9416 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 41 / Monday, March 3, 1997 / Notices

Title: Applications for Competitive

Review to Provide Financial Assistance

to Increase Educational Opportunities

for Alaska Natives.

Abstract: The information is needed

to determine the quality of proposed

services to increase educational

opportunities and address needs of

Alaska natives.

Additional Information: This form

will be used by States and local

educational agencies who will apply

under the Alaska Native Education

Program. The information is needed to

determine the quality of proposed

services to increase educational

opportunities and address the academic

needs of Alaska Natives. The

Department will use the information to

make grant awards.

An emergency review is requested by

March 10 due to delayed funding

authorization for this program and to

allow sufficient time for potential

applicants to respond prior to schools

closing in early May as well as making

awards on a timely schedule. If

applications are not accepted prior to

that time, valuable startup time will be

lost and educational equipment and

supplies will not be available for

students at the beginning of the school

year in August.

Frequency: Annually.

Affected Public: Not-for-profit

institutions; State, local or Tribal Gov’t,

SEAs or LEAs.

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour

Burden:

Responses: 81.

Burden Hours: 1,620.

[FR Doc. 97–5096 Filed 2–28–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Floodplain Statement of Findings for

Site Investigation Activities at the Oak

Ridge K–25 Site Area of Responsibility

AGENCY: Department of Energy (DOE).

ACTION: Floodplain statement of

findings.

SUMMARY: This is a Floodplain

Statement of Findings for Site

Investigation Activities at the Oak Ridge

K–25 Site, Roane County, Tennessee, in

accordance with 10 CFR part 1022,

Compliance with Floodplain/Wetlands

Environmental Review Requirements.

DOE proposes to conduct site

investigations and preliminary

engineering activities within the

boundaries of the Oak Ridge K–25 Site

as required under the Comprehensive

Environmental Response,

Compensation, and Liability Act

(CERCLA), the Resource Conservation

and Recovery Act (RCRA), underground

storage tank (UST) regulations or other

regulations and directives. Some site

investigation activities may occur

within 100-year or 500-year floodplain

of streams at the plant. DOE has

prepared a floodplain assessment

describing the possible effects,

alternatives, and measures designed to

avoid or minimize potential harm to

floodplains or their flood storage

potential. DOE will allow 15 days of

public review after publication of the

Statement of Findings before

implementation of the proposed action.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Robert C. Sleeman, Director,

Environmental Restoration Division

(EW–91), DOE Oak Ridge Operations

Office, Post Office Box 2001, Oak Ridge,

TN 37831, Telephone: (423) 576–3534,

Facsimile: (423) 576–6074.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION ON GENERAL

DOE FLOODPLAIN ENVIRONMENTAL REVIEW

REQUIREMENTS, CONTACT: Carol M.

Borgstrom, Director, Office of NEPA

Policy and Assistance, EH–42, U.S.

Department of Energy, 1000

Independence Avenue, SW.,

Washington, D.C. 20585, Telephone:

(202) 586–4600 or (800) 472–2756.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: A Notice

of Floodplain Involvement was

published in the Federal Register on

October 4, 1993, (58 FR 51624) and

subsequently a floodplain assessment

was prepared. The floodplain

assessment covers a variety of intrusive

and nonintrusive preliminary

engineering and site investigation

methods and techniques that may be

used at one or more sites at the Oak

Ridge K–25 Site. These activities

include (as detailed in the October 4,

1993, notice), but are not limited to: ‘‘(a)

sampling of air, surface water,

groundwater, sediments, surface and

deeper soils; sampling of terrestrial and

aquatic biota; and measurement of

meteorological characteristics; (b)

drilling of boreholes to obtain soil/

geological samples (some of the

boreholes would be completed as

groundwater monitoring wells); digging

soil test pits by hand or backhoe; (d)

taking a variety of nonintrusive surveys

(such as radiological surveys); (e) taking

intrusive surveys (such as with soil

penetrometers and similar devices); and

(f) conducting underground tests (such

as aquifer pump, tracer geophysical log,

vertical seismic profile, and seismic

tests).’’

Alternatives considered in the

assessment were (1) no action, (2)

prohibition of site investigation

activities in floodplains, and (3)

restricting site investigation activities to

outside the floodplain when practicable

alternatives exist, i.e., data quality

would not be compromised. Only a few

sampling locations, such as those

needed for surface and sediment

samples, and a minimal number of

boreholes or wells and soil test pits are

expected to be in floodplains. Most of

the activities addressed by the

floodplain assessment will result in no

measurable impact on floodplain crosssections or flood stage, and thus do not

increase the risk of flooding. Those

activities that are identified from sitespecific data as possibly impacting

negatively upon the floodplain (e.g.,

installation of flumes and construction

of access roads) may require separate

floodplain assessments and the

implementation of mitigative measures,

e.g., construction during low

precipitation periods, prompt

stabilization and restoration of affected

areas, minimizing vegetation removal,

and the use of mats and wide-tracked

vehicles. Alternatively, DOE may opt to

omit the activity or relocate the activity

to an alternate site. Site investigation

activities addressed in the floodplain

assessment conform to applicable

floodplain protection standards.

Issued in Oak Ridge, TN on February 11,

1997.

James L. Elmore,

Alternate National Environmental Policy Act

Compliance Officer.

[FR Doc. 97–5123 Filed 2–28–97; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P

Floodplain Statement of Findings for

Site Investigation Activities at the Oak

Ridge Y–12 Plant Area of

Responsibility

AGENCY: Department of Energy (DOE).

ACTION: Floodplain statement of

findings.

SUMMARY: This is a Floodplain

Statement of Findings for Site

Investigation Activities at the Oak Ridge

Y–12 Plant, Anderson County,

Tennessee, in accordance with 10 CFR

part 1022, Compliance with Floodplain/

Wetlands Environmental Review

Requirements. DOE proposes to conduct

site investigations and preliminary

engineering activities within the

boundaries of the Oak Ridge Y–12 Plant

as required under the Comprehensive

Environmental Response,

Compensation, and Liability Act

(CERCLA), the Resource Conservation

and Recovery Act (RCRA), underground

storage tank (UST) regulations or other

regulations and directives. Some site

investigation activities may occur