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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

The Historically Black Colleges and 

Universities Capital Financing 

Advisory Board 

AGENCY: The Historically Black Colleges 

and Universities Capital Financing 

Board, Department of Education. 

ACTION: Notice of an open meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the 

schedule and proposed agenda of an 

upcoming open meeting of the 

Historically Black Colleges and 

Universities Capital Financing Advisory 

Board. The notice also describes the 

functions of the Board. Notice of this 

meeting is required by Section 10(a)(2) 

of the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

and is intended to notify the public of 

their opportunity to attend. 

DATES: Friday, April 20, 2007. 

Time: 10 a.m.–2 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: Xavier University, 

University Center Building, 1 Drexel 

Drive, New Orleans, Louisiana 70125. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Don 

E. Watson, Executive Director, 

Historically Black College and 

University Capital Financing Program, 

1990 K Street, NW., Washington, DC 

20006; telephone: (202) 219–7037; fax: 

(202) 502–7677; e-mail: 

donald.watson@ed.gov. 

Individuals who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FRS) at 1–800–877–8339, 

Monday through Friday between the 

hours of 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern 

Standard Time. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Historically Black College and 

University Capital Financing Advisory 

Board (Board) is authorized by Title III, 

Part D, Section 347 of the Higher 

Education Act of 1965, as amended in 

1998 (20 U.S.C. 1066f). The Board is 

established within the Department of 

Education to provide advice and 

counsel to the Secretary and the 

designated bonding authority as to the 

most effective and efficient means of 

implementing construction financing on 

historically black college and university 

campuses and to advise Congress 

regarding the progress made in 

implementing the program. Specifically, 

the Board will provide advice as to the 

capital needs of Historically Black 

Colleges and Universities, how those 

needs can be met through the program, 

and what additional steps might be 

taken to improve the operation and 

implementation of the construction 

financing program. 

The purpose of this meeting is to 

review current program activities, 

provide guidance for 2007 activities, 

and to make recommendations to the 

Secretary on the current capital needs of 

Historically Black Colleges and 

Universities. 

Individuals who will need 

accommodations for a disability in order 

to attend the meeting (e.g., interpreting 

services, assistance listening devices, or 

materials in alternative format) should 

notify Don Watson at 202 219–7037, no 

later than April 5, 2007. We will attempt 

to meet requests for accommodations 

after this date but cannot guarantee their 

availability. The meeting site is 

accessible to individuals with 

disabilities. 

An opportunity for public comment is 

available on Friday, April 20, 2007 

between 12:15 p.m.–12:45 p.m. Those 

members of the public interested in 

submitting written comments may do so 

by submitting them to the attention of 

Don E. Watson, 1990 K Street, NW., 

Washington, DC, by Friday, April 13, 

2007. 

Records are kept of all Board 

proceedings and are available for public 

inspection at the Office of the 

Historically Black College and 

University Capital Financing Advisory 

Board (Board), 1990 K Street, NW., 

Washington, DC 20006, from the hours 

of 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., Eastern Standard 

Time Monday through Friday (EST). 

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index.html. 

James F. Manning, 

Delegated the Authority of Assistant Secretary 

for Postsecondary Education. 

[FR Doc. E7–6090 Filed 4–2–07; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Notice of Availability of a Draft 

Supplement Analysis for Disposal of 

Depleted Uranium Oxide Conversion 

Product Generated From Doe’s 

Inventory of Depleted Uranium 

Hexafluoride 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of availability of a draft 

supplement analysis. 

SUMMARY: DOE has prepared a Draft 

Supplement Analysis (SA) pursuant to 

DOE regulations implementing the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA), 10 CFR 1021.314. The draft SA 

addresses DOE’s proposal to dispose of 

the depleted uranium oxide conversion 

product at either the DOE-owned lowlevel radioactive waste disposal facility 

at the Nevada Test Site (NTS) or at 

EnergySolutions LLC, a commercial 

low-level waste disposal facility in 

Clive, Utah (EnergySolutions; formerly 

known as Envirocare of Utah, Inc.). 

In April 1999, the U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) published a Programmatic 

Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) 

for management of its Depleted 

Uranium Hexafluoride (DUF6) 

inventory. The PEIS included a generic 

assessment of the disposal of depleted 

uranium oxide conversion product (as 

U3O8 or UO2) and concluded that 

disposal of either product in shallow 

earthen structures, vaults, or mines 

would adequately protect human health 

and the environment over the time 

period considered, as long as the 

disposal facility is located in a dry 

environment and appropriately 

engineered (e.g., the cover material is 

maintained). Subsequently, DOE 

prepared site-specific final 

Environmental Impact Statements (EISs) 

for construction and operation of DUF6

conversion facilities at the DOE’s 

Paducah, Kentucky, and Portsmouth, 

Ohio, sites in the Final Environmental 

Impact Statement for Construction and 

Operation of a Depleted Uranium 

Hexafluoride Conversion Facility at the 

Paducah, Kentucky Site, DOE/EIS–0359, 

and the Final Environmental Impact 

Statement for Construction and 

Operation of a Depleted Uranium 

Hexafluoride Conversion Facility at the 

Portsmouth, Ohio Site, DOE/EIS–0360. 

DOE published its Record of Decision 

for Construction and Operation of a 

Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride 

Conversion Facility at the Paducah, 

Kentucky Site, and Record of Decision 

for Construction and Operation of a 

Depleted Uranium Hexafluoride 

Conversion Facility at the Portsmouth, 


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Ohio Site (RODs) on July 27, 2004 (69 

FR 44649 and 69 FR 44654). 

In each site-specific ROD, DOE 

announced its decision to implement 

the actions described as the preferred 

alternative in the corresponding 

conversion facility EIS, which included 

the following actions: 

• DOE will construct and operate a 

conversion facility at Location A within 

each of the Paducah and Portsmouth 

sites. 

• All shipments to and from the 

conversion facility sites, including any 

potential shipments of non-DUF6

cylinders currently stored at the East 

Tennessee Technology Park (ETTP), will 

be conducted by either truck or rail, as 

appropriate. Cylinders will be shipped 

in a manner that is consistent with U.S. 

Department of Transportation (DOT) 

regulations for the shipment of UF6

cylinders. 

• Current cylinder management 

activities (handling, inspection, 

monitoring, and maintenance) will 

continue, consistent with Cylinder 

Project Management Plan for Depleted 

Uranium Hexafluoride, effective 

October 2003, which covers actions 

needed to meet safety and 

environmental requirements, until 

conversion can be accomplished. 

• The aqueous hydrofluoric acid (HF) 

produced during conversion will be 

sold for use. If necessary, calcium 

fluoride (CaF2) will be produced and 

reused, or disposed of as appropriate. 

• The depleted uranium oxide 

conversion product will be reused to the 

extent possible or packaged in emptied 

cylinders for disposal at an appropriate 

disposal facility. DOE plans to decide 

the specific disposal location(s) for the 

depleted uranium oxide conversion 

product after additional appropriate 

NEPA review. Accordingly, DOE will 

continue to evaluate its disposal options 

and will consider any further 

information or comments relevant to 

that decision. DOE will give a minimum 

45-day notice before making the specific 

disposal decision and will provide any 

supplemental NEPA analysis for public 

review and comment. 

The conversion facility RODs did not 

declare a decision regarding the location 

for disposal of depleted uranium oxide 

conversion product. The reason DOE 

did not make its disposal decision at the 

time it issued the RODs for construction 

and operation of the two DUF6 

conversion facilities is that it discovered 

that it had, through an oversight, not 

served copies of the draft and final sitespecific EISs (DOE 2004a, b) to the 

States of Utah, home of 

EnergySolutions, and Nevada, home of 

NTS, as required in 40 CFR 1502.19. As 

a result, each ROD states DOE’s 

intention to decide the specific disposal 

location(s) for the depleted uranium 

oxide conversion product after 

additional appropriate NEPA review. 

This draft SA addresses the additional 

appropriate NEPA review committed to 

in the earlier RODs. The draft SA 

identifies no significant new 

circumstances or information relevant to 

environmental concerns that bear on 

DOE’s decisions on disposal locations or 

the impacts of those decisions. Based on 

the draft SA that is the subject of this 

Notice, DOE believes that a 

supplemental EIS is not needed to 

support amending the conversion 

facility RODs to decide the disposal 

location for the depleted uranium oxide 

conversion product. The depleted 

uranium oxide conversion product may 

be disposed either at the 

EnergySolutions low-level waste 

disposal facility or at the NTS low-level 

waste disposal facility. DOE plans to 

issue amended RODs under the 

conversion facility EISs no sooner than 

45 days from the publication of this 

Notice. 

DATES: DOE will consider all public 

comments on this matter submitted by 

May 18, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

submitted electronically via the Web at 

http://web.ead.anl.gov/uranium/ or by 

regular mail. Written comments can be 

mailed to: DU Disposal Supplement 

Analysis Comment, Argonne National 

Laboratory, Building 900, Mail Stop 3, 

9700 S. Cass Avenue, Argonne, IL 

60439. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Copies of the Supplement Analysis for 

Disposal of Depleted Uranium Oxide 

Conversion Product Generated From 

DOE’s Inventory of Depleted Uranium 

Hexafluoride (DOE/EIS–0359/0360–SA–

001) is available on the Depleted UF6

Management Information Network at: 

http://web.ead.anl.gov/uranium/, and 

on DOE’s NEPA Web site at http:// 

www.eh.doe.gov/nepa/whatsnew.html. 

To request printed copies of this 

document, please write: DU Disposal 

Supplement Analysis Comment, 

Argonne National Laboratory, Building 

900, Mail Stop 3, 9700 S. Cass Avenue, 

Argonne, IL 60439. 

For further information on DOE’s 

NEPA process, contact: Ms. Carol 

Borgstrom, Director, Office of NEPA 

Policy and Compliance, GC–20, U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585, Telephone: 

202–586–4600, or leave a message at 

1–800–472–2756. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Uranium 

Disposition Services, LLC (UDS) began 

construction of the DUF6 conversion 

facilities at Paducah, Kentucky and 

Portsmouth, Ohio in July 2004. The 

main products from the conversion of 

DOE’s inventory of DUF6 will be 

depleted uranium oxide conversion 

product and aqueous hydrogen fluoride 

(HF). The quantities of depleted 

uranium oxide conversion product 

produced annually will be 

approximately 10,800 metric tons (t) 

(11,800 tons) at Portsmouth and 14,300 t 

(15,800 tons) at Paducah. UDS is 

planning to sell the HF product to a 

commercial user. 

In addition to depleted uranium oxide 

conversion product, two other products 

from the conversion process require 

disposal: (1) Emptied DUF6 cylinders 

and (2) a relatively small quantity of 

CaF2 (approximately 18 t [20 tons] at 

Portsmouth and 24 t [26 tons] at 

Paducah annually). UDS is planning to 

use the emptied cylinders as disposal 

containers for the depleted uranium 

oxide conversion product. Therefore, 

the emptied cylinders would become 

part of the depleted uranium oxide 

waste stream. Any cylinders not used as 

disposal containers would be disposed 

of as low-level waste at an appropriate 

facility in compliance with applicable 

regulations. The small quantity of CaF2

would be disposed with the unused 

depleted uranium oxide. Therefore, the 

unused depleted uranium oxide, most of 

the emptied cylinders, and the small 

quantity of CaF2 would be sent to the 

same disposal facility. 

The PEIS considered the 

environmental impacts of six alternative 

strategies for long-term management of 

DOE’s DUF6 inventory. The alternative 

strategies included: (1) Options for 

continued storage of DUF6 in cylinders 

at the three sites where it was stored 

(Paducah, KY, Portsmouth, OH, and 

ETTP in Oak Ridge, TN); (2) long-term 

storage as DUF6 at a consolidated site; 

(3) conversion of the DUF6 to an oxide 

followed by long-term storage; (4) 

conversion to an oxide or depleted 

uranium metal followed by use; (5) 

conversion to an oxide followed by 

disposal; and (6) no action. The analyses 

of the long-term storage and disposal 

alternatives included the transportation 

of the depleted uranium oxide to 

generic storage or disposal sites located 

155 mi (250 km), 620 mi (1,000 km), or 

3,100 mi (5,000 km) from the conversion 

facilities. DOE analyzed the impacts of 

depleted uranium conversion product 

disposal using generic assumptions 

about disposal site characteristics, 

rather than actual characteristics for any 

particular disposal site. A technical 


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support document for the PEIS 

investigated the feasibility of depleted 

uranium disposal at six low-level waste 

disposal facilities based on waste 

acceptance criteria, available capacity, 

and disposal cost (Depleted Uranium 

Storage and Disposal Trade Study: 

Summary Report, ORNL/TM–2000/10). 

This document and subsequent followup studies have verified that the only 

currently operating dry-environment, 

low-level waste disposal facilities that 

are feasible for disposal of the depleted 

uranium oxide conversion product are 

the NTS and EnergySolutions facilities. 

Like the PEIS, site-specific EISs for 

each conversion facility assumed that 

depleted uranium oxide would be 

classified as low-level waste. This 

assumption is consistent with a recent 

ruling by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) in the licensing 

proceeding for a commercial uranium 

enrichment facility (NRC 2005a,b,c,d 

and 2006a,b). The site-specific EISs 

stated that the disposal facility (or 

facilities) would be (1) selected in a 

manner consistent with DOE policies 

and orders, and (2) authorized or 

licensed to receive the conversion 

products by DOE (in conformance with 

DOE orders), the NRC (in conformance 

with NRC regulations), or an NRC 

agreement state agency (in conformance 

with state laws and regulations 

determined to be equivalent to NRC 

regulations). 

DOE is now proposing to amend the 

site-specific RODs to decide that the 

depleted uranium oxide conversion 

product may be disposed of at either the 

NTS or the EnergySolutions low-level 

waste disposal facilities. Accordingly, 

DOE has prepared the draft SA that is 

the subject of this Notice. All other 

aspects of the depleted DUF6 conversion 

program remain as previously described 

in the site-specific EISs and RODs. 

The draft SA identifies no significant 

new circumstances or information 

relevant to environmental concerns that 

bear on DOE’s decisions on disposal 

locations or the impacts of those 

decisions. Since issuance of the two 

site-specific DUF6 conversion facility 

final EISs, the following circumstances 

have changed. In May 2006, a contract 

was signed with Solvay Fluorides, a 

commercial vendor, for purchase of the 

HF co-product. On June 2, 2006, the 

NRC issued an order that determined 

that the Envirocare (now 

EnergySolutions) site near Clive, Utah, 

appears to be suitable for near-term 

disposal of depleted uranium. The 

transportation campaign has been 

slightly modified to include more 

cylinders per railcar with fewer 

shipments per year. Impacts from the 

modified campaign for both operations 

and accident scenarios are projected to 

be about the same as those presented in 

the site-specific EISs. 

DOE believes, based on the analysis in 

the draft SA, that disposal at either NTS 

or EnergySolutions low-level waste 

disposal facilities are reasonable 

alternatives. Regarding the alternative of 

disposal at the EnergySolutions facility, 

DOE believes that adequate NEPA 

documentation exists to support 

disposal of any unused depleted 

uranium oxide conversion product as 

well as for emptied DUF6 cylinders that 

would be used for disposal containers 

and the small quantity of CaF2 that 

would be generated during the 

conversion process. With respect to NTS 

low-level waste facility, the draft SA 

analyses show that there is adequate 

NEPA coverage for all actions leading 

up to delivery at the NTS and that sitespecific NEPA coverage at the NTS is 

adequate for disposal of up to 60,000 m3

of unused depleted uranium oxide 

conversion product. Furthermore, 

upcoming reviews of the NTS site-wide 

EIS will evaluate disposal of additional 

uranium oxide conversion product 

volumes at NTS. Accordingly, DOE 

believes that a supplemental EIS (or an 

environmental assessment) is not 

needed to support amending the sitespecific RODs to address disposal of the 

depleted uranium oxide conversion 

product. 

DOE plans to issue amended RODs 

under the conversion facility EISs no 

sooner than 30 days after issuance of the 

final SA. DOE will consider all public 

comments on the draft SA submitted by 

May 18, 2007. 

Issued in Washington, DC, March 27, 2007. 

Mark W. Frei, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Program 

Planning and Budget. 

[FR Doc. E7–6039 Filed 4–2–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Notice of Extension of Time to Submit 

Scoping Comments on the 

Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement for the Global Nuclear 

Energy Partnership 

AGENCY: Office of Nuclear Energy, U.S. 

Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of extension of time to 

submit scoping comments. 

SUMMARY: In response to public 

requests, the Department of Energy 

(DOE) announces an extension of time 

to submit comments on the proposed 

scope, alternatives, and environmental 

issues to be analyzed in the 

Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement for the Global Nuclear Energy 

Partnership (GNEP PEIS). This date has 

been extended to June 4, 2007, thereby 

giving an additional 61 days to provide 

comments. 

ADDRESSES: Please direct comments, 

suggestions, or relevant information on 

the GNEP PEIS to: Mr. Timothy A. 

Frazier, GNEP PEIS Document Manager, 

Office of Nuclear Energy, U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0119; 

Telephone: 866–645–7803, Fax: 866–

645–7807, e-mail to: GNEPPEIS@nuclear.energy.gov. Please mark 

envelopes, faxes, and e-mails: ‘‘GNEP 

PEIS Comments.’’ Additional 

information on GNEP may be found at 

http://www.gnep.energy.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

general information on DOE’s National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) 

process, please contact: Ms. Carol M. 

Borgstrom, Director, Office of NEPA 

Policy and Compliance, GC–20, U.S. 

Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0103, 202–586–

4600, or by leaving a message at 1–800–

472–2756. Additional information 

regarding DOE’s NEPA activities is 

available on the DOE NEPA Web site at 

http://www.eh.doe.gov/nepa. This 

notice is available at http:// 

www.eh.doe.gov/nepa and http:// 

www.gnep.energy.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On 

January 4, 2007, DOE published a 

Notice of Intent (NOI) (72 FR 331) to 

prepare the GNEP PEIS pursuant to the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969, as amended, 42 U.S.C. 4321 et 

seq., and the Council on Environmental 

Quality’s (CEQ’s) and DOE’s regulations 

implementing NEPA, 40 CFR parts 

1500–1508 and 10 CFR part 1021, 

respectively. With the publication of the 

NOI, DOE began the PEIS scoping 

period and invited Federal, state, and 

local governments, Native American 

Tribes, industry, other organizations, 

and the public to provide comments on 

the proposed scope, alternatives, and 

environmental issues to be analyzed in 

the GNEP PEIS. In response to public 

requests, DOE is now extending the time 

for submittal of scoping comments an 

additional 61 days from April 4, 2007, 

to June 4, 2007. DOE will consider all 

comments received during the scoping 

period in preparing the GNEP PEIS. Late 

comments will be considered to the 

extent practicable. 


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