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hearing locations, will be posted on the 

district Web sites listed above. 

Dated: September 3, 2009. 

Michael G. Ensch, 

Chief, Operations, Directorate of Civil Works. 

[FR Doc. E9–21792 Filed 9–9–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Navy 

Notice of Record of Decision for 

Norfolk Harbor Channel Dredging, 

Norfolk and Portsmouth, VA 

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the Navy 

(DON), after carefully weighing the 

operational and environmental 

consequences of the proposed action, 

announces its decision to deepen 

approximately five miles of Norfolk 

Harbor Channel, the Federal 

navigational channel in the Southern 

Branch of the Elizabeth River, 

separating Norfolk and Portsmouth, 

Virginia. Dredging in the heavily-used 

waterway would occur from the 

Lamberts Point Deperming Station in 

the Lamberts Bend Reach, south to 

Naval Support Activity Norfolk Naval 

Shipyard, commonly referred to as the 

Norfolk Naval Shipyard (NNSY), in the 

Lower Reach. Dredged material would 

be placed at The U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers’ (USACE) Craney Island 

Dredged Material Management Area 

(CIDMMA). The deepening project will 

establish continuously safe and 

expeditious transit routes for U.S. Naval 

Ships to Lamberts Point Deperming 

Station and NNSY. Dredging would 

occur completely within the existing 

USACE-maintained federal navigation 

channel. In its decision, the Navy 

considered applicable executive orders, 

including an analysis of the effects of its 

actions in compliance with the 

Endangered Species Act, the Coastal 

Zone Management Act, and the National 

Historic Preservation Act, and the 

requirements of Executive Order (EO) 

12898, Federal Actions to Address 

Environmental Justice in Minority 

Populations and Low Income 

Populations and EO 13045, Protection of 

Children from Environmental Health 

Risks and Safety Risks. 

The proposed action will be 

accomplished as set out in Alternative 

A, described in the Final Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS) as the preferred 

alternative. Implementation of the 

preferred alternative could begin 

immediately. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Record of Decision (ROD) has been 

distributed to all those individuals who 

requested a copy of the Final EIS and 

agencies and organizations that received 

a copy of the Final EIS. The full text of 

the Navy’s ROD is available for public 

viewing on the project Web site at 

http://www.norfolkdredgingeis.com, 

along with copies of the Final EIS and 

supporting documents. Single copies of 

the ROD will be made available upon 

request by contacting Ms. Caren 

Hendrickson, Naval Facilities 

Engineering Command Mid-Atlantic, 

telephone 757–444–1030. 

Dated: September 3, 2009. 

T. M. Cruz, 

Lieutenant Commander, Office of the Judge 

Advocate General, U.S. Navy, Alternate 

Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–21819 Filed 9–9–09; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection Requests 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

SUMMARY: The Director, Information 

Collection Clearance Division, 

Regulatory Information Management 

Services, Office of Management, invites 

comments on the proposed information 

collection requests as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 

November 9, 2009. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires 

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) provide interested 

Federal agencies and the public an early 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection requests. OMB may amend or 

waive the requirement for public 

consultation to the extent that public 

participation in the approval process 

would defeat the purpose of the 

information collection, violate State or 

Federal law, or substantially interfere 

with any agency’s ability to perform its 

statutory obligations. The Director, 

Information Collection Clearance 

Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of 

Management, publishes that notice 

containing proposed information 

collection requests prior to submission 

of these requests to OMB. Each 

proposed information collection, 

grouped by office, contains the 

following: (1) Type of review requested, 

e.g. new, revision, extension, existing or 

reinstatement; (2) Title; (3) Summary of 

the collection; (4) Description of the 

need for, and proposed use of, the 

information; (5) Respondents and 

frequency of collection; and (6) 

Reporting and/or Recordkeeping 

burden. OMB invites public comment. 

The Department of Education is 

especially interested in public comment 

addressing the following issues: (1) Is 

this collection necessary to the proper 

functions of the Department; (2) will 

this information be processed and used 

in a timely manner; (3) is the estimate 

of burden accurate; (4) how might the 

Department enhance the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (5) how might the 

Department minimize the burden of this 

collection on the respondents, including 

through the use of information 

technology. 

Dated: September 3, 2009. 

Angela C. Arrington, 

Director, Information Collection Clearance 

Division, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

Office of Elementary and Secondary 

Education 

Type of Review: Extension. 

Title: Annual Performance Report for 

Reading First. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Affected Public: Business or other for 

profit; State, local, or Tribal Gov’t, SEAs 

or LEAs. 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 54. 

Burden Hours: 810. 

Abstract: Section 1202 of the 

Elementary and Secondary Education 

Act describes information to be 

included in the annual performance 

report required of Reading First 

grantees. Submission of the annual 

performance report (APR) via the data 

collection site has been taking place 

since 2004 and will continue to occur 

between October 15 and November 30 of 

each year. If APR data submitted during 

this time frame are incomplete or 

inaccurate or if re-submission of data is 

requested by State education agencies 

(SEAs), additional data collection may 

occur at other times throughout the 

year. The Government Performance 

Results Act (GPRA) report provides 

national-level achievement data for all 

comprehension and fluency outcome 

measures for each year of program 

implementation. The national-level 

information includes an average of the 

percentage of proficient students in 

SEAs administering the Dynamic 

Indicators of Basic Early Literacy Skills 

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1On July 1, 1996, DOE’s Assistant Secretary for 

Environmental, Safety and Health delegated to 

Western’s Administrator, the authority to approve 

EISs for integrating main transmission system 

additions. 

and the number of SEAs showing 

improvement in proficiency rates on 

each SEA’s comprehension measure 

from the previous year to the current 

year. All schools are included in the 

GPRA report, regardless of when 

schools began implementation of the 

Reading First program. 

Requests for copies of the proposed 

information collection request may be 

accessed from http://edicsweb.ed.gov, 

by selecting the ‘‘Browse Pending 

Collections’’ link and by clicking on 

link number 4124. When you access the 

information collection, click on 

‘‘Download Attachments’’ to view. 

Written requests for information should 

be addressed to U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

LBJ, Washington, DC 20202–4537. 

Requests may also be electronically 

mailed to ICDocketMgr@ed.gov or faxed 

to 202–401–0920. Please specify the 

complete title of the information 

collection when making your request. 

Comments regarding burden and/or 

the collection activity requirements 

should be electronically mailed to 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Individuals who 

use a telecommunications device for the 

deaf (TDD) may call the Federal 

Information Relay Service (FIRS) at 1– 

800–877–8339. 

[FR Doc. E9–21699 Filed 9–9–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

State Energy Advisory Board; Notice 

of Open Meeting 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces a 

Board Meeting of the State Energy 

Advisory Board (STEAB). The Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (Pub. L. 92– 

463;, 86 Stat. 770) requires that public 

notice of these meetings be announced 

in the Federal Register. 

DATES: November 10–12, 2009. 

ADDRESSES: North Carolina State 

University, Dorothy and Roy Park 

Alumni Center, 2450 Alumni Drive, 

Centennial Campus, Raleigh, NC 27606. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Gary 

Burch, STEAB Designated Federal 

Officer, Office of Commercialization and 

Project Management, Golden Field 

Office, U.S. Department of Energy, 1617 

Cole Boulevard, Golden, CO 80401, 

Telephone 303–275–4801. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Board: To make 

recommendations to the Assistant 

Secretary for the Office of Energy 

Efficiency and Renewable Energy 

regarding goals and objectives, 

programmatic and administrative 

policies, and to otherwise carry out the 

Board’s responsibilities as designated in 

the State Energy Efficiency Programs 

Improvement Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101– 

440). 

Tentative Agenda: Discuss ways the 

State Energy Advisory Committee can 

continue to support the Department of 

Energy’s (DOE) commercialization and 

deployment efforts, consider potential 

collaborative activities with State 

Energy Programs in order to facilitate 

renewable energy advancement, find 

ways to encourage energy efficiency 

market transformation, and update 

members on routine business matters 

affecting the Board. 

Public Participation: The meeting is 

open to the public. Written statements 

may be filed with the Board either 

before or after the meeting. Members of 

the public who wish to make oral 

statements pertaining to agenda items 

should contact Gary Burch at the 

address or telephone number listed 

above. Requests to make oral comments 

must be received five days prior to the 

meeting; reasonable provision will be 

made to include requested topic(s) on 

the agenda. The Chair of the Board is 

empowered to conduct the meeting in a 

fashion that will facilitate the orderly 

conduct of business. 

Minutes: The minutes of the meeting 

will be available for public review and 

copying within 60 days on the STEAB 

web site, http://www.steab.org. 

Issued at Washington, DC, on September 4, 

2009. 

Rachel Samuel, 

Deputy Committee Management Officer. 

[FR Doc. E9–21847 Filed 9–9–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Western Area Power Administration 

Notice of Cancellation of the 

Transmission Agency of Northern 

California Transmission Project, 

Environmental Impact Statement 

AGENCY: Western Area Power 

Administration, DOE. 

ACTION: Cancellation of Transmission 

Agency of Northern California 

Transmission Project Environmental 

Impact Statement. 

SUMMARY: Western Area Power 

Administration (Western), an agency of 

the Department of Energy (DOE), is 

canceling preparation of the 

Environmental Impact Statement/ 

Environmental Impact Report (EIS/EIR) 

for construction, operation, and 

maintenance of the proposed 

Transmission Agency of Northern 

California (TANC) Transmission Project, 

which would have included building 

and upgrading over 600 miles of 230- 

kilovolt (kV) and 500-kV transmission 

lines and associated equipment and 

facilities in northern California. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information, please contact Mr. 

David Young, NEPA Document 

Manager, Western Area Power 

Administration, Sierra Nevada Region, 

114 Parkshore Drive, Folsom, CA 95630, 

telephone (916) 353–4777, fax (916) 

353–4772, or e-mail TTPEIS@wapa.gov. 

For general information on DOE’s NEPA 

review procedures or status of a NEPA 

review, contact Ms. Carol M. Borgstrom, 

Director of NEPA Policy and 

Compliance, GC–20, U.S. Department of 

Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue 

SW., Washington, DC 20585, telephone 

(202) 586–4600 or (800) 472–2756. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

February 23, 2009, Western issued a 

Notice of Intent to prepare an EIS/EIR 

for the construction, operation, and 

maintenance of the TANC Transmission 

Project (74 FR 8086).1 The project, as 

proposed, would have included 

building and upgrading over 600 miles 

of 230-kV and 500-kV transmission lines 

and associated equipment and facilities 

in northern California. In its Notice of 

Intent, Western described the schedule 

for scoping meetings for the EIS/EIR, 

and advised the public that comments 

regarding the scope of the EIS/EIR were 

due by April 30, 2009. Western held all 

public scoping meetings as scheduled. 

Because of requests from agencies and 

the public for more time to comment, 

Western extended the scoping period 

twice, with a final comment closing on 

July 30, 2009. 

On July 15, 2009, the TANC 

Commission voted to terminate 

proceeding further with the 

environmental process and to stop 

development work for the TANC 

Transmission Project. On August 3, 

2009, Western received notification 

from TANC, terminating its agreement 

with Western to prepare the EIS/EIR. 

Termination of the agreement 

terminates Western’s obligation to 

prepare the EIS/EIR and involvement in 

the TANC Transmission Project. As a 

result, Western has ceased preparation 

of the EIS/EIR. 


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