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under the rule. This would require TVA 

to cease sending CCRs to an 

impoundment by October 19, 2015, 

remove the water, and close it by April 

17, 2018. TVA has identified 11 CCR 

impoundments at six of its plants that 

it could cease using and close within 

the required timeframe. These are 

facilities at its Allen, Bull Run, Kingston 

and John Sevier plants in Tennessee and 

at its Widows Creek and Colbert plants 

in Alabama. The EIS would assess the 

site specific impacts of such closures. 

EIS Scope 

Scoping is a process that allows the 

public to comment on an agency’s plans 

for an EIS. This includes identifying 

issues that should be studied and those 

that have little significance. The 

public’s views on the alternatives that 

should be addressed also can be helpful 

in preparing an EIS. 

Programmatically, TVA proposes to 

examine two closure alternatives, 

Closure-in-Place and Closure-byRemoval. The EIS will address different 

methods of implementing the two 

closure approaches, including partial 

removal of CCRs. Various kinds of caps 

or surface liners could be used for 

Closure-in-Place and the merits of those 

approaches, sub-alternatives, will be 

addressed. Closure-by-Removal could 

involve moving CCRs off-site by truck, 

rail, or barge transportation and the 

potential impacts of these alternative 

transportation methods would be 

addressed. At the site-specific level, 

TVA will examine in more specific 

detail the implications of closing these 

eleven impoundments. TVA encourages 

the public to comment on this. 

At either the programmatic or sitespecific level, the typical range of 

resource impacts addressed in EISs 

would be assessed. This would include 

surface and groundwater impacts that 

were a focus of EPA’s technical 

assessments. It also is likely that 

Closure-in-Place or Closure-by-Removal 

would involve movements to and from 

borrow areas to obtain cover material 

(soil, clay). For Closure-by-Removal, it 

would be necessary to fill in the 

depression or hole that is left when 

CCRs are removed unless it is possible 

to place the removed CCRs back into the 

hole after lining the bottom. It also may 

be possible to beneficially use some of 

the ash as cover material (structural fill) 

in lieu of using borrow material to close 

a dewatered CCR impoundment. 

Public Participation 

The public is invited to submit 

comments on the scope of this EIS no 

later than the date identified in the 

DATES section of this notice. After TVA 

prepares a draft of the EIS, TVA will 

release it for public comment. TVA 

anticipates holding public meetings 

near the plants where site-specific early 

closure actions are proposed after 

release of the draft EIS. Meeting details 

will be posted on TVA’s Web site. The 

schedule for releasing the Draft EIS is 

December 2015 or January 2016. 

Dated: August 19, 2015. 

Wilbourne (Skip) C. Markham, 

Director, Environmental Compliance. 

[FR Doc. 2015–21217 Filed 8–26–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Third Meeting: RTCA Special 

Committee 233 (SC 233) Addressing 

Human Factors/Pilot Interface Issues 

for Avionics 

AGENCY: Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA), U.S. Department 

of Transportation (DOT). 

ACTION: Third Meeting Notice of RTCA 

Special Committee 233. 

SUMMARY: The FAA is issuing this notice 

to advise the public of the third meeting 

of the RTCA Special Committee 233. 

DATES: The meeting will be held 

September 15th–17th from 8:00 a.m.– 

4:30 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

RTCA Headquarters, 1150 18th Street 

NW., Suite 910, Washington, DC 20036, 

Tel: (202) 330–0662. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

RTCA Secretariat, 1150 18th Street NW., 

Suite 910, Washington, DC, 20036, or by 

telephone at (202) 833–9339, fax at (202) 

833–9434, or Web site at http://

www.rtca.org or Jennifer Iversen, 

Program Director, RTCA, Inc., jiversen@

rtca.org, (202) 330–0662. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to section 10(a) (2) of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463, 5 U.S.C., App.), notice is hereby 

given for a meeting of the RTCA Special 

Committee 233. The agenda will include 

the following: 

Tuesday, September 15, 2015 (8:00 

a.m.–4:30 p.m.) 

1. Introduction, Upcoming PMC Dates, 

Minutes from Last Meeting 

2. Rotorcraft Directorate Test Pilot 

Evaluations 

3. Outline Discussion 

4. Subcommittee Out-brief 

5. Subcommittee Initial Breakout 

Session 

6. Planning for Next Meeting 

Wednesday, September 16, 2015 (8:00 

a.m.–4:30 p.m.) 

1. Subcommittee Breakout Sessions 

2. Subcommittee Breakout Sessions 

3. Subcommittee Out-brief 

Thursday, September 17, 2015 (8:00 

a.m.–2:00 p.m.) 

1. Leadership Team Wrap-up/

Discussion on Outline Content 

2. Subcommittee Assignments 

3. Meeting Recap, Action Items, Key 

Dates 

Attendance is open to the interested 

public but limited to space availability. 

With the approval of the chairman, 

members of the public may present oral 

statements at the meeting. Persons 

wishing to present statements or obtain 

information should contact the person 

listed in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION

CONTACT section. Members of the public 

may present a written statement to the 

committee at any time. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on August 19, 

2015. 

Latasha Robinson, 

Management & Program Analyst, Next 

Generation, Enterprise Support Services 

Division, Federal Aviation Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2015–21184 Filed 8–26–15; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Transit Administration 

[Docket No. FTA–2014–0025] 

Notice of Buy America Waiver for 

Track Turnout Component 

AGENCY: Federal Transit Administration, 

DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of Buy America Waiver. 

SUMMARY: In response to a Buy America 

waiver request from the Long Island Rail 

Road (LIRR), a subsidiary of the New 

York Metropolitan Transportation 

Authority (MTA), the Federal Transit 

Administration (FTA) hereby waives its 

Buy America requirements for the 

movable point frog component of one 

track turnout that LIRR needs for Stage 

1.1 of its Jamaica Station Capacity 

Improvements Project, Phase I (JCIPhase 1 Project). The turnout itself, 

however, is subject to FTA’s Buy 

America requirements and, accordingly, 

the turnout must be manufactured in the 

United States. 

This Buy America waiver does not 

apply to track turnout components for 

Stages 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, and any other 

stages of LIRR’s JCI-Phase I Project, or 

for LIRR’s State of Good Repair Program, 

as LIRR has withdrawn such waiver 


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