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detailed statement of the nominee’s

background.

Signed at Washington, D.C., this 17th day

of July, 1998.

Meredith Miller,

Deputy Assistant Secretary of Labor, Pension

and Welfare Benefits Administration.

[FR Doc. 98–19641 Filed 7–22–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4510–29–M

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

Employment and Training

Administration

Job Corps: Preliminary Finding of No

Significant Impact (FONSI) for the New

Job Corps Center Located Off Granite

Road in Maple Heights, Ohio

AGENCY: Employment and Training

Administration, Labor.

ACTION: Preliminary Finding of No

Significant Impact (FONSI) for the New

Job Corps Center to be located at the end

of Granite Road in Maple Heights, Ohio.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the Council on

Environmental Quality Regulation (40

CFR Part 1500–08) implementing

procedural provisions of the National

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), and

the Department of Labor, Employment

and Training Administration, Office of

Job Corps, in accordance with 29 CFR

11.11(d), gives notice that an

Environmental Assessment (EA) has

been prepared and the proposed plans

for a new Job Corps Center will have no

significant environmental impact. This

Preliminary Finding of No Significant

Impact (FONSI) will be made available

for public review and comment for a

period of 30 days.

DATES: Comments must be submitted by

August 24, 1998.

ADDRESSES: Any comment(s) are to be

submitted to Amy Knight, Employment

and Training Administration,

Department of Labor, 200 Constitution

Avenue, NW, Room N–4659,

Washington, DC 20210, (202) 219–5468

ext. 103 (this is not a toll-free number).

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Copies of the EA and additional

information are available to interested

parties by contacting Richard Trigg,

Regional Director, Region V (Five),

Office of Job Corps, 230 South Dearborn

Street, Chicago, IL 60604, (312) 353–

1311 (this is not a toll-free number).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

The proposed development site is

located approximately one and one

quarter miles (11⁄4) south of the Maple

Heights City Hall and is located at the

end of Granite Road in Maple Heights,

Cuyahoga County, Ohio. The proposed

development site is located to the

northeast of Granite Road and southeast

of Pennsylvania Avenue. The EA

indicates that the site is on an

approximate 24 acre wooded and

undeveloped parcel. The site is located

in an urban, light industrial area with

adjacent residential developments

within one quarter (1⁄4) of a mile. The

property is currently owned by the

Maple Heights Development Company.

The site does not contain any structures,

and historical aerial photographs

indicate that the property has been

wooded dating back to 1951.

The proposed Job Corps Center will

be designed to accommodate

approximately 430 Job Corps students

(380 residential and 50 non-residential

students). The proposed Center will

consist of nine buildings, including

dormitories, educational/vocational

facilities, food service facilities,

recreational facilities, administrative

offices, storage and support facilities,

with a total building area of 114,275 net

square feet. The proposed project will

be constructed in accordance with local

fire and building code requirements.

The construction of the Job Corps

Center on this undeveloped parcel

would be a positive asset to the area in

terms of environmental and

socioeconomic improvements, and longterm productivity. The proposed Job

Corps Center will be a new source of

employment opportunity for people in

the Maple Heights, Ohio area. The Job

Corps program provides basic

education, vocational skills training,

work experience, counseling, health

care and related support services. This

program is designed to graduate

students who are ready to participate in

the local economy.

The proposed project will not have

any significant adverse impact on any

natural system or resource. There are no

‘‘historically significant’’ buildings on

the site and no areas of archaeological

significance. No threatened or

endangered species have been located

on the site.

Air quality and noise levels should

not be affected by the proposed

development project in the light

industrial area in Maple Heights, Ohio.

Due to the nature of the proposed

project, it would not be a source of air

pollutants or additional noise, except

possibly during construction of the

facility. The Ohio Environmental

Protection Agency has indicated that

construction of a Job Corps Center at the

proposed site will not require

permitting under Section 173 of the

Clean Air Act. The proposed project site

is located within the Cleveland-AkronLorain air quality region, which

includes several non-attainment areas

for the PM–10 and SO2 National

Ambient Air Quality Standards

(NAAQS). The proposed Job Corps

Center will not significantly increase the

vehicle traffic in the vicinity, and will

not be a significant source of air

pollution.

The proposed project will not have

any significant adverse impact on the

surrounding infrastructure, represented

by water, sewer and storm water

systems. Water and sewage systems will

be provided by the Northeast Ohio

Regional Sewer District (NEORSD).

These systems are readily accessible and

should be sufficient to accommodate the

new Job Corps Center. All wastewater

treatment will be handled by NEORSD’s

Southerly Wastewater Treatment

Facility. The Southerly plant is

operating under an existing National

Pollution Discharge Elimination System

(NPDES) permit. Stormwater runoff

from parking lots, sidewalks, and other

structures will be managed in

accordance with the requirements of the

Ohio Department of Natural Resources

(ODNR), and is not anticipated to

adversely impact area water quality.

The proposed project site is located

adjacent to an industrial park, thus

electrical power will be easily

accessible. The proposed demands on

electrical power are not expected to

have a significant adverse affect on the

environment. Electric utilities and

natural gas are provided by Centerior

Energy.

Granite Road leads directly into the

proposed project site. Granite Road

connects to Lee Road, to the west,

which leads to several other main

thoroughfares within the City of Maple

Heights. These roads can be used to

access all aspects of the greater

Cleveland area. Roadways will need to

be constructed around the new Job

Corps Center, but no significant adverse

affects are expected. The traffic patterns

will be monitored to insure a

satisfactory movement of vehicles.

No significant adverse affects should

be felt by the local medical, emergency,

fire and police facilities. The closest

medical facility, Bedford Medical

Center, is located in the City of Bedford,

approximately 11⁄2 miles to the east of

the proposed project site. The Job Corps

Center will also have a small medical

and dental facility on-site for use by the

residents as necessary. Emergency,

police and fire services will be provided

by the City of Maple Heights, none of

which will be adversely impacted by the

Job Corps Center.

The proposed project population will

not have a significant adverse
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sociological effect on the Maple Heights

community. This area is characterized

by a fairly diverse ethnicity, and offers

educational and recreational

opportunities. Similarly, the proposed

project will not have a significant

adverse affect on demographic and

socioeconomic characteristics of the

area.

The alternatives considered in the

preparation of this FONSI were as

follows: (1) No Action; (2) Construction

at an Alternate Site; and (3) Continue

Construction as Proposed. The ‘‘No

Action’’ alternative was not selected.

The current Cleveland Job Corps Center

is located in a run-down facility that is

inadequate to meet the educational,

residential, and recreational needs of

the staff, faculty, and students at the

Center. The ‘‘Alternate Site’’ alternative

was not selected. The Department of

Labor, Employment and Training

Administration solicited proposals for

relocation properties on two separate

occasions, on February 1, 1997 and

November 22, 1997. Of the eight sites

reviewed by the Office of Job Corps,

only the subject property was suitable

for construction of a Job Corps Center.

Due to the inadequate facilities

currently occupied by the Cleveland Job

Corps Center, the lack of alternative

construction sites, and the absence of

any identified adverse environmental

impacts from locating a Job Corps

Center at the subject property, the

‘‘Continue Construction as Proposed’’

alternative was selected.

Based on the information gathered

during the preparation of the EA, no

environmental liabilities, current or

historical, were found to exist on the

proposed Job Corps Center site. It

should be noted that no sampling of the

soil, water or air was conducted during

the preparation of the EA. The

construction of a Job Corps Center on

the undeveloped parcel located at the

end of Granite Road in Maple Heights,

Ohio, will not create any significant

adverse impacts on the environment;

however, the site is currently zoned as

an industrial district.

Dated at Washington, DC, this 17th day of

July, 1998.

Timothy F. Sullivan,

Acting Director of Job Corps.

[FR Doc. 98–19640 Filed 7–22–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4510–30–P

NATIONAL AERONAUTICS AND

SPACE ADMINISTRATION

[Notice (98–098]

Government-Owned Inventions,

Available for Licensing

AGENCY: National Aeronautics and

Space Administration.

ACTION: Notice of Availability of

Inventions for Licensing.

SUMMARY: The inventions listed below

are assigned to the National Aeronautics

and Space Administration, have been

filed in the United States Patent and

Trademark Office, and are available for

licensing.

DATE: July 23, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Guy

M. Miller, Patent Counsel, Goddard

Space Flight Center, Mail Code 750.2,

Greenbelt, MD 20771; telephone 301–

286–7351.

NASA Case No. GSC 13,915–1: Diode

Laser Spectrometer Using Fiber Optic

Granting Feedback;

NASA Case No. GSC 13,880–1:

Position Finding Magnetometer For

Space Application;

NASA Case No. GSC 13,817–2:

Computer Implemented Empirical Mode

Decomposition Method Apparatus and

Article of Manufacture Utilizing

Curvature Extrema;

NASA Case No. GSC 13,728–1: A Low

Cost, Balloon Launched Remotely

Piloted Vehicle For Meteorological

Research.

NASA Case No. GSC 13,552–2: PreCoding Method and Apparatus For

Multiple Source or Time-Shifted Single

Source Data and Corresponding Inverse

Post-Decoding Method And Apparatus.

Dated: July 17, 1998.

Edward A. Frankle,

General Counsel.

[FR Doc. 98–19646 Filed 7–22–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7510–01–P

NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND RECORDS

ADMINISTRATION

Renewal of Advisory Committee on

Presidential Libraries

This notice is published in

accordance with the provisions of

section 9(a)(2) of the Federal Advisory

Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463, 5

U.S.C., App.) and advises of the renewal

of the National Archives and Records

Administration’s (NARA) Advisory

Committee on Presidential Libraries. In

accordance with Office of Management

and Budget (OMB) Circular A–135,

OMB approved the inclusion of the

Advisory Committee on Presidential

Libraries in NARA’s ceiling of

discretionary advisory committees. The

Committee Management Secretariat,

General Services Administration, also

concurred with the renewal of the

Advisory Committee on Presidential

Libraries in correspondence dated June

11, 1998.

NARA has determined that the

renewal of the Advisory Committee is in

the public interest due to the expertise

and valuable advice the Committee

members provide on issues affecting the

functioning of existing Presidential

libraries and library programs and the

development of future Presidential

libraries. NARA will use the

Committee’s recommendations in its

implementation of strategies for the

efficient operation of the Presidential

libraries. NARA’s Committee

Management Officer is Mary Ann

Hadyka. She can be reached at 301–

713–7360 x222.

Dated: July 20, 1998.

John W. Carlin,

Archivist of the United States.

[FR Doc. 98–19608 Filed 7–22–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 7515–01–P

NUCLEAR REGULATORY

COMMISSION

[Docket No. 50–213]

Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power

Company; Haddam Neck Plant;

Exemption

I

Connecticut Yankee Atomic Power

Company (CYAPCO or the licensee), is

the holder of Facility Operating License

No. DPR–61, which authorizes

operation of Haddam Neck Plant (HNP).

The license provides, among other

things, that the facility is subject to all

rules, regulations, and orders of the U.S.

Nuclear Regulatory Commission (the

Commission) now or hereafter in effect.

The facility is a pressurized-water

reactor located on the licensee’s site in

Middlesex County, Connecticut. On

December 5, 1996, the licensee informed

the Commission by letter that it had

decided to permanently cease

operations at the HNP and that all fuel

had been permanently removed from

the reactor. In accordance with 10 CFR

50.82(a)(2), the certifications in the

letter modified the facility operating

license to permanently withdraw

CYAPCO’s authority to operate the

reactor or to load fuel into the reactor

vessel.