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approval of this information collection; 

they also will become a matter of public 

record. 

Dated: September 26, 2005. 

Susan K. Brown, 

Records Officer, USPTO, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer, Office of Data 

Architecture and Services, Data 

Administration Division. 

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COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING 

COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Meetings 

FEDERAL REGISTER CITATION OF PREVIOUS

ANNOUNCEMENT: 70 FR 180. 

PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED TIME AND DATE OF

THE MEETING: 11 a.m., Monday, October 

3, 2005. 

CHANGES IN THE MEETING: The closed 

meeting to discuss a Derivatives 

Clearing Organization Review has been 

canceled. 

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION: 

Jean A. Webb, 202–418–5100. 

Jean A. Webb, 

Secretary of the Commission. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army; Corps of 

Engineers 

Intent To Prepare a Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement, 

Programmatic Sediment Management 

Plan, Lower Snake River Reservoirs, in 

the States of Washington and Idaho 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers (Corps) intends to prepare an 

Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) 

for a Programmatic Sediment 

Management Plan that will address 

sediment management within the four 

lower Snake River reservoirs and that 

portion of McNary reservoir contained 

within the lower Snake River The plan 

will identify and evaluate ways the 

Corps can manage sediment within 

these reservoirs and examine the 

sediment input (sources) on a 

programmatic basis in the near-term, 

mid-term, and long-term. The reservoirs 

extend from the mouth of the Snake 

River upstream to the communities of 

Lewiston, Idaho, and Clarkston, 

Washington; and include the lower 2 

miles of the Clearwater River from its 

confluence with the Snake River at 

Lewiston upstream to the U.S. Highway 

12 Bridge. In the plan the Corps will 

also include all tributaries that could 

significantly contribute sediment to the 

lower Snake River. The Corps is 

preparing this plan because sediment 

management has been an ongoing 

maintenance issue since the completion 

of Ice Harbor Dam, the first dam and 

reservoir on the lower Snake River, in 

1961. Rather than addressing sedimentrelated problems on a case-by-case 

basis, the Corps has determined that it 

would be more effective to evaluate 

sediment management as a whole and 

on a watershed basis. The intent of the 

plan is to identify ways to reduce the 

amount of sediment entering the 

reservoirs, identify how to manage the 

sediment once it enters the reservoirs, 

and identify possible changes to 

structures or operations to reduce 

maintenance and associated impacts 

while still providing for authorized 

project purposes, including navigation. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Carl Christianson, Project Manager, 

Walla Walla District, Corps of 

Engineers, CENWW–PM–PD, 201 North 

Third Avenue, Walla Walla, WA 99362, 

phone (509) 527–7260, or Ms. Sandra 

Simmons, NEPA Coordinator, Walla 

Walla District, Corps of Engineers, 

CENWW–PD–EC, 201 North Third 

Avenue, Walla Walla, WA 99362, phone 

(509) 527–7265. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Since 

construction of its first dam on the 

lower Snake River, the Corps has 

recognized that sediment management 

would be an ongoing maintenance issue 

within the reservoirs. Historically the 

Corps has used dredging as the primary 

means of managing sediment that 

deposited in areas that interfere with 

man’s use of the river. Most of these 

maintenance dredging actions have been 

conducted on a case-by-case basis 

without a long-term look at more 

effective ways of managing sediment. 

The Corps has now determined it would 

be more effective to evaluate sediment 

management within the lower Snake 

River on a watershed scale, and evaluate 

the potential for reducing sediment 

input, rather than focusing only on the 

reservoirs themselves. Although the 

Corps does not have the authority to 

manage land outside of the reservoir 

project boundaries, the Corps can 

identify and evaluate management 

strategies that could be implemented on 

non-Corps property. 

The Corps is considering a variety of 

sediment management measures that 

could be used individually or in 

combination. Measures identified to 

date for evaluation include: 

Sediment Reduction Measures 

Structural Sediment Reduction 

Measures 

• Aquatic ecosystem restoration 

projects under current authorities 

(Section 206 Water Resources 

Development Act of 1996 and Section 

1135 of the Water Resources 

Development Act of 1986) 

• Shoreline vegetated filter strips 

• Streambank erosion control 

• Improved logging road placement 

and design 

Non-Structural Sediment Reduction 

Measures 

• Natural Resource Conservation 

Service conservation programs 

• Land use planning 

• Public education 

• Watershed planning 

• Forest management practices 

• Timber harvest planning 

Sediment Management Measures 

In-water systems to control sediment 

deposition. 

• Agitation to prevent settling 

• Bendway weirs 

• Dikes and dike fields 

• Air curtains to prevent settling of 

material at specific locations 

Sediment Removal and Management 

• Agitation to re-suspend sediment 

• Dredging to remove sediment 

• Beneficial use of dredged material 

• In-water disposal of dredged 

material 

• Upland disposal of dredged 

material 

System Management Measures 

Modify Navigation System 

Infrastructure 

• Relocate affected commercial 

navigation, recreational boating and 

water intake facilities 

• Build sediment retention dams 

upstream of Lower Granite reservoir 

and/or in tributaries 

Modify Reservoir Operations 

• Raise pool levels to increase water 

depth 

• Modify flows to flush sediment 

• Draw down Lower Granite reservoir 

to add flow conveyance capacity 

Provide Flow Conveyance at Snake/ 

Clearwater Rivers Confluence 

The Corps has also initially identified 

several key resource areas that may be 

affected by the sediment management 

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measures and will be analyzed in the 

EIS. These include water quality, 

anadromous fish, cultural resources, 

and socio-economics. The Corps expects 

other resource concerns to be identified 

during the scoping process. 

The EIS will address measures, 

alternatives, and impacts on a 

programmatic level, but will not address 

site-specific actions. However, the EIS 

will present the coordination and 

environmental review steps the Corps 

will take with regard to subsequent sitespecific actions. 

The Corps currently anticipates 

conducting public scoping for this EIS 

in early 2006. The exact dates, times, 

and locations of these meetings have not 

yet been set. The Corps will publicize 

this information once the meeting 

arrangements have been made. The 

Corps invites affected Federal, state, and 

local agencies, affected Native American 

tribes, and other interested 

organizations and persons to participate 

in the development of the EIS. The 

Corps will also invite input from the 

local, interagency sediment 

management group formed under the 

Northwest Regional Dredging Team. 

The draft EIS is currently scheduled 

to be available for public review in fall 

2008. The final EIS is currently 

scheduled to be available for public 

review in fall 2009. 

Randy L. Glaeser, 

LTC, EN, Commanding. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

SUMMARY: The Leader, Information 

Management Case Services Team, 

Regulatory Information Management 

Services, Office of the Chief Information 

Officer invites comments on the 

submission for OMB review as required 

by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 

1995. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before 

November 2, 2005. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be addressed to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Rachel Potter, Desk Officer, 

Department of Education, Office of 

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, 

Information Management Case Services 

Team, 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 27, 2005. 

Angela C. Arrington, 

Leader, Information Management Case 

Services Team, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of the Chief 

Information Officer. 

Office of Vocational and Adult 

Education 

Type of Review: Extension. 

Title: The State Scholars Initiative. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Affected Public: Not-for-profit 

institutions. 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 20. 

Burden Hours: 1,000. 

Abstract: The purpose of the State 

Scholars Initiative is to support a nonprofit entity that will fund state 

business-education partnerships that 

promote rigorous course work among 

high school students in their states, by 

encouraging and motivating high school 

students to select rigorous courses of 

study that will benefit them in their 

future careers, postsecondary education, 

or training. The State Scholars 

cooperative agreement application 

package includes information for 

applicants with selection criteria, 

program requirements, application 

requirements, and eligibility 

requirements, along with relevant ED 

forms. 

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 2868. 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 Sheila Carey at her 

e-mail address Sheila.Carey@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. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

National Advisory Committee on 

Institutional Quality and Integrity 

(National Advisory Committee); 

Meeting 

AGENCY: National Advisory Committee 

on Institutional Quality and Integrity, 

Department of Education. 

What Is the Purpose of This Notice? 

The purpose of this notice is to 

announce the public meeting of the 

National Advisory Committee and invite 

third-party oral presentations before the 

Committee. This notice also presents the 

proposed agenda and informs the public 

of its opportunity to attend this meeting. 

The notice of this meeting is required 

under section 10(a)(2) of the Federal 

Advisory Committee Act. 

When and Where Will the Meeting 

Take Place? 

We will hold the public meeting on 

Wednesday, December 7, 2005, from 

9:30 a.m. until approximately 5:15 p.m.;