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On Friday,
August 10, 2018 (83 FR 39730–39731),
DoD published a notice titled ‘‘Defense
Advisory Committee on Investigation,
Prosecution, and Defense of Sexual
Assault in the Armed Forces; Notice of
Federal Advisory Committee Meeting’’
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to provide public notification required
by 41 CFR 102–3.150(a) concerning its
meeting on August 23, 2018.
Accordingly, the Advisory Committee
Management Officer for the Department
of Defense, pursuant to 41 CFR 102–
3.150(b), waives the 15-calendar day
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Dated: August 13, 2018.
Aaron T. Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison
Officer, Department of Defense.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Office of the Secretary
Defense Advisory Committee on
Women in the Services; Notice of
Federal Advisory Committee Meeting
Under Secretary of Defense for
Personnel and Readiness, Department of
Defense.
ACTION: Notice of federal advisory
committee meeting.
AGENCY:
The Department of Defense
(DoD) is publishing this notice to
announce that the following federal
advisory committee meeting of the
Defense Advisory Committee on Women
in the Services (DACOWITS) will take
place.
DATES: Day 1—Open to the public
Tuesday, September 11, 2018 from 8:00
a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Day 2—Open to the
public Wednesday, September 12, 2018
from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
ADDRESSES: The address of the open
meeting is the Association of the United
States Army Conference Center, 2425
Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22201.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Colonel Toya J. Davis, U.S. Army, (703)
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(Email). Mailing address is 4800 Mark
Center Drive, Suite 04J25–01,
Alexandria, VA 22350. Website: https://
dacowits.defense.gov. The most up-todate changes to the meeting agenda can
be found on the website.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This
meeting is being held under the
provisions of the Federal Advisory
Committee Act (FACA) of 1972 (5
U.S.C., Appendix, as amended), the
Government in the Sunshine Act of
1976 (5 U.S.C. 552b, as amended), and
41 CFR 102–3.140 and 102–3.150.
Purpose of the Meeting: The purpose
of the meeting is for the DACOWITS to
receive briefings and updates relating to
their current work. The meeting will
open with the Designated Federal
Officer (DFO) giving a status update on
the DACOWITS’ requests for
information. Day one will comprise five
separate briefings from the DoD and
Military Services on the following
topics: Military Recruiting Strategies,
Military Marketing Strategies, DoD
Recruitable Population Demographics,
Status of the United States Navy’s
Submarine Integration Efforts, and an
update from the United States Marine
Corps on the gender integration of
Recruit Training. The second day of the
meeting will open with a briefing from
Military Services regarding their new
Parental Leave Policies. This will be
followed by a briefing from the National
Guard Bureau on their Pregnancy and
Parenthood Policies. Lastly the
DACOWITS will propose and vote on
their annual recommendations to the
Secretary of Defense.
Agenda: Tuesday, September 11,
2018, from 8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.—
Welcome, Introductions, and
Announcements; Request for
Information Status Update; Briefings
and DACOWITS discussion on: Military
Recruiting Strategies, Military
Marketing Strategies, DoD Recruitable
Population Demographics, Submarine
Integration Efforts, and the integration
of Marine Corps’ Recruit Training.
Wednesday, September 12, 2018, from
8:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.—Welcome and
Announcements; Briefing and
DACOWITS discussion on the Military
Services’ Parental Leave Policies and
the National Guard Bureau’s Pregnancy
and Parenthood Policies; and the annual
voting session.
Meeting Accessibility: Pursuant to 5
U.S.C. 552b, as amended, and 41 CFR
102–3.140 through 102–3.165, this
meeting is open to the public, subject to
the availability of space.
Written Statements: Pursuant to 41
CFR 102–3.140, and section 10(a)(3) of
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the FACA, interested persons may
submit a written statement to the
DACOWITS. Individuals submitting a
written statement must submit their
statement no later than 5:00 p.m.,
Tuesday, September 4, 2018 to Mr.
Robert Bowling (703) 697–2122 (Voice),
703–614–6233 (Facsimile),
osd.pentagon.ousd-p-r.mbx.dacowits@
mail.mil (Email). Mailing address is
4800 Mark Center Drive, Suite 04J25–01,
Alexandria, VA 22350. If a written
statement is not received by Tuesday,
September 4, 2018, prior to the meeting,
which is the subject of this notice, then
it may not be provided to or considered
by the DACOWITS until its next open
meeting. The DFO will review all timely
submissions with the DACOWITS Chair
and ensure they are provided to the
members of the Committee.
Dated: August 13, 2018.
Aaron T. Siegel,
Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison
Officer, Department of Defense.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army; Corps of
Engineers
Availability of the Arlington National
Cemetery Southern Expansion Project
and Associated Roadway Realignment
Draft Environmental Assessment,
Arlington, VA
Department of the Army, U.S.
Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.
ACTION: Notice of availability and public
meeting.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Army Corps of
Engineers (USACE) Norfolk District, on
behalf of the Arlington National
Cemetery (ANC), announces the
availability of a Draft Environmental
Assessment (Draft EA) for the Arlington
National Cemetery Southern Expansion
Project and Associated Roadway
Realignment project, for review and
comment. The Draft EA evaluates the
proposal to increase the cemetery’s
contiguous acreage, realign roadways,
and maximize burial space by utilizing
an area adjacent to the existing cemetery
that includes the former Navy Annex
site, located south of the existing
cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia. The
cemetery has been working with the
owners and operators of the adjacent
road network, Arlington County and the
Virginia Department of Transportation,
and the Federal Highway
Administration, on a roadway
realignment that supports the short- and
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long-term multimodal transportation
system for the Commonwealth of
Virginia and Arlington County.
DATES: The Draft EA is available for a
30-day review period. Written
comments will be accepted until the
close of business on September 22,
2018.
ADDRESSES: The public is invited to
submit comments to Ms. Kathy Perdue,
Department of the Army, U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District,
Planning and Policy Branch, 803 Front
St., Norfolk, VA 23510 or via email:
SouthernExpansion@usace.army.mil.
The Project title and the commenter’s
contact information should be included
with submitted comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Kathy Perdue, (757) 201–7218.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As part of
the public involvement process, notice
is hereby given by the USACE Norfolk
District, on behalf of the ANC, of a
public information meeting that will be
held on August 22, 2018, from 5:00 to
8:00 p.m., at the Sheraton Pentagon City
Hotel, 900 S Orme Street, Arlington, VA
22204. The public information meeting
will allow participants the opportunity
to comment and ask questions on the
Draft EA. Attendance at the public
meeting is not necessary to provide
comments. Written comments may also
be given to the contact listed under
ADDRESSES.
The document is available for review
at the following locations:
(1) The USACE Norfolk District
Arlington National Cemetery Southern
Expansion website: https://www.nao
.usace.army.mil/Missions/MilitaryConstruction/ANCSouthernExpansion/
(2) The ANC website: https://
www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/About/
Policies-and-Public-Notices/PublicNotices
(3) Copies at the following Arlington
County, Virginia Public Libraries:
a. Arlington County Central Library,
1015 N Quincy Street, Arlington, VA
22201.
b. Aurora Hills Branch Public Library,
735 South 18th Street, Arlington, VA
22202.
c. Columbia Pike Branch Public
Library, 816 South Walter Reed Drive,
Arlington, VA 22204.
The ANC is the lead federal agency
for this Project, and the USACE has
prepared the draft NEPA document on
its behalf, assisted by the HNTB
Corporation. The following are serving
as cooperating agencies during the
NEPA process: Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA), the
Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA), the National Capital Planning
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Commission (NCPC), the Virginia
Department of Transportation (VDOT),
and Arlington County. The ANC and the
USACE also considered the input of
various stakeholder organizations and
the public.
ANC is located within the eastern
boundary of Arlington County, in the
northeastern corner of the
Commonwealth of Virginia, and at the
western terminus of Memorial Avenue,
directly across the Arlington Memorial
Bridge and the Potomac River from the
District of Columbia (Washington, DC).
ANC is our nation’s most hallowed
ground. This Army cemetery consists of
624 acres and is the final resting place
of over 400,000 service members and
their families. The proposed Southern
Expansion site, bounded by Washington
Boulevard (Route 27), I–395, the VDOT
Maintenance Complex, the Foxcroft
Heights neighborhood, and the ANC,
involves approximately 70 acres among
three landowners: ANC, Arlington
County, and VDOT.
Proposed Action. The Proposed
Action is to establish a single
contiguous parcel of land south of the
cemetery by closing and relocating local
roadways and developing the parcel to
increase interment capacity and
increase multimodal transportation
capacity on Columbia Pike. The
contiguous parcel would be created
through the replacement of Southgate
Road with a new South Nash Street, and
realignment of Columbia Pike and the
Columbia Pike/Washington Boulevard
interchange (adjacent to the Pentagon).
The existing Air Force Memorial (AFM)
would be incorporated into the
cemetery expansion, and the existing
Operations Complex would be relocated
south of Columbia Pike.
Alternatives. The Draft EA considers a
full range of alternatives that meet the
Proposed Action’s purpose and need,
while avoiding and minimizing impacts
to the maximum extent practicable.
Alternatives were developed that
leverage to varying degrees the Armyowned land south of Columbia Pike to
increase contiguous space for burials
and cemetery operational effectiveness.
Alternatives considered in detail
included: (1) Relocate Operations
Complex Alternative (Preferred
Alternative/Proposed Action); (2)
Maintain Operations Complex with
Tunnel Alternative; and (3) Maintain
Operations Complex without Tunnel
Alternative.
Public Involvement. A Notice of Intent
to prepare an EA was published in the
Federal Register (81 FR 23281) on April
20, 2016. A public NEPA scoping
meeting was held on April 27, 2016, in
Arlington County.
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Pursuant to the requirements of the
National Environmental Policy Act of
1969, as amended (NEPA), 42 U.S.C.
4321–4370, as implemented by the
Council on Environmental Quality
Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500–1508),
the ANC, as the lead federal agency, has
determined that the project does not
have the potential to cause significant
impacts on the human environment,
and has developed the Draft EA to
examine and assess the impacts of the
Proposed Action.
Brenda S. Bowen,
Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
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Extension of Comment Period, Draft
Waste Incidental To Reprocessing
Evaluation for Closure of Waste
Management Area C at the Hanford
Site, Washington
U.S. Department of Energy.
Extension of public comment
AGENCY:
ACTION:
period.
On June 4, 2018, the U.S.
Department of Energy (‘‘DOE’’)
published in the Federal Register a
Notice of Availability of the Draft Waste
Incidental to Reprocessing Evaluation
for Closure of Waste Management Area
C at the Hanford Site, Washington (Draft
WIR Evaluation), which evaluates
whether the stabilized tanks and
ancillary structures in WMA C, as well
as the residual material in these tanks
and structures will meet the criteria in
Section II.B.(2)(a) of DOE M. 435.1–1,
Radioactive Waste Management Manual
at closure. The original public comment
period was from June 4, 2018 through
September 7, 2018. This notice
announces an extension of the public
comment period on the Draft WIR
Evaluation through November 7, 2018;
any comments received after that date
will be considered to the extent
practical.
DATES: The comment period in the
Notice of Availability, published on
June 4, 2018 (83 FR 25657), is extended
through November 7, 2018. Any
comments received after that date will
be considered to the extent practical.
ADDRESSES: Interested persons may
submit comments by email to
WMACDRAFTWIR@rl.gov. Alternately,
written comments may also be sent by
mail to: Mr. Jan Bovier, U.S. Department
of Energy, Office of River Protection,
P.O. Box 450, MSIN H6–60, Richland,
WA 99354.
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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
Department of the Army; Corps of Engineers
Availability of the Arlington National Cemetery Southern
Expansion Project and Associated Roadway Realignment Draft
Environmental Assessment, Arlington, VA
AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, DoD.
ACTION: Notice of availability and public meeting.
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SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Norfolk District, on
behalf of the Arlington National Cemetery (ANC), announces the
availability of a Draft Environmental Assessment (Draft EA) for the
Arlington National Cemetery Southern Expansion Project and Associated
Roadway Realignment project, for review and comment. The Draft EA
evaluates the proposal to increase the cemetery's contiguous acreage,
realign roadways, and maximize burial space by utilizing an area
adjacent to the existing cemetery that includes the former Navy Annex
site, located south of the existing cemetery, in Arlington, Virginia.
The cemetery has been working with the owners and operators of the
adjacent road network, Arlington County and the Virginia Department of
Transportation, and the Federal Highway Administration, on a roadway
realignment that supports the short- and
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long-term multimodal transportation system for the Commonwealth of
Virginia and Arlington County.
DATES: The Draft EA is available for a 30-day review period. Written
comments will be accepted until the close of business on September 22,
2018.
ADDRESSES: The public is invited to submit comments to Ms. Kathy
Perdue, Department of the Army, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk
District, Planning and Policy Branch, 803 Front St., Norfolk, VA 23510
or via email: [email protected]. The Project title and
the commenter's contact information should be included with submitted
comments.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Kathy Perdue, (757) 201-7218.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As part of the public involvement process,
notice is hereby given by the USACE Norfolk District, on behalf of the
ANC, of a public information meeting that will be held on August 22,
2018, from 5:00 to 8:00 p.m., at the Sheraton Pentagon City Hotel, 900
S Orme Street, Arlington, VA 22204. The public information meeting will
allow participants the opportunity to comment and ask questions on the
Draft EA. Attendance at the public meeting is not necessary to provide
comments. Written comments may also be given to the contact listed
under ADDRESSES.
The document is available for review at the following locations:
(1) The USACE Norfolk District Arlington National Cemetery Southern
Expansion website: https://www.nao.usace.army.mil/Missions/Military-Construction/ANCSouthernExpansion/
(2) The ANC website: https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/About/Policies-and-Public-Notices/Public-Notices
(3) Copies at the following Arlington County, Virginia Public
Libraries:
a. Arlington County Central Library, 1015 N Quincy Street,
Arlington, VA 22201.
b. Aurora Hills Branch Public Library, 735 South 18th Street,
Arlington, VA 22202.
c. Columbia Pike Branch Public Library, 816 South Walter Reed
Drive, Arlington, VA 22204.
The ANC is the lead federal agency for this Project, and the USACE
has prepared the draft NEPA document on its behalf, assisted by the
HNTB Corporation. The following are serving as cooperating agencies
during the NEPA process: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the National Capital Planning
Commission (NCPC), the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT),
and Arlington County. The ANC and the USACE also considered the input
of various stakeholder organizations and the public.
ANC is located within the eastern boundary of Arlington County, in
the northeastern corner of the Commonwealth of Virginia, and at the
western terminus of Memorial Avenue, directly across the Arlington
Memorial Bridge and the Potomac River from the District of Columbia
(Washington, DC). ANC is our nation's most hallowed ground. This Army
cemetery consists of 624 acres and is the final resting place of over
400,000 service members and their families. The proposed Southern
Expansion site, bounded by Washington Boulevard (Route 27), I-395, the
VDOT Maintenance Complex, the Foxcroft Heights neighborhood, and the
ANC, involves approximately 70 acres among three landowners: ANC,
Arlington County, and VDOT.
Proposed Action. The Proposed Action is to establish a single
contiguous parcel of land south of the cemetery by closing and
relocating local roadways and developing the parcel to increase
interment capacity and increase multimodal transportation capacity on
Columbia Pike. The contiguous parcel would be created through the
replacement of Southgate Road with a new South Nash Street, and
realignment of Columbia Pike and the Columbia Pike/Washington Boulevard
interchange (adjacent to the Pentagon). The existing Air Force Memorial
(AFM) would be incorporated into the cemetery expansion, and the
existing Operations Complex would be relocated south of Columbia Pike.
Alternatives. The Draft EA considers a full range of alternatives
that meet the Proposed Action's purpose and need, while avoiding and
minimizing impacts to the maximum extent practicable. Alternatives were
developed that leverage to varying degrees the Army-owned land south of
Columbia Pike to increase contiguous space for burials and cemetery
operational effectiveness. Alternatives considered in detail included:
(1) Relocate Operations Complex Alternative (Preferred Alternative/
Proposed Action); (2) Maintain Operations Complex with Tunnel
Alternative; and (3) Maintain Operations Complex without Tunnel
Alternative.
Public Involvement. A Notice of Intent to prepare an EA was
published in the Federal Register (81 FR 23281) on April 20, 2016. A
public NEPA scoping meeting was held on April 27, 2016, in Arlington
County.
Pursuant to the requirements of the National Environmental Policy
Act of 1969, as amended (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 4321-4370, as implemented by
the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500-
1508), the ANC, as the lead federal agency, has determined that the
project does not have the potential to cause significant impacts on the
human environment, and has developed the Draft EA to examine and assess
the impacts of the Proposed Action.
Brenda S. Bowen,
Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
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