Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 11 / Wednesday, January 17, 2001 / Notices 4003

announces a change to a closed session

meeting.

DATES: The meeting will be held at

0900, Wednesday, February 14, 2001.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at

Palisades Institute for Research

Services, 1745 Jefferson Davis Highway,

Suite 500, Arlington, VA 22202.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Elise Rabin, AGED Secretariat, 1745

Jefferson Davis Highway, Crystal Square

Four, Suite 500, Arlington, Virginia

22202.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

mission of the Advisory Group is to

provide advice to the Under Secretary of

Defense for Acquisition and

Technology, to the Director Defense

Research and Engineering (DDR&E), and

through the DDR&E, to the Director

Defense Advanced Research Projects

Agency and the Military Departments in

planning and managing an effective

research and development program in

the field of electron devices.

The Working Group B meeting will be

limited to review of research and

development programs which the

military proposes to initiate with

industry, universities or in their

laboratories. The microelectronics area

includes such programs on

semiconductor materials, integrated

circuits, charge couple devices and

memories. The review will include

classified program details throughout.

In accordance with section 10(d) of

Pub. L. No. 92–463, as amended, (5

U.S.C. App. 10(d) (1994)), it has been

determined that this Advisory Group

meeting concerns matters listed in 5

U.S.C. 552b(c)(1) (1994), and that

accordingly, this meeting will be closed

to the public.

Dated: January 10, 2001.

L.M. Bynum,

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison

Officer, Department of Defense.

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary of Defense

Department of Defense Wage

Committee; Notice of Closed Meetings

Pursuant to the provisions of section

10 of Public Law 92–463, the Federal

Advisory Committee Act, notice is

hereby given that closed meetings of the

Department of Defense Wage Committee

will be held on February 6, 2001;

February 13, 2001; February 20, 2001;

and February 27, 2001, at 10:00 a.m. in

Room A105, The Nash Building, 1400

Key Boulevard, Rosslyn Virginia.

Under the provisions of section 10(d)

of Public Law 92–463, the Department

of Defense has determined that the

meetings meet the criteria to close

meetings to the public because the

matters to be considered are related to

internal rules and practices of the

Department of Defense and the detailed

wage data to be considered were

obtained from officials of private

establishments with a guarantee that the

data will be held in confidence.

However, members of the public who

may wish to do so are invited to submit

material in writing to the chairman

concerning matters believed to be

deserving of the Committee’s attention.

Additional information concerning

the meetings may be obtained by writing

to the Chairman, Department of Defense

Wage Committee, 4000 Defense

Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301–4000.

Dated: January 10, 2001.

L.M. Bynum,

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison

Officer, Department of Defense.

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Energy Employees Occupational

Illness Compensation Act of 2000; List

of Covered Facilities

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of listing of covered

facilities.

SUMMARY: The Energy Employees

Occupational Illness Compensation Act

of 2000 (‘‘Act’’), Public Law 106–398,

establishes a program to provide

compensation to individuals who

developed illnesses as a result of their

employment in nuclear weapons

production-related activities and at

certain federally-owned facilities in

which radioactive materials were used.

On December 7, 2000, the President

issued Executive Order 13179 (‘‘Order’’)

directing the Department of Energy

(‘‘Department’’ or ‘‘DOE’’) to list covered

facilities in the Federal Register. This

notice responds to both the Act and the

Order.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Office of Worker Advocacy, 1–877–447–

9756.

ADDRESSES: The Department welcomes

comments on this list. Individuals who

wish to suggest additional facilities for

inclusion on the list, indicate why one

or more facilities should be removed

from the list, or provide other

information may contact: Office of

Worker Advocacy (EH–8), U.S.

Department of Energy, 1000

Independence Avenue, SW.,

Washington, DC 20585, email:

worker_advocacy@eh.doe.gov, toll-free:

1–877–447–9756.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Purpose: The Energy Employees

Occupational Illness Compensation Act

of 2000 (‘‘Act’’), Public Law 106–398,

establishes a program to provide

compensation to individuals who

developed illnesses as a result of their

employment in nuclear weapons

production-related activities and at

certain federally-owned facilities in

which radioactive materials were used.

On December 7, 2000, the President

issued Executive Order 13179 (‘‘Order’’)

directing the Department of Energy

(‘‘Department’’ or ‘‘DOE’’) to list covered

facilities in the Federal Register.

Section 2. c. vii of the Order instructs

the Department to list three types of

facilities:

(1) Atomic weapons employer

facilities, as defined in section 3621 (4)

of the Act;

(2) Department of Energy facilities, as

defined by section 3621 (12) of the Act;

and

(3) Beryllium vendors, as defined by

section 3621 (6) of the Act.

Compensation options and

mechanisms are defined differently for

each of these facility categories. The

atomic weapons employer category

includes facilities in which the primary

work was not related to atomic

weapons, and consequently these

facilities are not commonly known as

atomic weapons facilities. Their

inclusion in this list is consistent with

the Act, and is not intended as a

classification for any other purpose.

The list at the end of this notice

represents the Department’s best efforts

to date to compile a list of facilities in

these three categories. Reconstructing

the operational history of the nuclear

weapons system over a sixty-year period

is a complex and sometimes imprecise

undertaking. Some list entries are based

on records that contain the names and

addresses of companies and facilities at

the time work was performed for the

Department and its predecessor federal

agencies. The list may identify a

corporate headquarters facility as a

production location, or may contain

some inadvertent duplication because of

changes in names, ownership, and

addresses. Similarly, attempts to

minimize duplication may have resulted

in the inadvertent omission of

subsidiaries and satellite locations that

should be included. Accordingly, the