Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 139 / Friday, July 23, 2021 / Notices 39081 

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Notice of Permit Applications Received 

Under the Antarctic Conservation Act 

of 1978 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Notice of permit applications 

received. 

SUMMARY: The National Science 

Foundation (NSF) is required to publish 

a 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 in 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 August 23, 2021. This 

application may be inspected by 

interested parties at the Permit Office, 

address below. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

addressed to Permit Office, Office of 

Polar Programs, National Science 

Foundation, 2415 Eisenhower Avenue, 

Alexandria, Virginia 22314. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Polly Penhale, ACA Permit Officer, at 

the above address, 703–292–7420, or 

ACApermits@nsf.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

National Science Foundation, as 

directed by the Antarctic Conservation 

Act of 1978 (Pub. L. 95–541, 45 CFR 

670) 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 the 

designation of certain animals and 

certain geographic areas a requiring 

special protection. 

Application Details 

Permit Application: 2022–001 

1. Applicant: Luis Huckstadt, Institute 

of Marine Sciences, University of 

California Santa Cruz. 

Activity for Which Permit is 

Requested: Take, Harmful interference, 

Import into U.S.A. The applicant 

proposes to study the foraging behavior, 

physiology, and habitat utilization of 

crabeater seals in the West Antarctic 

Peninsula. In each of three field seasons, 

the applicant would capture and tag no 

more than 40 adult individuals. 

Individual seals will be sedated and 

anesthetized during tagging and 

biological sampling procedures. 

Proposed procedures include the 

following: Weighing and measuring of 

individuals, flipper tagging and 

marking, attaching of instrumentation, 

tissue sampling, collecting blood 

samples and measuring blood volume, 

swabbing of mucous membranes, and 

determining body composition by 

metamorphic measurements. 

Location: West Antarctic Peninsula. 

Dates of Permitted Activities: January 

1, 2022–December 31, 2024. 

Erika N. Davis, 

Program Specialist, Office of Polar Programs. 

[FR Doc. 2021–15042 Filed 7–22–21; 8:45 am] 

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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

OFFICE OF SCIENCE AND 

TECHNOLOGY POLICY 

Request for Information (RFI) on an 

Implementation Plan for a National 

Artificial Intelligence Research 

Resource 

AGENCY: White House Office of Science 

and Technology Policy and National 

Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Request for information. 

SUMMARY: The Office of Science and 

Technology Policy and the National 

Science Foundation are issuing this 

Request for Information (RFI) to inform 

the work of the National Artificial 

Intelligence Research Resource (NAIRR) 

Task Force (‘‘Task Force’’). The Task 

Force has been directed by Congress to 

develop an implementation roadmap for 

a shared research infrastructure that 

would provide Artificial Intelligence 

(AI) researchers and students across 

scientific disciplines with access to 

computational resources, high-quality 

data, educational tools, and user 

support. 

DATES: To be considered, responses and 

comments must be received, no later 

than 11:59 p.m., EDT on September 1, 

2021. 

ADDRESSES: Comments submitted in 

response to this notice may be sent by 

any of the following methods: 

• Email: NAIRR-responses@nitrd.gov. 

Email submissions should be machinereadable and not be copy-protected. 

Submissions should include ‘‘RFI 

Response: National AI Research 

Resource’’ in the subject line of the 

message. 

• Mail: Attn: Wendy Wigen, NCO, 

2415 Eisenhower Avenue, Alexandria, 

VA 22314, USA. 

Instructions: Response to this RFI is 

voluntary. Each individual or institution 

is requested to submit only one 

response. Submissions must be in 12 

point or larger font, include a page 

number on each page, and not exceed 10 

pages. Responses should include the 

name of the person(s) or organization(s) 

filing the comment. Responses should 

refer to the particular topic number(s) 

and letter(s), as listed below, to which 

the comments pertain. 

Responses to this RFI may be posted 

online at www.ai.gov. Therefore, 

responses must be appropriate for 

posting publicly without change or 

redaction, and we request that no 

business proprietary information, 

copyrighted information, or personally 

identifiable information be submitted in 

response to this RFI. 

In accordance with FAR 15.202(3), 

responses to this notice are not offers 

and cannot be accepted by the 

Government to form a binding contract. 

Responders are solely responsible for all 

expenses associated with responding to 

this RFI. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Wendy Wigen and NAIRR-responses@

nitrd.gov, (202) 459–9683. Individuals 

who use a telecommunications device 

for the deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1– 

800–877–8339 between 8 a.m. and 8 

p.m., Eastern time, Monday through 

Friday. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

Congress directed the National 

Science Foundation (NSF), in 

coordination with the White House 

Office of Science and Technology Policy 

(OSTP), to establish the NAIRR Task 

Force in the William M. (Mac) 

Thornberry National Defense 

Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021, 

Public Law 116–283 § 5106, and in 

accordance with the provisions of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act. The 

mandate of the Task Force is to 

investigate the feasibility and 

advisability of establishing and 

sustaining a NAIRR and propose a 

roadmap detailing how such a resource 

should be established and sustained. 

The NAIRR is envisioned as a shared 

computing and data infrastructure that 

would provide AI researchers and 

students across scientific fields with 

access to a holistic advanced computing 

ecosystem. This would include secure, 

privacy-preserving frameworks; highquality, representative datasets; and 

appropriate educational tools and user 

support mechanisms. The goal for such 

a national resource is to democratize 

access to the cyberinfrastructure that 

fuels AI research and development, 

enabling all of America’s diverse AI 

researchers to fully participate in 


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