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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army; Corps of
Engineers
Intent To Prepare a Draft Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement for
Development of a Long-Term Sediment
Management Plan of the Mount St.
Helens Sediment Retention Structure
in the North Fork Toutle River
Department of the Army, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, DOD.
ACTION: Notice of intent.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Portland District, intends to
prepare a Draft Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement
(DSEIS) to assess impacts associated
with alternatives for the long-term
management of the existing Mount St.
Helens (MSH) Sediment Retention
Structure (SRS) located at river mile
13.2 of the North Fork Toutle River. The
MSH SRS is a single-purpose structure
constructed in 1987–1989 to trap and
control downstream movement of
volcanic sediments eroding from the
debris avalanche of Mount St. Helens.
The purpose of the long-term
management of the existing MSH SRS is
to continue to provide flood damage
reduction benefits to downstream
communities along the Cowlitz River
including Longview, Kelso, Castle Rock,
and Lexington, Washington.
DATES: A Draft Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement is
expected to be available for public
review and comment in 2013.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.
Tim Kuhn, at the U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers, Portland District, P.O. Box
2946, Portland, OR 97204, by phone at
503–808–4752 or email:
Timothy.s.kuhn@usace.army.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Announcement is made by the U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, Portland
District (Corps), that a DSEIS will be
developed to address environmental
changes that have occurred since the
original EIS was published in December
1984. The Water Resources
Development Act of 2000, Section 339,
authorized the Corps to maintain the
flood damage reduction benefits through
the end of the Mount St. Helens project
planning period, which is 2035. The
originally authorized work is described
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in the October 1985 report of the Chief
of Engineers titled, Mount St. Helens,
Washington, Decision Document
(Toutle, Cowlitz, and Columbia Rivers),
published as House Document No. 135,
99th Congress. Continued work on the
Mount St. Helens project will be
accomplished under the existing open
construction project that was authorized
in August 1985. The State of
Washington is the non-federal sponsor
of the project, and cost-sharing
requirements are outlined in a 1986
Local Cooperation Agreement between
the Department of the Army and State
of Washington and Cowlitz County
diking districts.
Scoping Process: a. The Corps of
Engineers invites affected Federal, State,
and local agencies, Native American
tribes, and other interested
organizations and individuals to
participate in the development of the
DSEIS. The Corps of Engineers
anticipates conducting a public scoping
meeting for this DSEIS in early 2013.
The exact date, time, and location of
this meeting have not yet been
determined. This information will be
publicized once the meeting
arrangements have been made. The
Corps will provide notice to the public
of additional opportunities for public
input on the SEIS during review periods
for the draft and final SEIS.
b. Significant issues to be analyzed in
depth in the DSEIS include alternatives
for managing estimated volumes of
sediment (sediment decay rate),
potential impacts to fish and wildlife,
and potential impacts to tributaries of
the North Fork Toutle River, associated
wetlands, and potential impacts to
downstream waterways including the
Cowlitz River.
c. The Corps will serve as the lead
Federal agency in preparation of the
DSEIS. The Corps intends to coordinate
and/or consult with Federal and State
agencies, as well as interested Native
American Tribes during the scoping and
preparation of the DSEIS. A decision
will be made during the scoping process
whether other agencies and/or Tribes
will serve in an official role as
Cooperating Agencies.
Dated: December 7, 2012.
John W. Eisenhauer,
Colonel, Corps of Engineers, District
Commander.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army; Corps of
Engineers
Notice of Intent to Grant an Exclusive
License of the United States; Patent
No. 6,569,807
Department of the Army, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, DOD.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
Notice of intent.
In accordance with 37 CFR
404.7(a)(1)(i), announcement is made of
a prospective exclusive license of the
following U.S. Patent No. 6,569,807,
entitled ‘‘Mycoherbicidal compositions
and methods of preparing and using the
same’’, which issued on May 27, 2003,
all reissues, reexaminations, and patent
term extensions of this patent, and any
international equivalents thereof to
Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc.
SUMMARY:
Written objections must be filed
not later than 15 days following
publication of this announcement.
DATES:
United States Army
Engineer Research and Development
Center, ATTN: CEERD–OT (Ms. Bea
Shahin), 2902 Newmark Drive,
Champaign, IL 6182–1076.
ADDRESSES:
Ms.
Bea Shahin (217) 373–7234, Fax (217)
373–7210, email:
Bea.S.Shahin@usace.army.mil.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Patent #
6,569,807 entitled ‘‘Mycoherbicidal
compositions and methods of preparing
and using the same’’ describes
innovative techniques in the laboratory
that induce a biocontrol fungus,
Mycoleptodiscus terrestris, to produce
survival propagules termed
microsclerotia in fermentation broth
culture. The microsclerotia are
composed of melanaized fungal hyphae
and can be dried to a moisture content
of approximately 5% thus offering a
shelf life to the intended product, a
mycoherbicide. Upon rehydration the
microsclerotia germinate hyphally
within 24 hours and sprorogenically
within 72 hours. The hyphae and the
spores provide primary and secondary
inoculum respective that can induce
disease development in the nuisance
aquatic species, Hydrilla verticillata.
Although the original research intent
was to develop a mycoherbicide that
could be used to manage hydrilla, the
patent as written is extremely broad and
allows the Corps of Engineers exclusive
rights to any fungus that produces
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microsclerotia and can be used for
aquatic plant control.
Brenda S. Bowen,
Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Notice of Intent To Prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement for
the Plains and Eastern Clean Line
Transmission Project and Notice of
Potential Floodplain and Wetland
Involvement
Department of Energy.
Notice of Intent (NOI) To
Prepare an Environmental Impact
Statement and Notice of Potential
Floodplain and Wetland Involvement.
AGENCY:
ACTION:
The U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) intends to prepare an
Environmental Impact Statement for the
Plains & Eastern Clean Line
Transmission Project (DOE/EIS–0486;
Plains & Eastern EIS or EIS) to assess the
potential environmental impacts of
participating with Clean Line Energy
Partners LLC (Clean Line) in the
proposed Plains & Eastern Project (the
proposed project). The proposed project
would include an overhead ± 600
kilovolt (kV) high voltage direct current
(HVDC) electric transmission system
and associated facilities with the
capacity to deliver approximately 3,500
megawatts (MW) primarily from
renewable energy generation facilities in
the Oklahoma Panhandle region to loadserving entities in the Mid-South and
Southeast via an interconnection with
the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).
The proposed project would traverse
Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Tennessee, a
distance of approximately 700 miles
between interconnection facilities in
Texas County, Oklahoma, and Shelby
County, Tennessee. The proposed
project would require construction of a
new alternating current (AC)/direct
current (DC) converter station at each
end of the transmission line.
Portions of the proposed project may
affect floodplains and/or wetlands. This
NOI, therefore, also serves as a notice of
proposed floodplain or wetland action
in accordance with DOE floodplain and
wetland environmental review
requirements (10 CFR part 1022). The
Plains & Eastern EIS will include a
floodplain and wetland assessment.
DOE plans to coordinate the National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
review and the Section 106 compliance
process under the National Historic
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Preservation Act (NHPA). DOE also
intends to consult with the U.S. Fish
and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and the
National Marine Fisheries Service
(NMFS), as appropriate, pursuant to
Section 7 of the Endangered Species
Act.
DATES: DOE invites public comment on
the scope of the Plains & Eastern EIS
during a 90-day public scoping period
beginning with publication of this
notice and ending on March 21, 2013.
See Public Participation in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for
public scoping meeting dates and
locations. DOE will consider all
comments received or postmarked by
the end of the scoping period and will
consider comments received or
postmarked after the ending date to the
extent practicable.
ADDRESSES: Written comments on the
scope of the Plains & Eastern EIS and
requests to be added to the EIS
distribution list may be submitted by
any of the following methods:
• Electronic comments via the project
Web site at https://
PlainsandEasternEIS.com.
• Email to
info@PlainsandEasternEIS.com.
• U.S. Mail to Plains & Eastern Clean
Line EIS, 1099 18th Street, Suite 580,
Denver, CO 80202.
For additions to the distribution list,
please specify the format of the Plains
& Eastern EIS that you would prefer to
receive (printed copy, CD, or DVD) and
a preference for either the complete EIS
document or ‘‘Summary Only.’’ When
completed, the EIS will be available for
download at the project Web site
(https://PlainsandEasternEIS.com) and at
the DOE NEPA Web site (https://
energy.gov/nepa).
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
information on the Plains & Eastern EIS,
contact Jane Summerson, Ph.D., DOE
NEPA Document Manager, Office of
Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy, U.S. Department of Energy,
1000 Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20585, or email at
Jane.Summerson@ee.doe.gov.
For general information about the
DOE NEPA process, contact Carol
Borgstrom, Director, Office of NEPA
Policy and Compliance (GC–54), U.S.
Department of Energy, 1000
Independence Avenue SW.,
Washington, DC 20585, or phone at
(202) 586–4600, voicemail at (800) 472–
2756, or email at askNEPA@hq.doe.gov.
Additional information regarding DOE’s
NEPA activities is available on the DOE
NEPA Web site at https://energy.gov/
nepa.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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1. Background
Section 1222(b) of the Energy Policy
Act of 2005 (EPAct) authorizes the
Secretary of Energy, acting through and
in consultation with the Administrator
of the Southwestern Power
Administration (Southwestern) to
participate with other entities in
designing, developing, constructing,
operating, maintaining, or owning new
electric power transmission facilities
and related facilities located within any
state in which Southwestern operates,
provided the Secretary determines that
certain conditions have been met.
Southwestern is one of four Power
Marketing Administrations that operates
within DOE. Southwestern is chartered
to market and deliver power in the
southwestern United States, including
Arkansas and Oklahoma, to rural
electric cooperatives and municipal
utilities.
On June 10, 2010, DOE issued a
Request for Proposals (RFP) for new or
upgraded transmission projects
pursuant to Section 1222 (75 FR 32940).
Clean Line Energy Partners LLC of
Houston, Texas, the parent company of
Plains and Eastern Clean Line LLC and
Plains and Eastern Clean Line
Oklahoma LLC (collectively referred to
as Clean Line), responded to the RFP on
July 6, 2010, providing a description of
the proposed project and supporting
information. Clean Line’s original
proposal included two HVDC lines,
each rated at 3,500 MW, together with
the capacity to deliver 7,000 MW. Since
the original proposal was submitted,
Clean Line has modified its Section
1222 proposal to a single HVDC line
with the capacity to deliver 3,500 MW.
More information on the proposed
project, including updates, can be found
at https://PlainsandEasternEIS.com. DOE
has concluded that Clean Line’s
proposal complied with and was
responsive to the RFP.
Prior to making a determination
whether to participate in the proposed
project, DOE must fully evaluate the
proposed project, in consultation with
Southwestern, including reviewing the
potential environmental impacts
pursuant to NEPA and the requirements
of Section 1222(b). DOE is preparing the
Plains & Eastern EIS pursuant to NEPA,
the Council on Environmental Quality
(CEQ) NEPA regulations (40 CFR parts
1500 through 1508), and the DOE NEPA
implementing regulations (10 CFR part
1021).
Portions of the proposed project may
affect floodplains and/or wetlands.
There are floodplains associated with
the Cimarron River, North Canadian
River, Arkansas River, White River,
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army; Corps of Engineers
Notice of Intent to Grant an Exclusive License of the United
States; Patent No. 6,569,807
AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, DOD.
ACTION: Notice of intent.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with 37 CFR 404.7(a)(1)(i), announcement is made
of a prospective exclusive license of the following U.S. Patent No.
6,569,807, entitled ``Mycoherbicidal compositions and methods of
preparing and using the same'', which issued on May 27, 2003, all
reissues, reexaminations, and patent term extensions of this patent,
and any international equivalents thereof to Marrone Bio Innovations,
Inc.
DATES: Written objections must be filed not later than 15 days
following publication of this announcement.
ADDRESSES: United States Army Engineer Research and Development Center,
ATTN: CEERD-OT (Ms. Bea Shahin), 2902 Newmark Drive, Champaign, IL
6182-1076.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Bea Shahin (217) 373-7234, Fax
(217) 373-7210, email: Bea.S.Shahin@usace.army.mil.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Patent 6,569,807 entitled
``Mycoherbicidal compositions and methods of preparing and using the
same'' describes innovative techniques in the laboratory that induce a
biocontrol fungus, Mycoleptodiscus terrestris, to produce survival
propagules termed microsclerotia in fermentation broth culture. The
microsclerotia are composed of melanaized fungal hyphae and can be
dried to a moisture content of approximately 5% thus offering a shelf
life to the intended product, a mycoherbicide. Upon rehydration the
microsclerotia germinate hyphally within 24 hours and sprorogenically
within 72 hours. The hyphae and the spores provide primary and
secondary inoculum respective that can induce disease development in
the nuisance aquatic species, Hydrilla verticillata. Although the
original research intent was to develop a mycoherbicide that could be
used to manage hydrilla, the patent as written is extremely broad and
allows the Corps of Engineers exclusive rights to any fungus that
produces
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microsclerotia and can be used for aquatic plant control.
Brenda S. Bowen,
Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
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