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evaluates the potential environmental 

impacts associated with realignment 

actions directed by the Base 

Realignment and Closure (BRAC) 

Commission at Aberdeen Proving 

Ground, Maryland. 

DATES: The public comment period for 

the DEIS will end 45 days after 

publication of an NOA in the Federal 

Register by the U.S. Environmental 

Protection Agency. 

ADDRESSES: Please send written 

comments on the DEIS to Mr. Buddy 

Keesee at: Department of the Army, 

Directorate of Safety, Health, and 

Environment, Attention: IMNE–APG–

SHE–R (Bud Keesee), Building 5650, 

Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005–

5001 or via e-mail at 

Buddy.Keesee@us.army.mil. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Keesee at (410) 278–6755 during normal 

business hours Monday through Friday. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Proposed Action and subject of the DEIS 

covers construction and renovation 

activities and the movement of 

personnel associated with the BRAC 

directed realignment of Aberdeen 

Proving Ground. 

To implement the BRAC 

recommendations, Aberdeen Proving 

Ground will be receiving personnel, 

equipment, and missions from various 

realignment and closure actions within 

the Department of Defense. To 

implement the BRAC Commission 

recommendations, the Army will 

provide the necessary facilities/ 

buildings and infrastructure to support 

the changes. Permanent facilities will be 

constructed or renovated to house the: 

Army Research Institute, Army Research 

Laboratory, Army Test and Evaluation 

Command, Joint Program Executive 

Office—Chemical Biological Defense, 

Walter Reed Army Institute for Research 

(Medical Research Institute of Chemical 

Defense), Communications—Electronics 

Life Cycle Management Command, 

Communications—Electronics Research 

Development and Engineering Center, 

and other units and activities. 

All the major planning, engineering, 

and siting analyses for the incoming 

BRAC actions at the Aberdeen Proving 

Ground are essentially complete, 

however, final design features continue 

to be reviewed. The DEIS shows areas 

within which potential construction 

and/or renovation will occur; although, 

the exact footprints, in many cases, have 

not yet been determined. The DEIS 

analyzes the potential impacts within 

these developmental areas. 

Following a rigorous examination of 

all implementation alternatives, those 

alternatives found not to be viable were 

dropped from further analyses in the 

DEIS. Alternatives carried forward 

include the Proposed Alternative and a 

No Action Alternative. The Proposed 

Alternative includes construction, 

renovation, and operation of proposed 

facilities to accommodate incoming 

military missions at Aberdeen Proving 

Ground as mandated by the 2005 BRAC 

recommendations. Minor alternative 

siting variations of proposed facilities 

were also evaluated. The DEIS addresses 

existing environmental resources likely 

to be affected by the Proposed Action, 

including those resources areas 

identified during the public scoping 

process. Implementation of the 

Proposed Alternative will result in 

significant impacts to transportation and 

socioeconomic factors. Depending on 

the final siting of some facilities, there 

is the potential for significant impacts to 

cultural resources due to adverse effects 

resulting from the disturbance or 

destruction of certain sites and 

buildings during renovation and 

construction activities. Impacts to these 

cultural resources would be direct, longterm, and significant. 

No other significant beneficial or 

significant adverse impacts have been 

identified for land use, aesthetics and 

visual resources, air quality, noise, 

geology and soil, water resources, 

biological resources, utilities, or 

hazardous and toxic substances. The No 

Action Alternative provides the baseline 

conditions for comparison to the 

Proposed Alternative. 

The Army invites the general public, 

local governments, other federal 

agencies, and state agencies to submit 

written comments or suggestions 

concerning the alternatives and analyses 

addressed in the DEIS. An electronic 

version of the DEIS is available for 

download on the U.S. Army BRAC 

Division Web site at: http:// 

www.hdqa.army.mil/acsim/brac/ 

nepa_eis_docs.htm. The public and 

government agencies are invited to 

participate in a public meeting where 

oral and written comments and 

suggestions will be received. 

Public meetings are scheduled for 

April 10, 2007 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at 

the Ramada Inn Conference Center, 

1700 Van Bibber Road, Edgewood, 

Maryland, and April 11, 2007 from 6 

p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Holiday Inn, 1007 

Beards Hill Road, Aberdeen, Maryland. 

Dated: March 7, 2007. 

Addison D. Davis, IV, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army, 

(Environment, Safety and Occupational 

Health). 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Navy 

Meeting of the Board of Advisors 

(BOA) to the President, Naval 

Postgraduate School (NPS) 

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: The purpose of the meeting is 

to elicit the advice of the board on the 

Naval Service’s Postgraduate Education 

Program and the collaborative exchange 

and partnership between NPS and the 

Air Force Institute of Technology. The 

board examines the effectiveness with 

which the NPS is accomplishing its 

mission. To this end, the board will 

inquire into the curricula, instruction, 

physical equipment, administration, 

state of morale of the student body, 

faculty, and staff, fiscal affairs, and any 

other matters relating to the operation of 

the NPS as the board considers 

pertinent. This meeting will be open to 

the public. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

Tuesday, April 17, 2007, from 8 a.m. to 

4 p.m. and on Wednesday, April 18, 

2007, from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m. All written 

comments regarding the NPS BOA 

should be received by April 6, 2007, and 

be directed to President, Naval 

Postgraduate School (Attn: Jaye Panza), 

1 University Circle, Monterey, CA 

93943–5000 or by fax 831–656–3145. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Naval Postgraduate School, Ingersoll 

Hall, 1 University Circle, Monterey, CA. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jaye 

Panza, Naval Postgraduate School, 

Monterey, CA 93943–5000, telephone 

number 831–656–2514. 

Dated: March 6, 2007. 

M.C. Holley, 

Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate 

Generals Corps, U.S. Navy, Alternate Federal 

Register Liaison Officer. 

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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 14, 

2007. 


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