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request to the program contact person 

listed in this section. 

VIII. Other Information 

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Dated: February 16, 2007. 

Deborah A. Price, 

Assistant Deputy Secretary for Safe and DrugFree Schools. 

[FR Doc. E7–3036 Filed 2–21–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P 

ELECTION ASSISTANCE COMMISSION 

Sunshine Act Notice 

AGENCY: United States Election 

Assistance Commission. 

* * * * * 

ACTION: Notice of Public Meeting. 

DATE & TIME: Wednesday, February 21, 

2007, 8 a.m.–8:30 a.m. 

PLACE: Ritz-Carlton Atlanta, 191 

Peachtree Street, NE., Ballroom PreFunction III/IV, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, 

(404) 659–0400. 

AGENDA: The Commission will consider 

accrediting iBeta Quality Assurance and 

SysTest Labs LLC. to receive federal 

approval to test voting systems against 

federal voting system standards and 

guidelines based upon the 

recommendations of the National 

Institute of Standards and Technology 

(NIST) as required by the Help America 

Vote Act (HAVA). 

This meeting will be open to the 

public. 

STATEMENT OF EXCEPTION

CIRCUMSTANCES: This notice of a meeting 

will not be published in the Federal 

Register 7 days prior to the meeting 

date. Late notice was unavoidable due 

to the combination of two factors: (1) 

The time required for EAC to properly 

evaluate the January 18, 2007 

recommendations EAC received from 

NIST to federally accredit two voting 

system test laboratories and (2) to serve 

the public interest by having the two 

federally accredited labs in place 

immediately in order to begin testing 

voting systems against federal voting 

system standards and guidelines. With 

the 2008 elections schedule fast 

approaching, it is most critical that the 

federal voting system testing process 

begin at the earliest possible date. 

PERSON TO CONTACT FOR INFORMATION: 

Bryan Whitener, Telephone: (202) 566–

3100. 

* * * * * 

Gracia M. Hillman, 

Commissioner, U.S. Election Assistance 

Commission. 

[FR Doc. 07–809 Filed 2–16–07; 4:21 pm] 

BILLING CODE 6820–KF–M 

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 

Record of Decision and Floodplain 

Statement of Findings: Site Selection 

for the Expansion of the Strategic 

Petroleum Reserve 

AGENCY: Office of Fossil Energy, U.S. 

Department of Energy (DOE). 

ACTION: Record of Decision (ROD). 

SUMMARY: DOE has prepared an 

environmental impact statement (EIS) 

(DOE/EIS–0385), pursuant to the 

National Environmental Policy Act of 

1969 (NEPA), to assess the 

environmental impacts associated with 

a proposal to expand the crude oil 

storage capacity of the Strategic 

Petroleum Reserve (SPR) from 727 

million barrels (MMB) to 1 billion 

barrels, and to fill the Reserve to the full 

authorized volume of 1 billion barrels. 

The proposal was to develop one new 

storage facility and expand the capacity 

of two or three existing SPR storage 

facilities. 

After careful consideration of the 

environmental impacts of the 

alternatives, along with an evaluation of 

SPR distribution capabilities, geological 

technical assessments, projected costs, 

and operational impacts associated with 

existing commercial operations, DOE 

has decided to develop a new 160 MMB 

SPR storage facility at Richton 

(Mississippi), expand the storage 

capacity at the existing Bayou Choctaw 

(Louisiana) SPR facility by 33 MMB, 

expand the storage capacity at the 

existing Big Hill (Texas) SPR facility by 

80 MMB, and fill the Reserve to 1 

billion barrels of oil as authorized by 

Congress. 

This ROD has been prepared in 

accordance with the regulations of the 

Council on Environmental Quality (40 

CFR Parts 1500–1508) for implementing 

NEPA and DOE’s NEPA Implementing 

Procedures (10 CFR Part 1021). The 

accompanying Floodplain Statement of 

Findings has been prepared in 

accordance with DOE’s regulations 

‘‘Compliance with Floodplain and 

Wetland Environmental Review 

Requirements’’ (10 CFR Part 1022). 

Because the decision differs somewhat 

from the alternatives evaluated in the 

EIS, DOE has prepared a Supplement 

Analysis (SA) (DOE/EIS–0385–SA–1) to 

determine whether a supplement to the 

final EIS is required. DOE has 

determined that the minor modification 

to the Bayou Choctaw expansion site, 

i.e., an increase in capacity of 33 MMB 

compared to 20 MMB as described in 

the final EIS, is not a substantial change 

to the proposed action that is relevant 

to environmental concerns, and there 

are no significant new circumstances or 

information relevant to environmental 

concerns and bearing on the proposed 

action or its impacts, within the 

meaning of 40 CFR 1502.9(c)(1) and 10 

CFR 1021.314(c). Therefore, a 

supplement to the SPR final EIS is not 

needed. 

ADDRESSES: The final EIS is available on 

the DOE NEPA Web site at http:// 

www.eh.doe.gov/nepa/ 

documentspub.html and on the project’s 

Web site at http:// 

www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/ 

reserves/spr/expansion-eis.html, and the 

ROD and SA will be available on both 

Web sites in the near future. Copies of 

the final EIS and this ROD and SA may 

be requested by contacting Donald 

Silawsky at the Office of Petroleum 

Reserves (FE–47), U.S. Department of 

Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, 

SW., Washington, DC 20585, by 

telephone at 202–586–1892, by 

facsimile at 202–586–4446, or by 

electronic mail at 

donald.silawsky@hq.doe.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For 

further information on the site selection 

for the expansion of the Strategic 

Petroleum Reserve, contact David 

Johnson at the Office of Petroleum 

Reserves (FE–42), U.S. Department of 

Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue, 

SW., Washington, DC 20585, by 

telephone at 202–586–4733, by 

facsimile at 202–586–7919, or by 

electronic mail at 

david.johnson@hq.doe.gov. For general 

information on the DOE NEPA process, 

contact Carol Borgstrom, Director, Office 

of NEPA Policy and Compliance (GC–

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


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