Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 154 / Friday, August 10, 2007 / Notices 45021 

Dated: August 3, 2007. 

Al Matera, 

Director, Office of Acquisition Policy. 

[FR Doc. 07–3917 Filed 8–9–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6820–EP–S 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Meeting of the Advisory Council on 

Dependents’ Education 

AGENCY: Department of Defense 

Education Activity (DoDEA). 

ACTION: Open meeting notice. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act, Appendix 2 of 

title 5, United States Code, Public Law 

92–463, notice is hereby given that a 

meeting of the Advisory Council on 

Dependents’ Education (ACDE) is 

scheduled to be held on September 21, 

2007, from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. The meeting 

will be held at the DoDEA headquarters 

building, 4040 North Fairfax Drive, 

Arlington, Virginia 22306. The purpose 

of the ACDE is to recommend to the 

Director, DoDEA, general policies for 

the operation of the Department of 

Defense Dependents Schools (DoDDS); 

to provide the Director with information 

about effective educational programs 

and practices that should be considered 

by DoDDS; and to perform other tasks as 

may be required by the Secretary of 

Defense. The meeting emphases will be 

the current operational qualities of 

schools and the institutionalized school 

improvement processes, as well as other 

educational matters. For further 

information contact Mr. Jim Jarrard at 

703–588–3121, or at 

James.Jarrard@hq.dodea.edu. 

Dated: August 6, 2007. 

L.M. Bynum, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, DoD. 

[FR Doc. 07–3909 Filed 8–9–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–M 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

Notice of Availability of a Record of 

Decision (ROD) for Base Closure and 

Realignment (BRAC) Actions at Fort 

Belvoir, VA 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DoD. 

ACTION: Record of Decision. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the Army 

announces the availability of a ROD 

which summarizes the decision for 

implementing realignment actions as 

directed by the BRAC Commission at 

Fort Belvoir, Virginia. The decision 

places 8,500 new employees at Fort 

Belvoir’s Engineer Proving Ground; 

places 5,500 personnel on Fort Belvoir’s 

Main Post, and defers a decision on 

6,200 personnel. 

ADDRESSES: To obtain a copy of the ROD 

please contact the Fort Belvoir 

Directorate of Public Works, 9430 

Jackson Loop, Suite 100, Fort Belvoir, 

Virginia 22060–5116; e-mail address: 

environmental-fb-dpw@conus.army.mil. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Don Carr, Fort Belvoir Public Affairs 

Office, at (703) 805–2583 during normal 

business hours Monday through Friday. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Army 

has decided to implement the Preferred 

Alternative (with exceptions noted 

below) identified in the Environmental 

Impact Statement (EIS) (June 2007), 

supporting studies, and comments 

provided during formal comment and 

review periods. The Preferred 

Alternative includes construction, 

renovation, and operation of proposed 

facilities to accommodate incoming 

military missions and activities at Fort 

Belvoir as mandated by the BRAC 

Commission’s recommendations. The 

preferred alternative also includes an 

updated land use plan, a portion of the 

installation’s Real Property Master Plan. 

To implement the BRAC Commission 

recommendations, Fort Belvoir will be 

receiving personnel, equipment, and 

missions from various closure and 

realignment actions within the 

Department of Defense. To implement 

the BRAC Commission 

recommendations, the Army will 

provide the necessary facilities, 

buildings, and infrastructure to 

accommodate personnel being realigned 

from the Washington Headquarters 

Services (WHS); National GeospatialIntelligence Agency (NGA); various 

Army entities moving from leased space 

in the National Capital Region (NCR); 

U.S. Army Medical Command 

(MEDCOM); Program Executive Office, 

Enterprise Information Systems (PEO 

EIS); and Missile Defense Agency 

Headquarters Command Center (MDA 

HQCC). Details of the BRAC 

Commission’s recommendations can be 

found at http://www.brac.gov. The No 

Action Alternative would not meet the 

Army’s purpose and need for the 

Proposed Action as the BRAC 

realignment is required by Congress and 

needed for Army transformation to be 

effective. 

Two elements of the EIS’s Preferred 

Alternative were not selected for 

implementation in the ROD. First, no 

decision is being made at this time for 

siting of the WHS group, designated for 

the Engineer Proving Ground in the EIS. 

There will be a subsequent decision for 

this organization, following analysis of 

different alternatives. The ROD also 

does not include building of the Family 

Travel Camp on Fort Belvoir’s Main 

Post. 

Special consideration was given to the 

effect of the Preferred Alternative on 

natural resources, cultural resources, 

traffic and transportation, 

socioeconomic resources, and air 

quality. Many means to avoid or 

minimize environmental harm from the 

selected alternative have been adopted. 

Other mitigation measures identified in 

the EIS were not adopted, primarily 

because of a lack of funding. The Army 

will minimize effects on all 

environmental and socioeconomic 

resources by implementing the best 

management practices described in the 

EIS. 

As determined in the EIS, 

implementing the Preferred Alternative 

will have short- and long-term 

significant adverse impacts on the 

transportation network at Fort Belvoir 

and its surrounding area. The ROD 

states that implementing the Preferred 

Alternative reflects a proper balance 

among initiatives for protection of the 

environment, appropriate mitigation, 

and actions to achieve the Army’s 

requirements. 

An electronic version of the ROD can 

be viewed or downloaded from the 

following Web site: http:// 

www.hqda.army.mil/acsim/brac/nepa

_eis_docs.htm. 

Dated: August 7, 2007. 

H.E. Wolfe, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the 

Army, (Environment, Safety and 

Occupational Health). 

[FR Doc. 07–3911 Filed 8–9–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3710–08–M 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

Notice of Availability of the Record of 

Decision (ROD) for Transformation at 

the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site 

(PCMS), Colorado 

AGENCY: Department of the Army. 

ACTION: Record of Decision. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the Army 

announces the availability of a ROD 

documenting and explaining the 

decision to implement realignment 

transformation actions, as directed by 

the Base Realignment and Closure 

(BRAC) Commission, at the Pinon 


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