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(3) Serve as advocates for American 

Indian students with special education 

needs by providing advice and 

recommendations regarding best 

practices, effective program 

coordination strategies, and 

recommendations for improved 

educational programming. 

(4) Provide advice and 

recommendations for the preparation of 

information required to be submitted to 

the Secretary of Education under section 

611(h)(2)(D). 

(5) Provide advice and recommend 

policies concerning effective inter/intraagency collaboration, including 

modifications to regulations, and the 

elimination of barriers to inter/intraagency programs and activities. 

(6) Report and direct all 

correspondence to the Assistant 

Secretary—Indian Affairs through the 

Director, BIE with a courtesy copy to the 

Designated Federal Official (DFO). 

Membership 

(a) As required by IDEA of 2004, 

section 611(h)(6), the Advisory Board 

shall be composed of individuals 

involved in or concerned with the 

education and provision of services to 

Indian infants, toddlers, children, and 

youth with disabilities. The Advisory 

Board composition will reflect a broad 

range of viewpoints and will include at 

least one (1) member representing each 

of the following interests: Indians with 

disabilities; teachers of children with 

disabilities; Indian parents or guardians 

of children with disabilities; service 

providers, State Education Officials; 

Local Education Officials; State 

Interagency Coordinating Councils (for 

States having Indian reservations); tribal 

representatives or tribal organization 

representatives; and other members 

representing the various divisions and 

entities of the BIE. 

(b) The Assistant Secretary—Indian 

Affairs may provide the Secretary of the 

Interior recommendations for the 

chairperson; however, the chairperson 

and other Advisory Board members will 

be appointed by the Secretary of the 

Interior. The Advisory Board members 

shall serve staggered terms of 2 years or 

3 years from the date of their 

appointment. 

Miscellaneous 

(a) Members of the Advisory Board 

will not receive compensation, but will 

be reimbursed for travel, including 

subsistence, and other necessary 

expenses incurred in the performance of 

their duties in the same manner as 

persons employed intermittently in 

Government Service under 5 U.S.C. 

5703. 

(b) A member may not participate in 

matters that will directly affect, or 

appear to affect, the financial interests 

of the member or the member’s spouse 

or minor children, unless authorized by 

the DFO. Compensation from 

employment does not constitute a 

financial interest of the member so long 

as the matter before the Advisory Board 

will not have a special or distinct effect 

on the member or the member’s 

employer, other than as part of a class. 

The provisions of this paragraph do not 

affect any other statutory or regulatory 

ethical obligations to which a member 

may be subject. 

(c) The Advisory Board meets at least 

twice a year, budget permitting, but 

additional meetings may be held as 

deemed necessary by the Assistant 

Secretary—Indian Affairs or DFO. 

(d) All Advisory Board meetings are 

open to the public in accordance with 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

regulations. 

Nomination Information 

(a) Nominations are requested from 

individuals, organizations, and federally 

recognized tribes, as well as from State 

Directors of Special Education (within 

the 23 States in which BIE-funded 

schools are located) concerned with the 

education of Indian children with 

disabilities as described above. 

(b) Nominees should have expertise 

and knowledge of the issues and/or 

needs of American Indian children with 

disabilities. Such knowledge and 

expertise are needed to provide advice 

and recommendations to the BIE 

regarding the needs of American Indian 

children with disabilities. 

(c) A summary of the candidate’s 

qualifications (re ́sume ́ or curriculum 

vitae) must be included with the 

nomination application. Nominees must 

have the ability to attend Advisory 

Board meetings, carry out Advisory 

Board assignments, participate in 

teleconference calls, and work in 

groups. 

(d) The Department of the Interior is 

committed to equal opportunity in the 

workplace and seeks diverse Advisory 

Board membership, which is bound by 

the Indian Preference Act of 1990 (25 

U.S.C. 472). 

Dated: March 26, 2009. 

George T. Skibine, 

Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy and 

Economic Development. 

[FR Doc. E9–8690 Filed 4–15–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–6W–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Indian Affairs 

Advisory Board of Exceptional 

Children 

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, the 

Bureau of Indian Education (BIE) is 

announcing that the Advisory Board for 

Exceptional Children (Advisory Board) 

will hold its next meeting in 

Albuquerque, New Mexico. The purpose 

of the meeting is to meet the mandates 

of the Individuals with Disabilities 

Education Act of 2004 (IDEA) on Indian 

children with disabilities. 

DATES: The Advisory Board will meet on 

Thursday, April 30, 2009, from 8:30 

a.m. to 4:45 p.m.; Friday, May 1, 2009, 

from 8:15 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Saturday, 

May 2, 2009, from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Local 

Time. 

ADDRESSES: The April 30th and May 1st 

meetings will be held at the Bureau of 

Indian Education, Albuquerque Service 

Center, Division of Performance and 

Accountability, 1011 Indian School 

Road NW., Room 277, Albuquerque, NM 

87103; telephone 505–563–5274. The 

May 2, 2009, meeting will be held at the 

Marriot Hotel, 2101 Louisiana Blvd. 

NE., Albuquerque, NM; telephone 505– 

881–6800. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr. 

Jeff Hamley, Designated Federal Official, 

Bureau of Indian Education, 

Albuquerque Service Center, Division of 

Performance and Accountability, 1011 

Indian School Road NW., P.O. Box 

1088, Suite 332, Albuquerque, NM 

87103; telephone 505–563–5260. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Advisory Board was established to 

advise the Secretary of the Interior, 

through the Assistant Secretary-Indian 

Affairs, on the needs of Indian children 

with disabilities, as mandated by the 

Individuals with Disabilities Act of 2004 

(Pub. L. 108–446). 

The following items will be on the 

agenda: 

• Advisory Board Workgroups 

address: State Performance Plan 

Indicators (SPP), Annual Performance 

Report (APR), and Office of Special 

Education Programs (OSEP) verification; 

• Public Call 11:30–12 MT, 

Conference Number 1–888–387–8686, 

Pass code 4274201; 

• Organization issues of Advisory 

Board; 

• APR and Data Exceptions for BIE. 

The meetings are open to the public. 

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Dated: April 8, 2009. 

Grayford Payne, 

Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Policy 

and Economic Development. 

[FR Doc. E9–8724 Filed 4–15–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4310–6W–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Notice of Lodging of Consent Decree 

Under the Emergency Planning and 

Community Right-To-Know Act, the 

Clean Water Act, the Resource 

Conservation and Recovery Act, the 

Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and 

Rodenticide Act, the Comprehensive 

Environmental Response, 

Compensation, and Liability Act, the 

Safe Drinking Water Act, and the Clean 

Air Act 

Under 28 CFR 50.7, notice is hereby 

given that on April 13, 2009, a proposed 

Consent Decree in United States, et al. 

v. INVISTA, S.a` r.l, Civil Action 

Number 1:09–cv–00244, was lodged 

with the United States District Court for 

the District of Delaware. The Consent 

Decree resolves claims against INVISTA 

S.a` r.l. (‘‘INVISTA’’) brought by the 

United States on behalf of the U.S. 

Environmental Protection Agency 

(‘‘EPA’’) under the Emergency Planning 

and Community Right-to-Know Act 

(EPCRA), 42 U.S.C. 11001 to 11050; the 

Clean Water Act (CWA), 42 U.S.C. 1251 

to 1387; the Resource Conservation and 

Recovery Act (RCRA), 42 U.S.C. 6901 to 

6992k; the Federal Insecticide, 

Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act 

(FIFRA), 7 U.S.C. 136 to 136y; Section 

103(a) of the Comprehensive 

Environmental Response, 

Compensation, and Liability Act 

(CERCLA), 42 U.S.C. 9603(a); the Safe 

Drinking Water Act (SDWA), 42 U.S.C. 

300f to 300j–26; and the Clean Air Act 

(CAA), 42 U.S.C. 7401 to 7671q 

(hereinafter ‘‘Environmental 

Requirements’’). The Consent Decree 

also resolves the claims against 

INVISTA brought by the State of 

Delaware Department of Natural 

Resources and Environmental Control, 

the State of South Carolina Department 

of Health and Environmental Control, 

and the Chattanooga-Hamilton County 

Air Pollution Control Board. 

In this action, the United States seeks 

civil penalties and injunctive relief for 

the violations of Environmental 

Requirements identified in Appendices 

A, B, and C to the lodged Consent 

Decree that INVISTA voluntarily 

identified to the EPA after conducting 

its compliance management system and 

a series of comprehensive audits of 

facilities that INVISTA acquired in 

April 2004 from E.I. du Pont de 

Nemours and Company. The facilities 

covered by these allegations are located 

at Athens, GA; Calhoun, GA; Camden, 

SC; Chattanooga, TN; Dalton, GA; 

Kinston, NC; LaPorte, TX; Martinsville, 

VA; Orange (also called Sabine), TX; 

Seaford, DE; Victoria, TX; and 

Waynesboro, VA. 

The settlement resolves the violations 

that are set forth in Appendices A, B, 

and C to the Consent Decree. INVISTA 

has certified in the Decree that it has 

corrected the violations alleged in 

Appendix A. INVISTA has agreed to 

implement injunctive relief measures to 

resolve the alleged Clean Air Act 

violations in Appendices B and C 

under: the Prevention of Significant 

Deterioration and/or New Source 

Review program at the Seaford, 

Chattanooga, Victoria, and Camden 

Facilities; the Benzene National 

Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air 

Pollutants program for the Orange and 

Victoria Facilities; the Leak Detection 

and Repair program for the Orange and 

Victoria Facilities; and the New Source 

Performance Standards program for the 

Orange Facility. 

The Department of Justice will 

receive, for a period of 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 

Environment and Natural Resources 

Division, and either e-mailed to 

pubcomment-ees.enrd@usdoj.gov or 

mailed to P.O. Box 7611, U.S. 

Department of Justice, Washington, DC 

20044–7611, and should refer to United 

States et al. v. INVISTA, S.a` r.l, DOJ Ref. 

No. 90–5–2–1–08892. 

The proposed Consent Decree along 

with the Appendices and relevant 

excerpts of the Final Audit Report 

referenced therein may be examined at 

the Enforcement and Compliance 

Docket Information Center in the EPA 

Docket Center (EPA/DC), EPA West, 

Room B 3334, 1301 Constitution 

Avenue, NW., Washington, DC. The 

EPA Docket Center Public Reading 

Room is open from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 

p.m., Monday through Friday, excluding 

legal holidays. The telephone number 

for the Reading Room is (202) 566–1744, 

and the telephone number for the 

Enforcement and Compliance Docket is 

(202) 566–1927. During the public 

comment period, the proposed Consent 

Decree may also be examined on the 

following Department of Justice Web 

site, http://www.usdoj.gov/enrd/ 

Consent_Decree.html. A copy of the 

proposed Consent Decree may be 

obtained by mail from the Consent 

Decree Library, P.O. Box 7611, U.S. 

Department of Justice, Washington, DC 

20044–7611 or by faxing or e-mailing a 

request to Tonia Fleetwood 

(tonia.fleetwood@usdoj.gov), fax number 

(202) 514–0097, phone confirmation 

number (202) 514–1547. In requesting a 

copy of the Consent Decree (without 

appendices) from the Consent Decree 

Library, please enclose a check in the 

amount of $6.75 (.25 cents per page 

reproduction costs), payable to the U.S. 

Treasury. 

Maureen Katz, 

Assistant Section Chief, Environmental 

Enforcement Section, Environment and 

Natural Resources Division. 

[FR Doc. E9–8755 Filed 4–15–09; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE 

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms 

and Explosives 

[OMB Number 1140–NEW] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities: Proposed Collection; 

Comments Requested 

ACTION: 60-Day Notice of information 

collection under review: Certification of 

Qualifying State Relief from Disabilities 

Program. 

The Department of Justice (DOJ), 

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms 

and Explosives (ATF), will be 

submitting the following information 

collection request to the Office of 

Management and Budget (OMB) for 

review and approval in accordance with 

the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995. 

The proposed information collection is 

published to obtain comments from the 

public and affected agencies. Comments 

are encouraged and will be accepted for 

‘‘sixty days’’ until June 15, 2009. This 

process is conducted in accordance with 

5 CFR 1320.10. 

If you have comments especially on 

the estimated public burden or 

associated response time, suggestions, 

or need a copy of the proposed 

information collection instrument with 

instructions or additional information, 

please contact Barbara Terrell, Firearms 

Enforcement Branch, 99 New York 

Avenue, NE., Washington, DC 20226. 

Written comments and suggestions 

from the public and affected agencies 

concerning the proposed collection of 

information are encouraged. Your 

comments should address one or more 

of the following four points: 

—Evaluate whether the proposed 

collection of information is necessary 

for the proper performance of the 

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