Notice of Availability of a Final Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) and a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) on the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative in the Land and Sea Environments, 54671-54672 [E7-19035]
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND
SECURITY
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration
Services
Overview of This Information
Collection
Bureau of Customs and Border
Protection
Agency Information Collection
Activities: Reinstatement and Revision
of a Previously Approved Form
(1) Type of Information Collection:
Reinstatement and revision of a
previously approved form.
(2) Title of the Form/Collection:
HRIFA Supplement to Form I–485.
(3) Agency form number, if any, and
the applicable component of the
Department of Homeland Security
sponsoring the collection: Form I–485
Supplement C; U.S. Citizenship and
Immigration Services.
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or required to respond, as well as a brief
abstract: Primary: Individuals or
households. The information provided
on the Form I–485 Supplement C, in
combination with the information
collected on Form I–485 (Application to
Register Permanent Resident or Adjust
Status), is necessary in order for the U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services
(USCIS) to make a determination that
the adjustment of status eligibility
requirements and conditions are met by
the applicant of Haitian nationality
pursuant to HRIFA.
(5) An estimate of the total number of
respondents and the amount of time
estimated for an average respondent to
respond: 2,000 respondents at 30
minutes per response.
(6) An estimate of the total public
burden (in hours) associated with the
collection: 1,000 annual burden hours.
If you have additional comments,
suggestions, or need a copy of the
information collection instrument,
please visit the USCIS Web site at:
https://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/
component/main. We may also be
contacted at: USCIS, Regulatory
Management Division, 111
Massachusetts Avenue, NW., 3rd floor,
Suite 3008, Washington, DC 20529,
telephone number 202–272–8377.
[USCBP–2007–0060]
60-day notice of information
collection under review; Form I–485:
Supplement C, HRIFA Supplement to
Form I–485; OMB Control No. 1615–
New.
ACTION:
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The Department of Homeland
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Immigration Services has submitted the
following information collection request
for review and clearance in accordance
with the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995. The information collection is
published to obtain comments from the
public and affected agencies. Comments
are encouraged and will be accepted for
sixty days until November 26, 2007.
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regarding items contained in this notice
and especially with regard to the
estimated public burden and associated
response time should be directed to the
Department of Homeland Security
(DHS), USCIS, Chief, Regulatory
Management Division, Clearance Office,
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floor, Suite 3008, Washington, DC
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collected; and
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Richard A. Sloan,
Chief, Regulatory Management Division, U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services.
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Notice of Availability of a Final
Programmatic Environmental
Assessment (PEA) and a Finding of No
Significant Impact (FONSI) on the
Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative in
the Land and Sea Environments
Customs and Border Protection
(CBP), Department of Homeland
Security (DHS).
ACTION: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: A Final Programmatic
Environmental Assessment (PEA) and
Finding of No Significant Impact
(FONSI) for the Western Hemisphere
Travel Initiative (WHTI) in the Land and
Sea Environments are available to the
public for review. The Final PEA
documents a review of potential
environmental impacts. Based on the
Final PEA, a determination was made
that the travel documents proposed for
WHTI and use of the travel documents
for implementation of the Intelligence
Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of
2004 (IRTPA) will not have a significant
impact on the quality of the human
environment such that it would require
further analysis under the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969
(NEPA). The Final PEA addresses the
substantive comments received on the
Draft PEA during the public comment
period. The Final PEA resulted in a
FONSI that describes the programmatic
action alternatives to be used as the
approach to meet the requirements of
WHTI. The Final PEA and FONSI are
made available to the public in
accordance with NEPA and the Council
on Environmental Quality (CEQ)
regulations for implementing NEPA.
DATES: The Final PEA and FONSI will
be available to the public on September
6, 2007.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the Final PEA and
FONSI may be obtained by download
through the Internet at https://
www.cbp.gov/travel and https://
www.regulations.gov or by writing to:
CBP, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW.,
Room 5.4D, Attn: WHTI Environmental
Assessment, Washington, DC 20229.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: U.S.
Customs and Border Protection, WHTI
Program Management Office, ATTN:
Ms. Colleen Manaher, 1300
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Room 5.4D,
Washington, DC 20229, (202) 344–1220,
e-mail address:
Colleen.M.Manaher@dhs.gov.
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Section
7209 of IRTPA, as amended, provides
that upon full implementation, U.S.,
Bermudian, and Canadian citizens, and
Mexican nationals would be required to
present a passport or such alternative
documents as the Secretary of
Homeland Security designates as
satisfactorily establishing identity and
citizenship upon entering the United
States.
In a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking
(NPRM) published in the Federal
Register on June 26, 2007 (72 FR 35088),
DHS and the Department of State (DOS)
described the second phase of a joint
plan, known as WHTI, to implement
these new requirements. The NPRM
proposed the specific documents that
U.S. citizens and nonimmigrant aliens
from Canada, Bermuda, and Mexico
would be required to present when
entering the U.S. at sea and land portsof-entry from Western Hemisphere
countries.
DHS and CBP have analyzed the
potential impacts on the human
environment of several alternate ways of
implementing WHTI at sea and land
ports-of-entry based on technological
and operational considerations as part
of the decision-making process. The
impact analysis in the Final PEA and
FONSI focuses primarily on the effects
of implementing WHTI at land ports-ofentry because the land environment is
the most sensitive to the proposed
document and technological changes
associated with implementation of
WHTI.
Four technological and operational
alternatives to meet the requirements to
define and process secure, standardized
travel documents under WHTI are
analyzed in the PEA. The four
alternatives are: (1) No-Action
Alternative: maintain the status quo; (2)
Standardized Documents Alternative:
accept a limited number of document
categories for admission at all sea or
land ports-of-entry (LPOEs); (3) MRZ
Alternative: Accept standardized
documents that contain a Machine
Readable Zone (MRZ); and (4) RFID
Alternative: Accept standardized
documents that contain Radio
Frequency Identification (RFID)
technology and an MRZ, for the use of
RFID-enabled readers at the busiest
LPOEs and MRZ at all LPOEs. As
described in the PEA, air quality and
noise are the primary resource areas that
have the most potential to be affected by
implementation of WHTI. However, no
significant environmental impacts to
these resources or any other human or
natural environments from the
implementation of any of the WHTI
alternatives are anticipated.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Dated: September 19, 2007.
Eugene H. Schied,
Assistant Commissioner, Office of Finance.
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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
Office of the Secretary
Native Hawaiian Organization
Notification List
Office of Hawaiian Relations,
Office of the Secretary, Department of
the Interior.
ACTION: Creation of a Native Hawaiian
Organization Notification List to be
maintained by the U.S. Department of
the Interior, Office of Hawaiian
Relations.
AGENCY:
SUMMARY: The Office of Hawaiian
Relations (OHR), within the Office of
the Secretary, U.S. Department of the
Interior (DOI), has developed criteria for
establishment of a Native Hawaiian
Organization Notification List
(Notification List). The purpose of the
Notification List is to provide the DOI
officials with a tool to help satisfy their
statutory notification obligations under
such laws as the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the
National Historic Preservation Act
(NHPA), and the Native American
Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
(NAGPRA). It is also the intent of the
Office of Hawaiian Relations to make
available to other Federal agency
officials this mechanism to assist them
with their reasonable and good faith
efforts to identify Native Hawaiian
organizations that are to be notified or
consulted with when required by statute
or when desired.
DATES: Eligible organizations should
submit their application for inclusion
on the list. Although organizations may
apply for inclusion on the list at
anytime, we will begin using the list on
November 26, 2007.
ADDRESSES: To apply for placement of
an organization on the Notification List
send certification to: Ka’i’ini K. Kaloi,
Director, Office of Hawaiian Relations,
1849 C Street, NW., MS 3543,
Washington, DC 20240.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
1. What Does the Native Hawaiian
Organization Notification List Do?
a. The Native Hawaiian Organization
Notification List, to be maintained and
housed within OHR, is designed to
assist the DOI and other agencies to
locate and communicate with interested
Native Hawaiian organizations when
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statutory, regulatory, or when otherwise
desired by the agency.
b. The Native Hawaiian Organization
Notification List may assist other
Federal agency officials with their
reasonable and good faith efforts to
identify Native Hawaiian organizations
that are to be notified or consulted with
when required by statute or when
otherwise desired by the agency.
c. The Native Hawaiian Organization
Notification List is voluntary, and
Native Hawaiian organizations are not
required to participate in the
Notification List. However, it is
anticipated that Federal agencies will
rely on this list.
d. The placement of an organization
on the Notification List shall not be
construed as recognition by the Federal
Government that the organization is a
governmental, tribal, or other similar
type entity.
e. The placement of an organization
on the Notification List is not intended
to and does not confer any substantive
or procedural right, benefit, or privilege
enforceable at law or in equity, which
is not otherwise available to the
organization by law, by any party
against the United States, its agencies or
instrumentalities, its officers or
employees, or any other person.
f. The Notification List is created as a
convenience for the U.S. Government
and Native Hawaiian organizations. It
does not provide a basis for legal action
against the U.S. Government.
2. How Does a Native Hawaiian
Organization Apply To Be on the
Native Hawaiian Organization
Notification List?
a. An organization must certify in
writing to OHR the following:
i. The organization serves and
represents the interests of Native
Hawaiians;
ii. The organization has as a primary
and stated purpose the provision of
services to Native Hawaiians;
iii. The organization has expertise in
Native Hawaiian affairs; and
iv. The organization would like to be
placed on the Notification List.
b. The certification must be signed
and dated by the organization’s
governing body and include a valid U.S.
mailing address where the organization
wants notifications to be sent.
c. The request may also include the
organization’s topical and geographic
areas of interest.
d. If the certification from the
organization is incomplete, the
organization may not be listed.
e. It is a violation of Federal law to
make false, fictitious, or fraudulent
statements to the Federal Government.
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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY
Bureau of Customs and Border Protection
[USCBP-2007-0060]
Notice of Availability of a Final Programmatic Environmental
Assessment (PEA) and a Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) on the
Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative in the Land and Sea Environments
AGENCY: Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Department of Homeland
Security (DHS).
ACTION: Notice of availability.
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SUMMARY: A Final Programmatic Environmental Assessment (PEA) and
Finding of No Significant Impact (FONSI) for the Western Hemisphere
Travel Initiative (WHTI) in the Land and Sea Environments are available
to the public for review. The Final PEA documents a review of potential
environmental impacts. Based on the Final PEA, a determination was made
that the travel documents proposed for WHTI and use of the travel
documents for implementation of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism
Prevention Act of 2004 (IRTPA) will not have a significant impact on
the quality of the human environment such that it would require further
analysis under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA).
The Final PEA addresses the substantive comments received on the Draft
PEA during the public comment period. The Final PEA resulted in a FONSI
that describes the programmatic action alternatives to be used as the
approach to meet the requirements of WHTI. The Final PEA and FONSI are
made available to the public in accordance with NEPA and the Council on
Environmental Quality (CEQ) regulations for implementing NEPA.
DATES: The Final PEA and FONSI will be available to the public on
September 6, 2007.
ADDRESSES: Copies of the Final PEA and FONSI may be obtained by
download through the Internet at https://www.cbp.gov/travel and https://
www.regulations.gov or by writing to: CBP, 1300 Pennsylvania Avenue,
NW., Room 5.4D, Attn: WHTI Environmental Assessment, Washington, DC
20229.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: U.S. Customs and Border Protection,
WHTI Program Management Office, ATTN: Ms. Colleen Manaher, 1300
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Room 5.4D, Washington, DC 20229, (202) 344-
1220, e-mail address: Colleen.M.Manaher@dhs.gov.
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 7209 of IRTPA, as amended, provides
that upon full implementation, U.S., Bermudian, and Canadian citizens,
and Mexican nationals would be required to present a passport or such
alternative documents as the Secretary of Homeland Security designates
as satisfactorily establishing identity and citizenship upon entering
the United States.
In a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) published in the Federal
Register on June 26, 2007 (72 FR 35088), DHS and the Department of
State (DOS) described the second phase of a joint plan, known as WHTI,
to implement these new requirements. The NPRM proposed the specific
documents that U.S. citizens and nonimmigrant aliens from Canada,
Bermuda, and Mexico would be required to present when entering the U.S.
at sea and land ports-of-entry from Western Hemisphere countries.
DHS and CBP have analyzed the potential impacts on the human
environment of several alternate ways of implementing WHTI at sea and
land ports-of-entry based on technological and operational
considerations as part of the decision-making process. The impact
analysis in the Final PEA and FONSI focuses primarily on the effects of
implementing WHTI at land ports-of-entry because the land environment
is the most sensitive to the proposed document and technological
changes associated with implementation of WHTI.
Four technological and operational alternatives to meet the
requirements to define and process secure, standardized travel
documents under WHTI are analyzed in the PEA. The four alternatives
are: (1) No-Action Alternative: maintain the status quo; (2)
Standardized Documents Alternative: accept a limited number of document
categories for admission at all sea or land ports-of-entry (LPOEs); (3)
MRZ Alternative: Accept standardized documents that contain a Machine
Readable Zone (MRZ); and (4) RFID Alternative: Accept standardized
documents that contain Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology
and an MRZ, for the use of RFID-enabled readers at the busiest LPOEs
and MRZ at all LPOEs. As described in the PEA, air quality and noise
are the primary resource areas that have the most potential to be
affected by implementation of WHTI. However, no significant
environmental impacts to these resources or any other human or natural
environments from the implementation of any of the WHTI alternatives
are anticipated.
Dated: September 19, 2007.
Eugene H. Schied,
Assistant Commissioner, Office of Finance.
[FR Doc. E7-19035 Filed 9-25-07; 8:45 am]
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