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located or from contiguous areas; (3)

carries out programs to make

postsecondary educational

opportunities more accessible to

residents of the urban area or

contiguous areas; (4) has the present

capacity to provide resources pertinent

to the needs and priorities of the urban

area or contiguous areas; (5) offers a

range of professional, technical or

graduate programs sufficient to sustain

the capacity of the institution to provide

these resources; and (6) has

demonstrated and sustained a sense of

responsibility to the urban area and

adjoining areas and the people in those

areas.

On August 29, 1994 the Secretary

published a notice of proposed priority

for this program in the Federal Register

(59 FR 44580).

Note: This notice of final priority does not

solicit applications. A notice inviting

applications under the FY 1995 competition

will be published in the Federal Register at

a later date.

Analysis of Comments

Two parties submitted comments in

response to the Secretary’s invitation in

the notice of proposed priority. An

analysis of the comments follows:

Comment: One party commented that

designations will be limited due to

funding restraints and suggested

expanding the definition of designated

Empowerment Zones and Enterprise

Communities to include areas that

submitted Empowerment Zone and

Enterprise Community designation

requests.

Discussion: The Secretary believes

that the Urban Community Service

Program would be most effective in

communities that are actually

designated and have embarked on

implementing their strategic plans.

Change: None.

Comment: The second party suggested

giving a competitive preference to

proposals that show partnerships with

AmeriCorps.

Discussion: The program regulations

already give an absolute preference (34

CFR 636.23) to applications that

propose to conduct joint projects with

other Federal, State or local programs.

This would include partnerships with

AmeriCorps. AmeriCorps is a new

national initiative to foster communitybased service and includes a wide

variety of programs operated by

grantees, the National Civilian

Community Corps and Volunteers in

Service to America (VISTA).

Change: None.

Priority

Under 34 CFR 75.105(c)(2)(i) the

Secretary gives preference to

applications that meet the following

priority:

Projects that use 75 percent or more

of the project budget to address pressing

and severe problems in an

Empowerment Zone or Enterprise

Community.

The proposed project must contribute

to the strategic plan of the

Empowerment Zone or Enterprise

Community and be made an integral

component of the Empowerment Zone

or Enterprise Community activities. The

Secretary awards five points to an

application that meets this priority.

These points will be added to any

points the application earns under the

selection criteria for the program.

Intergovernmental Review

This program is subject to the

requirements of Executive Order 12372

and the regulations in 34 CFR part 79.

The objective of the Executive order is

to foster an intergovernmental

partnership and a strengthened

federalism by relying on procedures

developed by State and local

governments for coordination and

review of proposed Federal financial

assistance.

In accordance with the order, this

document is intended to provide early

notification of the Department’s specific

plans and actions for this program.

Applicable Program Regulations: 34

CFR Part 636.

Program Authority: 20 U.S.C. 1136–1136h.

Dated: March 2, 1995.

David A. Longanecker,

Assistant Secretary for Postsecondary

Education.

[FR Doc. 95–5591 Filed 3–7–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 4000–01–P

DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Office of Community Outreach

Pre-Application Conference and Notice

of Availability of Cooperative

Agreement Solicitation to Establish

and Support the International Center

for Applied Research (ICAR)

AGENCY: U.S. Department of Energy

(DOE), Savannah River (SR) Office.

ACTION: Notice of pre-application

conference and availability of grant

solicitation.

SUMMARY: The U.S. Department of

Energy (DOE) at SR is announcing a PreApplication Conference for

organizations wishing to be considered

as the entity to establish and support the

ICAR. The conference is scheduled for

April 11, 1995 at the Savannah River

Site (SRS), Aiken, SC, commencing at

8:30 a.m. and completing by 5 p.m. In

addition to discussion regarding the

objectives of ICAR and the criteria

which will be used to select the ICAR

Manager, the conference will also offer

a tour of the Savannah River

Technology Center whereby participants

will have the opportunity to become

familiar with available technologies. A

solicitation for the ICAR Manager will

be made available on or about March 20,

1995; applications are expected to be

due May 11, 1995. Interested parties

should note that funds are not presently

available for this project.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: ICAR is

intended to facilitate private and public

sector access to the technical and

scientific capabilities of the SRS. ICAR

will be responsible for organizational

support (including incubation,

maturation, and commercialization) for

various technologies, to be identified

through separate solicitations, that are

available at SRS for development of

commercial products and services. ICAR

is to be established at or adjacent to the

SRS and is to operate under a

cooperative agreement with the DOE.

The objectives of ICAR are:

(1) To stimulate economic

development in the regional area

through the application of science and

technology.

(2) To establish a technology

development and incubation center

utilizing SRS technologies and

processes.

(3) To promote as a minimum,

activities related to the following:

—The application in the United States

of hydrogen technology research

derived from tritium production;

—The development of beneficial uses of

nuclear materials;

—The research and development of

innovative methods for the treatment

and disposal of nuclear materials; and

—Bioremediation of environmental

hazards.

(4) To leverage applied research

activities (of the nature listed above) to

provide maximum dual-use benefit for

the Government.

The ICAR Manager must be a nonprofit entity or a consortium of nonprofits chartered to accomplish

economic development through applied

science and technology. The ICAR

Manager must have also demonstrated

experience in management of diverse

teams of organizations who have

technical experience in industrial
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research and development of hightechnology programs.

The estimated federal funding for

ICAR management and technical

programs is $12M in FY95; however,

award of the cooperative agreement is

subject to availability of funds.

Interested parties should note that funds

are not presently available for this

project. The costs for the management

and operating function should not

exceed one quarter of the total available

funding. Those who submitted an

Expression of Interest (EOI) in response

to the Department’s November 1994

request for EOI’s will automatically

receive a copy of the solicitation.

Notification to attend the conference

and/or requests for copies of the

solicitation should be received in

writing or be transmitted via facsimile

to (803) 725–8573 no later than close of

business (4:00 p.m. Eastern Standard

Time) March 15, 1995. Requests or

notifications should be sent to Ms.

Angela Sistrunk, Contracts Division,

U.S. Department of Energy, P.O. Box A,

Aiken, SC 29802. Telephonic requests

will not be accepted.

Issued in Aiken, S.C., on February 22,

1995.

Robert E. Lynch,

Head of Contracting, Activity Designee,

Contracts Division, Savannah River

Operations Office.

[FR Doc. 95–5661 Filed 3–7–95; 8:45 am]

BILLING CODE 6450–01–M

Federal Energy Regulatory

Commission

[Docket No. CP95–220–000, et al.]

Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co., et al.;

Natural Gas Certificate Filings

March 1, 1995.

Take notice that the following filings

have been made with the Commission:

1. Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company

[Docket No. CP95–220–000]

Take notice that on February 23, 1995,

Tennessee Gas Pipeline Company

(Tennessee), P.O. Box 2511, Houston,

Texas 77252, filed in Docket No. CP95–

220–000 a request pursuant to Section

157.205 of the Commission’s

Regulations to construct and operate a

new delivery point located on a

platform in state waters, Timbalier Bay,

LaFourche Parish, Louisiana (Cailliou

Island Platform), to supply natural gas

to Union Oil Company of California

(Unocal) for gas-lift purposes under

Tennessee’s blanket certificate issued in

Docket No. CP82–413–000, pursuant to

Section 7 of the Natural Gas Act, all as

more fully set forth in the request on file

with the Commission and open to

public inspection.

Tennessee proposes to install on

Tennessee’s existing right-of-way a 2-

inch side valve assembly between an

existing 6-inch block valve and check

valve and inspect Unocal’s installation

of the interconnecting piping and buyback meter on the Cailliou Island

Platform. Tennessee states that

Tennessee would install, own, operate

and maintain the tie-in assembly and

would operate the measurement facility.

Unocal would install, own, operate and

maintain the interconnect piping and

install, own and maintain the

measurement facility, it is indicated.

Tennessee states that the estimated cost

to install these facilities is $7,700, for

which Tennessee would be reimbursed

by Unocal. Tennessee states that the

volumes to be delivered to Unocal after

the delivery point is established would

not exceed the total quantities

authorized to be delivered and would

have no impact on Tennessee’s peak day

and annual deliveries. National states

that the addition of the new delivery

point is not prohibited by Tennessee’s

existing tariff and Tennessee has

sufficient capacity to accomplish

deliveries at the new delivery point

without detriment or disadvantage to

Tennessee’s other customers.

Comment date: April 17, 1995, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph G

at the end of this notice.

2. Colorado Interstate Gas Co.

[Docket No. CP95–226–000]

Take notice that on February 24, 1995,

Colorado Interstate Gas Company (CIG),

P.O. Box 1087, Colorado Springs,

Colorado 80944 filed, in Docket No.

CP95–226–000, an application pursuant

to Section 7(b) of the Natural Gas Act

and Part 157 of the Commission’s

Regulations for permission and approval

to abandon one 149-horsepower

compressor engine at the Left Hand

Field No. 2 Compressor Station (Left

Hand Field), located in Kiowa County

Colorado, all as more fully set forth in

the application which is on file with the

Commission and open to public

inspection.

CIG states that the 149-horsepower

compressor unit installed at Left Hand

Field in 1979 is a single stage unit and

low suction pressure is causing

excessive vibration. CIG notes that the

compressor is utilized to compress

natural gas supplies from the Cavalry

and Buscadero Fields to CIG’s 20-inch

transmission line. CIG indicates that the

unit proposed to be abandoned will be

replaced by a two-stage 123-horsepower

unit to be installed at the existing site

pursuant to the provisions and authority

of CIG’s blanket certificate issued in

Docket No. CP83–21–000.

CIG asserts that the removal and

replacement of the compressor unit will

not affect the existing land use nor affect

CIG’s system design capacity or

operation.

Comment date: March 22, 1995, in

accordance with Standard Paragraph F

at the end of this notice.

3. Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line Corp.

[Docket No. CP95–227–000]

Take notice that on February 24, 1995,

Transcontinental Gas Pipe Line

Corporation (Transco), P.O. Box 1396,

Houston, Texas 77251, filed in Docket

No. CP95–227–000 an application

pursuant to Section 7(b) of the Natural

Gas Act for permission and approval to

abandon the sales service provided to its

customers under Rate Schedule FS-G, to

be effective November 1, 1994, which

was authorized in Docket No. RS92–86–

000 et al., all as more fully set forth in

the application on file with the

Commission and open to public

inspection.

Transco states that on March 3, 1993,

it filed a revised Order No. 636

compliance filing in Docket Nos. RS92–

86, RP92–137 and RP92–108 in which it

proposed to eliminate bundled sales

service to small customers under Rate

Schedules G and OG and to replace that

bundled service with (1) an unbundled

firm transportation service under new

Rate Schedule FT-G and (2) for those

customers that elected FT-G service, an

optional sales service under new Rate

Schedule FS-G, to be available for a oneyear period. Transco states that this

service was approved for a period of one

year by Commission order issued on

October 4, 1993, in Docket Nos. RS92–

86–000 et al. implementing Rate

Schedule FS-G to become effective

November 1, 1993. Transco further

states that in compliance with the

revised compliance filing, each Rate

Schedule G or OG customer that elected

Rate Schedule FS-G service had the

option ninety days prior to the end of

the one-year period to submit to Transco

a one-time nomination specifying the

portion, if any, of Rate Schedule FS-G

sales service to be converted to Rate

Schedule FS. Transco states that by

August 1, 1994, ninety days prior to the

termination date, no FS-G customer had

elected to convert any of its FS-G

entitlements to service under Rate

Schedule FS, and that by letter dated

September 6, 1994, Transco requested

that each FS-G customer submit an

election form confirming that they

declined to convert all or part of their

FS-G sales entitlement to transportation