Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 46 / Monday, March 10, 1997 / Notices 10879

Dated: February 25, 1997.

Connie M. Downs,

OPIC Corporate Secretary.

[FR Doc. 97–6060 Filed 3–6–97; 2:38 pm]

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DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Office of Justice Programs

Bureau of Justice Assistance

Agency Information Collection

Activities: Proposed Collection;

Comment Request

AGENCY: Bureau of Justice Assistance,

Office of Justice Programs, Justice

Department.

ACTION: Notice of information collection

under review; Local law enforcement

block grants progress reporting form.

Office of Management and Budget

(OMB) approval is being sought for the

information collection listed below.

This proposed information collection

was previously published in the Federal

Register on December 24, 1996 and

allowed 60 days for public comment.

The purpose of this notice is to allow

an additional 30 days for public

comments until April 9, 1997. This

process is conducted in accordance with

the Code of Federal Regulations, 5 Part

1320.10. Written comments and/or

suggestions regarding the item(s)

contained in this notice, especially

regarding the estimated public burden

and associated response time, should be

directed to the Office of Management

and Budget, Office of Information and

Regulatory Affairs, Attention:

Department of Justice Desk Officer,

Washington, DC, 20503. Additionally,

comments may be submitted to OMB via

facsimile to 202–395–7285. Comments

may also be submitted to the

Department of Justice (DOJ), Justice

Management Division, Information

Management and Security Staff,

Attention: Department Clearance

Officer, Suite 850, 1001 G Street, NW,

Washington, DC, 20530. Additionally,

comments may be submitted to DOJ via

facsimile to 202–514–1534. Written

comments and suggestions from the

public and affected agencies should

address one or more of the following

points:

(1) Evaluate whether the proposed

collection of information is necessary

for the proper performance of the

functions of the agency/component,

including whether the information will

have practical utility;

(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the

agencies/components estimate of the

burden of the proposed collection of

information, including the validity of

the methodology and assumptions used;

(3) Enhance the quality, utility, and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and

(4) Minimize the burden of the

collection of information on those who

are to respond, including through the

use of appropriate automated,

electronic, mechanical, or other

technological collection techniques or

other forms of information technology,

e.g., permitting electronic submission of

responses.

Overview of this information

collection:

(1) Type of information collection:

New data collection.

(2) The title of the form/collection:

Local Law Enforcement Block Grants

Progress Reporting Form.

(3) The agency form number, if any,

and the applicable component of the

Department sponsoring the collection.

Form: None. Bureau of Justice

Assistance, Office of Justice Programs,

United States Department of Justice.

(4) Affected public who will be asked

or required to respond, as well as a brief

abstract. Primary: State and local units

of government. Other: None. This data

collection will gather information from

each jurisdiction on general spending

operations within the purpose areas of

the grant.

(5) An estimate of the total number of

respondents and the amount of time

estimated for an average respondent to

respond: 3200 respondents at 45

minutes per response.

(6) An estimate of the total public

burden (in hours) associated with the

collection: 4800 annual burden hours.

Public comment on this proposed

information collection is strongly

encouraged.

Dated: March 4, 1997.

Robert B. Briggs,

Department Clearance Officer, United States

Department of Justice.

[FR Doc. 97–5736 Filed 3–7–97; 8:45 am]

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NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND

SPACE ADMINISTRATION

[Notice (97–026)]

National Environmental Policy Act;

Cassini Mission

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and

Space Administration (NASA).

ACTION: Notice of intent to prepare a

supplemental environmental impact

statement (SEIS) for implementation of

the Cassini mission to Saturn and its

moons.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the National

Environmental Policy Act of 1969

(NEPA), as amended (42 U.S.C. 4321 et

seq.), the Council on Environmental

Quality Regulations for Implementing

the Procedural Provisions of NEPA (40

CFR Parts 1500–1508), and NASA’s

policy and procedures (14 CFR Part

1216 Subpart 1216.3), NASA intends to

prepare a supplement to the Cassini

mission Final Environmental Impact

Statement (FEIS). The SEIS will focus

on updated information pertinent to the

consequence and risk analyses of

potential accidents during the launch

and cruise phases of the mission. Such

accidents could result in a release of

plutonium dioxide from the three

Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generators

(RTG’s) and the potential 157

Radioisotope Heater Units (RHU’s)

onboard the Cassini spacecraft. The

currently planned mission involves the

launch of the Cassini spacecraft from

Cape Canaveral Air Station (CCAS),

Florida, during the primary launch

opportunity in October 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

Mark R. Dahl, NASA Headquarters,

Code SD, Washington, DC 20546–0001;

202–358–0306.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

planned Cassini mission is an

international cooperative effort of

NASA, the European Space Agency, and

the Italian Space Agency, to explore the

planet Saturn and its environment.

Saturn is the second-largest and secondmost massive planet in the solar system

and has the largest, most visible

dynamic ring structure of all the

planets. The planned mission is an

important part of NASA’s program for

exploration of the solar system, the goal

of which is to understand the system’s

birth and evolution. The Cassini

mission would involve a 4-year

scientific exploration of Saturn, its

atmosphere, moons, rings, and

magnetosphere. The Cassini spacecraft

consists of the Cassini Orbiter and the

detachable Huygens Probe.

For several months, prior to its arrival

at Saturn in June 2004, the spacecraft

would perform scientific observations of

the planet. The planned arrival date at

Saturn provides a unique opportunity to

have a distant flyby of Saturn’s outer

satellite Phoebe. About 3 weeks before

its first flyby of Titan, Saturn’s largest

moon, the Huygens Probe would be

released for a 2.5 hour parachute

descent into Titan’s atmosphere. The

probe would sample and determine the

composition of Titan’s atmosphere

during its descent, and gather data on
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the moon’s landscape. The Cassini

Orbiter would then continue its Saturn

orbital tour, providing opportunities for

ring imaging, magnetospheric coverage,

and radio (Earth), solar, and stellar

occultations of Saturn, Titan, and the

ring system. A total of 35 close Titan

flybys have also been planned for the 4-

year tour, along with 4 close flybys of

selected icy satellites, and 29 more

distant satellite encounters. The

scientific information gathered by the

Cassini mission could help provide

clues to the evolution of the solar

system and the origin of life on Earth.

The Cassini spacecraft would carry

three RTG’s that use the heat of decay

of plutonium dioxide to generate

electric power for the spacecraft and its

instruments. The spacecraft would also

use up to 157 RHU’s, each containing a

small amount of plutonium dioxide, to

generate heat for controlling the thermal

environment of the spacecraft and

several of its instruments.

The Cassini FEIS was made available

to Federal, state, and local agencies, the

public, and other interested parties on

July 21, 1995. In addition to the NoAction alternative, the FEIS addressed

in detail three alternatives for

completing preparations for, and

operating the Cassini mission to Saturn

and its moons. On October 20, 1995,

utilizing the analyses in the FEIS along

with other important considerations

such as programmatic, technical,

economic, international relations, and

other factors, the Record of Decision

selecting the Proposed Action was

rendered.

The Proposed Action consists of

completing preparations for and

implementing the Cassini mission to

Saturn and its moons, with a launch of

the Cassini spacecraft onboard a Titan

IV(SRMU)/Centaur. The launch would

take place at CCAS during the primary

launch opportunity in October 1997. A

secondary launch opportunity occurs in

December 1997, with a backup

opportunity in March 1999, both using

the Titan IV(SRMU)/Centaur. The

primary launch opportunity would

employ a Venus-Venus-Earth-JupiterGravity-Assist trajectory to Saturn; the

secondary and backup opportunities

would both employ a Venus-EarthEarth-Gravity-Assist (VEEGA) trajectory.

The Proposed Action would allow the

Cassini spacecraft to gather the full

science return desired to accomplish

mission objectives.

Along with the No-Action alternative

(ceasing preparations and not

implementing the Cassini mission), the

FEIS evaluated in detail two other

mission alternatives. The March 1999

alternative would have used two Shuttle

flights with on-orbit integration of the

spacecraft and upper stage, followed by

injection of the spacecraft into a VEEGA

trajectory to Saturn. Due to the long

lead-time in developing and certifying

the new upper stage that would be

needed to implement it, this alternative

is no longer considered reasonable.

Also, this alternative would have

returned less science than the primary

launch opportunity of the Proposed

Action. The other mission alternative

considered in the FEIS was the 2001

alternative, which would use a Titan

IV(SRMU)/Centaur to launch the

spacecraft from CCAS in March 2001 on

a Venus-Venus-Venus-Gravity-Assist

trajectory. A backup opportunity in May

2002 would use a VEEGA trajectory.

The 2001 alternative would require

completing development and testing of

a new high-performance rhenium

engine for the spacecraft, as well as

adding about 20 percent more

propellant to the spacecraft. Science

returns from this alternative would meet

the minimum acceptable level for the

mission.

The FEIS analyses demonstrated that

completing preparations for and

implementing a normal Cassini mission

would not significantly impact the

human environment. The principal

concern associated with all mission

alternatives (except No-Action) was

with accidents during launch and

operation of the mission that have the

potential to result in a release of

plutonium dioxide from the RTG’s and/

or RHU’s onboard the spacecraft. In

response, NASA and the U.S.

Department of Energy (DOE), using the

best information available at that time,

developed an array of representative

accident scenarios that could potentially

result in a release of plutonium dioxide

from the RTG’s. NASA and DOE

analyzed the representative accident

scenarios with respect to the

consequences and risks. The results of

those analyses were presented in the

Cassini FEIS.

Updated results from the continuing

tests and analysis have recently become

available for NASA review. This

updated data indicates that there is new

information relevant to environmental

concerns and bearing on the impacts of

the Proposed Action. NASA has

determined that the purposes of NEPA

will be furthered by preparation and

issuance of an SEIS.

The SEIS will address NASA’s

consideration of the updated data

resulting from the ongoing analysis. The

SEIS will compare the updated data

with those in the FEIS and will focus on

the areas where the largest differences

in risk are estimated. The SEIS will

address the Proposed Action, the No

Action alternative, and the 2001 mission

alternative which is still available to

NASA.

Benita A. Cooper,

Associate Administrator for Management

Systems and Facilities.

[FR Doc. 97–5735 Filed 3–7–97; 8:45 am]

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[Notice (97–027)]

NASA Advisory Council, Life and

Microgravity Sciences and

Applications Advisory Committee,

Microgravity Science and Applications

Advisory Subcommittee; Meeting

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and

Space Administration.

ACTION: Notice of meeting cancellation.

FEDERAL REGISTER CITATION OF PREVIOUS

ANNOUNCEMENT: 62 FR 7072, Notice

Number 97–014, February 14, 1997.

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED DATES OF

MEETING: March 5, 1997, 10:00 a.m. to

5:00 p.m. Meeting has been canceled.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:

Dr. Bradley M. Carpenter, Code UG,

National Aeronautics and Space

Administration, Washington, DC 20546,

202–358–0813.

Dated: March 4, 1997.

Leslie M. Nolan,

Advisory Committee Management Officer,

National Aeronautics and Space

Administration.

[FR Doc. 97–5854 Filed 3–5–97; 1:16 pm]

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NATIONAL CREDIT UNION

ADMINISTRATION

Sunshine Act Meeting; Notice of

Change in Subject of Meeting

The National Credit Union

Administration Board determined that

its business requires the deletion of the

following item from the previously

announced open meeting (Federal

Register, 62 FR 10086, March 5, 1997)

scheduled for 8:10 a.m., Friday, March

7, 1997.

3. Charter Application from the

Proposed First Combined Community

Federal Credit Union.

The Board voted (2-to-0, Vice

Chairman Bowne ́ was unavailable) that

Agency business required that this item

be deleted from the open agenda. Earlier

announcement of this change was not

possible.

The previously announced items

were:

1. Approval of Minutes of Previous

Open Meeting.