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Oneida, New York who were adversely 

affected by increased company imports. 

The amended notice applicable to 

TA–W–56,985 is hereby issued as 

follows: 

‘‘All workers of Oneida Ltd., Main Plant, 

Sherrill, New York (TA–W–56,985), Oneida 

Ltd., Sales Office, Oneida, New York (TA–

W–56,985A), including an employee of 

Oneida Ltd., Sales Office, Oneida, New York 

located in Lawrenceville, Georgia (TA–W–

56,985C) who became totally or partially 

separated from employment on or after April 

1, 2005, through May 27, 2007, are eligible 

to apply for adjustment assistance under 

Section 223 of the Trade Act of 1974.’’ And 

‘‘All workers of Oneida Ltd., Main Plant, 

Sherrill, New York (TA–W–56,985), Oneida 

Ltd., Sales Office, Oneida, New York (TA–

W–56,985A), Oneida Ltd., Distribution 

Facility, Sherrill, New York (TA–W–56,985B) 

and including an employee of Oneida Ltd., 

Sales Office, Oneida, New York located in 

Lawrenceville, Georgia (TA–W–56,985C) 

who became totally or partially separated 

from employment on or after April 6, 2004, 

through May 27, 2007, are eligible to apply 

for alternative trade adjustment assistance 

under Section 246 of the Trade Act of 1974.’’

Signed at Washington, DC, this 24th day of 

August 2006. 

Elliott S. Kushner, 

Certifying Officer, Division of Trade 

Adjustment Assistance. 

[FR Doc. E6–15077 Filed 9–12–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4510–30–P 

NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION 

U.S. Chief Financial Officer Council; 

Grants Policy Committee Meeting 

ACTION: Notice of open stakeholder 

meeting and Webcast. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

first of a series of open Webcast 

stakeholder meetings sponsored by the 

Grants Policy Committee of the U.S. 

Chief Financial Officer Council. 

DATES: The Committee will hold an 

open stakeholder meeting and Webcast 

on Wednesday, October 25, 2006, 11 

a.m. to 1:30 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in 

Room B–180 of the U.S. Department of 

Housing and Urban Development at 451 

7th Street SW., Washington, DC 20410. 

Seating is limited—the first 80 people to 

respond can be part of the live audience. 

To reserve your seat, contact Charisse 

Carey-Nunes National Science 

Foundation. Telephone: (703) 292–5056. 

E-mail: ccarney@nsf.gov. All who have 

reserved seating, must arrive at the HUD 

building fifteen minutes prior to 

broadcast, arrive on the North side of 

the building, you must have photo ID to 

gain access and will have to go to the 

security screening. 

Organizations are encouraged to send 

only one representative in person to the 

meeting in order to allow room for 

maximum representation of diverse 

groups. The Committee encourages 

organizations to invite their staffs and 

members to participate via Webcast. 

This will be a live Webcast, allowing 

interaction and involvement by a 

substantial number of participants. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Charisse Carney-Nunes, National 

Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson 

Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22230. 

Telephone: (703) 292–5056. E-mail: 

ccarney@nsf.gov. Information about this 

meeting and Webcast will be posted on 

the Web site of the Grants Streamlining 

Initiative at http://www.grants.gov/ 

aboutgrants/streamlining_initiatives.jsp. 

Please note that a sign-language 

interpreter for the hearing-impaired will 

be provided. 

Comments Submission Information: 

You may submit comments during the 

Webcast via phone or e-mail: phone 

202–708–0095 and e-mail 

HUDTV@hud.gov. 

After the Webcast, a link to its 

recording will be posted on the Web site 

of the Grants Streamlining Initiative at 

http://www.grants.gov/aboutgrants/ 

streamlining_initiatives.jsp for at least 

two additional weeks. Comments on 

issues pertaining to the meeting will be 

reviewed on an ongoing basis up until 

November 8, 2006—two weeks after the 

conclusion of the meeting. Please 

submit all post-meeting comments to: 

PL106107@hhs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Purpose of the Meeting: The purpose 

of the meeting is to update and inform 

the broad community of Public Law 

(Pub. L.) 106–107 stakeholders about the 

Grant Policy Committee’s (GPC’s) past 

and ongoing activities related to the 

Federal Grants Streamlining Initiative 

(FGSI). Additionally, the meeting will 

serve as an opportunity to receive 

feedback and clarify any issues of 

concern to interested stakeholders. 

Finally, the meeting will assist the 

Committee as it undertakes planning 

and agenda setting for future Pub. L. 

106–107 stakeholder meetings. The 

Committee seeks stakeholder input as it 

frames these upcoming meetings to 

assist the Committee in attaining its 

objective to ensure that the 

government’s initiative streamlines and 

simplifies the grants and cooperative 

agreements administrative process, 

while maintaining the highest level 

customer service satisfaction, efficiency, 

effectiveness and accountability of the 

Federal process in a manner cognizant 

of currently available resources. 

Meeting structure and agenda: The 

October 25th Webcast meeting will have 

the following structure and agenda: 

(1) Welcome by the host agency; 

(2) Overview of the Grants Policy 

Committee by the Committee co-chair; 

(3) Updates and status reports from 

work group chairs: pre-award work 

group; post-award group; and audit 

oversight work group; and 

(4) Community input, discussion, 

questions and comments. The meeting 

organizers have reserved 60–75 minutes 

for the community input section. Please 

note that this agenda and any 

amendments will be posted on the Web 

site of the Grants Streamlining Initiative 

at http://www.grants.gov/aboutgrants/

streamlining_initiatives.jsp. 

Background: Federal programs 

providing financial assistance comprise 

a large and diverse enterprise with 

widely varying purposes and recipient 

communities. Twenty-six Federal grant 

making agencies administer 

approximately $526 billion in grant 

funds through over 900 programs. The 

programs stimulate or support a wide 

variety of public purposes in areas such 

as health, social services, law 

enforcement, agriculture, housing, 

community and regional development, 

education and training, and research. 

The main goal of grants management 

is to ensure that Federal dollars are 

effectively spent in accordance with 

their intended purpose. To achieve this 

there must be accountability at the 

Federal level, the grantee level, and 

even at the sub-grantee level where 

applicable. A second, sometimes 

conflicting, goal is to avoid excessive or 

cumbersome regulation of individual 

grantees and minimize administrative 

burden throughout the process. 

Public Law 106–107 requires the 

Office of Management and Budget 

(OMB) to direct, coordinate, and assist 

Executive Branch departments and 

agencies in establishing an interagency 

process to streamline and simplify 

Federal financial assistance procedures 

for non-Federal entities. The law also 

requires executive agencies to develop, 

submit to the Congress, and implement 

a plan for that streamlining and 

simplification. 

Twenty-six Executive Branch agencies 

jointly submitted a plan to the Congress 

in May 2001. The plan described the 

interagency process through which the 

agencies would review current policies 

and practices and seek to streamline and 

simplify them. The process involved 

interagency work groups under the 

auspices of the Grants Management 

Committee of the Chief Financial 

Officers Council. The plan also 

identified substantive areas in which 


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the interagency work groups had begun 

their review. 

One of the substantive areas that the 

agencies identified in the plan was a 

need to streamline and simplify Federal 

grant reporting requirements and 

procedures and associated business 

processes to reduce unnecessary 

burdens on recipients and to improve 

the timeliness, completeness and 

quality of the information collected. 

Through the leadership of the GPC of 

the U.S. Chief Financial Officer Council, 

the FGSI was developed to implement 

the provisions of the Federal Financial 

Assistance Improvement Management 

Act of 1999 Public Law 106–107 and to 

further the Expanded Electronic 

Government initiative set forth in the 

President’s Management Agenda as it 

pertains to simplifying grants 

management. The FGSI is a coordinated, 

multi-year grant simplification and 

streamlining program that will improve 

the management of Federal financial 

assistance awards by: 

• Improving the framework of grant 

policy; 

• Simplifying Federal programs’

administrative requirements; 

• Exploring electronic processing 

options; 

• Streamlining the delivery of 

payments; and 

• Furthering audit and oversight 

policy. 

With the leadership of the GPC, all 

Federal grant-making agencies are 

participating in the FGSI. 

Important Information for Webcast 

Participation 

This Webcast will be hosted by and 

broadcast from the U.S. Department of 

Housing and Urban Development, 

located at 451 7th Street, SW., 

Washington, DC Room B–180. Satellite 

coordinates for viewing the Webcast can 

be found on HUD’s Web site: http:// 

www.hud.gov/webcasts/satcoord.cfm. 

The call-in number and e-mail 

address available for participants during 

this Webcast to ask questions/make 

comments are as follows: phone 202–

708–0095 and e-mail HUDTV@hud.gov. 

This information may only be used 

DURING the live Webcast. Participants 

wishing to comment after the meeting 

must submit their comments to 

PL106107@hhs.gov. 

If you would like to test your 

computer to make sure you can use the 

HUD Webcasting software on it, go to 

http://www.hud.gov/webcasts/ 

index.cfm. 

Dated: September 8, 2006. 

Thomas N. Cooley, 

Chair, Grants Policy Committee of the U.S. 

Chief Financial Officer Council. 

[FR Doc. 06–7614 Filed 9–12–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 7555–01–M 

NUCLEAR REGULATORY 

COMMISSION 

[Docket No. 040–07354] 

Notice of Availability of Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact for License 

Amendment to Source Materials 

License No. SUB–834, To Authorize 

Disposal, in Accordance With 10 CFR 

20.2002, of Contaminated Military 

Vehicles by the Department of the 

Army, U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center 

Facility, Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 

AGENCY: Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission. 

ACTION: Issuance of Environmental 

Assessment and Finding of No 

Significant Impact for License 

Amendment. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Betsy Ullrich, Senior Health Physicist, 

Commercial and R&D Branch, Division 

of Nuclear Materials Safety, Region I, 

475 Allendale Road, King of Prussia, 

Pennsylvania; telephone (610) 337–

5040; fax number (610) 337–5269; or by 

e-mail: exu@nrc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

I. Introduction 

The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) is considering the 

issuance of a license amendment to 

Source Materials License No. SUB–834. 

This license is held by the Department 

of the Army Aberdeen Test Center (the 

Licensee), for its facility located at the 

Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. 

License No. SUB–834 was issued to the 

Army on April 11, 1961, pursuant to 10 

CFR Part 40, and has been amended 

periodically since that time. This 

license authorizes the Licensee to use 

uranium and thorium for purposes of 

conducting research and development 

activities with military equipment. 

In accordance with 10 CFR 20.2002 

and 10 CFR 40.14, issuance of the 

license amendment would authorize the 

transfer and off-site disposal of two 

M2A2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles which 

are contaminated with depleted 

uranium. As discussed further below, 

the two vehicles would be disposed of 

at U.S. Ecology, a Subtitle C Resource 

Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) 

hazardous waste disposal facility in 

Idaho. The Licensee requested this 

action in a letter dated September 13, 

2005. The NRC has prepared an 

Environmental Assessment (EA) in 

support of this proposed action in 

accordance with the requirements of 

Title 10, Code of Federal Regulations 

(CFR), Part 51 (10 CFR Part 51). Based 

on the EA, the NRC has concluded that 

a Finding of No Significant Impact 

(FONSI) is appropriate with respect to 

the proposed action. The amendment 

will be issued to the Licensee following 

the publication of this FONSI and EA in 

the Federal Register. 

II. Environmental Assessment 

Identification of Proposed Action 

The proposed action would approve 

the Licensee’s September 13, 2005, 

license amendment request that transfer 

of its two M2A2 Bradley Fighting 

Vehicles to U.S. Ecology’s disposal 

facility be authorized. In addition to 

granting the licensee’s license 

amendment request, the proposed 

action would also grant, pursuant to 10 

CFR 40.14, an exemption to U.S. 

Ecology from 10 CFR Part 40 licensing 

requirements. 10 CFR 40.14 provides 

that the Commission may, upon 

application by an interested person, ‘‘or 

upon its own initiative, grant such 

exemptions’’ from the 10 CFR Part 40 

requirements ‘‘as it determines are 

authorized by law and will not endanger 

life or property or the common defense 

and security and are otherwise in the 

public interest.’’ Under the exemption 

granted to U.S. Ecology any depleted 

uranium on the two vehicles would, 

upon their receipt at U.S. Ecology’s 

disposal facility, no longer be subject to 

NRC regulation and would no longer be 

NRC licensed material. The 10 CFR 

40.14 exemption in this case is 

equivalent to (1) prior EA 

determinations on 10 CFR 20.2002 

requests in which disposal of depleted 

uranium at RCRA hazardous waste 

disposal facilities were approved; and 

(2) previous related exemptions to the 

effect that the materials at issue were 

exempt from further Atomic Energy Act 

and NRC licensing requirements. 

Need for the Proposed Action 

The Licensee needs this license 

change in order to dispose of the two 

M2A2 Bradley Fighting Vehicles that 

are contaminated with hazardous wastes 

at an appropriate facility. The two 

vehicles also have low-level 

contamination from depleted uranium, 

specifically, less than 800 microcuries 

total depleted uranium on a total mass 

of 58,000 pounds in 2,800 cubic feet of 

material. NRC is fulfilling its 


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