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impacts to the aquatic environment 

outside of the right-of-way, alternatives 

utilizing alternative practices, and other 

reasonable alternatives that will be 

developed through the project scoping 

process which may also meet the 

identified purpose and need. 

5. Public Involvement. The purpose of 

the public scoping process is to 

determine relevant issues that will 

influence the scope of the 

environmental analysis and EIS 

alternatives. General concerns in the 

following categories have been 

identified to date: potential direct 

effects to waters of the United States 

including wetlands; water quality; 

aquatic species; air quality; 

environmental justice; socioeconomic 

environment; archaeological and 

cultural resources; recreation and 

recreational resources; energy supply 

and natural resources; hazardous waste 

and materials; aesthetics; public health 

and safety; navigation; erosion and 

accretion; invasive species; cumulative 

impacts; public benefit and needs of the 

people along with potential effects on 

the human environment. All parties 

who express interest will be given an 

opportunity to participate in the 

process. 

6. Coordination. The proposed action 

is being coordinated with a number of 

Federal, State, regional and local 

agencies including but not limited to the 

Environmental Protection Agency, the 

United States (U.S.) Fish and Wildlife 

Service, U.S. National Marine Fisheries 

Service, the Texas Commission on 

Environmental Quality, the Texas 

General Land Office, and the Texas 

Parks and Wildlife Department. Other 

agencies, including the Trinity River 

National Wildlife Refuge, Texas Water 

Development Board, and the Texas 

Department of Transportation, may also 

comment during the scoping process. 

7. Availability of the Draft EIS. The 

Corps currently expects the Draft EIS to 

be made available to the public by 

December 2011. A public scoping 

meeting will be held at the Dayton 

Community Center in Dayton, Texas. 

The Corps will announce the public 

scoping meeting through local news 

media and the Corps’ webpage at http://

www.swg.usace.army.mil/reg at least 15 

days prior to the first meeting. 

Brenda S. Bowen, 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army; Corps of 

Engineers 

Withdrawal of Notice of Intent To 

Prepare a Programmatic 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Chesapeake Bay Oyster Recovery 

Project, Virginia & Maryland 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of intent; withdrawal. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers (Corps), Baltimore and 

Norfolk Districts published a notice of 

intent (NOI) (74 FR 47927) for the 

Chesapeake Bay Oyster Recovery, MD 

and VA study on September 18, 2009. 

That NOI announced that the Corps 

Baltimore and Norfolk Districts would 

prepare a single, integrated Native 

Oyster Restoration Master Plan (master 

plan) and programmatic environmental 

impact statement (PEIS) for native 

oyster recovery in the entire Chesapeake 

Bay (inclusive of both Maryland and 

Virginia) and that the document would 

be tiered to the Programmatic EIS for 

Oyster Restoration in Chesapeake Bay 

Including the Use of a Native and/or 

Nonnative Oyster. In August 2009, the 

record of decision for Oyster Restoration 

in Chesapeake Bay including the Use of 

a Native and/or Non-Native Species was 

signed. The preferred alternative 

identified in the 2009 PEIS recommends 

‘‘using a combination of alternatives that 

involves only the native Eastern oyster 

(Crassostrea virginica).’’ Consistent with 

the preferred alternative, the Corps will 

expand upon and further develop plans 

and recommendations for Chesapeake 

Bay native oyster restoration in the 

master plan. However since the master 

plan will not be identifying site-specific 

construction areas for restoration and 

the larger issue of oyster restoration 

Bay-wide, has been reviewed, a PEIS for 

the master plan is no longer warranted. 

Therefore, the Corps is withdrawing its 

NOI to prepare a PEIS. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Susan Conner, Norfolk District U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, Attn: 

CENAO–PM–PA, 803 Front Street, 

Norfolk, VA 23510. E-mail address: 

Susan.L.Conner@usace.army.mil and 

phone number: 757–201–7390 or Ms. 

Anna Compton, Baltimore District, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, Attn: 

CENAB–PL–P, P.O, Box 1715, 

Baltimore, MD 21203. E-mail address: 

Anna.M.Compton@usace.army.mil and 

phone number 410–962–4633. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

1. The Baltimore District previously 

published a NOI (69 FR 68887) for the 

Chesapeake Bay Oyster Recovery, MD 

and VA study on November 26, 2004. 

That NOI indicated that the Baltimore 

District would prepare a draft EIS for 

native oyster (Crassostrea virginica) 

recovery activities within Maryland 

waters of the Chesapeake Bay. A second 

NOI (71 FR 14857) was published for 

the Chesapeake Bay Oyster Recovery, 

MD and VA study on March 24, 2006. 

That NOI announced that the Corps 

Baltimore and Norfolk Districts would 

prepare a single, integrated master plan 

and PEIS for native oyster recovery in 

the entire Chesapeake Bay. 

2. A third NOI was published on 

September 18, 2009 (74 FR 47927) to 

announce that the timing of the master 

plan/PEIS was delayed so that the 

document could be tiered to the 

Programmatic EIS for Oyster Restoration 

in Chesapeake Bay Including the Use of 

a Native and/or Nonnative Oyster. In 

August 2009 the record of decision for 

Oyster Restoration in Chesapeake Bay 

including the Use of a Native and/or 

Non-Native Species was signed. The 

preferred alternative identified in the 

PEIS recommends ‘‘using a combination 

of alternatives that involves only the 

native Eastern oyster (Crassostrea 

virginica).’’ Consistent with the 

preferred alternative, the Corps will 

expand upon and further develop plans 

and recommendations for Chesapeake 

Bay native oyster restoration in the 

master plan. The master plan will not 

identify individual, site specific, 

construction projects. The master plan, 

instead, will develop a comprehensive 

approach to oyster restoration and will 

lay out a road map for a long-term, 

large-scale restoration of native oysters 

in the entire Chesapeake Bay. For each 

area identified for restoration and when 

Corps appropriations are received, 

necessary National Environmental 

Policy Act (NEPA) documents will be 

prepared to specifically describe the 

scope, scale, and details of construction 

of site specific oyster projects. Therefore 

the Programmatic EIS for Oyster 

Restoration in Chesapeake Bay 

Including the Use of a Native and/or 

Nonnative Oyster prepared in August 

2009 is sufficient and appropriate to 

support the plans laid out in the master 

plan precluding the need for another 

PEIS. The master plan will incorporate 

science, policy, and experience from a 

number of sources to develop a 

comprehensive approach to oyster 

restoration in Maryland and Virginia. 

All suitable locations and techniques 

available for native oyster restoration 

will be identified and explored, and, if 

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feasible, will be included in the Master 

Plan. 

3. The master plan will be written in 

cooperation with the local sponsors, the 

Maryland Department of Natural 

Resources and Virginia Marine 

Resources Commission. 

4. The Corps will conduct public 

meetings during the public review 

process for the draft master plan, which 

is scheduled for the fall of 2011, and 

will include interested parties 

throughout the development of the 

master plan through informational 

meetings, Web site postings, and other 

means. 

Amy M. Guise, 

Chief, Civil Project Development Branch. 

[FR Doc. 2011–12916 Filed 5–24–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Navy 

Notice of Availability of GovernmentOwned Inventions; Available for 

Licensing 

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. U.S. Patent 

Number 6,664,915 entitled 

‘‘Identification Friend or Foe System 

Including Short Range UV Shield’’ 

issued on December 16, 2003; U.S. 

Patent Number 7,661,271 entitled 

‘‘Integrated Electric Gas Turbine’’ issued 

on February 16, 2010; U.S. Patent 

Number 6,600,694 entitled ‘‘Digital 

Signal Processor Based Torpedo 

Counter-measure’’ issued on July 29, 

2003; U.S. Patent Number 6,717,525 

entitled ‘‘Tactical Vectoring Equipment 

(TVE)’’ issued on April 6, 2004; U.S. 

Patent Number 6,624,780 entitled ‘‘False 

Target Radar Image Generator for 

Countering Wideband and Imaging 

Radars’’ issued on September 11, 2003; 

U.S. Patent Number 7,725,595 entitled 

‘‘Embedded Communications System 

and Method’’ issued on May 25, 2010; 

U.S. Patent Number 7,074,697 entitled 

‘‘Doping-assisted Defect Control in 

Compound Semiconductors’’ issued on 

July 11, 2006; U.S. Patent Number 

7,675,198 entitled ‘‘Inductive Pulse 

Forming Network for High-current, 

High-power applications’’ issued on 

March 9, 2010; U.S. Patent Number 

7,627,003 entitled ‘‘Automatic Clock 

Synchronization and Distribution 

Circuit for Counter Clock Flow 

Pipelined Systems’’ issued on December 

1, 2009; U.S. Patent Number 7,811,918 

entitled ‘‘Electric Current Induced 

Liquid Metal Flow and Metallic 

Conformal Coating of Conductive 

Templates’’ issued on October 12, 2010; 

U.S. Patent Application Number 12/ 

987,873 filed on January 20, 2011, Case 

Number 20090009 entitled ‘‘Data 

Compression Methods’’; U.S. 

Provisional Patent Application Number 

61/446,770 filed on February 25, 2011, 

Case Number 20110005 entitled ‘‘Near 

Lossless Data Compression Method 

Using Nonuniform Sampling’’. 

ADDRESSES: Requests for copies of the 

inventions should be directed to 

Danielle Kuska, Director, Research and 

Sponsored Programs Office, NPS Code 

41, 699 Dyer Road, Bldg. HA, Room 222, 

Monterey, CA 93943, telephone 831– 

656–2099 or e-mail dkuska@nps.edu. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Danielle Kuska, Director, Research and 

Sponsored Programs Office, NPS Code 

41, 699 Dyer Road, Bldg. HA, Room 222, 

Monterey, CA 93943, telephone 831– 

656–2099. Due to U.S. Postal delays, 

please fax 831–656–2038, e-mail: 

dkuska@nps.edu or use courier delivery 

to expedite response. 

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

Dated: May 18, 2011. 

D.J. Werner, 

Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate 

General’s Corps, U.S. Navy, Federal Register 

Liaison Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2011–12924 Filed 5–24–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Navy 

Meeting of the Chief of Naval 

Operations Executive Panel 

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of open meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Chief of Naval Operations 

(CNO) Executive Panel will deliberate 

on the findings and proposed 

recommendations of the Navy 

Expeditionary Organizations and 

Capabilities Subcommittee study. The 

meeting will consist of discussions 

regarding the current and future 

capabilities and employment of Navy’s 

expeditionary forces and role in future 

expeditionary operations. 

DATES: The meeting will be held on June 

9, 2011, from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in 

the Boardroom at CNA, 4825 Mark 

Center Drive, Alexandria, VA 22311– 

1846. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

LCDR Don Rauch, CNO Executive Panel, 

4825 Mark Center Drive, Alexandria, VA 

22311–1846, 703–681–4941. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Individuals or interested groups may 

submit written statements for 

consideration by the CNO Executive 

Panel at any time or in response to the 

agenda of a scheduled meeting. All 

requests must be submitted to the 

Designated Federal Officer at the 

address detailed below. 

If the written statement is in response 

to the agenda mentioned in this meeting 

notice then the statement, if it is to be 

considered by the Panel for this 

meeting, must be received at least five 

days prior to the meeting in question. 

The Designated Federal Officer will 

review all timely submissions with the 

CNO Executive Panel Chairperson, and 

ensure they are provided to members of 

the CNO Executive Panel before the 

meeting that is the subject of this notice. 

To contact the Designated Federal 

Officer, write to Executive Director, 

CNO Executive Panel (N00K), 4825 

Mark Center Drive, 2nd Floor, 

Alexandria, VA 22311–1846. 

Dated: May 18, 2011. 

D. J. Werner, 

Lieutenant Commander,Office of the Judge 

Advocate General,U.S. Navy,Federal Register 

Liaison Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2011–12932 Filed 5–24–11; 8:45 am] 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Notice of Submission for OMB Review 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

ACTION: Comment request. 

SUMMARY: The Director, Information 

Collection Clearance Division, Privacy, 

Information and Records Management 

Services, Office of Management, invites 

comments on the submission for OMB 

review as required by the Paperwork 

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

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before June 24, 

2011. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be addressed to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Education Desk Officer, 

Office of Management and Budget, 725 

17th Street, NW., Room 10222, New 

Executive Office Building, Washington, 

DC 20503, be faxed to (202) 395–5806 or 

e-mailed to 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov with a 

cc: to ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Please note 

that written comments received in 

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