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current performance against MEP 

program plans. 

Background information on the Board 

is available at http://www.nist.gov/mep/ 

about/advisory-board.cfm. 

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, as amended, 5 U.S.C. 

App., notice is hereby given that the 

MEP Advisory Board will hold an open 

meeting on Wednesday, January 21, 

2015 from 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. Eastern 

Time. This meeting will focus on 

updates from the new sub-committees 

on (1) Technology Acceleration and (2) 

Board Governance. The final agenda 

will be posted on the MEP Advisory 

Board Web site at http://www.nist.gov/

mep/about/advisory-board.cfm. 

Admittance Instructions: Anyone 

wishing to attend this meeting should 

submit their name, email address and 

phone number to Kari Reidy 

(Kari.Reidy@nist.gov or 301–975–4919) 

no later than Wednesday, January 14, 

2015, 5:00 p.m. Eastern Time. Non-U.S. 

citizens must submit additional 

information; please contact Ms. Reidy. 

All attendees must pre-register in order 

to be admitted to the NIST campus. 

Also, please note that under the REAL 

ID Act of 2005 (Pub. L. 109–13), federal 

agencies, including NIST, can only 

accept a state-issued driver’s license or 

identification card for access to federal 

facilities if issued by states that are 

REAL ID compliant or have an 

extension. NIST also currently accepts 

other forms of federal-issued 

identification in lieu of a state-issued 

driver’s license. For detailed 

information please contact Ms. Reidy or 

visit: http://www.nist.gov/public_

affairs/visitor/. 

Individuals and representatives of 

organizations who would like to offer 

comments and suggestions related to the 

MEP Advisory Board’s business are 

invited to request a place on the agenda. 

Approximately 15 minutes will be 

reserved for public comments at the 

beginning of the meeting. Speaking 

times will be assigned on a first-come, 

first-served basis. The amount of time 

per speaker will be determined by the 

number of requests received but is likely 

to be no more than three to five minutes 

each. The exact time for public 

comments will be included in the final 

agenda that will be posted on the MEP 

Advisory Board Web site as http://

www.nist.gov/mep/about/advisoryboard.cfm. Questions from the public 

will not be considered during this 

period. Speakers who wish to expand 

upon their oral statements, those who 

had wished to speak but could not be 

accommodated on the agenda, and those 

who were unable to attend in person are 

invited to submit written statements to 

the MEP Advisory Board, National 

Institute of Standards and Technology, 

National Institute of Standards and 

Technology, 100 Bureau Drive, Mail 

Stop 4800, Gaithersburg, MD 20899– 

4800, or via fax at (301) 963–6556, or 

electronically by email to kari.reidy@

nist.gov. 

Dated: December 22, 2014. 

Phillip Singerman, 

Associate Director for Innovation & Industry 

Services. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30849 Filed 1–2–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–13–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Office of the Secretary 

Intent To Prepare an Environmental 

Impact Statement for the East Campus 

Integration Program Within the Fort 

Meade Complex, Maryland 

AGENCY: Department of Defense. 

ACTION: Notice of intent; notice of public 

meeting; request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Department of Defense 

(DoD) announces its intent to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

as part of the environmental planning 

process for the East Campus Integration 

Program at Fort George G. Meade, 

Maryland (hereafter referred to as Fort 

Meade). The DoD proposes to develop 

operational complex and headquarters 

space at the National Security Agency’s 

(NSA) East Campus on Fort Meade for 

use by NSA and the Intelligence 

Community. The purpose of the 

Proposed Action is to provide facilities 

that are fully supportive of the 

Intelligence Community’s function and 

to continue to integrate the East Campus 

site with the NSA Main Campus. The 

need for the action is to meet mission 

requirements, both internally at the 

NSA and within the Intelligence 

Community. 

Publication of this notice begins a 

scoping process that identifies and 

determines the scope of environmental 

issues to be addressed in the EIS. This 

notice requests public participation in 

the scoping process and provides 

information on how to participate. 

DATES: There will be an open house at 

4:00 p.m. followed by a scoping meeting 

from 5:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. on January 

27, 2015. Comments or questions 

regarding this EIS should be submitted 

by February 27, 2015 to ensure 

sufficient time to consider public input 

in the preparation of the Draft EIS. 

ADDRESSES: The open house and 

scoping meeting will be held at the 

Severn Community Library, 2624 

Annapolis Road, Severn, Maryland 

21144. Verbal and written comments 

will be accepted at the scoping meeting. 

You can also submit written comments 

to ‘‘East Campus Integration Program 

EIS’’ c/o HDR, 2600 Park Tower Drive, 

Suite 100, Vienna, VA 22180 or submit 

by email to ECIPEIS@hdrinc.com. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Jeffrey Williams at 301–688–2970, or 

email jdwill2@nsa.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Background: The NSA is a tenant DoD 

agency on Fort Meade. NSA is a hightechnology communications and data 

processing organization. In order to 

meet mission requirements, both at the 

NSA and within the Intelligence 

Community, continued integration of 

the East Campus with the NSA Main 

Campus on Fort Meade through 

development of office, operational, and 

headquarters space is needed. In 2010, 

NSA completed an EIS that addressed 

development of the East Campus, which 

is the northern part of the former Fort 

Meade golf course. The Record of 

Decision implemented the first phase of 

development identified in that EIS, 

which is currently occurring in the 

southern portion of the East Campus. 

This upcoming East Campus Integration 

Program EIS will address buildout of the 

northern portion of the East Campus. 

Proposed Action and Alternatives: 

The East Campus Integration Program 

was initiated to provide a modern office, 

operational, and headquarters complex 

to meet the growth requirements of the 

NSA and Intelligence Community. 

Development is proposed along the East 

Campus central core extending through 

the NSA Main Campus at Fort Meade. 

The Proposed Action would consist of 

the construction of approximately 

2,880,000 square feet of office, 

operational, and headquarters space 

supporting an increase of 7,200 people 

with the majority from local leases and 

government-owned buildings to the 

NSA Main Campus. The program also 

includes the demolition of 

approximately 1,900,000 square feet of 

aged buildings and infrastructure. 

Development would include associated 

infrastructure (e.g., electrical substation, 

generator capacity providing 121 

megawatts of electricity, life/safety 

generators, building heating systems, 

roads, sidewalks, storm water 

management facilities, and parking 

structures). 

Alternatives identified include four 

options for redundant emergency 

backup power generation and various 

pollution control systems, two options 

for building heating systems, four 

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options for locations of parking 

structures, and acquisition of additional 

space at two existing, offsite leased 

locations. These alternatives will be 

further developed during preparation of 

the Draft EIS as a result of public and 

agency input and environmental 

analyses of the activities. The No Action 

Alternative (not undertaking the East 

Campus Integration Program) will also 

be analyzed in detail. 

This notice of intent is required by 40 

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 

1508.22 and briefly describes the 

Proposed Action and possible 

alternatives and our proposed scoping 

process. The EIS will comply with the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA) (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.), 

the Council on Environmental Quality 

regulations in 40 CFR parts 1500 

through 1508, and DoD Instruction 

4715.9 (Environmental Planning and 

Analysis). 

Significant Issues: Environmental 

issues to be analyzed in the EIS will 

include potential impacts on air quality, 

noise, natural resources, water use, solid 

waste, hazardous materials and wastes, 

transportation, and cumulative impacts 

from increased burdens on the 

installation and neighboring community 

based on projected development. 

Scoping Process: Public scoping is an 

early and open process for identifying 

and determining the scope of issues to 

be addressed in the EIS. Scoping begins 

with this notice, continues through the 

public comment period (see DATES), and 

ends when the DoD has completed the 

following actions: 

—Invites the participation of Federal, 

State, and local agencies, any affected 

Indian tribes, and other interested 

persons; 

—Determines the actions, alternatives, 

and impacts described in 40 CFR 

1508.25; 

—Identifies and eliminates from 

detailed study those issues that are 

not significant or that have been 

covered elsewhere; 

—Indicates any related EISs or 

environmental assessments (EAs) that 

are not part of the EIS; 

—Identifies other relevant 

environmental review and 

consultation requirements; 

—Indicates the relationship between 

timing of the environmental review 

and other aspects of the proposed 

program; 

—At its discretion, exercises the options 

provided in 40 CFR 1501.7(b). 

Once the scoping process is complete, 

DoD will prepare a Draft EIS, and will 

publish a Federal Register notice 

announcing its public availability. If 

you want that notice to be sent to you, 

please contact the DoD Project Office 

point of contact identified in FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. You will 

have an opportunity to review and 

comment on the Draft EIS. Additionally, 

the DoD anticipates holding a public 

meeting after publication of the Draft 

EIS in the vicinity of Fort Meade, 

Maryland, to present the Draft EIS and 

receive public comments regarding the 

document. The DoD will consider all 

comments received and then prepare 

the Final EIS. As with the Draft EIS, the 

DoD will announce the availability of 

the Final EIS and once again give you 

an opportunity for review and comment. 

Dated: December 19, 2014. 

Aaron Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30343 Filed 1–2–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army, Corps of 

Engineers 

Termination of Environmental Impact 

Statement (EIS) for the Alaska 

Department of Transportation & Public 

Facilities Foothills West 

Transportation Access Project 

AGENCY: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 

Department of Defense. 

ACTION: Withdrawal of notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: The Alaska District, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers (Corps) is 

notifying interested parties that it has 

terminated the process to develop an 

Environmental Impact Statement and 

has withdrawn the application for a 

Department of the Army permit from the 

Alaska Department of Transportation 

and Public Facilities (DOT&PF) 

proposed Foothills West Transportation 

Access Project (Foothills Project). The 

original Notice of Intent to Prepare the 

EIS was published in the Federal 

Register on May 20, 2011 (76 FR 29218). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions regarding the termination of 

this EIS process should be addressed to: 

Ms. Melissa Riordan, Regulatory 

Division, telephone: (907) 474–2166, or 

mail: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 

CEPOA–RD, 2175 University Avenue, 

Suite 201(E), Fairbanks, AK 99709– 

4927. Or email: melissa.c.riordan@

usace.army.mil. Emailed questions, 

including attachments, should be 

provided in .doc, .docx, .pdf or .txt 

formats. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Alaska District published the original 

Notice of Intent to prepare the EIS for 

the proposed Foothills project in the 

Federal Register on Friday, May 20, 

2011 (76 FR 29218). In the summer of 

2013 the Alaska DOT&PF decided to reevaluate plans for future EIS work, and 

in response the Corps suspended work 

and closed the EIS project file. After 

confirming on October 21, 2014 that the 

DOT&PF has no future plans to proceed 

with the project, the Corps officially 

determined that it is appropriate to 

terminate the EIS. The Corps’ neutral 

role in the EIS process was to evaluate 

the environmental consequences of the 

proposed project under the authority of 

Section 10 of the River and Harbors Act 

of 1899 and Section 404 of the Clean 

Water Act. The preparation of the EIS 

was being conducted by a third-party 

contractor directed by the Corps, and 

funded by the applicant, which is 

typical of the Corps Regulatory EIS 

studies. Withdrawal of the permit 

application and termination of the EIS 

process will not prevent DOT&PF from 

reapplying at a later date. 

Dated: November 3, 2014. 

Approved by: 

Michael Salyer, 

North Branch Chief, Alaska District, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers. 

[FR Doc. 2014–30862 Filed 1–2–15; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3720–58–P 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army, Corps of 

Engineers 

Notice of Intent To Prepare a Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), 

Initiate the Public Scoping Period and 

Host Public Scoping Meetings for the 

Great Lakes and Mississippi River 

Interbasin Study (‘‘GLMRIS’’)— 

Evaluation of Aquatic Nuisance 

Species Controls Near Brandon Road 

Lock and Dam: Extension of the Public 

Scoping Period and Announcement of 

an Additional Public Scoping Meeting 

Location 

AGENCY: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 

DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Reference the Notice of Intent 

published in the Federal Register on 

Thursday, November 20, 2014, volume 

79, number 224, pages 69099–100 (79 

FR 69099). This notice extends the 

public comment period and identifies 

an additional location for a GLMRIS 

public scoping meeting. For 

convenience, the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section of the November 

20, 2014 notice has been reprinted with 

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