Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 212 / Friday, November 3, 2023 / Notices 75565 

The August 4, 2023, notice announced 

the Army’s intention to prepare an EIS 

under the National Environmental 

Policy Act (NEPA). The EIS would have 

addressed potential environmental 

effects associated with the 

congressionally-mandated removal of 

the Confederate Memorial from 

Arlington National Cemetery (ANC). 

The Army determined the 

congressionally-mandated removal 

action is a non-discretionary action. 

There would be no reasonably 

foreseeable significant impacts from any 

discretionary elements of the proposed 

action. An EIS is therefore not needed 

to inform any decision-making for this 

action. The Army will prepare an 

Environmental Assessment (EA) to 

analyze and disclose any effects of the 

discretionary elements of the proposed 

action, including how to disassemble 

the Confederate Memorial. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Renea Yates, Director, Office of Army 

Cemeteries, 1 Memorial Avenue, 

Arlington, VA 22211; email: anccommemorative-works@army.mil (Note: 

This email is for administrative 

inquiries only. Any comments regarding 

the proposed action should not be sent 

to this email address, but should instead 

be submitted via comment form located 

at: https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/ 

About/Confederate-MemorialRemoval.); (877) 907–8585. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The NOI 

was published in the Federal Register 

on August 4, 2023 (88 FR 149). 

Congress directed the establishment 

of the Commission on the Naming of 

Items of the DoD that Commemorate the 

Confederate States of America or Any 

Person Who Served Voluntarily with the 

Confederate States of America (the 

Naming Commission) in section 370 of 

the William M. (Mac) Thornberry 

National Defense Authorization Act for 

Fiscal Year 2021 (FY21 NDAA). 

Regarding the Confederate Memorial, 

the Naming Commission recommended 

the following: 

—‘‘The statue atop . . . the monument 

should be removed. All bronze 

elements on the monument should be 

deconstructed, and removed, 

preferably leaving the granite base 

and foundation in place to minimize 

risk of inadvertent disturbance of 

graves.’’ 

—‘‘The work should be planned and 

coordinated with the Commission of 

Fine Arts and the Historical Review 

Commission to determine the best 

way to proceed with removal of the 

monument.’’ 

—‘‘The Department of [the] Army 

should consider the most costeffective method of removal and 

disposal of the monument’s elements 

in their planning.’’ 

The FY21 NDAA, section 370(a), 

requires that ‘‘[n]ot later than [January 1, 

2024], the Secretary of Defense shall 

implement the plan submitted by [the 

Naming Commission] and remove all 

names, symbols, displays, monuments, 

and paraphernalia that honor or 

commemorate the Confederate States of 

America . . . or any person who served 

voluntarily with the Confederate States 

of America from all assets of the 

Department of Defense.’’ 

The purpose of the proposed action is 

to remove from ANC a monument that 

commemorates the Confederate States of 

America. The need for the proposed 

action is to comply with nondiscretionary congressional direction. 

The public scoping process did not 

reveal evidence of any reasonably 

foreseeable significant impacts resulting 

from discretionary actions. 

Overwhelmingly, public comments 

during the scoping process focused on 

the non-discretionary action of 

removing the Confederate Memorial 

from ANC. Because removal of the 

Confederate Memorial from ANC is 

legally required and non-discretionary, 

the question of whether to remove the 

monument is not subject to analysis 

under NEPA. The Army does not have 

the authority to take environmental 

factors into consideration in 

determining whether to remove the 

monument. 

The Army will prepare an EA to 

analyze discretionary actions (i.e., how 

to disassemble and remove the 

Confederate Memorial’s bronze 

elements). The EA and Draft Finding of 

No Significant Impact (Draft FONSI) 

will be published locally and not in the 

Federal Register. The EA and Draft 

FONSI will also be available online at: 

https://www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/ 

About/Confederate-Memorial-Removal. 

James W. Satterwhite Jr., 

U.S. Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24302 Filed 11–2–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3711–02–P 

DELAWARE RIVER BASIN 

COMMISSION 

Notice of Proposed Methodology for 

the 2024 Delaware River and Bay Water 

Quality Assessment Report 

AGENCY: Delaware River Basin 

Commission. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that 

the methodology proposed to be used in 

the 2024 Delaware River and Bay Water 

Quality Assessment Report is available 

for review and comment. 

DATES: Written comments on the 

assessment methodology or 

recommendations for the consideration 

of data sets will be accepted through 5 

p.m. EST on February 1, 2024. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments may be 

submitted through the Commission’s 

web-based comment system, a link to 

which is provided at www.drbc.gov. All 

submissions should include the name 

and address (street address optional) of 

the commenter. Exceptions to use of the 

web-based comment system are 

available based on need, by writing to 

the attention of the Commission 

Secretary, DRBC, P.O. Box 7360, 25 

Cosey Road, West Trenton, NJ 08628– 

0360. For assistance, please contact 

Patricia Hausler at patricia.hausler@

drbc.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Jacob Bransky, Senior Aquatic Biologist, 

jacob.bransky@drbc.gov, 609–477–7230. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Delaware River Basin Commission 

(‘‘DRBC’’ or ‘‘Commission’’) is a 

Federal-interstate compact agency that 

was created in 1961 by concurrent 

legislation of the States of Delaware, 

New Jersey, and New York, the 

Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the 

United States Government for purpose 

of jointly managing the water resources 

of the Delaware River Basin. 

DRBC currently is compiling data for 

the 2024 Delaware River and Bay Water 

Quality Assessment Report (‘‘2024 

Assessment’’) required by the federal 

Clean Water Act (‘‘CWA’’). The 2024 

Assessment will present the extent to 

which waters of the Delaware River and 

Bay are attaining designated uses in 

accordance with section 305(b) of the 

CWA and the Commission’s Water 

Quality Regulations (incorporated by 

reference at 18 CFR part 410), and will 

identify impaired waters, which consist 

of waters in which surface water quality 

standards are not being met. 

The proposed assessment 

methodology to be used in the 2024 

Assessment is available for review at the 

following URL: https://www.nj.gov/ 

drbc/library/documents/

WQAssessment2024

MethodologyDRAFToct2023.pdf. 

Authority: Delaware River Basin 

Compact, Public Law 87–328, Approved 

September 27, 1961, 75 Statutes at 

Large, 688, sec’s 3.6(c), 3.6(h), 3.9, 

3.9(a), 3.9(d), and 5.1. 


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75566 Federal Register / Vol. 88, No. 212 / Friday, November 3, 2023 / Notices 

Dated: October 18, 2023. 

Pamela M. Bush, 

Commission Secretary. 

[FR Doc. 2023–24279 Filed 11–2–23; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

National Nuclear Security 

Administration 

Notice of Availability for the Final SiteWide Environmental Impact Statement 

for Continued Operation of the 

Lawrence Livermore National 

Laboratory 

AGENCY: National Nuclear Security 

Administration, Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: The National Nuclear 

Security Administration (NNSA), a 

semi-autonomous agency within the 

United States (U.S.) Department of 

Energy (DOE), announces the 

availability of a Final Site-Wide 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

Continued Operation of the Lawrence 

Livermore National Laboratory (Final 

LLNL SWEIS) (DOE/EIS–0547) in 

compliance with the National 

Environmental Policy Act of 1969 

(NEPA). NNSA prepared the Final LLNL 

SWEIS to analyze the potential 

environmental impacts associated with 

continuing LLNL operations and 

foreseeable new and/or modified 

operations and facilities for 

approximately the next 15 years. 

Volume 3 of the Final LLNL SWEIS is 

a comment response document (CRD), 

which includes all comments received 

during the public comment period on 

the Draft LLNL SWEIS, as well as 

NNSA’s responses to those comments. 

DATES: NNSA will not issue any Record 

of Decision (ROD) on the proposal for a 

minimum of 30 days after the date that 

the U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency (EPA) publishes its Notice of 

Availability (NOA) in the Federal 

Register. 

ADDRESSES: Requests for additional 

information related to the Final LLNL 

SWEIS should be sent to Mr. Tom Grim, 

NEPA Document Manager, National 

Nuclear Security Administration, 1000 

Independence Ave. SW, Washington, 

DC 20585; or sent by email to: 

LLNLSWEIS@nnsa.doe.gov. 

The Final LLNL SWEIS is available 

for viewing and downloading on the 

NNSA NEPA Reading Room website 

(www.energy.gov/nnsa/nnsa-nepareading-room) and the DOE NEPA 

website (https://energy.gov/nepa/nepadocuments). Copies of the Final LLNL 

SWEIS will also be available at the 

Livermore Public Library, 1188 South 

Livermore Avenue, Livermore, 

California, and the Tracy Public Library, 

20 East Eaton Avenue, Tracy, California. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information about this notice, 

please contact Mr. Tom Grim, NEPA 

Document Manager, National Nuclear 

Security Administration, 1000 

Independence Ave. SW, Washington, 

DC 20585; call 833–778–0508 to leave a 

message; or email at: LLNLSWEIS@

nnsa.doe.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: NNSA is 

responsible for meeting the national 

security requirements established by the 

President and Congress to maintain and 

enhance the safety, reliability, and 

performance of the U.S. nuclear 

weapons stockpile. The continued 

operation of LLNL is critical to NNSA’s 

Stockpile Stewardship and Management 

Program, preventing the spread and use 

of nuclear weapons worldwide, and 

many other areas that may impact 

national security and global stability. 

The Final LLNL SWEIS analyzes two 

alternatives: (1) the No-Action 

Alternative and (2) the Proposed Action. 

The Final LLNL SWEIS also analyzes 

the new hybrid work environment 

under both alternatives due to increases 

in remote work at LLNL. Under the NoAction Alternative, NNSA would 

continue current facility operations 

throughout LLNL in support of assigned 

missions. The No-Action Alternative 

includes previously approved 

construction of new facilities; 

modernization, upgrade, and utility 

projects; and decontamination, 

decommissioning, and demolition of 

excess and aging facilities through 2022. 

The Proposed Action includes the 

scope of the No-Action Alternative and 

an increase in current facility operations 

or enhanced operations that may require 

new or modified facilities and that are 

reasonably foreseeable over the next 15 

years. Continued re-investment in site 

infrastructure would allow LLNL to 

meet mission deliverables and sustain 

science, technology, and engineering 

excellence to respond to future national 

security challenges. The Proposed 

Action includes 75 new projects, 

totaling 3.3 million square feet, between 

2023 and 2035. This comprises 61 

proposed projects, totaling 2.9 million 

square feet, at LLNL’s main site in 

Livermore, California and 14 proposed 

projects, totaling 385,000 square feet, at 

LLNL’s remote testing site, Site 300, 

near Tracy, California. In addition, 

NNSA proposes 20 types of 

modernization, upgrade, and utility 

projects, each involving several 

facilities. Under the Proposed Action, 

NNSA would also decontaminate, 

decommission, and demolish 150 

facilities, totaling 1,170,000 square feet. 

NNSA is also proposing operational 

changes that would increase the tritium 

emissions limits in the National Ignition 

Facility (Building 581) and the Tritium 

Facility (Building 331), decrease the 

administrative limit for fuels-gradeequivalent plutonium in the Superblock 

(Building 332), increase the 

administrative limits for plutonium-239 

at Building 235, and revise the National 

Ignition Facility radioactive materials 

administrative limits to be consistent 

with DOE’s Facility Hazard 

Categorization Standard. The Proposed 

Action also includes several projects to 

enhance the resilience of the energy 

infrastructure and demonstrate 

renewable power solutions. 

This Final LLNL SWEIS contains 

revisions and new information based in 

part on comments received on the Draft 

LLNL SWEIS. These revisions and new 

information are indicated by sidebars in 

the margins. Volume 3 of the Final 

LLNL SWEIS contains summaries of the 

comments received, images of the 

comment documents, and NNSA’s 

responses to the comments. NNSA 

considered all comments received on 

the Draft LLNL SWEIS in preparing the 

Final LLNL SWEIS. 

NNSA will consider the 

environmental impact analysis 

presented in the Final LLNL SWEIS, 

along with other information, in making 

decisions regarding how operations will 

be conducted at LLNL, including 

construction and operation of new 

facilities, modification and upgrade of 

existing facilities and utilities, 

operational changes, and/or 

decontamination, decommission and 

demolition of excess and aging facilities. 

NNSA will not issue any ROD on the 

proposal for a minimum of 30 days after 

the date that EPA publishes its NOA in 

the Federal Register. NNSA will 

publish any ROD in the Federal 

Register. 

Signing Authority 

This document of the Department of 

Energy was signed on October 13, 2023, 

by Jill Hruby, Under Secretary for 

Nuclear Security and Administrator, 

National Nuclear Security 

Administration, pursuant to delegated 

authority from the Secretary of Energy. 

That document with the original 

signature and date is maintained by 

DOE. For administrative purposes only, 

and in compliance with requirements of 

the Office of the Federal Register, the 

undersigned DOE Federal Register 


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