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Douglasville, Georgia. Under the

proposed consent decree, Continental

Trading Company and Dr. Fred W.J. Liu

will pay $67,500 to the United States in

reimbursement of response costs

incurred by the Environmental

Protection Agency (‘‘EPA’’) in

connection with the Basket Creek site.

Most of the removal of hazardous

substances from the Basket Creek Site

was conducted by Chem-Nuclear

Systems, Inc. EPA has incurred costs of

approximately $678,000 in connection

with the Basket Creek Site.

The Department of Justice will

receive, for a period of thirty (30) days

from the date of this publication,

comments relating to the proposed

consent decree. Comments should be

addressed to the Assistant Attorney

General for the Environmental and

Natural Resources Division, Department

of Justice, Washington, DC 20530, and

should refer to United States v. Young

Refining Company, DOJ Ref. #90–11–2–

755.

The proposed consent decree may be

examined at the office of the United

States Attorney, Richard Russell Federal

Building, Suite 1800, 75 Spring Street,

SW., Atlanta, Georgia 30335; the Region

4 Office of the Environmental Protection

Agency, 61 Forsythe St., SE., Atlanta,

Georgia 30303; and at the Consent

Decree Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th

Floor, Washington, DC 20005, (202)

624–0892. A copy of the proposed

consent decree may be obtained in

person or by mail from the Consent

Decree Library, 1120 G Street, NW., 4th

Floor, Washington, DC 20005. In

requesting a copy please refer to the

referenced case and enclose a check in

the amount of $4.50 (25 cents per page

reproduction costs), payable to the

Consent Decree Library.

Walker B. Smith,

Deputy Chief, Environmental Enforcement

Section, Environment and Natural Resources

Division.

[FR Doc. 98–1919 Filed 1–26–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4410–15–M

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Antitrust Division

Notice Pursuant to the National

Cooperative Research and Production

Act of 1993—Petroleum Environmental

Research Forum (‘‘PERF’’) Project 95–

11

Notice is hereby given that, on

October 2, 1997, pursuant to Section

6(a) of the National Cooperative

Research and Production Act of 1993,

15 U.S.C. 4301 et seq. (‘‘the Act’’),

Petroleum Environmental Research

Forum (‘‘PERF’’) Project 95–11, titled

‘‘Advanced NDE for Acoustic Emission

Interpretation’’, has filed written

notifications simultaneously with the

Attorney General and the Federal Trade

Commission disclosing (1) the identities

of the parties and (2) the nature and

objectives of the venture. The

notifications were filed for the purpose

of invoking the Act’s provisions limiting

the recovery of antitrust plaintiffs to

actual damages under specified

circumstances. Pursuant to Section 6(b)

of the Act, the identities of the parties

are: Exxon Research and Engineering

Company, Florham Park, NJ; Shell Oil

Company, Houston, TX; Aramco

Services Company, Houston, TX;

Chevron Research and Technology

Company, Richmond, CA; Mobil

Technology Company, Paulsboro, TX;

and BP International Place, Sunbury-onThames, Middlesex TW167LN United

Kingdom. The nature and objective of

the research program is to deliver

software and/or protocols to permit

reliable use of AEI for onstream

applications.

Participation in this venture will

remain open to all interested persons

and organizations until the final Project

Completion Date which is presently

anticipated to occur approximately

twenty-one months after the project

commences. Also the parties intend to

file additional written notification

disclosing all changes in membership.

Information about participating in

Project 95–11 may be obtained by

contacting Emery B. Lendvai-Lintner,

Exxon Research and Engineering

Company, P.O. Box 101, Florham Park,

NJ 07932–0101.

Constance K. Robinson,

Director of Operations, Antitrust Division.

[FR Doc. 98–1917 Filed 1–26–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4410–11–M

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Foreign Claims Settlement

Commission

[F.C.S.C. Meeting Notice No. 3–98]

Sunshine Act Meeting

The Foreign Claims Settlement

Commission, pursuant to its regulations

(45 CFR Part 504) and the Government

in the Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 552b),

hereby gives notice in regard to the

scheduling of meetings and oral

hearings for the transaction of

Commission business and other matters

specified, as follows:

DATE AND TIME: Friday, February 20,

1998, 10:00 a.m.

SUBJECT MATTER: (1) Issuance of

Proposed and Final Decisions on Claims

Against Albania; (2) Hearings on the

Record on Objections to Proposed

Decisions on Claims Against Albania.

STATUS: Open.

All meetings are held at the Foreign

Claims Settlement Commission, 600 E

Street, N.W., Washington, DC. Requests

for information, or advance notices of

intention to observe an open meeting,

may be directed to: Administrative

Officer, Foreign Claims Settlement

Commission, 600 E Street, NW., Room

6002, Washington, DC 20579.

Telephone: (202) 616–6988.

Dated at Washington, DC, January 21, 1998.

Judith H. Lock,

Administrative Officer.

[FR Doc. 98–2045 Filed 1–23–98; 12:18 pm]

BILLING CODE 4410–01–U

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Office of Justice Programs

Bureau of Justice Statistics; Agency

Information Collection Activities:

Proposed Collection; Comment

Request

ACTION: Notice of information collection

under review: Prison population reports

midyear counts and advance yearend

counts-National prisoner statistics;

Revision of a currently approved

collection.

This information collection is

published to obtain comments from the

public and affected agencies. Comments

are encouraged and will be accepted

until March 30, 1998. This process is

conducted in accordance with the

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1955.

Written comments and suggestions

from the public and affected agencies

concerning the proposed collection of

information should address one or more

of the following four points:

(1) Evaluate whether the collection of

information is necessary for the proper

performance of the functions of the

agency, including whether the

information will have practical utility;

(2) Evaluate the accuracy of the

agency’s estimate of the burden of the

collection of information, including the

validity of the methodology and

assumptions used;

(3) Enhance the quality, utility and

clarity of the information to be

collected; and

(4) Minimize the burden of the

collection of information on those who

are to respond, including through the

use of appropriate automated,

electronic, mechanical, or other
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technological collection techniques or

other forms of information technology,

e.g. permitting electronic submission of

responses.

If you have additional comments,

suggestions, or need a copy of the

proposed information collection

instrument with instructions, or need

additional information, please contact

James Stephan, Statistician, Bureau of

Justice Statistics, 810 7th Street NW,

Washington, DC 20531, or via facsimile

(202) to 202–307–1463.

Overview of This Information

Collection

(1) Type of information collection.

Revision of currently approved

collection.

(2) The title of the Form/Collection:

Prison Population Reports Midyear

Counts; and Prison Population Report

Advance Yearend Counts—National

Prisoner Statistics.

(3) The agency form number and the

applicable component of the

Department sponsoring the collection.

Form: NPS–1A; and NPS–1B.

Corrections Unit, Bureau of Justice

Statistics, Office of Justice Programs,

United States Department of Justice.

(4) Affected public who will be asked

to respond, as well as a brief abstract:

Primary: State Departments of

Corrections. Others: The Federal Bureau

of Prisons. For the NPS–1A form, 52

central reporters (one from each State,

the District of Columbia, and the

Federal Bureau of Prisons) responsible

for keeping records on inmates will be

asked to provide information for the

following categories:

(a) As of June 30 of the current year

and June 30 of the previous year, the

number of male and female inmates

under their jurisdiction with maximum

sentences of more than one year, one

year or less; and unsentenced inmates;

and

(b) As of June 30 of the current year,

and June 30 of the previous year, the

number of male and female inmates in

their custody with maximum sentences

of more than one year, one year or less;

and unsentenced inmates.

For the NPS–1B form, 52 central

reporters (one from each State, the

District of Columbia, and the Federal

Bureau of Prisons) responsible for

keeping records on inmates will be

asked to provide information for the

following categories:

(a) As of December 31 of the current

year, and December 31 of the previous

year, the number of male and female

inmates under their jurisdiction with

maximum sentences of more than one

year, one year or less; and unsentenced

inmates;

(b) The number of inmates housed in

county or other local authority

correctional facilities, or in other state

or Federal facilities on December 31 of

the current year solely to ease prison

crowding;

(c) As of the direct result of state

prison crowding during the current

year, the number of inmates released via

court order, administrative procedure or

statute, accelerated release, sentence

reduction, emergency release, or other

expedited release; and

(d) The aggregate rated, operational,

and design capacities, by sex, of each

State’s correctional facilities at yearend.

The Bureau of Justice Statistics uses

this information in published reports

and for the U.S. Congress, Executive

Office of the President, practitioner,

researchers, students, the media, and

others interested in criminal justice

statistics.

(5) An estimate of the total number of

respondents and the amount of time

needed for an average respondent to

respond: 52 respondents each taking an

average 2.5 hours to respond.

(6) An estimate of the total public

burden (in hours) associated with the

collection: 130 annual burden hours.

If additional information is required,

contact: Mr. Robert B. Briggs, Clearance

Officer, United States Department of

Justice, Information Management and

Security Staff, Justice Management

Division, Suite 850, Washington Center,

1001 G Street, NW Washington, DC

20530.

Dated: January 21, 1998.

Robert B. Briggs,

Department Clearance Officer, United States

Department of Justice.

[FR Doc. 98–1847 Filed 1–26–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4410–18–M

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE

Bureau of Justice Statistics

[OJP(BJS)–1151]

Continuation of Federal Justice

Statistics Program

AGENCY: Office of Justice Programs,

Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), Justice.

ACTION: Solicitation for award of

cooperative agreement.

SUMMARY: The purpose of this notice is

to announce a public solicitation for the

continuation of the Bureau of Justice

Statistics’ (BJS) Federal Justice Statistics

Program (FJSP). The FJSP serves as the

national resource for data describing the

processing of criminal cases in the

Federal criminal justice system. Under

this program, data generated by Federal

criminal justice agencies are collected,

maintained, analyzed, and archived.

Data are also linked across agencies to

permit more complex analyses of

Federal criminal justice issues. Regular

annual reports and special topical

reports are prepared that describe the

Federal criminal justice system, Federal

defendants and offenses, and other

special issues of interest. In addition,

special tabulations are prepared,

pursuant to BJS direction, in response to

requests from government officials. The

project to be funded under the proposed

cooperative agreement will continue the

program’s current activities.

DATES: Proposals must be postmarked

on or before March 31, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Proposals should be mailed

to: Applications Coordinator, Bureau of

Justice Statistics, 810 7th Street, NW,

Washington, DC 20531.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: John

Scalia, Program Manager, Federal

Justice Statistics Program, Bureau of

Justice Statistics, (202) 616–3276.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

The Bureau of Justice Statistics

Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP)

was initiated in 1982 to serve as a

central resource for information

describing the processing of Federal

criminal defendants and characteristics

of those defendants. The program

collects data from different components

of the Federal criminal justice system

and tracks the progress of suspects from

investigation through prosecution,

adjudication, sentencing, and

corrections. The program represents the

primary BJS effort describing the

Federal criminal justice system and

responds directly to the legislative

authorization that BJS ‘‘collect, analyze,

and disseminate comprehensive Federal

justice transaction statistics (including

statistics on issues of Federal justice

interest such as public fraud and high

technology crime)’’ as set forth in 42

U.S.C. § 3732(c)(15).

In keeping with the original program

plan which was designed to minimize

data collection costs, no original data

collection is supported under this

program. Data are obtained from

operational Federal agencies including

the Executive Office for the United

States Attorneys, the Administrative

Office of the United States Courts, the

Bureau of Prisons, and the United States

Sentencing Commission. In order to

trace the flow of cases from one stage to

another and to supplement any

individual agency’s data, computer

matching techniques have been

developed that permit the linking of