Federal Register / Vol. 71, No. 189 / Friday, September 29, 2006 / Notices 57487 

Daniel F. Willkens ............................................. Acting Director, Defense Criminal Investigative Service, Assistant Inspector General for Investigations, ODIG–INV. 

Stephen D. Wilson ............................................. Assistant Inspector General for Administration and Management. 

Shelton R. Young ............................................... Deputy Inspector General for Intelligence. 

[FR Doc. 06–8360 Filed 9–28–05; 8:45am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–M 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

Availability of Non-Exclusive, 

Exclusive License or Partially 

Exclusive Licensing of U.S. Patent 

Concerning Conductive (Electrical, 

Ionic, and Photoelectric) Polymer 

Membrane Articles, and Method for 

Producing Same 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with 37 CFR 

Part 404.6, announcement is made of 

the availability for licensing of U.S. 

Patent No. US 7,109,136 B2 entitled 

‘‘Conductive (Electrical, Ionic, and 

Photoelectric) Polymer Membrane 

Articles, and Method for Producing 

Same’’ Issued September 19, 2006. This 

patent has been assigned to the United 

States Government as represented by the 

Secretary of the Army. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Arnold Boucher at U.S. Army Soldier 

Systems Center, Kansas Street, Natick, 

MA 01760, Phone; (508) 233–5431 or Email: Arnold.Boucher@natick.army.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Any 

licenses granted shall comply with 35 

U.S.C. 209 and 37 CFR Part 404. 

Brenda S. Bowen, 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

[FR Doc. 06–8356 Filed 9–28–06; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3710–08–M 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army, Corps of 

Engineers 

Intent To Prepare an Environmental 

Impact Statement for the Upper Ohio 

Navigation Study, PA, in Allegheny and 

Beaver Counties 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the 

Pittsburgh District of the U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers (Corps) is seeking 

public comment on the environmental 

scope of an upcoming study, named the 

‘‘Upper Ohio Navigation Study, 

Pennsylvania.’’ This study will consider 

and evaluate the feasibility of 

alternatives for maintaining commercial 

navigation on the Pennsylvania portion 

of the Ohio River, and also consider and 

evaluate the feasibility of ecosystem 

restoration opportunities. 

The focus of the upper Ohio River 

navigation feasibility study is to develop 

the best plan for maintaining safe, 

environmentally sustainable, and 

reliable navigation on the upper 40 

miles of the Ohio River in Pennsylvania. 

Navigation is currently provided 

through three old lock and dam 

facilities—Emsworth, Dashields and 

Montgomery locks and dams—dating 

from the 1920s. The study will consider 

a 60-year period from 2010 to 2070. 

Navigation alternatives will consider 

facility operation and maintenance, 

rehabilitation, and new construction 

needs and opportunities. 

In order to facilitate early public 

involvement in the planning process, 

the Corps will be conducting two 

environmental scoping meetings open to 

the public in the study area. The public 

is invited to attend these meetings to 

hear an overview of the study, and assist 

in the identification of significant issues 

to be considered during the study 

process. (See DATES). 

DATES: Public scoping meetings will be 

held on: 

1. October 24, 2006, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., 

Monaca, PA. 

2. October 25, 2006, 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., 

Coraopolis, PA. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting locations are: 

1. Monaca, PA—Community College 

of Beaver County, Library Resource 

Center, Conference Room 103, One 

Campus Drive, Monaca, PA 15061. 

2. Coraopolis, PA—Holiday Inn, 8256 

University Boulevard, Coraopolis, PA 

15108. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: The 

Corps’ point-of-contact for questions or 

comments on the study and the 

environmental impact statement is Mr. 

Conrad Weiser, U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Pittsburgh District, 2200 

William S. Moorhead Federal Building, 

1000 Liberty Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA, 

15222–4186. Telephone: (412) 395–

7220. E-mail: 

Conrad.E.Weiser@usace.army.mil. 

Requests to be placed on the study 

mailing list should also be sent to this 

address. General information on the 

study is also posted on the Corps’

internet site: http:// 

www.Lrp.usace.army.mil/pm/ 

upper_ohio.htm. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

1. Authority: The proposed action is 

being conducted under the authority of 

United States Senate, Committee on 

Public Works resolution dated May 16, 

1955; and United States House of 

Representatives, Committee on Public 

Works and Transportation resolution 

dated March 11, 1982. 

2. Background: a. The Corps is 

initiating a study to identify and 

evaluate feasible alternatives to 

maintain environmentally sustainable 

commercial river navigation on the 

upper 40 miles of the Ohio River in 

Pennsylvania. Existing locks and dams 

to be considered in this study are the 

Emsworth, Dashields, and Montgomery 

(EDM) locks and dams. The EDM 

facilities are the uppermost three of the 

19 facilities forming the Ohio River 

Navigation System. This system 

provides navigable depths the full 981- 

mile length of the river between its 

origin at the ‘‘Point’’ in Pittsburgh, PA, 

to its mouth at Cairo, IL. 

b. Emsworth is the oldest operating 

facility of the Ohio River system. Its 

locks date from 1921, while its original 

fixed crest dams were replaced in 1938 

with higher gated structures. Dashields 

and Montgomery locks and dams were 

placed into operation in 1929 and 1936, 

respectively. Locks and Dams 52 and 53 

near the river’s mouth are the only other 

pre-World War II facilities on the Ohio 

River system, and these are in the 

process of being replaced by a single 

facility, Olmsted Locks and Dam. 

c. Emsworth, Dashields, and 

Montgomery each have two lock 

chambers, a main chamber measuring 

110′ × 600′± and an auxiliary chamber 

measuring 56′ × 360′. Compared to the 

110′ × 1,200′ main lock chambers at the 

modern Ohio River facilities, they are 

the lowest capacity locks on the river. 

They form a bottleneck between the 

modern downstream Ohio River 

navigation structures and the tributary 

Monongahela River locks with their 

720-foot chambers. The disparity in 

capacity is magnified during main 

chamber closures when all traffic must 

use the small 56′ × 360′ chambers. These 

small chambers can only process one 

barge at a time, necessitating multiple 

lockages for typical tows of as many as 

15 barges, more or less. This study will 


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