39836 Federal Register / Vol. 63, No. 142 / Friday, July 24, 1998 / Notices

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary

Meeting of the President’s Security

Policy Advisory Board Action Notice

SUMMARY: The President’s Security

Policy Advisory Board has been

established pursuant to Presidential

Decision Directive/NSC–29, which was

signed by President on September 16,

1994.

The Board will advise the President

on proposed legislative initiatives and

executive orders pertaining to U.S.

security policy, procedures and

practices as developed by the U.S.

Security Policy Board, and will function

as a federal advisory committee in

accordance with the provisions of Pub.

L. 92–463, the ‘‘Federal Advisory

Committee Act.’’

The President has appointed from the

private sector, three of five Board

members each with a prominent

background and expertise related to

security policy matters. General Larry

Welch, USAF (Ret.) will chair the

Board. Other members include: Rear

Admiral Thomas Brooks, USN (Ret.) and

Ms. Nina Stewart.

The next meeting of the Board will be

held on 14 September 1998, at 1330

hours at the Dallas Convention Center in

Dallas Texas. The meeting will be open

to the public.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mr. Terence Thompson, telephone: 703–

602–1098.

Dated: July 20, 1998.

L.M. Bynum,

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison

Officer, Department of Defense.

[FR Doc. 98–19785 Filed 7–23–98; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 5000–04–M

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Agency Information Collection Under

Review by the Office of Management

and Budget (OMB)

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Submission for OMB review;

comment request.

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy

(DOE) has submitted an information

collection package to the OMB for

renewal under the Paperwork Reduction

Act of 1995. The package covers

collections of information concerning

the public and the management and

administration of DOE’s Governmentowned/contractor-operated facilities

(GOCOs), offsite contractors, and

grantees. The information is used by

Departmental management to exercise

management oversight with respect to

the implementation of applicable

statutory and contractual requirements

and obligations. The collection of this

information is critical to ensure that the

Government has sufficient information

to judge the degree to which contractors

and grantees meet contractual

requirements; that public funds are

being spent in the manner intended; and

that fraud, waste, and abuse are

immediately detected and eliminated.

DATES AND ADDRESSES: Comments

regarding the information collection

package should be submitted to the

OMB Desk Officer at the following

address no later than August 24, 1998.

DOE Desk Officer, Office of Information

and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), Office of

Management and Budget, Docket

Library, Room 10102, 725 17th Street,

NW, Washington, DC 20503. 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 notify the DOE contact listed in

this notice.)

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Kevin M. Smith, Office of Procurement

and Assistance Policy (HR–51),

Department of Energy, Washington, DC

20585, (202) 586–8189.

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

annually; (5) estimated annual total

burden hours, including recordkeeping

hours, required to provide the

information; (6) purpose; and (7)

number of collections.

Package Title: Procurement.

Current OMB No.: 1910–4100.

Type of Respondents: DOE

management and operating contractors,

offsite contractors, grantees, and the

public.

Estimated Number of Responses:

4,331.

Estimated Total Burden Hours:

1,234,692.

Purpose: This information is required

by the Department to ensure that

programmatic and administrative

management requirements and

resources are managed efficiently and

effectively and to exercise management

oversight of DOE contractors and

grantees. The package contains 27

information and/or recordkeeping

requirements.

Statutory Authority: Section 3506(c)(2)(A)

of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995

(Pub. L. 104–13).

Issued in Washington, DC, on July 17,

1998.

Gwendolyn S. Cowan,

Acting Director, Office of Procurement and

Assistance Policy.

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BILLING CODE 6450–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Draft Environmental Impact Statement

(EIS) for the Advanced Mixed Waste

Treatment Project (AMWTP) at the

Idaho National Engineering and

Environmental Laboratory (INEEL),

Idaho Falls, Idaho

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of availability and public

meetings.

SUMMARY: The Department of Energy

(DOE) announces the availability of the

Draft EIS for the AMWTP (DOE/EIS–

0290D), at INEEL, Idaho Falls, Idaho.

The Draft EIS evaluates the potential

environmental impacts of DOE’s

proposed action as well as reasonable

alternatives. The proposed action

(preferred alternative) is to implement

the remaining phases of a contract with

BNFL Inc. to construct and operate the

AMWTP. The AMWTP would sort,

characterize, treat, and package for

disposal 65,000 cubic meters of

transuranic (TRU) waste, alphacontaminated low-level mixed waste

(alpha LLMW), and low-level mixed

waste (LLMW) currently stored at the

INEEL’s Radioactive Waste Management

Complex (RWMC).

An additional 120,000 cubic meters of

similar waste from the INEEL and other

DOE sites could be treated at the

proposed AMWTP, depending on future

DOE decisions.

DATES: The public comment period

begins on July 24, 1998, and extends

through September 11, 1998. DOE will

consider comments postmarked or

submitted after September 11, 1998, to

the extent practicable. Oral and written

comments will be received at public

meetings on the dates and at the

locations given below:

1. Idaho Falls, Idaho, on Tuesday,

August 18, 1998, from 7:00 p.m. to 9:30

p.m. at Eastern Idaho Technical College,

Multipurpose Building Cafeteria, 1600

South 2500 East.

2. Twin Falls, Idaho, on Thursday,

August 20, 1998, from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00

p.m. at the College of Southern Idaho,

Student Union Building, 315 Falls

Avenue.