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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 24 / Monday, February 8, 2021 / Notices
Dated: February 2, 2021.
Donna S. Wieting, Director, Office of Protected Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service.

Program may post responses to this RFI, without change, on a Federal website.
NOAA, therefore, requests that no business proprietary information, copyrighted information, or personally identifiable information be submitted in response to this RFI.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
SARSAT Program Analyst, Mr. Allan Knox, NOAA, allan.knox@noaa.gov, 3018174144.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Return Link Service Authorization in the United States Search and Rescue Region National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service NESDIS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice and request for public comment.
AGENCY:

The U.S. Search and Rescue Satellite Aided Tracking SARSAT
Program, which is managed by NOAA
and assisted by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, the U.S. Air Force, and the U.S. Coast Guard, requests input from all interested persons on the U.S. authorization of Return Link Service RLS
acknowledgment Type 1 capable Cospas-Sarsat 406 MHz distress beacons. Through this Request for Information RFI, the SARSAT Program seeks the publics views on the inclusion of this optional feature on U.S. country-coded beacons.
DATES: Comments must be received by April 30, 2021.
ADDRESSES: Responses should be submitted via email to sarsat.rls.rfi@
noaa.gov. Include Public Comment on type approval of RLS beacons in the subject line of the message. All personal identifying information e.g., name, address, etc., confidential business information, or otherwise sensitive information submitted voluntarily by the sender will be publicly accessible.
NOAA will accept anonymous comments. Clearly indicate which question or subject, if applicable, submitted comments pertain to. All submissions must be in English. Please note that the U.S. Government will not pay for response preparation, or for the use of any information contained in the response.
Instructions: Respondents need not reply to any or all of the questions listed. Email attachments will be accepted in plain text, Microsoft Word, or Adobe PDF formats only. Each individual or institution is requested to submit only one response. The SARSAT

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Background The RLS is being provided via the Galileo Global Navigation Satellite System and is designed to provide the beacon user in distress an acknowledgment message informing them that the alert has been detected and located by the Cospas-Sarsat System.
The SARSAT Program has commenced an effort to understand the benefits and associated risks of RLS
Type 1 equipped beacons and is soliciting the public through this RFI to obtain input from a wider range of stakeholders, including academia, private industry, beacon users and other relevant organizations and institutions.
The public input provided in response to this RFI will help inform the SARSAT Program as it evaluates the authorization of RLS Type 1 equipped beacons within the United States.
In depth information on RLS Type 1
equipped beacons can be found at:
https www.gsc-europa.eu/sites/
default/files/sites/all/files/Galileo-SARSDD.pdf.
Additional information on RLSenabled beacons may be viewed at:
https cospas-sarsat.int/en/beaconownership/rls-enabled-beaconpurchase.
Questions To Inform U.S. SARSAT
Program Regarding Authorization of Type 1 RLS Cospas-Sarsat Distress Beacons Please consider the following questions of interest to the SARSAT
Program when responding:
1. Under nominal conditions, the RLS
has an inherent period of time between beacon activation and the acknowledgement being received and displayed to the person in distress. This period of time should be within 30
minutes. Is this acceptable? If not, what is an acceptable time?
2. What is the best method to ensure the user understands that there is a period of time before the acknowledgement message is received?
Please consider that the users first interaction with an RLS capable beacon
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could be an emergency situation where only the beacon is available no user manual.
3. RLS only indicates that the distress signal has been received, not that rescue forces have been deployed. Therefore, the acknowledgement message is not an indication of when rescue forces may arrive on scene. How should the beacon user be provided this information so that they understand what the RLS
signal means? Please consider that the users first interaction with an RLS
capable beacon could be an emergency situation where only the beacon is available no user manual.
4. There are several RLS related message indications that can be displayed to the beacon user; RLS signal sent from beacon, awaiting RLS signal return, RLS response received, RLS
signal not received, etc. Which signals should be displayed to the user and how should they be displayed? Please consider the users first interaction with an RLS capable beacon could be an emergency situation where only the beacon is available no user manual.
5. Are there any other features you believe would be advantageous to add to 406 MHz emergency beacons?
6. Are there any other comments you would like the U.S. SARSAT Program to consider?
Authority: 33 U.S.C. 883d and e.
Dated: February 3, 2021.
Mark W. Turner, SARSAT Program Manager.
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Takes of Marine Mammals Incidental to Specified Activities; Taking Marine Mammals Incidental to Washington State Department of Transportation Purdy Bridge Rehabilitation Project, Pierce County, WA
National Marine Fisheries Service NMFS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA, Commerce.
ACTION: Notice; issuance of an incidental harassment authorization.
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In accordance with the regulations implementing the Marine Mammal Protection Act MMPA as amended, notification is hereby given that NMFS has issued an incidental harassment authorization IHA to the
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