEC as brokers or dealers (brokerdealers) and the CFTC as futures 

commission merchants (FCMs) 

involving provisions of the CEA that 

pertain to the treatment of customer 

funds. The CFTC, jointly with the SEC, 

issued regulations requiring such 

dually-registered firms to make choices 

as to how its customers’ transactions in 

security futures products (SFP) will be 

treated, either as securities transactions 

held in a securities account or as futures 

transactions held in a futures account. 

How an account is treated is important 

in the unlikely event of the insolvency 

of the firm. Securities accounts receive 

insurance protection under provisions 

of the Securities Investor Protection Act. 

By contrast, futures accounts are subject 

to the protections provided by the 

segregation requirements of the CEA. 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to, a collection of information 

unless it displays a currently valid OMB 

control number. The OMB control 

numbers for the CFTC’s regulations 

were published on December 30, 1981. 

See 46 FR 63035 (Dec. 30, 1981). 

The Commission would like to solicit 

comments to: 

• Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

functions of the Commission, including 

whether the information will have a 

practical use; 

• Evaluate the accuracy of the 

Commission’s estimate of the burden of 

the proposed collection of information, 

including the validity of the 

methodology and assumptions used; 

• Enhance the quality, usefulness, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and 

• Minimize the burden of 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 submission of responses. 

Burden Statement: The respondent 

burden for this collection is estimated to 

average .721 hours per response. This 

estimate includes the time needed to 

review instructions; develop, acquire, 

install, and utilize technology and 

systems for the purposes of collecting, 

validating, and verifying information, 

processing and maintaining information 

and disclosing and providing 

information; adjust the existing ways to 

comply with any previously applicable 

instructions and requirements; train 

personnel to be able to respond to a 

collection of information; and transmit 

or otherwise disclose the information. 

Respondents/Affected Entities: 144. 

Estimated number of responses: 

2,975. 

Estimated total annual burden on 

respondents: 2,146 hours. 

Frequency of collection: On occasion. 

The regulations require no new startup or operations and maintenance costs. 

Dated: December 17, 2013. 

Melissa D. Jurgens, 

Secretary of the Commission. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Navy 

Notice of Availability of the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Disposal and Reuse of Naval Air 

Station Joint Reserve Base Willow 

Grove, Horsham, Pennsylvania, and To 

Announce Public Meetings 

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 

1969 (Pub. L. 91–190, 42 United States 

Code [U.S.C.] 4321–4370f), as 

implemented by the Council on 

Environmental Quality Regulations (40 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Parts 

1500–1508), the Department of the Navy 

(DoN) has prepared and filed the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

to evaluate the potential environmental 

consequences associated with the 

disposal of Naval Air Station Joint 

Reserve Base (NAS JRB) Willow Grove, 

Horsham, Pennsylvania, and its 

subsequent reuse by the local 

redevelopment authority. On September 

15, 2011, the installation officially 

closed, as required by Public Law 101– 

510, the Defense Base Closure and 

Realignment Act of 1990, as amended in 

2005. Public meetings will be held in an 

open house format to provide 

information and receive oral and written 

comments on the Draft EIS. Federal, 

state, and local agencies and interested 

individuals are invited to be present or 

represented at the meetings. 

DATES AND ADDRESSES: The DoN is 

initiating a public comment period to 

provide the community an opportunity 

to comment on the Draft EIS. Federal, 

state, and local elected officials and 

agencies and the public are encouraged 

to provide written or oral comments at 

two scheduled open house public 

meetings to be held at the Horsham 

Township Community Center, located at 

1025 Horsham Road in Horsham 

Township, Pennsylvania. The public 

meetings are scheduled as follows: 

Monday, January 13, 2014 (5:00 p.m. to 

8:00 p.m.) 


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