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contain name, address, or any other 

reasonable identifying particulars about 

the subject in question.’’

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES: 

Delete ‘‘Director of Legislative 

Liaison, Office of the Secretary of the 

Air Force, Headquarter, U.S. Air Force’’

and replace with: ‘‘Secretary of the Air 

Force, Legislative Liaison, 1160 Air 

Force Pentagon.’’

Add the following paragraph: 

‘‘Requests from individuals must 

contain name, address, or any other 

reasonable identifying particulars about 

the subject in question.’’

* * * * * 

F033 SAFLL A 

SYSTEM NAME: 

Congressional/Executive Inquiries. 

SYSTEM LOCATION: 

Secretary of the Air Force, Office of 

Legislative Liaison (SAF/LL), 

Washington, DC 20330–1160. 

CATEGORIES OF INDIVIDUALS COVERED BY THE

SYSTEM: 

Air Force active duty and retired 

military personnel, present and former 

civilian employee, Air Force Reserve 

and Air National Guard personnel, Air 

Force Academy nominees/applicants 

and cadets, Senior and Junior Air Force 

Reserve Officers, dependents of military 

personnel, and anyone who has written 

to the President or a Member of 

Congress regarding an Air Force issue. 

CATEGORIES OF RECORDS IN THE SYSTEM: 

Copies of applicable Congressional/ 

Executive correspondence and Air Force 

replies. 

AUTHORITY FOR MAINTENANCE OF THE SYSTEM: 

10 U.S.C. 8013, Secretary of the Air 

Force; 10 U.S.C. 8032, The Air Staff: 

general duties; and Air Force Regulation 

11–7, Air Force Relations with 

Congress. 

PURPOSE(S): 

Information is used as a reference 

base in the case of similar inquiries from 

other Members of Congress, in behalf of 

the same Air Force issue and/or followup by the same Member. Information 

may also be used by appropriate Air 

Force offices as a basis for corrective 

action and for statistical purposes. 

ROUTINE USES OF RECORDS MAINTAINED IN THE

SYSTEM, INCLUDING CATEGORIES OF USERS AND

THE PURPOSES OF SUCH USES: 

In addition to those disclosures 

generally permitted under 5 U.S.C. 

552a(b) of the Privacy Act, these records 

or information contained therein may 

specifically be disclosed outside the 

DoD as a routine use pursuant to 5 

U.S.C. 552a(b)(3) as follows: 

The ‘Blanket Routine Uses’ published 

at the beginning of the Air Force’s 

compilation of systems of records 

notices apply to this system. 

Policies and practices for storing, 

retrieving, accessing, retaining, and 

disposing of records in the system. 

STORAGE: 

Maintained in file folders and 

electronic media. 

RETRIEVABILITY: 

Retrieved by name. 

SAFEGUARDS: 

Records are accessed by custodian of 

the record system and by person(s) 

responsible for servicing the record 

system in performance of their official 

duties who are properly screened and 

cleared for need-to-know. Electronic 

media records are stored in a secure 

facility and protected by computer 

system software; paper records are 

stored in a secure facility in security file 

containers/cabinets. 

RETENTION AND DISPOSAL: 

Records will be retained for two years 

and maintained, retained, and disposed 

of in accordance with the Air Force 

Records Disposition Schedule, Table 

36–29, Rule 04.01. 

SYSTEM MANAGER(S) AND ADDRESS: 

Secretary of the Air Force, Legislative 

Liaison, Congressional inquiries Office, 

1160 Air Force Pentagon, Washington, 

DC 20330–1160. 

NOTIFICATION PROCEDURE: 

Individuals seeking to determine 

whether information about themselves 

is contained in this system should 

address written inquiries to or visit the 

Secretary of the Air Force, Legislative 

Liaison, 1160 Air Force Pentagon, 

Washington, DC 20330–1160. 

Requests from individuals must 

contain name, address, or any other 

reasonable identifying particulars about 

the subject in question. 

RECORD ACCESS PROCEDURES: 

Individuals seeking access to 

information about themselves contained 

in this system should address written 

inquiries to or visit the Secretary of the 

Air Force, Legislative Liaison, 1150 Air 

Force Pentagon, Washington, DC 20330–

1160. 

Requests from individuals must 

contain name, address, or any other 

reasonable identifying particulars about 

the subject in question. 

CONTESTING RECORD PROCEDURES: 

The Air Force rules for accessing 

records, and for contesting contents and 

appealing initial agency determinations 

are published in Air Force Instruction 

37–132; 32 CFR part 806b; or may be 

obtained from the system manager. 

RECORD SOURCE CATEGORIES: 

Congressional and Executive inquiries 

and information from Air Force offices 

and organizations. 

EXEMPTIONS CLAIMED FOR THE SYSTEM: 

None. 

[FR Doc. 05–22411 Filed 11–9–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–M 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army; Corps of 

Engineers 

Department of the Interior 

Bureau of Reclamation 

Upper Columbia Alternative Flood 

Control and Fish Operations, Libby 

and Hungry Horse Dams, MT 

AGENCIES: Corps of Engineers, DoD, and 

Bureau of Reclamation, Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability Of Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement and 

Notice of Public Hearings. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

requirements of the National 

Environmental Policy Act, the U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), 

Seattle District, and the Bureau of 

Reclamation (Reclamation), Pacific 

Northwest Region, have prepared a Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) 

to evaluate the effects of alternative 

flood control at Libby Dam on the 

Kootenai River and at Hungry Horse 

Dam on the South Fork Flathead River 

in western Montana. USACE and 

Reclamation are making the document 

available to the public for review and 

comment through a Notice of 

Availability published in the Federal 

Register. The overall goal of the DEIS is 

to evaluate effects of alternative dam 

operations that are intended to provide 

reservoir and flow conditions at and 

below Libby and Hungry Horse Dams 

for anadromous and resident fish listed 

as threatened or endangered under the 

Endangered Species Act (ESA), 

consistent with authorized project 

purposes, including maintaining the 

current level of flood control benefits. 

DATES: To ensure consideration in final 

EIS development, we must receive 

comments on or before December 27, 

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2005 (45 days from the November 10, 

2005, Federal Register publication date 

of the EPA weekly notice of EIS 

availability). See the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section for meeting dates. 

ADDRESSES: Please send written 

comments concerning this proposed 

project to: U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Seattle District, Attn: Mr. 

Evan Lewis, PM–PL–ER, P.O. Box 3755, 

Seattle, WA 98124–3755 or Bureau of 

Reclamation, Attn: Mr. Dan Lechefsky, 

1150 N. Curtis Rd., Suite 100, Boise, ID 

83706–1234. Please submit electronic 

comments to uceis@usace.army.mil. For 

electronic comments, include your 

name and address in your message and 

place your comments in the body of 

your message; please do not send 

attached files. Reclamation’s practice is 

to make comments, including names 

and home addresses of respondents, 

available for public review. Individual 

respondents may request that we 

withhold their home address from 

public disclosure, which we will honor 

to the extent allowable by law. There 

also may be circumstances in which we 

would withhold a respondent’s identity 

from public disclosure, as allowable by 

law. If you wish us to withhold your 

name and/or address, you must state 

this prominently at the beginning of 

your comment. We will make all 

submissions from organizations or 

businesses, and from individuals 

identifying themselves as 

representatives or officials of 

organization or business, available for 

public disclosure in their entirety. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. 

Evan Lewis, Environmental 

Coordinator, U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, Seattle District, 

Environmental Resources Section, (206) 

764–6922, evan.r.lewis@usace.army.mil; 

or Mr. Dan Lechefsky, NEPA 

Coordinator, Pacific Northwest Region, 

Bureau of Reclamation, (208) 378–5039, 

dlechefsky@pn.usbr.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Multiplepurpose project operations (including 

flood control, hydropower, fish and 

wildlife, recreation, navigation, 

irrigation, water supply, and water 

quality) at Libby, Hungry Horse, and 

other dams have altered the natural 

river hydrology of the Columbia River 

and some of its major tributaries. These 

dams store the spring snowmelt runoff 

to control floods and release water for 

multiple uses. Populations of threatened 

and endangered fish in the Columbia 

River Basin (Kootenai River white 

sturgeon, Columbia Basin bull trout, and 

several Columbia River salmon and 

steelhead stocks) benefit from certain 

high-flow periods, which historically 

were determined by natural runoff 

patterns driven by snowmelt and 

rainfall. While the status of bull trout 

populations in the Kootenai and 

Flathead rivers is generally better than 

some others in the Columbia Basin, 

Kootenai River white sturgeon numbers 

are estimated at fewer than 500 (down 

from numbers of 5,000–6,000 in the 

1980’s) and are declining at 

approximately 9% per year. Several 

salmon and steelhead populations in the 

Columbia Basin are listed as threatened 

or endangered. Pursuant to Section 7 of 

the Endangered Species Act, the 2000 

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service 

Biological Opinion on the operation of 

the Federal Columbia River Power 

System (FCRPS) included a 

recommendation to implement variable 

discharge flood control (VARQ), with Q 

representing engineering shorthand for 

discharge, at Libby and Hungry Horse 

dams. NOAA Fisheries considered the 

Updated Proposed Action (UPA) and 

issued the 2004 NOAA Fisheries FCRPS 

Biological Opinion on November 30, 

2004. The 2004 UPA generally reflects, 

with certain modifications, the 

hydropower, habitat, hatchery, and 

harvest measures implemented under 

the 2000 biological opinion Reasonable 

and Prudent Alternative including 

implementation of VARQ flood control 

at Libby Dam and Hungry Horse Dam. 

Implementation of VARQ flood 

control and various flow augmentation 

operations would modify dam 

operations and riverflows to avoid 

jeopardizing the continued existence of 

endangered Kootenai River white 

sturgeon, threatened Columbia Basin 

bull trout, and several populations of 

threatened and endangered Columbia 

Basin salmon and steelhead. This DEIS 

focuses on those environmental 

conditions that would be modified by 

implementation of the proposed Federal 

Action or several alternatives. 

The proposed Federal action consists 

of: 

(1) Implementation of alternative 

flood control at Libby Dam on the 

Kootenai River and Hungry Horse Dam 

on the South Fork Flathead River. 

Called variable discharge flood control, 

this alternative action is known as 

‘‘VARQ’’ flood control, with Q 

representing engineering shorthand for 

discharge. 

(2) Flow augmentation that such 

alternative flood control would facilitate 

in the Kootenai River, the Flathead 

River, and main stem Columbia River 

for fish populations listed as threatened 

or endangered under the ESA. Flow 

augmentation (i.e., fish flows) includes 

release of water for bull trout, salmon, 

and, at Libby Dam, white sturgeon. 

We are making the DEIS available to 

the public for a 45-day review and 

comment period. 

Seven public meetings are planned for 

the DEIS in order to provide an 

opportunity for the public to present 

oral and/or written comments. USACE 

will host the meetings at Eureka, MT; 

Bonners Ferry, ID; and Nelson, BC. 

Reclamation will host the meetings at 

Kalispell, MT; Kettle Falls, WA; and 

Grand Coulee, WA. Both agencies will 

co-host the meeting in Newport, WA. 

All meetings will begin at 6 pm, local 

time. For the first hour, resource 

specialists will be available to answer 

questions. At 7 p.m., there will be an 

opportunity to provide verbal and 

written comments for the record. 

The meeting dates and locations 

follow: 

November 28, 2005: Best Western Hotel, 

Nelson, British Columbia; West 

Coast Kalispell Center Hotel, 

Kalispell, MT 

November 29, 2005: Elementary School 

Cafeteria, Newport, WA 

November 30, 2005: High School 

Auditorium, Eureka, MT; KC Diner, 

Kettle Falls, WA 

December 1, 2005: Kootenai River Inn, 

Bonners Ferry, ID; Grand Coulee 

City Hall, Grand Coulee, WA 

Copies of the DEIS are available for 

public review at libraries throughout the 

potentially affected portions of the 

Kootenai, Flathead, Clark Fork, Pend 

Oreille, and upper Columbia Basins in 

the U.S. and Canada. The USACE and 

Reclamation have distributed electronic 

and hard copies of the DEIS to 

appropriate members of Congress; State, 

local, and tribal government officials; 

Federal agencies; and other interested 

parties. You may view the DEIS and 

related information on our Web page at: 

http://www.usbr.gov/pn/programs/ 

VARQ. 

After the public comment period ends 

on December 27, 2005, USACE and 

Reclamation will consider all comments 

received. The DEIS will be revised as 

appropriate and a final EIS will be 

issued. The DEIS has been prepared in 

accordance with (1) The National 

Environmental Policy Act (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), (3) 

USACE regulations implementing NEPA 

(ER–200–2–2), and (4) Reclamation 

regulations for implementing NEPA 

(Reclamation Manual, Policy PO3). 

Colonel Debra M. Lewis, District 

Engineer, Seattle District, U.S. Army 

Corps of Engineers, P.O. Box 3755, 

Seattle, WA 98124–3755. 

Federal Register / Vol. 70, No. 217 / Thursday, November 10, 2005 / Notices 68411 

J. William McDonald, Regional 

Director, Pacific Northwest Region, 

Bureau of Reclamation, 1150 North 

Curtis Road, Suite 100, Boise, ID 83706–

1234. 

Dated: November 3, 2005. 

Debra M. Lewis, 

District Engineer. 

J. William McDonald, 

Regional Director, Pacific Northwest Region, 

Bureau of Reclamation. 

[FR Doc. 05–22406 Filed 11–9–05; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3710–92–P 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection Requests 

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 

proposed information collection 

requests as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before January 

9, 2006. 

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 

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. 

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. 

Dated: November 4, 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: New Collection. 

Title: 34 CFR Part 602 The Secretary 

Recognition of Accrediting Agencies. 

Frequency: Annually Other: every 5 

years. 

Affected Public: Not-for-profit 

institutions (primary). 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 75. 

Burden Hours: 1071. 

Abstract: This information is needed 

to determine if an accrediting agency 

complies with the Criteria for 

Recognition and should be recognized. 

Requests for copies of the proposed 

information collection request may be 

accessed from http://edicsweb.ed.gov, 

by selecting the ‘‘Browse Pending 

Collections’’ link and by clicking on 

link number 2933. 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 

202–245–6621. 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 Joe Schubart at 

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. 

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BILLING CODE 4000–01–M 

DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Notice of Proposed Information 

Collection Requests 

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 

proposed information collection 

requests as required by the Paperwork 

Reduction Act of 1995. 

DATES: Interested persons are invited to 

submit comments on or before January 

9, 2006. 

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. 

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.