33300 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 100 / Tuesday, May 23, 2000 / Notices

Special Accommodations

This meeting is physically accessible

to people with disabilities. Requests for

sign language interpretation or other

auxiliary aids should be directed to

Anne Alford at the Council (see

ADDRESSES) by May 25, 2000.

Dated: May 17, 2000.

Richard W. Surdi,

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

[I.D. 051200E]

Pacific Fishery Management Council;

Public Meeting

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of public meetings.

SUMMARY: The Pacific Fishery

Management Council’s (Council) Coastal

Pelagic Species Management Team

(CPSMT) and Coastal Pelagic Species

Advisory Subpanel (CPSAS) will hold

public meetings.

DATES: The CPSMT meeting will begin

on Thursday, June 8, 2000 at 8 a.m. and

will continue until 12 p.m. The CPSAS

meeting will begin on Thursday, June 8,

2000 at 1 p.m. and may go into the

evening until business for the day is

completed.

ADDRESSES: Both the CPSMT and

CPSAS meetings will be held in the

Large Conference Room at the California

Department of Fish and Game, 330

Golden Shore, Suite 50, Long Beach,

CA.

Council address: Pacific Fishery

Management Council, 2130 SW Fifth

Avenue, Suite 224, Portland, OR 97201.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Dan Waldeck, Pacific Fishery

Management Council, (503) 326–6352;

or Dr. Doyle Hanan, California

Department of Fish and Game,

(619) 546–7170.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: There are

several items that may be on the CPSMT

agenda, these include: Pacific mackerel

stock assessment and harvest guideline;

coastal pelagic species (CPS) stock

assessment and fishery evaluation

(SAFE) document; fishery management

plan amendment for bycatch in CPS

fisheries, market squid maximum

sustainable yield, and market squid

allowable biological catch;

transferability of limited entry permits;

and applications for anchovy reduction

fishery exempted fishing permits. The

primary purpose of the CPSAS meeting

is to review documents and analyses

developed by the CPSMT and to discuss

other pertinent business.

Although non-emergency issues not

contained in the meeting agenda may

come before the CPSMT and/or the

CPSAS for discussion, those issues may

not be the subject of formal CPSMT or

CPSAS action during this meetings.

CPSMT and/or CPSAS action will be

restricted to those issues specifically

listed in this notice and any issues

arising after publication of this notice

that require emergency action under

section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens

Fishery Conservation and Management

Act, provided the public has been

notified of the CPSMT’s and/or CPSAS’s

intent to take final action to address the

emergency.

Special Accommodations

These meetings are physically

accessible to people with disabilities.

Requests for sign language

interpretation or other auxiliary aids

should be directed to Mr. John Rhoton

at (503) 326–6352 at least 5 days prior

to the meeting date.

Dated: May 17, 2000.

Richard W. Surdi,

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

[I.D. 051200D]

Pacific Fishery Management Council;

Public Meeting

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of public meeting.

SUMMARY: The Pacific Fishery

Management Council’s (Council)

Groundfish Stock Assessment Review

(STAR) Panel will hold a work session

which is open to the public.

DATES: The STAR Panel for Pacific

ocean perch and yellowtail rockfish will

meet beginning at 1 p.m., June 12, 2000

and continue through June 16, 2000.

Except for Monday, June 12, the STAR

Panel will meet each day, from 8 a.m.

to 5 p.m.

ADDRESSES: The STAR Panel for Pacific

ocean perch and yellowtail rockfish will

be held in Building 4, Room 2079 of the

NMFS Alaska Fisheries Science Center,

7600 Sand Point Way NE., Seattle, WA

98115.

Council address: Pacific Fishery

Management Council, 2130 SW Fifth

Avenue, Suite 224, Portland, OR 97201.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dan

Waldeck, Fishery Management Analyst;

telephone: (503) 326–6352.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

purpose of the meeting is to review draft

stock assessment documents for Pacific

ocean perch and yellowtail rockfish and

any other pertinent information, work

with stock assessment teams to make

necessary revisions, and produce STAR

Panel reports for use by the Council

family and other interested persons.

Although non-emergency issues not

contained in the STAR Panel agenda

may come before the STAR Panel for

discussion, those issues may not be the

subject of formal panel action during

this meeting. STAR Panel action will be

restricted to those issues specifically

listed in this notice, and any issues

arising after publication of this notice

that require emergency action under

section 305(c) of the Magnuson-Stevens

Fishery Conservation and Management

Act, provided the public has been

notified of the panel’s intent to take

final action to address the emergency.

Special Accommodations

The meeting is physically accessible

to people with disabilities. Requests for

sign language interpretation or other

auxiliary aids should be directed to Mr.

John Rhoton at (503) 326–6352 at least

5 days prior to the meeting date.

Dated: May 17, 2000.

Richard W. Surdi,

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service.

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army

Notice of Availability for the Record of

Decision (RDO) for the Disposal and

Reuse of Fort Chaffee, Arkansas

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DoD.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

SUMMARY: In compliance with the

National Environmental Policy Act

(NEPA) of 1969 and the President’s

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Council on Environmental quality, the

Army has prepared the ROD in

association with the completion of the

Final Environmental Impact Statement

(FEIS) for the disposal and Reuse of Fort

Chaffee, Arkansas. The approved 1995

base closure and realignment actions

required by the Base Closure and

Realignment Act of 1990 (Pub. L. 101–

510), and subsequent actions in

compliance with this law, mandated the

closure of Fort Chaffee. It is DoD policy

to dispose of property no longer needed

by DoD. Consequently, as a result of the

mandated closure of Fort Chaffee, the

Army is disposing of excess property at

Fort Chaffee.

The ROD establishes the Army’s

decision to proceed with the disposal of

excess properties/facilities in

accordance with the Army’s preferred

alternative (encumbered disposal)

described in the FEIS.

ADDRESSES: Requests for a copy of the

FEIS or ROD may be addressed to Mr.

Jim Ellis, Little Rock District, U.S. Army

Corps of Engineers, ATTN: CESWL–ET–

WP, PO Box 867, Little Rock, AR 72203.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Jim Ellis at (501) 324–5033 or by fax at

(501) 324–5605.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The FEIS

analyzed three disposal alternatives: (1)

The no action alternative, which entails

maintaining the property in caretaker

status after closure: (2) the encumbered

disposal alternative, which entails

transferring the property to future

owners with Army-imposed limitations,

or encumbrances, on the future use of

the property; and (3) the unencumbered

disposal alternative, which entails

transferring the property to future

owners with fewer or no Army-imposed

restrictions on the future use of the

property. The preferred action identified

in the FEIS is encumbered disposal of

excess property at Fort Chaffee. Based

upon the analysis contained in the FEIS,

encumbrances and deed restrictions

associated with the Army’s disposal

actions for Fort Chaffee will mitigation

measures.

Planning for the reuse of the property

to be disposed of is a secondary action

resulting from closure. The local

community has established the Fort

Chaffee Redevelopment Authority

(FCRA) to produce a reuse development

plan for the surplus property. The

impacts of reuse are evaluated in terms

of land use intensities. This reuse

analysis is based upon implementing

one of three reuse alternatives, all of

which are based upon the FCRA reuse

plan. The Army has not selected one of

these three reuse alternatives as the

preferred action. Selection of the

preferred reuse plan is a decision that

will be made by the FCRA.

Dated: May 18, 2000.

Raymond J. Patz,

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army,

(Environment, Safety and Occupational

Health) OASA(I&E).

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army

Environmental Assessment (EA) and

Finding of No Significant Impact (FNSI)

for the National Park Seminary Historic

District, Forest Glen Annex, Walter

Reed Army Medical Center

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DoD.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

SUMMARY: The Department of the Army

proposes to report the National Park

Seminary Historic District (NPSHD), in

its entirety, as excess property to the

General Services Administration (GSA),

in accordance with Army Regulation

405–90 and federal property law. The

NPSHD is part of the Forest Glen Annex

of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center

(WRAMC) in Montgomery County,

Maryland, and is listed on the National

Register of Historic Places.

The Army’s proposed action will

begin the screening and disposal

process, by providing notice to the GSA

that the NPSHD is excess to the Army’s

needs. Under the Federal Property and

Administrative Services Act and

accompanying regulations, GSA is

responsible for the disposal of excess

federal property. The EA for the NPSHD

identifies analyzes the potential impacts

of four alternatives: (1) Excessing the

NPSHD; (2) excessing NPSHD with

additional parcels of land; (3) no action;

or (4) moth-balling the historic

buildings. The Army’s preferred

alternative for implementing the

proposed action is Alternative 2.

DATES: Public comments on the EA and

FNSI must be submitted by June 22,

2000.

ADDRESSES: Address comments to Ms.

Beverly Chidel, Acting Public Affairs

Officer, Walter Reed Army Medical

Center, 6900 Georgia Avenue, N.W.,

Washington, D.C. 20307–5001 or via

email at

beverly.chidel@na.amedd.army.mil.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.

Beverly Chidel, Acting Public Affairs

Officer, at (202) 782–7177.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Little or

no direct adverse impacts on the natural

and human environment are anticipated

as a result of the Army’s proposed

excessing action. The Army will retain

control of the property and will

continue to provide current levels of

security and maintenance until a new

owner is found. Indirect adverse

impacts on air quality, noise, surface

water, soil erosion, biological resources,

land use, and traffic would result from

the eventual reuse of the property by the

new (non-Army) owner, which can be

avoided or minimized by using best

management practices and complying

with state and local laws and

regulations. The Army is committed to

remedying environmental

contamination, associated with the

Army’s past ownership or use of the

NPSHD property, as necessary to protect

human health and the environment. On

the basis of currently available

information, no remedial action is

expected to be necessary for hazardous

substances or wastes, as defined by 42

U.S.C. 9601(14). Indirect adverse effects

on historic properties are expected.

Consultation with the Maryland State

Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO)

under Section 106 of the National

Historic Preservation Act is ongoing.

The GSA, Army, SHPO, Advisory

Council on Historic Preservation, as

well as any other consulting parties

identified by GSA, will work to achieve

an appropriate agreement to address

potential adverse effects on the historic

district. Further evaluation of impacts

will be provided in National

Environmental Policy Act

documentation that will be prepared by

GSA for their action of disposal.

On the basis of the environmental

impact analyses found in the EA, which

was incorporated into a FNSI, it has

been determined that implementing the

Army’s proposed action of reporting the

NPSHD to GSA as excess property will

not have significant individual or

cumulative impacts on the quality of the

human environment. Therefore, an

Environmental Impact Statement is not

required and will not be prepared.

Individuals who want to review the

EA and FNSI may obtain a copy and

provide comments during this 30-day

period, by writing to Ms. Beverly Chidel

at the address listed above. Copies of the

EA will also be available for public

review at the Silver Spring Branch

Library (8901 Colesville Road, Silver

Spring, MD). The EA also may be

viewed on the Internet at

www.wramc.amed.army.mil/

departments/dpw.