16 Federal Register / Vol. 62, No. 58 / Wednesday, March 26, 1997 / Notices

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

A. Purpose

FAR 30.6 and 52.230–5 include

pertinent rules and regulations related

to the Cost Accounting Standards along

with necessary administrative policies

and procedures. These administrative

policies require certain contractors to

submit cost impact estimates and

descriptions in cost accounting

practices and also to provide

information on CAS-covered

subcontractors.

B. Annual Reporting Burden

Public reporting burden for this

collection of information is estimated to

average .05 hours per response,

including the time for reviewing

instructions, searching existing data

sources, gathering and maintaining the

data needed, and completing and

reviewing the collection of information. The annual reporting burden is

estimated as follows: Respondents, 500;

responses per respondent, 50; total

annual responses, 25,000; preparation

hours per response, .05; and total

response burden hours, 1,250.

Dated: March 21, 1997.

Sharon A. Kiser,

FAR Secretariat.

[FR Doc. 97–7623 Filed 3–25–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy

Notice of Intent To Prepare an

Environmental Impact Statement for

the Proposed Disposal and Reuse of

Land and Facilities at Naval Air Station

Barbers Point, Hawaii

SUMMARY: Pursuant to Section 102(2)(c)

of the National Environmental Policy

Act (NEPA) of 1969, as implemented by

the Council on Environmental Quality

regulations (40 CFR Parts 1500–1508),

the Navy announces its intent to prepare

an Environmental Impact Statement

(EIS) for the proposed disposal and

reuse of land and facilities at Naval Air

Station (NAS) Barbers Point, Hawaii.

The Navy is the lead agency for the

NEPA documentation, and the U.S.

Department of Transportation, Federal

Aviation Administration (FAA) is the

cooperating agency. The EIS will be

prepared in compliance with the 1993

Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC)

directive from Congress to close NAS

Barbers Point. The property will be

disposed of in accordance with the

provisions of the Defense Base Closure

and Realignment Act (Public Law 101–

510) of 1990 as amended, and

applicable federal property disposal

regulations. NAS Barbers Point will

close in July 1999. The proposed action is the disposal of

approximately 2,100 acres of property

on NAS Barbers Point. The EIS will

address long-term plans for reuse of this

property. Potential long-term reuse

alternatives have been identified by the

Local Reuse Authority (LRA), i.e., the

State of Hawaii, through a planning

process carried out by the NAS Barbers

Point Redevelopment Commission. The

reuse plan was approved by the

Governor of Hawaii on January 23, 1997. Excluded from consideration in this

EIS are the areas being retained by the

Navy, Coast Guard, National Guard, and

the Federal Aviation Administration.

The Navy is retaining family housing

and support facilities, the commissary,

the Public Works Center compound, the

biosolids treatment and disposal

facility, the golf course, and portion of

the beach recreation areas.

The EIS will analyze potentially

significant impacts of the LRA’s reuse

plan and reasonable alternatives. The

LRA’s reuse plan features a general

reliever airport with a crosswind

runway and large areas devoted to park

and recreation use. Sites are provided to

the Department of Hawaii Home Lands

for residential, commercial, and

industrial uses. Commercial activities

would include a raceway complex,

marine park, and festival center. Lands

are also set aside to accommodate

homeless providers. Various

infrastructure improvements would be

required to support the redevelopment,

including roadways, water distribution,

sanitary sewer, storm drainage,

telephone, and electrical systems. During its planning process, the LRA

considered numerous scenarios and

narrowed them down to three options:

two with a general reliever airport and

one without an airport. The basic

difference between the two airport

scenarios is size. The ‘‘maximum

airport’’ alternative has a cross-runway

configuration on more than 800 acres,

while the ‘‘minimum airport’’ scenario

calls for a single runway airport on

approximately 550 acres. The no airport

scenario designates the majority of land

(more than 1,000 acres) to park and

recreation use. The ‘‘no action’’

alternative assumes no reuse

improvements and continued closure of

the lands to the public. Environmental issues to be addressed

will include, but not be limited to, land

use conflicts and constraints such as

noise, air quality, traffic, aviation

operations, potentially contaminated

sites, functional compatibility of

operations, potential impacts of

redevelopment on cultural and natural

resources, adequacy of infrastructure

and public services, and socioeconomic

impacts. Direct, indirect, and

cumulative impacts will be analyzed.

Mitigation measures will be developed

as required.

ADDRESSES: The Navy will initiate a

scoping process to identify potentially

significant issues to be studied in the

EIS, and to identify and notify

interested and affected parties relative

to this action. Two public scoping

meetings will be held, one on

Wednesday, April 16, 1997 at

Washington Intermediate School

Cafeteria, 1633 South King Street,

Honolulu, HI 96826; and a second on

Thursday, April 17, 1997 at the Lauhala

Room, Paradise West Club, NAS Barbers

Point. Both meetings will start at 7:00

pm. Each meeting will open with a short

presentation on the purpose of the

action and the alternatives to be

evaluated, followed by a period for

public comment. It is important that

interested agencies, individuals, and

organizations take this opportunity to

clearly describe specific issues or topics

that the EIS should address. To allow

time for all views to be shared, each

speaker will be limited to three minutes.

Written statements may also be

submitted at the meetings.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Written statements and/or questions

regarding the scoping process should be

mailed no later than Wednesday, April

30, 1997 to Mr. Fred Minato (Code 231),

Pacific Division, Naval Facilities

Engineering Command, Pearl Harbor, HI

96860–7300, telephone (808) 471–9338;

fax (808) 474–4890.

Dated: March 20, 1997.

D.E. Koenig,

LCDR, JAGC, USN, Federal Register Liaison

Officer.

[FR Doc. 97–7614 Filed 3–25–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Submission for OMB Review;

Comment Request

AGENCY: Department of Education.

ACTION: Submission for OMB review;

comment request.

SUMMARY: The Director, Information

Resources Management Group, 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 April 25,

1997.
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ADDRESSES: Written comments should

be addressed to the Office of

Information and Regulatory Affairs,

Attention: Wendy Taylor, Desk Officer,

Department of Education, Office of

Management and Budget, 725 17th

Street, NW., Room 10235, New

Executive Office Building, Washington,

DC 20503. Requests for copies of the

proposed information collection

requests should be addressed to Patrick

J. Sherrill, Department of Education, 600

Independence Avenue, SW., Room

5624, Regional Office Building 3,

Washington, DC 20202–4651.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Patrick J. Sherrill (202) 708–8196.

Individuals who use a

telecommunications device for the deaf

(TDD) may call the Federal Information

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–8339

between 8 a.m. and 8 p.m., Eastern time,

Monday through Friday.

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 Director of the

Information Resources Management

Group publishes this 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

Recordkeeping burden. OMB invites

public comment at the address specified

above. Copies of the requests are

available from Patrick J. Sherrill at the

address specified above.

Dated: March 20, 1997.

Gloria Parker,

Director, Information Resources Management

Group.

Office of Special Education and

Rehabilitative Services

Type of Review: Extension.

Title: List of Hearing Officers—

Recordkeeping.

Frequency: On occasion.

Affected Public: State, local or Tribal

Gov’t SEAs or LEAs.

Annual Reporting and Recordkeeping

Hour Burden:

Responses: 1,600

Burden Hours: 1,600

Abstract: Under Part B of the

Individuals with Disabilities Education

Act, each local educational agency

receiving Part B funds must keep a list

of persons who serve as hearing officers

along with their qualifications. The list

serves to provide interested parties of

the background of hearing officers.

[FR Doc. 97–7584 Filed 3–25–97; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Notice of Solicitation for Financial

Assistance Number DE–PS07–

97ID13520—Geothermal Power

Initiative

AGENCY: Idaho Operations Office, DOE.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of

Energy (DOE), Idaho Operations Office

(ID) is seeking cost shared applications

that promote the commercialization of

geothermal energy and result in a nearterm increase in the amount of electrical

power generated from geothermal

energy in the United States.

Applications are being solicited in two

areas: (1) Projects that will result in new

geothermal power production either

from new plants or from retrofits to

existing plants; or (2) research and

development of technologies that will

improve performance or reduce the

costs associated with geothermal power

plants. Approximately $1,100,000 in

federal funds is available to fund the

selected project(s) under this

solicitation. DOE anticipates making

one or more cooperative agreement

awards for projects with durations of

three years or less. A minimum of 50%

non-federal cost share is required for

new or retrofit power plant power

production projects. A minimum of

20% non-federal cost share is required

for geothermal research and

development projects. Collaborations

between industry, national laboratory,

and university participants are

encouraged.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Trudy Thorne, Contract Specialist;

Procurement Services Division; U.S.

DOE, Idaho Operations Office, 850

Energy Drive, MS 1221, Idaho Falls, ID

83401–1563; telephone (208) 526–9519;

E-mail thorneta@inel.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

statutory authority for the program is

Geothermal Energy Research,

Development and Demonstration (Pub.

L. 93–410), and the Energy Policy Act of

1992 (Pub. L. 102–486, as amended by

Pub. L. 103–437 on November 2, 1994).

The Catalog of Federal Domestic

Assistance (CFDA) Number for this

program is 81.087. The solicitation text

is expected to be posted on the DOE–ID

Procurement Services Division home

page on or about March 25, 1997, and

may be accessed using Universal

Resource Locator address http://

www.inel.gov/doeid/solicit.html.

Application package forms will not be

included on the home page and should

be requested from the contract

specialist. Requests for application

packages must be written. Include

company name, mailing address, point

of contact, telephone number, and fax

number. Write to the contract specialist

at the address above, via fax number

(208) 526–5548, or via E-mail to

thorneta@inel.gov.

Issued in Idaho Falls, Idaho, on March 19,

1997.

Brad G. Bauer,

Acting Director, Procurement Services

Division.

[FR Doc. 97–7608 Filed 3–25–97; 8:45 am]

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Environmental Management SiteSpecific Advisory Board, Department

of Energy, Los Alamos National

Laboratory

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of open meeting.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the provisions of

the Federal Advisory Committee Act

(Pub. L. 92–463, 86 Stat. 770) notice is

hereby given of the following Advisory

Committee meeting: Environmental

Management Site-Specific Advisory

Board (EM SSAB), Los Alamos National

Laboratory.

DATES: Tuesday, April 8, 1997: 6:30

p.m.–9:30 p.m.; 8:00 p.m. to 8:15 p.m.

(public comment session).

ADDRESSES: Northern New Mexico

Community College, 1002 North On ̃ ate

Street, Espan ̃ola, New Mexico 87532.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.

Ann DuBois, Los Alamos National

Laboratory Citizens’ Advisory Board

Support, Northern New Mexico

Community College, 1002 Onate Street,

Espanola, NM 87352, (800)753–8970, or

(505)753–8970, or (505)262–1800.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Purpose of the Board: The purpose of

the Advisory Board is to make

recommendations to DOE and its