[Federal Register Volume 75, Number 232 (Friday, December 3, 2010)]
[Notices]
[Pages 75501-75502]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2010-30337]


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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 January 3, 2011. 
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 requiring special protection. The regulations 
establish such a permit system to designate Antarctic Specially 
Protected Areas.
    The applications received are as follows:
    1. Applicant: Permit Application No. 2011-023, Joseph Levy, 
Department of Geology, Portland State University, PO Box 751, Portland, 
OR 97207-0751.
    Activity for Which Permit is Requested: Take and Import into the 
USA. The applicant plans to enter the Garwood Valley to collect algal 
mats from sediment outcrops where exposed, and from the surface of 
ponds. The goal of the project is to define the rate of geomorphic 
change in Garwood Valley in response to changing climate conditions. 
The geomorphic record will be reconstructed over the past 1-=2- kyr to 
infer past climate-driven landscape alteration at the end of the LGM 
and examine the current episode of landscape changes, including 
assessing the thermal equilibrium of buried massive ice. The past and 
current geomorphic changes will be used as a guide for predicting 
landscape response in the Dry Valleys should the >130 km\2\ of ice-
cored terrain in the valleys also begin to melt.
    Location: Garwood Valley, Dry Valleys.
    Dates: January 1, 2011 to February 1, 2014.

Nadene G. Kennedy,
Permit Officer, Office of Polar Programs.
[FR Doc. 2010-30337 Filed 12-2-10; 8:45 am]
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