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should be necessary and appropriate.
Proposals should maximize cost-sharing
through other private sector support as
well as institutional direct funding
contributions.
6. Institutional Track Record/Ability:
Proposals should demonstrate an
institutional record of successful
exchange programs, including
responsible fiscal management and full
compliance with all reporting
requirements for past Bureau grants as
determined by Bureau Grants Staff. The
Bureau will consider the past
performance of prior recipients and the
demonstrated potential of new
applicants. Proposed personnel and
institutional resources should be fully
qualified to achieve the Program’s goals.
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VI. Award Administration Information
VI.1a. Award Notices: Final awards
cannot be made until funds have been
appropriated by Congress, allocated and
committed through internal Bureau
procedures. Successful applicants will
receive an Assistance Award Document
(AAD) from the Bureau’s Grants Office.
The AAD and the original grant
proposal with subsequent modifications
(if applicable) shall be the only binding
authorizing document between the
recipient and the U.S. Government. The
AAD will be signed by an authorized
Grants Officer, and mailed to the
recipient’s responsible officer identified
in the application.
Unsuccessful applicants will receive
notification of the results of the
application review from the ECA
program office coordinating this
competition.
VI.2 Administrative and National
Policy Requirements: Terms and
Conditions for the Administration of
ECA agreements include the following:
Office of Management and Budget
Circular A–122, ‘‘Cost Principles for
Nonprofit Organizations.’’
Office of Management and Budget
Circular A–21, ‘‘Cost Principles for
Educational Institutions.’’
OMB Circular A–87, ‘‘Cost Principles
for State, Local and Indian
Governments’’.
OMB Circular No. A–110 (Revised),
Uniform Administrative Requirements
for Grants and Agreements with
Institutions of Higher Education,
Hospitals, and other Nonprofit
Organizations.
OMB Circular No. A–102, Uniform
Administrative Requirements for
Grants-in-Aid to State and Local
Governments.
OMB Circular No. A–133, Audits of
States, Local Government, and Nonprofit Organizations
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Please reference the following
websites for additional information:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/grants.
https://exchanges.state.gov/education/
grantsdiv/terms.htm#articleI.
VI.3. Reporting Requirements: You
must provide ECA with a hard copy
original plus one (1) copy of the final
program and financial report no more
than 90 days after the expiration of the
award.
Grantees will be required to provide
reports analyzing their evaluation
findings to the Bureau in their regular
program reports. Please refer to
Application and Submission
Instructions (IV.3d.3) above for Program
Monitoring and Evaluation information.
All data collected, including survey
responses and contact information, must
be maintained for a minimum of three
years and provided to the Bureau upon
request.
All reports must be sent to the ECA
Grants Officer and ECA Program Officer
listed in the final assistance award
document.
VII. Agency Contacts
For questions about this
announcement, contact: Branch for the
Study of the United States, ECA/A/E/
USS, Room 314, U.S. Department of
State, SA–44, 301 4th Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20547; tel. (202) 453–
8540; fax (202) 453–8533. For specific
questions on the Fusion Arts Exchange
program, contact Adam Van Loon at
VanLoonAE@state.gov.
All correspondence with the Bureau
concerning this RFGP should reference
the title ‘‘Fusions Arts Exchange’’ and
number ECA/A/E/USS–07–FAX.
Please read the complete Federal
Register announcement before sending
inquiries or submitting proposals. Once
the RFGP deadline has passed, Bureau
staff may not discuss this competition
with applicants until the proposal
review process has been completed.
VIII. Other Information
Notice
The terms and conditions published
in this RFGP are binding and may not
be modified by any Bureau
representative. Explanatory information
provided by the Bureau that contradicts
published language will not be binding.
Issuance of the RFGP does not
constitute an award commitment on the
part of the Government. The Bureau
reserves the right to reduce, revise, or
increase proposal budgets in accordance
with the needs of the program and the
availability of funds. Awards made will
be subject to periodic reporting and
evaluation requirements per section VI.3
above.
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Dated: November 28, 2006.
Dina Habib Powell,
Assistant Secretary for Educational and
Cultural Affairs Department of State.
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice 5623]
Notice of Meeting of the Cultural
Property Advisory Committee
There will be a meeting of the
Cultural Property Advisory Committee
on Thursday, January 25, 2007, from
approximately 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and on
Friday, January 26, from approximately
9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the Department of
State, Annex 44, Room 840, 301 4th St.,
SW., Washington, DC. During its
meeting the Committee will review a
proposal to extend the Memorandum of
Understanding between the Government
of the United States of America and the
Government of the Republic of Peru
Concerning the Imposition of Import
Restrictions on Archaeological Material
from the Pre-Hispanic Cultures and
Certain Ethnological Material from the
Colonial Period of Peru; and a proposal
to extend the Memorandum of
Understanding Between the
Government of the United States of
America and the Government of the
Republic of Cyprus Concerning the
Imposition of Import Restrictions on
Pre-Classical and Classical
Archaeological Objects and Byzantine
Period Ecclesiastical and Ritual
Ethnological Material. The concerned
Governments have each notified the
Government of the United States of
America of their interest in extending
the respective MOUs.
The Committee’s responsibilities are
carried out in accordance with
provisions of the Convention on
Cultural Property Implementation Act
(19 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.). The text of the
Act and subject Memoranda of
Understanding, as well as related
information may be found at https://
exchanges.state.gov/culprop. Portions of
the meeting on January 25 and 26 will
be closed pursuant to 5 U.S.C.
552b(c)(9)(B) and 19 U.S.C. 2605(h).
However, on January 25, the Committee
will hold an open session from
approximately 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., to
receive oral public comment on the
proposals to extend. Persons wishing to
attend this open session should notify
the Cultural Heritage Center of the
Department of State at (202) 453–8800
no later than Thursday, January 11,
2007, 3 p.m. (EST) to arrange for
admission. Seating is limited.
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Anyone wishing to make an oral
presentation at the public session must
request to be scheduled, must state
which MOU—Peru or Cyprus—the
presentation will address, and must
submit a written text of the oral
comments by January 11, 2007, to allow
time for distribution to Committee
members prior to the meeting. Oral
comments will be limited to allow time
for questions from members of the
Committee and must specifically relate
to the determinations under Section
303(a)(1) of the Convention on Cultural
Property Implementation Act, 19 U.S.C.
2602, pursuant to which the Committee
must make findings. This citation for
the determinations can be found at the
web site noted above.
The Committee also invites written
comments and asks that they be
submitted no later than January 11,
2007, to allow time for distribution to
Committee members prior to the
meeting. All written materials,
including the written texts of oral
statements, may be faxed to (202) 435–
8803. If more than three (3) pages, 20
duplicates of written materials must be
sent by express mail to: Cultural
Heritage Center, Department of State,
Annex 44, 301 4th Street, SW.,
Washington, DC 20547; tel: (202) 453–
8800.
Dated: November 28, 2006.
Dina Habib Powell,
Assistant Secretary for Educational and
Cultural Affairs, Department of State.
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TENNESSEE VALLEY AUTHORITY
Supplemental Environmental Impact
Statement: Completion of Watts Bar
Nuclear Plant Unit 2
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AGENCY: Tennessee Valley Authority.
ACTION: Notice of Intent.
SUMMARY: This notice is provided in
accordance with the Council on
Environmental Quality’s (CEQ)
regulations (40 CFR parts 1500–1508)
and TVA’s procedures for implementing
the National Environmental Policy Act.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)
will prepare a Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)
to update information and address the
potential environmental impacts
associated with its proposal to complete
the Watts Bar Nuclear Plant (WBN) Unit
2 located in Rhea County, Tennessee.
Completion of WBN Unit 2 would help
address the need for additional baseload
generation in the power service area of
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the Tennessee Valley Authority and
make use of that unfinished asset.
DATES: Comments on the draft
Supplemental EIS will be invited from
the public. It is anticipated that the draft
Supplemental EIS will be available in
the spring of 2007.
ADDRESSES: Information about the
Supplemental EIS process can be
obtained by contacting Bruce L. Yeager,
NEPA Program Manager, NEPA Policy,
Environmental Stewardship and Policy,
Tennessee Valley Authority, 400 West
Summit Hill Drive, Mail Stop WT 11B–
K, Knoxville, Tennessee 37902 (e-mail:
blyeager@tva.gov).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
James Chardos, Project Manager,
Nuclear Generation Development at
Tennessee Valley Authority, Mail Stop
ADM 1V-WBN, Chattanooga, Tennessee
37402 (e-mail: jschardos@tva.gov).
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: TVA
operates the largest public power system
in the country. It provides electricity to
more than 8.5 million people in parts of
seven southeastern states. It also serves
650,000 businesses and industries in
this region, including 61 large industrial
and federal facilities. TVA currently has
33,000 megawatts of dependable
generating capacity on its system. This
capacity consists of three nuclear plants,
11 coal-fired plants, six combustionturbine plants, 29 hydroelectric dams,
one pump-storage facility, the
southeast’s largest wind turbine
installation, and one methane-gas
capture facility. Slightly more than 60
percent of TVA’s installed generating
capacity is coal, almost 30 percent is
nuclear, and the remaining 10 percent is
hydro and other renewable energy
resources and combustion turbines.
Demand for electricity in the TVA
Power Service Area is growing at the
rate of approximately 2 percent per year.
In 2005, demand for electricity from the
TVA system exceeded the previous alltime high demand (peak demand) on the
system twice. To meet this growing
demand TVA anticipates having to add
additional baseload capacity to its
system by no later than the 2012-2014
timeframe. Completing TVA’s partiallyconstructed WBN Unit 2 would not only
help meet this growing need for
generation but also make use of that
unfinished asset. TVA is further
supplementing the original 1972
Environmental Statement for the plant
and updating pertinent information
discussed and evaluated in the related
documents identified below to inform
decision makers about the potential for
environmental impacts that would be
associated with a decision to complete
and operate WBN Unit 2. On July 28,
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2006, the TVA Board of Directors also
authorized staff to conduct a
comprehensive Detailed, Scoping,
Estimating and Planning (DSEP) study
to evaluate the cost and schedule for
completing WBN Unit 2.
WBN is located on 1,700 acres at the
northern end of Chickamauga Reservoir
about 8 miles from Spring City,
Tennessee. The Atomic Energy
Commission (AEC) issued construction
permits (now the responsibility of the
Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC))
for the two-unit, 2,540 MW plant in
January of 1973. In 1985, TVA halted
construction activities for WBN in order
to address safety concerns. Due to these
construction delays, WBN Unit 1 did
not begin commercial operation until
May 1996. The plant currently has one
Westinghouse pressurized-water reactor
with a capacity of 1,167 megawatts—
enough electricity to supply about
650,000 homes a day. WBN Unit 2 was
approximately 60 percent complete
when construction was halted in 1985.
Summary of Relevant Environmental
Reviews
In 1972, TVA released a Final EIS that
reviewed the potential environmental
and socioeconomic impacts of
constructing and operating the two-unit
plant (WBN Units 1 and 2). TVA
updated the WBN EIS in November
1976 and submitted additional
environmental information and analyses
to NRC in an Environmental
Information Supplement in 1977. In
December of 1978, NRC issued its Final
EIS, NUREG-0498 related to the
licensing of the two-unit plant.
In 1993, TVA conducted a thorough
review of the TVA and NRC documents
to determine if additional
environmental review was needed to
inform decisions about whether or not
to complete WBN Units 1 and 2. The
1993 TVA review, focusing on ten
sections of the earlier documents,
concluded that neither the plant design
nor environmental conditions had
changed in a manner that materially
altered the environmental impact
analysis set forth in the earlier EIS. In
1994, TVA provided additional analyses
and information in support of NRC’s
issuance of a Supplemental EIS. That
Supplemental EIS, issued by NRC in
1995, similarly concluded that there
were no significant changes in the
potential environmental impacts of
WBN 1 and 2 since the 1978 Final
Environmental Statement issued by the
NRC. Following independent review of
the adequacy of the analyses and
document, in July of 1995 TVA adopted
the 1995 NRC final Supplemental EIS
for the completion of WBN Unit 1. In
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice 5623]
Notice of Meeting of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee
There will be a meeting of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee
on Thursday, January 25, 2007, from approximately 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., and
on Friday, January 26, from approximately 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., at the
Department of State, Annex 44, Room 840, 301 4th St., SW., Washington,
DC. During its meeting the Committee will review a proposal to extend
the Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of the United
States of America and the Government of the Republic of Peru Concerning
the Imposition of Import Restrictions on Archaeological Material from
the Pre-Hispanic Cultures and Certain Ethnological Material from the
Colonial Period of Peru; and a proposal to extend the Memorandum of
Understanding Between the Government of the United States of America
and the Government of the Republic of Cyprus Concerning the Imposition
of Import Restrictions on Pre-Classical and Classical Archaeological
Objects and Byzantine Period Ecclesiastical and Ritual Ethnological
Material. The concerned Governments have each notified the Government
of the United States of America of their interest in extending the
respective MOUs.
The Committee's responsibilities are carried out in accordance with
provisions of the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act
(19 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.). The text of the Act and subject Memoranda of
Understanding, as well as related information may be found at https://
exchanges.state.gov/culprop. Portions of the meeting on January 25 and
26 will be closed pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(9)(B) and 19 U.S.C.
2605(h). However, on January 25, the Committee will hold an open
session from approximately 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m., to receive oral public
comment on the proposals to extend. Persons wishing to attend this open
session should notify the Cultural Heritage Center of the Department of
State at (202) 453-8800 no later than Thursday, January 11, 2007, 3
p.m. (EST) to arrange for admission. Seating is limited.
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Anyone wishing to make an oral presentation at the public session
must request to be scheduled, must state which MOU--Peru or Cyprus--the
presentation will address, and must submit a written text of the oral
comments by January 11, 2007, to allow time for distribution to
Committee members prior to the meeting. Oral comments will be limited
to allow time for questions from members of the Committee and must
specifically relate to the determinations under Section 303(a)(1) of
the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act, 19 U.S.C. 2602,
pursuant to which the Committee must make findings. This citation for
the determinations can be found at the web site noted above.
The Committee also invites written comments and asks that they be
submitted no later than January 11, 2007, to allow time for
distribution to Committee members prior to the meeting. All written
materials, including the written texts of oral statements, may be faxed
to (202) 435-8803. If more than three (3) pages, 20 duplicates of
written materials must be sent by express mail to: Cultural Heritage
Center, Department of State, Annex 44, 301 4th Street, SW., Washington,
DC 20547; tel: (202) 453-8800.
Dated: November 28, 2006.
Dina Habib Powell,
Assistant Secretary for Educational and Cultural Affairs, Department of
State.
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