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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 161 / Tuesday, August 24, 2021 / Notices
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robot workcell end-users to detect degradation of process accuracy prior to it impacting product quality or operational productivity.
There are numerous potential benefits to the participating MEP Center teams including:
a. Acquisition of a research license of NISTs PVS technology to practice the invention to explore its commercial feasibility b. Feedback on the deployment, integration, usage, and maintenance as necessary of the sensor within relevant operational environments to determine if/where/how to make the technology more viable for commercialization c. Identification of the use cases and scenarios that the sensor and test method can be reasonably deployed d. Acquire advanced knowledge of potential degradations to process accuracy prior to degradations negatively impacting product quality or operational productivity e. If the sensor became commercially available, this could lead to the development of services using the sensor to improve the operations and efficiency of small and medium manufacturers.
Participation Process Eligibility will be determined by NIST
based on the information provided by prospective participants in response to this notice on a first-come, first-serve basis. In accordance with the Consortium objectives, collaborators must be MEP Centers. Collaborator project teams must be entirely composed of MEP Centers or, if a project team includes non-MEP Center team members, the project team must be led by an MEP Center Collaborator. All participants will be required to sign the Cooperative Research and Development Agreement CRADA for this Consortium, and each participant will be bound to the same terms and conditions in consideration of participation in the Consortium.
Participants will not be required to contribute any funds or pay any fee.
NIST will evaluate the submitted responses from prospective participants to determine eligibility to participate in this Consortium. Prospective participants should provide a Letter of Interest with the following information to NISTs Consortium Manager:
1 A description of the MEP Center teams technical experience in integrating robot workcells and/or sensor technology into manufacturing facilities.
2 A description of the manufacturing use cases and deployments of robotic workcells that the MEP Center team
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would target for NIST test method and PVS deployment.
3 A description of services, if any, that the MEP Center team has provided in the domains of robotic manufacturing, predictive maintenance, or sensors.
4 List of interested MEP Centers anticipated team members.
Letter of interest must not include business proprietary information. NIST
will not treat any information provided in response to this Notice as proprietary information. NIST will notify each organization of its eligibility. NIST does not guarantee participation in the Consortium to any organization submitting a Letter of interest.
Alicia Chambers, NIST Executive Secretariat.
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National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement for Surveying and Mapping Projects in U.S. Waters for Coastal and Marine Data Acquisition, Extension of Public Comment Period National Ocean Service NOS, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA, Department of Commerce DOC.
ACTION: Notice; extension of comment period.
AGENCY:

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA, National Ocean Service NOS is extending the public comment period by 90 days for the Draft Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement PEIS
for Surveying and Mapping Projects in U.S. Waters for Coastal and Marine Data Acquisition. The end of the public comment period is extended from August 24, 2021 to November 22, 2021.
DATES: The public comment period is extended by 90 days to November 22, 2021. Comments must be received by November 22, 2021, as specified under ADDRESSES. Comments received after this date may not be accepted.
ADDRESSES: The Draft PEIS can be viewed or downloaded from the NOS
website at https
oceanservice.noaa.gov/about/
environmental-compliance/surveyingmapping.html. Written comments on NOSs Draft PEIS may be submitted by one of the following methods:
Electronic Submission: Submit all electronic public comments via the SUMMARY:

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Federal e-Rulemaking Portal. Go to https www.regulations.gov and enter NOAANOS20210055 in the Search box. Click on the Comment icon, complete the required fields, and enter or attach your comments.
Mail: Please direct written comments to DOC/NOAA/NOS
Environmental Compliance Coordinator, SSMC4-Station 13612, 1305 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910.
Email: nosaa.ec@noaa.gov.
Instructions: Comments sent by any other method, to any other address or individual, or received after the end of the comment period, may not be considered by NOAA. All comments received are a part of the public record and will generally be posted for public viewing on www.regulations.gov without change. 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 enter N/
A in the required fields if you wish to remain anonymous.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Giannina DiMaio, DOC/NOAA/NOS, Environmental Compliance Coordinator, SSMC4-Station 13612, 1305 East West Highway, Silver Spring, MD 20910;
Phone: 2405330918; or Email nosaa.ec@noaa.gov.
On June 25, 2021, NOS published a Notice of Availability of a Draft PEIS for Surveying and Mapping Projects in U.S.
Waters for Coastal and Marine Data Acquisition. 86 FR 33663 June 25, 2021. The Draft PEIS was prepared in accordance with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended NEPA, to analyze the potential environmental impacts associated with NOSs recurring data collection projects to characterize submerged features e.g., habitat, bathymetry, marine debris. The action area for these projects encompasses United States U.S. rivers, states offshore waters, the U.S. territorial sea, the contiguous zone, the U.S. Exclusive Economic Zone U.S. EEZ, and coastal and riparian lands. As a part of the Proposed Action, NOS may use active acoustic equipment such as sub-bottom profilers, single beam and multibeam echo sounders, side-scan sonars, and Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers. The Draft PEIS analyzes NOS data collection projects for a time period of six years.
Please refer to the original Notice of Availability for additional summary information.

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