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five years. This draft, revised
management plan is intended to replace
the NBNERR management plan
approved in 2010.
DATES: Comments must be received at
the appropriate address (see ADDRESSES)
on or before January 2, 2025.
ADDRESSES: The draft revised
management plan can be downloaded or
viewed at: https://nbnerr.org/wp-content/
uploads/2024/08/NBNERR_
ManagementPlan_DRAFT_
PublicComment.pdf. It is also available
by sending a written request to the point
of contact identified below (see FOR
FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT).
You may submit comments by email
to claudia.mazur@noaa.gov. Include
‘‘Comments on draft Narragansett Bay
National Estuarine Research Reserve
Management Plan’’ in the subject line of
the message. NOAA will accept
anonymous comments; however, the
written comments NOAA receives are
considered part of the public record,
and the entirety of the comment,
including the name of the commenter,
email address, attachments, and other
supporting materials, will be publicly
accessible. Sensitive, personally
identifiable information, such as
account numbers and Social Security
numbers, should not be included.
Comments that are not related to the
management plan for NBNERR, or that
contain profanity, vulgarity, threats, or
other inappropriate language, will not
be considered.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Claudia Mazur, claudia.mazur@
noaa.gov, or Betsy Nicholson,
betsy.nicholson@noaa.gov, (617–894–
0197) of NOAA’s Office for Coastal
Management.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant
to 15 CFR 921.33(c), Rhode Island must
revise the management plan for
NBNERR at least every five years. If
approved by NOAA, the revised
management plan will replace the plan
previously approved in 2010.
Management plans outline a reserve’s
strategic goals and objectives;
administrative structure; programs for
conducting research and monitoring,
education, and training; resource
protection, restoration, and
manipulation plans; public access and
visitor use plans; consideration for
future land acquisition; and facility
development to support reserve
operations. In particular, this draft
revised plan for NBNERR provides
information on new staff positions and
new staff hired, and describes the
reserve’s updated position within the
Rhode Island Department of
Environmental Management.
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Since the last management plan,
NBNERR has secured a land acquisition
and expanded its boundary.
Additionally, the updated plan
describes strategic goals and objectives
and identifies topic areas where
additional planning will be conducted
to identify and develop new goals and
objectives over the next five years. The
revised management plan, once
approved, would serve as the guiding
document for the reserve for the next
five years.
NOAA’s Office for Coastal
Management analyzes the
environmental impacts of the proposed
approval of this management plan in
accordance with the National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969
(NEPA), as amended, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et
seq., and the Council on Environmental
Quality Regulations for Implementing
the Procedural Provisions of NEPA (40
CFR 1500–1508 (2022). The public is
invited to comment on the draft revised
management plan. NOAA will take
these comments into consideration
when deciding whether to approve the
revised management plan in whole or in
part.
Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1451 et seq.; 15
CFR 921.33.
Keelin S. Kuipers,
Deputy Director, Office for Coastal
Management, National Ocean Service,
National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No.: ED–2024–SCC–0111]
Agency Information Collection
Activities; Submission to the Office of
Management and Budget for Review
and Approval; Comment Request; Carl
D. Perkins Career and Technical
Education Act State Plan Guide
Office of Career, Technical, and
Adult Education (OCTAE), Department
of Education (ED).
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
In accordance with the
Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of
1995, the Department is proposing a
revision of a currently approved
information collection request (ICR).
DATES: Interested persons are invited to
submit comments on or before January
2, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and
recommendations for proposed
information collection requests should
be submitted within 30 days of
SUMMARY:
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publication of this notice. Click on this
link www.reginfo.gov/public/do/
PRAMain to access the site. Find this
information collection request (ICR) by
selecting ‘‘Department of Education’’
under ‘‘Currently Under Review,’’ then
check the ‘‘Only Show ICR for Public
Comment’’ checkbox. Reginfo.gov
provides two links to view documents
related to this information collection
request. Information collection forms
and instructions may be found by
clicking on the ‘‘View Information
Collection (IC) List’’ link. Supporting
statements and other supporting
documentation may be found by
clicking on the ‘‘View Supporting
Statement and Other Documents’’ link.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
specific questions related to collection
activities, please contact Braden Goetz,
(202) 245–7405.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The
Department 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. Please note
that written comments received in
response to this notice will be
considered public records.
Title of Collection: Carl D. Perkins
Career and Technical Education Act
State Plan Guide.
OMB Control Number: 1830–0029.
Type of Review: Revision of a
currently approved ICR.
Respondents/Affected Public: State,
Local, and Tribal Governments.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Responses: 54.
Total Estimated Number of Annual
Burden Hours: 1,026.
Abstract: This information collection
is used by the Department to request
State Plans and annual revisions under
the Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical
Education Act of 2006. We are
proposing to revise the ICR to provide
data specifications for the numerators
and denominators used to calculate the
law’s performance indicators so that
they are measured in a manner that is
consistent with the statute, reduce the
collection of potentially duplicative
information, give States more time to
report education and employment
outcomes to improve the accuracy and
completeness of these data, and to
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improve the consistency of performance
data reported by States.
Dated: November 26, 2024.
Juliana Pearson,
PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and
Clearance, Governance and Strategy Division,
Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of
Planning, Evaluation and Policy
Development.
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
Record of Decision for the Long-Term
Management and Storage of Elemental
Mercury and Designation of a LongTerm Management and Storage Facility
Office of Environmental
Management, U.S. Department of
Energy.
ACTION: Record of decision and facility
designation.
AGENCY:
The U.S. Department of
Energy (DOE) is issuing this Record of
Decision (ROD) for the long-term
management and storage of elemental
mercury to meet the purpose and need
for agency action, which is to fulfill
DOE’s statutory responsibility for longterm management and storage of
elemental mercury generated within the
United States as required by the
Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008 and the
Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for
the 21st Century Act (together referred
to herein as MEBA).
ADDRESSES: For copies of this ROD/
MEBA Designation or the Mercury
Storage SEIS–II, please contact Timothy
Herald at U.S. Department of Energy,
Office of Environmental Management,
Office of Waste and Materials
Management (EM–4.2), 1000
Independence Avenue SW, Washington,
DC, 20585 or via email,
Timothy.Herald@em.doe.gov. Electronic
files can be accessed at https://
www.energy.gov/nepa/listings/recordsdecision-rod.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For
further information on the management
and storage of elemental mercury,
please contact Timothy Herald at
Timothy.Herald@em.doe.gov or visit
https://www.energy.gov/em/long-termmanagement-and-storage-elementalmercury; by telephone: 240–243–8753.
For general information on the Office of
Environmental Management’s National
Environmental Policy Act of 1969
(NEPA) process, please contact Bill
Ostrum, NEPA Compliance Officer for
the Office of Environmental
Management, via email
William.Ostrum@hq.doe.gov.
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This ROD
is issued for the Long-Term
Management and Storage of Elemental
Mercury Supplemental Environmental
Impact Statement (DOE/EIS–0423–S2)
(Mercury Storage SEIS–II), which
evaluates the storage of up to 7,000
metric tons (7,700 tons) of elemental
mercury in one or more existing
facilities at alternative locations
including a government facility at the
Hawthorne Army Depot near
Hawthorne, Nevada, and seven
commercial candidate locations: Waste
Control Specialists, LLC (WCS) near
Andrews, Texas; Bethlehem Apparatus
Company in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania;
Perma-Fix Diversified Scientific
Services, Inc., in Kingston, Tennessee;
Veolia Environmental Services in Gum
Springs, Arkansas; and Clean Harbors
Environmental Services, with three
alternative facilities in Pecatonica,
Illinois; Greenbrier, Tennessee; and
Tooele, Utah. This ROD announces
DOE’s decision to select WCS from its
preferred alternative of selecting one or
more of the existing commercial
facilities evaluated in the SEIS–II. DOE
is also issuing this document to
designate a facility of the DOE for the
long-term management and storage of
elemental mercury generated within the
United States in accordance with
MEBA. In addition to the analysis in the
Mercury Storage SEIS–II, DOE based its
MEBA facility designation decision on a
combination of factors including
schedule, permitting, policy and
technical considerations, as well as cost
information (including information
gained during an independent and
competitive procurement process). DOE
designates WCS as that facility in
accordance with MEBA.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
A. Background
The Mercury Export Ban Act of 2008
(Pub. L. 110–414) and the 2016 Frank R.
Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st
Century Act (Pub. L. 114–182) (together
referred to herein as MEBA), address,
among other things, the export and longterm management and storage of
elemental mercury. MEBA prohibits the
export of elemental mercury from the
United States (U.S.) (with certain
essential use exemptions). MEBA also
directs the Secretary of the U.S.
Department of Energy (DOE) to
designate a facility or facilities of DOE
for the long-term management and
storage of elemental mercury generated
within the U.S. (42 U.S.C. 6939f(a)(1)).
MEBA further provides the Secretary of
Energy with the authority to establish
such terms, conditions, and procedures
as are necessary to carry out this longterm management and storage function
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(42 U.S.C. 6939f(f)). Consistent with
these statutory provisions, and based on
longstanding authorities and practice,
DOE construes the term ‘‘facility of
DOE’’ to include a facility leased from
a commercial entity or another Federal
agency over which DOE provides an
appropriate level of responsibility and
control.1
The primary sources of elemental
mercury in the United States include
mercury generated as a byproduct of the
gold-mining process and mercury
reclaimed from recycling and wasterecovery activities. In addition, the DOE
National Nuclear Security
Administration (NNSA) stores at the
Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee
approximately 1,200 metric tons (1,300
tons) of elemental mercury that was
acquired in support of NNSA’s mission.
As identified in the Mercury Storage
SEIS–II, this NNSA elemental mercury
is included in the SEIS–II (for analytical
purposes), even though it is currently
designated as a commodity and not
waste.
In 2011, DOE prepared the Final
Long-Term Management and Storage of
Elemental Mercury Environmental
Impact Statement (DOE/EIS–0423)
(2011 Mercury Storage EIS) to evaluate
seven candidate locations for a facility
for management and storage of
elemental mercury, as well as a NoAction Alternative. The locations
included use of existing facilities, new
facility construction, or both. The
candidate locations evaluated in 2011
were the DOE Grand Junction Disposal
site near Grand Junction, Colorado (new
construction); DOE Hanford Site near
Richland, Washington (new
construction); Hawthorne Army Depot
(HWAD) near Hawthorne, Nevada
(modification of existing facilities); DOE
Idaho National Laboratory near Idaho
Falls, Idaho (new construction and
modification of an existing facility);
Kansas City Plant in Kansas City,
Missouri (existing facility); DOE
Savannah River Site near Aiken, South
Carolina (new construction); and the
Waste Control Specialists LLC (WCS)
site near Andrews, Texas (new
construction and an existing facility).
In 2013, DOE prepared the Final
Long-Term Management and Storage of
Elemental Mercury Supplemental
Environmental Impact Statement (DOE/
EIS–0423–S1) (2013 Mercury Storage
SEIS) to evaluate three additional
alternative locations, all in the vicinity
of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant near
1 DOE has further analyzed the meaning of
‘‘facility or facilities of the [DOE]’’ in a memo
entitled The Meaning of ‘‘Facility or Facilities of the
Department of Energy’’ in the Mercury Export Ban
Act of 2008, in the Administrative Record.
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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION
[Docket No.: ED-2024-SCC-0111]
Agency Information Collection Activities; Submission to the
Office of Management and Budget for Review and Approval; Comment
Request; Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education Act State Plan
Guide
AGENCY: Office of Career, Technical, and Adult Education (OCTAE),
Department of Education (ED).
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: In accordance with the Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 1995,
the Department is proposing a revision of a currently approved
information collection request (ICR).
DATES: Interested persons are invited to submit comments on or before
January 2, 2025.
ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for proposed
information collection requests should be submitted within 30 days of
publication of this notice. Click on this link www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain to access the site. Find this information collection request
(ICR) by selecting ``Department of Education'' under ``Currently Under
Review,'' then check the ``Only Show ICR for Public Comment'' checkbox.
Reginfo.gov provides two links to view documents related to this
information collection request. Information collection forms and
instructions may be found by clicking on the ``View Information
Collection (IC) List'' link. Supporting statements and other supporting
documentation may be found by clicking on the ``View Supporting
Statement and Other Documents'' link.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For specific questions related to
collection activities, please contact Braden Goetz, (202) 245-7405.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Department 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.
Please note that written comments received in response to this notice
will be considered public records.
Title of Collection: Carl D. Perkins Career and Technical Education
Act State Plan Guide.
OMB Control Number: 1830-0029.
Type of Review: Revision of a currently approved ICR.
Respondents/Affected Public: State, Local, and Tribal Governments.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Responses: 54.
Total Estimated Number of Annual Burden Hours: 1,026.
Abstract: This information collection is used by the Department to
request State Plans and annual revisions under the Carl D. Perkins
Career and Technical Education Act of 2006. We are proposing to revise
the ICR to provide data specifications for the numerators and
denominators used to calculate the law's performance indicators so that
they are measured in a manner that is consistent with the statute,
reduce the collection of potentially duplicative information, give
States more time to report education and employment outcomes to improve
the accuracy and completeness of these data, and to
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improve the consistency of performance data reported by States.
Dated: November 26, 2024.
Juliana Pearson,
PRA Coordinator, Strategic Collections and Clearance, Governance and
Strategy Division, Office of Chief Data Officer, Office of Planning,
Evaluation and Policy Development.
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