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representation determined by the
regional concentration of the
individual’s traffic on the waterways.
(3) Commodity Representation.
Waterway commerce has been
aggregated into six commodity
categories based on ‘‘inland’’ ton-miles
shown in Waterborne Commerce of the
United States. These categories are (1)
Farm and Food Products; (2) Coal and
Coke; (3) Petroleum, Crude and
Products; (4) Minerals, Ores, and
Primary Metals and Mineral Products;
(5) Chemical and Allied Products; and
(6) All other. A consideration in the
selection of Board members will be that
the commodities carried or shipped by
those individuals or their firms will be
reasonably representative of the above
commodity categories.
d. Nomination. Reflecting preceding
selection criteria, the current
representation by the five (5) Board
members whose terms will expire is one
member each representing regions 2, 3
and 6, and two members representing
region 1. Also, one of these Board
members represents a shipper, two
represent carriers and two represent a
carrier/shipper.
Two of the five members whose terms
will expire are eligible for
reappointment. Nominations to replace
Board members whose terms expire may
be made by individuals, firms or
associations. Nominations will:
(1) State the region to be represented.
(2) State whether the nominee is
representing carriers, shippers or both.
(3) Provide information on the
nominee’s personal qualifications.
(4) Include the commercial operations
of the carrier and/or shipper with whom
the nominee is affiliated. This
commercial operations information will
show the actual or estimated ton-miles
of each commodity carried or shipped
on the inland waterways system in a
recent year (or years) using the
waterway regions and commodity
categories previously listed.
Nominations received in response to
Federal Register notices published on
March 17, 2005 (70 FR 13016) and
February 17, 2006 (71 FR 8568) have
been retained for consideration.
Renomination is not required but may
be desirable.
e. Deadline for Nominations. All
nominations must be received at the
address shown above no later than
August 11, 2006.
Brenda S. Bowen,
Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
National Assessment Governing
Board; Meeting
National Assessment
Governing Board, Education.
ACTION: Notice of open meeting and
partially closed meetings.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The notice sets forth the
schedule and proposed agenda of a
forthcoming meeting of the National
Assessment Governing Board. This
notice also describes the functions of
the Board. Notice of this meeting is
required under Section 10(a)(2) of the
Federal Advisory Committee Act. This
document is intended to notify members
of the general public of their
opportunity to attend. Individuals who
will need special accommodations in
order to attend the meeting (i.e.,
interpreting services, assistive living
devices, materials in alternative format)
should notify Munira Mwalimu at 202–
357–6938 or at
Munira.Mwalimu@ed.gov no later than
July 24, 2006. We will attempt to meet
requests after this date, but cannot
guarantee availability of the requested
accommodation. The meeting site is
accessible to individuals with
disabilities.
DATES:
August 3–5, 2006.
Times
August 3
Committee Meetings
Assessment Development Committee:
Closed Session—9 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Ad Hoc Committee on Planning for
NAEP 12th Grade Assessments in 2009:
Open Session—1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Reporting and Dissemination
Committee: Open Session—3 p.m. to
4:30 p.m.
Executive Committee: Open Session—
4:45 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.; Closed Session
5:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.
August 4
Full Board: Open Session—8:30 a.m.
to 12:15 p.m.; Closed Session—12:15
p.m. to 1:30 p.m.; Open Session—1:30
p.m.–4:15 p.m.
Committee Meetings
Assessment Development Committee:
Open Session—9:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Committee on Standards, Design and
Methodology: Open Session—9:45 a.m.
to 12:15 p.m.
Reporting and Dissemination
Committee: Open Session—9:45 a.m. to
12:15 p.m.
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Nominations Committee: Open
Session—8:15 a.m. to 8:45 a.m.
Full Board: Open Session—9 a.m. to
12 p.m.
Location: The Ritz-Carlton Tysons
Corner, 1700 Tysons Boulevard,
McLean, VA 22102.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Munira Mwalimu, Operations Officer,
National Assessment Governing Board,
800 North Capitol Street, NW., Suite
825, Washington, DC 20002–4233,
Telephone: (202) 357–6938.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
National Assessment Governing Board
is established under section 412 of the
National Education Statistics Act of
1994, as amended.
The Board is established to formulate
policy guidelines for the National
Assessment of Educational Progress
(NAEP). The Board’s responsibilities
include selecting subject areas to be
assessed, developing assessment
objectives, developing appropriate
student achievement levels for each
grade and subject tested, developing
guidelines for reporting and
disseminating results, and developing
standards and procedures for interstate
and national comparisons.
The Assessment Development
Committee will meet in closed session
on August 3 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (four
hours) to review secure reading passages
and items for grade 8 (approximately
200 reading items) for the 2007 National
Assessment of Education Progress
(NAEP) Reading pilot test. The meeting
must be conducted in closed session as
disclosure of proposed test items for the
Reading pilot test would significantly
impede implementation of the NAEP
program, and is therefore protected by
exemption 9(B) of section 552b(c) of
Title 5 U.S.C.
The Ad Hoc Committee on Planning
for NAEP 12th Grade Assessments in
2009 will meet in open session on
August 3 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. and
Reporting and Dissemination Committee
will meet in open session on August 3
p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thereafter, the
Executive Committee will meet in open
session from 4:45 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.
The Executive Committee will meet in
closed session on August 3, 2006 from
5:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. For the first
agenda item during this closed session,
the Executive Committee will receive
independent government cost estimates
from the Associate Commissioner,
National Center for Education Statistics
(NCES) for proposed contracts for item
development, data collection, scoring
and analysis, and reporting of National
Assessment of Educational Progress
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(NAEP) results for 2007–2012, and their
implications on future NAEP activities.
The discussion of independent
government cost estimates prior to the
development of the Request for
Proposals for the NAEP 2007–2012
contracts is necessary for ensuring that
NAEP contracts meet congressionally
mandated goals and adhere to Board
policies on NAEP assessments. This part
of the meeting must be conducted in
closed session because public disclosure
of this information would likely have an
adverse financial effect on the NAEP
program and would provide an
advantage to potential bidders attending
the meeting. Discussion of this
information would be likely to
significantly impede implementation of
a proposed agency action if conducted
in open session. Such matters are
protected by exemption 9(B) of section
552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C.
The second agenda item for the closed
session of the Executive Committee on
August 3 is the discussion and
nomination of the Board Vice-Chair.
This discussion pertains solely to
internal personnel rules and practices of
an agency and will disclose information
of a personal nature where disclosure
would constitute an unwarranted
invasion of personal privacy. As such,
the discussions are protected by
exemptions 2 and 6 of section 552b(c)
of Title 5 U.S.C.
On August 4, the full Board will meet
in open session from 8:30 a.m. to 4:15
p.m. From 8:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. the Board
will approve the agenda, followed by an
Oath of Office ceremony for a new
Board member. The Board will then
receive the Executive Director’s report
and hear an update on the work of the
National Center for Education Statistics
(NCES).
From 9:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on
August 4, the Board’s standing
committees—the Assessment
Development Committee; the Committee
on Standards, Design and Methodology,
and the Reporting and Dissemination
Committee—will meet in open session.
On August 4, the full Board will meet
in closed session from 12:15 p.m. to
1:30 p.m. The Board will receive a
briefing provided by the Associate
Commissioner, NCES, on policy issues
relating to upcoming Report Cards and
secure student achievement data related
to three upcoming NAEP reports. The
Board will discuss its proposed Policy
Statement and Guidelines on Reporting,
Release, and Dissemination of NAEP
Results in relation to embargoed data
from: (1) The 2005 Trial Urban District
Assessment in Science; (2) the 2005
12th Grade Reading and Mathematics
Report Card: and (3) the Puerto Rico
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NAEP Mathematics Assessment. These
data constitute a major basis for the
national release of the NAEP results,
and cannot be released in an open
meeting prior to the official release of
the reports. The meeting must therefore
be conducted in closed session as
disclosure of data would significantly
impede implementation of the NAEP
release activities, and is therefore
protected by exemption 9(B) of section
552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C.
On August 4 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30
p.m. the Board will receive a report
from the Ad Hoc Committee on
Planning for NAEP 12th Grade
Assessments in 2009. This session will
be followed by Board action on the
NAEP 12th Grade Mathematics
Objectives and Specifications from 2:45
p.m. to 3:30 p.m. From 3:30 p.m. to 4:15
p.m., the Board will take action on the
NAGB Policy Statement and Guidelines
on Reporting, Release, and
Dissemination of NAEP Results, upon
which the August 4 session of the Board
meeting will conclude.
On August 5, 2006 from 8:15 a.m. to
8:45 a.m., the Nominations Committee
will meet in open session. From 9 a.m.
to 9:30 a.m. the full Board will meet in
open session to receive a briefing on
NAEP Assessment and Booklet Design,
followed by Board action from 9:30 a.m.
to 10 a.m. on NAEP/NAGB Public
Identity Marks. From 10 a.m. to 10:30
a.m., the Board will receive an update
on the NAEP 2011 Writing Framework
project.
Board actions on policies and
Committee reports are scheduled to take
place between 10:45 a.m. and 12 p.m.,
upon which the August 5, 2006 session
of the Board meeting will adjourn.
Detailed minutes of the meeting,
including summaries of the activities of
the closed sessions and related matters
that are informative to the public and
consistent with the policy of section 5
U.S.C. 552b(c) will be available to the
public within 14 days of the meeting.
Records are kept of all Board
proceedings and are available for public
inspection at the U.S. Department of
Education, National Assessment
Governing Board, Suite #825, 800 North
Capitol Street, NW., Washington, DC,
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. eastern standard
time.
Dated: July 3, 2006.
Munira Mwalimu,
Operations Officer, National Assessment
Governing Board.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission
[Docket No. CP06–350–000]
BGS Kimball Gas Storage, LLC; Notice
of Application for Abandonment
June 29, 2006.
Take notice that on May 26, 2006,
BGS Kimball Gas Storage, LLC, (BGS
Kimball) filed with the Federal Energy
Regulatory Commission an application
under section 7 of the Natural Gas Act
to abandon the blanket certificate to
provide storage services in interstate
service issued to its predecessor, WPS–
ESI Gas Storage, LLC. BGS Kimball is
the owner of the Kimball 27 storage
facility in St. Clair County, Michigan.
BGS Kimball has entered into a longterm lease agreement with its affiliate,
Bluewater Gas Storage, LLC (Bluewater),
whereby Bluewater acquired control of
the Kimball 27 storage facility.
Bluewater intends to operate the
Kimball 27 storage facility on an
integrated basis with its Bluewater
storage facilities, located nearby in St.
Clair and Macomb Counties, Michigan.
Separately, Bluewater is applying to the
Commission for certificates of public
convenience and necessity that would
allow it to operate the integrated storage
facilities in Michigan as a FERCjurisdictional ‘‘natural gas company’’
authorized to provide storage services in
interstate commerce.
Any person desiring to intervene or to
protest this filing must file in
accordance with Rules 211 and 214 of
the Commission’s Rules of Practice and
Procedure (18 CFR 385.211 and
385.214). Protests will be considered by
the Commission in determining the
appropriate action to be taken, but will
not serve to make protestants parties to
the proceeding. Any person wishing to
become a party must file a notice of
intervention or motion to intervene, as
appropriate. Such notices, motions, or
protests must be filed on or before the
date as indicate below. Anyone filing an
intervention or protest must serve a
copy of that document on the Applicant.
Anyone filing an intervention or protest
on or before the intervention or protest
date need not serve motions to intervene
or protests on persons other than the
Applicant.
The Commission encourages
electronic submission of protests and
interventions in lieu of paper using the
‘‘eFiling’’ link at https://www.ferc.gov.
Persons unable to file electronically
should submit an original and 14 copies
of the protest or intervention to the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
National Assessment Governing Board; Meeting
AGENCY: National Assessment Governing Board, Education.
ACTION: Notice of open meeting and partially closed meetings.
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SUMMARY: The notice sets forth the schedule and proposed agenda of a
forthcoming meeting of the National Assessment Governing Board. This
notice also describes the functions of the Board. Notice of this
meeting is required under Section 10(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act. This document is intended to notify members of the
general public of their opportunity to attend. Individuals who will
need special accommodations in order to attend the meeting (i.e.,
interpreting services, assistive living devices, materials in
alternative format) should notify Munira Mwalimu at 202-357-6938 or at
Munira.Mwalimu@ed.gov no later than July 24, 2006. We will attempt to
meet requests after this date, but cannot guarantee availability of the
requested accommodation. The meeting site is accessible to individuals
with disabilities.
DATES: August 3-5, 2006.
Times
August 3
Committee Meetings
Assessment Development Committee: Closed Session--9 p.m. to 1 p.m.
Ad Hoc Committee on Planning for NAEP 12th Grade Assessments in
2009: Open Session--1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
Reporting and Dissemination Committee: Open Session--3 p.m. to 4:30
p.m.
Executive Committee: Open Session--4:45 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.; Closed
Session 5:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m.
August 4
Full Board: Open Session--8:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.; Closed Session--
12:15 p.m. to 1:30 p.m.; Open Session--1:30 p.m.-4:15 p.m.
Committee Meetings
Assessment Development Committee: Open Session--9:45 a.m. to 12:15
p.m.
Committee on Standards, Design and Methodology: Open Session--9:45
a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Reporting and Dissemination Committee: Open Session--9:45 a.m. to
12:15 p.m.
August 5
Nominations Committee: Open Session--8:15 a.m. to 8:45 a.m.
Full Board: Open Session--9 a.m. to 12 p.m.
Location: The Ritz-Carlton Tysons Corner, 1700 Tysons Boulevard,
McLean, VA 22102.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Munira Mwalimu, Operations Officer,
National Assessment Governing Board, 800 North Capitol Street, NW.,
Suite 825, Washington, DC 20002-4233, Telephone: (202) 357-6938.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The National Assessment Governing Board is
established under section 412 of the National Education Statistics Act
of 1994, as amended.
The Board is established to formulate policy guidelines for the
National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). The Board's
responsibilities include selecting subject areas to be assessed,
developing assessment objectives, developing appropriate student
achievement levels for each grade and subject tested, developing
guidelines for reporting and disseminating results, and developing
standards and procedures for interstate and national comparisons.
The Assessment Development Committee will meet in closed session on
August 3 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. (four hours) to review secure reading
passages and items for grade 8 (approximately 200 reading items) for
the 2007 National Assessment of Education Progress (NAEP) Reading pilot
test. The meeting must be conducted in closed session as disclosure of
proposed test items for the Reading pilot test would significantly
impede implementation of the NAEP program, and is therefore protected
by exemption 9(B) of section 552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C.
The Ad Hoc Committee on Planning for NAEP 12th Grade Assessments in
2009 will meet in open session on August 3 from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. and
Reporting and Dissemination Committee will meet in open session on
August 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Thereafter, the Executive Committee will
meet in open session from 4:45 p.m. to 5:15 p.m.
The Executive Committee will meet in closed session on August 3,
2006 from 5:15 p.m. to 6:15 p.m. For the first agenda item during this
closed session, the Executive Committee will receive independent
government cost estimates from the Associate Commissioner, National
Center for Education Statistics (NCES) for proposed contracts for item
development, data collection, scoring and analysis, and reporting of
National Assessment of Educational Progress
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(NAEP) results for 2007-2012, and their implications on future NAEP
activities. The discussion of independent government cost estimates
prior to the development of the Request for Proposals for the NAEP
2007-2012 contracts is necessary for ensuring that NAEP contracts meet
congressionally mandated goals and adhere to Board policies on NAEP
assessments. This part of the meeting must be conducted in closed
session because public disclosure of this information would likely have
an adverse financial effect on the NAEP program and would provide an
advantage to potential bidders attending the meeting. Discussion of
this information would be likely to significantly impede implementation
of a proposed agency action if conducted in open session. Such matters
are protected by exemption 9(B) of section 552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C.
The second agenda item for the closed session of the Executive
Committee on August 3 is the discussion and nomination of the Board
Vice-Chair. This discussion pertains solely to internal personnel rules
and practices of an agency and will disclose information of a personal
nature where disclosure would constitute an unwarranted invasion of
personal privacy. As such, the discussions are protected by exemptions
2 and 6 of section 552b(c) of Title 5 U.S.C.
On August 4, the full Board will meet in open session from 8:30
a.m. to 4:15 p.m. From 8:30 a.m. to 9 a.m. the Board will approve the
agenda, followed by an Oath of Office ceremony for a new Board member.
The Board will then receive the Executive Director's report and hear an
update on the work of the National Center for Education Statistics
(NCES).
From 9:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on August 4, the Board's standing
committees--the Assessment Development Committee; the Committee on
Standards, Design and Methodology, and the Reporting and Dissemination
Committee--will meet in open session.
On August 4, the full Board will meet in closed session from 12:15
p.m. to 1:30 p.m. The Board will receive a briefing provided by the
Associate Commissioner, NCES, on policy issues relating to upcoming
Report Cards and secure student achievement data related to three
upcoming NAEP reports. The Board will discuss its proposed Policy
Statement and Guidelines on Reporting, Release, and Dissemination of
NAEP Results in relation to embargoed data from: (1) The 2005 Trial
Urban District Assessment in Science; (2) the 2005 12th Grade Reading
and Mathematics Report Card: and (3) the Puerto Rico NAEP Mathematics
Assessment. These data constitute a major basis for the national
release of the NAEP results, and cannot be released in an open meeting
prior to the official release of the reports. The meeting must
therefore be conducted in closed session as disclosure of data would
significantly impede implementation of the NAEP release activities, and
is therefore protected by exemption 9(B) of section 552b(c) of Title 5
U.S.C.
On August 4 from 1:30 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. the Board will receive a
report from the Ad Hoc Committee on Planning for NAEP 12th Grade
Assessments in 2009. This session will be followed by Board action on
the NAEP 12th Grade Mathematics Objectives and Specifications from 2:45
p.m. to 3:30 p.m. From 3:30 p.m. to 4:15 p.m., the Board will take
action on the NAGB Policy Statement and Guidelines on Reporting,
Release, and Dissemination of NAEP Results, upon which the August 4
session of the Board meeting will conclude.
On August 5, 2006 from 8:15 a.m. to 8:45 a.m., the Nominations
Committee will meet in open session. From 9 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. the full
Board will meet in open session to receive a briefing on NAEP
Assessment and Booklet Design, followed by Board action from 9:30 a.m.
to 10 a.m. on NAEP/NAGB Public Identity Marks. From 10 a.m. to 10:30
a.m., the Board will receive an update on the NAEP 2011 Writing
Framework project.
Board actions on policies and Committee reports are scheduled to
take place between 10:45 a.m. and 12 p.m., upon which the August 5,
2006 session of the Board meeting will adjourn.
Detailed minutes of the meeting, including summaries of the
activities of the closed sessions and related matters that are
informative to the public and consistent with the policy of section 5
U.S.C. 552b(c) will be available to the public within 14 days of the
meeting. Records are kept of all Board proceedings and are available
for public inspection at the U.S. Department of Education, National
Assessment Governing Board, Suite 825, 800 North Capitol
Street, NW., Washington, DC, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. eastern standard
time.
Dated: July 3, 2006.
Munira Mwalimu,
Operations Officer, National Assessment Governing Board.
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