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2. Membership 

(a) Pursuant to 20 U.S.C. 1411(h)(6), 

the Advisory Board will be composed of 

up to 15 individuals involved in or 

concerned with the education and 

provision of services to Indian infants, 

toddlers, children, and youth with 

disabilities. The Advisory Board 

composition will reflect a broad range of 

viewpoints and will include at least one 

member representing each of the 

following interests: Indians with 

disabilities; teachers of children with 

disabilities; Indian parents or guardians 

of children with disabilities; service 

providers, state education officials; local 

education officials; state interagency 

coordinating councils (for states having 

Indian reservations); tribal 

representatives or tribal organization 

representatives; and other members 

representing the various divisions and 

entities of the BIE. 

(b) The Assistant Secretary—Indian 

Affairs may provide the Secretary of the 

Interior recommendations for the 

chairperson; however, the chairperson 

and other Advisory Board members will 

be appointed by the Secretary of the 

Interior. Advisory Board members shall 

serve staggered terms of two years or 

three years from the date of their 

appointment. 

3. Miscellaneous 

(a) Members of the Advisory Board 

will not receive compensation, but will 

be reimbursed for travel, including 

subsistence, and other necessary 

expenses incurred in the performance of 

their duties in the same manner as 

persons employed intermittently in 

Government Service under 5 U.S.C. 

5703. 

(b) A member may not participate in 

matters that will directly affect, or 

appear to affect, the financial interests 

of the member or the member’s spouse 

or minor children, unless authorized by 

the appropriate ethics official. 

Compensation from employment does 

not constitute a financial interest of the 

member so long as the matter before the 

committee will not have a special or 

distinct effect on the member or the 

member’s employer, other than as part 

of a class. The provisions of this 

paragraph do not affect any other 

statutory or regulatory ethical 

obligations to which a member may be 

subject. 

(c) The Advisory Board meets at least 

twice a year, budget permitting, but 

additional meetings may be held as 

deemed necessary by the Assistant 

Secretary—Indian Affairs or the DFO. 

(d) All Advisory Board meetings are 

open to the public in accordance with 

the Federal Advisory Committee Act 

regulations. 

4. Nomination Information 

(a) Nominations are requested from 

individuals, organizations, and federally 

recognized tribes, as well as from State 

Directors of Special Education (within 

the 23 states in which BIE-funded 

schools are located) concerned with the 

education of Indian children with 

disabilities as described above. 

(b) Nominees should have expertise 

and knowledge of the issues and/or 

needs of American Indian children with 

disabilities. Such knowledge and 

expertise are needed to provide advice 

and recommendations to the BIE 

regarding the needs of American Indian 

children with disabilities. 

(c) A summary of the candidates’ 

qualifications (re ́sume ́ or curriculum 

vitae) must be included with the 

nomination application, which can be 

found on the Bureau of Indian 

Education Web site. Nominees must 

have the ability to attend Advisory 

Board meetings, carry out Advisory 

Board assignments, participate in 

teleconference calls, and work in 

groups. 

(d) The Department of the Interior is 

committed to equal opportunities in the 

workplace and seeks diverse Committee 

membership, which is bound by Indian 

Preference Act of 1990 (25 U.S.C. 472). 

5. Basis for Nominations 

If you wish to nominate someone for 

appointment to the Advisory Board, 

please do not make the nomination until 

the person has agreed to have his or her 

name submitted to the BIE for this 

purpose. 

6. Nomination Application 

Please fill out the application form 

completely and include a copy of the 

nominee’s resume or curriculum vitae. 

The membership nomination form can 

be found on the BIE Web site at 

http://www.bie.edu/Programs/

SpecialEd/AdvisoryBoard/index.htm. 

7. Information Collection 

This collection of information is 

authorized by OMB Control Number 

1076–0179, ‘‘Solicitation of 

Nominations for the Advisory Board for 

Exceptional Children.’’ 

Dated: January 11, 2016. 

Lawrence S. Roberts, 

Acting Assistant Secretary—Indian Affairs. 

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Advisory Board for Exceptional 

Children 

AGENCY: Bureau of Indian Affairs, 

Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of meeting. 

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Indian 

Education (BIE) is announcing that the 

Advisory Board for Exceptional 

Children (Advisory Board) will hold its 

next meeting in Albuquerque, New 

Mexico. The purpose of the meeting is 

to meet the mandates of the Individuals 

with Disabilities Education Act of 2004 

(IDEA) for Indian children with 

disabilities. 

DATES: The Advisory Board will meet on 

Thursday, March 17, 2016, from 8:30 

a.m. to 4:30 p.m. and Friday, March 18, 

2016, from 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Local 

Time. 

ADDRESSES: The meetings will be held at 

the Manual Lujan, Jr. Building, Room 

234, 1011 Indian School Road NW., 

Albuquerque, NM 87104. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. 

Sue Bement, Designated Federal Officer, 

Bureau of Indian Education, 

Albuquerque Service Center, Division of 

Performance and Accountability, 1011 

Indian School Road NW., Suite 332, 

Albuquerque, NM 87104; telephone 

number (505) 563–5274. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: In 

accordance with the Federal Advisory 

Committee Act, BIE is announcing that 

the Advisory Board will hold its next 

meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico. 

The Advisory Board was established 

under the Individuals with Disabilities 

Education Act of 2004 (20 U.S.C. 1400 

et seq.) to advise the Secretary of the 

Interior, through the Assistant 

Secretary-Indian Affairs, on the needs of 

Indian children with disabilities. The 

meetings are open to the public. 

The following items will be on the 

agenda: 

• Introduction of Advisory Board members 

• Report from Gloria Yepa, Supervisory 

Education Specialist, BIE, Division of 

Performance and Accountability 

• Report from BIE Director’s Office 

• Board work on Priority’s for 2016 

• Public Comment (via conference call, 

March 18, 2016 meeting only*). 

• BIE Advisory Board-Advice and 

Recommendations 

* During the March 18, 2016, meeting, time 

has been set aside for public comment via 

conference call from 1:30—2:00 p.m. Eastern 

Standard Time. The call-in information is: 

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Conference Number 1–888–417–0376, 

Passcode 1509140. 

Dated: January 11, 2016. 

Lawrence S. Roberts, 

Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary—Indian 

Affairs. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR 

[FWS–R4–FHC–2016–N004; 

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Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill; Final 

Phase V Early Restoration Plan and 

Environmental Assessment 

AGENCY: Interior. 

ACTION: Notice of availability. 

SUMMARY: In accordance with the Oil 

Pollution Act of 1990 (OPA), the 

National Environmental Policy Act 

(NEPA), and the Framework Agreement 

for Early Restoration Addressing 

Injuries Resulting from the Deepwater 

Horizon Oil Spill, notice is hereby given 

that the Federal and State natural 

resource trustee agencies (Trustees) 

have approved the Phase V Early 

Restoration Plan and Environmental 

Assessment (Phase V ERP/EA). The 

Trustees have selected the first phase of 

the Florida Coastal Access Project 

which is consistent with the early 

restoration program alternatives selected 

in the final Phase III Early Restoration 

Plan/Programmatic Environmental 

Impact Statement (Phase III ERP/PEIS). 

This early restoration project will 

continue the process of restoring natural 

resources and services injured or lost as 

a result of the Deepwater Horizon oil 

spill, which occurred on or about April 

20, 2010, in the Gulf of Mexico. The 

Phase V ERP/EA also includes notices of 

change and supporting analysis for two 

Phase III Early Restoration Projects: 

‘‘Strategically Provided Boat Access 

Along Florida’s Gulf Coast—City of Port 

St. Joe, Frank Pate Boat Ramp 

Improvements’’ and ‘‘Florida Artificial 

Reef Creation and Restoration.’’ 

ADDRESSES: Obtaining Documents: You 

may download the Phase V ERP/EA at: 

http://www.gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov 

or http://www.doi.gov/deepwater

horizon. Alternatively, you may request 

a CD of the Phase V ERP/EAs (see FOR

FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT). You 

may also view the document at any of 

the public facilities listed at http://www.

gulfspillrestoration.noaa.gov. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Nanciann Regalado, at 404–679–4161. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Introduction 

On or about April 20, 2010, the 

mobile offshore drilling unit Deepwater 

Horizon, which was being used to drill 

a well for BP Exploration and 

Production, Inc. (BP), in the Macondo 

prospect (Mississippi Canyon 252— 

MC252), experienced a significant 

explosion, fire, and subsequent sinking 

in the Gulf of Mexico, resulting in an 

unprecedented volume of oil and other 

discharges from the rig and from the 

wellhead on the seabed. The Deepwater 

Horizon oil spill is the largest off shore 

oil spill in U.S. history, discharging 

millions of barrels of oil over a period 

of 87 days. In addition, well over 1 

million gallons of dispersants were 

applied to the waters of the spill area in 

an attempt to disperse the spilled oil. 

An undetermined amount of natural gas 

was also released into the environment 

as a result of the spill. 

Under the Oil Pollution Act 1990 

(OPA; 33 U.S.C. 2701 et seq.), 

designated Federal and State agencies 

may act as trustees on behalf of the 

public to assess natural resource injuries 

and losses resulting from an oil spill 

and to determine the restoration actions 

needed to compensate the public for 

those injuries and losses. OPA instructs 

the trustees to develop and implement 

a plan for the restoration, rehabilitation, 

replacement, or acquisition of the 

equivalent of the injured natural 

resources under their trusteeship, 

including the loss of use and services 

from those resources from the time of 

injury until the time of restoration to 

baseline (the resource quality and 

conditions that would exist if the spill 

had not occurred) is complete. For the 

Deepwater Horizon oil spill, designated 

trustees (Trustees) in four Federal 

agencies and five Gulf States—Alabama, 

Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and 

Texas—have been working together to 

assess natural resource injuries and 

prepare a series of restoration plans 

described below. 

The Trustees are: 

• U.S. Department of the Interior, as 

represented by the National Park 

Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 

and Bureau of Land Management; 

• National Oceanic and Atmospheric 

Administration, on behalf of the U.S. 

Department of Commerce; 

• U.S. Department of Agriculture; 

• U.S. Environmental Protection 

Agency; 

• State of Louisiana Coastal 

Protection and Restoration Authority, 

Oil Spill Coordinator’s Office, 

Department of Environmental Quality, 

Department of Wildlife and Fisheries, 

and Department of Natural Resources; 

• State of Mississippi Department of 

Environmental Quality; 

• State of Alabama Department of 

Conservation and Natural Resources and 

Geological Survey of Alabama; 

• State of Florida Department of 

Environmental Protection and Fish and 

Wildlife Conservation Commission; and 

• For the State of Texas: Texas Parks 

and Wildlife Department, Texas General 

Land Office, and Texas Commission on 

Environmental Quality. 

Background 

In the April 2011 Framework 

Agreement for Early Restoration 

Addressing Injuries Resulting from the 

Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill 

(Framework Agreement), BP agreed to 

provide the Trustees up to $1 billion 

toward early restoration projects in the 

Gulf of Mexico to address injuries to 

natural resources caused by the 

Deepwater Horizon oil spill. The 

Framework Agreement represents a 

preliminary step toward the restoration 

of injured natural resources and is 

intended to expedite the start of 

restoration in the Gulf in advance of the 

completion of the injury assessment 

process. The Framework Agreement 

provides a mechanism through which 

the Trustees and BP can work together 

‘‘to commence implementation of early 

restoration projects that will provide 

meaningful benefits to accelerate 

restoration in the Gulf as quickly as 

practicable’’ and prior to the resolution 

of the Trustees’ natural resource 

damages claim. Early restoration is not 

intended to and does not fully address 

all injuries caused by the Deepwater 

Horizon oil spill. Restoration beyond 

early restoration projects will be 

required to fully compensate the public 

for natural resource losses, including 

recreational use losses, from the 

Deepwater Horizon oil spill. 

A Notice of Availability of the Draft 

Phase V Early Restoration Plan and 

Environmental Assessments (Draft 

Phase V ERP/EA) was published in the 

Federal Register on December 1, 2015 

(80 FR 75126). The Trustees provided 

the public with 30 days to review the 

Draft Phase V ERP/EA and held one 

public meeting on December 14, 2015 in 

Panama City, FL. The Trustees 

considered the public comments 

received, which informed the Trustees’ 

analyses and selection of the early 

restoration project in the final Phase V 

ERP/EA. A summary of the public 

comments received, and the Trustees’ 

responses to those comments are 

addressed in Chapter 4 of the final 

Phase V ERP/EA. 

In four previous phases, the Trustees 

selected, and BP agreed to fund, a total 

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