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SEIS, a new Record of Decision (ROD) 

will be issued to supersede the ROD 

issued on August 29, 2013. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

John L.A. Dugan, Real Property 

Utilization & Disposal Division, General 

Services Administration, 10 Causeway 

Street, Room 1100, Boston, MA 02222, 

or email john.dugan@gsa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description 

Plum Island is an 840-acre island 

located approximately 1.5 miles off the 

northeast tip of Orient Point, Long 

Island, New York. Plum Island is 

formerly the home of the U.S. Army’s 

Fort Terry, and was transferred to the 

United States Department of Agriculture 

(USDA) in 1954 to establish a research 

facility for foot-and-mouth disease. In 

2003, Plum Island was transferred to 

DHS, and DHS now, in cooperation with 

the USDA, operates Plum Island Animal 

Disease Center (PIADC). In addition to 

the buildings and facilities that support 

the PIADC mission, other assets on 

Plum Island include natural 

undeveloped land, the Plum Island 

Lighthouse constructed in 1869, and 

buildings and structures associated with 

the former Fort Terry. 

Statutory Authority 

Pursuant to the requirements of the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA), and the President’s 

Council on Environmental Quality 

Regulations (40 CFR 1500–1508), as 

implemented by the GSA Order PBS P 

1095.4C, GSA and DHS will prepare the 

SEIS for the sale of Plum Island. The 

sale is mandated in Section 540 of the 

Consolidated Security, Disaster 

Assistance, and Continuing 

Appropriations Act of 2009, United 

States Public Law 110–329. United 

States Public Law 110–329 requires the 

Secretary of the DHS to liquidate the 

Plum Island asset by directing the 

Administrator of the GSA to sell 

through public sale all real and related 

personal property and transportation 

assets which support Plum Island 

operations, subject to such terms and 

conditions as necessary to protect 

government interests and meet program 

requirements. The Public Law mandates 

the public sale as a result of the 

determination by DHS to construct and 

operate a new National Bio and Agro 

Defense Facility (NBAF) in Manhattan, 

Kansas and move its operations to the 

NBAF (Record of Decision dated 

January 16, 2009). 

Background 

The purpose of the SEIS will be to 

document conditions that have changed 

and new information that has become 

available since the publication of the 

FEIS and ROD, and will provide a 

thorough analysis of those conditions 

and the new information. Items to be 

studied and analyzed in the SEIS will 

include, but are not limited to the 

following: The biological inventory 

known as the ‘‘Biodiversity and 

Ecological Potential of Plum Island, 

New York’’, also known as the FourSeasons Study; any activities 

undertaken by the U.S. Fish and 

Wildlife Service on Plum Island; the 

zoning plan for Plum Island adopted by 

the Town of Southold in August 2013; 

the completion by DHS of a descriptive 

interpretation of Plum Island’s 

environmental condition, known as a 

Conceptual Site Model; ongoing 

environmental remediation and mission 

closure activities by DHS; activity 

undertaken by the Army Corps of 

Engineers under the Formerly Used 

Defense Site program; progress by DHS 

under Section 110 of the National 

Historic Preservation Act; and, the 

availability of more definitive dates for 

the transfer of the PIADC mission off 

Plum Island and the sale of Plum Island. 

The Joint Lead Agencies anticipate 

scoping for the SEIS will begin in 2019. 

When the scoping process is initiated, a 

notice will be posted in the Federal 

Register and sent to interested parties 

including those who commented on the 

prior NEPA process that concluded with 

the issuance of the ROD dated August 

29, 2013. The agencies anticipate that in 

addition to preparing a SEIS, the 

Federal Consistency Review process 

under the Coastal Zone Management 

Act and any applicable requirements of 

the Endangered Species Act will be 

addressed. After the scoping is 

completed, a SEIS will incorporate 

findings from the FEIS, and further 

document and analyze conditions that 

have changed, and new information that 

has become available, since the 

publication of the FEIS and ROD. The 

SEIS will identify potentially significant 

direct, indirect, and cumulative impacts 

on historical and biological resources, 

land use, air quality, water quality, 

water resources, and socioeconomics, as 

well as other environmental issues that 

could occur as a result of the proposed 

action. For potentially significant 

impacts, the SEIS may identify 

avoidance, minimization, or mitigation 

measures to reduce these impacts, 

where feasible. Once published, the 

SEIS will supersede the FEIS and ROD 

issued in 2013. 

August 6, 2018 

Barbara J. Salfity, 

Branch Chief, Real Property Utilization & 

Disposal Division, General Services 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 2018–17212 Filed 8–9–18; 8:45 am] 

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GENERAL SERVICES 

ADMINISTRATION 

[Notice-PBS–2018–06; Docket No. 2018– 

0002; Sequence No. 18] 

Notice of Availability and 

Announcement of Meeting for the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Otay Mesa Port of Entry, San 

Diego, California 

AGENCY: Public Building Service (PBS), 

General Services Administration (GSA). 

ACTION: Notice of availability; 

announcement of meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice announces the 

availability of the Draft Environmental 

Impact Statement (DEIS), which 

examines the potential impacts of a 

proposal by the General Services 

Administration (GSA) to modernize and 

expand the existing Otay Mesa Land 

Port of Entry (LPOE) located at the 

United States (U.S.)-Mexico border in 

the City of San Diego community of 

Otay Mesa, in San Diego County, 

California. The DEIS describes the 

reason the project is being proposed, the 

alternatives being considered, the 

potential impacts of each of the 

alternatives on the existing 

environment, and avoidance, 

minimization, and/or mitigation 

measures. 

As the lead agency in this 

undertaking, GSA is acting on behalf of 

its major tenant at this facility, the 

Department of Homeland Security’s 

(DHS) Customs and Border Protection 

(CBP). 

DATES: A public meeting for the DEIS 

will be held on Thursday, August 9th, 

2018, from 4:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m., 

Pacific Time (PT). Interested parties are 

encouraged to attend and provide 

written comments on the DEIS. The 

comment period for the DEIS ends 

Friday, August 31, 2018. After this date, 

GSA will prepare the Final EIS. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the Holiday Inn Express and Suites San 

Diego, 2296 Niels Bohr Court, San 

Diego, CA, 92154, telephone 619–710– 

0900. 

Further information, including an 

electronic copy of the DEIS, may be 

found online on the following website: 

https://www.gsa.gov/about-us/regions/ 


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land-ports-of-entry/otay-mesa-landport-of-entry. Questions or comments 

concerning the DEIS should be directed 

to: Osmahn Kadri, NEPA Project 

Manager, 50 United Nations Plaza, 3345, 

Mailbox #9, San Francisco, CA, 94102, 

or via email to osmahn.kadri@gsa.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Osmahn A. Kadri, NEPA Project 

Manager, GSA, at 415–522–3617. Please 

also call this number if special 

assistance is needed to attend and 

participate in the public meeting. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background 

The Otay Mesa LPOE is located 

approximately 17 miles southeast of 

downtown San Diego, just north of the 

U.S. border and the Baja California 

Peninsula of Mexico. When it was 

constructed in 1983, its primary 

purpose was to divert growing 

commercial truck traffic from the 

increasingly busy San Ysidro LPOE to 

the west, at the southern terminus of 

Interstate 5. The Otay Mesa LPOE 

processes commercial and privatelyowned vehicle and pedestrian traffic. 

Since the LPOE opened, vehicle and 

pedestrian traffic and the population 

and general development in the area 

have grown. It is now one of the ten 

busiest land ports in the country and is 

the busiest commercial port on the 

California-Mexico border, processing 

the second highest volume of trucks, 

and third highest dollar volume of trade 

among all U.S.-Mexico LPOEs. Everincreasing traffic loads and new security 

initiatives require increased capacity 

and new inspection technology to be 

installed and implemented at existing 

facilities. 

The Project’s purpose is to improve 

the efficiency, effectiveness, security 

and safety at the existing Otay Mesa 

LPOE. The Project’s need, or the need to 

which the GSA is responding, is to 

increase the LPOE’s capacity due to 

increased demand, and to address 

public and employee safety and border 

security concerns. 

The DEIS considers two ‘‘action’’ 

alternatives and one ‘‘no action’’ 

alternative. The Preferred Alternative 

would include the development of an 

approximately 10-acre GSA-owned plot 

of land to the immediate east of the 

existing commercial import lot. The 

new lot would be used to construct 

commercial inspection buildings and 

additional commercial import lanes. It 

would also include improvements to 

existing pedestrian lanes and personal 

vehicle inspection lanes; relocation of 

personnel currently housed in the 

Pedestrian, Commercial Import and 

Commercial Export buildings; 

renovation of existing facilities 

throughout the Otay Mesa LPOE; and 

demolition of facilities that would no 

longer be needed would also occur. New 

construction would include commercial 

import and exit booths, six additional 

pedestrian lanes in the Pedestrian 

Building, a Commercial Annex Building 

(CAB), a return-to-Mexico lane for 

commercial traffic, a pedestrian ramp 

and parking areas for the new 

commercial lot. Building renovations 

would include the installation of energy 

conservation measures and water 

conservation measures across the Otay 

Mesa LPOE, the correction of 

deficiencies throughout existing 

facilities (e.g., updating security 

systems, updating HVAC systems, 

improving lighting and repaving old 

asphalt surfaces), and refurbishing the 

interiors of the pedestrian, commercial 

import and commercial export buildings 

including repainting and replacing 

flooring. 

The Reduced Build Alternative would 

include many of the same activities as 

under the Preferred Alternative; 

however, the overall activity level 

would be lower. Notably, no new 

construction would occur on the 10-acre 

GSA-owned plot of land, and the 

Commercial Annex Building would not 

be constructed; instead, the plot of land 

would be paved and used as additional 

space for the commercial vehicle 

inspection booths which would be 

reconfigured to increase traffic flow. 

Renovation of existing facilities would 

still occur, but activities would be 

limited to updating security and HVAC 

systems and repainting interiors. 

The No Action alternative assumes 

that modernization and expansion of the 

existing LPOE would not occur and that 

a new facility would not be constructed 

adjacent to the existing LPOE. The 

LPOE would continue to operate under 

current conditions. 

Public Meeting 

The meeting will be conducted in an 

open house format, where project 

information will be presented and 

distributed. Comments must be received 

by August 31, 2018, and emailed to 

osmahn.kadri@gsa.gov or sent to the 

address listed above. 

Dated: August 2, 2018. 

Matthew Jear, 

Director, Portfolio Management Division, 

Pacific Rim Region, Public Buildings Service. 

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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND 

HUMAN SERVICES 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention 

[60Day–18–1112; Docket No. CDC–2018– 

0072] 

Proposed Data Collection Submitted 

for Public Comment and 

Recommendations 

AGENCY: Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention (CDC), Department of Health 

and Human Services (HHS). 

ACTION: Notice with comment period. 

SUMMARY: The Centers for Disease 

Control and Prevention (CDC), as part of 

its continuing effort to reduce public 

burden and maximize the utility of 

government information, invites the 

general public and other Federal 

agencies the opportunity to comment on 

a proposed and/or continuing 

information collection, as required by 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

This notice invites comment on a 

proposed information collection project 

titled FoodNet Population Survey. The 

FoodNet Population Survey is 

conducted in 10 states and collects data 

on the prevalence of acute 

gastrointestinal illness in the United 

States and exposures associated with 

foodborne illness. 

DATES: CDC must receive written 

comments on or before October 9, 2018. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments, 

identified by Docket No. CDC–2018– 

0072 by any of the following methods: 

• Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

Regulations.gov. Follow the instructions 

for submitting comments. 

• Mail: Jeffrey M. Zirger, Information 

Collection Review Office, Centers for 

Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 

Clifton Road NE, MS–D74, Atlanta, 

Georgia 30329. 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name and 

Docket Number. CDC will post, without 

change, all relevant comments to 

Regulations.gov. Please note: Submit all 

comments through the Federal 

eRulemaking portal (regulations.gov) or 

by U.S. mail to the address listed above. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To 

request more information on the 

proposed project or to obtain a copy of 

the information collection plan and 

instruments, contact Jeffrey M. Zirger, 

Information Collection Review Office, 

Centers for Disease Control and 

Prevention, 1600 Clifton Road NE, MS– 

D74, Atlanta, Georgia 30329; phone: 

404–639–7570; Email: omb@cdc.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) 


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