Notice of Proposed Methodology for the 2024 Delaware River and Bay Water Quality Assessment Report, 75565-75566 [2023-24279]
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The August 4, 2023, notice announced
the Army’s intention to prepare an EIS
under the National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA). The EIS would have
addressed potential environmental
effects associated with the
congressionally-mandated removal of
the Confederate Memorial from
Arlington National Cemetery (ANC).
The Army determined the
congressionally-mandated removal
action is a non-discretionary action.
There would be no reasonably
foreseeable significant impacts from any
discretionary elements of the proposed
action. An EIS is therefore not needed
to inform any decision-making for this
action. The Army will prepare an
Environmental Assessment (EA) to
analyze and disclose any effects of the
discretionary elements of the proposed
action, including how to disassemble
the Confederate Memorial.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.
Renea Yates, Director, Office of Army
Cemeteries, 1 Memorial Avenue,
Arlington, VA 22211; email: anccommemorative-works@army.mil (Note:
This email is for administrative
inquiries only. Any comments regarding
the proposed action should not be sent
to this email address, but should instead
be submitted via comment form located
at: https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/
About/Confederate-MemorialRemoval.); (877) 907–8585.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NOI
was published in the Federal Register
on August 4, 2023 (88 FR 149).
Congress directed the establishment
of the Commission on the Naming of
Items of the DoD that Commemorate the
Confederate States of America or Any
Person Who Served Voluntarily with the
Confederate States of America (the
Naming Commission) in section 370 of
the William M. (Mac) Thornberry
National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21 NDAA).
Regarding the Confederate Memorial,
the Naming Commission recommended
the following:
—‘‘The statue atop . . . the monument
should be removed. All bronze
elements on the monument should be
deconstructed, and removed,
preferably leaving the granite base
and foundation in place to minimize
risk of inadvertent disturbance of
graves.’’
—‘‘The work should be planned and
coordinated with the Commission of
Fine Arts and the Historical Review
Commission to determine the best
way to proceed with removal of the
monument.’’
—‘‘The Department of [the] Army
should consider the most cost-
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effective method of removal and
disposal of the monument’s elements
in their planning.’’
The FY21 NDAA, section 370(a),
requires that ‘‘[n]ot later than [January 1,
2024], the Secretary of Defense shall
implement the plan submitted by [the
Naming Commission] and remove all
names, symbols, displays, monuments,
and paraphernalia that honor or
commemorate the Confederate States of
America . . . or any person who served
voluntarily with the Confederate States
of America from all assets of the
Department of Defense.’’
The purpose of the proposed action is
to remove from ANC a monument that
commemorates the Confederate States of
America. The need for the proposed
action is to comply with nondiscretionary congressional direction.
The public scoping process did not
reveal evidence of any reasonably
foreseeable significant impacts resulting
from discretionary actions.
Overwhelmingly, public comments
during the scoping process focused on
the non-discretionary action of
removing the Confederate Memorial
from ANC. Because removal of the
Confederate Memorial from ANC is
legally required and non-discretionary,
the question of whether to remove the
monument is not subject to analysis
under NEPA. The Army does not have
the authority to take environmental
factors into consideration in
determining whether to remove the
monument.
The Army will prepare an EA to
analyze discretionary actions (i.e., how
to disassemble and remove the
Confederate Memorial’s bronze
elements). The EA and Draft Finding of
No Significant Impact (Draft FONSI)
will be published locally and not in the
Federal Register. The EA and Draft
FONSI will also be available online at:
https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/
About/Confederate-Memorial-Removal.
James W. Satterwhite Jr.,
U.S. Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.
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DELAWARE RIVER BASIN
COMMISSION
Notice of Proposed Methodology for
the 2024 Delaware River and Bay Water
Quality Assessment Report
Delaware River Basin
Commission.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
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Notice is hereby given that
the methodology proposed to be used in
the 2024 Delaware River and Bay Water
Quality Assessment Report is available
for review and comment.
SUMMARY:
Written comments on the
assessment methodology or
recommendations for the consideration
of data sets will be accepted through 5
p.m. EST on February 1, 2024.
DATES:
Written comments may be
submitted through the Commission’s
web-based comment system, a link to
which is provided at www.drbc.gov. All
submissions should include the name
and address (street address optional) of
the commenter. Exceptions to use of the
web-based comment system are
available based on need, by writing to
the attention of the Commission
Secretary, DRBC, P.O. Box 7360, 25
Cosey Road, West Trenton, NJ 08628–
0360. For assistance, please contact
Patricia Hausler at patricia.hausler@
drbc.gov.
ADDRESSES:
Mr.
Jacob Bransky, Senior Aquatic Biologist,
jacob.bransky@drbc.gov, 609–477–7230.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
The
Delaware River Basin Commission
(‘‘DRBC’’ or ‘‘Commission’’) is a
Federal-interstate compact agency that
was created in 1961 by concurrent
legislation of the States of Delaware,
New Jersey, and New York, the
Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the
United States Government for purpose
of jointly managing the water resources
of the Delaware River Basin.
DRBC currently is compiling data for
the 2024 Delaware River and Bay Water
Quality Assessment Report (‘‘2024
Assessment’’) required by the federal
Clean Water Act (‘‘CWA’’). The 2024
Assessment will present the extent to
which waters of the Delaware River and
Bay are attaining designated uses in
accordance with section 305(b) of the
CWA and the Commission’s Water
Quality Regulations (incorporated by
reference at 18 CFR part 410), and will
identify impaired waters, which consist
of waters in which surface water quality
standards are not being met.
The proposed assessment
methodology to be used in the 2024
Assessment is available for review at the
following URL: https://www.nj.gov/
drbc/library/documents/
WQAssessment2024
MethodologyDRAFToct2023.pdf.
Authority: Delaware River Basin
Compact, Public Law 87–328, Approved
September 27, 1961, 75 Statutes at
Large, 688, sec’s 3.6(c), 3.6(h), 3.9,
3.9(a), 3.9(d), and 5.1.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
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Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 212 / Friday, November 3, 2023 / Notices
Dated: October 18, 2023.
Pamela M. Bush,
Commission Secretary.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
National Nuclear Security
Administration
Notice of Availability for the Final SiteWide Environmental Impact Statement
for Continued Operation of the
Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory
National Nuclear Security
Administration, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of availability.
AGENCY:
The National Nuclear
Security Administration (NNSA), a
semi-autonomous agency within the
United States (U.S.) Department of
Energy (DOE), announces the
availability of a Final Site-Wide
Environmental Impact Statement for
Continued Operation of the Lawrence
Livermore National Laboratory (Final
LLNL SWEIS) (DOE/EIS–0547) in
compliance with the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969
(NEPA). NNSA prepared the Final LLNL
SWEIS to analyze the potential
environmental impacts associated with
continuing LLNL operations and
foreseeable new and/or modified
operations and facilities for
approximately the next 15 years.
Volume 3 of the Final LLNL SWEIS is
a comment response document (CRD),
which includes all comments received
during the public comment period on
the Draft LLNL SWEIS, as well as
NNSA’s responses to those comments.
DATES: NNSA will not issue any Record
of Decision (ROD) on the proposal for a
minimum of 30 days after the date that
the U.S. Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) publishes its Notice of
Availability (NOA) in the Federal
Register.
SUMMARY:
Requests for additional
information related to the Final LLNL
SWEIS should be sent to Mr. Tom Grim,
NEPA Document Manager, National
Nuclear Security Administration, 1000
Independence Ave. SW, Washington,
DC 20585; or sent by email to:
LLNLSWEIS@nnsa.doe.gov.
The Final LLNL SWEIS is available
for viewing and downloading on the
NNSA NEPA Reading Room website
(www.energy.gov/nnsa/nnsa-nepareading-room) and the DOE NEPA
website (https://energy.gov/nepa/nepa-
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documents). Copies of the Final LLNL
SWEIS will also be available at the
Livermore Public Library, 1188 South
Livermore Avenue, Livermore,
California, and the Tracy Public Library,
20 East Eaton Avenue, Tracy, California.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information about this notice,
please contact Mr. Tom Grim, NEPA
Document Manager, National Nuclear
Security Administration, 1000
Independence Ave. SW, Washington,
DC 20585; call 833–778–0508 to leave a
message; or email at: LLNLSWEIS@
nnsa.doe.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NNSA is
responsible for meeting the national
security requirements established by the
President and Congress to maintain and
enhance the safety, reliability, and
performance of the U.S. nuclear
weapons stockpile. The continued
operation of LLNL is critical to NNSA’s
Stockpile Stewardship and Management
Program, preventing the spread and use
of nuclear weapons worldwide, and
many other areas that may impact
national security and global stability.
The Final LLNL SWEIS analyzes two
alternatives: (1) the No-Action
Alternative and (2) the Proposed Action.
The Final LLNL SWEIS also analyzes
the new hybrid work environment
under both alternatives due to increases
in remote work at LLNL. Under the NoAction Alternative, NNSA would
continue current facility operations
throughout LLNL in support of assigned
missions. The No-Action Alternative
includes previously approved
construction of new facilities;
modernization, upgrade, and utility
projects; and decontamination,
decommissioning, and demolition of
excess and aging facilities through 2022.
The Proposed Action includes the
scope of the No-Action Alternative and
an increase in current facility operations
or enhanced operations that may require
new or modified facilities and that are
reasonably foreseeable over the next 15
years. Continued re-investment in site
infrastructure would allow LLNL to
meet mission deliverables and sustain
science, technology, and engineering
excellence to respond to future national
security challenges. The Proposed
Action includes 75 new projects,
totaling 3.3 million square feet, between
2023 and 2035. This comprises 61
proposed projects, totaling 2.9 million
square feet, at LLNL’s main site in
Livermore, California and 14 proposed
projects, totaling 385,000 square feet, at
LLNL’s remote testing site, Site 300,
near Tracy, California. In addition,
NNSA proposes 20 types of
modernization, upgrade, and utility
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projects, each involving several
facilities. Under the Proposed Action,
NNSA would also decontaminate,
decommission, and demolish 150
facilities, totaling 1,170,000 square feet.
NNSA is also proposing operational
changes that would increase the tritium
emissions limits in the National Ignition
Facility (Building 581) and the Tritium
Facility (Building 331), decrease the
administrative limit for fuels-gradeequivalent plutonium in the Superblock
(Building 332), increase the
administrative limits for plutonium-239
at Building 235, and revise the National
Ignition Facility radioactive materials
administrative limits to be consistent
with DOE’s Facility Hazard
Categorization Standard. The Proposed
Action also includes several projects to
enhance the resilience of the energy
infrastructure and demonstrate
renewable power solutions.
This Final LLNL SWEIS contains
revisions and new information based in
part on comments received on the Draft
LLNL SWEIS. These revisions and new
information are indicated by sidebars in
the margins. Volume 3 of the Final
LLNL SWEIS contains summaries of the
comments received, images of the
comment documents, and NNSA’s
responses to the comments. NNSA
considered all comments received on
the Draft LLNL SWEIS in preparing the
Final LLNL SWEIS.
NNSA will consider the
environmental impact analysis
presented in the Final LLNL SWEIS,
along with other information, in making
decisions regarding how operations will
be conducted at LLNL, including
construction and operation of new
facilities, modification and upgrade of
existing facilities and utilities,
operational changes, and/or
decontamination, decommission and
demolition of excess and aging facilities.
NNSA will not issue any ROD on the
proposal for a minimum of 30 days after
the date that EPA publishes its NOA in
the Federal Register. NNSA will
publish any ROD in the Federal
Register.
Signing Authority
This document of the Department of
Energy was signed on October 13, 2023,
by Jill Hruby, Under Secretary for
Nuclear Security and Administrator,
National Nuclear Security
Administration, pursuant to delegated
authority from the Secretary of Energy.
That document with the original
signature and date is maintained by
DOE. For administrative purposes only,
and in compliance with requirements of
the Office of the Federal Register, the
undersigned DOE Federal Register
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