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designation of certain animals and location will be visited one to three Dates: October 1, 2016–September 30, certain geographic areas a requiring times each year during the Austral 2021. special protection. The regulations summer (October to March). The Nadene G. Kennedy, establish such a permit system to applicant has applied for a permit to designate Specially Protected take the following species and numbers Polar Coordination Specialist, Division of Polar Programs. Areas. of birds: Less than 30 per year of gentoo [FR Doc. 2016–18141 Filed 7–29–16; 8:45 am] Application Details penguin (Pygocelis papua), rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes crestatus), chinstrap BILLING CODE 7555–01–P Permit Application: 2017–006 penguin (Pygocelis ), and 1. Applicant: Joseph Wilson, Penguin Adelie penguin (Pygocelis adeliae); and NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Films Ltd, 1 St Augustine’s Lane, less than 20 per year of brown skua Bristol BS1 5DE United Kingdom. (Catharacta lonnbergi), south polar skua Notice of Permits Issued Under the Activity for Which Permit is (Catharacta mccormicki), sheathbill Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978 Requested: ASPA entry. The applicant (Chionis alba), blue-eyed shag AGENCY: National Science Foundation requests entry to , ASPA (Phalacrocorax atriceps), southern 124, and , ASPA 121, in black-backed (kelp) gull (Larus ACTION: Notice of permits issued under order to film an Adelie penguin dominicanus), and Antarctic tern the Antarctic Conservation of 1978, documentary film for Disney. The (Sterna vittata). Public Law 95–541. applicant and team would use long lens Location: Aitcho Islands; Alcock SUMMARY: The National Science filming techniques, which allows the Island; ; ; Foundation (NSF) is required to publish camera person to be at a distance from Astrolabe Island; , Deception notice of permits issued under the the animals to capture natural Island; Barcroft Islands, Biscoe Islands; Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. behaviors. The work would be Bennett Islands, Hanusse Bay; Berthelot This is the required notice. observational and would not involve Islands; Blaiklock Islands; Bongrain FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: interactions with penguins. The team Point, west side of Pourquoi Pas Island; Nature McGinn, ACA Permit Officer, would be working with penguin , Tabarin Peninsula; Camp Division of Polar Programs, Rm. 755, scientists who conduct work in Cape Point, Eastern Marguerite Bay; National Science Foundation, 4201 Crozier and Cape Royds. Challenger Island, Gerlache Strait; Port Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22230. Location: Cape Crozier, ASPA 124; Charcot, ; Christiania Or by email: [email protected]. Cape Royds, ASPA 121. Dates: October 14, 2016–February 10, Islands; Comb Ridge, Northern James SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 2017. Ross Island; ; Crystal 24, 2016 the National Science Hill, ; Cuverville Foundation published a notice in the Permit Application: 2017–010 Island; , Wiencke Island; Federal Register of a permit 2. Applicant: Brent S. Stewart, Ph.D., Danco Island; ; Detaille applications received. The permits were J.D., Hubbs-Seaworld Research Island; Devil Island; Cape Dubouzet; issued on July 27, 2016 to: Institute, 2595 Ingraham Street, San Cape Dundas, Eastern Laurie Island; 1. Robert Ferl Permit No. 2017–003. Diego, CA 92109. Duthiers Point; Enterprise Island, 2. David Ainley Permit No. 2017–005. Activity for Which Permit is Gerlache Strait; Cape Evensen; Fildes Nadene G. Kennedy, Peninsula; Fish Islands; Cape Gage, Requested: Take. The applicant is Polar Coordination Specialist, Division of planning to make photographs at Eastern James Ross Island; Gaston Polar Programs. Islands, Gerlache Strait; Georges Point, terrestrial continental and island [FR Doc. 2016–18143 Filed 7–29–16; 8:45 am] Nothern Ronge Island; Gin Cove, locations on the east and west sides of BILLING CODE 7555–01–P the , where Western James Ross Island; Gosling roost and breed, to document and Islands; ; Half Moon observe changes in the physical Island; Hannah Point; Heroina Island; Horseshoe Island; Hovgaard Island; NUCLEAR REGULATORY characteristics of those habitats and the COMMISSION distribution and abundance of seabirds Huemel Island; Jonassen Island; Cape that use them relative to local and Kinnes, Joinville Island; Cape Kjellman; [Docket No. 50–005; NRC–2016–0153] regional changes in environmental Melchior Islands; , conditions. The applicant states that Northern Brabant Island; Murray Island; Pennsylvania State University brief, minor, incidental disturbance to Orne Islands; Palaver Point; Paulet Breazeale Nuclear Reactor behaviors of seabirds might be possible, Island; , Deception AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory though unlikely, owing to auditory or Island; Penguin Island; Penguin Point, Commission. ; ; Pitt visual detection by the seabirds of a ACTION: Exemption; issuance. camera-equipped (e.g., GoPro) aerial islands; Pleneau Island; ; telerobot as it passes quickly overhead Prospect Point, Holtedahl Bay; Ronge SUMMARY: The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory while making photographs. The Island; Rosamel Island; Rum Cove, Commission (NRC) is issuing an remotely operated, battery powered, James Ross Island; Seymour Island; exemption in response to a letter dated multi-rotor model aerial telerobot (e.g., , ; November 6, 2014, from the DJI Phantom 3 Pro) will be operated Skontorp, Cove, ; Small Pennsylvania State University (Penn from a Zodiac offshore, or from Island; ; Spring Point, State). In this letter, Penn State locations on beaches. The aerial Hughes Bay; ; requested an exemption from certain telerobot will be operated within line of Torgersen Island, Anvers Island; View regulatory requirements, which, if sight distances (<400 m) and altitudes of Point, Duse Bay, Trinity Peninsula; granted, would allow Penn State to 30 to 100 m and for 10 to 20 minutes Whalers Bay, ; Yalour submit its annual financial results during each flight. One flight will be Islands, Penola Strait; Yankee Harbor, within 180 days after the close of each made at each location visited and each Greenwich Island. succeeding fiscal year. The NRC staff

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has reviewed this request and general applicability to domestic According to Penn State, the determined that it is appropriate to licensing of byproduct material.’’ The requested exemption is permissible grant the exemption, as requested. regulations in 10 CFR part 30, appendix under 10 CFR 50.12 because it will not ADDRESSES: Please refer to Docket ID E, require that a nonprofit college, present a risk to public health and NRC–2016–0153 when contacting the university, or hospital using a self- safety, it is consistent with the common NRC about the availability of guarantee for decommissioning funding defense and security, and the 90-day information about this document. You assurance shall, after the initial requirement is not necessary to achieve may obtain publicly-available financial test, repeat passage of the test the underlying purpose of the information related to this document and provide financial documentation to decommissioning funding rule. Penn using any of the following methods: the NRC of its continued eligibility to State states that it presented the basis • Federal Rulemaking Web site: Go to use the self-guarantee 90 days after the for a longer financial recertification time http://www.regulations.gov and search close of each succeeding fiscal year. period during the license renewal process (see ADAMS Accession No. for Docket ID NRC–2016–0153. Address II. Request/Action questions about NRC dockets to Carol ML092650603) and claims that the 90- Gallagher; telephone: 301–415–3463; By letter dated November 6, 2014 day rule presents an undue hardship for email: [email protected]. For (ADAMS Accession No. ML14321A408), Penn State. Specifically, Penn State’s technical questions, contact the Penn State requested that the NRC grant final financial statements are not individual listed in the FOR FURTHER a 90-day extension to the reporting available within 90 days of the close of INFORMATION CONTACT section of this requirements of 10 CFR 50.75 and 10 its fiscal year. In part, this is a result of document. CFR part 30, appendix E. Penn State the time necessary for auditing the • NRC’s Agencywide Documents made this request under 10 CFR 50.12, university finances as a whole, not just Access and Management System ‘‘Specific exemptions.’’ the finances for the Breazeale Reactor, (ADAMS): You may obtain publicly Penn State is currently using a self- which makes the process complex and available documents online in the guarantee to provide financial assurance longer to complete. In addition, Penn ADAMS Public Documents collection at for decommissioning, as allowed by 10 State asserts that the requested http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/ CFR 50.75(e)(1)(iii)(C) for nonprofit exemption in no way reduces the adams.html. To begin the search, select entities such as universities. The effectiveness of the approved ‘‘Begin Web-based ADAMS Search.’’ For regulation states that ‘‘. . . a guarantee decommissioning plan. assistance with ADAMS, please contact of funds by the applicant or licensee Based on the staff’s review of Penn the NRC’s Public Document Room (PDR) may be used if the guarantee and test are State’s request for exemption, the NRC reference staff at 1–800–397–4209, 301– as contained in appendix E to 10 CFR believes that Penn State’s 415–4737, or by email to pdr.resource@ part 30.’’ comprehensive financial reviewing process, which involves Penn State’s nrc.gov. The ADAMS accession number The regulations in 10 CFR part 30, book balancing, external audits, and the for each document referenced in this appendix E, require all entities using a internal approval processes for document (if that document is available self-guarantee to provide financial recertification, does present a special in ADAMS) is provided the first time assurance for decommissioning to circumstance whereby the 90-day rule that a document is referenced. submit annual financial tests within 90 will result in an undue hardship to • The NRC’s PDR: Examine and days after the close of each succeeding Penn State. In addition, the NRC purchase copies of public documents at fiscal year to demonstrate their believes that allowing Penn State to the NRC’s PDR, Room O1–F21, One continued eligibility. submit its annual financial results White Flint North, 11555 Rockville The regulations in 10 CFR 50.12 allow within 180 days instead of 90 days after Pike, Rockville, Maryland 20852. the NRC to grant exemptions to the the close of the succeeding fiscal year FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: requirements in 10 CFR part 50, will not reduce the effectiveness of its Xiaosong Yin, Office of Nuclear Reactor ‘‘Domestic licensing of production and currently approved decommissioning Regulation, U.S. Nuclear Regulatory utilization facilities,’’ if it deems that funding plan. Furthermore, the NRC Commission, Washington, DC 20555– the exemptions are authorized by law, finds that granting this exemption will 0001; telephone: 301–415–1404; email: will not present an undue risk to public not present an undue risk to public [email protected]. health and safety, and are consistent health and safety, is consistent with the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: with the common defense and security. common defense and security, and does The regulations in 10 CFR 50.12 also I. Background not undermine the intent of the stated specify that the NRC will not consider regulations. Therefore, the NRC has Penn State is holder of Facility granting an exemption unless special elected to grant Penn State an Operating License No. R–2, which circumstances are present; for example, exemption to the requirement of 10 CFR authorizes operation of the TRIGA Mark application of the regulation in the part 50 and appendix E to 10 CFR part III Breazeale Reactor, located at particular circumstances would not 30, allowing Penn State to submit its University Park, Pennsylvania. Penn serve the underlying purpose of the rule annual financial results within 180 days State seeks an extension from 90 to 180 or is not necessary to achieve the of the close of the succeeding fiscal days by exemption from compliance underlying purpose of the rule, or year. with section 50.75 of title 10 of the Code compliance would result in undue The NRC notes that Penn State has of Federal Regulations (10 CFR), hardship. made good faith efforts to comply with ‘‘Reporting and recordkeeping for Penn State requests an exemption these annual financial reporting decommissioning planning,’’ and from the requirement to submit its requirements. The NRC also notes that appendix E, ‘‘Criteria Relating to Use of annual financial results information the Pennsylvania Department of Financial Tests and Self-Guarantee for within 90 days after the close of each Environmental Protection, Bureau of Providing Reasonable Assurance of succeeding fiscal year. Instead, Penn Radiation Protection, issued a similar Funds for Decommissioning by State’s exemption request asks to submit exemption to Penn State’s Type A Broad Nonprofit Colleges, Universities, and this information within 180 days after Scope license (Commonwealth of Hospitals,’’ to 10 CFR part 30, ‘‘Rules of the close of each succeeding fiscal year. Pennsylvania PA–0100).

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III. Discussion and safety, and is consistent with the cannot be provided within this common defense and security. timeframe, presenters should provide The Exemption Is Authorized by Law Therefore, the NRC hereby grants Penn the DFO with a CD containing each The staff concluded that 10 CFR 50.12 State an exemption to the requirements presentation at least thirty minutes allows for an exemption to the in 10 CFR part 50 and appendix E to 10 before the meeting. Electronic requirements of the regulations in 10 CFR part 30. As a result of this recordings will be permitted only CFR 50.75 and appendix E to 10 CFR exemption, Penn State shall submit its during those portions of the meeting part 30. annual financial results within 180 days that are open to the public. Detailed The Exemption Presents No Undue Risk after the close of each succeeding fiscal procedures for the conduct of and to Public Health and Safety year. participation in ACRS meetings were Dated at Rockville, Maryland, this 25th day published in the Federal Register on The staff determined that the of July, 2016. October 21, 2015 (80 FR 63846). exemption is related to the Penn State For the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. Detailed meeting agendas and meeting financial surety self-guarantee annual Mirela Gavrilas, transcripts are available on the NRC reporting, which does not involve Penn Web site at http://www.nrc.gov/reading- State’s reactor operation and safety Deputy Director, Division of Policy and Rulemaking, Office of Nuclear Reactor rm/doc-collections/acrs. Information aspects. Therefore, the exemption Regulation. regarding topics to be discussed, presents no undue risk to public health changes to the agenda, whether the and safety. [FR Doc. 2016–18144 Filed 7–29–16; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 7590–01–P meeting has been canceled or The Exemption Is Consistent With the rescheduled, and the time allotted to Common Defense and Security present oral statements can be obtained NUCLEAR REGULATORY from the Web site cited above or by The staff determined that the COMMISSION contacting the identified DFO. exemption is related to the Penn State Moreover, in view of the possibility that financial surety self-guarantee annual Advisory Committee on Reactor the schedule for ACRS meetings may be reporting, which does not involve Penn Safeguards (ACRS); Meeting of the adjusted by the Chairman as necessary State’s reactor operation and safety ACRS Subcommittee on AP1000 to facilitate the conduct of the meeting, aspects. Therefore, granting the persons planning to attend should check exemption will have no effect on the The ACRS Subcommittee on AP1000 with these references if such common defense and security. will hold a meeting on August 18–19, 2016, Room T–2B1, 11545 Rockville rescheduling would result in a major Environmental Considerations Pike, Rockville, Maryland. inconvenience. The staff determined that granting an The meeting will be open to public If attending this meeting, please enter exemption from the requirements of 10 attendance. through the One White Flint North CFR part 50 and appendix E to 10 CFR The agenda for the subject meeting building, 11555 Rockville Pike, part 30 belongs to a category of shall be as follows: Rockville, MD. After registering with regulatory actions eligible for categorical Thursday, August 18, 2016 and Friday, security, please contact Mr. Theron exclusion. Since this exemption August 19, 2016—8:30 a.m. until 5:00 Brown (Telephone 240–888–9835) to be involves only Penn State’s self- p.m. escorted to the meeting room. guarantee financial surety reporting and The Subcommittee will review the Dated: July 26, 2016. does not involve the operations of the combined license application (COLA) Mark L. Banks, Penn State Breazeale Reactor, there is no for Turkey Point Units 6 and 7, and the Chief, Technical Support Branch, Advisory significant hazards consideration, there associated NRC staff’s advanced safety Committee on Reactor Safeguards. is no significant change in the types or evaluation (ASE). The Subcommittee [FR Doc. 2016–18145 Filed 7–29–16; 8:45 am] significant increase in the amounts of will hear presentations by and hold BILLING CODE 7590–01–P any effluents that may be released off discussions with representatives of the site, there is no significant increase in NRC staff, Florida Power & Light individual or cumulative public or Company, and other interested persons NUCLEAR REGULATORY occupational radiation exposure, there regarding this matter. The COMMISSION is no significant construction impact; Subcommittee will gather information, and there is no significant increase in analyze relevant issues and facts, and Advisory Committee on Reactor the potential for or consequences from formulate proposed positions and Safeguards (ACRS); Meeting of the radiological accidents as a result of the actions, as appropriate, for deliberation ACRS Subcommittee on Plant NRC granting this exemption. The by the Full Committee. Operations and Fire Protection; Notice requirements from which the exemption Members of the public desiring to of Meeting provide oral statements and/or written is sought involve surety, insurance, or The ACRS Subcommittee on Plant indemnity requirements. The exemption comments should notify the Designated Federal Official (DFO), Mr. Peter Wen Operations and Fire Protection will hold meets all categorical exclusion a meeting on August 16, 2016, Room T– requirements of 10 CFR 51.22(c)(25)(i) (Telephone 301–415–2832 or Email: [email protected]) five days prior to 2B1, 11545 Rockville Pike, Rockville, through (vi). Therefore, in accordance Maryland. with 10 CFR 51.22(c)(25)(vi)(H), the staff the meeting, if possible, so that appropriate arrangements can be made. The meeting will be open to public determines that an environmental attendance. review is not required. Thirty-five hard copies of each presentation or handout should be The agenda for the subject meeting IV. Conclusion provided to the DFO thirty minutes shall be as follows: The NRC has determined that, before the meeting. In addition, one Tuesday, August 16, 2016—8:30 a.m. pursuant to 10 CFR 50.12, the electronic copy of each presentation until 12:00 p.m. exemption is authorized by law, will not should be emailed to the DFO one day The Subcommittee will review the present an undue risk to public health before the meeting. If an electronic copy draft final Regulatory Guide 1.26,

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