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stipulates that the racial and ethnic 

minority groups shall be equally 

represented on the Committee 

membership. This means we are seeking 

candidates who can represent the health 

interest of Hispanics/Latino Americans; 

Blacks/African Americans; American 

Indians and Alaska Natives; and/or 

Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, 

and other Pacific Islanders. 

Mandatory Professional/Technical 

Qualifications: Nominees must meet all 

of the following mandatory 

qualifications to be eligible for 

consideration. 

(1) Expertise in minority health and 

racial and ethnic health disparities. 

(2) Expertise in developing or 

contributing to the development of 

health policies and/or programs. This 

may include experience in the analysis, 

evaluation, and interpretation of Federal 

health or regulatory policy. 

(3) Involvement in national, regional, 

tribal, and/or community efforts to 

improve minority health. 

(4) Educational achievement, 

professional certification(s) in healthrelated field (behavioral health, public 

health, nursing, environmental health, 

nutrition, pharmacy, epidemiology, 

health administration, etc.), and 

professional experience that will 

support ability to give expert advise on 

issues related to improving minority 

health and eliminating racial and ethnic 

health disparities. 

Desirable Qualifications: It is desired 

that the nominee have: 

(1) Knowledge of national health 

policies and programs managed by the 

HHS. 

(2) Job-related training, selfdevelopment, and outside professional 

activities which provides evidence of 

initiative, resourcefulness, and potential 

for effective performance. 

Requirements for Nomination 

Submission: Nominations should be 

typewritten (one nomination per 

nominator). The following information 

should be included in the package of 

material submitted for each individual 

being nominated for consideration: (1) A 

letter of nomination that clearly states 

the name and affiliation of the nominee, 

the basis for the nomination (i.e., 

specific attributes which qualify the 

nominee for service in this capacity), 

and a statement that the nominee is 

willing to serve as a member of the 

Committee; (2) the nominator’s name, 

address, and daytime telephone 

number, and the home and/or work 

address, telephone number, and e-mail 

address of the individual being 

nominated; (3) a current copy of the 

nominee’s curriculum vitae, and (4) 

provide narrative responses to the 

mandatory professional/technical 

qualifications listed above in regard to 

the nominee’s expertise. Federal 

employees should not be nominated for 

consideration of appointment to this 

Committee. 

Individuals selected for appointment 

to the Committee shall be invited to 

serve four year terms. Committee 

members who are not officers or 

employees of the United States 

Government will receive a stipend for 

attending Committee meetings and 

conducting other business in the 

interest of the Committee, including per 

diem and reimbursement for travel 

expenses incurred. 

The Department makes every effort to 

ensure that the membership of HHS 

Federal advisory committees is fairly 

balanced in terms of points of view 

represented and the committee’s 

function. Every effort is made to ensure 

that a broad representation of 

geographic areas, females, ethnic and 

minority groups, and the disabled are 

given consideration for membership on 

HHS Federal advisory committees. 

Appointment to this Committee shall be 

made without discrimination on the 

basis of age, race, ethnicity, gender, 

sexual orientation, disability, and 

cultural, religious, or socioeconomic 

status. Nominations must state that the 

nominee is willing to serve as a member 

of ACMH and appears to have no 

conflict of interest that would preclude 

membership. An ethics review is 

conducted for each selected candidate. 

Therefore, individuals selected for 

nomination will be required to provide 

detailed information concerning such 

matters as financial holdings, 

consultancies, and research grants or 

contracts to permit evaluation of 

possible sources of conflict of interest. 

Dated: July 2, 2007. 

Mirtha R. Beadle, 

Deputy Director, OMH. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

[USCG 2007–28460] 

Long Range Aids to Navigation 

(LORAN–C) Program; Preparation of 

Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of intent, notice of public 

meeting, and request for public 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) 

announces that it intends to prepare a 

Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement (PEIS) on the Future of the 

Long Range Aids to Navigation 

(LORAN) Program. The current system 

(LORAN–C) is a low frequency 

hyperbolic radionavigation system 

approved for use in the U.S. Coastal 

Confluence Zone (CCZ) and as a 

supplemental air navigation aid. 

LORAN–C provides navigation, 

location, and timing services for both 

civil and military air, land, and marine 

users in the CONUS and Alaska. The 

PEIS will evaluate the environmental 

effects of alternative futures for the 

LORAN–C Program, and aid the USCG 

in its decision on whether to terminate 

or continue to operate and invest in the 

LORAN–C system. 

Publication of this notice begins a 

scoping process that will identify and 

determine the scope of environmental 

issues to be addressed in the PEIS. This 

notice requests public participation in 

the scoping process, establishes a public 

comment period, and provides 

information on how to participate. 

DATES: Public meetings will be held 

August 15, 21 and 23, 2007, in 

Washington, DC, Juneau, AK, and 

Seattle, WA, respectively. Each meeting 

will consist of an informational open 

house from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. and a 

public scoping meeting from 6 p.m. to 

8 p.m. The public meetings may end 

later than the stated time, depending on 

the number of persons wishing to speak. 

Comments and related material must 

reach the docket on or before August 31, 

2007. 

ADDRESSES: The Washington, DC 

meeting will be held at: 

Ronald Reagan Building and 

International Trade Center 1300 

Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., 

Washington, DC 20004, 202–312–1426. 

The Seattle meeting will be held at: 

Seattle Hilton, 1301 Sixth Avenue, 

Seattle, WA 98101, (206) 695–6060. 

The Juneau meeting will be held at: 

Centennial Hall Convention Center, 101 

Egan Drive, Juneau, AK 99801, (907) 

586–5283. 

All meeting spaces will be 

wheelchair-accessible. You do not need 

to attend the meetings in order to 

comment. You may submit comments, 

identified by docket number USCG 

2007–28460, to the Docket Management 

Facility at the U.S. Department of 

Transportation (DOT). To avoid 

duplication, please use only one of the 

following methods: 

(1) Electronically through the Web 

site for the Docket Management System, 

at: http://dms.dot.gov. 


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(2) By mail to the Docket Management 

Facility, U.S. Department of 

Transportation, West Building, Ground 

Floor, Room W12–140, 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590. 

(3) By fax to the Docket Management 

Facility at (202) 493–2251. 

(4) By delivery to Room W12–140, 

West Building, Ground Floor, 1200 New 

Jersey Avenue, SE., Washington, DC, 

from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. The 

telephone number is (202) 366–9329. 

(5) By the Federal eRulemaking Portal 

at: http://www.regulations.gov/. 

The Docket Management Facility 

maintains the public docket for this 

notice. Comments and material received 

from the public will become part of this 

docket and will be available for 

inspection or copying at the Docket 

Management Facility (M–30), U.S. 

Department of Transportation, West 

Building Ground Floor, Room W12–140, 

1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE., 

Washington, DC 20590, from 9 a.m. to 

5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. This docket may also 

be found on the Internet at: http:// 

dms.dot.gov. 

Comments and related material must 

reach the Docket Management Facility 

by August 31, 2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: If 

you have questions on this notice, 

please call or e-mail LT Michael 

Herring, LORAN–C Program Manager, at 

(202) 372–1561, or 

Michael.L.Herring@uscg.mil, 

respectively. If you have questions 

about viewing or submitting material to 

the docket, please call Renee V. Wright, 

Program Manager, Docket Operations, 

Office of Information Services, Office of 

the Assistant Secretary for 

Administration, Office of the Secretary, 

at (202) 366–9826. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Request for Comments 

The USCG requests public comments 

and other relevant information on 

environmental issues related to the 

future of the LORAN–C Program. The 

scheduled public meetings are not the 

only opportunity you have to comment. 

In addition to or instead of providing 

comments at the meeting, you can 

submit comments to the Docket 

Management Facility during the public 

comment period (see DATES). The USCG 

will consider all comments and 

materials received during the comment 

period. 

On January 8, 2007, the USCG 

published a request for comments on 

the need to continue to operate or invest 

in the North American LORAN–C 

radionavigation system (72 Federal 

Register 796). To avoid duplication and 

resubmission of comments, all 

comments previously submitted under 

docket USCG 2006–24685 will be 

considered during the LORAN–C PEIS 

scoping process. 

All comments received will be posted, 

without change, to: http://dms.dot.gov 

and will include any personal 

information you have provided. The 

USCG has an agreement with the DOT 

to use the Docket Management Facility. 

Please see DOT’s ‘‘Privacy Act’’

paragraph below. 

Submitting comments: If you submit a 

comment, please include your name and 

address, and identify the docket number 

for this notice (USCG 2007–28460). You 

may submit your comments by 

electronic means, mail, fax, or delivery 

to the Docket Management Facility at 

the address under ADDRESSES; but 

please submit your comments by only 

one means. If you submit comments by 

mail or delivery, submit them in an 

unbound format, no larger than 81⁄2 by 

11 inches, suitable for copying and 

electronic filing. If you submit 

comments by mail and would like to 

confirm that they reached the Facility, 

please enclose a stamped, self-addressed 

postcard or envelope. 

Viewing comments and documents: 

To view comments, go to: http:// 

dms.dot.gov at any time, click on 

‘‘Simple Search,’’ enter the last five 

digits of the docket number (28460), and 

click on ‘‘Search.’’ You may also visit 

the Docket Management Facility in the 

west building, Ground Floor, Room 

W12–140 located at 1200 New Jersey 

Avenue, SE., Washington, DC 20590. 

Docket contents are available for public 

inspection and copying, at this address, 

in room W12–140, between 9 a.m. and 

5 p.m., Monday through Friday, except 

Federal holidays. The Facility’s 

telephone is 202–366–9329, its fax is 

202–493–2251, and its Web site for 

electronic submissions or for electronic 

access to docket contents is: http:// 

dms.dot.gov. 

Privacy Act: Anyone can search the 

electronic form of all comments 

received into any of our dockets by the 

name of the individual submitting the 

comment (or signing the comment, if 

submitted on behalf of an association, 

business, labor union, etc.). You may 

review the DOT’s Privacy Act Statement 

in the Federal Register published on 

April 11, 2000 (65 FR 19477), or you 

may visit http://dms.dot.gov. 

Public Meeting and Open House 

The USCG invites you to learn about 

the PEIS on the Future of the LORAN– 

C Program at an informational open 

house, and to identify and comment on 

environmental issues related to the 

proposed action and alternatives at a 

public meeting. Your comments will 

help the USCG identify and refine the 

scope of the environmental issues to be 

addressed in the PEIS. 

In order to allow everyone a chance 

to speak at the public meeting, the 

USCG may limit speaker time, or extend 

the meeting hours, or both. When you 

rise to speak, you must identify 

yourself, and any organization you 

represent, by name. Your remarks will 

be recorded or transcribed for inclusion 

in the public docket. 

You may submit written material at 

the public meeting, either in place of or 

in addition to speaking. Written 

material must include your name and 

address, and will be included in the 

public docket. Comments given at a 

public meeting and written comments 

submitted to the docket will receive full 

and equal consideration. 

The public meeting locations are 

wheelchair-accessible. If you plan to 

attend an open house or public meeting 

and need special assistance such as sign 

language interpretation or other 

reasonable accommodation, please 

notify the USCG (see FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT) at least 3 

business days in advance. Include your 

contact information as well as 

information about your specific needs. 

Background and Purpose 

LORAN is a radionavigation system 

first developed during World War II and 

operated by the USCG. The current 

system (LORAN–C) is a low frequency 

hyperbolic radionavigation system 

approved for use in the CCZ and as a 

supplemental air navigation aid. 

LORAN–C provides navigation, 

location, and timing services for both 

civil and military air, land, and marine 

users in the Contiguous United States 

(CONUS) and Alaska. The USCG 

operates 18 CONUS LORAN Stations, 6 

Alaska LORAN Stations, and 24 monitor 

sites. The system is controlled remotely 

from Alexandria, VA and Petaluma, CA. 

Nationwide system operation is based 

on links between ‘‘chains’’ of stations; 

therefore, decisions made on any one 

station may potentially impact multiple 

stations or chains, necessitating an 

overall LORAN system decision rather 

than a segmented approach. 

The PEIS will evaluate the 

environmental effects of alternatives 

regarding the LORAN–C Program to aid 

the USCG in its decision of whether 

further investment in modernizing and 

improving LORAN–C is in the public 

interest. 


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The PEIS on the Future of the 

LORAN–C Program will be a programlevel document that will provide USCG 

with high-level analysis of the potential 

impacts on the human environment 

from the alternatives for the future of 

the LORAN–C Program. The USCG is 

the lead agency for determining the 

scope of this review and has determined 

that a PEIS will best meet its needs. The 

PEIS will comply with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 

(NEPA), the Council on Environmental 

Quality regulations in 40 CFR parts 

1500–1508, Department of Homeland 

Security (DHS) Management Directive 

5100.1 (Environmental Planning 

Program), and Coast Guard 

Commandant Instruction (COMDTINST) 

M16475.1D (National Environmental 

Policy Act Implementing Procedures 

and Policy for Considering 

Environmental Impacts). The 

geographic scope of the LORAN–C PEIS 

is those areas covered by the 

radionavigation system. Should the 

USCG decide to end its involvement 

with LORAN–C, the analysis provided 

in the PEIS will enable the USCG to 

prepare tiered documents on the 

disposition of each LORAN Station and 

monitoring station. 

Proposed Action and Alternatives 

The PEIS will address the following 

four alternatives to represent the range 

of possible management options for the 

future of the USCG LORAN–C Program: 

(1) Decommission the USCG LORAN–

C Program and Terminate North 

American LORAN–C Signal. Under this 

alternative, all USCG LORAN–C signals 

would be terminated at one time. All 

USCG LORAN Stations would be 

decommissioned; LORAN artifacts, 

documents and equipment (i.e., towers 

and related infrastructure) would be 

removed; and USCG personnel would 

be reassigned. LORAN Station property 

would be declared excess to the needs 

of the USCG following Federal 

guidelines on transfer of excess 

property. The disposition of each 

LORAN Station would range from 

transferring ownership of the property 

with such infrastructure as buildings, 

roads, piers, and airstrips intact, to 

returning the property to a natural state 

prior to its transfer. 

(2) Transfer Management of the 

LORAN–C Program to another 

government agency. Under this 

alternative, the USCG would continue to 

operate the LORAN–C Program until the 

transfer to another Agency. 

(3) Automate, Secure, and Unstaff 

LORAN Stations. Under this alternative, 

the USCG would continue to operate the 

LORAN–C Program. The LORAN–C 

signal would remain on the air but the 

USCG would reduce staffing. To the 

extent practical, the USCG would 

automate equipment; secure buildings 

and fencing to protect equipment, 

antenna, and antenna guides; and 

reassign personnel. The LORAN 

Stations would become LORAN Sites 

operating unstaffed with preventive and 

corrective maintenance performed by 

contractor personnel. 

(4) No Action Alternative. The 

LORAN–C signal would remain on air, 

and LORAN–C operations would remain 

as they currently are with no change in 

staffing. Maintenance and 

modernization of equipment would 

continue to keep the signal operating. 

The PEIS will serve as a top tier 

environmental analysis of program-level 

changes. This notice of intent is 

required by 40 CFR 1508.22, and briefly 

describes the proposed action and 

possible alternatives and our proposed 

scoping process. The PEIS will provide 

a general level of analysis of 

environmental impacts on the 24 

LORAN Stations, 24 Monitoring Sites, 

and the LORAN Support Unit (LSU) 

since the disposition of each facility is 

not currently known. The PEIS will also 

discuss the No Action Alternative as 

required under NEPA. You can address 

any questions about the proposed 

action, the scoping process, or the PEIS 

to the USCG LORAN–C Program Office 

(see FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT). 

Scoping Process 

Public scoping is an early and open 

process for identifying and determining 

the scope of issues to be addressed in 

the PEIS. Scoping begins with this 

notice, continues through the public 

comment period (see DATES), and ends 

when the USCG has completed the 

following actions: 

• Invites the participation of Federal, 

State, and local agencies, any affected 

Indian tribe and other interested 

persons; 

• Determines the actions, alternatives, 

and impacts described in 40 CFR 

1508.25; 

• Identifies and eliminates from 

detailed study those issues that are not 

significant or that have been covered 

elsewhere; 

• Identifies other relevant 

environmental review and consultation 

requirements on the future of the 

LORAN–C Program; 

• Indicates the relationship between 

timing of the environmental review and 

other aspects of the proposed action; 

and 

• At its discretion, exercises the 

options provided in 40 CFR 1501.7(b). 

Once the scoping process is complete, 

the USCG will prepare a draft PEIS, and 

will publish a Federal Register notice 

announcing its public availability. (If 

you want that notice to be sent to you, 

please contact the USCG Project Office 

point-of-contact identified in FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT.) You 

will have an opportunity to review and 

comment on the draft PEIS. 

Additionally, the USCG anticipates 

holding public meetings in 

approximately December 2007 to 

present the draft PEIS and receive 

public comments regarding that 

document. The USCG will subsequently 

consider all comments received and 

then prepare the final PEIS. As with the 

draft PEIS, the USCG will announce the 

availability of the final PEIS and once 

again give interested parties an 

opportunity for review and comment. 

Dated: June 26, 2007. 

Brian M. Salerno, 

Rear Admiral USCG, Assistant Commandant, 

Policy and Planning (CG–5). 

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DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency 

Open Meeting/Conference Call, Board 

of Visitors for the National Fire 

Academy 

AGENCY: U.S. Fire Administration, 

Federal Emergency Management 

Agency, DHS. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting via 

conference call. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, the 

Federal Emergency Management Agency 

announces the following committee 

meeting: 

Name: Board of Visitors (BOV) for the 

National Fire Academy. 

Date of Meeting: August 1, 2007. 

Place: Building H, Room 300, 

National Emergency Training Center, 

Emmitsburg, Maryland. 

Time: 1:30–3:30 p.m. 

Proposed Agenda: Introduction of 

New Board Members and Review 

National Fire Academy Program 

Activities. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with section 10(a)(2) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, 5 

U.S.C. App. 2, the Federal Emergency 

Management Agency announces that the 

committee meeting will be open to the 

public in the Emmitsburg commuting 


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