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Review Boards for the Department of 

Homeland Security. The purpose of the 

Performance Review Board is to review 

and make recommendations concerning 

proposed performance appraisals, 

ratings, bonuses, pay adjustments, and 

other appropriate personnel actions for 

incumbents of Senior Executive Service 

positions of the Department. 

EFFECTIVE DATES: This Notice is effective 

October 7, 2005. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Carmen Arrowood, Office of the Chief 

Human Capital Office, telephone (202) 

357–8348. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Each 

Federal agency is required to establish 

one or more performance review boards 

(PRB) to make recommendations, as 

necessary, in regard to the performance 

of senior executives within the agency. 

5 U.S.C. 4314(c). This notice announces 

the appointment of the members of the 

PRB for the Department of Homeland 

Security (DHS). The purpose of the PRB 

is to review and make recommendations 

concerning proposed performance 

appraisals, ratings, bonuses, pay 

adjustments, and other appropriate 

personnel actions for incumbents of SES 

positions within DHS. 

The Board shall consist of at least 

three members. In the case of an 

appraisal of a career appointee, more 

than half of the members shall consist 

of career appointees. Composition of the 

specific PRBs will be determined on an 

ad hoc basis from among the individuals 

listed below: 

Adamoli, Joseph B. 

Adams, Audrey L. 

Aguilar, David V. 

Ahern, Jayson P. 

Alexander, Jane A. 

Arcos, Cresencio 

Balaban, Richard L. 

Bathurst, Donald G. 

Beardsworth, Richard 

Bergman, Cynthia L. 

Besanceney, Brian R. 

Blair, James D. 

Bone, Craig, E. RADML 

Boudreaux, Chad 

Boyd, David G. 

Brice-O’Hara, Sally RADM 

Broderick, Matthew E. 

Buikema, Edward G. 

Cannatti, Ashley 

Charbo, Lawrence Scott 

Cira, Anthony Thomas 

Cuddihy, Joseph D. 

Currier, John P. RADML 

DiGregorio, Elizabeth L. 

Dinanno, Thomas G. 

Dolan, Kay Frances 

Dooher, John C. 

Duke, Elaine C. 

Dunham, Carol A. 

Dunlap, James L. 

Fagerholm, Eric N. 

Filler, Joshua D. 

Forman, Marcy M. 

Fonash, Peter M. 

Hale, Janet 

Hall, Michael J. 

Hasting, Charles R. 

Hastings, Scott O. 

Hill, Kenneth 

Holcomb, Lee B. 

Irving, Paul D. 

James, Ronald J. 

Jones, Rendell L. 

Kelleher, John J. 

Kent, Donald H. 

Khatri, Prakash I. 

Kubricky, John J. 

Kunkel, David W. RADM 

Ladd, Paul E. 

Lang, Gary J. 

Langlois, Joseph E. 

Lederer, Calvin M. 

Lockwood, Thomas 

Lumsden, Sheila 

Lynch, Dennis F. 

MacDonald, John R. 

Mandelker, Sigal P. 

Maner, Andrew B. 

Martinez-Fonts, Alfonso 

Matticks, John 

Maursstad, David I. 

Mayer, Matt A. 

McCampbell, Christy 

McCarthy, Maureen I. 

McDonald, Sallie 

McKennis, Amy D. 

McNamara, John C. 

McQueary, Charles E. 

Mitchell, Andrew 

Mocny, Robert A. 

Nagel, Brian K. 

Nimmich, Joseph L. RDML 

O’Neill, James P. 

O’Reilly, Terrance M. 

Ostergaard, Daniel J. 

Oxford, Vayl S. 

Paar, Thomas C. 

Parent, Wayne 

Prewitt, Keith L. 

Prillaman, K. Gregg 

Quinn, Thomas 

Reyes, Juan 

Richmond, Susan 

Riggs, Barbara S. 

Robles, Alfonso 

Rogers, George D. 

Rossides, Gale D. 

Rothwell, Gregory D. 

Runge, Jeffrey W. 

Santana, Catherine Y. 

Schied, Eugene H. 

Schmitz, Michael T. 

Shingler, Wendell C. 

Sirois, R. Dennis RADM 

Smith, Robert M. 

Sposato, Janis A. 

Stalhschmidt, Patricia K. 

Stallworth, Charles E. 

Stenger, Michael C. 

Stephan, Robert B. 

Stephens, Michael P. 

Sullivan, Daniel 

Sullivan, Mark J. 

Sutherland, Daniel W. 

Tambone, Victor J. 

Teufel, Hugo 

Thomson, E. Keith 

Torres, John 

Trissell, David A. 

Turner, Pamela J. 

Turner, Todd H. 

Vanacore, Michael J. 

Venuto, Kenneth T. RADM 

Vint, Norbert E. 

Walker, Carmen H. 

Weber, Robert W. 

West, Robert C. 

Whitehead, Joel R. RDML 

Whitford, Richard A. 

Wiggins, Michael 

Williams, Dwight 

Williams, James A. 

Williams, Richard N. 

Wood, John F. 

Woodson, Mary Ann 

This notice does not constitute a 

significant regulatory action under 

section 3(f) of Executive Order 12866. 

Therefore, DHS has not submitted this 

notice to the Office of Management and 

Budget. Further, because this notice is a 

matter of agency organization, 

procedure and practice, DHS is not 

required to follow the rulemaking 

requirements under the Administrative 

Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 553). 

Dated: September 30, 2005. 

Rodney Markham, 

Director, Executive Resources, Office of the 

Chief Human Capital Office. 

[FR Doc. 05–20167 Filed 10–6–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4410–10–P 

DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND 

SECURITY 

Coast Guard 

DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION 

Maritime Administration 

[USCG–2005–22611] 

Neptune LNG, L.L.C., Liquefied Natural 

Gas Deepwater Port License 

Application 

AGENCY: Coast Guard, DHS; Maritime 

Administration, DOT. 

ACTION: Notice of application. 

SUMMARY: The Coast Guard and the 

Maritime Administration (MARAD) 

announce that they have received an 

application for the licensing of a 

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liquefied natural gas (LNG) deepwater 

port, and that the application appears to 

contain the required information. This 

notice summarizes the applicant’s plans 

and the procedures that will be followed 

in considering the application. 

DATES: The Deepwater Port Act of 1974, 

as amended, requires any public hearing 

on this application to be held not later 

than June 5, 2006, and requires a 

decision on the application to be made 

not later than September 5, 2006. 

ADDRESSES: The public docket for 

USCG–2005–22611 is maintained by 

the: Docket Management Facility, U.S. 

Department of Transportation, 400 

Seventh, Street SW., Washington, DC 

20590–0001. 

Docket contents are available for 

public inspection and copying, at this 

address, in room PL–401, between 9 

a.m. and 5 p.m., Monday through 

Friday, except Federal holidays. The 

Facility’s telephone is 202–366–9329, 

its fax is 202–493–2251, and its website 

for electronic submissions or for 

electronic access to docket contents is 

http://dms.dot.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Roddy Bachman, U.S. Coast Guard, 

telephone: 202–267–1752, e-mail: 

RBachman@comdt.uscg.mil. If you have 

questions on viewing the docket, call 

Renee V. Wright, Program Manager, 

Docket Operations, telephone: 202–493–

0402. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Receipt of Application 

On February 17, 2005, the Coast 

Guard and MARAD received an 

application from Neptune LNG, L.L.C., 

a subsidiary of Suez LNG North 

America L.L.C., for all Federal 

authorizations required for a license to 

own, construct, and operate a deepwater 

port governed by the Deepwater Port 

Act of 1974, as amended, 33 U.S.C. 1501 

et seq. (the Act). Requested 

supplemental application materials 

were received on September 7, 2005. On 

September 30, 2005, we determined that 

the application contains all information 

required by the Act. 

Background 

According to the Act, a deepwater 

port is a fixed or floating manmade 

structure other than a vessel, or a group 

of structures, located beyond State 

seaward boundaries and used or 

intended for use as a port or terminal for 

the transportation, storage, and further 

handling of oil or natural gas for 

transportation to any State. 

A deepwater port must be licensed by 

the Secretary of Transportation. 

Statutory and regulatory requirements 

for licensing appear in 33 U.S.C. 1501 

et seq. and in 33 CFR Part 148. Under 

delegations from and agreements 

between the Secretary of Transportation 

and the Secretary of Homeland Security, 

applications are processed by the Coast 

Guard and MARAD. Each application is 

considered on its merits. 

The Act provides strict deadlines for 

processing an application. Once we 

determine that an application contains 

the required information, we must hold 

public hearings on the application 

within 240 days, and the Secretary of 

Transportation must render a decision 

on the application within 330 days. We 

will publish additional Federal Register 

notices to inform you of these public 

hearings and other procedural 

milestones, including environmental 

review. The Secretary’s decision, and 

other key documents, will be filed in the 

public docket. 

At least one public hearing must take 

place in each adjacent coastal State. For 

purposes of the Act, Massachusetts is 

the adjacent coastal State for this 

application. Other States can apply for 

adjacent coastal State status in 

accordance with 33 U.S.C. 1508(a)(2). 

Summary of the Application 

Neptune LNG, L.L.C. proposes to 

construct, own and operate a deepwater 

port, named Neptune, in the Federal 

waters of the Outer Continental Shelf on 

blocks NK 19–04 6525 and NK 19–04 

6575, approximately 22 miles northeast 

of Boston, Massachusetts, in a water 

depth of approximately 250 feet. The 

Neptune deepwater port would be 

capable of mooring up to two 

approximately 140,000 cubic meter 

capacity LNG carriers by means of a 

submerged unloading buoy system. 

The LNG carriers, or shuttle 

regasification vessels (SRVs), would be 

equipped to store, transport and 

vaporize LNG, and to odorize and meter 

natural gas which would then be sent 

out by conventional subsea pipelines. 

Each SRV carrier would have insulated 

storage tanks located within its hull. 

Each tank would be equipped with an 

in-tank pump to circulate and transfer 

LNG to the vaporization facilities 

located on the deck of the SRV. The 

proposed vaporization system would be 

closed-loop water-glycol, re-circulating 

heat exchangers heated by steam from 

boil-off gas/vaporized LNG-fired boilers. 

The major fixed components of the 

proposed deepwater port would be an 

unloading buoy system, eight mooring 

lines consisting of wire rope and chain 

connecting to anchor points on the 

seabed, eight suction pile anchor points, 

approximately 2.5 miles of natural gas 

flow line with flexible pipe risers and 

risers manifolds, and approximately 11 

miles of 24-inch natural gas 

transmission line with a hot tap and 

transition manifold to connect to the 

existing Algonquin HublineSM. 

Neptune would have an average 

throughput capacity of 400 million 

standard cubic feet per day (MMscfd) 

and a peak capacity of approximately 

750 MMscfd. Natural gas would be sent 

out by means of two flexible risers and 

a subsea flowline leading to a 24-inch 

gas transmission line. These risers and 

flow line would connect the deepwater 

port to the existing 30-inch Algonquin 

HublineSM. No onshore components or 

storage facilities are associated with the 

proposed deepwater port application. 

Construction of the deepwater port 

components would be expected to take 

36 months, with a startup of commercial 

operations in late 2009. The deepwater 

port would be designed, constructed 

and operated in accordance with 

applicable codes and standards and 

would have an expected operating life 

of approximately 20 years. 

Dated: October 4, 2005. 

Howard L. Hime, 

Acting Director of Standards, Marine Safety, 

Security, and Environmental Protection, 

Coast Guard. 

H. Keith Lesnick, 

Senior Transportation, Specialist, Deepwater 

Ports Program Manager, Maritime 

Administration. 

[FR Doc. 05–20278 Filed 10–6–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4910–15–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

Bureau of Land Management 

[ES–915–1640–PM] 

Notice of Temporary Closure for 

Maryland Point Property, Charles 

County, MD 

AGENCY: Bureau of Land Management, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of temporary closure for 

Maryland Point Property, Charles 

County, Maryland. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Land 

Management-Eastern States (BLM–ES) is 

temporarily closing the Maryland Point 

property formerly known as the 

Maryland Point Naval Observatory. This 

closure complies with the requirements 

of the Federal Land Policy and 

Management Act to provide for the 

safety of the public. The authority for 

this closure is found in 43 CFR 8364.1. 

The closure is necessary to protect the 

public from hazardous materials and 

conditions remaining from past military 

use.