30482 Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 107 /Thursday, June 4, 1998 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy

Notice of an Additional Public Hearing

in Great Mills, MD for the Draft

Environmental Impact Statement for

Increased Flight and Related

Operations in the Patuxent River

Complex, Patuxent River, MD

AGENCY: Department of the Navy.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Department of the Navy

(DON) has prepared and filed with the

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

(EPA) the Draft Environmental Impact

Statement (DEIS) for River Increased

Flight and Related Operations in the

Patuxent River Complex, Patuxent

River, MD. The DON announced in the

May 22, 1998 Federal Register that

three public hearings would be held to

provide information and to receive

public input on the DEIS. The DON

announces that it will hold an

additional fourth public hearing in

Great Mills, MD to inform the public of

the Patuxent findings and to receive oral

and written comments on the DEIS.

Federal, state and local agencies, and

interested individuals are invited to be

present or represented at the hearing.

DATES: The additional public hearing

date and location is: Monday, June 22,

1998, 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. at Great Mills

High School, 21130 Great Mills Road,

Great Mills, MD.

An open information session,

beginning at 5:00 p.m., will precede the

scheduled formal public hearing at 7:00

p.m. The open information session will

allow individuals to review the results

of the analysis presented in the DEIS

and Navy representatives will be

available to answer questions and/or

clarify information related to the DEIS.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION TO PROVIDE

COMMENTS OR FOR A COPY OF THE DEIS

CONTACT: Ms. Sue Evans or Ms. Kelly

Burdick, c/o Office of Legal Counsel,

47031 Liljencrantz Road, Building 435,

MS 39; Patuxent River, Maryland

20670–5440

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant

to Council on Environmental Quality

regulations (40 CFR parts 1500–1508)

implementing the procedural provisions

of the National Environmental Policy

Act, the DON has prepared and filed

with the EPA, the DEIS for Increased

Flight and Related Operations in the

Patuxent River Complex, Patuxent

River, Maryland. The DEIS identifies

and evaluates the potential

environmental impacts 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 tenyear 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 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 media, and concerned citizens. 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.

Federal, state and local agencies, and

interested individuals are invited to

attend or be represented at the hearing.

All statements, both oral and written,

will become part of the public record on

the DEIS and will be responded to in the

Final Environmental Impact Statement

and will be given equal consideration.

Written comments on the DEIS should

be mailed to the address above and must

be postmarked not later than 5:00 p.m.

on July 6, 1998 to be part of the official

record. Written comments will also be

accepted via e-mail at the Internet

website at http://

www.tamsconsultants.com/paxriver/,

by facsimile at (301) 342–1840, or by

calling toll-free (888) 276–5201.

Dated: June 1, 1998.

Lou Rae Langevin,

Lieutenant, Judge Advocate General’s Corps,

U.S. Navy, Alternate Federal Register Liaison

Officer.

[FR Doc. 98–14860 Filed 6–3–98; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy

Notice of Availability of Inventions for

Licensing; Government-Owned

Inventions

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DOD.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The inventions listed below

are assigned to the United States

Government as represented by the

Secretary of the Navy and are available

for licensing by the Department of the

Navy.

Patent Application entitled ‘‘Method

for Fabricating an Electrically

Addressable Silicon-on-Sapphire Light

Valve,’’ filed March 25, 1998, Navy Case

No. 79029.

ADDRESSES: Requests for copies of the

patent applications cited should be

directed to the Office of Naval Research,

ONR OOCC, Ballston Tower One, 800

North Quincy Street, Arlington, Virginia

22217–5660 and must include the Navy

Case numbers.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr.

R.J. Erickson, Staff Patent Attorney,

Office of Naval Research, ONR OOCC,

Ballston Tower One, 800 North Quincy

Street, Arlington, Virginia 22217–5660,

telephone (703) 696–4001.

(Authority: 35 U.S.C. 207, 37 CFR part 404)

Dated: May 22, 1998.

Lou Rae Langevin,

Lt, JAGC, USN, Alternate Federal Register

Liaison Officer.

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy

Notice of Intent to Grant Exclusive

Patent License; Optron Systems, Inc.

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DOD.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Department of the Navy

hereby gives notice of its intent to grant