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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Navy 

Notice of Public Hearing for the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

Kilo Wharf Extension, Apra Harbor 

Naval Complex, Guam, Mariana Islands 

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 102(2)(C) 

of the National Environmental Policy 

Act (NEPA) of 1969, as implemented by 

the Council on Environmental Quality 

Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500–1508), 

the Department of the Navy (DON) has 

prepared and filed with the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 

a Draft Environmental Impact Statement 

(EIS) to evaluate the potential 

environmental consequences of the 

proposed Kilo Wharf Extension, Apra 

Harbor Naval Complex (AHNC), Guam, 

Mariana Islands. 

The DON will conduct one public 

hearing to receive oral and written 

comments on the Draft EIS. Federal, 

Territorial, local agencies and interested 

individuals are invited to be present or 

represented at the public hearing. DON 

representatives will be available to 

clarify information related to the Draft 

EIS. This notice announces the date and 

location of the public hearing for this 

Draft EIS. 

DATES AND ADDRESSES: A public hearing 

will be held on Wednesday, March 28, 

2007, at 6 p.m. at the Hyatt Regency 

Guam, 1155 Pale San Vitores Road, 

Tuman Bay, Guam, Mariana Islands. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Naval Facilities Engineering Command, 

Pacific, 258 Makalapa Drive, Suite 100, 

Pearl Harbor, HI 96860–3134, Attn: Ms. 

Nora Macariola-See, telephone 808–

472–1402, facsimile 808–474–5419, Email: kiloeis@navy.mil. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A Notice 

of Intent to prepare this Draft EIS was 

published in the Federal Register on 

July 29, 2005 (70 FR 43848). Two public 

scoping meetings were held on Guam, 

Mariana Islands. The first public 

scoping meeting was held on August 30, 

2005, at the Guam Hilton, 202 Hilton 

Road, Tumon Bay, Guam. The second 

public scoping meeting was originally 

scheduled to be held on August 31, 

2005, but rescheduled due to typhoon 

warnings to September 2, 2005, at the 

Santa Rita Community Center, 183 A.B. 

Won Pat Lane, Santa Rita, Guam. 

The proposed action is to provide 

adequate berthing facilities (including 

shore utilities and wharf-side handling 

area) to support the T–AKE which is a 

new class of multi-purpose dry cargo/ 

ammunition ship that will replace 

existing ammunition ships currently 

forward deployed to the AHNC, Guam. 

As part of its ordnance support 

function, Commander, Navy Region 

Marianas (COMNAVREGMARIANAS) is 

charged with providing adequate 

facilities for the new T–AKE vessels 

scheduled to be in service in Guam in 

fiscal year 2010. The new T–AKE will 

be homeported in San Diego, CA, with 

two ships forward deployed to AHNC as 

ammunition ships serving Guam, Asia, 

the Western Pacific, and the Middle 

East. The two T–AKE ships will replace 

two T–AE ammunition ships that are 

currently forward-deployed to Guam. 

The existing Kilo Wharf, located within 

the AHNC in Outer Apra Harbor, is 400- 

feet (ft) long (122 meters (m)), and is the 

DoD’s only dedicated ammunition 

wharf in the Western Pacific Region. 

The T–AKE is 689 ft (210 m) long, and 

requires 800 ft (244 m) for berthing. The 

proposed action is needed because Kilo 

Wharf is inadequate to support the T–

AKE and there are no other suitable 

facilities on Guam available to 

accommodate this class of ammunition 

ship. The new wharf facilities must 

meet DoD technical design standards to 

ensure safe and efficient ordnance 

loading/offloading for the T–AKE. 

COMNAVREGMARIANAS evaluated 

a rane of alternatives that would meet 

action objectives, and applied screening 

criteria to identify those alternatives 

that were ‘‘reasonable’’ (i.e., practical 

and feasible from an operations, 

technical, and economic standpoint). 

Reasonable alternatives were carried 

through the Draft EIS analysis. The Draft 

EIS considers three alternatives: (1) 

Extending Kilo Wharf by 400 ft (122 m) 

to the west (‘‘West Extension 

Alternative’’), (2) extending Kilo Wharf 

by 115 ft (35 m) to the east and 285 ft 

(87 m) to the west (‘‘East-West 

Extension Alternative’’), and (3) the NoAction Alternative, considered in 

accordance with Section 1502.14(d) of 

the NEPA regulation. The West 

Extension Alternative is considered the 

Preferred Alternative. Both the West 

Extension Alternative and the East-West 

Extension Alternative would provide 

adequate berthing for the T–AKE in 

accordance with DoD technical design 

standards, and include utility and 

infrastructure upgrades to accommodate 

the T–AKE. The Draft EIS also considers 

the No Action Alternative, which 

assumes that the T–AKE would be 

berthed at the existing Kilo Wharf with 

no wharf improvements or utility and 

infrastructure upgrade. 

The Draft EIS evaluates the 

environmental effects associated with 

the wharf construction on the physical 

environment, land and water use, the 

social and economic environment, 

infrastructure and services, cultural 

resources, hazardous and regulated 

materials and waste, and biological 

resources, including marine habitats 

that provide ecological services. 

Methods to reduce or minimize impacts 

to affected marine habitats are also 

addressed. The analysis includes an 

evaluation of the direct, indirect, and 

cumulative impacts. Implementation of 

the proposed action is not expected to 

result in any significant short or long 

term impacts on physical, 

socioeconomic, or biological resources, 

however, there would be unavoidable 

adverse impacts to limited areas of 

marine benthic habitat. 

The Draft EIS has been distributed to 

various Federal and Territorial agencies, 

elected officials, special interest groups, 

and interested parties, and is available 

for public review at the following public 

libraries: (1) Nieves M. Flores Memorial 

Library, 254 Martyr Street, Hagatna, 

Guam 96910; (2) Robert F. Kennedy 

Memorial Library, University of Guam, 

303 University Drive, Mangilao, Guam 

96923. 

The DON will conduct a public 

hearing to receive oral and written 

comments concerning the Draft EIS. The 

public hearing will include a brief 

presentation followed by a request for 

comments on the Draft EIS. Federal, 

Territorial, and local agencies, and 

interested parties are invited to be 

present or represented at the hearings. 

Those who intend to speak will be 

asked to submit a speaker card 

(available at the door). Oral comments 

will be electronically recorded and 

transcribed by a stenographer. To assure 

accuracy of the record, all statements, 

both oral and written, will become part 

of the public record on the Draft EIS and 

will be responded to in the Final EIS. 

Equal weight will be given to both oral 

and written statements. In the interest of 

available time and to ensure that all 

who wish to give an oral statement have 

the opportunity to do so, each speaker’s 

comments will be limited to three 

minutes. If a longer statement is to be 

presented, it should be summarized at 

the public hearing and the full text 

submitted in writing either at the 

hearing or faxed or mailed to: Naval 

Facilities Engineering Command Pacific, 

258 Makalapa Drive, Ste 100, Pearl 

Harbor, HI 96860–3134, Attn: Ms. Nora 

Macariola-See, facsimile 808–474–5419, 

E-mail: kiloeis@navy.mil. All written 

comments postmarked by April 23, 

2007, will become part of the official 

public record and will be responded to 

in the Final EIS. 


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10722 Federal Register / Vol. 72, No. 46 / Friday, March 9, 2007 / Notices 

Dated: March 6, 2007. 

M.C. Holley, 

Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate 

General’s Corps, U.S. Navy, Federal Register 

Liaison Officer. 

[FR Doc. E7–4312 Filed 3–8–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection Requests 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

SUMMARY: The IC Clearance Official, 

Regulatory Information Management 

Services, Office of Management, invites 

comments on the proposed information 

collection requests as required by the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before May 8, 

2007. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires 

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) provide interested 

Federal agencies and the public an early 

opportunity to comment on information 

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waive the requirement for public 

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burden. OMB invites public comment. 

The Department of Education is 

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this information be processed and used 

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Department enhance the quality, utility, 

and clarity of the information to be 

collected; and (5) how might the 

Department minimize the burden of this 

collection on the respondents, including 

through the use of information 

technology. 

Dated: March 5, 2007. 

Angela C. Arrington, 

IC Clearance Official, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

Office of Planning, Evaluation and 

Policy Development 

Type of Review: New. 

Title: Evaluation of the Early 

Childhood Educator Professional 

Development Program. 

Frequency: Other: One time. 

Affected Public: State, Local, or Tribal 

Gov’t, SEAs or LEAs. 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 81. 

Burden Hours: 95. 

Abstract: The Evaluation of the Early 

Childhood Educator Professional 

Development (ECEPD) program will 

describe and analyze the strategies 

ECEPD projects are using to deliver 

professional development, and it will 

synthesize the outcomes of ECEPD 

projects. In addition to describing the 

outcomes for participants and outcomes 

for children to the extent that they can 

be summarized from grantee 

evaluations, this study will also identify 

promising practices in professional 

development for early childhood 

educators. 

Requests for copies of the proposed 

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Written requests for information should 

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245–6623. Please specify the complete 

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Comments regarding burden and/or 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Office of Innovation and Improvement; 

Overview Information; Magnet Schools 

Assistance Program (MSAP); Notice 

Inviting Applications for New Awards 

for Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 

Catalog of Federal Domestic 

Assistance (CFDA) Number: 84.165A. 

Dates: 

Applications Available: March 9, 

2007. 

Deadline for Notice of Intent to Apply: 

April 6, 2007. 

Deadline for Transmittal of 

Applications: April 27, 2007. 

Deadline for Intergovernmental 

Review: June 27, 2007. 

Eligible Applicants: Local educational 

agencies (LEAs) or consortia of LEAs. 

Estimated Available Funds: 

$100,000,000. 

Estimated Range of Awards: 

$350,000–$4,000,000 per year. 

Estimated Average Size of Awards: 

$2,500,000 per year. 

Maximum Award: We will not fund 

any application at an amount exceeding 

the maximum amount of $4,000,000 per 

year specified in section 5309(c) of the 

Elementary and Secondary Education 

Act of 1965, as amended (ESEA) for a 

single fiscal year. We may choose not to 

further consider or review applications 

with budget requests for any 12-month 

budget period that exceed this amount, 

if we conclude, during our initial review 

of the application, that the proposed 

goals and objectives cannot be obtained 

with the specified maximum amount. 

Estimated Number of Awards: 40. 

Note: The Department is not bound by any 

estimates in this notice. 

Project Period: Up to 36 months. 

Full Text of Announcement 

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Purpose of Program: The MSAP 

provides grants to eligible LEAs and 

consortia of LEAs to support magnet 

schools that are part of an approved 

desegregation plan. Through the 

implementation of magnet schools, 

these program resources can be used in 

pursuit of the objectives of the ESEA, 

which supports State and local efforts to 

enable all elementary and secondary 

students to achieve to high standards 

and holds schools, LEAs, and States 

accountable for ensuring that their 

students do so. In particular, the MSAP 

provides an opportunity for eligible 

entities to focus on expanding their 

capacity to provide public school choice 

to students who attend schools 

identified for improvement, corrective 

action, or restructuring under Title I, 

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