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The Department of the Navy proposes to add a system of records in its inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended.

The Department of the Navy (DoN) is amending its certifications and exemptions under the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (72 COLREGS), to reflect that the Deputy Assistant Judge Advocate General (DAJAG) (Admiralty and Maritime Law) has determined that USS ARLINGTON (LPD 24) is a vessel of the Navy which, due to its special construction and purpose, cannot fully comply with certain provisions of the 72 COLREGS without interfering with its special function as a naval ship. The intended effect of this rule is to warn mariners in waters where 72 COLREGS apply.

This notice is to advise the public that the Department of the Navy (DoN) is revising the scope for the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) for continued and increased training activities on Naval Weapons Systems Training Facility (NWSTF) Boardman, Oregon, and to invite the public to provide comments for consideration during preparation of the revised EIS. This revised Notice of Intent has been published because since the October 5, 2010 publication of the original Notice of Intent in the Federal Register (75 FR 61452), the DoN is modifying its proposed action to include the addition of new Special Use Airspace in the form of a Military Operations Area (MOA). This new MOA would preserve required training capabilities at NWSTF Boardman that are necessary to maintain military readiness. Additional information concerning the proposed new MOA, including a map, is available on the NWSTF Boardman EIS Web page located at: https://www.NWSTFBoardmanEIS.com.

The U.S. Naval Academy Board of Visitors will meet to make such inquiry, as the Board shall deem necessary, into the state of morale and discipline, the curriculum, instruction, physical equipment, fiscal affairs, and academic methods of the Naval Academy. The executive session of this meeting from 11 a.m. to 12 p.m. on December 5, 2011, will include discussions of disciplinary matters, law enforcement investigations into allegations of criminal activity, and personnel issues at the Naval Academy, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. For this reason, the executive session of this meeting will be closed to the public.

The Department of the Navy (DoN) published a final rule in the Federal Register (76 FR 58399) of September 21, 2011, concerning certifications and exemptions under the International Regulations for Preventing collisions at Sea, 1972 (72 COLREGS). The document added an entry to Table Four, paragraph 23, in Sec. 706.2. The existing table has three columns and the proposed entry has four columns. This correcting amendment corrects that information.

The Department of the Navy proposes to add a new system of records to its inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974 (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended.

The Ocean Research and Resources Advisory Panel (ORRAP) will hold a regularly scheduled meeting. The meeting will be open to the public.

The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of its intent to grant to OxiCool, Inc., of 4747 South Broad Street, The Navy Yard, Building 101, Suite LL40, Philadelphia, PA 19112-103, a revocable, nonassignable, exclusive license, in all fields of use on commercial and residential air conditioning systems, to practice in the United States (U.S.), the Government-Owned invention, as identified in U.S. Patent No. 6,240,742: Modular Portable Air-Conditioning System, issued June 05, 2001//U.S. Patent Application No. 12/537,852: Air Conditioning System//Navy Case No. PAX83, filed August 07, 2009; and all U.S. and International applications and/or patents claiming priority from either of the forgoing.

The inventions listed below are those in which the United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy has an ownership interest and are made available for licensing by the Department of the Navy. U.S. Patent No. 7,679,410: A Method for Improving the Efficiency and Reliability of a Broadband Transistor Switch for Periodic Switching Applications Issued 3/16/2010//U.S. Patent No. 7,679,999: Marine Acoustic Sensor Assembly Issued 3/16/2010/ /U.S. Patent No. 7,685,862: Target System Giving Accuracy and Energy Issued 3/30/2010//U.S. Patent No. 7,690,309: Supercavitating Vehicle Control Issued 4/6/2010//U.S. Patent No. 7,691,798: Coating to Reduce Friction on Skis and Snow Boards Issued 4/6/2010//U.S. Patent No. 7,721,843: Visual Acoustic Device Issued 5/25/2010//U.S. Patent No. 7,734,755: Interactive Data Fault Localization System and Method Issued 6/8/2010//U.S. Patent No. 7,755,326: Battery Monitoring and Charging System Issued 7/13/2010//U.S. Patent No. 7,779,772: Submarine Short- Range Defense System Issued 8/24/2010//U.S. Patent No. 7,782,712: A Method to Estimate Local Towed Array Angles Using Flush Mounted Hot Film Wall Shear Sensors Issued 8/24/2010//U.S. Patent No. 7,800,978: Method for Real Time Matched Field Processing Issued 9/21/2010//U.S. Patent No. 7,802,474: Fiber Optic Laser Accelerometer Issued 9/28/2010/ /U.S. Patent Application Ser. No. 07/926115: Semi-Closed Brayton Cycle Power System Direct Combustion Heat Transfer Filed 8/7/1992//U.S. Patent No. 7,804,454: Active High Frequency Transmitter Antenna Assembly Issued 9/28/2010//U.S. Patent No. 7,832,998: Controlled Skin Formation for Foamed Extrudate Issued 11/16/2010//U.S. Patent No. 7,861,977: Adaptive Material Actuators for Coanda Effect Circulation Control Slots Issued 1/4/2011//U.S. Patent No. 7,865,836: Geospatial Prioritized Data Acquisition Analysis and Presentation Issued 1/4/2011/ /U.S. Patent No. 7,868,833: An Ultra Wideband Buoyant Cable Antenna Element Issued 1/11/2011//U.S. Patent No. 7,869,910: Autocatalytic Oscillators for Animal-Like Locomotion in Small Underwater Vehicles Issued 1/11/2011//U.S. Patent No. 7,878,873: Variable Orifice Propulsor Issued 2/1/2011//U.S. Patent No. 7,881,156: Method to Estimate Towed Array Angles Issued 2/1/2011//U.S. Patent No. 7,884,592: An Energy Efficient Method for Changing the Voltage of a DC Source to Another Voltage in Order to Supply a Load That Requires a Different Voltage Issued 2/8/2011//U.S. Patent No. 7,886,728: System and Method for Controlling the Power Output of an Internal Combustion Engine Issued 2/ 15/2011//U.S. Patent No. 7,906,340: Method for Quantitative Determination of Hydrogen Peroxide Using Potentiometric Titration Issued 3/15/2011//U.S. Patent No. 7,924,654: System for Beamforming Acoustic Buoy Fields Issued 4/12/2011//U.S. Patent No. 7,926,275: Closed Brayton Cycle Direct Contact Reactor/Storage Tank With Chemical Scrubber Issued 4/19/2011//U.S. Patent No. 7,926,276: Closed Cycle Brayton Propulsion System With Direct Heat Transfer Issued 4/19/ 2011//U.S. Patent No. 7,926,587: Explosive Water Jet With Precursor Bubble Issued 4/19/2011//U.S. Patent No. 7,929,375: Method and Apparatus for Improved Active Sonar Using Singular Value Decomposition Filtering Issued 4/19/2011//U.S. Patent No. 7,937,930: Semiclosed Brayton Cycle Power System With Direct Heat Transfer Issued 5/10/2011// U.S. Patent No. 7,938,077: Hydrogen Generator Apparatus for an Underwater Vehicle Issued 5/10/2011//U.S. Patent No. 7,940,602: Automatic Depth Sounder (Fathometer) Electronic Chart Comparator Issued 5/10/2011//U.S. Patent No. 7,951,339: Closed Brayton Cycle Direct Contact Reactor/Storage Tank With O2 Afterburner Issued 5/ 31/2011//U.S. Patent No. 7,952,530: Serpentine Buoyant Cable Antenna Issued 5/31/2011//U.S. Patent No. 7,954,442: Towed Array Deployment System for Unmanned Surface Vehicle Issued 6/7/2011//U.S. Patent No. 7,966,936: Telescoping Cavitator Issued 6/28/2011//U.S. Patent No. 7,975,614: Acoustic Shotgun System Issued 7/12/2011//U.S. Patent No. 7,985,924: Coaxial Transducer Issued 7/26/2011//U.S. Patent No. 8,006,619: Underwater Acoustic Tracer System Issued 8/30/2011.

The Department of the Navy hereby gives notice of its intent to grant American Innovations, Inc. a revocable, nonassignable, partially exclusive license, with exclusive fields of use in entry control points, route clearance, patrolling, site exploitation, cache finds, area surveillance, joint security stations/combat outposts, raids, SPECOPS, K-9 support, training, in the United States to practice the Government-owned invention, U.S. Patent Application Serial Number 13/137521, filed August 24, 2011, entitled ``Bulk Homemade Explosives (HME) Precursor Detection Kit.''

The Department of the Navy published a document in the Federal Register (76 FR 174) on September 8, 2011, concerning public scoping meetings to support the development of an Environmental Impact Statement/Overseas Environmental Impact Statement for the Mariana Islands Training and Testing Study Area. The document contained an incorrect scoping date.

Pursuant to Section 102(2) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 as implemented by the Council on Environmental Quality regulations (40 CFR parts 1500-1508) and Executive Order 12114 (Environmental Effects Abroad of Major Federal Actions), the Department of the Navy (DoN) has prepared and filed with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) a Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement/Supplemental Overseas Environmental Impact Statement (Draft SEIS/SOEIS) to provide supplemental analyses for the DoN's employment of Surveillance Towed Array Sensor System Low Frequency Active (SURTASS LFA) sonar systems. USEPA published their notice of availability of the SURTASS LFA sonar draft supplement on August 19, 2011 (EIS No. 20110269).

Pursuant to section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as implemented by the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations (40 Code of Federal Regulations parts 1500-1508), and Executive Order 12114, the Department of the Navy (DoN) announces its intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)/Overseas Environmental Impact Statement (OEIS) to evaluate the potential environmental effects associated with maintaining military readiness training and research, development, testing, and evaluation (hereafter referred to as ``training and testing'') activities conducted in the Mariana Islands Training and Testing (MITT) EIS/OEIS Study Area. The MITT Study Area includes the existing Mariana Islands Range Complex (MIRC), additional areas on the high seas, and a general transit corridor between Hawaii to MITT where training and testing activities may occur. The MIRC is the only major Navy range complex in the Study Area. The DoN is preparing this EIS/OEIS to renew current regulatory permits and authorizations, address current training and testing not covered under existing permits and authorizations, and to obtain those permits and authorizations necessary to support force structure changes and emerging and future training and testing requirements including those associated with new platforms and weapons systems within the MITT Study Area, starting in 2015, thereby ensuring critical Department of Defense (DoD) requirements are met. The DoN will invite the National Marine Fisheries Service, United States (U.S.) Fish and Wildlife Service (Pacific Islands Fish and Wildlife Office), and U.S. Air Force, to be cooperating agencies in preparation of the EIS/OEIS.

In accordance with Section 122(h) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. 9622(h), the Department of the Navy (DoN) gives notice that a proposed Administrative Agreement for the Recovery of Past Costs in the Matter of Marine Corps Logistics Base, Yermo Annex, Barstow, California, DON CERCLA Administrative Docket No. 2011-0001, pertaining to environmental contamination at the Marine Corps Logistics Base in Barstow, California (the ``Site''), located in San Bernardino County, California. In this matter, the DoN served a demand, involving civil claims under Section 107 of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9607, upon CalNev Pipe Line Company (CalNev) for recovery of response costs incurred by the DON at the Site. The proposed Administrative Settlement resolves the DON's claims by requiring CalNev to pay the DoN $500,000 in reimbursement of the DON's past response costs. Pursuant to Section 122(h) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(h), the Department of Justice has provided its approval of this proposed Administrative Settlement. Further, in accordance with this Section 122(i) of CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. 9622(i), the DoN is receiving public comment on this proposed settlement for thirty (30) days from the date of this publication. Comments should be addressed to the Associate General Counsel (Litigation), United States Department of Navy, Office of General Counsel, 720 Kennon St. SE., Bldg. 36, Rm. 233, Washington, DC 20374-5013 or e-mailed to page.turney@navy.mil and should refer to The Matter of Marine Corps Logistics Base, Yermo Annex, Barstow, California, DON CERCLA Administrative Docket No. 11-0001. A copy of the proposed Administrative Settlement may be either obtained from J. Page Turney or examined at: United States Department of Navy, Office of General Counsel, 720 Kennon St. SE., Bldg. 36, Rm. 233, Washington, DC 20374-5013. Contact: J. Page Turney: 202-685-6947; page.turney@navy.mil.

The inventions listed below are assigned to the United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy and are available for licensing by the Department of the Navy. The following patents are available for licensing: U.S. Patent Application 12/537,852: Air Conditioning System, Navy Case PAX83, filed on August 07, 2009; U.S. Patent Application Number 13/009,281: Low-VOC Siloxane Compositions, Navy Case PAX66, filed January 19, 2011; U.S. Patent Application Number 12/956,112: Aerosol Electrical Contact Cleaning and Lubricating Compound, Navy Case PAX59, filed November 30, 2010; U.S. Patent Application Number 13/053,769: SCR Module Dynamic Counter Tester, Navy Case PAX57, filed March 22, 2011; U.S. Patent Application Number 12/404,602: Quick Release Fitting; Navy Case PAX18, filed March 16, 2009; U.S. Patent Application 12/404,550: Optical Subassembly Packing Configuration, Navy Case 97945, filed March 16, 2009; U.S. Patent No. 7,986,585: Reception of Uplink Data From Sonobuoys, issued July 26, 2011.

The Ocean Research Advisory Panel (ORAP) is soliciting nominations for new members.

The Department of the Navy gives notice of its intent to grant to OxiCool, Inc., of 4747 South Broad Street, The Navy Yard, Building 101, Suite LL40, Philadelphia, PA 19112-103, a revocable, nonassignable, exclusive license, in all fields of use on commercial and residential air conditioning systems, to practice in the United States, the Government-Owned invention, as identified in U.S. Patent Number 7,836,732 b2: Air Conditioning System, issued on November 23, 2010.

Pursuant to section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 as implemented by the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations (40 Code of Federal Regulations [CFR] parts 1500-1508), the Department of the Navy (DoN), gives notice that a draft Environmental Assessment (EA) has been prepared for the proposed realignment of strike fighter assets at Naval Air Station (NAS) Lemoore.

The Department of the Navy (Navy), after carefully weighing the environmental consequences of the proposed action as presented in the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS), announces its decision to extend the operational areas of the Naval Sea Systems Command Naval Undersea Warfare Center Keyport Range Complex and increase the number of days of activities and the number of activities per day, in furtherance of the Navy's statutory obligations under Title 10 of the United States Code governing the roles and responsibilities of the Navy. In its decision, the Navy considered applicable laws and executive orders, including an analysis of the effects of its actions in compliance with the Endangered Species Act, the Coastal Zone Management Act, and the National Historic Preservation Act, and the requirements of Executive Order (EO) 12898, Federal Actions to Address Environmental Justice in Minority Populations and Low Income Populations and EO 13045, Protection of Children from Environmental Health Risks and Safety Risks. Implementation of the proposed action could begin immediately.

Pursuant to the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500-1508) implementing procedural provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), 42 United States Code 4321, and the Marine Corps NEPA directive (Marine Corps Order P5090.2A), the Department of the Navy gives final notice that the FONSI for the PEA implementing the MARFORRES Wind Energy Program will not have a significant adverse impact on the environment. In accordance with 42 U.S.C. 4321 and 40 CFR 1501.4(e)(2), a preliminary FONSI for this action was published in the April 18, 2011 Federal Register (76 FR Page 21712). No comments were received regarding the preliminary FONSI. MARFORRES has reviewed the conclusion of the PEA, and agrees with the finding of no significant impact. This notice serves as the Final FONSI for the PEA implementing the MARFORRES Wind Energy Program. The preliminary FONSI and the PEA are adopted in final with no change. Therefore, the preparation of an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) is not required. Site-specific, focused Environmental Assessments (EA's) will be tiered from the PEA to evaluate site-specific impacts at individual MARFORRES facilities identified as having the potential for the development of wind energy.

The Department of the Navy (DoN) is amending its certifications and exemptions under the International Regulations for Preventing Collisions at Sea, 1972 (72 COLREGS), to reflect that the Deputy Assistant Judge Advocate General (DAJAG)(Admiralty and Maritime Law) has determined that USS PITTSBURGH (SSN 720) is a vessel of the Navy which, due to its special construction and purpose, cannot fully comply with certain provisions of the 72 COLREGS without interfering with its special function as a naval ship. The intended effect of this rule is to warn mariners in waters where 72 COLREGS apply.

The Department of the Navy is deleting a system of records notice in its existing inventory of record systems subject to the Privacy Act of 1974, (5 U.S.C. 552a), as amended.

The inventions listed below are assigned to the United States Government as represented by the Secretary of the Navy and are available for domestic licensing by the Department of the Navy. The following patents are available for licensing: U.S. Patent No. 7,231,356: Operating Plan for Machinery//U.S. Patent No. 7,260,833: One-Way Network Transmission Interface Unit//U.S. Patent No. 7,280,925: Installed Instrumentation Maintenance Method//U.S. Patent No. 7,278,514: Acoustic Noise Filter//U.S. Patent No. 7,284,570: Electrically Powered Valve for Controlling, Monitoring and Evaluating Fluid Flow//U.S. Patent No. 7,290,738: Dual Jet Emerging Lift Augmentations System for Airfoils and Hydrofoils//U.S. Patent No. 7,301,641: Fiber Optic Smoke Detector//U.S. Patent No. 7,307,702: Color Switchable Stress-Fracture Sensor for Damage Control//U.S. Patent No. 7,316,194: Rudders for High-Speed Ships//U.S. Patent No. 7,322,786: Mobile Loader for Transfer of Containers Between Delivery Vehicles and Marine Terminal Cranes//U.S. Patent No. 7,324,016: Navigational Indicating System for Rotary Wing Aircraft//U.S. Patent No. 7,328,879: Equipment Installation Support on Foundation//U.S. Patent No. 7,340,918: Magnetostrictive Drive of Refrigeration Systems//U.S. Patent No. 7,367,464: Pendulation Control System With Active Rider Block Tagline System for Shipboard Cranes//U.S. Patent No. 7,374,668: Valve Automated In-Situ Cleaning System for Oil Water Separator//U.S. Patent No. 7,390,380: Processing of Shipboard Wastewater//U.S. Patent No. 7,432,821: Fiber Optic Measurement of Bearing Surface Wear//U.S. Patent No. 7,430,866: Air-Independent Fuel Combustion Energy Conversion//U.S. Patent No. 7,436,090: Direct Drive Hybrid Rotary Motor//U.S. Patent No. 7,443,764: Resonant Acoustic Projector//U.S. Patent No. 7,441,308: Watertight Door Hinge Support//U.S. Patent No. 7,451,719: High Temperature Superconducting Degaussing System//U.S. Patent No. 7,451,714: All Purpose Seal//U.S. Patent No. 7,479,193: Preparation of Positive Magnetostrictive Materials for Use Under Tension//U.S. Patent No. 7,492,240: Integrated Capacitor and Inductor//U.S. Patent No. 7,519,502: Surface Profile Measurement Processing Method//U.S. Patent No. 7,517,263: Advanced Blade Sections for High Speed Propellers//U.S. Patent No. 7,517,191: Operational Maintenance of Air-Conditioning Installations//U.S. Patent No. 7,516,712: Vertical Damper For Mooring Vessels//U.S. Patent No. 7,521,708: High Sensitivity Ring-Squid Magnetic Sensor//U.S. Patent No. 7,525,711: Actively Tunable Electromagnetic Metamaterial//U.S. Patent No. 7,548,489: Method for Designing a Resonant Acoustic Projector//U.S. Patent No. 7,547,997: Aircraft Electrical Servicing Adapter//U.S. Patent No. 7,552,018: Method for Quickly Quantifying the Resistance of a Thin Film as a Function of Frequency//U.S. Patent No. 7,556,471: Inter-Ship Personnel Transfer Device and Method of Moving Between Compacted State and Non- Compacted State//U.S. Patent No. 7,557,485: Ion Conducting Electrolyte Brush Additives//U.S. Patent No. 7,557,747: Method and Apparatus Using Fast Electronic Switching for Multi-Channelizing a Single-Channel Radar System//U.S. Patent No. 7,564,152: High Magnetostriction of Positive Magnetostrictive Materials Under Tensile Load//U.S. Patent No. 7,592,173: Sea Operationally Enhanced Bioreactor//U.S. Patent No. 7,592,727: Quiet Load for Motor Testing//U.S. Patent No. 7,597,010: Method of Achieving High Transduction Under Tension or Compression// U.S. Patent No. 7,621,230: Carrier and Flow-Through Ship//U.S. Patent No. 7,624,080: A Smart Sensor Continuously Adapting to a Data Stream in Real Time Using Both Permanent and Temporary Knowledge Bases to Recognize Sensor Measurements//U.S. Patent No. 7,681,515: Life Raft Launcher//U.S. Patent No. 7,685,922: Composite Ballistic Armor Having Geometric Ceramic Elements for Shock Wave Attenuation//U.S. Patent No. 7,707,957: Structural Support to Underwater Vessels Using Shape Memory Alloys//U.S. Patent No. 7,714,536: Battery Charging Arrangement for Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Utilizing the Electromagnetic Field Associated With Utility Power Lines to Generate Power to Inductively Charge Energy Supplies//U.S. Patent No. 7,720,566: Control Algorithm for Vertical Package Conveyor//U.S. Patent No. 7,734,449: Numerical Modeling of Nonlinear Ship-Wave Interactions//U.S. Patent No. 7,736,063: Bearing Apparatus Having Electrorheological Fluid Lubricant//U.S. Patent No. 7,756,689: Numerical Modeling of Six-Degree-Freedom Ship Motion//U.S. Patent No. 7,760,585: Through the Bulkhead Repeater//U.S. Patent No. 7,761,125: Intermodulation Distortion Reduction Methodology for High Temperature Superconductor Microwave Filters//U.S. Patent No. 7,761,226: Interactive Pedestrian Routing System//U.S. Patent No. 7,793,374: Adjustable Height Bridging Ramp System//U.S. Patent No. 7,794,808: Elastomeric Damage-Control Barrier//U.S. Patent No. 7,795,120: Doping Wide Band Gap Semiconductors//U.S. Patent No. 7,797,130: Baseline Comparative Leading Indicator Analysis//U.S. Patent No. 7,798,873: Design of a Flush Inlet as Integrated With a Ship Hull for Waterjet Propulsion//U.S. Patent No. 7,808,426: Remote Sensing of Wave Heights Using a Broadband Radar Arrangement//U.S. Patent No. 7,818,193: Ship Stowage Aid Analysis Program//U.S. Patent No. 7,830,302: Remote Sensing of Wave Heights Using a Narrowband Radar Arrangement//U.S. Patent No. 7,833,627: Composite Armor Having Layered Metallic Matrix and Dually Embedded Ceramic Elements//U.S. Patent No. 7,834,490: Bimetallic Strips for Energy Harvesting, Actuation and Sensing//U.S. Patent No. 7,839,721: Modal Beam Processing of Acoustic Vector Sensor Data//U.S. Patent No. 7,841,290: Marine Shaftless External Propulsor//U.S. Patent No. 7,854,189: Modular Missile Launching Assembly//U.S. Patent No. 7,854,912: High Strength Zr (Hf or Ti)Ta-B Ceramics//U.S. Patent No. 7,864,394: Dynamically Variable Metamaterial Lens and Method//U.S. Patent No. 7,894,204: Matrix Board Assembly//U.S. Patent No. 7,900,453: Metal Fuel Combustion and Energy Conversion System//U.S. Patent No. 7,905,192: Integrated Underwater Surface Cleaning and Effluent Treatment System//U.S. Patent No. 7,938,053: Armor//U.S. Patent No. 7,946,149: Explosive Pulse Testing of Protective Specimens//U.S. Patent No. 7,946,211: Electrical and Elastomeric Disruption of High-Velocity Projectiles//U.S. Patent No. 7,952,239: Bimetallic Strips for Energy Harvesting, Actuation and Sensing//U.S. Statutory Invention Registration No. Us H2206: Tactile Side-Slip Corrective Yaw Control for Aircraft//U.S. Statutory Invention Registration No. Us H2223: Patterned Micrometer-Sized Antibody Features.

Pursuant to section 102(2)(c) of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) of 1969 as implemented by the Council on Environmental Quality Regulations (40 Code of Federal Regulations [CFR] parts 1500-1508), the Department of the Navy (DoN), with the cooperation of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), announces its intent to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement/Legislative Environmental Impact Statement (EIS/LEIS) to evaluate the potential environmental effects associated with the continued withdrawal of approximately 1.1 million acres of public land in Kern, Inyo, and San Bernardino counties, California. This public land withdrawal comprises the current North and South ranges at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake (NAWSCL). The proposed land withdrawal extension will allow the DoN to continue defense-related research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) and training missions at NAWSCL, in addition to other land uses. The California Military Lands Withdrawal and Overflights Act of 1994 (Pub. L. 103-433, part of the California Desert Protection Act) withdrew and reserved the lands known then as the China Lake Naval Weapons Center (subsequently renamed NAWSCL) for defense-related purposes for a period of 20 years (until October 14, 2014). The Act provides that the DoN may seek extension of the withdrawal of such lands. As a part of the withdrawal process, the Secretary of the Navy is required to publish a draft EIS addressing the effects of continued withdrawal and hold public hearings in order to receive public comments on the proposal by October 12, 2012. The NAWSCL EIS/LEIS will examine current and proposed land uses in support of the DoN's military mission. The EIS/LEIS will specifically focus on those military land uses granted to the DoN under Public Law 103-433 that include: (1) Use as an RDT&E laboratory; (2) use as a range for air warfare weapons and weapons systems; (3) use as a high hazard training area for aerial gunnery, rocketry, electronic warfare and countermeasures, and tactical maneuvering and air support; (4) geothermal leasing and development, and related power production activities; and, (5) other defense-related purposes. The environmental analysis in the EIS/LEIS will be incorporated in an update to the May 2005 NAWSCL Comprehensive Land Use Management Plan (CLUMP). The CLUMP facilitates NAWSCL in planning for and managing land use and environmental resources on the withdrawn public lands in accordance with the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (FLPMA) (43 U.S.C. 1701). The updated CLUMP will include an examination of both military land uses authorized under Public Law 103- 433 and those mission-compatible non-military land uses authorized in the 2005 CLUMP. Dates and Addresses: The DoN is initiating a 90-day public scoping process to identify community interests and specific issues to be addressed in the EIS/LEIS. This public scoping process starts with the publication of this Notice of Intent. Three public scoping meetings will be held to receive oral and/or written comments on issues to be addressed in the EIS/LEIS: 1. Tuesday, July 19, 2011, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Historic USO Building, 230 West Ridgecrest Boulevard, Ridgecrest, California 93555; 2. Wednesday, July 20, 2011, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Statham Hall, 138 Jackson Street, Lone Pine, California 93545; and 3. Thursday, July 21, 2011, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., Trona Community Senior Center, 13187 Market Street, Trona, California 93562. Additional information concerning meeting times and locations is available on the NAWSCL EIS/LEIS Web site at https:// www.ChinalakeLEIS.com. Public scoping meeting schedules and locations will also be announced in local newspapers. Each of the public scoping meetings will consist of an informal, open house session with information stations staffed by DoN and BLM representatives. Comments, both written and oral, will be collected at each of the three public scoping meetings and on the project Web site.

The Department of the Navy (DoN) announces the cancellation of its Notice of Intent to prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for the proposed Geothermal Development Program, Naval Air Facility El Centro, Imperial County, CA, as published in the Federal Register, May 5, 2008 (73 FR 87). It has been determined that preparation of a PEIS is not appropriate at this time when considering the current project scale and stage of geothermal energy development at Superstition Mountain on Naval Air Facility El Centro. The DoN will develop an internal document known as an environmental and operational feasibility study. This internal document will analyze the environmental and operational framework within which a geothermal development may proceed and will provide the DoN with information required to determine the DoN's geothermal energy program needs at Naval Air Facility El Centro. Should geothermal development be indicated as feasible and a project to be developed, the appropriate level of National Environmental Policy Act analysis and process will be performed.