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Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16

U.S.C. 1531-1543) (ESA), is based on a

finding that such permits/modifications:

(1) are applied for in good faith; (2)

would not operate to the disadvantage

of the listed species which are the

subject of the permits; and (3) are

consistent with the purposes and

policies set forth in section 2 of the

ESA. Authority to take listed species is

subject to conditions set forth in the

permits. Permits and modifications are

issued in accordance with and are

subject to the ESA and NMFS

regulations governing listed fish and

wildlife permits (50 CFR parts 222-226).

Those individuals requesting a

hearing on an application listed in this

notice should set out the specific

reasons why a hearing on that

application would be appropriate (see

ADDRESSES). The holding of such

hearing is at the discretion of the

Assistant Administrator for Fisheries,

NOAA. All statements and opinions

contained in the permit action

summaries are those of the applicant

and do not necessarily reflect the views

of NMFS.

Species Covered in This Notice

The following species and

evolutionarily significant units (ESU’s)

are covered in this notice:

Sea Turtles

Fish

Shortnose sturgeon (Acipenser

brevirostrum).

New Applications Received

Application 1273: The North Carolina

Aquarium Division proposes to

continue to maintain 17 endangered

shortnose sturgeon for the purposes of

public education through species

enhancement as identified in the Final

Recovery Plan for Shortnose Sturgeon.

Permits and Modifications Issued

Permit 1254: Notice was published on

June 28, 2000 (65 FR 39869) that Central

Hudson Gas& Electric Corporation/

Dynergy Danskammer, L.L.C.& Dynergy

Roseton, L.L.C. applied for a scientific

research permit (1254). The applicant

has requested a scientific research

permit to conduct a monitoring study as

part of an incidental take permit for the

operation of the Roseton and

Danskammer Point power plants. The

applicant will be collecting larvae,

juvenile and adult shortnose sturgeon in

various location in the Hudson River

between the estuary and River mile 65.

Permit 1254 was issued on November

29, 2000, authorizing take of listed

species. Permit 1254 expires August 31,

2005.

Dated: December 1, 2000.

Wanda L. Cain,

Chief, Endangered Species Division, Office

of Protected Resources, National Marine

Fisheries Service.

[FR Doc. 00–31232 Filed 12–6–00; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army

Corps of Engineers; Grant of Partially

Exclusive License

AGENCY: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,

DoD.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: In accordance with 37 CFR

404.7(b)(1)(i), announcement is made of

a prospective partially exclusive license

of U.S. Patent No. 5,202,034 entitled

‘‘Apparatus and Method for Removing

Water from Aqueous Sludges,’’ issued

April 13, 1993.

DATES: Written objections must be filed

not later than February 5, 2001.

ADDRESSES: United States Army Corps

of Engineers Research and Development

Center, Cold Regions Research and

Engineering Laboratory, ATTN: CEERD–

RV–1 (Ms. Sharon Borland), 72 Lyme

Road, Hanover, NH 03755–1290.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.

Sharon Borland, ATTN: CEERD–RV–1;

(603) 646–4735, FAX (603) 646–4448;

Internet

Sharon.L.Borland@erdc.usace.army.mil;

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Research

and Development Center, Cold Regions

Research and Engineering Laboratory,

72 Lyme Road, Hanover, NH 03755–

1290

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Patent No.

5,202,034 entitled ‘‘Apparatus and

Method for Removing Water from

Aqueous Sludges,’’ issued April 13,

1993. The concrete armor unit was

invented by Dr. C. James Martel. The

United States of America owns the

rights to this technology. The United

States of America as represented by the

Secretary of the Army intends to grant

a partially exclusive license for all fields

of use, in the manufacture, use, and sale

of the patented technology in the

territories and possessions of the U.S.A.

and Canada, and in the field of use in

the pulp and paper industry globally, to

3131807 Canada, Inc., a consortium

comprising two companies: Le Groupe

STEICA, Inc. of Sherbrooke, Quebec,

and BESTH20, Inc. of La Prairie,

Quebec, with principal offices at 170,

rue des Pivoines, Le Prairie, Quebec,

Canada J5R 5J6. Pursuant to 37 CFR

404.7(b)(1)(i), any interested party may

file a written objection to this

prospective exclusive license

agreement.

Richard L. Frenette,

Counsel.

[FR Doc. 00–31184 Filed 12–6–00; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Submission for OMB Review;

Comment Request

AGENCY: Department of Education.

SUMMARY: The Leader, Regulatory

Information Management Group, Office

of the Chief Information Officer invites

comments on the submission for OMB

review as required by the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995.

DATES: Interested persons are invited to

submit comments on or before January

8, 2001.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should

be addressed to the Office of

Information and Regulatory Affairs,

Attention: Lauren Wittenberg, Acting

Desk Officer, Department of Education,

Office of Management and Budget, 725

17th Street, NW., Room 10235, New

Executive Office Building, Washington,

DC 20503 or should be electronically

mailed to the internet address

Lauren_Wittenberg@omb.eop.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section

3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of

1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires

that the Office of Management and

Budget (OMB) provide interested

Federal agencies and the public an early

opportunity to comment on information

collection requests. OMB may amend or

waive the requirement for public

consultation to the extent that public

participation in the approval process

would defeat the purpose of the

information collection, violate State or

Federal law, or substantially interfere

with any agency’s ability to perform its

statutory obligations. The Leader,

Regulatory Information Management

Group, Office of the Chief Information

Officer, publishes that notice containing

proposed information collection

requests prior to submission of these

requests to OMB. Each proposed

information collection, grouped by

office, contains the following: (1) Type

of review requested, e.g. new, revision,

extension, existing or reinstatement; (2)

Title; (3) Summary of the collection; (4)

Description of the need for, and

proposed use of, the information; (5)

Respondents and frequency of

collection; and (6) Reporting and/or

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Recordkeeping burden. OMB invites

public comment.

Dated: December 1, 2000.

John Tressler,

Leader Regulatory Information Management,

Office of the Chief Information Officer.

Office of Educational Research and

Improvement

Type of Review: New.

Title: Education Longitudinal Study

of 2002 (ELS 2002).

Frequency: Annually.

Affected Public: Not-for-profit

institutions; State, Local, or Tribal

Gov’t, SEAs or LEAs.

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour

Burden: Responses: 51,597. Burden

Hours: 59,497.

Abstract: Year 2001 field test of 50

schools in five states, students, parents,

teachers, and librarians. The main study

in Spring 2002 in all 50 states and

District of Columbia will constitute the

baseline of a longitudinal study of

school effectiveness and impact on

postsecondary and labor market

outcomes.

Requests for copies of the proposed

information collection request may be

accessed from http://edicsweb.ed.gov, or

should be addressed to Vivian Reese,

Department of Education, 400 Maryland

Avenue, SW, Room 4050, Regional

Office Building 3, Washington, D.C.

20202–4651. Requests may also be

electronically mailed to the internet

address OCIO_IMG_Issues@ed.gov or

faxed to 202–708–9346. Please specify

the complete title of the information

collection when making your request.

Comments regarding burden and/or

the collection activity requirements

should be directed to Kathy_Axt at her

internet address Kathy_Axt@)ed.gov.

Individuals who use a

telecommunications device for the deaf

(TDD) may call the Federal Information

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–

8339.

[FR Doc. 00–31144 Filed 12–6–00; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Record of Decision; JEA Circulating

Fluidized Bed Combustor Project,

Jacksonville, Duval County, FL

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Record of Decision.

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy

(DOE) has prepared an environmental

impact statement (EIS) (DOE/EIS–0289)

to assess the environmental impacts

associated with a proposed project that

would be cost-shared by DOE and JEA

(formerly the Jacksonville Electric

Authority) under DOE’s Clean Coal

Technology (CCT) Program. The project

would demonstrate circulating fluidized

bed (CFB) combustion technology at

JEA’s existing Northside Generating

Station in Jacksonville, Florida. After

careful consideration of the potential

environmental impacts, along with

program goals and objectives, DOE has

decided that it will provide

approximately $73 million in federal

funding support (about 24% of the total

cost of approximately $309 million) to

design, construct, and demonstrate the

CFB technology proposed by JEA.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To

obtain additional information about the

CFB combustor project or the EIS,

contact Dr. Jan Wachter, National

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)

Document Manager, U.S. Department of

Energy, National Energy Technology

Laboratory, 626 Cochrans Mill Road,

Pittsburgh, PA 15236, telephone: (412)

386–4809, fax: (412) 386–4726, or email: jan.wachter@netl.doe.gov. For

general information on the DOE NEPA

process, contact Ms. Carol M.

Borgstrom, Director, Office of NEPA

Policy and Compliance (EH–42), U.S.

Department of Energy, 1000

Independence Avenue, SW.,

Washington, DC 20585, telephone: (202)

586–4600, leave a message at (800) 472–

2756, or fax: (202) 586–7031.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DOE has

prepared this Record of Decision

pursuant to Council on Environmental

Quality (CEQ) regulations for

implementing the procedural provisions

of NEPA (40 CFR Parts 1500–1508) and

DOE NEPA regulations (10 CFR Part

1021). This Record of Decision is based

on DOE’s final EIS for the JEA

Circulating Fluidized Bed Combustor

Project (DOE/EIS–0289, June 2000).

NEPA Strategy for the Clean Coal

Technology Program

For the CCT Program, DOE developed

a strategy that is consistent with CEQ

and DOE regulations for compliance

with NEPA and which includes

consideration of both programmatic and

project-specific environmental impacts

during and after the process of selecting

a project. This strategy, called tiering

(40 CFR 1508.28), refers to the

consideration of general issues in a

broader EIS (e.g., for the CCT Program),

followed by more focused

environmental impact statements or

other environmental analyses that

incorporate by reference the general

issues and concentrate on those issues

specific to the proposals under

consideration.

The DOE strategy has three principal

elements. The first element involved

preparation of a comprehensive

Programmatic EIS for the CCT Program

(DOE/EIS–0146, November 1989) to

address the potential environmental

consequences of widespread

commercialization of each of 22

successfully demonstrated clean coal

technologies.

The second element involved

preparation of a pre-selection, projectspecific environmental review of

proposed CCT projects based on projectspecific environmental data and

analyses in accordance with DOE NEPA

regulations (10 CFR 1021.216). For the

proposed CFB combustor project, JEA

supplied DOE with environmental data

as part of their proposal. DOE reviewed

the potential site-specific

environmental, health, safety, and

socioeconomic issues associated with

the proposed project before selecting

JEA’s proposal for further consideration.

In its review, DOE analyzed the

environmental advantages and

disadvantages of the proposal and

alternative sites and processes

reasonably available to JEA.

The third element consists of

preparing site-specific NEPA documents

for each selected project. For the JEA

proposed project, DOE determined that

an EIS should be prepared. As part of

the overall NEPA strategy for the CCT

Program, the JEA EIS draws upon the

Programmatic EIS and pre-selection

environmental reviews.

On November 13, 1997, DOE

published in the Federal Register (62

FR 60889) a Notice of Intent to prepare

the JEA EIS and hold a public scoping

meeting. The Notice of Intent invited

comments and suggestions on the

proposed scope of the EIS, including

environmental issues and alternatives,

and encouraged participation in the

NEPA process. DOE held the scoping

meeting in Jacksonville, Florida, on

December 3, 1997. DOE received 3 oral

responses and 20 written responses

from interested parties. The responses

helped DOE to establish the issues to be

analyzed in the EIS and the level of

analysis warranted for each issue.

In August 1999, DOE issued the draft

EIS for public review and invited

comments on the adequacy, accuracy,

and completeness of the EIS. As part of

the review, DOE held a public hearing

in Jacksonville, Florida, on September

30, 1999. DOE received 1 oral comment

and 59 written comments, which helped

to improve the quality and usefulness of

the EIS. In June 2000, DOE issued the

final EIS, which considered and, as