[Federal Register: November 10, 2003 (Volume 68, Number 217)]
[Notices]
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From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
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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, Pub. L. 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 December 10, 2003.
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
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:
Applicant: Thomas A. Day, School of Life Sciences, Arizona State
University, P.O. Box 874501, Tempe AZ 85287-4501.
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Activity for Which Permit Is Requested
Take and Enter Antarctic Specially Protected Area. The applicant
proposes to collect up to 100 seeds and 300 plants of Deschampsia
antarctic (Antarctic hairgrass), and up to 100 seed capsules and up to
300 plants of Colobanthus quitensis (Antarctic pearlwort), as well as
soil samples. This material will be used to study the effects of
climate change (warming, altered precipitation and enhanced UV-B) on
Antarctic plants and productivity of Antarctic terrestrial ecosystems.
Seeds are needed to propagate material at the applicant's home
institution for examining plant responses to climate change factors.
Plants and soils are needed to examine how plant productivity and soil
characteristics (e.g., carbon pools) change along natural microclimate
gradients representing differences in temperature and moister regime.
Plants and soils are also needed for transplant in the lab at Palmer
Station where temperatures, precipitation, and UV-B radiation will be
manipulated around the plants in order to study their responses.
Transported plants and soils will subsequently be harvested and
returned to the applicant's home institution for chemical analyses.
Location
Biscoe Point (ASPA 139) and other islands in the vicinity
of Palmer Station, Anvers Island.
Dates
December 1, 2003 to August 31, 2006.
Nadene G. Kennedy,
Permit Officer, Office of Polar Programs.
[FR Doc. 03-28224 Filed 11-7-03; 8:45 am]
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