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National Historic Landmark if DHS’ 

offices extended across both the West 

and East Campuses. St. Elizabeths was 

listed in the National Register on April 

26, 1979, designated a National Historic 

Landmark on December 14, 1990, and 

received District of Columbia Historic 

District Designation in May of 2005. As 

part of its November 7, 2008 Final EIS, 

GSA considered an alternative, 

Alternative 5, which assessed placing 

development on both campuses to 

create a unified DHS Headquarters. 

GSA issued a Record of Decision on 

December 16, 2008, for the project 

Master Plan to consolidate 3.8 million 

GSF of secure office and shared use 

space, plus parking, on the St. 

Elizabeths West Campus. As part of the 

Final EIS for this action, GSA also 

assessed, on a programmatic level, the 

impacts of constructing 750,000 GSF of 

office plus associated parking on the St. 

Elizabeths East Campus. GSA noted in 

its Record of Decision that an EIS tiered 

to the November 7, 2008 Final EIS 

would be prepared for the East Campus 

in accordance with 40 CFR 1502.20 and 

1502.28. The National Capital Planning 

Commission approved the project 

Master Plan incorporating Alternative 5 

on January 8, 2009. 

Scoping Process 

In accordance with NEPA, a scoping 

process will be conducted to (i) aid in 

determining the alternatives to be 

considered and the scope of issues to be 

addressed, and (ii) identify the 

significant issues related to the 

amended Master Plan for the DHS 

consolidation at St. Elizabeths. 

‘‘Scoping’’ is a tool for identifying the 

issues that should be addressed in the 

EIS and Section 106 consultation 

process. Scoping allows the public to 

help define priorities and express 

stakeholder and community issues to 

the agency through oral and written 

comments as described in 40 CFR part 

1500.1(b). Scoping will be accomplished 

through a public scoping meeting, direct 

mail correspondence to potentially 

interested persons, agencies, and 

organizations, and meeting with 

agencies having an interest in the 

amended Master Plan. It is important 

that Federal, regional and local 

agencies, and interested individuals and 

groups take this opportunity to identify 

environmental concerns that should be 

addressed during the preparation of the 

Draft EIS. 

GSA is also using the NEPA scoping 

process to facilitate consultation with 

the public under Section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act (36 

CFR part 800 (Protection of Historic 

Properties)). GSA welcomes comments 

from the public to ensure that it takes 

into account the effects of its action on 

historic and cultural resources. 

Public Scoping Meeting 

The public scoping meeting will be 

held on October 8, 2009, from 6 to 8:30 

p.m., at the Matthews Memorial Baptist 

Church, John H. Kearney, Sr. 

Fellowship Hall, located at 2616 Martin 

Luther King, Jr. Avenue, SE. in 

Southeast Washington, DC. The meeting 

will be an informal open house, where 

visitors may come, receive information, 

and give comments. GSA will publish 

notices in the Washington Post, 

Washington Times, and East of the River 

(Capital Community News) announcing 

this meeting approximately one to two 

weeks prior to the meeting. After 

scoping comments are received, GSA 

will prepare a scoping report, available 

to the public, which will summarize the 

comments received for incorporation 

into the EIS and Section 106 processes. 

Written Comments 

Agencies and the public are 

encouraged to provide written 

comments on the scoping issues in 

addition to or in lieu of giving their 

comments at the public scoping 

meeting. Written comments regarding 

the environmental analysis for the 

amended Master Plan must be 

postmarked no later than October 16, 

2009, and sent to the following address: 

General Services Administration, 

National Capital Region, Attention: 

Denise Decker, NEPA Lead, 301 7th 

Street, SW., Room 7600, Washington, 

DC 20407. Fax (202) 708–7671. 

denise.decker@gsa.gov. 

Dated: September 9, 2009. 

Patricia T. Ralston, 

Director, Portfolio Management, National 

Capital Region, Public Buildings Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Office of the Secretary 

Findings of Research Misconduct 

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the Office of Research Integrity (ORI) 

has taken final action in the following 

case. 

Jennifer N. Arriaga, Universidad 

Central Del Caribe: Based on the 

findings of an investigation report by 

the Universidad Central Del Caribe 

(UCC) and additional analysis and 

information obtained by the Office of 

Research Integrity (ORI) during its 

oversight review, ORI found that 

Jennifer N. Arriaga, former Research 

Assistant in a clinical trial project 

entitled Brief Strategic Family Therapy 

for Adolescent Drug Abusers (BSFT) at 

UCC, engaged in research misconduct in 

research funded by National Institute on 

Drug Abuse (NIDA), National Institutes 

of Health (NIH), cooperative agreement 

U10 DA13720. 

Specifically, ORI found that Ms. 

Arriaga knowingly and intentionally 

engaged in research misconduct by 

fabricating 17 interviews and falsifying 

10 subject incentive receipts in the 

BSFT. The interview record consisted of 

Timeline Follow Back information, 

confidentiality self-report forms, and 

urine drug test results. 

The following administrative actions 

have been implemented for a period of 

two (2) years, beginning on August 18, 

2009: 

(1) Ms. Arriaga is debarred from 

eligibility for any contracting or 

subcontracting with any agency of the 

United States Government and from 

eligibility or involvement in 

nonprocurement programs of the United 

States pursuant to HHS’ Implementation 

(2 CFR part 276 et seq.) of OMB 

Guidelines to Agencies on 

Governmentwide Debarment and 

Suspension (2 CFR part 180); and 

(2) Ms. Arriaga is prohibited from 

serving in any advisory capacity to the 

U.S. Public Health Service (PHS), 

including but not limited to service on 

any PHS advisory committee, board, 

and/or peer review committee, or as a 

consultant. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Director, Division of Investigative 

Oversight, Office of Research Integrity, 

1101 Wootton Parkway, Suite 750, 

Rockville, MD 20852. (240) 453–8800. 

John Dahlberg, 

Director, Division of Investigative Oversight, 

Office of Research Integrity. 

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