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NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

Notice of Availability of a Draft SiteSpecific Environmental Assessment 

and Notice of Public Hearings; 

Correction 

AGENCY: National Science Foundation. 

ACTION: Notice of the availability of a 

Draft Site-Specific Environmental 

Assessment (Draft SSEA) for the Ocean 

Observatories Initiative (OOI), request 

for public comment on the Draft SSEA, 

and notice of public hearings; 

Correction. 

SUMMARY: The National Science 

Foundation (NSF) published a 

document in the Federal Register of 

August 16, 2010, concerning requests 

for public comment on a Draft SiteSpecific Environmental Assessment for 

the Ocean Observatories Initiative 

(OOI). The document did not include 

the dates and times for the open house 

sessions. 

Correction 

In the Federal Register of August 16, 

2010, in FR Doc. 2010–20107, on page 

50008, in the second column, correct 

the DATES AND ADDRESSES caption to 

read: 

DATES AND ADDRESSES: All hearings will 

start with an open house session from 

7 p.m. to 7:45 p.m. A presentation and 

formal public comment period will be 

held from 7:45 p.m. to 9 p.m. Public 

hearings will be held on the following 

dates and at the following locations: 

• Wednesday, September 1, 2010, at 

Westport Maritime Museum, Westport, 

WA. 

• Thursday, September 2, 2010, at 

Guin Library Seminar Room, Hatfield 

Marine Science Center, Newport, OR. 

• Wednesday, September 8, 2010 

date, at New Bedford Library, 613 

Pleasant Street, New Bedford, MA 

02740–6203. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Copies of the Draft SSEA are available 

upon request from: Jean McGovern, 

NSF, Division of Ocean Sciences, 4201 

Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230; 

Telephone: (703) 292–7591. The Draft 

SSEA is also available at the following 

Web site: http://www.nsf.gov/geo/oce/ 

envcomp/index.jsp. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The text 

from the original notice follows: 

The National Science Foundation 

(NSF) gives notice of the availability of 

the Draft SSEA for the OOI, and requests 

public review and comment on the 

document. NSF also provides notice of 

public hearings on the Draft SSEA for 

the OOI. The Division of Ocean 

Sciences in the Directorate for 

Geosciences (GEO/OCE) has prepared a 

Draft SSEA for the OOI, a multi-million 

dollar Major Research Equipment and 

Facilities Construction effort intended 

to put moored and cable infrastructure 

in discrete locations in the coastal and 

global ocean. The Draft SSEA has been 

prepared to assess the potential impacts 

on the human and natural environment 

associated with proposed site-specific 

requirements in the design, installation, 

and operation of the OOI that were 

previously assessed in a 2008 

Programmatic Environmental 

Assessment (PEA) and a 2009 

Supplemental Environmental Report 

(SER). The scope of the environmental 

impact analysis of the SSEA is tiered 

from the previously prepared PEA, 

associated Finding of No Significant 

Impact (FONSI), and SER. It focuses 

only on those activities and the 

associated potential impacts, including 

cumulative impacts, resulting from the 

site-specific installation and operation 

of OOI assets and not previously 

assessed in the PEA and SER. The Draft 

SSEA is available for public comment 

for a 30-day period. Comments may be 

mailed to Jean McGovern, National 

Science Foundation, Division of Ocean 

Sciences, 4201 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, 

VA 22230, or submitted via e-mail at 

nepacomments@nsf.gov. The deadline 

for submitting comments is September 

15, 2010. 

NSF will conduct three public 

hearings to receive oral and written 

comments on the Draft SSEA. Federal, 

state, and local agencies, Native 

American Tribes and Nations, and 

interested individuals are invited to be 

present or represented at the public 

hearings. This notice announces the 

dates and locations of the public 

hearings for this Draft SSEA. An open 

house session will precede the 

scheduled public hearing at each of the 

locations listed below and will allow 

individuals to review the information 

presented in the Draft SSEA. NSF 

representatives will be available during 

the open house sessions to clarify 

information related to the Draft SSEA. 

Oceanographic research has long 

relied on research vessel cruises 

(expeditions) as the predominate means 

to make direct measurements of the 

ocean. Remote sensing (use of satellites) 

has greatly advanced abilities to 

measure ocean surface characteristics 

over extended periods of time. A major 

advancement for oceanographic 

research methods is the ability to make 

sustained, long-term, and adaptive 

measurements from the surface to the 

ocean bottom. ‘‘Ocean Observatories’’ are 

now being developed to further this 

goal. Building upon recent technology 

advances and lessons learned from 

prototype ocean observatories, NSF’s 

Ocean Sciences Division (OCE) is 

proposing to fund the OOI, an 

interactive, globally distributed and 

integrated infrastructure that will be the 

backbone for the next generation of 

ocean sensors and resulting complex 

ocean studies presently unachievable. 

The OOI reflects a community-wide, 

national and international scientific 

planning effort and is a key NSF 

contribution to the broader effort to 

establish focused national ocean 

observatory capabilities through the 

Integrated Ocean Observing System 

(IOOS). 

The OOI infrastructure would include 

cables, buoys, deployment platforms, 

moorings, junction boxes, electric power 

generation (solar, wind, and/or fuel 

cell,), and two-way communications 

systems. This large-scale infrastructure 

would support sensors located at the sea 

surface, in the water column, and at or 

beneath the seafloor. The OOI would 

also support related elements, such as 

unified project management, data 

dissemination and archiving, modeling 

of oceanographic processes, and 

education and outreach activities 

essential to the long-term success of 

ocean science. It would include the first 

U.S. multi-node cabled observatory; 

fixed and re-locatable coastal arrays 

coupled with mobile assets; and 

advanced buoys for interdisciplinary 

measurements, especially for data 

limited areas of the Southern Ocean and 

other high-latitude locations. 

The OOI design is based upon three 

main technical elements across global, 

regional, and coastal scales. At the 

global and coastal scales, moorings 

would provide locally generated power 

to seafloor and platform instruments 

and sensors and use a satellite link to 

shore and the Internet. Up to four Global 

Scale Nodes (GSN) or buoy sites are 

proposed for ocean sensing in the 

Eastern Pacific and Atlantic oceans. The 

Regional-Scale Nodes (RSN) off the 

coast of Washington and Oregon would 

consist of seafloor observatories with 

various chemical, biological, and 

geological sensors linked with 

submarine cables to shore that provide 

power and Internet connectivity. 

Coastal-Scale Nodes (CSN) would be 

represented by the fixed Endurance 

Array, consisting of a combination of 

cabled nodes and stand-alone moorings, 

off the coast of Washington and Oregon, 

and the relocatable Pioneer Array off the 

coast of Massachusetts, consisting of a 

suite of stand-alone moorings. In 

addition, there would be an integration 

of mobile assets such as autonomous 

underwater vehicles (AUVS) and/or 

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gliders with the GSN, RSN, and CSN 

observatories. 

The Draft SSEA is available upon 

request from: Jean McGovern, NSF, 

Division of Ocean Sciences, 4201 

Wilson Blvd., Arlington, VA 22230; 

Telephone: (703) 292–7591. It is also 

available for electronic public viewing 

at the following Web site: http:// 

www.nsf.gov/geo/oce/envcomp/ 

index.jsp. 

Federal, state, local agencies, Native 

American Tribes and Nations, and 

interested parties are invited to be 

present or represented at the public 

hearings. Written comments can also be 

submitted during the open house 

sessions preceding the public hearings 

or at any time during the 30-day public 

review period of the Draft SSEA. 

Oral statements will be heard and 

transcribed by a stenographer; however, 

to ensure the accuracy of the record, all 

statements should be submitted in 

writing. All statements, both oral and 

written, will become part of the public 

record on the Draft SSEA and will be 

responded to in the Final SSEA. Equal 

weight will be given to both oral and 

written statements. In the interest of 

time available time, and to ensure all 

who wish to give an oral statement have 

the opportunity to do so, each speaker’s 

comments will be limited to three (3) 

minutes. If a long statement is to be 

presented, it should be summarized at 

the public hearing with the full text 

submitted either in writing at the 

hearing or mailed to Jean McGovern, 

National Science Foundation, Division 

of Ocean Sciences, 4201 Wilson Blvd., 

Arlington, VA 22230. In addition, 

comments may be submitted via e-mail 

at nepacomments@nsf.gov. 

Dated: August 20, 2010. 

Suzanne H. Plimpton, 

Reports Clearance Officer, National Science 

Foundation. 

[FR Doc. 2010–21154 Filed 8–25–10; 8:45 am] 

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Advisory Committee on Reactor 

Safeguards (ACRS); Meeting of the 

ACRS Subcommittee on Regulatory 

Policies and Practices 

The ACRS Subcommittee on 

Regulatory Policies and Practices will 

hold a meeting on September 22, 2010, 

Room T–2B1, 11545 Rockville Pike, 

Rockville, Maryland. 

The entire meeting will be open to 

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The agenda for the subject meeting 

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Wednesday, September 22, 2010–8:30 

a.m. Until 5 p.m. 

The Subcommittee will discuss the 

Draft Final Rule to Risk-Informed 

Changes to Loss-of-Coolant Accident 

Technical Requirements. The 

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Dated: August 19, 2010. 

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Committee on Reactor Safeguards. 

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Advisory Committee on Reactor 

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ACRS Subcommittee on AP1000 

The ACRS Subcommittee on AP1000 

will hold a meeting on September 20– 

21, 2010, Room T–2B1, 11545 Rockville 

Pike, Rockville, Maryland. 

The entire meeting will be open to 

public attendance, with the exception of 

a portion that may be closed to protect 

unclassified safeguards information or 

information that is proprietary to 

Westinghouse Electric Company and its 

contractors, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 

552b(c)(3) and (4). 

The agenda for the subject meeting 

shall be as follows: 

Monday, September 20, 2010—8:30 

a.m. Until 5 p.m. and Tuesday, 

September 21, 2010, 8:30 a.m.–5 p.m. 

The Subcommittee will discuss 

selected chapters of the Final Safety 

Evaluation Report (FSER) of the 

Revision 17 to AP1000 Design Control 

Document (DCD) Amendment and the 

Combined License Application (COL). 

The Subcommittee will hear 

presentations by and hold discussions 

with representatives of the NRC staff, 

Westinghouse, COL Applicant, and 

other interested persons regarding this 

matter. The Subcommittee will gather 

information, analyze relevant issues and 

facts, and formulate proposed positions 

and actions, as appropriate, for 

deliberation by the Full Committee. 

Members of the public desiring to 

provide oral statements and/or written 

comments should notify the Designated 

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Weidong.Wang@nrc.gov) five days prior 

to the meeting, if possible, so that 

appropriate arrangements can be made. 

Thirty-five hard copies of each 

presentation or handout should be 

provided to the DFO thirty minutes 

before the meeting. In addition, one 

electronic copy of each presentation 

should be e-mailed to the DFO one day 

before the meeting. If an electronic copy 

cannot be provided within this 

timeframe, presenters should provide 

the DFO with a CD containing each 

presentation at least thirty minutes 

before the meeting. Electronic 

recordings will be permitted only 

during those portions of the meeting 

that are open to the public. Detailed 

procedures for the conduct of and 

participation in ACRS meetings were 

published in the Federal Register on 

October 14, 2009, (74 FR 58268–58269). 

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