40806 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 146 / Wednesday, July 30, 1997 / Notices

Keyser/Mineral County Public Library,

105 North Main Street, Keyser, West

Virginia

Fort Ashby Public Branch Library, Fort

Ashby, West Virginia

Piedmont Library, Childs Avenue,

Piedmont, West Virginia

Allegheny Mountain Top Public

Library, Mount Storm, West Virginia

Cumberland Public Library, 31

Washington Street, Cumberland,

Maryland

Garrett County Public Library, 6 North

2nd Street, Oakland, Maryland

Westernport Public Library, 66 Main

Street, Westernport, Maryland

Frostburg Library, 90 East Main Street,

Frostburg, Maryland

La Vale Library, 815 National Highway,

La Vale, Maryland

Ronald A. Cucina,

Chief, Operations Division.

[FR Doc. 97–20035 Filed 7–29–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3710–41–M

DELAWARE RIVER BASIN

COMMISSION

Notice of Commission Meeting and

Public Hearing

Notice is hereby given that the

Delaware River Basin Commission will

hold a public hearing on Wednesday,

August 6, 1997. The hearing will be part

of the Commission’s regular business

meeting which is open to the public and

scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. in the

Harbor Room of the University of

Delaware’s Virden Center at 700

Pilottown Road, Lewes, Delaware.

An informal conference among the

Commissioners and staff will be held at

9:30 a.m. at the same location and will

include a U.S. Geological Survey

presentation on a regional pilot for

integrated environmental monitoring

and related research in the mid-Atlantic

region; a presentation on the Delaware

Estuary Program’s monitoring plan; a

discussion of proposed amendments to

the Commission’s Administrative

Manual—Rules of Practice and

Procedure and a Flow Management

Technical Advisory Committee status

report.

In addition to the subjects listed

below which are scheduled for public

hearing at the business meeting, the

Commission will also address the

following: Minutes of the June 25, 1997

business meeting; announcements;

General Counsel’s report; report on

Basin hydrologic conditions;

consideration of Jefferson Township

Sewer Authority Docket No. D–97–6 CP

and public dialogue.

The subjects of the hearing will be as

follows:

Applications for Approval of the

Following Projects Pursuant to Article

10.3, Article 11 and/or Section 3.8 of

the Compact

1. Reed’s Sod Farms D–81–44 Renewal

3

An application for the renewal of a

ground water withdrawal project,

formerly approved under the name of

Stewart L. Reed, Jr., to supply up to 20

million gallons (mg)/30 days of water to

the applicant’s supplemental irrigation

system from Well No. 1. Commission

approval on December 11, 1991 was

limited to five years. The applicant

requests that the total withdrawal from

all wells remain limited to 20 mg/30

days. The project is located in

Washington Township, Mercer County,

New Jersey.

2. Schuylkill County Municipal

Authority D–90–49 CP (Revision 2)

A project to increase the applicant’s

existing exportation of surface water

from 0.6 million gallons per day (mgd)

to 1.0 mgd. The project will provide

0.225 mgd to a site spanning portions of

Foster, Butler and Cass Townships just

east of Interstate Route 81 in Schuylkill

County, Pennsylvania. The project

includes a new Pennsylvania

Department of Transportation safety/rest

area and the proposed Schuylkill

Highridge Business Park. The project

service area is situated in the Delaware

River Basin (DRB) near the ridge line

and exportation will be via discharge of

wastewater to the Schuylkill County

Municipal Authority wastewater

treatment plant located in Gordon,

Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania in the

Susquehanna River Basin (SRB). All of

the exportation water sources are

provided by the applicant’s two existing

water supply storage reservoirs,

Kaufman Reservoir and Mount Laurel

Reservoir (formerly known as Mud Run

Reservoir). Kaufman Reservoir is located

on Kaufman Run, a tributary of Mud

Run, in New Castle Township; Mount

Laurel Reservoir is located nearby on

Mud Run, also in New Castle Township,

all in the DRB in Schuylkill County. No

increase in allocation from the two

reservoirs is required to provide the

increased exportation.

3. Evesham Township Municipal

Utilities Authority D–95–62 CP

A project to upgrade and expand the

applicant’s 1.5 mgd Woodstream sewage

treatment plant (STP) average monthly

design capacity to 1.7 mgd. The STP

will continue to serve a portion of

Evesham Township by providing

secondary biological treatment utilizing

the contact stabilization activatedsludge process and tertiary treatment

with rapid sand filtration. The project

will include improvement and

expansion of the existing facilities and

the addition of ammonia nitrogen

removal facilities. The STP is located

just north of Greentree Road on the east

bank of the South Branch Pennsauken

Creek, to which the STP will continue

to discharge, in Evesham Township,

Burlington County, New Jersey.

4. Richland Township Water Authority

D–96–44 CP

An application for approval of a

ground water withdrawal project to

supply water to the applicant’s

distribution system from existing Well

Nos. 1 and 2, from acquired Well No. 3

(formerly Judd Associates, Inc. Well No.

RC–1), from acquired Well Nos. 4 and

5 (formerly Walnut Bank Water

Company Well Nos. WB–2 and WB–3),

and to increase the existing total

withdrawal limit of 20.13 mg/30 days to

29.3 mg/30 days. The project is located

in Richland Township, Bucks County,

in the Southeastern Pennsylvania

Ground Water Protected Area.

5. Borough of Washington D–97–4 CP

A discharge project to upgrade and

expand the applicant’s existing 0.85

mgd STP to 1.5 mgd. The proposed STP

will provide advanced secondary

biological treatment with the

sequencing batch reactor activated

sludge treatment process. The STP will

continue to serve the Borough and

portions of Washington Township,

Warren County, New Jersey and, after

ultraviolet disinfection, discharge to

Pohatcong Creek via a new outfall

extension; the existing discharge to

Shabbecong Creek, approximately 350

feet upstream of the new discharge, will

be eliminated. The project STP is

situated just south of Route 57 near the

eastern boundary of the Borough of

Washington on the south bank of

Pohatcong Creek.

6. Merchantville-Pennsauken Water

Commission D–97–5 CP

An application for approval of a

ground water withdrawal project to

supply up to 335 mg/30 days of water

to the applicant’s distribution system

from 14 existing wells and new Well

No. Browning Road 3A, and to reduce

the existing withdrawal limit from all

wells to 335 mg/30 days. The project is

located in Merchantville Borough and

Pennsauken Township, Camden

County, New Jersey.
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7. City of Allentown D–97–14 CP

A project to modify the applicant’s

Klines Island STP to improve the

secondary settling and final settling

processes, along with other operational

and equipment modifications. The STP

project is intended to more efficiently

meet the effluent parameters in the

current and future discharge permits.

The STP will continue to be rated for a

40 mgd average monthly flow and

discharge to the Lehigh River in the City

of Allentown, Lehigh County,

Pennsylvania. The STP will continue to

serve the City of Allentown, the

Boroughs of Coplay, Emmaus, Alburtis

and Macungie, and the Townships of

Whitehall, South Whitehall, Salisbury,

Upper Macungie, Lower Macungie,

Upper Milford, Hanover, Weisenberg

and Lowhill, all in Lehigh County.

Documents relating to these items

may be examined at the Commission’s

offices. Preliminary dockets are

available in single copies upon request.

Please contact Thomas L. Brand at (609)

883–9500 ext. 221 concerning docketrelated questions. Persons wishing to

testify at this hearing are requested to

register with the Secretary at (609) 883–

9500 ext. 203 prior to the hearing.

Dated: July 21, 1997.

Susan M. Weisman,

Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–19968 Filed 7–29–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6360–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Notice of Proposed Information

Collection Requests

AGENCY: Department of Education.

ACTION: Proposed collection; comment

request.

SUMMARY: The Director, Information

Resources Management Group, 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

September 29, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Written comments and

requests for copies of the proposed

information collection requests should

be addressed to Patrick J. Sherrill,

Department of Education, 600

Independence Avenue, S.W., Room

5624, Regional Office Building 3,

Washington, DC 20202–4651.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Patrick J. Sherrill (202) 708–8196.

Individuals who use a

telecommunications device for the deaf

(TDD) may call the Federal Information

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339

between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern time,

Monday through Friday.

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

collection requests. OMB may amend or

waive the requirement for public

consultation to the extent that public

participation in the approval process

would defeat the purpose of the

information collection, violate State or

Federal law, or substantially interfere

with any agency’s ability to perform its

statutory obligations. The Director,

Information Resources Management

Group publishes this notice containing

proposed information collection

requests prior to submission of these

requests to OMB. Each proposed

information collection, grouped by

office, contains the following: (1) Type

of review requested, e.g., new, revision,

extension, existing or reinstatement; (2)

Title; (3) Summary of the collection; (4)

Description of the need for, and

proposed use of, the information; (5)

Respondents and frequency of

collection; and (6) Reporting and/or

Recordkeeping burden. OMB invites

public comment at the address specified

above. Copies of the requests are

available from Patrick J. Sherrill at the

address specified above.

The Department of Education is

especially interested in public comment

addressing the following issues: (1) Is

this collection necessary to the proper

functions of the Department, (2) will

this information be processed and used

in a timely manner, (3) is the estimate

of burden accurate, (4) how might the

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: July 24, 1997.

Gloria Parker,

Director, Information Resources Management

Group.

Office of Management

Type of Review: Reinstatement.

Title: Customer Satisfaction Surveys

and Focus Groups

Frequency: On Occasion.

Affected Public: Individuals or

households; Business or other for-profit;

Not-for-profit institutions; State, local or

Tribal government, SEAs or LEAs.

Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping

Hour Burden:

Responses: 101,000.

Burden Hours: 8,000.

Abstract: Customer satisfaction

surveys and focus group discussions

will be conducted by the Principal

Offices of the Department of Education.

They will measure customer satisfaction

and establish and improve customer

service standards as required by

Executive Order 12862.

[FR Doc. 97–19987 Filed 7–29–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

DOE Response to Recommendation

97–2 of the Defense Nuclear Facilities

Safety Board, Continuation of

Criticality Safety at Defense Nuclear

Facilities in the Department of Energy

(DOE) Complex

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Defense Nuclear

Facilities Safety Board published

Recommendation 97–2, concerning

Continuation of Criticality Safety at

Defense Nuclear Facilities in the

Department of Energy (DOE) Complex,

in the Federal Register on May 29, 1997

(62 CFR 29118). Section 315(b) of the

Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended,

42 U.S.C. 2286d(b) requires the

Department of Energy to transmit a

response to the Defense Nuclear

Facilities Safety Board by July 14, 1997.

The Secretary’s response follows.

DATES: Comments, data, views, or

arguments concerning the Secretary’s

response are due on or before August

29, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Send comments, data,

views, or arguments concerning the

Secretary’s response to: Defense Nuclear

Facilities Safety Board, 625 Indiana

Avenue, NW, Suite 700, Washington,

DC 20004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.

Robin Staffin, Deputy Assistant

Secretary for Research and

Development, Office of Defense

Programs, Department of Energy, 1000

Independence Avenue, SW,

Washington, DC 20585.