70568 Federal Register / Vol. 65, No. 227 / Friday, November 24, 2000 / Notices

Tank Closure (DOE/EIS–0303D),

Implementation, Industrial Wastewater

Closure Plan for the F and H-Area HighLevel Waste Tank Systems, Aiken

County, SC, Due: January 23, 2001,

Contact: Andrew R. Grainger (800) 881–

7292.

EIS No. 000402, FINAL EIS, COE, IL,

Hunter Lake New Supplemental Water

Supply Reservoir, Construction, City of

Springfield Application for Permit,

Sangamon County, IL, Due: December

26, 2000, Contact: Charlene Carmack

(309) 794–5570.

EIS No. 000403, FINAL EIS, COE, NE,

Western Sarpy/Clear Creek Flood

Reduction Study Including

Environmental Restoration Component,

Lower Platte River and Tributaries,

Saunders and Sarpy Counties, NE, Due:

December 26, 2000, Contact: Nelson S.

Carpenter (402) 221–4450.

EIS No. 000404, FINAL

SUPPLEMENT, AFS, CA, WA, OR,

Northern Spotted Owl Management

Plan, Updated Information for

Amendment to the Survey and Manage,

Protection Buffer and Other Mitigating

Measures, Standards and Guidelines (to

the Northwest Forest Plan), LateSuccessional and Old Growth Forest

Related Species Within the Range of the

Northern Spotted Owl, OR, WA and CA,

Due: December 26, 2000, Contact: Dick

Prather (503) 808–2165.

EIS No. 000405, FINAL EIS, COE, CA,

Whitewater River Basin (Thousand

Palms) Flood Control Project,

Construction of Facilities to Provide

Flood Protection, Coachella Valley,

Riverside County, CA, Due: December

26, 2000, Contact: Hayley Lovan (213)

452–3863.

EIS No. 000406, FINAL EIS, FHW,

WA, NE 8TH/I–405 Interchange Project,

Construction, Funding, Right-of-Way

Use Permit and NPDES Stormwater

Permit, City of Bellevue, King County,

WA, Due: December 26, 2000, Contact:

Gene Fong (360) 753–9413.

Amended Notices

EIS No. 000331, DRAFT

SUPPLEMENT, AFS, WA, Huckleberry

Land Exchange Consolidate Ownership

and Enhance Future Conservation and

Management, Updated Information,

Proposal to Exchange Land and Mineral

Estates, Federal Land and Non Federal

Land, Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National

Forest, Skagit Snohomish, King, Pierce,

Kittitas, and Lewis Counties, WA

Revision of FR notice published on 09/

22/2000: CEQ Comment Date Extended

from 11/13/2000 to 11/27/2000.

Dated: November 20, 2000.

Joseph C. Montgomery,

Director, NEPA Compliance Division, Office

of Federal Activities.

[FR Doc. 00–30043 Filed 11–22–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–U

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[FRL–6905–4]

Federal Information Processing

Standards (FIPS); Extension of Waiver

ACTION: Notice of FIPS waiver.

SUMMARY: The Chief Information Officer

for the Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA) has granted an extension

to the waiver (published October 1,

1998, at 63 FR 52693) authorizing the

Agency to continue to use the

cryptographic features in the

commercial software application, Travel

Manager Plus. The software’s

cryptographic features do not comply

with Federal Information Processing

Standards: 46–3 Data Encryption

Standard (DES); 140–1, Security

Requirements for Cryptographic

Modules; 180–1, Secure Hash Standard;

and 186–2, Digital Signature Standard.

This waiver is being issued pursuant to

the Federal Property and Administrative

Services Act of 1949, as amended, 40

U.S.C. 1441.

DATES: This waiver extension takes

effect on November 24, 2000 and

expires on January 1, 2004.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mark Day, Director, Office of

Technology, Operations, and Planning,

Office of Environmental Information,

401 M Street SW, Mail Code 2831,

Washington, DC 20460, 202–260–4465.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Federal

Information Processing Standards (FIPS)

46–3 Data Encryption Standard (DES);

140–1, Security Requirements for

Cryptographic Modules; 180–1, Secure

Hash Standard; and 186–2, Digital

Signature Standard publications

establish standards for generating digital

signatures (which can be used to verify

authenticity) and for the encryption of

sensitive information transmitted and

stored electronically. As authorized by

40 U.S.C. 1441(c), these FIPS

publications permit Federal agencies to

waive them under certain

circumstances: A waiver may be granted

if (1) compliance with a standard would

adversely affect the accomplishment of

the mission of an operator of a Federal

computer system; or (2) compliance

with a standard would cause a major

adverse financial impact on the operator

which is not offset by Governmentwide

savings.

Travel Manager Plus is commercial off

the shelf (COTS) software that is on the

General Services Administration (GSA)

schedule. The application complies

with a broad range of governmentwide

requirements including Travel System

Requirements issued by the Joint

Financial Management Improvement

Program.

EPA plans to deploy Travel Manager

Plus agency-wide so that the process of

reimbursing EPA employees can be fully

automated. In addition to gaining

efficiencies, by dramatically shortening

the reimbursement process cycle, the

Travel Manager Plus software will help

ensure that the Agency complies with

new legal requirements that travelers be

reimbursed promptly.

The EPA Chief Information Officer

has granted a waiver from the four FIPS

cited above to enable EPA to continue

to use the built-in cryptographic

features in Travel Manager Plus. EPA

determined that the cryptographic

protection embedded in Travel Manager

Plus provides an appropriate level of

security to protect the unclassified

information used, communicated, and

stored on the system.

If the Agency were to purchase and

maintain FIPS-compliant applications

for its automated travel reimbursement

system, the additional costs would be

prohibitive. By relying on the FIPS noncompliant cryptographic features

embedded in Travel Manager Plus, EPA

will be able to achieve a fully automated

travel reimbursement system that has

adequate and cost-effective security.

In accordance with FIPS

requirements, notice of this waiver has

been sent to the National Institute of

Standards and Technology, the

Committee on Government Reform and

Oversight of the House of

Representatives, and the Committee on

Governmental Affairs of the Senate.

Dated: November 7, 2000.

Edwin A. Levine,

Interim Chief Information Officer.

[FR Doc. 00–29877 Filed 11–22–00; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6560–50–P

ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

AGENCY

[OPP–00689; FRL–6757–6]

State FIFRA Issues Research and

Evaluation Group (SFIREG) Working

Committee on Pesticide Operations &

Management; Notice of Public Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).