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mission, and goals are to achieve full

participation by Minority Serving

Institutions (MSI) in order to advance

the development of human potential, to

strengthen the Nation’s capacity to

provide high-quality education, and to

increase opportunities for MSIs to

participate in and benefit from Federal

Financial Assistance programs. DOC/

NOAA encourages all applicants to

include meaningful participation of

MSIs. Institutions eligible to be

considered HBCU/MSIs are listed at the

following Internet website: http://

www.ed.gov/offices/OCR/99minin.html.

(10) For awards receiving funding for

the collection or production of

geospatial data (e.g., GIS data layers),

the recipient will comply to the

maximum extent practicable with E.O.

12906, Coordinating Geographic Data

Acquisition and Access, The National

Spatial Data Infrastructure, 59 FR 17671

(April 11, 1994). The award recipient

must document all new geospatial data

collected or produced using the

standard developed by the Federal

Geographic Data Center and make that

standardized documentation

electronically accessible. The standard

can be found at the following Internet

website: (http://www.fgdc.gov/

standards/standards/html).

Classification

Prior notice and an opportunity for

public comments are not required by the

Administrative Procedure Act or any

other law for this notice concerning

grants, benefits, and contracts (See 5

U.S.C. 553(a)(2)). Therefore, a regulatory

flexibility analysis is not required for

purposes of the Regulatory Flexibility

Act, 5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.

This action has been determined to be

not significant for purposes of E.O.

12866.

This notice contains collection-ofinformation requirements subject to the

Paperwork Reduction Act. The Sea

Grant Budget Form, 90–4, and Sea Grant

Summary Form, 90–2, have been

approved under Office of Management

and Budget (OMB) control number

0648–0362, with estimated times per

response of 20 and 15 minutes

respectively. The use of Standard Forms

424, 424b, and SF–LLL have been

approved by OMB under the respective

control numbers 0348–0043, 0348–0040,

and 0348–0046. The response time

estimates above include the time for

reviewing instructions, searching

existing data sources, gathering and

maintaining the data needed, and

completing and reviewing the collection

of information. Send comments on these

estimates or any other aspect of these

collections to the National Sea Grant

College Program, R/SG, NOAA, 1315

East-West Highway, Silver Spring, MD

20910 (Attention: Francis M. Schuler).

Notwithstanding any other provision of

the law, no person is required to

respond to, nor shall any person be

subject to a penalty for failure to comply

with, a collection of information subject

to the requirements of the Paperwork

Reduction Act, unless that collection of

information displays a currently valid

OMB Control Number.

Dated: June 18, 2001.

Louisa Koch,

Deputy Assistant Administrator, Office of

Oceanic and Atmospheric Research, National

Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Dated: June 11, 2001.

Cathleen Short,

Assistant Director—Fisheries and Habitat

Conservation, Fish and Wildlife Service.

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BILLING CODE 3510–KA–M

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

National Oceanic and Atmospheric

Administration

[I.D. 051801C]

Marine Mammals; Permit No. 821–

1588-00

AGENCY: National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS), National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA),

Commerce.

ACTION: Issuance of permit.

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given that

Texas A&M University, Department of

Marine Biology, P.O. Box 1675,

Galveston, Texas 77551 [Principal

Investigator: Dr. Randall W. Davis] has

been issued a permit to take sperm

whales (Physeter macrocephalus),

various small cetacean species, and

Weddell seals (Leptonychotes weddelli)

for purposes of scientific research.

ADDRESSES: The permit and related

documents are available for review

upon written request or by appointment

in the following office(s):

Permits and Documentation Division,

Office of Protected Resources, NMFS,

1315 East-West Highway, Room 13705,

Silver Spring, MD 20910; phone

(301)713–2289; fax (301)713–0376;

Southeast Region, NMFS, 9721

Executive Center Drive North, St.

Petersburg, FL 33702–2432; phone

(727)570–5301; fax (727)570–5320.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Ruth Johnson or Tammy Adams,

(301)713–2289.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On

November 20, 2000, notice was

published in the Federal Register (65

FR 69737) that a request for a scientific

research permit to take marine

mammals had been submitted by the

above-named organization. The

requested permit has been issued under

the authority of the Marine Mammal

Protection Act of 1972, as amended (16

U.S.C. 1361 et seq.), the Regulations

Governing the Taking and Importing of

Marine Mammals (50 CFR part 216), the

Endangered Species Act of 1973, as

amended (ESA; 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.),

and the regulations governing the

taking, importing, and exporting of

endangered and threatened species (50

CFR parts 222–226). Issuance of this

permit, as required by the ESA, was

based on a finding that such permit (1)

was applied for in good faith, (2) will

not operate to the disadvantage of the

endangered species which is the subject

of this permit, and (3) is consistent with

the purposes and policies set forth in

section 2 of the ESA.

Dated: June 18, 2001.

Ann D. Terbush,

Chief, Permits and Documentation Division,

Office of Protected Resources, National

Marine Fisheries Service.

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Air Force

GPS L2/L5 Public Forum—Information

on the New Global Positioning System

(GPS) L2 and L5 Civil Signals

AGENCY: Department of the Air Force,

DoD.

ACTION: Notice, announcement of

opportunity to attend.

SUMMARY: This notice announces a

Global Positioning System (GPS) L2/L5

CivilSignal GPS L2/L5 Public Forum on

June 29, 2001 in Washington, DC. The

Department of Transportation, in

cooperation with the GPS Joint Program

Office (JPO), will provide information

on the new civil signals being planned

for the GPS L2 frequency (1227.60 MHz)

and the new GPS L5 (1176.45 MHz)

frequency. The information presented

will be important to those in the

government and industry involved in

the development, production, support

or use of satellite navigation products

and services for the civil and military

users. No new GPS JPO procurements

are being announced or are anticipated

in the near term for this work.

The agenda will be divided into a

morning session (9 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.)

for the GPS Program overview and L2

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and L5 overview presentations, and an

afternoon session (1 p.m. to 4 p.m.) for

technical presentations on both new

signals. The morning agenda includes:

Overview of GPS Modernization

Program; the New L2 Civil Signal; the

New L5 Civil Signal and the GPS JPO

Interface Control Document (ICD)

Review and Approval Process. The

afternoon agenda includes: Technical

Description of the Planned L2 Design;

Laboratory Implementation of the New

L2 Civil Signal; Technical Description

of the Planned L5 Signal Design. Copies

of the April 16, 2001 ‘‘NAVSTAR GPS

Space Segment/User Segment L5

Interfaces (ICD–GPS–705),’’ the May 31,

2001 ‘‘Pre-Proposed Interface Revision

Notice to ICD–GPS–200C for L2 Civil

(L2C) Signal (PPIRN–200C–007)’’ and

the briefing charts to the May 2, 2001

‘‘GPS L2 and L5 Civil Signal Industry

Day’’ presentations are now available on

the GPS JPO public website https://

gps.losangeles.af.mil/gpslibrary/

2000_public/2100_html/

documents.html. 

This event will be held in the FAA

Auditorium, 800 Independence Avenue

SW., Washington, DC 20591. The

Industry Day conference is unclassified

and formal visit requests are not

necessary, but for security purposes, the

GPS JPO must provide a list of all

attendees to the FAA not later than June

22, 2001. Therefore, attendees should

provide attendance notification to

Veronique Benjamins (SAIC), phone

(310) 363–6515, fax (310) 363–1581 by

June 20, 2001. To expedite check-in

security procedures, all attendees

should provide e-mail notification to

Veronique.Benjamins

@LOSANGELES.AF.MIL. Please include

the words, ‘‘29 June 2001 GPS L2/L5

Civil Signal Public Forum Attendee’’ in

the subject line of your e-mail. The FAA

Auditorium allows seating for 175

attendees and seating will be on a first

come basis. The Government will not

pay for any costs associated with

attending this briefing or for any

information. Picture identification will

be required for admittance.

ADDRESSES: JPO Point of Contact: SMC/

CZC, 2420 Vela Way, Suite 1467, El

Segundo, CA 90245–4659, ATTN:

Lieutenant Commander Richard

Fontana, USCG.

DATES: If you intend to participate in

these meetings, please submit your email notification not later than June 21,

2001.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms.

Veronique Benjamins, (310) 363-6515,

or Lieutenant Commander Richard

Fontana, USCG, (310) 363–1703, GPS

Deputy Program Manager, Department

of Transportation.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

The Global Positioning System

employs a constellation of 24 satellites

and associated ground stations to

provide continuously transmitted

world-wide positioning, navigation, and

timing signals for use with

appropriately configured GPS user

equipment. The current generation GPS

space vehicles transmit signals at the L1

and L2 frequencies. In the future, new

civil signals will be transmitted on the

L2 and L5 frequencies. The

international civilian and military

communities employ the dual use

Global Positioning System.

Janet A. Long,

Air Force Federal Register Liaison Officer.

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary

Defense Science Board

AGENCY: Department of Defense.

ACTION: Notice of Advisory Committee

Meeting.

SUMMARY: The Defense Science Board

(DSB) Summer Study will meet in

closed session August 13–24, 2001, at

the Beckman Center, Irvine, CA. At

these meetings, the Defense Science

Board will discuss interim findings and

recommendations resulting from two

ongoing Task Force activities: Defense

Science & Technology (S&T) and

Precision Targeting.

The mission of the Defense Science

Board is to advise the Secretary of

Defense and the Under Secretary of

Defense for Acquisition, Technology &

Logistics on scientific and technical

matters as they affect the perceived

needs of the Department of Defense. At

these meetings, the Board will address

the issues involved in assuring that the

U.S. continues to gain access to and

develop technology from which to gain

military advantage. They will consider

future technologies that should be

developed and exploited for military

applications, particularly potential

technologies that provide the U.S.

military an asymmetric advantage in

conflict, in deployment, and at home;

the appropriate mix of in-house,

contractor, university and commercial

providers of basic and applied research

and of advanced development; how DoD

can leverage technology that is under

development and produced globally in

commercial industry, as well as that

which is being discovered and

demonstrated in the S&T programs

funded by both other U.S. agencies and

other nations; the situation of and the

contribution of the DoD laboratories in

this changing world; and how to

maintain excellence in in-house S&T

endeavors.

The Board will also examine the full

range of the precision weapons targeting

in tactical military operations, from

target execution, location, and

identification through mission

execution and damage assessment.

Specifically, all planned precision

weapons programs and procurements

will be examined to determine the

degree to which these weapons are

compatible with targeting requirements

for different target classes; the degree to

which existing and planned

reconnaissance and surveillance assets

are used to effectively develop target

sets, real time targeting data and

perform battle damage assessment under

varied degrees of cover, concealment

and deception; our ability to identify

and precisely locate targets while

minimizing false alarms using automatic

target recognition techniques and

precision location technologies; and our

ability to attack moving targets.

In accordance with Section 10(d) of

the Federal Advisory Committee Act,

P.L. No. 92–463, as amended (5 U.S.C.

App. II), it has been determined that

these Defense Science Board meetings,

concern matters listed in 5 U.S.C.

552b(c)(1), and that accordingly these

meetings will be closed to the public.

Dated: June 14, 2001.

L.M. Bynum,

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison

Officer, Department of Defense.

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary

Defense Science Board

AGENCY: Department of Defense.

ACTION: Notice of Advisory Committee

Meetings.

SUMMARY: The Defense Science Board

(DSB) Task Force on E-Commerce will

meet in closed session on September

25–26, 2001, and October 23, 2001, at

SAIC, Inc., 4001 N. Fairfax Drive,

Arlington, VA. This Task Force will

review the DoD’s current

implementation status of e-commerce

tools and make any appropriate