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agency to establish one or more 

performance review boards to make 

recommendations, as necessary, in 

regard to the performance of senior 

executives within the agency. This 

notice announces the appointment of 

the members of the PRB for USCIS. 

This notice does not constitute a 

significant regulatory action as are 

defined under section 3(f) of Executive 

Order 12866. Therefore, DHS has not 

submitted this notice to the Office of 

Management and Budget. 

Further, because this notice is a 

matter of agency organization, 

procedure and practice, DHS is not 

required to follow the rulemaking 

requirements under the Administrative 

Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 553). 

Composition of USCIS PRB: The 

USCIS Performance Board shall consist 

of at least three members. In the case of 

an appraisal of a career appointee, more 

than half of the members shall consist 

of career appointees. The names and 

titles of the PRB members from USCIS 

are as follows: Joseph D. Cuddihy, 

Director, International Operations; 

David R. Howell, Deputy Chief, Policy 

and Strategy; Janis A. Sposato, Deputy 

Associate Director of Operations; and 

William R. Yates, Associate Director of 

Operations.

Dated: October 28, 2004. 

Eduardo Aguirre, 

Director, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration 

Services.

[FR Doc. 04–24716 Filed 11–4–04; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–10–P

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Maritime Administration 

[USCG–2004–16877] 

Cabrillo Port Liquefied Natural Gas 

Deepwater Port License Application; 

Draft Environmental Impact Statement

AGENCY: United States Coast Guard, 

DHS; and Maritime Administration, 

DOT.

ACTION: Notice of availability; notice of 

public meetings; and request for public 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard and the 

Maritime Administration (MARAD) 

announce the availability of the joint 

draft environmental impact statement/

environmental impact report (DEIS/

DEIR) for Cabrillo Port Deepwater Port 

(DWP) License Application. The 

proposed Cabrillo Port liquefied natural 

gas (LNG) DWP would be located 

offshore of Ventura County, California. 

Since the applicant has also filed a 

California State Lands Commission 

(CSLC) land lease application for subsea 

pipelines through California State 

waters to deliver natural gas to shore, 

the DEIS/DEIR was prepared in 

accordance with a Memorandum of 

Agreement with the CSLC. The DEIS/

DEIR will meet requirements consistent 

with the Deepwater Port Act (DWPA) of 

1974, as amended (33 U.S.C. 1501 et 

seq.); the National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA Section 102[2][c]), as 

implemented by Council on 

Environmental Quality regulations (40 

Code of Federal Regulations 1500 to 

1508); Coast Guard policy 

(Commandant’s Instruction M1675.1D); 

and the California Environmental 

Quality Act (CEQA) (California Public 

Resources Code Section 21000 et seq.) 

as implemented by the State CEQA 

Guidelines (14 California Code of 

Regulations Section 15000 et seq.). The 

Coast Guard and the MARAD solicit 

public input on this DEIS/DEIR.

DATES: The DEIS/DEIR will be available 

on October 29, 2004. Comments or 

related materials on the DEIS/DEIR must 

reach the Coast Guard on or before 

December 20, 2004 at 5 p.m. Eastern 

Standard Time. Public meeting dates are 

November 29, 2004 (Santa Clarita, CA), 

November 30, 2004 (Oxnard, CA) and 

December 1, 2004 (Malibu, CA).

ADDRESSES: The Coast Guard, MARAD 

and CSLC will conduct an open house, 

followed by a public meeting, to receive 

oral or written testimony at the 

following times and places:

Monday, November 29, 2004; The 

Century Room (Open House) and City 

Council Chambers (Public Meeting), 

23920 Valencia Blvd., Santa Clarita, 

CA 91355.

Open House: 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. 

Public Meeting: 7 p.m. to 9 p.m.

Tuesday, November 30, 2004; Oxnard 

Performing Arts Center, 800 Hobson 

Way, Oxnard, CA 93030.

Open House: 10:30 a.m. to 12 noon 

and 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. 

Public Meetings: 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m. 

(this meeting may be extended until 4 

p.m. if necessary to take all public 

comments) and 6:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

Wednesday, December 1, 2004; Webster 

Elementary School Cafetorium, Santa 

Monica-Malibu Unified School 

District, 3602 Winter Canyon, Malibu, 

CA 90265.

Open House: 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. 

Public Meeting: 7 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. 

All public meeting spaces will be 

wheelchair-accessible. Individuals may 

request special accommodations for the 

public meetings, such as real time 

Spanish translation and/or for the 

hearing impaired. Contact Cy Oggins, 

CSLC, at (916) 574–1884 or 

(ogginsc@slc.ca.gov) if special 

accommodations are required. Requests 

should be made as soon as possible but 

at least three (3) business days before 

the scheduled meeting. Include the 

name and telephone number of the 

contact person, the timelines for 

requesting accommodations, and a TDD 

number that can be used by individuals 

with hearing impairments. 

It is not necessary to present 

comments at more than one meeting. 

One need not attend a meeting in order 

to comment. Comments may also be 

sent using only one of the following 

methods (identify the subject of the 

comment by using the docket number, 

USCG–2004–16877): 

(1) Electronically through the Web 

site for the Docket Management System, 

at http://dms.dot.gov.

(2) By mail to the Docket Management 

Facility, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, Room PL–401, 400 

Seventh Street SW., Washington, DC 

20590–0001. 

(3) By fax to the Docket Management 

Facility at (202) 493–2251. 

(4) By delivery to Room PL–401 on 

the Plaza level of the Nassif Building, 

400 Seventh Street SW., Washington, 

DC, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

The telephone number is (202) 366–

9329.

(5) In addition to the Federal Docket 

Management system, comments may be 

made to the California State 

Clearinghouse by either mail or e-mail 

to Cy Oggins, California State Lands 

Commission, 100 Howe Avenue, Suite 

100-South, Sacramento, CA 95825; 

(ogginsc@slc.ca.gov) or electronically 

through the project Web site at http://

www.cabrilloport.ene.com. Include the 

State Clearinghouse number: 

2004021107 and docket number: USCG–

2004–16877. However, if one of these 

CSLC comment submittal methods is 

used, the comment will also be entered 

in the Federal Docket Management 

Facility. 

Viewing Comments and Documents 

To view comments, the DEIS/DEIR or 

other materials related to this license 

application, go to http://dms.dot.gov at 

any time and conduct a simple search 

using the following docket number: 

USCG–2004–16877. The Docket 

Management Facility maintains the 

Federal public docket for this project. 

Comments and material received from 

the public will become part of this 

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docket and will be available for 

inspection or copying in Room PL–401 

on the Plaza level of the Nassif Building, 

400 Seventh Street SW., Washington, 

DC, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday 

through Friday, except Federal holidays. 

Privacy Act 

Anyone can search the electronic 

form of all comments received into any 

of our dockets by the name of the 

individual submitting the comment (or 

signing the comment, if submitted on 

behalf of an association, business, labor 

union, etc.). You may review the 

Department of Transportation’s Privacy 

Act Statement in the Federal Register

(FR) published on April 11, 2000 (65 FR 

19477), or you may visit http://

dms.dot.gov.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Information pertaining to the proposed 

Cabrillo Port Project is available online 

at http://dms.dot.gov, http://

www.slc.ca.gov, or http://

www.cabrilloport.ene.com. Questions 

regarding the proposed Project, the 

license application process, or the DEIS/

DEIR process may be directed to Mark 

Prescott, Coast Guard, (202) 267–0225 

(mprescott@comdt.uscg.mil), Keith 

Lesnick, MARAD, (202) 366–1624 

(Keith.Lesnick@marad.dot.gov) or Cy 

Oggins, CSLC, (916) 574–1884 

(ogginsc@slc.ca.gov). Questions 

regarding viewing or submitting 

materials to the docket may be directed 

to Andrea M. Jenkins, Program Manager, 

Docket Operations, (202) 366–0271. 

This public notice may be requested 

in an alternative format, such as 

Spanish translation, audiotape, large 

print, or Braille. Contact Cy Oggins, 

CSLC, (916) 574–1884 

(ogginsc@slc.ca.gov), or visit http://

www.cabrilloport.ene.com.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Public Meetings and Request for 

Comments 

As discussed under ADDRESSES, the 

Coast Guard, MARAD and CSLC plan to 

conduct public meetings related to 

comments on the DEIS/DEIR for the 

proposed project. The open houses will 

be informal opportunities to ask 

questions and receive information 

regarding the project. The public 

meetings will be structured to provide 

interested members of the public with 

an opportunity to present comments 

regarding the DEIS/DEIR. Speakers at 

the public meetings will be recognized 

in the following order: elected officials, 

public agencies, individuals or groups 

in the sign-up order, and anyone else 

who wishes to speak. Speakers may be 

asked to limit their oral comments to 

three (3) minutes in order to afford 

everyone an opportunity to speak. 

Written comments will also be accepted. 

The Coast Guard, MARAD and CSLC 

also encourage submittal of comments 

and related material regarding this 

notice using one of the methods 

described under ADDRESSES. During the 

public meeting, speakers or the 

audience will not be authorized to set 

up any multimedia equipment (audio/

video and/or projectors) or displays that 

would disrupt testimony of others. 

Background Information 

A notice of application for the 

proposed Cabrillo Port DWP was 

published in the Federal Register on 

January 27, 2004 (69 FR 3934). Consult 

that notice for additional information 

regarding the proposed DWP, pipelines 

and the moorings that would be 

installed on the floor of the Pacific 

Ocean offshore of Ventura County, 

California.

A notice of intent to prepare the joint 

DEIS/DEIR was published in the 

Federal Register on February 27, 2004 

(69 FR 9344). Consult that notice for 

additional information regarding the 

criteria that was utilized for the 

environmental analysis in the joint 

DEIS/DEIR. 

Proposed Action 

The Applicant proposes to construct 

and operate an offshore floating storage 

and regasification unit (FSRU) that 

would be moored in Federal waters 

approximately 12.2 nautical miles (14 

statute miles or 22.4 kilometers) 

offshore of Ventura County in 2,900 feet 

(884 meters) of water. As proposed, LNG 

from the Pacific basin would be 

delivered by an LNG carrier to and 

offloaded onto, the FSRU; re-gasified; 

and delivered onshore via two new 21.1 

mile (33.8-kilometer), 24 inch (0.6 

meters) diameter natural gas pipelines 

laid on the ocean floor. These pipelines 

would come onshore at Ormond Beach 

near Oxnard, California to connect with 

the existing Southern California Gas 

Company intrastate pipeline system to 

distribute natural gas throughout the 

Southern California region. The 

facilities would be designed to deliver a 

peak of up to 0.8 billion cubic feet per 

day (bcfd) (22.7 million cubic meters). 

The FSRU would store LNG in three 

Moss spherical tanks. Each tank would 

have a 24 million gallon (91,000 cubic 

meter) LNG storage capacity, and the 

total FSRU LNG storage capacity would 

be 72.1 million gallons (273,000 cubic 

meters). The FSRU would be 

permanently moored, and would use a 

turret system (a tower-like revolving 

structure) to allow the FSRU to 

weathervane (rotate) around a fixed 

point. The FSRU, which would be 

designed for loading LNG from a sideby-side, moored LNG tanker, would be 

shaped like another vessel, doublesided, double-bottomed, 938 feet (286 

meters) long and 213 feet (65 meters) 

wide, with a displacement of 

approximately 190,000 deadweight tons. 

Alternatives 

The DEIS/DEIR examines and assesses 

the environmental impact of the project 

location and pipeline routes of the 

preferred, alternative and the no action 

alternative. In addition to the 

environmental impacts, the DEIS/DEIR 

considers approving, approving with 

conditions or not approving (no action 

alternative) the license application and 

operation. 

As required by the National 

Environmental Policy Act, the Coast 

Guard will also analyze the no action 

alternative as a baseline for comparing 

the impacts of the proposed project. For 

the purposes of this project, the no 

action alternative is defined as not 

approving the Cabrillo Port DWP 

License Application.

Dated: October 28, 2004. 

Howard L. Hime, 

Acting Director of Standards , Marine Safety, 

Security and Environmental Protection, U.S. 

Coast Guard. 

Richard Lolich, 

Acting Director, Office of Ports and Domestic 

Shipping, U.S. Maritime Administration.

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

[FEMA–1569–DR] 

Minnesota; Amendment No. 2 to Notice 

of a Major Disaster Declaration

AGENCY: Federal Emergency 

Management Agency, Emergency 

Preparedness and Response Directorate, 

Department of Homeland Security.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: This notice amends the notice 

of a major disaster declaration for the 

State of Minnesota (FEMA–1569–DR), 

dated October 7, 2004, and related 

determinations.

EFFECTIVE DATE: October 28, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Magda Ruiz, Recovery Division, Federal 

Emergency Management Agency, 

Washington, DC 20472, (202) 646–2705.