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Affected Public: Individuals and 

Households. 

Annual Burden: 10. 

Number of Respondents: 10. 

Responses Per Respondent: 1. 

Average Burden Per Response: 1 

Hour. 

Frequency: On Occasion. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Summary of Information Collection 

Respondents are Air Force retired 

members and certain Reserve members 

who have gained jobs with a foreign 

government and who must obtain 

approval of the Secretary of the Air 

Force and Secretary of State to do so. 

Information, in the form of a letter, 

includes a detailed description of duty, 

name of employer, Social Security 

Number, and statements specifying 

whether or not the employee will be 

compensated; declaring if employee will 

be required or plans to obtain foreign 

citizenship; declaring that the member 

will be required or plans to obtain 

foreign citizenship; declaring that the 

member will be required or plans to 

obtain foreign citizenship; declaring that 

the member will not be required to 

execute an oath of allegiance to the 

foreign government; verifying that the 

member understands that retired pay 

equivalent to the amount received from 

the foreign government may be withheld 

if he or she accepts employment with a 

foreign government before receiving 

approval. Reserve members only must 

include a request to be reassigned to 

Inactive Status List Reserve Section 

(Reserve Section Code RB). After 

verifying the status of the individual, 

the letter is forwarded to the Air Force 

Review Board for processing. If the 

signed letter is not included in the file, 

individuals reviewing the file cannot 

furnish the necessary information to the 

Secretary of the Air Force and Secretary 

of State on which a decision can be 

made. Requested information is 

necessary to maintain the integrity of 

the Request for Approval of Foreign 

Government Employment Program. 

Dated: February 12, 2007. 

Patricia L. Toppings, 

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison 

Officer, Department of Defense. 

[FR Doc. 07–731 Filed 2–15–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 5001–06–M 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

Inland Waterways Users Board; 

Request for Nominations 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: Section 302 of Public Law 99–

662 established the Inland Waterways 

Users Board. The Board is an 

independent Federal advisory 

committee. The Secretary of the Army 

appoints its 11 members. This notice is 

to solicit nominations for six (6) 

appointments or reappointments to twoyear terms that will begin after August 

1, 2007. 

ADDRESSES: Office of the Assistant 

Secretary of the Army (Civil Works), 

Attention: Inland Waterways Users 

Board Nominations Committee, 108 

Army Pentagon, Washington, DC 

20310–0108. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Office of the Assistant Secretary of the 

Army (Civil Works), (703) 697–8986. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

selection, service, and appointment of 

Board members are covered by 

provisions of Section 302 of Public Law 

99–662. The substance of those 

provisions is as follows: 

a. Selection. Members are to be 

selected from the spectrum of 

commercial carriers and shippers using 

the inland and intracoastal waterways, 

to represent geographical regions, and to 

be representative of waterborne 

commerce as determined by commodity 

ton-miles statistics. 

b. Service. The Board is required to 

meet at least semi-annually to develop 

and make recommendations to the 

Secretary of the Army on waterways 

construction and rehabilitation 

priorities and spending levels for 

commercial navigation improvements, 

and report its recommendations 

annually to the Secretary and Congress. 

c. Appointment. The operation of the 

Board and appointment of its members 

are subject to the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463, as 

amended) and departmental 

implementing regulations. Members 

serve without compensation but their 

expenses due to Board activities are 

reimbursable. The considerations 

specified in Section 302 for the 

selection of the Board members, and 

certain terms used therein, have been 

interpreted, supplemented, or otherwise 

clarified as follows: 

(1) Carriers and Shippers. The law 

uses the terms ‘‘primary users and 

shippers.’’ Primary users have been 

interpreted to mean the providers of 

transportation services on inland 

waterways such as barge or towboat 

operators. Shippers have been 

interpreted to mean the purchasers of 

such services for the movement of 

commodities they own or control. 

Individuals are appointed to the Board, 

but they must be either a carrier or 

shipper, or represent a firm that is a 

carrier or shipper. For that purpose a 

trade or regional association is neither a 

shipper not primary user. 

(2) Geographical Representation. The 

law specifies ‘‘various’’ regions. For the 

purpose of selecting Board members, the 

waterways subjected to fuel taxes and 

described in Public Law 95–502, as 

amended, have been aggregated into six 

regions. They are (1) the Upper 

Mississippi River and its tributaries 

above the mouth of the Ohio; (2) the 

Lower Mississippi River and its 

tributaries below the mouth of the Ohio 

and above Baton Rouge; (3) the Ohio 

River and its tributaries; (4) the Gulf 

Intracoastal Waterway in Louisiana and 

Texas; (5) the Gulf Intracoastal 

Waterway east of New Orleans and 

associated fuel-taxed waterways 

including the Tennessee-Tombigbee, 

plus the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway 

below Norfolk; and (6) the ColumbiaSnake Rivers System and Upper 

Willamette. The intent is that each 

region shall be represented by at least 

one Board member, with that 

representation determined by the 

regional concentration of the 

individual’s traffic on the waterways. 

(3) Commodity Representation. 

Waterway commerce has been 

aggregated into six commodity 

categories based on ‘‘inland’’ ton-miles 

shown in Waterborne Commerce of the 

United States. These categories are (1) 

Farm and Food Products; (2) Coal and 

Coke; (3) Petroleum, Crude and 

Products; (4) Minerals, Ores, and 

Primary Metals and Mineral Products; 

(5) Chemicals and Allied Products; and 

(6) All Other. A consideration in the 

selection of Board members will be that 

the commodities carried or shipped by 

those individuals or their firms will be 

reasonably representative of the above 

commodity categories. 

d. Nomination. Reflecting preceding 

selection criteria, the current 

representation by the six (6) Board 

members whose terms will expire is one 

member each representing regions 1, 2, 

4 and 5, and two members representing 

region 3. Also, four of these Board 

members represent carriers, one 

represents a shipper and one represents 

a carrier/shipper. 

Two of the six members whose terms 

will expire are eligible for 

reappointment. Nominations to replace 

Board members whose terms expire may 

be made by individuals, firms or 

associations. Nominations will: 

(1) State the region(s) to be 

represented. 


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(2) State whether the nominee is 

representing carriers, shippers or both. 

(3) provide information on the 

nominee’s personal qualifications. 

(4) Include the commercial operations 

of the carrier and/or shipper with whom 

the nominee is affiliated. This 

commercial operations information will 

show the actual or estimated ton-miles 

of each commodity carried or shipped 

on the inland waterways system in a 

recent year (or years) using the 

waterway regions and commodity 

categories previously listed. 

Nominations received in response to 

Federally Register notice published on 

February 17, 2006 (71 FR 8568) and 

notice published on July 7, 2006 (71 FR 

38629) have been retained for 

consideration. Renomination is not 

required but may be desirable. 

e. Deadline for Nominations. All 

nominations must be received at the 

address shown above no later than April 

15, 2007. 

Brenda S. Bowen, 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

[FR Doc. 07–718 Filed 2–15–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3710–92–M 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

Availability for Non-Exclusive, 

Exclusive, or Partially Exclusive 

Licensing of U.S. Patent Application 

Concerning Detection and 

Discrimination of Anomalies in Breast 

Tissue Images 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with 37 CFR 

404.6 and 404.7, announcement is made 

of the availability for licensing of the 

invention set forth in U.S. Patent 

Application No. 11/340,375 entitled 

‘‘Medical Image Processing 

Methodology for Detection and 

Discrimination of Objects in Tissue,’’

filed on January 26, 2006. The United 

States Government, as represented by 

the Secretary of the Army, has rights in 

this invention. 

ADDRESSES: Office of Research and 

Technology Applications, SDMC–

RDTC–TDL (Ms. Susan D. McRae), Bldg. 

5220, Von Braun Complex, Redstone 

Arsenal, AL 35898. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Joan Gilsdorf, Patent Attorney, e-mail: 

joan.gilsdorf@smdc.army.mil; (256) 

955–3213 or Ms. Susan D. McRae, Office 

of Research and Technology 

Applications, e-mail: 

susan.mcrae@smdc.army.mil; (256) 

955–1501. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

invention pertains to the 

implementation of image processing and 

response surface methodology 

algorithms to process images (e.g., 

mammogram, magnetic resonance 

imaging (MRI), and ultrasound imagery) 

to provide improved detection of 

objects, such as anomalous masses in 

dense breast tissue, to better 

characterize these masses as cancerous 

or benign, and to identify the margins of 

cancerous tissue. 

Brenda S. Bowen, 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

[FR Doc. 07–720 Filed 2–15–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3710–08–M 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army 

Availability for Non-Exclusive, 

Exclusive, or Partially Exclusive 

Licensing of U.S. Patent Application 

Concerning Inducing and Sealing 

Cracks in Containment Vessels 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with 37 CFR 

404.6 and 404.7, announcement is made 

of the availability of licensing of the 

invention set forth in U.S. Patent 

Application No. 11/460,593 entitled 

‘‘Method of Inducing and Sealing Cracks 

in Vessels,’’ filed on July 27, 2006. The 

United States Government, as 

represented by the Secretary of the 

Army, has rights in this invention. 

ADDRESSES: Office of Research and 

Technology Applications, SDMC–

RDTC–TDL (Ms. Susan D. McRae), Bldg. 

5220, Von Braun Complex, Redstone 

Arsenal, AL 35898. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Joan Gilsdorf, Patent Attorney, e-mail: 

joan.gilsdorf@smdc.army.mil; (256) 

955–3213 or Ms. Susan D. McRae, Office 

of Research and Technology 

Applications, e-mail: 

susan.mcrae@smdc.army.mil; (256) 

955–1501. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

invention pertains to inducing and 

sealing cracks in newly constructed 

containment vessels, such as linerless 

composite tanks, that are subject to 

crack propagation during the life of the 

vessels. The cracks are sealed before the 

vessel is placed in service to prevent or 

reduce leakage of the fluids that are 

stored in the vessels. 

Brenda S. Bowen, 

Army Federal Register Liaison Officer. 

[FR Doc. 07–721 Filed 2–15–07; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 3710–08–M 

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 

Department of the Army; Corps of 

Engineers 

Intent To Prepare a Draft 

Environmental Impact Statement for 

Restoring the Integrity of the Amite 

River and Restoring Various Natural 

Functions That Have Been Degraded 

or Lost as a Result of Human-Induced 

Factors, in All or Portions of 

Ascension, East Baton Rouge, East 

Feliciana, Livingston, St. Helena, and 

St. John Parishes, in Southeastern 

Louisiana 

AGENCY: Department of the Army, U.S. 

Army Corps of Engineers, DoD. 

ACTION: Notice of intent. 

SUMMARY: The U.S. Army Corps of 

Engineers, New Orleans District, is 

initiating this study under the authority 

of the Committee on Transportation and 

Infrastructure of the United States 

House of Representatives resolution, 

adopted July 23, 1998, which reads as 

follows: 

‘‘Resolved by the Committee on 

Transportation and Infrastructure of the 

United States House of Representatives 

Resolution, that the Secretary of the Army is 

requested to review the report of the Chief of 

Engineers on the Amite River and 

Tributaries, Louisiana, published as House 

Document 419, 84th Congress, 2nd Session, 

and other pertinent reports, with a view to 

determining whether modifications of the 

recommendations contained therein are 

advisable at the present time in the interest 

of environmental restoration and protection, 

water quality, and sediment control, 

recreation, and the avoidance or 

minimization of undesirable impacts 

resulting from urbanization and other present 

and future watershed activities.’’

The study will determine the 

feasibility of reducing turbidity, 

lowering temperatures, and reducing the 

extent of the physical changes within 

the Amite River corridor in an effort to 

achieve fish and wildlife restoration and 

provide outdoor public recreation 

opportunities. This effort will 

significantly contribute to the watershed 

management objectives of the state of 

Louisiana. 

The study area includes the Amite 

River drainage basin in southeastern 

Louisiana, in Ascension, East Baton 

Rouge, East Feliciana, Livingston, St. 


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