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ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The DoD Advisory Group on 

Electron Devices (AGED) announces a 

closed session meeting. 

DATES: The meeting will be held at 

0900, Tuesday November 13, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held at 

the IT Services Group-QNA, 4100 N. 

Fairfax Drive, Suite 800, Arlington, VA 

22203. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Aimee Steussy, IT Services Group-QNA, 

4100 N. Fairfax Drive, Suite 800, 

Arlington, VA 22203, 703–284–8357. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

mission of the Advisory Group is to 

provide advice to the Under Secretary of 

Defense for Acquisition, Technology 

and Logistics, to the Director of Defense 

Research and Engineering (DDR&E), and 

through the DDR&E to the Director, 

Defense Advanced Research Projects 

Agency and the Military Departments in 

planning and managing an effective and 

economical research and development 

program in the area of electron devices. 

The AGED meeting will be limited to 

review of research and development 

efforts in electronics and photonics with 

a focus on benefits to national defense. 

The reviews may form the basis for 

research and development programs 

initiated by the Military Departments 

and Defense Agencies to be conducted 

by industry, universities or in 

government laboratories. The agenda for 

this meeting will include programs on 

molecular electronics, microelectronics, 

electro-optics, and electronic materials. 

In accordance with section 10(d) of 

Pub. L. 92–463, as amended, (5 U.S.C. 

App. 2), it has been determined that this 

Advisory Group meeting concerns 

matters listed in 5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(1), and 

that accordingly, this meeting will be 

closed to the public. 

Dated: October 31, 2007. 

L.M. Bynum, 

Alternate, OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Submission for OMB Review; 

Comment Request 

AGENCY: Department of Education. 

SUMMARY: The IC Clearance Official, 

Regulatory Information Management 

Services, Office of Management 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 

December 10, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Written comments should 

be addressed to the Office of 

Information and Regulatory Affairs, 

Attention: Education Desk Officer, 

Office of Management and Budget, 725 

17th Street, NW., Room 10222, 

Washington, DC 20503. Commenters are 

encouraged to submit responses 

electronically by e-mail to 

oira_submission@omb.eop.gov or via fax 

to (202) 395–6974. Commenters should 

include the following subject line in 

their response ‘‘Comment: [insert OMB 

number], [insert abbreviated collection 

name, e.g., ‘‘Upward Bound 

Evaluation’’]. Persons submitting 

comments electronically should not 

submit paper copies. 

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 IC Clearance 

Official, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of 

Management, 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: November 5, 2007. 

Angela C. Arrington, 

IC Clearance Official, Regulatory Information 

Management Services, Office of Management. 

Office of Special Education and 

Rehabilitative Services 

Type of Review: Revision. 

Title: Projects with Industry Annual 

Reporting Form. 

Frequency: Annually. 

Affected Public: Businesses or other 

for-profit; Not-for-profit institutions; 

State, Local, or Tribal Gov’t, SEAs or 

LEAs. 

Reporting and Recordkeeping Hour 

Burden: 

Responses: 72. 

Burden Hours: 6,480. 

Abstract: This collection will be used 

to measure the effectiveness of the 

Projects With Industry (PWI) Program in 

meeting its purpose, statutory 

requirements and address concerns 

raised as a result of the PART. The 

proposed revisions to the existing data 

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recommendations to collect job 

retention and earnings information that 

is consistent with the common measures 

for federal job training programs; (2) 

include demographic and other 

descriptive data on the individuals 

served by the program; and (3) 

consolidate the two existing reporting 

requirements thereby reducing the 

number of reports submitted by PWI 

grantees from two to one annually. The 

information collected will be aggregated 

in order to provide information to 

Congress, Office of Management and 

Budget, policy makers and the public. 

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 3454. When 

you access the information collection, 

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view. Written requests for information 

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Washington, DC 20202–4700. Requests 

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245–6623. Please specify the complete 

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Comments regarding burden and/or 

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DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION 

Closed Meeting of the National 

Advisory Council on Indian Education 

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Education, 

National Advisory Council on Indian 

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ACTION: Notice of Closed Teleconference 

Meeting. 

SUMMARY: This notice sets forth the 

schedule and proposed agenda of an 

upcoming teleconference meeting of the 

National Advisory Council on Indian 

Education (the Council) and is intended 

to notify the general public of the 

meeting. This notice also describes the 

functions of the Council. Notice of the 

Council’s meetings is required under 

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

Committee Act and by the Council’s 

charter. 

Agenda: The purpose of the meeting 

will be for the Council to conduct a 

review of the applications for the vacant 

position of Director of the Office of 

Indian Education and to make their 

recommendation to the Department. 

This notice is appearing in the Federal 

Register less than 15 days before the 

date of the meeting due to scheduling 

difficulties within the agency and with 

the Council. 

Date and Time: Nov. 15, 2007; 1 p.m. 

to 3 p.m. EST. 

Location: The Department of 

Education will provide a 1–800–call in 

number for all NACIE members. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Lana Shaughnessy, Group Leader, Office 

of Indian Education, U.S. Department of 

Education, 400 Maryland Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20202. Telephone: 

202–205–2528. Fax: 202–260–7779. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

Council advises the Secretary of 

Education on the funding and 

administration (including the 

development of regulations, and 

administrative policies and practices) of 

any program over which the Secretary 

has jurisdiction and includes Indian 

children or adults as participants or 

programs that may benefit Indian 

children or adults, including any 

program established under Title VII, 

Part A of the ESEA. The Council 

submitted to the Congress June 30 a 

report on the activities of the Council 

that included recommendations the 

Council considers appropriate for the 

improvement of Federal education 

programs that include Indian children 

or adults as participants or that may 

benefit Indian children or adults, and 

recommendations concerning the 

funding of any such program. 

Records are kept of all Council 

proceedings and are available for public 

inspection at the Office of Indian 

Education, United States Department of 

Education, Room 5C140, 400 Maryland 

Avenue, SW., Washington, DC 20202. 

Kerri L. Briggs, 

Assistant Secretary for Elementary and 

Secondary Education. 

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Notice of Availability of the Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

the Mesaba Energy Project 

AGENCY: Department of Energy. 

ACTION: Notice of Availability and 

public hearings. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of 

Energy (DOE) announces the availability 

of the Draft Environmental Impact 

Statement for the Mesaba Energy Project 

(DOE/EIS–0382D) for public comment, 

as well as the dates, locations and times 

for public hearings. The draft 

environmental impact statement (EIS) 

analyzes the potential environmental 

consequences of DOE’s proposed action 

to provide a total of $36 million in cofunding, through a financial assistance 

cooperative agreement, for the design 

and one-year operational demonstration 

of a coal-based, Integrated Gasification 

Combined Cycle (IGCC) electric 

generating facility on the Iron Range of 

northern Minnesota. DOE may also 

provide a loan guarantee pursuant to the 

Energy Policy Act of 2005 to guarantee 

a portion of private sector financing for 

the project; however, this loan guarantee 

is not part of DOE’s proposed action. 

The facility would be demonstrated 

through a cooperative agreement 

between DOE and Excelsior Energy Inc. 

(Excelsior) under the Clean Coal Power 

Initiative (CCPI) program. 

DATES: DOE invites the public to 

comment on the draft EIS during the 

public comment period, which ends 

January 11, 2008. DOE will consider all 

comments postmarked or received 

during the public comment period in 

preparing the Final EIS and will 

consider late comments to the extent 

practicable. 

DOE will conduct two public hearings 

to obtain comments on the draft EIS. 

The meetings will be held at the 

Taconite Community Center, 26 Haynes 

Street, Taconite, Minnesota, on 

Tuesday, November 27, 2007, beginning 

at 7 p.m., and at Hoyt Lakes Arena, 106 

Kennedy Memorial Drive, Hoyt Lakes, 

Minnesota, on Wednesday, November 

28, 2007, beginning at 7 p.m. An 

informational session will be held at 

each location from 4 p.m. to 7 p.m. 

preceding each meeting on the dates 

above. See the SUPPLEMENTARY

INFORMATION section for details on the 

meeting process. 

ADDRESSES: Requests for information 

about this draft EIS, or to receive a copy 

of the draft EIS, should be directed to: 

Mr. Richard A. Hargis, Jr., NEPA 

Document Manager, M/S 922–178C, 

U.S. Department of Energy, National 

Energy Technology Laboratory, P.O. Box 

10940, Pittsburgh, PA 15236–0940. 

Requests may also be submitted by 

telephone: 412–386–6065; toll free 

number: 888–322–7436 ext. 6065; fax: 

412–386–4604; or electronic mail: 

richard.hargis@netl.doe.gov. 

The draft EIS will be available at: 

http://www.eh.doe.gov/nepa/. Copies of 

the draft EIS are also available for 

review at the locations listed in the 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of 

this Notice. Written comments on the 

draft EIS can be submitted by mail, fax, 

or electronic mail to Mr. Richard A. 

Hargis, Jr., as indicated above. Oral 

comments on the draft EIS will be 

accepted only during the public 

hearings scheduled for the dates and 

locations provided in the DATES section 

of this Notice. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION, CONTACT: For 

further information regarding the 

proposed project or the draft EIS, please 

contact Mr. Richard A. Hargis, Jr., (see 

ADDRESSES). For general information on 

the DOE NEPA process, please contact: 

Ms. Carol M. Borgstrom, Director, Office 

of NEPA Policy and Compliance (GC–

20), U.S. Department of Energy, 1000 

Independence Avenue, SW., 

Washington, DC 20585–0103; 

Telephone: 202–586–4600, or leave a 

toll-free message at: 800–472–2756. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Description of Alternatives and Scope 

of the EIS 

DOE’s Proposed Action is to provide 

a total of $36 million in co-funding, 

through a cooperative agreement with 

Excelsior under the CCPI Program, for 

the design and one-year operational 

demonstration testing period for Phase I 

of the proposed two-phased Mesaba 

Energy Project. The first phase would be 

a nominal 606 megawatt electricity 

(MWe) IGCC power plant with an 

estimated cost of $2.16 billion. Phase II, 

which would be an identical, co-located 

606 MWe plant, would be privately 

financed and not involve co-funding by 

DOE. The project would demonstrate 

the commercial-readiness of the 

Conoco-Phillips E-Gas TM gasification 

technology, including advanced 

gasification and air separation systems, 

feedstock flexibility, improved 


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