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included in the request for Office of 

Management and Budget approval of the 

information collection request; they will 

also become a matter of public record. 

Dated: October 26, 2007. 

Peg Rosenberry, 

Director, Office of Grants Management . 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Air Force 

Announcement of IS–GPS–800 

Interface Control Working Group 

(ICWG) Follow-On Meeting 

AGENCY: Department of the Air Force. 

ACTION: Meeting notice. 

SUMMARY: This notice informs the public 

that the Global Positioning Systems 

Wing will be hosting a follow-on 

meeting to the Public ICWG that 

occurred on 25 Sept 2007 at the ION 

GNSS Conference in Ft. Worth, TX. The 

meeting will take place on 19 Nov 2007 

at the SAIC Facility in El Segundo and 

will address the action item to review a 

‘‘tracked changes’’ version of the IS–

GPS–800. The meeting will consist of a 

line-by-line review and discussion of all 

L1 MBOC spreading codes and L1 

bandwidth augmentation changes 

within the document. A tracked change 

‘‘was/is’’ version of the document can 

be found at the following address for 

review: http://www.losangeles.af.mil/

library/factsheets/

factsheet.asp?id=9364. To make 

additional comments, please open the 

‘‘Comment Form Draft IS–GPS–800’’ on 

the Web site and e-mail comments to 

Thomas Davis and Capt Garrett 

Knowlan by 5 Nov 2007 (contact info 

below). For those who would like to 

attend and participate in this meeting, 

you are requested to register by 14 

November 2007. Please send the 

registration to 

thomas.davis.ctr@losangeles.af.mil and 

provide your name, organization, 

telephone number, address, and country 

of citizenship. Foreign nationals must 

have their passports available on the 

day of the meeting or admittance will be 

denied. The parking lot can be entered 

via Sepulveda Blvd or Grand Ave. The 

outside parking lot is available for all 

cars, but the underground parking 

structure is only for those with monthly 

parking passes. Parking validation is 

provided. 

DATES: Monday, 19 November 2007, 8 

a.m.–4 p.m., located at SAIC, El 

Segundo, 300 N. Sepulveda, Suite 3000, 

El Segundo, CA 90245. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Thomas Davis, 

thomas.davis@linquest.com, 1–310–

416–8440, or Captain Michael Whiting, 

Michael.Whiting@losangeles.af.mil, 

1–310–653–3936. 

Bao-Anh Trinh, 

Air Force Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Air Force 

Air Force Performance Review Boards 

AGENCY: Department of the Air Force. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Notice is hereby given of the 

appointment of members of the Air 

Force Performance Review Boards. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Section 

4314(c)(1) through (5) of Title 5, U.S.C., 

requires each agency to establish, in 

accordance with the regulations 

prescribed by the U.S. Office of 

Personnel Management, one or more 

SES performance review boards. The 

purpose of the Performance Review 

Board is to review records on all Air 

Force SES, DISES, SL and ST members 

and to make recommendations to the 

appointing authority on performance 

management issues such as appraisals, 

bonuses, and pay level increases. 

The following have been designated 

as members of the Air Force 

Performance Review Boards: 

General Bruce Carlson, Commander, 

AF Materiel Command—Board 

President—Lieutenant General Rod 

Bishop, Commander, Third Air Force. 

Mr. David Tillotson, Deputy Chief of 

Staff for Warfighting Integration. 

Mrs. Barbara Westgate, AF Materiel 

Command Executive Director. 

Mr. Timothy Leyland, Assistant Deputy 

Chief of Staff, Manpower & Personnel. 

Mrs. Patricia Young, Deputy to the 

Commander, Military Surface 

Deployment and Distribution 

Command. 

Mr. Richard Gustafson, Deputy 

Assistant Secretary (Financial 

Operations). 

Mr. Steven Cantrell, Director, Analysis 

& Estimates, DCS Intelligence, 

Surveillance and Reconnaissance. 

Mr. Michael Rhodes, OSD ODAM WHS, 

Non-Air Force SES Senior Board 

Member. 

Mrs. Mary Lacey, NSPS Program 

Executive Office, Non-Air Force SES 

Senior Board Member. 

Mr. John Salvatore, OSD OUDSI, NonAir Force DISES Board Member. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Major Therese Schuler, Air Force Senior 

Executive Management Office, AF/ 

DPSS, 1040 Air Force Pentagon, 

Washington, DC 20330–1040, (703) 695–

8040. 

Bao-Anh Trinh, 

Air Force Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

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DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army; Corps of 

Engineers 

Intent To Prepare a Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement 

(DEIS) for Great Salt Lake Minerals 

Corporation’s Solar Evaporation Pond 

Expansion Project Within the Great 

Salt Lake, Box Elder County, UT 

AGENCY: Department of the Army; U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA), the U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers (Corps), Sacramento District, 

will prepare a draft Environmental 

Impact Statement (DEIS) for Corps 

authorization actions for the proposed 

Great Salt Lake Minerals Solar 

Evaporation Ponds Expansion project. 

The overall project purpose is to expand 

extraction capability for potassium at 

the Great Salt Lake Mineral 

Corporation’s facilities. The proposed 

expansion would add approximately 

33,000 acres of solar evaporative ponds, 

impacting approximately 30,713.75 

acres of waters of the United States, and 

reducing the need to import raw 

potassium from other sources. The DEIS 

will address impacts such as wildlife 

habitat, water quality, Great Salt Lake 

water elevations, wetlands, hydrology, 

cultural resources, transportation, 

endangered species and industry. 

DATES: The projected date for public 

release of the DEIS is October 2008. 

Three public scoping meetings will be 

held. The first scoping meeting will be 

held on November 7, 2007 from 5–9 

p.m. The second public meeting will be 

on November 8, 2007 from 5–9 p.m. The 

third meeting will be held on November 

14, 2007 from 5–9 p.m. 

ADDRESSES: The November 7 meeting 

will be held at South Davis Junior High 

School, 298 West 2600 South, Bountiful, 

Utah. The November 8 meeting will be 

held at the Ogden Nature Center, 966 W. 

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12th Street, Ogden, Utah. The November 

14 meeting will be held at the Airport 

Inn Hotel, 2333 W. North Temple Street, 

Salt Lake City, Utah. Written comments 

may be mailed to Mr. Jason Gipson, 533 

West 2600 South, Suite 150, Bountiful, 

Utah 84010. All comments must be 

received on or before December 2, 2007. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Questions about the proposed action 

and the DEIS should be directed to the 

Corps project manager, Mr. Jason 

Gipson at 801–295–8380 x14, or e-mail 

at jason.a.gipson@usace.army.mil. 

Please refer to identification number 

200700121. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Great Salt 

Lake Minerals Corporation (GSLM) has 

applied for Department of the Army 

authorization under Section 404 of the 

Clean Water Act. The project as 

proposed may also require other 

Federal, State and local authorizations 

including Utah State Public Lands Lease 

Agreements. 

Great Salt Lake Minerals Corporation 

currently operates approximately 43,000 

acres of evaporative ponds located on 

the east and west shores of the Great 

Salt Lake. A 21,000-acre evaporation 

facility is located on the west shore of 

the North Arm of the Great Salt Lake 

and a 22,000-acre evaporation facility is 

located on the east shore of the Bear 

River Bay. The existing solar 

evaporation ponds facilities are located 

within the Great Salt Lake, i.e., the 

ponds are located below 4205 mean sea 

level, which is below the high water 

mark of the Great Salt Lake. These 

facilities allow the Corporation to 

extract about one-half of the potassium 

needed in their production of potassium 

sulfate. The company draws naturally 

occurring brine from the lake into 

shallow ponds and allows solar 

evaporation to produce sulfate of 

potash, as well as salt and magnesium 

chloride minerals. Sulfate of potash is a 

specialty fertilizer that improves the 

yield and quality of high-value crops 

such as fruits, vegetables, tea, tree nuts 

and turf grasses. The Great Salt Lake 

facility has operated on the lake for 40 

years. At present, the remainder of the 

potassium is imported from other 

sources. The proposed expansion of the 

solar ponds will allow Great Salt Lake 

Minerals to reduce or discontinue their 

reliance on imported potassium. 

The applicant is proposing to 

construct three additional solar 

evaporation ponds totaling 

approximately 33,000 acres. The 

proposed project includes an 8,000-acre 

pond on the east side of the Great Salt 

Lake in the Bear River Bay. Brine would 

be pumped to and from the new pond 

with existing pump stations; however, 

the capacity of these pump stations 

would be increased proportional to the 

new pond acreage. Additional feed 

brine for this new pond would come 

from the North Arm of the Great Salt 

Lake (Gunnison Bay), flowing through 

existing east side ponds. 

In addition, on the west side of the 

lake, two new solar ponds would be 

added to the existing west side complex, 

an 18,000-acre Dolphin Island 

expansion pond and a 7,000-acre pond 

at the southern end of Clyman Bay 

between the Union Pacific Railway and 

several existing ponds. A new feed 

canal into the lake and a new pump 

station would be constructed on the 

north end of the proposed Dolphin 

Island pond. Diesel driven pumps, 

similar to those currently in use, would 

pump brine from the new feed canal to 

the new pond. Existing pumps would be 

used to pump brine from the new pond 

to an existing pond. The total 25,000- 

acre pond expansion on the west side 

would increase the concentration of 

brine transferred to an existing gravityflow trench for transport to the east 

ponds in the Bear River Bay. 

Dikes would be built to accommodate 

the pond expansion and impound the 

waters of the respective areas. On the 

east side of the lake approximately 

540,000 cubic yards of fill would be 

discharged into Bear River Bay to create 

the dikes. On the west side of the lake, 

dike construction would require 

approximately 900,000 cubic yards of 

fill to be discharged into open water in 

the vicinity of Clyman Bay. 

The proposed project areas currently 

include saline open water, sporadically 

inundated playa lakebed, seasonally 

flooded playa, saline wetlands, riprapped dikes and sandy upland habitats. 

These areas are located adjacent to the 

existing evaporation pond facilities. The 

Corps of Engineers verified a 

delineation on October 10, 2007 which 

identified approximately 34,180.08 

acres of waters of the United States, 

including 21.4 acres of saline wet 

meadow wetlands, 1,102.94 acres of 

seasonally inundated playa above the 

high water mark of the western side of 

the Great Salt Lake and 33,055.74 acres 

of seasonally or sporadically inundated 

playa lake bed below the high water 

mark of the Lake. The applicant asserts 

that approximately 30,713.75 acres of 

waters would be lost due to project 

construction under the proposed 

alternative. 

The applicant has not proposed 

compensatory mitigation for project 

impacts. The determination of 

appropriate compensatory mitigation 

will be determined through public 

scoping and impact analysis of the EIS 

process. 

The proposed project will not affect 

any Federally-listed threatened or 

endangered species, however, it may 

affect state-listed special status species. 

Once a habitat assessment of the areas 

has been completed, the Corps will 

consult with state and Federal wildlife 

agencies. The Corps will also consult 

with the State Historic Preservation 

Officer under Section 106 of the 

National Historic Preservation Act for 

properties listed or potentially eligible 

for listing on the National Register of 

Historic Places, as appropriate. 

A number of on-site and off-site 

alternatives, including the no action 

alternative, will be evaluated in the 

DEIS in accordance with NEPA and the 

Section 404(b)(1) guidelines. 

As part of the Corps 404 permitting 

process, three pre-application 

interagency meetings were held to 

provide information and identify issues 

and concerns. In addition, a meeting 

was held with local environmental 

organizations for the same purposes. 

Preliminary issues identified as part of 

this process include: Water quality, 

heavy metals, nutrient loading, fresh 

water exchange, changes in salinity, and 

brine shrimp habitat and economic 

issues. Additionally, potential avian 

impacts were identified to waterfowl, 

shorebirds, and raptors including the 

American white pelican, snowy plover, 

Canada goose, and others. 

The above determinations are based 

on information provided by the 

applicant and upon the Corps’

preliminary review. The Corps is 

soliciting verbal and written comments 

from the public, Federal, States and 

local agencies and officials, Native 

American tribes, and other interested 

parties in order to consider and evaluate 

the impacts of this proposed activity. 

The Corps’ public involvement program 

includes multiple opportunities for 

interested parties to provide written and 

oral comments. Affected Federal, State, 

local agencies, Indian tribes, and other 

interested private organizations and the 

general public are invited to participate. 

Dated: October 24, 2007. 

Michael S. Jewell, 

Chief, Regulatory Branch, Sacramento 

District, Corps of Engineers. 

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