33952 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 123 / Tuesday, June 26, 2001 / Notices

produce accurate position, navigation

and time information.

Janet A. Long,

Air Force Federal Register Liaison Officer.

[FR Doc. 01–15943 Filed 6–25–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 5001–05–P

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Army, Corps of

Engineers

Intent To Hold Public Meetings To

Solicit Citizen Input Into Cumulative

Effects Assessment of Navigation

Investment Strategies Along the Ohio

River Main Stem

AGENCY: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,

DoD.

ACTION: Notice of public meetings.

SUMMARY: The Corps of Engineers will

conduct public scoping meetings at six

locations along the main stem of the

Ohio River to solicit input for a

Cumulative Effects Analysis (CEA). This

document will be a major component of

the Ohio River Main Stem Systems

Study’s Programmatic Environmental

Impact Statement (PEIS) described in

the ‘‘Notice Of Intent to Prepare an EIS’’

published in the Federal Register on

October 21, 1998, and amended in the

Federal Register on June 9, 2000.

Representatives of the Corps of

Engineers will provide an oversight

presentation on the study,the EIS

process, and cumulative effects

assessment. The public will then be

invited to provide comments or ask

questions relevant to the study.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Questions or comments regarding this

Notice and the CEA can be answered by

Ms. Veronica Rife, U.S. Army Corps of

Engineers, P.O. Box 59, Louisville,

Kentucky, 40201–0059, Telephone:

(502) 315–6785, email: celrlormss@usace.army.mil.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The Great

Lakes & Ohio River Division of the U.S.

Army Corps of Engineers is evaluating

alternative investment strategies for

commercial navigation infrastructure on

the Ohio River System for the next 60

years. The study is being conducted

under the authority of the United States

Senate, Committee on Public Works

resolution dated May 16, 1955; and the

United States House of Representatives,

Committee on Public Works and

Transportation resolution dated March

11, 1982. The Corps of Engineers is

preparing a Programmatic

Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS)

including a Cumulative Effects Analysis

(CEA) appendix concurrent with a

System Investment Plan (SIP) as

primary products of the study. The SIP

will identify where and approximately

when site-specific navigation

infrastructure improvements should be

made along the Ohio River and will be

used by the Corps of Engineers for

future planning and budgeting

purposes. The SIP will not recommend

any specific projects for Congressional

authorization. A PEIS will be prepared

concurrent with the SIP to assess the

system-wide environmental effects of

any and all projected infrastructure

improvements. A major component of

the PEIS is the CEA that will focus on

evaluating the cumulative impacts to

certain environmental resources in and

along the mainstem of the Ohio River.

The Corps of Engineers published two

previous Notices of Intent (NOI) to

Prepare NEPA documents for this study.

The first Notice, ‘‘Notice of Intent to

Prepare an Environmental Impact

Statement for the Ohio River Main Stem

Systems Study,’’ was published in

Federal Register, volume 63, number

203 page 56165 on Wednesday, October

21, 1998. In that Notice, the Corps stated

its intention to prepare one or more EISs

for the study and it’s intention to

produce an interim report with a

feasibility-level EIS for Greenup Locks &

Dam, near Greenup, Kentucky, and John

T. Myers Locks & Dam, near Mount

Vernon, Indiana. The interim report and

feasibility-level EIS were completed in

2000. The Corps of Engineers published

a second Notice, ‘‘Notice of Intent to

Prepare an Environmental Assessment

for Proposed Authorization of an Ohio

River Ecosystem Restoration Program,’’

in the Federal Register, volume 65,

number 112 page 36674 on Friday, June

9, 2000. The Corps of Engineers

subsequently produced an Integrated

Decision Document and Environmental

Assessment recommending

authorization of an Ohio River

Ecosystem Restoration Program.

Greenup and J.T. Myers Locks

Improvement Projects, and the Ohio

River Ecosystem Restoration Program

were authorized in the Water Resources

Development Act of 2000.

As part of the initial PEIS scoping

process, three public scoping workshops

were held in November 1998 at

Evansville, IN, Hunting, WV, and

Pittsburgh, PA as stated in the October

1998 NOI.

The scoping process to be followed

for the remainder of the study will

include: continuation of interagency

environmental team meetings, a press

release announcing the CEA scoping

process and inviting comments, a

mailing to all addressees on the ORMSS

mailing list (approximately 2,500),

advertisements in local newspapers, and

a series of six sets of meetings (one set

in each state) along the Ohio River. Each

set of meetings will consist of a daytime

meeting with governmental agencies

and an evening meeting open to the

public. This process emphasizes the

Corps’ desire for participation by all

interested parties.

The primary issue to be analyzed in

depth in the PEIS will be cumulative

effects of SIP recommendations in the

context of past, present, and reasonably

foreseeable future actions by the Corps

of Engineers and others in and along the

Ohio River. The impacts analysis will

include biological resources, cultural

resources and socioeconomic effects, air

quality, noise impacts, and recreational

resources.

Meetings are scheduled as follows:

Date: July 10, 2001.

Time: 5 p.m.–7 p.m.

Place: Banterra Bank—Large

Conference Room, 101 West Eighth St.,

Metropolis, IL 62960.

Date: July 12, 2001.

Time: 5 p.m.–7 p.m.

Place: Victory Theatre—5th Floor

Banquet Room, 600 Main St.,

Evansville, IN 47708.

Date: July 31, 2001.

Time: 5 p.m.–7 p.m.

Place: Mid-Ohio Valley Regional

Council—Large Conference Room, 531

Market St., Parkersburg, WV 26101.

Date: August 1, 2001.

Time: 5 p.m.–7 p.m.

Place: Community College of Beaver

Co.—Library Resource Center,

Conference Room 103 (Near Parking Lot

2), 1 Campus Dr., Monaca, PA 15061.

Date: August 6, 2001.

Time: 5 p.m.–7 p.m.

Place: Kenton Co. Public Library—

Large Meeting Room, 505 Scott Blvd.,

Covington, KY 41011.

Date: August 7, 2001.

Time: 5 p.m.–7 p.m.

Place: Shawnee State University—

University Center, 940 Second St.,

Portsmouth, OH 45662.

Interested parties will be encouraged

to provide oral comments relevant to

issues to be addressed in the CEA or

Programmatic EIS at any of these public

forums. Otherwise, the Corps of

Engineers requests written comments or

requests for information be directed to

the following study contact: Ms.

Veronica Rife, Project Manager, Ohio

River Mainstem Systems Study, P.O.

Box 59, Louisville, KY 40201–0059,

502–315–6785, Email: celrlormss@usace.army.mil.

All comments should be received by

the Corps of Engineers by August 31,

2001.

Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 123 / Tuesday, June 26, 2001 / Notices 33953

Dated: June 19, 2001.

Paul D. Robinson,

Director of Civil Works and Management.

[FR Doc. 01–16130 Filed 6–25–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 3710–GM–M

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

[CFDA No.: 84.290U]

Bilingual Education: Comprehensive

School Grants; Notice Reopening

Competition for New Awards

SUMMARY: On April 16, 2001, a notice

inviting applications for new awards for

fiscal year (FY) 2001 was published in

the Federal Register (66 FR 19437—

19471). This notice was a complete

application package and contained all of

the information, application forms, and

instructions needed to apply for a grant

under this program. The notice listed a

deadline date of June 15, 2001, for the

transmittal of applications and specified

that applicants could submit their

applications in either electronic or

paper format.

Due to a power outage affecting the

Department’s Electronic Grant

Application System (e-APPLICATION),

applicants that intended to submit their

applications in electronic format were

unable to use the Internet-based

electronic system for submitting

applications on June 14–15 and

consequently may have been unable to

meet the application deadline date.

Since the deadline date has passed,

this notice is intended to help potential

applicants compete fairly under the

Bilingual Education Comprehensive

School Grants Program by reopening the

competition for all applicants and

establishing the new deadline dates

specified below for transmittal of

applications and intergovernmental

review. You may submit your

application to us in either electronic or

paper format. You may access the

electronic grant application at the

following site: http://e-grants.ed.gov.

Deadline for Transmittal of

Applications: July 2, 2001.

Deadline for Intergovernmental

Review: August 30, 2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Margarita Ackley, Lorena Dickerson, or

Jessica Knight, U.S. Department of

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW.,

Room 5086, Switzer Building,

Washington, DC 20202–6510.

Telephone: Margarita Ackley (202) 205–

0506, Lorena Dickerson (202) 205–9044,

Jessica Knight (202) 205–0706. E-mail:

Margarita_Ackley@ed.gov;

Lorena_Dickerson@ed.gov;

Jessica_Knight@ed.gov.

Individuals who use a

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(TDD) may call the Federal Information

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–

8339.

Individuals with disabilities may

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format (e.g., Braille, large print,

audiotape, or computer diskette) on

request to one of the contact persons

listed above.

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Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 7424.

Dated: June 21, 2001.

Arthur M. Love,

Acting Director, Office of Bilingual Education

and Minority Languages Affairs.

[FR Doc. 01–16002 Filed 6–25–01; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4000–01–U

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Direct Grant Programs

AGENCY: Department of Education.

ACTION: Notice reopening application

deadline dates for certain direct grants.

SUMMARY: The Secretary reopens the

deadline dates for the submission of

applications by certain applicants (see

Eligibility) under certain direct grant

programs. All of the affected

competitions are among those under

which the Secretary is making new

awards for fiscal year (FY) 2001. The

Secretary takes this action to allow more

time for the preparation and submission

of applications by potential applicants

adversely affected by severe weather

conditions resulting from Tropical

Storm Allison. The reopenings are

intended to help these potential

applicants compete fairly with other

applicants under these programs.

Note: One of the affected programs or

competitions is under the Office of

Postsecondary Education and four are under

the Office of Elementary and Secondary

Education. You can find information related

to each of these competitions under the ‘‘List

of Programs Affected’’ in this notice.

Eligibility: The extension of deadline

dates in this notice applies to you if you

are a potential applicant in areas of

Louisiana, Texas, or Florida that the

President has declared a disaster area as

a result of Tropical Storm Allison.

These areas include the following:

State County and/or city

Florida .................................. Bay, Calhoun, Gadsden, Holmes, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Wakulla, and Washington.

Louisiana .............................. Ascension, Assumption, Beauregard, East Baton Rouge, Iberia, Iberville, Jefferson, Lafayette, Lafourche, Livingston, Orleans, St. Charles, St. James, St. John the Baptist, St. Martin, St. Mary, St. Tammany, Tangipahoa,

Terrebonne, Vermillion, and Washington.

Texas .................................... Anderson, Angelina, Brazoria, Cherokee, Chambers, Fort Bend, Galveston, Hardin, Harris, Houston, Jasper, Jefferson, Leon, Liberty, Madison, Montgomery, Nacogdoches, Newton, Orange, Polk, Sabine, San Augustine,

San Jacinto, Shelby, Smith, Trinity, Tyler, and Walker.

DATES: The new deadline date for

transmitting applications under each

competition is listed with that

competition.

If the program in which you are

interested is subject to Executive Order

12372, the deadline date for the

transmittal of State process

recommendations by State Single Points

of Contact (SPOCs) and comments by

other interested parties remains as

originally posted.

ADDRESSES: The address and telephone

number for obtaining applications for,

or information about, an individual

program are in the application notice for

that program. We have listed the date