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recommendations on matters 

concerning defense policy. Specifically, 

the SAG will focus on: (a) technical, 

intelligence, and policy-related matters 

of interest to the Joint Chiefs of Staff and 

the U.S. Strategic Command 

(USSTRATCOM) concerning the 

development and implementation of the 

Nation’s strategic war plans; (b) 

enhancements in USSTRATCOM’s 

mission area responsibilities; and (c) 

other matters related to the Nation’s 

strategic forces, as requested by the 

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff or 

the Commander, USSTRATCOM. 

The SAG is composed of no more 

than 20 members who have 

distinguished backgrounds in the fields 

of strategic policy formulation; nuclear 

weapon design; national command, 

control, communications, intelligence, 

and information operations; or other 

important aspects of the Nation’s 

strategic forces. These members will 

come from varied backgrounds 

including prior government or military 

service, multinational corporations, 

academia, or other non-government 

organizations. Individual members will 

be appointed according to DoD policy 

and procedures, and serve a term of 

service of one-to-four years with annual 

renewals. One member will be 

appointed as Chair of the SAG. No 

member, unless approved according to 

DoD policy and procedures, may serve 

more than two consecutive terms of 

service on the SAG, or serve on more 

than two DoD Federal advisory 

committees at one time. 

Members of the SAG who are not fulltime or permanent part-time Federal 

civilian officers or employees, or active 

duty members of the Uniformed 

Services, will be appointed as experts or 

consultants pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 3109 to 

serve as special government employee 

members. SAG members who are fulltime or permanent part-time Federal 

civilian officers or employees, or active 

duty members of the Uniformed 

Services, will be appointed pursuant to 

41 CFR 102–3.130(a) to serve as regular 

government employee members. 

All members of the SAG are 

appointed to provide advice based on 

their best judgment without 

representing any particular point of 

view and in a manner that is free from 

conflict of interest. Except for 

reimbursement of official SAG-related 

travel and per diem, members serve 

without compensation. 

The public or interested organizations 

may submit written statements to the 

SAG membership about the SAG’s 

mission and functions. Written 

statements may be submitted at any 

time or in response to the stated agenda 

of planned meeting of the SAG. All 

written statements shall be submitted to 

the DFO for the SAG, and this 

individual will ensure that the written 

statements are provided to the 

membership for their consideration. 

Dated: May 31, 2022. 

Aaron T. Siegel, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army, Corps of 

Engineers 

Notice of Intent To Prepare a 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement to the 1995 Amite River and 

Tributaries, Louisiana, East Baton 

Rouge Parish Watershed Flood Risk 

Management Project Environmental 

Impact Statement 

AGENCY: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, 

DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers (USACE), Mississippi Valley 

Division, New Orleans District 

(CEMVN), is announcing its intent to 

prepare a Supplemental Environmental 

Impact Statement (SEIS) to re-evaluate 

impacts associated with the Amite River 

and Tributaries (ART), Louisiana, East 

Baton Rouge (EBR) Watershed Flood 

Risk Management Project (EBR FRM) in 

East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana. The 

EBR FRM project was previously 

studied in the July 1995 ART, 

Louisiana, EBR Parish Watershed Flood 

Risk Management Project Feasibility 

Study and EIS. Since the initial 1995 

impact assessment was conducted, the 

project area has transitioned from a 

rural setting with large amounts of 

undeveloped land, to a more densely 

populated urban setting containing 

subdivisions, buildings, and roadways 

with greater runoff of water during 

storm events. Due to these changed 

conditions, the proposed work in these 

waterways will be designed to convey 

flows that occur during more frequent 

but less intense storm events, compared 

to the storm events that were considered 

in the original plan addressed in the 

1995 EIS. These factors lead to requiring 

a reassessment of environmental 

impacts. 

ADDRESSES: U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, New Orleans District, Attn: 

CEMVN–PDS–N, 7400 Leake Avenue, 

New Orleans, Louisiana 70118. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions and scoping comments 

regarding the proposed action should 

reference ‘‘East Baton Rouge Watershed 

Flood Control SEIS’’ and be directed to 

Mr. Jason A. Emery by mail at U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, New Orleans 

District, Attn: CEMVN–PDS–N, 7400 

Leake Avenue, New Orleans, Louisiana 

70118; by phone at (504) 862–2364; or 

by email at mvnenvironmental@

usace.army.mil. For additional 

information, including but not limited 

to a copy of the 1995 EIS, and other 

associated documents, please visit the 

BBA18 Construction, East Baton Rouge 

Project website at: https://

www.mvn.usace.army.mil/About/ 

Projects/BBA-2018/East-Baton-Rouge/. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

1. Project Details. The EBR FRM 

Project is in southeast Louisiana 

situated across several sub-basins in 

East Baton Rouge Parish. The federal 

authorization is to reduce flooding along 

5 sub-basins throughout the parish, 

including Jones Creek, Ward Creek, 

Bayou Fountain, Blackwater Bayou, and 

Beaver Bayou. This project consists of 

improvements to 50 miles of channels, 

including clearing and snagging, 

widening, and placement of riprap to 

reduce the risk of flood damages during 

storm events. 

The EBR FRM Project within the 

Parish of East Baton Rouge, Louisiana 

was authorized by Section 101(21) of 

the Water Resources Development Act 

of 1999, Public Law 106–53, as modified 

by Division D, Section 116 of the 

Consolidated Appropriations Resolution 

of 2003, Public Law 108–7, and Section 

3074 of the Water Resources 

Development Act of 2007, Public Law 

110–114. The Bipartisan Budget Act of 

2018, H. R. 1892—13, Title IV, Corps of 

Engineers—Civil, Department of the 

Army, Investigations, made funds 

available for the expenses related to the 

completion, or initiation and 

completion, of certain flood and storm 

damage reduction, including this 

project. 

The EBR FRM project was originally 

evaluated in an EIS in July 1995. The 

evaluated plan consisted of 

approximately 25 miles of minimal 

clearing and snagging, 24 miles of 

earthen channel enlargement, and 17 

miles of concrete lining of channels in 

5 sub-basins across East Baton Rouge 

Parish. Recreation features consisted of 

the construction of 11 miles of bicycle 

paths on the Jones Creek basin, which 

would also include plantings of trees. 

Aesthetic mitigation features consisted 

of tree plantings or tree and shrub 

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of waterways. Habitat mitigation was 

combined for the five basins and 

consisted of acquisition and reforesting 

of a total of 397 acres of open lands. The 

lands were proposed to be near existing 

parks, as practical, within the parish 

and would be managed as wooded 

parks. 

The Bipartisan Budget Act of 2018, 

signed into law February 9, 2018, (BBA 

2018, Public Law 115–123) funded 

design updates and construction of the 

EBR FRM Project. The project began 

pre-construction engineering and design 

(PED) phase in 2019 when CEMVN 

received the allocated funds. Due to 

changed conditions since completion of 

the study in 1995 (i.e., increased 

development and completion of 

portions of the project by local 

governments) and additional level of 

design during PED, the project proposed 

actions have been refined. The proposed 

actions still meet project objectives to 

reduce the risk of flood damages caused 

by storm events, but the risk reduction 

will relate to less intense, more frequent 

storm events. The refinement of the 

proposed action has resulted in a less 

impactful project to the environment. 

The objective of the updated design is 

to minimize impacts to the developed 

areas while conveying the equivalent to 

the volume of flows evaluated in 1995. 

This is important because compared to 

the intensity of storm events that were 

considered and addressed in the 

original plan and 1995 EIS, the SEIS 

will evaluate proposed plans that 

consider the reduction of risk of damage 

arising from less intense storm events 

that occur more frequently. 

Since the 1995 impact assessment was 

conducted, the project area has 

transitioned from a rural setting with 

large amounts of undeveloped land, to 

a more densely populated urban setting 

containing subdivisions, buildings, and 

roadways. Due to these changed 

conditions, the proposed work in these 

waterways will be designed to convey 

flows that are likely to occur more 

frequently during less intense storm 

events, compared to the storm events 

that were considered in the original 

plan addressed in the 1995 EIS. These 

factors lead to the need to re-evaluate 

the environmental impacts. The SEIS 

will address impacts associated with 

three channel improvement actions: the 

widening and clearing and snagging of 

Beaver Bayou; the widening and 

clearing and snagging of Blackwater 

Bayou and its Tributary; and the 

widening, clearing and snagging, and 

rip rap lining of Upper Jones Creek and 

Tributaries. The SEIS will also evaluate 

a no action alternative. 

Project features not included in this 

SEIS include the clearing and snagging 

of Lower Jones, Lower Bayou Fountain 

and Lower Ward Creeks in EBR Parish, 

which were separately evaluated in 

Environmental Assessment (EA) #561 

(EA #561) titled ‘‘Amite River and 

Tributaries, Louisiana, East Baton Rouge 

Parish Watershed Flood Risk 

Management Project. Clearing and 

Snagging of Lower Jones, Lower Bayou 

Fountain and Lower Ward Creeks’’ in 

EBR Parish #561.FONSI: July 7, 2021. 

EA #561 can be found online at New 

Orleans District > Missions > 

Environmental > NEPA Compliance 

Documents > Bipartisan Budget Act 

2018 (BBA 18) > East Baton Rouge 

Parish Flood Risk Reduction (army.mil). 

Additionally, alternatives to 

compensate for anticipated and 

unavoidable impacts to 293 Annual 

Habitat Units of bottomland hardwood 

habitat associated with the construction 

of the 1995 authorized plan for the EBR 

Flood Risk Management project were 

evaluated under EA #576, titled 

‘‘Bipartisan Budget Act (BBA) 

Construction Projects; West Shore Lake 

Pontchartrain (WSLP), Comite River 

Diversion, and East Baton Rouge (EBR) 

Flood Risk Management, BBA 

Construction Mitigation (EA #576). 

FONSI: April 13, 2020. EA #576 can be 

found online at https://

www.mvn.usace.army.mil/Missions/ 

Environmental/NEPA-ComplianceDocuments/Bipartisan-Budget-Act2018-BBA-18/West-Shore-LakePontchartrain/. The estimated habitat 

mitigation level for the EBR FRM project 

is being re-evaluated as a part of this 

SEIS to ensure CEMVN mitigates habitat 

impacts at the appropriate level. 

2. Proposed Action. The EBR FRM 

project is intended to reduce flooding in 

East Baton Rouge Parish by improving 

38.8 miles of channels in 5 sub-basins. 

The channel improvements, which are a 

part of this proposed action, include 

clearing and snagging, channel 

widening, and rip-rap lining in Beaver 

Bayou, Blackwater Bayou and its 

Tributary, and Upper Jones Creek and 

Tributaries. 

Beaver Bayou: The proposed plan 

consists of 1.6 miles earthen channel 

enlargement and 6.4 miles of clearing 

and snagging. 

Blackwater Bayou and its Tributary: 

The proposed plan consists of 4.1 miles 

earthen channel enlargement and 10.5 

miles of clearing and snagging. 

Upper Jones Creek and Tributaries 

Lively Bayou and Weiner Creek: The 

proposed plan consists of clearing and 

snagging approximately 11.9 miles of 

channel and placement of rip rap for 4.3 

miles following channel widening. 

The proposed improvements are 

designed to reduce the risk of flood 

damages caused by out of bank flooding 

during storm events. 

This SEIS would provide an 

assessment of the proposed design 

alternatives for the various reaches. 

When unavoidable impacts occur, the 

CEMVN will offset those impacts 

through compensatory mitigation by 

replacing the lost habitat’s functions 

and services equally and in-kind. 

Compensatory mitigation is required by 

the Water Resources Development Act 

(WRDA) of 1986, Section 906, as 

amended and by the Clean Water Act 

Section 404(b)(1) Guidelines. 

3. Scoping. The CEMVN invites all 

affected federal, state, and local 

agencies, affected Native American 

Tribes, other interested parties, and the 

general public to participate in the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) process during development of 

the SEIS. The purpose of the public 

scoping process is to provide 

information to the public, narrow the 

scope of analysis to significant 

environmental issues, serve as a 

mechanism to solicit agency and public 

input on alternatives and issues of 

concern, and ensure full and open 

participation in scoping for the draft 

SEIS. To ensure that all the issues 

related to the proposed plans for Beaver 

Bayou, Blackwater Bayou and its 

Tributary, and Upper Jones Creek and 

Tributaries are addressed, the CEMVN 

will conduct virtual public scoping 

meeting(s) to which agencies, 

organizations, and members of the 

general public are invited to present 

comments or suggestions with regard to 

the range of actions, alternatives, and 

potential impacts to be considered in 

the draft SEIS. Project and public 

scoping meeting information, including 

information as to where, when, and how 

to participate and submit scoping 

comments as well as other opportunities 

for public involvement, will be available 

on CEMVN’s website at: https://

www.mvn.usace.army.mil/About/ 

Projects/BBA-2018/East-Baton-Rouge/. 

Notification of virtual scoping meetings 

will also be available via press releases, 

special public notices, and on CEMVN’s 

social media platforms, at a minimum. 

4. Federal Authority. The SEIS will 

disclose the context and intensity of 

environmental impacts, including 

focusing the analysis on those effects 

that are reasonably foreseeable and that 

have a reasonably close causal 

relationship to the proposed action as 

required under the Council of 

Environmental Quality’s (CEQ) NEPA 

regulations at 40 CFR parts 1500–1508 

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NEPA regulations at 33 CFR part 325, 

Appendix B. A reasonable range of 

alternatives will be determined and 

significant issues related to the 

proposed action will be identified 

during agency and public scoping. 

The following agencies are being 

invited as Cooperating Agencies on the 

SEIS: Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA), Department of the Interior’s U.S. 

Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), 

U.S. Department of Agriculture’s 

Natural Resources Conservation Service 

(NRCS), Advisory Council on Historic 

Preservation (ACHP), Louisiana’s 

Historic Preservation Office (LA SHPO), 

and Louisiana’s Department of Natural 

Resources (LA–DNR). 

5. Alternatives. The SEIS will address 

a reasonable range of alternatives based 

on the proposed project’s purpose and 

need and in view of its previous 

authorization. The SEIS will compare 

the proposed channel improvements of 

Beaver Bayou, Blackwater Bayou and 

Tributary, and Upper Jones Creek and 

Tributaries against the No Action 

Alternative (Future without the Project). 

The proposed project and the resulting 

analysis will be presented in the SEIS. 

6. Potentially Significant Issues. The 

SEIS will analyze the potential impacts 

on the human and natural environment 

resulting from the proposed Project. The 

scoping, public involvement, and 

interagency coordination processes will 

help identify and define the range of 

potential significant issues that will be 

considered. Important resources and 

issues to be evaluated in the SEIS could 

include, but are not limited to, the 

reasonably foreseeable effects on 

wetlands and other waters of the U.S.; 

aquatic resources; commercial and 

recreational fisheries; wildlife resources; 

essential fish habitat; water quality; 

cultural resources; geology and soils; 

hydrology and hydraulics; air quality; 

marine mammals; threatened and 

endangered species and their critical 

habitats; navigation and navigable 

waters; induced flooding; employment 

and incomes; land use; property values; 

tax revenues; population and housing; 

community and regional growth; 

environmental justice; community 

cohesion; public services; recreation; 

transportation and traffic; utilities and 

community service systems; and 

cumulative effects of related projects in 

the study area. 

7. Environmental Consultation and 

Review Authorizations. The proposed 

Action is being coordinated with 

federal, state, regional, and local 

agencies. In accordance with relevant 

environmental laws and regulations, 

CEMVN will consult with the following 

agencies: USFWS under the Fish and 

Wildlife Coordination Act; USFWS 

under the Endangered Species Act; 

NMFS under the Magnuson-Stevens 

Fishery Conservation and Management 

Act; Louisiana Department of 

Environmental Quality for Water 

Quality Certification; and, the ACHP, 

Louisiana SHPO, and the appropriate 

Tribal Historic Preservation Officers 

under the National Historic Preservation 

Act and integrated NHPA/EIS process. 

8. Availability. The draft SEIS is 

presently scheduled to be available for 

public review and comment in 

September 2022. A Final SEIS is 

tentatively scheduled for release in 

January 2023. All comments received 

throughout the review process will 

become part of the project file for the 

proposed Project and will be subject to 

public release. 

Edward E. Belk, Jr., 

Programs Director, Mississippi Valley 

Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. 

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BILLING CODE 3720–58–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

[Docket No.: ED–2022–SCC–0077] 

Agency Information Collection 

Activities; Comment Request; National 

Public Education Financial Survey 

(NPEFS) 2022–2024 

AGENCY: Institute of Educational Science 

(IES), Department of Education (ED). 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ED is 

proposing a revision of a currently 

approved information collection. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before August 8, 

2022. 

ADDRESSES: To access and review all the 

documents related to the information 

collection listed in this notice, please 

use http://www.regulations.gov by 

searching the Docket ID number ED– 

2022–SCC–0077. Comments submitted 

in response to this notice should be 

submitted electronically through the 

Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://

www.regulations.gov by selecting the 

Docket ID number or via postal mail, 

commercial delivery, or hand delivery. 

If the regulations.gov site is not 

available to the public for any reason, 

ED will temporarily accept comments at 

ICDocketMgr@ed.gov. Please include the 

docket ID number and the title of the 

information collection request when 

requesting documents or submitting 

comments. Please note that comments 

submitted by fax or email and those 

submitted after the comment period will 

not be accepted. Written requests for 

information or comments submitted by 

postal mail or delivery should be 

addressed to the Director of the Strategic 

Collections and Clearance Team, 

Governance and Strategy Division, U.S. 

Department of Education, 400 Maryland 

Ave. SW, LBJ, Room 6W201, 

Washington, DC 20202–8240. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

specific questions related to collection 

activities, please contact Carrie Clarady, 

202–245–6347. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Department of Education (ED), in 

accordance with the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995 (PRA) (44 U.S.C. 

3506(c)(2)(A)), provides the general 

public and Federal agencies with an 

opportunity to comment on proposed, 

revised, and continuing collections of 

information. This helps the Department 

assess the impact of its information 

collection requirements and minimize 

the public’s reporting burden. It also 

helps the public understand the 

Department’s information collection 

requirements and provide the requested 

data in the desired format. ED is 

soliciting comments on the proposed 

information collection request (ICR) that 

is described below. The Department of 

Education is especially interested in 

public comment addressing the 

following issues: (1) Is this collection 

necessary to the proper functions of the 

Department; (2) will this information be 

processed and used in a timely manner; 

(3) is the estimate of burden accurate; 

(4) how might the Department enhance 

the quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; and (5) how 

might the Department minimize the 

burden of this collection on the 

respondents, including through the use 

of information technology. Please note 

that written comments received in 

response to this notice will be 

considered public records. 

Title of Collection: National Public 

Education Financial Survey (NPEFS) 

2022–2024. 

OMB Control Number: 1850–0067. 

Type of Review: A revision of a 

currently approved information 

collection. 

Respondents/Affected Public: State, 

Local, and Tribal Governments. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Responses: 56. 

Total Estimated Number of Annual 

Burden Hours: 7,327. 

Abstract: The National Public 

Education Financial Survey (NPEFS) is 

an annual collection of state-level 

finance data that has been included in 


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