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project was received by Public Law
109–359, making Appropriations for the
Department of Defense for the Fiscal
Year Ending September 30, 2006, and
for Other Purposes (December 18, 2005).
The original Final EIS was reviewed and
any new conditions that were not
addressed in the 1989 Final EIS were
evaluated as part of the Final
Supplemental EIS to ensure compliance
with all environmental laws and
regulations.
2. Alternative scenarios to be
considered in the DEIS include the ‘‘No
action’’ alternative and an array of 50foot wide increment alternatives to
widen the Federal Lower Pascagoula
Channel and Bayou Casotte Channel up
to a total width of 150 feet on either one
side or both sides of the Channel(s). In
addition, an array of disposal options
are also being evaluated for the new
work as well as for the maintenance
material including upland disposal
site(s), littoral zone disposal, beneficial
use, disposal in the existing Pascagoula
ODMDS, and disposal in existing openwater disposal sites.
3. Scoping: a. The Corps invites full
public participation to promote open
communication on the issues
surrounding the proposal. All Federal,
State, and local agencies, and other
persons or organizations that have an
interest are urged to participate in the
NEPA scoping process. Public meetings
will be held to help identify significant
issues and to receive public input and
comment.
b. The DEIS will analyze the potential
social, economic, and environmental
impacts to the local area resulting from
improvements to the Federal Pascagoula
Harbor Navigation Project. Specifically,
the following major issues will be
analyzed in depth in the DEIS:
Hydrologic and hydraulic regimes,
threatened and endangered species,
essential fish habitat and other marine
habitat, air quality, cultural resources,
transportation systems, alternatives,
secondary and cumulative impacts,
socioeconomic impacts, environmental
justice (effect on minorities and lowincome groups) (Executive Order
12898), and protection of children
(Executive Order 13045).
c. The Corps will serve as the lead
Federal agency in the preparation of the
DEIS. It is anticipated that the following
agencies will be invited and will accept
cooperating agency status for the
preparation of the DEIS: U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency, U.S.
Fish and Wildlife Service, National
Marine Fisheries Service, Mississippi
Department of Environmental Quality,
Mississippi Department of Marine
Resources, Jackson County Port
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Authority, Mississippi Secretary of
State, National Park Service, Minerals
Management Service, Mississippi
Museum of Natural Science, and
Mississippi Department of Archives and
History.
4. A public scoping meeting will be
held (see DATES AND ADDRESSES). Actual
time(s) and place(s) for subsequent
meetings or workshops will be
announced by the Corps by issuance of
a public notice and/or notices in the
local media.
5. It is anticipated that the DEIS will
be made available for public review in
November 2012.
Curtis M. Flakes,
Chief, Planning and Environmental Division.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army
Inland Waterways Users Board;
Request for Nominations
Department of the Army, DOD.
Notice.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
SUMMARY: Section 302 of Public Law 99–
662 established the Inland Waterways
Users Board. The Board is an
independent Federal advisory
committee. The Secretary of the Army
appoints its 11 members. This notice is
to solicit nominations for appointments
or reappointments to two-year terms
that will begin after July 1, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Headquarters, U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, Civil Works
Directorate, Attention: Inland
Waterways Users Board Nominations
Committee, Mr. Mark Pointon, 441 G
Street, NW., Washington, DC 20314–
1000.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Civil Works Directorate,
(202) 761–4691.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
selection, service, and appointment of
Board members are covered by
provisions of Section 302 of Public Law
99–662. The substance of those
provisions is as follows:
a. Selection. Members are to be
selected from the spectrum of
commercial carriers and shippers using
the inland and intracoastal waterways,
to represent geographical regions, and to
be representative of waterborne
commerce as determined by commodity
ton-miles statistics.
b. Service. The Board is required to
meet at least semi-annually to develop
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and make recommendations to the
Secretary of the Army on waterways
construction and rehabilitation
priorities and spending levels for
commercial navigation improvements,
and report its recommendations
annually to the Secretary and Congress.
c. Appointment. The operation of the
Board and appointment of its members
are subject to the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463, as
amended) and departmental
implementing regulations. Members
serve without compensation, but their
expenses due to Board activities are
reimbursable. The considerations
specified in Section 302 for the
selection of the Board members, and
certain terms used therein, have been
interpreted, supplemented, or otherwise
clarified as follows:
(1) Carriers and Shippers. The law
uses the terms ‘‘primary users and
shippers.’’ Primary users have been
interpreted to mean the providers of
transportation services on inland
waterways such as barge or towboat
operators. Shippers have been
interpreted to mean the purchasers of
such services for the movement of
commodities they own or control.
Individuals are appointed to the Board,
but they must be either a carrier or
shipper, or represent a firm that is a
carrier or shipper. For that purpose a
trade or regional association is neither a
shipper nor primary user.
(2) Geographical Representation. The
law specifies ‘‘various’’ regions. For the
purpose of selecting Board members, the
waterways subjected to fuel taxes and
described in Public Law 95–502, as
amended, have been aggregated into six
regions. They are (1) the Upper
Mississippi River and its tributaries
above the mouth of the Ohio; (2) the
Lower Mississippi River and its
tributaries below the mouth of the Ohio
and above Baton Rouge; (3) the Ohio
River and its tributaries; (4) the Gulf
Intracoastal Waterway in Louisiana and
Texas; (5) the Gulf Intracoastal
Waterway east of New Orleans and
associated fuel-taxed waterways
including the Tennessee-Tombigbee,
plus the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway
below Norfolk; and (6) the ColumbiaSnake Rivers System and Upper
Willamette. The intent is that each
region shall be represented by at least
one Board member, with that
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
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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) Chemicals 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 one (1) Board
member whose term has expired is
Region 1 and a shipper.
Nominations to replace Board
members whose terms expire may be
made by individuals, firms or
associations. Nominations will:
(1) State the region(s) to be
represented.
(2) State whether the nominee is
representing carriers, shippers or both.
(3) Provide information on the
nominee’s personal qualifications, such
as a bio or a resume.
(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
February 17, 2006 (71 FR 8568), on July
7, 2006 (71 FR 38629), on February 16,
2007 (72 FR 7620), on July 11, 2008 (73
FR 39952) and the notice published on
February 24, 2009 (74 FR 8236) have
been retained for consideration.
Renomination is not required but highly
encouraged to indicate continued
interest and provide updated
information.
e. Deadline for Nominations. All
nominations must be received at the
address shown above no later than
March 15, 2010.
Brenda S. Bowen,
Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
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Notice of Proposed Information
Collection Requests
Department of Education.
The Acting Director,
Information Collection Clearance
AGENCY:
SUMMARY:
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Division, Regulatory Information
Management Services, Office of
Management, invites comments on the
proposed information collection
requests as required by the Paperwork
Reduction Act of 1995.
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before April 5,
2010.
Section
3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of
1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires
that the Office of Management and
Budget (OMB) provide interested
Federal agencies and the public an early
opportunity to comment on information
collection requests. OMB may amend or
waive the requirement for public
consultation to the extent that public
participation in the approval process
would defeat the purpose of the
information collection, violate State or
Federal law, or substantially interfere
with any agency’s ability to perform its
statutory obligations. The Acting
Director, Information Collection
Clearance Division, Regulatory
Information Management Services,
Office of Management, publishes that
notice containing proposed information
collection requests prior to submission
of these requests to OMB. Each
proposed information collection,
grouped by office, contains the
following: (1) Type of review requested,
e.g. new, revision, extension, existing or
reinstatement; (2) Title; (3) Summary of
the collection; (4) Description of the
need for, and proposed use of, the
information; (5) Respondents and
frequency of collection; and (6)
Reporting and/or Recordkeeping
burden. OMB invites public comment.
The Department of Education is
especially interested in public comment
addressing the following issues: (1) Is
this collection necessary to the proper
functions of the Department; (2) will
this information be processed and used
in a timely manner; (3) is the estimate
of burden accurate; (4) how might the
Department enhance the quality, utility,
and clarity of the information to be
collected; and (5) how might the
Department minimize the burden of this
collection on the respondents, including
through the use of information
technology.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Dated: February 1, 2010.
James Hyler,
Acting Director, Information Collection
Clearance Division, Regulatory Information
Management Services, Office of Management.
Institute of Education Sciences
Type of Review: New.
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Title: Evaluation of Response to
Intervention Practices for Elementary
School Reading (Site Recruitment).
Frequency: On Occasion.
Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal
Gov’t, SEAs or LEAs.
Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour
Burden:
Responses: 515.
Burden Hours: 333.
Abstract: The Evaluation of Response
to Intervention (RtI) Practices for
Elementary School Reading will inform
the National Assessment of IDEA 2004,
and the choices of districts and schools,
by studying the implementation and
impact of practices to identify and
intervene early with struggling readers
and, when needed, determine students’
eligibility for special education. The
Department seeks clearance for the site
recruitment materials. A subsequent
OMB package will seek approval for
instruments to collect data for an indepth study of RtI design,
implementation, and impact in sites
operating mature RtI programs.
Requests for copies of the proposed
information collection request may be
accessed from https://edicsweb.ed.gov,
by selecting the ‘‘Browse Pending
Collections’’ link and by clicking on link
number 4223. When you access the
information collection, click on
‘‘Download Attachments’’ to view.
Written requests for information should
be addressed to U.S. Department of
Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,
LBJ, Washington, DC 20202–4537.
Requests may also be electronically
mailed to ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed
to 202–401–0920. Please specify the
complete title of the information
collection when making your request.
Comments regarding burden and/or
the collection activity requirements
should be electronically mailed to
ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Individuals who
use a telecommunications device for the
deaf (TDD) may call the Federal
Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–
800–877–8339.
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submission for OMB review as required
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army
Inland Waterways Users Board; Request for Nominations
AGENCY: Department of the Army, DOD.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: Section 302 of Public Law 99-662 established the Inland
Waterways Users Board. The Board is an independent Federal advisory
committee. The Secretary of the Army appoints its 11 members. This
notice is to solicit nominations for appointments or reappointments to
two-year terms that will begin after July 1, 2010.
ADDRESSES: Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Civil Works
Directorate, Attention: Inland Waterways Users Board Nominations
Committee, Mr. Mark Pointon, 441 G Street, NW., Washington, DC 20314-
1000.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Headquarters, U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Civil Works Directorate, (202) 761-4691.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The selection, service, and appointment of
Board members are covered by provisions of Section 302 of Public Law
99-662. The substance of those provisions is as follows:
a. Selection. Members are to be selected from the spectrum of
commercial carriers and shippers using the inland and intracoastal
waterways, to represent geographical regions, and to be representative
of waterborne commerce as determined by commodity ton-miles statistics.
b. Service. The Board is required to meet at least semi-annually to
develop and make recommendations to the Secretary of the Army on
waterways construction and rehabilitation priorities and spending
levels for commercial navigation improvements, and report its
recommendations annually to the Secretary and Congress.
c. Appointment. The operation of the Board and appointment of its
members are subject to the Federal Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92-
463, as amended) and departmental implementing regulations. Members
serve without compensation, but their expenses due to Board activities
are reimbursable. The considerations specified in Section 302 for the
selection of the Board members, and certain terms used therein, have
been interpreted, supplemented, or otherwise clarified as follows:
(1) Carriers and Shippers. The law uses the terms ``primary users
and shippers.'' Primary users have been interpreted to mean the
providers of transportation services on inland waterways such as barge
or towboat operators. Shippers have been interpreted to mean the
purchasers of such services for the movement of commodities they own or
control. Individuals are appointed to the Board, but they must be
either a carrier or shipper, or represent a firm that is a carrier or
shipper. For that purpose a trade or regional association is neither a
shipper nor primary user.
(2) Geographical Representation. The law specifies ``various''
regions. For the purpose of selecting Board members, the waterways
subjected to fuel taxes and described in Public Law 95-502, as amended,
have been aggregated into six regions. They are (1) the Upper
Mississippi River and its tributaries above the mouth of the Ohio; (2)
the Lower Mississippi River and its tributaries below the mouth of the
Ohio and above Baton Rouge; (3) the Ohio River and its tributaries; (4)
the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway in Louisiana and Texas; (5) the Gulf
Intracoastal Waterway east of New Orleans and associated fuel-taxed
waterways including the Tennessee-Tombigbee, plus the Atlantic
Intracoastal Waterway below Norfolk; and (6) the Columbia-Snake Rivers
System and Upper Willamette. The intent is that each region shall be
represented by at least one Board member, with that 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
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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) Chemicals 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 one (1) Board member whose term has expired is
Region 1 and a shipper.
Nominations to replace Board members whose terms expire may be made
by individuals, firms or associations. Nominations will:
(1) State the region(s) to be represented.
(2) State whether the nominee is representing carriers, shippers or
both.
(3) Provide information on the nominee's personal qualifications,
such as a bio or a resume.
(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 February 17, 2006 (71 FR 8568), on July 7, 2006 (71 FR
38629), on February 16, 2007 (72 FR 7620), on July 11, 2008 (73 FR
39952) and the notice published on February 24, 2009 (74 FR 8236) have
been retained for consideration. Renomination is not required but
highly encouraged to indicate continued interest and provide updated
information.
e. Deadline for Nominations. All nominations must be received at
the address shown above no later than March 15, 2010.
Brenda S. Bowen,
Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
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