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ADDRESSES: Hearing locations are as

follows:

1. Lusby—Patuxent High School, 12485

Rousby Hall Road, Lusby, MD

2. Cambridge—Cambridge-South

Dorchester High School, 2474

Cambridge Bypass, Cambridge, MD

3. Heathsville—Northumberland High

School, 6234 Northumberland

Highway (US Route 360), Heathsville,

VA

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.

Sue Evans or Ms. Kelly Burdick, (888)

276–5201.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant

to Council on Environmental Quality

regulations (40 CFR Parts 1500–1508)

implemental procedure provisions of

the National Environmental Policy Act

(NEPA), the Department of the Navy has

prepared and filed with the U.S.

Environmental Protection Agency the

Draft Environmental Impact Statement

(DEIS) for Increased Flight and Related

Operations in the Patuxent River

Complex, Patuxent River, MD. This

notice announces the dates and

locations of the public hearings.

The DEIS identifies and evaluates the

potential environmental impacts of

increasing flight and related ground

operations in test areas of the Patuxent

River Complex that are controlled and

scheduled by the Naval Air Warfare

Center, Aircraft Division (NAWCAD).

The complex includes all the flight and

ground test facilities at NAS Patuxent

River and OLF Webster Field Annex, as

well as the restricted airspaces, aerial

and surface firing range, and targets

(Hooper, Hannibal, and Tangier Island)

comprising the Chesapeake Test Range

(CTR). The DEIS assesses the impacts of

the no action alternative and three

proposed future operations workload

alternatives. The no action alternative

would maintain the complex’s current

level of flight hours into the future

(18,400 annually, which represents an

approximate ten-year average of annual

flight hours). The three workload

alternatives propose increases in

baseline operations by as few as 2,500

annual flight hours or as many as 6,200

annual flight hours.

A Notice of Intent to prepare the EIS

was published in the Federal Register

on April 1, 1997 and five public scoping

meetings were held between May 6 and

May 15, 1997. A Notice of Availability

of the DEIS was published in the

Federal Register on May 15, 1998.

The DEIS has been distributed to

various federal, state, and local

agencies, elected officials, special

interest groups, the public, and the

media. In addition, copies are available

for review at 18 repositories around the

Chesapeake Bay:

—Anne Arundel South County Branch

Library, Deale, MD.

—Caroline County Public Library,

Denton, MD.

—Calvert County Public Library, Prince

Frederick, MD.

—Dorchester County Central Library,

Cambridge, MD.

—Somerset County Libraries, Deale

Island, Princess Anne, and Ewell

(Smith Island), MD.

—St. Mary’s County Libraries,

Lexington Park and Leonardtown,

MD.

—St. Mary’s College Library, St. Mary’s

City, MD.

—Talbot County Libraries, Easton and

Oxford, MD.

—Worcester County Library, Pocomoke

City, MD.

—Eastern Shore Public Library,

Accomac, VA.

—Central Rappahannock Law Library,

Fredericksburg, VA.

—Northumberland County Library,

Heathsville, VA.

—Tangier Island Public School Library,

Tangier, VA.

—Laurel Public Library, Laurel, DE.

Three public hearings will be held to

inform the public of the DEIS findings

and to solicit and receive oral and

written comments. From 5:00 p.m. to

8:30 p.m., the Navy will set up

information stations that will describe

the findings of the DEIS. Navy staff will

be available to answer questions from

meeting attendees and receive

comments. At 7:00 p.m., a formal public

hearing will be held where oral

statements will be heard and transcribed

by a stenographer; however, to ensure

accuracy of the record, all statements

delivered at the public hearing should

be submitted in writing. All comments,

both oral and written, will become part

of the public record in the study. In the

interest of available time, each speaker

will be asked to limit oral comments to

three minutes. Longer comments should

be summarized at the public hearing

and submitted in writing either at the

hearing or mailed to Ms. Sue Evans at

Office of Legal Counsel, 47031

Liljencrantz Road, Bldg. 435, Mail Stop

39, Patuxent River, MD 20670–5440, fax

(301) 342–1840. Written comments are

requested not later than June 29, 1998.

Dated: May 19, 1998.

Lou Rae Langevin,

LT, JAGC, USN, Alternate Federal Register

Liaison Officer.

[FR Doc. 98–13781 Filed 5–21–98; 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 Acting Deputy Chief

Information Officer, Office of the Chief

Information Officer, 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 June 22,

1998.

ADDRESSES: Written comments should

be addressed to the Office of

Information and Regulatory Affairs,

Attention: Danny Werfel, 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, S.W., 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 Acting Deputy

Chief Information Officer, Office of the

Chief Information Officer, 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
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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: May 19, 1998.

Hazel Fiers,

Acting Deputy Chief Information Officer,

Office of the Chief Information Officer.

Office of Postsecondary Education

Type of Review: Revision.

Title: Application for Ability to

Benefit Testing Approval.

Frequency: Annually.

Affected Public: Individuals or

households; Businesses or other forprofits; Not-for-profit institutions.

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour

Burden:

Responses: 150,090.

Burden Hours: 77,040.

Abstract: The Secretary will publish a

list of approved tests which can be used

by postsecondary educational

institutions to establish the ability to

benefit for a student who does not have

a high school diploma or its equivalent.

[FR Doc. 98–13766 Filed 5–21–98; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Agency Information Collection

Extensions: Proposed Collection

Comment Request

AGENCY: Office of Energy Efficiency and

Renewable Energy, Department of

Energy.

ACTION: Agency Information Collection

Extensions: proposed collection

comment request.

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy

(DOE) has submitted an information

collection package to the Office of

Management and Budget (OMB) for

extension under the Paperwork

Reduction Act of 1995 (Pub. L. 104–13).

The package covers the collection of

information concerning annual

applications from the owners of

qualified renewable energy generation

facilities for the consideration of

renewable energy production incentive

payments. This information is used by

the Department to determine if the

applicant’s facility qualifies for these

payments and to determine the amount

of net electricity produced for sale that

qualifies for these payments. This

information is critical to ensure that the

Government has sufficient information

to ensure the proper use of public funds

for these incentive payments.

DATES: Comments regarding the

information collection package should

be submitted to the OMB Desk Officer

at the following address no later than

June 22, 1998. If you anticipate that you

will be submitting comments, but find

it difficult to do so within the period of

time allowed by this notice, you should

advise the OMB Desk officer of your

intention to do so as soon as possible.

The Desk Officer may be telephoned at

(202) 395–3084. (Also, please notify the

DOE contact listed in this notice.)

ADDRESSES: Address comments to DOE

Desk Officer, Office of Management and

Budget, Office of Information and

Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Room 10102,

New Executive Office Building, 725

17th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20503.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Robert H. Brewer, Office of Utility

Technologies (EE–10), Department of

Energy, Washington, DC 20585, (202)

586–2206.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

package contains the following

information: (1) Title of the information

collection package; (2) current OMB

control number; (3) type of respondents;

(4) estimated number of responses; (5)

estimated total burden hours, including

record keeping hours, required to

provide the information; (6) purpose;

and (7) number of collections.

Package Title: Renewable Energy

Production Incentives.

Current OMB No.: 1910–0068.

Type of Respondents: State,

municipal, county, and non-profit

electric cooperative owners of qualified

renewable energy generation facilities

that produce electricity for sale.

Estimated Number of Respondents: 18

Estimated Total Burden Hours: 205

Purpose: To receive annual payment

consideration for electricity produced in

the prior fiscal year, an annual

application has to be submitted by the

owner/agent of the owner that provides

information which establishes the

qualification of the facility (ownership

qualifications, type of renewable energy

source used, time of first use for new or

converted facilities, sale of electricity

produced, and location in a State) and

information on the metered/calculated

amount of electricity produced. An

owner of a qualified facility can submit

an annual application for each of the

first ten fiscal years of that facility’s

operation.

Statutory Authority: Paperwork Reduction

Act of 1995, Pub. L. No 104–13, 44 U.S.C.

3507 (g) and (h).

Issued in Washington, DC, on May 18,

1998.

Dan W. Reicher,

Assistant Secretary, Energy Efficiency and

Renewable Energy.

[FR Doc. 98–13729 Filed 5–21–98; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Office of Energy Efficiency and

Renewable Energy

State Energy Program Special Projects

Financial Assistance

AGENCY: The Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice for second round funding

for 1998 State Energy Program special

projects.

SUMMARY: As options offered under the

State Energy Program (SEP) for fiscal

year 1998, the Office of Energy

Efficiency and Renewable Energy is

announcing the availability of financial

assistance to States for special project

activities for Remote Applications of

Solar and Renewable Energy to Reduce

or Avoid Diesel and Gasoline Power

Generation. Funding is being provided

by the Office of Utility Technologies in

the Office of Energy Efficiency and

Renewable Energy. States that are

awarded funding for special projects

will carry out their projects in

conjunction with their efforts under

SEP, with the special projects funding

and activities tracked separately so that

the end-use sector programs may follow

the progress of their projects.

The projects must meet the relevant

requirements of the program providing

the funding, as well as of SEP, as

specified in the program guidance/

solicitation. Among the goals of the

special projects activities are to assist

States to: accelerate deployment of

energy efficiency and renewable energy

technologies; facilitate the acceptance of

emerging and underutilized energy

efficiency and renewable energy

technologies; and increase the

responsiveness of Federally funded

technology development efforts to

private sector needs.

DATES: The program guidance/

solicitation is available on May 22,

1998. Applications must be received by

July 20, 1998.

ADDRESSES AND FOR FURTHER

INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Faith

Lambert at the U.S. Department of

Energy Headquarters, 1000

Independence Avenue, SW,

Washington, DC 20585, (202) 586–2319,

for referral to the appropriate DOE

Regional Support Office.