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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Navy 

Notice of Public Meetings for the Draft 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement/Overseas Environmental 

Impact Statement for Atlantic Fleet 

Training and Testing (ID# SEIS–007– 

17–USN–1723491961) 

AGENCY: Department of the Navy (DoN), 

Department of Defense (DoD). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National 

Environmental Policy Act- (NEPA) of 

1969, as implemented by the Council on 

Environmental Quality regulations, and 

Presidential Executive Order 12114, the 

Department of the Navy (DoN), as the 

lead agency, and U.S. Coast Guard 

(Coast Guard) have prepared and filed 

with the U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency a Draft Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)/ 

Overseas Environmental Impact 

Statement (OEIS) that evaluates the 

reasonably foreseeable effects on the 

human environment of Navy, Marine 

Corps, and Coast Guard training and 

testing activities conducted within the 

Atlantic Fleet Training and Testing 

(AFTT) Study Area. 

DATES: The 60-day public comment 

period begins on September 20, 2024, 

and ends November 21, 2024. The 

comment period includes an additional 

15 calendar days (from the required 45 

days) to allow the public more time to 

review and comment. The public can 

submit comments during the Draft EIS/ 

OEIS public review and comment 

period at one of the in-person public 

meetings, online at the project website, 

or by U.S. mail. All comments must be 

postmarked or received electronically 

by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time 

(EDT) on November 21, 2024, for 

consideration in the Final Supplemental 

EIS/OEIS. 

Three in-person public meetings in 

the form of an open-house will be held 

to inform the public about the proposed 

action and alternatives and about the 

opportunity to provide written and oral 

comments on the Draft Supplemental 

EIS/OEIS. 

The in-person public meetings will be 

held as follows: 

1. Tuesday, October 8, 2024, 5 p.m. to 

7 p.m. EDT New Bedford Whaling 

Museum, 18 Johnny Cake Hill, New 

Bedford, MA 02740. 

2. Thursday, October 10, 2024, 5 p.m. 

to 7 p.m. EDT Silver Spring Civic 

Building at Veterans Plaza, 1 Veterans 

Pl, Silver Spring, MD 20910. 

3. Wednesday, October 16, 2024, 5 

p.m. to 7 p.m. (Central Daylight Time 

(CDT)) New Orleans Marriott Metairie at 

Lakeway, 3838 N Causeway Blvd., 

Metairie, LA 70002. 

Two virtual public meetings in the 

form of a webinar and question and 

answer session will be held for the 

public to learn about the proposed 

action and alternatives. The virtual 

public meetings will be held as follows: 

1. Tuesday, October 22, 2024, 6 p.m. 

to 7 p.m. EDT. 

2. Thursday, October 24, 2024, 2 p.m. 

to 3 p.m. EDT. 

Registration for the virtual public 

meetings is available at the project 

website www.nepa.navy.mil/aftteis/. 

Recordings of the virtual public 

meetings will be posted to the project 

website at www.nepa.navy.mil/aftteis/ 

for the public to view following their 

completion. 

ADDRESSES: Comments on the Draft 

Supplemental EIS/OEIS may be 

provided at the in-person public 

meetings, submitted electronically 

through the project website: 

www.nepa.navy.mil/aftteis/, or by mail 

to: Naval Facilities Engineering Systems 

Command Atlantic; Attention: Code 

EV22SG (AFTT EIS Project Managers); 

6506 Hampton Boulevard, Norfolk, VA 

23508–1278. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: U.S. 

Fleet Forces Command, 1562 Mitscher 

Avenue Suite 250, Norfolk, VA 23551– 

2487, Attention: Mr. Theodore Brown, 

Installations and Environment Public 

Affairs Officer, 757–836–4427, 

theodore.c.brown4.civ@us.navy.mil, or 

visit the project website 

www.nepa.navy.mil/aftteis/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: DoN and 

Coast Guard’s Proposed Action is to 

conduct military readiness training 

activities, and research, development, 

testing, and evaluation activities in the 

AFTT Study Area. These military 

readiness activities include the use of 

active sonar and explosives within 

existing range complexes and testing 

ranges and additional areas located in 

the Atlantic Ocean along the eastern 

coast of North America, in portions of 

the Caribbean Sea, the Gulf of Mexico, 

at Navy pierside locations and port 

transit channels, near civilian ports, and 

in bays, harbors, and inland waterways 

(e.g., the lower Chesapeake Bay). These 

military readiness activities are 

generally consistent with those analyzed 

in the AFTT EIS/OEIS completed in 

2018 and are representative of training 

and testing that the Navy has been 

conducting in the AFTT Study Area for 

decades. Since the completion of the 

2018 Final EIS/OEIS, the best available 

science has been updated, the regulatory 

environment has changed, the Study 

Area has changed, and what is known 

about our impacts has been refined. All 

of this has been incorporated into this 

Supplemental EIS/OEIS analysis. The 

National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration’s National Marine 

Fisheries Service (NMFS) is a 

Cooperating Agency for the 

Supplemental EIS/OEIS. 

The purpose of the Proposed Action 

is to ensure the Action Proponents, 

including the Coast Guard, are able to 

organize, train, and equip service 

members and personnel to meet their 

respective national defense missions in 

accordance with their Congressionally 

mandated requirements. 

Potential direct, indirect, cumulative, 

short-term, long-term, irreversible, and 

irretrievable impacts to the environment 

from two action alternatives and a No 

Action Alternative are evaluated in the 

Draft Supplemental EIS/OEIS. 

Resources evaluated in detail include 

air quality, sediments and water quality, 

vegetation, invertebrates, marine 

habitats, fish, marine mammals, sea 

turtles and other marine reptiles, and 

birds and bats. 

Based on the results of the analysis, 

the DoN and Coast Guard have 

requested from NMFS a Letter of 

Authorization in accordance with the 

Marine Mammal Protection Act to 

authorize the incidental take of marine 

mammals that may result from the 

implementation of the activities 

analyzed in the AFTT Draft 

Supplemental EIS/OEIS. In accordance 

with Section 7 of the Endangered 

Species Act, DoN and Coast Guard are 

consulting with NMFS and U.S. Fish 

and Wildlife Service for potential 

impacts to federally listed species. DoN 

and Coast Guard will complete all 

required consultations and comply with 

all applicable laws and regulations. 

The Draft Supplemental EIS/OEIS 

addresses mitigation measures designed 

to help reduce or avoid potential 

impacts to marine resources, including 

new mitigation measures that include 

expanded location-specific mitigations 

and updates to activity-based mitigation 

measures. In addition, the Draft 

Supplemental EIS/OEIS addresses 

marine species monitoring efforts 

designed to track compliance with 

authorizations and to investigate the 

effectiveness of mitigation measures 

implemented as part of the Proposed 

Action. The proposed mitigation 

measures would be implemented under 

either action alternative to maximize the 

mitigation benefits to the environment. 

Mitigation measures are being 

coordinated through the consultation 

and permitting processes. DoN and 

Coast Guard will also consider public 


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comments on proposed mitigation 

measures described in this Draft 

Supplemental EIS/OEIS. 

Comments submitted during the 

public comment period at the in-person 

public meetings, electronically via the 

project website, or mailed to the address 

provided in the ADDRESSES section will 

become part of the public record. 

Substantive comments will be 

considered in the development of the 

Final Supplemental EIS/OEIS. 

Notice of the availability of the Draft 

Supplemental EIS/OEIS was distributed 

to federal, state, and local agencies, 

elected officials, and other interested 

individuals and organizations. Copies of 

the Draft Supplemental EIS/OEIS are 

available for public review at the 

following libraries: 

1. Brigadier General Charles E. McGee 

Library, 900 Wayne Avenue, Silver 

Spring, MD 20910. 

2. Broward County Main Library, 100 

South Andrews Avenue, Fort 

Lauderdale, FL 33301. 

3. Camden County Public Library, 

1410 GA–40, Kingsland, GA 31548. 

4. Corpus Christi La Retama Central 

Library, 805 Comanche Street, Corpus 

Christi, TX 78401. 

5. East Bank Regional Library, 4747 

West Napoleon Avenue, Metairie, LA 

70001. 

6. New Bedford Free Public Library 

Casa de Saudade Branch, 58 Crapo 

Street #1, New Bedford, MA 02740. 

7. Onslow County Public Library, 58 

East Doris Avenue, Jacksonville, NC 

28540. 

8. Portland Public Library, 5 

Monument Square, Portland, ME 04101. 

9. Providence Public Library, 150 

Empire Street, Providence, RI 02903. 

10. West Florida Public Library, 

Southwest Branch, 12248 Gulf Beach 

Highway, Pensacola, FL 32507. 

Copies of the AFTT Draft 

Supplemental EIS/OEIS are available for 

electronic viewing at 

www.nepa.navy.mil/aftteis/. A paper 

copy of the Executive Summary and a 

single compact disc (CD) of the Draft 

Supplemental EIS/OEIS will be made 

available upon written request by 

contacting: Naval Facilities Engineering 

Systems Command Atlantic, Attention: 

Code EV22SG (AFTT EIS Project 

Managers), 6506 Hampton Boulevard, 

Norfolk, VA 23508–1278. 

Dated: September 12, 2024. 

A.J. Gioiello, 

Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate 

General’s Corps, U.S. Navy, Federal Register 

Liaison Officer. 

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Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Submission to the Office of 

Management and Budget for Review 

and Approval; Comment Request; 

Performance Report for Graduate 

Assistance in Areas of National Need 

(GAANN) Program 

AGENCY: Office of Postsecondary 

Education (OPE), Department of 

Education (ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995, the Department is proposing an 

extension without change of a currently 

approved information collection request 

(ICR). 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

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ADDRESSES: Written comments and 

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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

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following issues: (1) is this collection 

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Title of Collection: Performance report 

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National Need (GAANN) Program. 

OMB Control Number: 1840–0748. 

Type of Review: An extension without 

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Respondents/Affected Public: Private 

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Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 291. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 3,274. 

Abstract: Graduate Assistance in 

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GAANN Program as a whole. Results 

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Indian Education Professional 

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AGENCY: Office of Elementary and 

Secondary Education, Department of 

Education (ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act (PRA) of 

1995, the Department is proposing an 

extension without change of a currently 

approved information collection request 

(ICR). 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

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21, 2024. 

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