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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration 

[I.D. 101006B] 

New England Fishery Management 

Council; Public Meeting 

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries 

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and 

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), 

Commerce. 

ACTION: Notice of a public meeting. 

SUMMARY: The New England Fishery 

Management Council’s (Council) 

Groundfish Committee will meet to 

consider actions affecting New England 

fisheries in the exclusive economic zone 

(EEZ). 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Friday, November 3, 2006, at 9 a.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Holiday Inn, One Newbury Street, 

Peabody, MA 01960; telephone: (978) 

535–4600. 

Council address: New England 

Fishery Management Council, 50 Water 

Street, Mill 2, Newburyport, MA 01950. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Paul 

J. Howard, Executive Director, New 

England Fishery Management Council; 

telephone: (978) 465–0492. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The items 

of discussion in the committee’s agenda 

are as follows: 

The Groundfish Oversight Committee 

will meet to continue work on the 

adjustment to the Northeast 

Multispecies Fishery Management Plan 

that is planned for implementation on 

May 1, 2009. This adjustment will adopt 

management measures necessary to 

continue the stock rebuilding programs 

that were adopted in 2004 by 

Amendment 13. For this action the 

Council is planning to submit an 

amendment supported by an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). 

A notice of intent will be published 

announcing plans to prepare an EIS and 

announcing the scoping period and a 

series of scoping meetings. In order to 

facilitate informed comments during the 

scoping period, the Council plans to 

prepare a scoping document that will 

describe the standards and/or 

requirements that should be considered 

when submitting comments. At this 

meeting, the Committee will develop 

advice for the Council to consider when 

establishing those standards. This 

Committee meeting will be held in the 

form of a workshop. Committee 

members will be assigned to working 

groups that will be assisted by the 

participation of members of the 

Groundfish Advisory Panel, 

Recreational Advisory Panel, and 

Groundfish Plan Development Team. 

The Committee may also consider other 

business after the workshop discussions 

are concluded. Workshop discussions 

will be reported to the Council on 

November 14–16, 2006. After the 

Council reviews and acts on the 

Committee recommendations, a scoping 

document will be prepared and 

published. 

Although non-emergency issues not 

contained in this agenda may come 

before this group for discussion, those 

issues may not be the subject of formal 

action during this meeting. Action will 

be restricted to those issues specifically 

identified 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 Council’s intent to take 

final action to address the emergency. 

Special Accommodations 

This meeting is physically accessible 

to people with disabilities. Requests for 

sign language interpretation or other 

auxiliary aids should be directed to Paul 

J. Howard (see ADDRESSES) at least 5 

days prior to the meeting date. 

Authority: 16 U.S.C. 1801 et seq. 

Dated: October 11, 2006. 

Tracey L. Thompson, 

Acting Director, Office of Sustainable 

Fisheries, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Air Force 

Notice is Given of the Names of 

Members of a Performance Review 

Board for the Department of the Air 

Force 

AGENCY: Department of the Air Force. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is given of the names 

of members of a Performance Review 

Board for the Department of the Air 

Force. Effective Date is November 16, 

2006. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

4314(c)(1) through (5) of Title 5, U.S.C., 

requires each agency to establish, in 

accordance with regulations, one or 

more Senior Executive Service 

performance review boards. The boards 

shall review and evaluate the initial 

appraisal of senior executives’

performance by supervisors and make 

recommendations to the appointing 

authority or rating official relative to the 

performance of these executives. 

The members of the Performance 

Review Board for the U.S. Air Force are: 

1. Board President—Gen Norton A. 

Schwartz, USTRANSCOM/CC. 

2. Lt Gen Donald J. Hoffman, Military 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air 

Force (Acquisition). 

3. Lt Gen Stephen R. Lorenz, 

Commander, Air University. 

4. Mr Roger M. Blanchard, Assistant 

Deputy Chief of Staff, Personnel, 

Headquarters, U.S. Air Force. 

5. Mrs Barbara A. Westgate, Executive 

Director, Air Force Materiel Command. 

6. Mr Robert E. Dawes, Auditor 

General of the Air Force, Secretary of 

the Air Force. 

7. Mr Charlie E. Williams, Jr., Deputy 

Assistant Secretary (Contracting), 

Secretary of the Air Force. 

8. Mr Kenneth Percell, Executive 

Director, Warner Robins Air Logistics 

Center. 

9. Mr John Salvatori, Director, Intell 

Systems Support Office (ISSO). 

10. RADM Donna L. Crisp, Director 

for Manpower and Personnel, J1 , The 

Joint Staff. 

11. Mr John Argodale, Deputy 

Assistant Secretary of the Army 

(Financial Operations) OASA (Financial 

Management & Comptroller). 

12. Ms Mary George, Deputy Director 

for Information Operations and Reports, 

Washington Headquarters Services. 

13. Ms Ellen E. McCarthy, Director, 

Personnel Development and Readiness, 

Office of the Under Secretary of Defense 

for Intelligence, Department of Defense. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Please direct any written comments or 

requests for information to Mr. Greg 

Price, Senior Leader Management, AF/ 

DPS, 1040 Air Force Pentagon, 

Washington, DC 20330–1040 (PH: 703–

697–8332; 

gregory.price@pentagon.af.mil). 

Bao-Anh Trinh, 

Air Force Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

Notice of Availability of the Fort Bliss, 

Texas and New Mexico, Mission Master 

Plan Supplemental Programmatic 

Environmental Impact Statement 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 


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SUMMARY: The Department of the Army 

announces the availability of a Draft 

Supplemental Programmatic 

Environmental Impact Statement 

(DSEIS) identifying the potential 

environmental effects of changing land 

and airspace use at Fort Bliss to support 

evolving changes in missions and units 

and support Army Transformation, 

Integrated Global Presence and Basing 

Strategy, Base Realignment And Closure 

(BRAC), the Army Campaign Plan and 

other Army initiatives. 

The SEIS will supplement the Fort 

Bliss, Texas and New Mexico, Mission 

Master Plan Programmatic 

Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS), 

for which a Record of Decision was 

signed in 2001. 

DATES: The public comment period for 

the DSEIS will end 60 days after 

publication of the NOA in the Federal 

Register by the U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be sent to: Mr. John F. Barrera, 

Directorate of Environment, B624 

Pleasonton Avenue, Attention: IMSW–

BLS–Z, (barreraj), Forest Bliss, TX 

79916–6812; facsimile: (915) 568–3548; 

e-mail: SEIS@bliss.army.mil. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Jean Offutt, Public Affairs Officer, 

IMSW–BLS–PA; Fort Bliss, TX 79916–

6812; telephone: (915) 568–6812; fax: 

(915) 568–2995; e-mail: 

jean.offutt@bliss.army.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Proposed Action would change land use 

in the Main Cantonment to support 

units assigned to Fort Bliss under 

BRAC, and in the Fort Bliss Training 

Complex to support construction of livefire ranges and off-road maneuver space 

needed to train soldiers to doctrinal 

standards. In addition to the Proposed 

Action, the DSEIS analyzes the 

environmental affects of three other 

action alternatives and a no action 

alternative. 

The action alternatives differ in the 

amount (216,000–352,000 acres) and 

location of land in the Tularosa Basin 

portion of McGregor Range proposed for 

off road maneuver, resulting in varied 

abilities to meet the defined need for 

maneuver training, accommodate units 

and missions in addition to the BRAC 

package, and flexibility to meet future 

requirements. Those portions of 

McGregor Range outside the Tularosa 

basin, specifically Otero Mesa and the 

Sacramento Mountain foothills, will not 

experience changes in land use. 

Issues associated with land use 

changes in the Training Complex 

include potential impacts to natural 

resources and cultural resources, 

potential land use conflicts with grazing 

portions of the off-road maneuver space 

on McGregor Range, access to roads to 

the Forest Service grazing allotments on 

McGregor Range, recreational use of 

McGregor Range, and closures of NM 

Highway 506. Noise issues are part of 

the upgrade, or construction of firing 

ranges. 

Issues associated with land use 

changes and construction in the Main 

Cantonment include potential increases 

in noise and dust, and transportation 

issues. Socioeconomic issues include 

population growth and development, 

public services and utilities, education, 

and quality of life. 

Alternative four, the Proposed Action, 

is anticipated to generate substantial 

economic benefits and significantly 

affect population growth and 

development, traffic, utility demands, 

and demand for public and medical 

services in the region. Expansion of offroad vehicle maneuver training into the 

Tularosa Basin portion of McGregor 

Range, along with increased maneuvers 

in the North and South Training Areas, 

is expected to increase wind and water 

erosion and will likely result in longterm changes in vegetation communities 

in the more intensely used training 

areas. Training related noise is also 

expected to increase in areas adjacent to 

Don ̃ a Ana Range and portions of 

McGregor Range. 

Copies of the Draft SEIS are available 

for review at the following libraries: In 

El Paso, the Richard Burges Regional 

Library, 9600 Dyer; the Irving Schwartz 

Branch Library, 1865 Dean Martin; the 

Clardy Fox Branch Library, 5515 Robert 

Alva; and the Doris van Doren Regional 

Branch Library, 551 Redd Road. In Las 

Cruces, NM, the New Mexico State 

University Zuhl Library at 2999 McFie 

Circle; and in Alamogordo, NM at the 

Alamogordo Public Library, 920 Oregon 

Avenue. The document can also be 

reviewed at https://www.bliss.army.mil. 

Public meetings will be announced 

through regional newspapers and other 

public affairs outlets. These public 

meetings will be held in El Paso, Las 

Cruces and Alamogordo to accept 

comments on the DSEIS, and are 

expected to occur in November 2006. 

Dated: October 5, 2006. 

John A. Macdonald, 

Brigadier General, U.S. Army, Director, 

Installation Management Agency. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Navy 

Meeting of the Naval Research 

Advisory Committee; Correction 

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of closed meeting; 

correction. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Defense 

published a notice in the Federal 

Register on August 4, 2006, concerning 

a request for the Naval Research 

Advisory Committee (NRAC) to meet 

and discuss classified information from 

government organizations. All sessions 

of the meeting will be devoted to 

briefings, discussions, and technical 

examination of issues related to 

maritime strategy and Department of the 

Navy plans, programs, and objectives. It 

is envisioned that these discussions will 

enable the NRAC to identify technology 

gaps where additional science and 

technology investment may be needed 

to satisfy current and projected Navy 

and Marine Corps requirements. The 

meeting date has been changed to a new 

date and time. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Wednesday, October 25, 2006, from 9:30 

a.m. to 5 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Pentagon, Room 4B552A, Arlington, 

VA 22201. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Sujata Millick, Program Director, Naval 

Research Advisory Committee, 875 

North Randolph Street, Arlington, VA 

22203–1995, 703–696–6769. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This 

notice is provided in accordance with 

the provisions of the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 2). All 

sessions of the meeting will be devoted 

to executive sessions that will include 

discussion and technical examination of 

information related to forthcoming 

NRAC studies. These briefings and 

discussions will contain classified 

information that is specifically 

authorized under criteria established by 

Executive Order to remain classified in 

the interest of national defense and are, 

in fact, properly classified pursuant to 

such Executive Order. The classified 

and non-classified matters to be 

discussed are so inextricably 

intertwined as to preclude opening any 

portions of the meeting. In accordance 

with 5 U.S.C. App. 2, Sec. 10(d), the 

Secretary of the Navy has determined in 

writing that the public interest requires 

that all sessions of the meeting be closed 

to the public because they will be 

concerned with matters listed in 5 

U.S.C. 552b(c)(1) and (4). 


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