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turtles annually. The applicant would 

sample turtles captured incidentally 

during other activities including the 

shark gillnet fishery, longline fisheries, 

the shrimp trawl fishery, and surveys 

during oil/gas platform removal. The 

capture would be authorized by the 

incidental take statements of the 

biological opinions that cover these 

activities. The research would provide 

data on the turtles that interact with 

these activities and provide data useful 

to better understanding turtle migration, 

habitat use, genetics, and population 

dynamics. The information would be 

used to develop, implement, and 

evaluate conservation recovery efforts 

for sea turtles. The research would take 

place in Atlantic Ocean, Gulf of Mexico, 

Caribbean Sea, and tributaries. The 

permit would be issued for 5 years. 

Dated: October 13, 2005. 

Carrie W. Hubard, 

Acting Chief, Permits, Conservation and 

Education Division, Office of Protected 

Resources, National Marine Fisheries Service. 

[FR Doc. 05–20894 Filed 10–18–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3510–22–S 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

Publication of Families First Business 

Rules 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DOD. 

ACTION: Final notice. 

SUMMARY: The Military Surface 

Deployment and Distribution Command 

(SDDC), as the Department of Defense 

(DoD) Traffic Manager for the Personal 

Property Program published the Defense 

Personal Property System (DPS) Phase II 

Business Rules for Industry comment. 

These rules were posted to the Families 

First Web Site located at http:// 

www.sddc.army.mil under Families 

First. 

This announcement is being made to 

provide an overview of the comments 

received by SDDC from the Federal 

Register notice published on April 26, 

2005 (70 FR 21401). All stakeholders 

were given 30 days to review these draft 

business rules and provide SDDC their 

comments. Responses were returned in 

several ways, including letters, 

spreadsheets and the Frequently Asked 

Question process. 

SDDC received approximately 1300 

comments from the industry. Some of 

the comments were unique, but there 

were many duplicates. 

After the initial review of the 

comments and identification of 

duplicates, the comments were assigned 

to SDDC Subject Matter Experts (SME) 

in each of the associated Functional 

Areas related to the development of 

DPS. These SME’s performed a detailed 

review of these comments to determine 

if revision to the business rules were 

appropriate. 

Our review indicated that there were 

approximately 800 duplicates and 500 

unique comments. Some of industries 

major concerns were: the new best value 

traffic distribution methodology, 

establishment of minimum performance 

score, claims metrics, issues with CWA/ 

invoicing, prompt payment, hard copy 

documentation, low response customer 

survey response rate, lack of statistically 

valid number of Transportation Service 

Providers (TSPs), non-availability of 

interface with TSP systems, 13% cost 

growth limitation on the new program, 

access to rate filing instructions, tools 

required to perform rate filing, 

inadequate time to test the new system, 

shipment management, TSP/agent 

relationship and access to multiple 

SCACs. 

Our review indicated that all the 

comments required clarification to the 

business rules. SDDC is currently in the 

process of providing these clarifications 

in the business rules and will publish 

the Final Business Rule when 

incorporation of these changes is 

completed. In the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section, SDDC has 

identified Industry’s major concerns. 

ADDRESSES: Surface Deployment and 

Distribution Command, ATTN: SDPP, 

Room 10N35–29 (Judith Tarbox), 

Hoffman Building II, 200 Stovall Street, 

Alexandria, VA 22332–5000. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Judith Tarbox at (703) 428–3004. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Industry’s 

comments ranged from questions, 

suggestions, rewording of business rules 

and requesting of additional 

information. SDDC will continue to 

work with Industry to clarify 

interpretations of the program and 

develop the understanding necessary to 

make the implementation of DPS a 

success. During the review of these 

comments, several consistent themes 

emerged, including: 

1. Requests for the release of SDDC 

proprietary information. As part of 

developing rules/logic for DPS; SDDC 

has developed several DoD specific 

logic, formulas, and additional 

information to assist our System 

Integrator (SI) to implement our new 

Personal Property System. For example, 

some of the logic involves computation 

of targets per market to keep the 

program cost growth under 13% etc. 

This is DoD specific proprietary 

information and is therefore acquisition 

sensitive thus cannot be released 

outside DoD. 

2. Questions that SDDC believes have 

already been addressed. Many of the 

industry’s comments are addressed in 

other sections of the business rules or 

other business rules documents. For 

example, distribution of shipments, 

spread and blackout dates, filing and 

settlement of claims, new rate filing 

process and timeline etc. 

3. Recurring questions. Several unique 

questions were asked by Industry, but 

most of these questions were recurring 

questions from the past two years that 

have been previously responded to by 

SDDC. SDDC believes that these 

questions reveal areas where Industry 

may need more information, and SDDC 

will provide responses as part of the 

FAQ section of the Families First Web 

site. Additionally, topics of some of 

these questions will be considered for 

future Families First info-grams. 

4. Documentation Edits and Changes. 

Industry identified areas in the 

documentation where editorial changes 

or updates to the documentation are 

necessary that are not related to the 

content of the Business Rules. Where 

applicable, SDDC will make all 

appropriate updates to the 

documentation to correct these items. 

For example: mileage guide reference in 

the new domestic 400NG tariff, business 

rules and international tender language 

changes for clarity and some changes to 

footnotes in the business rules and cross 

referencing of business rules etc. 

5. Industry opinion. In many cases 

Industry reiterated opinions and 

concerns with regards to the Families 

First Program. SDDC continues to 

provide a monthly In-Process Review 

(IPR) to the Industry to discuss these 

concerns and work towards a better 

understanding and resolution of issues. 

6. Business Rules Changes. In some 

cases, Industry identified perceived 

gaps in the business rules or divergent 

business rule explanations in the 

documentation. In such cases SDDC will 

work to provide clarification to the 

business rule document. For example: 

Historical tonnage will be provided to 

all DoD qualified TSPs per market. 

Regulatory Flexibility Act 

This action is not considered rule 

making within the meaning of 

Regulatory Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 601–

612. 

Paperwork Reduction Act 

The Paperwork Reduction Act, 44 

U.S.C. 3051 et seq., does not apply 

because no information collection or 

record keeping requirements are 

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imposed on contractors, offerors or 

members of the public. 

Steven L. Amato, 

Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Air Force, Deputy 

Chief of Staff for Passenger and Personal 

Property. 

[FR Doc. 05–20900 Filed 10–18–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3710–08–M 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army; Corps of 

Engineers 

Availability of Final General 

Reevaluation Report and Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Poplar Island Environmental 

Restoration Project, Talbot County, MD 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DOD. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

requirements of the National 

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the 

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), 

Baltimore District has prepared a Final 

General Reevaluation Report (GRR) and 

Supplemental Environmental Impact 

Statement (SEIS) for the Poplar Island 

Environmental Restoration Project 

(PIERP). The GRR/SEIS evaluated the 

vertical and/or lateral expansion of the 

PIERP, design modifications to the 

existing project, the addition of 

recreational/educational opportunities 

to the existing project, and the potential 

to accept dredged material from 

additional channels not specified in the 

1996 EIS for the existing project. A 

Notice of Availability (NOA) for the 

Draft GRR/SEIS was published by the 

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 

(EPA) in the Federal Register on June 

22, 2005 (70 FR 36129). 

The preferred alternative includes a 

northern lateral expansion consisting of 

approximately 575 acres, which would 

include wetland and upland habitat, 

and a protected open water embayment; 

construction of a 5-ft vertical raising of 

the existing upland Cells 2 and 6 at the 

PIERP; amending the existing project 

authorization and Project Cooperation 

Agreement to include the placement of 

dredged material from the southern 

approach channels to the Chesapeake 

and Delaware (C&D) Canal; 

incorporation of design modifications 

required for the completion of the 

existing project, and development of 

recreational and educational 

enhancement for the PIERP. 

DATES: USACE filed the final document 

with EPA on September 30, 2005. EPA 

published a Notice of Availability in the 

Federal Register on October 7, 2005 (70 

FR 58700). A Record of Decision may be 

signed no earlier than 30 days after the 

EPA notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore 

District, Attn: Mr. Mark Medelsohn, 

CENAB–PL–P, P.O. Box 1715, 

Baltimore, MD 21203–1715 or 

electronically at 

mark.mendelsohn@usace.army.mil or 

by telephone at (410) 962–9499 or (800) 

295–1610. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PIERP is 

located in the Chesapeake Bay, 

approximately 39 miles south-southeast 

of the Port of Baltimore, and two miles 

northwest of Tilghman Island in Talbot 

County, MD. Approximately 10,000 

acres of remote island habitat has been 

lost throughtout the Chesapeake Bay in 

the last 150 years. Dredged material 

from the Upper Chesapeake Bay 

Approach Channels to the Port of 

Balitmore is being beneficially used to 

restore 1,140 acres of wetland and 

upland habitat (approximately 570 acres 

of wetland habitat and 570 acres of 

upland habitat), and it is estimated that 

by 2014 the PIERP will provide up to 40 

million cubic yards (mcy) of dredged 

material placement capacity. To date, 

approximately 12 mcy of dredged 

material have been placed at the site. 

Construction and site operation at the 

PIERP is a collaborative effort that is 

cost shared between the Federal 

sponsor, the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers—Baltimore District and the 

non-Federal sponsor, Maryland Port 

Administration (MPA). 

To address a predicted dredged 

material placement capacity shortfall, 

USACE-Baltimore and MPA initiated 

the Poplar Island Expansion Study 

(PIES) under the existing PIERP 

Congressional Authorization, Section 

537 of the Water Resources 

Development Act (WRDA) of 1996. 

Authorization for ecosystem restoration 

projects using dredged material is 

included in Section 204 of the WRDA of 

1992, as amended by Section 207 of the 

WRDA of 1996. A Notice of Intent (NOI) 

to initiate the preparation of the GRR/ 

SEIS was published in the Federal 

Register in June 2003 (68 FR 33685). 

The Final Integrated GRR/SEIS 

documents NEPA compliance for the 

proposed expansion of the PIERP, 

provides information specific to the 

actions of the GRR, and supplements the 

Poplar Island Restoration Study, 

Maryland: Integrated Feasibility Report 

and Environmental Impact Statement 

(ERP No. D–COE–D350557–MD) 

(USACE/MPA, 1996). 

Public meetings on the draft 

document were held on July 19, 2005, 

in Easton Maryland, and on July 20, 

2005, at Tilghman, Maryland. Both 

meetings provided an opportunity for 

the public to present oral and/or written 

comments. 

You may view the Final GRR/SEIS 

and related information on our Web 

page at: http:// 

www.nab.usace.army.mil./projects/ 

Maryland/PoplarIsland/expansion.html. 

The Final and Draft GRR/SEIS have 

been prepared in accordance with (1) 

NEPA of 1969, as amended (42 U.S.C. 

4321 et seq.), (2) regulations of the 

Council on Environmental Quality for 

implementing the procedural provisions 

of NEPA (40 CFR parts 1500–1508), and 

(3) USACE regulations implementing 

NEPA (ER–200–2–2). 

Mark Mendelsohn, 

Study Manager. 

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BILLING CODE 3710–41–M 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army; Corps of 

Engineers 

Dredged Material Management Plan for 

the Lower Atchafalaya, Bayous Chene, 

Boeuf, and Black Navigation Channel, 

and the Gulf of Mexico, in Assumption, 

St. Mary, and Terrebone Parishes in 

the Vicinity of Morgan City, LA 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: The Vicksburg District Corps 

of Engineers is preparing the Dredged 

Material Management Plan (DMMP) for 

the existing Atchafalaya River and 

Bayous Chene, Boeuf, and Black, 

Louisiana, navigation project. The 

DMMP will require a Supplemental 

Environmental Impact Statement (SEIS) 

No. 3 to the Final Environmental Impact 

Statement (FEIS) for the Atchafalaya 

River and Bayous Chene, Boeuf, and 

Black, Louisiana (March 1973), 

navigation project. The project was 

authorized by the River and Harbor Act 

of 1968 in accordance with House 

Document 155, 90th Congress, 1st 

Session. The purpose of the DMMP is to 

develop a long term management 

strategy to accomplish the placement of 

dredged material associated with the 

navigation project in the least costly 

manner, that is consistent with sound 

engineering practice, and that meets all 

applicable Federal environmental laws. 

The Atchafalaya River and Bayous 

Chene, Boeuf, and Black, Louisiana,