Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 237 / Wednesday, December 10, 1997 / Notices 65069

Type of Review: Revision.

Agency: Corporation for National and

Community Service.

Title: National Service Exit Form

(NSEF).

OMB Number: 3045–0015.

Agency Number: None.

Affected Public: Individuals and notfor-profit institutions.

Total Respondents: 31,000.

Frequency: Annually.

Average Time Per Response: 12

minutes.

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 6200

hours.

Total Burden Cost (capital/startup): 0.

Total Burden Cost (operating/

maintenance): 0.

Comments submitted in response to

this notice will be summarized and/or

included in the request for Office of

Management and Budget approval of the

information collection request; they will

also become a matter of public record.

Dated: December 3, 1997.

Lance Potter,

Director, Office of Evaluation.

[FR Doc. 97–32286 Filed 12–9–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6050–28–P

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Defense Information Systems Agency

Notice of Availability of the

Consolidation and Regionalization

Plan, Finding of No Significant Impact

(FONSI), and Associated

Environmental Assessment (EA) for

the Defense Information Systems

Agency (DISA) Defense Megacenters

(DMCs) and Related Facilities

AGENCY: Defense Information Systems

Agency (DISA).

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Defense Information

Systems Agency (DISA) is announcing

that it has prepared an Environmental

Assessment (EA) and issued a Finding

of No Significant Impact (FONSI)

relating to the consolidation and

regionalization of its 16 Defense

Megacenters (DMCs) and related

facilities in response to recommended

action from the Quadrennial Defense

Review (QDR). This action will result in

reduced costs to the Department of

Defense (DOD) and improved

operational efficiencies without

compromising service quality. This

notice announces the availability of the

final EA and FONSI to concerned

agencies and the public.

ADDRESSES: Requests to receive a copy

of the EA or FONSI should be mailed to

Defense Information Systems Agency,

Public Affairs Officer, 701 S.

Courthouse Rd., Arlington, VA 22204–

2199. The documents may also be

picked up at the same address between

the hours of 9 AM and 4 PM EST,

Monday through Friday, except Federal

holidays, by contacting Ms. Betsy Flood

at (703) 607–6048/6900. Arrangements

must be made in advance to pick up the

documents, due to facility security

requirements.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.

Betsy Flood, Public Affairs Officer, at

(703) 607–6048/6900.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

The Defense Information Systems

Agency (DISA) is a Department of

Defense (DOD) combat support agency

under the direction, authority and

control of the Assistant Secretary of

Defense for Command, Control,

Communications, and Intelligence

(ASD[C31]). One of DISA’s mission

functions is to provide information

processing support to the DOD, services,

and agencies. In response to the QDR

and continuing pressure to reduce

federal spending, DISA has developed a

proposal to consolidate and restructure

operations and reduce operating costs.

As input in the decision process of

whether or not to implement this

proposal, an EA has been prepared, as

required by the National Environmental

Policy Act (NEPA). The following

provides a summary of the proposal, the

results of the EA and conclusions.

Proposed Action

The Proposed Action consists of the

following:

a. Consolidate mainframe processing

from 16 existing Defense Megacenters

(DMCs) into six facilities, five plus one

Unisys legacy processing site,

b. Establish self-sustaining, regional

support centers at each of the existing

DMC sites with the exception of

Sacramento, which is being closed as

part of a Base Closure & Realignment

(BRAC) 1995 action,

c. Establish self-sustaining, regional

support centers at four of the remaining

CONUS Storefront locations, closing

others that are not transferred back to

the Services through other initiatives,

and

d. Reduce overhead staffing and allow

for consolidation of overhead support

functions.

These initiatives will hereafter be

synonymous with the term Proposed

Action.

Purpose and Need

With implementation of the Proposed

action, DISA intends to:

a. Implement the Quadrennial

Defense Review (QDR)

recommendation,

b. Reduce costs to DOD by improving

operational efficiency, while still

providing equivalent or better service,

c. Consolidate mainframe processing

into six standardized processing sites,

located at existing DISA occupied

facilities, through a transparent

workload migration process,

d. Reorganize and reduce the

management infrastructure needed to

manage computer operations under the

Defense Working Capital Fund, and

e. Realize savings from more efficient

operations already reflected in FY98

and outyear budgets and most recent

Program Objective Memorandum (POM)

submission.

Result of Action

Under the proposed action,

mainframe processing will be performed

at the following six sites: DMC

Columbus, OH; DMC Mechanicsburg,

PA; DMC Ogden, UT; Oklahoma City,

OK; DMC St. Louis, MO and DMC San

Antonio, TX (Unisys legacy processing

site).

The above sites and 13 additional

sites would serve as regional sites, with

the requirements that workload fully

supports the costs to operate each site.

The 13 additional sites are the

following: Bremertgon, WA;

Chambersburg, PA; Charleston, SC;

Dayton, OH; Denver, CO; Huntsville,

AL; Indianapolis, IN; Jacksonville, FL;

Montgomery, AL; Norfork, VA; Rock

Island, IL; San Diego, CA and Warner

Robins, GA

Alternatives to the Proposed Action

Two alternatives to the proposed

action were assessed in this study: The

Outsourcing Alternative and the NoAction Alternative.

The outsourcing Alternative is based

upon the Coopers & Lybrand study

titled ‘Strategy Options for Defense

Information Services’ (February 1996)

which represents a potential industry

response to outsourcing the mainframe

processing workload of the 16 DMCs.

This alternative assumes that all DMC

technical support and computer

operations functions would be

contracted to a single commercial firm.

Each of the 16 DMCs would be

contracted out in order to allow the

contractor to consolidate to six sites and

achieve efficiencies. The ten remaining

sites would be closed.

The No-Action Alternative is

considered to be continuation of current
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DISA management of all existing DMCs,

storefronts and other associated

facilities. This alternative includes the

completion of optimization and BRAC

initiatives that are currently underway

as well as actions that are within the

purview of DISA management, such as

contract consolidation and software

standardization.

Summary of Environmental Impacts

The Proposed Action is unlikely to

have significant impacts on the

environment, because DISA activities

associated with each site generally

occur indoors in computer, data

processing or office surroundings. The

operations have little, if any, interaction

with the human or natural environment.

Analyses of potential economic impacts

demonstrated no meaningful change to

the economic areas surrounding each of

the sites from the increase or decrease

in DISA employment.

Findings and Conclusions

The analyses conducted for this EA

support the determination that there are

no direct or indirect environmental

impacts which should preclude DISA

from implementing the Proposed

Action. The potential for impacts

resulting from DISA employment loss or

gain is negligible in each of the

economic areas associated with this

action. Therefore, no mitigation is

required or planned for the Proposed

Action. Based on the EA, a Finding of

No Significant Impact (FONSI) is issued.

Preparation of an Environmental Impact

Statement is not required for the

Proposed Action. This FONSI and the

supporting EA fulfill the requirements

of NEPA, DOD directive 6050.1, and the

Council on Environmental Quality

regulation implementing NEPA.

Beverly Sampson,

Chief Protocol Officer.

[FR Doc. 97–32308 Filed 12–9–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 5000–03–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,

December 17, 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 Goddard Conference Room

of the Commission’s offices at 25 State

Police Drive, West Trenton, New Jersey.

An informal conference among the

Commissioners and staff will be held at

11:00 a.m. at the same location and will

include discussion of proposed

amendments to the Commission’s

Ground Water Protected Area

Regulations for Southeastern

Pennsylvania and response document

distribution and the 1998 Commission

meeting schedule.

In addition to the subjects listed

which are scheduled for public hearing

at the business meeting, the

Commission will also address the

following: Minutes of the November 19,

1997 business meeting; announcements;

General Counsel’s Report; report on

Basin hydrologic conditions; a

resolution to adopt the current expense

and capital budgets for Fiscal Year 1999;

a resolution to adopt a Commission

vision and mission statement entitled

Charting the Future 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. Mount Holly Water Company D–95–

46 CP

An application for approval of a

ground water withdrawal project to

supply up to 88.7 million gallons (mg)/

30 days of water to the applicant’s

Mansfield Water Supply Facility from

new Well Nos. 1, 2, 3 and 4, and to limit

the withdrawal from all Mansfield and

Mount Holly water systems wells to 184

mg/30 days. The project is located in

Mansfield Township, Burlington

County, New Jersey.

2. New Jersey Turnpike Authority D–96–

55 CP

An application for approval of a

ground water withdrawal project to

supply up to 3.6 mg/30 days of water to

the applicant’s Service Area 1N from

new Well No. 1N–3, and to limit the

existing withdrawal from all wells to 3.6

mg/30 days. The project is located in

Oldmans Township, Salem County,

New Jersey.

3. Perkasie Borough Authority D–97–12

CP

An application for approval of a

ground water withdrawal project to

supply up to 21.6 mg/30 days of water

to the applicant’s distribution system

from new Well No. 12, and to retain the

existing withdrawal limit from all wells

of 34.2 mg/30 days. The project is

located in East Rockhill Township and

Perkasie Borough, Bucks County, in the

Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground

Water Protected Area.

4. Horsham Water Authority D–97–16

CP

An application for approval of a

ground water withdrawal project to

supply up to 14.4 mg/30 days of water

to the applicant’s distribution system

from new Well No. 40, and to retain the

existing withdrawal limit from all wells

of 83.36 mg/30 days. The project is

located in Horsham Township,

Montgomery County, in the

Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground

Water Protected Area.

5. Milford Township Water Authority D–

97–24 CP

An application for approval of a

ground water withdrawal project to

supply up to 3.46 mg/30 days of water

to the applicant’s distribution system

from new Well No. 2, and to increase

the existing withdrawal limit from all

wells from 5.58 mg/30 days to 9.04 mg/

30 days. The project is located in

Milford Township, Bucks County, in the

Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground

Water Protected Area.

6. Superior Water Company D–97–26 CP

An application to replace the

withdrawal of ground water from Well

No. 3 in the applicant’s water supply

system which has become an unreliable

source of supply. The applicant requests

that the withdrawal from replacement

Well No. 10 be limited to 3.88 mg/30

days, and that the total withdrawal from

all wells remain limited to 15 mg/30

days. The project is located in Douglass

and New Hanover Townships,

Montgomery County, in the

Southeastern Pennsylvania Ground

Water Protected Area.

7. Borough of Delaware Water Gap D–

97–32 CP

An application for approval of a

ground water withdrawal project to

supply up to 9.15 mg/30 days of water

to the applicant’s distribution system

from new Well Nos. 6 and 7, and to

limit the withdrawal from all wells to 15

mg/30 days. The project is located in

Delaware Water Gap Borough, Monroe

County, Pennsylvania.

8. Borough of Quakertown D–97–36 CP

An application to replace the

withdrawal of water from Well No. 15

in the applicant’s water supply system

which has become an unreliable source

of supply, with new Well No. 15A. The

applicant requests that the total

withdrawal from all wells remain

limited to 51.1 mg/30 days. The project

is located in the Borough of