Federal Register / Vol. 60, No. 7 / Wednesday, January 11, 1995 / Notices 2743

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

Office of the Secretary

Marine Mammals

AGENCY: Advanced Research Projects

Agency, DOD.

ACTION: Notice of public hearing on draft

environmental impact statement.

SUMMARY: The Advanced Research

Projects Agency (ARPA) in cooperation

with the National Marine Fisheries

Service (NMFS) will hold a public

hearing on a Draft Environmental

Impact Statement (DEIS) for the Kauai

Acoustic Thermometry of Ocean

Climate (ATOC) Project and its

associated Marine Mammal Research

Program (MMRP).

DATES: The public hearing will take

place on February 10, 1995, at 6:00 PM,

at the Mabel Smyth Building, 510 S.

Beretania Street, Honolulu, Hawaii.

ADDRESSES: For a copy of the Draft EIS,

contact Marilyn E. Cox, Campus

Planning Office, 0006, 9500 Gilman

Drive, University of California, San

Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093. Telephone

(619) 534–3860.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: All

non-government organizations and

scientists who wish to present prepared

testimony should contact Mr. Eugene

Nitta, Protected Species Program

Coordinator, Pacific Ocean Area-NMFS

at (808) 973–2937 at least 48 hours in

advance of the hearing so that a general

agenda can be prepared. A written copy

of each testimony to be presented is

requested on the day of the hearing. It

is advised to use slides or overheads

only if absolutely necessary during

presentations, and copies of any slides

or overheads are requested to be made

available to Mr. Nitta on the day of the

hearing.

Other people who are interested in

making a statement at this hearing

should bring a written copy of the

statement to the hearing, and will be

given an opportunity to make such

statements following the prepared

testimonies. Anyone who needs

additional information or requires

special accommodations to attend the

public hearing should contact the

person named above at least seven (7)

days in advance of the hearing.

Comments on the Draft EIS will be

accepted until February 20, 1995.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On April

15, 1994, notice was published in the

Federal Register that the ARPA, in

cooperation with the NMFS, intended to

prepare an EIS, pursuant to the National

Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), on

an application for a scientific research

permit to allow harassment of marine

mammals and sea turtles by a low

frequency sound source associated with

the ATOC program in waters off Kauai,

Hawaii, and to monitor the effects

thereof. The ATOC project is a basin

scale research effort to determine longterm ocean climate changes by using

acoustic sound paths in the sea’s deep

‘‘sound channel’’ to precisely measure

average ocean temperatures. A two-year

research program is proposed to be

carried out to study any potential effects

of the ATOC sound transmissions on

marine mammals and sea turtles. Two

sound sources are currently proposed;

one off the north shore of Kauai, Hawaii

(which is the subject of this Draft EIS)

and the other offshore California near

Point Sur (the subject of a separate draft

EIS).

Dated: January 6, 1995.

Patricia L. Toppings,

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison

Officer, Department of Defense.

[FR Doc. 95–648 Filed 1–10–95; 8:45 am]

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Defense Policy Board Advisory

Committee; Meeting

ACTION: Notice of Advisory Committee

Meeting.

SUMMARY: The Defense Policy Board

Advisory Committee meeting scheduled

5 and 6 January 1995 as announced in

the Federal Register on Wednesday,

December 14, 1994, 59 FR 64395 was

cancelled.

Dated: January 5, 1995.

Patricia L. Toppings,

Alternate OSD Federal Register Liaison

Officer, Department of Defense.

[FR Doc. 95–603 Filed 1–10–95; 8:45 am]

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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

Determination to Establish the

Advisory Committee on External

Regulation of Department of Energy

Nuclear Safety

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory

Committee Act (Pub. L. 92–463), and

Title 41, Code of Federal Regulations,

Subpart 101–6, Final Rule on Federal

Advisory Committee Management, I

hereby certify the Advisory Committee

on External Regulation of DOE Nuclear

Safety is necessary and in the public

interest in connection with the

performance of duties imposed on the

Department of Energy by law. This

determination follows consultation with

the Committee Management Secretariat

of the General Services Administration,

pursuant to 41 CFR subpart 101–6.10.

The purpose of the Committee is to

provide the Secretary of Energy, the

White House Office of Environmental

Policy and the Office of Management

and Budget with advice, information,

and recommendations on whether and

how new and existing Department of

Energy facilities and operations, except

those operations covered under

Executive Order 12344, might be

externally regulated to improve nuclear

safety. The Committee will provide an

organized forum for a diverse set of

affected Federal agency representatives

and non-Federal experts and

stakeholders to conduct an in-depth

assessment of the technical, regulatory,

institutional, and resource issues.

Committee members will be chosen to

ensure an appropriately balanced

membership to bring into account a

diversity of viewpoints, including

representatives from States and tribal

governments, national and local

environment, safety, and health

organizations, labor unions, Department

of Energy operating contractors, affected

Federal agencies, and others who may

significantly contribute to the

deliberations of the committee. All

meetings of this Committee will be

noticed ahead of time in the Federal

Register.

Further information regarding this

Advisory Committee may be obtained

from Tom Isaacs, Executive Director,

Advisory Committee on External

Regulation of Department of Energy

Nuclear Safety, 1726 M Street NW.,

Washington, DC 20006 (telephone: 202–

254–3826).

Issued in Washington, DC on January 6,

1995.

JoAnne Whitman,

Deputy Advisory Committee Management

Officer.

[FR Doc. 95–683 Filed 1–10–95; 8:45 am]

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Environmental Management Site

Specific Advisory Board, Pantex Plant

AGENCY: Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of open meeting.

SUMMARY: Pursuant to the provisions of

the Federal Advisory Committee Act

(Pub. L. 92–463, 86 Stat. 770) notice is

hereby given of the following Advisory

Committee meeting: Environmental

Management Site Specific Advisory

Board (EM SSAB), Pantex Plant.

DATES: Tuesday, January 24, 1995 1:30

pm–6:30 pm.

ADDRESSES: West Texas A&M

University, Canyon, Texas.