67546 Federal Register / Vol. 69, No. 222 / Thursday, November 18, 2004 / Notices 

Total Respondents: 75,000 responses 

annually. 

Frequency: Semi-annual. 

Average Time Per Response: 10 

minutes. 

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 25,000 

hours (75,000 members respond two 

times a year at 10 minutes per 

response). 

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup):

None. 

Total Burden Cost (operating/

maintenance): None. 

Comments submitted in response to 

this notice will be summarized and/or 

included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval of the 

information collection request; they will 

also become a matter of public record.

Dated: November 11, 2004. 

Robert Grimm, 

Director, Office of Research and Policy 

Development.

[FR Doc. 04–25634 Filed 11–17–04; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary; Notice of 

Closed Meeting

AGENCY: Defense Intelligence Agency 

Joint Military Intelligence College.

ACTION: Notice of closed meeting.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the provisions of 

Subsection (d) of Section 10 of Pub. L. 

92–463, as amended by Section 5 of 

Pub. L. 94–409, notice is hereby given 

that a closed meeting of the DIA Joint 

Military Intelligence College Board of 

Visitors has been scheduled as follows:

DATES: Tuesday, 4 January 2005, 1100 to 

1700; and Wednesday, 5 January 2005, 

0800 to 1600.

ADDRESSES: Joint Military Intelligence 

College, Washington, DC 20340–5100.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

A. Denis Clift, President, DIA Joint 

Military Intelligence College, 

Washington, DC 20340–5100 (202/231–

3344).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The entire 

meeting is devoted to the discussion of 

classified information as defined in 

Section 552b (c) (1), Title 5 of the U.S. 

Code and therefore will be closed. The 

Board will discuss several current 

critical intelligence issues and advise 

the Director, DIA, as to the successful 

accomplishment of the mission assigned 

to the Joint Military Intelligence College.

Dated: November 12, 2004. 

Jeannette Owings-Ballard, 

OSD Federal Register Liaison Officer, 

Department of Defense.

[FR Doc. 04–25552 Filed 11–17–04; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary 

Announcement of Intent To Initiate the 

Process To Remove Aeronautical 

Information From Public Sale and 

Distribution

AGENCY: National GeospatialIntelligence Agency (NGA), Department 

of Defense.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The National GeospatialIntelligence Agency (NGA) intends to 

remove its Flight Information 

Publications (FLIP), Digital Aeronautical 

Flight Information File (DAFIF), and 

related aeronautical safety of navigation 

digital and hardcopy publications from 

public sale and distribution. 

This action is taken to accomplish the 

following objectives: safeguarding the 

integrity of Department of Defense 

(DoD) aeronautical navigation data 

currently available on the public 

Internet; preventing unfettered access to 

air facility data by those intending harm 

to the United States, its interests or 

allies; upholding terms of bi-lateral 

geospatial data-sharing agreements; 

avoiding competition with commercial 

interests; and avoiding intellectual 

property/copyright disputes with 

foreign agencies that provide hostnation aeronautical data. 

The DAFIF and related digital 

aeronautical information files will be 

protected from general public access on 

the NGA home page (http://

www.nga.mil). Aeronautical Flight 

Information Publications (FLIP), 

Navigation/Planning Charts (ONC, TPC, 

etc.), and the DAFIF CD will be 

available only through the Department 

of Defense (DoD) distribution system. 

U.S. Federal and State government 

agencies, authorized government 

contractors, and international agencies 

that currently receive those products 

under formal or informal geospatial data 

exchange arrangements will not be 

affected by this action.

DATES: NGA will implement this action 

on October 1, 2005 (FY06).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information about the substance 

of this notice, contact Joseph S. Jarvis, 

Aeronautical Division, MS L–27, 

National Geospatial-Intelligence 

Agency, 3838 Vogel Road, Arnold, 

Missouri, 63010–6238 (e-mail: 

JarvisJ@nga.mil).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NGA and 

its predecessor organizations (DMA and 

NIMA) have published DoD’s flight 

information products since the late 

1940s to support the worldwide 

missions of DoD aircraft. The 

publications are sold to the public 

through the auspices of the Federal 

Aviation Administration (FAA), and the 

digital data has been freely available on 

the Internet. Notwithstanding a prior 

practice of making some of DoD’s flight 

information available to the public in 

the past, NGA does not have a statutory 

requirement to produce aeronautical 

products for general civil aviation.

With the proliferation of digital 

capabilities throughout the international 

aviation network, the preferred method 

of information exchange is shifting from 

paper-based to electronic dissemination. 

Numerous countries that heretofore 

relied on host-government agencies to 

compile and publish their aeronautical 

information have recently transferred 

that responsibility to commercial or 

quasi-governmental agencies. Some of 

these foreign agencies are beginning to 

assert intellectual property rights to the 

aeronautical data within their territorial 

limits and are refusing to provide such 

aeronautical data to DoD so long as NGA 

makes it available to outside interests, 

whom these agencies view as possible 

competitors in the international 

marketplace. NGA relies on foreign data 

obtained through bilateral geospatial 

information sharing agreements, and 

certain nations may impose restrictions 

on their data against release to third 

parties. Accordingly, there is a rational 

basis for limiting access to aeronautical 

products created for DoD use to DoD 

and governmental end users. 

By removing national defense 

aeronautical data from open source 

access NGA seeks to accomplish two 

additional objectives. First, NGA will 

reduce the vulnerability of critical 

navigation data on the Internet. Second, 

it will limit/eliminate unfettered access 

to that data by organizations and 

individuals intent on causing harm. 

In conclusion, with the 

accomplishment of this proposed action 

NGA aims to protect the sources and 

integrity of its data, honor its bilateral 

agreements restricting nongovernmental use, avoid competition 

with commercial interests, and allow 

NGA to focus on its primary customers 

and mission, supporting the Department 

of Defense.