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Heritage Program Volunteer Program; (b) 

the USAF Heritage Program the means 

with which to select respondents 

pursuant to the USAF Heritage Program 

Volunteer Program. The primary use of 

the information collection includes the 

evaluation and placement of 

respondents within the USAF Heritage 

Program Volunteer Program. 

Affected Public: Business or other for 

profit; Not-for-profit Institutions. 

Annual Burden Hours: 49.5. 

Number of Respondents: 198. 

Responses per Respondent: 1. 

Average Burden per Response: 15 

minutes. 

Frequency: On occasion. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Summary of Information Collection 

Respondents are individuals 

expressing an interest in participating in 

the USAF Heritage Program Volunteer 

Program authorized by 10 U.S.C. 81, Sec 

1588 and regulated by the Air Force 

Instruction 84–103. AFI 84–103, 3.5.3. 

requires the use of AF Form 3569. AF 

Form 3569 provides the most expedient 

means to secure basic personal 

information (i.e., name, telephone 

number, address and experience 

pursuant to the USAF Heritage Program 

Volunteer Program requirements) to be 

employed solely by the USAF Heritage 

Volunteer Program and to recruit, 

evaluate and make work assignment 

decisions. AF Form 3569 is the only 

instrument that exists which facilitates 

this purpose. The NMUSAF Museum 

Volunteer Program is an integral 

function in the operation of the USAF 

Heritage Program. Volunteers provide 

valuable time, incalculable talent, skill, 

and knowledge of USAF aviation 

history so that all visitors to the many 

USAF Heritage Program facilities 

throughout the United States may enjoy 

the important contribution of USAF 

historical heritage. 

Dated: March 22, 2013. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Liaison Officer, 

Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2013–07170 Filed 3–27–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Navy 

Meeting of the Secretary of the Navy 

Advisory Panel 

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of Closed Meeting. 

SUMMARY: The SECNAV Advisory Panel 

will meet from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. on 

April 18, 2013 for a series of classified 

discussions on the Asia-Pacific region to 

include the international strategic 

environment and ongoing Department of 

the Navy efforts. These sessions will 

include discussions of classified 

material. For this reason, the meeting 

will be closed to the public. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on 

April 18, 2013, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 

p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in 

the Pentagon 4B248A Conference Room 

at the Pentagon. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

CAPT Peter J. Brennan, SECNAV 

Advisory Panel, Office of the Deputy 

Under Secretary of the Navy (Plans, 

Policy, Oversight & Integration), 1000 

Navy Pentagon, Washington, DC 20350– 

1000, 703–695–3032. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant 

to the provisions of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act (5 U.S.C. App. 

2), these matters constitute classified 

information that is specifically 

authorized by Executive Order to be 

kept secret in the interest of national 

defense and are, in fact, properly 

classified pursuant to such Executive 

Order. The discussion of such 

information cannot be adequately 

segregated from other topics, which 

precludes opening these meetings to the 

public. Accordingly, the Secretary of the 

Navy has determined in writing that the 

public interest requires that all sessions 

of this meeting be closed to the public 

because they will be concerned with 

matters listed in section 552b(c)(1) of 

title 5, United States Code. 

Dated: March 20, 2013. 

C. K. Chiappetta, 

Lieutenant Commander, Office of the Judge 

Advocate General, U.S. Navy, Federal 

Register Liaison Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2013–07219 Filed 3–27–13; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Bonneville Power Administration 

Walla Walla Basin Spring Chinook 

Hatchery Program 

AGENCY: Bonneville Power 

Administration (BPA), Department of 

Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

and notice of floodplain and wetlands 

assessment. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA), BPA intends to prepare an EIS 

on its decision whether to fund the 

Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla 

Indian Reservation’s (CTUIR) proposal 

to construct and operate a hatchery for 

spring Chinook salmon in the Walla 

Walla River basin. The hatchery would 

expand facilities at the site of the 

CTUIR’s existing Adult Holding and 

Spawning Facility on the South Fork 

Walla Walla River near the town of 

Milton-Freewater in Umatilla County, 

Oregon, to allow production of up to 

500,000 yearling spring Chinook smolts. 

Project operations would include 

collection of adult spring Chinook for 

broodstock at Nursery Bridge Dam 

downstream of the proposed hatchery, 

incubation and rearing of juvenile 

spring Chinook, and release of smolts 

and adults in tributaries to the Walla 

Walla River in both Oregon and 

Washington. Spring Chinook were 

extirpated from the Walla Walla River 

basin in the early to mid-1900s. The 

proposal would augment fish 

populations available for harvest and 

aid in establishing a naturally spawning 

spring Chinook population. 

With this Notice of Intent, BPA is 

initiating the public scoping process for 

the EIS. BPA is requesting comments 

about potential environmental impacts 

that it should consider as it prepares the 

EIS. 

In accordance with DOE regulations 

for compliance with floodplain and 

wetlands environmental review 

requirements, BPA will prepare a 

floodplain and wetlands assessment to 

avoid or minimize potential harm to or 

within any affected floodplains and 

wetlands. The assessment will be 

included in the EIS. 

DATES: Written scoping comments are 

due to the address below no later than 

April 29, 2013. Comments may also be 

made at the EIS scoping meetings to be 

held on Tuesday, April 16, 2013, from 

6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Milton-Freewater 

Community Building, 109 NE. 5th, 

Milton-Freewater, Oregon 97862; and on 

Wednesday, April 17, 2013, from 6 p.m. 

to 8 p.m. at the Dayton Elementary 

School, 302 E. Park, Dayton, 

Washington 99328. At these meetings, 

maps and other information about the 

project will be available, and members 

of the project team will give a brief 

overview of the proposal, answer 

questions, and accept oral and written 

comments. 

Send letters with comments and 

suggestions on the proposed scope of 

the Draft EIS, and requests to be placed 

on the project mailing list, to Bonneville 

Power Administration, Public Affairs 

Office—DKE–7, P.O. Box 14428, 

Portland, OR, 97293–4428, or by fax to 

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503–230–4019. You also may call BPA’s 

toll-free comment line at 1–800–622– 

4519 and leave a message (please 

include the name of this project), or 

submit comments online at 

www.bpa.gov/comment. BPA will post 

all comment letters on BPA’s Web site 

at www.bpa.gov/comment. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Brenda Aguirre, Environmental 

Coordinator, Bonneville Power 

Administration—KEC–4, P.O. Box 3621, 

Portland, Oregon 97208–3621; toll-free 

telephone 1–800–282–3713; direct 

telephone 503–230–5928; or email 

baguirre@bpa.gov. You may also contact 

Jay Marcotte, Project Manager, 

Bonneville Power Administration— 

KEWU–3, P.O. Box 3621, Portland, 

Oregon, 97208–3621; toll-free telephone 

1–800–282–3713; direct telephone 503– 

230–3943; or email jgmarcotte@bpa.gov. 

Additional information can be found at 

the project Web site: www.bpa.gov/goto/ 

WallaWallaHatchery. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Under the 

Pacific Northwest Electric Power 

Planning and Conservation Act of 1980 

(Northwest Power Act), BPA has a duty 

to support efforts to mitigate for effects 

of the Federal Columbia River Power 

System on fish and wildlife in the 

mainstem Columbia River and its 

tributaries. In addition to its 

responsibilities under the Northwest 

Power Act, on May 2, 2008, BPA, the 

Bureau of Reclamation, and the U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers signed the 

2008 Columbia Basin Fish Accords 

Memorandum of Agreement with the 

Three Treaty Tribes. The three tribes are 

the CTUIR, the Confederated Tribes and 

Bands of the Yakama Nation, and the 

Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs 

Reservation. The agreement includes 

funding for the CTUIR’s Walla Walla 

Basin Spring Chinook Hatchery 

Program, subject to compliance with 

NEPA and other environmental review 

requirements. 

Over the past several years, the CTUIR 

has worked with irrigation districts and 

various agencies to improve stream flow 

and fish habitat in the Walla Walla 

basin. The hatchery is proposed in order 

to begin a comprehensive program to 

reintroduce spring Chinook to this 

basin. The proposed program would 

develop a locally adapted broodstock of 

spring Chinook and release sufficient 

numbers of spring Chinook smolts in 

areas where they would be expected to 

return as adults to provide harvest and 

to spawn naturally. Potential additional 

harvest and natural production would 

also be encouraged by planting adults in 

tributaries to the Walla Walla River, 

such as Touchet River and Mill Creek. 

The proposal would include 

construction activities at two existing 

sites; the South Fork of the Walla Walla 

near the town of Milton-Freewater, and 

the Nursery Bridge Dam trap, 

downstream from the site. At the South 

Fork Walla Walla Adult Holding and 

Spawning Facility, activities would 

include construction of the following: a 

13,300 square foot hatchery building 

(for administrative offices, incubation 

and rearing, and water treatment); 

sixteen outdoor rearing raceways; a 

smolt release channel; a shop building 

(for vehicle, equipment, and feed 

storage); a septic system; and a new well 

(to improve water temperatures and 

water quality from existing water 

sources). In addition, an existing river 

intake would be modified, and existing 

sub-standard residences would be 

removed and replaced by up to four new 

staff residences. 

At the Nursery Bridge Dam trap, 

improvements would be made to the 

fishway for trapping adult fish. 

The proposal would also include the 

following operational activities: 

collection of approximately 350 adult 

spring Chinook annually at the Nursery 

Bridge Dam fishway for broodstock 

while still allowing up to 1,100 adults 

annually to pass the trap and return to 

key upriver habitat to spawn naturally; 

release of up to 500,000 spring Chinook 

smolts annually in the Walla Walla 

River basin; annual distribution of 

adults in excess of broodstock and 

natural spawning needs in Walla Walla 

River tributaries; and a monitoring and 

evaluation program. 

In the EIS, BPA is considering two 

alternatives: funding CTUIR’s proposal 

and a no action alternative of not 

funding the proposal. 

Public Participation and 

Identification of Environmental Issues. 

The potential environmental issues 

identified so far for this project include 

effects of hatchery operations on water 

quality; the risk of competition for 

habitat between increasing numbers of 

reintroduced spring Chinook and ESAlisted fish such as bull trout or 

steelhead; the potential for adult spring 

Chinook collection activities to affect 

other fish; and the social, cultural, and 

economic effects of project construction 

and operations, as well as harvest. 

BPA has established a 30-day scoping 

period during which tribes, affected 

landowners, concerned citizens, special 

interest groups, local and federal 

governments, and any other interested 

parties are invited to comment on the 

scope of the proposed EIS, including 

environmental impacts to be evaluated. 

Scoping will help BPA ensure that the 

full range of issues related to this 

proposal are addressed in the EIS. 

Scoping also will identify significant or 

potentially significant impacts that may 

result from the proposed project. When 

completed, the Draft EIS will be 

circulated for review and comment, and 

BPA will hold public meetings to 

answer questions and receive 

comments. BPA will consider and 

respond to comments received on the 

Draft EIS in the Final EIS. BPA’s 

decision will be documented in a 

Record of Decision that will follow the 

Final EIS. 

Issued in Portland, Oregon on March 20, 

2013. 

William K. Drummond, 

Administrator and Chief Executive Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2013–07248 Filed 3–27–13; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Federal Energy Regulatory 

Commission 

[Docket No. CP13–97–000] 

Natural Gas Pipeline Company of 

America LLC; Notice of Application 

Take notice that on March 8, 2013, 

Natural Gas Pipeline Company of 

America LLC (Natural), 3250 Lacey 

Road, 7th Floor, Downers Grove, Illinois 

60515–7918, filed an application 

pursuant to section 7(c) of the Natural 

Gas Act and part 157 of the 

Commission’s regulations to increase 

the maximum inventory of its Cooks 

Mill gas storage field from 6.5 billion 

cubic feet (Bcf) to 6.75 Bcf which is 

located in Douglas and Coles Counties 

Illinois, all as more fully set forth in the 

application which is on file with the 

Commission and open to public 

inspection. The filing may also be 

viewed on the Web at http:// 

www.ferc.gov using the ‘‘eLibrary’’ link. 

Enter the docket number excluding the 

last three digits in the docket number 

field to access the document. For 

assistance, contact FERC at 

FERCOnlineSupport@ferc.gov or call 

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

502–8659. 

Any questions regarding this 

application should be directed to Bruce 

H. Newsome, Vice President, Natural 

Gas Pipeline Company of America LLC, 

3250 Lacey Road, 7th Floor, Downers 

Grove, Illinois 60515–7918, or call (630) 

725–3070, or by email 

bruce_newsome@kindermorgan.com. 

Pursuant to section 157.9 of the 

Commission’s rules, 18 CFR 157.9, 

within 90 days of this Notice the 

Commission staff will either: complete 

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