65300 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 243 / Tuesday, December 19, 1995 / Notices

Availability as amended remains

unchanged.

ADDRESSES: Written comments on the

draft PEIS should be mailed to the

following address:

U.S. Department of Energy, Waste

Management PEIS Comments, P.O.

Box 3790, Gaithersburg, MD 20885–

3790.

Requests for information about and

copies of the draft PEIS should be

directed to:

Center for Environmental Management

Information, P.O. Box

23769,Washington, DC 20026–3769,

1–800–736–3282 or in Washington,

D.C.: 202–863–5084.

For information on the DOE National

Environmental Policy Act process,

contact:

Carol M. Borgstrom, Director, Office of

NEPA Policy and Assistance (EH–

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

Independence Avenue, SW.,

Washington, DC 20585, (202) 586–

4600 or leave message at 1–800–472–

2756.

DATES: The comment period on the draft

PEIS will continue through February 19,

1996. Comments postmarked after that

date will be considered to the extent

practicable.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On September 22, 1995, the

Department issued a Notice of

Availability (60 FR 49264) on the draft

PEIS that included: a brief description

of the contents of the document and

alternatives analyzed; a list of reading

rooms where the full document is

available to the public; information on

how to obtain additional copies of the

document and submit public comments;

and a schedule of public hearings. This

Notice also announced a ninety-day

public comment period extending from

September 22, 1995 to December 21,

1995.

On October 25, 1995, the Department

issued an amendment (60 FR 54670) to

the Notice of Availability. This

amendment revised the schedule of

public hearings in order to increase

accessibility to the hearings. The

amendment listed new hearing times

and locations in the states of Illinois,

New Mexico, New York, Oregon and

Washington.

The public comment period is being

extended to February 19, 1996, in

response to public requests for

additional time to review the document

and prepare comments. Except as

otherwise specified above, all

information contained in the September

22, 1995 Notice of Availability as

amended remains unchanged.

Issued in Washington, DC, December 13,

1995.

David F. Hoel,

PEIS Document Manager, Office of Waste

Management, Environmental Management.

[FR Doc. 95–30751 Filed 12–18–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6450–01–P

Oak Ridge Operations Office;

Determination of Noncompetitive

Financial Assistance

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of

Energy (DOE). Oak Ridge Operations

Office, pursuant to 10 CFR 600.7(b)(2),

announces its intent to issue on a

noncompetitive basis a renewal award

to the United States Automotive

Materials Partnership (USAMP) for a

project entitled, ‘‘Automotive

Lightweight Materials Program’’.

USAMP is a consortium of Chrysler

Corporation, Ford Motor Company, and

General Motors Corporation. The period

of performance for this project is four

years with operating funds in the

amount of $15,000,000 being allocated

for this effort. These funds will be

matched equally by USAMP under this

cooperative agreement.

PROCUREMENT REQUEST NO.: 05–

96OR22363.001.

PROJECT SCOPE: The USAMP mission is

to continue to define and conduct precompetitive, vehicle-related research

and development (R&D) in materials

and materials processing which will

improve the competitiveness of the U.S.

automotive industry. USAMP goals are

to develop several families of

automotive materials that will impact

strategic needs of the industry. These

needs include improved fuel economy

through vehicle weight reduction,

improved reliability and durability,

reduced friction, noise and vibration,

lower cost materials and manufacturing

processes, flexibility of design and

styling, and reduced emissions. The

project participants, including Chrysler,

Ford, General Motors, and their

suppliers, are making available for this

effort their internal automotive R&D

facilities, as well as demonstration

facilities in manufacturing operations

and at suppliers. These capabilities are

world class and cannot be matched and/

or duplicated except at other automotive

manufacturer R&D sites. The recipient’s

resources, capabilities, facilities, and

situation in the private sector are

unsurpassed. There exists no other

similar company or consortium with the

capabilities and supplier base with

which to competitively bid this work.

Therefore, in accordance with 10 CFR

600.7(b)(2)(i), it has been determined

that the activity to be funded is

necessary for the satisfactory

completion of an activity that will

enhance the public benefit derived and

for which competition would have a

significant adverse effect on completion

of the activity. In addition, based upon

the consortium partner’s and their

supplier’s unique facilities, equipment,

proprietary data, and technical

expertise, the recipient has exclusive

domestic capability to perform the

activities successfully. Eligibility for

renewal of this award is, therefore,

restricted to USAMP.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mark A. Million, Contract Specialist,

U.S. Department of Energy, Oak Ridge

Operations Office, Procurement and

Contracts Division, AD–423, Oak Ridge,

TN 37831–8758, (423) 576–7814.

Issued in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, on

December 6, 1995.

Peter D. Dayton,

Director, Procurement and Contracts Division,

Oak Ridge Operations Office.

[FR Doc. 95–30753 Filed 12–18–95; 8:45 am]

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Savannah River Operations Office;

Interim Management of Nuclear

Materials at Savannah River Site

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Record of decision and notice of

preferred alternatives.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of

Energy (DOE) prepared a final

environmental impact statement (EIS),

‘‘Interim Management of Nuclear

Materials’’, (DOE/EIS–0220, October 20,

1995) to assess the potential

environmental impacts of actions

necessary to manage nuclear materials

at the Savannah River Site (SRS), Aiken,

South Carolina, until decisions on their

ultimate disposition are made and

implemented. The actions evaluated in

the EIS would stabilize SRS materials

that represent environment, safety and

health vulnerabilities in their current

storage condition or which may

represent a vulnerability within the next

10 years. These vulnerabilities are the

result of the suspension of nuclear

materials production and processing

operations which accompanied the end

of the Cold War. Although DOE has

initiated programmatic and project

specific environmental evaluations on

the ultimate disposition of the nuclear

materials in the DOE complex which are