7964 Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 28 / Friday, February 10, 1995 / Notices

ERP No. DS–NRC–E06008–TN

Rating EC2, Watts Bar Nuclear Plant,

Unit 1 and 2, Updated Information,

Related to the Operations, Approval for

Application for a Facility Operating

License and NPDES Permit, Rhea

County, TN.

Summary: EPA expressed

environmental concerns regarding low

level waste disposal pollution

prevention and noise. Additional

information on these issues was

requested.

Final EISs

ERP No. F–BLM–A60116–00

Rangeland Reform 1994 Program,

Implementation, Land Acquisition and

Permits Approval.

Summary: EPA expressed

environmental concerns over the Forest

Service’s reluctance to implement

national standards and guidelines

(S&Gs), inadequate information on how

to include state and private lands, lack

of detail on monitoring and instituting

adaptive management, the use of range

betterment funds and the need for a

specific S&G to fully evaluate air quality

consequences. However, the final EIS

was responsive to many of EPA’s

comments made on the draft EIS.

ERP No. F–DOE–E09800–SC

F-Canyon Plutonium Solutions

Stabilization Project, Implementation,

Savannah River Site, Aiken and

Barnwell Counties, SC.

Summary: EPA’s issues were

addressed except in the F-Canyon area

where EPA expects minimal impacts.

Dated: February 7, 1995.

Richard E. Sanderson,

Director, Office of Federal Activities.

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Office of Research and Development

Pacific Northwest Ecosystem

Management Research Program

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency, Environmental Research

Laboratory, Corvallis, Oregon.

ACTION: Notice of Request for Preapplications.

SUMMARY: The United States

Environmental Protection Agency

(USEPA), Environmental Research

Laboratory at Corvallis, Oregon, is

requesting assistance pre-applications

for a cooperative agreement on

ecosystem management research in the

Pacific Northwest (primarily Oregon

and Washington).

DATES: Pre-applications will be due

April 7, 1995.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Dr.

Joan P. Baker, USEPA, Environmental

Research Laboratory, 200 SW 35th

Street, Corvallis, Oregon 97333, (503)

754–4517, FAX (503) 754–4716, or

internet joan@mail.cor.epa.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The

purpose of this cooperative agreement is

to stimulate the broad range of

ecological research needed to improve

the scientific information,

understanding, analyses, and methods

required to implement ecosystem

management effectively in the region.

Important parts of the agreement will be

the integration of research across

scientific disciplines, ecosystem types,

spatial scales, and geographic areas and

the active involvement of the broad

ecological research component with

relevant expertise. Research areas

include regional biodiversity,

watershed/ecoregion-scale assessments,

ecological functions of riparian areas,

coastal estuaries, extrapolation,

integrated monitoring design, and

ecological/socioeconomic linkages.

USEPA scientists will collaborate with

the recipient on the design, conduct,

and interpretation of research funded

through this agreement.

The cooperative agreement will have

a period of performance up to five years.

Annual funding will range between

$1,000,000 and $3,000,000 per year. Preapplications must be received by April

7, 1995. An independent peer review

panel will evaluate all assistance preaplications. Based on this review, one or

more applicants will be requested to

submit full assistance applications. A

single applicant will be selected for

funding based on peer review of these

full assistance applications. Eligible

applicants include members of

academic and nonprofit institutions

located in the United States.

Federal grant regulation 40 CFR

30.307 requires that all recipient

institutions provide a minimum of 5

percent of the total project cost, which

shall not be from Federal sources.

Statutory authority for EPA funding of

the specified research is authorized in

the Clean Water Act, Sections 104 (a),

(b), (g), (h), and (i). Interested applicants

must be eligible to receive Federal

Assistance under these statutory

authorities and 40 CFR 30—General

Regulation for Assistance Programs, and

40 CFR 40—Research and

Demonstration Grants. Only nonprofit

research institutions of higher education

or nonprofit research organizations

eligible to receive Federal assistance

under these acts should submit

applications.

To obtain a more detailed statement of

the research and instructions for

assistance pre-applications, contact Dr.

Joan Baker, at the address listed above.

An optional information meeting, to

answer questions about this solicitation,

will be held March 1 at the USEPA

Environmental Research Laboratory in

Corvallis. If you plan to attend this

meeting (in person or via

teleconferencing), call Patricia Hawk at

(503) 754–4504 to reserve a space and

receive directions.

Dated: February 6, 1995.

Robert J. Huggett,

Assistant Administrator for Research and

Development.

[FR Doc. 95–3378 Filed 2–9–95; 8:45 am]

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Effluent Guidelines Task Force Open

Meeting

AGENCY: Environmental Protection

Agency (EPA).

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

SUMMARY: The Effluent Guidelines Task

Force, an EPA advisory committee, will

hold a meeting to discuss improvements

to the Agency’s Effluent Guidelines

Program. The meeting is open to the

public.

DATES: The meeting will be held on

Tuesday, February 28, from 8:30 am to

5:00 pm, and Wednesday, March 1,

1995, from 8:30 am to 3:00 pm.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will take place

at the Dupont Plaza Hotel, 1500 New

Hampshire Avenue NW., Washington,

DC.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Shelia Frace, Acting Effluent Guidelines

Task Force Staff Director, Office of

Water (4303), 401 M Street SW.,

Washington, DC 20460; telephone 202–

260–7120, fax 202–260–7185.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Pursuant

to the Federal Advisory Committee Act

(Pub. L. 92–463), the Environmental

Protection Agency gives notice of a

meeting of the Effluent Guidelines Task

Force (EGTF). The EGTF is a

subcommittee of the National Advisory

Council for Environmental Policy and

Technology (NACEPT), the external

policy advisory board to the

Administrator of EPA.

The EGTF was established in July of

1992 to advise EPA on the Effluent

Guidelines Program, which develops

regulations for dischargers of industrial