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sales, and property taxes and the 

magnitude of these taxes. What laws if 

any would need to be changed to 

require the USPS to explicitly pay such 

taxes? 

10. Please discuss the costs, benefits, 

and feasibility associated with requiring 

the USPS to establish a separate private 

entity to provide competitive products. 

What, if any, scope economies between 

its market-dominant products and its 

competitive products would be lost 

under this scenario? Please cite any 

relevant examples involving foreign 

countries in which a state-owned postal 

service established a separate private 

entity to provide competitive products. 

11. Please discuss any other possible 

ways of ending the differences in legal 

requirements between the USPS and its 

private competitors with respect to the 

competitive category of mail, including 

the costs, benefits, and feasibility 

associated with these other possible 

approaches. 

By direction of the Commission. 

Donald S. Clark, 

Secretary. 

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GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

[PBS–N01] 

Notice of Intent to Prepare an 

Environmental Assessment for the 

Transformation of Facilities and 

Infrastructure for the Non-Nuclear 

Production Activities Conducted at the 

National Nuclear Security 

Administration’s Kansas City Plant at 

Kansas City, Missouri 

AGENCY: General Services 

Administration and National Nuclear 

Security Administration, Department of 

Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of Intent. 

SUMMARY: The General Services 

Administration (GSA), as the lead 

agency, and the National Nuclear 

Security Administration (NNSA), as a 

cooperating agency, intend to prepare 

an Environmental Assessment (EA) to 

evaluate the potential environmental 

impacts associated with the following 

project: Transformation of Facilities and 

Infrastructure for the Non-Nuclear 

Production Activities Conducted at the 

NNSA Kansas City Plant. 

The proposed action is for GSA to 

procure the construction of new 

facilities to house NNSA’s non-nuclear 

component procurement and 

manufacturing operations. The new 

facilities would be located 

approximately 8 miles south of the 

existing plant on a currently 

undeveloped site at the northwest 

corner of Missouri Highway 150 and 

Botts Road in Kansas City, Missouri. 

GSA would lease the facilities to NNSA, 

which would relocate its non-nuclear 

operations from the existing Kansas City 

Plant in the Bannister Federal Complex 

in Kansas City, Missouri, to the new 

facilities and conduct future operations 

in the new facilities. The relocation 

would involve moving approximately 

two-thirds of the existing capital and 

process equipment to the new facilities. 

Disposition activities of the existing 

NNSA facilities at the Kansas City Plant 

are not part of the current proposed 

action, and will be addressed in 

appropriate future environmental 

analyses. The Kansas City Plant is 

collocated on the Bannister Federal 

Complex with GSA and disposition 

activities will require coordination 

between both agencies. 

The proposed facilities would cover 

more than 1 million square feet and 

provide over 2,000 surface parking 

spaces. The current facilities are 

approximately 3 million square feet. 

The proposed facilities would meet 

current and future production 

requirements for NNSA in a modern, 

cost effective, and flexible manner 

through reductions in the current 

facility footprint while significantly 

reducing operational, maintenance, 

security, and energy costs. 

The EA also will evaluate the 

potential environmental impacts 

associated with alternatives to the 

proposed action, including: 

<bullet≤ No Action, i.e., continuing 

NNSA’s non-nuclear operations in the 

existing Bannister Federal Complex 

facilities. 

<bullet≤ Renovate the existing GSA 

office and warehouse space at the 

Bannister Federal Complex, relocate 

NNSA’s non-nuclear operations to the 

renovated facilities, and conduct future 

operations in the renovated facilities. 

<bullet≤ Renovate the existing GSA 

office space, demolish existing GSA 

warehouse space, and construct and 

operate a new manufacturing facility on 

the GSA portion of the Bannister 

Federal Complex. 

<bullet≤ Demolish existing GSA office 

and warehouse space. Construct and 

operate new office and manufacturing 

facilities on GSA’s portion of the 

Bannister Federal Complex. 

Concurrent with the preparation of 

the Environmental Assessment, GSA 

and NNSA will determine the 

applicability of floodplain management 

and wetland protection requirements 

(10 CFR Part 1022) and will publish a 

notice of proposed floodplain and/or 

wetland action as appropriate. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Public 

Scoping Meetings: The GSA and NNSA 

will hold a public scoping meeting for 

the Environmental Assessment on the 

Transformation of Facilities and 

Infrastructure for the Non-Nuclear 

Production Activities Conducted at the 

National Nuclear Security 

Administration’s Kansas City Plant. The 

purpose of this Notice of Intent is to 

invite public participation at the 

scoping meeting and to request public 

comments on the scope of the EA, 

including the potential environmental 

impacts associated with the proposed 

action. 

The public scoping meeting is 

scheduled as follows: 

Wednesday, May 23rd, 2007 

6:30 p.m. – 9:30 p.m. 

Plaza Auditorium 

Bannister Federal Complex 

1500 East Bannister Road 

Kansas City, MO 64131 

Enter the Bannister Federal Complex 

by using Entrance 2, also marked Lydia 

Entrance, off Bannister Road. Enter the 

building through GSA Lobby 16. Please 

bring government-issued photo 

identification for entry into the 

building. Oral and written comments 

will be accepted at the public scoping 

meeting. In addition, GSA and NNSA 

will consider all written comments 

postmarked by May 30, 2007. For 

further information or to submit written 

comments please contact: 

Carlos Salazar 

GSA Regional NEPA Coordinator 

1500 East Bannister Road, Room 2191 

(6PTA) 

Kansas City, MO 64131 

(816) 823–2305 

carlos.salazar@gsa.gov 

Background: NNSA intends to adopt 

this EA for use as a basis for decisions 

regarding the further transformation and 

downsizing of non-nuclear production 

activities performed at its Kansas City 

Plant. This EA is being prepared 

pursuant to the National Environmental 

Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA), and 

regulations implementing NEPA issued 

by the Council on Environmental 

Quality (40 CFR Parts 1500–1508), GSA 

(ADM 1095.1F), and to the extent not 

inconsistent with ADM 1095.1F, DOE 

(10 CFR Part 1021). 

NNSA’s non-nuclear operations 

include the procurement and 

manufacture of electrical, electronic, 

electromechanical, plastic, and 

mechanical components for the nuclear 

weapons program. Hazardous wastes are 

generated through general industrial 

processes and include acidic and 


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alkaline liquids, solvents, oils and 

coolants. The Kansas City Plant is a 

non-nuclear site and does not have 

special nuclear materials, but operations 

do generate small quantities of low-level 

radioactive waste. 

GSA and NNSA believe that the 

relocation of the non-nuclear 

production mission to another location 

outside of the Kansas City Metropolitan 

Area is not a reasonable alternative and 

do not intend to analyze it as an 

alternative in the present EA. 

DOE completed a Nuclear Weapons 

Complex Reconfiguration (Complex–21) 

Study in January 1991, which identified 

significant cost savings that could be 

achieved by downsizing the nuclear 

weapons complex. On January 27, 1992, 

the Department issued an NOI (57 FR 

3046) to prepare an environmental 

assessment (DOE/EA–0792) for the 

consolidation of non-nuclear production 

activities within the nuclear weapons 

complex. On September 14, 1993, DOE 

published a Finding of No Significant 

Impact (FONSI) regarding its proposal 

(58 FR 48043) to terminate non-nuclear 

production missions at the Mound Plant 

in Ohio, the Pinellas Plant in Florida, 

and the Rocky Flats Plant in Colorado, 

and consolidate the electrical and 

mechanical manufacturing functions at 

the Kansas City Plant. 

DOE issued an NOI on June 6, 1995 

(60 FR 31291), a final Stockpile 

Stewardship and Management PEIS on 

November 19, 1996 (61 FR 58871), and 

a ROD on December 26, 1996 (61 FR 

68014) announcing its decision to 

transform the weapons production 

complex by further downsizing of the 

nuclear weapons complex. This 

decision included reducing non-nuclear 

component fabrication capacity at the 

Kansas City Plant. In these documents 

DOE evaluated alternatives for 

consolidation of non-nuclear 

manufacturing, storage and surveillance 

functions of the Nuclear Weapons 

Complex to the Kansas City Plant and 

reducing the capacity for non-nuclear 

component fabrication. 

The proposed action would continue 

the consolidation and downsizing of 

non-nuclear activities at the Kansas City 

Plant begun in the early 1990s. The 

alternatives are constructed around the 

mission need to maintain the Kansas 

City Plant while downsizing for cost 

efficiency. Keeping these activities in 

the Kansas City area is consistent with 

NNSA’s broader proposed 

transformation of the U.S. nuclear 

weapons complex and is based on the 

previous NEPA analyses and decisions 

described above, and on an economic 

analysis that will be included in the 

Environmental Assessment. GSA and 

NNSA invite and will consider 

comments on this issue during the 

scoping process. 

Separately, NNSA is preparing a 

Supplement to the Stockpile 

Stewardship and Management 

Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement—Complex 2030 (DOE/EIS– 

0236–S4) that evaluates alternatives for 

the continued transformation of the 

nuclear weapons complex. As explained 

in the NOI for that Supplemental PEIS 

(71 FR 61731; October 19, 2006), 

‘‘NNSA believes that it is appropriate to 

separate the analyses of the 

transformation of non-nuclear 

production from the Supplemental PEIS 

because decisions regarding non-nuclear 

activities would neither significantly 

affect nor be affected by decisions 

regarding the transformation of nuclear 

production activities.’’ 

Dated: April 23, 2007. 

Carlos A Salazar, 

Regional NEPA Coordinator,Portfolio 

Management Division (6PTA),GSA Public 

Buildings Service, Heartland Region. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Nominations Requested/Open for the 

2007 Innovation in Prevention Awards 

AGENCY: Department of Health and 

Human Services, Office of the Secretary. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Health and 

Human Services (HHS) seeks 

nominations of public and private sector 

organizations to receive the 2007 

Innovation in Prevention Awards. This 

activity seeks to advance President 

George W. Bush’s HealthierUS goal of 

helping Americans live longer, better, 

and healthier lives. The statutory 

authority for this health promotion 

activity is Section 1703 [42 U.S.C. 

300u–2] from Title XVII of the Public 

Health Service Act. The Innovation in 

Prevention Awards Initiative will 

identify and celebrate outstanding 

organizations that have implemented 

innovative and creative chronic disease 

prevention and health promotion 

programs. To be nominated, a program 

must address at least one of the 

following risk categories: 

(1) Obesity; 

(2) Physical activity; and 

(3) Nutrition. 

The Department intends that these 

awards will provide an opportunity to 

increase public awareness of creative 

approaches to develop and expand 

innovative health programs and 

encourage duplication of successful 

strategies. 

Awards will be given in the following 

categories: 

<bullet≤ Faith-Based and/or 

Community Initiatives. 

<bullet≤ Health Care Delivery. 

<bullet≤ Healthy Workplace. 

[cir] Large Employer ≤ 500 employees. 

[cir] Small Employer < 500 

employees. 

<bullet≤ Non-Profit. 

<bullet≤ Public Sector. 

<bullet≤ Schools (K–12). 

The following criteria will be taken 

into consideration upon review: 

<bullet≤ Creativity/Innovation. 

<bullet≤ Leadership. 

<bullet≤ Sustainability. 

<bullet≤ Replicability. 

<bullet≤ Effectiveness (results/ 

outcomes). 

<bullet≤ Receipt of other awards or 

recognition at the national, state, or 

local level. 

DATES: Nominations must be received 

by 5 p.m. EDT on June 29, 2007. 

Nominations: Partnership for 

Prevention, a 501(c)(3) organization 

focused on health promotion, is 

coordinating the nomination process for 

the Innovation in Prevention Awards on 

behalf of the HHS. Nominations can 

only be made electronically at http:// 

www.prevent.org/awards2007. For more 

information, contact Partnership for 

Prevention at (202) 785–4943 or 

innovationawards@prevent.org. 

Partnership for Prevention may request 

additional information as necessary. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department of Health and Human 

Services is the U.S. government’s 

principal agency for promoting and 

protecting the health of all Americans. 

The HHS manages many programs, 

covering a broad spectrum of health 

promotion and disease prevention 

services and activities. Leaders in the 

business community, State and local 

government officials, tribes and tribal 

entities, and charitable, faith-based, and 

community organizations have 

expressed an interest in working with 

the Department to promote healthy 

choices and behaviors. The Secretary 

welcomes this interest. With this notice, 

the Secretary outlines opportunities to 

identify and celebrate outstanding 

organizations that have implemented 

innovative and creative chronic disease 

prevention and health promotion 

programs. 

Dated: April 25, 2007. 

John O. Agwunobi, 

Assistant Secretary for Health. 

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