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long-term multimodal transportation 

system for the Commonwealth of 

Virginia and Arlington County. 

DATES: The Draft EA is available for a 

30-day review period. Written 

comments will be accepted until the 

close of business on September 22, 

2018. 

ADDRESSES: The public is invited to 

submit comments to Ms. Kathy Perdue, 

Department of the Army, U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District, 

Planning and Policy Branch, 803 Front 

St., Norfolk, VA 23510 or via email: 

SouthernExpansion@usace.army.mil. 

The Project title and the commenter’s 

contact information should be included 

with submitted comments. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Kathy Perdue, (757) 201–7218. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: As part of 

the public involvement process, notice 

is hereby given by the USACE Norfolk 

District, on behalf of the ANC, of a 

public information meeting that will be 

held on August 22, 2018, from 5:00 to 

8:00 p.m., at the Sheraton Pentagon City 

Hotel, 900 S Orme Street, Arlington, VA 

22204. The public information meeting 

will allow participants the opportunity 

to comment and ask questions on the 

Draft EA. Attendance at the public 

meeting is not necessary to provide 

comments. Written comments may also 

be given to the contact listed under 

ADDRESSES. 

The document is available for review 

at the following locations: 

(1) The USACE Norfolk District 

Arlington National Cemetery Southern 

Expansion website: http://www.nao

.usace.army.mil/Missions/MilitaryConstruction/ANCSouthernExpansion/ 

(2) The ANC website: https://

www.arlingtoncemetery.mil/About/ 

Policies-and-Public-Notices/PublicNotices 

(3) Copies at the following Arlington 

County, Virginia Public Libraries: 

a. Arlington County Central Library, 

1015 N Quincy Street, Arlington, VA 

22201. 

b. Aurora Hills Branch Public Library, 

735 South 18th Street, Arlington, VA 

22202. 

c. Columbia Pike Branch Public 

Library, 816 South Walter Reed Drive, 

Arlington, VA 22204. 

The ANC is the lead federal agency 

for this Project, and the USACE has 

prepared the draft NEPA document on 

its behalf, assisted by the HNTB 

Corporation. The following are serving 

as cooperating agencies during the 

NEPA process: Federal Highway 

Administration (FHWA), the 

Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA), the National Capital Planning 

Commission (NCPC), the Virginia 

Department of Transportation (VDOT), 

and Arlington County. The ANC and the 

USACE also considered the input of 

various stakeholder organizations and 

the public. 

ANC is located within the eastern 

boundary of Arlington County, in the 

northeastern corner of the 

Commonwealth of Virginia, and at the 

western terminus of Memorial Avenue, 

directly across the Arlington Memorial 

Bridge and the Potomac River from the 

District of Columbia (Washington, DC). 

ANC is our nation’s most hallowed 

ground. This Army cemetery consists of 

624 acres and is the final resting place 

of over 400,000 service members and 

their families. The proposed Southern 

Expansion site, bounded by Washington 

Boulevard (Route 27), I–395, the VDOT 

Maintenance Complex, the Foxcroft 

Heights neighborhood, and the ANC, 

involves approximately 70 acres among 

three landowners: ANC, Arlington 

County, and VDOT. 

Proposed Action. The Proposed 

Action is to establish a single 

contiguous parcel of land south of the 

cemetery by closing and relocating local 

roadways and developing the parcel to 

increase interment capacity and 

increase multimodal transportation 

capacity on Columbia Pike. The 

contiguous parcel would be created 

through the replacement of Southgate 

Road with a new South Nash Street, and 

realignment of Columbia Pike and the 

Columbia Pike/Washington Boulevard 

interchange (adjacent to the Pentagon). 

The existing Air Force Memorial (AFM) 

would be incorporated into the 

cemetery expansion, and the existing 

Operations Complex would be relocated 

south of Columbia Pike. 

Alternatives. The Draft EA considers a 

full range of alternatives that meet the 

Proposed Action’s purpose and need, 

while avoiding and minimizing impacts 

to the maximum extent practicable. 

Alternatives were developed that 

leverage to varying degrees the Armyowned land south of Columbia Pike to 

increase contiguous space for burials 

and cemetery operational effectiveness. 

Alternatives considered in detail 

included: (1) Relocate Operations 

Complex Alternative (Preferred 

Alternative/Proposed Action); (2) 

Maintain Operations Complex with 

Tunnel Alternative; and (3) Maintain 

Operations Complex without Tunnel 

Alternative. 

Public Involvement. A Notice of Intent 

to prepare an EA was published in the 

Federal Register (81 FR 23281) on April 

20, 2016. A public NEPA scoping 

meeting was held on April 27, 2016, in 

Arlington County. 

Pursuant to the requirements of the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969, as amended (NEPA), 42 U.S.C. 

4321–4370, as implemented by the 

Council on Environmental Quality 

Regulations (40 CFR parts 1500–1508), 

the ANC, as the lead federal agency, has 

determined that the project does not 

have the potential to cause significant 

impacts on the human environment, 

and has developed the Draft EA to 

examine and assess the impacts of the 

Proposed Action. 

Brenda S. Bowen, 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Extension of Comment Period, Draft 

Waste Incidental To Reprocessing 

Evaluation for Closure of Waste 

Management Area C at the Hanford 

Site, Washington 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Extension of public comment 

period. 

SUMMARY: On June 4, 2018, the U.S. 

Department of Energy (‘‘DOE’’) 

published in the Federal Register a 

Notice of Availability of the Draft Waste 

Incidental to Reprocessing Evaluation 

for Closure of Waste Management Area 

C at the Hanford Site, Washington (Draft 

WIR Evaluation), which evaluates 

whether the stabilized tanks and 

ancillary structures in WMA C, as well 

as the residual material in these tanks 

and structures will meet the criteria in 

Section II.B.(2)(a) of DOE M. 435.1–1, 

Radioactive Waste Management Manual 

at closure. The original public comment 

period was from June 4, 2018 through 

September 7, 2018. This notice 

announces an extension of the public 

comment period on the Draft WIR 

Evaluation through November 7, 2018; 

any comments received after that date 

will be considered to the extent 

practical. 

DATES: The comment period in the 

Notice of Availability, published on 

June 4, 2018 (83 FR 25657), is extended 

through November 7, 2018. Any 

comments received after that date will 

be considered to the extent practical. 

ADDRESSES: Interested persons may 

submit comments by email to 

WMACDRAFTWIR@rl.gov. Alternately, 

written comments may also be sent by 

mail to: Mr. Jan Bovier, U.S. Department 

of Energy, Office of River Protection, 

P.O. Box 450, MSIN H6–60, Richland, 

WA 99354. 


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The Draft WIR Evaluation is available 

on the internet at: https://

www.hanford.gov/page.cfm/Waste

ManagementAreaC and is also publicly 

available for review at the following 

locations: U.S. DOE Public Reading 

Room, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, 

Washington, DC 20585, phone: (202) 

586–5955, or fax: (202) 586–0575; and 

U.S. DOE Public Reading Room located 

at 2770 University Drive, Consolidated 

Information Center (CIC), Room 101L, 

Richland, WA 99354, phone: (509) 372– 

7303. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Jan Bovier by email at Jan_B_Bovier@

orp.doe.gov, by mail at U.S. Department 

of Energy, Office of River Protection, 

P.O. Box 450, MSIN H6–60, Richland, 

WA 99354, or by phone at (509) 376– 

9630. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On June 4, 

2018, DOE published in the Federal 

Register a notice of availability of the 

Draft WIR Evaluation for comment by 

States, Tribal Nations, and the public 

(83 FR 25657). The original public 

comment period was from June 4, 2018 

through September 7, 2018. 

In response to several requests, DOE 

is extending the public comment period 

by 60 days, through November 7, 2018. 

DOE will consider comments received 

after that date to the extent practical. 

DOE will consider comments from 

States, Tribal Nations and the public, as 

well as NRC consultative 

recommendations, prior to finalizing 

DOE’s analyses and prior to issuing a 

final WIR Evaluation. Based on the final 

WIR Evaluation, DOE may determine (in 

a WIR determination) whether the 

stabilized tanks, residuals and ancillary 

structures in WMA C at closure meet the 

criteria in Section II.B.(2)(a) of DOE M. 

435.1–1, Radioactive Waste 

Management Manual, are not high-level 

radioactive waste, and are to be 

managed as low-level radioactive waste. 

Signed in Washington, DC, on August 10, 

2018. 

Anne Marie White, 

Assistant Secretary for Environmental 

Management. 

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BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. IC18–18–000] 

Commission Information Collection 

Activities (FERC–545 and FERC–549c); 

Consolidated Comment Request; 

Extension 

AGENCY: Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission, Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of information 

collections and request for comments. 

SUMMARY: In compliance with the 

requirements of the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995, the Federal 

Energy Regulatory Commission 

(Commission or FERC) is soliciting 

public comment on the requirements 

and burden of the information 

collections described below. 

DATES: Comments on the collections of 

information are due October 15, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

(identified by Docket No. IC18–18–000) 

by either of the following methods: 

• eFiling at Commission’s Website: 

http://www.ferc.gov/docs-filing/ 

efiling.asp. 

• Mail/Hand Delivery/Courier: 

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, 

Secretary of the Commission, 888 First 

Street NE, Washington, DC 20426. 

Please reference the specific 

collection number and/or title in your 

comments. 

Instructions: All submissions must be 

formatted and filed in accordance with 

submission guidelines at: http://

www.ferc.gov/help/submissionguide.asp. For user assistance contact 

FERC Online Support by email at 

ferconlinesupport@ferc.gov, or by phone 

at: (866) 208–3676 (toll-free), or (202) 

502–8659 for TTY. 

Docket: Users interested in receiving 

automatic notification of activity in this 

docket or in viewing/downloading 

comments and issuances in this docket 

may do so at http://www.ferc.gov/docsfiling/docs-filing.asp. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Ellen Brown may be reached by email 

at DataClearance@FERC.gov, telephone 

at (202) 502–8663, and fax at (202) 273– 

0873. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Type of Request: Three-year extension 

of the information collection 

requirements for all collections 

described below with no changes to the 

current reporting requirements. Please 

note the two collections are distinct. 

Comments: Comments are invited on: 

(1) Whether the collections of 

information are necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

Commission, including whether the 

information will have practical utility; 

(2) the accuracy of the agency’s 

estimates of the burden and cost of the 

collections of information, including the 

validity of the methodology and 

assumptions used; (3) ways to enhance 

the quality, utility and clarity of the 

information collections; and (4) ways to 

minimize the burden of the collections 

of information on those who are to 

respond, including the use of automated 

collection techniques or other forms of 

information technology. 

FERC–545, Gas Pipeline Rates: Rate 

Change (Non-Formal) 

Title: FERC–545, Gas Pipeline Rates: 

Rate Change (Non-formal). 

OMB Control No.: 1902–0154. 

Type of Request: Three-year extension 

of the FERC–545 information collection 

requirements with no changes to the 

current reporting requirements. 

Abstract: FERC–545 is required to 

implement sections 4, 5, and 16 of the 

Natural Gas Act (NGA), (15 U.S.C. 717c– 

717o, PL 75 688, 52 Stat. 822 and 830). 

NGA sections 4, 5, and 16 authorize the 

Commission to inquire into rate 

structures and methodologies and to set 

rates at a just and reasonable level. 

Specifically, a natural gas company 

must obtain Commission authorization 

for all rates and charges made, 

demanded, or received in connection 

with the transportation or sale of natural 

gas in interstate commerce. 

Under the NGA, a natural gas 

company’s rates must be just and 

reasonable and not unduly 

discriminatory or preferential. The 

Commission may act under different 

sections of the NGA to effect a change 

in a natural gas company’s rates. When 

the Commission reviews rate increases 

that a natural gas company has 

proposed, it is subject to the 

requirement of section 4(e) of the NGA. 

Under section 4(e), the natural gas 

company bears the burden of proving 

that its proposed rates are just and 

reasonable. On the other hand, when the 

Commission seeks to impose its own 

rate determination, it must do so in 

compliance with section 5(a) of the 

NGA. Under section 5, the Commission 

must first establish that its alternative 

rate proposal is both just and 

reasonable. 

Section 16 of the NGA states that the 

Commission ‘‘shall have the power to 

perform any and all acts, and to 

prescribe, issue, make, amend, and 

rescind such orders, rules, and 

regulations as it may find necessary or 

appropriate to carry out provisions of 


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