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the Council of Environmental Quality 

regulations (40 CFR parts 1500–1508) 

and Coast Guard Policy for Considering 

Environmental Impacts (COMDTINST 

M16475.1D), the Coast Guard prepared 

a Final EA and FONSI for implementing 

the policy on best management practices 

for NOBOB vessels. 

Response to Comments 

The Coast Guard requested comments 

on the Draft EA when the Notice of 

policy; availability of Draft EA was 

published on August 31, 2005 (70 FR 

51831). The Coast Guard received 11 

comments; however, only 2 out of the 

11 comments specifically addressed the 

Draft EA. Therefore, the Coast Guard 

will only respond to those comments 

that addressed the Draft EA. 

One commenter agreed that the policy 

on best management practices for 

NOBOB vessels will have no adverse or 

beneficial significant impacts on the 

environment. The Coast Guard partially 

agrees with this comment. As the EA 

and FONSI discuss we agree that there 

will be no significant adverse impact; 

however, we do believe that beneficial 

impacts to the environment will occur 

if NOBOB vessels conduct the 

recommended best management 

practices. These practices are intended 

to prevent NIS from being introduced 

into the Great Lakes. 

One commenter expressed 

disappointment that the Draft EA did 

not analyze mandatory best 

management practices as one of the 

alternatives. 

The Coast Guard has been evaluating 

NOBOB vessels with residual water and 

sediments with the National Oceanic 

and Atmospheric Administration’s 

(NOAA) Great Lakes Environmental 

Research Laboratory (GLERL), and other 

partners as part of the NOAA/GLERL 

NOBOB Research Project. Although the 

NOAA/GLERL NOBOB Report 

published in April 2005, suggests that 

saltwater flushing (one of the Coast 

Guard’s recommended best management 

practices) would be an effective practice 

to protect the Great Lakes from NIS in 

fresh and/or brackish residual waters, 

the practice has never been validated for 

efficacy or feasibility. We are working 

with NOAA/GLERL and other partners 

to evaluate both the efficacy and 

feasibility of saltwater flushing. The 

Coast Guard is also monitoring the level 

of participation of vessels conducting 

the recommended best management 

practices through record checks and 

sampling since vessels may not always 

be able to conduct these practices due 

to vessel/crew safety concerns and other 

operational requirements. These 

evaluations will determine if further 

refinements to the program are 

necessary. 

The Coast Guard is developing a 

ballast water discharge standard for all 

vessels including vessels which enter 

the Great Lakes because ballast water 

exchange and similar practices are 

interim measures. This standard will be 

more effective in preventing invasions 

than mandatory best management 

practices. 

Environmental Assessment 

The Final EA identified and examined 

those reasonable alternatives needed to 

effectively prevent NIS introductions 

into the Great Lakes via NOBOB vessels. 

The Final EA analyzed the no action 

alternative and one action alternative 

that could fulfill the purpose and need 

of establishing best management 

practices for NOBOB vessels to reduce 

NIS introductions into the Great Lakes. 

Specifically, the Final EA considered 

potential effects to the natural and 

human environments by incorporating 

environmental analyses previously 

conducted for establishing ballast water 

management regulations for U.S. waters. 

Dated: January 19, 2006. 

T.H. Gilmour, 

Rear Admiral, U.S. Coast Guard, Assistant 

Commandant for Prevention. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOUSING AND 

URBAN DEVELOPMENT 

[Docket No. FR–5045–N–04] 

Federal Property Suitable as Facilities 

To Assist the Homeless 

AGENCY: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary for Community Planning and 

Development, HUD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: This Notice identifies 

unutilized, underutilized, excess, and 

surplus Federal property reviewed by 

HUD for suitability for possible use to 

assist the homeless. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Kathy Ezzell, room 7266, Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, 451 

Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 

20410; telephone (202) 708–1234; TTY 

number for the hearing- and speechimpaired (202) 708–2565 (these 

telephone numbers are not toll-free), or 

call the toll-free Title V information line 

at 1–800–927–7588. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with 24 CFR part 581 and 

section 501 of the Stewart B. McKinney 

Homeless Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 

11411), as amended, HUD is publishing 

this Notice to identify Federal buildings 

and other real property that HUD has 

reviewed for suitability for use to assist 

the homeless. The properties were 

reviewed using information provided to 

HUD by Federal landholding agencies 

regarding unutilized and underutilized 

buildings and real property controlled 

by such agencies or by GSA regarding 

its inventory of excess or surplus 

Federal property. This Notice is also 

published in order to comply with the 

December 12, 1988 Court Order in 

National Coalition for the Homeless v. 

Veterans Administration, No. 88–2503–

OG (D.D.C.). 

Properties reviewed are listed in this 

Notice according to the following 

categories: Suitable/available, suitable/ 

unavailable, suitable/to be excess, and 

unsuitable. The properties listed in the 

three suitable categories have been 

reviewed by the landholding agencies, 

and each agency has transmitted to 

HUD: (1) Its intention to make the 

property available for use to assist the 

homeless, (2) its intention to declare the 

property excess to the agency’s needs, or 

(3) a statement of the reasons that the 

property cannot be declared excess or 

made available for use as facilities to 

assist the homeless. 

Properties listed as suitable/available 

will be available exclusively for 

homeless use for a period of 60 days 

from the date of this Notice. Where 

property is described as for ‘‘off-site use 

only’’ recipients of the property will be 

required to relocate the building to their 

own site at their own expense. 

Homeless assistance providers 

interested in any such property should 

send a written expression of interest to 

HHS, addressed to John Hicks, Division 

of Property Management, Program 

Support Center, HHS, room 5B–17, 5600 

Fishers Lane, Rockville, MD 20857; 

(301) 443–2265. (This is not a toll-free 

number.) HHS will mail to the 

interested provider an application 

packet, which will include instructions 

for completing the application. In order 

to maximize the opportunity to utilize a 

suitable property, providers should 

submit their written expressions of 

interest as soon as possible. For 

complete details concerning the 

processing of applications, the reader is 

encouraged to refer to the interim rule 

governing this program, 24 CFR part 

581. 

For properties listed as suitable/to be 

excess, that property may, if 

subsequently accepted as excess by 

GSA, be made available for use by the 

homeless in accordance with applicable 

law, subject to screening for other 

Federal use. At the appropriate time, 


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HUD will publish the property in a 

Notice showing it as either suitable/ 

available or suitable/unavailable. 

For properties listed as suitable/ 

unavailable, the landholding agency has 

decided that the property cannot be 

declared excess or made available for 

use to assist the homeless, and the 

property will not be available. 

Properties listed as unsuitable will 

not be made available for any other 

purpose for 20 days from the date of this 

Notice. Homeless assistance providers 

interested in a review by HUD of the 

determination of unsuitability should 

call the toll free information line at 1–

800–927–7588 for detailed instructions 

or write a letter to Mark Johnston at the 

address listed at the beginning of this 

Notice. Included in the request for 

review should be the property address 

(including zip code), the date of 

publication in the Federal Register, the 

landholding agency, and the property 

number. 

For more information regarding 

particular properties identified in this 

Notice (i.e., acreage, floor plan, existing 

sanitary facilities, exact street address), 

providers should contact the 

appropriate landholding agencies at the 

following addresses: GSA: Mr. John 

Kelly, Acting Deputy Assistant 

Commissioner, General Services 

Administration, Office of Property 

Disposal, 18th and F Streets, NW., 

Washington, DC 20405; (202) 501–0084; 

Navy: Mr. Warren Meekins, Department 

of the Navy, Real Estate Services, Naval 

Facilities Engineering Command, 

Washington Navy Yard, 1322 Patterson 

Ave., SE., Suite 1000, Washington, DC 

20374–5065; (202) 685–9305; (These are 

not toll-free numbers). 

Dated: January 19, 2006. 

Mark R. Johnston, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Special 

Needs. 

Title V, Federal Surplus Property Program, 

Federal Register Report for 1/27/2006 

Suitable/Available Properties 

Buildings (by State) 

Washington 

Vancouver Chapel 

1601 E. 4th Plain Blvd. 

Vancouver Co: Clark WA 98661–

Landholding Agency: GSA 

Status: Excess 

Comment: 2906 sq. ft., asbestos siding, offsite use only 

GSA Number: 9–V–WA–1230 

Suitable/Unavailable Properties 

Buildings (by State) 

Texas 

Federal Center 

Bldgs. 1–4, 40 

501 West Felix Street 

Fort Worth Co: Tarrant TX 76115–

Landholding Agency: GSA 

Property Number: 54200610002 

Status: Excess 

Comment: Requires substantial repairs, 

easements, restrictive, covenants required 

GSA Number: 7–G–TX–07672 

Unsuitable Properties 

Buildings (by State) 

California 

Naval Security Group 

Skaggs Island 

Sonoma Co: CA 

Landholding Agency: GSA 

Property Number: 54200610005 

Status: Excess 

Reason: Isolated area 

GSA Number: 9–N–CA–1488 

Bldg. 325 

Naval Base 

Port Hueneme Co: Ventura CA 93043–

Landholding Agency: Navy 

Property Number: 77200610001 

Status: Unutilized 

Reasons: Within airport runway clear zone; 

Secured Area; Extensive deterioration 

Hawaii 

Bldg. 346 

Naval Station 

Pearl Harbor Co: HI 96860–

Landholding Agency: Navy 

Property Number: 77200610002 

Status: Excess 

Reason: Extensive deterioration 

Bldgs. 86, 589 

Pearl City Peninsula 

Pearl Harbor Co: Honolulu HI 96860–

Landholding Agency: Navy 

Property Number: 77200610003 

Status: Excess 

Reason: Secured Area 

5 Bldgs. 

Pearl City Peninsula 

590, 595, 596, 597, 598 

Pearl Harbor Co: Honolulu HI 96860–

Landholding Agency: Navy 

Property Number: 77200610004 

Status: Excess 

Reason: Secured Area 

Bldg. 5798 

Pearl City Peninsula 

Pearl Harbor Co: Honolulu HI 96860–

Landholding Agency: Navy 

Property Number: 77200610005 

Status: Excess 

Reason: Secured Area 

Bldg. 776 

Pearl City Peninsula 

Pearl Harbor Co: Honolulu HI 96860–

Landholding Agency: Navy 

Property Number: 77200610006 

Status: Excess 

Reason: Secured Area 

Virginia 

Bldg. U63 

Naval Amphibious Base 

Little Creek Co: Norfolk VA 23521–

Landholding Agency: Navy 

Property Number: 77200610007 

Status: Excess 

Reason: Extensive deterioration 

Bldg. 3660 

Naval Amphibious Base 

Little Creek Co: Norfolk VA 23521–

Landholding Agency: Navy 

Property Number: 77200610008 

Status: Excess 

Reason: Extensive deterioration 

Bldg. 3830 

Naval Amphibious Base 

Little Creek Co: Norfolk VA 23521–

Landholding Agency: Navy 

Property Number: 77200610009 

Status: Excess 

Reason: Extensive deterioration 

Land (by State) 

Ohio 

7100 Block 

Olde Eight Road 

Boston Heights Co: OH 44235–

Landholding Agency: GSA 

Property Number: 54200610001 

Status: Excess 

Reason: Within 2000 ft. of flammable or 

explosive material 

GSA Number: 1–D–Oh–828 

Wisconsin 

Parcel No 17–10267–50 

600 Fisherman Road 

LaCrosse Co: WI 54603–

Landholding Agency: GSA 

Property Number: 54200610004 

Status: Excess 

Reason: Within 2000 ft. of flammable or 

explosive material 

GSA Number: 1–I–WI–605 

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BILLING CODE 4210–29–M 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Fish and Wildlife Service 

Information Collection To Be Sent to 

the Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) for Approval Under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act; Research 

To Support Analysis and Management 

of Carrying Capacity at Lake Umbagog 

National Wildlife Refuge 

AGENCY: Fish and Wildlife Service, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: We (Fish and Wildlife 

Service) plan to request that OMB 

approve our information collection 

associated with research to support 

analysis and management of the 

carrying capacity at Lake Umbagog 

National Wildlife Refuge in Errol, New 

Hampshire. We will request that OMB 

approve this information collection for 

a 1-year term. 

DATES: You must submit comments on 

or before March 28, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: Send your comments on the 

information collection to Hope Grey, 

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