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Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 172 / Wednesday, September 6, 1995 / Rules and Regulations 46235 in 1979, Several Antarctic Treaty About 1,200 M by 500 M Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 172 / Wednesday, September 6, 1995 / Rules and Regulations 46235 in 1979, several Antarctic Treaty about 1,200 m by 500 m. Geothermal PART 670Ð[AMENDED] Consultative Meetings have been held in activity occurs along about 300±400 m accordance with Article IX of the of the ridge and is marked by 1. The authority citation for Part 670 Antarctic Treaty. The regulations have discontinuous areas of ice-free ground, continues to read as follows: been amended from time to time based surrounded by numerous ice hummocks Authority: 16 U.S.C. 2405, as amended. on recommendations adopted at these up to 1 m high and scattered hollow ice 2. Section 670.30 is revised to read as meetings. The amendments that are the towers up to several meters in diameter follows: subject of this rule implement and 4 m high. The warm ice-free areas recommendations XVI±4, XVI±8 and are mostly gently sloping with narrow § 670.30 Designation of specially XVI±9 of the 16th Antarctic Treaty terraces up to 1.5 m wide. The protected areas. Consultative Meeting (16th ATCM). geothermal ground within the Area The Act states that the Director shall Because the amendments merely supports a unique community of designate as a specially protected area, implement recommendations adopted at bryophytes, algae and microbiota, each area identified under the Agreed the 16th ATCM, public comments were including the only known occurrence in Measures as needing special protection. not obtained before making the the Antarctic of the moss Campylopus The following areas have been so amendment effective. pyriformis. identified and designated as Specially The recommendations which are the Specially Protected Area No. 23: Protected Areas: subject of this amendment are as Forlidas Pond, about 100 m in diameter, (a) SPA 1, Taylor Rookery, follows: is situated near the east end of the Dufek MacRobertson Land Recommendation XVI±4 re-designates Massif in a small unnamed dry valley (b) SPA 2, Rookery Islands, Holme Bay Site of Special Scientific Interest No. 30, about 1 km to the east of the northern (c) SPA 3, Ardrey Island and Odbert Avian Island, Marguerite Bay, Antarctic edge of the Forlidas Ridge and about 1 Island, Budd Coast Peninsula as Specially Protected Area km northwest of Davis Valley. The (d) SPA 4, Sabrina Island, Balleny No. 21 and provides that it be subject to unnamed dry valley is separated from Islands the management plan accompanying the Davis Valley by a northeast trending (e) SPA 5, Beaufort Island, Ross Sea description of the protected area. ridge several kilometers long. The (f) SPA 7, Cape Hallett, Victoria Land Recommendation XVI±8 provides that position of Forlidas Pond is 82°27′15′′ S, (g) SPA 8, Dion Islands, Marguerite Bay, Cryptogram Ridge, Mount Melbourne, 15°21′ W. The Area includes smaller Antarctic Peninsula Victoria Land, be designated as ponds that occur along the ice margin at (h) SPA 9, Green Island, Berthelot Specially Protected Area No. 22 and be the northern edge of Davis Valley, a Islands, Antarctic Peninsula subject to the management plan short distance east of Forlidas Pond. (i) SPA 13, Moe Island, South Orkney annexed thereto. The Area consists of two parts about 500 Islands Recommendation XVI±9 provides that meters apart and includes all that area (j) SPA 14, Lynch Island, South Orkney Forlidas Pond and Davis Valley Ponds within 500 m of the center of Forlidas Islands be designated as Specially Protected Pond and all that area within a 500 m (k) SPA 15, Southern Powell Island and Area No. 23 and be subject to the radius of several meltwater ponds at the adjacent islands, South Orkney management plan annex thereto. ice margin along the northern edge of Islands Specially Protected Area No. 21: Davis Valley. The Area contains some of (l) SPA 16, Coppermine Peninsula, ° ′ ° ′ Avian Island (67 46 S, 68 54 W) lies the most southerly freshwater ponds Robert Island 0.25 km south of the south-west tip of known in Antarctica containing plant (m) SPA 17, Litchfield Island, Arthur Adelaide Island in north-west life. Harbor, Palmer Archipelago Marguerite Bay, south-west Antarctic (n) SPA 18, North Coronation Island, Peninsula. The Area consists of Avian Determinations South Orkney Islands Island together with its littoral zone. It I have determined, under the criteria (o) SPA 19, Lagotellerie Island, is 1.45 km long by 0.8 km at its widest set forth in Executive Order 12866, that Marguerite Bay (total area about 49 ha), and rises to just this rule is not a significant regulatory (p) SPA 20, `New College Valley', over 40 m altitude in the south. It is action requiring review by the Office of Caughley Beach, Cape Bird, Ross almost entirely ice-free in summer. Information and Regulatory Affairs. I Island There are several shallow melt pools, have also determined that this rule (q) SPA 21, Avian Island, North-west the largest being on the eastern raised involves a foreign affairs function of the Marguerite Bay (r) SPA 22, Cryptogram Ridge, Mount beach terrace. There are two small United States and is, therefore, exempt Melbourne, Victoria Land dilapidated refuge huts, one near the from the notice requirements of section (s) SPA 23, Forlidas Pond and Davis north-west and the other near the mid- 553 of the Administrative Procedure Act Valley Ponds east shores of the island. The Area is and from regulatory flexibility analysis unique in the Antarctic Peninsula requirements of the Regulatory Note: Maps specifying these areas in region for its abundance and diversity of Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 601±612. greater detail may be obtained from the breeding seabirds. The Blue-eyed shag Finally, I have reviewed this rule in Director. colony is one of the largest known in the light of section 2 of Executive Order § 670.34 [Amended] Antarctic, and the Adelie penguin 12778 and certify for the National 3. Section 670.34 is amended by colony is the largest on the Antarctic Science Foundation that this rule meets removing paragraph (b)(30) and Peninsula. the applicable standards provided in redesignating paragraphs (b)(31)±(b)(36) Specially Protected Area No. 22: sections 2(a) and 2(b) of that order. as paragraphs (b)(30)±(b)(35). Mount Melbourne (74°21′ S, 164°42′ W lies between Wood Bay and Campbell List of Subjects in 45 CFR Part 670 Dated: August 18, 1995. Glacier, northern Victoria Land, on the Antarctica, Conservation. Lawrence Rudolph, western side of the Ross Sea. The Area Pursuant to the authority granted by General Counsel, National Science includes most of Cryptogram Ridge on 16 U.S.C. 2405(b)(3), NSF hereby Foundation. the southern rim of the main summit amends 45 CFR Part 670 as set forth [FR Doc. 95±21978 Filed 9±5±95; 8:45 am] crater (2,733 m altitude), and extends to below. BILLING CODE 7555±01±P 46236 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 172 / Wednesday, September 6, 1995 / Rules and Regulations DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION for brake adjustment indicators (BAIs) replacement of a manual brake adjuster on air-braked CMVs with external (MBA)? Please include the cost of the Federal Highway Administration adjustment mechanisms manufactured device, the time required to complete on or after October 20, 1994. the installation, and a representative 49 CFR Part 393 Because the FHWA also believed hourly salary of the mechanic [FHWA Docket No. MC±94±9] there were opportunities for performing the installation. Please also improvements to the operational safety include a ``loss of use'' cost figure if a RIN 2125±AD37 of CMVs manufactured prior to the CMV were to be taken out of revenue effective dates of the amendments to Parts and Accessories Necessary for service for retrofitting at some time FMVSS Nos. 105 and 121, the agency Safe Operation; Automatic Brake other than a time when a brake adjuster requested information regarding the Adjusters and Brake Adjustment would normally be due for replacement. potential impacts of requiring CMVs How often do tractors and trailers visit Indicators subject to the FMCSRs to be retrofitted a facility where retrofitting could take AGENCY: Federal Highway with ABAs, and of requiring air-braked place? Administration (FHWA), DOT. CMVs with external adjustment 8. Should the FHWA consider a ACTION: Final rule. mechanisms to be retrofitted with BAIs. retrofitting requirement for The FHWA requested comments on hydraulically-braked CMVs? Please SUMMARY: The FHWA is adopting a final eight questions specifically concerning address the cost questions asked in rule requiring the use of automatic brake the issue of retrofits: Question 7. adjusters (ABAs) on hydraulically- 1. Should air-braked CMVs Discussion of Comments braked commercial motor vehicles manufactured before the effective date (CMVs) and air-braked CMVs of NHTSA's rule be required to be Twenty-seven commenters responded manufactured on or after October 20, retrofitted with ABAs? to the notice: The Heavy Duty Brake 1993, and October 20, 1994, 2. Should all air-braked CMVs with Manufacturers Council (HDBMC), an respectively. This rulemaking is external brake adjustment mechanisms association of 10 heavy duty brake intended to: Ensure that the operational be required to be retrofitted with brake component manufacturers; 3 standards for brakes in the Federal adjustment indicators? manufacturers of brake components Motor Carrier Safety Regulations 3. If certain CMVs are to be retrofitted, (Rockwell International, Haldex (FMCSRs) are consistent with the how much time should be allowed for Corporation, Midland-Grau Heavy Duty manufacturing standards in the Federal installation of the new equipment? Systems); a manufacturer of brake Motor Vehicle Safety Standards 4. Are there certain types or adjustment indicators (Tattle-Tale); a (FMVSSs), Nos.
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