Federal Register / Vol. 78, No. 248 / Thursday, December 26, 2013 / Notices 78467 

Dated: December 19, 2013. 

Joseph J. Hoagland, 

Vice President, Stakeholder Relations, 

Tennessee Valley Authority. 

[FR Doc. 2013–30855 Filed 12–24–13; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Connected Vehicle Research Program 

Public Meeting; Notice of Public 

Meeting 

AGENCY: ITS Joint Program Office, 

Research and Innovative Technology 

Administration, U.S. Department of 

Transportation. 

ACTION: Notice. 

The U.S. Department of 

Transportation (USDOT) Intelligent 

Transportation System Joint Program 

Office (ITS JPO) will host a public 

meeting seeking stakeholder input and 

public sector guidance to the Federal 

Highway Administration (FHWA) and 

Research and Innovative Technology 

Administration (RITA) Connected 

Vehicle Systems. The meeting will take 

place Thursday, January 16, 2014, from 

1:00 p.m. (EST) to 4:00 p.m. (EST) in the 

Hampton Room at the Omni Shoreham 

Hotel, 2500 Calvert Street, NW in 

Washington, DC. Remote participation 

will be available via webinar. Persons 

planning to attend the meeting or 

participate in the webinar should 

register online at www.itsa.org/

policy2014. 

The USDOT would like input from 

transportation infrastructure owner/

operators on their needs for guidelines, 

tools, resources, and policies that will 

support the successful implementation 

and operations of connected vehicle 

technologies. The primary target 

audience for the meeting is State and 

local Departments of Transportation, 

transit operators, other operating 

agencies, and infrastructure owners who 

are starting to plan for the deployment 

and use of connected vehicle 

technologies in their area. While the 

meeting is specifically focused for an 

audience that has followed connected 

vehicle research and is formulating 

plans for implementation, it is open to 

other stakeholders in the connected 

vehicle community, including national 

associations and the general public. 

Attendees will be asked to discuss 

their needs for guidelines, tools, and 

resources to best support their decisions 

and deployments. Attendees will also be 

asked to identify anticipated 

institutional challenges. The results of 

the meeting will be used as input for 

FHWA’s development of Connected 

Vehicle guidance that is expected in 

2015 and will also inform the Federal 

Transit Administration. 

For more information, please contact 

Robert Arnold, FHWA, Director, Office 

of Transportation Management at 

robert.arnold@dot.gov or by telephone 

at 202–366–1285. Agenda items for the 

meeting are subject to change. Meeting 

information will be posted to the Web 

site http://www.its.dot.gov/. 

Issued in Washington, DC, on the 19th day 

of December 2013. 

John Augustine, 

Managing Director, ITS Joint Program Office. 

[FR Doc. 2013–30733 Filed 12–24–13; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Federal Aviation Administration 

Office of Commercial Space 

Transportation; Notice of Intent to 

Prepare an Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS), Open a Public 

Scoping Period, and Conduct a Public 

Scoping Meeting. 

AGENCY: The Federal Aviation 

Administration (FAA) is the lead 

Federal agency. The U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, National Aeronautics and 

Space Administration, U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service, and National Park 

Service are cooperating agencies. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent to Prepare an 

EIS, Open a Public Scoping Period, and 

Conduct a Public Scoping Meeting 

SUMMARY: This Notice provides 

information to Federal, State, and local 

agencies, Native American tribes, and 

other interested persons regarding the 

FAA’s intent to prepare an EIS that will 

evaluate the potential environmental 

impacts associated with the issuance of 

a Launch Site Operator License to Space 

Florida. Space Florida, an independent 

special district and a subdivision of the 

State of Florida, proposes to construct 

and operate a commercial space launch 

site (the ‘‘Shiloh Launch Complex’’) and 

two off-site operations support areas. 

The Shiloh Launch Complex would 

include two vertical launch facilities 

that would accommodate up to 24 

launches per year (12 launches per 

vertical launch facility), as well as up to 

24 static fire engine tests or wet dress 

rehearsals per year (12 static fire engine 

tests or wet dress rehearsals per vertical 

launch facility). The launch vehicles 

would include liquid fueled, mediumto heavy-lift class orbital and suborbital 

vehicles. In addition to the 24 launches 

per year, the first stage of the launch 

vehicle could return to and land at the 

Shiloh Launch Complex. The proposed 

commercial space launch site is located 

on the west side of Kennedy Parkway 

North (State Road [SR] 3), which 

straddles Brevard and Volusia counties, 

Florida. Space Florida would be 

required to apply for a Launch Site 

Operator License to be issued by the 

FAA. The FAA will prepare the EIS in 

accordance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 

(NEPA; 42 United States Code [U.S.C.] 

4321 et seq.), the Council on 

Environmental Quality Regulations for 

Implementing the Procedural Provisions 

of NEPA (40 Code of Federal 

Regulations [CFR] parts 1500–1508), 

and FAA Order 1050.1E, Change 1, 

Environmental Impacts: Policies and 

Procedures, as part of its licensing 

process. Concurrent with the NEPA 

process, the FAA is initiating National 

Historic Preservation Act Section 106 

Consultation to determine the potential 

effects of the Proposed Action on 

historic properties. The FAA will also 

consult with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife 

Service (USFWS) under Section 7 of the 

Endangered Species Act regarding 

potential impacts to federally-listed 

threatened and endangered species. 

Pursuant to the U.S. Department of 

Transportation Act of 1966, this EIS will 

comply with the requirements of 

Section 4(f). 

DATES: The FAA invites interested 

agencies, organizations, Native 

American tribes, and members of the 

public to submit comments or 

suggestions to assist in identifying 

significant environmental issues and in 

determining the appropriate scope of 

the EIS. The public scoping period starts 

with the publication of this notice in the 

Federal Register. To ensure sufficient 

time to consider issues identified during 

the public scoping period, comments 

should be submitted to Ms. Stacey M. 

Zee, FAA Environmental Specialist, by 

one of the methods listed below no later 

than February 21, 2014. All comments 

will receive the same attention and 

consideration in the preparation of the 

EIS. 

ADDRESSES: Comments, statements, or 

questions concerning scoping issues or 

the EIS process should be mailed to: Ms. 

Stacey M. Zee, FAA Environmental 

Specialist, Shiloh EIS c/o Cardno TEC 

Inc., 2496 Old Ivy Road, Suite 300, 

Charlottesville, VA 22903. 

Comments can also be sent by email 

to faashiloheis@cardnotec.com or by fax 

to (434) 295–5535. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 


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