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Notices in area newspapers.

Additionally, copies of the DEIS will be

placed in community public libraries

and the Camp Atterbury Headquarters

Building. Copies will also be sent to

Federal, state, regional and local

agencies and interested organizations.

Please address written comments to Mr.

Wayne Tolbert, 800 Oak Ridge

Turnpike, P.O. Box 2502, Oak Ridge, TN

37831.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Lieutenant Colonel Jack Fowler, EIS

Project Officer, Indiana National Guard,

Camp Atterbury National Guard

Training Site, Edinburgh, IN 46124;

telephone (812) 526–1169. Copies of the

DEIS may be requested by contacting

Mr. Wayne Tolbert at (423) 481–9703.

Dated: March 25, 1997.

Raymond J. Fatz,

Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army,

(Environment, Safety and Occupational

Health) OASA (I, L&E).

[FR Doc. 97–8054 Filed 3–28–97; 8:45 am]

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FY96–97 Climate Change Fuel Cell

Program Environmental Assessment

AGENCY: U.S. Army Armament Research

Development & Engineering Center

(ARDEC).

ACTION: Notice of availability (request

for comments).

SUMMARY: An Environmental

Assessment (EA) has been prepared to

discuss the significant impacts of the

FY96–97 Congressional Climate Change

Fuel Cell Program. ARDEC was selected

by the Deputy Under Secretary of

Defense for Environmental Security to

manage this FY96–97 Climate Change

Fuel Cell Program. ARDEC is publishing

the EA for review and comment. Copies

of the EA are available by contacting Mr.

Robert Scola at the address listed below.

Under this Program, Fuel Cells are to be

located throughout the United States

including selected Department of

Defense (DOD) installations, both

CONUS or OCONUS. A DOD

installation is to form a partnership with

a private party and submit an

application for a rebate for their cell

purchase. The selection of the

installations is to be completed by a

selection board which will consider the

attributes of each installation’s

application and the benefits which a

Fuel Cell will provide. The actual

selection of the DOD installations will

be completed in the future and therefore

are unknown as of the time of the EA

preparation.

DATES: Comments must be received on

the EA no later than April 30, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Comments may be mailed to

U.S. Army, Armament Research

Development & Engineering Center,

Industrial Ecology Center, AMSTA–AR–

ET (ATTN: Mr. Garry O. Kosteck P.E.),

Building 172, Picatinny Arsenal, NJ

07806–5000.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mr. Daniel Tolliver at (201) 724–4084 or

Mr. Robert Zanowicz at (201) 724–5744.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Introduction

Currently, the only commercial

available fuel cell is a Phosphoric Acid

Fuel Cell (PAFC) and it is most likely

that this unit is to be installed at all the

selected DOD installations. As of the

date of this document’s preparation,

over 70 PAFCs have been installed and

are operating throughout the world.

Background

Since the selected DOD installations

will most likely choose the same PAFC,

it has been decided to prepare a

programmatic EA rather than individual

ones for each installation to discuss the

similar issues of installing and operating

a Fuel Cell. The Council of

Environmental Quality’s regulations(s)

permit environmental documentation to

be written in a non-specific manner

when the action is essentially the same

but at different locations. This is the

situation here and this EA is being

prepared to allow it to be ‘‘tiered’’ to

local conditions. Selected installations

shall be required to incorporate the

material of this document for any local

environmental documentation to

eliminate any repetitious issues and to

focus upon local issues not discussed

herein. The selected DOD installations

shall be required to submit a

certification letter indicating that local

environmental issues such as historical

buildings, wetlands, etc. have been

identified, reviewed and mitigated

where necessary.

Gregory D. Showalter,

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.

[FR Doc. 97–8019 Filed 3–28–97; 8:45 am]

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Program for Qualifying Department of

Defense Ground Passenger Carriers

AGENCY: Military Traffic Management

Command.

ACTION: Notice (request for comments).

SUMMARY: The Military Bus Agreement

(MBA) Program is being amended to

improve the standards for qualifying

carriers transporting Department of

Defense (DOD) passengers by bus, van

and limousine service. The

improvements are prepared under a new

basic Agreement. The changes affect all

current and future ground passenger

carriers transporting for the DOD. A

copy of the Agreement between the

Military Traffic Management Command

(MTMC) and ground passenger carriers

is available upon request.

DATES: Comments must be submitted on

or before May 30, 1997.

ADDRESSES: Request a copy of the

Agreement or mail comments to:

Headquarters, Military Traffic

Management Command, ATTN: MTOP–

QQ, Room 630, 5611 Columbia Pike,

Falls Church, VA 22041–5050.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Leesha Saunders, MTOP–QQ, telephone

(703) 681–6393.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: MTMC is

the agency established within the DOD

for the procurement of land

transportation from commercial carriers

for DOD passengers, their families and

impedimenta, in domestic movements

procured by the MTMC and DOD

Transportation Offices. The MBA is the

standards of service carriers must

comply with for MTMC approval,

including Federal Motor Carrier Safety

Regulations, MTMC and joint service

command passenger requirements. In

light of current deregulation and

changing federal regulations, MTMC is

modifying passenger policies in order to

improve the current qualification

program. Under the new Agreement

carriers must show compliance with

federal, state and DOD passenger safety

requirements. All bus, van and

limousine carriers currently approved

by MTMC will be required to re-sign the

new MBA and provide proof of

insurance, company drug testing,

financial and additional information

newly essential under the amended

Agreement.

Gregory D. Showalter,

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer.

[FR Doc. 97–8018 Filed 3–28–97; 8:45 am]

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Corps of Engineers

Environmental Impact Statement,

Black Hawk, Colorado

AGENCY: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,

DoD.

ACTION: Cancellation of Notice of Intent

to prepare an Environmental Impact

Statement.

SUMMARY: The Corps is issuing this

notice to inform the public that an

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS)

will not be prepared for the proposed