53352 Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 173 / Thursday, September 8, 2005 / Notices 

Management and Budget, 725 17th 

Street, NW., Room 10222, New 

Executive Office Building, Washington, 

DC 20503 or faxed to (202) 395–6974. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

3506 of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995 (44 U.S.C. Chapter 35) requires 

that the Office of Management and 

Budget (OMB) provide interested 

Federal agencies and the public an early 

opportunity to comment on information 

collection requests. OMB may amend or 

waive the requirement for public 

consultation to the extent that public 

participation in the approval process 

would defeat the purpose of the 

information collection, violate State or 

Federal law, or substantially interfere 

with any agency’s ability to perform its 

statutory obligations. The Leader, 

Regulatory Information Management 

Services, Office of the Chief Information 

Officer, publishes that notice containing 

proposed information collection 

requests prior to submission of these 

requests to OMB. Each proposed 

information collection, grouped by 

office, contains the following: (1) Type 

of review requested, e.g. new, revision, 

extension, existing or reinstatement; (2) 

Title; (3) Summary of the collection; (4) 

Description of the need for, and 

proposed use of, the information; (5) 

Respondents and frequency of 

collection; and (6) Reporting and/or 

Recordkeeping burden. OMB invites 

public comment. 

Dated: September 1, 2005. 

Angela C. Arrington, 

Leader, Information Management Case 

Services Team, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

Office of Postsecondary Education 

Type of Review: Reinstatement. 

Title: Application for Grants under 

the Talent Search Program. 

Frequency: Once every four years. 

Affected Public: 

Not-for-profit institutions; Businesses 

or other for-profit; State, local, or tribal 

gov’t, SEAs or LEAs. 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 1,000. 

Burden Hours: 8,500. 

Abstract: The application form is 

needed to conduct a national 

competition for the Talent Search 

Program for program year 2006–07. The 

program provides Federal financial 

assistance in the form of grants to 

institutions of higher education, public 

and private agencies and organizations, 

combinations of institutions, agencies, 

and organizations and in exceptional 

cases secondary schools. These grants 

enable grantees to establish and operate 

projects designed to identify qualified 

youths with potential for education at 

the postsecondary level and encourage 

them to complete secondary school and 

undertake a program of postsecondary 

education, publicize the availability of 

financial assistance and encourage 

persons who have not completed 

programs of education at the secondary 

or postsecondary level to reenter such 

programs. 

This information collection is being 

submitted under the Streamlined 

Clearance Process for Discretionary 

Grant Information Collections (1890–

0001). Therefore, the 30-day public 

comment period notice will be the only 

public comment notice published for 

this information collection. 

Requests for copies of the information 

collection submission for OMB review 

may be accessed from http:// 

edicsweb.ed.gov, by selecting the 

‘‘Browse Pending Collections’’ link and 

by clicking on link number 2875. When 

you access the information collection, 

click on ‘‘Download Attachments ‘‘ to 

view. Written requests for information 

should be addressed to U.S. Department 

of Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, 

SW., Potomac Center, 9th Floor, 

Washington, DC 20202–4700. Requests 

may also be electronically mailed to the 

Internet address OCIO_RIMG@ed.gov or 

faxed to 202–245–6623. Please specify 

the complete title of the information 

collection when making your request. 

Comments regarding burden and/or 

the collection activity requirements 

should be directed to Joseph Schubart at 

his e-mail address Joe.Schubart@ed.gov. 

Individuals who use a 

telecommunications device for the deaf 

(TDD) may call the Federal Information 

Relay Service (FIRS) at 1–800–877–

8339. 

[FR Doc. 05–17787 Filed 9–7–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Notice 

AGENCY: United States Election 

Assistance Commission. 

ACTION: Notice of public meeting for the 

Technical Guidelines Development 

Committee. 

DATE AND TIME: Thursday, September 29, 

2005, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. 

PLACE: National Institute of Standards 

and Technology, 325 Broadway, 

Boulder, Colorado 80305–3328. 

STATUS: This meeting will be open to the 

public. There is no fee to attend, but, 

due to security requirements, advance 

registration is required. Registration 

information will be available at http:// 

vote.nist.gov. 

SUMMARY: The Technical Guidelines 

Development Committee (the 

‘‘Development Committee’’ has 

scheduled a plenary meeting for 

September 29, 2005. The Development 

Committee was established to act in the 

public interest to assist the Executive 

Director of the Election Assistance 

Commission in the development of the 

voluntary voting system guidelines. The 

Development Committee held four 

previous meetings on July 9, 2004; 

January 18 and 19, 2005; March 9, 2005; 

and April 20 and 21, 2005. The 

proceedings of these meetings are 

available for public review at http// 

vote.nist.gov/ 

PublicHearingsandMeetings.html. On 

May 9, 2005, the Development 

Committee delivered initial 

recommendations for voluntary voting 

system guidelines to the Election 

Assistance Commission (EAC). The 

purpose of this fifth meeting of the 

Development Committee will be to 

review and approve a work plan for 

future voluntary voting system 

guidelines recommendations to the 

EAC. The work plan responds to tasks 

defined in resolutions passed at 

Technical Guideline Development 

Committee meetings. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Technical Guidelines Development 

Committee (the ‘‘Development 

Committee’’) has scheduled a plenary 

meeting for September 29, 2005. The 

Committee was established pursuant to 

42 U.S.C. 15361, to act in the public 

interest to assist the Executive Director 

of the Election Assistance Commission 

in the development of the voluntary 

voting system guidelines. The Technical 

Guidelines Development Committee 

held its first plenary meeting on July 9, 

2004. At this meeting, the Development 

Committee agreed to a resolution 

forming three working groups: (1) 

Human Factors & Privacy; (2) Security & 

Transparency; and (3) Core 

Requirements & Testing to gather 

information and public input on 

relevant issues. The information 

gathered by the working groups was 

analyzed at the second meeting of the 

Development Committee January 18 and 

19, 2005. Resolutions were adopted by 

the Development Committee at the 

January plenary session. The resolutions 

defined technical work tasks for NIST 

that would assist the Development 

Committee in developing 

recommendations for voluntary voting 

system guidelines. At the March 9, 2005 

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meeting, NIST scientists presented 

preliminary reports on technical work 

tasks defined by resolutions adopted at 

the January plenary meeting and one 

additional resolution was adopted by 

the Development Committee. The 

Development Committee approved with 

edits initial recommendations for 

voluntary voting system guidelines at 

the April 20 and 21, 2005 meeting. The 

document, Voluntary Voting System 

Guidelines Version 1: Initial Report was 

submitted by the Development 

Committee to the EAC as required by 

HAVA on May 9, 2005. The EAC is 

currently accepting public comment on 

proposed voluntary voting system 

guidelines through September 30, 2005. 

Proposed guidelines and public 

comment procedures are available at 

http://www.eac.gov. 

CONTACT INFORMATION: Allan Eustis, 100 

Bureau Drive, Mail Stop 8900, 

Gaithersburg, MD 20899–8900, phone 

301–975–5099. Written comments 

concerning the Development 

Committee’s operations should be 

addressed to the contact person 

indicated above, or to voting@nist.gov. 

Thomas R. Wilkey, 

Executive Director, U.S. Election Assistance 

Commission. 

[FR Doc. 05–17944 Filed 9–6–05; 2:50 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6820–KF–M 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Notice of Availability of a Supplement 

Analysis for Transportation, Storage, 

Characterization, and Disposal of 

Transuranic Waste Currently Stored at 

the Battelle West Jefferson Site Near 

Columbus, OH 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of availability of a 

Supplement Analysis. 

SUMMARY: DOE has prepared a 

Supplement Analysis (SA) pursuant to 

DOE regulations implementing the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA) at 10 CFR 1021.314. The SA 

addresses DOE’s proposal to ship 

approximately 37 cubic meters (1,307 

cubic feet [ft3]) of transuranic (TRU) 

waste from the Battelle Columbus 

Laboratory West Jefferson site near 

Columbus, Ohio, to the Savannah River 

Site (SRS), a DOE site near Aiken, South 

Carolina, or to Waste Control 

Specialists, LLC (WCS), a commercial 

facility in Andrews, Texas. The waste 

was generated as part of the cleanup of 

the West Jefferson site and consists of 

approximately 12 cubic meters of 

Contact Handled (CH) TRU waste and 

approximately 25 cubic meters of 

Remote Handled (RH) TRU waste. For 

purposes of analysis, DOE assumed that 

at SRS, the CH–TRU waste would be 

characterized and transported to WIPP 

for disposal, and the RH–TRU waste 

would be stored for up to 5 years; at 

WCS, the CH–TRU and RH–TRU waste 

would be stored for up to 5 years. The 

waste would be maintained in a safe, 

secure manner until it can be processed 

and disposed of at the Waste Isolation 

Pilot Plant (WIPP) near Carlsbad, NM. 

The Battelle West Jefferson facility is 

privately owned; however, as part of the 

closeout of its nuclear materials 

research contract, DOE is assisting in 

the remediation of the site. Contract 

terms specify that all radioactive waste 

generated during the facility cleanup is 

‘‘DOE-owned’’ for the purposes of 

disposal. The TRU waste must be 

shipped off-site by December 31, 2005, 

as Battelle’s Nuclear Regulatory 

Commission (NRC) license will expire at 

that time. 

In the final Waste Management 

Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement (WM PEIS, DOE/EIS–0200, 

May 1997), DOE analyzed the potential 

environmental impacts of the 

management (treatment and storage) of 

TRU waste at DOE sites. The Record of 

Decision for the Department of Energy’s 

Waste Management Program: Treatment 

and Storage of Transuranic Waste (63 

FR 3629 (1998)) (TRU Waste ROD) 

documented DOE’s decision that, except 

for the Sandia National Laboratory, 

which would ship its waste to Los 

Alamos National Laboratory, each DOE 

site that generated or will generate TRU 

waste will prepare and store its TRU 

waste on the site until it can be 

disposed of at WIPP. DOE noted that in 

the future, it may decide to ship TRU 

waste from sites where it may be 

impractical to prepare the waste for 

disposal to sites where DOE has or will 

have the necessary capability. The sites 

that could receive such shipments of 

TRU waste are the Idaho National 

Laboratory near Idaho Falls, Idaho; the 

Oak Ridge Reservation, near Oak Ridge, 

Tennessee; SRS; and the Hanford site, 

near Richland, Washington. 

Based on the SA, DOE has determined 

that a supplement to the WM PEIS or a 

new EIS is not needed. DOE plans to 

issue an amended Record of Decision 

(ROD) under the Waste Management 

Programmatic Environmental Impact 

Statement (WM PEIS) for this waste no 

sooner than 30 days from the 

publication of this Notice. 

DATES: DOE will consider all public 

comments on this matter submitted by 

October 11, 2005 before issuing a ROD. 

ADDRESSES: Comments should be 

directed to: Mr. Harold Johnson, 

Carlsbad Field Office, U.S. Department 

of Energy, 4021 National Parks 

Highway, Carlsbad, NM 88220, 

Telephone: 505–234–7349, E-mail: 

harold.johnson@wipp.ws. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Copies of the Supplement Analysis for 

Transportation, Storage, 

Characterization, and Disposal of 

Transuranic Waste Currently Stored at 

the Battelle West Jefferson Site near 

Columbus, Ohio (DOE/EIS–0200–SA–

02) will be available on DOE’s Office of 

Environmental Management Web site at: 

http://www.em.doe.gov and on DOE’s 

NEPA Web site at http:// 

www.eh.doe.gov/nepa/whatsnew/html. 

To request printed copies of this 

document, please write or call: The 

Center for Environmental Management 

Information, P.O. Box 23769, 

Washington, DC 20026–3769, 

Telephone: 1–800–736–3282 (in 

Washington, DC: 202–863–5084). 

For further information regarding the 

storage characterization, and disposal of 

Battelle West Jefferson TRU waste, 

contact: Mr. Harold Johnson, Carlsbad 

Field Office, U.S. Department of Energy, 

4021 National Parks Highway, Carlsbad, 

NM 88220, Telephone: 505–234–7349. 

For further information on the DOE 

program for the management of TRU 

waste, contact: Ms. Lynne Smith, WIPP 

Office EM–13, Office of Environmental 

Management, U.S. Department of 

Energy, 19001 Germantown Road, 

Germantown, MD 20874, Telephone: 

301–903–6828. 

For information on DOE’s NEPA 

process, contact: Ms. Carol Borgstrom, 

Director, Office of NEPA Policy and 

Compliance, EH–42, U.S. Department of 

Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, 

SW., Washington, DC 20585, Telephone 

202–586–4600, or leave a message at 1–

800–472–2756. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The U.S. 

Department of Energy (DOE) is 

responsible for the disposal of 

approximately 37 cubic meters (m3) 

(1,307 cubic feet [ft3]) of transuranic 

(TRU) waste generated as part of the 

cleanup of the Battelle Columbus 

Laboratory West Jefferson site near 

Columbus, Ohio, and currently stored 

on-site. TRU waste is waste that 

contains alpha particle-emitting 

radionuclides with atomic numbers 

greater than uranium (92) and half-lives 

greater than 20 years in concentrations 

greater than 100 nanocuries per gram of 

waste. 

TRU waste is categorized as either 

contact handled (CH) or remote handled 

(RH), based on the radiation level at the