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Written comments and 

recommendations concerning the 

proposed information collection should 

be sent by January 18, 2011 to: 

SAMHSA Desk Officer, Human 

Resources and Housing Branch, Office 

of Management and Budget, New 

Executive Office Building, Room 10235, 

Washington, DC 20503; due to potential 

delays in OMB’s receipt and processing 

of mail sent through the U.S. Postal 

Service, respondents are encouraged to 

submit comments by fax to: 202–395– 

5806. 

Dated: December 6, 2010. 

Elaine Parry, 

Director, Office of Management, Technology 

and Operations. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

[Docket No. USCG–2010–1104] 

Intent To Prepare Programmatic 

Environmental Assessment Statement 

for the Nationwide Implementation of 

the Interagency Operations Centers 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of intent and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard announces 

its intent to prepare a Programmatic 

Environmental Assessment (PEA) for 

the proposed nationwide 

implementation of the Interagency 

Operations Centers (IOC) Project and 

requests public comments on the scope 

of the PEA. 

DATES: Comments and related material 

must either be submitted to our online 

docket via http://www.regulations.gov 

on or before January 18, 2011 or reach 

the Docket Management Facility by that 

date. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

identified by docket number USCG– 

2010–1104 using any one of the 

following methods: 

(1) Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

http://www.regulations.gov. 

(2) Fax: 202–493–2251. 

(3) Mail: Docket Management Facility 

(M–30), U.S. Department of 

Transportation, West Building Ground 

Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590– 

0001. 

(4) Hand delivery: Same as mail 

address above, between 9 a.m. and 5 

p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. The telephone number 

is 202–366–9329. 

To avoid duplication, please use only 

one of these four methods. See the 

‘‘Public Participation and Request for 

Comments’’ portion of the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section 

below for instructions on submitting 

comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have questions on this notice, 

please contact CAPT Alan Arsenault, 

Coast Guard, telephone 202–475–3717 

or e-mail alan.n.arsenault@uscg.mil. If 

you have questions on viewing or 

submitting material to the docket, call 

Renee V. Wright, Program Manager, 

Docket Operations, telephone 202–366– 

9826. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Public Participation and Request for 

Comments 

We encourage you to submit 

comments and related material on the 

scope of this PEA. Specifically, the 

Coast Guard requests input on any 

environmental concerns that the public 

may have related to the development of 

IOCs throughout the United States, 

sources of relevant data or information, 

and any suggested analysis methods for 

inclusion in the PEA. All comments 

received will be posted, without change, 

to http://www.regulations.gov and will 

include any personal information you 

have provided. 

Submitting comments: If you submit a 

comment, please include the docket 

number for this notice (USCG–2010– 

1104) and provide a reason for each 

suggestion or recommendation. You 

may submit your comments and 

material online, or by fax, mail or hand 

delivery, but please use only one of 

these means. We recommend that you 

include your name and a mailing 

address, an e-mail address, or a 

telephone number in the body of your 

document so that we can contact you if 

we have questions regarding your 

submission. 

To submit your comment online, go to 

http://www.regulations.gov, click on the 

‘‘submit a comment’’ box, which will 

then become highlighted in blue. In the 

‘‘Document Type’’ drop down menu 

select ‘‘Notices’’ and insert ‘‘USCG– 

2010–1104’’ in the ‘‘Keyword’’ box. Click 

‘‘Search’’ then click on the balloon shape 

in the ‘‘Actions’’ column. If you submit 

your comments by mail or hand 

delivery, submit them in an unbound 

format, no larger than 81⁄2 by 11 inches, 

suitable for copying and electronic 

filing. If you submit them by mail and 

would like to know that they reached 

the Facility, please enclose a stamped, 

self-addressed postcard or envelope. We 

will consider all comments and material 

received during the comment period. 

Viewing the comments: To view the 

comments, go to http:// 

www.regulations.gov, click on the ‘‘read 

comments’’ box, which will then 

become highlighted in blue. In the 

‘‘Keyword’’ box insert ‘‘USCG–2010– 

1104’’ and click ‘‘Search.’’ Click the 

‘‘Open Docket Folder’’ in the ‘‘Actions’’ 

column. If you do not have access to the 

Internet, you may view the docket 

online by visiting the Docket 

Management Facility in Room W12–140 

on the ground floor of the Department 

of Transportation West Building, 1200 

New Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, 

DC 20590, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m., 

Monday through Friday, except Federal 

holidays. We have an agreement with 

the Department of Transportation to use 

the Docket Management Facility. 

Privacy Act: Anyone can search the 

electronic form of 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 a 

Privacy Act system of records notice 

regarding our public dockets in the 

January 17, 2008, issue of the Federal 

Register (73 FR 3316). 

Background and Purpose 

SAFE Port Act and the IOC Project 

The Security and Accountability for 

Every Port Act of 2006 (SAFE Port Act), 

Public Law 109–347, 120 Stat. 1884, 

was enacted to improve maritime and 

United States port security through 

enhanced layered defenses. Section 108 

of the SAFE Port Act directs the 

establishment of IOCs at all high 

priority ports that ‘‘utilize, as 

appropriate, the compositional and 

operations characteristics of existing 

centers’’ and are ‘‘organized to fit the 

security needs, requirements, and 

resources of the individual port area at 

which each is operating.’’ 

The Coast Guard IOC Project will 

satisfy this mandate through the 

development and transformation of 

approximately 35 existing Coast Guard 

Sector Command Centers (SCCs) over 

the next 12 years into coordinated 

planning and operations centers. 

Purpose of the IOC Project 

The purpose of the proposed 

nationwide implementation of the IOC 

Project is to improve unity of effort 

among Federal, State, tribal, and local 

port partners with shared port security 

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facilities to monitor approaching waterborne traffic at high priority ports in the 

United States and United States 

territories. The IOC’s information 

systems, facilities, and sensor networks 

will provide the partner organizations 

with the ability to coordinate planning 

and operational activities to gain a 

proactive posture in preventing, 

protecting, responding, and recovering 

from emergency and illicit activities in 

the ports. In addition, the IOC Project 

will facilitate collaboration to gain 

efficiencies in operations execution, 

reduce redundant activities (e.g., 

multiple boardings of a vessel by 

different agencies), and share resources. 

The IOCs will improve tactical decisionmaking, situational awareness, 

operations monitoring/interoperability, 

rules-based processing, and joint 

planning in a coordinated interagency 

environment. 

IOC Implementation 

The Coast Guard plans to implement 

the development of the IOCs through 

upgrades or reconfiguration of current 

facilities, and through leasing or 

building new facilities to increase the 

capacity and space provided for security 

operations and interagency partners. 

Each IOC will be tailored to the 

individual needs of the ports, and will 

be operated in coordination with 

multiple partner agencies and 

organizations including Federal 

agencies, State, tribal, and local law 

enforcement, and port authorities. 

The following table lists existing SCC 

locations being considered for 

reconfiguration to IOCs. 

Addresses of SCC Locations Considered for Transformation to 

IOC 

Hampton Roads, 4000 Coast 

Guard, Boulevard, Portsmouth, 

VA 23703–2199 

San Francisco, 1 Yerba Buena Island, San Francisco, CA 

94130–9309 

Boston, 427 Commercial Street, 

Boston, MA 02109–1027 

Charleston, 196 Tradd St., 

Charleston, SC 29401–1817 

Tampa-St. Petersburg, 600 8th Avenue SE, St. Petersburg, FL 

33701–5099 

San Diego, 2710 Harbor Drive, N. 

San Diego, CA 92101–1028 

New York, 212 Coast Guard 

Drive, Staten Island, NY 10305 

Sault Ste. Marie, 337 Water St., 

Sault Ste., Marie, MI 49783– 

9501 

Los Angeles/Long Beach, 1001 S. 

Seaside Ave., Bldg. 20, San 

Pedro, CA 90731–0208 

Puget Sound, 1519 Alaskan Way 

South, Seattle, WA 98134– 

1192 

Baltimore, 2401 Hawkins Point 

Rd., Baltimore, MD 21226– 

1797 

Long Island, 120 Woodward Ave., 

New Haven, CT 06512–3698 

Ohio Valley, 600 Martin Luther 

King Jr., Mazzoli Federal Bldg., 

Rm 421, Louisville, KY 40202– 

2251 

Columbia River, 2185 SE Airport 

Rd., Warrenton, OR 97146– 

9693 

Delaware Bay, 1 Washington Avenue, Philadelphia, PA 19147– 

4395 

Mobile, South Broad St., Mobile, 

AL 36615 

Northern New England, 259 High 

St., South Portland, ME 04106– 

0007 

Corpus Christi, 8930 Ocean Dr., 

Corpus Christi, TX 78419–5220 

Buffalo, 1 Fuhrmann Boulevard, 

Buffalo, NY 14203–3189 

Jacksonville, 4200 Ocean St., Atlantic Beach, FL 2233–2416 

Southern New England, Little Harbor Rd., Woods Hole, MA 

02543–1099 

Houston-Galveston, 9640 Clinton 

Dr., Houston, TX 77029–4328 

Detroit, 110 Mt. Elliot Ave., Detroit, MI 48207–4380 Juneau, 2760 Sherwood Lane, 

Suite 2A, Juneau, AK 99801– 

8545 

Lower Mississippi, 2 A W Wills 

Ave., Memphis, TN 38105–1502 

Key West, 100 Trumbo Rd., Key 

West, FL 33040–0005 

New Orleans, 201 Old Hammond 

Hwy., Metairie, LA 70005 

Anchorage, 510 L Street, Suite 

100, Anchorage, AK 99501– 

1946 

Lake Michigan, 2420 S. Lincoln 

Memorial Dr., Milwaukee, WI 

53207–1997 

Miami, 100 MacArthur Causeway, 

Rm. 201, Miami Beach, FL 

33139–5101 

Guam, PSC 455, Box 176, FPO, 

AP 96540–1056 

San Juan, 5 Calle La Puntilla 

Final, San Juan, PR 00901– 

1800 

Upper Mississippi, 1222 Spruce 

St., Suite 7.103, St. Louis, MO 

63103–2832 

Honolulu, 400 Sand Island Parkway, Honolulu, HI 96819–4398 North Carolina, 2301 East Fort 

Macon Rd., Atlantic Beach, NC 

28512–5633 

The IOC Project will complement the 

maritime component of the Secure 

Border Initiative, a comprehensive, 

multi-year plan to help secure 

America’s borders and will link 

capabilities across Federal, State, local, 

tribal, and private organizations. 

IOCs will provide information 

systems, facilities, and sensors needed 

to conduct daily, 24/7 tactical 

coordination of port-level activities. 

They will deliver capabilities to 

automate and increase throughput of 

information for achieving Maritime 

Domain Awareness (MDA). Improving 

MDA will boost interagency 

communications and decision-makers’ 

level of knowledge, and will help the 

Coast Guard make informed command 

and control decisions. Information 

throughput improvements will be 

achieved by networking Coast Guard 

and interagency partner sensors and 

then expanding these sensor networks 

to monitor vessel activities and detect 

anomalies from a distance. The Coast 

Guard will use an information 

management toolset, called 

WatchKeeper, to compile, organize, and 

apply data and knowledge collected by 

the expanded sensor network. 

Preparation of the PEA 

In accordance with Section 102(2)(c) 

of NEPA as implemented by the Council 

on Environmental Quality regulations 

(40 CFR 1500–1508), Department of 

Homeland Security Management 

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Planning Program), and Coast Guard 

National Environmental Policy Act 

Implementing Procedures and Policy for 

Considering Environmental Impacts, 

(COMDTINST M16475.1D), the Coast 

Guard intends to prepare a PEA for the 

implementation of the IOC Project. 

The PEA will provide a general level 

of analysis of the Proposed Action and 

No Action alternative and the potential 

environmental impacts of 

implementation. Upon completion and 

acceptance of the PEA, the Coast Guard 

will conduct a site-specific 

Environmental Assessment (EA) or 

Categorical Exclusion (CATEX) at 

individual IOC locations that may 

warrant additional examination due to 

unique environmental characteristics. 

Proposed Action 

The IOC Project is currently not fully 

funded. However, as funding allows, the 

Coast Guard plans to implement the IOC 

Project in four phases or segments: 

Segment 1 will establish processes 

and systems to link operations and data 

information between interagency 

partners and the Coast Guard. The Coast 

Guard will implement the WatchKeeper 

tool in Segment 1 to integrate vessel 

targeting, operations, monitoring, and 

operational planning. The Coast Guard 

Operations System Center will host 

WatchKeeper, with a minimal increase 

in computer infrastructure installed at 

the Operations System Center. 

Interagency partners will be allowed 

access to the information technology 

network to establish initial improved 

coordination efforts. 

Segment 2 will establish an integrated 

interagency sensor network to link and 

enhance the Coast Guard’s information 

management capability with that of its 

interagency partners. The Coast Guard 

plans to install hardware and software 

at each IOC location throughout 

Segment 2 to establish this interagency 

sensor network. The Coast Guard plans 

to survey existing remote sensors, 

currently mounted on short platforms, 

towers, rooftops, and poles for inclusion 

in the sensor network upgrade as part of 

Segment 2 implementation. 

Segment 3 will expand the 

interagency sensor network and provide 

extended sensor network and 

components to fill critical situational 

awareness gaps and increase knowledge 

and data collected by the Coast Guard. 

The Coast Guard plans to acquire and 

install new sensors and the required 

network infrastructure to support the 

sensors, including wireless and wired 

hardware. The Coast Guard plans to 

install between 1 and 15 new sensors at 

each IOC location. New sensors will be 

mounted on existing short platforms, 

towers, rooftops, and poles similar to 

the installation of existing sensors. If the 

broad activities analyzed in the PEA do 

not adequately cover the site-specific 

actions required to install and mount 

new sensors or hardware, then the Coast 

Guard will tier follow-on EAs and 

CATEXs as appropriate on a case-bycase basis. 

Segment 4 will expand existing 

facilities through upgrades to existing 

SCCs and lease or build new facilities to 

allocate additional work space capacity 

to the Coast Guard and its interagency 

partners, and through enhancing the 

existing information technology and 

electronics infrastructure at these 

locations. Segment 4 will require 4 new 

leases, 3 relocations, and 28 

construction projects at existing SCCs to 

accommodate the space, infrastructure, 

and security requirements of the Coast 

Guard and its interagency partners. 

Facilities modifications to transform 

SCCs into IOCs will include increasing 

the capacity of the spaces used by Coast 

Guard personnel operating the IOC 

equipment, ensuring the co-location of 

the Sector Commander and the 

Command Center, and providing space 

to support Coast Guard surge-operations 

staff and interagency partner staff. 

If the broad activities analyzed in the 

PEA do not adequately cover the sitespecific actions required to construct, 

lease, or relocate IOC facilities, then the 

Coast Guard will tier follow-on EAs and 

CATEXs as appropriate on a case-bycase basis. The Coast Guards plans to 

implement Segment 4 in a parallel effort 

with Segments 1, 2, and 3, as funding 

allows. 

The PEA will address the general 

environmental impacts of the Proposed 

Action and the No Action Alternative. 

The No Action Alternative will serve as 

a baseline against which to compare the 

potential impacts of the Proposed 

Action. The Coast Guard defines the No 

Action Alternative as not implementing 

the IOC Project, not complying with the 

mandate of the SAFE Port Act, and 

preventing the existing approximately 

35 SSC facilities from being upgraded. 

The Proposed Action is the full 

implementation of Segments 1 through 

4 described above. 

The broad analysis of the PEA will 

not cover site-specific actions. The 

Coast Guard will address site-specific 

actions on a case-by-case basis as 

actions during the implementation of 

the four Segments and across the 

approximately 35 various SCC locations. 

The Coast Guard will conduct sitespecific NEPA analyses and produce 

subsequent NEPA documentation 

coincident with project implementation 

during any Segment and in any SCC 

location to address environmental or 

human health impacts from any sensor 

mounting, installation, or facility 

construction project if necessary. 

Although the Coast Guard does not 

foresee major site-specific impacts at 

this time, the Coast Guard expects that 

the PEA will serve to facilitate and 

expedite the preparation of follow-on, 

project-specific NEPA documents, if 

applicable, at the SCC locations. 

The Coast Guard does not expect that 

the Proposed Action will result in 

significant environmental or human 

health impacts. The Coast Guard plans 

to establish the IOC facilities and install 

the required sensors in previously 

developed sites within Coast Guard 

installations or other similar Federal or 

private locations. Any major 

infrastructure changes will be addressed 

in future site-specific NEPA documents. 

Any potentially significant impacts to 

any aspect of the affected environment 

including cultural resources, biological 

resources, water and marine resources, 

air quality, and public safety will be 

addressed and analyzed by the Coast 

Guard on a case-by-case basis in future 

site-specific NEPA documents. 

Scoping Process 

The Coast Guard encourages public 

participation in the PEA process. The 

scoping period will start with 

publication of this notice in the Federal 

Register. Please see the section on 

Public Participation and Request for 

Comments above for instructions on 

how to submit comments. 

Following the scoping process, the 

Coast Guard will prepare the draft PEA 

and will publish a Notice of Availability 

in the Federal Register to make it 

available to the public and solicit 

comments on the draft PEA. 

Authority 

This notice is issued under authority 

of 42 U.S.C. 4321, et seq., and 40 CFR 

1508.22. 

Dated: December 9, 2010. 

Alan Arsenault, 

Captain, U.S. Coast Guard, Project Manager, 

Interagency Operation Centers Project. 

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