6588 Federal Register / Vol. 66, No. 14 / Monday, January 22, 2001 / Notices

Dated: January 12, 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

ACTION: Meeting date change of advisory

committee meeting.

SUMMARY: The Defense Science Board

(DSB) Task Force on Systems

Technology for the Future U.S. Strategic

Posture closed meeting scheduled for

February 14–15, 2001, has been changed

to February 13–14, 2001. The meeting

will be held at Strategic Analysis Inc.,

3601 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 600,

Arlington, VA.

Dated: January 12, 2001.

L.M. Bynum,

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison

Officer, Department of Defense.

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Department of the Navy

Notice of Availability of Report

AGENCY: Department of the Navy, DOD.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The Ocean Research Advisory

Panel (ORAP) report, ‘‘Strategic Vision

for Achieving Sustainable Marine

Resources Within the US EEZ,’’ is

available for public inspection.

DATES: Summary comments are desired

by Tuesday, January 16, 2001, however

the report will continue to be available

for public review until June 30, 2001.

ADDRESSES: The report is available for

review at and comments should be

submitted to the National

Oceanographic Partnership Program

(NOPP) Program Office, 1755

Massachusetts Avenue, NW, Suite 800,

Washington, DC 20036. See

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section for

electronic access and filing addresses.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.

Steven E. Ramberg, Office of Naval

Research, 800 North Quincy Street,

Arlington, VA 22217–5660, telephone

number (703) 696–4358.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This

report was prepared in response to

request by the National Ocean Research

Leadership Council to prepare a

strategic vision for a U.S. research

program to study marine biological

resources within the 200-nautical mile

U.S. exclusive economic zone (EEZ)

together with the means to make these

resources economically and ecologically

sustainable by 2010. The report is

available for review on the NOPP

website at http://www.nopp.org.

Comments on the report may be

submitted by electronic mail (e-mail) to

nopp@brook.edu. This notice of report

availability is provided in accordance

with the Federal Advisory Committee

Act (5 U.S.C. App. 2).

Dated: January 5, 2001.

J. L. Roth,

Lieutenant Commander, Judge Advocate

General’s Corps, U.S. Navy, Federal Register

Liaison Officer.

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION

Fund for the Improvement of

Education (FIE) Program

AGENCY: Office of Educational Research

and Improvement, Department of

Education.

ACTION: Notice of proposed priority.

SUMMARY: The Assistant Secretary for

Educational Research and Improvement

proposes a priority under the Fund for

the Improvement of Education (FIE) for

a grant competition for Community

Coaches. The Assistant Secretary may

use this priority for competitions in

fiscal year (FY) 2001 and later years.

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ADDRESSES: Address all comments about

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Ross, U.S. Department of Education, 555

New Jersey Avenue, NW., room 602D,

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2169 or via Internet:

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