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ACTION: Notice of waiver of 10 U.S.C. 

2534 for certain defense items produced 

in the United Kingdom. 

SUMMARY: The Under Secretary of 

Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and 

Logistics) is waiving the limitation of 10 

U.S.C. 2534 for certain defense items 

produced in the United Kingdom (UK). 

10 U.S.C. 2534 limits DoD procurement 

of certain items to sources in the 

national technology and industrial base. 

The waiver will permit procurement of 

enumerated items from sources in the 

UK, unless otherwise restricted by 

statute. 

DATES: Effective Date: This waiver is 

effective for one year, beginning 

December 23, 2010. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Jeffrey Grover, OUSD (AT&L), Office of 

the Director of Defense Procurement and 

Acquisition Policy, Contract Policy and 

International Contracting, Room 5E621, 

3060 Defense Pentagon, Washington, DC 

20301–3060, telephone (703) 697–9352. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Subsection (a) of 10 U.S.C. 2534 

provides that the Secretary of Defense 

may procure the items listed in that 

subsection only if the manufacturer of 

the item is part of the national 

technology and industrial base. 

Subsection (i) of 10 U.S.C. 2534 

authorizes the Secretary of Defense to 

exercise the waiver authority in 

subsection (d), on the basis of the 

applicability of paragraph (2) or (3) of 

that subsection, only if the waiver is 

made for a particular item listed in 

subsection (a) and for a particular 

foreign country. Subsection (d) 

authorizes a waiver if the Secretary 

determines that application of the 

limitation ‘‘would impede the reciprocal 

procurement of defense items under a 

memorandum of understanding 

providing for reciprocal procurement of 

defense items’’ and if he determines that 

‘‘that country does not discriminate 

against defense items produced in the 

United States to a greater degree than 

the United States discriminates against 

defense items produced in that 

country.’’ The Secretary of Defense has 

delegated the waiver authority of 10 

U.S.C. 2534(d) to the Under Secretary of 

Defense (Acquisition, Technology, and 

Logistics). 

DoD has had a Reciprocal Defense 

Procurement Memorandum of 

Understanding (MOU) with the UK 

since 1975, most recently renewed on 

December 16, 2004. 

The Under Secretary of Defense 

(Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics) 

finds that the UK does not discriminate 

against defense items produced in the 

United States to a greater degree than 

the United States discriminates against 

defense items produced in the UK, and 

also finds that application of the 

limitation in 10 U.S.C. 2534 against 

defense items produced in the UK 

would impede the reciprocal 

procurement of defense items under the 

MOU. 

Under the authority of 10 U.S.C. 2534, 

the Under Secretary of Defense 

(Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics) 

has determined that application of the 

limitation of 10 U.S.C. 2534(a) to the 

procurement of any defense item 

produced in the UK that is listed below 

would impede the reciprocal 

procurement of defense items under the 

MOU with the UK. 

On the basis of the foregoing, the 

Under Secretary of Defense 

(Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics) 

is waiving the limitation in 10 U.S.C. 

2534(a) for procurements of any defense 

item listed below that is produced in the 

UK. This waiver applies only to the 

limitations in 10 U.S.C. 2534(a). It does 

not apply to any other limitation. This 

waiver applies to procurements under 

solicitations issued during the period 

from December 23, 2010 to December 

22, 2011. Similar waivers have been 

granted since 1998, most recently in 

2009 (74 FR 65763) on December 11, 

2009. 

List of Items To Which This Waiver 

Applies 

1. Air circuit breakers. 

2. Welded shipboard anchor and 

mooring chain with a diameter of four 

inches or less. 

3. Gyrocompasses. 

4. Electronic navigation chart systems. 

5. Steering controls. 

6. Pumps. 

7. Propulsion and machinery control 

systems. 

8. Totally enclosed lifeboats. 

Clare Zebrowski, 

Editor, Defense Acquisition Regulations 

System. 

[FR Doc. 2010–30671 Filed 12–7–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army, Corps of 

Engineers 

Notice of Intent to Prepare a Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), 

Initiate the Public Scoping Period and 

Host Public Scoping Meetings for the 

Great Lakes and Mississippi River 

Interbasin Study (‘‘GLMRIS’’); 

Correction, Clarification, Extension of 

the Public Scoping Period and 

Announcement of Additional Public 

Scoping Meeting Locations 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Reference the Notice of Intent 

published in the Federal Register on 

Tuesday, November 16, 2010, Volume 

75, number 220, pages 69983–5. This 

notice contains corrections and 

clarifications to this November 16, 2010 

notice, extends the public comment 

period and identifies additional 

locations for the GLMRIS public scoping 

meetings. The corrections are 

typographical errors found in the 

‘‘Scoping and Involvement’’ section of 

the November 16, 2010 notice (75 FR 

69983). Among the clarifications is 

information related to the timeframe of 

on-line registration for those wanting to 

make an oral comment at a public 

meeting, as well as the benefit of 

registering on-line. The registration 

process is found in the ‘‘Scoping and 

Involvement’’ section of the November 

16, 2010 notice (75 FR 69983). For 

convenience, the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section of the November 

16, 2010 notice (75 FR 69983) has been 

reprinted with corrections, 

clarifications, and new text announcing 

the locations where USACE will host 

scoping meetings and the extension of 

the public scoping period. 

DATES: The public scoping period to be 

held pursuant the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 42 

U.S.C. 4321, et seq. (NEPA) has been 

extended from February 28, 2011 to 

March 31, 2011. The first NEPA public 

scoping meeting for GLMRIS is 

scheduled for December 15, 2010 in 

Chicago, Illinois. The dates of the 

remaining public meetings have not 

been finalized. Once final, these dates 

will be posted in a subsequent Federal 

Register notice. Please refer to the 

‘‘Scoping and Public Involvement’’ 

section below for information regarding 

the public scoping meetings and 

instructions on how to submit public 

comments. 


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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information and/or questions 

about GLMRIS, please contact USACE, 

Chicago District, Project Manager, Mr. 

David Wethington, by mail: USACE, 

Chicago District, 111 N. Canal, Suite 

600, Chicago, IL 60606, or by e-mail: 

david.m.wethington@usace.army.mil. 

For media inquiries, please contact 

the USACE, Chicago District, Public 

Affairs Officer, Ms. Lynne Whelan, by 

mail: USACE, Chicago District, 111 N. 

Canal, Suite 600, Chicago, IL 60606, by 

phone: 312.846.5330 or by e-mail: 

lynne.e.whelan@usace.army.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

1. Background. An aquatic nuisance 

species (ANS) is a nonindigenous 

species that threatens the diversity or 

abundance of native species or the 

ecological stability of infested waters, or 

commercial, agricultural, aquacultural 

or recreational activities dependent on 

such waters. See 16 U.S.C. 4702(1) 

(2010). 

As a result of international commerce, 

travel and local practices, ANS have 

been introduced throughout the 

Mississippi River and Great Lakes 

basins. These two basins are connected 

by man-made channels that, in the past, 

exhibited poor water quality, which was 

an impediment to the transfer of 

organisms between the basins. Now that 

water quality has improved, these 

canals allow the transfer of both 

indigenous and nonindigenous invasive 

species. 

USACE, in consultation with other 

Federal agencies, Native American 

Tribes, State agencies, local 

governments and non-governmental 

organizations, is conducting this 

feasibility study. For GLMRIS, USACE 

will explore options and technologies, 

collectively known as ANS controls, 

that could be applied to prevent ANS 

transfer between the basins through 

aquatic pathways. Potential ANS 

controls may include, but are not 

limited to, hydrologic separation of the 

basins, waterway modifications, 

selective barriers, etc. 

USACE will conduct a comprehensive 

analysis of ANS controls and will 

analyze the effects an ANS control or 

combination of ANS controls may have 

on current uses of: (1) The Chicago Area 

Waterway System (CAWS), the only 

known continuous aquatic pathway 

between the Great Lakes and 

Mississippi River basins; and (2) other 

aquatic pathways between these basins. 

For the CAWS, current waterway uses 

include, but are not limited to: Flood 

risk management; commercial and 

recreational navigation; recreation; 

water supply; hydropower; and 

conveyance of effluent from wastewater 

treatment plants and other industries. 

Additionally, this study will identify 

mitigation measures or alternative 

facilities necessary to offset and address 

impacted waterway uses and current 

significant natural resources. 

GLMRIS will be conducted in 

accordance with NEPA and with the 

Economic and Environmental Principles 

and Guidelines for Water and Related 

Land Resource Implementation Studies, 

Water Resources Council, March 10, 

1983. 

2. Scoping and Public Involvement. 

USACE will accept comments related to 

GLMRIS until March 31, 2011. Note, 

USACE will only consider comments 

that disclose the first name, last name 

and zip code of the commenter. 

All forms of comments received 

during the scoping period will be 

weighted equally. Using input obtained 

during the scoping period, USACE will 

refine the scope of GLMRIS to focus on 

significant issues, as well as eliminate 

issues that are not significant from 

further detailed study. 

Comments may be submitted in the 

following ways: 

• GLMRIS project Web site: Use the 

Web comment function found at 

http://glmris.anl.gov; 

• NEPA Scoping Meeting: USACE is 

hosting scoping meetings and asks those 

who want to make oral comments to 

register on the GLMRIS project Web site 

at http://glmris.anl.gov. Those 

registering to make oral comments 

through the project Web site may be 

given a preference over those that 

register to make oral comments at the 

meeting. The on-line registration for 

each individual meeting will close (1) 

day prior to that meeting date. Each 

individual wishing to make oral 

comments shall be given three (3) 

minutes, and a stenographer will 

document oral comments; 

• Mail: Mail written comments to 

GLMRIS Scoping, 111 N. Canal, Suite 

600, Chicago, IL 60606. Comments must 

be postmarked by March 31, 2011; and 

• Hand Delivery: Comments may be 

hand delivered to the Chicago District, 

USACE office located at 111 N. Canal 

St., Suite 600, Chicago, IL 60606 

between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. Comments 

must be received by March 31, 2011. 

At the scoping meetings, USACE will 

provide informational materials about 

the study’s authorities and USACE 

study process. The meetings will begin 

with a brief presentation regarding the 

study followed by an oral comment 

period. During the meeting, USACE will 

also collect written comments on 

comment cards and computer terminals. 

The first public scoping meeting is 

scheduled from 12 p.m. to 7 p.m. on 

Wednesday, December 15, 2010 at the 

Gleacher Center, located at 450 North 

Cityfront Plaza Drive, Chicago, IL 60611. 

Please see the GLMRIS project Web site 

at http://glmris.anl.gov for more 

information regarding the meeting and if 

you wish to make an oral comment. 

In addition to Chicago, Illinois, 

USACE will host NEPA scoping 

meetings in the following metropolitan 

areas: Buffalo, New York; Cleveland, 

Ohio; St. Paul, Minnesota; Green Bay, 

Wisconsin; Traverse City, Michigan; 

Cincinnati, Ohio; Ann Arbor, Michigan; 

St. Louis, Missouri; Vicksburg, 

Mississippi. Specific meeting places and 

dates will be announced in a subsequent 

Federal Register notice, the GLMRIS 

project Web site, electronic media and 

news releases. For more information on 

NEPA scoping and study information, 

please visit the GLMRIS project Web 

site at http://glmris.anl.gov. 

Comments received during the 

scoping period will be posted on the 

GLMRIS project Web site and will 

become a part of the EIS. You may 

indicate that you do not wish to have 

your name or other personal 

information made available on the Web 

site. However, USACE cannot guarantee 

that information withheld from the Web 

site will be maintained as confidential. 

Requests for disclosure of collected 

information will be handled through the 

Freedom of Information Act. Comments 

and information, including the identity 

of the submitter, may be disclosed, 

reproduced, and distributed. 

Submissions should not include any 

information that the submitter seeks to 

preserve as confidential. 

If you require assistance under the 

Americans with Disabilities Act, please 

contact Ms. Lynne Whelan via e-mail at 

lynne.e.whelan@usace.army.mil or 

phone at (312) 846–5330 at least seven 

(7) working days prior to the meeting to 

request arrangements. 

3. Significant Issues. Issues associated 

with the proposed study are likely to 

include, but will not be limited to: 

Significant natural resources such as 

ecosystems and threatened and 

endangered species, commercial and 

recreational fisheries; current 

recreational uses of the lakes and 

waterways; ANS effects on water users; 

effects of potential ANS controls on 

current waterway uses such as flood risk 

management, commercial and 

recreational navigation, recreation, 

water supply, hydropower and 

conveyance of effluent from wastewater 

treatment plants and other industries; 

and statutory and legal responsibilities 

relative to the lakes and waterways. 


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4. Availability of the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement. 

Availability of the Draft EIS is 

contingent upon sufficient allocation of 

funding for the study. Draft EIS 

availability will be announced to the 

public in the Federal Register in 

compliance with 40 CFR 1506.9 and 

1506.10. 

5. Authority. This action is being 

undertaken pursuant to the Water 

Resources and Development Act of 

2007, Section 3061, Public Law 110– 

114, 121 STAT. 1121, and the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969, 42 

U.S.C. 4321, et seq., as amended. 

Dated: December 1, 2010. 

Susanne J. Davis, 

Chief Planning Branch, Chicago District, 

Corps of Engineers. 

[FR Doc. 2010–30820 Filed 12–7–10; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[CFDA NO. 84.031H] 

Office of Postsecondary Education; 

Programs 

ACTION: Notice inviting applications for 

designation as an eligible institution. 

Strengthening Institutions Program 

(SIP), American Indian Tribally 

Controlled Colleges and Universities 

(TCCU), Alaska Native and Native 

Hawaiian-Serving Institutions (ANNH), 

Asian American and Native American 

Pacific Islander-Serving Institutions 

(AANAPISI), Native American Serving 

Nontribal Institutions (NASNTI), 

Developing Hispanic-Serving 

Institutions (HSI), Hispanic-Serving 

Institutions (STEM and 

ARTICULATION), Promoting 

Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for 

Hispanic Americans (PPOHA), and 

Predominantly Black Institutions (PBI) 

Programs for Fiscal Year (FY) 2011. 

Purpose of Programs: The SIP, TCCU, 

ANNH, AANAPISI, NASNTI, and PBI 

Programs are authorized under Title III, 

Part A, of the Higher Education Act of 

1965, as amended (HEA). Under these 

programs, institutions of higher 

education (IHEs or institutions) are 

eligible to apply for grants if they meet 

specific statutory and regulatory 

eligibility requirements. Similarly, IHEs 

are eligible to apply for grants under 

Title V of the HEA if they meet specific 

statutory and regulatory requirements. 

The HSI, HSI (STEM and 

ARTICULATION), and PPOHA 

Programs are authorized under Title V, 

Parts A and B of the HEA. In addition, 

under Title III of the HEA, institutions 

applying for grants under the AANAPISI 

and NASNTI Programs must be eligible 

institutions as defined in section 312(b) 

of the HEA. Institutions applying for 

grants under the PBI Program must be 

eligible institutions as defined in 

section 318(b)(1) of the HEA. 

An IHE that is designated as an 

eligible institution may also receive a 

waiver of certain non-Federal cost-share 

requirements under the Federal 

Supplemental Educational Opportunity 

Grant (FSEOG), the Federal Work Study 

(FWS), the Student Support Services 

(SSS), and the Undergraduate 

International Studies and Foreign 

Language (UISFL) Programs. The 

FSEOG, FWS, and SSS Programs are 

authorized under Title IV of the HEA. 

The UISFL Program is authorized under 

Title VI of the HEA. Qualified 

institutions may receive these waivers 

even if they are not recipients of grant 

funds under the Title III or Title V 

Programs. 

Special Note: To qualify as an eligible 

institution under the Title III or Title V 

Programs, your institution must satisfy 

several criteria, including one related to 

needy student enrollment and one related to 

average educational and general (E&G) 

expenditures for a specified base year. The 

most recent data available for E&G 

expenditures are for base year 2008–2009. In 

order to award FY 2011 grants in a timely 

manner, we will use the most recent data 

available. Therefore, we use E&G expenditure 

threshold data from the base year 2008–2009. 

In completing your eligibility application, 

please use E&G expenditure data from the 

base year 2008–2009. 

If you are designated as an eligible 

institution and you do not receive a new 

award under the Title III or Title V 

Programs in FY 2011, your eligibility for 

the non-Federal cost-share waiver under 

the FSEOG, the FWS, the SSS, and the 

UISFL Programs is valid for five 

consecutive years. You will not need to 

reapply for eligibility until 2016, unless 

you wish to apply for a new Title III or 

Title V grant. All institutions interested 

in applying for a new FY 2011 Title III 

or Title V grant or requesting a waiver 

of the non-Federal cost share, must 

apply for eligibility designation in FY 

2011. Under the HEA, any institution 

interested in applying for a grant under 

any of these programs must first be 

designated as an eligible institution. 

The notice for applying for 

designation as an eligible institution for 

FY 2010 was reopened on August 13, 

2010, 74 FR 64059, and applications 

were due on September 13, 2010. That 

reopening of the application period 

applied only to those institutions that 

intended to apply for new awards in the 

specified program competitions. All 

institutions intending to apply for 

funding in any of the other Title III or 

V competitions held in 2011 must apply 

for designation as an eligible institution 

in accordance with this announcement. 

Eligible Applicants: To qualify as an 

eligible institution under the Title III or 

Title V Programs, an accredited 

institution must, among other 

requirements, have an enrollment of 

needy students, and its average E&G 

expenditures per full-time equivalent 

(FTE) undergraduate student must be 

low in comparison with the average 

E&G expenditures per FTE 

undergraduate student of institutions 

that offer similar instruction. 

The eligibility requirements for the 

Title III Programs are found in 34 CFR 

607.2 through 607.5. The regulations 

may be accessed at the following Web 

site: http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/ 

cfr/waisidx_02/34cfr607_02.html. 

The eligibility requirements for the 

Title V, HSI Program are found in 34 

CFR 606.2 through 34 CFR 606.5. The 

regulations may be accessed at the 

following Web site: http:// 

www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/ 

waisidx_01/34cfr606_01.html. 

The requirements for the PPOHA 

Program are found in the notice of final 

requirements published in the Federal 

Register on July 27, 2010 (75 FR 44055) 

(PPOHA NFP). Among the requirements 

established for the PPOHA Program in 

the PPOHA NFP are the use of the 

regulations in 34 CFR 606.2(a) and (b), 

and 606.3 through 606.5. 

Enrollment of Needy Students: Under 

34 CFR 606.3(a) and 607.3(a) and, for 

the PPOHA Program, Requirement 1— 

Eligibility Criteria (Use of 34 CFR 

606.2(a) and (b), 606.3 through 606.5) in 

the PPOHA NFP, an institution is 

considered to have an enrollment of 

needy students if: (1) At least 50 percent 

of its degree students received financial 

assistance under one or more of the 

following programs: Federal Pell Grant, 

FSEOG, FWS, or the Federal Perkins 

Loan Programs; or (2) the percentage of 

its undergraduate degree students who 

were enrolled on at least a half-time 

basis and received Federal Pell Grants 

exceeded the median percentage of 

undergraduate degree students who 

were enrolled on at least a half-time 

basis and received Federal Pell Grants at 

comparable institutions that offer 

similar instruction. 

To qualify under this latter criterion, 

an institution’s Federal Pell Grant 

percentage for base year 2008–2009 

must be more than the median for its 

category of comparable institutions 

provided in the 2008–2009 Median Pell 

Grant and Average E&G Expenditures 

per FTE Student Table in this notice. 


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