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Permit 

application No. Applicant Species/numbers Location Activity Type of take Permit action 

TE 034476–4 ..... Florida Forest 

Service, 

Blackwater Forestry Center, Milton, FL.

Red-cockaded woodpecker (Picoides 

borealis).

Blackwater River 

State Forest, 

Florida.

Population management and 

monitoring.

Install artificial nest 

cavities and 

restrictors, monitor nest cavities, 

capture, band, 

and translocate.

Renewal and 

Amendment. 

Authority: We provide this notice under 

section 10(c) of the Act. 

Dated: September 7, 2017. 

Aaron L. Valenta, 

Acting Assistant Regional Director, Ecological 

Services, Southeast Region. 

[FR Doc. 2017–23390 Filed 10–26–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4333–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[LLCAD06000.51010000.

ER0000.LVRWB17B5480 17X5017AP; 

CACA41880] 

Notice of Availability of the Draft 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement and Environmental Impact 

Report and Draft Land Use Plan 

Amendment for the Palen Solar 

Photovoltaic Project, California 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969, as amended (NEPA), and the 

Federal Land Policy and Management 

Act of 1976, as amended (FLPMA), the 

Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has 

prepared a Draft Amendment to the 

California Desert Conservation Area 

(CDCA) Plan and a Draft Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

for the Palen Solar Photovoltaic (PSP) 

Project and by this Notice is announcing 

the opening of the comment period. 

This document is also an Environmental 

Impact Report (EIR) prepared by 

Riverside County under the California 

Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). 

DATES: To ensure that all comments will 

be considered, the BLM must receive 

written comments on the Draft 

Supplemental EIS/EIR within 45 days 

following the date the Environmental 

Protection Agency publishes its Notice 

of Availability in the Federal Register. 

The BLM will announce future meetings 

or hearings and any other public 

involvement activities at least 15 days 

in advance through public notices, 

media releases, on the project Web site, 

and/or mailings. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

related to the PSP Project by any of the 

following methods: 

Web site: https://eplanning.blm.gov/ 

epl-front-office/eplanning/ 

planAndProjectSite.do?method

Name=renderDefaultPlanOrProject

Site&projectId=68122. 

Email: palensolar@blm.gov. 

Mail: Palen Solar PV Project, c/o 

Aspen Environmental Group, 235 

Montgomery Street, Suite 935, San 

Francisco, CA 94104 

Copies of the Draft Supplemental EIS/ 

EIR are available in the BLM-Palm 

Springs South Coast Field Office, 1201 

Bird Center Drive, Palm Springs, CA 

92262, and at the BLM California Desert 

District Office, 22835 Calle San Juan De 

Los Lagos, Moreno Valley, CA 92553, 

and electronically on the project Web 

site. Compact Disc copies of the 

document are available through request 

on this project Web site address. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Mark DeMaio, BLM Project Manager, 

telephone: (760) 833–7124; address: 

BLM, Palm Springs-South Coast Field 

Office, 1201 Bird Center Drive, Palm 

Springs, CA 92262; email: mdemaio@

blm.gov. 

Persons who use telecommunication 

devices for the deaf may call the Federal 

Relay Service at 1–800–877–8339 to 

contact the above individual during 

normal business hours. The Service is 

available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 

to leave a message or questions with the 

above individual regarding the project. 

You will receive a reply during normal 

business hours. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: EDF 

Renewable Energy has applied for a 

Right-of-Way (ROW) from the BLM to 

construct, operate, maintain, and 

decommission a 500 megawatt (MW) 

solar photovoltaic facility near Desert 

Center, Riverside County, California. 

The ROW application area comprises 

about 4,200 acres, with a proposed 

project footprint of about 3,400 acres. 

The proposed project also includes 

construction of a 6.7-mile single circuit 

230 kilovolt generation interconnection 

(gen-tie) transmission line connecting 

the project to the Southern California 

Edison (SCE) Red Bluff Substation. 

The BLM is also considering an 

amendment to the CDCA Plan that 

would be necessary to authorize the 

project. This is a joint EIS/EIR for 

compliance with NEPA and CEQA. 

Riverside County is the lead agency 

under CEQA. 

This Project application was 

originally submitted in 2007 as the 

Palen Solar Power Project (PSPP) by 

Palen Solar I, LLC (PSI), a wholly 

owned subsidiary of Solar Millennium. 

The PSPP was proposed as a solar 

trough project, and was the subject of an 

EIS under NEPA. The BLM, pursuant to 

its obligations under FLPMA and NEPA, 

published a Draft EIS, followed by a 

Proposed Resource Management Plan 

Amendment (RMP) and Final EIS on 

May 13, 2011 (76 FR 28064). 

Before the BLM issued a Record of 

Decision (ROD), PSI informed the BLM 

that it would not construct the Project 

due to bankruptcy. As a result, the BLM 

did not issue a ROD, did not amend the 

RMP, and did not issue a ROW grant for 

the PSPP. 

On June 21, 2012, the bankruptcy 

court approved the transfer of the 

application from PSI to Palen Solar III, 

LLC (PSIII). BrightSource Energy Inc., 

(BSE) then acquired all rights to PSIII at 

auction. PSIII submitted a revised ROW 

application to the BLM for the Palen 

Solar Electricity Generating System 

Project (PSEGS), a 500 MW 

concentrating solar power tower 

technology facility and single-circuit 

230 kV gen-tie line. On July 27, 2013, 

the BLM issued a Draft Supplemental 

EIS and Plan Amendment to evaluate 

the potential additional environmental 

impacts caused by PSEGS. As part of the 

State permitting process, the California 

Energy Commission evaluated the 

PSEGS under CEQA, and issued 

Preliminary and Final Staff Assessments 

for the amended project in June and 

November of 2013, respectively. 

The BLM did not issue a Final 

Supplemental EIS for the PSEGS Project 

because BSE and its partner, Abengoa 

Solar Inc., abandoned the State 

authorization proceedings at the 

California Energy Commission. In 

December 2015, EDF Renewable Energy 

acquired the PSEGS project. EDF 

Renewable Energy has submitted a 

revised ROW application for the 

Proposed Project, which is analyzed in 


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this Draft Supplemental EIS/EIR and 

Draft Plan Amendment. 

For the PSP Project, the BLM held 

public meetings on the revised ROW 

application in June and August 2016 in 

Palm Springs, California. The Draft 

Supplemental EIS/EIR includes analysis 

of the revised ROW application as it 

relates to the following issues: 

(1) Updated description of the 

Proposed Project, based on the revised 

ROW application; 

(2) Impacts to cultural resources and 

tribal concerns; 

(3) Impacts to the Sand Transport 

Corridor and Mojave fringe-toed lizard 

habitat and washes; 

(4) Impacts to Joshua Tree National 

Park; 

(5) Impacts to avian species; 

(6) Impacts to visual resources; and 

(7) Relationship between the project 

and the regional renewable energy 

planning in the Desert Renewable 

Energy Conservation Plan. 

In addition to the Proposed Action, 

the Draft Supplemental EIS/EIR 

considers a No-Action Alternative and 

two additional action alternatives. 

Alternative 1, Reduced Footprint, would 

be a 500 MW Photovoltaic (PV) array on 

about 3,100 acres. It avoids the central 

and largest desert wash and 

incorporates a more efficient use of the 

land for the solar array. Alternative 2, 

Avoidance Alternative, would be an up 

to 230 MW solar PV array on about 

1,620 acres. Like the Proposed Action, 

under each of these alternatives, the 

BLM would amend the CDCA Plan to 

allow the project. Under the No-Action 

Alternative, the BLM would deny the 

ROW application, and would not amend 

the CDCA Plan to allow the project. 

The BLM has selected Alternative 1— 

Reduced Footprint Alternative—as the 

Agency-Preferred Alternative for the 

Draft Supplemental EIS. The BLM and 

other cooperating agencies involved are 

inviting Draft Supplemental EIS 

reviewers to offer comments on the 

comparison of alternatives, as presented 

in the document. 

Your input is important and will be 

considered in the environmental and 

land-use planning analysis. Please note 

that public comments and information 

submitted, including names, street 

addresses, and email addresses of 

persons who submit comments will be 

available for public review and 

disclosure at the above address during 

regular business hours (8 a.m. to 4 p.m.), 

Monday through Friday, except 

holidays. 

Before including your address, phone 

number, email address, or other 

personal identifying information in your 

comment, you should be aware that 

your entire comment—including your 

personal identifying information—may 

be made publicly available at any time. 

While you can ask us in your comment 

to withhold your personal identifying 

information from public review, we 

cannot guarantee that we will be able to 

do so. 

Authority: 40 CFR 1506.6, 40 CFR 

1506.10, 43 CFR 1610.2. 

Danielle Chi, 

Deputy State Director, California. 

[FR Doc. 2017–23417 Filed 10–26–17; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–40–P 

INTERNATIONAL TRADE 

COMMISSION 

[Investigation No. 337–TA–979] 

Certain Radio Frequency Identification 

(‘‘RFID’’) Products and Components 

Thereof Commission Determination 

Finding No Violation of Section 337; 

Termination of the Investigation 

AGENCY: U.S. International Trade 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the U.S. International Trade 

Commission has determined to find no 

violation of section 337 of the Tariff Act 

of 1930, in the above-identified 

investigation. The investigation is 

terminated in its entirety. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Cathy Chen, Esq., Office of the General 

Counsel, U.S. International Trade 

Commission, 500 E Street SW., 

Washington, DC 20436, telephone (202) 

205–2392. Copies of non-confidential 

documents filed in connection with this 

investigation are or will be available for 

inspection during official business 

hours (8:45 a.m. to 5:15 p.m.) in the 

Office of the Secretary, U.S. 

International Trade Commission, 500 E 

Street SW., Washington, DC 20436, 

telephone (202) 205–2000. General 

information concerning the Commission 

may also be obtained by accessing its 

Internet server at https://www.usitc.gov. 

The public record for this investigation 

may be viewed on the Commission’s 

electronic docket (EDIS) at https://

edis.usitc.gov. Hearing-impaired 

persons are advised that information on 

this matter can be obtained by 

contacting the Commission’s TDD 

terminal on (202) 205–1810. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Commission instituted this investigation 

on January 11, 2016, based on a 

complaint filed by Neology, Inc. of 

Poway, California (‘‘Neology’’). 81 FR 

1205–06 (Jan. 11, 2016). The complaint, 

as supplemented, alleges violations of 

section 337 in the importation into the 

United States, the sale for importation, 

and the sale within the United States 

after importation of certain radio 

frequency identification (‘‘RFID’’) 

products and components thereof by 

reason of infringement of certain claims 

of U.S. Patent Nos. 8,325,044 (‘‘the ’044 

patent’’); 7,119,664 (‘‘the ’664 patent’’); 

and 8,587,436 (‘‘the ’436 patent’’). The 

complaint further alleges that an 

industry in the United States exists as 

required by 19 U.S.C. 1337(a)(2). The 

notice of investigation named numerous 

respondents. Respondents Kapsch 

TrafficCom IVHS, Inc. of McLean, 

Virginia; Kapsch TrafficCom Holding 

Corp. of McLean, Virginia; Kapsch 

TrafficCom Canada, Inc. of Mississauga, 

Ontario, Canada; Star Systems 

International, Ltd. of Kwai Chung, Hong 

Kong; and STAR RFID Co., Ltd. of 

Bangkok, Thailand (collectively, 

‘‘Respondents’’) remain in the 

investigation. The Office of Unfair 

Import Investigations is also a party in 

this investigation. 

All asserted claims of the ’664 patent 

and certain asserted claims of the ’044 

patent and the ’436 patent have been 

terminated from the investigation. See 

Comm’n Notice (Sept. 27, 2016). Only 

claims 13, 14, and 25 of the ’044 patent 

and claims 1, 2, and 4 of the ’436 patent 

remain in the investigation (collectively, 

‘‘the Asserted Claims’’). 

On June 22, 2017, the ALJ issued her 

final ID finding no violation of section 

337 by the Respondents in connection 

with the Asserted Claims. The final ID 

found that all of the Asserted Claims are 

invalid on multiple grounds. Had the 

Asserted Claims not been found invalid, 

the final ID also found that the accused 

products infringe the Asserted Claims; 

that Neology’s domestic industry 

products practice claim 25 of the ’044 

patent and claims 1, 2, and 4 of the ’436 

patent; and that Neology has satisfied 

the economic prong of the domestic 

industry requirement as to the ’044 and 

the ’436 patents. 

Neology filed a timely petition for 

review of the final ID, challenging the 

final ID’s finding that the Asserted 

Claims are invalid. That same day, the 

Commission’s Investigative Attorney 

(‘‘IA’’) filed a contingent petition for 

review of the final ID and Respondents 

filed a joint contingent petition for 

review of the final ID. Neology and the 

IA both challenge certain of the final 

ID’s findings with respect to the 

economic prong of the domestic 

industry requirement as to the ’436 

patent. Respondents also challenge the 

final ID’s finding that the Asserted 


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